the end of the grand tour feels kinda personal for me because the top gear trio (and most importantly clarkson's way of talking about cars) is the biggest main inspiration for what i do on youtube personally, trying to have fun and tell stories about something but without only focusing on the one thing but trying to accurately (and entertainingly) portray the context and era and everything

i know me and him do not look or sound alike and even have completely different opinions on some stuff but i owe him what is now effectively becoming my career at this point

OMG THIS IS SO CUTE this is a literal redemption arc in one image lmao

also happy to have improved, i never settle and always try to do better in general :3

talked about this a few times but i have been speaking english since i was born basically, it's been my secondary/tertiary "main" language in that sense, but accent-wise, growing up in another country, i am still improving daily, so yeah happy to have improved in that/confidence too lol

when i heard about the healthcare ceo killer having left "delay", "deny" and "depose" written on the shell casings i imagined the entire thing like an 80s arnold movie with him saying a one liner like "YOUR INSURANCE HAS BEEN DENIED" with the strongest austrian accent you have ever heard

youtu.be/XaYmjm2QF8E
this video is SO GOOD and oh my god totally spies is such a core memory for me

i was apparently born to be typecast as a generic european spy in some random y2k movie

one of my older relatives (currently living in italy) is getting tiktoks from SILVIO BERLUSCONI STAN PAGES (no they are not ironic)

the guy is dead and this is just old foreign politics now so I might as well put my degree to good use and tell you a story

Berlusconi was fucking wild (i am not talking about his actual policies or anything, just about the character/aura/vibes and why people loved AND hated him),
you can literally just look up any of his public speaking events and you will find at least one instance of him saying something quotable (for better or worse, the guy did and said some HORRIBLE stuff pretty often)

this was his answer to people on the left criticizing him for being incompetent/being a landlord that was in their opinion only trying to help the rich pay less taxes:

like how the fuck do you flip an attack like that into a flex this is genuinely wild

again just to be clear: i am not posting this to support the guy in any way, shape or form (he is literally dead and this is, again, foreign politics to basically anyone here), i just want to give some context to what was one of the first examples of "politics treated as a show in the age of tv and media"

tfw he is actually italian-american

Linus W

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71jBX5N3wcM

the mac mini is a steal at that price

ngl going (almost, excluding gaming/my ryzen machine that i also use for rendering sometimes) mostly full Mac after the introduction of Apple Silicon has been one of the best tech choices I have ever made

no windows, the hardware just works for me and it is extremely power efficent and i can run commercial software without having to spend 20 minutes every time to find how to configure wine or proton or whatever the fuck, it's great

btw for context

i used to be a hackintosh user before apple silicon because i could not justify spending money for a real mac since the hardware was simply not worth the money

i was into modding thinkpads and installing cpu, gpu and screen mods to turn them into a cheap mac alternative back then

this all stopped when the m1 macbooks came out because they were so good quality/price wise it made no sense to keep doing that anymore for me

i don't think these computers are for everyone but if they are for you and fit your use case they are some of the best machines money can buy, this is not me trying to say "oh haha this machine is better than yours", idc i don't have or want to prove anything to anyone i am just giving my opinion based on my personal experience ofc

anyway, in other news:
gonna probably post 2 videos this month

one is a project that's been in my drafts for a while now that is finally now an actual real thing thanks to bambu helping me with it

the other one is a "bonus" shorter one about something that i posted about on my social media and made a lot of you curious

so yeah as always stay tuned i am working on stuff, probably going to upload some wip stuff on patreon too as always

why did i say social media instead of socials now i sound like a 60yo professor trying to be hip