I’m unfortunately currently in a situation where I don’t have a lot of options for activities and find myself somewhat bored… What do you do when you’re bored?
I’m rewatching - again - The Wire. Never ceases to amaze me, every time I find something I had missed in the previous runs. And there’s plenty of it to last for a while!
Play video games - Cataclysm:DDA or Dwarf Fortress (tho I stayed on the pre-Steam version as it’s lighter on the CPU).
Learn a new programming language at https://exercism.org
Read a book - tons of free ones around the interwebs, legally or not, as you desire.
Install a new operating system. Try Haiku or OpenBSD. See if your phone is compatible with PostmarketOS. If not, Termux + SSH + port forwarding in your WiFi box, set up a webserver and publish something. Host a Gemini pod.
Learn a craft. Repair something that another person would toss. Start a sourdough culture - it takes a week to mature (read up on how to do this right), then bake a bread. Homemade bread is approx 16× tastier than run-of-the-mill commercial stuff.
Take a walk somewhere you haven’t walked before. Find the nearest forest lake and arrange a picnic. Take someone with you on the 2nd trip.
Sometimes I just get out and walk. I find that is an activity that helps “reset” my mind and gets my creative thoughts flowing. Also I think I’m a late ADHD bloomer, I have more interests now than I have time for in a single day. So I’m not usually bored, but often overwhelmed with choices about what to do.
Getting out from the house and getting some fresh air really helps me sort things out when I’m like that.
Depends on the type of bored. It could be smarting from tackling a project to playing a game to watching something stupid on tv.
I haven’t been bored in 21 years
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- Games
- Watch something on Youtube/Netflix
- Go for a walk
- Cook
- Gardening
FMHY opens all the media content open to you
- play tinder
- Go on casual dates
- Meet up with friends
- Travel (drive, train, walk, just get out there)
- Learn something new
- Visit a community center
Read, play games, watch something, try to do something productive that you’ve been putting off
There is always self improvement. Read, exercise, meditate. So much philosophy is public domain, if you have internet access and a device to read ebooks on then you can read most of the famous texts. https://www.gutenberg.org/ is great. If you have access to a local library then use that as well. You can access almost anything with a library card.
Libraries even have video games including consoles nowadays, in some places. Can’t go wrong with a library card.
If your home gets too cold for extended office work in winter without massively increasing your energy bill you can also use their premises just fine as long as you stick to their rules.
History books, notes with org-roam (logseq seems good if you don’t mind the bloat of Web stuff and US cloud services), games sometimes (better with friends).
Read, doom scroll lemmy, play casual games on my phone, catch up on my YouTube subscriptions, doodle/draw, listen to audiobooks, take a nap if able
Recently got into sewing. Would recommend! If you can find a nice second hand sewing machine, you can have a pretty cheap new hobby!
Fire up the FUT
I have a whole pile of musical instruments. If for some reason none of them can scratch the itch I might take a walk in the woods that surround me. I also dabble in small electronics, guitar pedals and the like. So I always have projects I can get back to.
Doomscroll, read, doomscroll some more.
