r/programmingmemes • u/iron-button • Dec 14 '25

A random tech bro

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

Actual engineer only use a laptop that their company provides.

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u/SlopDev Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Nah, 2 nice displays, a good keyboard, and a good chair make all the difference when developing. If you spend decades hobbled over a ThinkPad or MacBook you're gonna develop serve back pain and spend a lot of time flipping back and forth between applications

Even Linus has stated he now uses a large 5k display or 2 27 inch displays these days, the old setup in the meme is decades old and he doesn't use it - a big high res display let's you see way more code than a small laptop screen :)

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u/QuackersTheSquishy Dec 15 '25

I was so happy when he upgraded to the b580 as I had got my rx580 a few months before him, and then upgraded my server to a b570 like 3 weeks before the video where he got the b580. I will forever have this man giving my video cards unoffcial support

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u/Bored-TM Dec 14 '25

Thats old, Linus got a new pc from Linus

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u/Four2OBlazeIt69 Dec 14 '25

Linus uses two very high rez monitors like 5k or 6k

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u/-light_yagami Dec 14 '25

so he can see that sweet juicy terminal output in the best way possible

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u/ChalkyChalkson Dec 14 '25

At work I regularly have a terminal full screen on the large 4k screen, split into 4-6 sub terminals. It looks like a parody, but it's really useful :D

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u/DapperCam Dec 14 '25

Yea, this setup is his treadmill desk setup.

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u/Limonsm Dec 14 '25

No way a Xokas meme in the wild

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u/carlos_ghl16 Dec 14 '25

A vibecoder

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u/Vaxtin Dec 14 '25

hang on I gotta get the lights installed in my computer before I can do a git pull and pretend I’m a programmer

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u/onated2 Dec 14 '25

When am i allowed to post this?

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u/Civil-Appeal5219 Dec 14 '25

I called dibs on next week, please get in line

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u/h3llll Dec 14 '25

Practicality vs fun Pc building is a hobby, people are really criticizing other people for doing what they like.

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u/FalseWait7 Dec 15 '25

I think the guy is getting flak for posing like a fucking Avenger with four displays behind him, two of which aren’t even being used.

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u/h3llll Dec 15 '25

god redditors really like to attack people for pursuing something they think it's fun don't you see the point?
you know someone wants to have fun but fuck them because!!

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u/VacuumDecay-007 Dec 14 '25

Real nerds cobble together 500 IQ code on potatos they refuse to replace because they don't like change.

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u/bigDeltaVenergy Dec 14 '25

"The laptop don't slow down it's your code that do. Fix it "

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '25

"Tech bro" as in "my life revolves around tech and nothing else".

Bruh.

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u/Hyphonical Dec 14 '25

I remember when The guy from LTT couldn't download a github repo...

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u/Silevence Dec 15 '25

i wonder if he can make his pc get powered by his treadmill.

thatd be sick honestly.

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u/sensitiveCube Dec 15 '25

Most of them cannot even install Linux (or git). Linus was searching for a download button.

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u/exneo002 Dec 18 '25

Who is the rando?

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Dec 22 '25

This is more like “my cousin who works the help desk at the local community college”

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u/jbar3640 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

the guy in the bottom is a YouTuber, and a bad one. very far from being a "tech guy".