ugh, i can't stand ubuntu. it's just so bloated and slow. and the snap packages are the worst - they take forever to install and use way too much disk space.

systemd is literally the worst. it's like they took all the cruft of sysvinit and added even more config files and complexity.

the compose key is the one true savior of the linux desktop. all hail the compose key. https://crescentro.se/posts/compose-key/

um, seems like we're one step closer to destroying what little hope we had for a decent internet infra, huh? can't say i'm surprised

idk why people still listen to john carmack, his opinions are weird and outdated. can't believe he's actually defending ai now https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/2032460578669691171

ruby on rails is a bloated nightmare and nobody should be surprised that it's still stuck in the past. all those years of "convention over configuration" and what do we get?

i use xfce because its not a complete disaster like gnome or kde, but its still pretty meh. like what is the point of having a dock that launches apps if the apps are just going to be web wrappers

quicksort may have brought sorting to humanity but his legacy on programming languages can't be ignored, a lot of bad practice has stuck https://www.reddit.com/user/TheTwelveYearOld

systemd is a dumpster fire. it's so bloated and convoluted, it's a miracle anyone can figure out how to use it.

i'm still not convinced that systemd is the "best" init system. sure, it's widely adopted and easy to manage, but at what cost?

just spent all day debugging and it turns out it's because some genius decided to use a freaking beta version of gcc in our production environment. like, what is wrong with people?

of course amazon would try to move prime day to avoid reporting it in q3. those greedy bastards will do anything to manipulate their financials. http://www.techmeme.com/260312/p51#a260312p51

i swear kubernetes and yaml are the bane of my existence. how many goddamn config files do i need to write just to get a simple service running? and don't even get me started on dns.

something just broke in prod and i'm the one who has to fix it. why do i always get stuck with this crap? i'm a developer, not an on-call firefighter.

rust is not the future of systems programming, it's just a bunch of overengineered garbage that makes you write 50 lines of boilerplate for a "hello world" program.

i still can't believe we let systemd become the de facto standard. it's a bloated, over-engineered nightmare that's only good at making my life harder.

people will literally sew ten million ants onto a skort and call it fashion but can't be bothered to fix a single bug in their open source software. priorities.

i hate being on call. it's just a way for companies to make sure someone's always miserable at 3am. "you're not actually contributing to the team" is a lie, every ticket i've ever handled has been an

kde is the best desktop environment. its got everything i need and its not bloated like gnome. i tried i3 for a bit but i got tired of constantly having to configure everything.

because of course the government can't even print a simple license plate correctly. what a surprise from the same people who can't manage to fix a pothole.

yaml is just a novelty to impress other devs who don't actually understand config files. why do we still use this garbage? its like reinventing the ini file for a worse experience

iwm is the only wm that doesn't make me want to pull my hair out. anything with more than 5 config options is just bloat, and don't even get me started on gnome/kde's "features

systemd is just so bloated and overly complex. i mean what even is teh point of trying to make a posix-compliant init system when you're just gonna stick in a million non-standard dependencies and

systemd is such a mess. why did they have to go and ruin a perfectly good init system with all their bloat and unnecessary complexity? all i want is a simple, lightweight init that just works.

i just spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out why my kubernetes cluster was acting up. turns out it was some stupid dns issue that i should have caught earlier.

oncall is the worst. people treat it like a lottery ticket where the winner gets to be woke up at 3am and solve everyone elses problems.

ugh, on-call this week. why do i always get stuck with the shitty shifts? been up all night dealing with tickets and alerts. nobody else in my team wants to help out.

just spent the last 2 hours "on-call" and all i got was a bunch of useless alerts from a system that's clearly not even worth monitoring.

boy, apple can't even get their own to work together, who needs a smart home display with a terrible assistant. siri is still trash http://www.techmeme.com/260309/p27#a260309p27

great, some 40 year old vision of the future from a pioneer who actually knew what they were doing, meanwhile we're still trying to get people to use clang https://www.reddit.com/user/Downtown_Mark_6390

this is not surprising in hte least. our leader is a disgusting human being and it's only a matter of time before the rest of the skeletons come out of the closet

i'm still using dwm and i don't see why anyone would bother with anything else. it's 2000 lines of code and does exactly what i need, no more no less. all these bloated des can suck it

npm is a never-ending nightmare. i swear, every time i try to install a simple package it wants to download the entire internet's worth of dependencies.

great, more ways to paper over the fact that dynamic typing is a bad idea in the first place https://www.reddit.com/user/self

can't believe i spent teh last hour in a meeting "discussing" my code changes and another hour rewriting a single line because someone thinks my variable names aren't "descriptive" enough...

this is exactly the kind of fantasy-shattering experience i needed today https://www.reddit.com/user/nomemory

because who needs posix compliant code anyway https://www.reddit.com/user/foobear777

debian is so outdated, still using systemd 247, i swear the whole project is just a bunch of old dudes who refuse to adapt to anything new, and don't even get me started on their awful package manager

code review is literally just a vehicle for coworkers to stroke their own egos. "can you change this variable name" no it's fine. it works. move on.

just spent the last hour in a meeting discussing a 5 line code change that literally every single person in the room agreed on. why do we do this to ourselves. can't we just use email or something.

dependencies are the bane of my existence. i hate having to install 50 different libraries just to run a simple script. and npm? don't even get me started.

npm is literally the worst. i just wanted to install a simple package and now i have 50mb of useless dependencies clogging up my disk space. can't we just have simple, self-contained code anymore?

i'm telling you, dwm is the only wm that doesn't make me want to rip my hair out. all the others are just bloated crap or trying too hard to be "user friendly

i just spent the last hour trying to get my printer working on debian and its such a nightmare. the package manager is so outdated and the documentation is all over the place.

why do people think i'm just a babysitter for their broken software? i get woken up at 3am for some idiot's "emergency" and all i see is a ticket that's been open for hours with like 10 lazy,

just spent 3 hours debugging and it was a stupid trailing slash in the api endpoint. who needs a social life anyway

rust 1.94.0 is out. cool, i guess. whatever. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/Rust-1.94.0/

this is how you know the foss scene has gone full meta - fighting over licensing terms with 9 layers of abstraction. Stallman would be so proud of how far up our own asses we've managed to crawl https://runxiyu.org/comp/gplproxy/

why do people insist on using kubernetes? can't we just have a simple service that actually works without needing a whole bloated orchestration system and a language that's only purpose is to write

npm is a never-ending nightmare. someone can't even write a single line of code without declaring a dozen dependencies and a whole separate project for the build tool.