Unc among uncs.

  • 21 Posts
  • 1.3K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 29th, 2023

help-circle
  • the fall of the west is now being documented through the new use of linguistic features.

    Unc is short for uncle, and in the east, uncle is a common shorthand to refer to an elder who is about your father’s age, but not a member of your family. It can be used to refer to strangers “I gave the food to that uncle over there” or, as a nonspecific respect marker “Uncle John went to the market”.

    Here “unc-mechanic” refers to a mechanic an older person might enjoy.













  • There are some instances where he name-drops Quebec and Canada when talking about buying things locally (here in Quebec, Xyz is available at ABC) or dealing with the government (due to import laws in Canada)

    Also when he shows things in packages they are bilingual french/eng, but that should be like that all across Canada AFAIK








  • To frame it better:

    Let’s say I cloned arch, changed the default wallpaper to a swastika, put up a blogpost saying “Heil hitler”, and then suddenly got over 50X donations than an actually useful and different OS.

    Since last year, Linux mint got $280k donations. Omarchy in the last few months got 15 MILLION. Linux mint maintains 2 distros, and 1 desktop environment, and is basically the gold standard for newbie friendly distros. Omarchy is a few dotfiles and a pile of nazis.