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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    REISUB. I own you machine, and you will do as I say. Reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

    sudo reboot, that way the gui gets to die in a fire, too!

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Windows: Has a complex and graceful shutdown process to make sure programs never close if there's a problem with them and your computer just stalls on shutdown until you hold down the power button and completely void out the purpose of the graceful shutdown.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Ever tell a pc to shut down and come after work and it's still waiting for click a box.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    Ever? Too many times. When I think I've told Windows Update "yes, do all the shit, yes it's fine, yes I'm sure, yes you can do it, yes I really want you to do it, yes I'm sure I really want you to, yes I'm sure I'm sure, yes for the umpteenth fucking time" and switched off my monitor to go home for the weekend, the number of times I've come in on a Monday morning just to find I have to click "yes" yet again then have to sit there watching it grind out its updates.

    I just wish they'd add a checkbox, off by default, that says "yes you can do it all, just stop asking stupid fucking questions" that I can click and go home. But for some reason Microwank insist I have to sit there watching that fucking update percentage creep up then endlessly sit at "100% all is done, please wait" for no reason whatsoever.

    Oh yeah and there always seem to be way more reboots needed when BitLocker is active. I'm sure 1 reboot is the norm with occasional 2's. But with BL it's usually 5-6 reboots.

    I used to work at a place where MS would raise tickets with us and I always wanted to give them the WU treatment. But professionalism always got in the way of "This ticket is 100% complete, you must close and reopen it to continue".

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

    Closing correctly means the program stops NOW

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    Kill commands make me look like a CS:Go Civilian

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

    one of my favourite things when i switched to linux first was using the meta+Q hotkey to shutdown a program (this was with PopOS i think). with windows there is alt+F4 but some programs only use shift+alt+F4 which makes it a lot more confusing. on top of all that if youre using a laptop then its another keypress for the Fn key in some cases

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    kill commands make one feel like a Caesar

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Kill β€˜em all, let God sort β€˜em out 🀣

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    Lol yes. Killall makes one feel like a god.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

    et tu, Sudo?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You literally kill/xkill/killall the program.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    In As400, you type PWRDWNSYS *IMMED.

    Then you pray it comes back up in a timely manner.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    old sierra DOS games, uh, they fucked up the code when exiting so they'd just crash. so they changed the error code to say "thanks for playing Kings Quest" or something similiar

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    If your code can’t handle a sig9 then your code is weak

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    sig 9 or sig 9mm - that's the question here

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    kill $SIGSAUER

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