Did you know NASA uses Linux on all its spaceships? That’s why there’s no sound in space.
- Debian users are so grounded, that they’re not allowed on planes
- Debian users are so stable, that they had to leave the room before the Higgs boson was discovered.
- Debian users are so enduring, that they’re forbidden from touching grass in case they turn into trees.
Debian, Arch, and Gentoo walk into a restaurant. Debian orders some cheese. Arch orders a milk and starts shaking it frantically to separate the curds and whey, and Gentoo orders a cow.
Unable to finish their food, they decide to pack it away and leave.
Debian aptly puts the cheese in their lunchbox and quietly walks away. Arch pulls out the newly produced fragrant cheese, and stuffs it messily in their pocket. Gentoo pulls out a saddle and mounts the cow.
Emacs and Vi walk into a pub. “What can I get you?” asks the bartender. They both agree on a nice locally-sourced Ale with a good kick to it.
They down drink after drink. Emacs starts to slur words and sway after a while, but Vi just keeps on knocking them back seemingly unaffected by it.
As the night goes on, more and more patrons leave the bar. “Last call!” says the bartender, and rings the bell.
Emacs nods, stumbles up to a piano, and strikes a few chords. After a few moments of emptying pockets and saving lint, they vanish in a puff of smoke. Vi watches this display and then turns back to their drink.
“You know,” says the bartender, “you can quit whenever you want.”
Vi just smiles and weeps.
X11 and Wayland are stopped off in a diner on their way to a funeral, looking at a map.
“Mommy” asks X11 to the waitress, “which way to the cemetery?” The waitress is a little taken aback, but gives exact instructions, and even includes instructions on how to open the door.
Wayland smirks, seeing the cemetery out of the window of the diner. “Follow me” he says, and walks through the window, shattering the glass.
A Gentoo, Debian, and Arch core developer go to the restroom. The Gentoo developer runs out, rushes to the sink, pulls the handle all the way up, takes as many tissues as it needs. On their way out they yell: “We at Gentoo, we are fast!”
The Debian dev comes out and heads to the sink. They are very digilent with the resources. Just enough water and only one single tissue. On their way out they say: “We at Debian, we are very efficient.”
The Arch developer comes out, passes the sink, sits down and mumbles: “We at Arch, we just don’t piss on our hands.”
I feel like a better punchline might be something like “Hand washing is bloat”. I’ve heard this joke a million times in different formats. Marines versus Navy is the first that comes to mind.
Sorry
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
There are F types of people in the world, those that can count from 0 to F, and the other 15 that can’t.
Not the other E that can’t?
Try decoding the ‘savegame’ format from Lord Of The Rings for Super Nintendo, from the year 1994.
It’s not even a battery backup save, you gotta manually write down 48 characters, then manually re-enter those 48 characters when you want to restore a ‘savegame’
Turns out it’s in base 32 format, and uses the CCITT CRC16 hash algorithm to verify the data integrity.
Guess what? If you punch in 3P53P53P53P53P53P53P53P53P53P5
You start off with all the characters maxed out (prolly more maxed out than intended), and also bypasses the checksum, as it zeroes out.
Yay base 32!
Don’t ask how long that took me to figure out…
