While visiting Archer72 / Mark Rice today in his Rehab Hospital room we were talking about HPR, and he got excited to see this in the future feed:
&gt; hpr4256 - Birds of a Feather Talk at OLF 2024 by Thaj Sara
I knew Mark wanted to be at OLF, but could not make it due to his car accident and care. It's also the same reason that he and I got together in person despite living 30 miles apart and chatting on Mastodon for over a year.
Mark asked me if I knew Thaj and the Urandom podcast, to which I responded that I did not.
So, tonight I checked Thaj's name link on HPR and found this discussion show. An excellent way to connect the Urandom and HPR dots for me.
My route to HPR was through personal contact with podcasters such as TheLovebug (Bugcast / TuxJam) and Kevie &amp; Mcnalu (TuxJam), as well as Geospart from Tech &amp; Coffee. Kevie's teenage son Lochyboy played a large part too. What connects these contacts together is Telegram and also Mastodon.
It was this group that encouraged me to record and upload my own introduction:
&gt; hpr4258 Introduction and History of Using Computers by SolusSpider
Currently my HPR discussions have mostly been on Telegram, especially joining the group there, and via Mastodon with the #HPR tag.
Maybe I should join the Mailing List?
Not a fan of following a Podcast on YouTube - I mostly do that for church services, nor of Discord which I am really not fond of and dropped a while back.
What I see keeping this loose community together is the central website and personal contacts.
Thanks for the history and insight to what HPR means to you Urandom guys. BTW, I did laugh that you have a Facebook page, which I did join. Talk about being in the popular media! *grin*.
I am hoping to record more shows, but that comes from good friends personal peer pressure.
BTW: Maybe next year Mark &amp; I shall attend OLF. For me the last time was 9 years ago in 2015.