For quite some time now Linux and FOSS vlogger Nixie Pixel, has been bringing videos about Linux, FOSS, and more to many a thirsty geek. Finally, after a mysterious absence of one year, the vlog darling returns to YouTube.
If you're not familiar with her, she has two channels on YouTube:
NixieDoesLinux, and "OS.ALT. The second of which covers the indie/hacking/geek community, including open source alternatives to operating systems and gaming."
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:16PM (5 children)
With a name like Nixie Does Linux, I expect to see midget porn where the dude wears a tuxedo and a penguin mask.
If it's not porn, I don't care to watch it, because I can get all the Linux and FOSS information I need by reading the fucking manuals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:32PM (4 children)
Real LiGNUx users eschew the manual pages, which are seldom maintained, and consult the Texinfo documentation for a full description.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:45PM (3 children)
Real linux gurus read the source code because real Linux gurus know real Linux gurus never update the documentation.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:26AM (2 children)
Only pantsy-ass n00bs read the source code, real Linux gurus just read the machine code by sending it over a serial cable jacked into their brain.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:34AM (1 child)
> a serial cable jacked into their brain.
Speed of light in serial cable is too slow, analyse the EM interference from the motherboard to save a few picoseconds
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 22 2017, @08:30AM
Of course real Linux gurus don't need any of this because they already have the complete Linux source code in their head. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 21 2017, @11:28PM (16 children)
Yes, but... [staticflickr.com]
Without makeup she looks like Pink [warosu.org] from The Wall.
Still, makeup + attention whoring [nixiepixel.com] == hordes of dick-kneading beta orbiters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:34PM (12 children)
"Pity that you think she needed a paint job to conform to your idea of a woman." — jimtheowl
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 21 2017, @11:44PM (11 children)
You cannot get away with the intellectual laziness of copying and pasting here -- this strumpet is caked in makeup, way too much makeup, in fact. Probably daddy-issues too.
Before the whole "I'm a nerd too, look at my Arduino" thing caught on with women, those types were making their money dancing on poles and blowing wealthy old fat-guys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:50PM (4 children)
You know, that whole "prison goat farm" article got me remembering the time that Eth was sent down to the Turkey Farm, and spent his days trying to milk the turkeys. Good times, good times.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:00AM (3 children)
When I first saw the "Prison Goat Farm" story, I thought it was about a resort for Islamic terrorists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:36AM (2 children)
Predictable. Did you imagine you were a terrorist, or a goat?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @07:19AM (1 child)
Can it be both?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @08:20AM
Eth, your polymorphic tendencies undermine your credibility, and since you had none to begin with, I am going to just state here for all Soylentils that Ethanol_fueled is in fact NOT hot. No sex appeal at all to any gender or orientation, so prison goat sex is really all that is left to him. Thus he does not care which end of it he is on. So sad, as Trump would say, "total loser, and, do you want to be my director of Communications?"
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Friday July 21 2017, @11:59PM
Don't blame them. The US president has made intellectual laziness a positive attribute. In any case, you telling me you take issue with a multi-platform entrepreneur capitalizing on an emergent market of antisocial retards (who usually don't know the value of money or ad time) with no overhead beyond staying healthy?
How dare you. This is America goddamnit.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:04AM (1 child)
You have a weak chin and a bit of a belly. Ergo, your voice doesn't matter and your opinion doesn't count.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @07:20AM
Yep. Ain't live a bitch?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:02AM (1 child)
Real attention whoring is trolling soylentnews and slashdot. It's how failed class clowns try to regain their former glory.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @07:24AM
Yeah, like how that failed class-clown Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States of America.
He's the Howard Dean of the Republican party. And, had the Democaratic party nominated Howard Dean, I would have voted for him. But nobody likes a politician with personality or animation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @06:46PM
You whinged about how she looks without makeup, same as you did in the other topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:58PM (1 child)
Everybody knows real nerds aren't attention whores. Whole lotta fake nerds in the business these days. A whole lotta attention whoring [github.com] nerds.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:05AM
Know how to spot a fake nerd? They use the word "geek" unironically.
