If it works, it works.
If it works, it works.
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Who are these people?
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The dude is an ex officer and a former world record holder, a 4 time world champion in shooting, has been top 3 in 27 european and world championship competitions, and has been competing for over 2 decades now. He won silver at the last Olympics
The woman recently won Gold at the Olympics.
The joke in the original meme is that she needed all that equipment and perfect form to beat a guy who literally walked on with a pack of ciggies and a tshirt and shot with both eyes open. It is very likely he is a much better shot than her in any real world scenario given he is also former special military. He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.
Much like the guy, Torvalds invented Linux and Git may be one of the most influential minds in software in our lifetimes and he doesn’t have a desk full of blinking lights and $15000 desk setups. He doesn’t need a bunch of try hard poser shit to be great.
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Olympic medalists from this past olympics. They both performed very well for different reasons, and were very popular because of their styles.
Most people are using the same tech as Yeji, but her form, grace, and relaxation made her stand out. And I'm absolutely furious for the other trash poster putting her down like that. She did all that while mothering a four year old ffs.
And she beat Linus's ass, too.
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Mossad hitmen after the Munich Olympics.
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I keep getting caught off-guard seeing current photos of Torvalds. He's just like...a guy.
And honestly I'd rather my mission-critical software be written by "just a guy" than by whoever Mr. Battlestation is down there on the bottom.
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Still has a keyboard that's way too big though. See him having to use the very corner of the mouse mat in order to use it comfortably.
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Old one was space efficient af though
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Wait wtf, is this paint on the right computer screen?
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paint.NET most likely. Unironically it is a really great image editor and has some cool tools for pixel art.
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"It really doesn't look like much. And I have to say, the most interesting part in this picture, that people mostly react to, is the walking desk. It is the most interesting part in my office, and I'm not actually using it anymore."
— Linus Torvalds, The mind behind Linux
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Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
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He'd displaying his lack of personality.
I've gathered some like that. Or I've misunderstood and people are easily led morons. One or the other.
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Why is he posing like he doesn't run Windows 11?
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I had a friend ask for recommendations for prebuilts. I found one that was under budget and over spec for their needs and sent them the info. They ended up going with an overbudget one with arguably worse specs (they didn't really need the specs I was suggesting but bang for buck it made sense and was still under budget) because it had all the lights that the seller could shove in it. No real judgement if that's your style and you have the money, but it just upset me to have spent time doing research for them only to have them ignore all of that because they failed to mention that lights were important.
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The bloody lights everyone is obsessed with nowadays caused me numerous nights of shit sleep. Some devices designed by companies who clearly think too much of themselves decided that they would keep their LEDs on despite the computer shutting down.
If anyone else is experiencing this issue, look for ErP in your BIOS/EFI and then turn it on/enable it.
Caveat: you won't be able to charge your USB devices using your PC USB ports while the PC is shutdown if you change this setting.
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If its an Asus there is actually a setting to deal specifically with the lighting. One in the UEFI turns it off completely. Otherworldly you can install their software and tell it to turn off when the PC is off or in sleep mode.
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I swapped the motherboard on my old desktop /now server, and now it does this. Fan lights stay on when it's shut down. It's a server so it's never off except when something went wrong but it's annoying to think it's on when it's not.
Next time I need to shut it off I'll check for this setting, thanks for the tip!
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Uhm, nothing worse than when people ask your opinion on things that you literally need to know to perform your job and then just ignore it completely.
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Obviously the pretty lights are important, it's for playing the games with pretty lights.
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Sounds like all shopping experiences with the wife and daughters. They purposefully choose the other one when asking for my opinion.
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My case is black, with black accents, with no window, with soundproofing inside, it's hidden behind my screen
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Not shown: a cubic meter of obscure developer boards and gadgets that hardware manufacturers randomly send to Torvalds to integrate into Linux.
Also his RAM is ECC.
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On account of the cosmic space beams.
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Bottom needs a gamer chair to prove that he's a gamer. A gamer games 45% better with a gamer chair. That's why they're shaped 45% differently. Without a gamer chair, a gamer does not truly game. But it's very important that they see it.
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Don't forget the Dew Drip® feedtube for max gameage.
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I feel attacked. For real though I actually do own a Secret Lab Titan and it is the most comfortable computer chair I've used. I bought one for home when our whole office was working remotely during COVID and liked it so much I bought a second one for the office, before I knew our company would purchase chairs like that. 🙃 I had assumed it was too expensive since until that point we just had shitty Staples chairs.
Ergonomics are pretty subjective though. I know people who use those big balls as a "chair" and people who swore by the kneeling chairs. Tried both and hated them.
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With that lighting he's definitely streaming, so there is one party involved that's even more interested in people seeing his chair. I wonder if the companies making these abominations even gift them to streamers.
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Do you even chair bro
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Don't forget to chairish it
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do you have a walking desk? yes WELL YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT
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Imagine have a nice custom setup and using the default Windows desktop. Weird flex...
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I can't imagine spending thousands of dollars on a setup and then running windows on it like it's in a some office cubicle somewhere.
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The effort to change from windows is greater than the continued use of windows when i already have solutions to the trash windows puts out.
I couldn't even be fucked unraiding the drives my laptop came with, even though I don't want them in raid it's just.. eh, it probably won't be an issue before the laptop gets replaced in 5 years
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But mah system is up-to-date to run Windows the Eleventh!
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I suspect the actual PC used is at least fairly powerful though. Like someone else said it's likely using ECC as its mission critial, so chances are it also has other expensive server parts inside. Not all powerful computers actually look like anything fancy at all. This post reminds me of things like the watercooling subreddit and the amount of effort and money they put into things like aesthetics, that don't actually improve performance at all. Even though the original point of watercooling was performance.
