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title: "About"
date: 2025-07-21T10:00:00Z
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## You might be wondering: who the hell are you, and why should I trust you?

These are pretty easy to answer: my name is Lourenço, and I'm literally just a person. I've been a financial analyst, project manager, IT support engineer, and a farmer. Perhaps most importantly, I've always been a geek at heart - I assembled my first computer at age 14, and the first thing I did was install Linux on it. Since then, this has been my main operating system on all the machines I use.

As for trust, you shouldn't trust me if this is the first time you hear of me or this project. But here's a few things that might assuage your fears: I'm not a faceless corporation that treats you as a product; I'm not going to use an AI chatbot to intermediate our conversations; and you can be sure that whatever services I provide, I'll do it as if I was doing it for myself.

## Why are you doing this?

You know how they say that you should find something that gives your life meaning? Well, I think this is it. I love to help people, and I loathe big tech, how they've turned the cyber space into a completely sterile place devoid of any personality, since we stopped being active participants in it, but rather pure consumers of whatever it is they're selling.

So, this is my attempt to fight against the tide. Every time I've helped my friends and family to move from Windows to Linux, I've felt like I did something good; if I can convince someone to move away from a cloud solution to a local one, I'm a happy egg; and if they delete their Google, Facebook, or Instagram accounts, all the better.

## How can I get to know you better?

Feel free to follow the [blog](/blog) here if you're interested in more technical things. I also have a another [blog/project](https://blog.assilvestrar.club) that you can check. Send me an [e-mail](mailto:lvales@excipio.tech) you feel like it. Finally, there's also my [X account](https://x.com/@excipio_).

