Spyke
lemmy.world

I say you've won an operating system once you've contributed code that got into its kernel

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fluxionreply
lemmy.world

The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.

Game over.

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

Alright, have an upvote 👍

But.. If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn't that like cheating?

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lemmy.world

Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.

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So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!

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dustycupsreply
aussie.zone

Wont work if you have unsaved edits or are in insert mode. Escape then :q! will.

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Pup Birureply
aussie.zone

and when typing :q with unsaved edits it literally also says “add ! to override”

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I typed :q and it just says :q on the bottom, all this advice and I'm still stuck in vim. My electricity bill has been high since 2022 because of this heavy editor with no x button

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People who have never had the pleasure of experiencing vim might not realize that the colon is a part of the command and will start recording a macro instead.

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You need to escort it through a very large minefield to designated spot or it will explode obliterating everything.

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

That looks purple to me, clearly not a BSOD.

For real though, a QR code for a kernel panic? 🤦‍♂️

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Seems dope, I mean, your computer don't work and retyping text is lame

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lemm.ee

Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano

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lemmy.zip

Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.

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Taleyareply
aussie.zone

Win10, the updates that keep loading bloatware and undoing debloater

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I literally only have it on a work laptop to keep os familiarity in my toolkit (tech)

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lemmy.world

Grub Rescue

Same way you overcome any of life's challenges: decide it's impossible bullshit and move onto another game

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

I won't lie, I've considered almost totally giving up modern technology, and going back to refurbishing wristwatches like I did in my teens.

Analog/Digital? Hardly matters, as long as I can get parts..

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A friend of mine works in IT during the week.
On the weekend he works as barkeeper.
He keeps track of the tabs with a pencil on paper, adds them up with a mechanical calculator, and only accepts cash.

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lemmy.ml
  1. First you pay money to Canonical, and then you load the disc into the PC.
  2. Animal noises and bongo drums play for some reason and you're presented with an orange game menu.
  3. You click on one of the squares stacked clumsily on the left and nothing happens.
  4. You click it again and it drags with your mouse up the hierarchy.
  5. Finally, it lets go and a big white square fills the screen, knocking you off your chair.
  6. A popup window spawns from an empty corner and informs you that there are 25 packages that can be updated.
  7. Daunted by the unending onslaught, you curl up into a ball and weep
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Agent641reply
lemmy.world

Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.

The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.

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tetris11reply
lemmy.ml

That final boss is easy. Just do Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then start killing all processes one-by-one until you get the blue screen of victory

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Blue screen of victory?

Fuck, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! 😂🤣

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3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it's appalling

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Brother laser printers.

Was shocked when it randomly showed ip everywhere automatically, it showed up and worked on my fresh freebsd install, I thought shit was haunted.

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BTRFS deciding it's corrupt and refusing even read only access.

Edit: You beat it by trashing the disk, using any other file system, restoring from backup and accepting any losses.

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Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn't using Skype anyways.

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lemmy.world

I am not nearly computer literate enough to understand what all these comments are talking about. But I expected personal bias to be one of the answers.

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Have an upvote just for commenting.

Yes, there's always gonna be some sort of tech bias regarding such questions. Every OS has flaws, somewhere..

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The final boss of Windows is to crowbar out a metric shitton of bullshit and you do it with a bunch of registry tweaks and GPedit

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I figured systemd is a 90s-JRPG boss with multiple phases taking over more and more of the screen.

You hold up a Slackware CD like some sort of vampires-and-faith-objects bit.

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

Who needs a button?

shutdown -s -f -t 0

Edited to include the missing -s argument

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

I did get it right. I literally used that command in a Windows activation hack.

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Boomkop3reply
reddthat.com

Start by using / instead of - like all other old build in windows comands then read the docs and find you need /p or /s or /r to tell it what to do

then /t 0 does nothing, /t 1 (or higher) actually sets and timer and implicitly sets /f as well

you'd know this if you had actually entered that command. Cuz that's the info it prints when you get it wrong

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

Yeah, you're both right and wrong at the same time. I missed an argument.

shutdown -s -f -t 0

Not /, it's -

I never suggested I was running Windows 11, this is for Windows XP. I just double and triple checked, it's not /, it's -

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It would be General Failure reading the disc. I would fsck him up, and replace disc if necessary.

Yes, I know those may be different oses, but I was thinking multiplatform

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If it's unix, sudo rm -rf /* the system without mercy! If it's windows, nah, it will win.

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I have always found the manual of the manual page two a bit scary.

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If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

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The final boss was Arch in the early days.
The boss fight was troubleshooting your display settings in Xorg.conf blindly, because you didn't have any screen output after an update.

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

William Gates retired, MicroShaft is now headed by Satya Nadella, who is apparently some fuckwit that's out of touch with humanity.

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chingaderareply
lemmy.world

i do know that, Bill wasn't innocent either. I do like quite a bit of what he's doing, but back in the day that was a ruthless motherfucker.

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over_cloxreply
lemmy.world

You are aware that communism ≠ capitalism ≠ dictatorship right?

People (often brainwashed US citizens) throw that communism word around as if it's somehow bad.

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