Here you will find what I’m up to!

Updated on April 23, 2025

Books I’m reading

The Hunger Games

I love this series. It’s super cool!

The Bible

This book is really good… and old too! I’ve got to make a habit of it though.

What I’m watching

Various youtube videos

I almost-exclusively watch youtube videos. I haven’t sat down to watch a proper film or TV show in a while cough cough hunger games. I probably should. My youtube history is very diverse, with topics ranging from radio to memes and niche videos about trains and other cool stuff.

The Hunger Games

Catching Fire was the best, but I enjoyed the others. I have no idea why they thought a shaky ahh camera was good for the 1st movie. Maybe that filmmaking style was all the rage in 2011. Read more about it

Instagram Reels / Youtube Shorts

My algorithim is questionable. One minute, some cool nerdy video about trains or electrical stuff, then next minute it’s a video related to Instagram’s favourite word. (you know what I mean) On youtube shorts, it’s a mix of podcasts, gen alpha brainrot, and tiny channels posting about cool stuff. (similar to niche fb groups)

OS’s and computers that I’m using

Fedora Linux

Trusty linux distro I’ve been using since 2021! It’s the middle road between Debian and Arch so it’s been rock-solid. Fedora is what I use to make this website! The Gnome workflow seems really intuiative. People complain about not having a minimize button but with dynamic workspaces I don’t see why you’d need it.

I use it on my laptop (dualbooted with windows 11) and have used it on my desktop PC.

Windows

Adobe, MS Office don’t work on linux. I have to use both for school. I don’t really mind using Windows because I like seeing how old parts of the OS can get and all the different things it has built in you don’t normally see. I have installed ExplorerPatcher on my laptop so I get Windows 10 small style taskbar on my Windows 11 install I just use it for file explorer now. I do like Windows 11’s design style but on my laptop the taskbar is too big for my screen size imo. My laptop is an ASUS VivoBook M1503Q. I thought I got the 144hz version but i got the 60hz (pays to look at the details of what you buy on pbtech) ☹️ - This laptop is what I’m using to make this website.

I also use Windows 10 on my desktop PC, a Acer Nitro 50 I got for free! I’ve upgraded the GPU to a GTX 1080, the RAM to 32GB and have added a few HDDs for storage. It’s i5-10400 isn’t the most powerful but I can’t exactly complain. I use it for all sorts of things, from gaming to creative work to watching youtube. Linux was too much of a hassle on it as I use Adobe and Microsoft Office. I tried booting Windows 7 on it too but that somehow caused my SSD to fail. It worked in another computer though but not the Acer. I still don’t know why that is.

The only photo I could find of my laptop. Here I’m programming an ESP32 for WLED (didn’t work out in the end, but I’ve still got it so I might use it)

Android

One UI 6 on my Samsung Galaxy A53. I want to upgrade but new phones are expensive… I like how intuitive android is, and how you can sideload apps, unlike iOS. I used to have an iPhone 8 Plus. The one thing I miss about it is iOS’s design. The apps that look like native apps look so good. The only thing I didn’t like was the way the home screen worked.