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It's back-to-school month (unfortunately), and this year, I've decided to give up on binders. They've never worked for me. Every year I tried to use them for the first week before I just give up and jam papers in the free space between them like a folder. This worked, I guess, but it wasn't great (it was awful actually). It took forever to find papers and if I forgot about them for too long, they…
Most modern search engines are terrible. Google and Bing have both enshittified themselves with forced AI overviews and a constant push for users to talk to their chatbots (Gemini and Copilot, respectively). As a whole, these companies have both shown that they don't give a fuck about users as long as they continue to make money. Ecosia promises to be an alternative to big tech search engines.…
On my tablet, I have a wallpaper that mostly matches the season. This summer is no exception, so I digitally painted this. It didn't take me much longer than 10 minutes, but it is still my favourite of the wallpapers I've made.
Around 2 days ago, I reset my computer completely. I went into the Windows settings, and selected reset everything (including my apps and files). Obviously, I didn't delete my files. I went through my computer and organised everything, making sure everything I wanted to keep was stored online. The process didn't take too long—the reset itself was around an hour, mostly because I chose to do a full…
I've been doing programming-related things for multiple years (5+) now, but if you ask me to do anything above beginner level in any programming language 1 , I won't know what to do. Instead of focusing on one language, I have jumped around, using Python, JavaScript, Java, Dart, C#, Kotlin, Lua, C++, Ruby, C, Rust, and basically any other tool out there 2 . Unfortunately, I don't know any of these…
I hear so many people saying things along the lines of "I wish I could grow a garden, but I don't have a green thumb." In reality, you can be a terrible gardener (like me) but still grow a garden. To get started, I recommend getting a small planter or a large enough pot to grow a couple different types of plants, enough soil for your container, and a few bags of seeds that catch your eye…