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What A Joke, Can't Believe People Still Voluntarily Use This OS
Windows Microsoft Programming Linux
1 day ago 225.7K views 0 shares
What A Joke, Can't Believe People Still Voluntarily Use This OS
Windows telling you that Terminal isn't available in your account and you need to sign into the Store to fix it. Because apparently, even your command line needs Microsoft account authentication now. Nothing says "developer-friendly" like requiring a Microsoft Store login just to access a terminal emulator. The real kicker? They give you an error code like it's going to help. Spoiler alert: Googling that hex code will lead you down a rabbit hole of forum posts from 2019 with no solutions, just other people saying "same problem here." And the "Get help with this" link? That's going straight to a support page that'll tell you to restart your computer and check for updates. Meanwhile, Linux users are spinning up their 47th terminal instance without even thinking about it. But hey, at least Windows has that pretty cyan "Close" button.

What A Joke, Can't Believe People Still Voluntarily Use This OS
Windows Microsoft Programming Linux
5 days ago 203.2K views 1 shares
What A Joke, Can't Believe People Still Voluntarily Use This OS
Nothing says "modern operating system" quite like Windows telling you that Terminal—a basic app that should just work—isn't available in your account and you need to sign into the Store to fix it. Because apparently even your command line needs DRM now. The cherry on top? They give you an error code (0x803F8001) that looks like it was generated by a hex dump of Microsoft's organizational structure. Good luck Googling that—you'll find 47 different solutions, none of which work, and all of them involve rebooting, clearing the cache, or sacrificing a chicken to the Windows Update gods. Meanwhile, Linux users are out here just typing "terminal" and getting a terminal. Revolutionary concept, I know.

Watch This Ad To Continue Vibin
Javascript Webdev Programming Frontend Backend
8 days ago 258.1K views 0 shares
Watch This Ad To Continue Vibin
We've finally reached peak dystopia: even your terminal needs an ad-supported subscription model. Remember when you could just npm install without being subjected to a 30-second unskippable ad about car insurance? Yeah, those were the days. The future looks bleak when you're sitting there, existentially exhausted, waiting for Raid Shadow Legends to finish pitching you their game just so you can install a package that's probably deprecated anyway. At least the ads will buffer faster than your build process. Fun fact: By 2030, your IDE will probably pause mid-autocomplete to show you a sponsored suggestion. "Did you mean console.log() ? This debug statement is brought to you by NordVPN."

You Are The Hacker
Linux Bash Programming
9 days ago 252.1K views 0 shares
You Are The Hacker
Nothing screams "elite hacker" quite like running htop in a terminal. To your grandma, you're basically Neo from The Matrix. To your non-tech friends, you've just activated the nuclear launch codes. The reality? You're just checking if Chrome is eating all your RAM again (spoiler: it is). But try explaining that you're not breaking into the Pentagon while you're literally just looking at process IDs and CPU usage. They've already decided you're in.

The Magic Key
Linux Security Devops Bash Programming
10 days ago 238.4K views 1 shares
The Magic Key
The Linux sysadmin's equivalent of "abracadabra" - just prefix any command with sudo and watch your permissions problems vanish into thin air. Can't install that package? Sudo. File won't delete? Sudo. Server on fire? Probably sudo. It's the universal skeleton key that grants you god-mode privileges on Unix systems. Sure, you could carefully consider whether you actually need root access for each operation, or you could just slap sudo on everything and live dangerously. Most of us choose the latter because reading permission errors is for people with time on their hands. Fun fact: sudo stands for "superuser do" but in practice it means "I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm doing it with admin privileges."

Just :Q! Please
Vim Programming Linux
11 days ago 239.0K views 0 shares
Just :Q! Please
Someone made a Spotify playlist called "Songs About Vim" and it's basically a cry for help disguised as music curation. The track titles perfectly capture the Vim experience: "What Am I Doing Here" (opening Vim for the first time), "How Did I Get Here" (accidentally entering insert mode), "Can't Get Out" (the classic :q struggle), "Asdfjkl;" (panic mashing keys), "Shut It Down" (desperately trying to exit), and my personal favorite - "Rebooting" (the nuclear option when all else fails). Every single song title is a mood that represents a different stage of the Vim learning curve. The playlist creator really said "I'm in pain but make it aesthetic." The fact that this playlist has 1,198 saves means there's a whole community out there bonding over their shared trauma of being trapped in a text editor.

