In the modern day it is a living hell to listen to a music streaming service. Compounded by apps like airbuds,
it is nothing short of an actual nightmare. In addition, it is impossible to avoid advertising. It is impossible to avoid the clear misrepresentation of small up and coming artists as compared
to big rich artists who can afford to boost how often their song plays when you shuffle a playlist. And you forget that you are paying upwards of $20 a month to be confronted by these atrocities. “In addition,
mp3s are more economical than ever with sites like bandcamp providing entire albums for around $3. Solid state storage is cheaper per GB than it has been in all of history. We are in a golden age of DAPs (\Digital Audio Players)”
yet we spend our money on a service that is still advertising to us after we pay. But the gold standard is getting old. The apple Ipod is getting to be 20 years old. In order to daily drive such a device it is neccesary to
do various mods such as a battery replacement and a bluetooth mod at the minimum. They are driven by a depricating software that is owned by a large corporation. Thus it is neccesary to have a new generation of
digital media players that still have an old school vibe. These are the reasons that I decided to make my own digital media player. My cheif greivance with modern portable electronics is a lack of battery life optimization
as a type of planned obselesence. One of the main reasons that a person gets a new phone or computer is because the battery has depreciated as Li-ion batteries usually do, to a point where said device is unusable.
To circumvent this issue the obvious solution is to avoid being a selfish corporation, and to optimize the device for battery life. I plan on using a comparativeley large rechargable cell as well as an e-ink
screen in order to significantly reduce the power requirements. E-ink screens draw no current when displaying a still image and therefore can effectivley be used in a DAP type device and have a “always on” functionality
allowing the user to quickly refrence what song they are listening to without any other actions.
this platform will be used more and more for portfolio updates (acedemic and otherwise)
check the PROJECTS TAB for more updates on that front, also planniing on trying to migrate this site to a new domain
and host it either locally or on aws.
they don’t but it is better than having a social media.
chances are you’re social media is useless. It helps nobody and is completley useless. It is a collection of silly selfies and screenshots from other
people’s twitter posts that were mildly amusing. There is no value. I am very hypocritical by writing this post. I have a youtube channel and a blusky
these are plauged by the same things that I just described. Without an algorithm, I feel no motivation to make my posts click-baity. There
is no reason for me to make content that will theoretically “do well” on the platform. Only to make whatever I feel like. The only anylitics
I have installed on this site is that which neocities automatically does. This removes the motivation to make the most widely aprreciated content
with hundreds of pictures and SEO friendly keywords and hashtags.
My second point is that writing as a medium allows for breakdowns of you’re projects. this is especially useful if you are doing something
technical that is not well documented. YOU have a good chance of becoming that lucky search result that explains exactly what the problem is
and how to fix it. How is you’re instagram helping anybody with anything?
that’s it folks im sick of writing.
Linux is a real pain. It’s finnicky, It takes a long time to configure and almost nothing
works right out of the box. When you try to install a program there are about 5 ways
to do it, some of which are supported by said program and some, completeley bootleg.
There are literally hundreds of different distrobutions with varying security,
use-cases, and preinstalled package managers. The GUI can change too, going from
non-traditional things like a 3d GUI all the way to windows and OSX recreations
that are surprising accurate. One might wonder why a person goes through all this struggle
instead of just picking a normal, bloated, corporate, locked down operating system like
a normal person. The answer is simple: Because linux makes you feel like a badass.
GNU/Linux is a culmination of the collective brains of literally thousands upon thousands
of people; from all over the world, from numerous backrounds and fields of work.
Linux is the official operating system for governments around the world and yet still it sucks.
That’s why some people use it, they enjoy a challenge. Arch linux as a philosophy
can be attributed to this natural human desire to do things the hard way in the interest
of being cool. Wheather or not spending “Unneccesary” time fiddling with you’re settings
for hours just trying to make a screen recording is attrractive or “cool” it is certainly
educational. That is the primary reason I think people should use linux.
It is just difficult enough to learn things but just common enough to daily drive.
