this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
471 points (94.2% liked)

linuxmemes

21048 readers
906 users here now

Hint: :q!


Sister communities:


Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
  • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
  • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.

  • Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    471
    Kinda accurate lol (lemmy.sdf.org)
    submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I've shared it with) some time ago:

    Electrical signals are serial; they're connectionless, like UDP.

    Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Every digital system is also secretly analog.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

    I've got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war.

    "No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world"