@trungulox - eviltoast
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  • I once was visiting Detroit and got very drunk My airbnb. wasn’t far from the bar and I was way too loaded for a taxi to take me back, and it was a nice night so I decided to walk back to the airbnb I made it about 200 steps and felt something Hit me in the head. Someone was grabbing at my pocket and I guess I successfully stopped them from stealth by my wallet since it’s all ripped.

    Anyway my head is split open and there’s blood fucking everywhere. I tried dialing 911on my phone. Not sure if you’ve ever tried making a call on a bloood covered phone when you can’t see because you’re blind drunk and your vision is obscured by blood but it’s impossible. Anyway, a couple of people see me and get me an ambulance.

    Now, I’m from Canada, and I THINK that I had international health insurance from work but I’m not sure. Anyway, they deal with the blood and tell me I’ll need stitches in the emergency room but I’m still loaded and the bleeding stopped so I ask if I can just leave and they’re like: no.

    I call my buddy who shows up to take me back to the airbnb but I tell him: I’m not getting stuck with a fucking American hospital bill. Fuck this. Just walk out and I’ll meet you out front. I wait until the nurse is out of eye sight, crouch low and run past the admissions desk and out into the street, where my friend calls a very kind cab driver who sold us some decent cocaine.


  • Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Seems a really relevant question for anyone looking to learn a low level programming language. I’d say it’s fairly in depth but I don’t know what I don’t know. I get, at a high level, how memory addresses work, understand what ram does, I get the concept of hyperthreading and have written a couple of python scripts that have used it for so applications…

    I’ve fucked around with a lot of hex tables.

    I took formal logic in uni and while I sucked st it I did learn a lot about the fundamental logic underlying it all













  • So this was my biggest complaint when I started using it too. People will tell you that you don’t need a command prompt, and while they’re technically right,in practice you’re going to need to use it eventually.

    I was a windows power user before I got into Linux and of course I ended up needing to spend more and more time in the terminal so the learning curve for me was very frustrating at times.

    Fast forward a couple of years and I know bash, I learned more about how computers and operating systems works in those two years than I did in 30ish years before becoming a Linux guy, and while I still think a gui is better for some things, having to use windows at all pisses me off instantly and I feel handicapped without access to a command prompt. I mean, windows has powershell, but I don’t know it. And also the syntax is way more confusing to me than the eldritch syntax of bash (except arrays. Bash arrays are just fucked).

    I’m not naive enough to think that everyone is willing or capable of taking the same journey I did, or that you can use Linux to the same extent you can as windows without opening up the terminal, but I am grateful every day I put the time and effort into learning Linux, and I fucking love it.