I cancelled my Netflix account. I keep Disney Plus around for my stepkid, and Prime Video because it comes with Prime, although I'll probably cancel that soon too. I'm keeping Funimation.
Streaming is becoming worse than cable. At least if I got cable (which I won't) I could PVR shit and skip the ads. The idea of paying a monthly fee to get advertised at anyway is nauseating.
Is it subscription now? I paid like $3 for it once ten years ago.
I picked up knitting in 2019 as something to do with my hands other than doomscroll all evening after work. I've always been good with my hands and technical-creative tasks so I picked it up really quickly.
I'd say my skill level is intermediate to advanced. I prefer very technical lace or cable projects that push my abilities. It's a lot of fun watching a ball of string turn into a useful piece of fabric and I like to modify patterns, like adding beads to lace or switching up cable panels.
There have been a few points where I've decided to take extended breaks because I could feel myself starting to burn out. Usually because of life stress. I still stick around in my knitting Discord server and come back to it when someone posts a pattern that I really want to make.
Knitting is not hard to get into, but it can get expensive fast. My first major finished project was $30 worth of acrylic yarn on $9 aluminum needles from Michael's. A couple of years ago, I spent $350 on a set of high end stainless steel interchangeable circular needles and have used mostly hand dyed merino wool, cashmere, or silk blends for my last several projects, ranging from $75-$150 per project.
The other thing to keep in mind is time. I have about 150 hours in the shawl I'm currently working on, with about 4 hours of work left. When I'm done, I'll be picking a project back up that will probably take 300 hours altogether. A sweater might take 20-80 hours depending on the size and yarn. This is not a hobby where you see instant results. It's absolutely worth it to me though.
35, Canada, and manual is my preference although my current car is an automatic.
I learned to drive on an automatic, but bought a manual for my first car and got my ex to teach me how to drive it. It was important to me that I be able to get into pretty much anything and drive it. After driving an automatic exclusively for the last year, I miss having that level of gearing control, especially on hills and corners.
I found some money I squirrelled away for a big luxury purchase, so I'm buying a painting. It's the first piece of art in years that's stopped me in my tracks to stare. I have a print, but it's not the same.
I don't know about the specifics of OP's blanket, but these sorts of things are usually worked starting in the centre and going out to the edge.
Walker Kong, with 47 monthly listeners.
I found one of their albums at a record store in Vancouver a few years ago. The band is defunct now, but they're the best kind of weird.
$100 is lifetime Ultra, which is subscription otherwise. It's $20 for lifetime removal of ads.
I've spent literally thousands of hours using Sync for reddit.
Same here. I'll probably end up buying Ultra Lifetime. Even if I don't end up using Sync for Lemmy for the same number of hours as Sync for Reddit (lol I probably will), it still seems fair considering the thousands of hours I got out of Sync for Reddit for ~$5 CAD. And if I only use it for 100 hours, it still costs less per hour than a parking meter around here. Frankly, I wish I had the option to pay the ads away for every app I use regularly.
It's like any of my hobbies. Will three skeins of nice yarn run me $80-100? Sure. Will I get 80-100 hours of enjoyment out of knitting with it? Absolutely. $1/hour seems like a decent deal, not to mention the years of wear I get out of the finished product.
I love FOSS, but there's also a place in the world for paid software. Ljdawson knit us a very cozy, warm Sync sweater and I'm happy to pay him for his work.
TV, YouTube, podcasts, music, watching my partner game. I originally picked knitting up as something to do other than scroll on my phone while doing those things.