Comment by tarkin2

5 years ago

I love this project. Thank you for posting it. The idea of a post collapse operating system reminds me of slackware/subgenius’s old slogan: “...the world ends tomorrow and you may die!”

I’ll be trying to compile collapseos, write forth and load slackware on floppys in a few years then. (Will systemd survive civilisation’s collapse, especially when it caused it, that is the question....)

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mhd  5 years ago

For me this is slightly into Poe's Law territory: Is this actual prepper mindset, or tongue-in-cheek?

  • tarkin2  5 years ago

    Thanks. I'd never heard of that law before. I think he's serious. I'll appreciate his work both pre and pos civilisation collapse. I like his software aesthetic too.

    Maybe I'm getting old, maybe I'm seeking more control, maybe the world has come needlessly complex, but there's a certain appeal about returning to more manageable days, where it was possible to fit a software and hardware system in your brain, and your brain was swimming with ideas on how to use a limited system rather than drowning in layers of complexity.

    • mhd  5 years ago

      I liked playing the Fallout games, I grew up with 8 bit machines, so I'm all in at using a post-apocalyptic scenario as a setup for a though experiment tech stack. In a "ha ha only serious" manner.

      But on the other hand, real preppers scare the effing s out out of me.