I needed another corded mouse and this time around I thought of @PKL@mastodon.social and @pronk@mastodon.social instead of Logitech's shareholders. These guys make open source mice among other open source hardware under the brand Ploopy. You can order one from them, assembled or as a kit, or you could print and build it entirely by yourself.
The mouse itself is pretty great. Coming from a long line of Logitech (MX518/G5/G500/G502), it's a bit larger than what I'm used to but I think I'm getting accustomed to it.
Here's another shot of it:
I've got to say "Ploopy" is one of the absolute worst names I've ever seen. Before I even saw the picture, I thought "I bet it looks like shit."
Opensource projects often have terrible names.
Gimp, libreoffice, lemmy, Apache... just the ones that come to mind.
Gimp is a funny acronym that explains exactly what the software does. Libreoffice also tells you exactly what the product is. Lemmy is quick, catchy, easy to remember, and has a story behind it. Apache is... pretty bad.
Ploopy is literally "poopy" with an extra letter.
Gimp refers to sexual exploitation. Often the "exploited" is a willing participant but often not. Regardless it's "funny" the way a 12 year old finds drawing dicks on things funny.
Libreoffice only tells geeks exactly what the product is. My team, who uses Libreoffice, couldn't explain what Libre means, and no one can pronounce it.
Being quick and catchy is a pretty low bar. No one knows or cares about the story behind Lemmy. It sounds silly in conversation.
Like CBT and dozens of other terms, those damn psychologists and their Cock and Ball Torture.
Not sure if this is serious or not ?
If they're illiterate perhaps wider reading beyond Manga would help?
No, it doesn't.
The target market is primarily geeks.
Sounds like your coworkers should expand their horizons. Libre is a common word in (at least) 2 widely spoken languages.
Not when you're naming a product. You think its hard to get people to use Lemmy, imagine trying to sell them on "Federated Link Aggregater Website."
As does Google, Instagram, and Tiktok but they at least managed to pick silly sounding names that don't sound like a child trying to describe a loose bowel movement.
the fuck is wrong with LibreOffice?
Yeah, as opposed to weird shit like Apple, Google, Facebook, or earphones like the Sony Model EA-JX1000JT
I'm sorry but that's such a ploopy take. You can't just judge something by it's name 🙄
It's like an alien name out of Rick and Morty. 😂
you mean you dont like my plumbus? what about glorp?
“I like resting my hand on my Ploopy”
It almost sounds like a vintage game sound, like “bleep bloop”, but worse, fecally worse.
it gives me a general "its probably entirely shit". that's really a bad name.
After reading up it sounds like a decent product but they should definitely consider rebranding.