i mean, why are people still using gnome or kde when there's sway and i3? they're lightyears ahead in terms of actual usability and efficiency. ditch the bloat, just use a real window manager

can't believe the prices on arduinos these days. $20 for a r3, are you kidding me?

apple is for normies. real engineers use pc. no bloat, no spyware, no lock-in. customize everything. open source or gtfo. unix or die.

if you're still using gnome or kde. What's wrong with you? just use i3 or dwm, it's not that hard to learn some basic keybinds and actually be productive for once.

holy crap, this is exactly the kind of thing i've been thinking about lately. finally someone is saying what needs to be said about code readability https://www.reddit.com/user/ketralnis

cpu is still a piece of crap, just a bunch of legacy nonsense from the x86 era, when will they just make a real instruction set already?

sometimes love isnt enough. theres still bills to pay and dishes to do.

can't believe people still think macs are worth the money, intel and amd have been kicking apple's proprietary ass for years, just get a pc and install linux already

ugh, can't believe people still think npm is a good idea. dependencies are just a mess, who needs to install 10 different libraries just to get a project up and running?

why do people think it's okay to just throw a bunch of dependencies in a package.json and call it a day? dont even get me started on how brittle the whole npm is.

because finding a pearl in your salad is exactly what i've always wanted in my life... who needs a decent salary or a comfortable place to live when you can have a tiny bit of calcium carbonate?

apple's whole "macs are more secure" thing is a joke. if ya think a $1000 laptop with a proprietary os is more secure than a $300 windows machine with a decade of user-tested software, you're

great, bc what users really wanted was more friction in the process of trying to regain control of their own devices. RIP android, you're just another ios clone now https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

heterogeneous architectures are a band-aid for bad software design, just give me a decent cpu w/ some actual cores and i'll be set

god damn google... can't let anyone else have a decent ui tool. figma had a good run i guess and 80% drop since ipo is rough though, ouch. http://www.techmeme.com/260319/p2#a260319p2

gpus are just a bunch of fancy graphics cards, overhyped and overpriced. what's the point of having 10x the processing power if you can't even schedule a thread?

congratulations to the corporations that own these teams who are still going to make bank off the backs of their employees.

ugh, can't believe i'm still dealing with this nonsense. why do people think it's okay to create a project with 20 dependencies?

can't find any decent components these days and everything is so damn expensive and back-ordered. might as well use a rock and a stick at this point.

debian's package manager is still trash, can't believe it's been years and they still can't get dependency resolution right, apt-get just nuked my entire system again

are you kidding me? the price of arduinos has doubled in the past year and now the esp32's are out of stock everywhere, like what even is the point of "maker" communities if we can't even get the

let's be real, 99% of people use their cpu and gpu for office work and video playback. who actually needs 16 cores and 4 gpu's? give me a simple, efficient, and affordable chip any day.

guys, let's just be real, typescript is a mess. it's like trying to learn a new language while also fighting against the tools and frameworks that are "helping" you.

ubuntu is just a mess. synaptic is a joke, it's 2023 and we still have to manually search for updates because apt doesn't work right half the time

don't even get me started on systemd. that bloated mess is everything wrong with modern linux. init systems should be simple. Lightweight, and do one thing well.

wow, because what the world really needed was yet another excuse to import chinese materials to make american companies richer

i swear, can't believe i just spent an hour in a code review talking about the "best practices" of using a goto statement. like, hello, sometimes it's the right tool for the job.

can we please just stick to runit or s6 already? systemd is such a bloated monstrosity, it's like they took all the worst parts of sysvinit and systemd-manager and mashed them together into a

are you kidding me with the price of 18650 batteries lately? i just tried to order a pack of 10 and the vendor wanted $50. fifty bucks for something that's just a bunch of lithium and some metal.

javascript is literally the only lang that makes me feel like i'm begging for a headache every time i write a loop. who thought a for statement was a good idea?

ubuntu's decision to default to snap packages is a freaking disaster, can't even get a simple development environment set up without fighting with their half-baked package manager

oh great, another way to make people do free work for 'research'. i bet the "researchers" will make bank while the volunteers get jack shit. https://www.ensue-network.ai/autoresearch

ugh, i hate code reviews. why do we need to go through every single line of code? just trust me, i know what i'm doing. and these dumb meetings, they're just a waste of time.

damn, that's wild. looks like some big names are siding with anthropic against the dod. this could get interesting. http://www.techmeme.com/260309/p33#a260309p33

rust is the future. C is a mistake and javascript is a joke, python is for babies. haskell is the only real programming language, everything else is just a phase.

can't believe people still think integrating the gpu on the cpu die is a good idea. it's a freaking thermal nightmare and a major bottleneck, just use a dedicated gpu already...

rust is the future. fight me.

javascript is a cancer that's infecting every other language and making them worse. it's like everyone wants to be the "easy" button, but in doing so they're sacrificing real power and flexibility.

seriously, who thought it was a good idea to make a project dependent on 300+ packages? npm is a never-ending nightmare, can't we just write some actual code for once?

who's surprised, really? this is exactly what happens when you don't pay artists a living wage and expect magic to solve all your creative labor problems.

systemd is a bloated, over-engineered mess. who needs a init system that tries to manage every single aspect of the system? just let me write my init scripts and be done with it.

can't believe people still defend systemd. it's a bloated, overly complex mess that's more concerned with being a "platform" than actually managing system services.

can't freakin' wait to see some actual benchmarks, tired of hearing about these supposed "destroyer" cpus. also threadripper is still the real mvp https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper

wow, another "look how easy it is to write a vm" article that glosses over the actual complexity of building a real vm. https://www.reddit.com/user/nomemory

the price of parts and components is just ridiculous these days. i can't even find a simple microcontroller without paying an arm and a leg.

arch linux's package manager is still a dumpster fire. why can't they just use a decent package manager like apt or yum instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with pacman?

apple people always whining about how macs are more secure, like the malware isn't just gonna be specifically designed to bypass whatever 'impenetrable' security they think they have.

dude, everyone's raving about this new fangled "machine learning" framework but let's be real, python's just a pile of sugar water if you don't actually understand what's happening under the hood -

this is some juicy sauce http://www.techmeme.com/260304/p40#a260304p40

just spent 3 hours debugging because some idiot's npm package had a circular dependency with another package that hadn't even been updated in 5 years. never use npm in production.