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