I don't mean to but I lost one of my best friends partially this way :(

It's hard to control sometimes

If I ever find someone who cares about communism/Unix/Plan 9/computer architecture (I see all these as deeply interconnected) as much as I do our power will be unstoppable

Edit: Thanks everyone for your replies and for sharing your experiences, it means a lot to me. I want to reply to everyone I just don't know what to say lol

  • Hexagons [e/em/eir]
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    7 months ago

    I'm not the person you responded to, but holy shit this was interesting! I'd never heard of Plan 9, but now I think it's time for me to learn more about it, because it sounds super extremely neat!

    Thanks!

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      I'm glad you liked it!

      I'd recommend that you should try out the modern fork of Plan 9 if you're planning on trying it, 9front, since the original devs have split up and moved on unfortunately. You can also read about the Plan 9 system here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/. In particular, I highly recommend this paper for an overview of the system: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/9

      It's okay if you find it difficult to use or off-putting at first. They intentionally tried to do things differently than Unix or other contemporary operating systems. But once you get into it and even start making things that work with it you might find it refreshing like I did :3

      If you get lost there's a Matrix and Discord server full of people from the 9front community you can ask for help (including me!). Also a Plan 9 "gridchat" server too which runs over the protocol I was talking about lol. There may also be IRC but I'm not sure. The Matrix is: #9fans:pintobyte.com

      And here's a Discord invite if you prefer: https://discord.gg/bdzkVxvPZQ

      The Discord and Matrix (and maybe IRC) are bridged into one chat.