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.
Ngl, for me both GNOME and GTK+ suck, their governance, design principles, development principles, and both user-facing and dev-facing cultures, are authoritarian and really toxic.
Look at, for example, the Mutter controversy, or the controversy woth GTK4 and the subsequent creation of both MATE and Cinnamon, or the drama with Zrythm (which author I do personally support) and FalkTX, etc.
I honestly find it odd that anyone brings up "no choices" and "lack of customisation" as a point against GNOME at all... Nothing in any desktop environment comes close to the versatility of GNOME extensions.
the extensions might not be core utilities of gnome and break on an update, but they allow for customization that even kde doesn't provide yet everyone is saying gnome has a "lack of customization"
Yes, KDE included. I don't think you understand the level of flexibility that being able to monkey-patch the GNOME shell provides. And I say that as someone who loves both KDE and GNOME for different reasons.
Honestly, I personally feel sorry (with every intention to offend) that you and others like you settle for and defend tooth and nail a half-baked solution, glued together with saliva and that breaks every time a core GNOME developer decides on it like monkey-patching over a shitty API. Not to mention the fact that KDE also allows it, and I say this as a KDE user, for the deepest part of its extensibility and scriptability, but without breaking it just because it looked ugly, and also allows other types of extensions, such as compiled dynamic libraries, or Plasmoids and components.
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.
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 -rs to the end.
The combination of these two things caused me to end up with a whole bunch of repositories named something like cli-rs or clitool-rs, both of which I'd just pronounce as clitoris.
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.
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.
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?
this sounds like being proud of a western bias. we are the fortunate. it should be our duty to consider perspectives that have been disadvantaged and where information about this side of the internet doesnāt flow as freely as it does in the first-world culture.
was saying āuneducatedā wrong? sure. but who was responsible for the frustration and misunderstanding that led to using that word in the first place?
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.
I know that Iām just one person, but I find it interesting how Iām always online but never using twitter, ever, for anything. Iām not even trying to avoid it. And yet, itās so damn popular. I just hate the format.
I wonder if Twitter just hung onto market share in India while it hemorrhaged users in the anglosphere? IIRC we've seen this with Facebook in a few places. Basically everyone I want to follow moved to Bluesky or at least is posting their content there too - there's a few local governments that are stuck in 2010 technologically due to indifference or lack of budget that still only post stuff to Twitter but that's fairly unusual, but is infuriating enough for people to post about it.
That's possible, I don't know literally anyone from India on Bluesky; In fact there's more people I personally know who are on Mastodon as it's prevalent in the FOSS ecosystem. But Mastodon doesn't bring in general people easily so literally the only people I follow there are related to the FOSS ecosystem (and similar nerds)... A lot of the accounts I follow are just bots which mirror content from Twitter.
i think PCSX2 is the maddest iāve ever been over a name. iāve been using it for YEARS and have to double check the spelling every single time i type it.
It doesn't exist. Well, PCSX4 doesn't, RPCS4 was a private project some years ago:
RPCS4 was a private project being worked on by one of the original developers of RPCS3, DH. Little is known about the project at the time, but we do know that it was expected to run on Unix-likes and can boot PS4 games without graphics
PCSX4 was just malware/adware or similar if I recall correctly. It came into being long before PS4 emulation reached anything remotely resembling the concept of "playable".
Yeah, its a fun one, but it does have a logical reason.
PSX was the codename for the PS1, and what the internet community latched on to, especially after the PS2 came out and there needed to be clarity on which they were referring to.
One of the early PSX PC emulators decided to name themselves PCSX as an amalgamation of PC and PSX.
PCSX2's team wanted to make a PS2 emulator on par with/inspired by (and maybe forked off of?) the PS1 emulator and decided to continue the naming convention.
And now we have the dislexia-unfriendly PCSX2 name.
Y'all remember the PSX emu Bleem! ? You could buy it commercially as a physical disk from the shelves of a store? I have no idea how they got away with it but that seems unthinkable these days.
I feel like, based on the interface, they just took PCSX, swapped the splash screen, and somehow distributed it commercially, along with even running TV ads. They must've been sued into oblivion by Sony.
Personally, I wasn't allowed to own a computer until well after Bleem! went out of business (from running out of money for legal defence against sony).
