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What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

vmlinuz

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The entire world would shut down if this disappeared overnight.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd be out of a job too

[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the last thing you'd have to worrh about is your job when nearly all infrastructure collapses.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My brain slides toward traffic lights and air traffic control and then I realize traffic control probably wouldn't matter because any late model car and airplane would probably already be down for the count. No internet, hell no SIM cards.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There's always BSD, Hurd, Darwin... or NT 🤮