I just want to say I love these so much, thanks for making them!
No idea what’s going on in the overall story though… gonna have to read the whole webcomic for that from the beginning. One of these days!
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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This is exactly what happened. I swear.
I know...
Docker is the gnu version of windows users asking "where can I download an exe that just does what I want" (but with a dramatic teenage flair).
Recently I was reading a discussion that docker solves a linux problem, and therefore isn't needed in the BSD projects. But then some other people disagreed. If there was only one linux distribution, say debian, do you think docker would be needed? This is not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely wondering what you think.
This should be the wikipedia summary.
Thanks. They get real pissy in the self hosted communities when I point this out.
Podman, sorry.
It's great with cockpit
call her back
Put me in the comments.
Put me in the comment replies.
(pls.)
(done.)
Does docker not conflict with the teachings of kierkegaard?
Docker is the leap of faith
No, it is somewhere between level 0 and level 1 of the computing life!
Is your 3,5 gopher dead? I haven't seen him around for a while
yep, for now.
does inferno have a mascot?
Dante Alighieri
gotta be the only thing whose mascot is just a real-ass guy
I see your art all the time, and it's definitely not my cuppa tea. I don't get why it's appreciated, as it's disturbing to me. (Also I don't comprehend anything Linux)
Nevertheless, I wish you all the success.
This is how I interpret it personally, with no effort put in to attempting to discover the artist's true intent.
I relate the the grungy, gritty, malformed and out of proportion art style with the overall narrative theme of Linux, freedom, anti-consumerism and post-collapse with the following logic:
With all of the hyper consumerism, anti-consumer behavior from corporations, ad-ridden web, and attempts to restrict digital freedom, we are exhausted. I have been so beaten down by the online hellscape, it has sapped my will and left me unstable. The uncomfortable character design embodies how I feel as a tech user. I am not healthy, I have no safe place to exist online unless I forge one for myself. I scrap together a system that works for me from small in-development projects. I don't get to engage with the clean, shiny nice things because they're all predatory.
My mental health, which is effected by all of this, is easy to relate to how the characters look like they feel like. It's uncomfortable and unnatural, just like the state of existing online for an early internet user in current year.
The fight for personal freedom in software, culture, and economics is not a glorious one. It is a dirty, personal fight. You will get no help from the system. It is not easy. It is not clean. You will get lost. You will give things up. It will leave you unrelatable to some or all of your friends and coworkers. But you'll have your scrappy little friends to help you, who are also in the same headspace.
This is why the comic looks the way it does, or at least this is how I choose to interpret it.
While the art style may be uncomfortable, it is highly relatable to me.
Just like how the possum memes came to be, for a more simple analogy. Possums are scraggly little folks that look annoyed, scared and dirty. The perfect animal to represent many neurodivergent individuals, which are who adopted the meme first. Identifying with imperfection or wounded mindset and using that identity to make light of or come to terms with that imperfection or wounded mindset is something becoming more common.
Thank you. You've put in words everything I've been feeling about this art.
I'm glad I could. I'm not usually one for words, but I realized I felt rather strongly about this art and had to write something down.
Thank you for engaging with my content! Me neither!
Thank you for making it particularly engaging.
Thank you for including the bun, really ties it all together.
I did it for you and all bun-kind.
Red flag
GLADLY
It doesn't run on my bun.
I think she likes you!