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.
at least it’s linux
Likely, but not necessarily. The grand unified bootloader boots a great many things.
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”
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.
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!
Threre used to be a fork of grub called burg. They lost a great opportunity there
Welcome to Gruber Gnu, have it your way
GRUB UR KING
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 hope they can restore the original
In the meantime
Is this Burger King?
No, this is GRUB!
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.
Technically I think it is just chainloading the Windows Boot Manager
bootmgfw.efiwhich then loadswinload.efiwhich boots Windows.
At least they’re doing one thing right.
Welcome to
GRUB, I love youSurprisingly this is not actually an inappropriate thing to display there, seeing as they do indeed sell grub.
I’m just glad it’s not Windows.
…so linux crashed and rebooting here?
Errmm. I’m told that Linux does not crash.
You have been told wrong. I’ve been using Linux for about 20 years now, and while it doesn’t crash as often as windows, I’ve certainly had my share of Linux crashes.
The advantage of Linux is that it crashes. Then it reboots. Windows doesn’t crash. It stalls out for 30 minutes. You reboot it manually, and it launches in 40.
Maybe there was a power outage. There’s a good chance this is in the US of A. Maybe a geoguesser can confirm the location.
10243 Grand Ave, Sun City, AZ 85351, United States of America
The Internet always delivers
You’re welcome, sexhaver87 from sh.itjust.works
I guess someone stole the 1 and 3 off the sign in OPs picture, they’re there on street view. That’s wild you found this
If you zoom in on the picture, you can see where they once were
Thanks.
I started tinkering with Linux 9 years ago. I have compiled a driver into the kernel that caused kernel panics. But when using out of the box distros I don’t recall having a crash that needed reboot. I’ve had a couple of lockups that were solved by changing to an alternate tty login and restarting the display manager, or doing a forced logout, but not in several years at least.
I was using Linux and Windows for work, they stopped offering the Linux application I used, so moved to Windows for work only. Its hella janky most days, I can’t believe Microsoft thinks this is a mature operating system.
I can’t believe Microsoft thinks this is a mature operating system.
I’m not sure they think that. At least not all the engineers. Management maybe. But they do sell it as such.
I’ve had plenty of crashes but it’s all Windows video games running under compatibility layers.
While mine hasn’t technically crashed, it’s gone through a tough time with my previous (faulty) CPU, freezing solid and the graphic environment shitting the bed randomly, several times a day. That might still get you to a GRUB screen.
Likely a dead storage medium
