When I was 13 years old, I waited over a week for my Red Hat Linux ISO file to download. I saw these nerds on TechTV talk about it, and I wanted to try it myself. I told my parents what I was doing, and they told me that my older half-brother had mentioned it. I installed it that β¦
incredibly satisfying to listen to someone rage read an article that is WRONG in their field by an academic who is also always WRONG in your own field. strong recommend.
It was the last day of 1999, and my mother surprised me with an upgrade to my Sega Genesis, a translucent lime green Nintendo 64 with Donkey Kong 64. Sorry, it was βJungle Green.β I loved Nickelodeon slime green, so this was perfect. I got to learn the DK rap. I liked Donkey Kong β¦
I remember saying something about this being a sus behavior, even for personal domains within the #IndieWeb and the most rebuff given was that "donations were good enough".