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+### My Really Bad Cobbled-Together Dotfiles
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+This is **not** set up for anyone else to use, and is very incomplete because I only checked a few files into git.
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+Mostly just shoved into git and put here for fun.
+Maybe I have a strange idea of fun, I don't know.