Turns out I’m a silver fox ^^ Married dad of 2, 40s, bisexual, works in IT, loves computers, jazz/metal, chess, and retro gaming. He/him

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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I have most of the various books and I think I have the whole archive between them…it was the first comic I read every day when it ran. I had a newspaper route at one point and I loved being able to read the Sunday strip a few days before it ‘officially’ came out.
    I went through some of the books about a year ago and the stuff from the 90s hits really hard today; Watterson foresaw a lot of what we’re dealing with now.









  • I vaguely remember Yggdrasil Linux, but I never ran it as it wasn’t freely available and I was saving my money for Super Nintendo games, hehe. Slackware was free, though it took a long time to download over a 2400 (maybe 14.4) modem onto a stack of floppies, all while hoping that nothing got corrupted.

    Then, the actual installation was quite a learning experience but I managed (somehow, far too long ago to remember exactly how) to get it running. Didn’t have a graphics card for XFree86, but having multiple ttys/multitasking available after using DOS for so long felt extraordinary. ^^