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  1. tired: HyperbolaBSD
    wired: Gentoo Haiku
    inspired: WineFront (codename "Plan 2000")
    ascended: productivity-centric RetroPie

    #unix_surrealism
    #unixsurrealism
  2. I am working on a new #fosswars episode, but I'll be honest - my creativity for that is running dry, even though there is a well to drink from a https://analognowhere.com/wiki/analognowhere

    Yeah, there's a lot to digest there. A
    lot. It's to the point where I'm struggling to make an interpretive prequel.

    #analognowhere #unixsurrealism

  3. Megas XLR takes place in a world where #OpenBSD is popular enough to have its own Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon. (it was destroyed by a stray missile and got possessed replicated by the space fungus, but it never actually fought Megas)

    [season 2 episode 5, Thanksgiving Throwdown]

    #unix_surrealism #unixsurrealism

  4. Ok, I'm working hard on #fosswars (https://fosswars.thecomicseries.com) - and that's all based on #analognowhere (which is public domain, but has a massive wiki at http://analognowhere.com).

    The crazy thing is that I'm trying to fill out that already massive wiki with art/stories from a period calls the "FOSS Wars".

    My art isn't great, and it heavily relies on renders from free assets I can find. That's the blunt truth. I pose them and run scripts to make ASCII images.

    I'm not an
    #artist or a #comic author really, but I'm trying to make something cool.

    I'm just posing renders and running a script that I made ontop of me trying to build a story.

    That being said, if you want to check it out;
    https://fosswars.thecomicseries.com

    And, honestly, I'm trying to do this full-time so any donations at http:://ko-fi.com/jawa21 would help a lot
    #fosswars #unixsurrealism #analognowhere #webcomics

  5. @ReignOfRaining I'm totally cool with it! There's a lot of context going on, though, so beware. It's part of #analognowhere / #unixsurrealism which is is a huge public domain work made by @pmjv@pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org. The wiki is found here: https://analognowhere.com/

    My comic requires a lot of context to actually understand, but I hope that people like it regardless.

  6. @ReignOfRaining All of the "dating" apps are owned by Match Group - stay away from them. And, yes, it's every app. The best advice I have for you is to actually go to your local library and just generally meet people.

    Editing to complain about how hashtags work here and delete them xD
    #analognowhere #unixsurrealism

  7. I just finished a new comic for #fosswars - I'm sorry that it took me so long! #analognowhere #unixsurrealism

  8. I'd like to know if anyone might be cool with me setting up a patreon for https://fosswars.thecomicseries.com

    It feels kinda bad, since what I do is setup renders from free assets (I try for both free as in beer and free as in speech - I should find a license), and then use my poorly coded image to ASCII converter.

    Is it still art if I do things this way? That's a legit question. Everything I make is based on
    #unixsurrealism which @[email protected] has made Public Domain. (I'm sorry, I couldn't remember your mastodon handle!)

    Thanks to everyone that has viewed my comic and helped me out.

  9. New blogpost: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Operating Systems"
    https://moses-izumi.neocities.org/JokeDistros.html

    Wherein I channel my #OSDEV fantasies through the lense of satire.
    It's basically what would happen if @prahou's Funhole series became an actual magazine.

    [updated 17 Aug. 2026 to slightly expand the postscript]

    #unixsurrealism
    #unix_surrealism
  10. I legit just need $5. If anyone can help, please do. Otherwise, I'm going to beg and it might work - I doubt it thought. #fosswars #comicart #unixsurrealism #comics

  11. So, it seems like a different world now after months off meds. I can think properly, and that now seems weird. I know this is weird, but I finally took a shower of my own volition. The new episode of #fosswars is taking shape. I really am trying to make things that people enjoy. The next episode will be in the next few days (it's hard to pose renders correctly (I'm not a real artist)). If you like what I am doing at https://fosswars.thecomicseries.com which is based on events from https://analognowhere.com please consider donation to me at https://ko-fi.com/jawa21 #fosswars #comicart #unixsurrealism #comics

  12. Further experimentation into #9front...

    ...I still feel like I landed on Mars, but I've just now (finally) managed to walk in a straight line for ten paces without landing on my face, so... XD

    #Plan9 #ThePlanFellOff #TheFrontFellOff #UnixSurrealism #PostUnix #WhatAmIDoingHere #AmIKoolKidNAO? #ReadTheHashTags

    #LossyPNG: original 40-color image reduced to 23 colors for a reduction down to 65% of original size, only losing some of the colors in stats(8) display.

    Yeah. ;) (text after hashtags to force clients to fully display them, because [hashtags are poetry], dadgummit! ;)

    P.S. Bitmapped fonts are SOOOO CLEAAAAAN. Dude. XD

  13. @js I just had a hunkering to post on /c/unix_surrealism or whatever that board's called and I couldn't so I'm here bothering you instead.

    OpenBlade is edgy.

    That's all I wanted to say. Thank you.

