🚶 Me!

• Age: {{ ageinsert }}
• Gender: Male
• Occupation: Employed, touching computers all day. Also studying during that
• Location: Somewhere in Germany
• Hobbies: Programming, electronics and computing, trekking, carving wood
• OS Affinity: Gentoo, Artix Linux
• Interests: Old'n wheird Computers/Technologies, Terry Davis, Getting to know Nature and Self-Sustainability
• Education: Computer Science, studying that aswell rn
• Random: {{funfact}}

🔁 Everyday / 👜 Carry

This is a list of stuff I use and take with me everyday.

My laptop currently is a Thinkpad X220, serving as a replacement for my Thinkpad X61t. Sadly it's neck broke, but I want to switch back to it. It's modified with all sorts of stuff like an internal USB Hub with is connected to an Arduino. It has a back OLED display displaying Gentoo ads and a link to my website. I also have a SATA harddrive reader modded where should be the PCI Express card slot (Taken-apart SSD's fit perfectly in that little space). For my Linux distribution I currently run Artix Linux, since my old Gentoo installation broke and I needed something quick. Will switch back to Gentoo sometime when I repair my X61t. My X220 has a whole 16 Gigs of RAM, a 1TB SSD which is fully LUKS encrypted and a 64GB MSATA drive holding data I want to quickly transfer across operating systems and some backup data. On the side of the Laptop I've also modded an external antenna port for more WIFI ;).

My main phone used to be a Nokia fliphone, but got replaced by a trusty old Google Pixel 6. Nothin special about it, since it's just a phone.

For my music, since piss Google decided to remove the beloved headphone jack I use a Sony Minidisk Walkman instead. Better choice anyway. It's a blue MZ-R70 model with digital audio recording capability over ADAT. I always carry my music library with me around, which consists of 7 Minidisks. It's honestly great, since it just eats a single AA battery. So with that I also take spare batteries with me (wich do last a long time). (The motor sounds on this thing are just epic)

As for money, I always carry cash with me. I don't like using and paying with my credit card. If I need money, I'll go to an ATM. I always know how much money I have and how much I can spend. Unlike with a credit card, where it's basically a gamble if the card gets accepted or not. Had that happen to me a few times, where the card was just declined. And you also loose the feeling of "spending" with a card. Physical money is something, that hurts when you spend alot of it, rather than just a number decreasing.

🚫 Nope

• Social Media
• Fast food
• Soft drinks
• Windows
• Deoderant
• Coffee with sugar and or milk
• Overaccesive Phone use
• Cities

⚙️ How

This site just used to be plain HTML and a JavaScipt script wich was basically required for the site to function. It would construct global elements like the navbar and the CSS style variables. Since I can't use that on terminal and old browsers it was only a temporary measure. I wanted to learn how to use hugo, started but decided against it.

This site now operates via Python Flask as it's backend. Each site is still HTML, but with tags inside them. The backend then constructs the global elements and other stuff. You may have noticed, that some elements like the random section in the navbar change when the site refreshes. This is the backend at work. This site uses no JavaScipt, the backend provides the rendered HTML and CSS files.

Some sections like the lists you see on this site and the photobook get constructed via a JSON, to keep things simple and expandable.

❓ Why

Why does this exist? I have my reasons: I hate social media. I think a website is the perfect way for someone to really express themself. Of course it requires work, but the end result is basically a infinite canvas to express oneself. I don't want to see the positive and negative feedback I get for my stuff, well if you actually want to share your opinion you can use the messagebox on the homepage or just shoot an E-mail. But most people won't do that because it's concidered inconvinient.

Algorythms also play a big role in my opinion. I don't want, be it an AI or an algorytm to dictate what I see and what I don't see. It's such a distopian idea but even worse is that most people are not only okay with it and just accept it, but actively defent it.

If you haven't tried, use webrings. They really show how people feel like and what they're capable of. And of course a bit of nostaliga (wich I didn't had, but it's still cool).