* made without AI
I started thinking about what artwork I wanted to create for our annual Christmas greeting, and naturally fired up Leonardo…and then stopped. Seems this year, everywhere I turn, I’m seeing AI-generated Santa Clauses and attendant elves, sometimes with slightly mangled hands.
So this year we’re doing something home-made, and hand-made in Photoshop. The above was made with the Terminal F4 font, which is GPL’d.
Is it as cool as a retrowave fever-dream image of a Lego Santa Claus dancing at a k-pop show? Perhaps not, but it is a sincere wish from one human to another without any robot in between.
Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful readers and the entire LowEnd community from the staff here at LowEndBox. You’re the reason we do what we do and we sincerely wish you a season of joy and peace.
Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
As an avid user of LowEndBox providers, Raindog runs an empire of LEBs, from tiny boxes for VPNs, to mid-sized instances for application hosting, and heavyweight servers for data storage and complex databases. He brings both technical rigor and real-world experience to every piece he writes.
Beyond the command line, Raindog is a lover of German Shepherds, high-quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop RPGs, and hiking in deep, quiet forests.
His goal with every article is to help users, from beginners to seasoned sysadmins, get more value, performance, and enjoyment out of their infrastructure.
You can find him daily in the forums at LowEndTalk under the handle @raindog308.
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