what could you want more
also some socks
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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?
I mean, I’d personally rather see an anime girl themed desktop than those weird statues rich people sometimes have in places like on their coffee table that are stuff like a woman in the boob + butt out pose with no limbs or head. That shit is just creepy looking. I know it’s supposed to be reminiscent of broken Greek and Roman statues, but why do they always have to be posed and objectified like porn stars? At least with the anime girl, I know that I’m talking to an otaku rather than Hannibal Lecter.
Doesn’t anyone visit you?
Deep down you know the answer
And what’s the point
Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both
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.
same, but mine is black. If it’s not for the tiny led on the monitor, you wouldn’t even know the monitor is on
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
There’s some classy non-sexualized “anime girl” backgrounds that are pretty slick.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2618988115
I really enjoy this one for Wallpaper Engine.
Fits the sexy android aesthetic without showing any of the body, instead focusing on the android aspect.
Yooo that slaps
These people already see me regularly. They deserve seeing something not quite as hot as me on my screen for a change. :V
Gives new meaning to hard mode.
Yeah too many just look so… samey. Not mine, but one I wish to recreate
That’s obviously just reskinned domain/os. You thought you could fool us, but you haven’t got one over on me!
In terms of window decorations, looks like twm with default settings. Standard window manager to ship with what is now Xorg.
EDIT: For emacs, those are also default colors, I think, for at least some point. X11 color names HarvestWheat and ForestGreen, if memory serves aright.
EDIT2: No, that’s probably not a graphical emacs instance, because the title is “sh”. They’re probably running sh and then running console emacs (or vim or something else, I guess, can configure either to look like that) and don’t have their shell set up to pass the escape sequences to tell the virtual terminal program to update the window title.
EDIT3: Also, the color’s the default twm color, but that’s not the default twm decorations. That’s…damn, I can’t remember the name of that widget set.
goes poking around
Motif. And apparently mwm used Motif widgets.
Also! Thick padding/space around tiled windows just taking up valuable screen space.
“I use a tiling window manager to utilise screen space!”
Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows
Replace anime girl with a furry character and you got it.
That was implied with “sexy”.
The consensus middle ground was an anime catgirl.
- 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
Neofetch is no longer in active development. Use Hyfetch or Archey instead.
Or fastfetch
Use them for what exactly? The only use case I could ever see is for screenshots.
I use fastfetch.
What about fastfetch? I’ve been a happy user for a while.
What is it that will need additional development?
All those bits of hardware and software detection, logos, distros, interfacing with the different system information, it’s all an ongoing effort. It’s essentially shooting at a constantly moving target.
looks at a screenshot of neofetch
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/fetches_all.jpg
It could support Unicode distro logos. Or sixel. Or Kitty Graphics Protocol. It could try rendering text using 24-bit color, rather than just the 16 ANSI colors.
EDIT: Looking at the
fastfetch (1)man page, it looks like it supports Sixel, Kitty Graphics Protocol, and 24-bit color, though given that it doesn’t use them onfoot, I assume that it doesn’t try to detect terminals that support them and use them by default.Doesn’t ship with Unicode distro logos either, but it apparently supports user-specified logo files, so I imagine that one could obtain a Unicode logo from somewhere and use that.
EDIT2: Yeah, doesn’t detect and auto-use them on
kittyeither.EDIT3: Oh, wait.
neofetchhas to support some kind of graphics protocol too, even if it doesn’t use it for the distro logos, since you can see it using it for the sexy anime girl on the example image on the GitHub project page:Any security patches or kernel implementation.
I’m in this photo, and I don’t like it
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!
Just out of curiosity, because every time I see your username, I wonder…does your username derive from Zork or from the Parahumans series?
Mood
I like having the butt mogged some zoomers girl as my background.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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 :)
it’s a bit of a racist term, this meme would be better without
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?
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.
That is quite the monstrosity there…
How about, with xmonad!
Calm down mister fancy pants, the kids now are using hyprland
