• @NegativeInf
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    But are the thigh high socks provided or must I purchase them separately?

    • @[email protected]
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      You’ll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      I really want one of those pairs, for my knees get cold in winters.

      Guess I’ll install Arch for a freebie.

    • @[email protected]
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      228 days ago

      like jurassic park, life finds a way

      Comouter scientists are now able to change gender as an evolutionary response to the lack of women in STEM fields

      the socks are not mandatory, they are just given out in case anyone is chosen to be the new cutest girl in the office

      i will warn you that if you ever start saying “mrrrp…nya :3” even as a joke, it WILL trigger the process to begin

      …oh shit wait

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  • @[email protected]
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    Ordinarily I would be fine with this. I use Arch anyway. But an Arch system configured by somebody else? I’d be safer leaving my laptop at home!

  • @TheDemonBuer
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    If a laptop is left unattended long enough to do a fresh Arch install, it’s probably been abandoned anyway.

  • NaibofTabr
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    Unnaproved software installation implies an obligation to provide user support… indefinitely.

        • @TrickDacy
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          Why is it “head cannon” and not “head canon”? You got some kind of gun strapped to your head that you keep stories in?

          • TurboWafflz
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            Actually I think they mean that “as a girl” (meaning the commenter is a girl), they “head cannon” (meaning they use a cannon to shoot heads) “at the arch installation bandit”. I hope this annotated version helps!

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            I head cannon the arch installation bandit as a girl.

            Quaffing the potion of gender stability, now in your female form you strap on the head cannon and fire it at the arch installation bandit.

            The arch bandit takes 5d7 damage and collapses prone. Seeing their leader defeated, the subordinate installation bandits flee. You have reclaimed Installation Cathedral from the bandits and can now invite the Installation Medium to summon the spirits of past operating systems.

            • @TrickDacy
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              Lol this won the Fediverse today.

    • @bitwaba
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      The hell it does.

      You’ve spent too much time talking to my family.

    • @doingthestuff
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      It also requires that they migrate all of my files and ensure I have full functionality my software and games.

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      Just type yay in that black window with white text, at least if I would have set it up, not that I did, just if I would have, of course.

  • @lightnegative
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    If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable

    • @deltapi
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      Yes, the crime of giving them a stable OS that once it is set up keeps working reliably for years to come.

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      “Punish”? See how they react when they boot into TempleOS.

      Oh, only Linux? There’s always Hannah Montana or North Korea Linux…but that’d be giving a foreign dictatorship a botnet node…

      In which case I was gonna say “Well an NSA-friendly OS would be funny” but then we’re just back to Windows!

      • @lightnegative
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        What are you talking about? TempleOS isn’t a punishment, it’s a reward

  • @Sewer_King
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    Does Carmen San Diego work there or something?

  • @shalva97
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    broken Nvidia Optimus free of charge

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      Afaik Nvidia Optimus works fine on arch if setup following the wiki. It’s mainly other distros that have Nvidia problems.

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        Exactly, while RTFM I haven’t have a single issue (apart from the driver quirks itself) and even automated the driver patching for NvFBC. Usual error is using nvidia-dkms and not setting up proper hook to rebuild the kernel module on kernel updates.

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    Easy. Buy a new laptop, let them upgrade from w•ndows to arch, then dump arch for something like MX or whatever else I use in the future. Then I wouldn’t have to touch the default w•ndows installation forced into me.

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      Look, windows is bad, but we should reserve asterisks for actually bad things that require censoring in all circumstances, such as Br*t*sh or *ng*l*sh.

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            dammit I should know this by now lma

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                Not sure what lists you’re talking about, but it’s nerding time anyway.

                The backslash (the \ symbol) is used to “escape” characters in the software world, i.e. tell the software to treat the following character as a simple symbol, not some instruction. It’s very well-known among developers, so if they happen to be the ones writing guides on Markdown (the syntax where you use asterisks and some other symbols to dictate the final layout while having the luxury of being able to edit the document in a plain-text editor), it can actually elude them because it’s mundane.

                In fact, some software won’t allow you to use the backslash in short text fields such as names or passwords because doing so could potentially open up security risks where the malicious actors “inject” some instructions into software to cause all sorts of trouble. On the other hand, this is probably a redundant old measure, as there are usually other means to prevent this kind of attack today, but that’s the power of habit, I guess; and, well, if it’s a simple measure that works, there’s not much reason to get rid of it, is there?

        • @Nutteman
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          Pardon my 🤮, but please don’t remind me of that foul fucking land, my friend. I was eating.

        • @Nutteman
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          They’re a disgusting affront to human nature. Of all the islands in the world, you pick a non-tropical one? Shameful actions, hominids are meant to be tropical creatures.

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      On first book have a bootable Fedora usb stick plugged in and hit f2/f10/f12 before the windows logo ever appears. Problem solved!

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    Fedora hat checks out

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      Recently wanted to try KDE 6 on my second laptop and after being pissed off at the lack of encryption with Void installer (gotta do it manually, have done it in the past but I’m lazy), another fail with NixOs (known bug with encryption in the latest stable installer) the easiest way was installing Arch lol.

      I used archinstall as suggested, just answer questions, no manual voodoo incantation required. You can do it.

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        The time you took to answer the archinstall questions and what would take to do them manually is (nearly) the same. The manual way is that you are forced learn the system (which does take time), and it’s thus more exact of what you want. Once you successfully boot a manual install on a bare hardware, you’ll get all the swag. ;)

        (I was lazy last time I had to do a full install, and I prepared the system almost entirely in a VM, for which I used the physical disk I would finally boot it from. The final step was to chroot’d into the nearly complete system and make it boot outside of the VM…)