That being said, looking at wikipedia, Bleem! started first, so PCSX was the one that stole the look and feel of Bleem!
Maybe, but it is meant as a portmanteau, and not just two abbreviations stuck together.
Like... if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made a big light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device, and decided to call it the NASER instead of NASALASER.
There's an awesome linux tool called "fuck". When you make a typo in a CLI command and get an error message, all you have to do is type "fuck" and it looks at your last command and the error message and takes a guess at fixing it. If it's right all you have to do is hit Enter. Super useful!
Seriously, all Windows software is starting to sound the same, with as little clue as possible as to what it actually does. Remote Desktop on Mac is called "Windows App". What does that mean? Everything else is called 365.
At the same time, I liked .NET's no-nonsense naming of namespaces. When I see something like System.Threading.Tasks, I can immediately recognise that it's a namespace that deals with task-based parallelism. Then you have tokio in Rust and I want to stab the person that came up with the name. Same for clap and serde. They mean nothing unless you already know what those packages do.
Yeah except that it's literally called .NET, pronounced dot net, they included a punctuation symbol in the name. Is it a programming language for the web, nope. So why's it called that?
.NET is branding that Steve Ballmer came up with, and yes, it was originally meant to be a set of network and internet frameworks. The .NET Framework was an underlying interface that other .NET products would use. It was then superseded by .NET Core, which was later renamed to .NET.
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?"
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.
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?
Physical products - maybe, but it doesn't seem to apply to software. And Apple is not the only offender in that (although I have to admit that they're somewhat good at coming up with generic and yet recognisable names because of the context). Just try to think of a desktop or mobile OS that doesn't bundle a default app with a generic name like Files, Mail, Internet and so on.
They're not trying to trademark those. Others can call their default apps the same thing and it's fine. Others can't call their default in house browser chrome (unless they're google).
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
The kernel library for integrating telecommunications operations and their requirements into the system? I think there was a patch for that in my update manager last week.
(With thanks to Red Dwarf for providing a template for this one.)
214 Comments
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social · 211 pts · 52d
Are you suggesting there is something wrong with any of these names:
db2@lemmy.world · 187 pts · 52d
unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 52d
man
every Command Line Interface Tool
(not Linux but there are special printers for clothing called DTF's )
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 51d
man man
sensation@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 51d
This week, I ran 'man mount' while learning about bind mounts.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 51d
I mean there are audiovisual teaching aids for how to mount men all over the Internet. Or so I'm told
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 51d
In this context I really hope you mean aides.
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 51d
I giggle every time I see 'man touch'
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 51d
I just watched that movie.
T156@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 51d
jq, ed
okmko@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 59 pts · 52d
Don't forget
fuckUna@europe.pub · 33 pts · 52d
I like how developers are not shying away from possibility of them having foot fetish (foot terminal, gnome logo being a foot)
vanillama@programming.dev · 59 pts · 52d
The foot is actually symbolic for the devs stepping all over you with their opinionated design and no choices
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 51d
Ah so BDSM then /s
hectocotylus@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 51d
No just BSD
snooggums@piefed.world · 13 pts · 51d
BSDMobile?
hectocotylus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 51d
IOS
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 3 pts · 51d
Oh. Plenty, they just don't fuck with 'consent'.
neutronbumblebee@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 51d
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.
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 50d
Ngl, for me both GNOME and GTK+ suck, their governance, design principles, development principles, and both user-facing and dev-facing cultures, are authoritarian and really toxic. Look at, for example, the Mutter controversy, or the controversy woth GTK4 and the subsequent creation of both MATE and Cinnamon, or the drama with Zrythm (which author I do personally support) and FalkTX, etc.
lastweakness@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
I honestly find it odd that anyone brings up "no choices" and "lack of customisation" as a point against GNOME at all... Nothing in any desktop environment comes close to the versatility of GNOME extensions.
shrugs@piefed.social · 2 pts · 51d
finally someone says it.
the extensions might not be core utilities of gnome and break on an update, but they allow for customization that even kde doesn't provide yet everyone is saying gnome has a "lack of customization"
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 50d
Cinnamon ? albeit its a Gnome mutt anyway
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 0 pts · 50d
KDE ehem....
lastweakness@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 50d
Yes, KDE included. I don't think you understand the level of flexibility that being able to monkey-patch the GNOME shell provides. And I say that as someone who loves both KDE and GNOME for different reasons.
