I would have guessed a keycard inserted in a reader.

Hate to break it to you, but Facebook (ahem, sorry Meta) loves collecting your info even if you never use their services. So your info might be in this breach, even if you don’t have a username/password.

“No parent is going to buy a Wii because of the stupid name” -me, 2005

The heart skip when an rm command runs longer than expected.

yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:

After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:

It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.

funny you should say it like that. I just recently I tried using Debian’s default GNOME desktop and thought I had corrupted the install somehow. I reinstalled the OS two more times because it kept dumping me into a nearly blank screen with no obvious buttons to click aside network/sound/power.

I’m used to LXDE, KDE, and Cinnamon, so this was completely foreign to me… and trying to find the web browser had me at a caveman level of confusion.