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It's heating up over on Tumblr (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/linuxhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Norgur@fedia.io 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Okay… uhm… consider me out of the loop here: What is a “gimmick account” and how is the first reply related to that?

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You have to install them from the AUR using :

yay -S tumblr-gimmick-git

[–] suodrazah@aussie.zone 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't do that. You can install them from the Ubuntu repos.

Sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick

[–] dabu@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry no, I don't think OP asked to have a Snap installed without her consent

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

> sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick
> look inside
> it's a snap
> look closer
> it's malware

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

I think the joke would work better if you notice something new after looking closer?

[–] Rainb0wSkeppy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

sh: Sudo: command not found

[–] IndieGamer4449@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 11 months ago

A gimmick account is an account that has one (or more) gimmick or bit that the account does and only does. So in this case there were two (unofficial) distro accounts giving support terminal commands to install something from their appropriate repos

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You know, it seems very unlikely that a Linux distribution would have their official support account on Tumblr of all places.

I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to think that these are actually gimmick accounts that are impersonating official accounts for an Internet comedy bit.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think you are onto something, Margot Robbie.

Love your acting, btw

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Thank you.

Also, that's esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Luckily that command from Ubuntu would not even work. 'Sudo' instead of 'sudo'