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i’m flux.

i first got into computers and hacking around 2006 after coming across textfiles.com and have been hooked ever since. probably due to that having been my first exposure to the tech scene, i’ve always had a special appreciation and love for retro computing and hacking culture from the 80s and 90s. its a nostalgia for a world i never really got the chance to experience.

i started using linux around that same time with live cds i “liberated” from the back of books at the local frys electronics (y’all remember those?). iirc, i think the first distro i ever tried was ubuntu 6.06 (dapper drake). i’ve been using linux almost exclusively since then and i’m now at the point where using anything else feels painful and clunky. i’ve gone through the typical journey, starting out as a distro-hopper for a number of years before realizing linux distros are all the same thing with a different wrapper and package manager. these days i’ve mostly settled on debian-based systems, currently running debian proper on my daily driver machine.

outside of tech stuff, i don’t have a huge list of other hobbies but i do like cooking, learning about french cuisine and wine, being in the forest (that’s a hobby, right?), and internet archeology. i’m a big fan of personal tech blogs and have a special nostalgia and reverence for blogs that have stuck around for decades; they’re cool little time capsules documenting the evolution of tech (and the people using it) over time. i’m hoping to be able to do the same with this blog.