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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Asteroids are basically piles of rock, it's not like we're going to be destroying lush ecosystems.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

You'll crack your screen, kid!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Muammar Gaddafi?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The federation really needs to invent antivirus technology and firewalls.

That sure sounds like the Federation to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry, is this comment a reference to something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just slap a few labels on it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had the exact same thing happen to me once, except I didn't get an ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE warning. It just listed a bunch of packages like it always did, except this time it was listing packages it was about to remove, not packages that could be upgraded like it usually does. That was 8 years ago, so maybe they added the warning some time after that? But by that point I'd already dealt with enough issues that I just lost all motivation to use Linux as a desktop anymore. It's just always something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Snoop Doggs? In my gin and juice?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Look, I had a busy weekend, okay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a reference to a copypasta.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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