I went over this in ad-nauseum rants at Slashdot.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:56AM
Obviously a pregnancy. Not sure if that is a plus or minus for popularity. Being a MILF has become pretty popular, especially with the 'stepping out' crowd.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:05AM (8 children)
I checked out her web page at nixiepixel.com, and I'm rather confused. On her "about" [nixiepixel.com] page, she says she's 26 years old, and in her videos and photos that looks about right, definitely not over 30. But then she talks about growing up gaming on the Atari 2600 and how she used to play King's Quest for hours... Um, I'm a lot older than 26, and while I remember the Atari 2600 when it was current, I'm actually a little too young to have grown up playing it (the 2600 came out in the late 70s). I am old enough to have played King's Quest (the first one), though I played KQ3 if I recall correctly. She should have been born around 1990, which is long after the 2600 was dead and replaced with not only the NES, but the SuperNES, and King's Quest is older than that too. At her age, she would have been growing up with Windows 98 and XP and I'm guessing the first Xbox or PS2. I'm not even sure how well KQ1 would have played on a Win98 or XP machine if you loaded up a copy.
Did she get a bunch of ancient computing hand-me-downs or something? Or is she an immortal who's lying about her age to explain why she doesn't look like she's 45-50?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:10AM (1 child)
Judging by her photos, I imagine she lies about much more than her vintage gaming creds. Amount of dicks taken, incurable STDs infected, abortions, being addicted to coke and Xanax, bulimia, lack of father figure in childhood, taxable income procured from Backpage, preference for Black men and Cholos, game cartridges stolen from pimply male friends, voting for Hillary Clinton,
Fuck, I could go all night, but I got booze to drink, man!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:28AM
> Fuck, I could go all night, but I got booze to drink, man!
... must ... resist ... too ... easy ...
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:27AM
Can we go with both? It makes for an interesting story, at least.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:36AM
My kids are about her age, and THEY grew up gaming on Atari. The Atari game systems didn't just wear out and disappear within two years of manufacture, after all. I can still see the two older boys fighting over which game to plug in, while their baby brother watched from his playpen. Geeez, Louise.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:11AM (1 child)
The original King's Quest I probably would have been reasonably playable on a machine from the mid-late 1990s with a CPU slowdown utility. I've used such a thing often enough to play on modern hardware the old games like Ultima and Bard's Tale which I grew up on. There was also an official remake of KQ1 which Sierra released in 1990 (along with a similar remake of Leisure Suit Larry I as I recall) which would have played better on the hardware of the late nineties/early 2000s, and seems like it might have been perfectly playable on Windows 95/98/XP.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:03AM
At least when I was a kid (80s-late 90s), people held onto their games. Hell I first played Leisure Suit Larry *1* in the mid 90s because somebody I knew had it as one of the few games on their computers.
Boxed/cartridge games from the 80s and 90s got a lot more mileage spent on them compared to modern day games where after a year you are expected to move on to the next game. Rare is that a game consistently sells more than a year or two later, and 5 years seems to be pushing it nowadays. Many of those older games (some of which are now available on GOG or Steam, upping their lifetime and marketability significantly) had *SHELF* lives of 5-15 years. Which is pretty significant when you think about it. Some of these games could be found reissued on CD, or in a box, etc up to 15 years later. As an example I picked up the Ultimate Doom trilogy after the Doom 3 expansion was out, which puts it around 10-13 years after Doom originally came out, and about 4-5 games later as far as id's 'flagship games' went.
Having said that, between handmedowns, and being poor but tech savvy with a Good Will nearby, maybe she picked one up at the local thrift store, before all the bougies started pilfering them for deals on electronics.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:53AM (1 child)
That said, now you've got me curious. Possible, definitely, but a fair bit unlikely.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:49PM
Yeah, I realize Atari 2600s didn't all drop dead as soon as the NES arrived on the market, but I'm just pointing out it seems odd that a girl this young would be playing something that old. Honestly, by 1990, the NES was the most popular console in history, and the 2600 was all but forgotten. It's certainly possible she grew up with some parents who had a 2600 or really loved it or something, and who never got a NES or SuperNES or Sega or whatever, but it does make me curious.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 22 2017, @12:43AM (5 children)
Denigrating Nixie seems to be everyone's goal here.
I've watched a number of her videos. The woman has a good channel. She does explain a lot of things, in a manner that non-techies might pick up on. The fact that she's not hard to look at helps a little bit. FFS, what is wrong with you people? She is a good source of information for people moving from Windows to Ubuntu and Ubuntu clones.
