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tallship @[email protected] · 2023-01-19 · 08:44 UTC

@colinsmatt11 @shaman @Hyolobrika @gabriel

I recently saw a request from someone describing themselves as a prolific photographer in the #Fedilab #Matrix support room, asking if the devs could add a feature to use the EXIF data for the alt tags - they cited extremely non-trivial effort to do that manually.

It obviously issn't for everyone, with most folks preferring to fill out the alt data for the images they upload themselves, but it made a lot of sense for a #prolific_uploader of images in #Fediverse posts.

I'm glad you brought this up, because it's exactly what I was thinking when I became aware that stripping the EXIF data was the default on #Friendica, and disabling that feature is an "opt-out" option.

I don't even know if there's still such a site as #Foursquare, but about ten years ago it was a popular "check-in" site that integrated with #Faceplant.

You would basically do a check-in wherever you were and people could track you via lat/lon or physical address or the business name IIRC, and you could include pics too I think - that's one use case.

Another very good one, snapping a pic and then later uploading it as a Fediverse post in #Friendica (there's an OSM geolocation plugin), which I gather could generate a map based on the EXIF data in their photo.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen pics and wondered where the photos were taken. #Pixelfed should have such an option (does it?) w/OSM mapping toggle on upload.

I don't think any other Fediverse server platforms have that.

Extrapolating that EXIF data for the alt tags in photos uploaded as part of posts (with corresponding maps even) sounds like a great idea - but preferably not as a default setting lolz.

On another note, there's a shitload of really stupid dope farmers here in Humboldt county posting pics of their weed fields on #InstaSPAM, and then wondering why they're getting helicopter flyovers and "Abatement Letters" from the county, followed by the caravans that roll up the mountain, raid, and destroy their crops lolz.

That's what apps like #ImagePipe are for (stripping EXIF data before posting publicly). ImagePipe is available at F-Droid, BTW. 😜

@Laurien (pls pass on to Sir Spencer - he'll get a kick out of that!)

#tallship #FOSS #privacy #geolocation #EXIF #check_in

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#fedilab #matrix #prolific_uploader #fediverse #friendica #foursquare

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-12-31 · 20:00 UTC

@dansup

Just change the names already Dan - don't be obtuse. Prepending with an "i" is poking the bear, the consequence of which is an obvious and certain death.

They have the resources to end everything you've been doing for years with armies of legal teams, just because it will be fun to watch you suffer through an eternity of legal proceedings until even the relevance is irrelevant.

Is this the hill you want to die on?

What about us users?

#tallship #FOSS #InstaSPAM #Pixelfed

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#tallship #foss #instaspam #pixelfed

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-12-22 · 01:38 UTC

@alahmnat

I am a bit disappointed when I witness this type of bullying, and it's not just people that have nothing to offer in the way of a #free_market or lacking a brand for themselves that engage in such #dogpiling.

Trying to define what the Fediverse is in terms of social acceptability is an exercise in futility at best, and in the extreme, it is hate stemming from #envy or projection by those afflicted with self-loathing.

The Fediverse is a #censorship_resistant communications network - go forth in #commerce, go forth in hate, go forth in sharing your backyard barbeques with the family and friends, or promoting your creativity - sharing your printings, photography, electronic project gizmos; these are all #brands, things that define what you care about, and what you are about. It's not a bad thing. It's s good thing, usually.

It is a place where so-called #Big_Tech and #mega_corporations can #participate - but they cannot dominate - it is antithetical to their desire and ambitions of #dominion over the #marketplace.

When your #brand is about capability, personality, product or services that you derive an income or admirer stream from, that is #positivity.

When you pile upon others for having a #dream or #vocation, and denegrate those with s vision for themselves and their talents, that too, is part of your brand - if this is you, then your brand is that of a hater.

It can be frustrating for people entering a social space to feel free enough to #share aspects of themselves with strangers, especially when you're just trying to find your bearings and #navigate that space, and coming face to face with negative personalities that enjoy belittling others. But those people really are quite the vocal minority.

