We use Nextcloud. (It’s honestly about the only thing we use Nextcloud for.) For adding events and checking stuff we just use the web UI; it’s also synced to Kalendar/Merkuro Calendar on our desktop and we get calendar notifications that way.

– Frost

“Eh, tired.”, usually.

People tend to get it. They’re probably tired too.

– Frost

Timezones, probably!

I really hope it’s scientifically possible somehow!

Even if not, I bet it’d be more feasible to build a robot wolf body, scoop out our brain and put it inside. I’d take robot wolf over *waves paw at human body* any day.

We’re all feral (for the non-furries reading this: normal animal shaped) which means the rest of the body is significantly harder than it would be for an anthro, but honestly the stuff they’d need to do to our limbs is probably small potatoes compared to the shit they’d need to do to our skull (and that applies equally well to anthros).

– Frost

Exactly! 🐺

– Frost

100%.

Give me a wolf muzzle any day. Having a human face just feels wrong.

– Frost

But it runs a real operating system! which is a pretty big deal actually.

– Frost

Bold of you to assume that it’s POSSIBLE to meet your friends physically.

Half of our friends are on other continents. The ones who aren’t are still hundreds of miles away.

– Frost

Oh no, my cover’s blown!

– Frost

You just need to find the WEIRDER people.

They’re out there!

One of the really, really good things about the internet.

– Frost

It totally does! We used to use it on Mac, back before we switched to Linux.

– Frost

I’m a wolf (furry + therian) and I use the wolf emoji a lot! ✨🐺✨

But… I’m really lucky that there even IS one. A lot of people aren’t so lucky.

So yeah. More emoji is a good thing, particularly more animal emoji. We really need emoji for more species.

– Frost

Ah yes, the literal embodiment of “announcing the new OpenTormentNexus!”.

And honestly, in the coming age of “OSes that don’t spy on you will be illegal!!”, I’m really, really glad for that. We’ve got the entire 27-ISO set of Debian 13.0.0 squirreled away. There’s even more discs for the sources, and they go to great lengths to ensure that everything can be built with no external dependencies that aren’t available in the archive.

Debian: It’s Apocalypse-Proof.™

– Frost

Haha yeah! :3 I uh, misread the critter I replied to as saying “I don’t get it” rather than “I’m not even interested in getting it”. Cue the massive infodump. >,,>

I’m not that sorry, though. It’s still fun to talk about and also kinda hilarious that it happened.

– Frost

Debian is weird in even having non-live ISOs, but they do have various live ones with different desktops! (Don’t grab the one from the homepage, grab one of the live ones instead.)

Yeah! https://www.debian.org/CD/live/, the little teeny “live KDE” link. =^.^=

You don’t want the “netinst” ISO on the main page. It technically works, but it’s a pain to use and needs internet access to install. Its only redeeming quality is the small download size and fitting on a CD (if you’re burning it to a CD-R which is unlikely).

Nope! I’m a wolf! :3

I’m trans, but for species instead of gender. Yeah that’s a thing. 🐺

– Frost

The homeserver doesn’t have to be fancy. We’re running all our stuff off a Dell Vostro from 2012 we got for like $30 on Craigslist. (It did need another $30 replacement PSU though. And it has 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD which is nothing to sneeze at for a machine that cheap and that old.)

I mean, I could just go “TLDR grab Debian’s live KDE edition” if that’s easier!

The whole point in me explaining all that is that people don’t know all this stuff. That’s why I’m explaining it. I did gloss over the fact that distros exist, but it seems like the person I’m replying to already knows that multiple versions of Linux are a thing so that’s not a huge issue.

And going “here’s some options to pick from” helps if it turns out you’ve got different priorities than we do. But yeah, “TLDR Debian” is also good if you’re overwhelmed.