About Me

This is the about page of Warren Van Zuydam. If you want a professional description of me, then I have a LinkedIn profile for you to check out, so don't take this one seriously if you've searched my name on the internet. This is my wacky, personal website, so I write what I want here.

I am a casual gamer, YouTuber, and computer hobbyist. My internet name is Dee23Gaming, and I make YouTube videos on a free and open source alternative of Minecraft, called Luanti (formerly known as Minetest). I do play Minecraft, but it seems to be saturated on YouTube, so I might abandon Minecraft altogether as a game on my channel.

I play other games, such as Garry's Mod, BeamNG Drive, Terraria, GTA V, Counter Strike 1.6 & Source, Half-Life games (for nostalgia sake), and... yeah. My games list isn't long at all, and as I've gotten older, my interest in games as a whole has declined, except for a couple sandbox-style games.

I have recently gotten into messing with website coding, and I am enjoying myself so far. This website is not my main project, but my business website has been developed for a while now. Hopefully, I can build something for myself using that website. Unfortunately, because it's a business website, I have no choice but to abide by standard modern website design rules. This website on the other hand... I can do whatever the heck I want with it, so I decided to go for a late 90's, pixel-based website layout. I specifically went for the "L-shape" design, as it can actually be suprisingly mobile-friendly, compared to other website layout types.

I am a huge fan of using free and open source software. I like using programs like Inkscape, LibreOffice Suite, and Krita, just to name a few. We are sucked into this sick system of paying monthly subscriptions for products that we do not actually own. Buying a licence for a product is not the same as buying a physical copy of that piece of software. If my programs do not come in the form of an offline installer, then I do not own the software, and therefore, I'm totally at the mercy of that company. If you own a business, especially if you are new and trying to get your feet wet, you do not want corporations to have control over your future. If they want to shut a software down, raise prices, or put essential free functions behind paywalls, you, and your business are then in immediate danger. This only applies to people like me, who aren't massive business owners with money to chuck around. But things are getting harder for the average person. While there have been countless advances in technology over the decades to improve efficiency, comfort, security, etc., actually obtaining these needs have become more and more expensive, or just out of reach. So that's enough of that... I get very passionate about this subject. I can talk for ages about the problems of the modern world.