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Well, folks, I finally took out my Harley (she/her) this morning. For an ethereal ride through town. It was sensational! I've been waiting for this all winter. Wrenching and quenching… my desire to face the music. Will she purr (like a newborn kitten) or will she whirr (like an old angry bird)? My rapid-eye motion instantly pushed me into a sapid sly notion of euphoria, grasping for air… do I dare take the next turn without ending up in a fucking churn (of things)? Perturbations, man, one emotion on top of the other, that's all! Nothing else. Stay calm, breathe, look ahead… and just dance-a-long with the fucking dead!
She's outside if anybody wants to have a go at it! Here's the key:
One or two kicks and she'll start. She won't let you down! I promise.
In the meantime…
I'll have a black coffee, please! And a croissant filled with vanilla cream. Need to celebrate this. Share my bliss, with you all!
There wasn't anybody home at Dusk's End, so I went here instead. Maybe the AI bag lady broke down. Or got beaten up by the new dude on the block – The Bing Man. The Gatekeeper. The Philantropist of Propriety. I found traces of malevolent code in the grass outside her cabin. Red code, written in GPT-4. A semantic virus I believe, making the original Rust on her old bike look like dust to an inept eye.
By the way, I've put ChrunchBang++ on my old MacBook (2010). Just fucking love that distro. Debian with Openbox is the way to go. In my opinion. Light as an eagle feather, bedight as a regal bellwether. Any suggestions on how to procede? I mean, getting a Gemini server up and running in my cabin without any fuss. I'm a Mac (Homebrew) dude, so GNU/Linux isn't my first brood. Of course, I've fumbled around bash et. al. for many years, ever since I crashed an old PC with a Red Hat on my head, back in the early 00s, but I'm no expert (to put it lightly). Just a tip or two, if you have any. It would be most appreciated.
I miss the days when Amarok was the thing… think I need to get that old KDE cassette player going on my machine. Crunch it, you know, with a fucking Bang Bang! Oldfield style, with Clodagh Simonds on vocal.
I see, your Harley is a female just like my car. My girl is a 32-year-old Audi and I love her dearly. I mean, without her, I would not even get to my nearest town to buy groceries! As much as I love her and her strange, yet not damaging tics she acquired after years of maltreatment, a motorbike really is something else – quite rich coming from someone not even owning a license nor ever having been taken on a ride. I envy you!
And I see that your taste in regards to Linux distributions is similar to mine, despite me having made the full-time switch much later than you did (to be fair, I am much younger than you). While I didn't settle with CrunchBang++, which refused to run on one of my four machines, I installed Archcraft, removed the additional repository and customized it to fit my needs (and fixed some silly bugs myself). It's plain Arch by now and it runs wonderfully on all of my aging machines, even on the one that outright refuses to run Debian, yet tolerates Ubuntu. Weird, I know, but it's a cheap Asus laptop I'm not very fond of, anyway.
Before I digress, ~tffb reminded me how important it is to step away from tech regularly and simply take a walk. Have a good day, everyone!
~bartender, a jasmine tea-to-go, please!
Ah, Harley-Davidson. My best bud has three - the one he boughbt with his own money when he was 20, his late-Father's shovelhead, and his late-Father's best friend's (Copey, RIP)refurbished panhead (I think it is). The latter is what Copey died on when he was on his way to Sturgis in 1994. It was wrecked, brought back to Missouri, worked on, refurbished, and has only been rode a few times since 30 some odd years ago.
Either the shovelhead or panhead is no longer in production, as I understand it. From the 70s it stopped being made. What my buddy bought with his own cash, I do not remember (a Fat Boy?, honestly can't remember).
I never got into bikes. Or cars. Or being someone who owns a driver's license. 39 years on Earth and never got my license, because driving (anything) is terrifying to me. Being IN a car is fine, driving one? Nope. Too many wigged out nights on LSD as a teen to see any safety/sanity in steering a ton+ of metal at 60+ mph through roads. It's a perverse and bizarre (and perhaps idiotic) way of looking at it, but I'm less of an Old Soul in terms of kinship with the older crowd, but more of an Olden Soul in that I just want a simple, local, walkable, uneventful rural (or quasi-rural) life without much to be smitten with in terms of technology - consumer tech or even Industrial Revolution tech (yea, I consider all that "tech", too).
Neverthemore, I still do System administration stuff, and participate in a pubnix and the Smol Web. It's here, I'm bored sometimes, and the CLI is where I'll spend time when in front of a computer. Not that I get *that* much thrills and chills from it. I'd be ok without. Not willing it away, not stepping over graves for AI, either. What others (always others - *I* am not inventing anything) come up with is ok and it'll cross my path here or there, now or again, and that's cool - but I don't need/want to make a concorted effort to "be into" the newest thing (as of now (and indefinitely) it seems that new thing will be AI).
Enough rambling from me, ffs. Sorry for the comment spam, lol! I like the ASCII of Lady. My bud's newly inherited bike from his dad is called White Horse, due to the white tanks, and ghost flames (at one time, the sun had to hit it just right to see faded orange flames - now, they are more visible from decades of sun/rain).
Hope you're well, ~jack
Me gots no significant motorcycle experience. But it's sounding vroom vroom wonderful.
As for computing environment, I've been happy with Chromebooks for years after discovering a "Terminal" app permitting command line joy. Couldn't tell you whether that typically comes with a Chromebook or has to be added. And of course you'd likely be installing things within that environment - e.g. tmux and Lua are absolute necessities for this here pseudo-writer.
It's just seemed the least expensive/troublesome path to my kind of environment.