u/YFNArtist

Hey everyone, I've been trying to get a zip file to a friend that is around 10GB without using google drive or a random online tool since they tend to not work, or they paywall either speed or capacity. I thought that the best way might be to just torrent it to him since it is Peer to Peer (as far as I know). So, I looked through some suggestions on reddit on how to make a private torrent file and made the private torrent with Transmission and PrivTracker to generate the tracker link. Well, now that I had created my torrents on Transmission and my friend opened the magnet link through qBittorrent, it's stuck at 0% and Transmission shows 0 Peers even if he has the file.
As you can probably read, I'm not knowledgeable fully about how to go about making my own torrents to transfer peer to peer. If anyone has an alternative solution, I'm all ears, but I'd like to try this approach for now. As for what's in the files, they're drawing courses I wanted to send over to him, but both are 10+GB big.

For context, I'm an aspiring artist (23 y/o M) for the game industry, so I have only used python scarcely on Maya. On the flipside, I've always been avid with tech to the point where I dipped my feet into self hosting apps from my PC, so I'm confident that it is within possibility for me to do what is on the title.

For a bit of context, my mom's getting married next year and as I'm currently between jobs and have a bit of free time, she offered me the task to make her an interactive wedding invitation instead of handing it off to someone else, but I know nothing of HTML and CSS. I have some old courses on it since I've had a nagging interest to learn it. Moreover, my recent experience with a self hosting app called Glance made me feel like maybe CSS and HTML isn't as complicated as it sounds? I'm vaguely aware that the app simplifies the code, but it has genuinely got me to asking: is HTML and CSS actually not that hard to learn? How much do you estimate I could take making this while learning and what guide/YT videos do you suggest for a true beginner? Or on the other side of the spectrum, should I just design the invitation on a free website builder instead of overcomplicating it? (Some of the examples my mom sent me were using Canva Sites for the invitations).

I would love to hear your thoughts on this, since I would love to learn it for fun and potentially make my custom portfolio website and maybe making it into a side gig. As for what the site would need, these are some of the things my mom had in mind: displaying the basic event info such as date, dress code and location through a Gmaps link/map that attendees could click on at any moment, and a small window or system for invitees to register their attendance (or lack thereof). How doable is this for someone getting started? How would I go about making it public and safely handling the attendees' data?

Thanks in advance for the suggestions!

As of right now, I have Immich running on Docker locally on my Windows PC by mounting a folder with most of my media as an external storage in Immich. I also back up photos from my phone and use Tailscale for remote access. I wanted to wait until I had the money to build a small NAS, but given the current state of the electronics market, I decided to give it a shot. Needless to say, it was super easy and has been working great and plan to keep using it for my backups, since I tend to take pictures out of my phone into my PC anyway and Immich is not destructive. I'm am excited since I have really wanted to get into self hosting to avoid paying a million subscriptions, but given my inexperience in self hosting or networking, I have some doubts that I hope you'll be able to appease.

My idea is to slowly start building up my photo library conservatively until I can afford a NAS and some HDDs. Then, in the near future, I'd love to be able to access it from anywhere and possibly make users for family members to store their stuff on there and have the NAS be a backup for my core family members. However I have security concerns and would love to know, which measures are the best to deter hackers and bots from hacking into a self hosted server? What has your experience been like providing Immich to your family members? Also, how would you normally go about adding photos without having to change the docker compose to mount volumes? I'm okay with the current setup but got a feeling it's not the way it was meant to be used.

Thank you so much for the responses in advance

(I originally tried posting this to r/ productivity, but got turned away for low Karma score, but I really want some advice on this)
TL;DR:
I currently feel a lack of proper systems to look back at weekly reviews or revisit notes properly and would love to have suggestions or insights from people whose systems to do so have worked. That goes for physical and digital or a combination that's worked for Journaling or reviewing. I use an Agenda for the Day to Day, GCal for scheduling, Obsidian for clarifying ideas and physical notetaking as well as a notebook for weekly reviews. I've also felt the need of a more malleable way than paper to break down personal projects into more manageable chunks and big to do lists, but would love to avoid too much clutter, so I'd appreciate suggestions for simple tools that have worked for you guys.

As the title says, I've recently gone through trying to redefine how I approach my work due to the lack of structure I've had post-university graduation from Art School. I know that I work much better when there's a structure, be it in the form of time blocking, simply writing down tasks, etc., mostly stuff I learnt from Ali Abdaal's content. Naturally, I've fallen into the trap of looking for the "right" tool. I've used Bullet Journalling, but ironically for an artist, didn't like that it was just turning into how pretty I could make it lookto eventually devolve into an agenda (hence why I use a Hobonichi agenda now). At that same time I combined the physical bujo with a digital Notion task manager, but eventually realized I was managing the system more than I was actually doing stuff, so I stopped using it for myself (instead applying it to team work settings only). I did keep on using it for my Weekly Reviews, but after missing one too many I realized that I really rarely looked back at it and that digital just felt like it got lost in my notes, therefore I switched to doing them physically (just still not super consistent on it). I tried using Tick Tick, Todoist, etc. and while they're wonderful apps, I hated that the good stuff was behind a paywall for the most part, so I forewent digital stuff for a while (except for GCal).

That brings me to my first set of questions:

What do you evaluate in a Weekly Review without overspending time? What system have you found works to look back at them consistently? Bonus question: What do you do with your journals if you use one?

Now onto the second part of the question.
After graduation, I've mostly used pen and paper and found myself being more productive due to the simplicity it provided. However, I started to notice that my vision narrowed and that my long term planning was almost nonexistent since just jotting down stuff kept me in the short term. Of course, I made a big task list in the free pages my agenda has, but eventually I stopped looking back at it, and if I needed to reorganize it or change stuff, I'd need to rewrite it (reading that back I feel like that's the point) which is why I've started to use certain digital tools to help such as an Open Source task manager called Mindwtr (stopped using it for clunky UI) and Structured Web (most helpful so far) to allow me to have a digital backlog of sorts. In addition to that, I use Obsidian for digital note taking or developing project ideas (world building, narrowing down character design briefs from my physical notes) and have loved its simplicity for what I need it to do. That said, even then my notes are a bit of a jumble. I capture stuff physically, but don't have much of a system for them other than to refer to the physical ones when I need to (for my Japanese Classes, Art Mentorship recordings, etc.), so I'd also love some simple suggestions to approach that too.

With all that said, you might have spotted that even as it stands, it's a bit cluttered, what with physical notes, Obsidian, Structured, an Agenda, sometimes Mindwtr.
Could you guys give me suggestions for simpler solutions that I may have missed?

I feel like if I don't consult with someone I might go into a loop of thinking or look too much for the perfect app. All I need is a malleable big to-do list to manage bigger projects or separate into smaller chunks, scheduling and daily tasks. The agenda and physical notetaking has felt best so far. The overarching problem has been consistency, so I'd love to hear what has worked to built consistency to your day to day too.

As the title says, but here's more context: I'm currently taking some mentorships that rely a lot on us watching past recordings. These range different topics, i.e. Drawing Heads, Torsos, Portfolio building, hands, etc. that I would like to make organized playlists of without rearranging my folders on my PC.

Currently, I'm using the Media Library as a backlog of classes, but it's hard to identify which video is which due to the naming scheme being used (even if I add some parenthesis for further context). However, I was wondering, is there a way to create multiple libraries or add playlists to my side bar so I can select from VLC directly?

P.S: If there is also a way to add a static video preview to the files on VLC (in icon view), please share it.

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