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
el chokas
Three point landing? Really???
Poseuuuuuuur
I’m all in for some xokas slander
Why does the tech bro have those huge lights shining in his face - livestreaming?
Camboy
Onlyfans after his business venture went down in flames.
There’s “Linux Kernel Developer Workspaces” series on youtube. Spoiler: most of them look like dumpsters, even if discounting that it was over 10 years ago. I guess it takes certain type of trash goblin to work on linux kernel.
Oh hon, you’ve never workd tech, have you.
We are all goblins
Some of us are kobolds and others are orcs.
Sounds like a fight between mythics should be a monthly meeting type thing
No, it just takes somebody who cares more about getting stuff done than maxxing performance.
Their work mostly takes place in their minds, the computer is a glorified text editor.
Do people really use those standup desks? Can you get work done that way?
motorized sit stand desks are amazing, even if you rarely stand just getting the height exactly right for sitting is nice
Stardew Valley was created on a standing setup that wasn’t even a proper desk
I have one at the head office. I love how it’s adjustable, so I can stand up when I’ve been sitting for too long.
Plus when I’m doing something that involves more than just keyboard and mouse (sych as plugging electronics and hardware around me) it’s very convenient to be already standing.
When I worked at Fred Hutch I knew a guy who used his standup desk while walking on his treadmill. [I also knew a guy who sat on a big ball.]
it depends on the type of person, I feel like. My company has offered those adjustable desks since before COVID. If you walk through our office you’ll always see at least a few raised up. Most people prefer sitting down, but you’ll see enough people getting use out of these that they definitely have some benefit.
Yes they are awesome; The kind that adjusts for sitting or stnading.
We had them at a company I worked at. You sit for a while ( like and hour or two) and then feel a bit uncomfortable so pull the level and slide to standing mode. Work an hour standing, then sit. It really helps you feel less fatigue, and is better for circulation and digestion.
OK I love the idea of making it adjustable. I’m suddenly aware of my posture.
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.)
A person who actually uses the PC.
A random streamer.
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.
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.
While my setup isn’t meant to be showy, I cannot operate with a single monitor these days. At work I have my laptop screen, a USB monitor to the right, a 36" ultra-widescreen up high, and a landscape 32" monitor to the left.
I still want more screens. I basically want a Neil Pert monitor setup.
That’s a nice standing desk tho.
But who can stand using one screen??
cries in poor
Me. But a wide curved one + sway/i3 window manager
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:
Virtual Desktops
(also 3:2 superiority lol)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
I felt the same until I got a second monitor. Having each app on a full screen and glancing back and forth between them beats flipping back and forth IMO.
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.
I think using tiling based windows is one of the things that makes it easier for single monitor. I use i3 and it’s way quicker to refer to something on another workspace compared to if I were to have them in separate monitors or stacked views. When using extra monitors i just have it open browser most of the time.
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.
I almost exclusively use my laptop screen.
Youtuber that has hyper “minimalistic productivity” setup, 10k subs, posts videos every week and has 3 digit views max:
Does RMS fit in the picture here? The founder of the fsf and GNU and incentor of the GPL.
🎶 I’m too sexy for my shirt, to sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts~ 🎶
i would edit: never mind i read the stallman report and i would be too old/human/alive for him
That last shirt button:
That was his cover photo on Cosmoputing
That’s a very German response, but is he a pasta connoisseur? Cold or warm?
“Draw me like one of your French Girls, or as recently I have taken to calling them, GNU+French Girls”
French+Girls
French GNU’s
Rubbing his belly is lucky.
But first you must survive.
Who wants to buy his foot cheese? Anyone?
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.
I was so focused on the picture instead that I forgot about the title, lol. Time to interject for a moment.
Well, he is waiting for the pigeon with the print outs of the mails.
He now has a fancier PC, courtesy of LTT.
Worst and best Linus I “know” in one picture. And I know one more Linus.
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.
as is often the case you need to follow the money, when you open up the linux foundation sponsor list and see google, microsoft, amazon, meta, and anthropic in the top tiers it gets kinda obvious why there was really no chance he’d decry the “product” from the companies paying him big bucks.
it’s really sad to me as well to see important free software projects go this route, i guess the gpl doesn’t mean much anymore since apparently it’s this widely accepted that you can introduce chatbot code with mysterious origins into your codebase now.
indeed. The irony of the worst of the worst companies funding Linux development and not being told to fuck off is uncanny.
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.
Hes just mad because “AI bad”
The best one lost some weight. I need to do that.
