LIFE

Hello everybody. I forgot that I was supposed to be maintaining this website, since I made a really big deal out of it afterall, but I just let it be in the same state for basically the entirety of October. If anybody is wondering, yes, I'm doing fine, nothing bad has happened, it's just that I've been sick with a fever and dizziness, perhaps that's why I haven't done much the past few days.

Anyway, so I sold a macbook I owned. Quite relieving to see, really. Even though it was for just at ~31 euro, I still have learned the way how you can sell stuff on eBay, you know, how you can package up boxes and send to post offices and stuff. This was my first time doing this, and I have to say... I will probably not do it again. Since, I'm leaving Germany of course, but also since in my hometown it's way harder to sell stuff on eBay, since you need to sign documents and stuff, and I just don't really like dealing with so much stuff on an item that would only sell for 30 euro. Germany has it better however I will not live in Germany my entire life.

Another thing that has happened, I have optimized the very first versions of Windows! Yeah, operating systems from like 40 years ago. One in particular that I really like how it looked at the end was Windows 2.11/386. Here's a twitter link of how it looks:

https://x.com/niki122o/status/2112777114449772631

The black and white colour scheme is something that I came up with, and personally I really like how it looks. Makes me feel like it's some sort of a NeXTSTEP system or something. Anyway, I think that'd be it for now. Again, I should probably be more active with this website, but I just haven't because as I already said, I'm sick.

I'll go for now.

Hello, excuse me dearly for not making any posts over the past month or so, but that's just because I've been busy with stuff. The posts naturally are going to slow down, since there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that I do.

Anyway, so, I will no longer live in Germany. It's been decided that I would go to Bulgaria and do 10th grade there since nothing good is gonna happen out of Germany. Basically, I looked at my documents with my mother and turns out, I already have an official german graduation certificate since last year, 2025. Signed and stamped with the Bavarian state seal. Which essentially means, I didn't really waste a year this year (since I did one school in Germany from 2024-2025 which was a german class and then an actual german school from last year till now), and I would enter 10th grade directly in Bulgaria. So, essentially I would finish high school in 2029 at age 18. And honestly, since I already have the certificate from last year, this current school that I go to is essentially a sandbox to me. As long as I don't have the worst grades (which wouldn't even matter anyway since I'm transferring schools), I could do whatever I want until the deregistration forms arrive. At the end of this year, like at late December, we're going to be taking an official B1 german test. Well, for the students in the class they could take it seriously, but I would just take it for fun to flex it in Bulgaria, and then gonna be cruising straight to 10th grade. Easiest year of my life...! I tried explaining this situation to my friends, however I just got called delusional. What? I don't understand what I did in order for me to get called delusional. I just said I would be transferring schools and that they should shut up if they don't know what they're talking about. It genuinely feels like I am speaking to 9 year olds who don't understand English. The crab bucket effect on top of that is genuinely crazy. Wanting a reaction out of somebody and acting dumb on purpose to make them feel like they made a mistake with their life is manipulative behaivour.

Anyway, that is going to be all. Over the past month I haven't been feeling well and I'm just using the time at this school that I'm in currently to calm myself down and get stable again. I have started to eat 90 to 110g of protein everyday, which surprisingly I wasn't doing before. But yes, that's about it. I will be transferring schools in either late November or in February. And remember, just be careful who you're friends with. I'll go.

Good day to you sir, I exist. I have been dealing with school the past few days and I just honestly feel like it's been confusing up until recently. If you wanna know the full back story, we must go to the first day of school.

