hi internet, bye brainrot

i recently asked chatgpt how to sort entries in a .txt file, and honestly caught myself off guard a bit. i had this short moment of what exactly am i doing here?

i’ve always enjoyed using the cli and feel very comfortable there. at some point during university my workflow became pretty much cli-first, mostly because one professor went on a small rant after noticing that quite a few people struggled with basic command line stuff. motivated by the (not so) healthy fear of failing, i went home, did the reasonable thing, and installed arch linux with i3 everywhere.

after the usual distro hopping phase during university and a three year long nixos episode, i somehow ended up in a pretty boring but working setup again: ubuntu with i3 for work (no worries, still completely unreasonable settings and workarounds), hyprland at home (can’t fully kill the hype kid in me).

so being slightly surprised by my own question to chatgpt the other day, it reminded me that i actually enjoy tinkering around, debugging things, reading documentation, and generally doing all the little side quests people like to use for procrastination and avoid real work.

so this is going to be a small “anti-brainrot-campaign”. probably unnecessary, because realistically everyone just asks an ai now, but maybe my future self will be thankful, because my brain still works.

i will start with a tiny hyprland customization i needed, after closing my vm accidentally 112412 times in a row.

maybe this helps reduce my brainrot a bit.