I had my first ever job interview yesterday. I got a rejection email today. I'll have to apply for more jobs it seems. I really want to start making money but working just doesn't seem very fun. I've been trying to think of ways to make money without getting a job. I'm not trying to avoid getting a job completely, I just want to make some extra money I suppose. My other options are to join the military, go to university, or be homeless, and none of those options sound appealing to me at all.
I finally purchased my own Nintendo 64. I still need to get an expansion pak so I can use an Ever Drive 64 (which I also need to get). I also need to do the region-free mod to my Nintendo 64 so I can play Japanese games. I got a Japanese copy of Super Mario 64 but it hasn't arrived yet.
Luke Smith has returned to the Internet and made a few new YouTube videos. He also updated his website. There's not much else of note other than the fact that he is still BALD.
Bitcoin is sitting at $105,028 right now, still over $100k. Monero has been very volatile recently. It's currently at $329.
I've been heavily considering building a new computer once I have a source of income. Most of the parts in my PC are 10+ years old. I could continue to use this computer if needed, however if I spend ~$1,000 building a new PC I likely won't have to do any upgrades or build a whole new computer for another 10+ years. When I do build a computer, I'd like to get at least 32GB of RAM and a high-end processor. My CPU and RAM are the two main setbacks of my current computer.
Bitcoin hit an ATH of $112,000 USD a few days ago. Monero went up to over $400 USD a couple days ago. BTC is down to $107,255 at the time of writing and XMR is at $345. Somebody with a bunch of powerful CPU's was mining XMR on the mini p2p pool which made it almost impossible to get any sort of payouts if your someone with a weaker CPU. I heard the situation is better now, so maybe I'll start mining again.
This is my second full week of being a NEET. I am done with school. I passed all of my classes somehow. I had my grad party already which went well. After my grad party, I went to a few other grad parties. Commencement practice is later this week, and commencement day is next week. I'm still looking for a job. Hopefully I find one within the next week-or-so. I'm looking into a warehouse job specifically because it seems easy and chill. I hate the idea of working but at least I'm getting paid. I got nothing out of school. I still don't really miss school at all and I don't think I ever will.
I've been practicing sm64 70 star speedruns. My fastest time so far is 1 hour and 41 minutes. I'm still not very good at the game and I'm using a third-party controller, but I'll continue to try and beat my PB. I'm probably going to get my own N64 soon now that I have some money.
I have no idea what is causing the price of cryptocurrency to keep rising. XMR is currently at $339 and BTC is at $104,000. XMR is probably making some people very rich right now. I started mining XMR right before the price shot up which was bad timing.
There is now a new pope. Pope Leo. I've heard conflicting things about him. Some say he's more progressive just like Pope Francis, others say he's more of a traditionalist. He's the first American pope. He's also 69 years old (LMAO HILARIOUS) which makes him somewhat young for a pope. Take a shot every time I've said "pope".
Friday will be my last day of school. I am currently pretty far behind in some classes so I have quite a bit of work to catch up on the next couple days. I despise school and I am looking forward to graduating, but I have no clue what I'm going to do after graduation. My top priority is to finish all of my assignments before Friday, then I can start looking for a job. Being a wagie doesn't seem very fun but it's a lot better than being in school and not getting paid.
I've considered ways that I can avoid becoming a wagie. None of them seem viable. Being a NEET means I won't be getting any money and I'd have to find someone who would let me leech off of them. I don't think anyone in my life would allow me to do that, so that's not really an option. I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be freeloading off of other people. Making my own business seems risky and requires more effort than I care to put in. Jobs are just a means to an end. I don't understand why boomers view getting a job as the most important thing in the world. That's probably why boomers spend their entire lives being slaves to corporations that don't even care about them just so they can retire and watch TV all day because they don't have any hobbies. I understand that you have to do some amount of work to survive but I also have other interests. Living at home isn't ideal, neither is paying rent for a one bedroom apartment. Living in my car would be very difficult and not practical.
Someday I'd like to buy a house, get married, have kids, maybe even own some land. All of that seems so far out of reach right now. I don't want to have to think of ways to make money, but you need a lot of money to do all of those things. Lucky for me, I still have plenty of time to figure my life out.
As far as the site goes, I added more to the technology section and changed some stuff.
PewDiePie made a video about Linux a couple days ago and it already has over 4 million views. Even if just 100 zoomers decide to start using Linux because of that video, that's huge. It's good to see YouTubers as big as PewDiePie shilling Linux, but I fear that Linux might become more subsidized if more normies start adopting it. That will likely not be a problem though.
XMR Monero has had a massive spike in price recently. It's currently sitting at $270 USD. It went up to $320 yesterday. Since Trump was elected it has been hovering around $200. I'm not sure what caused the price to skyrocket. BTC has been slowly creeping back up to the mid $90,000 range. It's sitting at ~$94,000 as of writing.
Graduation is in a month from now. I have about two weeks left of school. I know for sure I'm not going to university, but I have yet to find a full-time job. My grades are looking very mediocre, but there is zero incentive for me to do well. I just want to pass my classes. I don't think I will ever miss school.