There have always been list bullies, #trolls, and general malcontents in every corner of the online world. That's not going to change. Certain types of mediums seem to exacerbate the extent of their influence, like mediums where only short, hit and run messaging is the constraint.

Short messaging platforms can be ideal for pushing out a quick synopsis of your thoughts and ideas, but there's no reason why you should seek to be constrained by the lack of a platform ability to enable more comprehensive coverage of anything you have to share, market, sell, or produce, because in the #Fediverse, there are many platforms to choose from, and almost all of them afford you with the same ability to communicate your messages, creations, and ideas across the entirety of this space.

In the article below, written by a student endowed with a wealth of said positivity, I suggest reading it while replacing nouns like #Faceplant, #Twatter, #YouTube, and #InstaSPAM with nouns such as, #Friendica, #Pleroma (or mastodon), #PeerTube, and #Pixelfed, respectively; since those are some of the close corollaries we currently enjoy here in the Fediverse, remembering that anything you publish on any of those platforms can be shared and propagated natively across the entire Fediverse - and of course, far beyond.

For the creative types of you out here, say, your thing is selling personalized Converse All-stars with custom paint jobs, it's important to realize that your actual reach when you post far exceeds that which any deprecated, legacy silo systems have the potential for, because that post with the photo of your latest set of "Chucks" crosses the boundaries of one type of social networking platform - it's like if you publish a short video at YouTube and it automatically shows up on InstaSPAM and Twatter, without ever having to make a separate post, or posting a product of your latest commissioned painting (part of your brand) on InstaSPAM and suddenly, everyone following you on #Soapbox, mastodon, #Misskey, and Friendica servers sees it too.

Such is the breadth and reach of publishing anything about you, yourself in the Fediverse - worldwide, in the global feeds of everyone else's Fediverse accounts... And we're only growing, as we continue to retire those old deprecated, legacy silo systems.

Ah, but what about all those #meanies, lambasting you for "breaking the rules" and marketing your image and product brands?

News flash! There are no such fucking rules - only imaginary restrictions envisioned by some people with small-minded, defeatest, insecurity issues, and misery loves company. Those haters and self-loathing unfortunates would like nothing more than to instill such negativity in you, perhaps for personal, or even political reasons.

If you let those worthless, insignificant, but very loud and vocal sorts dictate your happiness and success in any endeavor you choose, whether to simply make friends around the world or marketing whatever it is that you do best and are passionate about, then it might be best if you just unplug your computer, trade in your #Android for a flip-phone, and get a job at the local smelting plant (no offense to steel workers), never again dreaming or aspiring to harness the infinite power of your imagination.

So what to do about these curmudgeon-like trolls and list #bullies that have always been a part of the online, let alone everyday life landscape? The same thing you do in every other situation in your life - ignore, mute, and block them - unceremoniously, without acknowledgement or response. These sad excuses for people have no power whatsoever except that which you grant them, and the Fediverse arms you with the #tools to #filter out their voices entirely.

This doesn't mean that you necessarily disappear from their timelines and feeds. You probably won't, but just as it is when you go to your local ☕ coffee house or grocery store, workplace, or enter your classroom, you filter them out of "your" existence, and suddenly... They cease to exist.

I recently published an article in response to one such dogpiling and so-called, "cancelling" event. Those self-hating projectionists actually believed that by propagating a campaign of negative publicity against another creative newcomer's brand - in this case, Raspberry Pi, they could achieve 'cancellation' of that company and its product line here in the Fediverse. Fat chance.

These semi-organized malcontents actually even published a blog article (linked to in my aforementioned article), documenting their success in destroying that brand, along with it's employees and product line.

The reality however, is much different, in fact quite the opposite affect was evidenced, sort of a #Newtonian "equal and opposite reaction" #physics principle.

These children went so far as to demand from Fediverse server administrators what you may occasionally see hashtagged as #Fediblock - a block of other users and instances at the server level by any Fediverse server admin that will listen, or can be brow beaten into submission... But rarely does anyone pay that sort of nonsense any mind at all. Such measures are reserved for people and instances that most average, everyday folks find offensive - like militant leftist sites, personalities, or kiddie pr0n pedophiles and others cut from the same cloth.

