4 mo. ago • 99%

Gotta stab a new drive into computer

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I was shocked when I realized people pronounced it fs-tab lmao

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- Mentally I say Fs-tab because its filesystem table but if I ever say it out loud its f-stab
  
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  Madness.
  
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  Now that's insanity
  
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  I'm calling the authorities. All of them.
  
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- Oh shit. Does that stand for file system?
  
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  File system table
  
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- I've never heard fs-tab in my life. Always f-stab. Hmmm...
  
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- TIL for me
  
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  Congrats for being one of today's lucky 10000! Sauce
  
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- Was the other way around for me. F-stab just makes no sense.
  
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  Idk its just how my brain decided to "chop up" the word if that makes sense
  
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  But it sure is memorable!
  
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g-unzip?

gun-zip

I used this command way before I used gzip so I didn't put it together.

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- gun-zip just rolls off the tongue better. Two syllables instead of three? Yes, please.
  
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- Gun Zip - you literally shoot the gz file and it explodes like a piñata of files all over the dir you gun zipped it in.
  
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Ah yes, the file stabber, not to be confused with a file system tabulation, which it definitely is not.

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- File stabber is a good name. :)
  
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... it never occurred to me that it could be fs tab

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- I didn't figure it out until I started interacting with Cronta B.
  
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Go fsck yourself

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Know what it means. Still call it f stab.

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F-stab easier to say and more fun to say

I'll die on this hill

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- I'll defend this hill with you
  
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  By stabbing
  
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It is what its always been. F stab

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Mental outlaw said that and it just stayed in my head ever since. Just like /etc is 'etsy'.

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- Or SQL is Squeal
  
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  Sacrilege!
  
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  SQL has always been Skull in my head. I think it is because I hated it when in college and associated it with dying inside.
  
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  https://xkcd.com/1989/
  
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  Not sequel?
  
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- Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."
  
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- How else would you say /etc ?
  
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  E-T-C
  
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  et cetera
  
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Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone "correcting" you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.

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It took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit to realize that it was FS Tab.

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f stab is real shit bro

fs tab is for losers.

real men say et-see, not etcetera.

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- i say ee-tee-see
  
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  et-see is the objectively correct version, ee-tee-see is the marginally more correct, but less funny version of it. And etcetera is just illegal, you should be jailed if you ever say that.
  
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TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)

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I think I might be the third option: f'ss-tab.

Couldn't tell you where that's from. When I first ran Linux, the year didn't start with a 2.

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This meme fscks

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it's tune-2fs, right

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and before that, get the drive name from the "black kid".

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now where is the f-sck (spoken f-sack) gang?

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- I always pronounce it "fezzik" like Andre the Giant's character from The Princess Bride.
  
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oh nice i'm not the only f-stabbing psycho

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Its FS Tab never knew

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I say FS-stab

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