• CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        That’s not comparable. The situations are quite different. Let me explain:

        In your example: Windows. It’s basically the “default” operating system. Billions of users. Some of those billions are kinda dumb and will type in a command or delete a folder because the Internet said so. Ok, so you ruined the day of some dummy with a practical joke. Not particularly funny, but whatever, it’s just some dummy.

        In the Linux example, here’s how it goes. There’s an alternative OS people can try out. People who are fed up with Microsoft. They install Linux for the first time, and what’s their first experience? Some practical joke ruins their day. These are the people we want! The good ones. The ones brave enough to try out Linux, and their first experience is a dumb meme that ruins their day, or week, and totally turns them off from the Linux community.

        This is not the same as pranking some dumb Windows users.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      no it’s not. What IS keeping it from being mainstream is googling something basic like “how to run .sh linux” and getting nothing but

      sudo chmod +x li.sh

      Along with 3 other paragraphs of reading, writing, and security, or just other complicated stuff they don’t need when they really just need to click properties then allow executable.

  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    My filesystem is btrfs and I’ve got timeshift setup, how hard will this fuck me, if at all? Is there anyway I can be fucked harder? (Asking for a friend)

    • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Depends, are you backing up to another partition or drive?

      If not, you’re pretty fucked.

  • MrMobius @sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Although I’m French, I still laugh at the stupid memes by the English speaking internet that make fun of my people. Then again, there is a sense of justice in imagining people falling for this. 😁

    • bluemite@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      How do you think this is making fun of your people? It’s making fun of non-French people that would want to “remove the French language pack” because they’re not French

      • MrMobius @sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        This is not making fun of french people, but this might trick people who laugh at french people. That made me smile I must admit.

    • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      This is very much the Linux version of the old tricking gamers to alt+F4 gag.

      My favorite was when I was teaching a friend Squad, and we were in a vehicle. I explained you hit the F keys to change seat (which is true), so F1, F2, F3, etc. Noticing that seats 1, 2 and 3 were filled, I then told him he can hold down alt to swap seats faster. He then immediately quits the game xD

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Bro, the Counter-Strike devs put porn in the game. I’m surprised they were all able to get away with it.

        Huh? Oh no, dude it’s easy. Hold alt and press f4 and it brings it up. Then just browse it with the s and d keys.

        Bahahaha! Half the lobby is gone!

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I thought this was stupid, how much space could a language pack take? Then I tried it and my system is at least %15 faster, turns out there is a bug in the dialogue disseminator preventing matriarchal ascension in the domestic power structure.

    You do have to add —no-preserve-root though.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Ever since Napoleon, the Fr*nch have tried to take over Linux to implement their régime baguette.