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This user is in university.
This user is taking a wikibreak and may be away or inactive for varying periods of time.
Although he may occasionally be able to do some editing, messages left for him may not be replied to for a while.
He will be back on Wikipedia when university is over.
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Hello, and welcome to the (untidy, neglected and incomplete) user page of AP 499D25!
Although I was born in NZ, I am of Korean descent.
I was diagnosed with ASD at a young age, but these days I am able to live a somewhat normal life now. I also feel like sometimes I have a mild bit of ADHD, but was never diagnosed as such.
Yes, I am scared of spider webs! Especially big orb, messy or dense ones! The feeling of touching a web and ripping it with my hands just gives me nightmares. I am not scared of the spiders themselves, however! I think they are incredible little creatures that should be left alone!
Don't know what to name this section (Wikihabits?)
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This user contributes using a PC.
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My main machine, a desktop, features a Ryzen 5 2nd gen 6-core 12-thread processor, 32 GB of system memory, a Radeon RX 6800 16GB graphics card, and a PCI-E NVMe M.2 main storage disk (plus additional HDDs and SSDs for secondary storage). Yes, I do play video games on my computer.
My main display is actually a 25-inch 1440p 16:9 60Hz IPS LCD; I have a display scaling of 125% set in the Windows OS which means that my display area is effectively 2048×1152, albeit text is nicer looking of course.
They say once you go multi-monitors, you can never go back. Honestly, they are right; the productivity benefit from having multiple displays is unparalleled! Beats having to constantly alt+tab between windows.
For the peripherals, I use a Cooler Master tenkeyless keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches, and a Logitech G502 Hero mouse. I prefer to use a DPI of 1200 on it when on desktop (for games I usually use higher DPI). Yes, I have that "enhanced mouse precision" or whatever it's called option turned off. Now, this may not really be related to Wikipedia but I have a Bose 2.1-ch speaker system which just makes listening to music and various other media an awesome experience. Nothing like having good-quality sound equipment at your desk!
Yes, I still use DVDs! Well, sort of. Nothing like the experience of loading up a cracked OS or game from a burned DVD...
As of May 2024 I use Windows 10 Pro 64-bit ver. 22H2 on the desktop that I edit WP from. Personally, I intend to switch to Linux some time in the near future as my main OS. I hope to contribute from there one day!
Google Chrome used to actually be my browser of choice on Windows for probably a decade and a half, and I had been editing WP from there since the beginning until in April 2024 I switched over to Firefox, for various personal and objective reasons (e.g. Manifest v2 phaseout and some unknown slowdown issue).
On Chrome I would use Adblock Plus exclusively, but on Firefox I use uBlock Origin. What's interesting to me is how ABP never caught anything in my years of using it and Wikipedia, but with uBlock it seems to block a small number of things.
Sometimes I like to use Notepad++ as an aid in editing, where for example I copy out the entire page's source code and paste it in a new document in N++, and use the 'replace' feature to mass-replace a certain bit of code or text with another very quickly.
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Random thoughts (about Wikipedia)
[edit]This subsection will be gradually built up over time as the random thoughts come to me.
- I miss the additional example images shown besides the man(-)eating fish one shown in the MOS:HYPHEN page section! But one of the GREAT things about Wikipedia is that nothing that's been "removed" is actually lost forever; you can always go into the page history and view the revision of the page before that piece of content was removed to see it for yourself again. See here: Special:PermaLink/1278451878#Hyphens
'AP' are initials for my full name (first name is Andrew).
The '499D25' is derived from "499.25 GB", which was the size of the Macintosh HD disk partition on my beloved old 2011 iMac 21.5" computer. I always liked to have the Macintosh HD icon be present on my desktop, and have the disk space usage displayed below it, so I always saw that "499.25 GB" whenever I was on the desktop. I say beloved because this computer really made my life back in Nov 2012 when I got it. I went from an old MacBook 2006 Core Duo to it, and to say it was such a great leap would probably still have been an understatement. Finally being able to play Minecraft fullscreen on the big display max settings while getting over 60 fps and no lag, alongside fast boot up times, incredibly fast opening of applications and very smooth browsing of web, ah. That thing spiked my interests in computers and made me learn more about CPU, GPU, RAM, display, program, operating system, that kind of stuff. Hence why I chose to make this username after it.
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Okay, I wrote the above in April 2023. To be honest, I chose this silly 'AP 499D25' username thinking I wouldn't be quite the frequent, regular contributor I am today, as i.e. "I didn't care" much back when I started editing. I just wanted to get into editing, and I didn't want to choose the nice nickname I use on various gaming and chat platforms or anything like it. One day, when I do come up with a better name I actually like, I will change my username, but that day hasn't come, as of June 2024. Also tbh I've expected there to be at least a bit of irregular mockery over my silly and weird current username, but I have never received such a message before, which I guess means this Wikipedia editor community is really quite nice, and I am glad about that :)
