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1y ago

Printer cat

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PC LOAD LITTER
- What thefuck does that mean?
  
  It's a pun on PC LOAD LETTER, which is an old error message roughly meaning "load letter paper into the paper cartridge". The other person thought you replied to the other² person.
  
  The comment is also a reference.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  reference
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  cat is the program that reads the contents of specific file
  litter is the file
  > means forward the output of the program to the file
  /dev/lp0 is Line Printer 0 so just printer
  
  your name is fitting
  
  what-
  
  ⠀
- cat litter > /dev/lp0

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