Dutch-American Silicon Valley native EE/CS developer (not a PE), long-time user of Unix & Linux, pilot, amateur radio operator (HAM) volunteer for IEEE (Senior member) & CAP; past: Atari, IBM ARC, Sony, game dev (mostly NES-PS3), Texan, adjunct prof, and some stuff with robots, railway equipment, and rockets; online since 1985
I love science, music, social dancing, and people (E Pluribus Unum), want to see more democracy and equality, and less religious hypocrisy and hate. I like good trouble.
@kilgore_trout @Mio
Computers can be bought off-the-shelf with operating systems other than Windows from a few vendors including Apple, Dell, System76, and others.