So uh, when I began school on the very first day, turns out my classmate from my previous school was there. I mean well he wasn't in my class, but he did exist during the breaks and so, therefore we would come during the breaks and just yap for about 20 minutes or so. Also, for my actual class, hmmmm.. Let’s just say it was an interesting experience. For some reason, the administration first threw me into a studying track that focused heavily on domestic stuff and cooking. Yes, cooking, exactly. It was loud, chaotic and definitely not the place for someone who just wants to sit down, open a notebook and work on technical stuff. A couple of days passed by, and the environment was just getting way too chaotic and overwhelming for me, especially with my social anxiety. Luckily, a school staff member noticed, and a school social worker then started speaking to me and told me to go to their office for an actual conversation. We had a private chat in English about what my actual goals are (getting into IT and computer systems). They immediately agreed that the loud and chaotic class was completely wrong for me, and decided to move me to a completely different, much smaller and quieter group.

The funny thing is, the new class isn't even in the main school building. It’s in what literally looks and feels like a modern corporate office building. Clean white halls, an actual quiet lounge to sit in before class and zero hallway noise. In fact, most of the people there seem to be older and actually do act mature, which is a night and day difference from what I was experiencing earlier. And also, the bus from my town goes directly there in under an hour without any annoying transfers.

It’s been a confusing and weird week, but it finally feels like things are settling into a much calmer direction (I hope). October is coming up soon, and with that, finally turning 16. That’s about it for now.

Hello! I've been quiet for a while but that's just because I've been dealing with stuff... Anyway, I apologize for not making any posts recently since I don't have that much to talk about and also since I am beginning school in 2 days. Speaking of school, I did go to the school building on the 17th. I spoke to the teachers and stuff and I honestly quite like the atmosphere and environment of the school! Of course, what my friends say otherwise since as always, right? The entire school is so big, that it reminds me as if I am in America or something. There's like a large section outside where there's literally something like a pool. This is like way better than what I've dealt with from my first and second school in Germany. Of course, I can't say anything yet since I still haven't began the school, but from first impressions, I really like it. Now, keep in mind, anything could change. If this school is not really for my needs or decide that I don't like it later down the road, I may switch to another one. Or, I could literally just quit off Germany entirely and live in my country again. Yeah, when you've got political parties like AfD rising to be the top and wanting to make foreigners leave out the country, I would be the one to leave on purpose, because it's just too difficult to deal with sometimes. Germany did change my life for 2 years or so, therefore I don't think it's that big of a deal. But just know that I could always leave.

Anyway, I bought a new domain! Somebody please take away Namecheap from me... This domain in particular is something I want to keep for long term, and so I was looking at my options and I've decided I want to have a .xyz from the 1.11B Class. Specifically, the domain I got was:

709070.xyz

I really chose those numbers because 7 is my favorite number and also because the 9 rolls off with its tail with 7 quite well and so I figured why not. The ASCII art on the index page looks absolutely stunning. I am probably going to make a subdomain and call it a.709070.xyz, so I would have a mirror from the main website you're reading currently. Yes, I know numbers in a domain don't look that good, but this was my best way I could have an international and cheap domain to own for 10 years. I was considering .de and .eu since you know I live in Germany, however that would push my audience towards to German people, and if I do .eu that would also push my audience to European people and also would look like as if the site is a parliament website or something. I specifically want .xyz because the architecture is completely different from a .org domain. For example, if the main website ever goes down, you could just go to the mirror. Not sure if it would get flagged for spam and fraud though...

Anyway, that would be for today and the past few days. At this point, I really am just procrastinating until I begin school. I still am really curious to see what this new school would offer to me.

What's up everybody? How's life? Over the past few days I have been working on the mirrors (as mentioned in the previous post) and I figured I would call them old and retro. Those are subdomains, so you would first add them and then the website. In note of that, old.azqu.org is finally done! It did take me like 3 days, but it is finally done and I'm pretty happy about it. The old mirror is best viewed on Internet Explorer, since IE uses a proprietary file format for loading in fonts from the web, and so if you try to load the site on a version of Firefox before 2009 or so, there would be no animations and there'd be a fallback font. I really tried to come up with a bunch of alternatives and fixes but this is the best I could do. Glad to see it even work, though. Note that if you try to go to old.azqu.org on your modern web browser, it would redirect you to the modern page, since there'd be no point when you can already load the modern page. And vice versa, if you try to go to azqu.org on an old operating system/web browser, it would redirect you to old.azqu.org. The time range for the old mirror is roughly 2001 till 2009. However it could be until 2015, not sure. I'm confident that it is 2001 till 2009 though. If you are curious, the time range to load the modern site is from 2020 till today. I will probably fix up a couple of stuff from the modern page to make it go down a few years in the time range, but I feel like there's no point since people are using good enough modern day browsers anyway. So, after this post I will probably immediately begin working on the retro mirror, since I still haven't started on that. I assume it's going to be easier though, since it's just pure HTML, without any CSS and JavaScript.

