• Rose@slrpnk.net
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    25 days ago

    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.)

  • provectus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    25 days ago

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

  • bobslaede@feddit.dkEnglish
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    26 days ago

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

    • dudeface@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

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

      Sometimes I switch it to grey or black

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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      26 days ago

      The average tech bro doesn’t have the skill to maintain a single system long enough for customizations to matter.

    • Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de
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      25 days ago

      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.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        25 days ago

        I don’t change mine on most GNOME installs, but I do like that the light/dark mode toggle also flips the wallpaper to a light dark version of the same style

    • Pomal@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days 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.

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      26 days 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.

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      25 days 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.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      25 days 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
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      26 days 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
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        26 days 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
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            26 days 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. clang and gcc can profile compilations to identify what’s chewing up time.

            • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              25 days ago

              “Sure, just give me the raise I’ve been asking for and I’ll get right on that.”

              “…”

              “That’s what I thought.”

            • lime!@feddit.nu
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              26 days ago

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

              • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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                26 days 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
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                  26 days 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
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              26 days 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
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          26 days 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
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          26 days 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.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    26 days 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 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.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      25 days 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
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      26 days 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.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      25 days 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
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        25 days 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).

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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          25 days ago

          Imagine if ransomware did a BYOVD and held your actual hardware ransom.

          Shit like that should never have been signed by Microsoft, let alone made it through developer review at Gigabyte.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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    24 days ago

    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.

    • porcelainpitcher@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      24 days ago

      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 😊

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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        22 days ago

        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.

    • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      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

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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        22 days ago

        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.

  • DrStanleyGoodspeed@lemmy.zip
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    25 days ago

    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

  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    26 days ago

    pfff, no rgb on Linus’ setup. I have instantly lost every shred of respect for the guy. My hero, reduced to common trash in my mind…

    /s obviously