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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 8 months ago

If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?

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If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 8 months ago
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    Nvidia drivers. You beat it by ripping out your GPU and casting it into a volcano

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      11•8 months ago

      Nvidia is Sauron confirmed.

  • @[email protected]
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    27•8 months ago

    God.

    You patch God out of TempleOS

  • @[email protected]
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    John mcafee’s ghonnerea

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I’m just gonna leave this here…

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=yIaNZXgDtRU

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    BTRFS deciding it’s corrupt and refusing even read only access.

    Edit: You beat it by trashing the disk, using any other file system, restoring from backup and accepting any losses.

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    Figuring out how to print…nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky

    • @[email protected]
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      Network printer will change your life for the better.

    • atocci
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      3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it’s appalling

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      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.

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    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.

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    Kill screen: Uninstal McAfee

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      Instructions unclear, uninstall what?

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=yIaNZXgDtRU

  • @[email protected]
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    Guru meditation

  • @[email protected]
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    deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    I have always found the manual of the manual page two a bit scary.

  • @[email protected]
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    Make your own, and don’t be so professional about it.

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    1. First you pay money to Canonical, and then you load the disc into the PC.
    2. Animal noises and bongo drums play for some reason and you’re presented with an orange game menu.
    3. You click on one of the squares stacked clumsily on the left and nothing happens.
    4. You click it again and it drags with your mouse up the hierarchy.
    5. Finally, it lets go and a big white square fills the screen, knocking you off your chair.
    6. A popup window spawns from an empty corner and informs you that there are 25 packages that can be updated.
    7. Daunted by the unending onslaught, you curl up into a ball and weep
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      Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.

      The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.

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        That final boss is easy. Just do Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then start killing all processes one-by-one until you get the blue screen of victory

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          Blue screen of victory?

          Fuck, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! 😂🤣

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    Seems relevant: https://youtu.be/nhv5uv6Na_A

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      That’s extremely relevant LMFAO! 👍

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    The final boss was Arch in the early days.
    The boss fight was troubleshooting your display settings in Xorg.conf blindly, because you didn’t have any screen output after an update.

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    I am not nearly computer literate enough to understand what all these comments are talking about. But I expected personal bias to be one of the answers.

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      Have an upvote just for commenting.

      Yes, there’s always gonna be some sort of tech bias regarding such questions. Every OS has flaws, somewhere…

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