At best, when haters like them folk claim to wage battles against those regular people and #communities that they despise, issuing calls for the ominous sounding "defederate them!", the only thing they actually achieve is "self-cancellation", by virtue of painting themselves into a corner when they "defederate" themselves, and that is usually followed by many of their registered users leaving that instance - in this case, everybody loves Raspberry Pi computers, which you can buy for under fifty bucks.

What did the good folks at Rasberry Pi do to deserve such ineffectual wrath from these hateful sad sacks? Only two things:

First, the company rep, responding to one of these agitators stated the obvious, more or less saying, 'If you don't like us then feel free to unfollow us', and when that resulted in a rather ascerbic retort from the professional hater, the Rasberry Pi spokesperson committed the cardinal sin of simply #blocking the troll.

That's it. No biggy, poof! You're gone. Nothing is worse to these maladjusted losers than being unceremoniously ignored with the forever button. It is comical, but it is also sad. One's mission in life should not be to make others as sad as they themselves are.

Don't let anyone belittle or condescend you. The worst (best) they can do is remove themselves and others like them from your timeline feeds, where you don't actually care to see them anyway - so it's win-win 👍

So just know, your going to hear from your fair share of bullies, trolls, and other types that derive a sick and twisted pleasure from harming others - but this is about you, your products, services, brand, and your happy life in the real 🌎 world.

It is a simple matter to ignore, dismiss, disappear them, and move on - millions of good people, other brands, and customers or new friends want to meet and greet to know you!

https://ylai.state.gov/get-social/

I hope that helps! And have a wonderful time in the Fediverse!

#tallship #brand #bbq #creator #artist #trade #commerce #market #marketing #social

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#fediverse #misskey #pleroma #social #fediblock #peertube

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-12-09 · 02:47 UTC

@ethanz

And you should return the favor by never posting unsanitized Twitter links to the #Fediverse either 🙂

I recommend you do a search for "IndyWeb POSSE" program. Which explains the philosophy behind only posting Fediverse links into the deprecated legacy silos, and never posting unsanitized links from places there like twitter into the Fediverse.

Basically, you do a disservice posting links in the Fediverse that lead people to the very monolithic, privacy disrespecting silos that they've already left behind.

Instead, if you even bother to use those deprecated legacy silo systems, post links bringing the people there at places like twitter to content that exists here in the Fediverse, thereby providing incentives to create accounts on Fediverse platforms like #Friendica, #FunkWhale, #MicroPub, #Mitra, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #Soapbox, #Quanta, Etc., Thereby joining the Fediverse 👍

If you find that you really must post a link leading to one of the deprecated silos, then please consider #sanitizing such links. i.e., in the case of Twitter, you can use the very popular #Nitter by just replacing the "twitter .com" with "nitter .net" in the URL.

If you're on #Android, #Fedilab does this "automagically" for you if you have safe posting enabled.

If you're on desktop, there's a whole list of similar sanitation tools you can use for #Reddit, for example, by changing the domain in the URL to #Teddit .net and similar tools for #InstaSPAM, #Quora, and many others too. For #YouTube, you can use #Invidious.

A long list of these privacy protecting utilities is provided at:

https://pussthecat.org/

And you can install Fedilab from F-Droid too:

https://Fedilab.App

You can also install the #UntrackMe app at F-Droid for generating safe links when not posting to the Fediverse - desks details are at three Fedilab website above.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #POSSE #Indyweb_POSSE #privacy #fdroid

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#fediverse #friendica #funkwhale #micropub #mitra #peertube

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-11-21 · 22:01 UTC

@darius

Almost forgot to mention Darius, #Keyoxide is perhaps the best method for verification in today's #DeSoc world of the #Fediverse and even the deprecated legacy monolithic silos like #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, etc.

@keyoxide

https://fosstodon.org/@keyoxide

I hope that helps! Enjoy 🙂

#tallship #FOSS #identity #cryptographic_proofs

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#keyoxide #desoc #fediverse #faceplant #twatter #instaspam

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-12-23 · 13:35 UTC

As Stevie Wonder I've said...

