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Is this design what I truly wanted? Is this a reflection of my true self? No, but it's a start. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that.

Anyways, this is what I'm going with for now, I'll redesign it again later. I rather just focus on functionality for now, it's taken me long enough.

I got too many thoughts about the this whole thing to fit in a bunch of posts here on bsky, so I'll make a blog post on my website about it instead when I'm through.

The short of it is: making a website and being happy with it is hard. Especially when you don't even know what you want design wise.

Nevermind! php is certainly Not It. I recently discovered the concept of a Static Site Generator (how tf did I not know about this already?) and Eleventy seems to be the one for me. I've been tinkering with it for the past few days to great results. So a website revamp might come soon.

First time I hear about newpipe. I'll look into it some more, cautiously optimistic.

The take here is the same as ever: capitalism ruins everything.

If people could just make videos without worrying about how much money it's going to make them, we wouldn't have sponsored segments, mid-roll ads, or self-censorship to avoid getting demonetized.

If a YouTube channel has a Patre0n I kind of expect there won't be any brand/corpo sponsors or mid-roll ads. I mean, a portion of your audience supports you financially already, is that not enough? You also need to ruin the viewing/listening experience to squeeze some more money? Come on.

Sometimes I download entire YT channels in audio format so I can listen on my phone while I do the dishes, because skipping ads while I'm wearing gloves covered in soapy water just ain't it.

In the end, the only people who should be using Windows at this point are those who don't have a choice because of software compatibility. Even I keep an SSD with a special long term support version of Windows 10 *just* for FL Studio, but that's *it*.

For anything else, I have Debian.

It's been so much fun learning just about anything in the GNU/Linux space. bash scripting, aliases, man pages, Vim, tmux, tiling window managers, mounting drives with the fstab file, virtual machines with QEMU/KVM, DOOM Emacs.

Being actively involved in your computer is just more fun.

Package managers make installing and updating software easier than ever. They automatically install dependencies, and if you uninstall all programs that needed them then you can delete them safely with one command.

Chocolatey is an option for Windows but it doesn't hold a candle to apt.

Using a terminal emulator is easy actually, you're basically saying stuff like: "computer, install program".

Want to back up an entire drive? rsync -arv this/ there/, done.

Want to update basically EVERYTHING? sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade. Too long? Make it an alias, like "update".

You can customize ANYTHING, replace the entire GUI, or compile your own kernel.

The idea that you can configure anything on your system just by editing text files feels so natural, of course this is how it should be. So why the fuck does Microsoft think Windows needs the Registry™? Are they stupid?

This is my favorite example of this phenomenon.