Is this just one of those stupid male chauvinist things? A pretty chick can't be a real nerd? If that's the score, then fuck all of you.
Careful now, before you jump to stupid conclusions. I'm not holding Nixie out as an authoritative source of information. The woman can point you in the right direction if you have questions. And, if you watch her channel, she can give you ideas about things you might want to do. But, she's not the ultimate authority on anything.
Give her some slack though. She does make Linux interesting for the less informed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:19AM
A lot of Nixie tubes are Russian, so be careful.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:49AM (2 children)
Yet I doubt it is. I know it's not mine, I never heard of her before, and have no motivation to denigrate.
"She is a good source of information for people moving from Windows to Ubuntu and Ubuntu clones."
I've been staring at this for a ridiculous period of time and failed completely to find any sensible way to parse it. For comparison "She's a good source of information for people moving from one filthy disease-ridden garbage heap to the next."
:/
"Is this just one of those stupid male chauvinist things? A pretty chick can't be a real nerd? If that's the score, then fuck all of you."
I very much doubt that is true of any significant number of readers. The problem is, what you've described isn't a pretty chick that's a nerd. Let's take the chick out of it completely, in fact, and just pretend she's a guy. I assumed that from the blurb, actually, and haven't seen any reason to doubt it. That wouldn't make him any more of a "real nerd." A guy that runs Ubuntu isn't a "real nerd" either, assuming you're using nerd as a positive term as I gather from context. Running Ubuntu in 2017 is about as nerdy as running Windows XP was 15 years ago.
In other words, not at all.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:19PM
Actually, I don't think she runs Ubuntu as her primary OS. Not sure, but I don't think so. She does run several different Linux distros, and she gets into both GUI and CLI stuff. I threw Ubuntu in there, because, as I say, she's not a real authority on anything. She "fits" best, IMO, in that interface between the Windows world, and the Linux world. Windows users who are trying to upgrade to Linux are most likely to get a lot of good out of her videos. But, some of the rest of us might actually find some useful information on her channel. If you're looking for information on setting up a server, or setting up a data crunching machine, you won't want to bother with her channel.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:53PM
Honestly, I think a lot of her popularity comes from being a female (and an attractive one at that). So she's probably got nerdy guys lusting after her, but also (and far more importantly) she could very well have other young girls/women watching her videos, which is a good thing. There is a distinct lack of women in tech (both professions and hobbies), and having someone like this as a virtual "mentor" can be helpful to young girls who might have some interests in this direction. They're a lot more likely to pursue those interests if they see another woman encouraging her, rather than a bunch of guys.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Monday July 24 2017, @06:19PM
What you're witnessing here is two things
1) Frustrated virgins who call people normies and hate women. (Yes I can't deny that it happens)
2) People who are frustrated by women who enter neckbeard communities. Sleep and flirt with all the leadership and seem to get unwarranted power and visibility in said communities very easily. This wouldn't even be so bad but often times personality and maturity issues that would rightfully prevent men from doing the same are ignored in said women. This frustration seemed to boil over after gamergate.
I have known about nixie pixel back since she was on hak5 at least a decade ago and didn't mind her I don't know if any of this hate is deserved or not. As near as I can tell people are mostly upset that she stopped producing content but still managed to collect 50k in donations last year.
I can tell you that when Adafruit, Bird Sister, or SexyCyborg are the topic of internet discussion things rarely devolve into circlejerks to denigrate their character. Even though in the case of SexyCyborg she openly admits to using her tits to garner some technically unwarranted attention to her projects. It seems that the community is still ok with her because she would still be considered legitimately talented if she was a fat neckbeard and she doesn't cause drama.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 22 2017, @09:50AM (1 child)
So when will we get the NixieDoesBSD channel? :P
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:07AM
That's not kinky, it's masochistic, so the audience will be somewhat smaller.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @01:47AM
She's talking about Linux. Aren't we all fans of open-source here? Don't we want more people using Linux? She seems to be there to help beginners get their feet wet. I think we need more people like her, and fewer assholes saying that anyone who hasn't been doing this for twenty years isn't welcome.
Also, why the hell do her looks need to be mentioned at all? Isn't our community supposed to favor merit? Encouraging and helping people get away from proprietary garbage is an unquestionably good thing.