Double clicks h4rdc0r3p0rn.exe right from limewire

Quickly followed by existential dread after realizing what I’ve done.

Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

Just like my 14-year-old self who “mysteriously” bricked his parents’ PC by totally SFW Web usage.

No wonder Musk was bullied as a kid.

I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

1. Some people pay for Discord and they still exploit their data.
2. Some people pay for Lichess and their whole website is free of charge without tracking/advertising.

Yes, things cost money. Yes, ideally those who can pay for it should. No, something being free doesn’t legitimize unethical means to make a profit.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

Cinnamon. After using Xfce and KDE Plasma for years, and having testing Gnome, Budgie, etc., Cinnamon feels like it took the best ingredients from all of them.

The beauty of Linux is the triviality of creating an alias that runs whatever long or short update command by typing “upd” or “release_the_epstein_files”. E.g., in ~/.bashrc, place:
alias release_the_epstein_files="sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm"

pacman -Syu

The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it’s all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

By using unfriendly language online?

Brain rot only for the right… 28 TikToks Later…

1. Scandinavian-style education everywhere.
2. Virtue > everything else in life > profits.
3. Only people like Marcus Aurelius in charge.

I needed the following CSS copied 51 times with a 0.05 s increment, because CSS can’t for-loop and didn’t want JavaScript:

#butterfly span:nth-child(1) {
  animation-delay: 0s;
}

I know I could’ve just for-looped it somewhere else and copy-paste the output, but I was curious if DeepSeek could do it.

An arrow to the knee.

I come from Vivaldi, and Zen was the only customizable powerhouse that equaled the former. Next to Zen I also use LibreWolf, and Waterfox on Android.

✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

A consistent beautiful high kickflip.

Usability.

Windows and Mac are both easier to use for the standard user.

Not at all true anymore for Windoze. Windows 7 was the last installment where that was true. Linux distributions are consistent. Once shown how the basics works, e.g., apt install or pacman -S and the general whereabouts of settings or software, it’s super easy to get them going, indefinitely. Even troubleshooting is within reach because searching the settings isn’t a maze within a maze (except for Gnome sometimes). Windoze keeps changing shit constantly, reinstalls uninstalled software, search algorithm is horrible and has Bing search results within the menu enabled by default [the fuck?], updates don’t indicate how long they’ll last, setting a default program often requires configuring it manually for every file extension, oh goddamn fuckers I have to stop typing because Microsoft pisses me off so bad.
Tabula rasa, if I had to teach a 70-year-old who’s never touched a computer before, to do so, I’d pick Linux every time. Consistency and customization is key. Microsoft makes their users dumb by an illusion of convenience which shatters the instant something goes wrong, like riding a bike with helper wheels that constantly fail. Linux does none of that. It empowers users quite quickly by simply learning how to ride a bike properly. Sure, you fall every so often at the start, but that made mastery that much more satisfying.

Please sit down for what I’m about to tell you. When a Linux user communicates with someone using Windows, the Linux user’s sent data is still being harvested. 💢

Ethics. Reddit has become subject to corporate greed so they can simply go bankrupt for all I care.