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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] jawa21@startrek.website 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

GNOME has forever ruined how I want to pronounce "gnome."

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What?! They are said differently?

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Guh-nome for the software. It's a play on how GNU is guh-noo, which is a play on the pronunciation of the animal called gnu to differentiate it. This is what happens when you let software developers name things. I would know, being a software developer.

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I never even noticed, because it's g-nome and g-noo in german xD Also took me a while to notice the K in Mortal Kombat

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

N- noo not like that!!!