https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/ Recent content in Thoughts on forgettablePyromaniac Hugo en-US Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/fluxer-over-stoat/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/fluxer-over-stoat/ Fluxer kinda fucks?? Yeah, actually! What it says on the tin, really. Enjoyer of alt-tech that I am, even before the whole age-verif bullshit, I’ve been trying different… “Alternatives” is a phrase I really dislike, but it’s the easiest way to clarify my point. It’s something I use every day, so I just want to pick the best thing. Same with my mail, same with my OS - as long as things function without much needing to be done from my end, sure! https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/pds/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/pds/ Bluesky is a thing that exists. Crazy fucking concept! Yeah, I finally got around to it. Gonna use it for more posting about my specific niche interests and stick to more general posting and getting news from Masto. Don’t hate y’all just feels a bit more lively over there. Anyway, in lieu of everyone else talking about their weird-ass ways of setting up the PDS, I feel like I need to explain how I did mine, if only for my own sanity, because holy fuck I took two days to figure out what was wrong and how to fix it. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/reronv2cannedost/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/reronv2cannedost/ World’s smallest update. I am not dead. Also, I released the music I made for re:Ron v2. It got canceled but I fuckin’ LOVE these songs, very happy with how they turned out. Hoping to come out with a proper update on what I’m planning on doing at some point soon-ish, but I’ve been just absolutely burnt out from life and politics and shit. RSS feed exists if you use those. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/privacy-only-gets-worse/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/privacy-only-gets-worse/ I’m seriously trying. I have talked to friends, online and local, as well as my local goverment whenever this shit comes up, and it all passes anyway. Why even bother? I’ve been so glad to switch most of my personal life to free and open source shit (with few exceptions, notably FL and Steam games), throwing my excess dollars around to try and get some shit done, no matter how small. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/psych-engine-is-annoying/ Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/psych-engine-is-annoying/ But I love it. I have used Psych Engine since 0.6.3, and it has been a long ride. Unfortunately, it’s absolutely dead now - no more updates. It’s been that way for a while at this point, but only now is it really starting to hit me in a more noticable way. I used to use Github as a great way to get answers to frankly silly questions using the issues tab. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/replacement-applications/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/replacement-applications/ A list of decent alternatives & my reasoning. I’m just going to get right into this to be as informational as possible. I’ll try and go over both Phones and Computers, although I have more experience with the latter than the former. OS You should replace your PC OS first, before doing anything else. Seriously. Microsoft makes you their BITCH and Apple is the abusive ex you crawl back to anyway. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/the-internet-sucks-now/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/the-internet-sucks-now/ And I can’t do anything about it. When people said I was going insane from taking my time to learn Linux, to remove google from my life, to resist using non-free software, I just scoffed and kept going. In retrospect, I should have explained my reasoning behind doing most of the shit I did, and I feel bad about not doing so. But with everything going on about ID verification for using basic online services and all the data-collection for AI training, perhaps my actions showed I was ahead of the ball-game in that regard. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/the-world-is-falling-apart/ Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/the-world-is-falling-apart/ You should never have to show ID to use the internet. Seriously. That’s fucking stupid. Imagine if you had to give ID to enter a public park - fucking nasty idea, huh? That’s the reality we’re gonna be hitting soon at this rate, all thanks to the UK and Aussieland. On one hand, I agree with the sentiment of “protect the children”. On the other hand, it’s not about protecting children, it’s about knowing WHO is saying WHAT, so unless you are singlehandedly the most milktoast person ever, you can and will be scrutinized; especially with the UK’s no-vpn, no encryption (or at least backdoored) shit. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/god-why-does-everyone-use-discord/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/god-why-does-everyone-use-discord/ God, why does everyone use Discord? It feels like it should be a known fact at this point that Discord just absolutely blows chunks, but for some reason nobody I talk to seems keen on giving a fuck. I thought I would write down everything I can think of off-the-cuff to convince people to replace discord with something else, just like they replaced Skype back in the mid-to-late 10s. Okay, firstly, it didn’t USE to be absolutely terrible. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/mychoiceinos/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/mychoiceinos/ Why Linux is Superiour. Despite what literally everyone else around me thinks (and says to my face), I don’t just choose what I do to hate myself. Crazy! I know for a fact that’s a part of it, but it’s not the whole story. I genuinely enjoy using the Penguin operating system over anything else offered on the table, but why exactly is a mystery, even to myself - but that’s why I decided I wanted to write this. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/freedom-insanity-boredom/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/freedom-insanity-boredom/ Freedom, Insanity, Boredom. So I got rid of Discord, and I chucked shit like Twitter into the stratosphere. On one hand, I feel significantly more free. On the other? I’m significantly more irritable, lonely, and bored. Irritable, because I’ve had nothing but complaints from people. “Wah, we don’t want a whole new program to conversate with you. Wah, we’re too lazy to ask our fellow friends to move, unlike you. Wah, what’s wrong with Discord anyway? https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/sitesetup/ Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/sitesetup/ Hugo-ified my site. I FINALLY found a site layout that I don’t hate, thanks to Hugo. It’s so cool that I can have a somewhat-dynamic site without php or Javascript (which the previous version of this site made heavy use of). On top of that, the website’s now open-source because it’s updated along with the Codeberg git repository. I wanted it to be kinda simple but still look nice, so I chose the hugo-bearblog theme, customized to fit my colourscheme of choice. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/doom-and-gloom/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/doom-and-gloom/ Doom and gloom. I’ve had the urge to make doom-stuff for a while since my time away, but whenever I open Doom Builder, I fiddle around with a few monster difflculties and then quit. Same with music, same with anything that isn’t video games, but now even stuff like Minecraft I’ll do part of a project then just Save & Quit. I really don’t understand what my problem is right now, maybe just burn out, maybe something more deep-seated, maybe ADHD killing my braincells. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/udb-on-linux/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/udb-on-linux/ How to run UDB on Linux. It took me a bit to figure out how to get this to work right, and other people have had trouble in the past, so I’m here to help. Gonna break this into easy steps: Install Git (though it should be preinstalled on most Distros?) Install Mono-Complete, Mono-Devel doesn’t have everything required to compile UDB. Select where you wish to put the code for things, and open it in your terminal. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/discord/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/discord/ Well, I’m still here. I’ve been spending the past few days struggling without Discord, but I’ve been managing, a little. It’s been really lonely since then, but I still have people to talk to, notably on Steam. The only issue is that people ON steam don’t use the built-in chat feature whatsoever. Seriously, think about the last time you used Steam’s messaging feature that wasn’t some form of someone trying to scam you. https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/vps/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://forgettable.xyz/thoughts/vps/ Amazing! Another rewrite, another site. Hey, look! I spent money! Yep, domain and all. Fancy shmancy, right? Also rewrote the website again, because fuck me, I suppose, but this time I actually had the ability to use php, so it’s actually not coded like a monkey at a typewriter just so happened to make JS code. Way easier than I thought, too! At least for the basic site stuff, doing mail is going to be a LOT more challenging.