vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist

zip's bf

no supervisor but ludd means the threads any good


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bluesky
if bluesky has a million haters I am one of them, if bluesky has one hater that's me, if bluesky has no haters then I am no more on the earth (more details: https://cohost.org/vogon/post/1845751-bonus-pure-speculati)
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seattle, WA

guess what it does. go ahead, just guess. it's a console that pulls down from the top of the screen.
why the hell is it named that it's yet another kuake. kuake is a Quake-style console for KDE.
what's KDE the K Desktop Environment, one of the two main competing graphical desktops for Linux. the K mostly has to be in the name so you know whether it'll be integrated with one half of your GUI applications or the other half.
okay what does the K stand for Kool. a German college student named it that 26 years ago and then realized how unkool it was so now it officially doesn't stand for anything.

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in reply to @vogon's post:

lmaooo yup, been using yakuake for years since it came bundled with a distro I drove half a decade ago. I was confused by its name and looked it up and fell into this rabbithole and a half of weird app names

also to note: it doesn't stand for "K Desktop environment" anymore! around 2015, when they spun out KDE Frameworks, KDE Apps and KDE Plasma into separate releases, they dropped the idea that letters mean things.