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The expectation vs reality of reviving ancient hardware with Linux is just brutal. Top panel: "Linux will breathe new life into your Jurassic-era netbook!" Bottom panel: "Oh, you wanted to actually use software? How adorable." Every modern development tool, IDE, and even basic apps giving you the middle finger with compatibility issues. That 32-bit processor might as well be a museum piece trying to run today's 64-bit world. It's like bringing a spoon to a gunfight and wondering why you can't shoot anything.

The evolution of version control systems, as told by expanding brain memes: Git? Basic brain. Functional, gets the job done. The industry standard that everyone grudgingly accepts. SVN, Mercurial, TFS? Glowing brain. The legacy systems maintained by that one dev who still uses tabs instead of spaces and refuses to retire. Commenting changes in code? Galaxy brain. Because who needs actual version control when you can just leave cryptic notes like "// fixed stuff" and "// TODO: make better"? But the true enlightenment? Making a complete project clone every time you change something. That's not version control—that's just digital hoarding with extra steps. The "project_final_FINAL_v2_ACTUALLY_FINAL" approach to software development.

Someone turned Git commands into a Spotify playlist, and it's the soundtrack of my existential coding crisis. First you "Pull," then "Push It" (real Salt-N-Pepa style), followed by "Merge" which takes a whopping 6 minutes because merges never go smoothly. Then comes the inevitable "Conflict" track, followed by the desperate "Pull Request" plea to your senior dev. The playlist climaxes with "Blame" and Taylor Swift's "Don't Blame Me" because we all know git blame is just the beginning of the finger-pointing ceremony. Finally, when all else fails, there's "REVERT" and "Cherry Picking" to salvage what's left of your dignity and codebase. This playlist is basically the 9 stages of Git grief.

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute DRAMA of it all! Microsoft proudly announces that 30% of their code is now AI-generated, and then BOOM! 💥 Git operations are failing EVERYWHERE! It's like watching a corporate horror movie unfold in real-time! The grim reaper couldn't have timed his entrance better! One minute they're bragging about AI writing their code, and the next minute their Git operations are having an existential crisis. Coincidence? I think NOT! This is what happens when you replace human developers with AI that learned to code by copying StackOverflow answers without reading the comments! Reset the counter indeed—we've gone exactly ZERO days without a Microsoft AI disaster. The skeleton is all of us watching our repositories crumble while Microsoft's PR team frantically tries to explain that AI definitely wasn't responsible for this catastrophe. Sure, Jan. 🙄

Starting them on sudo rm -rf / before they can even hold their own bottle. That kid's going to be compiling kernels before kindergarten. The facial expression says it all - "Dad, I just wanted Cocomelon, not a lecture on bash scripting." Next week: Docker containers as building blocks.

That seductive smile when you're about to do something you know is dangerous but you're too deep in technical debt to care anymore. The --force flag is basically Git's way of saying "I'll let you shoot yourself in the foot, but don't come crying to me when your repo is irreparably broken." After your 48,283rd merge conflict, you develop a twisted Stockholm syndrome relationship with destructive Git commands. You're not even afraid anymore - just numb to the consequences of overwriting your colleagues' work.