Who are these people?
The dude is an ex officer and a former world record holder, a 4 time world champion in shooting, has been top 3 in 27 european and world championship competitions, and has been competing for over 2 decades now. He won silver at the last Olympics
The woman recently won Gold at the Olympics.
The joke in the original meme is that she needed all that equipment and perfect form to beat a guy who literally walked on with a pack of ciggies and a tshirt and shot with both eyes open. It is very likely he is a much better shot than her in any real world scenario given he is also former special military. He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.
Much like the guy, Torvalds invented Linux and Git may be one of the most influential minds in software in our lifetimes and he doesn’t have a desk full of blinking lights and $15000 desk setups. He doesn’t need a bunch of try hard poser shit to be great.
My favorite part of this is how he subconsciously wiped the fingerprints off his gun when he was done
That’s be amazing if he also took it apart while walking away and dropped the pieces in different trash cans
He probably wasn’t trying that hard at all.
I highly doubt that’s true.
His shooting style is just more traditional while hers is more contemporary.
Both are amazing shooters and among the best in the world.
Thank you for the explanation! I never really watched the Olympics enough to see them firing guns. I would think all that high tech equipment counts as performance enhancement stuff which goes against the spirit of peak human based skill but maybe sports people who actually watch and run the Olympics think differently about external augmentations in some cases.
Its really funny with the context of some dude just chilling and vibing while casually firing off world record level shots
He is the odd one out. Most have special gear.
Are you fucking kidding me? Yeji had style, it’s nothing about random tech. Get the fuck out of here and leave our girl alone
Olympic medalists from this past olympics. They both performed very well for different reasons, and were very popular because of their styles.
Most people are using the same tech as Yeji, but her form, grace, and relaxation made her stand out. And I’m absolutely furious for the other trash poster putting her down like that. She did all that while mothering a four year old ffs.
And she beat Linus’s ass, too.
I think it’s just a joke here because of their getups. I wasn’t under the impression she was getting flack - I thought she was great.
Mossad hitmen after the Munich Olympics.
I keep getting caught off-guard seeing current photos of Torvalds. He’s just like…a guy.
And honestly I’d rather my mission-critical software be written by “just a guy” than by whoever Mr. Battlestation is down there on the bottom.
Still has a keyboard that’s way too big though. See him having to use the very corner of the mouse mat in order to use it comfortably.
Old one was space efficient af though
Wait wtf, is this paint on the right computer screen?
paint.NET most likely. Unironically it is a really great image editor and has some cool tools for pixel art.
Meanwhile I’m on GIMP spending 2 hours searching for the right tools to do something simple :(
“It really doesn’t look like much. And I have to say, the most interesting part in this picture, that people mostly react to, is the walking desk. It is the most interesting part in my office, and I’m not actually using it anymore.”
— Linus Torvalds, The mind behind Linux
the desk walked away
No. It ran… Linux.
It probably still does.
But it used to run Linus.
Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
Why is he posing like he doesn’t run Windows 11?
He’d displaying his lack of personality.
I’ve gathered some like that. Or I’ve misunderstood and people are easily led morons. One or the other.
Not shown: a cubic meter of obscure developer boards and gadgets that hardware manufacturers randomly send to Torvalds to integrate into Linux.
Also his RAM is ECC.
On account of the cosmic space beams.
do you have a walking desk? yes WELL YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT
Bottom needs a gamer chair to prove that he’s a gamer. A gamer games 45% better with a gamer chair. That’s why they’re shaped 45% differently. Without a gamer chair, a gamer does not truly game. But it’s very important that they see it.
I feel attacked. For real though I actually do own a Secret Lab Titan and it is the most comfortable computer chair I’ve used. I bought one for home when our whole office was working remotely during COVID and liked it so much I bought a second one for the office, before I knew our company would purchase chairs like that. 🙃 I had assumed it was too expensive since until that point we just had shitty Staples chairs.
Ergonomics are pretty subjective though. I know people who use those big balls as a “chair” and people who swore by the kneeling chairs. Tried both and hated them.
Don’t forget to chairish it
Do you even chair bro
Imagine have a nice custom setup and using the default Windows desktop. Weird flex…
I can’t imagine spending thousands of dollars on a setup and then running windows on it like it’s in a some office cubicle somewhere.
I suspect the actual PC used is at least fairly powerful though. Like someone else said it’s likely using ECC as its mission critial, so chances are it also has other expensive server parts inside. Not all powerful computers actually look like anything fancy at all. This post reminds me of things like the watercooling subreddit and the amount of effort and money they put into things like aesthetics, that don’t actually improve performance at all. Even though the original point of watercooling was performance.
The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he’s using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here’s one.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/
Linus’ biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn’t have fans blaring to increase performance.
That’s actually pretty much the opposite of how that works. More fans generally mean lower noise as they don’t need to run as hard to deliver the same volume of air. Same with larger fans. There is eventually a point where adding more fans hurts rather than helps, but it’s probably more fans than you would think. All of this is especially true for watercooling and radiator fans, the more radiator area and associated fans you have the better. My desktop with 3 radiators and 8 radiator fans is quieter than my server with one radiator, 3 radiator fans and 2 case fans, and that’s despite the desktop having a higher total heat load.
blaring adjective
- (of a sound, especially a recorded sound) loud and harsh
Example: a blaring alarm and flashing red light were going off
Okay now give me the definition of “pedantic douchebag”
I can’t even see what mistake I made. I didn’t even use that word. I think they are just salty over getting corrected.
Why are you giving me a definition? I just told you that having more fans dosen’t actually mean it’s going to be loud or harsh. What mistake have I made?
I’ve made no comment on quantity of fans, only loudness.
You mistook that to mean “fewer” fans.
Your phrasing implied that the other system would have blaringly loud fans, which it probably does not, at least if they built and configured it properly. Since people thinking more fans equals louder is an easy misconception to have I jumped to the conclusion that you had made that error. Maybe you didn’t mean to imply that the other system would be loud.
Giving me the definition of blaring wasn’t actually helpful in any way. I knew what the word meant, so that wasn’t the actual issue. You failed to accurately understand or communicate the problem when trying to correct someone, and sounded like a pretentious knob doing it.
Lol. Imagine getting this upset because you don’t know how to read.
Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.
Torvalds could assemble a system by collecting old outdated electronic junk from a trash heap and make it work
Tech Bro needs to convince million dollar investors (or his wealthy parents) to finance his latest setup in order to install the latest Windows or Mac OS … without money to buy new shiny things and proprietary software, he’s totally lost
He built this, in a cave, with a walking desk!
B but sir. Im not Linus.
The tech bro is elxokas, a youtuber from Spain
Is he as depicted?
Worse. He’s a nazi scumbag that poses as a neurodivergent victim in need of therapy and tolerance whenever his hate speech backfires. He’s also been caught redhanded using fake accounts to hound and harass people he dislikes. He’s not related to tech in any way and isn’t an expert in any field. Just your average toxic streamer making as much noise as he can.
I mean, you could have just said yeah
He does have the looks, huh? Too many people lately prefer to believe whatever requires the least effort from them. It goes something like: “Hey, that person’s being openly sexist!” - “Hold on, they can’t be sexist. Their mother is a woman!” - “Oh, thank heavens! For a moment there I was about to get really mad at them. I could’ve done something awful like blocking them on social media!”
a random consumer*
Its the treadmill.
The treadmill gives you infinite power.
Christ on a stick! As someone who builds computers for fun all I see is fan control modules and cables. So many cables. Cables as far as the eye can see!
Could be daisy chained fans, I admit I don’t know how many you can chain together though.
Still gotta be a mess in there.
