I want to live in a world where people return the shopping carts, therefore I do it myself. If you don't, you're an antisocial prick.

Per the technical manuals, there are large industrial replicators in the engineering areas. They don't have the detail to reproduce complex molecules like food, but they can manufacture large forms of homogenous materials like metals. If they have to make new hull plates, I assume they use the industrial replicators to manufacture the parts, then a cargo transporter to beam the part into its location, though it probably still needs human technicians to bolt it in.

The replicators are not built directly into the hull of the ship because they're delicate equipment.

Hmm...

Not bad, I guess. At least if I'm in my own city, we're pretty set, food and water are both being produced onboard. I guess I'm a bird person now?

Do you have access to magic? Because if you're just a normal person in a medieval world you have a pretty high chance of dying from an infection from some random small injury, and never mind the monsters or whatever.

Alternatively, if you are an NPC with plot armor you're probably good.

What a weird policy decision. I don't think the Fediverse needs artificial scarcity or austerity.

Ah, of course - we should point a Flock camera at every family home. Problem solved.

Used enterprise hardware is the computer hobbyist's playground. I have a ThinkPad, multiple Poweredge servers and one Supermicro, a bunch of used SAS drives, and several mini PC workstations, all from eBay or local recyclers.

That's worse, not better. Ignorance of the danger is not an advantage.

So here's the problem: you can't adopt someone else's hobby, and find it interesting by proxy. Any activity (not just hobbies) can only be "not boring" if you yourself are actively interested in it for its own sake, not just as a time sink. Your attention and investment in the activity is what makes it interesting and engaging. You get out of it what you put into it. Low-energy, low-investment time sinks are entertainments, not hobbies. Play some video games, no shame in that, it's relaxing, inexpensive, easy to start and you can pick it up and put it down whenever.

To really give you an answer on a hobby, we need to know about what you're interested in. Hobbies are about developing some kind of skill, for your own benefit and growth as a person (probably not financial benefit). Hobbies are about exercising your personal passions on your own terms, with no obligations except those which you set for yourself. What kinds of skills do you have as a starting point, and what do you wish you had? What kinds of activities do you enjoy doing? What kinds of activities do you actually make time in your life to do, on your own, regardless of whether other people are involved?

Bio-neural circuitry?

Add it to the pile.

I have bad news for you...

In all seriousness though, I have a case with a winder for a mechanical watch, and while it keeps the mechanism ready the watch still needs to be reset regularly. Mechanical watches can't match the precision of quartz crystal timing. They will gain or lose a few seconds every day even if kept perfectly wound, and after a week in the winder it will be noticeably off.

A $10 digital watch keeps time more accurately than a $1000 Swiss mechanism.

What flavor of astroturf is this?

Yeah, I bought an Eco-Drive 10 years ago and it's still working great. I never have to worry about it, it just works. I've bought two more since, the very cheapest basic model I could find (BM-8180 https://ebay.io/m/wZhDp4), and a fancier dressier one (CA-4553 https://ebay.io/m/TbSiJ5). My original GN-4W-S has taken a real beating over a decade, the glass and body are scratched all to hell, it's been dropped and banged against door frames &etc. It doesn't seem to mind, still keeping time like it did brand new.

If you want a watch that just does its job and doesn't really need anything from you, the Citizen Eco-Drive models are great.

But if you never use them, and just hoard them, they become nothing.

I don't know, I kind of want the garbage pickup to happen every week...

how many layers of irony are there?

Yes.