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    [–] Dark_Arc@lemmy.world 156 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] valourvalkyria@lemmy.world 88 points 2 years ago (2 children)
    [–] Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)
    [–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    oh no anarchy chess started leaking again

    [–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] EphemeralSun@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

    Actual defunct process

    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I feel like Y should be the successor to X.

    [–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

    Whyland doesn't sound as good though.

    [–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
    [–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] red@feddit.de 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

    millenial.com is just a whatsapp call away!

    [–] elxeno@lemm.ee 48 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] arkannon@iusearchlinux.fyi 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Ahhh I can see the graphical glitches already

    [–] mrquantumoff@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years 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 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

    [–] FellowHuman@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 63 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

    Ah yea, that’s right. I misremembered.

    [–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

    Talk about callbacks...

    [–] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 2 years ago

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

    [–] Noughmad@programming.dev 22 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

    Like Weyland-Yutani?

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

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

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Bit random, but good to know.

    [–] StudioLE@programming.dev 3 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

    Actual defunct process

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