I had to deal with some guy at work trying to do some tiktok video and including me in it so I could complement his side gig or some shit (and likely only including me because women get views). And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with it. Jesus fucking christ, I hate people that try to constantly plaster their face and name on everything to make money. Fuck youtubers, fuck tiktok, fuck ads, stop stealing peoples work for a quick buck ‘by doing commentary’, leave me the fuck alone
I do a lot of things for fun that I could theoretically make money from. I model and 3d print stuff, I woodwork, I make electronic projects, I’m a musician, and a software engineer.
Sometimes I’ll get people saying stuff like “you could sell XYZ”. I tried it. I had an Etsy store where I sold my 3d prints. It was successful. Too successful. I was working my day job and then spending most of my free time printing and sanding and painting and talking with customers and dealing with shipping.
Initially I thought how great to be able to spend all my free time doing something I enjoy. In the end i thought how dreadful it is to spend basically all of my time working.
It fucking sucked. I’m glad to have had that experience, but now I know It’s actually super important to have hobbies that are just hobbies.
You didn’t just raise your prices till you weren’t that busy?
Several times, but there was a limit to how much I felt comfortable charging someone for 3d printed plastic
That or until you no longer need to work your other job and can ideally reduce total number of hours worked. May not work out, but at least you can balance it out somewhere like that.
As someone looking to make their own first electronic project, tips and tricks you wish you knew beforehand? Thinking of building my own music player, since the ones on the market are either overpriced or just a toy
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A half-decent soldering iron is way better than a super cheap soldering iron.
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Plan the build as much as you can, and then order all the parts at once. This way you’re not tied up waiting for parts to ship which kills momentum.
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Wires take up more space in an enclosure than you think.
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If you can order 3 of something for not much more money than 1. Do it. It’ll allow you to build up stock of things you use. That way when you get an idea, you’ll have parts on hand.
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Allow yourself to fail. Some ideas sound good but aren’t. It’s ok to abandon a project.
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Lean on the community. If you have an idea for a project, someone’s probably done it before. Look it up, see how they did it, learn from their mistakes. You can stand on the shoulders of giants and you absolutely should.
Not to discourage you but that is a super ambitious first project. If you want a good audio player but don’t want to spend a ton, I have the fiio snowsky echo. It’s super affordable, but surprisingly powerful. It drives my 250 ohm headphones without issue. No way you’re DIY’ing anything that good for its price. However if you want to DIY a music player just because you want to, absolutely go for it!
Thanks so much! Really helpful :)
I looked at all the dap’s that are out now and none do it how I envision it. I don’t mind spending more than a luxury dap for it if I can say I made it myself haha
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Sometimes I get annoyed at the crowd that sees me doing something they think is cool and be like “you could sell or provide [x hobby]”
This took the joy out of everything.
“Oh you write music? You should make an album and sell it” “oh you cook? You should make a ghost kitchen/foodtruck/marketplace” “oh you do 3d printing? You should model stuff for people or make a print farm” “oh you do open source stuff? Why don’t you work in coding or at least do fiverr coding jobs?” “Oh this home server is cool you should set these up for people for money”
FUCK YOU
And then when they find out I just like, post recipes or code or models or whatever online for free because I want to contribute back to the communities that taught me a lot they’re like “you’re crazy”. Maybe I don’t want to fucking monetize everything. Maybe I’m sick of everything being monetized. Maybe I believe information should be free and this hustle culture tech bro bullshit that took over the Internet post 2006-08 or so where everything has to be paywalled or monetized is absolutely cancerous and should be destroyed.
Our greed will destroy us all
It’s not just the monetisation. If you turn a hobby into a job you end up having to do a lot of stuff you don’t actually want to do or care about, because the people you do it for care about these things.
Exactly. I made code for our school project open source and some of them said we could like sell this. I’m like bro, this is mostly youtube tutorial code with some modifications, who will you sell this to?
No. I hate the fact that the world has forced people to need to do so.
Why not both?
I do a lot of open source contribution on my spare time because I think it’s fun and I like to contribute to software that is open and free for anyone to use. I have several friends and co-workers that think I’m stupid for not only work on projects that pays me.
I’m happy as long as I get to write code for fun and also contribute to the world. That is it’s own reward.
I do open source contribution so nobody else has to solve the same problem twice. And I don’t have to maintain my own fork.
that’s what living in a capitalist society looks like.
I dislike it too. I’m not surprised at all. I’m not the brightest but the one thing I’ll lay claim to is having seen this train wreck the whole way. Our generations were raised to be hyper-individualist neoliberals. It’s everyone for themselves and we’re all worse off for it. We’re crabs in a bucket.
