Sad to see a nazi getting his pictures shared here (not Linus, obviously). 😔
Who?
Definitely not Linus.
Xokas (the guy on the bottom)
El puto Xokas xDDDD
Its the treadmill.
The treadmill gives you infinite power.
Christ on a stick! As someone who builds computers for fun all I see is fan control modules and cables. So many cables. Cables as far as the eye can see!
Could be daisy chained fans, I admit I don’t know how many you can chain together though.
I suspect the actual PC used is at least fairly powerful though. Like someone else said it’s likely using ECC as its mission critial, so chances are it also has other expensive server parts inside. Not all powerful computers actually look like anything fancy at all. This post reminds me of things like the watercooling subreddit and the amount of effort and money they put into things like aesthetics, that don’t actually improve performance at all. Even though the original point of watercooling was performance.
Linus’ biggest concern is noise, so whatever setup he has likely doesn’t have fans blaring to increase performance.
That’s actually pretty much the opposite of how that works. More fans generally mean lower noise as they don’t need to run as hard to deliver the same volume of air. Same with larger fans. There is eventually a point where adding more fans hurts rather than helps, but it’s probably more fans than you would think. All of this is especially true for watercooling and radiator fans, the more radiator area and associated fans you have the better. My desktop with 3 radiators and 8 radiator fans is quieter than my server with one radiator, 3 radiator fans and 2 case fans, and that’s despite the desktop having a higher total heat load.
blaring adjective
- (of a sound, especially a recorded sound) loud and harsh
Example: a blaring alarm and flashing red light were going off
Why are you giving me a definition? I just told you that having more fans dosen’t actually mean it’s going to be loud or harsh. What mistake have I made?
I’ve made no comment on quantity of fans, only loudness.
You mistook that to mean “fewer” fans.
Your phrasing implied that the other system would have blaringly loud fans, which it probably does not, at least if they built and configured it properly. Since people thinking more fans equals louder is an easy misconception to have I jumped to the conclusion that you had made that error. Maybe you didn’t mean to imply that the other system would be loud.
Giving me the definition of blaring wasn’t actually helpful in any way. I knew what the word meant, so that wasn’t the actual issue. You failed to accurately understand or communicate the problem when trying to correct someone, and sounded like a pretentious knob doing it.
Okay now give me the definition of “pedantic douchebag”
I can’t even see what mistake I made. I didn’t even use that word. I think they are just salty over getting corrected.
Linus also used a 280W CPU, so he almost definitely has fans somewhere in his build.
The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he’s using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here’s one.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/
When i was still into building computers, i really liked elaborate watercooled builds. But the whole maintenance and the little gain wasn’t even worth it for me. I don’t wanna know how much an average watercooled pc is suffering
What kind of maintenance were you doing? Building the things is turning out to be a pain for me, but actual maintenance shouldn’t be much more than for a regular PC. You still have to dust a regular PC after all. You do occasionally have to change fluid, but shouldn’t need doing more than every 4 years or so if you use something like DP Ultra or car coolant.
I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.
I remember trying to use one edition of MSDN (MicroSloth Developer Network if I recall correctly) on my laptop a few years ago. Whoever had developed the UI for it had been using a giant monitor because on a small laptop screen the article contents in the right-hand detail panel didn’t word-wrap correctly, so reading the article required constant scrolling left-and-right with the horizontal scroll bar (which sometimes didn’t even show up). For six months I just got in the habit of copying-and-pasting the contents into a simple text editor so that I could actually read the shit normally.
I’ve long advocated making developers use the shittiest equipment and no extra monitors, just to ensure that what we build actually works on most machines. I’m not a monster: the money saved could be used to give developers ACTUAL FUCKING OFFICES.
There are browser tools to emulate different devices.
It’s two button clicks to test layouts. Just laziness or lack of ability.
That’s why you should always test on a variety of screen sizes including mobile. That however doesn’t mean you should make your devs work on terrible machines. Then you end up in situations where it dosen’t scale correctly. It’s also terrible for developer productivity, many of whom don’t even work on the front end. I don’t think the cost of PCs is anywhere near that of offices, and I suspect the reason for not having offices isn’t monetary anyway.
I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.
Im pretty sure he also has a 3d printer
Linus or techbro because as a printer owning technician i will throw down…
Linus, im pretty sure one video with him shows a 3d printer.
Most probably both
Bottom needs a gamer chair to prove that he’s a gamer. A gamer games 45% better with a gamer chair. That’s why they’re shaped 45% differently. Without a gamer chair, a gamer does not truly game. But it’s very important that they see it.
I feel attacked. For real though I actually do own a Secret Lab Titan and it is the most comfortable computer chair I’ve used. I bought one for home when our whole office was working remotely during COVID and liked it so much I bought a second one for the office, before I knew our company would purchase chairs like that. 🙃 I had assumed it was too expensive since until that point we just had shitty Staples chairs.
Ergonomics are pretty subjective though. I know people who use those big balls as a “chair” and people who swore by the kneeling chairs. Tried both and hated them.
Don’t forget the Dew Drip® feedtube for max gameage.
Don’t forget to chairish it
With that lighting he’s definitely streaming, so there is one party involved that’s even more interested in people seeing his chair. I wonder if the companies making these abominations even gift them to streamers.
Do you even chair bro
a random consumer*
I keep getting caught off-guard seeing current photos of Torvalds. He’s just like…a guy.
And honestly I’d rather my mission-critical software be written by “just a guy” than by whoever Mr. Battlestation is down there on the bottom.
Mr. Battlestation that is running one GPU, but has the combined cooling to run a nuclear power plant
TBF, cooling is cheap, GPUs are expensive.
You have not priced those led fans recently…it adds up when you need 12+ of them (just why?). Assuming you actually use decent fans anyway and not some random no name garbage with a bushing instead of a bearing.
My buddy built one of these for somebody and his comment was ‘extra $500 so they could taste the rainbow’. So many led lights…
TBH I want to reduce the LED’s on mine because its in my bedroom and I can’t seem to figure out if there is a way to turn them all off so I can sleep better…
I’ve been using OpenRGB. Is like 5mb, and runs on everything. Stupid MB and GPU come with rbg…that allows me to turn them off. It doesn’t support everything but it’s worked for my needs so far.
As long as the fans/leds hook up to an arbg header they should be controllable.
Did you try turn of the computer? Maybe by a power strip with an on-off switch for it?
Sometimes I have shit I need to run overnight.
Cooling? You mean the spinning leds?
Bruhhh but my NFT’s will be mooning soon!
But standing desks are awesome, I too would pick the top over the bottom setup
Never tried them, but I feel like I’d get tired after a couple minutes
The idea (at least from what I’m getting) is to be able to switch posture throughout the day, not necessarily to stand up the whole day. I’ve tried one for a couple of days and it seems nice, I just haven’t gotten around buying one for home yet.
Ew Windows 11
Indeed