When you sit down and say “I will learn this.” it is a different type of learning
compared to that which happens when you are in the center of a project and need to
figure this out or all you’re work will be worthless. That is the kind of learning
that will really stick with you-it’s accosiated with emotion. It is not the blank
feelingless memorization of commands and phrases and filesystems. It is the quick skimming
of documentation, gleaning just enough information to complete the task, nothing more.
If you never have problems on you’re operating system, you will never learn about it.
And if you never learn about it you will never be able to fix it if something does go wrong.
There is a quote by stephen hawking along the lines of “A society that relies on technologys it
does not understand is suicidal.” Unfortunatley this is already a widespread problem
in our world. The people that understand the computers are consulted far too often,
experimentation is left out of the equation. Hell, even googling you’re problem is
out of the equation. This can be explained for high importance tasks that must not fail.
However it is suprising how many people ask someone who is “techy” before they even
google their issue. When you use linux there is such a constant influx of issues, problems,
and general things that need troubleshooting; that to google every problem, is imposible.
Experimentation, and even just plain simple reading the documentation come back into play.
People forget there are entire manuals written online for almost every piece of software.
These are free to read and in the process become more adept at using that software.
This is the reason that linux is as popular as it is, it’s not the customization,
it’s not the open source nature; it’s the attitude that one develops from using something
that is powerful and imperfect-almost like magic and religion. Mainstream operating systems
are like following a religion: you believe in it until it breaks and then you
talk to somebody else about it. Whereas GNU/Linux is like being a Rabbi or a monk.
You understand so much more and you encounter these things for long periods of time
daily. Not to say linux is a religion but it certainly has the capacity to change
you as a person. Food for thought indeed…
I’m working on a video that shows off the bash script that I wrote that automatically cds and hugo create news etc etc. all the way down to opening nano
with the new file i made open. It’s also the first bash script I have ever made so I probably failed to make it “bashic” (pythonic for bash)
anyway, stay tuned.
Why is it that static site generators are so finnicky? I have spent more hours of my life trying to wrestle HUGO into working than I rightly should have
considering the fact that it is supposed to be a “Fast” and “simple” Generator. Themes are a pain to install when they have depepndencies, the themes page is poorly updated
and many themes just simply don’t work. So I will go to the hugo themes website and add the theme that looks OK. Then I will copy the config over etc etc and then
the content I write Just won’t show up. I mentioned it before in my other post, but I almost gave up this whole website thing; it seemed like too much of a hassle.
I was banging my head against the keyboard (figurativley) and wishing I could be like other people. Because other people don’t devote their free time to
creating blogs that nobody really sees. Normal people don’t spend the precious hours of the weekend in GNU nano configuring the 20th static site generator of the day.
But at the end of the day, the programmer cycle of “I am a moron, I am a genius” is omnipresent. One day feels like a kick in the butt, you can’t even
configure a “user-friendly” static site generator to work correctly. I used to have a vanilla HTML and CSS site (at this very address) but I read an article about
how hotlinking is bad for making you’re website exist for years. (the article)[https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/]
Anyway I decided to migrate my very very seizure inducing neocities page to be both more modern, more minimal, and more mindful the future.
So I guess the key takeaway is that despite how annoying static site generators are, at the end of the day most anything is easier than CSS and therefore
they are worth the struggle.
Hello, Welcome, I finally got hugo to work.
Trust me I wish I had a better theme but that is basically not an option at this point. I had to resist bashing my head into
the computer yesterday. It seems this is the only properly configured Hugo theme. Thanks to the people/person that made smol
because it really simplifies writing content. I don’t mind having a simple site but blogging right in my html seems dangerous and it
tempts me to code. This way I can just focus on content and push it to neocities very easily. with the command “neocities push (the path to the public folder on hugo.)”
I did accedentally delete my other index.html that I spent at least 10hrs on (whoops…) but It was a janky vanilla html mess of hotlinked everything.
It would not have lasted another year without a serious rennovation. this was easier.
