Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.
She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying "It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know" and "And sure, you made her trans!".
So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that's neat.
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I was always warned when I was younger that as you get older, the years will start to fly by.
Bullshit. I'm just in my 30s but still, bullshit. Years still feel just as long as they always took. I was a different person 5 years ago, I still feel the weight of all of those 260+ weeks. It doesn't feel any shorter. I never got a "blink oops now it's 5 years in the future" moment. I have young siblings, the youngest is 18. It wasn't like I blinked and they were adults.
It's not something I've wanted to happen or even particularly dreaded, but adults of all stripes warned me at my young tender age that it would happen. Well? Just cause they were drifting along in a haze doesn't mean that's my fate. That's on them. Reminds me that there's people who say they get in a car, drive to work, and then realize they don't remember any of their drive. But doing that for everything I guess
Yeah I think me too? 2024 has been a really long year for me, but I'm still surprised its ending already.
I always thought that it was the ever increasing responsibilities that made time move faster when people would say the same to me, but im not sure thats true because I'm a full adult (no kids tho) and I dont feel its going fast this year at least. I mostly find myself bored easily so I'm constantly looking for new things, and I think thats a factor.
Its a relief to me when things feel slow, I want to get the most out of my time here and I'd hate to blink and miss it.