anyone who tells you that linux is easy is lying. it’s not easy. it’s complex, sometimes arcane, and comes with very real trade-offs.

what i hope they’re actually trying to communicate is that the trade-offs and complexity can be worth it.

what i want to say is that linux (broadly) is imperfect and infuriating, but also far more free, in very material ways, than anything from a corporate os or platform. it is learnable, and in learning you make the tool you already physically own into something more wholly your own. you will understand it, keep it running, and be able focus on doing the things you actually want to do with it. not as an appliance, but as a tool that you shape into something that meets your needs, not the needs of the corporate owners or the millions of eulas and terms we’ve all agreed to.

your computer can actually work for you, in a way you like, setup for the things it can help you do in your life.

it is not utopian, it has a lot of deep problems in every direction. you will be angry at it. but aren’t you already angry? so far i prefer the trade offs and frustrations of the broad linux world over the more or less helpless rage i feel for apple/ms/google.

its easy to say fuck off ai music to a stranger

it takes courage / stupidity to say fuck off ai music to a friend

Futurism: It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
"When those lights go out, man, you know you are in big trouble."

"...New bombshell reporting by Wired reveals an incident in which the testing of an experimental GPS jammer resulted in a medical plane crashing into the side of a mountain.

The horrifying incident happened in May, the publication reports, when a small twin-engine medevac aircraft carrying two pilots and two medical workers departed from Roswell, New Mexico. Heading West for the small mountain village of Ruidoso, the crew became the victim of an electronic warfare exercise being conducted at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, a test which rendered their navigational system inoperable...."

https://futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight

#aviation #gps

the flock cams at de vargas center are gone but the huge camera lightpost thing on wheels in the middle of the parking lot is still there :<

@grendel84 grendel invented a machine that turned fake healing crystals into real healing crystals.

Starving millions of Americans to death isn't an unfortunate side effect of GOP economics; it's the intended outcome.

They're trying to "accelerate" societal collapse & violence so they can establish a white ethnostate.

News outlets like @NPR fail us when they overlook this fact.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-5906797/snap-food-stamp-federal-changes-what-to-know

https://theconversation.com/a-field-guide-to-accelerationism-white-supremacist-groups-using-violence-to-spur-race-war-and-create-social-chaos-255699

i drove my van for the first time in 3 months today, she is such a good girl, started right up, engine sounds happy, cooling, steering, brakes are all happy 🥹

Text adaptation of my Software Should Work 2026 keynote

https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html

External Attachment: https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html

the G-Wagon's library is a literal bookbag

I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories: https://minifree.org/

I'm having a discount sale since late July. Discount ends in September. Prices are lower than usual. Also: shiny new website theme. ALSO: Libreboot X280 launched recently.

I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer; sales fund the project. These computers come with Libreboot preinstalled, which replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Libreboot offers far greater security and freedom to the user compared to proprietary firmware, removing or disabling certain malicious features (e.g. disabling Intel ME).

Libreboot gives you freedom. It's the same argument as using, say, Linux instead of Windows. Libreboot gives you control.

Your choice of Debian Linux, other Linux distro or a BSD

Libreboot is a special distro of coreboot (like how Debian is a Linux distro) that provides nicer features for ease of use, focusing on non-technical users, while also being highly configurable for experts.

Send-in service also available

#polycrisis 01.07

Our girl is feeling a bit anxious...

https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01

ok i got cheaper insurance on the g wagon than i had before, she's legal to drive

i've got the rest of the month to set her up for liveaboard and get rid of my furniture and set up a new mailing address

my fellow european sibs, here is my unbiased review of w.eu, i mean w.social, i mean wsocial.eu 👍

#eu #wsocial #w #unix_surrealism #mobilek #phone_bad_book_good

if im gonna be broke regardless id rather be a destitute artist and freelancer living out of my van than work my ass off full time just to afford rent on my house...

in case anyone was wondering how easy it is to deploy a service update with #dollctl

you make a tarball with your executable and accompanying files
you navigate to your host in the sigil UI and click the "sv" tab
you click on the service you're deploying
you upload the tarball

once the upload is complete the service is unpacked, linked, and started in the background automatically

#sysadminDay #stacklessStack

oh wow i finally figured out why the websocket connection lifetime on underbbs was so weird. the conn.CloseRead(ctx) call makes sure that the context cancels when the websocket disconnects even though the HTTPHandlerFunc hasn't returned yet!

still in awe that a manager at a small local MSP told me this week that my 8 years of professional IT industry experience were immaterial to lv 2 technician position because i have never worked in an MSP before.

