Who are these people?
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.
My favorite part of this is how he subconsciously wiped the fingerprints off his gun when he was done
That’s be amazing if he also took it apart while walking away and dropped the pieces in different trash cans
He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.
I highly doubt that’s true.
His shooting style is just more traditional while hers is more contemporary.
Both are amazing shooters and among the best in the world.
Thank you for the explanation! I never really watched the Olympics enough to see them firing guns. I would think all that high tech equipment counts as performance enhancement stuff which goes against the spirit of peak human based skill but maybe sports people who actually watch and run the Olympics think differently about external augmentations in some cases.
Its really funny with the context of some dude just chilling and vibing while casually firing off world record level shots
He is the odd one out. Most have special gear.
full of blinking lights
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!
Shooting with both eyes open is actually easier, your whole face is relaxed, and relaxation is key to accurate shooting. At least that’s what I was taught in the military
If your other eye is closed in the military, you get snuck up on.
Are you fucking kidding me? Yeji had style, it’s nothing about random tech. Get the fuck out of here and leave our girl alone
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.
I think it’s just a joke here because of their getups. I wasn’t under the impression she was getting flack - I thought she was great.
It’s spelled flak, not flack. It’s a German abbreviation from Flugabwehrkanone, which means aerial defense cannon.
Interesting! Thanks.
Mossad hitmen after the Munich Olympics.
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.
Mr. Battlestation that is running one GPU, but has the combined cooling to run a nuclear power plant
Cooling? You mean the spinning leds?
TBF, cooling is cheap, GPUs are expensive.
You have not priced those led fans recently…it adds up when you need 12+ of them (just why?). Assuming you actually use decent fans anyway and not some random no name garbage with a bushing instead of a bearing.
My buddy built one of these for somebody and his comment was ‘extra $500 so they could taste the rainbow’. So many led lights…
TBH I want to reduce the LED’s on mine because its in my bedroom and I can’t seem to figure out if there is a way to turn them all off so I can sleep better…
I’ve been using OpenRGB. Is like 5mb, and runs on everything. Stupid MB and GPU come with rbg…that allows me to turn them off. It doesn’t support everything but it’s worked for my needs so far.
As long as the fans/leds hook up to an arbg header they should be controllable.
Did you try turn of the computer? Maybe by a power strip with an on-off switch for it?
Sometimes I have shit I need to run overnight.
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.
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
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.
Linus’ biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn’t have fans blaring to increase performance.
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.
blaring adjective
- (of a sound, especially a recorded sound) loud and harsh
Example: a blaring alarm and flashing red light were going off
Okay now give me the definition of “pedantic douchebag”
I can’t even see what mistake I made. I didn’t even use that word. I think they are just salty over getting corrected.
Why are you giving me a definition? I just told you that having more fans dosen’t actually mean it’s going to be loud or harsh. What mistake have I made?
I’ve made no comment on quantity of fans, only loudness.
You mistook that to mean “fewer” fans.
Your phrasing implied that the other system would have blaringly loud fans, which it probably does not, at least if they built and configured it properly. Since people thinking more fans equals louder is an easy misconception to have I jumped to the conclusion that you had made that error. Maybe you didn’t mean to imply that the other system would be loud.
Giving me the definition of blaring wasn’t actually helpful in any way. I knew what the word meant, so that wasn’t the actual issue. You failed to accurately understand or communicate the problem when trying to correct someone, and sounded like a pretentious knob doing it.
Lol. Imagine getting this upset because you don’t know how to read.
Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.
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.
The solution is a desk pad. If 100% of the desk is a mouse pad you are never in the wrong spot.
Doesn’t really address my point. If your keyboard forces your hand too far off the side… Even if your mouse has a ton of mat space over there, you still have to reach way over there.
I have my mouse in between my two keyboard halves. Off to the side if I’m gaming, and using only one half of the keyboard, the other half unplugged, or just moved up and out of the way.
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My experience is like a mirror opposite; nearly all mechanical keyboards are less than 100%, and my productivity would nosedive if I had to hunt and peck numbers.
You might not be wrong overall, but I thought it was funny that my anecdote is fully the opposite.
I need to do a lot of number entry for my work, and the southpaw TKC CandyBar saved my life. I liked it so much I immediately bought a second one just in case something happened.
Then I got a Prime_E. I think people over estimate how hard it is to adjust typing habits to accommodate layers and toggles!
