GaladrielMar 24, 2023
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.

Mar 24, 2023 at 1:41pmWeb
Show threadPat CMMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft Where did you saw me ?
Show threadlp0 on fire Mar 24, 2023
@mrpotato, you were sawed?
Show threadPat CMMar 24, 2023
@lp0_on_fire tu la veux où ta claque ?
Show threadlp0 on fire Mar 24, 2023

@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).

Show threadPat CMMar 24, 2023
@lp0_on_fire no habla francais ?
Lol
Its humour 🤡
Show threadTobias KlausmannMar 24, 2023
@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.
Show threadStefan RitterMar 24, 2023
@klausman @nixCraft With @tuxedocomputers you can have your own branding!
Show threadStevezMar 24, 2023
@klausman @nixCraft Or, you can just order a laptop with your own custom branding (and custom keyboard) 🙂
Show threadPo KamnuandejMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft How did you find me?
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 24, 2023

@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...

Show threadSaustrupMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft Whyyy, that almost sounds like me.. except for the stickers.. and the clicky keyboard.. no LEDs though! :D
Show threadKuraikoMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft why should he have Windows?! That's gross.
Show threaddodothedev Mar 24, 2023
@nixCraft
Were you looking through my window!
Show threadGredelstonMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft Usually it's polite to credit the person who came up with the joke.
Show threadJohannes BrakensiekMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft Crazy!
Show threadRoger LancefieldMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft Very impressive, clearly a serious dude. Are you sure all that typing wasn't just him trying to exit vim, though?
Show threadaminoMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft >Arch Linux

Yup obviously in a cult

(I KID! I love all my Linux peeps)
Show threadDave HayMar 24, 2023
@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
Show threadnanasnumberMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft this is the way 😂
Show threadMazieMar 24, 2023
@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
Show threadDustinMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft what a barbarian!
Show threadMike Meadway 🇺🇸 🇩🇰 🇬🇧Mar 24, 2023
@nixCraft I feel seen... 🙂
Show threadS-ConfigMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft mad respect .
Show threadnadin brzezinskiMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft @donmelton vim is good
Show threadMar 24, 2023

@Nadinabbott @nixCraft @donmelton

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

Show threadnadin brzezinskiMar 24, 2023
@0xb4dc0d3d @nixCraft @donmelton well, right now on my IPad, writing a piece in Matkdown…no keyboard
Show threaddarkMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft this is the way
Show threadctangMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft must have been Luke Smith.
Show threadKen McCannMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft There's no way this is a coincidence
Show threadWilliam GunnMar 25, 2023
@kenmccann @nixCraft I've seen a lot of variations on this meme. I don't think anyone can claim it at this point.
Show thread×××××Mar 24, 2023
@nixCraft wonder if he's gay and available 
Show threadAlexey PhotographerMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft God mode enabled 😀
Show threadThomas H Jones IIMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft
That's me but for the laptop OS (too many customers don't quite support logging in from non-Windows systems).
Show threadDiabolic PreacherMar 24, 2023
@nixCraft almost me. just part my work machine and part my personal machine.
Show threadSpaceLifeFormMar 24, 2023

@nixCraft

I still prefer using a USB keyboard and mouse in this situation.

Show threadcjinminMar 25, 2023
@nixCraft My husband says that's him!
Show thread_keith_smith_Mar 25, 2023
@nixCraft I quite like vi too. No matter what you’re connected to, it’s always there.
Show threadThe Tepid Emperor has moved...Mar 25, 2023
@nixCraft They still walk amongst us…
Show threadBonkersMar 25, 2023
@nixCraft today I was waiting at the hairdresser's, with my Ubuntu laptop and emacs ;)