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ES: Un nerd cualquiera, mayormente informática y juegos. Introvertido. Daltónico. Amante de los gatos.

EN: Just a random nerd, mostly IT and games. Introvert. Colorblind. Cat lover.

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Cake day: September 6th, 2023

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  • I’ve been a computer nerd since I was like 10. When I was younger (damn, am I that old already?), I used to install PC games for friends (including ahem cracks). I always did it for free just, well, because they were friends, and because it took no longer than 10 minutes in the worst case. Their parents always threw a few bucks my way anyway, which I always tried to refuse, but ended up taking because of their insistence.

    I also started contributing to open source from a relatively young age (I think I was maybe 20), not with the intention to make a career out of that, but because I found it a fun activity, and liked my contributions helping people.

    In both cases, my family was all over me for not making a career from that. Like, my brother in Christ, I don’t need to be fucking working 24/7 from birth to death. People are allowed to do things just for fucking fun.










  • I started with Puppy Linux because I wanted to try Linux, and my 350MHz Celeron with 160MB of RAM and 4GB of disk space (of which I had around 1GB free) wasn’t enough to run neither any flavor of the major distros, nor any remotely recent version of Windows that wasn’t XP stripped down to the bare minimum, and even that ran like shit. This was around 2008.

    After being able to afford a more recent machine (3GHz Intel something Dual Core, with 4GB of RAM and 500GB HDD), I switched to vanilla Ubuntu, with its Unity DE, then Xfce4.

    I’ve been using the LUbuntu flavor (LXDE) since it is more lightweight than the alternatives. Don’t really care about bells and whistles now, just a functional and fast desktop.

    My most recent laptop is dead now, tho, and I don’t see myself getting anything soon :(