Anyway, today I wanted to (again) clean my room, since even though it looks like it's good enough, what I had in my shelves were an absolute mess. For example, one of them was just full of cables and random school stuff, to which then I finally decided that I would clean that and remove the stuff that I don't need (mostly it was school stuff that I didn't need). In the end I organized my stuff so that I have my school work since 6 years ago till today, and also made on display my school completion cards (I don't know what they are called in English). In the end, it turned out very excellent and I am pretty happy with the end result. Now this is what I'd call a properly organized room.

That'd be it for now. Trust me, breaks can be cool and all, but when you're left with only a room to mess around with and friends that you can't talk to from back home, it would really feel like the days are just passing by. I will try to do interesting stuff though (hopefully). That's gonna be it for today.

Greetings, welcome back to the life page. Today nothing much happened, besides me wanting to procrastinate my sleep in the morning, only to then be abruptly interrupted by an EAS message on my phone that started out of nowhere. It was just a test though, nothing dangerous was happening, but I was still so god damn pissed that my sleep was abruptly interrupted. 10 minutes later sirens started outside as well, which I was like "They are doing way too much for just a simple test". 45 minutes later I get another EAS message saying that "the test has been finished". Apparently the german authorities have warned citizens about this going to happen, but as you know me I don't really look up into that stuff pretty often.

Anyway, after that I was just on my computer and was just consuming general media, since I had nothing to do. Suddenly out of nowhere I get an idea to add languages to AZQUPOIT, to which then I immediately went to work. Soon after though, I would figure out that I can't really put a bulgarian translation onto the website, I mean well I can, but the letters themselves were too wide and I unfortunately couldn't do much about that, so I scrapped the whole idea altogether. I would probably retry this idea in the future, but for now it's too difficult for me to do. After that, I wanted to optimize the website, since, you'd want it to be fast and secure, right? Well, I want to make a subdomain which would make it so that you can view this website on computers running old operating system's default browsers (such as Windows XP and/or Mac OS X Snow Leopard), and another subdomain for running super old browsers on their respective operating systems (such as Windows 95 and/or Mac OS 9), so forget everything I ever said about fast and secure about those subdomains! I would want to make sure my website is viewable even on a 30+ year old browser, just cause of the fun of it, you know?

I have started to work on them, and probably by the next 3 days they are going to be done. I don't know what they are going to be called, but I'll figure it out. That's for today.

Hello everybody! Azqu here. Over the past few days I have been messing around with computers, and just today I went to the school for them to give me information. So, the day before yesterday I was looking at my laptops and I was thinking of myself "Hey, why don't I swap the SSD and the HDD from one laptop to another?", 'Cause I have a laptop which I barely use that has an SSD in it and a laptop which is exactly like my main computer but 5 years older, having a HDD. So, I got my screwdriver and started unmounting the screws for it. There, I found so much dust from where the exhaust fan is (since to be fair this is an ASUS ROG from 2009), so I first got rid of the dust and then removed everything. There, I found the 16 year old hard drive. It was a 500GB one, to which I was swapping out with a 256GB SSD, but it's fine. So, I got my other laptop and started unscrewing it as well. I got rid of the SSD from it and got rid of the HDD from the ASUS, and put in the SSD into the ASUS, and put in the HDD into the other laptop. Now, yes, I did backup the files to a flash drive, so I wasn't erasing anything. I backed up circa 40GB of data, for both machines accounted. So, the ASUS laptop originally had Windows 7, and considering the HDD it had before was running Windows 8.1 (due to 8.1 being better for HDD's than 7), I was thinking of putting 7 on it, and that's exactly what I did. Oh, and also, for the other laptop, it originally had Windows 10, so I figured I would put Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 on it as well. So yes, I have installed Windows 10 on it and left it as that. The ASUS ROG though, was way more exciting, mainly due to me imagining how Windows 7 would work on a SSD. I installed the operating system, installed the drivers, optimized windows itself, and it ran with ~700MB on idle! It's quite relieving to see such a low number of RAM after applying so many settings. Here is a twitter link of how it looked like:

