Some catppuccino would be good aswell
That meme has always irked me. Squidward is dishing attitude towards the firh ordering the only thing they have on menu. It is not like they make anything other than crab patties.
Maybe he’s mocking the fishes slow response time to a 1 answer question.
Because we’re fucking weebs…
I’m very clearly not fucking anyone.
The likelihood that the poster I’m replying to has built a Gundam model kit in the last 6 months has risen by 58%.
Will you share pictures of your latest Gundam dioramas with us?
Only if you show me your Ork army.
Meanwhile, I’m married and can’t be bothered to change anything in my Kubuntu UI from the defaults. I wonder if there’s a correlation, LOL
That is because KDE Plasma with the standard theme is already perfect and there is nothing to improve!
Mood
As long as it’s not watery diarrhea brown (a.k.a “gruvbox”), I’ll take it.
Early 20s me feels attacked.
Well recently moved to Hyprland and the installation scripts installed ton of anime girls neo fetch pictures / backgrounds and neon colored/catpuccin themes everywhere. It took me a long time to get used to it.
I… can’t tell if you’re joking or not. Could be a joke, but it would explain a lot of setups I have seen…
How about, with xmonad!
Calm down mister fancy pants, the kids now are using hyprland
Changing things up by finding the most unattractive anime girl for my background instead.
As the internet will lewd any and all things I deem this challenge impossible!
An unattractive anime girl? Is that even possible?
I like having the butt mogged some zoomers girl as my background.
TIL what it means to “rice” a desktop
Derives from ricing cars. Ricing cars derives from “rice burner”, where it was common to take an inexpensive, Asian-made car for modding. The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner
Rice burner is a pejorative term originally applied to Japanese motorcycles and which later expanded to include Japanese cars or any East Asian-made vehicles.[2][3][4][5] Variations include rice rocket, referring most often to Japanese superbikes, rice machine, rice grinder or simply ricer.[3][6][7]
T-Mobile’s 1985 Corolla Sport GT-S coupé “Poser Mobile” advertisements exploited ethnic stereotypes and stereotypes of customized East Asian cars as failed imitations of “authentic” car culture
Riced out is an adjective denigrating a badly customized sports car, “usually with oversized or ill-matched exterior appointments”.[8] Rice boy is a US derogatory term for the driver or builder of an import-car hot rod.[4] The terms may disparage cars or car enthusiasts as imposters or wanna-bes, using cheap modifications to imitate the appearance of high performance.
it’s a bit of a racist term, this meme would be better without
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Dutch
“Going Dutch” (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world, where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative),[1] and doing Dutch.
The Oxford English Dictionary connects “go Dutch” / “Dutch treat” to other phrases which have “an opprobrious or derisive application, largely due to the rivalry and enmity between the English and Dutch in the 17th century”, the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars. Another example is “Dutch courage”.[1] A term bearing some similarities is Dutch oven.
We’ve got some other terms in the same vein.
thanks for pointing that out, we should all consider avoiding those terms too
Not really. I lived in the Netherlands for a decade. I can promise you the Dutch don’t mind.
Actually, I think the expression “doing Dutch” fits them pretty well to this day.
But have you never thought you should get to say slurs because you’ve decided the the target group of that slur no longer cares?
That is quite the monstrosity there…
“The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.”
Not according to some, who I’m surprised havent descended into this comment section yet.
It genuinely amazes me that some people learn of a racist origin and immediately crusade against it, on behalf of people who dont give a fuck.
Words change. When the majority of people are using a phrase in a benign manner, then dragging the racist origins back into the light is a really dumb way to fight against bigotry.
Guilt tripping people into adapting new phrasing isn’t just arrogant and patronizing; it’s counterproductive - it makes the actual fight against racism seem petty and performative.
We really need more people like you. That’s exactly what annoyed me so very much, but I could not articulate this thought. Thank you for doing so :)
on behalf of people who dont give a fuck.
Maybe. Or maybe they’re afraid to speak up because of how they’ll be punished by the system. Only time really tells, and sometimes that means complaining about stupid shit no one cares about.
I’d rather look stupid a few times, but make sure that I’m giving voice to those who don’t have it, than keep quiet and never be wrong.
You’re erring on the side of caution, and I get the impulse. But there’s a fine line between giving voice to the unheard and drowning out the current conversation by crusading on their behalf without actually checking whether they wanted a champion in the first place.
