But standing desks are awesome, I too would pick the top over the bottom setup
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The guy in the lower pic looks like such a chud.
a random consumer*
The tech bro is elxokas, a youtuber from Spain
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.
Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
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.
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do you have a walking desk? yes WELL YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT
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.
Turns out that my CPU fan requires a proprietary device to turn off the rgb in it, or adjust it at all.
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!
Only the keyboard lights matter!
Unironically, yes. Especially if you have a nice keyboard that allows layers.
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.
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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.
He’d definitely benefit from a southpaw keyboard if he’s not willing to go below a 100% layout.
What am I saying, every right handed person would benefit from a southpaw keyboard if they are not willing to go below a 100% layout.
Considering how many things have a right-handed bias, it’s honestly surprising fullsize keyboards are the opposite.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
full of blinking lights
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!
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
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
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.
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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?
"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.
Imagine have a nice custom setup and using the default Windows desktop. Weird flex...
I can't imagine spending thousands of dollars on a setup and then running windows on it like it's in a some office cubicle somewhere.
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Torvalds could assemble a system by collecting old outdated electronic junk from a trash heap and make it work
Tech Bro needs to convince million dollar investors (or his wealthy parents) to finance his latest setup in order to install the latest Windows or Mac OS ... without money to buy new shiny things and proprietary software, he's totally lost
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that’s a gamer/streamer, not a tech bruh
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