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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to think I found the perfect, stable, boring system with Debian + KDE Plasma.
I installed it.
I left literally everything on default.
I booted it.
Everything worked out of the box.
I was looking forward to a perfect, stable, boring computing experience.
My cat walked across the keyboard and crashed the OS.
It rebooted to a blinking cursor and nothing else.

So if you’re hiring a software quality assurance engineer, her salary expectation is 80k kitty treats, a corner office overlooking a park with squirrels, and an assistant who will pet her at work and doesn't mind getting their earlobes nibbled.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OP did not take this picture. Their story is made up. Here's the original: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/3/110

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I did not take this picture. I just nabbed the smuggest-looking cat-on-a-keyboard I could find.
But your questioning of my cat's software testing experience has made her very upset.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what you did to your cat, but Imgur is telling me the picture “may contain erotic or adult imagery.”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

She's not wearing any clothes and there's licking and petting involved.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Nothing like heavy petting a hairy pussy to trigger NSFW content warnings

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

yeah for some reason imgur does that but the video is sfw

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

unix catgirl gg

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Oh, so thát's what 'cat' does!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

... but you had a cursor?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the mouse was dead for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

cat killed it. get a dog

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is "magic sysrq" enabled? Could be the cat hit alt+sysrq+something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're right, that's exactly what happened. If you look at the top of the trace, it says __handle_sysrq. Moreover, it's in the sysrq_handle_crash. That gets called when a sysrq combo is pressed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your cat is silently laughing.

But, nevertheless, I would have thought that Debian could not be crashed so easily. Have you tried another window manager?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I'm as stumped as you are. But Gnome has been cat-proof so far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

@KISSmyOS @linux looks like the cat became the virus by the keyboard.... The Cat Virus!

[–] possiblylinux127 6 points 11 months ago

You are one talented cat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What version of Debian? I hope the 3.1.0 I see isn't the Kernel release.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, I just duckduckwent "Hacker Cat" and nabbed the pic where the cat had the smuggest look on her face.
My own cat made sure to dispose of all incriminating evidence.

[–] Blisterexe 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you could try zorinos, since debian died on you

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Ooh, exciting, a user-friendly distro based on Ubuntu...checks notes...LTS 20.04???

Gnome 3.38.4
gtk 3.24.20

Holy shit, that's older than Debian Oldstable.
When these .deb package versions were released, my cat's mom wasn't even born yet.

[–] Blisterexe 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah it gets updates slowly, but zorin 17 has MUCH newer packages, and it just went into beta.

Its updated to to 22.0something

[–] Blisterexe 1 points 10 months ago

btw its packages are now not unbeleivably old!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Imagine yourself playing FPS game (CS: GO 2), and your cat just walk casually on your keyboard!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/rLXWqdry3Qc?si=1BcuJVn072Jx2OPd

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