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Relevant XKCD:
sigh
I know right could just be apt install
How am I still learning about XKCDs I've never seen especially ones in the 1000 range.
Congrats on being one of today's lucky 10,000!
So meta
Too meta. https://xkcd.com/1447/
Is this a reference to something?
Yes. https://xkcd.com/1053/
https://xkcd.com/1053/
When you first learnt about xkcd, did you not S L O O O R P the entire back catalogue?
I guess when I did that there were A LOT fewer. Cuz I'm old.
I'm so old I remember anticipating the 404
It's the Key and Peele of geek comics
(clears throat in Zypper install)
:p
if $1 is not installed after that, wipe your hard drive and start over
It could be a crate...
Script needs to be updated, Rust wasn't particularly popular back then (if it existed. I don't know how old this one is, but it's pretty old)
March 11, 2016 according to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script
According to the Rust Wikipedia article, it was juuuust starting to be used in real things around that period. Definitely before it was popular.
I can stop laughing at steamcmd.
Good. If you couldn't that would be a real problem.