I’ve been thinking a lot about the end of things lately, as my mind wandered around, stressed out by a series of things not worth discussing. And thinking about the end of myself is weirdly comforting. The classic this too shall pass. Everything is transitory after all, and life itself is impermanent. We’re here now, we might be gone tomorrow.
One month experiment: using a very old low-end phone with the latest Android version as a daily driver. The device lags as expected, but usable. The friction of using it is an advantage I’m seeking.
Suhyun’s (AKMU) crystal-clear voice always cleanses my polluted soul.
I am tired of this “You should grind now, but live later.”.
I’ve been playing “Don’t You Fake It” multiple times this past month, and will listen to it now one last time. It really is good. I had the pleasure of seeing them playing live and have a very good time. Childhood memories did came back.
Whenever something’s bothering me, Mychem has been always a go-to listen. I’ve been listening to them in every stage of my life now.
I like to listen to music, A LOT. I am now stepping away from the easy access of streaming random songs and letting the algorithm play the next songs and just going the old fashioned way of downloading the songs for offline playback. I will mostly listen to a full album instead of just one song.
I am now adding regular posts of the albums I listened to. Here’s the initial list from the last two weeks.
Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire (1997) by Hatebreed (Metalcore, Hardcore)
Supremacy (2006) by Hatebreed (Metalcore, Hardcore)
Heard That There’s Good Pasta (2020) by Aimyon (J-pop)
Listening to Hatebreed is a huge motivational boost.
I really like Cigarette and Potpourri Leaf as always from that Aimyon album.
I am using my Pixel 2 with LineageOS with Gapps as a secondary phone as a catch all for the proprietary apps that I need. There’s always an itch to completely erase Gapps from this phone and use microG instead. The thought of Google services and apps having root access from this phone irks me a lot.
I decided to remove my dependency on Gapps now and won’t even use microG to replace it. Any app that would cry about the missing Google services, I will not use it indefinitely. This is a challenge as most apps really want these services specially the proprietary ones, but I suspect that this will simplify my phone usage as I will drop a lot of apps in the long run and be left with a few. This is just about the same setup as my main phone, just with all the proprietary apps.
I am willing to embrace inconvenience.
I am always trying to own my device, not the other way around.