Those Who Get It…
Linux Bash Windows Programming
12 days ago 185.1K views 0 shares
Those Who Get It…
Linux users see a folder icon with ~/* and think "home directory with all files" – simple, elegant, powerful. Windows users see the same thing and their brain goes full 1984 dystopian mode. The tilde (~) is Linux's shorthand for your home directory, and the asterisk wildcard means "everything." So ~/* literally translates to "all files in my home directory." For Linux folks, it's just another Tuesday. For Windows users who've never touched a terminal or dealt with Unix-style paths, it might as well be hieroglyphics carved by ancient sysadmins. The facial expressions capture it perfectly: Linux guy is casually nodding like "yeah, I know exactly what's in there," while Windows guy looks like he's contemplating the existential dread of learning bash syntax.

Daily Exercise In Laziness
Bash Devops Programming Linux
14 days ago 232.1K views 0 shares
Daily Exercise In Laziness
Ah yes, the programmer's workout routine: converting 100 up arrow key presses into a single ls -la command. Because why scroll through your command history like a caveman when you can just... type two whole characters? The skeleton represents what's left of us after we realize we've spent more energy avoiding work than actually doing it. But hey, at least our fingers got a workout, right? That's gotta count for something on our fitness trackers. Pro tip: Ctrl+R for reverse search exists, but where's the fun in efficiency when you can mindlessly hammer that up arrow like you're playing a rhythm game?

Don't Mind Me Just Making Some ASCII
Programming Bash
23 days ago 269.9K views 0 shares
Don't Mind Me Just Making Some ASCII
When you tell yourself you're just gonna make "some ASCII art" and suddenly you've spent 4 hours meticulously placing percentage signs and hashtags to create what appears to be the Death Star. Because nothing says "productive coding session" like abandoning your actual project to manually position 10,000 characters into a perfect sphere. The best part? You started with a simple smiley face in your console output, and now you're basically a digital Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel with monospace fonts. Your pull request can wait—this masterpiece needs more shading with equals signs. Pro tip: This is what happens when developers discover that terminals can display more than just error messages. Next thing you know, they're rendering entire Star Wars movies in ASCII and calling it "learning about character encoding."

Lets Try It Together
Linux Bash Programming
24 days ago 356.8K views 0 shares
Lets Try It Together
You know that special moment when you accidentally hit Ctrl+C while running sudo rm -rf /* and desperately ask if there's an undo button? Yeah, "Good question" is the polite way of saying "you just nuked your entire filesystem and we're both about to witness a digital cremation." The fact that someone responds with Shrek's deadpan "Good question" instead of screaming is peak Unix user energy. There's no undo. There's no going back. There's only backups you hopefully made yesterday and a fresh OS install. Fun fact: the -rf flags mean "recursive force" - basically telling your system to delete everything without asking questions, like a hitman with no conscience.

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Well Shit
Linux Devops Bash Programming
24 days ago 321.9K views 0 shares
Well Shit
You know that moment when someone discovered they could recursively force-delete everything from root? Yeah, that person is taking notes in hell right now. The -rf flags mean "recursive" and "force" – basically "delete everything without asking questions." Combined with /* starting from root and sudo privileges, you've just nuked your entire system faster than you can say "wait, I needed those kernel files." Someone, somewhere, at some point in history, hit enter on this command and watched their entire operating system evaporate in real-time. No confirmation. No undo. Just pure, unfiltered chaos. Modern systems have some safeguards now, but back in the day? Chef's kiss of destruction. The penguin's tears say it all – that's the face of someone who just realized backups were "on the todo list."

Happy New Year
Programming Gamedev Databases Backend
25 days ago 231.1K views 0 shares
Happy New Year
Nothing says "celebration" quite like watching your SQLite database successfully open while ASCII art champagne pops in your terminal. The raylib initialization loading right after is just *chef's kiss* - because who needs Times Square when you've got platform backend confirmations? Someone spent their New Year's Eve coding and decided to make their console output festive. The dedication to draw a champagne bottle in ASCII characters while simultaneously initializing a graphics library is the kind of energy that separates the "I'll start my side project tomorrow" crowd from the "it's 11:59 PM and I'm shipping features" crowd. Real talk though: if your New Year celebration involves mandatory raylib modules loading, you're either incredibly dedicated to your craft or you need better friends. Possibly both.