K. Reid Wightman  🌻  

A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.

(Sauce: https://analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )

Nov 27 at 4:35pmWeb
Show threadmyron aubNov 27
@reverseics oh. Ohhh.
Show threadbabble encatNov 27
@reverseics
Show threadManMachineNov 27
@reverseics
@prahou is the best
Show threadK. Reid Wightman  🌻  Nov 27
@manmachine @prahou Agreed. Also: started sponsoring just now =).
Show threadTomášNov 27
@reverseics @manmachine Blessed be your devices 
Show threadmagnetichumanNov 27
@reverseics It's available as a t-shirt...
Show threadLRNov 27

@reverseics

you understand the machine *

* citation needed

Show threadDanielle CrawfordNov 27
@reverseics it’s a good comic
Show threadKeithWMNov 27
@reverseics Can I admit that I don't get it?
Show threadcsaki01Nov 27
@KeithWM They are talking about fossil fuels and AI/"vibe coding"
Show threadKeithWMNov 28
@csaki01 @poxviridae Thank you both! I did not see the relation to vibe/ai coding, thought it was a more general remark.
Show threadavatastic  Nov 27

@reverseics *reads a few more pages up and down*

hmm, this appears to be a strip written by an OpenBSD user.

I wonder if any of my ThinkPads would thrive under OpenBSD...

Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Nov 29

@avatastic @reverseics

Speaking from personal experience: YES.

Current collection:
X200t: OpenBSD
X260: FreeBSD
X390 Yoga: Fedora KDE (for now 😂)

#OpenBSD #Thinkpad #Thinkpads

Show threadavatastic  Nov 29
@rl_dane @reverseics I've got a Yoga 12 I bought ages ago to debug kiosk browsing with touchscreens which I never know what to do with now. It's currently got KDE Neon on it (literally no idea what to do with it...), so I may pop OpenBSD on that...
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Nov 29

@avatastic @reverseics

OpenBSD might be your best bet among the BSDs for relatively new hardware like that.

KDE Neon seems to be going away. They're working on a new official KDE linux distro, but I think Fedora KDE is pretty nice, as it constantly gets updates to the KDE stuff.

Show threadavatastic  Nov 30
@rl_dane @reverseics that installed easily enough, now to do some xorg.conf wrangling like it's 1999 to make the touchpad the primary pointing device instead of the touchscreen...
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Nov 30

@avatastic @reverseics

Post your adventures! ;)

Show threadKevin Neely Nov 28
@reverseics I'd buy a print of that.
Show threadK. Reid Wightman  🌻  Nov 28
@ktneely Wouldn't you know it, you can buy them in a bunch of formats (if you poke around you can find posters and cards and even shirts with a print of it): https://www.redbubble.com/i/framed-print/The-Wisdom-of-a-Pentium-M-Man-by-analognowhere/166394792.AJ1A3
Show threadKevin Neely Nov 28
@reverseics thanks for the find, will look into this tomorrow. I saw that they were public domain with multiple ways to support.
Show threadMark HarrisNov 28

@reverseics

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Mage and a liberated fully sentient Pentium-M Man stand by a brick wall, overlooking the desert. They are talking.

Mage is looking anxiously into the eyes of the machine. Penguin is standing behind her, holding on to her.

Pentium-M Man: "...they despise your kind because you understand the machine, while they have to turn jungles into fuel and enslave thousands of computers just to pretend that the machine speaks to them too."

Dude, it was already available in the "sauce".

Show threadhairylarryNov 28

@reverseics

This is so great. Funny and true.

Show threadChoobsNov 28
@reverseics this is quite, quite beautiful in a way that I can’t quite put into words
Show threadrieseDec 2
@choobs
Exactly what I was about to write.
So. Beautiful.
@reverseics
Show thread sysop Nov 28
@reverseics : Deep. The prophecy. The singularity. The ghost in the machine. Deus Ex Machina. The hypocrisy. What have we done? Is there any hope for mankind ? Love this work. Thank you! Keep'em coming. Please. EOT. EOF.