You already took the first, most important step. Now you just continue from here.

Feel yourself in the moment. Decide to do anything you want and go do it, even if it is stuff “from past you”. Then make a conscious effort to record/remember the way you feel while doing it.

Do you get the urge to continue doing it? To stop it? Do you like/dislike it? Use those feelings to guide your next decision, and then just repeat.

There is nothing bad about what your past wanted either. If you still want to go for those dreams, you certainly can. Those things may still be what your “current you” wants, even if it is influenced by your past.

Your “current you” consists of the past. Your “current you” is not separate from your past, your “current you” is only what it is now because of your past. With a different past you would have a different “current you”. Because of that, don’t see your past as something that doesn’t/shouldn’t exist, of course, in an optimal world, you wouldn’t have experienced those things, but you did experience them, and they will influence you in some way. The past influencing our present is just how humans work, if you had a nice childhood/whatever, you would also be influenced by those nice memories.

So deliberately trying to not do the things your past wanted doesn’t really make sense. But it also means that you don’t need to go for those past things either, which you’ve just figured out.

There is really no real reason to overcomplicate this. Just think about things you want to do right now, see how they feel right now, and then adjust your behavior accordingly.

Well that’s what I’m saying. I had Windows set up exactly like I like it. I disabled all telemetry, had custom hotkeys for everything, etc etc etc, everything worked exactly like I wanted.

There was just a little thing in the background that made it make sense to switch to Linux, Windows getting shittier, MS dropping support etc etc

In the end, of course it’s not exactly the same thing, but that’s what’s happening to x11 as well, it does get “shittier” (comparatively) as less development time is spent on it, it doesn’t get improved as much as Wayland, gets less support etc. So if you just use a scale of “good <> bad”, over time, x11 goes more towards bad and Wayland more towards good, same as Windows vs Linux.

Funny, this is basically the exact thing I said about switching from Windows to Linux at one point. Of course not about Wayland and window managers, but about the customization I did and the need to port it over.

It’s almost like being overly ambitious is simply a bad thing, not being specific to programming or learning programming.

Isn’t the whole game around 1.5 hours long in total? oO so you returned the game after you finished it?

I mean climate change might’ve already done it. Just need to wait 500-1000 years for the full effects to all take place.

I think the best way to get better at programming is to

1. Write programs that you actually want to make
2. Whenever you run into a hard part, first try to do it yourself
   1. Once you succeed or fail, research the problem and see how others solved it
   2. Always look up words/concepts you don’t understand while researching and don’t stop until you understand
3. Repeat

If you like, you can also just read some books or scour some programming related communities for general info, without some specific goal. However, most people don’t have the motivation to do that, because they don’t know what that information is good for yet. That’s why, for most people in my opinion, it’s better to just try to do something and then learn (better) ways of doing what you want, because then you actually immediately get what it’s good for and why you’d need it.