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...
Podman, sorry.
call her back
It's great with cockpit
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).
This should be the wikipedia summary.
Thanks. They get real pissy in the self hosted communities when I point this out.
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.
Kinda. I think it's definitely true that docker is used as a distro-agnostic package manager for services, and if we only had one distro we might not need that.
It should be noted that projects like cosmo attempt to make things portable to and across BSD's as well as Linux's, so people definitely want distro agnostic packages (or a package manager), even on the BSD operating systems.
However, on the other end, docker is also powerful because it (and tools that use docker containers, like kubernetes), orchestrate services and allow people to bring them up very, very quickly. Like, to bring up a service called pairdrop, I just take this file:
***
services:
pairdrop:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/pairdrop:latest
container_name: pairdrop
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Etc/UTC
- RATE_LIMIT=false #optional
- WS_FALLBACK=false #optional
- RTC_CONFIG= #optional
- DEBUG_MODE=false #optional
ports:
- 3000:3000
restart: unless-stopped
and type docker-compose up -d. And it's really quick, and arguably only possible due to the way containers are isolated and it's easy to create and destroy them. There exist solutions for automation and scripting like ansible, but they just aren't as good as the container solutions for automatically putting services up.
Put me in the comments.
Put me in the comment replies.
Put me somewhere you’d like to.
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.
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!
I see it all the time and it's definitely my cuppa tea. Also Linux is cool.
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
does inferno have a mascot?
Dante Alighieri
gotta be the only thing whose mascot is just a real-ass guy
GLADLY
It doesn't run on my bun.
I think she likes you!