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use my promocode with your miniroot.img download (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OK, I am willing to break the ice here: What is this community actually about? I've been seeing these comics in my feed for the last 3 months and trying to connect the dots between the posts to get the idea behind the lore, but so far I'm drawing a blank apart from a hint that it could be related to Linux. Maybe I need to be a computer nerd to get the jokes or....I am not taking the community title seriously enough.

[-] pmjv 117 points 1 month ago

I have no clue, I just draw it.

[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago

Wait, are you the original artist of these comics?

[-] pmjv 102 points 1 month ago

Does the original artist of these comics owe you money?

If no, then yes. It is I.

[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's incredibly awesome seeing a talent like yourself posting regularly on a platform like Lemmy. I fully respect and commend you and your efforts to actively engage with the community here, regardless of how I make sense of the comics personally.

[-] pmjv 99 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is an overarching story... in my head anyway. But as it all stands now, in the spirit of surrealism, I leave it up to the audience to connect the dots however they please.

But in the end, it really is just FOSS propaganda.

And thank you, I appreciate it.

[-] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I don't understand a thing but I love your drawings! It's a little joy every time there's one in my feed.

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most of the posts here are webcomics made by pmjv, the poster of this thread -- though other people can and sometimes do post their own art. pmjv makes a surrealist webcomic (see Analogue Nowhere) that incorporates various themes and imagery related to Unix-derived and Unix-adjacent operating systems.

Note that the imagery drawn from is not just things associated with Linux (which famously has a penguin mascot), but also OpenBSD (started by Theo de Raadt and which has a pufferfish mascot), Plan 9 (which has a bunny mascot called Glenda), etc.

There are elements from other fandoms (e.g. Cirno, who appears in some comics, is from Touhou and is associated with ⑨ because of an old joke -- which seems to have become entangled with Plan 9 in pmjv's mind), influences from tech politics, and whatever other crazy things are bouncing around in pmjv's head.

It's good surrealist fun, generally.

[-] pmjv 61 points 1 month ago

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Glenda looks like the Go gopher

[-] pmjv 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is of course a clever nod to Renée French who authored both plan9's Glenda and Go's gopher, and not the fact that I cannot draw.

[-] notptr 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also to add cirno is the defualt host name for 9front system. 9front is a plan 9 fork

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago

The rabbit hole goes deeper than I realized!

[-] notptr 15 points 1 month ago

Just need to follow the white rabbit

[-] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Or swallow the rabbit whole

[-] jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

This link to the wiki is incredibly helpful for me in order to gain context about the comic series. Thank you kind stranger!

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Penguin kids (Linux noobs)

~~Fish (a great shell)~~

Fish represents OpenBSD

Shell (text only interface for the terminal)

Terminal (application to display the interface)

Path (shortcut for the shell to access binaries)

Binary (application in the form of a single file)

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Despite fish being a shell, I thought it was representative of openbsd here (hence the puffer fish)

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Correct.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 4 points 1 month ago

Whelp...

[-] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

preeetty sure fish the shell would go against the whole spirit of the comic, as overly complex, non-unix compliant and bloated

no hate to fish btw

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

This is about digital survival and what's coming.

[-] pieguy 36 points 1 month ago

Hey, is the sun wearing sunglasses in this one?

[-] pmjv 40 points 1 month ago

IT IS! I am so happy you noticed.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 1 month ago

[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~Not the first time either, if I recall correctly.~~ Nevermind, it always had a normal face.

[-] pmjv 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On a side note:

I've been told the OpenBlade database (wiki) is lacking, so there are three new pages.

[-] BlueSquid0741 20 points 1 month ago

I can’t stop looking at the penguin. Best penguin drawing ever.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

Fish? Like pufferfish?

OpenBSD?

[-] pmjv 17 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying I endorse it, but it's called Fish Linux in these parts.

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago

By Theo! The hidden truth is revealed!

[-] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, gotta be the command line shell for the 90s

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago

Listen to the story of the wizard and the fish.

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