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I will never recover from this student email. 😂

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Do you remember the first programming language you used? What was it?

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Shellcheck finds bugs in your , , , amd shell scripts https://www.cyberciti.biz/programming/improve-your-bashsh-shell-script-with-shellcheck-lint-script-analysis-tool/ A must tool for CLI and scripting geeks.

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Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024 🤡

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Europe: We are banning egress fees.
Google: 🥸

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My bank: “your password is too long, please choose a new password.”

Should never be an error message, ever.

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Memorable events in history 😎👇

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What's one video game you wish you never bought? 🎮

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My solution when someone asks for help about troubleshooting windows 😜

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The new M3 Apple silicon is impressive. I bet the high-end M3 max will still run cooler than Intel/AMD, with Nvidia GPU giving us almost the same performance but better energy usage and less fan noise. What do you think? https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-new-macbook-pro-featuring-m3-chips/

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Email: How do you pronounce sudo command?

Me: soo dow

What do you say?

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How do users and communities of various distributions interact with each other? :) 😅

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Who has the fastest internet? Are you living here? How fast is your internet connection?

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How many of you are "burn a CD old"? 🤔

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Windows: 0
Linux: 1

It is not Linux's job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is Linux's job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr. Foot in the most efficient way it knows.

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it started 🤡 It seems unlikely that individuals who utilize Adblocker would be interested in making purchases. Perhaps they would be more willing to view advertisements or make purchases if their online activity wasn't constantly tracked across various applications, which can be a significant invasion of privacy. This is just something to consider.

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If you're a Linux user with NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel GPUs, you'll find the nvtop command a fantastic task monitor. It works similarly to the top/htop command and efficiently manages multiple GPUs. Let me show you how to install the nvtop command on your Linux distribution so you can keep an eye on your GPU tasks. https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/nvtop-command-in-linux-to-monitor-nvidia-amd-intel-gpus/

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Your sibling wants to start coding. What programming language would you recommend?
0. C

  1. JavaScript
  2. Java
  3. Python
  4. Something else
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Can the human eye distinguish between a photo captured by an iPhone with a 48MP camera and one captured by a Samsung mobile camera with 200MP? I don't believe the naked eye can perceive any difference. However, an experienced photographer/artist can list some differences. IDK. What do you think?

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When you forget to pay your web developer 😱

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I asked a software engineer once what it would cost to build this today. I will never forget his answer:

“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”

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So... it has come to this. 🥲

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Greetings, fellow users. Have you stopped your distro hopping endeavors?

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Are you a localhost:8080 or a localhost:3000 programmer? 🤔

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User: I accidentally opened vim. How do you even quit this thing?

me: that's their adoption strategy. it's Hotel California of text editors

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On 25 August 1991, Linus at age 21 announced Linux project/system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup. Here is original email that changed IT world forever. Happy Birthday, kernel.

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It is too quiet around here ...

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Alright, Google domains are now dying. Where are you moving your domains? Cloudflare? WordPress Com? AWS? Namecheap? Something else? It must be reliable with hardware 2FA. Please comment below. TIA.

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Google is now forcing me to turn on YouTube history. Otherwise, you get a blank page. Why do you do this? Buying premium subscriptions wasn’t enough?

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Patch submitted to the kernel by a four-year-old girl🤠

This patch fixes typos. Four year old girl submitted it with help from her Aunt.

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In 1991, Linus Torvalds was studying UNIX at university, where he was using a special educational, experimental purpose operating system called Minix. However, Minix had its limitations, and Linus felt he could create something better.

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Storing your personal data, family photos, and other files in the cloud may be utilized for machine learning and AI purposes by ToS. It doesn't matter if it is a free or paid service. These greedy companies will not stop. Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent this from happening besides discontinuing the use of nearly all cloud services.

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Bram Moolenaar, the open-source developer and the original author, maintainer, release manager for Vim, a programmer's text editor, passed away.
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

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How long have you been using as a daily driver?

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Deprecated Linux ifconfig command and their replacement option cheatsheet. See my page https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-ip-command-examples-usage-syntax/ for more examples and usage.

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Open your , , or /Windows terminal and type:
python --version

It should be between 3.8 to 3.11. Anything else is just a disaster waiting to happen. There is no need to use an older version as Python no longer gets security updates.

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A lonesome at upper management meetings be like ...

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Breaking: SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

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Yay! Finally we hit the mark: Desktop Market Share is at 3%. If you add ChromeOS, then it is above 7%. LOL. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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