The first time I looked at this, when it was posted, I failed to recognize that “grub” is a slang word for food.
I used to know that, and I knew it for most of my life. I think it got pushed out by some stupid video I watched, or maybe a meme.
From now on eating fast food will be known as “grub loading”.
GRUBER KING
at least it’s linux
Likely, but not necessarily. The grand unified bootloader boots a great many things.
I worked at Burger King back in like, 2010 and all the cash registers were running Linux. But I can’t speak for the entire country/world.
There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your man pages.
quote that
I might be getting whooshed but uh, it’s a riff on a line from Hamlet iirc
“There is more between heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophies”
TIL what GRUB stands for!
It’s grand indeed.
Kind of weird how GRUB is “BURG” backwards…
BURG stands for Boot UR GRUB
And GRUB stands for GRand Unified BURGer
No, that’s definitely GRUBER
GRUBUR
You’re a goofy GRUBUR! Yeah!
We’re all goofy GRUBUR! Yeah!
Goofy goofy GRUBUR GRUBUR! Yeah!
GRUB UR KING
Threre used to be a fork of grub called burg. They lost a great opportunity there
Welcome to Gruber Gnu, have it your way
This made me think of Mitch Hedbergs escalator joke.
“I like the escalator, man, 'cause the escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. There would never be an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out of Order’ sign, only an ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs - Sorry for the Convenience.’”
Escalator breaking in such a way that it goes way too quickly could make it unusable.
True. Though that’s much more isolated. Typically criminal negligence is involved. Though early escalators were always slightly scarry meat grinders.
Yeah I don’t fuck around with out of order escalators if I can avoid it. I’ve seen too many internet videos.
They have exactly two failure modes. Become stairs and become horror movie.
Well that escalated quickly!
I am scared to wear sandals on them because of how many times I’ve stubbed my toe on the edge walking up, and those things still draw blood
You would think … https://www.entwicklungsstadt.de/berlin-hauptbahnhof-suedkreuz-rolltreppen-kaputt/
At the station it became apparent that a few of the escalators were working again by now. However, some entrypoints remained closed off.
And a few months later:
I wonder how many non tech people thought it was their new slogan.
I was thinking that for a quarter second until I read the second line. :)
A quarter pounder second?
A Royale Second (with cheese) in the civilized world
Welcome…
To zombocom…
I miss zombo.com
Welcome to
GRUB, I love youAt least they’re doing one thing right.
Is this Burger King?
No, this is GRUB!
How does this happen? Boot loader and OS on separate disks, and the OS disk has failed?
Oh sweet summer child. It used to happen all the time
Well, I’m at least glad to see that their sign isn’t running Windows.
Grub can even boot windows. It just doesn’t come with the standard windows installer.
It can boot windows, but really shouldn’t.
but they’d be at least dual booting!
small steps±-----------------------
| - Windows 95
| - Windows 98 <–
| - Windows ME
|
Yeah, but in general, people who run Windows don’t use Grub.
