What I'm up to now

This is a now page. For past entries, visit my then page.

2024-07-08

Currently watching: All South Park episodes in order (now at the end of season 14)

Currently reading: Nothing at the moment, but I finished Patrick Süskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and the other book I mentioned in my last Now page entry.

Currently playing: South Park: The Stick of Truth and Stardew Valley co-op and copious amounts of Team Fortress 2 now that the cheater bots are gone from official servers.

Current music phase: Tudósok's discography and some hidden gems from the 90's rave scene.

Now that my exam season is over (with pretty good grades), I can focus my attention fully on my bachelor's thesis. Implementing cryptographic attacks on RSA is fun (see my then page for more details).

Fishing on Orfű, a local alternative music festival tired me out to no end two weeks ago (our cabin was right in front of a stage that blasted music until 2 am), but I don't regret attending it. Almost all of my favourite Hungarian bands played and I even discovered some new artists that I've heard about, but didn't really give them a try before. Now's the best time to dive into their discography.

I started attending a psychologist to treat my (not crippling but still considered severe by me) social anxiety and anything else that comes up during the sessions. Being a young adult is stressful and I felt a need for some deeper self-knowledge compared to my high-school self to battle with the obstacles ahead of me on equal ground.

Also, I switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, a semi-rolling-release distro with the XFCE desktop environment as a daily driver on my laptop. I love how snappy and old-school looking it is (not to mention its stability thanks to automatic BTRFS snapshots by default).

I like my computing to be as simple as possible (GNOME ate too much of my resources sadly) while also allowing me to customize it to my workflow and XFCE is perfect for that. I'll need to find a way to achieve auto-tiling like what Pop! provided though. I'll still follow the developments of Pop!_OS, especially now that their COSMIC desktop is almost at public alpha stage.