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    [–] Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago

    This is definitely top 10 Linux memes of all time for me.

    [–] valourvalkyria@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    oh no anarchy chess started leaking again

    [–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

    It always leaks. ANARCHY CHESS IS EVERYWHERE. É̷̡̨̮̜̠̫̩̩̖́̄̍̈́́̇̓̓̚̚͘̕V̵͕̭̩̥̱̟̻̮͈̣̦̠̱͇͇͛͐̽́͒̈́͋̍͂̏͆̎́͌͜͝͝Ę̶̨̛͎̟͔͚̠̻̯̭̖̹͔̔͐̒̏̓́́͌̕̕͟͜͠͝R̵̡̡̯͙̥͓͖̥̳̤̺̮̘̣͋̀̒Y̷̡͙̲̝̾̎̿̾͛͜͝͠Ẅ̵͉͈̱̖̫̯͎̯́̌̆̈́̐͟͝͠͠H̶̱͖̀͆̑͆͆͌̚E̵̡̖͕͇̭̮̜̭͍̊̈́R̸̡̨͖̻͍͙̠̞̤̉̔̆̓È̵̙̬̍̅͗̀͛́̅̚͠ͅE̶̢̛̤̺̭̥̊̇̃͌̓͛͛̒̓̐̂̚̚E̵̪͎̘̼̓͐̾E̸͓̳̖̠͙̠̦̦͈̻̘̙̣̾̈̾̔͌̽̿͜.̶̨̹̭̼̗̗͛̍́̀̀̔͐̈́͗́̽̌͒̚.̸̠̲͓̘̫̜͕̱̖͛̉͐̿̈͐͂́͂̈́.̸̻̮̣̃̿.̵̨̢̘̘̗̹̘̲̖̫̰̠̘͇̾̈́̏́̾̚͟

    [–] EphemeralSun@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

    Actual defunct process

    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I feel like Y should be the successor to X.

    [–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

    Whyland doesn't sound as good though.

    [–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Do you mean like X, Why?, Z

    [–] substill@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You made me check my zipper.

    [–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    No, zypper. Package manager.

    [–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    they do NOT get the joke!!!1!!

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    The X window system is actually the successor to the W window system.

    [–] red@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

    There actually was a short-lived attempt to create a Y window system as a successor to X (before Wayland).

    Funnily enough the website is still live, despite no progress in almost 20 years: y-windows.org

    [–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    millenial.com is just a whatsapp call away!

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No, the successor for XCOM is UFO: Alien Invasion.

    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

    The development had stopped since 2020, you'll have to make do with inferior closed-source commercial clone called XCOM 2.

    [–] elxeno@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago

    Help! I'm getting screen tearing in the new twitter!

    [–] arkannon@iusearchlinux.fyi 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ahhh I can see the graphical glitches already

    [–] mrquantumoff@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    on X.com, I presume (that's where I get them)

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

    i don't get them, the delay is enough to make them disappear, my desktop too, but the glithes are gone :b

    [–] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can someone please ELI5 this to me? Everyone seems to get it (as a joke?) but me.

    [–] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Ooh, it's the logo, god damn it, got it 2 secconds after posting this.

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just in case anyone else stumbles across this and is confused, I'll explain in more detail.

    On Linux there are two display server protocols, the very old X11 and the newer Wayland, which was designed as a successor to X11 by its maintainers.

    Elon Musk announced today that he is renaming Twitter to X (yes, just X). The above posts takes the mick out of this on this by announcing a social media website called Wayland, i.e. the successor to Musk's X.

    [–] hypelightfly@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    To expand, one of his early businesses was X.com which was a payment processor and sold to paypal and eventually shutdown. He bought the domain again back in 2017 and it now redirects to twitter.

    [–] june@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    He’s also been wanting to name something X for a while. When Ford wouldn’t let him name the Model 3 the Model X (so his cars would spell SEX) he must have sat on his laurels until he had a brain aneurysm big enough to make him think it’s a good idea to dump the Twitter brand for a math problem.

    [–] TableCoffee@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Isn't it that he wanted model E but that's the one Ford wouldn't allow? Because there is a Tesla model X. He wanted to spell SEXY but instead he now has S3XY.

    [–] june@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    Ah yea, that’s right. I misremembered.

    [–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    Talk about callbacks...

    [–] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

    Thank you, this is just the kind of thorough explination i needed to understand this meme lol

    [–] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

    Ooooh, it's toasting elmo's x. Thanks for clearing that up 😃.

    [–] Noughmad@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago

    It's not just the logo, the domain name is extremely similar too (x.com vs x.org).

    Big brands like to own all variants of their domain (so you can't register google.org or facebook.net, for example). But X can't do that.

    [–] yesimprogun@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

    Like Weyland-Yutani?

    [–] transmatrix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] ccf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    you can embed an image by doing ![you can put optional alt text here](URL)

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Bit random, but good to know.

    [–] StudioLE@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

    It's markdown syntax: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#images-1

    It follows the pattern of the link syntax which is why it comes across a little chaotic

    [–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

    Dammit for some reason I thought this was some kind of rare, unknown game cover for a game called XCOM Enemy.

    [–] EphemeralSun@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

    Actual defunct process

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