Maybe if they're Canadian? Though I can't fathom, say, Theo de Raadt ever adding apologies to OpenBSD error messages. You know what's cyberpunk to me? Cyberpun

Maybe if they're Canadian? Though I can't fathom, say, Theo de Raadt ever adding apologies to OpenBSD error messages. You know what's cyberpunk to me? Cyberpunk isn't about having robotic body parts and netrunning in cyberspace through your brain implants in a chrome-and-neon-encrusted arcology. Cyberpunk is owning a Taiwanese bargain-basement PC and booting Linux on it in 1995. Because like real punk rock, Linux was DIY and it showed -- it was messy. When you booted it up, there was no sugarcoating -- no warm and friendly bootup sound, no happy Mac smiling back at you. The various bits and bobs that made up a working Linux system started chattering to you -- all at once: first the drivers and kernel subsystems, then the init scripts, then some of the user-space daemons, all telling you unbidden how their day is going. Every component of the system told you what was going on with it, for good or ill. It would've been quite alarming to a normie; 1995 was far from the year of the Linux desktop. But I appreciated it. And I resent error messages that try to mollycoddle me as a user. Apologies, "Something went wrong :(", and so forth. Just tell me, in the most rigid machine-like way, what happened. A stack trace would be helpful if the failed bit is open source.