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a new member to the family x31 (no ai soz)
There’s something strangely maternal about caring for a machine that has survived as long as you have. It was born into the same era, carrying its own life and yet now it sits in your hands like something dependent on your help. What was once someone else’s tool, becomes yours through care. Cleaning its keys, choosing what it gets to become next. It feels less like ownership and more like friendship, as if you’ve adopted a peer and somehow become its keeper. Something your age, something that should feel equal, instead awakens the soft maternal instinct to protect, preserve, and quietly keep running.
u/sickofmilk — 1 day ago