The death of owning things.
With the recent news of micron saying they are going to stop serving consumer grade ddr5 ram and samsung announcing a stoppage on SATA hard drives. One may think this is like the price of GPUs soaring in 2024 from the demand of AI companies needing and buying out more of these GPUs for their data centers, but in reality this situation is much more grim. It seems in a larger scheme, "they" are slowly testing and phasing out the idea of ownership or consumer grade PC parts in an effort to make owning your own hardware unaffordable; why are they doing this you may ask? Well it could be a slurry of reasons, it could be due to a mass surveillance program in a future where we only use thin clients and cloud computers and all of our searches, what we do, our data, is all mass surveilled in a nihilistic 1984 type situation where our behavior is constantly monitored by an AI and we are given a "trust" rating based on what we do, what we search, and what we think. Or it could be simply a way to no longer allow us to self host our own content and offline AI/shows/data; more imbued like a war on piracy. Either way we have to be aware that our digital sovereignty is slowly being shoved out.
The NSA, CIA, and local governments have been known to spy on us, through our TVs, backdoor access through our local computers; but there is no easier way to do this than exiling us to the cloud to permanently surveil our every move. You have to realize while this may not be possible now, data keeps compacting and getting smaller so does chips that are able to store large amounts of data, so in a likely scenario our computer or phone screen could possibly become stored data that would be fed into an algorithm determining what our "value" and public "trust" ratings should be. OPSEC is an extremely important thing and I'm beyond black-pilled that over 90-95% of people cannot ever be convinced to care about data ownership, because they don't get it, or they simply don't give a shit.
"You will own nothing"
This is our future however you may see it.
I never grew up to be able to see the 90s and 00s web but when I did start using the internet I heard stories about how much creativity and freedom people had on the internet, with the exception of maybe every time you try to torrent you have a 50% chance of just downloading a virus instead lol.
Now days, especially with "dead internet" theory floating around, I wanted to find communities where the internet is in fact not "dead". I've been looking for creativity inspired websites or websites that aim to being back the "early internet", and neocities, SpaceHey and nekoweb are a few I found that have bring this fruitful thinking to life. As I explore the web in this area a bit more I'll try to add what I find to either another sub-path on my website or here in the blog itself. Maybe I can bookmark some important posts in the blog so people that come here wouldn't have to endlessly search through rambling to find information that could actually be useful.
Anyways, back to the dead internet theory. I feel like the internet now days being entirely algorithm fed and pay to win has just lost all soul. Even torrenting has become almost virus free with people trying to rebel back to big-corpos trying to make you pay for something you don't "own" and monopolies being instilled into entertainment such as Netflix and its take on streaming platforms. It just seems like people are done with the way were getting treated by the elite and silently we are fighting back!
Anyways that leads me to this "radial" (or not) idea that EVERYONE that cares about individuality and self expression should make their own website. It's especially easy now days with documentation and tutorials being online, and even if you're not all that up to par with html and various other substacks, you can use AI (god forbid I say this word) or services such as fiverr have people create something in your own vision. Having such as this is a much better way of self-expression than using various social media sites such as facebook, instagram, snapchat, reddit, etc. You essentially have unlimited creative freedom when creating your website. You can create a blog, post your art & music, upload random videos or pictures, and quite about anything you could think of. I've seen some insanely creative websites even one styled as a "choose your own adventure" or better known as a gamebook / interactive fiction book. Just be creative and program up whatever you can think of.
FYI: Still testing out my obsidian posting system and all in all I might just move to VIM, I saw a website using VIM to post and since I'm learning and wanted to try to move everything I could over there, I just might.
How my Obsidian-to-Neocities posting system works:
I use Obsidian with the Shell Commands plugin to post directly to this microblog. The local writing.html file is the source of truth — no fetching from the server, no CDN caching issues. Three PowerShell scripts handle everything:
1. Posting new content
Highlight text in Obsidian, press Ctrl+C, then hit my post hotkey. A popup shows a preview and asks for confirmation. Click Yes and it reads my clipboard, wraps the text in HTML with a timestamp, inserts it into my local writing.html, and uploads to Neocities via their API. Each post gets wrapped in <!-- POST timestamp START --> and <!-- POST timestamp END --> markers for easy deletion later.
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\icedc\Desktop\OBSIDIAN SHOWER THOUGHTS\post-to-microblog.ps1"
2. Deleting a post
Copy a timestamp (like 2025-12-15-14-28-55), run the delete hotkey. It finds the post using the START/END markers, shows a preview, and asks for confirmation. Click Yes and it removes the post from the local file and uploads the updated version.
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\icedc\Desktop\OBSIDIAN SHOWER THOUGHTS\delete-post.ps1"
3. Uploading a fixed version
If I need to manually edit the HTML or restore from a backup, I rename my edited file to writingFIXED.html and run this. It uploads that file as writing.html to Neocities and replaces my local copy.
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Users\icedc\Desktop\OBSIDIAN SHOWER THOUGHTS\upload-fixed.ps1"
Key principles:
Local file as source of truth. No network fetch. No cache issues. Read from disk, write to disk, upload to API.
Clear markers for structure. <!-- POSTS START --> marks where new posts go. Each post has its own START/END comments for clean deletion.
Clipboard-based input. Avoids special character escaping issues when passing text through command line.
Popup confirmations. Every action shows what's about to happen before doing it.
Hello world! I'm starting this blog to just write down my shower thoughts or whatever I think of from day to day. I'll explain why I did this later on but I feel like with everything becoming more and more algorithim fed and things becoming less and less human in comparison to the early 90s and 00s internet, this is going to be my place where I can express thoughts and talk about things that are currently on my mind.
But the main features here are: no JS, no tailwind, no cookies. Just content.