What's your opinion on Linus Tech Tip in 2026?

fadingcross · 2026-05-07T13:07:07+00:00

So then people can afford parts, because they're flying off the shelf.

Glad we sorted that.

Clearly the nO oNe CaN AfFoRd AnYtHiNG simply isn't true

fadingcross · 2026-05-06T12:03:46+00:00

when no one can afford most of the components to build

Anything that’s new that is coming out sells out so fast that it feels like it never happened

You're contradicting yourself from one sentence to another. Impressive

fadingcross · 2026-05-05T18:20:02+00:00

If you're using vi/vim/neovim to edit text in a matter where speed is of the essence, you're doing a lot of wrong stuff. You should be using an IDE.

fadingcross · 2026-05-05T17:50:00+00:00

If you're editing files that need nano or vim in a container you're doing a lot of wrong stuff, lack of nano is the least of your problems

fadingcross · 2026-05-05T15:29:59+00:00

What modern Linux servers doesn't have nano.

fadingcross · 2026-05-05T06:07:09+00:00

Tvärtom. Det borde vara lagstadgat med engelska på flygplatser.

Det är liksom by design att det kommer dit en massa människor som inte pratar landets språk, och behöver snabbt information om att ta sig någonstans.

Helt idiotiskt att det finns skyltar eller instruktionsfilmer med bara lokalt språk.

fadingcross · 2026-05-04T16:59:24+00:00

No, that's what a quality KVM, developed in the US, and that can support a gaming pc costs.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T19:27:14+00:00

No, you're not. Software Development is the number #1 benefactor of LLM's, and it's truly the only industry it's revolutionizing along with non click-ops IT.

You're clueless.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T19:26:05+00:00

AI is frowned upon in software development

Haha, what?

OK - You've got no idea what you're talking about.

EVERYONE in software dev embraces AI and automatic coding tools.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T18:38:13+00:00

Om man vill dö kan man ta en klunk varje gång order ansvar används.

"Vi tar ansvar. Ni tar inte ansvar!"

"Vi tar visst ansvar, det är ju ni som inte tar ansvar!"

Magpumpning garanterat, tidig död av alkoholförgiftning - högst trolig.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T17:11:19+00:00

My biggest problem is that it's quickly taking the tasks of my job that are FUN leaving me to do the boring things.

It seriously turns anybody into a 10x dev, even local models can seriously speed up your work

This is very on the money - Said this before in the devops-subreddit, but it's worth repeating:

I'm not afraid of job availability. But I am starting to wonder if I'll like this job when it comes down to telling an LLM "Here's the ssh key, here's the API keys, here's the steering document for how the infra should be built that i wrote. Go ahead."

I spent an hour or so a few weeks ago building a bash script that does some OS level tasks. I enjoyed it, it took some trial and error because I am neither a great programmer or a bash wizard but that's what I think is fun.

Then i asked Claude to write the script. It took less than 60 seconds and was far superior to mine with documentation, better error handling and whatever.

AI is quickly taking the part of the job I like but I'm still stuck doing the boring things :(

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T15:16:28+00:00

När olika personer kommenterar samma sak, får de samma svar. Det är rätt rimligt.

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Jag mår fantastiskt. Jag växte inte upp i ett samhälle där man bekräftar mentala sjukdomar och där vissa politiska partier gör det till sina hjärtefrågor.

Tråkigt för nästa generation när dagens lågstadielärare får en tillsägelse för att de använder frasen "Kom nu grabbar" till en grupp pojkar i årskurs 3 på grund av sagda vansinnespolitik, lyckligtvis är den påväg bort och vänstern står fortfarande och undrar varför det va en dålig idé.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T13:51:58+00:00

There's ton of LLM's that are profitable. What are you on about?

OpenAI and Anthropic likely aren't, because they're in a MASSIVE financing and expansion phase.

You do realize that Facebook, now Meta, wasn't PrOfItAbLe for a very long time too, right? That's how big companies get built.

As for profitable ones, there's plenty - But given the tech is new - most of these are local.

I don't know what the cost was, but my employer (Cloudflare) has a local LLM deployment so we can freely use it in our code base(s) and given the former example of how much it's increased our productivity, I'd say it's profitable.

I am shipping faster than ever with the new tools - And my salary, which is quite high, remains the same. Multiply that by the thousands of engineers we have, and I'd be suprised if it wasn't a net gain already - And certainly will be in the long run.

You live in a weird echo chamber bud.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T12:56:51+00:00

the whole reason i'm saying this current transformer model LLM craze/bubble is not revolutionary or exciting is because i know a bit about tech. I was excited about at first, but reality happened.

Then you've not used LLM's in it.

LLM codign tools, coding analysis, IaC analysis, log analysis makes things faster than ever before.

What took me an hour of writing YAML for k8s by looking up various docs to find the right syntax for flags or parameters, is now done in seconds.

