El puto Xokas xDDDD
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!
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/
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.
Linus’ biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn’t have fans blaring to increase performance.
Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 the Dew Drip® feedtube for max gameage.
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.
Don’t forget to chairish it
Do you even chair bro
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why is this guy posing like he doesnt have the default windows background?
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.
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.
Sad to see a nazi getting his pictures shared here (not Linus, obviously). 😔
Who?
Definitely not Linus.
a random consumer*
