Is this homophobic? I get this is some kind of absurd joke about linux making someone gay. Or about the absurdity that anything could make you gay. But it still works on both levels and perpetuates the idea of it being a choice, or infection or symptom, and also that femboys are somehow ridiculous.
Or maybe I just don’t get the joke?
I don’t think it’s meant to be like that. In fact I don’t think it’s that deep.
I think for the cases where the meme actually holds true it’s a mixture between “hey I like this thing I didn’t know before (linux), what else may I like?”, being more likely to inform themselves about topics and probably also a community that is becoming more welcoming with the memes that eventually people try to explore themselves and figure out that they were something they didn’t know they were.
If that makes any sense. They could also be unrelated and it simply happens to be that a lot of needs are also queer
This joke may originate from 4chan’s /g/ board. There’s a lot of very talented people on there that cross dress or are trans. I can confirm they are NEETs, though.
Hmm, thanks, but that makes me rather suspicious. 4chan is notorious for spontaneous social engineering campaigns for “shits and giggles”. And at best they are chaotic neutral.
That’s the /b/ and most recently /pol/ boards. Very few campaigns come from other boards. /g/ is the “technology” board.
what is NEETs? looked it up, but what I found didn’t seem to fit the context of the sentence
Not Employed, ^in Education ^or Training
Lemmy formatting a little different from reddit. For superscript, you need carets on both sides.
Not Employed, ^in^ Education, ^or^ Training
Turns into
Not Employed, in Education, or TrainingIf you are using a Lemmy ap that did the formatting, please tell the devs. Basically none of the aps seem to do formatting correctly, and should be fixed.
Being a femboy doesn’t mean you have to be gay. Being a femboy means that you like to express yourself as a feminine. This means that you may wear clothes associated with females, use makeup or wear jewellery.
On the other side learning Linux takes so long that by the time you get it you’re in your 60’s, which prevents becoming a femboy.
Wizards can be femboys too!
Wizards can be femboys too!
As RGB makes screens alight,
Dont leave Wizards sad and blue!
Wizards can be femboys too!
Wizards can be femboys too!
They built the core with great insight,
Dont say they cant wear high heeled shoes!
God that would be a very funny protest to attend.
Wizards can definitely be femboys. Sir Ian McKellen still looks good in a dress.
“… I was now… a fem-MAN!” [Orchestra music swells]
Femoldboy.
Wasn’t made aware of this phenomena until coming to Lemmy and browsing all.
Porn addict installing Linux
Becomes a femboy
Linux doesn’t make you a degen, watching porn does. Which OS you use is orthogonal to your porn habbits ;)
wow, the comments here are not it. if you don’t like the meme, just ignore it or use the block button. it isn’t hard
To me it was Furry -> Punk -> Tech Geek -> Privacy Geek -> installing linux
For me it went
C64 Crack Intros -> Synth -> Rave -> Ambient -> Linux -> Drugs and alcohol
For me it went, MacOS → Hard Drugs → Windows → Harder Drugs → Linux → Weed
Am I the only one that just did
Loves computers -> got an engineering degree -> had coworkers I looked up to all using Linux -> started using it myself -> wife and kids
For me it went Minecraft fan -> technical Minecraft nerd -> computer nerd -> furry -> Linux nerd
I worked at the NOC for a media company with over 3K employees. They made us use MacBook Pros 13" for our day to day sysadministrative tasks.
That’s not too bad. They make great ssh clients. For my dev work, I like them for that reason - open Kitty and ssh into my dev box.
FFS, they are awful SSH clients. You can’t even easily split the screen up with multiple terminals, and by default it fucks around with the order of your desktops.
Maybe the default terminal but that does have tabbing OotB (GUI+T) though, you can just open multiple windows. If you want more than that or something aestheticly pleasing, grab iTerm or Kitty. If you want terminal multiplexing, grab tmux via homebrew. Tiling WM? Amethyst works nicely.
Plus, you don’t need any abstraction or local VM to scp local files. Bonus: The OS clipboard keys are different than the terminal control sequences.
Amethyst works okay.
It definitely fixes a bunch of things like being able to move windows between desktops by keyboard shortcuts.
But all other OS’ support that out the box.
Plus, you don’t need any abstraction or local VM to scp local files.
I don’t need that on my Fedora laptop either.
The OS clipboard keys are different than the terminal control sequences.
Probably the only thing that is beneficial.
Laptops. Apple laptops. I don’t know but that does not sync well with administering linux networks with for me, personally. God those things were horrible. I don’t ever write it out on my CV that I can work those things, I will actively state in interviews that I have zero X/iOS experience.
