When You Don't Let Your 30 Year Old ThinkPad Die

Content How gigabyte names their BIOS version: Function Keys F1 to F12 How MS names their BIOS version: Simone Giertz

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute DEVOLUTION of programmers is too real! 😭 On the left, we have the CHAD programmer of yesteryear - building an ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH, talking directly to God, and casually mentioning CIA conspiracies while coding in 640x480 resolution like some kind of digital BARBARIAN! And what do we have now? A pathetic little doge in a coffee sweater, TRAPPED in Vim, desperately clinging to Stack Overflow and Spotify for emotional support! Can't even exit a text editor without begging for help! The audacity! The TRAGEDY! For the uninitiated: TempleOS was an operating system coded entirely by one man (Terry Davis) who claimed divine inspiration. Meanwhile, Vim is that text editor where generations of programmers have been held hostage because nobody remembers how to exit it (it's :q! by the way, YOU'RE WELCOME).

So Linux developers looked at all the pressing issues they could solve—security vulnerabilities, driver compatibility, UI improvements—and decided "You know what the world really needs? A Flatpak app to un-pixelate adult videos." This is peak open source: someone had an itch, and by God, they scratched it. Three-star rating though, so I guess the algorithm still needs work. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my printer to work without sacrificing a goat.

The eternal Vim paradox perfectly captured. Sure, it's been around since the dinosaurs roamed the earth, and yeah, the learning curve is basically a vertical wall covered in grease. You'll spend your first week accidentally deleting entire files and wondering why your keyboard suddenly stopped typing words. But here's the kicker: once you've climbed that wall and your fingers start speaking fluent hjkl, you'll feel like a code-editing wizard who can manipulate text at the speed of thought. The "you're free" part hits different when you realize you've transcended the need for a mouse and can refactor entire codebases without your hands ever leaving the home row. Just don't ask a Vim user how to exit—they're still figuring that out.

Content Me operating an actual server Also me operating a washing machine "Alright, proxmox installed, all the 19 LXCs are properly set up. Web services are proxied through a nginx to make SSL cert setup easier. Valheim, CS:GO and icarus game servers are running. And it only took 45 Minutes." "Hi Mum, thanks for answering my call. Listen, I have a question, where do I put in the laundry detergent?"

The eternal struggle between Linux enthusiasts who can't stop evangelizing their distro and normal humans who just want to exist in peace. The NixOS fan is going full technical manifesto about package management superiority while the other person's "Cool." response carries the weight of a thousand silent screams. It's the digital equivalent of someone explaining their CrossFit routine while you desperately search for the exit.