Entropy’s Rotoscope Issue I; new page everyday starting today: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope/issue1

RSS: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope/rss.xml

Support me on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/j_g00da

CC0 / Public Domain

#unix_surrealism #comic #art #entropysrotoscope #kamiokande

#sketchbook

prototype of a cyborg huntress character, there will probably be more of her

#polycrisis 01.06

https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01

fuck capitalism. been working myself to the bone for 3 months and have 2 measly days of PTO to show for it, and i have to spend one of them today to give myself a 3 day weekend to recover from a workplace injury...

ive been awake for an hour and a half and i have

• drawn lineart for a dirty picture
• remained naked

maybe i should get ready for work >>

love being so poor i can't even afford to do a load of laundry!

but at least i caught up on my rent x_x

People's bio on the fediverse tend have this.. I don't know how else to put it, it reads like Ken in that Barbie movie who says he's really into "beach". What do you DO Ken? Oh I just beach, I'm quite good at beach. Nice to meet you, I'm really into "emacs". Nevermind that, what do you DO? Well, I emacs, what, what do you want for me, I emacs, it's what I do.

so i had a difficult conversation with the (assistant) store manager yesterday, long story short im stuck at poverty wages and i need help. i cant afford food or child support on top of my rent and other bills without additional income.

as i have mentioned recently, i am open for development/sysadmin contracts (https://lightcrystal.systems) and i'll also do name your price art commissions (https://wyrm.online/visual_art). donations also welcome 🖤

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

#fediHire #mutualAid #artCommission

yeah money is really tight rn, i'll even go name your price on the first 3 art commissions ^^;

or if you just like my work whether its my open source projects, dj noise, or the beginnings of polycrisis (page 4 is up btw) and can spare a few bucks please consider donating

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

RE: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/8MtZq245183q125Sc1

waking up on a day off with the house all clean is so nice, i can just... hang out ^^

it's coreslop you only like it because it's core

Cirno and large Glenda

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/182153619

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #plan9 #9front

lets sing scar symmetry to the children to accelerate the evolution of consciousness

mighty mama tiamat i love being poly

ok so i have pretty much run out of the money that i got refunded from my car insurance and that means i need to hustle.

on the one hand if anybody needs an opinionated dev/sysadmin who does stuff like this you know where to find me

on the other hand if you want a pfp or full body character portrait in full color i am offering commissions for 30 and 60 usd respectively. my recent stuff looks like this

working in grocery at the co op i think a lot about the global food distribution chain and how fucked we will be once ecological collapse has past the threshold of being able to support this system

here in Santa Fe, we are lucky to have almost half of our product as local. but even in a "best case scenario" i would say all the capacity on that local product greatly reduced by their own supply chain dependence

so if the big box stores (except maybe whole foods? i shudder to think what that might become) disappear and the co op can only supply at best a quarter of what it does now and at insane prices, pretty much everybody will have to cooperate on food production and ecological support work to survive

Check out that lil guy with the groceries.

I mean look at that hat! Coming back with a bag full of carrots and parsnips and other things you've never even heard of. Where are they off to, what's the potted plant for, is it food? Is it a pretty centerfold? It could be sentient, it wouldn't be the last cactus to board a train and head someplace.

https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026 x #Catjam, art by @rek

#fitCheck

bedding is washed, and i did some other self care things! time to go drop off a package and then i can noodle around until date night :>

ugh the main thing about not driving the past few months is that it makes doing laundry such a pain in the ass. i gotta wash my bedding on top of my other plans today and it... complicates things

i think i posted about this before but you can nicely maintain knife pleats with clothespins and hanging the skirt/dress in the bathroom during a hot shower ^^ dry cleaning usually not needed

all out fusion yakisoba time

thoughts on #occ2026

• my desktop is 15(!) years old and can play pso2 and zzz and emulate 6th gen consoles and do video editing. as far as i am concerned that is all it will ever need to do
• my laptop is also 15 years old and still functions as a daily driver
• but incidentally i have been daily driving my reMarkable tablet more than my laptop - no color, no network, and purely document based interface for drawing, reading, and writing and it has been feeling gooood. i did buy it new last year (subsidized by work) but the screen has some scratches and cracks already so combined with the other limitations it definitely has the old computer challenge vibes

it doesn't make a bit of difference, guys. the balls are inert

on this birthday of my fuckedup homeland i am going to work overtime so i can continue to pay rent and back taxes (but not child support because gods forbid a tranny actually have the resources to end the cycle of trauma) and live under an extremely corrupt government that is actively trying to make me into a scapegoat for all its failings

YEAH!

first few pages | https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01.html

idk wtf my neighbors were on but i woke up at like 3AM to ellie goulding blasting and a bunch of young people being loud and had to close all the windows like "wtf how did this go from 0 to 100 in 2 hours"

Better stop short than fill to the brim.
Over-sharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow.
Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.

ugh im so tired from having to participate in capitalism and also the (mostly emotional but also logistical) fallout from losing my keys

more serious examination of yesterday's ruling:

