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(DIR) Post #ATQnrVjGkmwiMzvRQ0 by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-03-09T06:54:54.633Z
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What radicalized you into the #FOSS mindset?
(DIR) Post #ATQo1S8OyP4A7KQD7A by dcc@annihilation.social
2023-03-09T06:56:30.529371Z
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@gabriel code is not a real thing so it must be free
(DIR) Post #ATQrArbLxNkHZQ8tiy by based_rob@noagendasocial.com
2023-03-09T07:32:01Z
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@gabriel Microsoft kept disabling my pirated Windows during finals. Then they made it hard to dual-boot Ubuntu. I had to choose, so I chose FOSS.Since I was going full Linux, I read the Linux Bible and started using Fedora.
(DIR) Post #ATRIEunghclVPd4IgS by PublicLewdness@freespeechextremist.com
2023-03-09T12:35:18.101259Z
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@gabriel Windows 8 started my path. Windows 10 and the Snowden leaks cemented it.
(DIR) Post #ATRaW2GpyqBYg814BE by m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net
2023-03-09T13:22:22.017837Z
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@gabriel I grew up with it. I don't think I'm radicalized though — I don't have any problems with proprietary software if it works properly, but it barely does nowadays.I was using OS/2 as a teenager, but I was always interested in this UNIX thing they were talking about in the books I was reading, but I couldn't get my hands on any of the commercial unices. Then a friend of mine told me about this linux thing, I asked him if he can get some distro of that for me and some time later he have me a CD with RedHad 3.0 (not RHEL, there was no such thing at the time), I've been using various RedHad-based distros (Mandrake and some Russian distros), but then I could get my hands on Debian which was considered a more sane distro, later someone introduced me to Gentoo — I was already familiar with building stuff from source as Deban packages were outdated and I had to do it quite often, so I liked the idea of sources-based distro very much. I had been using that over a decade, but I wanted something to also run commercial software so I got a Mac, I've been on Mac OS X for quite some time too. Then there was a brief period of Windows, but soon both Windows and Mac OS X got so bad that I couldn't use them anymore, so now I'm back to using mostly FOSS.
(DIR) Post #ATRj0TzMHyJwxurzVI by james@mstdn.starnix.network
2023-03-09T16:58:42Z
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@gabriel This is actually a long story, as it also dates to my time on the fediverse as well.I first wanted to try Linux as an alternative to Windows on my PC. Before than, I used to be a huge Windows fan, and somewhat of an Apple fan as I used an iPhone, iPad and had seen videos of Windows and Mac on YouTube.In 2020, I was playing around with my Raspberry Pi and I tried installing Ubuntu Server 18.04 on it (before Ubuntu 20.04 came out). I was also playing with Windows Subsystem for Linux. Then one day my Windows computer had a shutdown glitch right before I had to go for vacation and I didn’t use it much afterwards.In 2020, I had gotten a used desktop computer and ThinkPad for free that weren’t being used anymore. During the rest of the year, I had been researching Linux and BSD. This is how I learned about OpenBSD, back when 6.7 was the latest version. I think @charlie_root would like to hear that at the time, I actually liked OpenBSD! (This is before it started to see some recent popularity.)In September that year, Windows XP’s source code leaked to the public. Mental Outlaw did videos on it, so I learned about his channel. I eventually learned about @distrotube and Luke Smith through the YouTube algorithm, and I liked the content they provided.Near the end of 2020, I downloaded the ISO of Linux Mint 20 and burned it to a DVD. I used it to get photos off a laptop that was having problems with Windows Update. Then I installed it on my desktop I got that year.When the year turned over to 2021, DT got banned from mastodon.technology and created #DistroToot. I also found out about Luke’s website and PeerTube channel, @luke. He made a video encouraging people to create their own websites, and encouraged users to join the fediverse via Pleroma, which is how I first learned about it.I later installed Pop!_OS 20.04 on my ThinkPad, and I liked GNOME 3.36 and its provided applications. This is when I actually started to love Linux, and I got to use it on the go as well.One day in June, I was doing a deep dive into the Gemini protocol, which I learned about from DistroTube. That’s how I learned about tilde pubnixes, I also learned about Sourcehut and Drew DeVault, as well as git send-email.In August I installed Arch Linux on my desktop, and I watched the guide from LearnLinuxTV to do it. I chose KDE as my desktop, since it was used on SteamOS, which chose Arch Linux for version 3.0 for the Steam Deck. Once I had it installed, I was very proud of myself and I had ascended to the next level!Later that month, I set up my website, https://jamespearson.xyz, and then I eventually got email working on it. I was able to finally try git send-email!In November, I signed up for DistroToot. Root BSD, now @charlie_root, was my first follower, among many others.At the turn of 2022, I created my own Pleroma instance, pleroma.jamesp.org. My account there, @james@pleroma.jamesp.org is still active, but not as much as Starnix. At the time, I didn’t have much of a use for it.In February 2022, DistroToot shut down, so I immediately switched to my own instance as I finally had a use for it. Then #Starnix launched and I made this instance my new Mastodon account, since I liked Mastodon from DistroToot. DistroToot shut down since, but I’m still here to this day. #DistroTootRefugeeDespite the tangent into my fediverse adventure, that’s how I got into FOSS and self-hosting, as well as the fediverse, since that all ties back to FOSS.Maybe this response deserves a blog post. I’ll work on it when I get home.