    #analognowhere
    #analoguenowhere
    #digitaleverywhere
    #openblade
    #unix_surrealism
    #unixsurrealism
  14. In some ways, anime policewoman Noah Izumi might a better FOSS mascot than the existing ones.
    - Fairly nontechnical, yet still strives to get the most out of her exoskeleton (even does a little maintenance)
    - Dismantled the C&C server of a botnet that spread through a backdoored OS update: in a film that came out decades before the age of constant automatic updates
    - Defeated the Griffon (advanced prototype thingy) by using a last-gen machine that didn't have the Neural Network motion control software: in a genre that otherwise loves mid-season upgrades
    - Infectuously energetic and optimistic
    - Named after God's oldest backup engineer

    #frugalcomputing
    #permacomputing
    #unix_surrealism
    #unixsurrealism
  15. I've heard of people putting Linux on their thermostats: but a Pentium 4 PC will always be a mighty spaceheater no matter what Operating System you're running.

    #permacomputing
    #retrocomputing
    #unixsurrealism
  16. @ricci all temporary hacks are permanent. They live eternally.

    That is not dead which can eternal lie,
    And with strange aeons even death may die.

    #unixsurrealism

  17. //The Pledge of the Network Admin//
    This is my network.
    It is mine,
    or technically, my employer's.
    It is my responsibility,
    and I care for it with all my heart.
    There are many other networks a lot like mine,
    but none are just like it.
    I solemnly swear
    that I will not mindlessly paste from HOWTOs.
    #thebookofpf #networkengineer #unixsurrealism #unix_surrealism

  18. Once upon a time, I used to work as Web Developer in an environment where each developer had their own development instance of Apache, all running on a shared Linux box.

    Overheard this conversation in the cube jungle, over cubicle walls:

    SysAdmin: "Looks like a web server is causing the development box to hang. Hey, which Apache instance is yours?"

    Developer: "...the one that says 'bad motherfucker' on it."

    #OH #TrueStory #UnixSurrealism

  19. YAAAAS

    #UnixSurrealism #AnalogNowhere #Laptop #Stickers

    cc: @prahou @mirabilos @amin @joel

    Note: The blurriness on the top right is caused by the camera angle and overzealous webp compression. The actual sticker is perfectly legible.

  20. CW: The Extremely Short Stories By triapul.cz Are Mocking Me And I Love It.

    (First on https://kaka.farm/posts/2025/11/07/the-extremely-short-stories-by-triapul-cz-are-mocking-me-and-i-love-it.html (mirror: https://kakafarm.codeberg.page/posts/2025/11/07/the-extremely-short-stories-by-triapul-cz-are-mocking-me-and-i-love-it.html))

    The two following extremely short satirical stories "We, the window managers" and "blue hair", written by the surrealist artist of analognowhere fame, are mocking people like me and I love it.

    "We, the window managers" is a day in the life of a religiously motivated digital minimalism advocate, specifically minimalist window managers.

    "blue hair" is the experience of patronising a cafe as a free software developer, specifically one of the ideologically deplorable 9front project.

    #9front #fiction #plan9 #shortstories #shortstory #triapul #triapulcz #unix_surrealism #unixsurrealism

  21. Every time I read #UnixSurrealism it makes me want to switch to #Plan9.

    This is absolutely not a reasonable option for me, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to do it.

  22. RIP. We had science fiction to prop us up, and reality to knock us down.

    https://triapul.cz/automa/the_case_of_eternal_computing/

    cc: @jae

           ----------
          /          \
         /            \
        /              \
       /    HERE LIE    \
      /    KAKAFARM'S    \
      |      HOPES       |
      |       AND        |
      |      DREAMS      |
      |                  |
     *|     *  *  *      | *
    _)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)_
    

    #actualmachinesfuckingmagic #amfm #pmjv #sciencefiction #sf #triapul #triapulcz #unix_surrealism #unixsurrealism

  23. @passthejoe

    Don't forget the #UnixSurrealism artwork... I'm not saying that the previous versions' artwork wasn't awesome, but this release has a real banger by @prahou!! ;)

  24. FOSS Wars episode... I don't know. I lost a few comics. There is a time skip here. #unixsurrealism

  25. ATTENTION ALL COMPUTER TOUCHERS!

    "Sudo is Sexy" Stickers are now live!
    (actually a real object now!)
    ko-fi.com/s/b88ff4f3ae

    Ask your computer for consent for taking in files, accessing deeper places, and making updating information.

    #prints #stickers #linux #FOSS #GlitchArt #Art #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #cyberpunk #UnixSurrealism

  26. I have a question about #UnixSurrealism

    Does my glitch art of Linux distro logos count?

    It's okay if not, but.....I'm thinking it might!

  27. @SDF @AlgoCompSynth @synthember @kentpitman
    Episode still needs an official animal, and probably some more topics (please add here anyone with related and important ideas)

    Show art continues to be from the marvelous @prahou founder of #unixSurrealism evangelicist of #links2gang lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealis

  28. Adolf Born Merz

    I don't want to rotoscope anything else in the nearby future.

    If you want the perfect loop of Mach a Šebestová walk cycle on a transparent background, email me.

    #startMeUp #windows95 #machašebestová #adolfborn #unixSurrealism #art #animation

  29. Jindřich Štyrský and Josef Hora consult the lpr(1) man page, while attempting to print Hora's latest collection of poetry.
    circa 1928.

    #praha #runbsd #unixsurrealism

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