• while the court recognizes the right for state institutions to make special exceptions for trans athletes they do not see that as necessary
• indeed simply gatekeeping on the basis of ASAB is sufficient (arguing that it would be too much overhead to examine in detail if trans women are literally in the same league physically as the cis women they would compete with, and, ironically, that the second order effects of this allowance would be deleterious)
• and the kicker, included as an aside but importantly in the ruling anyway, trans women are not women but mentally ill men and should be treated as such

bit off a lot with page 3- full of people, lots of challenging angles, and metaphorical devices that demand particular tones, but im almost done with the linework for it finally...

so the opinion of the supreme court is that trans women are mentally ill men, despite the two justices that said thats stupid??? lovely

moved my site to https://wyrm.online \m/

old domain is still up although some stuff has been moved around/removed.

expect publication of the first few pages of my graphic novel in the next couple days, i AM still working on that i just got distracted ><

making progress on my manga! i should have the first page done in a couple days :>

so zzz season 3 came out and i cant update because hoyoplay thinks i only have 8gb of disk space ???

pic related

Ireland trialed a basic income for artists. 🇮🇪 💸 🎤 🎨

Research showed that it boosted the economy. 🫰 🏦

They've now made it a permanent scheme. 🔏

Catch up UK! 👀 🇬🇧

https://www.positive.news/economics/imagination-and-creation-are-products-of-time-and-space/

For the past year, we've tracked all finances for Hundred Rabbits using a bespoke spreadsheet program that's only 9kb(no it's not a webapp).

I was scratching my head wondering how we could link sheets with each other so that we could jump between them, I realized that a spreadsheet itself is just fine as a file browser if you can open the strings as paths.

Obviously it looks super weird if I try to open a markdown file as a tsv..

External Attachment: Opening files from cells in a spreadsheet.

feds did a twin cities mass arrest and filed a grand jury indictment that includes a lot of detail indicating targeted harassment and communication taps, and/or informants:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234415/gov.uscourts.mnd.234415.1.0_2.pdf

Today ICE arrested 15 more minnesotans who protested against the invasion of Minnesota a few months back:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-conspiracy-charges

One week after the GOP gave them $70 billion on a strict party line vote:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5851664/house-reconciliation-vote-immigration-enforcement-ice-border-patrol

They're still abducting dozens of people daily and flying them out from the airport.

I finally published my new project, the Banned Book Library! Think of it as a #Cyberpunk dead drop. Reprogram an #esp32 WiFi light bulb to host a web server with books banned in your community. Screw them in wherever is convenient :D. You can't stop the signal!

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/

This was partially inspired after reading @benbrown short story "Library" a while back.

https://benbrown.com/library/

flying away is not its sole function | https://nilfm.cc/momentous_linkage.html

ugh work dresscode is so evil. i want to wear my lacy dress today

ok i got the kuro frontend to agree with drifblim, i'm not giving up ><

she plan9port on my linux till i mount her over 9p

@BalooUriza I'm not talking about only republicans, but also democrats, unaligned centrists, and the politically disengaged masses. political leaning is irrelevant to the whims of the neoliberal core, the only thing that matters to them is control and profit - they get to manufacture the narrative and define reality to suit their desires.
remember in early 2022 when biden announced "its time to go back to work" as if hospitals weren't still saturated with COVID-related deaths? when the CDC abruptly changed their reporting methods and fabricated consent for mask mandates to be dropped almost everywhere?
I'm sure you remember most of this but it bears repeating again: all of this was done with intent. 2020's initial lockdowns exposed the US economy as a flimsy house of cards and pushed it to the verge of collapse. neoliberal elites begged for a bailout and received it under the guise of "relief" and "stimulus" packages, 0% interest rates, and the fed outright directly buying corporate debt under the quantitative easing program.
they took advantage of what was essentially unlimited "free" money to pump the stock market and completely detach it from the reality of the "working class" economy. by the end of 2021 the stock market went from a virtual crash to all-time highs and billionaire elites gained trillions in net worth.
all of this wealth extraction happened while us commoners were more concerned with trying to cope with the fallout of record inflation, unemployment, supply chain failures, >1 million COVID cases and hundreds of deaths daily. despite the bleakness of reality for the vast majority of americans, the neoliberal core wasn't satisfied with record profits and endless corporate liquidity, they wanted to "reopen the economy" and to abandon all the expensive safety guidelines. it took very little effort for them to coerce the government into declaring the pandemic officially over and to roll back what limited mediocre protections had been created.
we're still dealing with the fallout of this shit 4 years later, reality has finally been completely subverted as far as the current government and media is concerned. thankfully yes, more and more people are finally realising it's all bogus, but it shouldn't have had to get to this point before that happened

Oberon-core aesthetic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=om5sWO9_-g4

#frogmetal #thestudio