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 0 pts · 50d
Honestly, I personally feel sorry (with every intention to offend) that you and others like you settle for and defend tooth and nail a half-baked solution, glued together with saliva and that breaks every time a core GNOME developer decides on it like monkey-patching over a shitty API. Not to mention the fact that KDE also allows it, and I say this as a KDE user, for the deepest part of its extensibility and scriptability, but without breaking it just because it looked ugly, and also allows other types of extensions, such as compiled dynamic libraries, or Plasmoids and components.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 22 pts · 51d
Also, in Italian "sudo" means "I sweat".
means "I sweat, dwarf"
okmko@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 51d
Man, I remember laughing like a school boy when I first heard of the "finger" util in college, lol.
Also
finger \! && exitshweddy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 51d
Pip yay
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 51d
Also bitchx
ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 51d
> man womanNo manual entry for womanKangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 50d
Bro literal said "No bitches?" šššš
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 51d
Also there's Rufus
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 50d
I'm crying rn, caca means poop in spanish ššš
Woah, poop is a good name for an util
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 49d
wait until you hear of libpipi
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 49d
Oh hell naw
nialv7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
sundray@lemmus.org · -2 pts · 52d
Ugh, "gimp"? Seriously?
And the name isn't great either.
Wiz@midwest.social · 10 pts · 51d
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!
sundray@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 51d
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.
Wiz@midwest.social · 1 pts · 51d
Someone could fork it, with just a different name. š
Magnum@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 51d
Good way to get Stallman to kill you
OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 6 pts · 51d
Green is my pepper.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 5 pts · 51d
GNU Image Manipulation Program or GIMP
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 112 pts · 52d
KDE's tool to configure an IntelliPointā¢ device.
supernicepojo@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 52d
Its called a cat-tongue. Everyone that refers to it as anything else is wrong
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 71 pts · 51d
You mean ClitMouse
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 51d
I've never heard the left 2 ones used IRL tbh
Dultas@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 51d
I have but I'm old and clearly remember when it came out.
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 52d
It's the Command Nubbin'
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
I used to call it the pointing nipple
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 54 pts · 52d
chmod755@feddit.org · 2 pts · 50d
Hehe Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back š
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 51d
We need a command line interface named Toris. CLI Toris
zen@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 51d
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.echodot@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 51d
There really is no drama like programming language drama.
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
Thought about this a little more. Cut and paste can be rebranded as excise and stitch.
Grimy@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 52d
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.
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au · 3 pts · 51d
Its not an app, your file system wouldn't work without it.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 51d
The most clearest description of file explorer: Dolphin (?)
Allero@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 51d
Like if Nautilus is any better
Or, like, Total Commander. A wild guess would be some strategy game.
dihutenosa@piefed.social · 9 pts · 51d
Once a couple employers ago, I got an email from IT admins demanding that I uninstall that "game".
Haaveilija@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 51d
The nautical theme also continues with Nemo
T156@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
Meanwhile, Midnight Commander reads like the title to a pornogram.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
Dolphin, the total commander of nautilus!
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 51d
Wasnāt it named after Norton Commander?
Allero@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 51d
I mean, yeah, but then the same applies to Norton Commander as well :D
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 1 pts · 46d
PCManFM (rare LXDE W)
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 51d
The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamersā¢ 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)BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
Oh, a hybrid of dolphin and an emu. What a wonderful idea.
T156@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.
Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 50d
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 51d
Or nautilus. My assumption is the files are in your sea not in their cloud.
zeb420@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Lumberjack or woodpecker honestly would have been better names since file systems are basically trees
T156@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
If the file system is a tree, naming the file manager for someone whose job it is to destroy the tree seems silly.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 49d
Is that where
rangergot it's name?kreiger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
WDYM "explorer", is that some weird name for a file manager?
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
You can explore file system, but how would you dolphin it?
BurnoutDV@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
I always loved the logically escalation with konquerer
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
It kind of makes sense. You are swimming the sea of misorganized random piles of files and folders you have created.
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 50d
Krusader.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 37 pts · 51d
Gnome: GSpot. It doesn't actually exist (GNOME devs though there was no use case for it)
Scrollone@feddit.it · 10 pts · 51d
laughs in libsexy
communism@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 51d
libass
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 51d
libcaca ... their original logo was better though, with a speech bubble saying something like "It's the shit!"
