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Printer cat (treebrary.pone.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

PC LOAD LITTER

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What thefuck does that mean?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The comment is also a reference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

cat 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

your name is fitting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

what-

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

⠀

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

cat litter > /dev/lp0