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Title: Debian, Linux, LLMs, and Retro Computing
Date: September 1, 2026

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  So, Debian decided to give the shrug of non-commitial in
regards to AI and LLM submissions. Not a fan of that, but
I have to say, the reactions from those in my personal
circles have kinda made me leery of going back to Linux yet
again. Beings giving gross over-reactions with every little
thought, sometimes even on the violent side, and just...

  Ugh...

  I'm using my personal computer as a *personal* computer.
If you don't like what I'm using, okay. I just can't give a
shit anymore. Yeah, my main machine is a MacBook Pro with
MacOS 10.6.8 and Windows Vista. It's what I'm comfortable
with, and what works for me. My computer is something I use
to do a job, not a political or fashion statement. Nothing
more. I'd say the same using a Raspberry Pi 500+ running
Raspbian, or a Windows machine, or a *BSD machine. It's
really that simple with me.

  So much of the extremism killed my desire to get into the
dev scene[^0], and made me retreat from the internet for
the most part. It almost completely ruined retro computing
for me for a while, until dropped most of YouTube and all
of social media. Once that happened, I felt a little more
chill about everything.

  At this point, I'd rather retreat into BBSes, MUCKs and
MUDs, Usenet, Gopher, email, IRC, and even FTP. Being out
on the open web kinda tends to suck all the life out of my
hobbies thanks to being unable to hold actual conversations
aside from "Z is bad and you should feel shame for existing
with it" people. Meanwhile, people on the Level29 BBS[0]
have been nothing but friendly, and while terse, at least
the Usenet groups I follow haven't been outright toxic.
That's more than I can say for even the Fediverse... [^1]

  And yeah, now that I've calmed down, I'm trying to learn
some C and Perl programming again, and giving a serious try
with Emacs LISP at some point. Maybe even GNU Guile for the
hell of it. I also wanna learn how to set up a FuzzballMUCK
for family and friends to use, and maybe play with
CircleMUD as well for some MMO-ish fun. Still also need to
work on some Inform7 games as well...

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[^0]: I blame Rust evanglists for much of it.

[^1]: I'm also quite aware of twtxt and Yarn.social[1], but
      I've given my opinion on that matter before[2].

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[0]: https://bbs.fozztexx.com
[1]: https://twtxt.net/
[2]: gopher://prismdragon.net/0/phlog/2026-03-27_twtxt.txt