DNS is pronounced ‘hosts’ because it was originally one big text file.

It’s these things. Notice how the thread is smaller than the shaft. You always need to drill a pilot hole, otherwise the thread won’t bite into the wood. The thread is also pretty tight, so screwing it two-three times in the same hole is enough to strip the wood in the hole, so it can be pulled out with tweezers with almost no resistance. It’s also slotted, so if you press too hard your screwdriver will slip out. And if you screw too tightly, the head will rip off, because it’s a mild steel.

Or you just hammer it in.

In Soviet Russia, all furniture was assembled by hammering wood screws. Then the assembled furniture was ripened for up to ten years in special humidity-controlled warehouses, allowing screws to expand and lock in place thanks to rusting. This required making screws from special-grade low-quality steel, and use extra-toxic glue for particle board planks so they would not rot. And still, only one in five assembled pieces of furniture did not have any rotten parts or fall into pieces when you attempted to take it home, making it even more luxurious. It is utterly impossible to repeat this level of craftsmanship in modern world.

“Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.

kill is a command.

love, happiness, and peace are not commands.

You can totally find love using command sudo apt install love. It’s a game engine.

happiness is a Perl module inside libdemeter-perl package. Let’s not install Perl modules, there lies insanity.

And you can find peace in a whole bunch of packages, it’s an icon of the peace symbol.

Gnome is the most stable DE with all features included, it also has minimal amount of system options to still have all features.

XFCE misses a lot of features, such as printers. KDE has all bells and whistles but is less stable.

My answer is killall -9

Dolphin does mount it …somewhere. Supposedly. I expect only KDE developers know where exactly. You can get the same functionality using Gnome file manager and gio command, and you get your network share properly mounted in a file system, but then you won’t be using KDE.

Gnome 3 abruptly removed app icons from the desktop moved taskbar to the top of the screen, and broke Alt-Tab. That’s why prople hate Gnome and love KDE, because KDE did not break these features.

Dolphin shows you places that are not in your file system, such as network shares or your phone‘s media directory. Those are fake files, illusions of Satan, temptations designed to stray you from the path of God. Avoid anything that is not opened with open and not read with read system calls, for doing so is a sin before eyes of God (fopen and fread are permitted). Mount your network shares using sudo mount -t cifs.

That was the whole Redhat business model when they just started.

MICROS~1

The PC case with Turbo button was originally 486-DX, but there was no place on the new K6 motherboard to plug it into.

People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM.
It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using the ports system, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package.
And you had to be careful to use gmake instead of make, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to make sure to use GNU versions of grep, sed, and awk, and remove all bashisms from shell scripts, because /bin/sh was of course incompatible with bash.
You had only about 50% chance that a given package would compile. Package manager? What package manager? Just run suand then make install.
And my PC was AMD K6, and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing. And I was very proud of my TEAC CD drive.

You lose:

• Your corporate shackles

You gain:

• Limitless bragging rights

I remember the time when Linux jokes were about audio drivers and X11 config files, but audio has long been working out of the box, and X11 is already dead and cremated.

Even recompiling kernel now takes around five minutes instead of two hours, so that joke is irrelevant too.

So all we are left with is timeless discussion of which text editor is the best, and dumping on Windows.

The correct spelling is DBMS. The picture is accurate though.

Android has BSD-like permissive license. It’s open-source, but is also very very commercial. Google needed it to be open-source so phone manufacturers would adopt it, they all got burned on Windows Phone and Symbian and did not want another closed source OS that they could not modify for their specific hardware.

“Ewww, Windowsssss!”

Pinch my nose, spray my fingers with hand sanitizer, then walk away from their desk.

And the results are heeeeeeeeere!

Spoiler: dpkg is the winner, but popular vote goes to perl-base. libc6 is at the distant 28-th place, which makes no sense to me.