He must have lost a bet

Three point landing? Really???

cries in poor

Honestly he's pretty hilarious when he loses his chill 🤣

It's quite a nice color, I feel

The real nerds know

el chokas

Some of us are kobolds and others are orcs.

Elaborate on the takes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuJTAL8Xd8

Multi monitor setups arent bad but in my experience they are usually cludged together abominations with at minimum two desks in active use. Mine for example is consistent of a HP pavilion from around 02 if I had to make a guess, a HP monitor from 17, and then my 5 plus year old Asus monitor. My desks setup is an L desk plus a random corner desk for the CRT and the WW2 era speakers I have that I still need wires for.

Anyone know where I can get wires and an amp for an antique pair of speakers? They use a positive and negative similar to what old car speakers have, not particularly picky just want to test them ideally using an aux input.

Sounds like a fight between mythics should be a monthly meeting type thing

More than one screen is too overwhelming to me. Too much light, too much information, I get tired too fast

Dude linuses anything but humble if you know anything about him he is one of the biggest dicks on the internet. Some of his reasoning is right but some of it is just him being a complete asshole.

He’s gotten a lot better. Turns out therapy works.

What tech innovation actually looks like. Sort of no frills, high efficiency, what works go with it type thing. That shit works. I did shit like that once. Most beautiful internship that was wasted on me. I had free reign of an electrical engineering lab at Oak Ridge as a summer intern between freshman and sophomore year of college. There were like shelves full of random devices and circuit boards. Like half built shit that someone said fuck that noise on, and wires, and circuit boards, and batteries. Random computer monitors. All that shit. It was a fucking disgrace and it was beautiful. My steward or whatever wanted me to test an Op-Amp? He gave me a book on how to program using excel, a book on op-amps, one lecture, and told me there were two grad students in the room that can help if you need it. He left everything I needed in close-ish proximity and says good luck. So that’s what I fuckin did. The grad students would help briefly from time to time if I begged, but it was clear this was my shit they aren’t to spoon feed me. He wanted them tested in an oven using known input voltage increased sequentially in a continuous run. I found a voltmeter/thing that emits and controls the volts and know’s shit about what’s going on. I had to wire qthat thing in a certain way. That part was actually sort of fun and surprisingly easy. Had a PC, a lab oven that looked like a broke ass piece of shit to me but it worked and did what it was supposed to, the volt whisperer, the chip, and some thing that the chip had to be in that a bunch of cords connected to it so the shit was like coming out weird from the oven. It was easy to hook up once you knew what you were looking for. Getting excel to talk to that hillbilly ass looking piece of shit took an entire week. Eventually got it to do what it needed to do but LMFAO the stupid piece of shit beeped every time it shat voltage and took a measurement. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. To this day I don’t know if this was some kind of test that I failed or just random fucking bullshit that happens when you tell a stupid fucking piece of shit college student like me to shit his brains onto a bunch of hardware. The shit worked! Everything worked and I got everything he wanted me to get. Excel made some pretty graphs that looked like they were supposed to. I think he sold the patents. My poster was fucking awesome at least in my eyes, but some dumb old surely bitch didn’t like the formatting but fuck her ya know. I give myself a b+ for that one. It looked damn good on paper. Ended up becoming a doctor. Sometimes wonder if I would’ve been more successful if I would have stayed with engineering. Who tf knows!?!? Blehhh

Any home improvement store - > wires aisle - > buy "speaker wire" in whatever length you need.

Lamp wire is also fine, often times they are the same / interchangeable.

An amp? Well there's a whole lot of options there from multi channel home theater units down to just a stereo mini amp.

If you just want to power some old speakers I'd lean towards a stereo mini amp on Amazon. Then maybe a cheap bluetooth receiver so you can easily pair your phone for some modern streaming support.

Another example being the developer of GrapheneOS. Unhinged, but works in our favor. Just don't follow them on social media.

Where was this, reddit or something?

The linux users here seem pretty chill. There's a lot of tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating jokes about linux users being pretentious, but I don't really see much of anyone being actually obnoxious in any of the techy comms here

Various distro and general forums and GitHub/similar sites. I've come across several over the last few years. The types of places you go for actual help from people with knowledge and experience. Not just various social media sites.

It's a small amount in the grand scheme, but they're vocal. All it takes is one raging asshole for a normie first trying out Linux and looking for a solution to an issue to be driven away entirely.

That makes sense, I haven't really interacted much on those sites. I've browsed them for help sometimes, and it seems like they get annoyed when people ask questions that are already answered. Either in the docs or somewhere else on the forum. They usually just say to do a search before posting to see if it's already answered. But maybe if someone's having a bad day and gets fed up with being asked the same thing over and over again. Or maybe someone's just an asshole. I don't know.

I'm not saying it's okay to be a jerk, especially on those forums where they're literally representing the community. You're right, it really can put a sour taste in newcomers' mouths.

