• dustyData@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
    1448·
    3 days ago

    One thing I don’t get with making you desktop or setup anime girl themed. Doesn’t anyone visit you? Relatives? Landlord? Or anyone really. And what’s the point, to get an erection while doing a PowerPoint presentation?

    • Gigasser@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Anime girl backgrounds are mostly waifu/waifu veneration culture in the anime fandom sphere. Otherwise if motherfuckers were setting full on hentai doujinshi panels as their backgrounds…holy shit, that would be wild and bring up a few questions as to the mental health and porn addiction of the individual involved, unless it was some stylistic repeated Ahegao face collage of some sort for the memery.

    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
      1086·
      3 days ago

      That’s what I’m asking myself with pretty much any “sexy” decoration.

      Why put a poster of a nude girl in your locker, break room, bedroom, whatever? The only explanation I can find is performative display of (hetero) masculinity.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        793·
        3 days ago

        As someone with sexy art in the wallpaper rotation of all my devices…

        It’s just nice to look at?

        Sexual beauty can be appreciated in the same way as any other kind of beaty. And doing so doesn’t actually require being turned on, at least not in my case.

        Even when it happens, enjoying art and looking at porn are different things. With porn, arousal is the only point. With something artistic, arousal is just one sliver of the full spectrum of human experience a piece might provoke.

        People make custom PC builds to look cool for no other reason than that it looks cool. People hike to mountaintops just because the view is incredible. Architechts endeavor to make buildings both pleasant to look at, and be in.

        The sexy art isn’t pornographic to me. All I do, really, is enjoy looking at it for a moment as I go about using my devices. There is nothing perfomative about it. I could not care less what someone else thinks looking over my shoulder at my screen.

        @cepelinas@sopuli.xyz

      • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
        7510·
        3 days ago

        What if, mind boggling concept, they do it for themselves not for others to see?

        • leisesprecher@feddit.org
          429·
          3 days ago

          What if, that might overwhelm you, this doesn’t answer the question at all?

          You’re simply pushing the question half a millimeter to the side. Nothing more.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      433·
      3 days ago

      Doesn’t anyone visit you?

      Deep down you know the answer

      And what’s the point

      Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      251·
      3 days ago

      My desktop background has been the same shade of dark blue for the past roughly quarter century.

      At first, it was because I didn’t want anything making visual recognition of stuff slower, when I was using a stacking windowing environment. Now I use a tiling windowing system and rarely see the desktop.

      On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there’s no option to just use a fixed color background, so I’ve never bothered changing it from whatever the vendor shipped, don’t care enough to make a custom one-color image. I’d probably use black on the Android devices I have with OLED screens on general principle, but again, it doesn’t spend much time being visible.

      All that being said, if you’re looking at screenshots of people ricing out their desktop on a community devoted to that, the whole point is to give them an interesting thematic look. They’re gonna have a background.

      If you took a screenshot of my desktop, it’d be one blue rectangle. No persistently-visible taskbar. The vast majority of time, if there’s a window up, I have only a single, fullscreen window. That’s not really interesting to look at, and I doubt that anyone doing that is going to put it on a “rice your desktop” community, in the same sort of way that nobody is going to go to a “rice your car” community and post images of a vanilla Camry.

      • Carrot@lemmy.today
        1·
        3 days ago

        Same, solid black on my PC, rocking the default wallpaper on my phone. Interestingly, when I switched to using graphineOS, the default background is solid black, so I have that on my phone now as well, too. I prefer it for the less visual distraction, and the fact that on pled screens it saves battery

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        3 days ago

        On my Android phone, for some inane reason, there’s no option to just use a fixed color background

        Uhhh…

        Literally just use the same one that’s on your pc? Just KDEconnect that file over (or find any online pic of a solid color wallpaper, whatever you choose of course), and click:

        settings>wallpaper and style>change wallpaper>my photos>nav to your file>set wallpaper

        (This is why all linux help is CLI, damn GUI nav trees lmao.) But yeah why not that? Works on my machine.

        • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
          8·
          3 days ago

          Literally just use the same one that’s on your pc? Just KDEconnect that file over

          If someone is just using a solid color as as a PC wallpaper, there is likely not a “file” to transfer. When using a solid color in the wallpaper settings, desktop environments provide a color picker instead of a file picker.

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            3 days ago

            Ok then,

            Prntscrn your home, crop out taskbars.

            Or open gimp and make a one color image in any color you can imagine.

            Then send that file. There’s ways.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          If I were going to do that, I’d create an image scaled to my Android phone, as I don’t know whether the Android system caches a resized image or not.

          I mean, I can do it, but just not worth the bother, because I’m not looking at it much. I remember going to the settings, rolling my eyes, and then ignoring it.

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            3 days ago

            Good question, I’m not sure. From using a desktop wallpaper on my android before however I can tell you that in practice, whatever happens with your cache, it just crops the image to fit your screen. It can be a problem if you want the full design, but with a one color image, you’d never be able to tell.

            But hell yeah I can understand being way too lazy to care, though still then I wouldn’t be saying “there’s no option…” because there is, you just have to supply the image, which is really very easy if you did care to do it.

    • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com
      33·
      2 days ago

      Are you an adult or a bitch ass punk? Do you care what people think, they are mostly focused on themselves. Why do you feel the need to conform to preconceived society rules at all? You will be dead, nobody will care. You are alive now enjoy yourself and the things you like. Don’t hurt others.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    45·
    3 days ago

    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…

    3747

    The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          9·
          2 days ago

          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 a 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:

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        17·
        3 days ago

        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.

        EDIT: There’s a settings dialog that lets one ramp up or down each of the given visual effects.

        Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver,

        https://old.reddit.com/r/Portal/comments/1bdltht/aperture_science_pc_wallpaper/

        Though this seems to have multiple of those “falling” bright areas, and cool-retro-term only has one. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to be, for either the screensaver or cool-retro-term. You can get a vaguely-similar effect if you have a video camera taking footage of a CRT; I guess the proper term for this is the stroboscopic effect. Might be what they’re trying to depict.

    • NiHaDuncan@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago
    • Music player
    • Status bar at the top of the screen (Middle element shows the name of the music currently being played)
    • Lots of blur
    • Tiling window manager
    • Theme selector
    • zen!th@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 days ago

      “I use a tiling window manager to utilise screen space!”

      Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      29·
      3 days ago

      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]

      1000009183

      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.

      • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
        243·
        3 days ago

        “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.

        • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
          31·
          3 days ago

          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 :)

        • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
          613·
          3 days ago

          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.

          • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
            141·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
              12·
              3 days ago

              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.

  • atk007@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      10·
      3 days ago

      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…