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hunter

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5. In college I used to live in the computer labs, almost literally.
Sun Nov 14, 2021, 12:11 AM
Nov 2021

That was in the later 'seventies and early 'eighties. Having built my own computers using 1802 processors, working with BSD was magic!

Now I'm a Linux guy. An easy way to learn Linux, if you haven't gone there yet, is on an inexpensive Raspberry Pi.

I'm on the 'spectrum somewhere, with a side order of OCD. That's occasionally been useful in my life. I can focus on certain things. At times it's also been a pain. It took me nine years to graduate from college.

Probably unrelated to that, I've also got diagnosis of PTSD and major depressive disorder. Meds can be helpful.

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