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@stokes I wonder how many (or few) people still get that 
@nanianmichaels @atkelar @stokes About a decade ago I switched to .sh
It's better 
@utopify_org @nanianmichaels @stokes certainly; but with my background in C#, I went for PowerShell in 2006; it runs on Linux now too, so I'm set.
@utopify_org @atkelar @stokes I've been on Windows my whole life, so I still can't deal with Linux scripting. Too many differences, plus it's much closer to real programming (which I know nothing about).
Hopefully I'll be able to learn more as time goes by, because I've recently migrated to a Linux-only household. The only remaining machine is the Steam gaming server.
@nanianmichaels @utopify_org @stokes whatever true script I need, I write in PowerShell; and the few lines that need shell scripting, I google-cut-and-paste mostly. No sane person would willingly develop that case sensitive jumble of options that are *ix tools; I am willing to bet that it came to that because of "per byte storage billing" back when it was new. The linux idea of tab-completion sucks though.
@atkelar @nanianmichaels @stokes Never heard someone say that tab-completion sucks. It's the most efficient thing in the terminal. But okay, I use zsh for ages and not bash anymore.
@utopify_org @nanianmichaels @stokes what irks me to no end is that tab just shows the options instead of cycling through them. I miss that detail.
@atkelar @nanianmichaels @stokes You should really try zsh one day. It's so much fun!
@stokes Ah yes. autoexec, the only .bat that doesn't live in c:\belfry\ :-)
@stokes@mstdn.socialif it's broken, con fix this
@stokes can’t figure it out. Anyone to explain this joke to me?
(No I’m old enough to still remember how to load a CD-ROM driver in DOS)
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@Badscrew @stokes I explained it to someone else up above. https://mstdn.ca/@cautionwip/110522989027116184
Actually, if you were loading a CD-Eom driver, you would probably have had to access both config.sys and autoexec.bat..I think? Been so long. Lol
@cautionwip @stokes don’t see the joke in the picture still
@Badscrew @stokes I’ll break it down. :)
It’s a bat, sitting in an executive (which is commonly shortened in English to “exec”) office, with profit charts that say “dealerships” and “trucks”, signifying that the company it is representing is in the automotive industry.
“Auto”+”exec”+”bat” = autoexec.bat
@cautionwip @Badscrew @stokes
I'm forced to wonder how old, old mate is..
@MacropodCare @Badscrew @stokes ? Now it’s my turn to not get the joke..
@cautionwip @Badscrew @stokes apologies. An Australianism "old mate" is a reference to a colleague or fellow commenter. Englishly speaking "I wonder how old the commenter who clearly didn't get the autoexec comment is".
Sorry.
@MacropodCare @Badscrew @stokes No worries, thanks for the clarification. I enjoy learning other English-language colloquialisms, and Australia’s got some good ones. “No worries” is a terrific reply to a general query, for example.
@cautionwip @Badscrew @stokes
Or the 47 uses of the F bomb?
@MacropodCare @Badscrew @stokes I think I’ve seen it. :)
@cautionwip @stokes oh it’s a bat. Couldn’t see that, was thinking it’s some kind of sad alien
@stokes
Very good 
Edit: in the nineties I became utterly addicted to Wolfenstein 3D on my flatmate's 486. I hated navigating the DOS prompts to get to the game/dir so he set up a batchfile to run the game when I turned his PC on if I pressed any key.
I spent months playing the game. Eventually he came back one night and forced me to stay up all night to finish it so I'd stop. We were up until the dawn.
@stokes 
#BatsOfMastodon 
#Batstodon
Your image has been appropriated for the revolution!
@stokes threw my dos disk in the trash last week. Even I had to see that I won’t use it anymore. Not an easy decision.
@monkeyEcho @stokes i have still old 3'5 floppy disks somewhere XD not using them anymore, but still remember the times when you had to fiddle with high and low mem to get a game started that needs slightly more memory to start.
@monkeyEcho @stokes @Neireh Damn, where did disk 1 go?
@stuartl @monkeyEcho @stokes haha yes or 2 from 3 from my Indiana Jones an the last Crusade
@stokes This file creature will turn your world upside down.
@stokes
Their name must be Ed Lin
@stokes PROMPT=$P$G
@stokes STEEERRRIIKEEE!!!
(Wait, wrong kind of bat pun...)
Captain Pun Hits!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yeah, yeah, I gave a good DOS of pun for this joke.
Captain Pun Strikes again!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
@SammyGalen @stokes
Oh lord. What are we becoming?
@stokes Brilliant, mate!
This is much funnier than it has any right to be.
@stokes That bat’s doing great! Sales are way up!
@CoolerPseudonym He's breaking records!
@stokes @CoolerPseudonym
Reminds me of my first gramophone. Did little else.
@stokes what’s a vampire’s favorite system file?
AUTOEXEC DOT BAT AH HA HA HA HA
@stokes That is hilarious! Based on his sales chart, he seems to be putting his @ echo-location skills to good use! Sorry…I couldn’t resist.
@stokes What would we get if Lee Iacocca was bitten by a vampire?
@Virginicus @stokes A cocaine-fueled gull-wing casket that only ran at night?
@cautionwip @Virginicus @stokes
Sounds a bit like windows 8.
@MacropodCare @Virginicus @stokes I wouldn’t know. I was able to avoid windows completely from 2010-2015, even for work purposes, so I am blissfully ignorant of windows 8. I consider this one of the greatest blessings I have been gifted in over my life, and can only assume a saved a truckload of children from a burning building in a previous life to deserve it.
@stokes I loved .bat files & now so linux!
@stokes Presumably his fraudster sibling runs the accounting department. CONFIG.SYS.
@macronencer @stokes If his sister is a con-artist fig, does that make him a fruit bat?
@stokes This takes me back a bit ...