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The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he's using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here's one.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/
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When i was still into building computers, i really liked elaborate watercooled builds. But the whole maintenance and the little gain wasn't even worth it for me. I don't wanna know how much an average watercooled pc is suffering
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What kind of maintenance were you doing? Building the things is turning out to be a pain for me, but actual maintenance shouldn't be much more than for a regular PC. You still have to dust a regular PC after all. You do occasionally have to change fluid, but shouldn't need doing more than every 4 years or so if you use something like DP Ultra or car coolant.
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Linus' biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn't have fans blaring to increase performance.
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That's actually pretty much the opposite of how that works. More fans generally mean lower noise as they don't need to run as hard to deliver the same volume of air. Same with larger fans. There is eventually a point where adding more fans hurts rather than helps, but it's probably more fans than you would think. All of this is especially true for watercooling and radiator fans, the more radiator area and associated fans you have the better. My desktop with 3 radiators and 8 radiator fans is quieter than my server with one radiator, 3 radiator fans and 2 case fans, and that's despite the desktop having a higher total heat load.
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Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.
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The guy in the lower pic looks like such a chud.
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He's exactly the sort of twat that as soon as he shows up in any IT workplace everyone cringes because that MBA motherfucker is gonna be the stupidest, most unprofessional, unskilled thing on the floor and he's gonna make it everyone elses problem
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And when he loses his job to a more skilled person, even if who is also a white cishet guy, will cry about DEI, and will start a career in the same echochamber as Brian Lunduke.
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Bruhhh but my NFT's will be mooning soon!
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Ew Windows 11
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Indeed
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Torvalds could assemble a system by collecting old outdated electronic junk from a trash heap and make it work
Tech Bro needs to convince million dollar investors (or his wealthy parents) to finance his latest setup in order to install the latest Windows or Mac OS ... without money to buy new shiny things and proprietary software, he's totally lost
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He built this, in a cave, with a walking desk!
B but sir. Im not Linus.
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The tech bro is elxokas, a youtuber from Spain
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Is he as depicted?
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Worse. He's a nazi scumbag that poses as a neurodivergent victim in need of therapy and tolerance whenever his hate speech backfires. He's also been caught redhanded using fake accounts to hound and harass people he dislikes. He's not related to tech in any way and isn't an expert in any field. Just your average toxic streamer making as much noise as he can.
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a random consumer*
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Christ on a stick! As someone who builds computers for fun all I see is fan control modules and cables. So many cables. Cables as far as the eye can see!
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Could be daisy chained fans, I admit I don't know how many you can chain together though.
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Still gotta be a mess in there.
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Its the treadmill.
The treadmill gives you infinite power.
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It’s a bit like alt med quacks wearing a white lab coat and carrying a stethoscope while they prescribe magical water or wave coloured crystals at you.
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But standing desks are awesome, I too would pick the top over the bottom setup
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Never tried them, but I feel like I'd get tired after a couple minutes
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The idea (at least from what I'm getting) is to be able to switch posture throughout the day, not necessarily to stand up the whole day. I've tried one for a couple of days and it seems nice, I just haven't gotten around buying one for home yet.
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I remember trying to use one edition of MSDN (MicroSloth Developer Network if I recall correctly) on my laptop a few years ago. Whoever had developed the UI for it had been using a giant monitor because on a small laptop screen the article contents in the right-hand detail panel didn't word-wrap correctly, so reading the article required constant scrolling left-and-right with the horizontal scroll bar (which sometimes didn't even show up). For six months I just got in the habit of copying-and-pasting the contents into a simple text editor so that I could actually read the shit normally.
I've long advocated making developers use the shittiest equipment and no extra monitors, just to ensure that what we build actually works on most machines. I'm not a monster: the money saved could be used to give developers ACTUAL FUCKING OFFICES.
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There are browser tools to emulate different devices.
It's two button clicks to test layouts. Just laziness or lack of ability.
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That's why you should always test on a variety of screen sizes including mobile. That however doesn't mean you should make your devs work on terrible machines. Then you end up in situations where it dosen't scale correctly. It's also terrible for developer productivity, many of whom don't even work on the front end. I don't think the cost of PCs is anywhere near that of offices, and I suspect the reason for not having offices isn't monetary anyway.
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Random tech bro cabinet is Corsair Obsidian 1000D:
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Cant even look at these cases anymore. Its the <20L ITX life for me.
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TIL I have the same treadmill desk as Linus.
Edit: and he also appears to ignore the safety clip.
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Don't forget Subsurface.
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And the guys who invented UNIX did so by using toggle switches and teletypes...
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El puto Xokas xDDDD
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Yea because to make Linux and GIT you have to have starkly different world view.
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Are the desk legs actually angled in the bottom picture or is it a weird perspective thing? If it's on purpose, why?
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Im pretty sure he also has a 3d printer
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Linus or techbro because as a printer owning technician i will throw down...
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Most probably both
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Linus, im pretty sure one video with him shows a 3d printer.
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There was some old interview with Linus. He said that the first thing people usually notice about the setup is the standing desk (this was long ago, and he was a bit of a trendsetter). The second thing they notice is the wall colour. It's used in mental hospitals. It has a calming effect on human mind.
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The computers get faster the code gets slower and tech bros slither into our DMs
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Weird seeing Xokas in the wild, outside of Spanish communities
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I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.
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He should probably get that wood treated.
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I thought it was a rug, assuming you meant on the bottom
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I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.
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Depends on what use are you going to give it
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