It's heating up over on Tumblr

3 years ago by Hellfire103 to c/linuxhumor

Norgur 27 points 3 years ago

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

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Undearius 39 points 3 years ago

You have to install them from the AUR using :

yay -S tumblr-gimmick-git

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suodrazah 34 points 3 years ago

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

Sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick

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dabu 26 points 3 years ago

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

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rtxn 22 points 3 years ago

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

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Rainb0wSkeppy 3 points 2 years ago

sh: Sudo: command not found

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somerandomperson 1 point a year ago

case sensivity moment

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IndieGamer4449 24 points 3 years 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

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MargotRobbie 20 points 3 years 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.

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umbrella 13 points 3 years ago

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MargotRobbie 12 points 3 years ago

Thank you.

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

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ShortN0te 18 points 3 years ago

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