• nyan@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    We’re talking about a kernel whose user-visible error messages have historically included things like “lp0 on fire” . . .

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      8 days ago

      The ‘printer of fire’ error used to be a legitimate and important concern. Ye olde printers really could light their paper on fire under certain circumstances and they would typically be huge devices in dedicated rooms rather than something right next to your system. Letting people know to check on it when specific things went wrong probably saved a few buildings from burning down with people in them.