194 points

Lemmy is so weird. Some of the memes make me think that average audience here is 15 yrs old, but then there is the occasional post like this which only 70 year old ancient wizards will understand.

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Growing up doesnโ€™t mean we stop finding a well timed fart funny. It means 70 years of memories is still tickled by a crude punchline. Old people and young people have the same sense of humor but slang causes transmission errors.

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Bet

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I resent that. Iโ€™m 38 and I distinctly remember this. RedHat 4.2 (Manhattan) circa 1997 I think. That was when I started messing with Linux.

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How do you have to be 70 years old to understand this?

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I bet half of people surfing right now on r/all wouldnโ€™t.

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Thatโ€™s more the environment than the age tho!

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135 points

Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.

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Just install them Laโ€™nuxes for them cozzy feelings.

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The modern appropriate version of this is Pirate or l33tspeak, itโ€™s a common technique for debugging localization issues without having to be able to read another language

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I remember setting my facebook to pirate back in the day. Fun times.

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Avast antivirus had a pirate language, it was excellent

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โ€œAvast antivirus has been updated!โ€

Hnnnnnng, you triggered my PTSD from windows

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I miss everything having pirate speak. I donโ€™t know why it stopped being a trend.

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they also have this English but RTL thing.

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Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I donโ€™t mean RHEL.

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Hah, same/similar release as me โ€” family had dialup at the time, but I found โ€œRedHat Linux Secrets 5.xโ€ (with included CD) at a garage sale.

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I think I got that one; back then you could order cheap CDs of a bunch of different distributions from third-party vendors because most people didnโ€™t have broadband. Depressingly, it seems the firm I used (CheapBytes out of California) is gone now.

I had used Slackware before that since my โ€˜learn you linuxโ€™ book came with a Slackware disc set. I recall it being frustrating because I had actually bought WordPerfect for Linux, a libc5 product, and it didnโ€™t work right with the new glibc universe.

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Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second loveโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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That wasnโ€™t the installer or red hat specific. There used to be language filters in Linux including Swedish Chef, those just got included in the language packs and want so he redhat specific development

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and want so he redhat specific development

Back up!

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