topperharlie

hey, many of us dislike both equally! (specially the push to become the only alternative)

hard disagree. life with plain text logs and daemon init scripts was so easy and nice. But we can’t have nice things…

jokes aside, is weird enough to look appealing to me, and probably functional.

One that I can remember many years ago, classic trying to do something on a flash drive and dd my main hdd instead.

Funny thing, since this was a 5400rpm and noticed relatively quick (say 1-2 minutes), I could ctrl-c the dd, make a backup of most of my personal files (being very careful not to reboot) and after that I could safely reformat and reinstall.

To this day it amazes me how linux managed to not crash with a half broken root file system (I mean, sure, things were crashing right and left, but given the situation, having enough to back up most things was like magic)

with the added benefit of a 2-4 years of free rent with free meals and special shower service 😉

hmmm… I’m pretty sure I’ve been around since before YouTube started and don’t have any idea, so I still think is the case.

I think people tend to not understand how big internet is, even back then. This makes it difficult to know which memes really made it all the way to become THAT popular (and even those are not know by everyone, some people just don’t follow memes)

The internet is wild, people spend most of their time in small echo chambers and they think that is the whole internet.

The stylisation works so well on my mind that it took me a bigger while than you think to figure out what the meme was about xD

plus, if you disconnect in the middle of a command execution it doesn’t get killed (very important for system updates for example)