I don’t know if this is it but, what you describe is called “imposter syndrome”, if that helps. 🙂

Richard Dawkins has an entire chapter on this exact topic in his book “The Greatest Show on Earth”. I highly recommend reading it, even just that one chapter! It doesn’t feel like a text book, and his writing is very easy to follow in my opinion.

It’s chapter 8, “You did it yourself in 9 months”. To summarize, many people mistakenly think of genes as a “blueprint”, but he suggests it’s better to think of genes as instructions for origami paper folding. Genes don’t know the whole creature, they just know what to fold next, what to duplicate, what to bend, and so on, kind of like that. It’s been a while since I read it. 😅

But I do remember, humans are so complex, we may never fully understand the complete embryo-to-adult growth process, BUT the author points out that there IS a creature, a very small worm, that we are able to understand everything.

That may not seem like a big deal at first, but think about it. Scientists understand the complete growth process of a living creature, from a single cell, every gene, every cell, everything, up to when it’s fully formed. So cool.

Big willpower. Driven. Uncompromising. That kind of thing.

I think that is the answer. :)

I’m trying to think of examples from famous recent movies with women who have that description…

From Disney:

• Moana from Moana
• Joy from Inside Out
• Anna and Elsa from Frozen and the sequel
• Mirabel from Encanto

Have you seen any of those movies? If not, what movies have you seen?

I don’t have a static IP address. I use a free dynamic DNS service.

Is each instance like another person with a server?

I just wanted to add, any computer with an internet connection can host a web page! A desktop, a laptop, anything. That’s how the internet all started, as a collection on interconnected computers sharing data. I think many people nowadays forget this or even never knew about it (including me), since we live in a world where people spend all their time at like only a dozen websites. (Google, Instagram, Wikipedia…)

I have a public “webserver” in my basement. It’s just some random computer hosting some photos for family members. And it’s all completely free, I don’t pay anything to do it. I could easily pop an instance of Lemmy on it too.

The biggest hurdles in setting up a server from home are needing some technical knowledge, and a free domain name / URL usually looks a little silly (unless you pay for one), and getting hacked is a very real threat unless you pay close attention to security.

That’s exactly right! I wrote about it in another response. :)

Haha it’s true! When my Malaysian friend asked me for a torch, I was running around for five minutes looking for a lighter, like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aKrxd1q3Mw&t=8

It’s all I could picture, no one ever asked me for a TORCH before. Like in Indiana Jones?? 😅

Until I stopped and asked, “Wait, what do you need it for?”

“To look at my car, something is wrong with the engine.”

…and that’s when I realized. We had a good laugh.

Thank you, I didn’t know!

Interesting, thank you!

Thank you!

I was just pointing out the differences in goals.

Does Graphene OS come with microg, the open source reimplementation of Google Play Services, installed by default like it is on /e/ OS?

They have different goals. I use /e/, where the focus is removing all communication with Google while providing an OS that’s as user friendly and ready to use as the competition.

Nooooo so the task bar icons represent applications instead of individual windows? Ugh that’s gonna bug me…

From what I understand, WhatsApp does have proper end to end encryption, which means messages can only be read by the sender and recipient. It’s a very good thing, and SHOULD be promoted in my opinion.

But that doesn’t mean WhatsApp respects your privacy. Even though the messages are encrypted, the actual app is still collecting and scraping every little piece of info about you possible. Think location, IP addresses, your contacts, what’s in your clipboard, camera, mic… I don’t know the details, but that’s where the privacy concerns come from.

I dress in a manner that makes me feel my best. 😌

I brought up dad shorts because I think some people might find that look cute! Despite people or websites saying to avoid them.

😅

I was really worried about not looking cute and looking too “tough” since I started buzzing off all my hair due to baldness. But I think it’s been ok. I wear dark thick framed glasses, and a lot of light or pastel colored clothes. I keep a VERY short beard, just to give me some fuzz and distract away from my head. And I smile a lot.

I’ve also started shopping for cute hats. It’s been tricky to find hat styles that I really like, but I’ve found some cute ones.

I was told to avoid “dad shorts”. XD Loose fitting, with a belt, sometimes with cargo pockets…

Would that style be more cute or less cute than an alternative?

Cool! I just subscribed to synthwave. :)

Cool! I just subscribed to synthwave. :)