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.
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.
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)
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
This is about digital survival and what's coming.
Hey, is the sun wearing sunglasses in this one?
IT IS! I am so happy you noticed.
Not the first time either, if I recall correctly.Nevermind, it always had a normal face.
On a side note:
I've been told the OpenBlade database (wiki) is lacking, so there are three new pages.
I can’t stop looking at the penguin. Best penguin drawing ever.
The funny thing is, I actually nuked the old Windows SSD I had kept around for emergencies and put OpenBSD on it, to see how daily-drivable it is for me, like 5 hours before I saw this comic.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but so scary 😰
Honestly I am not aware/well enough to even fix the kinks in my own system let alone hop or do much real development, so that's a no from me for moving to a platform with low support to a platform with even less support.
If we could just get the brave to get out of bed in the morning...
