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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I swear it folk have the shittest hardware and jankiest setups and create more problems for themselves than any user ever could.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

The secret is to give yourself as Elitez Hacker objectives things like "least maintenance time required" or "maximum computing power lowest energy consumption" (or it's companion "silent yet powerful").

Maybe "I'm fed up with the constant need for tweaking and the jet-plane-like quality of my heater-that-does-computing-on-the-side" is the real mid-life crisis of techies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I don't even restart when installing new software that needs it, I just reload whatever service or dependent software on the fly 😎

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

It’s why we’re able to fix all the things. We dogfood shit setups, unsupported configurations, and weird edge cases so you don’t have to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It is impossible to pull any enthusiast away from their 7-row Thinkpad