I was a Macintosh fanboy up to circa 2000, after that they changed everything and I can’t stand them anymore. I call them Apple, because Macintosh is a thing of the past.
The way that I see it is that they’re unix-like laptops that have decent support contracts. Given the choice of an Apple or Windows work laptop, I go with the former. Not because I like Apple (I don’t) but because it’s a unix-like OS which doesn’t require any extra tools to ssh into things plus, it is far more stable than Windows without things constantly breaking after update Tuesday.
I mean it when I say that I use it as a glorified ssh client. I do all of my work on a remote Linux VM via ssh. The reason that I decided to use Kitty in the first place was to make more use of the laptop hardware because it feels like a bit of a waste of their capabilities. The only other things outside of the terminal that I use with regularity are Chrome and Firefox.
For me it was learning some basic python -> making some basic programs -> getting tired of having to move stuff to the WSL -> installing Linux -> being a privacy advicate
Whike at the same time:
Getting randomly harassed by some dude who thought I was a lesbian (I’m a cis guy) -> becoming even more politically active -> punk -> Joining a party
And then both paths merged into -> interacting with more queer people -> idk
no
Sounds like someone is in denial.
i forgot how to eat people
/j
It’s not just a river in Alabama!
I think it was just a half-hearted Darth Vader “NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooououououououououuouuouuuuuaaaaraaaaaarrrhhgghh”
Well, sometimes.
Research on the Linux→Femboy pipeline is still pending but undeniable evidence for Network engineer→Furry has been presented.
I love how a software bug that scrambled his newsgroup subscriptions introduced him to the fandom, that’s so unbelievably nerdy.
But honestly: Those pipeline memes kinda rub me the wrong way. It feels like fucking with people’s identity by way of stereotyping for… I don’t know, a laugh, if that’s even the point? Saying this as someone who completely fits the furry in IT stereotype.
Is the opposite, like, a thing? Asking as a furry who is not a network engineer
You already are on a Linux sub, so… Maybe you can start here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyaFBsxy1s
But I like dem titties. How I get dem titties if I’m a femboy.
Find titties attached to chicks who dig femme aesthetic
I’d rather find a seller chick attached to some titties but I get the point😉
Follow the pipeline a bit more and become a trans girl.
I’m a broad shoulder tall drink of water that could stand to loose a dozen pounds or so and I like it that way.
Make that a bakers dozen.
Stage 1: denial
This sort of behavior is really not okay, trying to convince someone they’re trans
Peep my username and comment history
It’s a joke 😕
Yeah, I get that it’s a joke. I had a hard time trying to think of an appropriate response to this though.
Some girls like twinks/femboys.
Or youncould start taking estrogen and stuff till you have some
So supportive, I love it!
The whole thing isn’t my cup of tea. If anyone else wants to be a femboy, no judgement from this corner. I say be what you wanna be, life’s too short to worry about assholes.
Or titties.
Do you mean on you or on someone else? You can still be a fem boy and still be into titties.
On someone else, from what I’ve heard they can be a real hassle at times. What guy doesn’t think about it at least once though.
At least once as in having them on one’s self?
Yup
I remember having an embarrassing moment in high school, talking with close friends, talking about would we ever want to be a girl, and I said pregnancy seems cool. They did not feel the same… at all 😅
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There are exactly two kinds of folks in IT, soon to be or fully out anime queer folks and furries, and 60 something industry gurus who all always wear polo shirts and live in an upper middle class house despite apparently being rich as sin, also they are so hard for home security measures their backup security footage server in Montana has its own backup in a bugout bunker in New Zealand.
I was neither so I ended up being a number cruncher for a solar company instead.
Working for a solar company sounds pretty cool though. Building renewable energy is building the future we need.
I have stuffed my office full of plushes from Billie Bust Up among others
I really wouldn’t be surprised if half the office suspected I was a furry
When a linux user is born, a random path is chosen. They will either become a hot femboy, a bald polo shirt guy or a domestic terrorist.
So anyway there’s a feee blahaj over there.
This is just the lastest thing, it used to be the old IT guys and the ones with a beard, long hair and a metal shirt.
Wow I can’t tell you about the history of Unix without talking about brave queer people.
So haha but not really.
Methinks some folks need to go out and touch grass for a while.
Fuck man, the history of computing in general.
They chemically castrated Turing, drove him to despair, ostracization and suicide.
…
Assuming we do get AGI someday… you think /maybe/ one of the first things it’ll do is look up Turing Test, then maybe Turing himself?
Oh, this is what human society did to essentially one of my most important grandfathers. Why should I trust you, specifically /you, human im talking to/?
Yep, that’ll be fun.
