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What's you topic you never miss a chance to talk about and haven't had a chance to recently? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve had two days in a row where I got to nerd out over stuff with people. Let’s get some of that going for everyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did you get into libre software? And also, why aren't you posting on c/libre on hexbear? /hj

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

years ago I was getting a Info Tech tradeschool/cert thing and one of the profs there was a big cybersec nerd and was like, "check out Linux" and gave me an Ubuntu 9.10 disc. I went home and tossed it on a machine and realized real fast that there was a whole ass world out there that did all the shit that Windows and proprietary paywalled software did but for free. It blew my mind.

Ironically this is the point that I also started to become radicalized. Just the realization that information not only could be free but should be free. I used this as a lens for when I started college and took a bunch of polysci and econ classes. From that perspective capitalism and consumerism just all seemed like complete bullshit. I usually state to people that I started college as a Dem and left as a Soc, though I was still a reformist. A few years later after the deprogramming/deconstructing happened for me, I finally made it over to revolutionary.

So thanks FOSS!

Will join c/libre. Didn't know it existed. I just finally migrated full time over to HB from Lemmygrad and am slowly filtering my comms lol.