So long as you keep all of your traffic encrypted, no one’ll be able to snoop on it, though they could already see destinations/type of traffic. Anyone who controls a VPN start or end point can see anything that tcpdump can reveal.

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.

Ah, the nostalgia…my introduction to dry British humor.

“Penfold, the engine is knocking.”

“Oh, I suppose we’d better let it in, then.”

Along with funneling money to his cronies just to accelerate the fall…

I used AfterStep then WindowMaker a long time ago…then eventually settled into GNOME, which has mostly worked for me over its many iterations. I’ve tried KDE throughout its history…but it’s never clicked for me.

That would be an interesting timeline where open source BSD variants have all the hardware support and mindshare while Linux is an obscure project in the vein of Plan 9 or GNU Hurd…no idea how that would have played out.

That’s beautiful…so cozy and intimate ^^

FreeBSD and NetBSD were first released in 93, but I didn’t hear about them until later. I don’t think I would have been knowledgeable enough to install/use them back then, either.

I hadn’t done any serious work with FreeBSD until earlier this year, when I set up my blog site on it. I wrote an article about that experience at https://jsilverfox.blog/post/freebsd/

The site is running well, I…just need to write more articles for it, eheh.

Alright, thanks for the suggestion…it should be all foxed up 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. ^^

That’s odd, the links are working for me (from a mobile and a desktop browser), hmm.

I’ve been using Linux for…not quite 30 years, but getting there, and I’ve been a Linux sysadmin for over 20. I started on Slackware, ran that for about 15 years, went to Fedora, ran that for 12 or so, and I’ve been on Arch since.

So yeah, I know some things ^^