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When you're shopping for a gaming PC and suddenly realize that Valve's mid-tier prebuilt is literally just a cube with USB ports. Same specs, same price range, but one's made by the company that gave us Half-Life 3... wait, never mind. The real kicker? It's probably running SteamOS, which means you're paying premium prices for a glorified Linux box that plays games. But hey, at least it's a stylish cube. Valve really looked at the PC gaming market and said "you know what this needs? More geometric minimalism." The excitement is real though—there's something about Valve slapping their logo on hardware that makes gamers lose their minds. Maybe it's the hope that if we buy enough Steam Machines, Gabe will finally count to three.

Content Diana Carrier artemis134. Follow Programming is like magic. You write very specific instructions in arcane languages to invoke commands, and if you get it even a little bit wrong you risk unleashing demons and destroying everything. 1:49 PM - 23 Jun 2018

Content teejdv teejdv " use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually," he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. you use GNU Linux." don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNULinux." The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long." 9:00 PM Aug 2, 2023 500.8K Views 495 Retweets 44 Quotes 5,077 Likes 555 Bookmarks

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Content Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows. How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars Anything else you can share with us that engineers might find particularly interesting? This the first time we'll be flying Linux on Mars. We're actually running on a Linux operating system. The software framework that we're using is one that we developed at JPL for cubesats and instruments, and we open-sourced it a few years ago. So, you can get the software framework that's flying on the Mars helicopter, and use it on your own project.

Someone actually hand-wrote their OpenSSH private key on paper. Let that sink in. The same key that's supposed to be kept secret, never shared, and definitely never exposed to human eyes for more than a millisecond is now immortalized on graph paper like it's a high school math assignment. This is either the most paranoid backup strategy ever conceived (EMP-proof! Ransomware-proof! Works during the apocalypse!) or someone fundamentally misunderstood the "write it down somewhere safe" advice. Either way, I'm impressed by the dedication to transcribing hundreds of random characters by hand. The real question is: did they actually verify it character by character, or is this just an elaborate piece of security theater? Pro tip: If you ever need to restore from this backup, good luck distinguishing between that lowercase 'l', uppercase 'I', and the number '1'. Your SSH connection will be rejecting you faster than a senior dev rejecting a PR with no tests.