uis@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 9 months agoPrinter cattreebrary.pone.socialimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1816arrow-down19
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minus-squaretroglodytis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·9 months agoWhat thefuck does that mean?
minus-squarePoolloverNathan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down7·edit-29 months agoIt’s a pun on PC LOAD LETTER, which is an old error message roughly meaning “load letter paper into the paper cartridge”. The other person thought you replied to the other² person.
minus-squarechatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·9 months agoThe comment is also a reference.
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): reference Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-squareMy Password Is 1234@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down3·edit-29 months agocat is the program that reads the contents of specific file litter is the file > means forward the output of the program to the file /dev/lp0 is Line Printer 0 so just printer
PC LOAD LITTER
What thefuck does that mean?
It’s a pun on
PC LOAD LETTER
, which is an old error message roughly meaning “load letter paper into the paper cartridge”. The other person thought you replied to the other² person.The comment is also a reference.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
reference
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
cat
is the program that reads the contents of specific filelitter
is the file>
means forward the output of the program to the file/dev/lp0
is Line Printer 0 so just printer⠀
cat litter > /dev/lp0