Does this mean I won't be able to use the letter 'x' anymore because a multi-billion dollar company has trademarked it:
- Two people fighting will now be boing.
- When I want to bake some bread I will mi the ingredients together.
- When I want to leave a building I will eit it.
- I will now look up to the stars at night to see the magnificent epance of the Milkyway galay.
63 0 ReplyYou’ll have to replace them all with q’s:
- boqing
- miq
- eqit
- galaqy
21 0 ReplyAh dammit we just reinvented Esperanto.
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just use "ks" instead, e.g.
- boksing
- miksing
- eksit
- galaksy
18 0 Replyelon musk and mark zuckerberg will be boksqing in a cage match neksqt month perhaps
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Multiplication relegated to the scrapbooks of history. Pour one out for mathmatics.
9 0 ReplyRoman numerals are out, I guess.
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Xiaomi be like, you will what your ingredients together?
6 0 ReplyIt's now iaomi
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Oh boxing! Omg I'm an idiot lol
4 0 ReplySee how confusing it's going to be. Thanks, Elon Musk, thanks for nothing you jerk!
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I think boing is a pretty fun name for boxing actually!
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Apparently the X used by Twi-- er, X Corp, is from a font that X may not actually have the actual license to use.
57 0 ReplyElon doesn't pay his hosting bills or rent, you think he's gonna care about something as inane as a license fee?
27 0 ReplyOf course not, but it's worth pointing out :p
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Of course not. Licenses are for the poors. The creator of the font will benefit from the exposure of being the logo.
/s
16 0 Reply"B-b-but I got it from dafont!"
-Elon musk, probably
10 0 ReplyNo, it's just a unicode charachter. 𝕏
4 0 ReplyFunnily enough my friends were talking about this as well. Didn't know until afterwards.
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Only geeks will understand
36 0 ReplyPlease enlighten me
5 0 ReplyX is the name of a windowing system used in a lot of Unix-like operating systems
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It's like when MS stole the XInput name for themselves, too.
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Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
29 0 ReplyDoes it almost feel like you've been here before?
5 0 ReplyAaayy ayyoo ayyoo aaayy ayyoo ayyo
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i get it, its the X over the dead eyeballs of twitter as it is now deceased.
23 0 ReplyFuck X.org all my homies use Wayland
18 0 ReplyWhat's the top image, is it some Microsoft x-windowing system?
18 0 ReplyIt's Space Karen's new name, and logo, for Twitter.
40 0 ReplyUnbelievable… I bet he’s trying to make a conglomeration like Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Space Karen is a good way to put it.
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Twitter, unfortunately.
(If that was sarcasm and I whooshed, my bad)
7 0 ReplyNope, totally out of the loop on this one... Is he renaming Twitter?
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The fact that this gets almost 500 upvotes makes me doubt the Reddit exodus, as this would mean most of us around here are Unix/Linux users.
13 0 ReplyIf it makes you feel any better, I thought it was porn.
9 0 ReplyI’ve got a feeling a lot of Reddit is Unix/Linux users
5 0 ReplyI highly, highly doubt that, unless you're including Android
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Wayland ftw
13 0 ReplyI've been using Wayland before it was cool
10 0 ReplyThis is honestly the first thing I thought of when I saw X
4 0 Replyyup exactly, i was joking about that on the Linux Mint discord earlier
4 0 ReplyI guess his kid has to be called KS ÆA-12 now, for legal reasons
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