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Omnia Discordia

 There was once a young Discordian called Golden Rod. Early in his illumination, he wondered what season his country was in.

Perhaps it was in the season of Discord, on the cusp of Bureaucracy. Surely, Order was rising to noxious levels.

Or perhaps it was already Bureaucracy, on the cusp of Aftermath. Surely, Disorder was rising to obnoxious levels.

So in his quest for An Answer, Golden Rod sought out the Discordian monk Nopants. Nopants dwelled in a basement because it would be obscene for him to go outside. Golden Rod freed himself from his leggings and descended the stairs. Below, Nopants sat on a

A FOSS terminal emulator mimicking an old cathode display, a CRT, geddit‽

"…designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight."
—CRT's man page

Of all the stupid silly toys i have on my Linux laptop, this is possibly the silliest. I grew up with old Cathode Ray tube displays, which had a distinct look and occasionally I'd get nostalgic about them. Then a few days ago i stumbled across

An update on current projects.

"A solution in search of a problem."
—Jeff Geerling¹

I have a problem. What I need is a computer server at home to provide NAS, personal cloud, media server and possibly home automation and AI inference engines for myself. What I have is two aging laptops with broken keyboards, a Raspberry Pi 3, four Pi camera modules and two microPCs (Nano Pi NEO3 units). I am hoping to