Thanks for your understanding! The meme definitely went over my head.

I was indeed reacting to the “cis dude by default” thing which as a gender nonconforming guy has pissed me off for decades about computing spaces. “Riced” Linux desktops with basically cartoon tits for wallpaper, still all over Reddit any week. (I left Reddit, thankfully.)

I’ve been nerding out on Linux over 25 years and I have no idea about the socks thing, at least not enough to get the meme. I’m a longtime electronic music production nerd too so I got into raves and running sound systems in fields - I’m more “army boots and piercings” than “socks and sandals”. There are many flavours of geek!