being a nerd 15 and 30 years ago
- What would my current life look like in previous generations? Doing so puts the sheer exponential speed of technological growth into perspective. [...]
ode to radio
- I've been going out of my way recently to find new music, especially in lieu of social media and the mysterious Algorithm. One avenue I chose to take was local radio. The idea is simple: use my computer as a VCR of sorts to record local music programs that air at odd hours for later dissection. [...]
backup
- I ended up nuking pacman trying to free up space, and I spent a week trying to fix it - only to give up and nuke my otherwise perfect Arch Linux installation. [...]
dumbsmart phone
- I got to work setting up my workflow for as little dependence of the internet as possible. However, there is a surprising amount of things you can do offline. [...]
off grid return to monke - progress
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What does a lifestyle of not having home internet and using a feature (read: dumb) phone as a daily driver look like?
Pros:
- I’m encouraged to go to bed at a reasonable time more often.
- I’ve been running more consistently due to having nothing better to do.
- I’m encouraged to hang out at school more to mooch off of free Wi-Fi, and with that comes social reinforcement to study and mindfulness about what websites I choose to browse in public.
- I find myself practicing music more without really trying due to easy access to practice rooms and not having to worry about bothering my neighbors and roommates.
- I’ve had less anxiety about being alone without YouTube videos to fill up that empty space. There’d be times I didn’t remotely care for anything in my feed, but still put on a video at random in hopes of getting in the mood, akin to opening the fridge 1000 times. Nowadays, I flip through the radio for a bit when I’m bored at my desk or put on my Japanese passive immersion when I’m bored doing menial chores.
- Social media and YouTube would have to be consoomed deliberately. I found myself giving up feed scrolling entirely instead of going through the trouble to stay up to date on content creators and influencers, and I usually don’t think too much of this until a bugman starts talking to me about pop culture.
Annoyances followed by solutions/adaptations:
[...]ham radio 2 - real life edition
- What do I take away from having gotten my radio license? Why did I get the license in the first place? [...]
ham radio
- I struggle to find a place in my life for HAM radio. Every job that I can conjure for a radio can be done much cheaper and more conveniently with the internet. [...]