daily streak no more

date: mar 29th, 2026

so uh, i fucked up my sleep schedule again. i went to sleep at 7 am and woke up at 12 yesterday, it's 2:44 am as i write, but it's okay cuz i spent the past 10 hours redesigning my website, which was really fun!

less fun though is that i forgot to talk about all the other cool shit that happened yesterday. chapter 3 of osu winner's circle dropped & it's pretty great. i want to dissect and nitpick this manga like i did with osu combat championship because my soul craves for any form of osu content that isn't just regurgitating surface-level knowledge.

also, maliszewski lost to mrekk in botb quarterfinals but the match didn't even get streamed due to some miscommunication shenanigans. i was hoping that at least maliszewski's team would be better overall but the 6-1 scoreline says otherwise. i don't want to say it, but it felt like maliszewski underperformed on some maps, especially tech1 and free2 where he got below 600k somehow. the only map his team won had fcs across the entire lobby.

in the end, mrekk's team (or i should say asecretbox's team cuz he's the captain) won because they had stronger players. it's clear malisz still cared about winning with how he & milosz were in for a majority of the maps, but i'm believing less and less in the possibility of him ever beating mrekk again, solo or team tournament.

part 2: new keyboard yoooo

finally i can stop putting up with the broken right arrow on my old keyboard. this one also feels way better to type on

part 3: new books yoooooo

i'll finish these three plus all the other books on my shelf eventually 🙂. god i should really have a book tracker. i made one on google sheets 2 years ago but then abandoned it. idk if i should pick it back up or make a new one on this website.

part 4: choice paralysis for computer nerds

lotta images in this one, huh? sorry if you have slow wifi. actually i'm not that sorry i'm only managing this website for myself.

yeah that's like 13 distros plus other webpages that are just lists of even more distros. and this is after i closed a bunch of tabs on r/distrohopping. how did we get here?

a bit over an hour ago i came up with the genius idea of using my laptop to run windows in tandem with multiple linux distros. what was i going to use each os for? that didn't matter to me. all i cared about was making sure that each linux distro i used was unique to "avoid redundancy" (e.g. having ubuntu and linux mint both installed, because they're both based on debian).

and so with that criteria in mind i initially planned to split the free space on my laptop into 5 (because it has a bit over 500gb of storage) and install one arch-based distro, one debian-based distro, one fedora-based distro, and one independent distro. that sounds simple enough, except i wasn't sure which specific distro i'd use for each case.

we return to present time, where after scrolling through r/distrohopping and almost doomscrolling distrowatch reviews, i come no closer to having a definitive list of distros to install, other than the new knowledge that systemd is going to implement a function to harvest users' birth dates so i should probably prioritize non-systemd distros.

except 99% of the non-systemd distros are either independent linux distros or not linux distros at all, which goes against the criteria i've set out. unless i'm fine with giving myself multiple headaches at once trying to wrap my head around 6-7 different independent distros at the same time, which i'm not.

i've had enough of this. let's go back to the fundamental question i tried to ignore while i went down that rabbit hole: what am i using my laptop for? really, what's the point of trying to make it unique when my pc takes care of everything & any work i might need to do on multiple devices is all here on the browser?

video games? idk, i don't play anything other than osu nowadays & i've never found myself needing to play games while on the go or anything. either i bring my tablet & keypad with me or i don't.

i'm realizing just now i probably could've had osu on my laptop but as i wrote that i remembered i was avoiding having osu installed on multiple places on purpose to avoid losing scores due to them being set on one machine and not the other, and when i did feel like playing osu on the go i'd install lazer so i didn't have to worry about accidentally beating my stable scores.

but as i was writing that i found out i could set up syncthing to only sync score files and such and ignore everything else. damn.

ok fine, i might use my laptop to play one game occasionally, but that still doesn't explain why i'd need to set up so many damn distros. in fact, why even keep windows around at all? to use affinity? to make up for the amount of time i sunk into building & installing tiny11? just in case i decide to move my archival programs back onto my laptop?

i don't know. i think i'm gonna go install magisk on my laptop & try to root my phone.

part 4.5: well fuck me

holy shit i can't even enable developer mode on my phone without my banking app throwing a fucking hissy fit. why am i forced to use this worthless piece of garbage