adding system specs to steam reviews was a 300 IQ move from valve because you really get to see people with 2018 GPUs complaining about "lazy devs not optimizing their game" and internalize these people's votes count the same as yours

why does my systemd unit randomly terminate? process opens a file on a NFS mount during ExecStartPre ⤷ systemd infers a dependency ⤷ the mount has `automount` and `idle-timeout` ⤷ after some time the mount times out ∴ systemd HELPFULLY deactivates the service WITHOUT an explanation

this is something that annoys me greatly about the Linux desktop: vast decades of work sunk into designing clones of proprietary experiences from ages past, clinging to the notion that everything beyond Word 2003, the Start Menu and the App Store is not understandable to the mythical Average User

amos@fasterthanli.me · last wk.

If you boost shit like this you instantly lose my respect. The software on the left is a GNU clone of shit made by Adobe/MS/Lotus/blah 30 years ago. The thing on the right is a desperate attempt at staying afloat. It's the symptom not the problem. Stop with the rosy retrospection bs.

The state of European cloud providers in 2026. crescentro.se/posts/euro-c...

The state of European cloud providers in 2026

Old man yells at cloud. The cloud yells back.

crescentro.se

never worked harder for a potato in my got damn life

landlord installed a new ikea oven, the sticker is in cyrillic and the oven has not been on market since 2018

recently got algorithmed into people who pointsmaxx on airlines and i'm impressed by the exploits they find, but also slightly horrified that there are genuinely people who book short haul connecting business class flights just to get their status up

i spent countless hours configuring (n)vim for a decade, just to end up using helix and zed with minimal configs. it's fine guys, let it go. there are better ways to spend your time than to fix your LSP setup every weekend.

aly@aly.codes · 4w ago

I am once again saying that I just want non-political software but you guys keep adding nazis to it github.com/neovim/neovi...

i can finally run all 32GBs of RAM i bought over a year ago in anticipation of The Current Situation and all it took was getting a 7mm taller heatsink for my comically overpowered 9900x

mouse

𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂@aub.bsky.social · last mo.

SHOW ME HOW FAST YOU ARE! If you would be so kind, navigate to this website I made and test your reaction speed for me. :) Feel free to practice first, but please respond to this post with: 1. Your VERY FIRST timed score. 2. Whether you used a mouse, touchpad/screen, etc. aubrika.github.io/brm

problem: you want to use public transport in helsinki 2025 solution: you download an app and purchase a day ticket. 2026 solution: log in. decline always on location tracking. decline it again. you can only buy a day ticket if you "strongly authenticate". you need to log in with your govt ID. 1/

nix is great and i love it but it will be defeated by whoever bolts on a human-readable language on top of it

however I would go to latin mass for a year before I installed 'suckless software' on my PC

there's a concerning amount of ai-generated liberal slop "comics" on this platform and they always somehow oneshot the users of this website to the tune of thousands of likes i wish i wasnt here for it or that it was at least blockable in some way

KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices

it's going to be so over for the music industry when i finally complete my rockbox sync app for linux this is the mass market tech the media execs are trembling in fear of

dear diary, today, in my 30th year of life, 25th year of using computers, 11th year of working as a developer, and 14th year of using Linux in some capacity, i have finally invoked `find` with a non-trivial query without googling or copy-pasting.

do you think i can file a chargeback against logitech for sending me an invoice for 80 yen rather than 79.99€?

ok did another cyberpunk 2077 ending today (panam's) and it's significantly better, so i revise my previous harsh judgement

finished cyberpunk 2077 for the first time tonight and it was great until the ending

i am choosing violence today

Explain your @ It's also a gun .͜.

hi I'm amper. :)@ampersandie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Explain your @ I'm amper. :)

"this mix is so ass, sounds like a cat mixed it" oh ok

WHAT THE FUCK

God is dead and we have killed him www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking

It does not give you Bitcoin for smoking.

theverge.com

is there a solution for managing secrets in nix that doesn't require the target system to exist? both (r)agenix and sops rely on the target's public ssh key which is one click too much for my taste