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by 14 1680 days ago
I am interested to know what your day to day experience is and what quantifies wasting ones time? What if that is the persons hobby and passion was it really time wasted or was it rewarding to the author?
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Their hobby and passion is to restore Youtube's dislike button?
They likely spend enough time on YouTube to feel that the removal of the dislike count will have a negative impact on their experience.
Also my first coding was a raspberry pi connected to a relay and a lamp and an infrared sensor. If you walked in front of the sensor the lamp blinked SOS in Morse code then it emailed me saying motion detected in your room. The project really had little use to me as I don’t need to guard my room but the reward when it actually worked was something I can’t really explain other then to say super satisfying.
Their hobby and passion is to build something they could be used by thousands of people and put it out for free
No. Their hobby is to create things. To code. This is a cool project if not for you then for those who do miss the dislike button. Personally I do a lot of diy repairs. I want to know if I am wasting my time with a video.