Hello, fellow floating-internet-text generators! My name is Marcus, of 20 years. I hail from a city that is beautiful, ugly, fun, scary, upscale, run-down, full of genuine people and full of snakes! I speak of my beloved city of New Orleans: one of the biggest pockets of southern Libertarianism in the USA, once the home of the Italian Mafia, and we even have a Little Vietnam. What's not to love besides everything else?
I've been a gamer as long as I can remember. Sonic on Genesis was my first. Pokemon Gold blew my mind as a kid. I really envy Europeans for experiencing their games on home computers at an early age; my own computer would've been like crack to me. Anyway, my gaming experiences to this point include the Genesis, PS1, Dreamcast (which I own now!), GBC, GBA, Gamecube, PS2, SNES, PSP, PS3, DS, 3DS, Wii (I have a little collection going), Wii U, Xbox, X360, PS4, Saturn (which I also own now!) and PC. Not in that order and some more than others.
My Linux experience, funnily enough, started shortly after I dropped out of university (got accepted to a damn good one, figured I was ready, turns out I wasn't, became friends with "colorful" people to help me get through it, you know how that goes...). I learned about its existence from someone on a forum I used to glance at who was talking about gaming on Linux (mind, this is when such a topic was in its infancy). I switched the almighty Google machine on, and my mind went ker-fluffle. That search opened me up to a world of possibilities and freed me from the OS binary (heh). It was a learning experience, for sure.
My first distro was Ubuntu Trusty. I use Arch now. I'm currently looking at Solus and KaOS because I like the vision and execution of the former and the extremely narrow scope of the latter. Both use systemd, so that's nice as well (I know many a bloomer gets bunched on this forum whenever someone mentions it, just thought I'd give it a go).
I heard of the Pandora from Ashens, a popular YouTuber who reviews cheap products, 80s stuff, and the occasional handheld. Well, I say, "review," but he more or less just points a lot and says words. He doesn't go about giving scores to appease the MetaCritic circle-jerk. Not important. Anyway, while marathon-watching videos from him that I haven't seen yet, and I see this massive ~40min video talking about the Open Pandora. I really wanted a Pandora after that, but I was broke then (not that I walk the streets with shined shoes now, but I'm better off). Now that I can afford one, I'm hesitant to get one due to the ever-pending Pyra release (4G/4GB RAM/32GB eMMC for me, m80!), so I'm holding off in spite of like 4 people putting theirs up for sale.
I'm currently fiddling with scripting in Bash, as well as Python when I'm logged into my Raspberry Pi 2. The most I've contributed to a project was "porting" Bomi (a nice little Qt-based, mplayer2-forked multimedia player) to KaOS by taking a PKGBUILD from the then-latest stable version of Bomi on Arch via AUR, fiddling with the dependencies, and publishing the jury-rigged PKGBUILD file in my KCP repo. I don't even maintain it lol. Yeah, take that, people who port games and make modpacks and package stuff for Pandora to this day!
When I'm not awash in videos or tech learnings of the open-source sort, I enjoy lifting weights, "freeing my mind" (not sure what forum policy on substances are), enjoying lots of music, burying myself in politics, practicing my writing in the form of long ass forum posts, and sometimes reading books (currently on The Conquest of Bread by Petr Kropotkin).
