• @[email protected]
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    19311 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      5911 months ago

      Growing up doesn’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.

    • @[email protected]
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      4111 months ago

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

      • kratoz29
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        10 months ago

        I bet half of people surfing right now on r/all wouldn’t.

        • Gamey
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          That’s more the environment than the age tho!

  • Discoslugs
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    13511 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    6711 months ago

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

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    5411 months ago

    Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don’t mean RHEL.

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      611 months ago

      Hah, same/similar release as me — family had dialup at the time, but I found “RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x” (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 didn’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 ‘learn you linux’ 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 didn’t work right with the new glibc universe.

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    3511 months ago

    That wasn’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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    3011 months ago

    Image Transcription:

    Top text: At one point, Red Hat Linux had a “Redneck” language option for its installer. I’ll just leave these images here: Four images of the Red Hat Linux installer with “Welcome to Red Hat Linux” above it and “/ between elements : selects : next screen” below. The first dialogue box reads: [Choose a Language] What language should we use during the installation process? English Czech French German Norwegian Redneck (selected) Romanian Turkish [OK]

    Second dialogue box: [keyboard type] whichadese keyboards you got? tr_f-latin5 tr_q-latin5 tralt trf trq uk us-prokey us (selected) [yep]

    Third dialogue box: [installation method] which kinda stuff has the packages, junior? Local CDROM (selected) NFS image hard drive FTP SMB image [yep] [back up!]

    Fourth dialogue box: [note] stick in your Red Hat CD into dat coffee holder on the front [yep] [back]

    [I am a human, if I have made a mistake please message me. Please consider providing alt-text for images for ease of access. Thank you. 💜]

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Well see I come from that internets place out yonder, but I done need tuh git in that there kurnal whatcha ma callit and get r done no whut I’m talkin bout.

  • @[email protected]
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    Core memory unlocked. This had to be Red Hat 7? One of the few releases before they ditched home/personal use and went all in on enterprise server.

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  • Nate
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    911 months ago

    yep

  • Draconic NEO
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    411 months ago

    Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?