2025 Retrospective - 07/01/2025 Blog Entry

This will be a more personal blog, enjoy!

What a year...
How was it for you? Did things go as you expected, or did situations outside of your control take the steering wheel from your hands? A lot of things can happen in a year, it is simultaneously very little time and unfathomably long. For a two-year-old, just one year is half of their lifetimes.

For me, 2025 was a bittersweet year that will forever affect me as a person.
To start, I got a job now, my first one! It is a part-time one and I got it out of luck, but it helps with the bills and it opened a ramification of doors and paths that have yet to be understood.
Another important event was that I moved houses near the end of the year, it massively improved my quality of life, as my previous house left a lot (trust me, a LOT) to be desired. Constant dust and awful landlords, yuck...

2025 was also important in helping me figure out what to do with my studies. The first option was Videogame Production, but between the high and ever rising prices of the university, alongside the honestly lackluster job opportunities, made me decide that the best option was quitting.
Then, a bit later, I got disappointed again when I realized there were no feasible careers that could let me accomplish my second option, programming. In fact, the first option was programming, but the slugs at the university made it either too expensive or non existent! Another problem is that I tried to program as a hobby and even if I have the brains, I don't have the mental endurance to do it on long periods of time, so out of the window!

However, taking into account my touristy job, I checked into the tourism options and eureka! Good price and the subjects look interesting, hell yeah. If everything goes smoothly I will start studying tourism in a few months.
Seems like it wasn't a bad thing, after all.

Another thing that has been unexpectedly troublesome this year was the COSMIC desktop environment. After a few weeks of flawless behavior, it started acting increasingly sluggish, both in CPU and RAM speeds without any good explanation. Alongside the slowness, my Linux kernel started crashing randomly when I woke up my laptop from suspension due to a very strange bug related to my AMD iGPU and a lack of memory?

This incident delayed my activities. To solve it, I decided to give GNOME another try, but it was buggy as usual. KDE wasn't much better. At that point I remembered what I wrote in The Rice of Babel: The Absurdity of Linux Theming about Noctalia Shell. I decided to give it and Niri (as Hyprland doesn't work on my backup desktop PC) a try and I was pleasantly surprised, this combo is snappy and it more than delivers on the things I wanted out of Linux and I hope it stays reliable.

2026 will be certainly interesting, only a week in and we got multiple once in a lifetime events. Website wise, I really can't give a heads up of what is to come, just expect more resources and dreams to be added as time goes on. I hope this year is good for you and me, thanks for reading!

Also, I have a Discord server now, Nina's Pyramid. If you want to talk with me or you want to get started on building a group of friends online, check it out! It is pretty new, so please be patient!