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[-] [email protected] 110 points 2 months ago

There are only so many nouns that start with G. Everyone knows all Linux programs must be a noun and an acronym that starts with "GNU" (which is itself a noun and an acronym that starts with GNU)

[-] [email protected] 118 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

KDE would liKe to Know your loKation.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

DO NOT USE A ACRYONYM FOR THIS UNLESS YOU ARE A PRIDEFUL FILIPINO!!!!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

These two joKes just had me laughing unKontrollably at my phone.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

KDE is not an abbreviation, and not in the same way than XNA is not an abbreviation. Originally it was the Kool Desktop Environment which was quickly dropped not for the obvious KDE Desktop Environment but K Desktop Environment, which kinda makes sense given that KDE replaces 'c's with 'k' all over the place -- such as, to wit, its name as it's a reference to CDE. Nowadays it's plain KDE though.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Cool Desctop Environment

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Make sure you've installed Flatseal from the DisKover Store

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

KDE Komedy Klassic? That's not good...

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

So it's GNU the whole way down?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

GNU Nominal Universalism

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

When they finish the words with G they can just add another layer of recursion and create BIG, an acronym for "BIG Is GNU". And from there go on like a word chain game

[-] [email protected] 106 points 2 months ago

Being free from megacorps let's humans be humans, to express themselves, I love it, the jokes are nice (and are jokes, unlike the nightmare abominations like Clippy and their AIs).

[-] zarkanian 62 points 2 months ago

I was part of a coding bootcamp, and one day the class was talking about git. Somebody mentioned that "git" is also a word used as an insult, like "That guy is a total git". When I revealed that was where the name came from, several students audibly gasped, and a couple said something like "Oh, how embarrassing!" I had the weirdest sense of culture shock, and I had no doubt those students would make very good corporate drones.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah it’s weird how computers are still so grounded in weirdo cultures but because everyone has to use them and they’re the foundation of modern society and economy these people often run into something they aren’t prepared to deal with whether it’s copy left and the open source movement or it’s terminology and naming with an irreverent flair.

This is also how you wind up with me casually talking about linux and home servers with a bunch of anarchists as we fix up old bikes while I know engineers and tech chasers who are scared of such things.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I heard that Linus named it git because he is one.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

wait until part 2 of git class where they use the MASTER branch

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It's main branch these days (at least that's the new default for new repositories)

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[-] zarkanian 14 points 2 months ago

For them, I guess. I can imagine some folks would be embarrassed to tell people that they use GIMP for the same reason.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

It might be some weird act of masochism but I liked clippy.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Really, huh, that's ... kinda nice to know? (In the 'world is the tiniest bit better than I knew' way)

I have enjoyed various creepy Clippy art/mini lore.
It's basically an SCP thing.

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Can confirm.

Source: am Linux diehard and sexual deviant

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

He forgot about the third category, silly Trans catgirl programmers :3

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Seems like a redundant category, I believe you can comfortably slot them into the other 2 categories

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Don't look that up on LemmyNSFW.com

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

This is why I use Krita

Which has nothing to do with nerdy sex perverts whatsoever

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am afraid to open Krita in public because its mascot Kiki (the robot squirrel girl) is drawn dangerously close to upskirt in the splashscreen.
Krita splash

GIMP's is just mushrooms, nothing objectionable.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

GNU's not Unix tool kit image manipulation program. As long as you don't believe Unix actually is an acronym

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

hold up im pretty sure it's without the "tool kit" part

GTK is the GIMP tool kit

[-] Titou 22 points 2 months ago

Also works with packages having their name starting with OPEN or Libre

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

The name was decided before the acronym, just unfortunate

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't know if this memory of mine is real, or just a (day)dreaming or my brain just fucks with me, or just too much acid, but I clearly remember lots of years ago I opened GIMP and the splash screen had this fox IN A FUCKING GIMP SUIT!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Probably the very instant mum walks in, too.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Engineers have always been pervs. As evidence, resistor color codes are remembered by:

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

As taught in college. In my situation, our professor disappeared mid semester, as he was arrested for child porn, and was the biggest supplier of child porn in Colorado at the time...

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_mnemonics

Pretty much everywhere has cracked down on that kind of thing for a while.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Im almost afraid to ask, but could you explain how that helps remembering resistor colors?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Hm...

You think there are some die-hard Christians against the use of BSD? 🤔

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The open source game framework Löve (Love2D) has some incredible library names, here's a few select ones out of context:

  • Hump
  • Lövetoys
  • Löve Bone
  • Quickie
  • Goo
  • Pölygamy
  • Swingers
  • Adult Lib
  • Gspöt
  • Möan/Talkies
  • fLUIds
  • Yaoui
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

What and gimp and gnome is weird?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Gnome is fantasy related and gimp is a sex thing

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