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Installed Manjaro on my laptop and Steam Deck and switched to Lineage on my phone. I have never tried an Arch based distro as my daily driver, but SteamOS was based on Arch and I am a little less scared after wrangling it for 9 months, so I decided to switch to Manjaro on both my main device (laptop) and the Deck itself, because after a few hours on the new laptop install I realized it was way nicer and it had a lot of itty bitty details, like the AUR access, that were way more convenient. I also finally ditched the stock Google Android that comes with my Pixel phone in favor of LineageOS, which I had tried back in 2018 in a phone that got discontinued.

All of these OS changes were prompted by AI bullshit -- an app suddenly appeared on my phone to opt me into AI training and I could not disable, uninstall or opt out of it. Then Microsoft announced their adding of microtransactions to pay for AI queries on MS Paint and I noped the fuck out. I am deeply uncomfortable with the amount of material resources and unpaid human labor that goes into AI development for truly like, the most useless thing you could train a LLM to do.

My back hurts a lot. I think it's because at friends' place I slept in a futon on the floor, and then these past few days I've been at home I could only be in my bedroom for fear of my online activities being tracked and arguments. And my bedroom is tiny, there's no desk so I have to sit on my bed. So my posture has been horrid... I'm hoping this weekend I can do stretches and sit at the desk or a supportive armchair since there's no one around to watch out for.
I need to get more, better sleep. Revenge bedtime procrastination has been kicking my ass, I keep finding myself completely exhausted at the wee hours of the morning refusing to go to sleep even as I'm nodding off because I just want to Do Things. Resorting to caffeine to run on 4h of sleep a night. I'm exhausted all the time, and it's definitely fucking up my brain and body.
Christmas holidays are coming and so is time spent at hometown. I don't mind family meals that much, but being cooped up with my parents the rest of the time is a nightmare, and because the village is small and full of old acquaintances (bullies, friends of my grandmother that I'm not on speaking terms with due to her being an asshole) I just stay at home. The internet connection is extremely poor as well. I'll survive, like every Christmas, but it will suck.
I want to participate in DecRecs properly, but I need to compile a list and find comfortable ways to share my recommendations. (If I wasn't so sleepy this wouldn't be a hard task, but my brain is mush)
I was Very Brave in an uncomfortable social situation. I invited someone that made me feel bad about talking in a Discord server that I created explicitly talk about my interests, and had a conversation about it; he expressed discomfort as well and left. It was a relief for the both of us and other people in the server, and I'm glad I spoke up instad of letting it fester.