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Hi, here are some general thoughts I have about stuff. I figure that you would think its cool. Thoughts This is an incomplete list of thoughts I hold. Remember, they may not necessarily agree with your thoughts and views, and I’ve tried to separate them into appropriate topics that you can skim through. Politics Just stop caring. Turn off the phone, change to a different channel. My stance on this comes from another opinion of mine, that I shouldn’t care too much about things I don’t have a hand in anyway. Sure, something may suck for me but what can I do about it if it’s across the world? Local stuff is cool though, because you can actually do something about that. At the end of the day, I just want to grill for God’s sake. Technology Discord: Awful but I still use it, I actively avoid it when possible past 2022. Or sometimes just out of laziness. I still need to use it for some things but really, I hate the damn thing and a non-small portion of the people behind the service and some of those who use it. Too bad Matrix is not quite there (but still cool), and IRC too old-school for some people. I will continue to be available on all three for now. I wish they didn’t ban third party clients because their official client is awful. But everything’s legal until you get caught ;-) too bad i did, hopefully not again. Their interface is horrendous. It is designed like a toy for little kids with all of these huge buttons that you just can’t miss, along with upselling Nitro at every opprotunity. They’ve gone and broken my CSS every time I came back. Luckily, I do most of everything from IRC now on a different account via Bitlbee. DRM: Imagine buying something but not owning it. You don’t have full rights. You own a license to use the content, but you don’t own it. This is awful. Google: A company who threw out their “Don’t be evil” motto so they could be evil. I could probably fill this entire point with links about Google doing evil things and still have plenty of links to go around. IRC: super cool. I’ve pretty much gone to living on there, I also need to work up the courage to join some channels. I’m putting it off until I’m done my IRC bouncer project. NFTs: stupid and a waste of money. My buddy says “money laundering”. Smartphones: They’re okay if you use them like a dumbphone but with a couple of extra capabilities. They aren’t gaming consoles, banking machines, social media zombie machines, no, just do what I do and just use them to call/text people, listen to music, and a couple other things. Of course, you can keep these apps installed if you need to use them but really I try to keep use of said apps to a minimum with some exceptions. GB -> Gigabyte. Gb -> Gigabit. gb -> lazy but probably gigabyte. Plan 9: cool, too bad the Raspberry Pi port doesn’t have audio. Linux sucks but its the only alternative with good hardware support. BSD has bad wireless support, Plan 9 has bad everything support but has the most elegant userspace. runit > s6 > OpenRC > everything else. But NixOS makes me like systemd. musl > glibc, however glibc > musl in practicality. Alpine is cool but I don’t like OpenRC. So I use runit as PID 1 on my desktop Alpine machine. OpenRC is not installed. abuild also kinda sucks. Void is my favorite distribution but falls short in a few places, however all of these places have to do with my personal opinions. KISS is cool but the maintainer tends to disappear for some time. The POSIX sh based package manager is really cool but I don’t think that the entire package manager should be built in POSIX sh. NixOS is super cool, but also uses several things I hate. I have a love/hate relationship with containers. They’re super useful yet Docker is such a pain in the ass sometimes. I’ve actually gone back and fo