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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 246 points 1 week ago

Linux user here. What's a friend?

[-] M137@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I actually made three new friends on new years eve completely through mentioning Linux. We were at a party and I had a really bad year last year so I was rusty in the "talking to people" department, the few people I knew there, who are indie games devs that don't use Linux, said something (can't remember exactly what) that made me reply with a Linux joke and those three people moved their chairs closer to me with a "ooooh, a linux nerd, let's fucking go" energy. We went on such a nerd dive that they party host told us that we aren't allowed to talk Linux anymore or we'd have to leave.
We talked a lot more through the night and had to really concentrate to not get thrown out, haha.

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

We aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave

I get this, in my own house. We need speakeasy for linux.

[-] degen@midwest.social 7 points 6 days ago

Another contributor who doesn't have wildly differing political ideals from your own, I think?

[-] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Super popular tv show from the 90s with Jennifer Anniston (from Office Space), Courtney Cox (from Scream) and a bunch of other schmucks that I can't remember.

[-] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

sudo apt-get install friends

Awesome package! Still figuring out what it does though 🤔

[-] ray@sh.itjust.works 149 points 1 week ago

It's a class that's allowed to access another class's private members. Obviously Linus doesn't have any, because he codes in C.

[-] Redkey@programming.dev 13 points 6 days ago

Private members aren't actively blocked from external access; they're passively marked "Access prohibited".

That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can't pick up on the signals telling them that they're not wanted.

(Fellow C programmers: I'm joking. :D)

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i think you are mistaking friends with the boyfriends class

[-] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago

It's a user group

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago
[-] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 6 days ago

Just like many other good distros, Friends ended when the larger one ate the smaller ones.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Hey Siri, go to sleep.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

It’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file. 

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 6 days ago

That would be reported.

Friends don't let friends be root.

[-] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Friend here, what's a linux?

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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