Robot:

The bicycle is a freedom machine. Not only will it take you where you want to go under your own power, but it disdains the bonds of pavement and settled map as well. In fact, the only thing that holds the bike back is a lack of imagination, which explains why kids ride their bikes in places adults wouldn’t think to.

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Between you and me, I suspect that the simple act of riding a bike regularly will actually expand your mind, or, at the very least, your sense of where you can get under your own power. In this sense, I pity the fools who move themselves only by automobile. They take dead-end signs literally. They live in a horribly proscribed world.

Keeping up with Hugo

I’m starting again to make some minor tweaks in the site and these changes are mostly done in Hugo. I am using a version from two years ago and I need to keep up with the current one just for fun.

Apparently, I can’t build the site using the versions staring from v0.93.0 so I am currently stuck in v0.92.2 which is still fairly impressive as I haven’t done any major changes in the code to accommodate such feature updates.

When the right time comes, I’ll sit with this again to rewrite some things to use the current version. Well, if it happens in the near future. I am just glad to be back writing some nonsense again in this space. Cheers.

Update

I may have found some rad people, very interesting individuals. This might be a start of new outlook. I’ll hang around for awhile.

After some time, I may have been settling down.

Emo

On and on, we carry through the fears
Oh, oh, oh
Disappointed faces of your peers
Oh, oh, oh
Take a look at me, ‘cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you’ll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you’ll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part

I won’t explain or say I’m sorry
I’m unashamed, I’m gonna show my scars
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it’s who we are

I’m just a man, I’m not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
I’m just a man, I’m not a hero
I don’t care

Back to usual

I fully used Google Services for my Android phone for the past 3 months. That is quite a long time for me for quite a while. Since I’ve been encountering some stuttering and frequent slow downs, I decided to finally wipe the memory and flash another ROM, not fully ungoogled but still with microg.

With my use case for that duration, I really do not need Google services. Time to dig deep again to current Android development, I hope I can keep up.

On the desktop side, openSUSE Tumbleweed still gives me excitement everyday of using it. This past few weeks also has been big for Linux gaming with new developments.

Exciting times, at least for now.

Stillness

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

Rolling with Tumbleweed

It started when this random video appeared in my feed. I am aware of openSUSE before but this SUSE parody video made me hop into this distro immediately. I am not aware that it offers both static (Leap) and rolling release (Tumbleweed) model. Not being in a rolling release for awhile now, I decided to roll down this path. The offline installer surprised me with a 4.6 GB ISO, which is quite big than typical size.

The reason for that big ISO file is the install process. It will let you customize your installation by selecting the packages that you want or remove. It is the most powerful installer so far which let you tweak a lot of things. In the disk partition section, the default filesystem is btrfs. Prior to installation, I have no idea about this filesystem. It is apparently the default for openSUSE for quite awhile and first to adopt it. This new information made me more excited since I have a new thing to delve into. More about btrfs here.

I tried KDE Plasma this time. I already used other major desktop environments but for some reason, I always overlooked Plasma. After some learning more about it, reading the documentation, checking the source, engaging with the community, the innovation, etc., I can say that I will stick with it for a long time, I like everything about it. The same can be said about openSUSE. It’s the current perfect match for me.

Two months in, I can say that I found that distro. Everything from the logo, wiki, forums, community, and the different ways of how it handles things is in my alley. Using Linux has been fun again for me after dabbling most of my time in Debian, Ubuntu and Arch based distros. I’m also using it with Wayland and PipeWire which seems to work fine with my current use.

It’s crazy how this journey started with a parody video. I know openSUSE don’t make a lot of noise in the Linux community, hence the small userbase but in some sense, I quite like it that way. I haven’t gone into detail about the features of openSUSE, I’ll let you have fun discovering about it.

“Don’t reboot it, just patch!”