🎼🎶🎵🎶 Boogie on Reggae Woman... 🎶🎵

#tallship #Christmas_Tree_Lighting #Retro_Computing #Women_in_Computing

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RT: https://fosstodon.org/users/tallship/statuses/109524280823281005

#christmas_tree_lighting #retro_computing #women_in_computing #tallship

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-11-05 · 12:28 UTC

Oh man, I feel your pain.

A could if my most prized Linux collection possessions are the very two first releases of Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux (LGX) and the first two print editions of "The Linux Bible - the GNU Testament". I was a bit startled to find out what those would actually cost me off i ever wanted to replace them.

The other thing I've had an alert in for about ten years now is a "Memotech" keyboard for the #Timex_Sinclair computer 🖥️ I found one in the past twenty years and they wanted over two hundred dollars for it. In hindsight, I should have jumped on it, but I figured I'd find another one for twenty bucks or so. You live and learn 🙂

You know what? I should boost your inquiry for the Walnut Creek Slackware CDs into the SDF Mastodon server! There's serious #retro_computing folks there, and they maintain a comouter history museum.

I've been a member there for eons. You can't get an account there on our mastodon server unless you're an actual SDF member, but I'll be happy to boost your request there.

Okay #Matrix. In very liberal terms, Matrix is considered by many to be part of the #Fediverse. In more strict interpretations it isn't. Matrix is it's own (and optionally secured by e2ee) communications protocol including chat via text, voice, and video, for one on one and groups - kind of like Slack or discord or IRC but with a very privacy centric focus and built with #FOSS. i.e., it doesn't run on #ActivityPub protocol, but it's very popular with many millions of users.

Here's a good homeserver to join, managed by an #OpenBSD and Matrix developer who's a really nice guy. NOTE: He hosts on his home network so occasionally it goes offline for an hour or so when his ISP's DHCP server changes his IP address.

It's s very performant and well managed server. You can signup at this link:

https://bancino.net/element/#/welcome

There's an easy to read explanation of everything here:

https://joinmatrix.org/guide/#get-started

I would recommend that you start off with the #Element client if you're using #Android, which you can get here at F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/

There are a lot of guys Matrix clients, like #SchildiChat, #FkuffyChat, a good #WeeChat plugin if you use that for IRC, #Nehko, and others; but Element has ALL features is completely cross-platform - Android, iPhone, #Linux, Mac, Web, and Windows. So it's a good client to start with.

Now, about a third of all Matrix users have accounts on the Matrix Foundation's #Homeserver, and although they recommend you choose from among three thousands of other homeservers, you are welcome to create an account there too.

Stay away from their main Matrix room though - there are several thousands of people in there and can bog your system if your machine had limited resources.

The main site to get Element for any type of computer, phone, or operating system is here:

https://element.io/

I hope that helps!

#tallship

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#activitypub #android #element #foss #fediverse #fkuffychat

tallship @[email protected] · 2023-01-02 · 19:30 UTC

@benkramer

#Fedilab has been the very best #Fediverse app for three or four years now.

I'm glad you have warmed up to it 🙂

Fedilab supports most all of the popular Fediverse server platforms at this time:

#Friendica #Soapbox #PeerTube #Akkoma #GNU_Social #Pleroma #Pixelfed #Hometown #Glitch_Social and upcoming native support coming for #Calckey, #Mitra, and #Misskey soon!

https://Fedilab.App

Available at F-Droid and #Aurora_Store!

* Instant translation - #LibreTranslate

* Two press cross account boosting

* Unlimited accounts

* True bookmarking

* Automagic link sanitation for YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and other deprecated legacy silos to prevent tracking and protect privacy

* Unparalleled filtering and search

* 100% FOSS

* And many, many, many more features simply too numerous to list, but works as expected right out if the box so it's familiar to everyone.

Enjoy!

