Thank you for making it particularly engaging.
Alk
joined 8 months ago
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.
This doesn't get talked about much but in my experience gaming on a Mac is often worse than on Linux despite the market share.
What happens if you write GNU since that's a recursive acronym?
The bed is super weird. But it's not weird in a lot of places for valentines gifts to extend to "anyone you love in any capacity" instead of strictly romantic love. My mom has given me chocolates and a valentines card every year since I can remember and it's a normal thing around here.
Humoring the situation, I imagine English would be an accepted official language of the region lol
That's sad to hear. It looks like a pretty good phone otherwise.
To elaborate on this, when you want an update, you "update the container." This usually means downloading an entirely new container image and replacing yours with the new one, which has new internal versions and data but works the exact same. You rely on the supplier of the container (if you didn't make it yourself) to do all of that for you, and you just receive the update when you request it.
So ideally, dependencies will be taken care of for you when the container updates, if you are using a pre-built container.
I had a globe like this, it was wonderful. It deteriorated long ago.
I have no speakers right now. Does it sound basically the same or is it wildly different?
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To all of you who are done with your daily tasks, I hope you enjoy some downtime today.
(self.dull_mens_club)
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Yet another "What distro should I use?" post, but at least I did some homework.
(self.linux_gaming)
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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.