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Bruncvik

@ Bruncvik @lemmy.world

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  • To those who draw and create art: Do you enjoy the process naturally, or did you have to develop the habit? If it was the latter, how did you do it?

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  • It's 10 in the evening, and the kids are asleep. The house is organised for the chaos of the next morning. It's dark and quiet. I browse Flickr for inspiration, and when I find some, I pull out my oil pastels and spend the next hour in bliss, unaware of the passage of time. Just me and colours, their blending, smoothing, scraping what doesn't work, perhaps some texture with a palette knife, etching out details. Oil pastels are very forgiving, and they don't let you go into too much detail. They are perfect for people like me who didn't have too much art training, and who really enjoy the process of art creation. So, in short, I enjoy the process naturally, through a medium that allows me to do so.

    (I've done my share of charcoal works, but there the final product is far more enjoyable than the tedious process. I prefer the process.)

  • multitasking🙂‍↕️

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  • Well, there goes my childhood...

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    Christians of Lemmy, how do you feel about the U.S. president posting an Al photo of him as Christ?

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  • Yeah. And Jesus still asked his true followers to forgive them.

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    Christians of Lemmy, how do you feel about the U.S. president posting an Al photo of him as Christ?

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  • Luke 23:34

  • Do people get progressively less happy as they age?

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  • I don't know about others, but as I grow older and realise I have progressively less time left, I grow less patient of other people's bullshit. Some people may consider it a symptom of diminished happiness, but it's more a degradation of my social filters.

  • What is the fantasy book/series everyone should read?

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  • Loads of great suggestions in this thread, but I feel it's missing some lighter, easy to read and fun fantasy. So, let me suggest two series:

    • The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist. Enough books to last you a year. Can get a bit dark at times, but the prose is really fast flowing, the books are focused on high adventure, and the characters are really likeable. The series contains a trilogy that starts with Daughter of the Empire, which features a far higher quality prose, but it's tonally so different from the other books that you may want to skip it if you liked the first trilogy (or tetralogy, depending which edition you pick up).

    • The Elenium trilogy by David Eddings, followed by the Tamuli trilogy. Eddings is best known for his Belgariad, but this trilogy is such a lightearted fun that I re-read it every couple of years.

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  • That a huge carpet of ants will sweep into my neighbourhood and eat everything, including me. I blame Macgyver.

  • Is Jules Vernes overlooked in the Anglosphere

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  • I can see why Verne would be considered overlooked. While it's true that some of his works, in particular 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, and The Journey to the Centre of the Earth (and to a lesser extent From Earth to the Moon) are well known, others went unnoticed. His Robur the Conqueror series is fun, and so is Off on a Comet, to name a few of his lesser known sci-fi works. I particularly liked his competence porn works, such as Mysterious Island, and some of his romances. The Green Ray had an impact on me, and I'm still trying to find it.

    Wells wasn't nearly as prolific as Verne, so it may appear that both are equally well covered in the anglophone world, but the truth is that just a small fraction of Verne's works received recognition.

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • I still have an unused, boxed WRT-54G. Granted, it's only 802.11b/g, but good enough for casual browsing, and I have experience setting up OpenWRT there. Thanks for helping me remember; I'll use that for the kids.

  • When countries around the world start enforcing biometrics and digital passports for travel, would you still do traveling or just hide in some farm off grid?

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  • Biometrics, I already do, via my passport. Digital passports, maybe. I don't have a smartphone, so if the government wants me to have one for all kinds of digital shit, they'd better get me one.

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • I tried pi-hole, but it turned in a real pain, trying to set it up for normal use, plus two WFH offices. I may give it another try, when I feel more patient.

    The idea of mocking websites came from talking to other parents from my kids' school. I was thinking about some form of a local "internet" for our neighbourhood for all the kids. Heavily curated, a mix of mock sites (like the full download of Wikipedia), news through RSS, moderated message boards, etc. I don't think it's an original idea given the current state of the Internet, so at this stage I'm just reading up on design best practices.

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • My kids are a little older - just learned to read without sounding off the words - so I need to introduce parental controls. But you may see your purchase as an investment: a year from now, the hardware may be worth twice as much.

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • I have a working emachines desktop with Win98. They'll pry it off my cold, dead hands...

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • I'm in the process of getting my kids their first PC this Christmas. They'll both get a mini-PC, with severely restricted Internet access. I'm actually thinking about just letting them connect to the home server where I'd mock the Web sites I pick for them. For this reason, Win11 with its online account requirement is automatically excluded from consideration. I wated to give them Mint anyway, but this was the argument that convinced my wife.

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    President Krang

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  • Looks like Alan Rickman. I wouldn't mind him running the US government.

  • Taking Advantage

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  • The Drop Site Massacre deserves to be part of the main line of books, not just a supplement to the story.

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  • I read it in Jason Statham's voice.

  • When people recommend Brave browser.

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  • Now you gave me an inspiration. I'm eorking with a few other parents to create a local, walled "Internet" for the kids in our estate, and webrings would be a fun feature to resurrect.

  • When people recommend Brave browser.

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  • I feel like I'm getting too old for the Internet. I still fondly remember the times where you could create a Geocities page and add it yourself to the Yahoo directory, and other netizens clicked through categories to get to your listing, instead of using a search engine.

    But I digress. I'm finding myself browsing the www less over time, and I'm already limited to only a hadful of pages I visit regularly. For me personally, Vivaldi is the best choice for a desktop, and Brave is hands-down the best choice for my smartphone. But I appreciate that others may have different use cases.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

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    Waiting in a queue to see a Web site

  • Science Fiction & Fantasy literature @lemmy.world
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    2023 Hugo Award nominations are out

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