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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 13:36:03 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Do you know how I got into FOSS stuff? Embarrassingly enough I went to a summer camp between junior and senior year of high school, I was def the oldest one at the camp, and took an "Intro to Linux" class

   I got so excited I went home and bought a Red Hat for Dummies book and installed it from the CD-ROM

   I got so into FOSS'y stuff over the next year my parents tried to do an intervention before I left for college

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 13:38:29 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @cwebber well, that didn't work. 😕

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 13:38:32 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     "Christine," they said, "we want to talk to you about something before you go off to college"

     I thought they were going to warn me about partying

     "You've really gotten into this Linux thing. But college is also a time where you're supposed to develop your social life, and if you just sit in your room playing with Linux, maybe you won't. We want you to uninstall Linux from your computer"

     Oh! Well okay.

     I lied and told them I would and wiped the Windows partition. Best decision of my life.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 26-Jan-2026 13:39:41 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     I wasn't much of a rebel but here it is

     The moral of the story is: always rebel against your parents when it comes to doing cool things on your computer

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 00:37:10 JST Julia Evans

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     @cwebber i still talk to my university friends about Linux today, obviously Linux is good for one’s social life :)

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     Danny Garside (da5nsy@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 05:40:52 JST Danny Garside

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     @cwebber this is hilarious 😂👏

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 10:40:09 JST aeva

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     @cwebber little did your parents know that linux is primarily transmitted via social interaction

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jan-2026 10:41:02 JST aeva

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     @cwebber i wanna come over to your house and play linux again... some day