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bin or bin?? (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 118 points 6 months ago

Is this how one becomes nonbinary?

[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 39 points 6 months ago

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."

[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

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

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Tony Lazuto says you should delete System32

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 8 points 6 months ago

Only if you follow the script(s).

[-] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

This took me way too long

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 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.

[-] sntx@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago

I cleaned my bin.

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

[-] jdaxe@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago

Why not just symlink to /usr/bin?

Not familiar with NixOS

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

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.
[-] grock1722@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That’s fuckin sick.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago
[-] Xirup@yiffit.net 61 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 6 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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

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

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[-] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

time to snapshot my latest snapshot

(btrfs)

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This one isn't true of course, but it still feels like it fits

Mr Incredible - Bin is bin!

[-] voidnutcracker@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago

Clearing build files of your hobby project when you

rm -rf /bin

instead of

rm -rf bin/
[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 3 points 6 months ago
rm -rf bin /
[-] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's binjamin u sombitch

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

clean your bin not the communal bin

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher 1 points 6 months ago

Me, an American:

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