my intent with video posts: on videos
there are people in the world who do excellent things in the name of art.
everything is for sale.
stream of consciousness
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book: The Ring – Koji Suzuki
what sorts of books i read: on books
wowee this was the weirdest way you could try to teach me about the reproductive rights of the afterlife.
kept me engaged all the way through, highly reccomend as long as your willing to read a spooky book.
5 ghost babies / 5
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video: I’m DONE with Google
my intent with video posts: on videos
if pewdiepie talked about it it’s mainstream now. 2025 is the year the Linux desktop, Richard Stallman will grace the unwashed masses with their mandatory GPL 3.0 licenses, im tearing up thinking of it already.
really though, there are some banger pieces of advice this man provides i’d like to echo from my own personal experience:
- ditch Windows: they are the devil. Linux is free, it’s only intimidating if you let it be. don’t research distros and get overwhelmed. install Linux Mint and call it. most people only use their PCs for the browser, this will not impact you if so.
- search engine: i disagree that you should lean on duckduckgo. as memory serves, they are basically Bing in disguise these days. Startpage is a free option, but i am biased in this regard – screw them too. no search engine can fund themselves off privacy good will. they all get their money somehow. i pay for Kagi now. its money, but its also piece of mind that they have a financial disinterest in selling my data.
- email: plenty of non Google options. i stick to the mentality that no payment means im losing somewhere. I pay for tutanota. Its great, it has e2e encrypted family sharable calendars, they are even standing up a Google drive alternative. I dont need that sort of thing, but tutanota is great, give them money.
- browser: firefox is hard to support these days, but there aren’t many other great options. browsers are wicked huge code bases that are nightmares to create. essentially all other browsers are chromium based and im not a fan of that monoculture. the web needs variance to not crush under the weight of draconian control, look at what Google has been doing with ad blockers as of late.
- phone OS: i too use a pixel and graphene OS. its discombobulating using a Google product to get away from Google. all my research points to graphene being the real deal, but its hard to say for sure unless your a professional developer who can audit the codebase yourself. and even then, firmware backdoors have been a thing for years now, so the level of trust i have isn’t insanely high. but I still appreciate knowing that certain apps legitimately won’t work because of the lack of Google services on my phone. which is a voluntary thing BTW, you can still install it if you really have to, or sandbox it in another user account. plenty of guides out there, but graphene has minimally impacted my daily usage of my phone for the benefits it provides.
- password manager: i don’t use I browser password management out of principal. i don’t know about vaultwarden personally, i use keepass for management which is simple for local devices. using syncthing is also available for syncing across multiple devices. again, there are guides for this.
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music (songs): DE’WAYNE
my intent with music posts: on music
this guys gonna go down as glowup of the decade i swear.
from this:
to this:
mans over here looking like a mini Prince and im here for all of it.
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music (song): obongjayar – jellyfish
my intent with music posts: on music
how is one of the hardest bangers of the year hidden in an album of slow jams.
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on AI
an artists rendition of a techbro, both before, and after they became unexpectedly unemployed.
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my sudden love for old winnebagos
who told these rv’s they could look so angry and so darn cute at the same time
this thing looks like you photoshopped angry eyebrows onto a bulldog.
why did i post the same picture twice? the world may never know.
that dog van thing is just shaking its jowly bits all over the countryside. sleeping in all the walmart parking lots. shameless.
i will not procure this clint eastwood in gran torino looking recreational vehicle. probably.
probably.
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music (song): bbno$ – two
my intent with music posts: on music
presenting: absolutely not a hidden gem. but its still good.
he should have said hes got a bad bitch and a real good hoe.
im gonna die mad about it.
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books: The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett / Stephen Baxter
what sorts of books i read: on books
i was wandering the local library here downtown looking for something that tickled my fancy. i stumbled across the P’s in the scifi section and Sir Pratchett did indeed tickle me.
goofy concept, that i wish was real. the internal logic for the book was consistent enough, and made for some harrowing mental images in the ending scenes. nothing made me laugh out loud like usual Pratchett books, but the writing kept me engaged all the same. as soon as i was done, i returned it for the next in the series, consider me hooked.
id give it 5.5 steps out of 7