"Not a big advice giver, but under the circumstances. Don't wait around your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, do it. Because everything else, is just a background noise." – from George Mason (24, Season 2, Episode 10)
What's on this page? about me & site | new stuff | fasting | read-watch-listen | long form posts | watch collection | emacs corner | my little linux wiki | gaming things
about me & site
My name's parasurv! I like to write about the some tech stuff (games, Linux, etc), but I occasionally write about plantbased stuff, health and culture. If you want to know more about me, check out the ABOUT page, if you want to write to me, see CONTACT. Here some of the stuff I USE.
MICROBLOG is for shorter posts, many of them are just rants or just thoughts, that doesn't require a full page of separate bullshit. The LINKBLOG is for sharing me all kinds of stuff.
I revived my RSS, please subscribe if you want to read the latest blog post, microblog or linkblog shares. Thanks!
new stuff
- as always see site updates for detailed site log.
2021-11
- added page: + Firefox: How to enable userChrome and userContent CSS files? (Linux)
- updated: Old Games Stuff - added an article about How to use DOSBox on Linux
- new page for some nostalgia and history: Old tech, old net
- new page for my Favorite recipes
- revived the watch page
- short post about Squid game (no spoilers)
fasting
Created a new page about fasting, first I share my short story, and I will add resources to help anybody who is interested. No I am not a doctor, just an individual who was obese/overweight most his life.
read / watch / listen
Some stuff I like to read, watch or listen to. The lists are not complete.
- watch: Vee asks for more complaining about video games, as the devs of the new Battlefield game have one week to get their shit together and fix countless bugs for launch day. Looks like most people forgot that companies would make games, if we don't pay them. DO NOT PRE-ORDER and DO NOT BUY games without watching many reviews!
- read: Decentralised Social Media And The Fediverse: A Great Big Fantasy - a good article about that fediverse maybe decentralized, but not really open to different ideas.
- watch: Media Finally Asks Why Nutrition’s Been Ignored During Outbreak - we know that overweight or obese people are more prone to C19, yet we don't speak about prevention, rather focusing on the jab, masking all day and night, and distancing? Highly recommended channel: High Intensity Health.
- watch: The More You Know About Technology, The More You Hate It! - an excellent video by DistroTube, about how technology takes over our live's, and many of us try to minimize our usage of tech.
long form posts
If you want to see my earlier posts, visit site updates.
- 2021-11-10: Squid game (no spoilers)
- 2021-10-23: Epic Games on Linux with Heroic Launcher
- 2021-10-05: I am still here
- 2021-08-05: Budget EDC pen: Zebra F-301
- 2021-07-28: Why I like reddit?
- 2021-07-23: What is an everyday carry? (EDC) Do you need it?
- 2021-07-22: Playing Old games is better
- 2021-06-11: England kneeling will be a great shitshow at Euro 2020
- 2021-04-06: Before you start collecting Casio watches
- 2021-03-13: Fake it, 'till you make it
- 2021-03-09: Why I am not distro hopping anymore? - because when you have find the one true distro, you no longer need to search.
watch collection
I recently got into watch collecting. I currently have a black & bronze resin version of the Casio Royale (AE-1200WH-5AVEF), which I bought it for the utility, and a Casio A168WA-1YES, which I bought it for the look. My third watch is a Casio MRW-200H-4BVEF, which is the orange version of that line. The 4th and 5th one is the og. Casio F91W and its grey variant. My 6th watch is the new AE-1500 with negative display (which is beautiful and readable). And the latest one is the Mission Impossible legend, the Casio DW-290, wore by Tom Cruise in the first movie.
Looks like a saying is true: one Casio will never be enough. Hahahha!
My dream watches: a square G-Shock and the CasiOak (GA-2100 series). I am not really an automatic watch guy, probably because they are out of my reach, price wise, so I don't even dream about them.
emacs corner
my little linux wiki
Games: How to play Quake, with Quake Epsilon on Linux? | Slay the Spire don't start on Linux (GOG) | Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Remastered on Linux | How to run with games with Steam Proton?
Linux: Enable right click in Firefox (NEW!) | How to download images from Instagram on Linux? | Change the default user directories in Linux | How to get video resolution from a video in terminal?