The tough thing with creative endeavors is that you really just need the motivation to start and continue making anything, it can be inexpensive stuff. The important thing is output and making it a regular thing.

That being said, gearing up for a new hobby is always fun if you can afford it. But you can absolutely make short films on an iPhone.

I’d rather increase my monthly donation to support lemm.ee on GitHub than see ads here

here’s to everlasting lemmy.ee tingles 🍻

https://github.com/sponsors/sunaurus

Same here, we can build this community the old fashioned way by just sharing and engaging ❤️

omg Dean Fogg! 🧙‍♂️ Welcome to Lemmy

This is great 😂

I am down to talk about anything honestly - but just off the top of my head right now:

Can you think of a good analogy to explain databases to complete beginners?

The ole ‘filing cabinet’ analogy is used a lot but I am looking for something fresh. The students will be epidemiologists / public health people that are very science literate but not necessarily tech-savvy.

Wow I am oblivious & just realized this is humor! my bad - this is great content

Interesting post! I really hope you’re wrong lol (I love SQL).

Same exact experience for me. It hasn’t been too difficult to pick up the Lemmy basics. I only ever lurked on Reddit and here on Lemmy I’m trying to be more of an active participant.

The Jerboa app not working due to the lemm.ee server not being upgraded to v18 was confusing at first - but then I found the conversations going on and I understand why we haven’t upgraded yet. I’m patiently just using the lemm.ee website directly.

Go scream at the top of your lungs somewhere loud like a busy highway overpass. Weirdly works!

Similar situation here - working in data and struggling to turn off the thoughts! I’m going to try meditation too.

Thanks for sharing! I really want to get my family on Matrix now.

We have not been able to find a solid chat/video call app that the entire family (various ages and tech aptitude) can effectively use. We’ve been bouncing around to various apps since COVID lockdowns started. We had been using Slack for a while but the video calling in Slack is unusable now.

I’m wondering the same thing.

I am a long time signal user but I just started using Matrix yesterday and now I’m very curious about whether Signal or Matrix is better somehow in terms of security/privacy.