Using technology is just not as fun as it used to be for me. I've always been "good" with it. I think I jailbroke my Wii at age five, and I was playing on CS:GO ESEA servers by the time I was twelve, so my critiques of modern technology are heavily informed by an era of the internet that just no longer exists. But everything is so monotonous. There's no sense of adventure anymore. And I'm not talking about social media feeds. I'm talking about things like the Apple ecosystem, how easy it is to sign into websites with biometrics, and the way that content discovery has been reduced to maybe four or five platforms, instead of there being a plethora of places to interact with, like there used to be. Now everything is on Discord, and while that's convenient, Gen Alpha will never know what it's like to have to use solutions like Skype while gaming.

Today, I'm in Austin with a friend to see a show. I haven't seen this friend in quite a long time, and to be honest, I'll see quite a few people I know from separate worlds converge this weekend, which should be interesting.

In my free time today, I've mostly directed my energies towards a project I've been trying to complete for a long time: the coveted "frankenpad." This is the system that I'm going to run most of my OSINT research on, probably run a Linux distribution and install LibreBoot on, and for the first time, potentially rediscover the adventure of the old internet on.

I've been thinking a lot about ambition recently, which is why I'm motivated to use QubesOS. Everyone says there's a steep learning curve, and if Linux users say that, it means it's almost unusable for the average person, which means I want to master it. I want to reclaim my sovereignty over the monotony of technology. This system will have peak operational security. Don't even say the word "biometrics."