Some Decent Linux Jokes?

[yuki@programming.dev]

Not the other E that can’t?

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

Try decoding the 'savegame' format from Lord Of The Rings for Super Nintendo, from the year 1994.

It's not even a battery backup save, you gotta manually write down 48 characters, then manually re-enter those 48 characters when you want to restore a 'savegame'

Turns out it's in base 32 format, and uses the CCITT CRC16 hash algorithm to verify the data integrity.

Guess what? If you punch in 3P53P53P53P53P53P53P53P53P53P5

You start off with all the characters maxed out (prolly more maxed out than intended), and also bypasses the checksum, as it zeroes out.

Yay base 32!

Don't ask me how long that took me to figure out..

[hyphlosion@lemm.ee]

How many linux users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

They’re too busy arguing over which alternative lightbulb to screw in.

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

"No, not that one, It's GPLv3, which is evil"
"Actually it's BSD licensed"
"Even worse!"
"OK, how about this one, it hasn't been maintained for 20 years and is still under GPLv2"
"OK, fine"

Spends several days trying to satisfy a broken dependency tree of a 20 year old light bulb

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The last statement was me wrangling with XMLTV getting EPG data to import for japanese pirated rebroadcasted IPTV.
It was actually painful to configure the XML statements to scrape the data as I had to both understand how the values were derived and how I need to change them as they were regional stations.

In the end it was this syntax:
Example from their page: site_id="23##10##101040" xmltv_id="日テレ">日テレ</channel>
Actually needed was the info inside the site_id:

• 23 = Region
• 10 = Terrestrial (they seem to have different digital networks)
• 10140 = The number of the channel (same channel-name for different regions
• (unmentioned here but in another example they had an additional nimber after the 10140 which incremented by one or two without any understandable reason)

I had to get the region from the URL/source code out of the dropdown menu and find out that the type of broadcast is somewhere hidden in the html table and that there is is a small number besides each channel name dependant on the region)

[teawrecks@sopuli.xyz]

Did you know NASA uses Linux on all its spaceships? That's why there's no sound in space.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

me doing my 1000th hour of rdr2 like

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

Mfw haven't gamed on anything but Linux for 2.5 years now.

[fnrir@lemmy.world]

Obligatory "We need to rewrite the lightbulb in Rust" joke

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

We would also have accepted "because if you open windows in space everyone dies"

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

Why are Linux user's power bills more expensive in summer?

They refuse to install windows.

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

Teach your kids the magic phrase... Sudo.

'Whats the word?"

"Please!!!"

"No! It's not! It's sudo!"

[elvith@feddit.org]

Pretty pretty sudo with —no-preserve-root on top?

[omegalemmy@discuss.online]

Are you crazy!? Are you trying to kill your parents!?

[elvith@feddit.org]

WELL, I'm not running

kill -9 $PPID

[bogasse@lemmy.ml]

Linux, Microsoft & iOS engineers have a flat tire.

• The Apple engineer : "let's replace this tire ASAP"
• The Linux engineer : "we need to understand what caused the issue first, or it might happen again"
• The Microsoft engineer : "shouldn't we just go back in the car and see if the issue solves itself?"

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

The Apple Exec: "let's remove the tyre altogether, and sell it piecemeal back to the driver"

[electric_nan@lemmy.ml]

More like: you'll have to buy a whole new car.

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

"Ooh I'm sorry, petrol no longer works in your car. Yeah sorry. Yeah, I know it used to, but we took the gas tank out for safety reasons."