Not to mention, OP didn’t specify where they live. Who knows defamation law for the whole world?

[Borat voice: wife!] right now

Human Centipede is a tour-de-force

That little rat a has been by my side so long (Debian + XFCE) 🐀❤️

A mutation that severe might indicate chemical or radioactive contamination. Fry’s home in 1999 was a real dump

The -p <port> option can be used to specify the port number to connect to when using the ssh command on Linux. The -P <port> (note: capital P) option can be used with SFTP and scp.

Why is it that the switch on ssh is -p but in scp/sftp it is -P?

This has caused me a real headache in the past as ssh doesn’t throw an error message when you use a switch like “ssh -P 8080”

Also “Does the ToS have a binding arbitration agreement”

God bless America

Don’t have to wait in line if you can’t afford to go in the first place

Taps head

I misunderstood what “war machine” meant.

I heard phrases on TV like “it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running” and “the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine” and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.

The terrorists better watch out! We’re sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.

Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla

What, no Debian on that list? Are you telling me that even after all these years I still haven’t landed???

TIL about error 418:

“I’m a teapot This server is a teapot, and it cannot brew coffee.”

Apparently it was originally added as an April fools joke way back in 1998 but technically it is a valid error message that sites can actually use!

How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!

I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn’t actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job

Suppose you were saying that about me. How would I prove you wrong? How could a thinking being express that it is actually sentient to meet your standards?

Maybe an app like FakeStandby would work.

If your device has an AMOLED screen it should be basically the same as having the screen turned off. You could just disable the screen timeout and use FakeStandby to turn off all the pixels without actually “turning off” the screen

you aren’t necessarily yet violating GPLv2, but you’re removing a technical protection measure which is a violation of the DMCA.

Isn’t overcoming a technical limit a violation itself? That’s what made DeCSS illegal. They didn’t have to prove anyone was actually copying DVDs with it, just that DeCSS could allow you to copy a DVD

I was going to suggest Direwolf20 for the exact same reasoning

This was my thought too. Whenever you open one of these Dells you always see swollen, leaky capacitors. They can cause some very odd behavior, such as only booting exactly one in three times.

Theoretically, it should be relatively straightforward to find and replace them if you were really dedicated

Disclaimer: this was a long time ago so things might be different now

I flashed the “international version” of Cyanogenmod on what turned out to be the AT&T version of my first android smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S2) and nearly bricked it.

The install froze but I knew I should never interrupt a flash, so I left it there for about 2 hours until the battery died. However, the flashing process also replaces the battery manager firmware, so it was not possible to charge the phone until I flashed the correct ROM, and I couldn’t flash the ROM because the battery was dead.

Thankfully, that phone had swappable batteries so I solved it by buying a second one online (and waiting for shipping). But today’s phones’ batteries are usually soldered onto the board, so if it happened today I’d be SOL.

I personally wouldn’t chance it unless someone with the same device confirmed it was OK

Haha, well you got me there. I did all that when I was your age, in 2009 :P

These days I don’t use my personal computer very often so I want a distro that doesn’t break when I update it, so I use Debian Stable with XFCE.

I’m not sure what that makes it in terms of OP’s meme. Maybe XFCE is the car