Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

something totally ad-lib i did recently was i grabbed the rainymood file, which i can now invoke whenever i like! (which turns out to be an excellent way to drown out background noise when trying to sleep)

and since this is running an ssh server, i can make my phone control all of the things Android 17 can do now too

this tablet (that i named "Android 17") was a freebie i got once, and was actually pretty dated at the time i got it

it still runs termux, tasker, and deskdock though!

i plan to have it scan for proximity of my phone (Android 18) and have it toggle a bunch of stuff based on that too, so certain things will only be active when i'm around

this is what the schoolbell thingy that reads my habit calender and notifies me sounds like

there's a biit of a delay for this one, but here's what the mirrored locking and unlocking looks like

here's what that fourth monitor thing looks like! (and the combined timeline)

@EeveeEuphoria oh, nice! i had to jet for a second, but i'm actually gonna continue this thread with exactly that

the tl;dr version is that it's a fourth monitor for my computer, a watcher for things i care about, a more tangible thing to remind me of stuff i care about, and a little linuxy server that can do things with my other devices!

i'm currently using it like a faux-fourth monitor that i can control if i move my mouse off the edge of my last normal monitor. it also locks and unlocks when i do the same on my computer

i also have a lot of pretty power-hungry tasker and termux stuff set up on it because it's gonna likely be perpetually plugged in from now on!

it also, by default, has my masto and birdsite timelines all combined, just casually scrolling by

hee

getting excited over a dated android tablet i'm reviving into something significantly more useful than i ever thought possible

@EeveeEuphoria buuut yeah, shortcuts with social implications are kind of the worst :<

@EeveeEuphoria oof

in case it was something bad--you can look at your likes in the "getting started" column under "misc" for some reason ^^'

@monorail oh yeah. waking up mid-cycle can suuuper-screw up your day

i actually use alarms that try to detect when one finishes up to half an hour earlier than i need to wake up, and even though i'm technically getting even less sleep, i still feel like 100x better

@noiob i was literally just going to ping you because of that, hahah

@jk (oh and, no prob! i know it can be a bit discouraging learning to draw, so i'm happy if i can prevent that feeling in other people)

@jk oh! and if you do erase something, it doesn't look bad to redraw it if all your lines are already made up of tons of strokes

as opposed to trying to graft singular lines together

@jk hee, i know that one. something that's kinda nice about the "1000 lines to estimate the One True Line" technique above is that it actually lends itself really well to just never erasing anything

like, if you make a mistake, just draw over it again. it actually doesn't look super out of place, and can drastically speed up your sketches if you avoid erasing anything but the most egregious mistakes

as you said, perfection is actually a pretty bad goal

@jk anyway, apologies for the weird examples, but hopefully this is helpful..!

you can definitely learn to draw, and if it's something you want to do, i hope you hang in there! ^^

i'll admit it can be a bit tricky to pick up; i legit thought i would never be happy with what i could draw--but it turns out, getting better doesn't always need to be a frustrating experience, and a few tricks can go a long way~

@jk the last thing is that guides are actually extremely helpful and underrated for making faces that look good!

you can use them to eyeball facial proportions, and also to align them in a way that makes sense

you basically just imagine them as if you are drawing them on a sphere, and anchor your features from there!

faces are hard, but this puts them in easy mode

@jk the trick is, instead of drawing single lines normally, you instead draw many, many extremely short and extremely light lines

the average of those strokes is going to likely be extremely close to the thing you wanted to draw, and it's really easy to adjust as you are drawing

like this thing i sketched..! (CW: abdl) notice how the lines aren't actually solid? that's the only reason i could ever do that on paper

@jk oof, sounds like a sensory nightmare having your tools be like that :T

the good news is that it doesn't actually need to be perfect as long as you keep the proportions in your mind while doing it

and with plain paper, there's actually a trick to emulate having basically perfect dexterity too!