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A few weeks ago I had ordered a few too many small SBCs (single-board computer). I was starting to struggle to use them all. I had waste, especially e-waste, so I wanted to put these little boards to good use. I also had a small desk in my living room that I wanted to use more for non-work related things like writing. My brain subconsciously did a 1+1 and I ended up with the idea to take on of the SBCs and compose a small linux distribution that’s focussed on just writing....

I think everyone knows at this point that there are limits to the idea that the tech industry will solve all of our problems as humans. People obviously found out when Elon Musk decided to “revolutionize” twitter, or when Unity decided to charge developers 20 cents for every install. Under capitalism, the tech industry (like any other) is just there to exploit value out of whatever resource it can acquire. I, and many other people, don’t like that aspect of our world....

I grew up in an abusive family. I think for a lot of kids that grow up in low social economic circumstances have a similar experience. Your parents are working their asses off, and it usually leaves them with a little bit less patience to deal with their kids and the end of the day. Another thing that doesn’t help with people of my parent’s generation is that they didn’t really have adequate resources in order to improve their parenting skills or to know how to deal with children at all....