over_cloxIf you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?
ScottTempleOS, and you need to fight Terry Davis
Oh shit…!
The secret final boss is Windows ME though…
That game is too easy though, it crashes itself.
You need to escort it through a very large minefield to designated spot or it will explode obliterating everything.
TheTechnician27We all know that CIA prison escape segment was harder than any of the bosses, though.
I say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel
Alright, have an upvote 👍
But… If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn’t that like cheating?
SzethFriendOfNimiWindows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.
Kinguin ftw
The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.
Game over.
Your comment seems to have a ----- missing…
I don’t even
haunting you for the holiday 👻
So the final boss il Linus Torvalds, got it!
Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.
Figuring out how to print
3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it’s appalling
Network printer will change your life for the better.
Brother laser printers.
Was shocked when it randomly showed ip everywhere automatically, it showed up and worked on my fresh freebsd install, I thought shit was haunted.
Uninstall Skype
Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn’t using Skype anyways.
Instructions almost clear…
sudo uninstall windows
The shutdown button, a very anti climactic finale
Who needs a button?
shutdown -f -t 0
/s /t 1
Get it right tho
I did get it right. I literally used that command in a Windows activation hack.
Start by using / instead of - like all other old build in windows comands then read the docs and find you need /p or /s or /r to tell it what to do
then /t 0 does nothing, /t 1 (or higher) actually sets and timer and implicitly sets /f as well
you’d know this if you had actually entered that command. Cuz that’s the info it prints when you get it wrong
Yeah, you’re both right and wrong at the same time. I missed an argument.
shutdown -s -f -t 0
Not /, it’s -
I never suggested I was running Windows 11, this is for Windows XP.
Go to bed grandpa
Thank you. That just means I have more experience than you.
If I need to figure out floppy drives I’ll ask
Thanks. I happen to have arranged Windows 3.11 to be live bootable from a single floppy disk. I call it WinFlop. Various versions of it actually, including a build with a taskbar and start menu.
I also made a companion disk, Diagnostic Utilities, that includes not only basic diagnostic utilities, but also CD, USB, and NTFS drivers.
I’ll be around all week. I’d share a link, but not much point right now, the Internet Archive is still apparently down ☹️
Cool! Let’s hope the archive is remains up, and if not we’ve got a community backup project coming up
If/when the Archive does come back up, the short link is…
It has a variety of versions as I’ve already mentioned, the 95 part of the link refers to the one with a taskbar and start menu.
I do hope the archive comes back up soon.
Cool, I might see this in a museum sometime
Happy day! The Internet Archive is back online!
I figured systemd is a 90s-JRPG boss with multiple phases taking over more and more of the screen.
You hold up a Slackware CD like some sort of vampires-and-faith-objects bit.
Blue screen of death and you defeat it by installing linux.
LungThen how do you defeat the new bsod in the Linux kernel? It’s got a fancy QR code!!
www.zdnet.com/a/…/linux-6-11-panic-screen.png?aut…
(It’s “install bsd” isn’t it…)
That looks purple to me, clearly not a BSOD.
For real though, a QR code for a kernel panic? 🤦♂️
Seems dope, I mean, your computer don’t work and retyping text is lame
ryannathansWhere my freebsd homies at
Tsch, that’s the opening sequence.
Grub Rescue
Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game
I won’t lie, I’ve considered almost totally giving up modern technology, and going back to refurbishing wristwatches like I did in my teens.
Analog/Digital? Hardly matters, as long as I can get parts…
A friend of mine works in IT during the week.
On the weekend he works as barkeeper.
He keeps track of the tabs with a pencil on paper, adds them up with a mechanical calculator, and only accepts cash.
On the weekend he works as barkeeper.
He keeps track of the tabs with a pencil on paper, adds them up with a mechanical calculator, and only accepts cash.
davelThere is literally written that :q to exit!
Wont work if you have unsaved edits or are in insert mode. Escape then :q! will.
Ooh, living life dangerously.
I would not like to have that as a finger habit!
and when typing :q with unsaved edits it literally also says “add ! to override”
True.
I tend to use ZZ it ZQ instead. Its been a while.
If you read the clues, yes.
People who have never had the pleasure of experiencing vim might not realize that the colon is a part of the command and will start recording a macro instead.
DecentMI typed :q and it just says :q on the bottom, all this advice and I’m still stuck in vim. My electricity bill has been high since 2022 because of this heavy editor with no x button
Make your own, and don’t be so professional about it.
UltraGiGaGiganticGod.
You patch God out of TempleOS