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Calms Down *

20 hours ago 100.3K views 0 shares

You know that mini heart attack when your app freezes and you're frantically wondering if it's an infinite loop, a memory leak, or if you just accidentally deployed to production? Then you crack open Task Manager like you're about to perform emergency surgery, and boom—the program just... fixes itself. No explanation, no error logs, nothing. It's like your code looked you in the eye and said "I was just messing with you." The best part? You'll never know what actually happened. Was it a race condition? A lazy garbage collector? The ghost of a developer past? Doesn't matter. Close Task Manager, pretend it never happened, and hope it doesn't come back during the demo tomorrow.

Windows Troubleshooting Source Code Leaked

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1 day ago 177.5K views 0 shares

Windows Troubleshooting Source Code Leaked

The entire Windows troubleshooting experience distilled into six lines of C code. Search for problems, wait exactly 60 seconds while pretending to scan your entire system, then confidently report nothing was found. The sleep timer is particularly accurate—you can practically hear the progress bar crawling across your screen while it does absolutely nothing. Microsoft's troubleshooter has been gaslighting users since Windows XP, convincing millions that their problems simply don't exist. Revolutionary problem-solving methodology: if you can't find the issue, just tell them there isn't one.

Real

Hardware Gamedev Windows

4 days ago 212.9K views 0 shares

Oh, the AUDACITY of modern gaming rigs with their instant boot times and RGB everything! Meanwhile, that beige tower from 2003 is out here taking a full coffee break just to POST. You could literally make a sandwich, contemplate your life choices, AND question why you're still keeping that ancient machine in the closet before it even shows you the Windows XP logo. But hey, at least it gave you time to mentally prepare for the underground racing glory that awaited. Those were the days when "fast boot" meant anything under 5 minutes and you genuinely had to schedule your gaming sessions around boot time. The newer generation will NEVER understand the character-building experience of watching that loading bar crawl across the screen like a sloth on sedatives.

Real Flex

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4 days ago 227.6K views 0 shares

We've all been there. You're 14, discovered right-click on the desktop, and suddenly you're a tech wizard in front of your non-tech friends. Refreshing the desktop like you're performing some arcane ritual that mere mortals couldn't comprehend. "Yeah, I'm basically a hacker," you think, as your friends watch in awe while you demonstrate the mystical powers of... F5. The confidence was unmatched. You probably also showed them how to open Task Manager and acted like you were defusing a bomb. Those were simpler times when knowing keyboard shortcuts made you the neighborhood tech support.

My Computer Has Trust Issues

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5 days ago 221.7K views 0 shares

Your computer treats every program like it's a suspicious stranger in a dark alley, even the ones you literally just downloaded yourself. You ask it nicely to install something, it cheerfully agrees, then immediately goes full paranoid detective mode: "Where are you from? What's your publisher? Show me your digital signature!" And when the program can't produce a notarized letter from Bill Gates himself, your computer loses its mind and screams VIRUS at the top of its digital lungs. The best part? Half the time it's flagging your own code that you compiled five minutes ago. Like dude, I literally made this. That's me. You're calling me a virus. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Windows Defender.

This App Is Currently Running Close The App And Try Again

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5 days ago 237.9K views 0 shares

This App Is Currently Running Close The App And Try Again

Content Kyle o @KylePlantEmoji Me: hey windows can you delete this file please Windows: you got it, j-... omg there's actually a program using it right now Me: omg who 6 Windows: omg I can't say 6

I Guess They Let The Intern Optimize The App

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6 days ago 265.1K views 0 shares

I Guess They Let The Intern Optimize The App

So Discord's brilliant solution to their memory leak problem is... turning it off and on again? REVOLUTIONARY! Instead of actually fixing why their app is devouring RAM like a starving hippo at an all-you-can-eat buffet, they just implemented a hard reset when it crosses 4GB. That's not optimization, that's just automated panic mode! It's like your car engine overheating, so instead of fixing the cooling system, you just install a mechanism that automatically turns the car off every time it gets too hot. Sure, technically it prevents the engine from exploding, but you're still stranded on the highway every 20 minutes. Genius engineering right there! Someone really looked at this memory leak, shrugged, and said "Have we tried just... restarting it?" And somehow that made it to production. The absolute audacity of calling this a "failsafe" when it's literally just admitting defeat to your own memory management.

