Gates was a jerk. Jobs was a jerk that actually did make some positive impact on the world. Linus was a jerk who's mellowed to a pretty normal state. Woz is a fucking tech Angel/God who just generally wants good things for people.

edit: I guess to be fair, Windows did harbor us for a long time when nothing else was ready, Jobs pushed competition and some semblance of privacy. and Linus' code is just about everthing that exists now mostly for free.

I like Ken Thompson. He wanted to play a game on a computer that didn't have an OS that supported it so he wrote Unix.

My local Microcenter has posters of notable computer pioneers up high in the back where you can see them from anywhere in the store. Each poster has the person's name as well as a description of something they're most known for. Bill Gates is there as well as Ken Thompson, Robert Kahn, Robert Metcalfe, Grace Hopper, Richard Stallman, etc. I always thought that was a nice touch. Even though it's like the nerdiest of all stores, I suspect 90% of customers are probably Windows normies and just need a computer for work or to play games and wouldn't recognize any of them with the exception of Gates. Even I don't recognize some of the names, like Kahn (co-invented TCP/IP) and Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet).

pet project

Which one?

Never meet your heroes. Have you ever seen the way he rages at people on the mailing list? Don't get me wrong, he's made some incredible technical contributions that I'm thankful for, but I have to push back against claims that he is a well-adjusted dude.

Yeah, Same here honestly

Dude linuses anything but humble if you know anything about him he is one of the biggest dicks on the internet. Some of his reasoning is right but some of it is just him being a complete asshole.

"Draw me like one of your French Girls, or as recently I have taken to calling them, GNU+French Girls"

Rubbing his belly is lucky.

That last shirt button:

That was his cover photo on Cosmoputing

🎶 I'm too sexy for my shirt, to sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts~ 🎶

That's a very German response, but is he a pasta connoisseur? Cold or warm?

i would edit: never mind i read the stallman report and i would be too old/human/alive for him

Well, he is waiting for the pigeon with the print outs of the mails.

When you refer to “the picture here” I’m not sure if you are talking about the subject of the post, or the image you attached to your comment.

Either way: no.

For the Arch defaults, I find their stock wallpapers generally pleasing in a weird n-dimensional way. When I was a young microslopper, it was always whatever brought me joy from newgrounds that week.

The default wallpaper is meant to be pleasing, and I guess it's meant to appeal to the average person? I've known several people that don't change their wallpapers or that use that automatic carousel thing with a different image every time you wake the device.

The average tech bro doesn't have the skill to maintain a single system long enough for customizations to matter.

Maybe Linus also has that background.

But we wouldn't know since his screen is off.

I actually really love the default wallpaper in KDE Plasma. It changes with every release. I have a friend who also uses Plasma, and before each release, we always joke that the new wallpaper is our most anticipated feature because we're too lazy to change our wallpapers ourselves and simply wait for new releases to do it for us.

First time I saw that picture, win11 was new, and having it running meant you had a rather recently built PC with a TPM module. So, an additional layer of a (satirical?) hardware flex that I don't think goes well with, well, the worse Windows at the time.

I never look at the wallpaper long enough to care about changing whatever is default

I never pick a custom image for my my OS background, I never see it

Sometimes I switch it to grey or black

since i have family and cant change it to prn,i keep it at default too. Honestly though, i barely see it. Theres always some ui over it.

When I switched to Endeavor, Ganymede was the Default wallpaper and I fucking loved it so I kept it.

The next update it changed (since it was still set to default), so I dug through an rsync backup to find it and changed it back to Ganymede

Linus' photo also showcases the default Linux experience

Paraphrasing a tidbit of information from Northwest Repair, who's a guy on YouTube that does board-level repairs on computer hardware:

Apparently, reprogramming the firmware config and changing the RGB light status on a DRAM module are both done through the same SPI bus. Consequently, every time you change the RGB lighting, it has a tiny chance of accidentally bricking the stick.

So not only is RGB an additional upfront cost that consumers might not want, it could even contribute to long-term costs by reducing the lifetime of some components.

Things like Noctua fans and motherboards aimed at enterprise use cases tend to not have the shiny distractions that average tech bros want.

You probably want to stick with ATX over rack mounted stuff as an individual, just means you have to search for function-over-form brands for peripherals and the motherboard.