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The True Messiah

22 hours ago 199.8K views 0 shares

So apparently we've been worshipping the wrong deity all along. While Christians organized their entire calendar around Jesus's birthday, programmers took one look at Gabriel Jarret playing teenage prodigy Mitch Taylor in the 1985 film "Real Genius" and collectively decided, "Yeah, this random actor's birthdate (January 1st, 1970) shall be the foundation of all computer time." The Unix epoch timestamp starts counting from midnight UTC on January 1, 1970—which happens to be Gabriel Jarret's actual birthdate. It's like the entire computing world accidentally created a religion around a child actor who would later play a genius in a comedy film. The irony is chef's kiss level. Every time you check a timestamp, log an event, or schedule a cron job, you're essentially measuring time from the birth of Mitch Taylor himself. Forget Y2K—we should be preparing for the Year 2038 problem when Gabriel Jarret turns 68 and our 32-bit signed integers overflow. That's when the real apocalypse happens.

Linux Be Like

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1 day ago 255.7K views 0 shares

Linux sitting there like the only kid in class who didn't cheat on the exam while everyone else is comparing notes. Microsoft's out here with telemetry baked into every corner of Windows, Google's entire business model is literally "we know what you searched at 2 PM last Thursday," and Apple's playing the privacy card while still knowing your exact location down to the centimeter. Meanwhile, Linux is just genuinely confused why anyone would even want to collect user data in the first place. Open source means open code—can't hide spyware when thousands of neckbeards are reading every line you commit. It's like showing up to a surveillance capitalism party and being the only one who brought actual privacy.

Don't You Dare Touch It!

Linux Devops Bash Programming

4 days ago 177.0K views 0 shares

You spent three weeks getting that Linux setup just right . Every config file tweaked to perfection, every package dependency resolved, the display manager finally working after that kernel update fiasco. It's a delicate ecosystem held together by bash scripts and pure willpower. Then your buddy walks in like "Hey, let me just install this one thing..." and you're immediately in full defensive mode. One wrong sudo apt install and you'll be spending your entire weekend reinstalling drivers and figuring out why X11 suddenly hates you. Touch my .bashrc ? That's a paddlin'. Mess with my carefully curated window manager config? Believe it or not, also a paddlin'. Linux users become surprisingly territorial once they've achieved that mythical "it just works" state. Because we all know it's only one chmod 777 away from chaos.

N O! 2026 Ha S T O B E Th E Y Ea R O F L In Ux!!1!

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6 days ago 227.7K views 0 shares

N O! 2026 Ha S T O B E Th E Y Ea R O F L In Ux!!1!

Every. Single. Year. Since the early 2000s, Linux enthusiasts have been screaming from the rooftops that THIS is the year Linux will finally dominate the desktop market and dethrone Windows. Spoiler alert: it's been over two decades of the same prophecy, and Windows is still sitting pretty on like 75% of desktops while Linux hovers around 3%. But do Linux fanboys give up? ABSOLUTELY NOT. They'll read that book of broken promises, get FURIOUS at the audacity of reality, and immediately declare that 2026 (or 2027, or 2028...) will DEFINITELY be the chosen year. The denial is so strong you could power a server farm with it. Meanwhile, Linux continues to quietly dominate servers, supercomputers, and Android devices, but nope—desktop supremacy or bust!

House Stable Version

Linux Security Devops Bash Programming

6 days ago 224.5K views 1 shares

Setting the house to read-only mode after cleaning is the most relatable version control strategy I've seen. Just like that production server you're too scared to touch, the house has reached its stable state and any modifications are strictly forbidden. The reply takes it to another level: someone ran chmod 600 on the toilet. For the uninitiated, that's Linux file permissions that make something readable and writable only by the owner—except now it's a toilet that won't flush because guest users lack delete permissions. Classic case of overly restrictive access control causing a production incident. Should've used a staging environment before deploying to the main bathroom.

Me When Linux

Linux Gamedev Windows

7 days ago 250.9K views 0 shares

Linux gaming in a nutshell: you confidently play your Proton card thinking Steam's compatibility layer will save you, only to get absolutely demolished by anti-cheat software that treats Linux users like they're all hackers. Because nothing says "fair gaming" like assuming everyone running a penguin OS is trying to exploit your precious game. The irony? You switched to Linux for freedom and control, but now you're begging game devs to pretty please let you play their games. Meanwhile, Windows users are just double-clicking .exe files like cavemen and having a grand time. At least you can flex your terminal skills while you cry about not being able to play Apex Legends.

