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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] troglodytis 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)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

reference

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[–] mypasswordis1234 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)
[–] mypasswordis1234 1 points 1 year ago
[–] uis 19 points 1 year ago

cat litter > /dev/lp0

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Printer-cat, Printer-cat,

Does whatever a printer can

Prints your paper, any size,

Out of ink, what a surprise

Look Out!

Here sits the printer cat.

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

It it me or I just read it in tune of Particle men. Or is it a parody of particle men.

[–] stankmut 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's to the tune of the 1967 Spider-Man TV show theme. I imagine the particle man song also references it.

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

I thought it was paw patrol

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"But... It's warm! Warm things are meant for sitting on!"

[–] thrawn21 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know right? My first thought was put a heating pad on the windowsill, and the cat will be much more likely to choose that spot.

[–] IonAddis 8 points 1 year ago

I permanently lured my friend's cat from sitting on her (warm) laptop power brick by getting the cat a heated cat bed.

[–] Daft_ish 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] uis 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bmsok 3 points 1 year ago

What are they feeding you?

[–] NAXLAB 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cats prefer higher temperatures than humans. Give them any other warm thing to sit on and they will sit there instead.

[–] BigBlackCockroach 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not get the cat a heated blanket instead?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

If you buy something for a cat, they won't use it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, but there's another cat who is approved to be on the printer?? What's their story?

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

I that that's him in the window

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's him in the spot. light.

[–] BloodSlut 9 points 1 year ago

Losing his religion?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cats apparently freak out on tinfoil when they land. It’s a great way to train them off your counter tops.

Though do provide them alternative places to be and paths to where they like to go- cats like to be up where they can see everything, so cat shelves to a cat cave etc or a stool near where you’re working, will encourage them off counters, or desks. Especially with the tinfoil scaring them every time the try and make the jump.

[–] PowerGloveSoBad 16 points 1 year ago

This recommendation gets passed around a lot online, but usually doesn't include the reason why it works so well. From a scientific standpoint, it's because cats movement works off of 5G, which is reflected by heavy gauge tinfoil when the shiny side is facing out. It's not surprising that sites mostly controlled by the government don't want that information distributed.

[–] Coreidan 4 points 1 year ago

Unless you’re my cat who doesn’t give a hoot about foil

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who would have thought that a box of all things would be a useful cat repellant.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

using a box as a cat deterrent seems like a fools errand

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What even is the downside here? Copycats? When has more kitties ever been a problem?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kitty! It's the kitster. The copy cat making COPiessss..

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

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Richard Laymer's job

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] uis -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get top 3 active again. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You just couldn't resist looking back at that explosion, eh? All that cool, ruined. Ruined!