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PC Gaming In 2026

25 minutes ago 5.5K views 0 shares

The gaming hardware industry has officially entered its villain arc. While gamers and PC builders are just trying to run games without selling a kidney, AI companies and RAM manufacturers are in bed together, hogging all the sweet DDR5 modules for their data centers and AI training rigs. The joke here is that by 2026, the unholy alliance between AI tech giants and memory manufacturers will have completely squeezed out the consumer market. Your dream of building that 64GB gaming rig? Sorry buddy, those sticks are busy training GPT-7 to write better code than you. The betrayal is real when the components you need are being diverted to feed the machine learning beast instead of your Cyberpunk 2077 addiction.

Without Borrowing Ideas, True Innovation Remains Out Of Reach

AI Programming

50 minutes ago 10.2K views 0 shares

Without Borrowing Ideas, True Innovation Remains Out Of Reach

OpenAI out here saying the AI race is "over" if they can't train on copyrighted material, while simultaneously comparing themselves to... car thieves who think laws are inconvenient. The self-awareness is chef's kiss. Look, every developer knows standing on the shoulders of giants is how progress works. We copy-paste from Stack Overflow, fork repos, and build on open source. But there's a subtle difference between learning from public code and scraping the entire internet's creative works without permission, then acting like you're entitled to it because "innovation." The irony here is nuclear. It's like saying "10/10 developers agree licensing is bad for business" while wearing a hoodie made from stolen GitHub repos. Sure buddy, laws are just suggestions when you're disrupting industries, right?

Microsoft Certified Html Professional

Webdev AI Microsoft Programming Frontend

3 hours ago 46.9K views 1 shares

The classic interrogation technique applied to tech bros who pad their resumes. Someone claims they "use AI to write code" and "develop enterprise applications," but when pressed for specifics, they're really just making webpages. The punchline hits different because there's a massive gap between building scalable enterprise systems and throwing together HTML/CSS landing pages, yet both can technically be called "development." The Microsoft certification in the title adds another layer of irony—Microsoft offers legitimate professional certifications for Azure, .NET, and enterprise technologies, but "HTML Professional" isn't exactly the flex you'd expect from someone building enterprise apps. It's like saying you're a Michelin-starred chef because you can make toast.

Happy New Year Without Vibe Coding

AI Programming

7 hours ago 95.8K views 0 shares

When everyone's out here treating ChatGPT and Copilot like their personal coding assistants, and you're just... not. You've somehow made it through an entire year writing actual code with your actual brain, and now you're wearing that smug superiority like a badge of honor. While your coworkers are prompting their way through PRs, you're out here manually typing semicolons like it's 2019. The look says it all: "I still remember what a for loop looks like without asking an AI." Whether that's admirable or just stubborn is up for debate, but hey, at least your GitHub contributions are authentically yours.

Me During The New Year's Eve

Gamedev Programming

7 hours ago 105.6K views 0 shares

While normies are out there popping champagne and kissing strangers at midnight, we're here grinding that MMR or finishing that side quest. The fireworks go off, you glance at the tiny celebration emoji for exactly one second, then immediately return to what actually matters. New year, same priorities. The calendar changed but your K/D ratio is eternal. Honestly, did anyone expect us to suddenly become party animals just because the Earth completed another lap around the sun?

What Should You Never Ask Them

Git Devops Programming

9 hours ago 123.9K views 0 shares

You know those sensitive topics people avoid at dinner parties? Well, tech has its own version. Don't ask a woman her age, don't ask a man his salary, and whatever you do, don't ask a "vibe coder" to explain their commit messages. Because let's be real—that commit history is a warzone of "fix bug", "asdfasdf", "PLEASE WORK", and "I have no idea what I changed but it works now". Asking them to explain their commits is like asking someone to justify their life choices at 2 AM. It's not gonna end well. The "vibe coder" just codes by feel, ships features, and hopes nobody ever runs git blame on their work. Documentation? That's future-them's problem.

