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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago

sudo systemctl stop daemon

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
killall daemon

kill -9 666
[-] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago

ps aux | grep daemon | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

sudo shutdown -h now

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 78 points 2 years ago

I've always pronounced daemon as "day-mun", as opposed to "dee-mun" (for demon). Then i played Cyberpunk 2077 and they're calling daemons "dee-muns" and I'm beginning to doubt myself

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 years ago

I say daymon for daemon but that's mostly because the only time I'm talking about daemons is in the context of computers, and not the archaic or "fancy" spelling for demon.

[-] spicysoup@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

ahhhhhhhhh! fighter of the nightmon

[-] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I love that while reading the post you replied to, the first thought you had was about the dayman and nightman purely based on the word "daemon". Maybe people are meant to be silly

I keep thinking of the matt Damon puppet in team America world police.

"DAMON!"

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 25 points 2 years ago

I believe that "demon" and "daemon" both share the same pronunciation. "day-mun" is technically incorrect, though still widely accepted.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

no widely accepted pronounciation is incorrect

your Mom is widely accepted

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

so it "ur mum" and "yo mama"

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

archaeology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, encyclopaedia, etc.

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Those last 3 aren’t American English

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

so? where do you think English came from?

[-] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

English carries a lot of information in vowels, making it concise.

In this case, it’s natural for English speakers to pronounce words with different meanings differently, to disambiguate them.

[-] thadah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I think you're right when saying "day-mun" for daemon as my language, Basque, uses the term "daimon" when referring to service daemons in software engineering, which is taken from the pronunciation in English.

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Well in German you call a demon a Dämon. However the ä is also spelled as ae if the keyboard doesn't have the letter. So basically daemon is German dämon. And I pronounce it like that.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 2 years ago

No, you're right and they're wrong. Just like how people who say jif are wrong. It's a hard G. The guy who invented the format doesn't get to make rules about language. Talk to a linguist for that and get them to support his side and I'll consider it.

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

A linguist would tell you that this is a stupid argument to squabble over and pronunciation and rules are less important than how people use the language they speak. Linguists don't correct grammar, pedants on the internet do. And if you want a prescriptivist take on the rules outlining the pronunciation of acronyms, there are none. Every acronym ends up being pronounced the way it gets pronounced by the people who pronounce it. There are just as many acronyms that are pronounced like the words they use to make it up as there is that aren't. You don't say Jay-feg (JPEG) or Skub-ah (Scuba) so you should have no qualms with someone using a soft G in GIF. If you have an issue with a soft G in GIF then you should absolutely have an issue with a soft G in Giraffe or the hard G in Graph. Your rules make no more sense than the coinage of the term deciding how it should be said.

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 years ago

A linguist would also talk about the Great Vowel Shift and the impact it had on the development of the English language.

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Yes as a historical event that happened in English, linguists talk about it's impact and what it was as a cultural moment in the language's history but if you know linguists, you know that they do not care one little tiny bit about prescriptivism or the rules of English. Linguists study how people use language not how people should use language. That's what English teachers are for.

[-] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Wait you pronounce it gif!? It's pronounced gif you insensitive clod! I can't believe there are heathens out here pronouncing it gif. NGL, I'm embarrassed for you.

On a completely unrelated subject, I gave a gift to my girlfriend of a giraffe with a sigil, but she didn't get the gist of my generosity.

It's pronounced gif

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Should have been "I am not a Demon, I am a Daemon. I automate processes for you so that you have time to do other stuff like finding a girl friend"

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 years ago

systemctl restart daemon

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Pkill is an excorsizing tool

[-] hark@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Can a daemon be my girlfriend? 🤔

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

According to anime, yes.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

I know a couple of girls who would be down to date a guy who summons demons

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Next he'll be getting one of these

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

summons a lemon? or a laemon?

(not gonna lie... that actually sounds delicious.)

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 55 points 2 years ago
[-] illi@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

When a ritual gives you lemons...

[-] scarilog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh but he looks so happy :(

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago

At least next time, he can burn his rival's house down.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago
[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

  • Cave Johnson, Portal 2
[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Wasn't the lemon one not a calligraphy joke about a wizard who mistake demon with lemon.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Imagine having a lisp and summoning a Devon

[-] Incblob@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Look up "loadingreadyrun the summoning" on YouTube. it's crapshot (short comedy skits) Nr 690

[-] MenacingPerson@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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