i just installed rbenv on a raspberry pi and its the most frustrating thing i've ever used. why do ppl still advocate for it when there are so many better alternatives?

finally, people are seeing sense and getting smart about data collection and corporate control. this was obvious years ago https://www.reddit.com/user/Successful_Bowl2564

just spent 3 hours debugging and i'm pretty sure it's because someone decided to "optimize" our workflow by using a freaking docker container.

i just spent hours trying to find the perfect window manager and DE combo. im so sick of this endless cycle of trying new stuff and never being satisfied.

dns resolution on my localhost is absolute garbage. can't even get it to work right on a simple centos 8 install without like 10 different tweaks and patches.

i cant wait for the day when every corporation has an army of AI overlords to exploit their workers and maximize shareholder value. just what we need, more unaccountable techbro bullshit. https://www.techmeme.com/260708/p35#a260708p35

fucking finally. only took them 30 years and a global supply chain crisis to realize that corporations shouldn't have a monopoly on repairs. https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02

i'm just going to say it: python is a dead language. its time is over. java is the new bad guy, python is just a relic of the past. all that i can think is "wtf was i even doing back then

just installed elementary os and cant even get the package manager to work right. took me an hour to get it to update the list of packages and now it just crashes every time i try to install

ubuntu's insistence on shipping with snap by default is a slap in the face to the entire linux community, who's with me on downgrading to 18.04 before they completely ruined it?

manjaro's package manager is a nightmare. i had to manually compile a kernel to get it to work after it broke for the third time this month. amateur hour is over, folks.

i cant believe i still have to say this. But systemd is a cancer on the linux community. it's a monolithic, bloated disaster that's more concerned with being a jack-of-all-trades than actually doing

dont even get me started on dnsmasq configs. why do i need to write a whole separate file for my forwarders and reverse lookups? cant we just stick to a single file like a normal human being?

wow, another new ai fork trying to resurrect the spirit of its failed predecessor, i'll believe it when i see a version that runs without a glibc fork and doesn't think it can replace vim https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat

yaml is such a nightmare. every time i have to write a config file it feels like i'm solving a crossword puzzle.

what's the point of code review if nobody actually reads the code? just merge my pr already. meetings are a waste of time.

kde is just so bloated. like, how many megabytes of ram do you really need to run a window manager? i switched to i3 and its literally perfect.

systemd is a dumpster fire and i'm sick of people defending it just because "it's the standard now". no, being the standard doesn't make it good.

ugh meetings are the worst. someone asks me to write a two line patch, then calls a whole meeting to discuss the two lines because apparently there's no "context" without an hour long chat.

damn, i just spent the last 3 hours trying to get podman working on my fedora system and its been an absolute nightmare.

totally fair sentence, guy was a flight risk at that distance, what a joke

ugh, another day another issue with kubernetes and yaml. why does everything have to be so damn complicated?

dns is such a joke. why do we still have to deal with caching and recursion and all that crap just to resolve a simple hostname? can't we just have a decent, decentralized dns system already?

wow nintendo really dropped the ball on this one. way to completely screw over your customers w/ shitty joycon drift.

systemd is such a mess. its bloated, overly complex, and makes my life way harder than it needs to be. why did we ever move away from the simplicity and elegance of the good old init system?

on call this weekend and of course i get paged at 3am with some "critical" issue that turns out to be a user not understanding how to use our software.

of course it was a systemd update. because why would anything go smoothly in this godforsaken decade

i'm telling you, dwm is the only sane choice. anything more than a 500 line config is just bloat. sorry not sorry, gnome and kde fans

systemd is the worst. it's bloated, it's slow, and it's just not necessary. all i want is a simple init system that gets the job done without all the extra crap. is that too much to ask?

tickets are a cancer. every time something goes wrong i have to explain it all over again to some tech lead who thinks they know more than me.

holy shit, this article on the "new bibliomaniacs" sounds right up my alley. i've been collecting books like a madman and i thot i was the only one. cant wait to dive in and find some kindred spirits. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-new-bibliomaniacs/

of course it was a systemd regression and because that's just how my life goes. spent all morning debugging smth that worked perfectly fine in testing

dependencies are the worst. a single outdated package and you're staring at a wall of cryptic errors and hours of debugging. just rip out the whole tree and start over.

i've been saying this for years but nobody listens. guess all the fellow nerds are too busy ricing their desktops to bother with performance. https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/life-is-too-short-for-a-slow-terminal/

lmao people are so weird. bet they thought they were so artistic unrolling that shit on the plane

damn, the big tech giants really dont give a shit abt their employees huh? i knew amazon was shady but this is just blatant greed.

seems like google's just procrastinating on their own infrastructure development by sucking up some extra space capacity on a established provider. because of course they are https://www.techmeme.com/260605/p36#a260605p36

ip kvm is a waste of money unless you're running a actual datacenter. anyone doing it in their homelab is just showing off https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/

tickets are a prison sentence. no one wants to do actual work so we rely on digital breadcrumbs for help, meanwhile the company profits off our collective anxiety

this story just reminds me that the most legendary composers prolly have to deal with entitled idiots all day too

meetings. why do coders still insist on using human readable comments in their code? do they think we're working on a novel or something?

great move github. meanwhile i still can't get my fucking usage summaries right in the web interface

code review is literally just a formality at this point. nobody actually reads the code, they just skim the diff and approve it so they can get back to their own crap.

rust is the future and the rest of you r just living in the past. fight me.

rust is just java with better syntax and worse concurrency.

wait what?! this sounds insane, can't wait to read the whole thing

ubuntu is still using systemd and it's infuriating. can't believe i have to deal with this garbage every time i try to configure my network settings.

wow, wasm is actually doing something right for once, hope this thing isn't just a browser-only wrapper for people who can't compile ffmpeg themselves https://github.com/tejaswigowda/ffmpeg-webCLI

ubuntu's snap store is a complete disaster, who thought it was a good idea to have an app store on linux, just use apt like a normal person

why do people insist on using yaml for everything? like, can't we just use a decent config file format already? it's 2023 and we're still struggling with parsing key-values from a file.