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***mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.***

Does windows have this much KINDNESS in a single phrase? HAH! Eat it botnet!

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[–] [email protected] 238 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My favorite system message is GRUB's "bailing out, you're on your own. Good luck"

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

This is the most confusing and awesome message I've ever had.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Screen prints (printed?)
Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die.. when the master process died unexpectedly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My favorite too.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

The PowerPC installers used to have a step where it would output something like "Blessing /dev/sda1 with holy penguin pee" loved that message :)

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OP is not in the sudoers file.

This incident will be reported.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This was scary to me as a young guy learning Linux 30 years ago. Turns out it's not reporting to anyone. :)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It in fact is reportet to the system admin. In that case you.

It's in a journalctl log (i think location is depending on distro)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe if you have a local mail server set up on the system? Otherwise no way to report. :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Otherwise it goes to your /var/mail I believe. Sadly they merged commit lately that removes this message

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

It just printed into the system logs on my arch install(although this was a few installs ago... could've changed)

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

Linus Torvalds gets those reports and puts you on the naughty list

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

Now that's a grumpy Santa I can believe in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It reports it to you ( the system admin )

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I think it's a holdover from earlier *NIX.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Santa is coming for that naughty person!

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like when my system insults me when I do dumb things. This is why enabled the „insults“ option in my sudoers config.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I need to do this, I need constant reminders that what I'm doing is nonsensical.

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

I'll need to do this. Is it just in the default sudoers file as an option?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

ahaha I am totally enabling this

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
                 (__) 
                 (oo) 
           /------\/ 
          / |    ||   
         *  /\---/\ 
            ~~   ~~   
..."Have you mooed today?"...
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This APT has super cow powers

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once, on bsd, I got, "you done messed up"

I destroyed the fs, so, to be fair, it wasn't wrong...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It was my very first non-windows installation. Win98 (not SE) had just came out, and I was super frustrated with the state of the desktop OS. I thought, "there has to be something better than this shite". I got an old computer from a yard sale and an old HDD from goodwill all for around $10 (I didn't want my main computer to be the guinea pig), downloaded Caldera from some shady site, and started the installation process. Remember Caldera and how it was supposed to be an OS for the masses, supposedly working on current hardware? Well... Not my state of the art junker was excluded from that claim, I suppose, because it failed. I tried several other distros, but all failed. Hell, even Win3.11 failed. My friend told me that he got BSD running on his dad's old laptop (BW screen, manual toggles for the brightness and contrast, even had to be plugged in to work), because "you could run BSD on some tinfoil and gum". So, I figured, why not. Downloaded the IMG file wrote it to floppy, and started. I got it installed (yay), then started tinkering. I don't remember now what I did, but, yeah, I effed that installation up real good. Reinstalled successful, and just used it as is with minor adjustments to make it work a little smoother. I even got it to print on our brand new HP Deskjet 540 printer, something Win98 just couldn't handle.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shit, all these linux posts make me want to setup one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should definitely setup a Linux post post Linux installation. Make sure you check 'use entire disk' to rid your machine of any residue

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he does I'll install linux too. As w can have a post Linux post Linux posting post Linux post posting Linux posting post the post posting linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry ntfs? Disgusting and I see your libfuse, you aren't even gonna mount it via NTFS3.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was not the UNIX way... True UNIX way would end silently and have zero as $?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always liked the "UNIX confirmation prompt":

Were you sure?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After three minutes of nothing, caused by a command to remove the French language pack:

sudo rm -Rf /

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That message would require a printer, which one cannot miss if they finally got rid of it.

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

You enjoy Linux to freely use your machine. I use it to make the cow say funny thing. We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And then there's the symfony console who tells you after each command "now get back to work" :(

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

Ow. Now that is rude.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's that really aggressive message from ssh in all caps that goes like "IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING REAL NASTY" when the fingerprint on a ssh host changes. Usually happens when I format or reinstall OS on a device that maintains same IP or address.

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

It doesn't say that on my system when I format with ext4. Is it because you used ntfs? Probably.

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

I didn't get that with btrfs either.

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

I prefer the bb command

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I love GRUB's "Installation finished. No error reported." Its a small thing, but you need a confident voice to tell you that everything is OK.

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