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What's an inexpensive hobby most people can get into?

Chess.com Lichess Archive of Our Own Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard VCV Rack OGS Chess Tempo Database GitHub Adafruit
  1. Play chess on Chess.
    Absolutely. Lichess or chess.com are free for casual players and you can easily begin learning it, it's actually addicting to a certain extend. Especially bullet chess (although it might actually worsen your proper chess ability lol).

    #Chess #Games #Online Games 11425 social mentions

  2. The complete chess experience, play and compete in tournaments with friends others around the world.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Lichess.org has great puzzles, learning tools, and matchmaking (some people only do chess puzzles for their brain).

    #Chess #Games #Online Games 894 social mentions

  3. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

    #Entertainment #e-Books And Digital Publishing Software #Books 627 social mentions

  4. Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is an Action-Adventure, Real-time Strategy, Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Liquid Entertainment and published by Atari.
    Tabletop gaming. This can cost ~$30 for the core rulebook, but other than that it's basically free and a great way to have fun with friends and to build teamwork and social skills. I recommend D&D or, if you like history, Ars Magica.

    #RPG #Games #Action 35 social mentions

  5. A cross-platform modular synthesizer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Eurorack modular synthesizers and sound design are noted for being very expensive and inaccessible, but in the last few years an open source software company has modeled the format quite well and released a new software system called VCV Rack. https://vcvrack.com/.

    #3D #Music Generation #Prototyping Tools 112 social mentions

  6. The Git Book is the official tutorial about Git.

    #Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 280 social mentions

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    OGS

    Play go/weiqi/baduk online
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Play online for free, https://online-go.com/ or get your self an inexpensive board and some stones. A lifetime of joy and learning.

    #Chess #Games #Online Games 136 social mentions

  8. Chess Tempo Database gives you a library of more than 2 million searchable chess games.
    I've used chesstempo.com for many years of free puzzles, too.

    #Gaming Software #Online Services #Marketing Platform 54 social mentions

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    Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2041 social mentions

  10. Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits : - Tools Gift Certificates Arduino Cables Sensors LEDs Books Breakout Boards Power EL Wire/Tape/Panel Components & Parts LCDs & Displays Wearables Prototyping Raspberry Pi Wireless You…

    #Business & Commerce #Online Services #Project Management 47 social mentions

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