https://x.com/niki122o/status/2097336280656798007

Anyway, for today, at around 9 AM I had to go to the city to see when the hell I am gonna begin school, and when I went to the secretary and told her what's going on, she told me that I would have a letter come to my mailbox and from there I would have information and I would have to come again on the 17th. School itself starts on the 21st. Now, the concept of school starting on the 21st is really surprising to me, considering everytime my school started it has always been on the 15th of September. But it's fine, I get to have time alone with myself for a bit more and better yet, there would be just one week of September and then it would immediately become October, to which then I finally make 16.

That's about it, the previous days weren't that interesting, so I just waited until something interesting happened to write it in here. That's for today.

Hi guys! Please forgive me for not giving any updates recently, I just don't really know what to do/there's nothing to do. Anyway, today at 2 till 9 in the morning I was tinkering around with my macbook, you know, nothing special. I decided I would erase the Linux Mint 21.3 from it. since, even though as promised that Linux Mint would make my computer faster, it has indeed made my computer slower actually. The thing took 30 seconds to load into the desktop from the logon screen and then when you launch Firefox, it would take 3 minutes to load into the homescreen. IF you do anything else, the entire computer would freeze. You'd have to hard reset. I've gotten really pissed off from this (whenever I feel like using my macbook) since considering that this is a late 2009 model, any optimization and optimal setting has to be applied. What I did for Linux Mint 21.3 and its settings apparently were not enough. So, I just figured that I would erase the whole damn thing and put AntiX on it! I am actually familiar with AntiX believe it or not, since I am coming from MX Linux and I've heard that they're similar or something.

Anyway, I formatted my usb with the AntiX installer and installed the operating system. First off, IceWM is great, yeah, but for customization and theming, it's terrible. Everytime I install Linux on an Apple branded device, I always have the urge to theme it to look as most close to as MacOS. Not that I neccesarily like MacOS that much, but you know, this is a Macintosh. It essentially would need to look like MacOS in my opinion. IceWM is like, so terrible for that. I know, community made themes that are made to mimic MacOS exist on IceWM and its window manager, but I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but the themes I got were trying to replicate the Aqua interface from old Mac OS X. First it didn't even look that good and second it wasn't my goal at all. I got pretty pissed off from that and so I would just decide to abandon IceWM and move on to XFCE. Not like the memory would increase by a whole lot or anything. XFCE is like a night and day difference, you have no idea. It was so simple to configure everything, hell it probably took less than an hour. The end result is something I have which is a dock, top bar, and whenever people look at my computer have the pleasure to say that it runs Linux by the way (not that big of a flex to say btw for this distro but regardless). So yes, I have essentially turned obsolete 2009 hardware into something somewhat usable. Of course, anything 2018 and newer would lag on this computer, provided that it's a video game or anything that involves the CPU. So that's that.

