Tech is getting increasingly depressing for me. Windows is being AI slopped to shir. Linux intentionally infects everything with ideology and incompatibilities. Android wants to become more like iPhone. Apple is consistent in being a tyrant that wants to dictate what you can do. Governments are removing our digital liberties at record pace. I used to be excited about tech, but this year its very little excitement and a lot of seeing my passion go to shit. I need some hype in my life again. Maybe the steam frame will not get ruined and cheer me up a bit. At least the open source AI space keeps giving some fun toys to play with.

As I mentioned to a sensatonalist youtuber, it wasn't a cyber attack it was a config error. https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ Almost every time cloudflare goes down its because they caused the issue with an update or configuration, that seemed ok until its not. They are insanely hard to attack, but they are not immune to mistakes.

Will we get a new nostrudel update before the next Half-Life game is announced?