Schools that boast their rankings for marketing to get more students, seem to me like they’re just focused more on other things rather than on education itself. The advertised employment rate of such schools fits in that circle as well. This somewhat tells what the system is all about.

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

https://youtu.be/lXwJbj9UpMg

Let’s migrate all from my self-build custom Android ROMs to the available official builds at the moment, trying to save some by avoiding servers for now. No Google Apps (GApps) and even microG for my main daily driver.

It takes a large appetite to bet on your one wild, precious life and decide what is best for you, to get offline, even when the whole world is shouting at you to better get yourself on LinkedIn, create Instagram to not miss out on the whole entire world having fun, to be well suited for life in the 21st century.

Man, I was just so tired of losing my time, attention, energy, humanity to Big Data.

There is no reward for losing all your life, so decide.

Take your freedom.

It’s free to be free.

You decide.

- Mehret Biruk

Just switched after a long while from Debian Stable with XFCE to Debian Testing with GNOME. GNOME does feel smoother now even on old hardware. ^_^

Hell yeah! \m/

Few things I’ve been playing around these days:

  1. I just recently found out that Netlify CMS, which I have been using to generate posts easily on this site has been rebranded to Decap CMS. I went ahead and changed the necessary moving pieces, which is not a lot, and I have been using it now typing this.
  2. Updated Hugo (which statically generates this site) to v0.127.0, thankfully nothing breaks so far.
  3. I am now signing my Android custom ROM builds with my own private keys. This is for the new requirement of Play Integrity that checks now if the ROM is signed or not.
  4. Ditching again Google Apps on my phone for microG, hopefully I won’t revert back due to some apps that requires it.
  5. Changing the site colors to light mode.

I’m now inspired to add the tech I’m using here, as well as updating my site again, credits to Derek Sivers for the motivation for all of this.

Listen also to Choi Yuree here. :)

Stillness……

After a month of trials, I finally built a stable custom Android rom for my old device. I now even tried applying backported security patches. All is good.