If everything continues this way, I will start every post with a motivation section.
Almost like a serious science stuff :>
As usual, I was doing everything and nothing and didn't really look here until I found a piece on the Internet that made me come back.
This time credit for my motivation goes to mcksp, specifically their blog post It's ok to make for tech people first.
I am not sure if I am a tech person
already, but I definitely enjoyed reading it, and browsing through all the links there.
I stayed a bit on Bear Blog, reading how it is a garden or a story about discovering privacy for herself. Then I discovered Gemini and looked into their FAQ. It was a bit complex, but still kept me up late, maybe too late?
But to get to the point, it was mcksp who told me You thought about it enough, start doing
.
I still replied But I don't have anything smart enough to write about
, but then I rea(lise)d that I'm enough as I am.
I am a blogger, not an essayist!
I figured out a lot of things about computering recently, I want to share my progress with you :3 I got myself a new old computer, which was a bit of a challenge at the start. I like that it's light and the keyboard has a comfy click to it. And I especially like that it was almost free, since it's around 10 years old office laptop.
The challenge is that it's a 10 years old office laptop, and I shouldn't go crazy with the software.
I started with NixOS because someone told me it's really cool, and once you try it you'll never want to go back.
(The fact that it's color scheme is violet and blue totally wasn't a factor, I don't know what you're talking about :P)
It was super complicated, like I couldn't figure it out from the documentation and had to follow some YouTube tutorials, constantly going back step by step.
I guess it's not for a noob like me ;_; but I also think this computer didn't like it, because of all the magical stuff to change configuration.
The rebuild switch was super long, and I couldn't really do anything while it was going in the background...
But then I just had an idea: if I want to write a smol blog on a computer with smol processor, I need to find a smol system lightbulb above my head.
I had better results searching for "minimalist linux" than "smol linux", but I found Alpine and it's so cute and small.
Like 240 MB download for the whole thing!
And the steps were just setup-alpine and setup-desktop!
I found that XFCE is a good desktop for old computers, and since then it's been just fun.
I don't feel the laptop's age at all, but the system is really minimal.
I had to install screenshot program manually, lmao
But the desktop isn't super important when I just Ctrl+Alt+T and then F11 into FFHM, or Full Focus Hacker Mode.
Last time I only mentioned Helix, now I use it inside tmux, for when my internet breaks.
Already saved me some retyping today, and it's nice that with tmux I can get keyboard windows.
And it gets even nicer when I have the other window running chat, which I finally understood how to get working on tilde (yay).
It's really great that I just type mail to read mail, and chat to chat with some friendly people, I wanna do that myself some day.
Wow, this got suuuper long. I don't think I like how it looks as a page now.
Next quest: make the page pretty!
Or not.
I'm just a blogger after all.