This is actually not a good advice, from my experience. If we don’t monitor, refactor, or improve the code, the software will rot, sooner or later. “Don’t touch” doesn’t mean we don’t ever think about the code, but we make the conscious choice not to modify it.

Also excited for this. I tried KDE before but I didn’t find it easy to configure (too manually for a declarative guy like me). I like more the simplicity of Gnome.

The Internet is great. It connects people. I learned so many things even I lived in a small town in a third-world country.

But ads, scam, and 15-second videos are bad. The current Internet is nasty and not as beautiful as it was.

Two sides of a coin, I suppose.

I learned the lesson: keep the hope low (so I don’t get disappointed), and never preorder.

Gitlab used to be cute, small, and innovative (as in open). But now it’s too bloated. Gitlab CI is not well designed and half-baked.

Second. Up-to-date packages and stable at the same time.

Same. I gave up the first time due to tedious details and weird control. I played it again with some control tweak (can't remember what I changed) and tried to embrace the slow details, and completely loved the story.

Seriously, Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Facebook stories can go to hell.

Let's build the Internet again, starting from Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. One step at a time.

Yes, you can filter by almost any country in the world.

When you learn to do something, you love it more.

Nowadays, we're mostly given something and we don't value it.

Not OC, but I'm using Kagi and super happy. Before I use Kagi, I didn't realise how bad Google result is. Its results are poisoned by ads and SEO nowadays.

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

How do you do that?

The problem with YouTube is that is so easy to just default to letting it feed your brain.

True, a typical example is YouTube Shorts. I hate that 15-second trend.

Mostly YouTube, Hacker News, and some mailing lists. I do join some random forums to discuss non-tech hobbies like English writings, games, or classical music.

Privacy aside, my Instagram feeds now are mostly filled with posts from random people. I do want to follow my friends' updates but the recommendation algorithm keeps churning out rubbish. If only I could bring them out of Instagram and Facebook…

Kinda hate that I waste so much time on it.

You watched some learning materials—programming problems, historical events, etc. That's educative. At least you learned something.

Also, time you enjoy is not wasted.

Cool. Now I just needs a Japanese keyboard and I can finally ditch Gboard.

my nerdy friend that went on that journey with me is a musician and fashion model lol.

Maybe his/her experience in keeping the system simple and beautiful helped him/her recognise the passion in art.

Haha your post made me reflect my journey. I had fun in college tinkering Arch Linux with i3. Now I'm an Infra Engineer (or DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE, whatver) and still do the same job—keeping the system "reliable".