New Page (Month + Year Recap) :3

Wow, another website, Nao? Really? YES. AND?
So I went back to Nekoweb. Nothing against Bear Blog, that site is so cool and makes it really fricking easy to blog and stuff there. But I guess I wanted something I... owned? Like having this much control encourages me to continue to learn about coding websites and, perhaps, learning new thingies other than HTML or CSS.

But yeah. With that out of the way...

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYPONY!
I wish you the best this year and I hope any resolutions you have resolve(?) too!

So let's start with my month recap, December. Um...

That month was (and generally is) not it. It's always the worst month of my year in a sense. I have such social anxiety and low social battery that both go to waste very fast. So many events make me go all drowsy and moody despite all events being positive, like birthdays, Xmas, New Year's Eve, THE DUCKING ANNIVERSARY OF MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD HIMSELF?

*sigh*

Talking about music, somehow, I still worked my way around to do some stuff, stuff like already having the playlist(?) of my very own debut album, heck yeah. It will be all over the place, there's a lot of noise, like FFFFF (I like that). It's like 10 tracks, ranging from Silent Hill Ambient, to Power Noise(?), to Eliminate-like Trap, to Hardcore. It's composed of music made in the magnificent 2020 and music made last year.


Now let's talk about my year as a whole. Geez...

2024 was a year that happened. It's a year that I said, "Take it, flip it, reverse it" in an attempt to feel in control, LMAO.

What do you mean, Nao? Well, Reader...
This year I switched platforms every other month. In June I made the first and most significant one: leaving Spotify (and therefore stats.fm) behind. After installing it and being an active user since 2017, I thought it was time to flee from it because of its controversies like the CEO donating to the military, artists' compensations... AND FDUCK I LEFT THAT CHET, I WOULD'VE *cooeegggg* MYSELF IF AN AI WAS TO MAKE A PODCAST OF MY WRAPPED.

So I went from stop supporting Spotify... to fricking giving money to bucking Google. Yeah, that was a choice I made (in my defense, it was a family subscription and I didn't spent money for it, just to be clear). But still, I stuck with YouTube because, "oh, YouTube Music and Ad-less YouTube, so cool". But yeah, I was somehow so so blind to Google working on AI. It wasn't until I realized that I left and just went to Tidal.

Also, I'm not uploading anything else to YouTube because my videos could feed their generative AI, so yeah, screw that.

And that takes me to the next point: Degoogling.
This year I made some degoogling.
Gmail? Google Calendar? *BOOM* Tuta.
YouTube? *BOOM* Patreon.
Gboard? *BOOM* HeliBoard.
Chromium (Brave)?*BOOM* Firefox.
Google Maps? *BOOM* Organic Maps.
And much more, but it was for the same reason, privacy stuff and just not liking to support that much a monopoly.

A similar thing happened with DistroKid, after noticing they were into NFT back in the day and the laid-off of a lot of employees made me switch to Amuse.

And a quickfire: Mega to Filen, Dashlane to Kaspersky, Twitter to Bluesky, Adobe to Affinity, and some more I probably forgot.

And now...?
I don't know. Beside all mentioned before, the year was rough. My schizoaffective symptoms got much more intense, same thing for alexithymia and my autistic traits overall. I think I need to see a therapist as soon as possible. Probably some meds would help me to be normal.

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MUSIC!