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    [–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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.

    [–] juan@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

    [–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 144 points 2 days 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?

    [–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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.

    [–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 101 points 2 days 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.

    [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

    @cepelinas@sopuli.xyz

    [–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

    Thanks for the explanation πŸ‘

    [–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

    [–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 33 points 2 days 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.

    [–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 47 points 2 days ago

    Doesn't anyone visit you?

    Deep down you know the answer

    And what's the point

    Simping, setting unrealistic transitioning goals, often both

    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.

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 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.

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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    There's some classy non-sexualized "anime girl" backgrounds that are pretty slick.

    http://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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    [–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    I'm still just trying to get my terminal to look like the Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver, but for some reason last time I tried I couldn't get it just right. Now that I have KDE (and thus color picker and Konsole), I should try again..

    3747

    The hardest part is the glow effect on the text I think.

    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    This is more like Fallout than Portal but maybe it can work for you.

    http://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

    [–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    I've never been more excited about ruining my eyes 🀩

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    I used the thing here a while back to take a screenshot of running gopher on some of the remaining gopher servers in gopherspace (note that the sdf.org guys shown here also run a lemmy server, nicely linking the past and today). Its default settings in amber were a not-wildly-unreasonable match for some of the VT terminals connected to a VAX/VMS system that I used in the 1990s. More noise added by default, but it's the closest thing I've seen to a replica to that era that one's likely to see short of getting an actual CRT VT terminal and plonking it on your serial port (well, these days, probably a USB-to-serial adapter).

    EDIT: Apparently this guy set up docker images on Debian to emulate old computing environments and then rigged that to a VT420 and ran gopher on that:

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    [–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

    It can do bloom with its shaders, the way @ArcadeSlime@lemmy.dbzero0.com wants. I don't know if any of the presets have quite that much bloom, though.

    It can do CRT-style scanlines, as he's looking for, and it doesn't have doesn't have to have the faux-CRT curvature; see the "Futuristic" preset for a preset that doesn't have that curvature.

    EDIT: There's a settings dialog that lets one ramp up or down each of the given visual effects.

    Portal (1) Aperture Science screensaver,

    http://old.reddit.com/r/Portal/comments/1bdltht/aperture_science_pc_wallpaper/

    Though this seems to have multiple of those "falling" bright areas, and cool-retro-term only has one. I'm not sure what that's supposed to be, for either the screensaver or cool-retro-term. You can get a vaguely-similar effect if you have a video camera taking footage of a CRT; I guess the proper term for this is the stroboscopic effect. Might be what they're trying to depict.

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    [–] NiHaDuncan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    You might have some luck with a wm that can apply shaders.

    Something like hyprland, wayfire, or compost could do the trick; and you’d be looking for a very diffuse (glsl) bloom shader with an exaggerated horizontal component or an additional scanline shader.

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    [–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

    what could you want more

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 77 points 2 days ago

    That was implied with "sexy".

    [–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 37 points 2 days ago

    I bet your self hosted services actually work too.

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    [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

    also some socks

    [–] InfiniteKrebs@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Ozonowsky@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

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

    Meanwhile the 10km gap between windows

    [–] Object@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 days 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
    [–] Leesi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

    [–] NiHaDuncan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    That’s obviously just reskinned domain/os. You thought you could fool us, but you haven’t got one over on me!

    Domain/OS btw

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    [–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

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

    Or fastfetch

    [–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

    I use fastfetch.

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

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    [–] laserm@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Because we're fucking weebs..

    [–] Sabata11792@ani.social 26 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    I'm very clearly not fucking anyone.

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    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
    [–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

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

    [–] scytale@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

    Early 20s me feels attacked.

    [–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 2 days ago

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

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