I was born in Siberia in the 1990s. I left Russia in ~2019 as soon as I could and never returned. I despise any form of authoritarianism, that moral habit of blindly obeying any stupid government... So actually I don't belong to any nation or culture, and I never truly have. I travel the world and live everywhere — I'm a cosmopolitan.
I used to make things entirely myself, forming the basic idea in mind and shaping the final form by hand. For me, just copying or generating things automatically is simply boring. Only through the act of creation can I know and feel for sure whether something is truly good.
Commercial use can be part of art, but it should never become its only reason to exist. Art and quality begins with something worth saying, not something worth selling.
I run Linux and open source for everything, avoiding huge corporations in software, hardware, AI, and life — overgrown corporate power almost always harms humanity more than it helps. I rely on custom solutions instead. Where I use AI, it's for routine and analytics — never creative work.