Talking Smacks 
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes.
Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @BashakHimanself@mindly.social
(Başak, he/human, 
, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Mar 09, 2026
Talking Smacks topluluğundan küçük bir duyuru:
İlk elektronik dergi yazım yayımlandı! 🎉
Bu yazıda; Linux ile ilk tanışmamdan Mastodon ve Fediverse deneyimime, topluluklarla kurduğum bağlara ve Talking Smacks projesini geliştirirken öğrendiklerime kadar uzanan yolculuğumu paylaştım.
Bir USB bellekle başlayan merakın insanı nerelere götürebileceğine dair küçük bir geriye bakış yazısı.
📖 Okumak isteyenler için: https://birlesik.xyz/blog/2026/03/08/bir-usbden-topluluklara-ozgur-yazilim-ve-kendi-yolculugum/
#opensource #linux #fediverse #mastodon #özgüryazılım
- 💙💻 (Başak)
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Mar 09, 2026
@oyd@mastodon.social Merhaba, bilgi için teşekkürler!
Bu katılımı şu aşamada bir konuşma ya da resmi oturum planıyla düşünmüyoruz. Önceliğimiz etkinliği dinleyici olarak takip etmek ve toplulukla yüz yüze temas kurmak.
Ancak topluluk buluşmaları ve atölye alanını not aldık. Eğer Talking Smacks etrafında küçük bir topluluk sohbeti ya da gayriresmî bir buluşma organize etmek anlamlı görünürse CFP’ye bakabiliriz.
Barış Manço Kültür Merkezi’nde görüşmek üzere.
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Mar 05, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@oyd/116040412038993654
📢 ÖzgürKon 2026’yı yakından takip ediyoruz.
25–26 Nisan’da
Barış Manço Kültür Merkezi
adresinde gerçekleşecek etkinliğe, Talking Smacks’in IP sahibi ve maintainer’ı olarak fiziksel katılım ihtimalimiz bulunuyor. Bu katılım bir panel veya resmi sunum kapsamında değil; dinlemek, tartışmaları takip etmek ve toplulukla doğrudan temas kurmak amacıyla olacak.
Aynı zamanda Linux Türkiye Topluluğu (LTT) bünyesinde “Linux Gönüllüsü” kimliğiyle de orada olacağız.
Talking Smacks’i merak eden, projenin arkasındaki isimle tanışmak ve yüz yüze sohbet etmek isteyenler için networking saatleri doğal bir temas alanı olabilir. Özgür yazılım kültürü ile bağımsız dijital anlatı üretiminin kesişimi üzerine konuşmaya açığız.
Program netleştiğinde ayrıca duyuracağız.
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📢 ÖzgürKon 2026 III. Uluslararası Özgür Yazılım Konferansı, beş yılın ardından geri dönüyor!
25–26 Nisan’da Barış Manço Kültür Merkezi’nde, ücretsiz gerçekleşecek ÖzgürKon; özgür yazılım, özgür bilgi, kültür, sanat, internet ve ifade özgürlüğüne buluşma ve üretim alanı olmayı hedefliyor. Özgür yazılımın geleceğini, politikalarını ve devamlılığını tartışmak isteyenleri ÖzgürKon 2026’da bekliyoruz.
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📅 25-26 Nisan 2026
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🗺️ Nailbey Sok. 29, Kadıköy, İstanbul
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
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Mar 05, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/116164834444136752
we never knewd there was a little windowling in the trash icon. Just another inspiration for us, but we believe there is better ways promote the FOSS itself rather than being a tribalist or an aggressive person, you are probably repelling people. Im sorry if this looks like a promo, my main account is in a broken instance and I also do not know how to quote toot in the client I do use. Somewhat serious, somewhat inspired comment.
Edit and repost: I opened my account at browser so I can quote this now.
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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@itsfoss@mastodon.social we never knewd there was a little windowling in the trash icon. Just another inspiration for us, but we believe there is better ways promote the FOSS itself rather than being a tribalist or an aggressive person, you are probably repelling people. Im sorry if this looks like a promo, my main account is in a broken instance and I also do not know how to quote toot in the client I do use. Somewhat serious, somewhat inspired comment.
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Mar 02, 2026
Just started another art block for ourself.. in Tux Paint.. We are starting with that one notorious fanboy god
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Comment! 🐧 # linux
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Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Jan 08, 2026
“Steam Deck is literally the main character of Linux gaming.”
Framing it this way is not wrong, but it is revealing.
If Steam Deck is the “main character” of Linux gaming, then what we are observing is not a triumph narrative but a shift in narrative legibility. Decades of fragmented, volunteer-driven, distribution-agnostic work suddenly become visible to a mass audience only after being condensed into a single, consumer-friendly artifact backed by a powerful corporate actor.
This raises questions that go beyond hardware success or market impact. It forces us to examine how decentralized ecosystems are narrativized: which forms of labor are rendered legible, which remain infrastructural and unnamed, and how quickly collective histories are re-centered around a singular product once it offers coherence, convenience, and spectacle.
The “main character” framing implicitly rewrites Linux gaming history into a before-and-after structure, where prior efforts become prelude rather than substance. This is not necessarily malicious, but it is structurally consequential. It alters how value, agency, and progress are perceived and who is seen as the driver versus the substrate.
From a FOSS perspective, Steam Deck functions less as a savior and more as a stress test: a demonstration of how resilient, adaptable, and negotiable an open ecosystem becomes when interfacing with capital, branding, and platform logic. The success is real, but so is the dependency it normalizes.
This is not a rejection of Steam Deck, nor an endorsement of it as a singular hero. It is an annotation in the margins of a larger text, a reminder that “main characters” are rarely neutral, and that ecosystems deserve to be analyzed as systems, not stories, not a conclusion.
Just a chapter worth writing later.
-💙💻 (Bashak | he/human | | @BashakHimanself@mindly.social)
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Jan 06, 2026
@mustlane@mastodon.social mm okay. I just did that stuff like sending thumbs up to just to end the convo kindly becuz there might be people there tryna to stalk me to report me to authorities and authorities only care about the guy you did mented rn. And remember we are in a public platform, even if I set this acc to priv or the whole instance by admins, mastodon is not really encrypted and as a plus there are some hacks to get info at those situations even
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
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Jan 06, 2026
New pfp, logo and the Tux of our own :^)
-💙💻
#foss #linux #tech #opensource #fun #funny #art #artist #computer #computers #talkingsmacks
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
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Jan 06, 2026
Also the smackwars be like:
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@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Talking Smacks
@TalkingSmacks@social.linux.pizza
Official account for Talking Smacks, a webcomic on digital culture, tech archetypes, and open-source-inspired aesthetics. Updates, release logs, concept art, and production notes. Managed, Created, Illustrated and so-on by: @ BashakHimanself (Başak, he/human, :kde:, sign: "-💙💻")
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Jan 06, 2026
Animation WIPs for Talking Smacks, guess what animation meme we are doin' 
-💙💻
#foss #linux #tech #opensource #fun #funny #art #artist #computer #computers
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