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 51d
Finally a good example of a project which should, and does, use the WTFPL.
jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 52d
KDE FTW.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 51d
bash: klitoris: command not found...:(
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 51d
No, you should
touch klitorisorfinger klitoris, not bash it.man klitorisno manual entry for klitorisWell that explains a lot.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 51d
man klitoris? Don't you meanbussy?captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 50d
No that would probably be the xfce equivalent.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
This is such an underrated joke.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 51d
Use the -f option to find it
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 30 pts · 51d
I'm still amazed people use and browse the septic tank of the internet. Xitter just won't stop.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · -24 pts · 51d
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.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 24 pts · 51d
And that's why i support the pedophile trillionaire. For memes and stuff
baatliwala@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 51d
We just ousted a minister in our country through memes and protests organised through Twitter, but what would an uneducated person know?
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 50d
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?
Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 50d
this sounds like being proud of a western bias. we are the fortunate. it should be our duty to consider perspectives that have been disadvantaged and where information about this side of the internet doesnāt flow as freely as it does in the first-world culture.
was saying āuneducatedā wrong? sure. but who was responsible for the frustration and misunderstanding that led to using that word in the first place?
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49d
Yeah thanks for that, after being retrospective I agree it's uncalled for but I am just tired of western bias of many social and political issues
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49d
Just posting what I replied to the other person --
After being retrospective I agree itās uncalled for but I am just tired of western bias of many social and political issues
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 51d
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.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
Never heard of that in my life. Not available in my country I guess
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 51d
"noooo i can't read corporate slop from government agencies and my favorite ragebaititng influencer news on Mastodon nooo, must read Xitter!!!"
baatliwala@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 51d
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
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 7 pts · 51d
I was a fool for expecting a serious response š¤£
baatliwala@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 51d
We just ousted a minister in our country through memes and protests organised through Twitter, but what would an uneducated person know?
CodeBlooded@programming.dev · 6 pts · 51d
I know that Iām just one person, but I find it interesting how Iām always online but never using twitter, ever, for anything. Iām not even trying to avoid it. And yet, itās so damn popular. I just hate the format.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
I actually don't like the format too much myself but ever since they raised the character limit it's a bit better to follow
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
I wonder if Twitter just hung onto market share in India while it hemorrhaged users in the anglosphere? IIRC we've seen this with Facebook in a few places. Basically everyone I want to follow moved to Bluesky or at least is posting their content there too - there's a few local governments that are stuck in 2010 technologically due to indifference or lack of budget that still only post stuff to Twitter but that's fairly unusual, but is infuriating enough for people to post about it.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
That's possible, I don't know literally anyone from India on Bluesky; In fact there's more people I personally know who are on Mastodon as it's prevalent in the FOSS ecosystem. But Mastodon doesn't bring in general people easily so literally the only people I follow there are related to the FOSS ecosystem (and similar nerds)... A lot of the accounts I follow are just bots which mirror content from Twitter.
no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.dev · 2 pts · 51d
Fuck blue sky. Use mastodon.
yuri@pawb.social · 29 pts · 52d
i think PCSX2 is the maddest iāve ever been over a name. iāve been using it for YEARS and have to double check the spelling every single time i type it.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 51d
Don't recall if it had a Linux port, but anyone remembers Nesticle?
Guttural@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 51d
Followed by the tastefully named Snesticle
bilb@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 51d
I remember the grainy low bit icon of a testicle on Windows.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
i was familiar with zophar's domain, yes.
edit wait fuck. sleep will help with reading comprehension, yes.
vividspecter@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 51d
RPCS3 is similarly awkward to read and spell.
And ncmpcpp, which makes sense as it's about 2 or 3 different forks from the original so the name got increasingly out of hand.
SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 51d
Ah yes the ncm program. Used to give my brain half a stroke trying to remember the full name.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 51d
You mean RCPSX3? Or 4, the scam?
