So there it is, I’ve finally thrown away the LX86 name I’ve been known for years.
It’s not something I do often, in-fact it’s not something I’ve ever done before, not with this magnitute of changes at least.

A little backstory

The name LX86 came to be when I joined a little tech community on Discord when I was small (Talking about 2016-ish~). At the time we aren’t necessarily the most mature person ever, so we all just have random operating system names, stuff like Windows 2000, Windows XP and the list goes on and on…
Initially I settled on Windows ME, but decided to differentiate myself from others, so I ended up with Lubuntu, a Linux distribution.

Over-time I started adding little stuff to it, like appending a x86 or x86_64 at the end. I’ve also settled with other nicknames such as LXQt, but ultimately decided that it’s better to give myself a more unique nickname. This is where LX86 comes from, it’s an abbreviation of Lubuntu x86.

I was quite ok with it at the time, having a short nickname is pretty cool… until the Twitter buyout happened. With concerns about the future of the platform, many people scrambled to find alternatives, and one of them is Mastodon, and in turn the Fediverse as a whole.

I didn’t really paid much attention to it, but ultimately this is where most of my friends went at the time, so I have decided to hop on there and see what’s going on.

There’s a lot of good memories and there’s a lot of bad memories, however it is undeniable that it changed a lot of how i percept about things. It gave me a glimpse to the cruel world and the lies we live by everyday, and it give a glimpse of all the cool, lovely and supportive people that exists around the world, and that’s when i realized that LX86 might not be representative of anything, at all…

Welcome, Amber~

How did I came up with the name? I honestly have no idea at all! I always liked Amber as a name, and one day I was thinking about a what-if situation and came up with AmberFrost, and it kinda stuck to me since…

Still I didn’t believe it’s the best name I could’ve chose at the time, so I assigned this name to an Alt account of mine, little did i know it was already deeply-rooted to myself.

The final push however is when one of the people I know also went with a new name, that’s when I’ve decided that it’s finally time to do something about it, especially with the summer break coming. (Meaning, free time I could burn!)

One thing I very explicitly avoided is tying my name with my profile picture, because as it turns out you’ll need to re-design the entire thing even if you just want to be called something else, and that is time consuming!

Ultimately I’ve resorted to a strategy called finding profile pictures from the internet, wow exciting isn’t it!
Note that I have delibrately not included the profile picture in here (The blog & blog post) as it may change any time! Though for platforms that do, I should have already included the link to the original profile picture either in my description or in my bio~

As for what kind of visual branding should I take? I sort of just made it up last minute, but I quite liked it for now!

But what about the domain?

This is where I debated a bit with my past post: Domain is a long term commitment

On one hand there’s a huge cost of switching domain, as well as the inconveniences it brings up to potential visitors. On the other hand, I feel like LX86 is never something I really “enjoyed” living by, so I’d like to get rid of it entirely.

I don’t know where should I sit on this, but for now I’ve decided to keep using the lx862.com domain as it’s the most chaos-free options I have… After-all I still have many, many things I need to adapt to my new name!

Conclusion

I think that’s it! I am not sure how determined I am on sticking with this name (Never try to predict the future!), but for now I am quite happy with it ^^

As a side note, I have a decent amount of blog posts which are either overdue or just abandoned mid-way. I really wish to finish them but I’ll see if I have the energy to continue with those, for now you get this lil update as a treat~