May have been obvious to others, but I only caught this detail recently after using Linux for over 15 years.
Because Linux is written in C so its easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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C doesn't stop users from shooting themselves in the foot. C++ has new footguns added to the standard for you each version!
Rust has a safety lock to prevent you shooting yourself in the foot but you can switch it off if you really wanna shoot yourself in the foot that bad
To connect to the web
This is genius and the only answer I will accept now.
Can I get an explanation please?
Penguins have webbed feet.
hold hold
Maybe he just needs to rest his arm.
Because despite having a boot partition Tux appears to not wear shoes
Back when the original Tux drawing was made, we didn't have boot partitions. In LILO days, the bootloader barely fit in the MBR and the kernel was located and loaded with sheer magic incomprehensible to most mortals. So that's why Tux has no shoes.
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anxious waiting followed by despair
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That's a stretch
Tux is flexing
That's where it shot itself in the foot.
It is not UNIXβs job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is UNIXβs job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows.
s/UNIX/Linux/g
https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/terry-lambert-quote-it-is-not-unixs-job-to-stop-you/
He's resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn't have any pockets.
Poor dude has plantar fasciitis, he's trying to stretch it.
It looks better than if he wasnβt
He is stimming, don't make fun of him
He's trying to cover it up because of you foot fetishist freaks on the internet
this is the mandildo effect in action dude
I could have sworn he had both arms on his side
Mandela effect's been Mandela effected to Mandildo?
When did that happen?
He definitely did. All the image search results have clearly been tampered with.
Mandildo?.... I accept the re-interpretation
Better than Richard Stallman, that guy ate something off his foot in the middle of a conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
I wanted to rewatch it, but youtube wants me to verify my age for some reason, and I'm not doing that.
Brother uhhhh
Maybe to get a foothold in computing.
Tux's Gnome bias is showing
Thatβs because heβs very serious about this year being the year of the Linux desktop.
What does the title mean?
"Leg hand foot italian?"
From left to right it's Tux's extremities as close as I could match them and then a question.
Darn, I just replied with the same thing, but you beat me to it!
Your comment is on the top for me though.
Someone else beat me to it too.
Great minds think alike. ;)
It's an attention to detail.
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whut
Sudo rm -rf /* yourself
Classic. I haven't seen that one in about 20 years. π FreeBSD
It doesn't seem to be very appreciated here. This world isn't fair to artists.
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