/tech/ - Technology

btw these were made by Hiroshi Seo, author of Ubunchu!

>Internet lolberts like anime
Okay I can see the sense in marketing to fellow libertarians with their favourite cartoons
>Non-white characters
Aaaaand they’ve started DDoSing the FSF website and making anti-Semitic assertions about the FSF leadership.

>>30415
very cute and good, but reminder that the year of the linux(/gnu) desktop was 2008, and we've been living in its shadow ever since.
>>30419
>anti-Semitic assertions about the FSF leadership
i remember seeing a thread on /g/ asking why/how dr. stallman was "one of the good ones"

considering how many free software devs are weebs, this seems like preaching to the choir
still, cute

>>30424
I would say it's a pretty decent association between amateur anime artists and free creative applications like GIMP, Blender and LibreOffice Writer.

>>30417
What software is that in the third picture?

>>30426
LibreOffice Writer

>>30427
Didn't that used to be white? This is news to me.

>>30420
it's his autism

Sovlful, reminds me of the anime how-to-draw books at my local library, but a bit more polish to it.
>>30419
Oh they've been seething about the FSF featuring non-whites in their art for a long time.

I miss this aesthetic, there should be more of this aesthetic, I dunno why FOSS are obsessed with animals from the continent of Africa but I love it

>>30420
>i remember seeing a thread on /g/ asking why/how dr. stallman was "one of the good ones"
there was a time when every board was not /pol/

>>30440
Stallman said he was not aware that GNU was an animal when he chose the name.

Ubuntu uses African stuff because the CEO is from South-Africa.

>>30444
Too painful to remember tbh, it was a pretty cool place to get information from (I.e like the gentooman library) before all discussion across the entire board became
>*subject* has been ruined by Joos and trainnyes, prove me wrong
<frogvariant9001.jpg

>>30447
I used to post in the programming threads more than a decade ago and everyone there was clueless. At least they got me to read SICP, for that I am eternally grateful.

>>30448
Tbh for me back in 2010 it was convincing me to use Linux in the sense that it’s a UNIX-like and why that is different from using Windows fundamentally, because prior to that Linux (primarily Ubuntu at the time) was just presented as a direct alternative to Windows that is free and has ethics, that it was a UNIX-like just was an technical irrelevancy compared to being a technohippy (which I still am really).


But as /g/ just becomes the buying-graphics-cards sub-board for /pol/, you get a bizarre amount of pushback against even using Linux as an ethical alternative to Windows, let alone using it as a UNIX, because ethics are woke and the terminal is for unemployable tryhards (which tbh old /g/ also said but that was what made you belong on /g/, rather than nu-4chan where you have to (at least pretend to) have a Protestant work ethic to prove yourself to rightoid billionaires and if you don’t then you don’t belong)

>>30440
>Pic
I'm pretty sure that the reason that aesthetic was a big fad was that vector graphics software became widely available and everyone simultaneously learned how to use gradients and masks
<t. used to make "forum signatures" for people when I was 12

>>30461
Show us some of those signatures.

>>30461
I think vector graphics software was already pretty obtainable (legally or not) prior, I think perhaps it’s more that circa 2008 there was a lot of hype around having 1080p Full HD displays and thus vectorised wallpapers were capable of showing off the sharp lines of vector art on such displays, while also being a format that can still produce a smaller bitmap for not so fancy displays.


It’s my thinking as to why the “frutiger aero” aesthetic was so busy, all the frivolous detailing shows off how high res your HD display is, but presumably looked trash on anyone’s old CRTs which while dying in favour of at least 720p flat screens, surely weren’t fully extinct by 2006.