Laurel Raven

I both publicly and privately think it’s very plausible, maybe even likely, that he didn’t do it, or at the very least a lot of the evidence was planted.

I can still use his imagery and name because it’s a good rallying cry whether he did it or not: if he did do it, it was an act of defiance against an industry that’s harmed millions, and if he didn’t then he’s a symbol showing the system desperate to stamp out resistance to the rule of oligarchs. Actually… He’s that second one either way, too.

But anyway, he couldn’t have done it because he was at my place grilling that day.

The times I think about switching back, I just think back to the first month on Linux full time when I realized I was no longer constantly pissed off at everything my system was doing I didn’t want it to do or not doing that I did want. And a lot of it wasn’t even conscious anymore, like just realizing that a constant background radiation was just … Not there anymore.

Of course, having to use it at work every day still helps remind me… But I’m working on at least making my workstation into a Linux box, even if the servers are still going to be Windows.