• Sabre363
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    102 years ago

    This is exactly what it’s like becoming a hobby machinist. Start off with a drill press, end up making all your own tools.

    • @greenbean@lemmy.ml
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      82 years ago

      Yep I had the same experience with coffee. Started with a shitty nespresso machine, moved up to a manual machine, then semi automatic. Now I’m roasting my own beans. I would legit buy a coffee farm and make a living out of it, if I get the opportunity.

    • @nogrub@lemmy.world
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      32 years ago

      yep and if it’s your job all you wanna do is buy a mill and a laith but money and space :(

      • Sabre363
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        22 years ago

        There is always space, I have seen guys turn their kitchen into a machine shop, lol.

        • @nogrub@lemmy.world
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          32 years ago

          i’m doing an second apprenticeship as a programmmer so i don’t have the money to even own my own kitchen :(

  • Wen Astar
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    92 years ago

    You can also branch out into gardening flax, cotton, hemp, reseda, krapp and indigo …

    • @swan_pr@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      I may have fallen into a rabbit hole of tutorials on this very topic (growing and spinning flax). So. Many. Traps.

  • @QTpi@sh.itjust.works
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    72 years ago

    I’ve been resisting the urge to get angora bunnies for almost 10 years now. I don’t know how much longer I can hold out.