Maybe? I’ve never touched one and I’m not rich or idle enough to buy into an entirely new paradigm. My desk is the size of a coffin as well, so I’ve got to fill it up with something. Might as well be a huge keyboard that sounds like a box of staplers falling down the stairs.
It probably depends on use case. There are plenty of situations where having numpad on the right makes perfect sense for right handed people.
But I’m an oddball who is very much right handed but uses the mouse left handed because my right wrist got so much wear and tear from early life data entry work.
I’ve done enough data entry in the past it just seems unnatural to have a left ten key. Typing hex numbers seems like it would be a major pain.
Never knew those existed, really cool. I’ll try to remember that and consider one once my old one dies, which by the looks of it will take another decade.
You can pry my tenkey from my cold dead fingers, haha
Get a keyboard with layers. You’ll thank yourself later. So much damn desk space open to anything. A cup of juice. The mouse in between the two halves of the keyboard (if it’s a split one like mine), no need for extra buttons that take up so much space just sitting there 99% of the time.
I need it for Blender. If anything I need more keys for all the shortcuts.
I recently got a 80% keyboard without numpad and bought a separate numpad to put on the left side of the keyboard.
Game changer.
Yeah I started with a TKL from WASD Keyboards (which seemed like a company that was doing okay, but just suddenly vanished) and it served me great for a year or so and it’s still a pretty good keyboard, but I had one look at the ZSA Voyager and I knew I had to have that baby. Only 52 keys, column-staggered, split keyboard. There’s so much space on my desk now. I can even unplug one half and get even more space for my mouse if playing FPS games. Programmable layers, LEDs, multi-function keys. It’s got the works. Highly recommended piece of hardware IMO.
Old one was space efficient af though
Wait wtf, is this paint on the right computer screen?
paint.NET most likely. Unironically it is a really great image editor and has some cool tools for pixel art.
Meanwhile I’m on GIMP spending 2 hours searching for the right tools to do something simple :(
And the guys who invented UNIX did so by using toggle switches and teletypes…
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.
Don’t forget the Dew Drip® feedtube for max gameage.
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.
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.
Do you even chair bro
Don’t forget to chairish it
Yea because to make Linux and GIT you have to have starkly different world view.
Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
Why is he posing like he doesn’t run Windows 11?
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.
“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
the desk walked away
No. It ran… Linux.
It probably still does.
But it used to run Linus.
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.
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.
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.
Turns out that my CPU fan requires a proprietary device to turn off the rgb in it, or adjust it at all.
I just assumed that if a motherboard had an RGB header you could control it from the BIOS, because that’s how it worked ten years ago. But no, these days you need their software, which crashes on install under windows and doesn’t support anything else.
If you are lucky OpenRGB might work.
Unless the fan has a separate battery back up (which would be very weird) then this should not matter if you enable ErP.
AFAIK enabling ErP will shut off power to all components when the computer is turned off. Good luck!
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!
You can often just disable all the lights in the UEFI instead including when on.
Then it will look off when it’s on 😆. I just want to be able to tell when it’s off by looking at it. It doesn’t actually bother me, it’s not in my bedroom, it’s in the lounge attached to the TV.
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.
Only the keyboard lights matter!
Unironically, yes. Especially if you have a nice keyboard that allows layers.
Layers? What’s that mean in this context?
Some keyboards allow you to map different keys to different things depending on certain settings. So for example you could make it so that if you press ctrl+esc+enter your keyboard knows that instead of typing in English, you want your keyboard to act as though it’s a french keyboard. Some keyboards are made with this feature in mind and ship with lights that you can program to indicate which “layer” (keyboard setting) is currently active. So if you see a red light it’s English and blue it’s French. That’s probably poorly explained and only a small example of how layers can be used, but in general it’s just a preset layout that you can impose on your keyboard. The specifics of the layout are often up to you. If you’re interested there’s several companies out there making specialty keyboards and most have YouTube explanations if you google keyboard layers that are definitely clearer than my explanation.
Obviously the pretty lights are important, it’s for playing the games with pretty lights.
Sounds like all shopping experiences with the wife and daughters. They purposefully choose the other one when asking for my opinion.
My case is black, with black accents, with no window, with soundproofing inside, it’s hidden behind my screen
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.
On account of the cosmic space beams.
Its the treadmill.
The treadmill gives you infinite power.
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.
