• ZMonster@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 days ago

        No, the cost cost goes up sharply.

        Phase Hobby Cost
        1 Crochet $100
        2 3d Printer $250
        3 Soldering station $400
        4 Homelab $1000
        5 custom eBike, LLC, self-hosted website 6 - 10k
        6 Paramotor $22k + $1.5k/yr

        The deeper you get into engineering, weather, networking, software dev, academia the more your hobbies cost. This is also ignoring the cost of acquiring all that knowledge first (at least $100k at a state school).

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2 days ago

          custom eBike, LLC, self-hosted website

          At this point I have to ask if you’re doing a hobby or starting a business, because these are not the same thing.

        • Gutek8134@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2 days ago

          Self-hosted website looks too expensive, unless you paid someone to make it. I host FoundryVTT for my group, and the only paid thing was Foundry itself and my internet-connected PC I already had.

          Public IP? No need to pay extra. DuckDNS when you’re not behind CG-NAT or Cloudflare ZeroTrust reverse proxy when you do or have no access to your router.
          Domain? I’ve seen at least two sites that provide them for free - digitalplat and the other I can’t remember.

        • Sasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 days ago

          I didn’t say it didn’t? I said it’s a bit cheaper if… I can tick off a bunch of those, some for more than you’ve listed, and plenty of others