Recommended Links & Reading
Culture and community
Anonymous place to leave a message and reply to others. Low-stress.
Media reviews, thoughts, a little bit of everything.
Interesting resource for learning Japanese and a cool webring to boot.
http://xahlee.info/w/google_index.html
http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/hard-wrap.html
Very smart computers guy with detailed and funny critiques of Unix philosophy. Some of the complaints are now historical/outdated but remain informative.
https://torukmakto4.blogspot.com/
My favorite Nerf blogger and designer. Smart guy.
/ck/ - Food & Cooking | https://boards.4chan.org/ck/catalog
A fun place to talk about food and drinks. Other recommended boards: /g/. Much of the chan culture has been ravaged by explicit material and psyops.
Jonathan Pageu | https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanPageauClips
Important thinker and explainer of symbolism, stories and culture.
lukesmith.xyz | https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/
Linguist and internet personality.
Hobbies
San Pedro Mastery | https://www.youtube.com/@sanpedromastery6262
Learn to grow San Pedro, a special cactus from around Peru.
The cheapest place to buy viable San Pedro cactus seeds. I like the mixed/variety options to get lots of unique genetics and mutations.
Tools and software
Create your own website and host it from a VPS, from scratch! The only nitpick I have is that you should use Porkbun instead of Epik for whois domain name protection, so you don’t get spammed like crazy. I am using frantech for my VM instead of Vulture, but that’s personal preference.
Seemingly one of the few ACTUALLY private email hosts (compare to Proton)
The best tool for downloading lossless music from streaming services. I recommend Tidal as a source.
A very effective tool for compressing images.
The easiest way to send someone a file over the internet.
Imgur sucks bad. This is better, and you can get direct links to the images.