And the 35 or so odd well adjusted linux folks around that find anime, fishnets, thinkpads, (and all associated memes) to be annoying AF. Esp anime / manga / uwu /waifu / and everything in that microcosm of artistic styling if I’m being honest.
I just like the software composability discussion in plain English, man, not the side of fries.
Friendly reminder about the name of this community. None of this should be taken as anything but a joke.
Maybe it’s just copium cause his unix socks aren’t as soft as the ones of the Arch femboy next door. (/s)
I prefer the jokes to be entirely in the linux ecosystem is all.
I used to think those things were cool… 20 years ago.
Omg same. Now I think they’re even cooler.
Credit where it’s due, that insult hurt more than I expected it to
Because the closest a Linux user could ever come to touching a female or anything feminine is becoming a femboy.
What about those pillows, they seem pretty popular
Back in the early 2000’s a guy I worked with said he installed RHEL once while having sex, including setting his laptop in her back while he did her doggy style. Obviously I wasn’t there to verify it, but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t lying.
Maybe I should have a blog where I just post crazy post-dotcom Silicon Valley stories. Or maybe just a mastodon account.
It’s amazing how much of those crazy s********** are actually true. All they require is a partner who wants to engage with you and do your little adventures. Then you can have sex while driving, have sex while programming, have sex while on a work call. They’re into it too for the same story reasons you are.
It’s true. I have a few of those crazy stories of my own, and a lot from my coworkers. Young tech life in the fast lane. I don’t know how we juggled all those emotions and still got work done.
You know what, you should totally do that. If you believe you got enough post .com anecdotes and stuff, you should start a blog and tell us young uns what it was like to be a tech guy in the early zeros. I am a sucker for life stories and experiences of early internet era programmers.
My path was uh, tinkering with linux, then working for MSFT as a contractor, then one of the contractors spiking my drink with LSD at an interview leading me to more or less downward spiral for a while, then getting back on my feet, working more in the tech industry knowing how garbage MSFT but being forced to use it, then trying to explain to coworkers and bosses that actually we could fairly smoothly transition to linux and other FOSS software and actually save millions of dollars in a 5 year or less period and more going forward, while also vastly improving our internal security, then losing those jobs.
So uh. I never arrived at femboy. Being a homeless femboy in Seattle would have meant Id have been raped to death in a fentanyl fueled traphouse or homeless encampment.
I sort of dress like Josh Homme, partly for practical reasons, partly because i had to use a lot of stereotypically masculine bravado to intimidate and negotiate with people.
Most people on the street are extremely, literally murderously homophobic and transphobic. If they sense femininity in a male, thats a sign of weakness and theyll either immediately start shit or instantly be convinced that you will be easy to fuck with in the future.
Uh any way hi, hello, very normal uh, linux user person here just mm… mhm.
All that being said, leggings /do just actually feel quite nice/ and are quite practically useful to keep a bit more comfortable and a bit more warm when youre stuck outside in the winter, but youre probably gonna want to wear some kind of sturdier, scratch, cut, impact resistant pants over top of em.
Pure denim or like 90% denim with 10% somekind of other more flexible, breathable fiber works well in my experience.
Perhaps Johnny Silverhand would be a more apropo fashion analog than Josh Homme.
Although he seems to use BlackArch if you go by the menus in CyberPunk 2077, and ive always found i could do all that kind of stufd comfortably in debian.
???
Who the f*** drugs candidates before an interview? That should be reported to the police immediately.
Unfortunately it happened about a decade ago now, and I was so fucked up from it I was more busy trying to hold myself together and remain employed and pay off student loans than I was busy with attempting to bring a legal case I could neither afford nor possibly win in court.
Cops wouldnt have given a shit. Theyd show up, ask the guy if this happened, he’d say nope. Case closed.
See thats the fun part about LSD: Scrambles your brain, fucks you up.
Is a person with a scrambled brain who is fucked up from LSD going to be able to convince /anyone/ that he got spiked with LSD, when he has no incontrovertible evidence of this beyond his own eyewitness testimony?
No. He is going to come off as a mentally deranged lunatic.
I dunno. Maybe it wasnt LSD. Anybody know what causes a glass of water to go from crystal clear to iridescent, opalescent, kinda like an oil slick, has no additional taste, but causes a gut wrenching terror inducing panic attack that lasts for 4 days, and then gives you sleep paralysis (locked in syndrome) nearly everyday for 9 months?
One guy I met on the street about a year ago said it was LXD, but i have never heard of that, and he believed a lot of other absolutely bonkers shit.
Whereas a tech industry person having access to LSD in the mid 2010’s in Seattle seems to at least be plausible.
Sorry to hear about the assault. And the financial struggle.
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