If it works, it works.

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.

Mr. Battlestation that is running one GPU, but has the combined cooling to run a nuclear power plant
- Cooling? You mean the spinning leds?
- TBF, cooling is cheap, GPUs are expensive.

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.
- You can pry my tenkey from my cold dead fingers, haha
- The solution is a desk pad. If 100% of the desk is a mouse pad you are never in the wrong spot.
- I recently got a 80% keyboard without numpad and bought a separate numpad to put on the left side of the keyboard.
  Game changer.
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.

"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.

Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?

I had a friend ask for recommendations for prebuilts. I found one that was under budget and over spec for their needs and sent them the info. They ended up going with an overbudget one with arguably worse specs (they didn't really need the specs I was suggesting but bang for buck it made sense and was still under budget) because it had all the lights that the seller could shove in it. No real judgement if that's your style and you have the money, but it just upset me to have spent time doing research for them only to have them ignore all of that because they failed to mention that lights were important.

The bloody lights everyone is obsessed with nowadays caused me numerous nights of shit sleep. Some devices designed by companies who clearly think too much of themselves decided that they would keep their LEDs on despite the computer shutting down.
If anyone else is experiencing this issue, look for ErP in your BIOS/EFI and then turn it on/enable it.
Caveat: you won't be able to charge your USB devices using your PC USB ports while the PC is shutdown if you change this setting.
- If its an Asus there is actually a setting to deal specifically with the lighting. One in the UEFI turns it off completely. Otherworldly you can install their software and tell it to turn off when the PC is off or in sleep mode.
- Turns out that my CPU fan requires a proprietary device to turn off the rgb in it, or adjust it at all.
- I swapped the motherboard on my old desktop /now server, and now it does this. Fan lights stay on when it's shut down. It's a server so it's never off except when something went wrong but it's annoying to think it's on when it's not.
  Next time I need to shut it off I'll check for this setting, thanks for the tip!
Only the keyboard lights matter!
- Unironically, yes. Especially if you have a nice keyboard that allows layers.
Obviously the pretty lights are important, it's for playing the games with pretty lights.
Sounds like all shopping experiences with the wife and daughters. They purposefully choose the other one when asking for my opinion.
My case is black, with black accents, with no window, with soundproofing inside, it's hidden behind my screen

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.

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.

Don't forget the Dew Drip® feedtube for max gameage.
Do you even chair bro
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
With that lighting he's definitely streaming, so there is one party involved that's even more interested in people seeing his chair. I wonder if the companies making these abominations even gift them to streamers.

Imagine have a nice custom setup and using the default Windows desktop. Weird flex...

But mah system is up-to-date to run Windows the Eleventh!

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.

When i was still into building computers, i really liked elaborate watercooled builds. But the whole maintenance and the little gain wasn't even worth it for me. I don't wanna know how much an average watercooled pc is suffering
- What kind of maintenance were you doing? Building the things is turning out to be a pain for me, but actual maintenance shouldn't be much more than for a regular PC. You still have to dust a regular PC after all. You do occasionally have to change fluid, but shouldn't need doing more than every 4 years or so if you use something like DP Ultra or car coolant.

Bruhhh but my NFT's will be mooning soon!

The guy in the lower pic looks like such a chud.

He's exactly the sort of twat that as soon as he shows up in any IT workplace everyone cringes because that MBA motherfucker is gonna be the stupidest, most unprofessional, unskilled thing on the floor and he's gonna make it everyone elses problem
- And when he loses his job to a more skilled person, even if who is also a white cishet guy, will cry about DEI, and will start a career in the same echochamber as Brian Lunduke.

Ew Windows 11

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

The tech bro is elxokas, a youtuber from Spain

It’s a bit like alt med quacks wearing a white lab coat and carrying a stethoscope while they prescribe magical water or wave coloured crystals at you.

I remember trying to use one edition of MSDN (MicroSloth Developer Network if I recall correctly) on my laptop a few years ago. Whoever had developed the UI for it had been using a giant monitor because on a small laptop screen the article contents in the right-hand detail panel didn't word-wrap correctly, so reading the article required constant scrolling left-and-right with the horizontal scroll bar (which sometimes didn't even show up). For six months I just got in the habit of copying-and-pasting the contents into a simple text editor so that I could actually read the shit normally.

I've long advocated making developers use the shittiest equipment and no extra monitors, just to ensure that what we build actually works on most machines. I'm not a monster: the money saved could be used to give developers ACTUAL FUCKING OFFICES.

There are browser tools to emulate different devices.
It's two button clicks to test layouts. Just laziness or lack of ability.
That's why you should always test on a variety of screen sizes including mobile. That however doesn't mean you should make your devs work on terrible machines. Then you end up in situations where it dosen't scale correctly. It's also terrible for developer productivity, many of whom don't even work on the front end. I don't think the cost of PCs is anywhere near that of offices, and I suspect the reason for not having offices isn't monetary anyway.

But standing desks are awesome, I too would pick the top over the bottom setup

Never tried them, but I feel like I'd get tired after a couple minutes
- The idea (at least from what I'm getting) is to be able to switch posture throughout the day, not necessarily to stand up the whole day. I've tried one for a couple of days and it seems nice, I just haven't gotten around buying one for home yet.

Its the treadmill.

The treadmill gives you infinite power.

Random tech bro cabinet is Corsair Obsidian 1000D:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/bHprxr/corsair-obsidian-series-1000d-atx-full-tower-case-cc-9011148-ww

Cant even look at these cases anymore. Its the <20L ITX life for me.

TIL I have the same treadmill desk as Linus.

Edit: and he also appears to ignore the safety clip.

Don't forget Subsurface.

Are the desk legs actually angled in the bottom picture or is it a weird perspective thing? If it's on purpose, why?

aesthetics, i would guess. everyone has different tastes.
Dunno but it makes sense, more space for your knees when you swivel close to the edge.
- They're not common at all, but I prefer a desk suspended from the ceiling with chains or whatever - complete and total freedom for the legs.

And the guys who invented UNIX did so by using toggle switches and teletypes...

Sad to see a nazi getting his pictures shared here (not Linus, obviously). 😔

- Definitely not Linus.
- Xokas (the guy on the bottom)

Im pretty sure he also has a 3d printer

Linus or techbro because as a printer owning technician i will throw down...
- Most probably both
- Linus, im pretty sure one video with him shows a 3d printer.

El puto Xokas xDDDD

Yea because to make Linux and GIT you have to have starkly different world view.

There was some old interview with Linus. He said that the first thing people usually notice about the setup is the standing desk (this was long ago, and he was a bit of a trendsetter). The second thing they notice is the wall colour. It's used in mental hospitals. It has a calming effect on human mind.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

Weird seeing Xokas in the wild, outside of Spanish communities

The computers get faster the code gets slower and tech bros slither into our DMs

He should probably get that wood treated.

I thought it was a rug, assuming you meant on the bottom

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

Depends on what use are you going to give it