A Lonely Linuxer Log #17 – My Walking Hobby

This log is a bit different, but still very much part of my uptime. I want to share something that’s been helping me keep my system running stable: walking.

I live in a crowded city — like a machine running too many background services — but it still has green parks and quiet paths, the equivalent of hidden TTYs where things feel calmer. I started doing daily “maintenance cycles,” walking about an hour and covering around 3km. But recently, I’ve upgraded. Now I can push 5km without throttling, and yesterday I even reached 8km — a surprising performance boost.

And here’s the strange part: walking seems to help my insulin levels. My blood sugar came back normal — which feels like discovering that htop shows no runaway processes even though I consume too much sugary coffee and still smoke. (Yeah, I know, I’ll patch those habits eventually.)

There’s even an incentive module installed: my dad pays me 5,000 rupiah per kilometer walked. That’s basically enough to apt-get a bottle of coffee. So technically, I’m converting steps into caffeine. If that’s not an efficient pipeline, I don’t know what is.

I actually started walking with my dad years ago — maybe five years, maybe more. Back then, my youngest sibling, my little sister, joined us too. Thinking about it now, those walks were like the early beta release of this coping mechanism — unpolished, but full of heart.

So yeah, this entry isn’t about distros, kernel tweaking, or dotfiles. But walking clears my mental swap, prevents memory leaks, and stops me from crashing. It lets me return to the terminal with a cleaner buffer — and for me, that matters.

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