• thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      1·
      33 minutes ago

      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

  • blimpkit@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 hour ago

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

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
    126·
    5 hours ago

    I love how just…normal…Linus is. Like…humble. Content.

    Like, hey, I revolutionized the world with a pet project. Nbd.

    When I was a kid I worshipped Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I’m glad I realized later that Linus and Woz are the real heroes.

    • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
      1·
      17 minutes ago

      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.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      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.

    • ∃∀λ@programming.dev
      6·
      1 hour ago

      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).

    • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      629·
      4 hours ago

      Never meet your heroes. Have you ever seen the way he rages at people on the mailing list? Don’t get me wrong, he’s made some incredible technical contributions that I’m thankful for, but I have to push back against claims that he is a well-adjusted dude.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
        11·
        2 hours ago

        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

      • Fortunafors@lemmy.world
        23·
        3 hours ago

        People need to understand we are all humans and stop idolizing-idealizing people, aren’t you all bored of celebrities/famous people abusing their status?

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
        221·
        3 hours ago

        Bruh if everything I said to people was recorded and searchable, I’d seem like an unhinged egomaniac with anger issues too, but people can change, and get more mellow.

          • 4am@lemmy.zip
            13·
            2 hours ago

            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.

            • Mikrochip@feddit.orgDeutsch
              2·
              1 hour ago

              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.

      • DeLancre@piefed.socialEnglish
        51·
        3 hours ago

        Not to protect so called “toxic environment”, but sometimes people need to hear what others think about them and their work, preferably without pink glasses. Hiding truth behind fake polite smile is not correct approach either.

        As an example, Linus once harshly commented about breaking user space. Was it impolite to mog developer? Maybe. But nowadays in our “polite circle with pink ponies” people more easily do what they not supposed to, cause there no harsh feedback. My amdgpu crashing and taking full video stack with it each focking time. It can’t restart even if you trigger /sys/kernel/debug, like, it’s dead-dead. And that due to user space program, aka game. This shit should’t happen and yet here we are. Could it be different if Linus kept yelling at people, to reinforce fear of breaking stuff? My money on “yes”. There other examples of course, like compete disaster called “Concord”, where ultra polite environment became so forced that it kinda became toxic thing on itself and we all know the end result of it.

        So yea, not a fan of that.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        If it’s any consolation I also worshipped Carmack and Zoid Kirsch (credited then by deadname)…

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        4 hours ago

        I was actually going to comment on that as well but I didn’t remember the exact history of git.

        His newsgroup post announcing Linux is legendary, though.

        Or are you referring to his guitar pedals?

  • bobslaede@feddit.dkEnglish
    64·
    5 hours ago

    Isn’t it a bit strange not to change your wallpaper to something different than the default Windows one?

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      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.

    • Pomal@sh.itjust.works
      30·
      5 hours ago

      For the Arch defaults, I find their stock wallpapers generally pleasing in a weird n-dimensional way. When I was a young microslopper, it was always whatever brought me joy from newgrounds that week.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 hours ago

      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

    • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      5 hours ago

      The default wallpaper is meant to be pleasing, and I guess it’s meant to appeal to the average person? I’ve known several people that don’t change their wallpapers or that use that automatic carousel thing with a different image every time you wake the device.

      • eodur@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        5 hours ago

        I usually set my wallpaper once right after install then never change it. I only see it for a few seconds right after boot anyways. If you see your wallpaper then you aren’t really doing anything.

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3·
            4 hours ago

            I think that there’s a legit rejoinder of “Why aren’t you optimizing the code to reduce compilation time, if it’s such a problem?”

            For something like C++, ccache, distcc, PIMPL (to reduce use of templates, which blows up C++ compilation time), precompiled headers, make code more modular to reduce the size of the compilation unit that changes when any one change happens, break stuff into libraries, etc. Look to see whether there are things like build timestamps being inserted into headers that are producing unnecessary recompilations. clang and gcc can profile compilations to identify what’s chewing up time.

