The military hijacks you in the middle of the night and a day later you are dropped onto a remote island with a single laptop, a military grade tent, a generator, and a year's worth of MREs and generator fuel.
There's stock Ubuntu installed on the laptop, with stock programs that comes with it. You have no ability whatsoever to connect to the internet.
When they pick you up a year later, what do they find on the laptop?
>implying Sup Forums wouldn't become an hero
Kill jester
Crude ASCII porn
>When they pick you up a year later, what do they find on the laptop?
a diary of a madman
TempleOS
All of these are somehow highly believable
a corrupted kernel
I will count each grain of sand on the island and put my results in libreexcel along with everything else on the island
they will most likely find a broken version of debian that doesn't update properly and has amazon adware stuffed inside
Ubuntu doesn't ship dev tools in the default install so probably pretty much a stock install with some shit written in vim and cleaned up in Libreoffice.
Had it been Slackware or OpenBSD, we might be singing a different tune.
Bootstrapping a compiler takes a week tops.
a libreboot gentoo install straight from source code implanted in my photographic memory.
Another partition containing a rudimentary graphical OS written entirely in assembly, with the kernel, init, and other basic user utilities being first written in Nano under Ubuntu. Also
python
assuming i don't go insane, meaningless ramblings about how to build random shit from materials on the island
either that or a lame ass video game i made over the year
>no internet
We'll see about that...
Would scrap all that technological nonsense and and try to make a knife with the metal.
I'd burn it and throw it into the ocean and not waste my time with such nonsense exercises.
a crude picture of a Wilson brand soccer ball with a smirk on it's face
What I do have are a particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for islands like you.
The installation will be FUBAR and the laptop will be useless.
B-but Jingle is our friend!
probably some shitty games I would make to keep me busy. preferably with a highscore system so that i would have a goal.
break laptop and chew on plastic for infinite nutrition.
stock Ubuntu only comes with C, Python, Perl and Ruby and vim-lite. I would probably re-code a full version of vim in Python and Ruby
IIRC stock Ubuntu doesn't come with gcc
>mre
start fishing fagget
it doesnt come with the full build-essential gcc compiler tools, but I think it does come with a simple C compiler as basic system installs require a simple C compiler
A broken to bits laptop and a spark gap radio transmitter built from its parts.
Dried cum
EASY
I would bit bang the serial output to push out 121.5mhz or 406mhz international rescue frequencies, fashion some sort of quarter wave antennae and sit back.
t avionics guy
This
this isn't /diy/, i doubt anyone here knows how to do that.
"...NOT AGAIN!"
Dust and sand. No way I'm not chilling on the beach all day long, or exploring the island.
What about at night?
this guy just told you how to do it and you could modulate the generator powersupply sinewave converter with it ( risk of killing your generator)
>serial output
What sort of prehistoric laptop do you think they'll be giving you?
shitty loli yuri stories I wrote and some assorted shit I wrote in bash and/or python
maybe some really shitty hentai drawn with the mouse in gimp (actually, does ubuntu still ship gimp by default? been ages since I've installed it)
could have swore it did (no C++ or anything else, but I thought you at least could build hello world on stock ubuntu)
too lazy to go check now though
a shitty stories, ascii art, a diary and probably a suicide note
A dead fucker because nobody here knows how to get water
You just manually adjust the dilithium crystals by 21.5 degrees and push up engine power to 110% tolerance.