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by everfrustrated 614 days ago
I pedantically use day-mon (working/servant spirit) to distinguish from dee-mon (evil spirit) but I suspect I'm very much in the minority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon

I've never found any significance to associate the unix term with Demons and consider it a mis-association.

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Don't let MAGA hear you... they'll start banning and burning linux boxes.