Idk abt GIMP but hard agree about Gnome. Whenever someone uses a human foot as a logo = certified sex freak.
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Or how about 3 naked people in a circle holding hands. And somehow this guy is like one of the least problematic white South African billionaires.
Well, the bar is subterranean
sometimes a footprint represents humanity and isnβt about fucking itβ¦.
iβm so happy i didnβt get that foot fetish hardwired inβ¦ it seems so silly to meβ¦
sometimes a footprint represents humanity
sometimes, but in GNOME's case i think it is not intended to be a human foot but rather the foot of a mythological creature (a gnome). note that it has a squashed aspect ratio compared to a human foot, and also has only four toes.
apparently it's also problematic in some cultures: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FootAndCulturalIssue
thatβs a good point about some cultures seeing a foot the way i would see using a linux distribution with Goatse as a logoβ¦.
Can you imagine a distro made in Nepal, using as its logo a symbol of health, commonly seen patterned into gates and doors, displayed in windows, drawn on streets...
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My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.
Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.
And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.
Obviously Tarantino was involved. A little foot fetish never hurt nobody-- right? Right???????
It's a gnome foot though.
shortstack foot fetish with a little bit of dom sprinkled in
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I always thought it was a clever sex pervert acronym for
Graphic
Image
Manipulation
Program
And we're pronouncing it JIMP?
gust take your upvote and jet out of here
Instrunctions unclear, geeted out.
Ohh fuck no don't start this suit again
Listen here, Legoland, I don't live in the Kingdom of Jondor
Gimp
Is
Mangy
Photoshop
I've come to think of it as a (really) good thing - no financially motivated tech megacorp is gonna sell a monthly "sub to Gimp".
(Tho a clothes rental company might.)
One of the very very few times this meme is used correctly. Congratulations!
YouTube apparently censors "GIMP"
What "Gimp" could stand for?
A type of bondage suit
GNU(not linux) Image Manipulation Program.
Its all rolled into GIMP, kinda like someone zipped up a suit. Oops.
It's also a slur for disabled people.
Green is my pepper.
Bet they couldnβt even find the cli terminal.
The clit, for short
I'm just trying give her that system-d.
I remember someone pointed out that GIMP probably would never get adopted in a company or professional environment just because of the name. Imagine suggesting that someone should use "GIMP" in a work meeting, lol. It's not necessarily a problem, but it's a funny limitation that they put on the software.
See, most people have no clue that "gimp" is a sex thing. They just see it as a funny-sounding acronym. In an actual work meeting, the people who do know wouldn't say anything about it to avoid being seen as the weird ones.
Coq cowardly renamed their project because of this.
IMHO Coq is a much worse name, because everyone knows what a cock is.
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I use GIMP at work. It's officially approved in a very tightly restrained environment, literally in a repository of software people can install from. At an enterprise with thousands of employees.
I'm pretty sure only people who know what it is install it, never heard anyone so much as mention it.
You're lucky to have IT even know what GIMP is, much less have it officially approved.
Every place I've been at was like "what's that?"
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Aint good at graphic design but Krita's better anyways, we used it in school, along with PS, didn't really see a difference in either program, tho I was equally shit at using both.
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alias daddy='sudo'
Can you change the password prompt to "tell me your safeword first:"?
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I don't understand
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