About me

(Sorry for the long wall of text)

My name is Will, I love programming in my free time - specifically in Rust. I've always been very techy owing to my Dad who built me and my brothers first computer with us when we were very little, he also was the person to introduce me to Linux which I now use as my daily driver operating system.

I have two dogs called Dora and Dottie, they're German Shorthaired Pointers and are both very lively. We've had Dora since she was a puppy and she's 9 now, despite not acting it. Whereas Dottie was a rescue that we think is around 5 years old and we've had her for 2 of those years.

Linux

I started using Linux as my main OS in 2021 during the second phase of lockdowns. I'm currently using OpenSuse on my main PC, Debian for servers and Pop_OS! on my laptop, I've distro hopped a lot in the last 4 years but my all time favourite is Pop_OS! and their upcoming COSMIC desktop is by far the best desktop interface I've ever used on any OS. It's been the only GUI environment on my laptop since early in the pre-alpha, back in Feburary 2024 and I have it as an alternative on my main desktop.

Privacy & Security

Privacy is something that has become more important to me in recent years, after learning about the story of Edward Snowden and doing further research into the topic. In July 2023 I undertook the task of degoogling my life which was relatively easy however a bit time consuming, I created a protonmail an switched every account I had over to use it and installed GrapheneOS on my phone. While doing all this I changed all my passwords to use randomly generated 16 characters and deleted all old and unused accounts across many platforms and social medias.