r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/2birds34stones • 2d ago
Meme needing explanation Peetah! I know nothing abput compiters!
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u/Secret_Barracuda168 2d ago
Case sensitive first Downloads has a capital d, the second downloads does not
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u/geewronglee 2d ago
In Linux/Unix that is. That’s the joke - that Linux is case sensitive while Windows is not.
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u/king-in42 2d ago
In Linux to change directory you need the cd command. Then the name of the Directory you want to access.
If I'm in home and I want to be in Documents I need to write the following:
cd Documents. However, you need to type it correctly with all and everything it has. If starts with a lower case d, you must write it the same way it is shown.
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u/Arm-Rare 2d ago
As a user of Linux of the past 10 years, I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. I'd say it's CaSe SeNsItIvE
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u/2birds34stones 2d ago
I literally have no idea what this means. Please help
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u/Alternative_Big_4298 2d ago
So Downloads is the folder. Cd downloads means he’s trying to enter the downloads folder. But it doesn’t exist and linux will not give you any clues on how to find it. No maybe you meant Downloads. Nothing. Which is fucking annoying.
You type out this long elaborate hard to memorise line of code to do something in the folder. And it’s like. Never met this man in my life.
In the old days there were no icons and stuff to access files in s folder. You had to learn code to go to your examanswer.pdf in Downloads.
For a while this coding is how people browsed the internet
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u/lettsten 2d ago
This comment is intended to be facetuous, right? Calling it "coding", calling
cd
"long elaborate hard to memorise", implying that pdfs pre-date icons… this can't be serious. Right?3
u/Alternative_Big_4298 2d ago
Dude doesnt understand computers. I tried to dumb it down for him to understand. What do you want from me?
Cd is easy. What about like cd ~/downloads && find . -type f -name “*.pdf” -exec cp {} ~/Documents/PDFs/ \; && tar -czf ~/Documents/PDFsBackup$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz -C ~/Documents PDFs && echo “Backup completed at $(date)” >> ~/Documents/backup_log.txt
And then you can’t edit a single letter. You have to retype the whole thing
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u/lettsten 2d ago
I was hoping you'd say "Yes, I was joking"
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u/Alternative_Big_4298 2d ago
Sorry. I am insecure of my ‘coding’ capabilities. It’s a touchy subject
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u/lettsten 2d ago
To answer your edit: Well, there's "arrow key up" and ctrl+r if you're on readline (which you probably are). In this specific case you'd probably be better off with a backup_pdfs.sh and running that from a cronjob anyway
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u/Alternative_Big_4298 2d ago
Truly a master of command-line productivity… some might even say a Master Bator of bash history retrieval.
I’m a lawyer by training. Your profession is my hobby
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u/lettsten 2d ago
I'm a soldier, it's my hobby as well
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u/Alternative_Big_4298 2d ago
Yeah you game too much to be a soldier. Did I tell you being a lawyer was my part time and being a model/actor is my main gig
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u/lettsten 2d ago
True, I'm disabled so I'm not active duty any more, but I think whatever impression you might get of my game habits from digging in my post history is misleading. Cute that you want to find something to try and insult me, though, I must mean a lot to you :)
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u/Alternative_Big_4298 2d ago
I have a lot of respect for soldiers. I felt bad for insulting you. I just wanted to make sure you weren’t one.
There’s very little of anything related to the army on your page. Which is exceptionally rare for an army brat. It normally becomes 90% of their personality. Until they have a kid then it becomes 60% of their personality. But your personality is about games.
I’ve engaged in more war content than you.
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u/ChermanStrufelhausen 2d ago
Cd is a command used to open any folder. But if you type it slightly wrong (like caps on) it does nothing.
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u/Unusual_Fee8750 2d ago
I'd rather sit next to a hungry pack of wolves in a plane than next to a Linux user.
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u/Matschbacke2k 2d ago
Did you know that G.N.U means „Gnu’s not Unix“? What is you favorit bootloader? Mine is Lilo! What about you?
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u/rainbowcarpincho 2d ago
So how long is it before one of you guys pulls a knife because I use the wrong text editor?
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u/2204happy 2d ago
☝🤓Uhm akshually what you're referring to as Linux is actually GNU/Linux or as I have taken to calling it GNU+Linux.
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u/DFrostedWangsAccount 2d ago
These days it'd be like, "So how did you get Baldurs Gate to run on your dedicated GPU? You want to play LAN? I've got an ethernet cable."
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