• Aeri@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The final boss of Windows is to crowbar out a metric shitton of bullshit and you do it with a bunch of registry tweaks and GPedit

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

  • superkret@feddit.org
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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.

  • IsusRamzy@lemmy.ml
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    If it’s unix, sudo rm -rf /* the system without mercy! If it’s windows, nah, it will win.

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        I 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

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        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.

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    Grub Rescue

    Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game

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      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…

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        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.

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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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    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.