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 51d
What happened with 4? I didn't even know it existed until just now.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 51d
It doesn't exist. Well, PCSX4 doesn't, RPCS4 was a private project some years ago:
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_4_emulators footnote 2
PCSX4 was just malware/adware or similar if I recall correctly. It came into being long before PS4 emulation reached anything remotely resembling the concept of "playable".
sundray@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 52d
I hear you. The one that always gets me is PPSSPP. Every time I type it I miss out a letter and have to go back and fix it.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
I memorized it as "PSP, but doubled"
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 52d
Somehow, I perfectly remember ncmpcpp (what does any of that even mean? something with C++ I guess?) but struggle with lighttpd (light+httd+daemon).
ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
NCurses, Media Player Client, c Plus Plus
nullify3112@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Is that a command to summon the cats? PPSSPP PPSSPP
kirisamemarisa@lemmy.eco.br · 4 pts · 52d
seems easy to remember for me
yuri@pawb.social · 10 pts · 52d
dyslexia may be a factor
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca · 19 pts · 52d
Yeah, its a fun one, but it does have a logical reason.
PSX was the codename for the PS1, and what the internet community latched on to, especially after the PS2 came out and there needed to be clarity on which they were referring to.
One of the early PSX PC emulators decided to name themselves PCSX as an amalgamation of PC and PSX.
PCSX2's team wanted to make a PS2 emulator on par with/inspired by (and maybe forked off of?) the PS1 emulator and decided to continue the naming convention.
And now we have the dislexia-unfriendly PCSX2 name.
yuri@pawb.social · 5 pts · 52d
ah dammit, thatās actually compelling reasoning! lmao
okmko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
Y'all remember the PSX emu Bleem! ? You could buy it commercially as a physical disk from the shelves of a store? I have no idea how they got away with it but that seems unthinkable these days.
I feel like, based on the interface, they just took PCSX, swapped the splash screen, and somehow distributed it commercially, along with even running TV ads. They must've been sued into oblivion by Sony.
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 51d
Personally, I wasn't allowed to own a computer until well after Bleem! went out of business (from running out of money for legal defence against sony).
That being said, looking at wikipedia, Bleem! started first, so PCSX was the one that stole the look and feel of Bleem!
okmko@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
Wow that's news to me.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 2 pts · 52d
Then it should PCPSX or PSXPC, but the PCSX trips me up so hard. I hate it so much
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 51d
Maybe, but it is meant as a portmanteau, and not just two abbreviations stuck together.
Like... if the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made a big light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device, and decided to call it the NASER instead of NASALASER.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 2 pts · 51d
PC sex too. That's how I read it.
okmko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
I didn't even know people read it. My eyes just glazed over the letters like it's a picture lol.
kirisamemarisa@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 52d
happens
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 51d
I keep searching "RPCS2" and wondering why it doesn't show up
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 51d
Is the GNOME version called Gock?
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 51d
I would not be surprised if KDE already had "Klitoris"
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 51d
It would have to be some horrid acronym for something like KDE Library Integration Tool Offering Recursive Integration Services or some shit.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 50d
Or a Trackpoint driver.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 29 pts · 52d
I can never find that program...
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 52d
does anyone have the repo? I can't find it
WoodYouLookAtThat@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 52d
Inquiring minds must know
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 51d
Hey, I finger the klitoris of my thinkpad all the time
okmko@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 51d
Huh, I thought I was fingering the nipple this whole time
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 51d
It's pink, nubby, and you finger it. That doesn't seem like a nipple to me ;)
okmko@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 51d
Okay, fineeee. I'll tongue it.
a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 51d
Gonna make a TUI music player and call it D-Bussy
lesnout27@feddit.org · 2 pts · 51d
Aah D-Bussy! Everyone loves D-Bussy!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 51d
There's an awesome linux tool called "fuck". When you make a typo in a CLI command and get an error message, all you have to do is type "fuck" and it looks at your last command and the error message and takes a guess at fixing it. If it's right all you have to do is hit Enter. Super useful!
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 51d
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 19 pts · 51d
2026version: copilot internet 365 just shortened to copilot after the next MBA is hired.
mcv@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 51d
Seriously, all Windows software is starting to sound the same, with as little clue as possible as to what it actually does. Remote Desktop on Mac is called "Windows App". What does that mean? Everything else is called 365.
echodot@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 51d
It's called Windows app on Windows now as well. But they also have remote desktop still, and they're not intercompatible.
