It seems that you've taken an interest in what I like to read and watch about. Here are some (hopefully) brief paragraphs revolving the stuff I dabble in.
Computer Hardware & Electronics have always been something I've been into. There's always something about them I really admire. The complexity, their functions, and what I can do with them. I guess it's no surprise that I decided to study Electronic Engineering.
This was one of my first interests within this area. As a kid, I was always fascinated about what computers could do, and the things I saw my dad run on them. I enjoyed watching people build one from scratch and cared about all the intricacies of all the different components.
In secondary school, I used to attend and then eventually teach in a computer hardware class a student used to run in the evenings, the things I thought I about computers was upended a lot more. With these, we went through the different components, their functions, what to consider when purchasing one for a specific use case. I loved what was in these classes, and so taking over was a fun thing for me.
This shouldn't come as a shock, considering I'm also interested on what could be run the machines I'm fascinated about.
I've always loved tinkering with operating systems, from when I first used Windows XP, and then Windows 7 when XP went out of support in April 2014. But I've always tinkered with Linux since then as I was fascinated with how things could look like. I wanted to be able to customize my system just the way I wanted it to be, and so Linux has been a home for me now as I get to make my system my own.
I first had my taste of Linux with Ubuntu 14.04LTS, Trusty Tahr when I was trying to find a free OS that I could use since I didn't have a free Windows 7 activation key, and I stumbled on Ubuntu then. It wasn't a great experience since I ran it on an old Toshiba laptop from 2001, but I liked the look regardless.
I moved full time to linux when Windows 11 was on the horizon, since I knew that I was not going to use 11 and that 10 will go out of support. I started early. I tried to determine if Arch Linux or Kubuntu was my preferred choice, since I wanted to learn something new, and so Manjaro was my initial jump into something Arch based, as I was intimidated by the installation guide which was a big badge of honour for people then. Now, not so much especially bc of archinstall being a thing now.
I moved to Manjaro in 2020 and when I had a lot of Nvidia graphics problems with my GTX 650 Ti Boost GPU due to it going out of support in the mainline drivers, I had a lot of issues with mhwd, I decided that moving to Arch Linux would be a better experience for me. And so I moved to Arch in 2021 and haven't looked back since.
TODO: Write about KDE and DWM.
Over the years I've been using Linux, I've depended on the solid and reliable bash. It was simple enough, and standard on most systems. Nowadays, I've been enjoying some extra functionality on my system with zsh, and the plugins that it supports. A highlight of things I've added are rememberance of previous terminal commands, which are partially greyed out when you type out stuff, and to show how long a command had run for after the execution ended on the terminal. This has improved my terminal workflow, though I've been using GUI applications a lot more over the past year or so (2024 specifically).
Following from the computer/electronic themes, my appreciation of the whole genre and the subgenres of electronic music has always been based on what could be made from electronic devices, be they primitive and basic oscillators, to the complex synthesizers artists use on top of their DAW prowess. While from an initial view of these things, you'd think they'd be limited on their options, but these limitations are what fascinates me.
TODO: Write about other stuff.
TODO: Write about chiptune.
TODO: Write about Adhesive Wombat.
TODO: Write about OpenMPT.
TODO: Write about Vox Vulgaris and DIM.
TODO: Write about the Bee Gees.
I love games.
TODO: Write about games and Rimworld.