#tallship

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#fedilab #fediverse #friendica #soapbox #peertube #akkoma

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-10-31 · 10:31 UTC

Actually, the mention I made in that Fediverse servers list in my previous post doesn’t do #Quanta any justice at all.

This is really an amazingly powerful #Enterprise Fediverse server platform and you really should breakout the popcorn 🍿 pizza 🍕 and 🍺🍻 beers, and watch just observe the potential in #federated corporate computing systems.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxK-ZvGX7B1nCy8Zva_uc7w/playlists

It’s no longer just shitposting in 500 characters or less, lolz. Oh no no no kiddies! This is real #Top_Fuel, #Supercharged horsepower in #Fediverse powered business computing, but light on resources, easy to deploy and self-host as a #Docker or #Podman container, and you can even leverage the management of this business beast on the desktop deploying dozens of “Quanta Web Application Servers” in a matter of seconds with a few clicks using standard management tools like #Portainer and #Nginx_Proxy_Server, or #Yacht with #Kubernetes integration.

Or… As your personal home based Fediverse and #website_server. It’s truly an evolutionary step in ActivityPub-centric platform communication.

And yes, you can just use it for #shitposting.

You can haz #Cheezburgerz 🍔

Apologies for posting unsanitized YouTube links without the safety of using #Invidious, but it’s a whole queue.

#tallship #FOSS #Boom_Shakalaka_Boom 💥 #Enterprise_Fediverse_Server_Platform @ademalsasa @clay @tallship @tallship

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#boom_shakalaka_boom #cheezburgerz #docker #enterprise #enterprise_fediverse_server_platform #foss

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-11-13 · 14:39 UTC

@kravietz @mkljczk @rdarmila @xaphanpl Well I really don’t see what the big deal is.

There’s an old saying that goes something like this:

“Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke, and choke ‘em if they can’t take a fuck”

My tendencies over the past few decades, when receiving an organized flurry of complaints effectively dog piling some unwitting (and probably innocent) user, has been, as an admin, to summarily delete, deactivate or ban the accounts of all the offending, socalled “activists”.

I don’t need that shit in my life, and i don’t like punk assed sissy bitches… Add nobody likes a snitch! If s user has a problem with you, then the first thing they should do is block or mute you. Problem solved, they no longer have to see it hear from you anymore. If they see bring stalked and continue to be so after blocking someone, then that’s what admins and moderators are for.

But when they get in their little social warrior gang of pussies and try to take down people because they don’t like the way those other people think it speak, it becomes clear that they are there cancerous rot - so…

Boom Shakalaka BOOM 💥 Banhammer time 🔨

I don’t know why I derive such entertainment from that sort of action, but it’s really funny to know that those pussies just lost their ability to spread their bigotry and hatred towards anyone who doesn’t agree to think along their “approved” narrative, and the best part, is that they can’t even complain to anyone about it because they effectively no longer have an account.

Here’s basically the same ToS/AUP that I’ve been using since around 1999 or so…

Unacceptable behavior (The No-no’s):

) Don’t be a Meany!
) No doxing, trolling, stalking, harassment, defaming, threats, or unwanted advances of any kind.
) No ad hominem (adhere to the principles of civil discourse).
) No other behavior we consider inappropriate in a professional setting.
) When in doubt, please kindly refer to rule # 1.

If you don’t understand the 5 rules above, this may not be a good match for you, and you may wish to consider another project instead.
We are “Bofh”: Enforcement of these rules are arbitrary, there is no appeal process, and we kick/ban without prior notice.
This is THE warning.

Very simple. Just five little rules that anyone but a complete moron will understand lolz.

#tallship #Bofh #ToS #CoC #AUP #wokesters #punk_ass_sissy_bitches #cowards #banhammer #God_of_Thunder #AYBABTU

#You_can_haz_Cheezburgerz! 🍔

I hope that helps!

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#aup #aybabtu #bofh #coc #god_of_thunder #tos

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-11-21 · 22:38 UTC

@gnemmi You're very welcome Gonzalo 🙂

386BSD was a very important part of my life as one of the first 4 consumer targeted ISPs in the Los Angeles area.

