Have you heard about copyparty? https://youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

Have you ever seen the way he rages at people on the mailing list?

Is that not normal for IT professionals?

When I switched to Endeavor, Ganymede was the Default wallpaper and I fucking loved it so I kept it.

The next update it changed (since it was still set to default), so I dug through an rsync backup to find it and changed it back to Ganymede

Bro you're on Lemmy, weirdo is all of us.

You shouldn't worship anyone.

Taking a comic about a flimsy excuse and doing a serious analysis of a joke problem is such an xkcd thing to do.

Things like Noctua fans and motherboards aimed at enterprise use cases tend to not have the shiny distractions that average tech bros want.

You probably want to stick with ATX over rack mounted stuff as an individual, just means you have to search for function-over-form brands for peripherals and the motherboard.

Yet another secret? The best "gaming headphones" are just standard audio gear or music studio stuff.

Does RMS fit in the picture here? The founder of the fsf and GNU.

Seriously, we need more people who shun fame and celebrity. Like Rick Moranis did.

Well, he is waiting for the pigeon with the print outs of the mails.

When you refer to “the picture here” I’m not sure if you are talking about the subject of the post, or the image you attached to your comment.

Either way: no.

Worst and best Linus I "know" in one picture.
And I know one more Linus.

the way he rages at people on the mailing list?

not really anymore for quite a while.

he will absolutely tell someone that should know better, if they are doing a bad job, but the times of random shitstorms is over for quite a while now

You also have to remember that he made an OS as a hobby project and suddenly everyone wanted to mess with it. It was the Wild West of decentralized project management in those days, I don’t condone any of that unprofessional behavior but I’m also not in the least bit fucking surprised that he had very personal rage-out moments as unsolicited criticism poured in from around the world, constructive and well intentioned or not. That’s a lot of unexpected pressure.

He got better, which implies to me that he wants to be a good person; and that’s all we can really ask of anyone.

I was so focused on the picture instead that I forgot about the title, lol. Time to interject for a moment.

Gates was a jerk. Jobs was a jerk that actually did make some positive impact on the world. Linus was a jerk who's mellowed to a pretty normal state. Woz is a fucking tech Angel/God who just generally wants good things for people.

edit: I guess to be fair, Windows did harbor us for a long time when nothing else was ready, Jobs pushed competition and some semblance of privacy. and Linus' code is just about everthing that exists now mostly for free.

Paraphrasing a tidbit of information from Northwest Repair, who's a guy on YouTube that does board-level repairs on computer hardware:

Apparently, reprogramming the firmware config and changing the RGB light status on a DRAM module are both done through the same SPI bus. Consequently, every time you change the RGB lighting, it has a tiny chance of accidentally bricking the stick.

So not only is RGB an additional upfront cost that consumers might not want, it could even contribute to long-term costs by reducing the lifetime of some components.

My local Microcenter has posters of notable computer pioneers up high in the back where you can see them from anywhere in the store. Each poster has the person's name as well as a description of something they're most known for. Bill Gates is there as well as Ken Thompson, Robert Kahn, Robert Metcalfe, Grace Hopper, Richard Stallman, etc. I always thought that was a nice touch. Even though it's like the nerdiest of all stores, I suspect 90% of customers are probably Windows normies and just need a computer for work or to play games and wouldn't recognize any of them with the exception of Gates. Even I don't recognize some of the names, like Kahn (co-invented TCP/IP) and Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet).

Rubbing his belly is lucky.

The best one lost some weight. I need to do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Van_Pelt

Who wants to buy his foot cheese? Anyone?

First time I saw that picture, win11 was new, and having it running meant you had a rather recently built PC with a TPM module. So, an additional layer of a (satirical?) hardware flex that I don't think goes well with, well, the worse Windows at the time.

True that. Andrew Tanenbaum dissing on Linux in the early days just because it didn't conform to his ideals of a microkernel is sufficiently uncomfortable to read, imo. It's not like Linus kept anyone from making their own open source kernel.

Though, to be fair, changing him from a wannabe gangsta to a YouTube manosphere influencer was an inspired touch.