PC Magic Trick

Windows Microsoft Debugging

15 hours ago 207.0K views 0 shares

The forbidden knowledge that separates IT wizards from mere mortals. While everyone's frantically clicking around trying to figure out why Task Manager is frozen, you're sitting there with the secret: just hold CTRL and the process list stops jumping around like a caffeinated squirrel. It's the digital equivalent of knowing you can pause a microwave by opening the door—technically obvious once you know it, but absolutely mind-blowing to witness for the first time. The real power move is casually dropping this knowledge at family gatherings when someone asks you to "fix the computer." You become the Gandalf of Windows troubleshooting. Bonus points if you combine it with other Task Manager sorcery like Ctrl+Shift+Esc to summon it directly, or sorting by memory usage to identify which Chrome tab has achieved sentience.

Finally Found A Game My 5070 Ti Can't Run

Hardware Gamedev Windows Programming

16 hours ago 219.8K views 0 shares

Finally Found A Game My 5070 Ti Can't Run

Ah yes, the classic developer experience: dropping $1,500 on a GPU that can render entire universes in real-time, only to be humbled by a game from 2002 that requires "at least two MBs of video memory." The RTX 5070 Ti probably has 16GB of VRAM, which is roughly 16,000 MB, but somehow the game's ancient detection logic is like "nope, can't find it, sorry buddy." It's the digital equivalent of having a PhD but failing a kindergarten math test because you wrote your answer in cursive. Fun fact: Many old games hardcoded their system checks for hardware that existed at the time, so they literally don't know how to recognize modern GPUs. Your cutting-edge graphics card is essentially invisible to software that was written when flip phones were peak technology. The game is sitting there with its little 32-bit brain going "What's an RTX? Is that a type of dinosaur?"

AWS Certified ≠ Actually Knows DevOps?

AWS Devops Kubernetes Cloud

17 hours ago 225.3K views 0 shares

The eternal truth bomb: certifications are basically the participation trophies of the tech world. You've got the AWS certified guy sitting there reading an actual book (probably "Kubernetes in Action" or some O'Reilly tome), absorbing knowledge like a sponge, while the person with "expertise in devops and cloud technology" is just doom-scrolling on their phone in the shadows. The spotlight of higher salary shines exclusively on the certification holder, not because they necessarily know more, but because HR departments and recruiters can't resist that sweet, sweet AWS Solutions Architect badge on a resume. Meanwhile, the person who actually spent years troubleshooting production incidents at 3 AM, writing Terraform configs, and understanding the why behind infrastructure decisions gets overlooked. Classic case of "paper credentials > actual battle scars" in the hiring process. The certification industrial complex strikes again!

Reddit Is Safe

Webdev

20 hours ago 275.6K views 0 shares

When you map the seven deadly sins to tech platforms and somehow Reddit doesn't make the cut. That's either the greatest compliment or the most savage burn depending on how you look at it. The real question is: what sin would Reddit even be? Wrath from the comment sections? Sloth from doomscrolling for 6 hours straight? Pride from the "well actually" crowd? Turns out Reddit committed ALL the sins so efficiently it transcended the list entirely. It's not that Reddit is safe—it's that Reddit is the entire church of degeneracy that birthed these seven sins in the first place. Meanwhile LinkedIn gets assigned Pride, which is just *chef's kiss* perfect. Nothing says pride like humble-bragging about your "journey" in a 10-paragraph essay with motivational hashtags.

Choose Your Tech Debt

Programming Debugging

22 hours ago 299.6K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the eternal fork in the road of software development. On the left, we have the noble path of refactoring that spaghetti mess you inherited from your past self (or worse, your predecessor). Sunshine, rainbows, clean architecture—basically a fantasy land that requires actual effort and time you definitely don't have. On the right? The dark, stormy path of "if it works, don't touch it." That haunted mansion of legacy code where you're pretty sure there's a function that's been running since 2009 and nobody knows why, but production hasn't exploded yet, so... 🤷 The developer stands at the crossroads, knowing full well they're about to take the right path because deadlines exist and management doesn't care about your SOLID principles. The real kicker? Both paths lead to tech debt anyway. One just gets you there faster while letting you sleep at night (barely). Future you will hate present you either way. Choose wisely... or don't. The code will judge you regardless.

Checks Out

Programming Debugging Testing

1 day ago 382.2K views 0 shares

Someone in the library classification system woke up and chose violence. The Dewey Decimal System has filed software programming under "Unexplained Phenomena" and honestly, after debugging production for 15 years, I can't argue with that logic. Code works on my machine, fails in prod, passes all tests but crashes for one user in Nebraska—yeah, that's basically paranormal activity. At least they didn't put it under Fiction, though that would've been equally accurate.

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