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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Poverty - started by buying old Macs, put linux on it to do usefull stuff, stuck with it ... but not the hardware.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

My neighbor at the trailer park was a janitor at the university. I built my computer from parts he salvaged from the recycle bin, and put Redhat 5 on it.