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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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.
And the guys who invented UNIX did so by using toggle switches and teletypes...
Yea because to make Linux and GIT you have to have starkly different world view.
The computers get faster the code gets slower and tech bros slither into our DMs
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.
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/
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
Its the treadmill.
The treadmill gives you infinite power.
He should probably get that wood treated.
I thought it was a rug, assuming you meant on the bottom
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.
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!
Could be daisy chained fans, I admit I don't know how many you can chain together though.
Still gotta be a mess in there.
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.
Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
Why is he posing like he doesn't run Windows 11?
El puto Xokas xDDDD
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.
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.
There are browser tools to emulate different devices.
It's two button clicks to test layouts. Just laziness or lack of ability.
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.
"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
