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My year summary (2024)
8 months ago
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a wonderful last day of 2024 and had a chance to see the fireworks, unlike me xD
Lots of things happened to me, big and small, but ultimately on a good path to be more of myself and free.
On the online aspect of things, it wasn't as good. Mainly twitter completely collapsing and having everyone flock to bluesky, I feel like I got pushed off the race that was the social media. My brain tries to make me return to it, but the rest of me just wants to give up.
Posting art isn't bringing much happiness to me, it is taking the opposite turn. Making me even more sad and depressed, casting something into the sea that just disappears into nothing. The constant reminder of *number go up*, is also taking a toll on me. If I want to stop this cheap artificial dopamine hit, I think I should just stop. Doesn't really help that with the rise of AI everywhere and their scraping makes me afraid to even show anything online.
I also have lost so many people and people I considered friends throughout this year, it really makes me question about trying to find a group yet again for them to dissolve or get into inside quarrel that I will end up abandoning because I really don’t want to deal with it.
As another thing for social media, I am thinking of maybe just parking my name in the place people are at, but as for my artistic career, I will consider it a bust. It all went down with twitter and I just don't have the energy to join in the race and do the silly grind just to be noticed by someone. My commissions barely exist, but I know I haven't been advertising them much. That's on me I guess.
I am still grateful for the people that did commission me in 2024 and 2023!
It doesn't mean that I will stop drawing though, I will just need to learn that I don't have to capitalize on the hobby and that I can just draw for my own enjoyment and myself.
The internet as of today is a really dark place that I don't want to input more into.
The Abundance of AI pushing into every corner of the online existence makes me glad that I got myself into self-hosting things. Basically my little server became my source of information and media. It being Movies, Shows, RSSFeeds. I also got into backing up my stuff from PCs and phones to have them exist in at least to or more location in case of a drive failure.
Overall I did a lot of work on my little home server and learned quite a couple of things too.
This year also made me appreciate more of the FOSS side of Android, now 80% of the Apps I use come from F-droid.
*now if only my current phone could have a custom ROM without Google that would be even neater*
You can read more on my blog:
https://snoot.red/blog/post/2025/01.....-2024-summary/
Lots of things happened to me, big and small, but ultimately on a good path to be more of myself and free.
On the online aspect of things, it wasn't as good. Mainly twitter completely collapsing and having everyone flock to bluesky, I feel like I got pushed off the race that was the social media. My brain tries to make me return to it, but the rest of me just wants to give up.
Posting art isn't bringing much happiness to me, it is taking the opposite turn. Making me even more sad and depressed, casting something into the sea that just disappears into nothing. The constant reminder of *number go up*, is also taking a toll on me. If I want to stop this cheap artificial dopamine hit, I think I should just stop. Doesn't really help that with the rise of AI everywhere and their scraping makes me afraid to even show anything online.
I also have lost so many people and people I considered friends throughout this year, it really makes me question about trying to find a group yet again for them to dissolve or get into inside quarrel that I will end up abandoning because I really don’t want to deal with it.
As another thing for social media, I am thinking of maybe just parking my name in the place people are at, but as for my artistic career, I will consider it a bust. It all went down with twitter and I just don't have the energy to join in the race and do the silly grind just to be noticed by someone. My commissions barely exist, but I know I haven't been advertising them much. That's on me I guess.
I am still grateful for the people that did commission me in 2024 and 2023!
It doesn't mean that I will stop drawing though, I will just need to learn that I don't have to capitalize on the hobby and that I can just draw for my own enjoyment and myself.
The internet as of today is a really dark place that I don't want to input more into.
The Abundance of AI pushing into every corner of the online existence makes me glad that I got myself into self-hosting things. Basically my little server became my source of information and media. It being Movies, Shows, RSSFeeds. I also got into backing up my stuff from PCs and phones to have them exist in at least to or more location in case of a drive failure.
Overall I did a lot of work on my little home server and learned quite a couple of things too.
This year also made me appreciate more of the FOSS side of Android, now 80% of the Apps I use come from F-droid.
*now if only my current phone could have a custom ROM without Google that would be even neater*
You can read more on my blog:
https://snoot.red/blog/post/2025/01.....-2024-summary/
