Anon updates GNU/linux

Be me.
Go to school
Everyone else in my class counting on fingers
Pull out Abacus
Crowd immediately forms
"Hey guys! He's doing multi-variable calculus over here!!!"
Smile smugly. Don't these kids know the abacus has been around for 3000 years?
Teacher tells me to stop cheating. Accuses me of black magic
Just laugh. Calculate pi to 100 places. People running out of the room screaming and crying.
Sent to principle's office. Principle amazed by my technological expertise. Nominates me for Head Boy.
Ministry of Magic sends down delegation to investigate my new kind of wizardry
Correctly estimate the future national gross domestic product for the next two quarters
Voldemort appears and tries to steal my device
Perfectly calculate the circumference of his head. Voldemort banished to the shadow realm for 10,000 years.
Everyone cheers
Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur

True story

I chuckled. Thank you.

*Linux

rms can go fuck himself

look at the arch linux news before updating (like a responsible arch linux user)

run an update for the os through the command line

sudo pacman -Syu && notify-send "Finished updating!"

minimize the terminal emulator

wait until update is finished

close the terminal emulator

mfw nothing crazy happens

look, if you're using the terminal and your distro shows a lot of hacker-y text on screen when updating, then yeah of course there's a chance that less tech-literate people are gonna think you're hacking into the mainframe... still the story is definitely exaggerated

Get new parents

Is that a flatpak?
- Hopefully, I was hoping for an AppImage variety
Just hack the old ones.
- Nah, the hardware will brick if you do that

Similar though far less extreme thing happened to me in highschool ~99

Some kid decided to rename the other kids home directory folders because they were their student IDs, not an easily identifiable name.

Sure enough, when said students went to log back in, their data was gone.

They took away MY access because they wanted me to come to the staff room to get it restored so that I can fix it for them.

Why we had access to all students home directories and data is beyond me FFS. But yeah.

I did plenty of shit I shouldn't have done, for sure, but that wasn't me, and it was the one time I got my access revoked.

Anyway, it was a good lesson to install a keylogger on a few machines which logged to the local c: and then I got some other accounts for free internet and print credit so there was no more logging me out after that.

Fake: Anon used https://hackertyper.net/

Gay: Anon impressed dudes at school 😏

This happened to a friend of mine in the 90s. He was checking his email with pine. The lady who ran the school computer lab called the terminal "the black program with the blinking thing."

Did these people not know what DOS was? Or Apple IIs with the 5 1/4" floppys?
- someone ordered a relevant xkcd?

Omg same experience. Bruh I just wanted to watch some youtube on my break but I had to update firefox or smtn and my coworkers thought I was hacking the wifi lolol

This more or less happened to my friend circa ~2000s. They were technically amazing for our age. When the school "database" was deleted they and a friend were suspended for an entire month, almost expelled.

Turns out they had warned their teacher that the files were in a public shared folder and anyone could just literally delete them. No backups, these were grades, assignments, etc for dozens of teachers over many years. They were severely punished for trying to disclose a vulnerability essentially and blamed for the whole thing.

Never report vulnerabilities yourself to an organization, always use a neutral, trusted third party to report it.
- which organization would you use in this situation?

Fake: anon used bigfuckinmistake.exe instead of bigfuckinmistake.sh

Ace: No mention of sex because sex is for sheeple

That link didn't work. I think you forgot to make the script executable.
- No you link with ln, you're thinking of chmod
Sex probably isn't even FOSS
- I wonder why people want 'privacy' when having sex, and how it's always 'censored' on TV
  Absolutely Proprietary!
  Probably filled with keyloggers too
- I couldn’t find an Archive.org archive of the page from Nullsoft’s website, but this page on some-random-website-I-am-not-sure-about-in-any-way has the page saved for sex.exe and its source code which is indeed FOSS:
  https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/sex/
  Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Nullsoft, Inc.
  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
  Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely.
wine bigfuckingmistake.exe
- You rawdog .exe files?
  Disgusting 🤮
bigfuckingmistake.elf
- a.out

https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood

I love this program. Goes great with Cool Retro Terminal

Linux is a gateway drug. Habitual use can lead to harder OSes, which are also Linux.

Eventually to OpenBSD and FreeBSD
- Solaris, Illumos
- finally plan 9
Linux is just a gateway drug to TempleOS
- "druh"... Cringe. We're not on TikTok. You can speak like a human being here. You're not monetizing your comments.
- And eventually, after that, Nyarch

Always keep a GUI tool for the job in case of normies.

I just don't go outside so I can use the terminal all I want

Hm. I'd just tell them to fuck off.
But I wanna keep an eye on akmods when the kernel updates :(

This shit is how people turn into supervillains.

Can't decide. Is this green text fake and gay or real because it sounds like it could happen to me?

