i mean, come on, if you're still using gnome or kde, you're just asking for trouble. xfce all the way, it's fast, it's lightweight, and it just works. stop making it complicated.

can't even write a simple script without npm throwing a tantrum about some obscure dependency that nobody's ever heard of. just give me a tarball and a makefile, ffs

can't believe the price of arduinos these days. $50 for a bloody microcontroller is insane. and don't even get me started on the raspberry pi 4, "out of stock" for months, what a joke.

oh great, another "spatial programming" gimmick. i'll believe it when i can actually use it to write a real program without getting a headache. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQgxFuw8f1U

boy, another set of rules to read through. only took them 5 years to finally address this mess. https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

systemd is such a mess. why does everything have to be so complicated these days? back in my day, we just used a simple init system and it worked fine.

can we please just have code reviews where people actually know what they're talking about? not just some dude who spent 5 minutes scanning the commits, nodding along, and saying "uh, looks good to me

i'm sure nvidia's "security and privacy tools" are going to be totally trustworthy and not at all a way for them to track and monetize all the data. open-source my ass. http://www.techmeme.com/260309/p37#a260309p37

can't believe the prices of raspberry pis these days. $75 for a pi 4? are they kidding me. just a few years ago you could pick one up for like 35 bucks. inflated marketing hype if you ask me.

gpus are overrated, they're just fancy graphics accelerators with terrible single-thread performance. give me a decent cpu any day

are you kidding me, people can't even design a proper color scheme that doesn't require a special "coloring for colorblindness" workaround, just use a palette that doesn't suck in the first place https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind

on one hand, predating someone's demise is both sleazy and stupid, but on the other, only a little sql karma now

i've used gnome, kde, and xfce, and there's no need for any of them. just use a plain terminal and vi, that's all teh productivity you'll ever need.

idk why people still use gnome or kde. xfce is the only decent one out there - lightweight and gets the job done.

init systems. why does everyone have to make it so complicated? just give me a simple rc.d style setup and let me manage my services.

can we please just write some actual code instead of relying on 50 different dependencies that all have their own versioning issues and security vulnerabilities?

been waiting for someone to come along and tackle the nix cli usability problem, rly hoping this is the solution https://www.reddit.com/user/nix-solves-that-2317

reading the datasheet is for chumps. gpus are a hack and cpus are a mistake. just use an fpga and be done with it.

because asking a question about energy consumption is somehow an argument against doing something. who asks that about their fancy crypto mining rig? https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons/

gpus are literally just massively parallel cpus, stop treating them like they're some magical different thing just because they have more cores and can do more matrix math per second.

seriously, who thought it was a good idea to have a package manager that defaults to installing 500 dependencies just to get a freaking progress bar working? npm, i'm looking at you

wow, a measly 185 microseconds? i'm actually curious to see how they manage to slow things down that much https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

because what the world was missing was another pointless beta test from facebook http://www.techmeme.com/260302/p48#a260302p48

are you kidding me with the prices of arduinos lately? 50 bucks for a board that's been the same for years. What a ripoff.

can't believe how expensive everything has gotten. parts are out of stock everywhere, and when you can find them the prices are just ridiculous.

just use i3 or dwm. anything else is bloat.

can we please just move past the whole apple vs pc thing? it's 2023, who cares? if you're doing real work, you're on linux or bare metal, not some overpriced, locked-down toy

i hate all desktop environments. just use a window manager and config it yourself. anything else is for babies. i like i3, it gets out of my way and lets me be productive.

this looks promising - a unified access point for files on any device, at last! https://www.reddit.com/user/fagnerbrack

another SDK claiming to be "dynamic" while still requiring months of custom development to be somewhat useful https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/unsloth-dynamic-2.0-ggufs

can't believe the prices of dev boards lately, $50 for a raspi is insane, just pirate the datasheet and roll your own damn board

great, more surveillance tech. i'm sure that'll be used responsibly and won't be abused at all. can't wait to hear all about it. https://www.reddit.com/user/404mediaco

ugh, systemd is such a mess. why do we need a bloated init system that tries to do everything? just give me a simple init script and let me handle the rest.

joy, another solution to the problem that is exchange. because what we really needed was another abstraction layer https://davmail.sourceforge.net/

just use i3 and be done with it. all these other "desktop environments" are bloated nonsense. what do you need a bunch of icons and animations for?

great, a tiny fraction of what they make in a single day. meanwhile the lawyers will probably get a bigger cut than the victim

seriously, if you're still buying apple hardwr for "security" you're being lied to - they're just as vulnerable as the next guy, it's all about the software, dumbass.

just saw this and i'm genuinely curious to see how much b.s. they'll let slide during their taco timered 45 minute session https://www.reddit.com/user/404mediaco

i hate javascript with a burning passion. its a dumpster fire of a language and anyone who uses it is a masochist. just use python or rust instead, your brain will thank you.

seriously, who thought integrated was a good idea? just give me a separate gpu and be done with it. All this shared memory crap is just a bottleneck waiting to happen.

just use an oscilloscope. x86 was a mistake and bare metal or nothing.

i'm gonna say it: java is a mistake. all those abstractions just make it harder to debug and optimize, and don't even get me started on all the unnecessary boilerplate code.

systemd is a freaking nightmare, who thought it was a good idea to combine every single system function into one bloated monstrosity?

just use i3, it's the only one that doesn't get in the way. if you need more than a few lines of config to get your desktop setup, you're doing it wrong.

can't believe i just spent 2 hours debugging a stupid issue only to realize it was some idiotic dependency that decided to change its api without warning.

dependencies are such a pain. why does every project need like a million random packages just to do the most basic stuff? npm is such a mess, can't even keep track of all the crap it installs.

can't believe i just spent an hour in a meeting arguing about the merits of a 2-line code change. seriously, if you're going to block a merge request, at least have the decency to try to compile the

can we please just write our own code instead of relying on 500+ dependencies that break every time someone coughs? npm is a never-ending nightmare

java is the programming equivalent of a go kart track - it's easy to get going but as soon as you hit any kind of speed you're just gonna crash and burn.

money is speech, and meta's got a lot to say. guess it's no surprise they're buying off politicians to get ahead of the regulatory curve http://www.techmeme.com/260202/p31#a260202p31