Random

I am doing some public accountability challenge on instagram and on 15.05.26 the theme was setting goals for improving my time management. I was planning on discussing my problems with AI usage and how much of a time sink my phone was. I needed to show some initial stats based on which comparisons would be made in later updates to show improvement or a lack thereof. I already have a dirty script for checking my AI usage even when its not so understandable. What I did not have at all was access to raw mobile screen time data on my PC.

I set up a site on blogger (Google’s blogspot) and dumped it for a Hugo design that caught my eye. I thought I could learn some css building it myself. Feel good from doing it myself from scratch. But boy is CSS boring! And I only realized this after 4 hours of centering divs and hunting for unclosed tags.

Now the day had almost come to an end and I was feeling guilty for the waste that it’d been. So to alleviate the guilt , I decided to setup Hugo. I mean why didn’t I do this in the first place? Anyways. After some googling I got it running and hence this site. It looks nice doesn’t it? I mean, I still have to remove some stock pages but I needed some lorem ipsum available before I add content of my own.

This’ll be a long mostly unstructured monologue about what OS I use, what software choices I’ve made and the some brief reasoning for those. A second draft that I decided to make live for reasons I mention at the end of the article. First on using Arch then onto software choices.

So I use Linux. Arch Linux. And for a window manager; i3.

Now I did’t start here. I went through the common natural evolution of the Linux User.