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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Do I have to enable backports for that package?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It could become glitchy. Consider enabling Frontport as well.

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  • [–] 121 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Which came first, the Linux or the egg?

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  • [–] 104 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Estrogen

    AMD64

    Where's ARM estrogen

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  • [–] 88 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    If it wasn't obvious that the Debian box is a parody, here's what the Japanese Chinese text along the top reads on each box:

    Please read the instructions carefully and use it under the guidance of a physician. It is strictly prohibited to be used in food and feed processing.

    Please read the installation instructions carefully and use it under the guidance of the administrator. It is strictly prohibited to use for server installation.

    so yes, the title is correct-- this is not a coincidence, the Debian box was made explicitly for this joke

    edit: thanks for the correction folks, honestly thought it looked more like Japanese than Chinese at first glance and I am obviously not an expert in either. Appreciate the call-out, very deserved.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    How do you identify it as Japanese? I see no hiragana or katakana, which is how I usually identify text as Japanese instead of Chinese.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    ... you guys install it via USB drive or ... ?

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  • [–] 110 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Good news ... it's a suppository!

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I suspected Debian users were soyboys and now I have the documents to prove it.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    β€œProgynova”.. that’s a really great name. Naming things is hard so I always appreciate a good name when I see one

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Could you elaborate on what makes the name a good one?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I read it as pro-gyn-nova

    • Pro: as in professional/effective
    • Gyn: woman (from Proto-Indo-European *gwen), like in gynocology
    • Nova: new (in many romance languages)

    It rolls off the tongue and encapsulates three important aspects. I'm sure there are other readings of it too.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Ah, other commenters beat me to saying what I was going to say regarding the semantics.

    But also, it’s a unique artificially created word. Nobody is going to confuse it for anything else (granted, that might get murky with pharmaceuticals). It’s searchable with any piece of software that does simple string matching. Also, it isn’t itself a constituent of some other longer word, which helps with that kind of thing too.

    The spelling of the word is also phonetically logical. Being a new artificially created word, they could’ve spelled it however they wanted, but they chose the spelling that reads how it sounds. Very few people are going to hear it spoken and misspell it if they’re typing it into some device.

    Yeah.. that sums it up

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is a reason a lot of trans girls use Debian.

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