Just to name the takes that made me dislike today's Linus:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

Quote:

It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general

Yes.

And no, that's not the position of the Linux kernel.

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area
where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level
maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues
with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no
longer in question today.

There's a lot to unpack here, and it's even worse than the shortened quote I had in mind when I wrote the above.

1. When he clearly had the good example of referring to LLMs in plain sight, he chose to refer to the slop machines as "AI" - especially in a context where it serves as a straw man. Most people opposed to LLMs do not have a problem with proper AI research, it's just the statistical word prediction snake oil that we despise.
2. Using a straw man as someone who clearly has (at least for now) the intellectual capacity to understand that he is doing so is a really dirty way to argue.
3. For a project like the linux kernel, which has really become larger than just Linus, he threatens to override all opinions he doesn't like on the topic (this is not the first time he's done that). As we can see from the disappointing outcome of the debian vote on LLM contributions, this was a completely pointless hill to die on.
4. "Or just walk away" is children level of bickering
5. Again with the misnomer AI, to claim "[LLMs are] clearly a useful [tool]", and to claim this "is no longer in question today" is a statement so dumb I have trouble believing he wrote that. I'll give him that in some aspects LLMs can be useful, but the net effect on society (and that's the larger picture he's completely ignoring) may very well still be a net negative. This planet - even humanity - doesn't need digital infrastructure to thrive. And 99% of the "usefulness" of LLMs is in maintaining or upgrading digital infrastructure and processing data. Something completely irrelevant to a thriving ecosystem. He's clearly locked into "tech bro think" where it doesn't even occur to him to consider impacts on the environment and weigh them against the perceived usefulness of LLMs. Not to mention that you do not know whether an LLM will be useful in a particular case until after you have solved the case - at which point you may say "oh great, it helped me" or "oh shit, the LLM wasted a lot of my time on this". And if you can't tell in advance whether for a particular scenario a given tool will be useful or not, then using it will also waste people's time and it's absolutely fair to expect that people - even when isolating their views to the tech sector - weigh the perceived usefulness against the time wasted and evaluate whether there's actually a net positive.

I am pretty sure - also from personal experience - that the next benefit of using LLMs for software development only marginally outweighs the downsides (wasted developer & computing time, wasted resources). And taking the social, political and environmental impacts into account, the currently hyped machine learning applications are a HUGE net negative for mankind.

Plus which, LLMs have already peaked, because they are all out of unpoisoned training data. So things will get worse from here on out.

Accordingly, my verdict is that Linus is losing his marbles. Because he once was smart enough to realise all those implications. And now he's decided to gloss over them and join the hype train.

than maxxing performance.

...or aesthetics.

Ok. What's the polymarket on this? Kalshi?

Okay, but... a big HDPI monitor is so much easier on your eyes. Even if all you do is scale your font size way up so þat you have exactly þe same effective rows × columns of text, it's still noticably cleaner and you can turn off anti-aliasing wiþout incurring jaggies.

He's standing pretty close so maybe a huge monitor would be counter productive, but still. Þat looks like a bog standard business Dell and þey're pretty basic displays. No high refresh, no higher luminosity, and probably just a basic 1080p. Splurge for a better monitor, at least. A quality keyboard makes a big difference, too, but I can't see what he has þere. Doesn't look ergonomic, anyway.

Ja ja ja, we agree! Anyway What everyone really wants to know is:

Do you have Íslenska keys installed on your keyboard? Do you have "th" autocorrected, somehow, to 'þ'? Or do you swap keyboards to purposefully use 'þ', instead of "th"? As I have just done.

Not being a dick. Just having some fun 😊

Didn't he say that he couldn't have copied it, because then it would be good (as in, a microkernel)?

Well, now I know where that term comes from.

Richard Stallman is another example of someone you wouldn’t describe as hinged, but you are glad exists.

linus has an odd seemingly bad lighting setup too.

pat

That makes you one of today's Lucky 10,000.

(The figure is US-based, but it has become proverbial even beyond the US)

Dude. Use þ & ð correctly. It is moðer. Fucking. Annoying reading your text and having to back track because you use ðe wrong fucking letters.

You mean "ðat"... "Þat" sounds like "fat"

You don't mean "þe" you mean "ðe"

It's not "þey're" it's "ðey're"

"wiþout" is correct

"All the gear and no idea"

Considering how I end up saying worse, when I get 100+ line changes of code with a commit message that only illustrates 1 of the changes, I don't think I care about anyone being "adjusted".

Show off. Display instead of /dev/lp.

Just keep him away from your birds.

Fixed, thanks

In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.

I do not! All I did was turn on "extra keys" in my phone keyboard. On my desktop, Thorn was already in an XCompose I stole from someone a decade or two ago.

Icelandic layout is a good alternative, þough.

Linus' photo also showcases the default Linux experience