I've done some research about the Nintendo 64, specifically the controller. I've used a couple third-party controllers which were decent but didn't feel right. The family member who let me borrow their N64 gave me the controllers that they've had since the 90s. I tried to fix them up and clean them. I was only somewhat successful. I found out that the N64 controllers were designed in a way that made failure almost inevitable. You can do your own research, but in short, the stick is made of plastic and the bowl that the stick grinds on is also made of plastic. There's not really any good alternatives out there either. You just have to get lucky buying a controller hoping that the stick is tight. I don't have a job right now so I can't afford a new N64 controller. Once I get a job I'm going to get my own N64 and a (hopefully decent) controller.
4chan is back up and running. It seems to have less activity since the hack. I rarely use 4chan in the first place, so whatever.
Progress has been made on trying to obtain a VHS player. A family member asked around and some other family members said they might have one. I'm hoping something will come of this.
I've noticed that I tend to use commas a lot when writing. I'm going to try to avoid using commas unless necessary. It's kind of annoying reading my own articles now. I feel that the commas stick out so much now that I notice them.
Pope Francis died today which seems very unexpected. If I were a gay normie I'd say "POPE FRANCIS DYING WASN'T ON MY 2025 BINGO CARD HAHAHA I'M SO CLEVER". He was pretty old so I guess it shouldn't be too surprising.
I was barely home this weekend because of Easter. Spent time with family and ate lots of food. Easter was on 4/20 this year which is very funny and kek of course. Lent is over which means I no longer have to eat cheese pizza on Friday. How exciting.
Made some changes to the front page and technology page. I also wrote a new article about 4chan getting hacked. Technically I wrote that article a couple days ago, but 4chan seems to still be down. I'm still not sure if I want to add pictures to the technology section, so for now, I'll continue to leave space for them until I make a decision. I might add QR codes for my Monero and Bitcoin addresses in the future.
I'm almost done with school, then I'll be joining the workforce. I have no clue what my life is going to look like in 2 months from now, but I hope things work out. I'm so ready to be done with school. I have no idea how people have any desire to go to college/university. I sure don't.
I still need to get my hands on a VHS player so I can digitize VHS tapes. I also want to digitize a bunch of old family photos that I found in the basement. That probably won't happen for a while, though. I need to get a high-quality photocopier. I've been meaning to do these things for so long now, but I hate spending money (which I'll need to do for these projects) and I'm a procrastinator.
I did a little more 'spring cleaning' on my hard drives to delete files that I don't need, but I still have a lot to go over. I've deleted several TV shows that I haven't watched (and probably never will), which freed up so much space.
Decided to re-write my article about smartphones, so you can read that now. I might add some pictures in the technology section of this website, but for now the image tags are empty. I've started to focus on fixing my sleep schedule and getting better sleep at night, which has been successful so far. I've realized that I feel like I don't have much time to get stuff done after I get home from school. If I have certain obligations, I have even less time. Maybe I just need to get better at time management.
I've been trying to get my hands on a VHS player for several months now. A family member was going to help me with that, but nothing has come of it. I found some old VHS tapes in the basement that I'd like to digitize. According to the Internet, VHS tapes degrade in quality over the years. Some of the VHS tapes I found are from the 80s, so they've probably already degraded a bit.
I also want to get a CRT TV. For some reason, people seem to think older technology is worth more money than it is. This was not the case 5+ years ago, so why is this suddenly a thing? A family member left their Nintendo 64 here a few months ago, so I've been playing it a lot. The Nintendo 64 looks so bad on modern TVs because it was not meant to be played on modern TVs. CRT TVs were made in a time where products were made to last. Nowadays modern TVs are very breakable and they'll sometimes just stop working for no reason. Ideally I want a 9 inch CRT TV that I can put on my desk. I don't really care about quality (people who care about graphics are retarded imo) so that's not a problem for me. I could write an entire article about how much I hate modern TVs. Hm, maybe I will.
The N64 has some great games. I haven't really played video games much the past year-or-so because modern video games suck. I'm starting to notice a pattern... I'd like to get my own N64 soon. The N64 is not breakable (unlike modern consoles), you don't have to wait 5 years for a game to install (just pop the cartridge in and play), and the games were actually fun. Nowadays, games are released unfinished. Lots of games are live service, which is a bad thing. You need to wait for the devs to update the game and fix stuff that should've been fixed day one. In the 90s, there were no updates. Developers would just release a finished product. You also didn't have to worry about a game shutting down because it's a live service game. The absolute state of modern video games...
Another realization I've made recently is that I've become a data hoarder. It's nowhere near as bad as some people, but I've started to go through my hard drive(s) and do a bit of spring cleaning on them. I hate deleting things, but I've started with files that are just completely useless and serve absolutely no purpose. I could just buy more hard drives, but I'd rather not propagate a hoarding mindset.
Decided to restart my website. It's now hosted on neocities rather than my own server and domain. I wanted a fresh start and hosting everything myself isn't really necessary. I have plenty of other things going on in my personal life right now, so updating this website is not a top priority. I'll update things when I find time to do so.