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?
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
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.
These people already see me regularly. They deserve seeing something not quite as hot as me on my screen for a change. :V
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.
Replace anime girl with a furry character and you got it.
That was implied with "sexy".
The consensus middle ground was an anime catgirl.
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
Neofetch is no longer in active development. Use Hyfetch or Archey instead.
Or fastfetch
I use fastfetch.
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.
Because we're fucking weebs..
I'm very clearly not fucking anyone.
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
The likelihood that the poster I'm replying to has built a Gundam model kit in the last 6 months has risen by 58%.
How about, with xmonad!
Calm down mister fancy pants, the kids now are using hyprland
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.
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.
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...
also some socks
Changing things up by finding the most unattractive anime girl for my background instead.
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.
I'm in this photo, and I don't like it
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As long as it's not watery diarrhea brown (a.k.a "gruvbox"), I'll take it.
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.
Pywal auto color pallets with Obsidian Soundfield wallpapers.
lol
Hint: :q!
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