Hello all.

I've been MIA for the past few months, so this shouldn't come as a surprise. It's been a wonderful run, but as of 5/23/2022, I have decided to end my time with this website for the time being. It's a difficult decision, and undoubtedly it hurts after over 2 years iwth this, but for the following reasons I believe it is the best choice:

• I've just completely lost interest in Linux and administration in particular. I've leraned basically everything at a surface level and don't have the interest to continue in anything but acutal programming, which I'm not knowledgeable enough to write about yet. My interests are now more in-depth towards infosec, law and government, and programming.

• Due to circumstances out of my control i will likely be retiring all laptops except my main laptop whic hneeds to run Windows for Respondus, so I may not even get to run Linux anymore much less write about it.

• I do not have the time to consistently write quality articles. It's just not something I can see myself being able to do forever or frankly in the near future as well. I am a college student who just transferred universities and that's hard. My output is already slow enough, and it's only gonna get worse and at that point I might as well have quit.

• My inspiration for articles is also not there anymore. I have trouble figuring out what to write about, because everything's been done to death on the Internet already or just isn't popular like my interest in the law or is just not something I'm knowledgeable enough about. I don't feel like I can write about much more and get a real audience at the moment.

• I want to write more than just nonfiction. My dream was to become a fiction author actually and I watn to spend more time and energy towards that than towards writing nonfiction.

• The era of neocities privacy guides is over. Spyware Watchdog is horrendously out of date, DD seems to have split from his old group and has fallen completely off of the deep end with his newer content, RainHeaven took theirs down and I left his server, and the other sites are basically dead or I've realized they were never good. I was inspired primarily by them to do this website, and now that they're gone I feel like a sore thumb sticking out.

• Adding on to that, neocities is a great service that lets you make creative small little websites but for personal portfolios, general blogging and my own thoughts, I need something a bit more professional and something I have more control over. Even if I wanted to continue, it's clear neocities is no longer going to cut it.

• Seeing this is a farewell, I wanted ot leave the negativity out of it, and either way it's hard for me to write, but it's got to be said: At this point a lot of the FOSS/privacy movement has gone completely crazy. It's become a ton of armchairs that don't think, don't program, don't engineer, and do nothing but be shitty sysadmins. There's a ton of personality cults in basically every corner, whether its RMS or Luke Smith or whoever the hell is the latest e-celeb I just don't care. Finally, by and large, growing up has made me realize that it's just not realistic to create a world where FOSS is sustainable and truly works. I'm genuinely disillusioned by the movement. It's become horrible, and while it helped me get my life together after the nadir of my life and I don't think that it is conceptually terrible, by and large it is a shadow of what it used to be and its purpose in my life has been fulfilled. This is my biggest reason for quitting.

With this, the site is discontinued effective immediately. Thanks to everyone who read it and complimeneted me on it. I'll keep it up in case anyone wants to read the articles, and I may return one day when I have more to write about, but as of now it's over.