As time goes on, I find myself increasingly worried about supply chain attacks—not from a “this could cost me my job” or “NixOS, CI/CD, Node, etc. are introducing new attack vectors” perspective, but from a more philosophical one.

The more I rely on, the more problems I’ll inevitably have to deal with.

I’m not thinking about anything particularly complex—just using things like VSCode, Emacs, Nix, Vim, Firefox, JavaScript, Node, and their endless plugins and dependencies already feels like a tangled mess.

Embarrassingly, this has been pushing me toward using paper and the simplest, dumbest tech possible—no extensions, no plugins—just to feel some sense of control or security. I know it’s not entirely rational, but I can’t shake this growing disillusionment with modern technology. There’s only so much complexity I can tolerate anymore.