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+Episode: 3577
+Title: HPR3577: Hello and how I got into tech
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3577/hpr3577.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-25 01:38:47
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+This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3577 for Tuesday the 19th of April 2022.
+Today's show is entitled, Hello and How I Got Into Tech.
+It is part of the series How I Got Into Tech.
+It is the first show by Newhost Sarah and is about 7 minutes long.
+It carries an explicit flag.
+The summary is, Hi, I'm Sarah and this is How I Got Into Tech.
+Hello, I'm Sarah.
+And after years of listening to HPR, I figured it was probably time to contribute.
+I really don't like talking about myself, but it was mentioned in episode HPR 3546.
+The community news for February 2022, that introducing yourself is the neighborly thing
+to do.
+So here I am.
+I've gone through many handles in my online life, but I'm back to my original, which
+is just my name.
+I think it's kind of like hiding in plain sight.
+So I thought I would talk a little bit about my geek history.
+I've been messing with computers since my dad brought home a candy one day.
+I have absolutely no recollection of how old I was.
+I do remember reading the DOS manual that came with it, though.
+So I know I could at least read.
+Now the reason for why I was reading the DOS manual was because my mom did, and I constantly
+stole all of the books that she was reading because I wanted to read them.
+Eventually we upgraded computers over the years, and so I still remember when we got our
+first Windows computer and having to type boot into DOS and then type WiN to get in.
+During this time, my mom also started calling into local BBSs because she had started playing
+diplomacy with folks on one of the local BBS's plus on NewsNet.
+She even had the physical board game set up in her office that I was under orders to never
+touch.
+And naturally, along with everything else, I also wanted to call into the BBSs too.
+So my mom got me an account on both of them that were only two in our hometown.
+And that's how my online life got started.
+I was probably about 9 or 10.
+I played far too many doorgames that were way too old for me, like Legend of the Red
+Dragon anyone, and I remember every day waiting for the twice-daily download of the
+NewsNet groups.
+I also remember that because there were two of us constantly going online that we actually
+installed a second phone line in our house, which was very exciting.
+My mom eventually found IRC, and naturally, because I always wanted to do what she was
+doing, I followed.
+And that's where I learned a ton.
+I survived the early IRC wars, and I started playing around with Linux at this time.
+Eventually, though, I went to university.
+And I decided that part of it was peer pressure, if I'm completely honest, because people
+were always giving me a hard time for, quote, playing with computers.
+So what I did in university was I bought an Apple product.
+I bought an iBook G4.
+And while it was the easiest computer I've ever had to set up, I found it super frustrating
+to get anything done on it.
+I'm not sure if it was because of my time in Windows, or my time in Linux, but I do remember
+being super frustrated and not being able to figure out how I uninstall a program.
+It just wasn't intuitive for me.
+And I still remember somebody's shocked face when they told me just drag the program
+to the trash can.
+And I was like, no, that's just ridiculous.
+So anyway, I did like my iBook, but I soon realized that terminal was the fastest way
+for me to get things done.
+I found it much faster and much easier and more intuitive than the GUI.
+Now unfortunately, iBook G4s had this little problem where one of the chips on the motherboard
+would heat up and crack, which would give you lovely stripes on your screen and completely
+render your iBook completely unusable.
+So this actually happened to me three days before my warranty ended, and Apple refused
+to do anything about it.
+I remember standing in the genius bar and they said, well, there's new ones over there.
+So I was left with an iBook that had probably about $800 of paid for MP3s with DRM because
+this was like before Apple had decided to go DRM free.
+So I was like, great, everything's now locked away.
+I was trying to be against citizen, everything's now locked away.
+So I quite literally cracked open my iBook, liberated my data, uncoupled together a computer
+with various parts I had lying around, because you know, university.
+So it was at that point that I started using Linux exclusively, mainly because I was
+just so angry at Apple.
+I actually ran Debbie and said, because I liked the challenge of everything constantly
+breaking and having to figure out how to fix it.
+It was like having a who done it mystery after every single update, like, oops, suddenly
+my printer's not working.
+So eventually I went on to get my master's in library science, and it turned out that
+my penchant for playing around on computers was handy in this field.
+And I ended up in charge of a Red Hat server and an Oracle database, a large-ish library
+system.
+So at this point, I figured, okay, I'd better step up my Linux game.
+I'd better learn everything I possibly can.
+So I did a stage one install of Gen 2.
+It took two weeks and much swearing, along with much compiling, but eventually I figured
+things out.
+I really loved my time as a citizen.
+It was fabulous and great, and any time I logged into the server, it said, Sarah's happy
+place.
+During this time, I also floated around many Linux projects, getting involved with Linux
+Mint in Ubuntu, but my true Linux love will always be WN.
+At my current work, I am regularly given things to break or break into, which is something
+I've always been good at.
+I like figuring out how things work, I like figuring out how things break, and how they
+can be fixed.
+I played Minecraft, an addiction that started mainly because it was one of the few games
+that ran on Linux.
+I don't mind as much as I used to, thanks to work, but I still try to.
+I knit and I sew, and I'm interested in combining those with technology.
+I mean, when you think about it, knitting is the original binary code.
+So I'm hoping to contribute some shows on knitting, maybe some on information security,
+hiking hacks that I figured out, sewing, messing around with many spare netbooks that I
+currently have lying around the house, messing with the pile of Android phones that I seem
+to have accumulated, and maybe I'll do one talking about stripping PDFs of digital
+watermarks.
+I've gotten also pretty good with Shotcut, the open source video at Indic Software, and
+maybe I'll talk about some mysteries with my systems breaking.
+Like right now, my Windows machine crashes anytime I try to access the document or video
+directly in Windows Explorer, which is kind of annoying.
+I might also do a few car repairs, depending on how my car holds up, so we'll see how that
+works.
+That kind of stuff.
+Anyway, that's it for now.
+Thanks for listening.
+You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
+Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
+If you ever thought of recording or podcast, then click on our contribute link to find
+out how easy it really is.
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+rsync.net.
+On this address status, today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+International License.