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-<fs xx-large>Ramblings</fs> is the "wiki" section of [[:ultracomfy.net]]. I use ultracomfy.net as a homepage for pretty much all things (including private stuff), but "Ramblings" refers specifically to the wiki-style content dedicated to documenting my impressions and thoughts on - well - everything I feel like writing about. Ramblings started as an idea a few years back, "what if I had my own personal wiki where I could note down my thoughts on topics?" because I always kept forgetting my thoughts and, thus, frequently came to conclusions which I later had to work my way back to because I did not remember how I got to that conclusion. The idea was to cut the "conclusion reconstruction" part by writing it all down to allow to quickly get back to points in a thought I had previously been in. Reconstructing thoughts I previously had would be particularly difficult when my opinion or my thoughts on a thing had actually changed in the meantime, making it impossible to actually reconstruct the original reasoning. With a wiki I would always have a clear line of argument laid out as the baseline and could track changes in my mind just by comparing how my perception of a topic had advanced.
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+Ramblings is the "wiki" section of [[:ultracomfy.net]]. I use ultracomfy.net as a homepage for pretty much all things (including [[:private:start|private]] stuff), but "Ramblings" refers specifically to the wiki-style content dedicated to documenting my impressions and thoughts on - well - everything I feel like writing about. Ramblings started as an idea a few years back, "what if I had my own personal wiki where I could note down my thoughts on topics?" because I always kept forgetting my thoughts and, thus, frequently came to conclusions which I later had to work my way back to because I did not remember how I got to that conclusion. The idea was to cut the "conclusion reconstruction" part by writing it all down to allow to quickly get back to points in a thought I had previously been in. Reconstructing thoughts I previously had would be particularly difficult when my opinion or my thoughts on a thing had actually changed in the meantime, making it impossible to actually reconstruct the original reasoning. With a wiki I would always have a clear line of argument laid out as the baseline and could track changes in my mind just by comparing how my perception of a topic had advanced.
 For years this is how it went. Occasionally I would look into it and Google a few things like "local Wikipedia installation" or "Wikimedia alternative local installation" etc. but never tried it. Instead I tried using a txt file, aptly named "Positions.txt" in which I planned to write down thoughts and, well, positions. After writing the first thing that encouraged me to create the file I would save, close and then never open it again. In 2023, however, I grew really fond of [[:RationalWiki]] and, because I had previously tried downloading offline copies of both Wikipedia and RationalWiki and tried it again that year, I got into MediaWiki and how that software works (exporting a MediaWiki is kind of involved and requires understanding of the software). Now, with a foot in the door of MediaWiki I started seriously looking into MediaWiki and how to install it locally, with several XAMPP installations and countless restarts, learning how to import plugins and whatnot and eventually failing at processing speed optimization and giving up because I didn't understand PHP and the versions and all the extensions and whatnot. I will figure it out one day, but that definitely wasn't the day.