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Spanish Linux killed my parents.
Shared with my Linux friend that is learning Spanish to better communicate with the almost-in-laws. They were amused.
update: so was their Windows boyfriend, who helped them with the "bless Gabe Newell" line.
Why are shitposts in Spanish funnier than English
I mean same for shitposts in German. Just funnier when it's a language you sorta understand, but not completely.
It adds a layer of incongruity.
I don't speak spanish but the doge meme convinced me that linux mint is better.
Wait since when is this community Spanish?
Buenos dios amigo
Siempre lo ha sido. 🌎👩🏻🚀🔫👩🏻🚀
Probablemente tenga una configuración de idioma incorrecta
It has always been
Rough translation:
Linux Mint: thanks to Steam and Proton I can run Windows games with more FPS. Gabe Newell, you are blessed!
Windows: the Microsoft telemetry ate the RAM, I can’t give so much FPS
I would translate the sentences the same except I would change the ends of those two sentences to say: "Bless you, Gabe Newell" and "I can't give as many fps".
Thanks, ‘bendito seas’ was a new one to me and I was having to do some guesswork!
Yeah, the subjunctive can be more than a little confusing for us english speakers. Wishes, desires, and doubts use that conjugation. In this case op is wishing blessings on Gaben so we have to use the subjunctive.
It is not, this post breaks rule 5.
No this post does NOT break rule 5:
- 🇬🇧 Language/язык/Sprache
Comments written in other languages are allowed.
The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
I speak absolutely zero Spanish, yet I understand the post text about 80%, enough to get the gist of it.
That Linux runs Grand Theft Auto faster with Proton on Steam than on native Windows 11.
Yeah, I only speak some rough Spanglish due to being raised near the border, and I can understand the gist of this meme through context alone.
Well it is true one can deduce the gist of it, but not the exact message. So I guess the rule has to be clearer on this.
Seems to me in this case, the people have voted.
Currently 98 upvotes and 15 downvotes for the post.
fair
This is perfectly readable for anyone familiar with either Spanish or memeish.
Actually, I'd argue this is already translated into American Memeish. Mexico and Spain have their own meme subcultures that don't have direct translations into American Memeish, let alone all the other Spanish speaking countries.
This is about some people no being able to comprehend anything from the posts beside from symbols. This could be in the most obscure of languages and any person with a brain that knows memes can understand the basic idea. I'm just saying the verbal part in the post is not comprehensible to all people, which happens to break the rule 5.
I do not care what language it is on, Spanish is my native language, I just want everyone to able to read and understand.
I want to know if you downvoted my emoji comment because you didn't understand it, or because you did and got mad that I disproved your point about needing words.
Keep in mind I haven't downvoted any of your comments.
Not mad, the comment was not adding anything of value in my opinion because it was not clear what it meant. So the down vote is for "this comment is not useful and perhaps lazy". I also upvote things which I do not agree with but they are proposed in a civil manner, and when I'm proven wrong I say " thanks for letting me know this". So... This is not personal.
And I never claimed that anything (post, comment or whatever) needed words to have meaning. Not sure what your point is though...
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So are saying the average user Reads bash script, can't make out Spanish memes?
Digga, das juckt keinen!
Not really, I'm sure someone who "only speaks English" can get the gist of it.
Not sure why you’ve gotten downvoted for that, as it’s part of the referenced rule and also true. Unless you’re someone who sees a word in a foreign language and has their brain turn off in response, this should be intelligible to someone who understands English and who doesn’t understand Spanish.
It helps that more than half the words are in English / are used by English speakers: Steam, Proton, Grand Theft Auto 5, Gabe Newell, Linux Mint, Microsoft, Windows, RAM, 100 FPS, 75 FPS
And the important Spanish words are easy to understand:
“Gracias” is pretty commonly understood even by bon-Spanish speakers.
“Uso Software Libre” is pretty obvious, since Libre is a term used in FOSS communities. “Uso” is the most complicated part and I suspect if I didn’t know Spanish I’d just think it meant “Use,” and “Use Libre Software!” is close enough to the intended meaning
Unless Telemetria doesn’t mean Telemetry, it’s pretty obvious.
If I blanked out all the other Spanish words I think the effect would be pretty much the same.
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Case in point, I have no clue what you wrote, but the intent is clear:
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
I don't speak Spanish and I understood everything.
someone, not all, that is the point.
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Since one or two days.
Edit: Or was it lemmyshitpost?
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Wait it actually runs that much better on Linux? Is that because of missing DRM or something?
IIRC less bloat on linux mostly
Bloat has a minimal impact on performance unless your system is seriously starved for resources.
It's largely the magic of Proton, and everything that goes into Proton. DXVK runs on windows too and that alone can get you double digit performance improvements on the right games.
I see, thanks for the correction. I personally don't get why a translation layer decreases the load.
To add to this - for borderlands 2, which is not an "ideal" title at all speedrunners across the board use dxvk while about half of the rest of players use it because not only does it about double fps, it also stops a memory leak, fixes random crash bugs, and cuts down loading times.
Dxvk is just amazing where it works properly.
Not really, it's just how much better Vulkan is compared to DX12. It's mostly about having a way better async scheduler for multi-CPU multi-threading hardware.
Windows : Uno vez mas te estoy ruegando que me actualizas, por favor, agendate un tiempo.
Yo pronto : Que tal si te borro totalmente y pongo un linux?
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