Have not done one of these in forever, comment sketchy inspired by this part of a conversation with @tarazkp. ryivhnn: I’ve been scrubbing through Snaps recently and not understanding the appeal of doomscrolling. tarazkp: Yeah - who wants to wade through a rubbish bin in the hope of finding a fresh apple? ryivhnn: Me I guess XD Perhaps because of the relatively low volume it’s currently pretty quick and easy to find decent interaction hooks. I just…really don’t know how to micro.

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It is not actually that complicated, I was just going to call the post “re-evaluiation” or something equally direct but then decided I wanted to use the word “contemplation” and then I got a bit carried away. Blogging was more slogging than anything else last year. Some of it was just time management issues (glitchy brain thing, my brain violently rejects schedules and todo lists but I need them to actually get more stuff done or at least a little bit progressed otherwise what happens is I make immense mindblowing progress on whatever my hyperfocus is on before I burn out in 1-7 days and literally nothing else gets done at all) and sleep issues caused from very incorrectly trying to deal with the time management issues (pro-tip: regularly sacrificing sleep because that’s literally the only thing left that you can cut to try to gain some more time to work on things is guaranteed to make literally everything else exponentially worse, literally).

Experimenting with microblogging and apparently butterfly sketchies are the only way I can break first post paralysis (in this particular case it’s for snaps, actual snaps body text is likely to be similar but different from here as there is an actual character limit there so I can’t waffle as much).

I think it’s time to try something new.

It’s a new world It’s a new start It’s alive with the beating of young hearts

Filling in for some day classes as the normal coach couldn’t make it. There is a decent gap between two of them and I forgot to bring my book so I curled up in the storeroom (as my bag with the drawing supplies was in there anyway) and started drawing.

It’s been a good while since I wrote about the baby steps of my very slow transition to as much open source as I can manage. quick recap early twenteens: apparently (I searched my own blog XD) I was using linux on a small rig (laptop, the desktop is the “big rig”), and apparently it was Ubuntu/Kubuntu or some other derivative and I had a lot of problems with it (mostly because I wanted updates faster than I was getting them and getting what I wanted broke things) and went to Ubuntu Studio which was less of a problem enough to make a difference but still a problem 2016: acquired the big rig (fondly referred to as “the frankenbox”) with its current case and original parts, installed Ubuntu Studio, problems persisted 2017: so many problems that I fully cracked it after yet another dist-upgrade explosion requiring a reinstall, an online friend recommended Manjaro (and stayed up really late for him to make sure I got through the install process fine) mid-late twenteens: started using ownCloud, and at some point after that switched to Nextcloud (purely on principle as I wasn’t sure I liked the direction ownCloud was going, it still functioned fine at the time) late twenteens: broke away from the open source trend briefly with the acquisition of my current iPhone (reasonably certain I was replacing an Android which was doing my head in, I apparently hate Android a lot more than iOS) and much later a Macbook Air (both phones and Manjaro or the photo apps I was trying refused to play nice and my media was infinitely more important than my stupid principles) 2020: acquired a NUC and started properly self-hosting my websites (of which I’m down to just this one now) and Nextcloud 2023: the frankenbox got a lot of new hardware (basically all components except the case, drives and the gpu got replaced), switched to Arch for what ended up being no other reason than I’d mentally prepared for and committed to it (originally we thought I’d have to reinstall because Manjaro wouldn’t recognise all the new hardware but it didn’t care and just worked) the watch In much more recent history I’d told JJ I was going to have to switch away from Fitbit really soon partly because my Charge 4 was starting to die anyway (screen wouldn’t always turn back on with wrist turn or taps and then was never bright enough even if I explicitly set the brightness higher and the battery life had gotten noticably shorter but it was still going a few days between charges so that wasn’t a massive issue) and also Google had gone from being naggy (some crap about how it would somehow be so much better if you just use the Google account) to coercive (if you want to keep using this thing you have to use a Google account). J said the strap on his watch (some random cheap thing he’d gotten off ebay or something) had broken and he needed a new one too and told me to send him the one I’d been looking at.

Pulled earthy colours today so very boringly it was a plant, but at least not the one I had in mind when I pulled the pens out.

holoz0r started up a community for handwritten posts on hive and it seemed as good an attempt as any to try to post more than just my irregular progblogs. I do actually have a lot of stuff that I would like to blog about, I just don’t seem to have the time to do it in I’m deliberately doing it in my sketchbook/journal as I’m very casual with it. I’m not sure when I started stressing about blog posts but I’ve just realised that I really do consider what’s “worth” blogging about and I’m not sure when that developed.