Web developer, gamer, reader, and a true ligma male

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I mean, I:

    • Eat at least three times per day (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
    • Exercise three times per week (in the gym, lifting weights)
    • Sleep at least 7 or 8 hours per night
    • Go outside every day
    • Have a skincare routine (although it’s not much)
    • Brush my teeth twice per day (after breakfast and before going to sleep)



  • I don’t think, I just do.

    I usually keep an end goal in sight; for example, I sometimes dread going to the gym, but I always remember that my goal is to stay fit, have a healthy body and exercising is an important part of that. By sticking to my goal, I maintain my discipline and go to the gym 3 times per week.

    Another example is school homework; in my case, my math homework is something I don’t enjoy, but I remind myself that I need the math certificate in order to enroll for a Computer Science degree at an university. Therefore, I keep pushing myself to study math and get good grades (which so far has worked pretty well)


  • Regrowing / regenerating certain body parts.

    This could theoretically be done with stemcell stuff, but it’s not there yet. However, when we finally reach the point where we can infinitely regenerate our body cells, we’ll become effectively “ammortal”; unable to die due to natural causes (such as illness), but we will still die from other people (for example, a bullet to the head)

    Besides that, I think nuclear fusion would be an incredible development if we can finally harness it to power our homes.










  • Inflation occurs when the value of goods increase. This can mainly be caused by two things: An increase in consumption or an increase of production costs, which causes the vendor to increase prices in order to maintain profits.

    Deflation would occur when the opposite happens, aka when the value of goods decrease. This can be caused by things such as new technological improvements (old hardware has become cheaper, because new hardware has been released and the older hardware is no longer state-of-the-art), a reduction in consumption or a reduction in production costs. Perhaps I’ve missed a few cases, but these are the main things I can currently think of.

    Anyway, while deflation is generally useful for consumers (they have to pay less), it’s not very good for borrowers. Let’s take a mortgage for a house, for example. You want to buy a house for €200k and have a mortgage of €200k that will cover the house. If something bad happens to you financially (for example, you lose your job), you may end up in a situation where you’ll no longer be able to pay off your mortgage. Shit happens right? Usually, the bank would take control of your house, sell your house for €200k and use the revenue from the house to pay off your mortgage.

    However, if deflation has occurred and your house is no longer worth €200k, but €150k, you still have €50k to pay off to your bank, after the bank has sold your house. Simultaneously, you’re unemployed, so how are you going to do that? If you declare bankruptcy, you will no longer have to pay off your debts and the bank has lost €50k.

    Besides this, deflation can also be a symptom of something worse happening, such as high unemployment rates and a decrease in consumption, for example. When more people get unemployed, people will spend less, which reduces demand, which leads to a decrease of prices.


  • I’ve been degoogled for a little bit over a year now and here’s what I use (disclaimer: I own a NAS / homserver, so I got a little bit more options than most people would).

    • Android OS: /e/OS
    • Browser: Firefox and Bromite
    • Maps: Organic Maps
    • Play Store: F-Droid (droidify client in my case) and App Lounge.
    • YouTube: Libretube (privacy-friendly YouTube client)
    • Translation: DeepL
    • Movies, TV Shows, Music: self-hosted Jellyfin
    • Automatic backup of my images and videos: self-hosted Immich
    • VPN server: self-hosted Wireguard server
    • Document management: self-hosted Nextcloud Office + LibreOffice on my PC
    • E-Mail service: ProtonMail (self-hosting this is a pain in the ass, so I’ll just leave it to experts)
    • Search engine: DuckDuckGo

    Check out [email protected] for tons of stuff on self-hosting services and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ for a lot of other good alternatives.