Lemmy is so weird. Some of the memes make me think that average audience here is 15 yrs old, but then there is the occasional post like this which only 70 year old ancient wizards will understand.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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Growing up doesn't mean we stop finding a well timed fart funny. It means 70 years of memories is still tickled by a crude punchline. Old people and young people have the same sense of humor but slang causes transmission errors.
Bet
I resent that. I’m 38 and I distinctly remember this. RedHat 4.2 (Manhattan) circa 1997 I think. That was when I started messing with Linux.
How do you have to be 70 years old to understand this?
I bet half of people surfing right now on r/all wouldn't.
That's more the environment than the age tho!
Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.
Just install them La'nuxes for them cozzy feelings.
The modern appropriate version of this is Pirate or l33tspeak, it's a common technique for debugging localization issues without having to be able to read another language
I remember setting my facebook to pirate back in the day. Fun times.
Avast antivirus had a pirate language, it was excellent
"Avast antivirus has been updated!"
Hnnnnnng, you triggered my PTSD from windows
I miss everything having pirate speak. I don't know why it stopped being a trend.
they also have this English but RTL thing.
Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don't mean RHEL.
Hah, same/similar release as me
family had dialup at the time, but I found "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x" (with included CD) at a garage sale.
Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love... 😃
That wasn't the installer or red hat specific. There used to be language filters in Linux including Swedish Chef, those just got included in the language packs and want so he redhat specific development
and want so he redhat specific development
Back up!
What in tarnation
What in the installation's goin on in there?
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Top text: At one point, Red Hat Linux had a "Redneck" language option for its installer. I'll just leave these images here: Four images of the Red Hat Linux installer with "Welcome to Red Hat Linux" above it and "/ between elements : selects : next screen" below. The first dialogue box reads: [Choose a Language] What language should we use during the installation process? English Czech French German Norwegian Redneck (selected) Romanian Turkish [OK]
Second dialogue box: [keyboard type] whichadese keyboards you got? tr_f-latin5 tr_q-latin5 tralt trf trq uk us-prokey us (selected) [yep]
Third dialogue box: [installation method] which kinda stuff has the packages, junior? Local CDROM (selected) NFS image hard drive FTP SMB image [yep] [back up!]
Fourth dialogue box: [note] stick in your Red Hat CD into dat coffee holder on the front [yep] [back]
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This so funny funny lmafo! Howdy there partner, what parts ya come from.
Well see I come from that internets place out yonder, but I done need tuh git in that there kurnal whatcha ma callit and get r done no whut I'm talkin bout.
This was also in Mandrake Linux.
Because Mandrake was a Red Hat fork
Core memory unlocked. This had to be Red Hat 7? One of the few releases before they ditched home/personal use and went all in on enterprise server.
cotton eyed Joe approved.
UwU when?
I would use Linux much more for personal stuff if they had UwU language options.
whichadose
yep
The installer for VMware ESXi 7.0 (earliest version released in 2020) still had a Czechoslovakia option for keyboard layout selection.
Interesting! Just laziness or was that layout different from either Slovak or Czech?
Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?
Is there a way to get it back in modern systems?
There are thousands more lines to translate, I’m afraid. However, it is opan source software so you can do it yourself by following the langpack documentation.
Absolutely based