# Pubnix culture I woke up this morning and I still had things to say so fine. Let's just get this out of my system. A bit of an aside but I tend to be *very* all-or-nothing when it comes to motivation. Over the past week? or so I've been very VERY engaged in all this small internet public unix system stuff. Much like how a few weeks ago I was like super duper into drawing stuff. I have more words to say about this subject but I won't say them here. Maybe I'll do two phlogs today. Pubnixes. They've always kinda fascinated me, at least since I first heard of tilde.club. Like, wow, a Linux box you can just *go* on. ...granted me circa two or three years ago didn't really see the point because she could get a Linux box anywhere. That said, past me also was a socially isolated shut-in who had an extremely hard time emotionally connecting with anyone or anything. And now that I've been getting mental health treatment it's like the polar opposite, I'm basically *driven* by emotion. Which, let me clarify, *isn't bad at all*. Getting on a tangent but there's this whole *thing* where Logic and Reason™ are seen as the greatest assets to humanity while emotions are seen as irrational and, uh, feminine. Ah, yes, that age-old sexism. Point is *holy heck I was missing out*. Take your meds kiddos. Turns out caring about people is a very nice feeling, much more so than installing Haiku for the 50th time in search of some new thrill your computer can give you. I swear this is all related to my point. :p I think a big reason I care a lot about pubnixes and tilde servers and stuff *now* is *because* of the community aspect of it. Past depressed me occasionally logged into a MUD telnet server for the novelty for about 5 minutes, but now I'm actually interested in the people. I'm starting this phlog because I really wanna try to entrench myself in this dead protocol because *y'all seem nice*. That said, when it comes to "small internet culture" as you'd have it, I feel like I stand out a little. I use Discord for chatting because it just works™, even if the privacy implications are a little horrifying. I don't have any particular attachment to Linux or Unix besides it just kinda being the thing everyone uses because it has the FOSS software. (I was eyeing Plan 9 for this server for a little while before writing it off as waaaaaay beyond what i was willing to deal with for what's effectively a glorified web host.) I'm not big into camping or backpacking across Europe, although tbh that's mostly because I'm in the middle of an undergraduate degree and also dealing with a lot of stuff irl. But I suppose none of that matters. Being different is cool. Fresh. ...yeah actually was i even going to make a point when i started this? huh. guess not. gemini://park-city.club:1965/~invis/phlog/004-pubnix-culture.txt

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