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AngeTheGreat on YouTube is pretty famous for having written a car engine simulator purely for simulating the sound that they make - https://youtu.be/RKT-sKtR970 is a good launching point

Can you help me understand what you mean by “ Unless you’re autistic, like me, 5 days is possible”? Are you saying you think you can’t learn to draw in that time frame because of your autism?

I enjoyed the use of present tense in your comment

My wife is my best friend - we do almost everything together and she knows me better than anyone else.

Perfectly server grade, the way the manufacturer intended

Bleeding Sun by Samuel Sagan. Interesting psychic space warfare with Matrix elements and VR/AR stuff.

I use FreeBSD for my website and I’m actually pretty happy with it, the simplicity is a strong selling point.

It does feel sometimes like the documentation is written with a lot of assumed knowledge though, which makes it difficult to know what terms to use to find what you’re looking for… e.g. figuring out how to do major version upgrades did not feel straightforward.

I’m visiting Calgary/Banff in Canada at the moment with my wife and some friends. We’ve got plans for fly fishing, ATV rides and a hike, all of which I’ve never done before so it should be fun.

I go with characters from Super Mario, eg Luigi, Bowser, Yoshi. I like them because they’re short, easy to type and memorable.

In case people don’t know, https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page can be a good source of inspiration.

I used rclone to get all my photos down, then I used Immich’s bulk import API to get everything into Immich just yesterday. I did about 14k photos.

Take note of the limitations of rclone though, it won’t get the original full resolution - https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations you need to use Google Takeout to get full resolution.