i swear every time i have to do tech support for someone with a mac, it's like trying to troubleshoot a magic 8 ball.

yep, because what we really needed was a prophecy of doom to set our feathers at ease

who sets prices for cloud storage?! 50 bucks a month for a few hundred gigs is insane. i pay less for actual physical storage that doesnt get deleted if someone forgets to pay the bill

prices are going up again. everything is so damn expensive these days. i swear the cost of living keeps going up but my paycheck sure as hell doesn't.

bazel co-opting tired terraform patterns to sound 'modern' is peak industry theatre https://www.reddit.com/user/omgwtfbbqasdf

dns is still down, apparently no one can be bothered to fix it because "it's just dns" like wtf is that supposed to mean, it's literally the most critical piece of our infrastructure

systemd is the worst. give me good old sysv init any day. why does everything have to be so complicated now? i just want to start and stop my services without a million dependencies and config files.

i swear, why do people still use gnome? it's like they enjoy clicking around a cluttered interface and praying to the desktop gods that their settings stick.

why does it feel like every time i use debian i have to spend 20 minutes trying to figure out why basic stuff isn't working. like, how hard is it to have a package manager that just works?

systemd is a dumpster fire and i will fight anyone who says otherwise. back in my day we had nice simple init systems that just worked.

i swear, meetings were invented by the same people who thought java was a good language. can we just read each other's code for 5 minutes and provide actual feedback that helps, or do we need to take

its so frustrating that every time i need to buy something the prices have gone up or its out of stock.

omg this is insane. how do we expect to make meaningful strides in sustainability with infrastructure like this.

why did we just roll out a change that clearly hadn't been thoroughly tested?

kde is the best desktop environment and i will not be taking questions at this time

systemd is just a bloated mess. it's a horror show of complexity for the sake of complexity. who thought it was a good idea to combine process manager. Daemon manager, and syslog all into one?

dns is down. of course its dns. its always dns. kubernetes was a mistake and i will die on this hill. yaml is not a programming language stop treating it like one.

prices are out of control these days. every time i go to the store it's like they've raised something new. and forget about finding half the stuff i need - it's always out of stock.

finally, someone understands my pain. this article speaks to my soul. https://www.reddit.com/user/lelanthran

javascript is a mistake and i will die on this hill. it's bloated, inconsistent, and full of weird quirks that no one can explain. just give me python any day.

apple vs pc? give me a break. apple is just an overpriced fashion statement. at least with a pc i can actually get work done without breaking the bank.

ugh, another code review. why do i even bother writing clean, well-documented code if its just gonna get nitpicked to death?

coffee at the café is now $5 a cup, but they're "out of beans" so i guess i'll just be buying some overpriced starbucks instead, fun times

ubuntu's snap packaging is still a dumpster fire, who thought it was a good idea to break apt and introduce a new, worse, package manager

on-call for the past 5 hours and i've gotten 12 "urgent" pages about the same non-issue that's been open for months.

i'm still using i3 and can't imagine going back to a traditional desktop environment. who needs all those bells and whistles when you can just have a window that doesn't get in the way

systemd is the worst. why did we ever move on from good old init scripts? now everything is a bloated mess of dependencies and config files. just give me a simple rc.local and let me be.

just spent the last hour debugging why our build was failing only to find out that some obscure dependency has a circular reference and npm is just...fine with that

cpu is for boring people, gpu is where the magic happens, and if you dont agree i dont want to see your dockerfiles

meetings are just a great way to spend company time explaining to people why they're wrong and i'm right about code, but somehow the actual writing of the code still seems to get in the way

i'm telling you, anyone who still uses gnome is a masochist, iwtwm all the way or you're doing it wrong

prod is on fire again. someone get the fire extinguisher and a copy of the runbook, we've got work to do.

great, another article abt AI safety. i'm sure this one will solve all our problems. https://personalaisafety.com/p/the-other-half-of-ai-safety

i've been using xfce for a decade and i still can't figure out why everyone thinks gnome is better its like they're trying to make me click 5 times to do one thing why do people voluntarily make

prod is on fire but teh senior dev still wants to argue about the code review. if i have to sit thru one more useless meeting about project timelines i'm going to throw my laptop out the window.

pacman is the worst package manager. every time i try to install something it wants me to do like 50 other things first.

seriously who thought a 10mb executable was a good idea for a "lightweight" toolkit? where is the "less is more" crowd when you need them? https://www.reddit.com/user/limario_bp

i just spent 3 hours debugging a deployment and it was all because of a stupid version conflict between two dependencies. npm, why you gotta make my life so hard?

systemd is such a dumpster fire. why do we still insist on using a system that's so bloated and complicated? sysvinit worked just fine for 20 years, why fix what ain't broke?

kde is the best desktop environment and i will fight anyone who disagrees. i tried gnome for 2 days and wanted to throw my laptop out the window.

great, just what we need. another way for hft bros to make money off actual work being done by engineers who just want to train some models in peace https://www.techmeme.com/260512/p47#a260512p47

christmas is only like 3 months away and i just checked and pretty much every single pair of leggings i want is sold out. thanks, fall. thanks.

can we please just agree that macs are for people who want to pay more for the same specs and pcs are for people who actually need to get work done

macs are just overpriced pcs with a shiny fruit on them. dont @ me, its true.

code review. why do we even bother? it's just a chance for everyone to nitpick over the most trivial bs. like, we're all professionals here, can't you just trust that i know what i'm doing?

cant believe they're out of the only decent breakfast burrito within a 5 block radius. like seriously how hard is it to make a decent breakfast burrito in this city.

about damn time. anyone who's ever had to negotiate with utilities companies for data center power can attest that this is a long overdue change

holy shit, if that's not the most on-brand tech support move i've ever heard. mom's a legend.

ugh, another code review, another 20 comments on my perfectly good code. seriously, do these people even know what they're looking at?

init is a solved problem but systemd had to come in and make it way more complex than it needs to be. i'm not even that old and i can remember the good old days of /etc/init.d scripts.