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[-] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 5 months ago

Gotta go home and crack a few linuxes

[-] TIN@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago
[-] illi@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago
[-] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Apparently Linuces is Latin for multiple Torvalds's

[-] mech@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Silly me, I forgot the grammatical plural of Linux. Damn it.

[-] Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

Hello fellow linuxahoic

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago

What the fuck is wrong with just saying email? It's been around for decades.

If someone said to me "Could you crack a Linux" I would walk away slowly and avoid eye contact.

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Because this is a Proton Ad.

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 months ago

Picking another corporation to base your language around isn't better. Why not refer to the general privacy concepts that corporation claims to have?

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

Cups and string ftw

[-] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

hehe, yikes

between Proton moving operations and its CEO being a MAGA (or at least a Trump sycophant), the advice to adopt Proton has really curdled recently

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yes, all his musings about Trump cracking down on Google aged like fine milk. Everyone who paid attention knew this though. He should keep his mouth shut about politics and do his company a favor

[-] No1@aussie.zone 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It would be safer if we discussed.this using encryption:

1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF

OK?

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

Please provide your public key.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh, sorry, I lost that with my bitcoin wallet in 2011 when my hard drive crashed ☹️

[-] thermogel@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago

Instead, lets simplify: Search, Message, Email, Video Call... wtf is the last one

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 11 points 5 months ago

This is a joke... right? Right?

[-] illi@piefed.social 15 points 5 months ago

Judging by the last part... yeah. But also, there is something to it.

[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Had me going until "Could you crack a Linux?"

[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

This reeks of adults trying to explain to other adults about 'internet speak' and should have stayed in whichever marketing fools addled brain it came from

[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

but if enough people use google as a general verb, the word will stop being owned by alphabet (from my understanding)

[-] Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

What the fuck is this?

[-] LLMhater1312@piefed.social 6 points 5 months ago

Its been so hard to stop saying google it but im getting there, they really got us good with their branding brain worm

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

At the same time, Google hates people using their name generically for web searching because it risks them losing the trademark.

So I guess I am conflicted, because I hate to acknowledge Google more than I need to, but would love to see the term become meaningless.

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

I use DuckDuckGo but say Google for this exact reason. If I'm talking to someone I actually like I usually elaborate to say "Google isn't the search engine I actually use because it's sus, but you know what I mean"

[-] eodur@piefed.social 4 points 5 months ago

Pretty sure "to google" means to search for something and get nothing but ads, bad answers, and frustration now. Dunno why anyone would want that.

Or maybe it means "to create a cool product then kill it while it's still popular."

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Luckily I find it pretty easy to avoid using brand names and just use the plain old verb.

Search it for me. Look it up. Message me. Send it to me, I'll send this back to you. Set up a call, a meeting, a video call.

[-] mech@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

"Could you DuckDuckGo that for me?" just doesn't work the same.

[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

"Hey, can you Duck around and find out?"

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

That really needs to be their next PR campaign.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Do people not know how to say "this is my email address" anymore?

[-] anothermember@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

Would be better if this had serious suggestions. But to add a serious one, please say something like "content blocker" instead of "adblocker"; you're not freeloading by blocking ads, you're choosing to not connect to unwanted privacy-hostile content with your computer and internet connection, as you should.

[-] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, language doesn't work like that.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 5 months ago

I just say "I did a search" instead of "I googled it" nowadays, mostly because I don't like lying.

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

egg break when put all in one basket. 

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

as som have mentioned. I call email, email. And I call video conferencing video conferencing and would say hop on a conference call or just call. I mean many people dial in. Video is just standard now but they used to be done with just phones. I usually say the message app used as at a workplace its whatever they use. Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don't get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word. you say windows don't let ms own that trump. I do say google sometimes for search and that is bad but I often say search or look it up. I just need to stop saying google sometimes.

[-] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don't get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word.

I'm pretty sure that in this specific context, it's actually referring to the physical windows that you would crack to let in some fresh air. I'm also pretty sure that this post was a joke, LOL.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

ah, getting the last bit was likely key to realizing it.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

The linux is already open

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

If I actually cpuld be bothered to go hang out with people I would totally try to make crack a linux a thing

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