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    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!

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      Could be daisy chained fans, I admit I don’t know how many you can chain together though.

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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      Linus’ biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn’t have fans blaring to increase performance.

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        Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.

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        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.

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          blaring adjective

          1. (of a sound, especially a recorded sound) loud and harsh

          Example: a blaring alarm and flashing red light were going off

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              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.

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            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?

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              I’ve made no comment on quantity of fans, only loudness.

              You mistook that to mean “fewer” fans.

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                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.

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    I remember trying to use one edition of MSDN (MicroSloth Developer Network if I recall correctly) on my laptop a few years ago. Whoever had developed the UI for it had been using a giant monitor because on a small laptop screen the article contents in the right-hand detail panel didn’t word-wrap correctly, so reading the article required constant scrolling left-and-right with the horizontal scroll bar (which sometimes didn’t even show up). For six months I just got in the habit of copying-and-pasting the contents into a simple text editor so that I could actually read the shit normally.

    I’ve long advocated making developers use the shittiest equipment and no extra monitors, just to ensure that what we build actually works on most machines. I’m not a monster: the money saved could be used to give developers ACTUAL FUCKING OFFICES.

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      There are browser tools to emulate different devices.

      It’s two button clicks to test layouts. Just laziness or lack of ability.

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      That’s why you should always test on a variety of screen sizes including mobile. That however doesn’t mean you should make your devs work on terrible machines. Then you end up in situations where it dosen’t scale correctly. It’s also terrible for developer productivity, many of whom don’t even work on the front end. I don’t think the cost of PCs is anywhere near that of offices, and I suspect the reason for not having offices isn’t monetary anyway.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

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    I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

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      He’s exactly the sort of twat that as soon as he shows up in any IT workplace everyone cringes because that MBA motherfucker is gonna be the stupidest, most unprofessional, unskilled thing on the floor and he’s gonna make it everyone elses problem

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        And when he loses his job to a more skilled person, even if who is also a white cishet guy, will cry about DEI, and will start a career in the same echochamber as Brian Lunduke.

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    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.

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        Worse. He’s a nazi scumbag that poses as a neurodivergent victim in need of therapy and tolerance whenever his hate speech backfires. He’s also been caught redhanded using fake accounts to hound and harass people he dislikes. He’s not related to tech in any way and isn’t an expert in any field. Just your average toxic streamer making as much noise as he can.

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            He does have the looks, huh? Too many people lately prefer to believe whatever requires the least effort from them. It goes something like: “Hey, that person’s being openly sexist!” - “Hold on, they can’t be sexist. Their mother is a woman!” - “Oh, thank heavens! For a moment there I was about to get really mad at them. I could’ve done something awful like blocking them on social media!”

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        The idea (at least from what I’m getting) is to be able to switch posture throughout the day, not necessarily to stand up the whole day. I’ve tried one for a couple of days and it seems nice, I just haven’t gotten around buying one for home yet.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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          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.

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          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

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          My favorite part of this is how he subconsciously wiped the fingerprints off his gun when he was done

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            That’s be amazing if he also took it apart while walking away and dropped the pieces in different trash cans

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          full of blinking lights

          DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!

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          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

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          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