Yes it is satisfying and the only possible way to gain any long term profit would be to either go full on and lottery mine or to hold sats and watch them slowly gain value over time. Since I started mining the difficulty has up from just under 60sats/dat/Tb/day down to just over 40sats/Tb/day.

I use sats from mining like you to zap here on SN and to buy the occasional Vietnamese pork belly bread roll- the only sats accepting food outlet in my city makes great Banh Mi Pork rolls!

My miners now run 100% off solar system so no direct cost for electricity but I only have big surplus in summer- in winter they need to be run on much lower speed. Its only viable due to living offgrid and needing a solar setup anyway.

Support any LN accepting shops in your area if you are lucky enough to have some.