I am a soon to be sage, soon to be...
This means I am not yet a sage, but I want to still share some information, perhaps it can help one of you to some enlightenment. Good luck on your journey.


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General

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• To understand your expenditures and perhaps budget them more efficiently try to use cash instead of card.
• Create goals for yourself, what do you want your financial situation to be in 5 years? 10 years? Write it out.
• When investing make concrete strategies for yourself, what kind of investment will you do? Are they risky or stable assets? At what price will you sell? And also how will you monitor your assets? These are questions that should be answered in your strategy.
• General rule of thumb for assets is anything silver, gold, land, consistent safe stocks. Anything else such as a new sofa won't be a investment, since it most likely never will increase in value.

• Indoor plants love good showers. This helps removing dust from their leaves (ensuring photosynthesis) and removing insects such as mites. Ensure the pots at the bottom have drainage. Do this only on summer days and not often.
• If you want to grow seeds, make sure you start very early before seasons start because they will take much longer to grow indoors than outdoors.
• When you want to grow plants outside and if you live in a metropolitan area then you may want to invest in bug-nets. They ensure in keeping the bugs out as well as cats or birds.

• Never make accounts, and if you really need to, use a disposable email and fake credentials.
• Do not ever use a creditcard on the internet, always pay with bank transfer or preferably don't, and buy at a physical store.
• Do not use a OS such as Windows or MacOS, try a bloatfree Linux distro or if you cant use that, then consider using Windows XP, even though its outdated and supposedly has "security concerns", if you know how to browse the internet, you will actually be much safer then the alternative.
• Keep the applications you want to use to a minimum, and don't bloat your PC with it, you can use a virtual machine if you need to use a certain application.
• There are alot of cameras in public spaces, as well as microphones. Stay clear of these areas, instead travel as much as possible through rural areas.
• Do not create a routine for yourself (ex: grabbing a coffee every monday morning at the same spot) since this will make you very predictable.

Person

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• Ensure alone time for yourself while enjoying yourself. Go to a park, beach or a small cafe. Be with your own thoughts and enjoy the hours you have with yourself. Understand that you are all alone in this universe and improve your mentality as this will bring you closer to enlightenment.
• Increase your own discipline by making changes to small habits. This will also help you to eventually remove some bad habits out of your life. Small habits may be things like eating eggs in the mornings and replacing it with a herb tea.

• Great communication is to listen and understand, if you can do that sufficiently enough then you are a professional. It is important to note that communication is not always straight-forward, body language, subliminal messages and context all play a role.
• Stay honest to your own principles and know your own worth. Try some introspective meditation to understand yourself, especially your own limits.
• Good work and health balance means know when to stop and giving yourself time off. Work can also mean just being productive in your own time off. Understand that the reason you may be feeling stressed out is because you have been accumulating it the past few months.

Software

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• Distro: Archlinux
• Kernel: Linux-lts
• Not recommended: Use of microcode updates

• Display server: Xorg (+ Xorg-xinit)
• Video drivers: nouveau + mesa
• Networking: NetworkManager
• WM: Openbox
• Desktop panel: tint2
• File manager: pcmanfm
• Text editor (CLI): nano
• Terminal: xterm
• Text editor: gedit (can be used with coding although laggy)
• Internet browser: links (primary) + firefox (modern HTML)
• Music player: cmus
• Video player: mplayer
• Running Virtual Machines: kvm + qemu
• Text editor: gedit (can be used with coding although laggy)
• File Encryption: tarballs with gpg
• File sharing on LAN: samba (works good with Kodi and VMs)
• Photo RAW editing software: darktable

• Make custom bash scripts and refer them in ~/.bashrc which in return you can use those commands in terminal. Example: alias smb='bash ~/Documents/Misc./samba.sh'
• Disable GTK History in ~/config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: gtk-recent-files-enabled=0
• For python, instead of installing libraries with pip, use local python libraries, go to ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/my-paths.pth and type out custom path. Example: ~/Documents/Applications/Python_Modules
• Mount non-root drives in fstab as read-only and use a script to mount them as rw when needed (only if you rarely write on them). Example: sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb1 /mnt/Internal Partitions/Storage One
• Use default GNU applications as much as possible such as cat, bash, gnupg, tar etc.
• Install software with alot of hesistance because when you try to uninstall it won't usually remove all files on your drive.
• Don't do full-system updates, when the distro is working fine, only update certain applications if you require a certain dependancy or certain features of that software. Blindly doing updates every week then you might as well use Windows.
• Most importantly, using an OS should be as easy to use for the user, if its not, then you're probably installing blaotware or updating too much which causes the distro to be a b*** to use.

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