(DIR) Post #ATRj27Swzz0JgwUY9Q by leo@social.synergetic-design.com
2023-03-09T11:43:41Z
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@gabriel Windows admins
(DIR) Post #ATRj2ov7R85OSl09Wi by elagost@fosstodon.org
2023-03-09T11:31:00Z
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@gabriel The fact that I could run an up to date OS and multiple programs on my little netbook, instead of choosing between EOL XP, or slow Windows 7 where my characters showed up in Notepad with a half second of lag after typing. How could the free($) option be faster and actually fit on the disk? Also, VMs, Backtrack Linux, and running off an SD card... so many possibilities that could only be done with Linux. Took me 5 years to go all in, but it was easy.
(DIR) Post #ATSEfZgv5YiD6UJrcm by alcinnz@floss.social
2023-03-09T23:27:16Z
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@gabriel For me, it was very gradual. Hard for me to pinpoint anything specific.Though I've always felt the anticapitalist roots in my bones!
(DIR) Post #ATSEq3zVI1nPyM0spk by topher@mastodon.online
2023-03-09T23:31:39Z
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@gabriel Commercial software and operating systems becoming spyware themselves.At that point, I'd long seen enough.
(DIR) Post #ATSITaaUKXEwE0qqfY by urusan@fosstodon.org
2023-03-10T00:12:09Z
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@gabriel It was a slow process throughout my youth.I never had much money, so buying an OS for $100+ was prohibitive. Plus, you had to call up Microsoft and ask permission to move your license, what was all that about?Since we lived through the 90s and aughts, we had a lot of obsolete hardware floating around, so why not make something out of it? Linux was good for servers, so that's what I used.Eventually, it was easier to use Linux than Windows, so I stopped using Windows.
(DIR) Post #ATSL8cwEh8JNITih7o by mathew@universeodon.com
2023-03-10T00:40:16Z
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@gabriel I used to organize all my projects, at home and at work, with a product called In Control. It was a kind of combination outliner, to-do list, gantt chart thing. The closest thing around these days is OmniOutliner, https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner, except In Control also had a calendar view, reminders, etc.A competitor who made outliner software bought the product and killed it. No migration path offered, they just wanted to eliminate something that they thought was competing with their product.I've kept a copy of the manual in my bookshelf to act as a reminder.Nowadays I keep everything in CommonMark so I can move it wherever I need to, and I never put my data into software until I verify that I can get it all out again.
(DIR) Post #ATSLx3vIdiZTT6KbIm by urusan@fosstodon.org
2023-03-10T00:43:44Z
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@gabriel As time progressed, I was becoming a professional software developer and it became clear to me that FOSS was the way to go, both for individuals and organizations.How could you maintain something built on top of closed source software?The advantages just kept stacking up over time, and nowadays it's a foregone conclusion.More recently, I've veered left politically, which has just reinforced my FOSS stance further.
(DIR) Post #ATSOLih8u2pKmHawNM by thestrangelet@hachyderm.io
2023-03-10T01:17:30Z
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@gabriel Linux led me to a great career. I wouldn't say I'm a radical though. I do prefer running Linux on my personal machines, but use proprietary software when necessary. I believe developers should be compensated for their work, but also that users should control their own hardware.