I didn’t have those words to conceptualize it as a kid but I saw it in the way we’ve been pit against each other since the beginning. It’s an unsustainable model. I’m not surprised the state of the world, especially the economy today.
What I don’t get is if everyone is so smart then why am I the only one that seems to be seeing it. Operative word being “seems”. I know a lot of other people see it too. As evidenced by whole posts like this.
But as a collective. We’re supposed to be the most educated and most open minded generations ever (in terms of breadth of knowledge, not political leaning). Yet we seem to be regressing to worse off states of being than ever. What the hell is even that about?
No, I don’t buy into blaming the “boomers”. They voted for what they wanted collectively. Collectively. Everyone accuses them of being selfish. If anything our generations are just as selfish. I personally think we’re more.
I don’t buy into blaming the top 0.01% either. They are a product of our collective obsession with money and materialism. I do blame much of the top two-digit percentages. I really don’t care if you’re a multi-milionaire or soon to be worlds first trillionaire. You’re all running the same race. Just with different scores. A butterfly flapping its wings could have just as well re-arranged those musical chairs to put anyone at the top.
The younger generations have the voting power now. But there’s always excuses designed to dodge the truth. Whatever we’re upset with about the world today is our own responsibility now. The truth is it sucks because too many of us are making it suck.
it really does start young…it dawned on me recently that this was the whole point to musical chairs, and a number of other childhood “games” pushed onto us at school in bumfuck nowhere. there are so many of these shitass towns in the middle of nowhere, whose whole existence is basically just the local real estate robber barons trying to get one of their kids to “make it” so they can funnel a bunch of $ back into their fief.
and the backbone of all of it is exploiting a deliberately under-educated workforce…american capitalism is fucking disgusting.
i think the thing that pisses me off most is how long it took me to get around to the fact that everybody knows this, and just…either accepts their place or doesn’t care because the system benefits them.
i’m autistic…until this realization clicked for me i was kind of running around in dismay wondering why noone seemed to care everything was collapsing…but this too is just another part of the plan, it’s called “boom and bust investing/disaster capitalism”
Late stage capitalism. That’s it.
Yeah kinda. But people value different things. I value time so work less hours at work and take an easy stress free job. I could earn double if not more working elsewhere but at what cost.
If I’m housed, watered, and fed then the next thing I want is time. I love my job and still hate going to work and I work from home. I hate the idea of giving so much of myself away for Monopoly money.
Well in this case it probably isn’t money he is after, but attention and fame. That said, just tell him you had a past “incident” you don’t like to talk about, but that your image shouldn’t be on anything that might give away your current location. Lol.
just tell him you had a past “incident” you don’t like to talk about, but that your image shouldn’t be on anything that might give away your current location.
I appreciate that you are trying to help here, but I’d advise against that. This is a person who shows little respect for others’ privacy or feelings. Telling them a lie like this could easily result in them trying to find out what this “past incident” was, telling other people OP has some past trauma and making them even more uncomfortable.
It should be way more simple: no means no, and you’re not entitled to have other people play a part in your videos.
Well of course it should be simpler, the employer should put a stop to it without even requiring a complaint. Aside from it being the right thing to do, allowing it opens them to all sorts of liability. So obviously the employer isn’t very bright. The rest was part joke, and part a way to possibly play nice and still get what she wanted. Only someone who knows him would know if it would work or make things worse. So I could have put your milage may vary, but I thought that was kind of obvious.
If I understand properly I think this is called commodity fetishism and yeah it’s so gross. To repeat what everyone else here is saying I hate when I show people stuff I make out of love and the first reaction is “omg you have to sell these you could make so much money”.
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The issue is basically that profit is just defined by a money transaction and that is completely unrelated to the quality of values on which it is being conveyed, pecunia non olet.
There are for sure virtuous enterprises which generates values for humans, but the large part of them deals in vicious transactions which by design only exploit humans for profit instead.
If we want progress and we want a free economic system then the coin must be one and only, and it must be directly connected with the effects on the wellbeing of each fellow human.
This really just goes to show how strapped everyone is. If all you ever think about is needing to make more money, you’re struggling.
If my ‘struggling’ you mean ‘i want to be wealthy but i constantly overspend’.
nobody doing social media posts is in poverty.
And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with it.
I don’t think this is true at all, most people absolutely feel the same.
Probably depends on plenty of demographic factors, but I wouldn’t say “most people absolutely feel the same.”
You must be an influencer. I promise that most people don’t want to be in your videos and hate when you come around with your phone out
It is exactly because of those wide generalizations and assumptions that I disagree in the first place. Do you know what platform you happen to be on? This isn’t Instagram
…you think influencers aren’t on lemmy? 🤦♂️
