It’s coming up on a year. The old PC with the Intel i3 had sat idle long enough. I’d kept it as one of the last boxes running Windows, but FreeBSD caught my attention.

Sure, why not? Over the next month or so I was playing with ZFS and FreeBSD jails, and in those jails I set up Pleroma, Matrix’ Synapse, IRC, PostgreSQL for the others, and a few more things on and off. This didn’t give the full “living with FreeBSD” experience, but it did put the old i3 to use and open a bunch of new social media doorways.

Turns out there wasn’t much on the other side of those doorways. Not for me anyway. I’m not so very “social.” The i3, on the other hand, is still under the desk helping to warm my feet.

It seems inevitable that I’ll shut most of them down. Posting to gopher scratches the writing itch without the overhead of running WordPress or any thought of making things look pretty. Replicating the posts to a plain, static website with Jekyll is painless, but it does have a bit of a “why bother?” attached. For the inbound, there’s always email.

TBD