A blog for me to talk about, well, anything really. You can leave, but never escape.
After revisiting a hedgehog's most successful outing on the Wii, I found a masterclass in how *not* to write a story. On the supercilious tone of the 2010s era, corporate sabotage, and why you can't create a compelling hero if the company that made him thinks heroism is an embarrassing chore.
The Library of Alexandria has one key-holder, and they think my IP is a data center. On the danger of heroic one-man operations, how efficiency kills resilience, the technical arrogance of a Western admin, and the realization that when you contribute to a wiki, you’re just building a castle you aren’t allowed to live in.
After corrupting my root partition (again), I installed my 30-something-th distro and realized Desktop Linux isn't ready. Not for casual users, not even for enthusiasts. On sleep/wake Russian roulette, ideology over UX, why knowing too much makes you a terrible judge of usability, the prison of endless distro-hopping, and the fact I'm growing tired of something I've loved so dearly.
After discovering a music player actively removed Russian translations and silenced discussion about it, I got angry enough to fork a 20-year-old C codebase. Here's what that taught me about FOSS, authority, and why 'just fork it' is terrible advice.
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We all know fridges preserve food. But why do we need giant ones? On car-dependent sprawl, the feedback loop that trapped us, bulk buying we can't escape, and how we're stuck with humming boxes because we designed cities wrong 70 years ago.
The ideas are appealing, but can it actually work at the scale of a nation? On the information problem, tragic trade-offs during scarcity, human nature, and why every economic system sucks, just in different ways.