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Oh, legitfetch? Which is 100% legit tool and definitely not a bash script just pretending to be a real thing that I might’ve made over two evenings?

One thing it can definitely do is look presentable.

Just making sure here, wall•pape•r?

I can neither confirm nor deny at this time.

Using GUI still ads the mount point and chosen rules to fstab so it doesn’t matter how it got there, if it is in the fstab it will persist.

Still, the location. Everywhere I’ve checked, it just stated to go for /mnt/ and voilà. I guess the main thing is understanding what mounting is, as Windows just shows you a partition and treats it as its own tree, UNIX system treats everything as one giant tree, growing from / “root” directory. Technically, probably, you can mount it almost wherever you want to, but /mnt/ is just the “good / common practice”.

Both of my SSDs are mounted via fstab in /mnt/ with x-gvfs-name so it looks a bit tidier.

But if this is not the way, I need some more education.

You are now a Certified Rejector. Stay sharp, keep the wheel rolling.

My preference is „bare metal” approach, then I really know if everything is working as it should, so I had a separate drive for Linux installation at the beginning and got to my other drives by just mounting them as NTFS.

But, finally I am at the point of no return for some time now, the old Windows drive is not even inside of my PC and the other drives are ext4 already.

For a quick check Live CDs/USBs are totally fine but not fully representative.

For so many years using a mouse was the way, but maybe let’s not gatekeep if someone decided to switch to a cat..

I would mostly do more of what I am already doing, spending as much time as possible surrounded by nature, for me personally — woods. Or, riding my bike even more.. Learning and reading even more, plus programming level 9000 on the side.

I could visit Iceland and Japan without overthinking it too much..

Oh! If this “needs are met” applies to others too, then I could spend more time with people that are now grinding hard all this working or parenting life. If it doesn’t apply — then I could try to do my best that it would.

Funny, sounds like a Lumon propaganda to me..

Only advice I can give is:

Keep sculpting until you are satisfied!

You’ve picked a great subject / reference material — it has some basic shapes, understandable shadows, which are great to start self learning.

Important thing you can do is save your work and do it again in a month or three to examine your own progress.

Another sub-exercise idea, after you will finish this version, try to come up with a totally different color scheme, not present in the reference image — this can help a lot because you will force your own creativity to kick in, instead of just making a copy of something, plus good coloring is deceivingly hard to pull off..

I don’t have any data to meaningfully back it up but I will trust my gut and the things I have read from people here.

There is some significant amount of users here that fully / mostly abandoned social media and pretty often are in some kind of a post-reddit-lurker limbo, plus their age is around “I have a partner / family / job / hobbies / things in life I care more about than passionately posting / moderating online”.

My blind shot is that this group would be the growing / fresh part of lemmysphere but they just don’t feel the urge to go for another reddit-type experience as most often than not it was a shit show in the worst case and time consuming endless void sprinkled with really mixed quality content in the best case scenario. Plus you can lurk hard here without even making an account, with quite healthy approach, somewhere around “I don’t care about voting or commenting but let’s just check what is happening”.

What I would like to see evolving here is posts lifespans so they could properly aggregate the answers, responses or votes. Something like “follow this post / inform me about new comments”.