I'm interested in living a life without regrets, so I'm diving deep into religion, philosophy, independence and freedom. I'll try to keep this site updated with my thoughts, since articulating the ideas helps me solidify my understanding. Below are a summary of my thoughts:
When you use cloud services or SaaS products, you inevitably are relying on their service to not only survive, but also not betray you. Since most of these companies will probably not be around in 10-20 years, this takes away the sovereignty of your data and ability to do the task you want to do. This is why I think that minimal and suckless software is perfect for reclaiming independence from these temporary and often evil companies.
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An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity...
—Terry A. Davis
Notice how they don't mention anything about how much RAM or disk the software uses? Minimal software is about creating simple software that does one thing well. This is the core of why the unix philosophy is great for achieving sovereignty from complex bloated proprietary systems. The low system resource usage is just a byproduct of making simple extensible software, not the goal.
We should care about simplicity in software since it lets us be free from the complexities and churn of normie software. Simple software is easy to maintain and thus makes your system more reliable, meaining you have to spend less time trying to fix strange edge cases and incompatibilities. The ancients saw freedom in the sense that when you become closer to God, you become free from sin because those kinds of things don't enslave you anymore. In a similar way, the more reliable your software is, the less you are enslaved to dealing with random system outages and breakage.
I will mostly be keeping quiet on this part until I'm more qualified and experienced to talk about this subject. I am Christian, and I reject the atheistic materialist worldview.
I enjoy coding because I can channel all the things that I enjoy into a single project that others can enjoy. I find that operating within limited conditions to compute meaningful results deeply satisfies me, which is part of the reason why I chose to study Electrical Engineering. I know how to code in C, C++, Python, Go, HTML, CSS, SQL, Nix, Zig, Lua, and RISC-V ASM. I usually edit text in Neovim, and my preferred operating system is NixOS, but I also like OpenBSD and use it to host this website.
Feel free to ask me any questions you like: skull@skullheadx.com