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Posted with my thinkpad running Arch btw.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If three astronauts are flying over the Gobi desert in a canoe and they crash, then how many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse?

The answer is purple, because ice cream has no bones.

Therefore, my answer is 42.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice feet!

I'd add the feet holding a globe, but okay..

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

Obviously. But it looks like he's looking at the imaginary globe, looking like he just discovered New Zealand really exists.

If someone doesn't add a globe to this meme by tomorrow, I just might LOL!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He’s trying to find Missouri but doesn’t know it’s a made up state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought the imaginary state was Nebraska...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That might be one of them but Missouri is a government conspiracy made up solely to make Florida feel better about itself.

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

I'm still working with the New Zealand angle. Think I got a decent angle screenshot from GEarth to work with, but it's late right now.

I'll see what I can throw together tomorrow.

Anyways, Linux!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gets eaten by bear from spamming the word from god command

Turns out God was trying to use the word from god command to warn me about the bear

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Stupid glowing-in-the-dark FBI agents!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

If I was lost, Windows. More likely to get back to civilization by finding well adjusted users. Instead of one old graybeard that hasn't seen other people for days.

(I use Arch, btw)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Windows, definitely

Then if it gets too hot I could open them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Equestria font can be disabled from the bootloader menu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Why would you want to?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No, just amorous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Either way, assuming I can find a large stick or rock, I'd have enough patience to do a manual physical uninstall and get back to my solitude. So I think I'd be pretty ambivalent.
I guess smashing the shit out of windows would be slightly more satisfying - but that's not really the main reason I'm alone in the woods.

And yes - before you ask the obvious follow-up - I have smashed the shit out of a thinkpad in the past, they're not as tough as people say they are; it's mostly false bravado. Don't be afraid to stand up to the bully (ymmv).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Neither of these are physical entities, making the question pointless

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

They are when you install them?

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

No, the only time software actually becomes physical is if you print the source code:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What's the difference compared to printing it on paper? It's a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.

What are the rules, here? What's your personal definition of physical that I don't know about?

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

The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner

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

39 buried, 0 found.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Windows. It's been too long since I used Linux so don't remember all the things anymore

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

On a computer? A disc? Or a physical embodiment?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Windows. It would show me the way out while blasting me with Ads.

Linux, however, would do nothing but scream about how I should use it, and how it really is the best, all while giving confusing, complicated, and unhelpful info about its numerous distros. Then, when I say that's all too much and I'm just going to go talk to Windows, it spits on me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

please don't say windows ME please don't say windows ME

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand the question.

Linux.

But I don't understand the question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Its a meme reference to the Bear vs Man question going around.

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

Ok so if I’m lost in the woods I genuinely don’t care I’ll make it work to get home.

If I’m not lost I’m not using a computer in the woods. That’s where I go to not use computers, after all.

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

Windows. That would mean there's a building there, which means I might be closer to getting out of the woods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Linux if I'm using the machine.

I can maintain Windows. But I don't remember how to use it for everyday tasks.

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

Windows. Because I don't hear how Systemd is the most evil thing in the history of computation...again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Linux, very obviously.

It runs inside so many wildlife cameras.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey! I will have you know that’s Darwin, which is very different to Linux!

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

Yeah, Darwin still works even if you shower.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I guess linux as its more likely to be a phone.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Linux.

Who knows how long that computer has been there, but if it’s been a while and still has something less than Windows 10, nothing will work.