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• Even more terrible puns!

  Why should you never invite a circuit board designer to prom? After the first write, they will leave you on read(-only mode) why? PROM is Programmable Read-Only Memory, which can be written to only once, after which it is read-only What does the maintainer say when asked whether one can contribute to their permissively licensed project? M I Teasing you? Of course you can add Apache 2! why? MIT and Apache 2(.0) are both permissive open-source licenses, and they replace parts of the phras...

• Puns that aren't very funny at all

  What did Linus Torvalds say after he completed work on the first Linux kernel? I’m Finnishd! Norway, you might say, that’s not a very good joke! Well, let me Sweden the deal with some more puns: Why did the programmer fail their Python test? Their skills were Rusty. What is John Programmer’s favourite superhero-themed golf club? The Flash Drive! What grade did the senior dev get in Computer Science? C, because their memory was unsafe. What is a Linux user’s favourite way to design a...

• How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"?

  Whenever I hear somebody moving to a Macbook and make any sort of complaint onkine, lots of people unhelpfully tell you to buy a $1000+ iPhone and that will solve all your problems, or when an Android user is “switching to iPhone”, a similar thing happens with “just use a Mac”. Why the hell do you need to purchase all the expensive devices to just use one? Most of the time, using an iPhone, Mac, etc., does not “just work”. Maybe the UI is simply not very usable (not just Liquid Glass, see MacO...

• Why are the two major American parties called what they are?

  The “democrats” (as in democracy) and “republican” (as in a republic) are not very descriptive identifiers for a democratic party in a republic (though I guess you could argue a two-party system isn’t very democratic). In many other countries, parties are labelled as “Progressive”, “Conservative”, “Socialist”, “Christian Democratic”, “Social Democratic”, etc. that give you some idea of what they stand for / believe in, albeit in some cases, they can be misnomers and be things they want you to...

• Post #2914398

  …it’s just the error message when the URL entered does not lead to a valid webpage? It’s like when people “Google” something, they refer to the Google search engine. That doesn’t mean they know the difference between a search engine and a web browser, saying a silly joke doesn’t mean you have extensive knowledge in a certain field.

• Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions?

  In my personal opinion, it seems ridiculous that you would jump from a relatively open operating system that is slowly becoming more closed to the other option that is already fully shut off. File management on iOS may as well not exist, apps installed that’s not “Apple-approved” needs to be refreshed every 7 days + you need to manually register some certificate thing Good open-source apps are less prevalent on iOS (due to the high barrier of entry that is the App Store tax, wow who knew that...

• Are artificially coloured flames used to indicate certain properties of an appliance?

  If you didn’t know, compounds containing metal ions emit a certain wavelength of light when heated (this depends on the arrangement of electrons), and some emit a wavelength in the visible spectrum, producing colour. For example, copper can create a blue-green flame, and potassium can produce a lilac flame. Has there been any attempts at artificial colouration of flame colours in certain products that could be used to indicate safety certification, temperature ratings of that specific applianc...

• (cross post, SOLVED) Using rsync between btrfs internal and exFAT external SSD, incompatibilities due to lack of symlinks support on exFAT

  update: Using the tar command, I have created a tar archive that respects symlinks, so there aren’t any duplicated files, hooray! Now I will go install EndeavourOS, wish me luck! I was told that I might be able to get help in a dedicated community. I am using rsync to backup my home directory to an external SSD (I will rsync the other way later, this is because I will be reinstalling to a different distro). My laptop uses btrfs while the SSD uses exFAT. When sending files over, file sizes are...

• Post #252076

  Here are some bad puns that are to do with data types. I’m sorry. Comment down some of your own concoctions! What does a programmer say when he is accused of lying? I promise I’m not boolean you! explanation of the puns “Fooling” sounds very similar to “boolean”, the latter being a data type commonly used when programming. Yes I will be explaining each and every pun. Yes, these puns are not very good at all, I’m not a professional comedian. The one in the title is a play on words, as “Charlot...