Language isn’t static, and if people who would’ve been the target of a slur no longer feel targeted by a modern, benign use of the word, maybe it’s worth listening to them instead of getting stuck in etymological guilt.
This is essentially justification for tone policing, language gate keeping, or inventing offenses that marginalized groups themselves aren’t actually calling out.
Campaigning on their behalf looks less like allyship and more like self-importance wrapped in a savior complex.
Yeah, I think we’re just talking from both sides of the grey area. But you’re right, it’s simply someplace in the middle.
I like the transparent windows, but I’d use Rosé Pine Moon or Nord for the colours. A nice landscape for the background (currently a pic of Dark Souls 3 Boreal Valley) and a little bit of gaps, very minal borders, and a transparent waybar up top with desktop workspace indicator, time, and a few other things.
Since compiz fusion is long deprecated, I stick to Xmonad with almost no visual changes from the stock install, other than tweaks to make some colors lower contrast.
Oh man I forgot about this! How long has it been dead? Why does no one want this?
I had this running on Ubuntu on my laptop back in the day
KDE still has some of the most popular effects built-in, including wobbly windows, desktop cube, magic lamp when minimizing/maximizing, blurring semitransparent windows, “exploding” windows when you close them. They’re built in with no extra software required - just go to the “Desktop Effects” settings.
Oh man, I’m gonna look into this. I’m currently running Bluefin, but maybe I’ll pivot over to Aurora 🤔
Thanks!
Shit, I remember when my machine couldn’t handle compiz fusion and this demo made me jealous. We’ve come a long way.
I remember the cube, might not have been this, might have just been the animation to change desktops.
I’m still just trying to get my terminal to look like the Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver, but for some reason last time I tried I couldn’t get it just right. Now that I have KDE (and thus color picker and Konsole), I should try again…
The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.
Idk how exactly you’d apply the effect to your terminal, but you could get that text effect by applying a scanline and bloom filter
If there was reshade for terminal it’d be 2 check boxes lol
This is more like Fallout than Portal but maybe it can work for you.
It can do bloom with its shaders, the way @ArcadeSlime@lemmy.dbzero0.com wants. I don’t know if any of the presets have quite that much bloom, though.
It can do CRT-style scanlines, as he’s looking for, and it doesn’t have doesn’t have to have the faux-CRT curvature; see the “Futuristic” preset for a preset that doesn’t have that curvature.
Thank you! I had no idea what “bloom” was (clearly, because I called it glow lmao).
This is at least close enough, if not perfect, especially if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo (which can easily be found in the correct orange/brownish color online).
if I can (and I expect so) change the background to the aperture logo
You cannot in the current mainline branch, but it looks like someone has a pull request open for the past couple months to add a background image.
If I remember right, they were adjustable in its settings. But it’s been a long time since I’ve used this.
You’re right…just checked, updated my comment, and then saw yours. :-)
Huh, cool! Apparently the dev who made this thought about everything. :)
One eye-candy thing it can’t do is animated cursor movement. Not sure how to describe this, but basically, when the cursor moves, you draw a trail behind it.
According to that, KiTTY got support for it six months ago.
EDIT: That being said, that’s not really “retro”, so might be out-of-scope for the project.
Yeah, that’s definitely not a retro feature but my my, that’s a cool one. 10 years ago, I wouldn’t imagine something like this on a terminal emulator.
I’ve never been more excited about ruining my eyes 🤩
Hahaha, been there. :)
I used the thing here a while back to take a screenshot of running gopher on some of the remaining gopher servers in gopherspace (note that the sdf.org guys shown here also run an lemmy server, nicely linking the past and today). Its default settings in amber were a not-wildly-unreasonable match for some of the VT terminals connected to a VAX/VMS system that I used in the 1990s. More noise added by default, but it’s the closest thing I’ve seen to a replica to that era that one’s likely to see short of getting an actual CRT VT terminal and plonking it on your serial port (well, these days, probably a USB-to-serial adapter).
EDIT: Apparently this guy set up docker images on Debian to emulate old computing environments and then rigged that to a VT420 and ran gopher on that:
You might have some luck with a wm that can apply shaders.
Something like hyprland, wayfire, or compost could do the trick; and you’d be looking for a very diffuse (glsl) bloom shader with an exaggerated horizontal component or an additional scanline shader.
I feel very attacked.
what could you want more