"Draw me like one of your French Girls, or as recently I have taken to calling them, GNU+French Girls"

Youtuber that has hyper "minimalistic productivity" setup, 10k subs, posts videos every week and has 3 digit views max:

That's a nice standing desk tho.

But who can stand using one screen??

I remember years ago there was a firmware source leak (or maybe the binary was analyzed or something) for gigabyte's led controller firmware/drivers that basically just exposed the firmware programming bus to user land because that's how they did lighting updates and the kernel mode driver just passed whatever the user mode driver gave it, which could include firmware updates to other hardware IDs.

It was at this point that I stopped running a lot of those hardware control utilities (and I suspect that might also be why I barely saw any issues with the Radeon 5700 XT that was a bit infamous for "its" issues that I think might have just been incompatibilities with 3rd party "helper" utilities or shit written by companies that had gotten to the "just ship it" stage of development).

I almost exclusively use my laptop screen.

I imagine the sentence should have been: "...the picture, here?"

Honestly? Best Linus? That's a stretch. Maybe Linus from 10-20 years ago. But these days he's becoming a senile old tech bro - his ideals are rapidly deteriorating.

I am disappointed albeit not surprised he's jumped on the slop train.

You don't need multiple screens to code. You can split inside your editor if you need to look at two things, otherwise you just jump between things. Faster thank having to use multiple things

Dunno about the jerk, but he's become a weirdo and I second the notion that he should no longer be idolized. That's gonna be embarrassing to walk back from in 2-3 years.

French GNU's

I like Ken Thompson. He wanted to play a game on a computer that didn't have an OS that supported it so he wrote Unix.

A person who actually uses the PC.

A random streamer.

It's a matter of learning your desktop environment's shortcuts for managing windows. For example, I always set up a 3x3 grid of virtual desktops on KDE so I can play act at being those weird wall street people with 9 monitors:

Haha! That's better than what I had :)

French+Girls

Reminds me of some interview of Linus, where they showed another photo of his workspace. Linus said the first thing people usually notice is the standing desk (he was a bit of a trendsetter). The second thing they notice is the wall colour. They use the paint in mental hospitals. It has a calming effect on the human mind. (Goodness knows Linus needs all the chill he can get.)

Yeah, I'm very much Team Lone Monitor. You can only see sufficient detail to work with text in a limited area in front of you. I can flip between desktops in sway faster than I can look from side to side. Honestly, my current monitor is already probably excessive in screen space for productivity stuff.

And the ergonomics are preferable if you're using secondary monitors much. You ideally want the display in front of you:

https://worksmarthub.com/monitor-ergonomics/

If you only change four things today:

Adjust your chair height first.

Raise your monitor so the top is at or just below eye level.

Position it about an arm’s length away.

Centre it directly in front of you.

These principles align with ergonomic research on neutral posture and reduced upper‑limb load (Rempel et al., 2007).

I remember working on a dual monitor setup split in the middle back in the 1990s, and while it was never a huge issue, after a day of working, my neck was stiff from looking to the left.

Added bonus of a single-monitor setup: less power use, and you can work on a (more-portable) laptop without extra screens without breaking your workflow.

EDIT: Note that this is just talking productivity stuff. If you also play games or something on the machine, then having stuff in your peripheral vision can have value, just as in real life. VR rigs push that even further.

EDIT2: If someone does come up with some sort of software that makes useful use of peripheral vision for office stuff, someone will be selling VR products aimed specifically at this in short order. I remember in...the early 2000s maybe, when Intel was trying to convince businesses to buy 3D hardware, and had ads talking about how 3D chart viewing would increase productivity.

I actually really love the default wallpaper in KDE Plasma. It changes with every release. I have a friend who also uses Plasma, and before each release, we always joke that the new wallpaper is our most anticipated feature because we're too lazy to change our wallpapers ourselves and simply wait for new releases to do it for us.

Tell me you don't understand a single word Torvalds has said recently without telling me you don't understand a single word Torvalds has said recently.

I use a single monitor but it's 42" 4k.

I do a lot of stuff where I need 2 or more documents visible side by side and it's next to impossible to work efficiently on a single small screen.

Do people really use those standup desks? Can you get work done that way?

True but he probably thought he had big enough of a name to lead his own department as he pleased