Are you suggesting there is something wrong with any of these names:
- gimp
- finger
- john the ripper
- libcaca
- toilet
- fsck
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep
man
every Command Line Interface Tool
(not Linux but there are special printers for clothing called DTF’s )
man man
This week, I ran ‘man mount’ while learning about bind mounts.
I mean there are audiovisual teaching aids for how to mount men all over the Internet. Or so I’m told
I giggle every time I see ‘man touch’
jq, ed
Don’t forget
fuckAlso, in Italian “sudo” means “I sweat”.
sudo nanomeans “I sweat, dwarf”
I like how developers are not shying away from possibility of them having foot fetish (foot terminal, gnome logo being a foot)
The foot is actually symbolic for the devs stepping all over you with their opinionated design and no choices
Ah so BDSM then /s
No just BSD
BSDMobile?
Oh. Plenty, they just don’t fuck with ‘consent’.
I avoided Gnome for exactly that reason for years but the shell extensions for gnome have improved a lot and it’s pretty flexible now. If you don’t mind depending on the addin authors maintaining your favorites.Dash to panel or dock is virtually a whole different UI.
Also bitchx
Also there’s Rufus
Ugh, “gimp”? Seriously?
And the name isn’t great either.
GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP
You’re right. And it would be so simple to just drop the G and make it Image Manipulation Program. They could even use the same impish logo!
They could, but they never will though. Chiefly because someone asked them to and, after stamping their feet like Veruca Salt, the devs have resolved to never ever stop pouting about it.
Someone could fork it, with just a different name. 😆
KDE’s tool to configure an IntelliPoint™ device.
Its called a cat-tongue. Everyone that refers to it as anything else is wrong
You mean ClitMouse
I’ve never heard the left 2 ones used IRL tbh
I have but I’m old and clearly remember when it came out.
The most clearest description of file explorer: Dolphin (?)
Like if Nautilus is any better
Or, like, Total Commander. A wild guess would be some strategy game.
Once a couple employers ago, I got an email from IT admins demanding that I uninstall that “game”.
The nautical theme also continues with Nemo
Dolphin, the total commander of nautilus!
Meanwhile, Midnight Commander reads like the title to a pornogram.
The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.
(PRO TIP:
dolphinis the KDE file manager,dolphin-emuis what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)Oh, a hybrid of dolphin and an emu. What a wonderful idea.
To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies
Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.
Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.
WDYM “explorer”, is that some weird name for a file manager?
Or nautilus. My assumption is the files are in your sea not in their cloud.
It kind of makes sense. You are swimming the sea of misorganized random piles of files and folders you have created.
Gnome: GSpot. It doesn’t actually exist (GNOME devs though there was no use case for it)
We need a command line interface named Toris. CLI Toris
I’m a dev. I develop little prototypes and things with Rust. I often create a new repository and don’t give the project a name, until I’ve coded enough of it that I know where it’s going.
A few years back, the makers of the programming language Rust started punishing people for prepending
rust-before the names of their tools and apps. They recommended that people append-rsto the end.The combination of these two things caused me to end up with a whole bunch of repositories named something like
cli-rsorclitool-rs, both of which I’d just pronounce asclitoris.There really is no drama like programming language drama.
It’s telling me to slow down when I try to look under the hood.
I keep having to work around it.
The terms-of-service were too confusing.
It’s not klitoris, I was in the pool.
klitoris: Permission deniedI’m kind of surprised that Apple didn’t name the iPhone just “Phone”.
Don’t forget iPods were this big back when the iPhone was released:
And as others pointed out they had the iMac and iBook and iTunes and the iMac was full of more iNames that I can’t even think of right now. It fit their branding enough that SNL did a joke about iRan and iRack
Probably not enough to get recognised as a brand.
Common dictionary words are not trademarkable. In fact, if an existing trademark becomes common in speech it becomes genericized and the trademark is lost. One of my personal hobbies is doing that to Velcro.
That, and you’ve got to remember how big iPods were at the time. In 2007, it was weird that Apple was entering the cell phone market. The iSomething branding basically saved the company in 2001 with the iMac and iBook, the iPod was the first electronics gadget I ever remember being worn as a status symbol, the first that got treated like designer clothing or shoes. That “I have an iPod, and you have…whatever that is.” White headphone cords were a fashion statement. The Motorola Razr phone got the same treatment before the iPhone.
One of my personal hobbies is doing that to Velcro
Oh you mean velcro?
Is this xerox a Canon?
See? It’s working.
That’s a brand??? Then what’s the actual thing called?
Hook and loop fastener or something long and unwieldy
Yeah most space age material names are. It’s dacron wrapped in mylar surmounted in inconel plated in clyno and attached with velcro. Which of those did I make up?
I know that Mylar, Inconel and Velcro are real, so it’s a toss-up between Dacron and Clyno.
After consulting an online source, I vote that Clyno is the imposter.
Can’t find the app guys. Where is it? Bruh. Help me someone, my girlfriend is coming home and I don’t want to get mocked for the same thing two days in a row.
Its not an app, your file system wouldn’t work without it.
Is the GNOME version called Gock?
I would not be surprised if KDE already had “Klitoris”
I’m still amazed people use and browse the septic tank of the internet. Xitter just won’t stop.
It’s still the best social media for anything worthwhile. Hyperlocal news, sports, government agencies, corporate news, everyone posts there since nobody looks at Facebook anymore and Instagram is mainly for pics. All the good artists are on Twitter as well.
Nobody is posting to Mastodon because actually finding information and people is proper impossible. I mean hell I almost never see any posts from Mastodon getting posted to any meme community because everyone is all tech and politics and doom and serious.
And that’s why i support the pedophile trillionaire. For memes and stuff
Congrats on that btw, it’s those things that give me a tiny shred of hope in humanity.
But the “uneducated” part is not necessary, come on. Just because someone on the other side of the planet has probably not investigated the finer details of your domestic politics such as what social media platform was used to organise protests?
I know that I’m just one person, but I find it interesting how I’m always online but never using twitter, ever, for anything. I’m not even trying to avoid it. And yet, it’s so damn popular. I just hate the format.
It’s still the best social media for anything worthwhile.
I was a fool for expecting a serious response 🤣
Ironically nextdoor is actually pretty active, but goddamn is it a toxic cesspool of fascism. I can’t even try on that platform anymore. I tried for a few months, and naw. I don’t like surrounding myself with willfull ignorance.
Never heard of that in my life. Not available in my country I guess
“noooo i can’t read corporate slop from government agencies and my favorite ragebaititng influencer news on Mastodon nooo, must read Xitter!!!”
noooo i can’t read anything at all worth talking about and no one is on mastodon, noooo must rage into my depressed people’s echo chamber
You think that’s the worst?
Passable censoring, 2/3 successfully censored
Jarvis, kill this developer
I hope they changed the name and icon. Edit: it’s still there somehow
I feel like they made the app for this exact purpose and are proud to say it.
KDE FTW.
GNOME folks are like “well, before GNOME was even a thing, we had this application called The Gimp, and we kinda wish we didn’t call it that, so please don’t name your apps for laughs OK?”
