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    [–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

    Just making people aware of my presence...

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    They used to be soyboys but then they bought an ikea plushie.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

    A specific IKEA plushie

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    Free template in a dtp program?

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Now I got the Tivola jingle stuck in my head. My very first PC game was a Tivola game. It seems they really fell from grace in recent years when looking at their website today.

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

    I had a blast playing the Czech-localized version of Bioscopia until the CD got scratched and it started crashing. I was terrible at gaming (still am but can look up guides now) so I never got past the starting area and reception. Still, the interactive encyclopedia kept working and I went through most of it. I recently pirated a working English-language copy (developed by Tivola together with the German one, I think) and had a blast. It would still crash at later points but I was able to hack the required items in through the plaintext XML save file, as well as 99 credit on the keycard (not as interested in biology anymore) and finish the game.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I remember that series, it was basically Myst but as a learning game. I played a bit of 'Chemicus' as a child but also never got far. These games where probably all way to hard for children. I wonder, do learning games even exist anymore? I spent many hours with games like 'The Mystery of Mathra'.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I think they do make some kind of edutainment but not like this. Point-and-click adventures were relatively easy to integrate some education into but the kid needs the time and patience to find a solution when they inevitably get stuck (perhaps with hints but not walkthroughs). Their attention span is too short nowadays because content comes more often than on 1 CD-ROM per month for the delayed gratification of exploration and puzzle-solving to work.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    Soul Reaver or Naruto?

    Instructions unclear; unhinging jaw to consume ramen.

    [–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 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.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Lol I can tell you just used Google Lens or some shit and then proceeded to make it sound like you knew what you were talking about by assuming it was Japanese (it's not).

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

    Yeah that one's on me. I did Google lens it, but I realized I had no hope of knowing what glyphs those were, I just assumed Japanese cause idk. But good call.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (3 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.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    Yeah I got it completely wrong.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    because simplified Chinese characters borrowed many words directly from Japanese kanji, so google translate still recognizes it.

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    You see, he knew because he is wrong and it is indeed Chinese

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Well good for me, means that my "Identify Japanese from Asian characters" skill is better than I thought, which is should be as I'm learning the language since over a year.

    Maybe I should've been more confident, any sentence should at least have some hiragana for particles.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I use both kinds of Debian ig. Planning to switch to Gentoo

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    does this mean that debian deletes estrogen? Or does it provide testosterone, the spiral is reversed, so surely that'll have some effect right?

    Maybe this is one of those cases where the estrogen is just put in the package backwards.

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