a person who is interested in some art (or some other area of interest) but doesn't really commit or have real knowledge of that art; layman; amateur; non-professional
Basti
@mrrattenheimer.bsky.social
I don't like being called an artist. Picked up a pencil and some art books 30 years ago. I don't have the first clue about what I'm doing. Didn't go to art school or college and I'm as dumb as a bag of bricks. Artists practice for 10 years and become gods, I took 30 to become an amateur dilettante.
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Michael Martin
@mcmartin.bsky.social
One of the nice things about being a #retrocomputing dilettante is that I end up compiling a pretty solid list of toolchains and exploratory articles across a really wide range of hardware. Here's where I keep them: bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/platform-gui...
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Abby Jane
@abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com
Putting on my dilettante political science hat (ABD; expired), the US/Israel didn't bump off some tinpot dictator in a smallish country (not that that's right anyway). Iran isn't a democracy, but it's also not a personality cult. There are plans for succession. The Assembly of Experts can...
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