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@squirrel ah yes, the gender field, where all the genders roam around happily grazing on the grass until they get picked up by their eventual owners

@squirrel ooh! ooh! and those cardboard decoder disks they used as copy protection!

:thaenkin: an alternate universe where instead of using rockets to get to space, they use really big slingshots

linux incantation pronunciation guide 

- ioctl: "eye octal"
- tty: "titty"
- suffix -ctl: "cuttle" (e.g. system cuttle)
- ssh: "ssh" (not an abbreviation)
- dnf: "dunf"
- dpkg: "deep kilogram"
- pacman: "waka waka"
- chrony: "cronie"
- cronie: "chrony"
- daemon: "dæmon"
- shutdown: "shit, is this the right host"

@Efi was my mistake

I just hate accidentally telling people wrong information because I apparently come across as someone who knows stuff and they might have taken it as fact when I'm completely wrong and was going off stuff I only half remember

@Efi that must be what I was thinking of, the charcoal not the ash

It's a Monday, I should expect brainfarts like that and actually double check what my addled mind is telling me

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