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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Meanwhile...

looks at old Thinkpad and raspi

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (9 children)

I have been an IT professional since 1995. Never have I ever had a personal PC that wasn't either a refurbished laptop or some sort of Frankenstein abomination that I put together from whatever was on sale and upcycled parts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I swear it folk have the shittest hardware and jankiest setups and create more problems for themselves than any user ever could.

[–] Aceticon 1 points 5 hours ago

The secret is to give yourself as Elitez Hacker objectives things like "least maintenance time required" or "maximum computing power lowest energy consumption" (or it's companion "silent yet powerful").

Maybe "I'm fed up with the constant need for tweaking and the jet-plane-like quality of my heater-that-does-computing-on-the-side" is the real mid-life crisis of techies.

[–] tomkatt 18 points 1 day ago

It’s why we’re able to fix all the things. We dogfood shit setups, unsupported configurations, and weird edge cases so you don’t have to.

[–] cm0002 13 points 23 hours ago

I don't even restart when installing new software that needs it, I just reload whatever service or dependent software on the fly 😎

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It is impossible to pull any enthusiast away from their 7-row Thinkpad

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