eevee

@lexyeevee

troublesome fox girl

she/her
eev.ee/

hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox

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eevee @lexyeevee5/13/2023, 8:40 PM

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liffy 💜@lifning5/13/2023, 3:20 AM

C:\Program Files (derogatory)\

eevee @lexyeevee5/13/2023, 8:40 PM

*climbing out of bed half-asleep* hang on wait a second why is it called program files. it's a folder of course it has files in it. what the fuck else would*trips over a cat and falls down the stairs*

#computers

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bengrue @bengrue5/13/2023, 10:37 AM

This is actually funny and I don't know why

(Please tell me (which will ruin the joke) but I'll actually know and (recursion))

gull *Plus!*@gull5/13/2023, 8:43 PM

it's a combination of Program Files {x86}, the directory in which 32-bit programs will install to in 64-bit Windows, and the use of (derogatory) to indicate that the thing tagged is meant to be read in a derogatory tone (though it's often used in a more lighthearted or joking manner).

@elena2/8/2024, 4:32 AM

this is just running x86 applications while on Alpha on NT 4.0

X @xkeeper2/8/2024, 6:06 AM

C:\Documents and Shitheads

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ash @hierarchon5/13/2023, 8:50 PM

x86 as a tone indicator

@secrets5/13/2023, 8:50 PM

That folder was initially intended to contain the program filé, but linguistic drift and the limitations of early character sets have all but erased the dream that could have been

felidoptera (chridd/chrideedee on most other sites)@felidoptera5/14/2023, 12:43 AM

*opens up Program Folders, and it's just a bunch of nested folders, no files in sight*

More seriously, from what I've heard:

Makes sure that programs can handle long filenames and filenames with spaces in them, by making the default installation directory (and the "My Documents" folder) be long and have a space in it.
"Program Files" rather than "Programs" is supposed to suggest that this is a folder containing files that programs need to operate, rather than that this is where you find the programs themselves. (The programs themselves are in there, but you're supposed to use the Start menu instead; contrast with Mac OS (both classic and X), where opening the Applications folder and then opening programs from there is something you're supposed to do.)

eevee @lexyeevee5/14/2023, 1:35 AM

damn those are pretty good reasons

felidoptera (chridd/chrideedee on most other sites)@felidoptera5/14/2023, 2:17 AM

By the way, source for #2: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20131119-00/?p=2623. I don't remember where I heard #1, and there's a possibility I'm misremembering.

Terry T. Student @tstudent7/27/2023, 2:47 PM

In part, because it needed to have a space in it (see also: Documents and Settings), to force applications to deal with paths with spaces in them

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