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FAQ

Requently Asked Questions that no one actually asked me :P

Warning: Random rambling below

Short FAQs

  1. Who am I?

    I am a random human on the internet that is bored.

  2. Are you American?

    No. I live more North where 2 out of 3 live within 100km of the US borders because our country is apparently too cold.

  3. How old am I?

    Older than I want to be is all I will say.

  4. What do I do as a living?

    Randomly cruising through life going between school and working at tech companies. I have been in school for a long time …

  5. What do I do in my free time?

    Being a degenerate and not be productive. I really should start excercising before my body gets too old and break into little pieces … I mainly am addicted to wasting time for the sake of wasting time. This can range from reading manga, watching youtube, browsing Reddit, and babbling on the internet such as Discord instead of doing what I really need or should be doing #procrastination

  6. How many languages do I speak?

    Unfortunately, the only language I speak fluently is English. I am still trying to work on my French and maybe I’ll go back to my mother tongue after I become fluent in French.

  7. What do I study?

    I have studied Computer Science years ago and decided to go back to school for Math which in hindsight may not have been the best use of my time …

  8. Am I Good at Math

    NO. I am mediocore at best. I call myself a fake student of Mathematics who barely is surviving (my grades aren’t that bad though). All I can say about Math is that Math is much different and complex compared to what you see in public Highschools.

  9. What Musical Instrument Can I Play?

    Depends what you mean by play. I can play a few pieces on the piano and trumpet. Through my musical ear, I can play simple melodies on the guitar and random string instruments you can find on the music shop. I can only play one instrument well and that shall remain unnamed and be called disgusting due to my bad experience with the instrument.

Long FAQs

  1. What is my earliest internet experience

    Being a kid who grew up in the 2000s, I only got small glimpses of the early internet but I did not get into computers till around 2010. This means I missed out on a lot of the old internet activities Geocities, Netscape, Limewire, Napster, AOL and IRC. My earliest experience with the internet is likely in grade school when we were being introduced to Wikipedia and how to search for articles through Google by manually typing http://www.google.com (and yes we had to type http://www to visit websites, at least from my memory). It was so revolutionary when you can just type your search onto your web browser and it’ll direct you to the results on google (At the time of writing, the US courts ruled Google has illegal monopoly over online searches). I recall on Internet Explorer, it was popular to install the Google Toolbar which was surprisingly still alive till recently in 2021.

    The earliest games I am played online was probably Neopets, Miniclip, and Maplestory (which went downhill after Big Bang event imo). I grew up with Flash games and Java applets which were annoying to update once in a while to use. I think Megaupload didn’t require you to have the latest Java versions which was great to watch anime till it got shutdown. I still remember when Google Video was a thing before it got killed and replaced with Youtube.

  2. What Web Browser do I use?

    I mainly use Firefox which I have been a fan of since I got into in Highschool. However, I have been using Brave, a privacy focused chromium browser, to watch anime and attend remote classes on Zoom. For unknown reasons, Firefox on my Linux machine cannot seem to buffer videos from the anime sources I use. I used to be a user of Firefox Aurora, a “nightly” build of Firefox, and Firefox Web Developer Edition.

  3. What Operating System do I use?

    I have been using Fedora Linux since 2021 after I have been daily driving RedHat for a year at work and came to like the OS and wanted to use something similar but more “bleeding edge”. Prior to using RedHat, I have been a committed Ubuntu user from 2016 - 2020 after my Windows 8 laptop died hours before the deadline for my Physics lab which corrupted my report. Getting fed up with Windows being slow on my machine and eventually getting a 0 after losing all my work, I finally made the jump. Prior to the jump, I only tried various Linux distros for a few days and then switch to another distro for fun and fiddling with using Raspbian to host a local web server.

    I have used various versions of Windows such as 95, XP, Vista (which I didn’t know was bad but it looked so cool and modern at the time), 7, 10, and unfortunately 11 due to work … I do not understand the rational behind using Windows when all our work is to be done on a Linux virtual machine or server. The smartest decision Windows ever made was to introduce WSL to Windows (though WSL 1 was a bit of a pain from my very limited first impresison but WSL2 was a pleasant experience).

  4. What Game Consoles did I grew up and what consoles do I use these days

    I grew up with the Gameboy Color, Advance and Advanced SP which had very great games imo. I mainly played Pokémon Yellow and Silver though. I also grew up with the DS but I prefered my Advanced SP since it could play my beloved Pokémon GBC games. I played a lot of Chocobo Racing on the Playstation 1 and a bit of Tekken on Playstation 2. I did own a Wii and PS4 but I much preferred Playstation 1 and 2 over them. Growing up, I got to play SNES and N64 but never got the opportunity to play the Sega Saturn nor the Dreamcast. No one around me ever owned them.

    These days, I don’t play much video games. I have a used Switch Lite I bought off from my sister as she wanted cash to buy an actual Switch. But it’s mainly sitting there collecting dust. As for PC games, my first actual PC game was Starcraft when I was visiting my Dad in Korea, which was very popular at the time. I played random pirated games in LAN parties during highschool with friends such as Age of Empires and Age of Mythologies but again, I was not a very big gamer.

    Aside from Minesweeper and Soliatire, I did play a fair bit of CS GO till Valve forced players to play CS GO 2 which is much more GPU intensive. I temporarily resorted to playing CS GO Source but the gameplay was too different for me to accept it as a replacement. Thus I stopped playing First Person Shooter (FPS) altogether. On a random note, my first FPS game was Combat Arms by Nexon, the creators of Maplestory around 2010-2011.

  5. My Musical Background

    I played the piano for about 3 years and the trumpet for music classes for 2 years. My piano training taught me how to read notes, though not fast. I played an unnamed instrument for 9 years and is probably the only instrument I can play at a decent level which frustrates me because I wished I could play the piano or the guitar decently instead. As someone who has played music for 9 years, I naturally can play a few melodies on random string instruments including the guitar via fiddling and using my once great but not rusty ear. While it is unclear on when I notice I could play songs stuck in my head, I am somewhat able to play simple melodies stuck in my head very early or even before I started playing music. But much of that ability has rusted away and I can barely pick up new melodies to the extent of what I could do in my youth.

    If you want to maintain your musical abilities and ear, make sure not to neglect it like I have done. It’s been almost a decade since I last played music somewhat seriously. I have lost most of what I honed through time which is normal in any discipline including your own atheletic abilties.

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Last Major Edit: 2024-09-17