Flawed stereotypical joke (was: Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late)

On 2026-07-29, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2026-07-29, John Ames <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:08:11 +0200
>> "Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Does anybody really care about boot times anymore? *nix uptimes can
>>>> generally be measured in months or years,  
>>> 
>>> Huh, no. Only servers do that. My laptop, for instance, would be 
>>> hibernated or suspended twice per day; and as to uptime, it crashes 
>>> during wake up some times.
>>
>> Hibernate is one thing, but suspend doesn't require a reboot. Both of
>> my laptops have uptimes of months; I'm not sure I've rebooted my daily
>> driver this *year.*
>
> Then there's the picture of your stereotypical nerd wearing a
> T-shirt that says, "My machines run Linux, which means that I
> reboot about as often as I get laid."

Besides the silly "nerds don't get laid" thing that ought to just be
eradicated into oblivion, that's quite ambiguous, unless you define how
often are the machines rebooted.

Were it "I *have* to reboot as often as I get laid", that'd at least nail
the intent.

-- 
Nuno Silva