Microsoft truly are terrible at naming things. They always have been. Remember XBone?
rtxn@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 51d
At the same time, I liked .NET's no-nonsense naming of namespaces. When I see something like
System.Threading.Tasks, I can immediately recognise that it's a namespace that deals with task-based parallelism. Then you havetokioin Rust and I want to stab the person that came up with the name. Same forclapandserde. They mean nothing unless you already know what those packages do.eronth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
The people making the programming language and related tooling seem to know what's up.
The people making other various products all seem to want to be a super special naming boy.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 51d
Yeah except that it's literally called .NET, pronounced dot net, they included a punctuation symbol in the name. Is it a programming language for the web, nope. So why's it called that?
rtxn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
.NET is branding that Steve Ballmer came up with, and yes, it was originally meant to be a set of network and internet frameworks. The .NET Framework was an underlying interface that other .NET products would use. It was then superseded by .NET Core, which was later renamed to .NET.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi · 1 pts · 51d
epyon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 51d
Iāve found the clitoris.
Fnaargh@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 51d
You might wanna tell the guy who made it, cause I don't think he has yet.
CaffeinatedCubits@programming.dev · 17 pts · 51d
Searched everywhere and can't find the download. Does anyone have a link for the latest klitoris? I can't locate it and my wife is getting pissed.
Toryu122@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 51d
You think that's the worst?
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 51d
Passable censoring, 2/3 successfully censored
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 51d
Jarvis, kill this developer
khanh@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 51d
It's a literal loli snatcher. what did you think it was going to be named?
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 51d
I hope they changed the name and icon. Edit: it's still there somehow
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 51d
I feel like they made the app for this exact purpose and are proud to say it.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 51d
good theory
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 51d
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?"
kamen@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 51d
I'm kind of surprised that Apple didn't name the iPhone just "Phone".
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 51d
Probably not enough to get recognised as a brand.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 51d
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.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi · 3 pts · 51d
kamen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
Is this xerox a Canon?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
See? It's working.
borth@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
That's a brand??? Then what's the actual thing called?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
Hook and loop fastener or something long and unwieldy
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 51d
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?
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d
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.
white_nrdy@programming.dev · 1 pts · 51d
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY
kamen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 50d
Physical products - maybe, but it doesn't seem to apply to software. And Apple is not the only offender in that (although I have to admit that they're somewhat good at coming up with generic and yet recognisable names because of the context). Just try to think of a desktop or mobile OS that doesn't bundle a default app with a generic name like Files, Mail, Internet and so on.
LwL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 50d
They're not trying to trademark those. Others can call their default apps the same thing and it's fine. Others can't call their default in house browser chrome (unless they're google).
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 50d
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
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 51d
It's my favorite app to play around with
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
Search results: klitoris not found.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 51d
Wetware feature.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 50d
It must be a KDE version.
TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 50d
The Clit is legit
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 50d
thanks!
I've been looking for that for the past 30 years.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 50d
At least the man who provides the documentation is huge.
pewpew@feddit.it · 11 pts · 52d
Shitter
Cyber@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 52d
Probably the correct location most people would use that app.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 11 pts · 52d
The kernel library for integrating telecommunications operations and their requirements into the system? I think there was a patch for that in my update manager last week.
(With thanks to Red Dwarf for providing a template for this one.)
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 51d
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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 51d
I don't think that app exists but there is this
https://github.com/openlyst/klit
Routhinator@startrek.website · 4 pts · 51d
Is it Klit or Kilt, the readme literally says both...
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 51d
https://github.com/openlyst/klit/commit/bf1279efa747d8835b1fe718d4d65947b6c57dcc
The name is being changed.
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 50d
Boooo!
Badabinski@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 50d
well that's no fun!
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 8 pts · 50d
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
Who is this Clitoris fellow everyone always talks about? Is he like Diogenes or some shit?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
I only use it with Linux read by Gilbert Gottfried
mastod0n@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 50d
I'm more of a GIMP guy.
Scottyc65@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 50d
Only problem with that is most men wouldn't be able to find it.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 51d
the mascot is klitreya who has one too many K shaped appendages kinda like the kde lizard
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 50d
Is this meme from 2020? Windows would just call it Internet Copilot.
Ramsesder13te@feddit.org · 2 pts · 51d
Me naming my files: fgzvtj
Logarrhythmia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 50d
So thatās how urxvt got named!
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 51d
Windows does have the best naming schemes