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nixCraft 🐧

I saw a developer today.

No company swag hoodie.
No stickers on their laptop.
No mechanical keyboard.
No Windows or macOS.
No ChatGPT or Copilot.

He just sat there. He was typing code away in vim running on Arch Linux and an older ThinkPad, like a psychopath.

40 comments
Yer ol' Pal Gordo

@nixCraft What happened to the good ol' days when all 10x devs were Matthew Lillard?

lp0 on fire :unverified:

@mrpotato, ugh… no idea what that means and what little I do recognise suggests that Google Translate isn't being helpful.

I see that my previous response inherited your setting of French (posting in one language while claiming that it's some other language is… less than ideal). This response also inherited that, but I've corrected it before posting (and I've fixed the first one).

patcm

@lp0_on_fire no habla francais ?
Lol
Its humour 🀑

Tobias Klausmann

@nixCraft I just want a TP with zero branding on it. If I can't have that, I'll at least put stickers of my choice over all the branding.

Stevez

@klausman @nixCraft Or, you can just order a laptop with your own custom branding (and custom keyboard) πŸ™‚

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@nixCraft if said person wore a black hoodie, then that was likely @fuchsiii.

If said person also wore a Fawkes Mask, then it's likely #Netzblockierer...

Saustrup

@nixCraft Whyyy, that almost sounds like me.. except for the stickers.. and the clicky keyboard.. no LEDs though! :D

Kuraiko

@nixCraft why should he have Windows?! That's gross.

Gredelston

@nixCraft Usually it's polite to credit the person who came up with the joke.

Roger

@nixCraft Very impressive, clearly a serious dude. Are you sure all that typing wasn't just him trying to exit vim, though?

Erik Haugen

@roger @nixCraft

The incantation every unix user must learn:

:q

Roger

@ech @nixCraft
Yeah, apologies, someone had to make the traditional wisecrack πŸ™‚

amino
@nixCraft >Arch Linux

Yup obviously in a cult

(I KID! I love all my Linux peeps)
DELETED

@nixCraft I think you are talking about me... except the mechanical keyboard :)

Dave Hay

@nixCraft perhaps he was trying to remember how to get out of Vi ? I have the same issue when trying to remember how to escape from (a) Dungeon Adventure and (b) EMacs

Mazie

@nixCraft you where truly blessed, some speculate the illusive H. Programmer Businessicus-Vulgaris (the common business programmer) is extinct in the wild, having been driving out of much of their habitats during the .com-expansion of the valley programmer H. P. Silicate-Brogrammer and then again more recently during the great migration of various H. P. Transfeminus-* species

:thisisfine:

@Nadinabbott @nixCraft @donmelton

The only actually irritating thing here is "no mechanical keyboard".

nadin brzezinski

@0xb4dc0d3d @nixCraft @donmelton well, right now on my IPad, writing a piece in Matkdown…no keyboard

Shokunin

@nixCraft but was he wearing a knitted cardigan?

Alex

@nixCraft I do **edit pictures** on my full stickers mac, using mechanical keyboard and wearing custom made basquiat hoody

Ken McCann

@nixCraft There's no way this is a coincidence

Anti-Catipus :rainboweyes:

@nixCraft wonder if he's gay and available :blobcateyes:

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