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    [–] Wololo@lemmy.ca 199 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Lemmy is so weird. Some of the memes make me think that average audience here is 15 yrs old, but then there is the occasional post like this which only 70 year old ancient wizards will understand.

    [–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Growing up doesn't mean we stop finding a well timed fart funny. It means 70 years of memories is still tickled by a crude punchline. Old people and young people have the same sense of humor but slang causes transmission errors.

    [–] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 135 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.

    [–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

    Just install them La'nuxes for them cozzy feelings.

    [–] lialdd@lemmynsfw.com 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The modern appropriate version of this is Pirate or l33tspeak, it's a common technique for debugging localization issues without having to be able to read another language

    [–] RandomStickman@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    I remember setting my facebook to pirate back in the day. Fun times.

    [–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Avast antivirus had a pirate language, it was excellent

    [–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    "Avast antivirus has been updated!"

    Hnnnnnng, you triggered my PTSD from windows

    [–] simple@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    I miss everything having pirate speak. I don't know why it stopped being a trend.

    [–] lapingvino@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    they also have this English but RTL thing.

    [–] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don't mean RHEL.

    [–] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

    Hah, same/similar release as me


    family had dialup at the time, but I found "RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x" (with included CD) at a garage sale.

    [–] cybertario@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

    Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love... πŸ˜ƒ

    [–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    That wasn't the installer or red hat specific. There used to be language filters in Linux including Swedish Chef, those just got included in the language packs and want so he redhat specific development

    [–] metaStatic@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago

    and want so he redhat specific development

    Back up!

    [–] slippery_salmons@lemmy.today 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)
    [–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    What in the installation's goin on in there?

    [–] Transcriptionist@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

    Image Transcription:

    Top text: At one point, Red Hat Linux had a "Redneck" language option for its installer. I'll just leave these images here: Four images of the Red Hat Linux installer with "Welcome to Red Hat Linux" above it and "/ between elements : selects : next screen" below. The first dialogue box reads: [Choose a Language] What language should we use during the installation process? English Czech French German Norwegian Redneck (selected) Romanian Turkish [OK]

    Second dialogue box: [keyboard type] whichadese keyboards you got? tr_f-latin5 tr_q-latin5 tralt trf trq uk us-prokey us (selected) [yep]

    Third dialogue box: [installation method] which kinda stuff has the packages, junior? Local CDROM (selected) NFS image hard drive FTP SMB image [yep] [back up!]

    Fourth dialogue box: [note] stick in your Red Hat CD into dat coffee holder on the front [yep] [back]

    [I am a human, if I have made a mistake please message me. Please consider providing alt-text for images for ease of access. Thank you. πŸ’œ]

    [–] skymtf@pricefield.org 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    This so funny funny lmafo! Howdy there partner, what parts ya come from.

    [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

    Well see I come from that internets place out yonder, but I done need tuh git in that there kurnal whatcha ma callit and get r done no whut I'm talkin bout.

    [–] art@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    This was also in Mandrake Linux.

    [–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Because Mandrake was a Red Hat fork

    [–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Core memory unlocked. This had to be Red Hat 7? One of the few releases before they ditched home/personal use and went all in on enterprise server.

    [–] waffless@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

    i think they removed this in 5.2 since it broke everything if you used it outside of the installer and was only there to test locales

    [–] dadGPT@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

    cotton eyed Joe approved.

    [–] mariah@feddit.rocks 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
    [–] mariah@feddit.rocks 1 points 2 years ago

    Oh right. I forgot about that

    [–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago

    I would use Linux much more for personal stuff if they had UwU language options.

    [–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago
    [–] TheCee@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago
    [–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

    Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?

    [–] Exec@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    The installer for VMware ESXi 7.0 (earliest version released in 2020) still had a Czechoslovakia option for keyboard layout selection.

    [–] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

    Interesting! Just laziness or was that layout different from either Slovak or Czech?

    [–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 2 years ago
    [–] iloverocks@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Is there a way to get it back in modern systems?

    There are thousands more lines to translate, I’m afraid. However, it is opan source software so you can do it yourself by following the langpack documentation.

    [–] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 0 points 2 years ago

    Absolutely based