22 Oct 2025
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 Thoughts: Shackle

 I often go onto Reddit to read stuffs. I still managed to not re-create an
 account, but I think places like Reddit and Hacker News are good sources of
 news that are not easily found on mainstream media.

 However, it is also a place that attracts arguments - I noticed that in the
 BSD sub-reddit, there are often people who "would like to humbly learn" start
 by asking why one would pick BSD over Linux. And for OpenBSD, they would ask
 if the OS has this isolation, that virtualisation, if not how can we say it
 is "secure", etc.

 I think I get it, sort of...A long while ago, I would also overthink a lot. I
 would imagine my use cases when I was making my choices. I would think whether
 a 20b concertina was really enough, or I should go for a 30b one; I would look
 for an OS that could install Office suite equivalent; I would think about a
 lot of "what if"s.

 Quite sure it is not the first time to say this, but since I couldn't remember
 when, I started to try before worrying about those impractical things. I began
 to realise that there were a lot of things which I thought I couldn't give up,
 turned out to be the most easiest to let go. I can transpose for a 20b
 concertina, or play my e-mandos instead; I stopped lying to myself that I need
 Office suite; I started using Lynx and man pages instead of going onto the
 Internet with Firefox; I think many people on SDF stopped looking at graphical
 websites and just create ASCII-arts, write in plain text, etc.

 When I look at how people on the dumbphone sub-reddit kept saying that they
 needed Spotify, WhatsApp, Map, banking apps, etc; When I look at how people
 on the BSD sub-reddits kept saying that they need Office, gaming, this and
 that. Human really are experts in putting shackles onto themselves, are they
 not? Like the fear of losing all friends when one is not on WhatsApp is
 probably nothing, is it not? If one day I go into a coma and only regain
 consciousness after 10 days, I trust that my friends will still be my friends
 and they will be happy to fill me in what I might have missed.

 When I went for holiday with family or went on business trips, I seldom have
 time to read news. I lose nothing, I was only like a person who doesn't read
 news at all, and the Earth still spins. When running an application in
 isolation can simply be done by chroot, why worry about having no Flatpaks,
 Dockers, etc.

 Thing that fits, fits. Thing that works, works.