• Norgur@fedia.io
    25·
    8 months ago

    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.caEnglish
      422·
      8 months ago

      You have to install them from the AUR using :

      yay -S tumblr-gimmick-git

      • suodrazah@aussie.zone
        351·
        8 months ago

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

        Sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick
        • ThyTTY@lemmy.world
          271·
          8 months ago

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

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            191·
            8 months ago
            > sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick
> look inside
> it's a snap
> look closer
> it's malware
            • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
              82·
              8 months ago

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

    • IndieGamer4449@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      23·
      8 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

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    20·
    8 months ago

    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.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
    16·
    8 months ago

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