You suck all the dopamine out of something and move on leaving the drained husk of your former hobby behind. Hopefully the dopamine runs out before you put money into it.

I swear as soon as I put money into a hobby, I lose interest. I got a guitar I can't play, a hackRF I can't be bothered to relearn, a box of half built eletronics, an unknown amount of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos with no purpose...

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 44 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Yeah I got into lockpicking a few years ago, figured out how to pick all the random master locks i had lying around the house, and immediately after spending like 250 dollars on some specialty, hard-to-pick locks, I lost interest. Still keep my lockpicking set in my car in case anyone locks themselves out of the house or something, but the dopamine i got from picking those first few locks is gone. On to the next thing.

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is something that has always interested me but I've never tried. Any recommendations on a set of picks to start with?

[–] AngryMob@lemmy.one 12 points 7 months ago

https://covertinstruments.com/products/genesis-lock-pick

Enjoy!

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

I got a cheap set off of amazon at the time, which worked fine, and it looks like someone has already provided a link to a more reputable business. Most sets will have the same core of tools in them, which will be the most useful, plus maybe some obscure shapes in there that serve a niche purpose.

If you're interested in getting into the hobby, there's a discord server called Lock Pickers United that ranks basically every lock in existence on difficulty, and will hand out "belts" a la martial arts, when you can show proof that you've picked a lock from different tiers. I never got very far but it seemed fun.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations on your new hobby that will be abandoned in a few months!

[–] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

This is the way

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