Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ššš Saturday, November 16, 2024
melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© 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 havenāt done so already because itās 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 wonāt 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 thereās some original stuff in there. And back then I didnāt 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 didnāt 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 itās just elbow grease. Which Iām currently so very short on š®āšØ
indisin@aussie.zone āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© ago
Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadnāt heard people saying it was hard so I wasnāt scared to try, and if it wasnāt good it was a skill issue so just try harder.
Thanks, I could use any tips. Iām still getting into the habit of backups and probably donāt know how to use a NAS.
Iāve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda donāt trust it not to fail :/ Iāve lost so much to crashes, been really slack
indisin@aussie.zone āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© ago
lol thatās all Greek to me but thanks, Iāve 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 didnāt 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 donāt want to do on a compromised device.
Idk thatās not urgent. I think for now Iāll 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.