While I doubt it went as far as the parents calling the police, way back when I was in high school, my friend got banned from the computers for "hacking" because he used the command prompt to control the computer instead of just the GUI.
- Which is crazy because I'm sure your teachers remembered the days of DOS or earlier.
- he is doing magic! its a witch!! HERESY!!

I doubt the parents called the police on OP for hacking. Parents just get angry or ground their kids for "hacking".

"Breaking the new computer", to paraphrase my parents.
- my dad said Linux broke the computer when I installed Ubuntu as a last ditch attempt to get it to work with failing ram 😭😭
  it was blue screening like every 20 minutes before

Oh please Christ tell me that kids these days aren't that dumb when it comes to computers.

Computer literacy is definitely down in gen z and alpha.
- IMO around 2006 is when you see the decline. It's the delineation between kids who started with computers, and kids that started with phones or tablets.
Kids? I regularly interact with PhD students that don't know how to open a fucking ZIP archive. I've had one that thought that "SSD" was a kind of RAM, and insisted on installing Windows on a hard drive. I've had one that couldn't grasp the idea of 2FA. I've had one that only had a single copy of his dissertation and lost all of it when Bitlocker ate the disk.
Organic intelligence is going extinct, I swear.
- I'm a middle- aged millennial going through an undergraduate university course, in my first year I had to teach some of my group work partners how to move files from one folder to another in windows.
  And these are students who have chosen modules in electrical engineering, so they have more technical/ computer education than most at that age...
- My bestie in my phd program had all of her drafts and data and literally everything on a single shitty generic cheap USB thumb drive. She does some coding in R and works with technical equipment, so she's not tech illiterate. I slapped that shit out her hands so fast and bought her a small durable external. Lmao
- I’ve had one that thought that “SSD” was a kind of RAM
  Well, could it be considered random access memory? I couldn't really find a clear answer, mostly opinions.
  Wikipedia says:
  A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory, in contrast with other direct-access data storage media (such as hard disks and magnetic tape), where the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement.
  So maybe?
  Although that's basically the other end of "SSD is RAM".
  You could also install the OS to a RAMdisk.
  Gigabyte even made some physical ones in the past.
  The i-RAM was a PCI card-mounted, battery-backed RAM disk that behaved and was marketed as a solid-state storage device. It was produced by Gigabyte and released in June 2005, at a time when genuine solid-state storage solutions were generally still less affordable than an i-RAM product with superficially similar capabilities. The i-RAM utilised DRAM, a type of volatile memory, and was equipped with a lithium-ion battery to provide backup power.
They are way worse than 20 years ago. High school kids now grew up with Roblox on the iPad.
- I think you misunderstand how good with computers anyone ever was. Back then if you didn't care to learn, you just didn't have one.
  Now you either are interested and learn it, or you just use an iPad/iPhone. I know many, many people who never used anything more complicated than an iPad.
I had a computer class that was fairly self guided, do projects and tell the facilitator how it's good for community or whatever. All I would do when she walked by is go to hackertyper and tell her I was coding.
So yes.
As a young person:
They really are. They get used to fancy GUIs and don't understand anything about computers.
There are still a few that are good with computers, but that number is going down.
Oh, they def are. Most people under ~20 only use touch screen devices. In school, they have apps for building documents and power points, so they can just do those in their phone or a tablet.
I'm watching it in my high school aged niece: she barely knows how to type on a real keyboard, let alone how to access a command line, and even less so what can be accomplished through it.
Developers are that dumb when it comes to computers. Actual fucking developers.
- Fucking backend developers who can't even git commit without their fucking IDE handling it for them.
- in our area was some kind of job orientation school (or more the advertisement to spend 3 years in the main part).
  one of the people (probably 18-15) that wanted to look at programming or system integration (its combined) said that the teacher had a magic finger because that finger managed to turn on the pc
I used to tell a story about how my boss had to call me into his office to show him how to maximize a window after he accidentally changed its size. I had to do similarly basic instructions for several young news hires lately, and most don't seem to be picking it up very well.
It's less that kids are dumb with computers - since everyone's dumb with computers when they're inexperienced - and more that they're as unwilling to learn as my grandma; I'll show them how to do something, and they'll completely forget how by the next day.
I saw computers as an exciting new thing, but the next generation seems to think of them as outdated tech.
Yes. They are.
Everything is magic to them the way it was to the boomers. Open the box, plug it in, it works, hope nothing unusual happens along the way.
Of course there are plenty who know more, but I’ve got kids and helped them build their own PCs. They still know relatively little, but their friends don’t even understand that cellphones are computers and reject the idea altogether.
They are wayyy worse

Now mine Monero

Should have just called the college IT technician to corroborate his version.

One more reason to procrastinate updates

Word. Updates are annoying, I hate it when things start working differently and I have to problemsolve it into working my way.
typed from my unsupported LTS distro

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