These shows are both for morons who think this is how nerds act.

It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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“Protect the kids!” - always the first thing they use.

SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.

It says information used for age checks will not be stored by Discord or the verification company.

Bullshit. Every time some bitch-ass company says this, 4-5 years later they’re like “we were hacked, someone took everyone’s photo IDs!”

The moment this is attempted is the moment I’m no longer on discord.

It sounds like you’re not in love with your wife to me.

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Hell naw, I’d try to incorporate their fantasy if I could. If incorporating it would bother me, or her, then I’d let her just keep having fun on her own when she wanted.

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CRT displays with old pixel art are something I taught her about very early on. Scanlines made things look different; and art looked better on CRTs because they were designed with them in mind.

I mean, I get it – Digital either works or it doesn’t. Analog provides all of that scratchy mess on the screen, distorted audio, etc.

I tried getting the 13yr old a Miyoo Mini Plus; and she said she didn’t want it because it wasn’t about the games - she wanted a real GBC. >_>

My 13yr old collects Tamagotchis, and my 17yr old watches VHS tapes because she likes analog horror. So…yeah, I’m already there.

You may simply have aphantasia. The inability to picture things clearly in your “mind’s eye”. This ranges from being able to VR your imagination into the real world like it’s something that’s really there, to only ‘seeing’ a faint idea of what it is you’re thinking of, all the way to not seeing anything at all.

My mother was blessed with hyperphantasia, and art came easier for her than most - but it was always better with practice.

I most definitely have aphantasia (trauma based), but I’ve been able to practice ‘seeing’ things in my minds eye by taking pictures, practicing remembering the picture, drawing it from memory, and then comparing it afterwards. I’m no photocopier like you seem to be, I mostly deal with engineering drawings all day so I think my mind has simply adapted to putting together sets of rules like a puzzle.

Does anyone have good recommendations for someone who seems unable to gain any proficiency at drawing?

Practice. Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice.

You’re going to suck. It’s okay to suck. You only get better through failure. Drawing and art is a skill that you develop over time like training a muscle. Don’t throw away your old stuff. Keep it. Look at it, decide on something you don’t like - then focus on doing that better the next time. Repeat. Draw. Like…draw a LOT. Like a LOT A LOT. Draw anything. Try different styles.

The biggest thing to remember is you’re going to suck. Everyone sucks. The people who don’t suck, are people who kept at something long enough to not suck. Remember also – you are going to be far more critical of your art and the mistakes you made vs others. Don’t get discouraged - especially if you post that shit on the internet. Someone will tell you it’s terrible and you’ll get discouraged. Surround yourself with people who will lift you up and encourage you.

Procreate on an old iPad 6 + Apple Pencil is what I did for my daughters and they both are so much better at drawing now than they ever were - so you just have to keep doing it.

The biggest misconception that people have is that you’re just born with this talent - those people weren’t born with the ability to make great art, they were born with the ENTHUSIASM to do it every day, constantly, as an obsession. And then they developed a SKILL, based on that enthusiasm.

Something is awfully weird here, because Linux literally runs the worlds infrastructure for the internet. It is not unstable by any stretch of the imagination. Something you’re doing between all distros has got to be the culprit - something you do differently than other people.

And again - if you put those behind a fail2ban; and you 404 5x in an hour, which is likely - you’ve solved that issue. Had my jellyfin instance publicly available for 2 years on its own VM with passthrough GPU, and haven’t had any issues. People poke around quite often, and get blackholed via the firewall for 30d.

It wouldn’t stop a dedicated attacker, but I doubt anyone’s threat model here is that intense. Most compromised servers happen from automated attacks probing for vulnerabilities in order to get RCE; not probing for what movies you have – Because having movies on a media server doesn’t prove that you didn’t rip them all off of blu-ray…it just means you have movies.

You’re not going to have 100% privacy when you put up ANY service on your network. Everything leaves a trace somehow; but I’m starting to think half of you are Chinese spies or something with the amount of paranoia people here show sometimes. :P

Hmm, that’s a good point. I just checked my Jellyfin, and I don’t put any of the cert data into its config, I’m using caddy as my reverse proxy to serve it and I didn’t even think about this. No reason it has to be a self-signed cert, it could technically be local only and still be a Let’s Encrypt cert.