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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

probably the best advice you’ll find in a fortune cookie

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it on windows since it didn't specify anything.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Considering how fortune mostly contains very out-of-date computer jokes, I highly doubt an actual fortune cookie manufacturer would use its output.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Ty for reminding me to install fortunemod.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

somebody make a fortune cookie cow for cowsay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"sudo apt-get cowfortune"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm like 90% sure I've actually seen that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yup cowfortune is a thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fortune and cowsay are 2 separate packages, the output of them combined is this:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assumed the package called "cowfortune" was the 2 combined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh, maybe. if so, it’s new to me!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you want to create a botnet of fortune cookie wisdoms, is that it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you some bizzaro world version of me?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I am. Mustache, black gloves and all

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not intentional, or more likely staged. YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For a moment I thought I was on command line