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    [–] [email protected] 109 points 9 months ago (25 children)

    What the fuck is this meme, honestly? What's with all the femboy stuff? There's so many ordinary people using Linux. I don't get it. And there seems to be something against Arch Linux users in particular? I use Arch and have a wife and two kids. Am I not normal? Should I become a femboy, fellas?

    [–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    First came programmer socks, then Rust was invented, and now (fe)men are taking matters into their own hands, correcting the gender gap in IT themselves. What's not to understand here?

    Seriously tho, I don't think it's against anyone. It's just a meme, probably originating from a high share of queer people in the IT domain and the rising popularity of anime and manga culture, where femboys are sometimes idealised.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    It's just a generational difference.

    The Gen Xers get really confused because to them a stereotypical "computer nerd" is (was) a greasy 35 year old in his mom's basement which is covered in RMS posters who would unironically 741k l1k3 7h15.

    South Park WoW guy

    To us zoomers a stereotypical "computer nerd" is a proudly neuroatypical GNC queer with a body pillow of their waifu.

    Programming socks

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    [–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Who said femboys cannot have wives?

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, you're supposed to become a femboy.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

    so tired of this shit as well

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Agreed Lemmy is rife with this shit. So much femboi fucking manga anime or whatever they call it. Cool you do you but fuck off with involving everyone else in your kink. I'm just an old fat married dude with kids trying to learn stuff.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    As long as we're careful here. People can be however they want to be. If you're saying people shouldn't be making memes that assume all people are like them, yes. If you're saying living how they want is "involving everyone else in your kink" we're getting into iffy territory.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Very weird. Started with Slackware back in 97 or so. Still not a femboy and no desire to be one.

    Maybe if I switched to arch?

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    [–] [email protected] 74 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Maybe for you youngsters. We old farts only get to grow a beard and get fat.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I feel like a lot of young linux users aren't getting the talk and it makes me sad. Nobody ever sat them down with a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and explained the life cycle of an IT professional.

    They never learn the natural cycle of things: that at a certain age a lot of IT professionals undergo metamorphosis and transform into beautiful, sock-and-sandal wearing greybeards.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

    That's due to oppression by the State and society that doesn't want to allow our respected graybeards to become the femboy they deserve to be. We nust destroy this oppressive system for the freedom of the greybeards, the gamers, the Gentoo users and all other oppressed peoples ✊🏻

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    [–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    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.

    Edit: And anyone who disagrees uses stock Ubuntu unity and unironically thinks it's both beautiful and just as good as any other distro :P

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Friendly reminder about the name of this community. None of this should be taken as anything but a joke.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

    Maybe it's just copium cause his unix socks aren't as soft as the ones of the Arch femboy next door. (/s)

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    [–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    To me it was Furry -> Punk -> Tech Geek -> Privacy Geek -> installing linux

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    For me it went

    C64 Crack Intros -> Synth -> Rave -> Ambient -> Linux -> Drugs and alcohol

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    For me it went, MacOS → Hard Drugs → Windows → Harder Drugs → Linux → Weed

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    [–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I just hated that Windows had become a privacy cesspit and I wasn’t afraid of breaking things in Linux. Also, I accept that sometimes you just have to format and reinstall your sins of stupidity away.

    • middle aged cishetguy

    PS - You Lemmy bastards did get me into Star Trek though. Maybe it has begun…

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Don't visit any sex shops.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

    Command line stupidity, not Bad Dragon stupidity.

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I have to disagree, I did not turn into a femboy

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (7 children)
    [–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No no, I went straight to being a girl

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    By my rough estimation of all Arch users 50% are trans, 50% are femboys and 50% are furries.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Ok now this, this is epic. Install NixOS and become a catgirl

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    [–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    It really isn't though. This is a pretty weak stereotype. I have so many friends that are counter examples. Hey it's okay to make a meme if you want to have fun but if that's how you feel then your friend group is small.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

    Memes aren't about truth; memes are about social preconceptions.

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds like someone is in denial.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

    I think it was just a half-hearted Darth Vader "NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooououououououououuouuouuuuuaaaaraaaaaarrrhhgghh"

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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago
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    It really don't do be like that.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    But I like dem titties. How I get dem titties if I'm a femboy.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Follow the pipeline a bit more and become a trans girl.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Also you can be a femboy and be straight.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Because the closest a Linux user could ever come to touching a female or anything feminine is becoming a femboy.

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

    Sometimes I wish. In the end it's neckbeard all the way up.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Wow I can't tell you about the history of Unix without talking about brave queer people.

    So haha but not really.

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