Switching between Archlinux, Windows 3.11, and Mac OS 7.5.5 with a keypress

Three operating systems on three virtual terminals. :33

I finished writing a Python script yesterday to collate the journals I keep on my journaling laptop into one combined journal file per topic, sorted by date. Depending on my aesthetic mood, I'll write entries in the Linux host, in the Windows 3.11 VM, or in the Mac OS 7.5.5 VM, and the script pulls those together. This laptop is used only for journaling and playing with old operating systems.

The Windows VM is built on DosBox-X which uses a virtual filesystem, so its journals go straight onto the Linux filesystem and are easy to pull from. For Mac, there is a separate cronned BASH script that runs nightly to mount the HFS disk image and pull the journal files.

Then every night the journal gets pushed out to my main server, which then also pushes it to the backup storage server, all using RSYNC and BASH scripts.

I love computers so fucking much.