I had the same thought and am fairly confused by the outrage.
Isn’t the whole joke that as soon as we sit down to nerd out on Linux that we put on our frilly socks? There’s even the whole unixsocks comm dedicated to it. And it always felt good in a throwback to the 90s ‘outcast geek’ community without all the cis dude-by-default baggage bit of in-joking. Welcoming all our brothers and sisters by highlighting just how much they are part of our community.
Thanks for your understanding! The meme definitely went over my head.
I was indeed reacting to the “cis dude by default” thing which as a gender nonconforming guy has pissed me off for decades about computing spaces. “Riced” Linux desktops with basically cartoon tits for wallpaper, still all over Reddit any week. (I left Reddit, thankfully.)
I’ve been nerding out on Linux over 25 years and I have no idea about the socks thing, at least not enough to get the meme. I’m a longtime electronic music production nerd too so I got into raves and running sound systems in fields - I’m more “army boots and piercings” than “socks and sandals”. There are many flavours of geek!
oh its a shame you deleted this that person is a fkn loser and deserves to be called out for being a bigotted freak. they posted like 4 comments under this one thread looking at their account its wild
I had the same thought and am fairly confused by the outrage.
Isn’t the whole joke that as soon as we sit down to nerd out on Linux that we put on our frilly socks? There’s even the whole unixsocks comm dedicated to it. And it always felt good in a throwback to the 90s ‘outcast geek’ community without all the cis dude-by-default baggage bit of in-joking. Welcoming all our brothers and sisters by highlighting just how much they are part of our community.
What does OP think the image suggests I wonder?
Thanks for your understanding! The meme definitely went over my head.
I was indeed reacting to the “cis dude by default” thing which as a gender nonconforming guy has pissed me off for decades about computing spaces. “Riced” Linux desktops with basically cartoon tits for wallpaper, still all over Reddit any week. (I left Reddit, thankfully.)
I’ve been nerding out on Linux over 25 years and I have no idea about the socks thing, at least not enough to get the meme. I’m a longtime electronic music production nerd too so I got into raves and running sound systems in fields - I’m more “army boots and piercings” than “socks and sandals”. There are many flavours of geek!
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oh its a shame you deleted this that person is a fkn loser and deserves to be called out for being a bigotted freak. they posted like 4 comments under this one thread looking at their account its wild
You’re completely right, and my opinion hasn’t changed they are an awful transphobic person that posted heinous transphobic bullshit.
Since a moderator thankfully deleted the comments already I didn’t want to make anybody have to read their contents again, was my thinking.