Now, after that, I decided I would just turn the computer off and, you know, clean up my room a little bit, since I have had a bunch of cables and stuff on my floor for a week or two now which I haven't gotten rid of, which presumably is because of me existing in Bulgaria for August, but I could have just been lazy and just put everything to the floor. Regardless, I wanted to clean everything, and not have to deal with stepping on stuff everytime I walk on my mat. The entire process took 3 and a half hours by the way. I am a very slow person, which is just how I work with stuff. At some point, I realised that LED lights exist in my drawer, which I have then took and put them behind my TV, which, they look absolutely stunning. I know, by the tone of my text (and the assumption of how you would think if I was speaking this text out loud) you would think that it's not that exciting, but trust me, it looks 10x better than what I had before. LED lights really change a whole lot in a room. I placed them, I put on rain noices to my TV, and just laid to bed. Not without shortly realising that I still have to put together my main setup, since I had my macbook on to my desk as temporary. So, I quickly got rid of all the cables, and redid where every single cable went and basically did most optimal placements for them. The end result didn't look that much different from what I had before, there are a bunch of more cables, but you would never notice them when there is no light from the window, so it doesn't really matter. It did look better though, that's for sure.

Anyway, that is for today. Other than that absolutely nothing else happened. Today is Saturday, so in about 2 days I would have to go to my school and see what they're up to, since you know, when you go to a new school you'd always want to look at how it looks before it actually starts, right? I still am waiting patiently for the job...

Domain! Well technically I got a domain yesterday (since I wanted to take a nap but turned into a 10 hour rem sleep) but I am so happy I am off Neocities. Don't get me wrong, Neocities is such a brilliant website for site creation and such, but I don't really like that I have to pay 5 bucks a month just to have a custom domain to it. If you've noticed, that's the whole reason why instead of an mp3 playing on the site, it's from a catbox moe link. This was really my best alternative since I couldn't even upload mp3 files onto Neocities, but I can do whatever I want now with GitHub (if you haven't noticed GitHub is the thing that has the website files now and Cloudflare is the host)!

Other than that, nothing else happened. Was talking with friends earlier about there being a discriminator in discord tags. We really should start maturing. The whole deal with discrimination, ranked, *insert smt here* pro max and more are really just inside jokes that we are refusing to forget, and I don't really know how to feel about that to be honest. On one side I am like: Sure, you could keep on using the same jokes over and over as long as they're funny. Then the other side of me is like: We need more. We shouldn't just use the same jokes over and over again. There is literally no improvement from 2 years ago to now. I don't know, I'm probably just overthinking stuff again. Reminds me of the time I used to take jokes seriously in 2021-22. I would literally be so annoying to people and spam them with skull emojis in every single message, and then wonder why people are telling me that I'm annoying and repetitive. Well, the times have changed quite a bit now and fortunately I'm not like the person I used to be. Or am I? *vsauce music*

Seriously though, the motive of today is that you should change as a person if you feel like you are doing wrong with yourself. You could argue that I changed due to puberty, hormonal changes and stuff like that, but I digress. I personally feel like no matter the age you could change as a person and be a better person to you, and to everybody else.

Hello! This is the very first post from the life page! Hope you like it here. Anyway, yes. August is indeed coming to an end and I still feel like I just need a bit more time with myself in peace. Not sure if it's due to me procrastinating the entire month (or year that is) but I still feel like I want just a bit more time. Perhaps, that may be due to me starting a job in September.

Yeah, you hear that? I never had a proper job before, so this will be all new to me. Especially because I am in Germany, so it's just even better. I'm not sure how much money exactly I would be getting from my job, but I am sure it would be enough to buy a domain for this website. Yes, I really want to buy a domain for a website like this one. I want to move on from Wix since they charge like 20 bucks per month to subscribe to their cheapest plan to remove their advertising and for adding custom domains, which I might mention is just... ridiculous. GitHub on the other hand is a platform I really love because they have made it so people can easily make websites and also, do not charge you 20 bucks for just adding a domain! Also, GitHub doesn't have any subscriptions at all for wanting to remove ads! You see the clear winner now?

Anyway, I got too ahead of myself. Yes, I will be getting my own money, which is what I am only excited about. I assume a job would be just like school, temporary people that are going to be gone one day. Regardless though, I am excited to see the outcome of this, and perhaps even start thinking of getting a new computer...