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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 10 months ago

If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?

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If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 10 months ago
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  • TurboWafflz
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    50•10 months ago

    I say you’ve won an operating system once you’ve contributed code that got into its kernel

    • @[email protected]OP
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      13•10 months ago

      Alright, have an upvote 👍

      But… If you wrote the boss (or even just portions of it), then defeat the kernel boss you partly wrote, isn’t that like cheating?

      • @[email protected]
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        13•10 months ago

        Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•10 months ago

          Kinguin ftw

    • @[email protected]
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      9•10 months ago

      The fear your code will break something one day and Linus will hunt you down will forever your thoughts.

      Game over.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        6•10 months ago

        Your comment seems to have a ----- missing…

        • @[email protected]
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          4•10 months ago

          I don’t even

          • @[email protected]OP
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            4•10 months ago

            haunting you for the holiday 👻

    • @[email protected]
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      1•10 months ago

      Kernel, compiler and WebKit back in the day, taking the hat trick.

  • @[email protected]
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    30•10 months ago

  • @[email protected]
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    20•10 months ago

    Blue screen of death and you defeat it by installing linux.

    • Lung
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      6•10 months ago

      Then how do you defeat the new bsod in the Linux kernel? It’s got a fancy QR code!!

      https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/08d5fc94a843f41a90209010df41b75f92616ce2/2024/09/16/54eb298b-1bb0-44de-a1fa-1f8e136796fc/linux-6-11-panic-screen.png?auto=webp&fit=bounds&height=2000&width=2000

      (It’s “install bsd” isn’t it…)

      • @[email protected]OP
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        2•10 months ago

        That looks purple to me, clearly not a BSOD.

        For real though, a QR code for a kernel panic? 🤦‍♂️

        • Lung
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          4•10 months ago

          Seems dope, I mean, your computer don’t work and retyping text is lame

  • @[email protected]
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    9•10 months ago

    God.

    You patch God out of TempleOS

  • @[email protected]
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    8•10 months ago

    Uninstall Skype

    • @[email protected]OP
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      3•10 months ago

      Mission accomplished. Synaptic is awesome, plus I wasn’t using Skype anyways.

  • @[email protected]
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    7•10 months ago

    Grub Rescue

    Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1•10 months ago

      I won’t lie, I’ve considered almost totally giving up modern technology, and going back to refurbishing wristwatches like I did in my teens.

      Analog/Digital? Hardly matters, as long as I can get parts…

  • @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    Figuring out how to print…nobody knows how to beat it yet, some just get lucky

    • atocci
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      3•10 months ago

      3D printers are easier to use than getting ink on paper and it’s appalling

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      Brother laser printers.

      Was shocked when it randomly showed ip everywhere automatically, it showed up and worked on my fresh freebsd install, I thought shit was haunted.

  • @[email protected]
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    6•10 months ago

    Guru meditation

  • @[email protected]
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    1. First you pay money to Canonical, and then you load the disc into the PC.
    2. Animal noises and bongo drums play for some reason and you’re presented with an orange game menu.
    3. You click on one of the squares stacked clumsily on the left and nothing happens.
    4. You click it again and it drags with your mouse up the hierarchy.
    5. Finally, it lets go and a big white square fills the screen, knocking you off your chair.
    6. A popup window spawns from an empty corner and informs you that there are 25 packages that can be updated.
    7. Daunted by the unending onslaught, you curl up into a ball and weep
    • @[email protected]
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      5•10 months ago

      Microsoft Windows ME is the Battletoads of operating systems.

      The final boss is acknowledging the hubris of believing you could ever win.

      • @[email protected]
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        5•10 months ago

        That final boss is easy. Just do Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then start killing all processes one-by-one until you get the blue screen of victory

        • @[email protected]OP
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          2•10 months ago

          Blue screen of victory?

          Fuck, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! 😂🤣

  • @[email protected]
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    4•10 months ago

    I am not nearly computer literate enough to understand what all these comments are talking about. But I expected personal bias to be one of the answers.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      3•10 months ago

      Have an upvote just for commenting.

      Yes, there’s always gonna be some sort of tech bias regarding such questions. Every OS has flaws, somewhere…

  • @[email protected]
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    4•10 months ago

    It would be General Failure reading the disc. I would fsck him up, and replace disc if necessary.

    Yes, I know those may be different oses, but I was thinking multiplatform

  • @[email protected]
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    3•10 months ago

    If it’s unix, sudo rm -rf /* the system without mercy! If it’s windows, nah, it will win.

  • Aeri
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    3•10 months ago

    The final boss of Windows is to crowbar out a metric shitton of bullshit and you do it with a bunch of registry tweaks and GPedit

  • @[email protected]
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    3•10 months ago

    Seems relevant: https://youtu.be/nhv5uv6Na_A

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1•10 months ago

      That’s extremely relevant LMFAO! 👍

  • NutWrench
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    2•9 months ago

    If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

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