the GRUB manual contains the phrase "We hope that you enjoy using GNU GRUB as much as we did writing it." which is either rather nice or extremely threatening
@eq is that the Alternian version of GNU?
@eq I believe it is the ultimate threat
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I think for what it does, the ideal user experience is to never know it exists because it just works.
I enjoy GNU GRUB so much I've buned it into my system rom so that I don't need to load it from storage media. Just boot right into grub.
@eq writing early-boot stuff is a fun puzzle, it's almost certainly the former
@bonzoesc @eq When I read this, it made me think that writing early-boot stuff was an utter nightmare:
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/
@JordiGH could be both hahah
@eq to program is, i think, eventually to dwell in the ambiguity expressed by sentences like this one.
@eq that definitely sounds like the "may you live in interesting times" for programmers
@eq I've written bootloader code. It's a threat.
@eq Well, compared to LILO... ^^
@eq Caught this on Public and had a snot bubble chortle, thxxxxx!