Electron Apps Vs My RAM

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6 days ago 251.6K views 0 shares

Discord literally had to implement a self-destruct feature because it was eating so much RAM that it became a liability. When your app is such a memory hog that you need to add a "restart before I crash the entire system" failsafe, maybe—just maybe—wrapping a website in Chromium wasn't the best architectural decision. The fact that 4GB is the threshold tells you everything. That's more RAM than entire operating systems used to need. But hey, at least Discord is self-aware enough to restart itself. Most Electron apps just sit there, bloated and unrepentant, slowly consuming your system resources like a digital black hole until you manually kill them. Fun fact: Each Electron app bundles its own copy of Chromium. So if you're running Discord, Slack, VS Code, and Spotify simultaneously, congratulations—you're running four separate browsers just to use what could've been native apps or actual websites.

Just Provide Me Linux Dotexe

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7 days ago 145.0K views 0 shares

Someone just walked into Torvalds' Linux repository demanding a .exe file like they're at a drive-thru window ordering a McFlurry. They want to "download and install" Linux like it's a Windows application, completely oblivious to the fact that they're staring at the literal source code of an operating system kernel. The beautiful irony? They're asking for a Linux .exe file. That's like going to a Tesla dealership and asking them to fill up your gas tank. The .exe extension is a Windows executable format, my friend. Linux uses ELF binaries, shell scripts, or you know... you actually compile the code. But sure, let's just package an entire operating system kernel into a convenient double-clickable Windows executable because that makes total sense. The rage-filled rant calling developers "STUPID FUCKING SMELLY NERDS" for not catering to their complete lack of understanding is *chef's kiss*. Nothing says "I'm ready to contribute to open source" quite like insulting the entire developer community while fundamentally misunderstanding what you're looking at.

Another Failure Added To The List

Microsoft Windows

8 days ago 252.9K views 0 shares

Microsoft out here collecting failed products like Thanos collecting Infinity Stones. Clippy? Dead. Windows Phone? Buried. Cortana? Just got added to the graveyard. The tech giant keeps throwing products at the wall hoping something sticks, but instead they're just building the world's most expensive museum of "remember when we tried to compete with that?" Meanwhile, Google and Alexa are thriving and Cortana's ghost is somewhere asking "Hi, would you like help with that?" to absolutely nobody. At least they're consistent at being inconsistent!

Am I The Only One?

Microsoft Devops Windows

9 days ago 256.8K views 0 shares

Nothing says "corporate productivity" like having Microsoft's entire ecosystem strangling your machine. OneDrive syncing your 47 versions of "Final_Report_v2_ACTUAL_FINAL.docx" while Teams eats 4GB of RAM just to send a thumbs-up emoji. The brief moment of freedom after uninstalling them feels like finally removing a boot from your neck. Clean taskbar. Breathing room in your system tray. Your CPU fans actually quiet down for once. Then reality hits: your entire company runs on these things. Your boss shares files through OneDrive. Every meeting invite is a Teams link. You're not escaping. You never were. Welcome back to the ecosystem, champ.

Windows Vs Linux Be Like

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13 days ago 263.1K views 0 shares

Oh, the AUDACITY of wanting to uninstall Edge on Windows! The system literally treats you like you just announced you're deleting System32 for fun. Meanwhile, Linux is over here sipping its open-source tea like "yeah bro, uninstall the bootloader, see if I care." The absolute CHAOS energy of Linux casually letting you nuke your entire system without even a confirmation dialog while Windows has a complete meltdown over removing a browser is honestly iconic. Linux really said "freedom means the freedom to absolutely obliterate your OS" and honestly? Respect.

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