The skies in bottom pic need more smog.

needs more data center

It's missing an expressway and a giant parking lot. And we need cheaper gas for our cars. There's no other solution for this one, just cheaper gas for everyone!

Not enough air pollution

Keep your head down, or you’ll be sent out to clean!

My OBS background is bliss with a sky cutout and 45 minutes of a high dev cloud video masked through.

I might need to steal this dead grass concenpt

Reminds me of this

It is a vineyard now.

Bliss is still in my rotation of wallpapers. Something about a standard KDE install with the XP default wallpaper tickles me.

The nostalgia is for sure a big factor. Windows 95/98 were my first memories of computers, but XP was the first OS I was really allowed to discover on my own. I was quite the fan, when my family "upgraded" to a barely-meets-the-minimum-specs Vista Ready™ PC I soon after tried to "downgrade" it to XP.

During which I managed to bork something and nothing would boot, not even the recovery disc I had burned. Thus started a three day troubleshooting journey to fix the family PC. I think my parents were too startled by my determination to figure it out to get angry at me.

And here I am almost two decades later, spending the last three days trying to manually setup a seedbox despite there being a myriad of easy deployment methods. Most of those three days have been focused on setting up a firewall, restricting access to docker containers behind a VPN, and of course the ol' troublemaker DNS.

The feeling when I figure out something I've been struggling with is still just as exhilarating as when I saw Windows XP boot up for the first time on the family PC way back when. Seeing the familiar rolling Californian wine-country hill, immortalized by Charles O'Rear on film in January 1996. I often wonder if Charles knew at the moment, when looking upon the bucolic scenery, that one day the image would become synonymous to many with the advent of the digital age. The hill is forgotten, but the 1s and the 0s live on forever.

This gave me ideas...

Windows Datacenter Edition

No need to install anything, just connect and use over network. Comes with free secret recording of all activities.

Actual photo I took in July, 2026

Needs more surveillance cameras.