ThinkPad

I've reached the acceptance stage of possibly being a pariah in the community for not wanting to wear the socks.

I'm also a cis-gendered heterosexual married male, so I guess that tracks.

Wtf does trans have to do with anything?

It is (at this point) an old meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks

It is similar to this meme too.
What does Arch have to do with anything?
- What do computers have to do with it anyway?
I’ve wondered that myself, but I’ve come to the conclusion that transgender individuals seem to value their privacy more than the average person. This is all due to increased cyber bullying to them online. Linux is well known for being free from data collection (except Ubuntu) and corporate greed, so it would make sense if this was an operating system of choice.
IT trans-woman stereotype

My company just went under and let us keep our laptops, day after they wiped it I got Ubuntu on it. So I'm a little bit of column A, little bit of column B!

Dont have the socks yet huh?
- Programming socks.

That might be the same person, just at work vs at home.

It must feel so good to get home, take of your slacks, and let your programming socks out after a long day in the computer mines.
Or years apart after a life changing realization
- The Linux to Transfem pipeline is real!
- Or it's their child
Wake up, Neo

I have more in common with the guy on the left but I love and support the people on the right

They support you too... And the whole internet infrastructure!
I read people on the tight 🤭
- All about that bussy

I've worked with a bunch of hardcore Linux users in my career, some of whom even knew about Lemmy. Not one of them have ever worn striped socks though.

A lot of transfems boymode in a professional setting :c

(Myself included)
The number of trans people is very small. Only a small percentage of people who work in tech are trans. But a relatively huge percentage of trans people work in tech.
- Nor is every thigh high sock user trans.
- I don't work in tech but literally just put stickers and opensuse on a refurbished Thinkpad I bought a few days ago 🫡
I guess the important thing is Arch 🤭🫠
- Gentoo was mentioned more actually.
visibly

"plural inside"

Multi-CPU systems be like.

Ugh. I hope the current owner has new keycaps for all the sock colors because matching socks + keyboard is cool, but well… when you change your socks that goes out the window

Look, I have a suggestion that will change your life. You can never live another way again.

Go buy 10-20 pairs of socks, all same. When you get a hole in one sock, you only throw away the one sock. You never have to worry about mixing and matching. If you've got two socks, they count as a pair.

I'm not even matching my keycaps to socks, nor wearing anything special, I just found a specific pair of socks I liked and I've bought heaps over the years.
Judging by that picture, I think they’re all in on that color scheme and likely just bought multiple pairs of the same socks.
- That’s baller
Redundant socks is essential for this setup.

uwu

Now I just gotta replace my battery so it can be a laptop again!

The replacement battery you bought in 2017 was the last of the genuine stock for that 2012 Thinkpad model. Now it's only poor quality aftermarket. Maybe just stick with the existing genuine battery -- its 47 second runtime should be enough time for AC loss to trigger a custom script to make it hibernate.
- You can get lucky, some of the aftermarket stuff works