20 may 2021
Going to go with plaintext for now, might use html another time but for now we need to figure out how this works.
Hello world! Quick introduction: we're the Owls, a plural collective of geeks, nerds, and weirdos. We got accepted into tilde.town yesterday and we're still feeling around and working out how things work around here. Have to say we're glad we've gotten friendly with the command line already! It's coming in handy. We're starting to prefer CLI on our own laptop at this point anyway, so this should be a great way to learn even more and maybe find some handy tools. Wait, does plaintext wrap properly or is this going to be offscreen hell? Guess we'll find out.
Thoughts from today:
- Nano is decidedly not great if you need to copy and paste a lot of text. Have yet to figure out how to copy an entire line instead of just the part that fits on a screen!
- Worked on cats.html, broke the cat, and then unbroke the cat.
- According to Kaz (fellow dork rattling around in our brain), a mind is a pickle jar full of thoughts. We have to draw that now.
- SSH is incredibly cool. We're sitting at our laptop typing and it's going to be saved on a completely different computer. We moved files on that computer. That's AMAZING.
- Seriously, we can't overstate how cool we find it.
- Very curious how security is approached for a large shared computer like this. Aside from permissions and sudo restrictions, how is this sort of situation handled? What sorts of precautions are taken?
- Are tilde.town folks familiar with plurality at all? How much explaining are we in for? We've got explanations down pat at this point but still, hopefully we're not the first plural here.
- ...Are there other plural folks on tilde.town? How would we find out?
- We still need to get back to learning more Python but we're procrastinating because we haven't thought of a project to use it for yet. We need to find a project, dangit!
- Our cats didn't remind us that we needed to feed them 15 minutes ago; time to feed the cats!
Cats have been fed. Went and read feels from a bunch of other people, and... honestly there's one thing in common. Based off those feels, we're all struggling or unhappy right now. We're all fighting our own battles. It's sobering to be reminded of that, you know? We always think everyone else is happier than we are and that they all have it figured out, but in truth we're all pretty miserable- but also happy in our own ways. Everyone has their own problems and their own little joys and it would do the world good to remember that.