Bigtin’s blog

As you can see, I’ve changed a few things on the website. Like the color of the titles. I have just forked the theme that my blog was originally using called Paper Mod. And I only just modified the colors for now. I might try to see what else I can do and other things I can modify to make my blog truly my own. Another thing I what I am going to do is unarchive some blog posts that I hid a while back. So keep an eye out for that. ...

Fonts I don’t usually install fonts often but the other day I was trying to install them on my laptop which was running Linux Mint and Linux Mint by default does not have any way to install fonts. You have to install them manually by dragging them into the font’s folder which is like a pain the butt, and I was trying to do it using the terminal and I broke everything by moving my entire home folder into my font’s directory which is kind of a skill issue on my part, but I still don’t understand why there isn’t just a program that installs fonts like most other operating system 😠. ...

I’ve never reviewed anything before, but I feel like this is a good place to start. In Linux world. There are many distros, but really there’s only three that you need to worry about. Debian, arch and fedora. What really makes them stand out is their package managers. And what packages they have in their repositories. Like, are they up to date? Or are they old as a dirt. Packages really make our break a distro. ...

I feel like yesterday’s blog post was a little bit too negative and angry. I kind of don’t want my blog to be about that. But I honestly like to take a more positive take on the world. I don’t know, I was thinking about deleting yesterday’s post, but I might keep it up just because I feel it makes my blog more real in some way. I can do what I want. With all the fear and uncertainty in the world. I feel like I kind of want to make my blog a more positive place of hope and just write about cool observations I make about the world. ...

Well, not exactly. I found a software that converts all your subs into an RSS feed. Later I come to find out that it does not show all the channels that you sub to. For example, I sent to a pottery channel a few months ago, and it did not show up on my YouTube subscriptions tab, and I just assumed, oh they’re just not uploading or something like that. I come to find out using my new RSS feed that they just uploaded a video like less than an hour ago. What the heck, YouTube! Subscriptions tab, I think should show all the channels I’ve subscribed to videos in chronological order, but for some reason. They just don’t do that. They just feel the need to put the algorithm into everything. The reason is money and increase shareholder value, if you see though that lens then it all makes sense. ...

It’s been a week or so since I started this series. If you could call it that. And that MP3 player finally came in yesterday. I also bought a point it and shoot camera. The MP3 Player Honestly, this thing is tiny. Smaller than I expected. And super light. There’s probably nothing in it except for maybe like a circuit board and the battery, The operating system is super basic. It is not the most polished thing in the world by any means, but it gets the job done. It plays music, and I mean, that’s all you really should be asking of a mp3 player. No frills, just does the one thing it was designed to do. I remember someone saying something like that in the reviews, and I feel like it really stuck with me when I started using this player. ...

Intro Recently, I’ve been trying to remove algorithms From my life. Well, the ones that cause an addictive downward spiral So the corporations can show me more ads. In recent years, the corporate world has moved towards infinite growth and appealing to shareholders instead of customers. This concept is referred to as Enshittification*. My hope is to remove many of these algorithms from my life as much as I can. So I can control what media I consume, not what Corporations want me to consume. ...

yesterday, I started working on one of my characters from one of my worlds that I have been working on. It’s a base from an earlier project. And so I’ve been editing the model and messing with blender texture notes again. I was very rusty at it. I didn’t remember much of the nail configurations. I had to look at some of my early materials to see what I had done. Nothing crazy But it looks pretty cool. ...

Hello I have reverted the blog to a more manageable state Hopefully more to come soon, Bigtin

MFF con log MFF 2024 was a really good con. I went to more panels than I’ve ever had before. Some notable panels were: The tail panel. As someone who obsesses over tails, the tail panel is pretty great. I didn’t know so many others appreciated tails as much as I did. It was great to have other people to talk about tails with. There was also this person who had a nine-tailed umbreon fursuit. Which is the inspiration For the tails I’m making for my fursuit. I also got the opportunity to wear the tails.🫨 ...