Ed Posting

Linux Security Vim Bash

7 days ago 204.9K views 0 shares

Imagine being so paranoid about state-sponsored hackers that you use Notepad++ and it STILL gets compromised. Meanwhile, `ed` users are sitting there with their 50-year-old line editor, smugly sipping coffee while the entire software supply chain burns around them. The joke here? While fancy modern editors are getting backdoored left and right, good ol' `ed` from the Unix Stone Age remains untouchable—mostly because hackers probably forgot it exists. It's like bringing a Nokia 3310 to a smartphone security conference and flexing that you've never been hacked. Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Bash Reference Manual

Bash Programming Linux

8 days ago 209.7K views 0 shares

Someone asks for the Bash reference manual and gets hit with an absolute unit of a URL pointing to some obscure government PDF buried in the justice.gov domain. Because nothing says "user-friendly documentation" like a 73-character filepath that looks like it was generated by a random number generator in 2009. The cardinal's aggressive response perfectly captures the energy of Linux veterans who've memorized these cryptic paths and will absolutely roast you for not knowing them. Meanwhile, the smaller bird's "whoa." is all of us trying to process that someone actually has this URL memorized and ready to deploy as a weapon. The real joke? That URL probably doesn't even work anymore, but the cardinal doesn't care. It's about sending a message: RTFM, but make it intimidating.

Man That Debugging Session Was Not Fun

Linux Devops Programming Debugging

8 days ago 161.7K views 0 shares

Installing VSCode via Snap on Linux is like choosing to debug in production on a Friday afternoon—technically possible, but you'll regret every second of it. The performance is sluggish, the integration is janky, and suddenly your editor takes 10 seconds to open a file. It's the kind of mistake that haunts you during every coding session afterward. Snap packages are containerized apps that sound great in theory but often deliver a subpar experience compared to native installations. VSCode via Snap is notorious for being slower, having clipboard issues, and generally feeling like you're coding through molasses. Veterans know: always grab the .deb package or use the official Microsoft repo. The debugging session reference? That's the painful 4-hour journey of uninstalling Snap VSCode, cleaning up the mess it left behind, and reinstalling it properly while your deadline looms closer.

Os Learning Curve - (Xkcd Edit)

Linux MacOS Windows Programming

10 days ago 419.3K views 0 shares

Windows users enjoying their gentle learning curve while Linux users plummet into the abyss of dependency hell, kernel panics, and permission denied errors. But hey, at least Linux users eventually climb back up to paradise where they play volleyball on the beach while Windows folks are still clicking "Next" on installation wizards. MacOS users just exist in comfortable mediocrity—not too hard, not too powerful. Meanwhile "Etch & Sketch" (the OS that doesn't exist) somehow outperforms everyone because imaginary operating systems have zero bugs. The real kicker? Those stick figures burning in Linux hell are probably just trying to get their WiFi drivers working. Three hours later they emerge enlightened, having compiled their own kernel and achieved nirvana. The Windows users are still waiting for updates to finish.

The Seven Laws Of Computing

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11 days ago 320.3K views 0 shares

Oh, so we're calling it "Seven Laws" when there are EIGHT rules? Already off to a brilliant start. But honestly, this is the most sacred scripture ever written in the tech world. Rules 1-5 are basically just screaming "BACKUP YOUR STUFF OR PERISH" in increasingly desperate ways, like a paranoid sysadmin having a meltdown. Then Rule 6 casually drops the nuclear option: uninstall Windows. Rule 7 follows up with "reinstall Linux" because obviously that's the only logical solution to literally everything. And Rule 8? Turn your egg whites into meringue. Because when your production server crashes at 3 AM and you've lost everything because you ignored Rules 1-5, at least you can stress-bake some pavlova while contemplating your life choices. Honestly, the progression from "make backups" to "become a pastry chef" is the most relatable career trajectory in tech.

Swap Like It's 1996

Linux Hardware

11 days ago 236.6K views 0 shares

Back when RAM cost more than your car and you had to mortgage your house for 32MB, swap partitions were basically mandatory survival gear. Now? Just throw a 50GB swap partition on your NVMe and suddenly you're running Chrome with 47 tabs like it's nothing. Meanwhile, people are dropping $200 on 16GB of DDR5 and wondering why their system still feels slow. The swap partition guy is out here living in 2024 with 1996 solutions and honestly? Still works. Can't argue with free.

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