• TurboWafflz
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    1092 months ago

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

    • @fluxion
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      252 months ago

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

      Game over.

      • @over_cloxOP
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        122 months ago

        Your comment seems to have a ----- missing…

        • @fluxion
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          72 months ago

          I don’t even

          • @over_cloxOP
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            62 months ago

            haunting you for the holiday 👻

    • @over_cloxOP
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      212 months ago

      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?

      • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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        262 months ago

        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.

    • @InverseParallax
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      12 months ago

      Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.

      • dustycups
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        212 months ago

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

        • Pup Biru
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          42 months ago

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

          • dustycups
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            12 months ago

            True.

            I tend to use ZZ it ZQ instead. Its been a while.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        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

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        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.

  • Scott
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    442 months ago

    TempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis

      • sunzu2
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        12 months ago

        That shit was the final straw for me…

        I was spending so much time trying to fight it to stop doing weird shit that learning Linux was easier path forward.

    • @over_cloxOP
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      32 months ago

      Happy cry Linux mode activated… 🐧

    • TonyOstrich
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      32 months ago

      Windows 10 DLC just dropped. Copilot added from Windows 11.

  • @JackLSauce
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    182 months ago

    Grub Rescue

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

    • @over_cloxOP
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      42 months ago

      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…

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        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.

    • @over_cloxOP
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      72 months ago

      Instructions almost clear…

      sudo uninstall windows

  • @[email protected]
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    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
    • @Agent641
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      82 months ago

      Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        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

        • @over_cloxOP
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          22 months ago

          Blue screen of victory?

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

  • @residentmarchant
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    Figuring out how to print…nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky

    • atocci
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      122 months ago

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

    • @InverseParallax
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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.

    • @over_cloxOP
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      Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn’t using Skype anyways.

  • @[email protected]
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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.