Last update: Update 4-19-26
Now’s the day for me to clear out the beloved btrfs, a roll-back file system that made SomeOrdinaryGames switch from Arch to Linux Mint… if you watched him pre-6 months ago that says a lot 😵💫
Fortunately (and not fortunate) my only non-thinkpad laptop seems to have been broken by btrfs, though there’s troubleshooting for it which I’ll use as experience to get my Desktop situated. Garuda linux seems to get broken easier, I had a VM die as well as now my laptop. It’s a strange situation since any troubleshooting has to be done in TTY because the OS simply won’t boot.
Today, once again, TryHackMe’s login wouldn’t work. Before when using a VPN in switzerland it would, but now the CAPTCHA won’t work. So I wait a bit, since I contacted support before and they’re like, “nO oUr sYstEm isN’t dOWn.” They’ve been sponsoring channels like Bog and having been recommended as a cybersecurity learning platform. But even their built-in VM’s haven’t been working well. I know it’s not me, because I got an external network adapter since the built-in wifi in my desktop has never worked that well, and my network had jumped from 12% to 75% strength, huge!
I thought perhaps cybersecurity would’ve been the next occupation for me since I’ve applied to 20 jobs in the last 2 weeks roughly and none of them reached out, despite me having the requirements. I’ve heard it can be due to either the companies put up fake listings or they have an internal network they hire from, though considering I use Indeed (since all others use a form of LinkedIn verification, which has huge, huge problems. Yes, I did try it twice.) which has been reputable, not even having the notification alert me but 1 time that they simply viewed it is pretty strange. Fortunately I’m not desperate, but the key is to find opportunities before I’m desperate. That way I’m either not taken advantage of, get caught in a bad situation, etc.
In thinking about the TryHackMe’s lack of both accountability and ability to solve their issues, the same pattern happens with almost any platform whether social or having a sub service in general- not only that, but most websites use the same infrastructure (AWS, google services) like SomeOrdinaryGamers mentioned.
In conclusion, I’ve learned that cybersecurity is pretty much a hornet’s nest when it comes to increasing complexity and there being countless attacks on infrastructure, so maybe I shouldn’t go that route. I’m glad for laying low and trying it out for curiosity sake though since I have no real ambition of going that route. For the time being I’ll go with what works, hard-surface modeling, where the only complexity is figuring out Python code for automation and why the AMD-Radeon GPU package isn’t seen in blender every other update on Arch.
I can’t help but be entranced by how perfect the lil’ vexy animation fits with the music in the song wind chimes. Really, I think it’s the best animation I’ve seen in my life, the imperfect figure hitting all 4 beats per measure before stopping in the music and then beginning again just amazes me, or maybe I’m overthinking it :D
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Like my background picture? :P It’s the picture from Update 4-13-26. I think I’ll do a different cute cat picture I took another time, then either stick w/ the tree image as my standard or alternate between a bunch of images through different days- “Just for fun” :PPP
Note to self: 0.95 & 0.8 rgb values for tree image