There were many issues trying to use it in production but the writing was on the wall - the cavalry was coming.

The most notable people are often the ones marginalized, eclipsed by those that rode their coattails - My original archives and CDs were a source of solace, knowing that there wasn't one bit of AT&T code in #386BSD.

Other favorites of mine... Well there's many, of course. But I should mention Dr. Gary Kildall.

Thanks again

#tallship #FOSS #UNIX #Jolix

#386bsd #foss #jolix #unix #tallship

tallship @[email protected] · 2022-10-24 · 19:41 UTC

You’re very welcome Ade!

Yes #Kate is rather indispensable to me (in the GUI, or via remote SSH sessions with X-Forwarding), as a fast and accessible advanced editor and with split window for a shell right there that synchronizes with the directories as I move between them if I wish.

Slackware ships with KDE and Xfce, but years ago stopped supporting Gnome out of the box. It was just too much work for such a small team (in many ways, one person), not to mention all of the extra space that would have exceeded what would be able to ship as a complete distro on a single CD/DVD.

There were, or rather, still are, a few external support efforts including gnome-slack, Dropline, and also a build at #Slackbuilds that can install all of gnome at once on a fresh install at least, and though I don’t follow them due to concerns over how practical keeping them updated might be (I typically run Slackware-current as a rolling distro that stays always current and bleeding edge).

I actually did really like, and prefer Gnome back when it was part of the distro.

Nowadays, There’s some other really solid, maintained desktops like #Mate and/or #Cinnamon, but again, I don’t follow them, yet they’re very popular. I tend to stick with and such between #KDE Plasma and #Xfce which both work extremely well for me.

But then again, like I mentioned before, there are a few Gnome based tools that i really enjoy enough to always install too, like Shutter (for screenies) and #Geany - and when I do it seems like I’m also installing half of #Gnome too, lolz…. The list of deps that are compiled are seemingly endless lol, so it’s one of those tasks I just get right out of the way as soon as I do a fresh install of Slackware-current.

After that, it’s easy to keep everything up to date for years to come as it just continues to roll right through the versions of Slackware releases, much the same as Debian Testing or even moreso, the way that #Arch Linux does.

I’ve been running Slackware Linux for about 30 years now, since 93 when I settled on it inn earnest after hopping around a bit from #Jolix (#386BSD) to #SLS, to my own spin of that, and then discovering the Slackware FTP archive. It is still, so refreshingly #UNIX in so many respects, including it’s BSD-esque #SysV style init scripts, and Pam support was finally added in just a few years back which made a huge difference in the rate of people ‘re-adopting’ it for enterprise server roles again.

I must admit that I did get off track for a bit there, but only for a short while, around the days of #Redhat 4 through 5.2, and certainly never want to revisit those days of “RPM Hell”, as it was affectionately known, due to a distro that really didn’t age well without really getting in under the hood with wrenches and screwdrivers and chewing gum lolz.

Because of Slackware’s commitment to retaining such a UNIX-like experience, it’s really second nature to feel right at home, with some minor accommodations for differences, with the four major #BSD flavors; namely, #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #Dragonfly_BSD.

Although for a longtime I encouraged beginners to use #Slackware as their second distro after getting their feet wet on say, #SuSE (which always will be affectionately known as, “The German fork of Slackware) or #Debian, I nowadays tend to usually recommend #Arch_Linux for that, after graduating from Debian or #Linux_Mint, like I did after enlightening my nephew and getting him to completely disavow any proprietary garbage that is the devil’s spawn out of Redmond, Washington (Microsoft, lolz).

I guess I did good too, because he’s now working on his Cisco certifications in addition to his full stack development development track at his college. When he was just a little tyke, I would show him pictures of things like the #ENIAC and #Colossus even the #System_360/370 families, and he wouldn’t even believe me when I explained that computers used to take up entire warehouses of space 😂

Okay… I’ve rambled on long enough I think. You have a fantastic day my friend!

#tallship #FOSS #Linux

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#arch #arch_linux #bsd #cinnamon #colossus #debian