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    [–] [email protected] 121 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Is this how one becomes nonbinary?

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)

    Delete the contents and it's not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.

    The joke here is more "Tony Lazuto said to execute these files."

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

    If you think about it, all files are binary, some just happen to be human-readable.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    So you're saying Tony Lazuto uses Windows??? That bastard!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    Tony Lazuto says you should delete System32

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    This took me way too long

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Yup Just delete all binary data from your disks, including the bios and get a quantum computer that you somehow program and control by hand.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I cleaned my bin.

    All that's left is a symlink: sh -> /nix/store/...

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Why not just symlink to /usr/bin?

    Not familiar with NixOS

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    NixOS has two main selling points:

    1. I can declaratively manage my system. That'd probably the Thing you know about it.
    2. but it also uses the Nix Package manager which allows you to install multiple versions of the same program. On Ubuntu, if I update bash from v4.6 to 5.0, it will replace /bin/bash and if any breaking changes were made, any program that has bash 4.6 as dependency won't work anymore. On NixOS binaries are stored in /nix/store with a hash. So bash 4.6 is in /nix/store/hwnfuvshajdbgjajebskhak-bash-4.6 and 5.0 gets installed into /nix/store/638jsvusbhsuksvj76hwlsbj-bash-5.0 This allows us to have programs that depend on a old version of a software installed simultaneously with programs that depend on a new version of it.
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    That’s fuckin sick.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    The joke is about the bin/ directory on Linux, which contains the binaries of the system (also called executables) which can break the system if you delete it, and also refer to the paper bin where all your trash files go and people tend to delete usually.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Ah, I don't usually think of trash bins by that term

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

    Could also be referring to something like ~/.local/bin, where you remove unnecessary user-only programs vs. /use/bin where you remove system essential ones.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    I think of the trash as just "trash." Thanks for explaining the joke.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Surely it should be "cleaned the bin", right? Dialect issues complicate things but the basic problem seems to be that the joke is just ungrammatical.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

    time to snapshot my latest snapshot

    (btrfs)

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Clearing build files of your hobby project when you

    rm -rf /bin
    

    instead of

    rm -rf bin/
    
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
    rm -rf bin /
    
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    clean your bin not the communal bin

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Me, an American: