I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.

I’ve already learned:

  • Equations and pivot tables in Excel

  • Vector graphics in Inkscape

  • Music mixing in rekordbox

  • Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN

  • LAMP stack web hosting

  • Streaming & video capture with OBS

  • Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync

Things I’m open to:

  • FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software

  • A high or low learning curve

  • Tools for niche fields that I’d otherwise have no reason to learn

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    10 days ago

    Thats why i struggle so much learning any type of programming. What’s the point. Any software I’d want is super complex, and there’s a billion simple tiny ones that have already been made.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      2·
      10 days ago

      I definitely look to see if the wheel is already invented, but I guess I started early enough when there wasn’t a lot out there and had to make it work on my own. I totally enjoy having to hack together things and google answers (god, that’s gotten a lot harder than it used it be), so that’s also part of why I jump to DIY unless I find something that’s perfect and already made.

      A recent one where I stopped myself was automating backups. I was going to try to throw together something, but then ran across restic and Backrest and wow, it’s so much better than what I could have done.

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I think there’s probably still room creatively, especially as a hobby.

      I sort of see it as the opposite with software though, that popular options are bloated data-wise (and cost) and simple usage-wise, other options are small-ish data-wise but less user-friendly. It seems like the middleground (low data+easy-to-use) is less likely to exist, particularly for techniques that aren’t as shiny/new. In some cases, it really does seem like certain workflows don’t exist. (or perhaps for some things that we’ve seen before, implementations were always in-house rather than something that existed in a usable editor)

      Which isn’t to say stuff like that will be easy, maybe doable with limitation and if libraries can take you half-way there.