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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 106 points 1 month ago (10 children)

It's a good thing that little black line protected me from seeing the word "fucking" on the internet.

Wait a minute... FUCK! 🤪

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but not in that format ☝️☝️☝️ let’s take down some of those hilights, bring up the gamma, give it a nice re-hue. ah. much better

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hehe you’re right this is the internet they communicate differently here

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You had a swear word on the image. Don't worry, I censored it for you 😘

1000029003

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[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 1 month ago (7 children)

thank fuck for the little black line censoring the word fuck

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

You're just out here doing the work of that one guy who uncensors stuff?

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[–] cm0002@piefed.world 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I may have found ways to make computers not work but in the process I usually find ways to make them work again. Its a cycle

Computer works -> I get bored -> I mess around -> it no longer works -> I fix it -> repeat

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

In the words of Tommy Edison, "I have not failed, I have simply found 1000 ways to make a computer not work."

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[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do like the hentai style 1px censor bar on this one

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[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

You can't say fuck on the internet.

Just look at the meme, even that daren't say fucking!!
Censor your comment at once or I'll cunting cry tears of blood!

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 30 points 1 month ago

Gasp! Is that a naughty word!? My delicate sensibilities!

Anyways, i probably have an AI data center's worth of tech lying around my house because of one project or another. Some broken, some old, some saved from the trash, some held together with load bearing thermal paste... You know, a perfectly normal setup.

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I spent hours today trying to figure out why my computer wouldn't boot, an update had changed my boot configuration to raid mode.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 month ago

my stomach churned reading this

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[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I am of the opinion that it takes intelligence to be stupid. I had a friend in high school who had some undiagnosed cognitive difficulty that made him a bit slow overall. He struggled in school and was always failing one of his classes because he just couldn't learn fast enough. However, his common sense was better than anyone else's that I've ever met, and he was my most reliable friend. Sure, he didnt make many smart decisions, but he’s never made a really boneheaded decision as far as I know. I got in the habit of running my ideas past him:

Me: "I'm thinking of doing [insert absolutely insane idea]. It should be cool."

Him: "That doesn’t seem safe, and it's also illegal."

Me: "Huh. You're right. I won't do that, then."

I can credit my survival to adulthood to this guy. He may not able able to tell you what day of the week it is while standing in front of a calendar, but he was the least stupid man I have ever met.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That is why we need many computers, at least one's gotta work

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[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 25 points 1 month ago (10 children)

it's true, 100% of the stuff I learn is in service of making a 10-year-old GeForce 980 run increasingly unstable, modded, and unholy builds of games. it's not a matter of will it BSOD, just a matter of when do I not want it to BSOD

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Downvoted for self censorship

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Being Very Computer means I can operate a computer that doesn't work.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's true. Source: I am Very Computer.

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Regular people would consider me Extremely Computer, but compared to many of the people here I feel Barely Computer for not knowing the difference between /bin and /sbin.

[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You fool! /bin and /sbin have already been replaced by /usr/bin and /usr/sbin! What an buffonish mistake!

Truly the solution is NixOS, we must all embrace the loving embrace of /nix/store.

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

People who are "very computer" tend to combine stuff that doesn't have a guarantee to work.

Like a desktop Frankensteined together from multiple different computers into one working monster.

Those things have whole new problems of their own.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

~~I don't want to offend anybody with the badly wordings so please do not read this. And I will strike through so it's completely unreadable in case you get any ideas.~~

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I became very computer because my computer's were all so shit and broken in weird ways and I was too poor to pay anyone to fix them, and even if I did they didn't know.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

“Hmm, I think I want to try KDE plasma”

rm rf gnome

“Oh wait, crap, I probably should have started with setting up the new desktop first…”

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

rm rf gnome

ooh what package manager is this? /s

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Okay so there's a better one but this xkcd fits well enough.

I have not bought a new computer in so long, i keep them together with literal duct tape and blocks of wood and poorly hacked together software workarounds.

I'm doing things you wouldnt even think of. But implementation was imperfect. Some things like "playing audio" and "sending emails" are slightly complicated, require adjusting some stuff in systemctl (then back when im done)

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is also very true for somewhat similar reasons with car mechanics.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am very computer.

I decided I didn't want to deal with it anymore and picked up a used Dell precision system with a pair of Xeon processors and put 64 G of RAM in it, with an 8x SSD raid array.

If anything fails I can completely fucking ignore it and my system continues to fucking work.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wont it completely stop booting if just one of the RAM sticks dies?

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[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also, a willingness / knowledge to ‘work around’ the problem

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

me and my cpu heating spacebar

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[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am so comfy cosy in my 'somewhat computer' area of the curve. Ubuntu or Mint just work in a way that neither windows nor, like, arch ever could and I'm so comfy sticking with them. I love not fiddling with them too much. It's nice here. :3

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[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll keep down voting these stupid fucking image censoring posts until something changes and people stop being fucking stupid. I'll die on this hill.

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