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I prefer Wayland (.social) though (media.kbin.social)
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Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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[-] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

Twitter is doing what? Why? ???

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 year ago

Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It totally worked for Xfinity

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[-] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

This I understand, but why in the name of the gods both old and new to X?? Why just one letter? ~Does his brain not work?~

Nvm figured it out

[-] GatoB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Its rage bait and everyone is still promoting it

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Musk really likes the letter X, and his previous x.com venture from 1999 went belly up

So, he’s rebranding his new toy to his favorite letter

[-] Gooboob@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I thought x.com became paypal

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition

[-] zephr_c@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

PayPal didn't have enough cash to expand as quickly as they wanted to though, so they merged with x.com to get ahold of that blood emerald money.

[-] spamspeicher@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

Not why. X.

[-] starman@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.

[-] blake@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.

[-] khelmr@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?

[-] Xeelee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

musk likes X better

[-] yiliu@informis.land 28 points 1 year ago

As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?

I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

it give good memories, it wasn't perfect but was there for us, nostalgic

[-] yiliu@informis.land 8 points 1 year ago

I have a lot of memories of debugging xf86config, browsing forums & docs in lynx in another term, frantically trying to get a GUI so I could finish an assignment or whatever...

I guess those are good memories?

[-] oo1@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

yeah
that black and white dotty screen where the mouse is a black X.
. . . after the 25th edit.
what a time to be alive.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Looking up modeline's for your monitor...

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[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.

[-] d_k_bo@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

The bottom one is just U+1D54F.

https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F

[-] croobat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Bro really trying to trademark a character.

[-] zombuey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

whats wild is its already trademarked by Microsoft for numerous use cases and by Meta for this specific use case. I just don't know how you don't check on that.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

How could microsoft trademark a letter?

[-] zombuey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

apparently easily.

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.

Don't believe me? I can just type 𝕏 out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I kinda wonder what makes it "mathematical"

[-] xor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

In set theory, this style, blackboard bold is used to represent "special sets", for example the set of all integers

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Now I remember exactly what you mean

[-] Spike@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

The fancy line that barely distinguishes it from any other X, capital or not or maybe with a wiggly line, so you get extra confused in your proof on line 13 or something.

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[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.

[-] Shit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?

[-] gaw@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 year ago

Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬

[-] SneakyThunder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

X.org propaganda!

[-] Fer24@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X

[-] HikuNoir@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Will X be using TWM from now on?

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Neither of them sparks joy

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

both don't spark joy.
x11 is a mess.

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