random dump

have we reached the endgame now that i have started to shit post on my blog as well (and what a caveman habit to title this post as "random dump"). maybe!? where else do i go to pretend that people care about opinions?

there was this time when i was reading two books side by side. one was american prometheus and another was ah, idk remember, ah, it was "too big for a single mind" by tobias hurter. one is on the life of robert oppenheimer, the other one is about the lives that shaped the field of quantum mechanics as we know it.

this is around the 2023 days when the movie oppenheimer was still not out and i wanted to be ready to enjoy the experience.

i don't rememeber which book it was but the quote that's been my head rent free since then is something like

"Love is a nuisance to everyone but the parties involved.

i really admire this one. i am never sure where i read this one. i think it has to be american prometheus, considering the complex relationship of jean tatlock and oppie, it certainly looks like something that oppie might say. it's not i have not tried looking it up. i have and i have lost behind it. i don't know if it's even a real quote or something i have made up in my head. i like that it lives rent free in my head. everytime i look at old records (notes app, todo lists, txt files and shit), i do find it.

i am sure this is not the original one but it's paraphrased.

i spend a good chunk of my week going back to the idea of why anyone in india should start a framework like laptop company. those guys are not just deciding to sell in india and i mean, it could be my selection bias (it definitely is), but i can't think of someone who won't like the idea of laptop they can repair and upgrade instanly. india ofcourse, after all is one of the most price sensitive markets to exist.

i sometimes then also think how the public service computing in india should entirely move to linux. it's free. it can save government a lot of money, but then my friend karan thinks that that is not sensible considering that if anyone finds a serious bug in the source code then well, what do we have? armageddon? idk.

i have mentioned this prior but just in case anyone new reading this. government of india did once start developing their own debian based linux distro called "bharatos", but well, they didn't do much with it. the iso is available online.

"you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

i most certainly didn't die soon enough, and that has brought me to learn rust... yes, rust. the language that i might have cursed a lot in the past about the long compile times (that only come once the compilation actually starts, most of the time that doesn't happen in the first place)

why rust? looks like a fun language. i have never learnt in depth about how it handles memory and how owning works in that.

mgk recently published a new variant of his old album that i have been listening more than a little. pop punk is not for the weak. the album is the classic old "tickets to my downfall" but a all new access version. the songs are not something i have heard. i love to stream to leak music i can find on soundcloud. i already was familiar with the songs, but well, something new.

i have also set up my home server. i am still quite confused and doubtful about the uptime my amd ryzen can pull. the pc that runs it is a custom built and quite old (2020-ish) covid times. i quit using it a lot of times. it used to run windows, later i think i switched to pop os, later for long it was running arch and i had a immich server running on it.

a little mishap with how i installed the immich server (i used a snap package) and ofcourse didn't change the defaults until i exceeded the storage limit. i had to take backups and i had photos of more than around 80gb.

that pc now runs a ubuntu server. they say you always need stability, i guess i do too. i couldn't deal with arch. not as a distro for a home setup. i do hear catchy os folks are planning to release a server, but we will see. as much as i say, i love chaos, i also love stability. chaos makes you feel lively. entropy is the proof that you are living, but i am tired af.

the homelab server runs immich, syncthing, and a firefox docker container for now. immich because ofcourse how do you trust google photos with your memories? as of now, i do pay them for the storage, but i don't trust them.

syncthing instance is a little redundant for now, i have one already running on my vps that is on azure, but i plan to... no. some other post for this...