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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

    Some catppuccino would be good aswell

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

    Maybe he's mocking the fishes slow response time to a 1 answer question.

    [–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    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?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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.

    [–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    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.

    @[email protected]

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

    Thanks for the explanation 👍

    [–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago

    Doesn't anyone visit you?

    Deep down you know the answer

    And what's the point

    Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

    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

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

    These people already see me regularly. They deserve seeing something not quite as hot as me on my screen for a change. :V

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Replace anime girl with a furry character and you got it.

    [–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago

    That was implied with "sexy".

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

    I bet your self hosted services actually work too.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

    The consensus middle ground was an anime catgirl.

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week 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
    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Also! Thick padding/space around tiled windows just taking up valuable screen space.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

    "I use a tiling window manager to utilise screen space!"

    Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Neofetch is no longer in active development. Use Hyfetch or Archey instead.

    Or fastfetch

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

    I use fastfetch.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

    What about fastfetch? I've been a happy user for a while.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    What is it that will need additional development?

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Because we're fucking weebs..

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    I'm very clearly not fucking anyone.

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

    Calm down mister fancy pants, the kids now are using hyprland

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

    Early 20s me feels attacked.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    TIL what it means to "rice" a desktop

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    "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.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week 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...

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

    It's only Linux when it comes from the tiling region of Finland. Otherwise it's just sparkling GNU.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

    I just installed a new Linux system on my laptop and I feel called out.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Yeah too many just look so... samey. Not mine, but one I wish to recreate

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Changing things up by finding the most unattractive anime girl for my background instead.

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    [–] Killer57 7 points 1 week ago

    I'm in this photo, and I don't like it

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    As long as it's not watery diarrhea brown (a.k.a "gruvbox"), I'll take it.

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