            • lime!@feddit.nu
              15·
              4 hours ago

              that xkcd comic is coming up on 20 years old. most computers didn’t have multiple cores yet.

              • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
                1·
                4 hours ago

                I mean, none of the optimizations I listed rely on multiple cores.

                It’s true that just running parallel compilation jobs on your build machine is a simple way to speed things up, no disagreement, but it’s not like optimizing compilation time isn’t a thing outside of that.

                • lime!@feddit.nu
                  2·
                  4 hours ago

                  i was thinking more about tooling, most of that stuff didn’t exist as widely as today and you couldn’t really look for it when waiting for a compile either.

            • grue@lemmy.world
              2·
              3 hours ago

              In my experience, [proprietary] projects are doing well if their Makefile isn’t so broken that they have to run it twice just to make sure everything actually compiles. And you want them to actually optimize it…?!

        • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          4 hours ago

          IDK man, I like knowing that Frieren is looking out for me in the background. Even if I don’t see it, I appreciate that it’s there.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          If you see your wallpaper then you aren’t really doing anything.

          I use sway these days. It’s tiling, so I rarely see my desktop background anymore.

          But not everyone uses a tiling system.

          While I like the idea of avoiding having onscreen pixels wasted showing useless information, and I think that tiling systems do help achieve this, I avoided tiling systems for some years, as a fair bit of software still didn’t play well with it (e.g. I remember default behavior with GIMP being half of the screen being the main window, half being the GIMP toolbar window). I think that we’re past that phase now, but there are people who prefer stacking window systems for various reasons and don’t use tiling systems.

    • dudeface@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I never pick a custom image for my my OS background, I never see it

      Sometimes I switch it to grey or black

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      since i have family and cant change it to prn,i keep it at default too. Honestly though, i barely see it. Theres always some ui over it.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    every now and then I like going through and reading Linus’ commit messages for uemacs. It’s impressive that he’s still maintaining that thing on a near weekly basis.

    Also he writes some of the longest commit messages known to man to the point where i’m like “I didn’t know you could write them that long”

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    20·
    4 hours ago

    looks at image with ten visible LED fans

    I don’t have a problem with people decorating their computers however they want. They paid for it. It’s their computer. Everyone’s got their own aesthetic preferences.

    However, the last build I did, I was getting a little exasperated with how increasingly-hard it is to just find desktop components that don’t have RGB lighting on them any more. I mean, to me, the desktop computer is a box that has a bunch of circuit boards in it. I’m generally not looking at my RAM sticks or motherboard segments, and don’t have a glass window on the side to admire it (it gets dust in there, and I’d rather have a sturdier case without glass). I could do without the extra light pollution in my life. Most stuff can be disabled, but it’s kind of obnoxious to be buying and figuring out how to disable hordes of little RGB LEDs.

    I’d also add that where LEDs exist, they have multiplied over the decades not just in number, but also in brightness.

    If I wanted to have my computer be a light show, which I don’t, I’d get a DMX512 controller for it, and real lighting effects hardware.

    Maybe going for rack-mount hardware is an option. It’s something that I’ve thought about sporadically over the years, and it does have certain benefits, if you’re willing to give up portability. But rack-mount builds generally command a premium due to the market being less price-sensitive, and noise is often a more of a factor, since datacenters don’t care about keeping things quiet for employees.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 hours ago

      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.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        2·
        53 minutes ago

        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).

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      2 hours ago

      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.

    • Staff@piefed.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      The RGB, the gaming chair…gimmicks that do nothing…it’s stupid but somehow they work…they form trends and people latch to it even though realistically they do nothing functionally.

      I would argue they are detrimental to the experience. Gaming chairs are not more ergonomic than good office chairs. I don’t want external lights getting in the way when I’m concentrating on the monitor. RGB is literal light pollution in your own room.