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I hope in some fashion computers and related technology drop out of mainstream appeal and are relegated to actual nerds and tinkerers again. Not in a gatekeeping sense, but just where the goals are about pushing boundaries for the sake of exploration and not solely profit and personal data acquisition motivated.

as my system chases it’s tale in a silicon frenzy

Nice proofreading, Lazlow J.

I’m just a bit too young to have been part of the BBS scene, but I’ve certainly done plenty of Windows re-installs. I had a friend that would wipe his Windows 98SE drive every two weeks or so, whether or not there was any instability. I recently stumbled across an old backup of some screenshots and found one where I was apparently proud of the 31 day system uptime. Best part of the transition to NT based Windows was definitely the near complete elimination of BSoDs. Kinda blocked out the bad memories of random lockups and blue screens just being an expected part of daily computing life.

fdisk, format, reinstall
doo-dah, doo-dah

To be somewhat close to on-topic with self-hosting, the oldest service I have fond memories of running was a small Hotline server.

This is the first post I’ve ever written on Lemmy – or anywhere, honestly.

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Anyone upvoting or engaging with this, be less gullible please. Even if this wasn’t spam/scam posting what does it have to do with self-hosting?

It’s weird that this looks like an edited picture to bypass dupe detection yet it’s from the actual Far Side website.

The bottom-left boards of the ship and water touching it have clearly had changes made. Also the three portholes in the middle. And in the sky at the top there’s some writing that’s mostly been brushed out.

I didn’t spend a tremendous amount of time looking, but I found a copy posted to Pinterest that looks like the original and more closely matches Larson’s usual style:

I could imagine wanting to remove the water spray droplets in case they wouldn’t be clearly printed in a black & white newspaper, but I don’t know if the new stuff was ever intended for that and it’s also odd that the cheetah in the porthole was also removed.