If you’re up for some constructive criticism: I think the meme would be more effective if you put the silksong price in the lower panel to balance the $70 figure found in the top panel. Said another way, the lower text is missing the suffix “…for $20”.

…and I guess while I’m at it, whatever that meme law is about fewer words is better makes me think the top panel could be trimmed down: The gaming industry explains why they need to charge $70 for a game in order to make a profit.

That would be the brute force approach.

In theory, yes. There is a first-stage bootloader (that actually finds, loads, verifies, and jumps-into fastboot) baked into the hardware (implemented in fuses and ROMs [like REAL roms, not “flashable” ROMs]), and AFAIK it cannot effectively be modified after the phone is manufactured, so they try to keep it as simple as possible.

So if it were real, the psuedocode would be something like this:

var fastbootPartition=locateFastbootPartition();

if (fastbootPartition == null || !verifySignature(fastbootPartition))
{
     // AFAIK, this code block is already a thing in production, but the
    // message is more like a "signature failed" or "corrupted" than
    // a "you done goofed".
    displayRudeMessage();
    halt();
}

var fastbootAddress=load(fastBootPartition);
jumpTo(fastbootAddress);

I sent a bug report to LinkedIn, and they asked me to try different broswers and report on which ones are and are not effected, along with the browser version numbers i tested… as if I’m one of their webdevs.

The beast and rider vaguely make up the “A” shape of the Arch Linux logo.

An emotional-support gun?

How much red could a red-hat hat…

Wondering about those “making citizens” instructions on the wall.

The trick is to have a second EFI partition. One for windows to destroy, and one for linux to enjoy.

SMH…

Fine: “the alphabet starting with emm”

Well how about that… all this time I thought they were the same character. IIRC, child-me thought it was Wile E’s day job so that he could afford all those ACME products.

https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote

Yum… fiber…

I’m sure it would be quite rare to fight in a clean-room where such a tactic would be necessary, but not to worry… even in conditions free from dirt and dust, you can still get several hits in by converting your ordinary EDC PocketSand™ into earth-shot.

Plot twist: using magic really burns through the calories!

It might only take the smallest cryptodust to trigger a US reporting requirement.

Getting flashbacks of me trying to explain to a mac user why using sudo “to make it work” is why he had a growing problem of needing to use sudo… (more and more files owned by root in his home folder).

Come to think of it… it’s also addressed in TNG when the guy from the past calls the captain on the intercomm, and says something like “if I was not supposed to use it it should have a lock/code”.