Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍕🍕🍕 Saturday, November 16, 2024
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 days ago
I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.
Annoyed that I haven’t done so already because it’s a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.
While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I won’t post it.
But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but there’s some original stuff in there. And back then I didn’t have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didn’t know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.
I guess it’s just elbow grease. Which I’m currently so very short on 😮💨
indisin@aussie.zone 1 day ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadn’t heard people saying it was hard so I wasn’t scared to try, and if it wasn’t good it was a skill issue so just try harder.
Thanks, I could use any tips. I’m still getting into the habit of backups and probably don’t know how to use a NAS.
I’ve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda don’t trust it not to fail :/ I’ve lost so much to crashes, been really slack
indisin@aussie.zone 1 day ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
lol that’s all Greek to me but thanks, I’ve made a note to try and figure it out.
Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy to backup properly, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed up music collection to someone else I didn’t stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.
I still have some I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff.
But some have viruses so it might be risky needing a special approach. And I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password (at least while in the computer) which I don’t want to do on a compromised device.
Idk that’s not urgent. I think for now I’ll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.