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How do you pronounce daemon? (piefed.zeromedia.vip)

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Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?

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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

I say daymon not to avoid offence, but since it sounds cooler than demon.

A demon sounds like a fiend that has only been around for at most a few hundred years, but a daemon sounds like it has been around for a few thousand so it is much more dangerous.