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Stardate 22240 - Sunday June 12 2022
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I work graveyards. That means that if I am not at work, I can easily fall down a rabbit hole and find myself trying to understand how I ended up on TikTok watching scantily clad women teaching a crash course on polishing a bowling ball in the desert and not remembering how in the hell I even got there.
I'm tired.
There was a time when everything I did was Linux, Slackware to be exact. It was an overlooked novelty, and I was constantly mocked for it. The internet was still new, and I was on a bunch of BBSes all over. I had a lot of online friends to make up for the ones I didn't have in real life. Still don't, really. But I do have a family, and that helps.
I guess I bring it up because I'm tired of the constant "new" technology that wants to suck every little piece of my life and creativity out of me to sell to someone else.
Screw those guys.
So I am focusing on this capsule pretty seriously. It's scary knowing that its scope will be limited, but it will also be limited to the people that actually care about seeing it. Like back in the day. When I had a different handle, and I was too excitable and deviant, and guys in suits started knocking on my door.
I do good, wholesome things now. Good things, anyway.
The plan is to run this capsule, perhaps (and more probably) crank up the gopher server, and fire up Aleph BBS. There are folks left in the BBS community that I like and would like to interact with once again. Here in the underside, where the sidewalks are clean, it's less cluttered and more peaceful.
The server I am on is a free forever server. That makes me feel better. I worry about my own mortality a lot. Maybe "worry" isn't the right word. I plan on being around for quite a bit longer, but with a paid service, if the unfortunate were to happen, all my data would be gone.
I need to take a break and go get some of that set up.
Ok, so the "free forever" is kinda pointless if it can't be seen from the outside.
I'm going to have to spin up another server at Digital Ocean and rebuild things. I can do that.
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So that's exactly what I did. I also added gopher on there, but haven't set it up yet.
After a fiasco with my keyboard, I decided I was hangry and needed to eat. So I ate my fake fish. I bring it up because Leo is in a tank by my right hand, and it seems like an asshole move to eat fish next to a pet fish, so I don't eat fish at all. It's the principle of the thing. So I eat fish and chips that look like fish and chips, taste like fish and chips, but are actually a bunch of plants that apparently aren't crying out to him for revenge.