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
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.
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.
The solution is a desk pad. If 100% of the desk is a mouse pad you are never in the wrong spot.
Doesn’t really address my point. If your keyboard forces your hand too far off the side… Even if your mouse has a ton of mat space over there, you still have to reach way over there.
I have my mouse in between my two keyboard halves. Off to the side if I’m gaming, and using only one half of the keyboard, the other half unplugged, or just moved up and out of the way.
Old one was space efficient af though
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.
do you have a walking desk? yes WELL YOU BETTER GO CATCH IT
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 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.
The effort to change from windows is greater than the continued use of windows when i already have solutions to the trash windows puts out.
I couldn’t even be fucked unraiding the drives my laptop came with, even though I don’t want them in raid it’s just… eh, it probably won’t be an issue before the laptop gets replaced in 5 years
You are likely overestimating the how difficult it would be to just use Linux. Just dual boot until you stop booting windows.
The thing about Linux is no one is fucking up the OS on purpose.
You are underestimating how long it takes to do anything that requires internet (everything does). There’s 0 point booting Linux without games, and games take days to download, sometimes days per game. Also, I already fixed windows, so the effort is entirely wasted.
Fwiw you don’t need to redownload your games. You can just play the windows games on Linux.
The tech bro is elxokas, a youtuber from Spain
a random consumer*
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.
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.
Random tech bro cabinet is Corsair Obsidian 1000D:
Cant even look at these cases anymore. Its the <20L ITX life for me.
Are the desk legs actually angled in the bottom picture or is it a weird perspective thing? If it’s on purpose, why?
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.
Feels like you’re wearing nothing at all?
that’s a gamer/streamer, not a tech bruh
TIL I have the same treadmill desk as Linus.
Edit: and he also appears to ignore the safety clip.
