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pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgM to unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 17 hours ago

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  • jdr@lemmy.ml
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    Is the a config option to re-enable the dog?

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    It’s also been widely regarded as a bad move.

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    Actual GIMP splash screen from 2010:

    Tap for image

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      What is going on with the dorsal spine thing? looks like a third arm or a really obscure sex toy configuration

      oh, someone answered farther down

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    My childhood cat was named Gimpy. My sister named him.

    When my dad found him, Gimpy was running around on his elbows. He was running so well, my dad had a tough time catching him.

    The reason he was running on his elbows was because both his front legs were broken.

    The smart thing to do would have been to just let him die in the field. However, my dad foolishly took him home and showed him to me.

    We couldn’t get him to eat anything. We tried giving him cat food, but he wouldn’t eat it. Then we soaked the cat food in milk until it was wet mush, but he still wouldn’t eat it. Then I picked him up and put small drops of mushy wet cat food on my arm and he would lick it off my arm while I held him.

    I think I was 10 or 11. Of course I fell in love with this kitten. This led to my parents searching for a vet who would save him. They eventually found one and paid an amount to fix him that would be thousands in today’s money.

    Keep in mind how extraordinary this was. He was a barn cat. The vet who saved him tried to get me to give up. He told me he’d find me a different kitten, but I said I didn’t want a different kitten.

    Every other kitten born on that farm died. Gimpy lived about 20 years.

    His legs were never quite right. One healed strange and bent out at an angle. The other didn’t heal and had to be whittled down to a stump. He never stopped trying to use the stump to walk.

    He was an absolutely fantastic cat.

    All that to say that the word, “gimpy”, will forever mean something different and special to me.

    “Gimp” just makes me think of Pulp Fiction.

    • Vivian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      wow, what an amazing story

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  • scholar@lemmy.world
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    But wasn’t nearly as contentious as naming their software ‘Gimp’.

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      GIMP not Gimp, there is a difference;
      It’s GNU Image Manipulation Program not a GNU disable program

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      Pronounced guh-imp

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        apparently it’s actually “jimp”

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      I never ever heard any complaints about that! Not even once!

    • eleijeep@piefed.social
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      Excuse me but it’s “The GIMP.” Always has been, always will be.

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        So not like Ukraine, got it.

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      GEGL DEEZ NUTZ

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    disabled how?

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
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        Ah, crippled by med school debt. A tragedy.

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    Thanks to this post, I learned about gimpchat. Thanks to gimpchat, I learned all about what Wilber is:

    https://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10265

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      Death of the author. GIMP is a crippled dog.

      • doleo@lemmy.ml
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        Yes. I see, yes. In a sense, aren’t we all?

        • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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          poetic, I like it. I will quote you on this

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    Why were people angry about that exactly?

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      People like being angry

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      They hated cripples, I guess?

    • sqw@lemmy.sdf.org
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      its an offensive term for a disabled person. i dunno if the authors were aware.

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        Aaah yeah, I can understand that then. I wasn’t aware, sorry.

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      Should’ve been the guy from Pulp Fiction as the mascot

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        I think that’s the closer meaning anyhow. At least there is one splash screen, somewhat NSFW here (scroll down to GIMP 2.7.2 and 2.7.3 by Alexia Death.). Note that the extra arm on the goat lady isn’t an error, it’s a reference to GEGL (Generic Graphics Library / Genetically Engineered Goat, Large)

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          extra arm isn’t an error? That’s what mata AI want you to think

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    A crippled dog is a very good mascot for that… software.

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      At least it’s still alive, unlike Irfanview’s, which is…

      cw

      A cat roadkill

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      I thought so too!

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    How much is a “bunch”?

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      97% of the fediverse, I guess.

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        Honestly had never heard anyone complain about it until joining the fediverse.

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          Same!

        • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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          Same!

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    Is this a Swords crossover?

    • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgOPM
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      GZA - Liquid Swords?

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        Swords! (I’ve said it too much in my head it sounds weird now)

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          it doesn’t look like a sword :(

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        Things ain’t coming fast enough…

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          lel!

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