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[–] banghida@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] pmjv 31 points 1 month ago

call her back

[–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

It's great with cockpit

[–] Epicmonkie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] 69420@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Put me in the comment replies.

[–] pmjv 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Put me somewhere you’d like to.

[–] pmjv 22 points 1 month ago
[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv 18 points 1 month ago
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pmjv 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thank you for engaging with my content! Me neither!

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

I see it all the time and it's definitely my cuppa tea. Also Linux is cool.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Thank you for making it particularly engaging.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. You've put in words everything I've been feeling about this art.

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I love this interpretation, thanks for putting it into words

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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).

[–] mariusafa 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This should be the wikipedia summary.

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Thanks. They get real pissy in the self hosted communities when I point this out.

[–] pmk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pieguy 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you for including the bun, really ties it all together.

[–] pmjv 6 points 1 month ago

I did it for you and all bun-kind.

[–] Faith_Bubbles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does docker not conflict with the teachings of kierkegaard?

[–] pmjv 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it is somewhere between level 0 and level 1 of the computing life!

[–] Faith_Bubbles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is your 3,5 gopher dead? I haven't seen him around for a while

[–] pmjv 3 points 1 month ago

yep, for now.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Docker is the leap of faith

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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!

[–] pmjv 9 points 1 month ago

Happy to help entertain you!

[–] Mavvik@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

There is no beginning

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago
[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is exactly what happened. I swear.

[–] pmjv 6 points 1 month ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

whats not to love. it provides an excellent containerized, consistent environment to run server "apps".

you don't need to worry about issues with different setups, or how applications might interact with the system/eachother. its quick and easy to deploy without wasting time with boilerplate. it isolates applications from eachother in case a breach happens in one of them, and makes for slightly easier troubleshooting when one has an issue.

it makes server app management quick and brainless so you can focus on what you want from the server and, well, using it instead of managing it. like installing an app from the app store. or rather dockerhub.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hell yeah, docked made running my services a lot easier.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

does inferno have a mascot?

[–] pmjv 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 month ago

gotta be the only thing whose mascot is just a real-ass guy

[–] michal@biophilicresearch.net 4 points 1 month ago

@pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org In MataCity I was once riding a doubledocker. With my father he was first epoch MataHacker.

[–] notptr 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] pmjv 4 points 1 month ago

I think she likes you!