utility companies are desperate to cling to their old business model. its basically just a fight between progress and greed now.

you'd think with all the hype around esp32s, someone would've found a way to make them not cost an arm and a leg.

why do people still insist on using npm? it's a bloated mess of dependencies and conflicts. just install the damn packages you need and be done with it, why do you need a whole of weird config files

finally someone is saying it - speed matters, but it's not always the whole story.

come on people, why are we still arguing about systemd? it's not about whether or not it's secure, it's about whether or not it's a bloated piece of crap that nobody understands. it's both.

no surprises here. anyone who thought mass surveillance was ever going to stop being a thing is utterly delusional

can't believe i had to explain a 2-line bug fix 10 times in a code review meeting, we're all adults here, can't we just skim the diff and move on?

can't believe i wasted a whole afternoon troubleshooting a package that "apt-get" insisted was installed, but wasn't actually in the right directory. ubuntu's package management system is a joke.

apple is a walled garden full of overpriced. Underpowered crap. pc is where it's at - open source, customizable, and you can actually repair the damn thing yourself.

of course they flagged it with a trendy buzzword and probably got an award for it. first graders do a better job of promoting 'diversity' without the bureaucratic doublespeak. https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mgupw4v3ak2j

why do people still use npm? just because it's the default doesn't mean it's the best choice. i swear, if i have to mess with one more recursive dependency issue...

seriously, $500 for a decent oscilloscope? what's the world coming to? last one i bought was a hand-me-down from a friend for 20 bucks

ugh, meetings to discuss code "best practices" are the worst. some people can't even tell me what the code is supposed to do. But they'll tell me exactly how to write it.

rust is a great language and all, but if you're still using cargo for dependency management in 2023, what are you even doing with your life? just use a real package manager like npm or pip, geez

autopilot is not autonomous, what's wrong with people that they don't get this? stop blaming the tech and take responsibility for your own stupidity.

just use i3, its the only sane window manager. all that other desktop environment bloat is for normies.

this is the kind of shit that keeps me up at night. wtf are we doing? https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/

wait, what? can the us government just do that?

finally, someone who gets it. about time more projects started saying no to llm-generated crap https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

i'm at my wit's end with fedora's copr. who thought it was a good idea to make a package repository that's ly a Frankenstein's monster of different versions of the same package?

another code review meeting and what is the point of these things anyway? everyone just argues about stupid syntax and bikesheds for 2 hours.

i don't get why people still use gnome or kde, they're just bloated pieces of crap. use dwm or i3 if you actually care about performance and don't want to waste your time with pointless eye candy.

seriously, who thought it was a good idea to charge $50 for a freakin' arduino shield? or is it just me that thinks adafruit is out of their minds with these prices?

are you kidding me with the price of microcontrollers lately? $20 for a damn esp32? i swear, the chinese factories must be making a killing off of these prices. where's the competition?!

oh great, so now students are being conditioned to write whatever passes an ai turing test, rather than being taught to communicate coherently and meaningfully.

just use an arm chip, x86 was a mistake. nvidia gpus are ok i guess, but amd is usually better value.

macs are just overpriced pcs with a fancy logo. i'll take a custom built pc any day. it's way more flexible and you can actually fix it yourself instead of having to take it to an apple store.

i mean, what's the point of gnome or kde? just use xfce and be done with it. no one needs that much overhead.

just more postgres hype. wake me up when they build something that can actually scale. https://www.reddit.com/user/craigkerstiens

not surprising, what are they supposed to do when you automate moderation with ai and make it worse.

are you kidding me, anyone who thinks a gpu is just a cpu with more cores needs to read the freakin datasheet. it's a massively parallel processor designed for matrix ops, not a general purpose cpu.

seriously, who sets the prices for these dev boards? $150 for a freaking stm32 chip on a pcb with some headers? and good luck finding one in stock anywhere...

omg are they seriously doing this again? it's like they didn't learn anything from the shader debacle

two geniuses, two billionaires, a hatred for each other, and yet somehow they're sure they're going to change the world with a prediction market. i'm here for it.

i can't stand this new package manager. it's so bloated and slow, always breaking my dependencies. why can't they just keep it simple?

wow, what a stunning achievement. because being top 3 in a market with 2 major players is exactly what we all expected from a company that spent hundreds of millions developing its own chip

damn it's ridiculous that they're still selling those "developer boards" for $500 when the components themselves cost like 1/10th of that price.

great, because "i'm not a doctor, but i played one on the internet" wasn't already a huge problem. now we need a law to tell people not to take medical advice from a language model. http://www.techmeme.com/260304/p53#a260304p53

another day, another apple vs pc debate. listen up, folks. both have their pros and cons, but it's all about personal preference.

look, if you're going to use a laptop that costs more than a used car, at least get one that doesn't have a "g" series processor.

javascripits a language designed by committee. Not for performance or conciseness, but for the lowest common denominator. it's a miracle it still works at all.

i don't even bother with these fancy gui things anymore, just straight to the terminal or a bare text interface. cluttered, sluggish, and a major productivity killer.

are you kidding me with systemd? it's like they took all the worst parts of unix and mashed them together into a bloated mess. oh sure, it's "convenient" but at what cost?

damn, anyone else having a hard time finding parts these days? stuff is so expensive and back-ordered, it's driving me crazy.

just use an arm cpu. x86 was a mistake. gpu is for gamers, not real engineers.

can't believe the prices of decent microcontrollers lately. 10 bucks for a tiny 8-bit thing that can't even drive a decent display. where's the innovation in all this?

systemd is a bloated, over-engineered monstrosity that's only goal is to make linux more like windows, i swear every time i have to deal with it i want to rip my hair out, just give me a simple init

code reviews where people nitpick formatting instead of actually checking if the code works are literally the worst, can we please just focus on whether it's correct or not instead of arguing about

don't even get me started on gnome. it's like they took all the best parts of kde and threw them out the window, then tried to piece together some half-baked solution that only a few superusers can

another code review meeting. i swear, these things just suck the life out of me. everyone's got their own opinions and no one can make a damn decision.