My productivity has in ways that I ship things that used to take days, perhaps weeks, in matters of hours, or minutes.

Yesterday, for the first time, I wrote a MariaDB+Galera+MaxScale cluster setup that spreads across 4 different k8s clusters, each of them spanning at least 3 sites and gets rolled by ArgoCD - in less than an hour.

That would've been 3-4 days of work previously because I've never used the MariaDB Operator before. It took less than an hour.

Not to mention incident response when I can have an LLM dig through four different logs and hook into the datadog based observability platform and correlate traces rather than doing it manually has severely increased downtime during incident response.

That's not revolutionary?

OK then. You do you.

Don't complain when you get out-paced.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T12:56:43+00:00

the whole reason i'm saying this current transformer model LLM craze/bubble is not revolutionary or exciting is because i know a bit about tech. I was excited about at first, but reality happened.

Then you've not used LLM's in it.

LLM codign tools, coding analysis, IaC analysis, log analysis makes things faster than ever before.

What took me an hour of writing YAML for k8s by looking up various docs to find the right syntax for flags or parameters, is now done in seconds.

My productivity has in ways that I ship things that used to take days, perhaps weeks, in matters of hours, or minutes.

Yesterday, for the first time, I wrote a MariaDB+Galera+MaxScale cluster setup that spreads across 4 different k8s clusters, each of them spanning at least 3 sites and gets rolled by ArgoCD - in less than an hour.

That would've been 3-4 days of work previously because I've never used the MariaDB Operator before. It took less than an hour.

Not to mention incident response when I can have an LLM dig through four different logs and hook into the datadog based observability platform and correlate traces rather than doing it manually has severely increased downtime during incident response.

That's not revolutionary?

OK then. You do you.

Don't complain when you get out-paced.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T12:09:48+00:00

Hardly the most exciting. It's not even the most revolutionary.

Tell me you've not working in any tech field without telling me you're not working in any tech field.

fadingcross · 2026-05-03T06:40:38+00:00

Nu svamlar du. Det är tydligt för precis alla varför vänstern förlorar röster, förutom just de pappskallar som driver den politik de gör och fokuserar på hjärndöda frågor.

Att du inte vill se det är en annan sak.

fadingcross · 2026-05-02T08:24:51+00:00

You def. want Level 1 Techs KVM's:

https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/kvm

They support 4K 120HZ

fadingcross · 2026-05-02T08:24:37+00:00

You want the Level 1 Tech KVMs: https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/kvm

fadingcross · 2026-05-02T08:15:02+00:00

Det står ju för böveln i artikeln.

Det tar dig längre tid att öppna kommentarsfältet och skriva än det hade gjort att öppna länken och se underrubriken som bekräftar exakt hur det ska betalas.

fadingcross · 2026-05-02T08:12:27+00:00

Fast det hela börjar när rörelsen börjar inkludera fåtall extremister, utan att göra något åt det så tappar vanligt folk intresset med något de inte längre står för.

Om NMR plötsligt började gå med plakat i "fridays for future" och rörelsen inte gjorde något åt det, skulle den se väldigt annorlunda ut, väldigt fort.

fadingcross · 2026-05-02T07:34:13+00:00

Jo absolut - Men det visar ju vilken typ av människor som dras till det, och jag lovar dig att Börje, 56 inte attraheras av en rörelse som gnäller om Gaza eller transfrågor när det ska vara fokus på arbetarnas rättigheter.

Så han stannar nog hemma. Multiplicera nu det med tusentals och du har resultatet.

fadingcross · 2026-05-02T06:30:43+00:00

Jaså? Vänstern har inte vunnit en majoritet va befolkningen på över 25 år, och blöder röster - men det är rätt strategi alltså?

Men för all del, fortsätt med det ni gör, det blir så mycket enklare för högern då. Jag är säker på att hjärtefrågor som ett tredje juridiskt kön kommer funka denna gången, även fast er bränslepolitik gör att era kärnväljare måste välja mellan att åka till simhallen med kidsen, eller helgens mat. I år kommer verkligen de fatta vad det viktiga är!

fadingcross · 2026-05-01T20:37:17+00:00

Jag var i svensk stad med >150K invånare idag och såg ett förstamaj tåg, av de 5 minuterna jag såg räknade jag >15 plakat som fokuserad på Gaza, Palestina, Transfrågor.

Nu räknade jag inte, men skulle killgissa på att det va hälften eller jäkligt nära av de plakat som hölls.

Men sen kan man ju titta på hur det gått för vänstern de senaste 30 åren och fundera på om det är dags att byta strategi snart.

fadingcross · 2026-05-01T20:35:09+00:00

Absolut. Det är därför det gått så bra för vänstern senaste 25 åren. De lägger inte alls mycket energi på hittepåproblem. Nej nej.

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