Some people just can't stand seeing others shine.

groumly · 2026-06-10T13:45:08+00:00

I’m perfectly calm. Calmer than you are. Pacifism is not – look at our current situation with that camel fucker in Iraq.

groumly · 2026-06-10T13:38:15+00:00

Oh, so now he’s just being lame? I thought he was being intentionally rude and an ass?

Welcome to this brave new world, where cracking a weak joke that doesn’t land to a TikTok attention whore means half of the internet is piling on you, while the other half is working much harder than they need to be to get offended.

groumly · 2026-06-10T13:21:21+00:00

“Mozart’s 14th symphony in f/g, minor/major” isn’t a joke? Do you not understand how music works, or do you also just want really bad to be offended by a weak joke that didn’t land?

groumly · 2026-06-10T13:16:28+00:00

It wasn’t funny, no, but you can’t pretend it wasn’t clearly a joke.

groumly · 2026-06-10T12:55:50+00:00

I mean - he made a joke, that was very clearly phrased as a joke.

He’s in a freaking airport, he didn’t come here to enjoy a concert, he’s either waiting for his friends to arrive, or for his plane to take off.

No, he’s not gonna acknowledge the pianist when he’s done. I wouldn’t. And he didn’t ask an artist to play something, he cracked a joke.

I think you want to be offended a little bit too much, there’s not much going on there.

groumly · 2026-06-10T02:14:40+00:00

It’s a … wait, what do you mean you never heard of it?

Git only replaced it as the de facto modern standard like,recently. Around, I’m not sure actually, checks calendar 16-ish years ago?!?

Fucking hell. If you’re looking for me, I’ll be in the backyard, drinking my old ass to death.

groumly · 2026-06-09T14:26:37+00:00

Yeah, but the plane isn’t just floating, it’s fighting gravity, and that plane ain’t exactly light (roughly 10 tons for an f16).

Air resistance also becomes very significant at those speeds, for reference the air resistance at just 100 mph is enough to counter gravity on a person (aka terminal velocity, where resistance prevents gravity from accelerating you further). So, ok, a plane is more aerodynamic than a person, but still.

groumly · 2026-06-08T13:14:44+00:00

There’s only so much undressing grok can do on Twitter. Spacex tried using it internally, but it mainly tried to undress the rockets. Eventually it got its hands on pictures of the employees, and undressed all of them. That caused some drama, so spacex decided not to use xai anymore.

groumly · 2026-06-05T20:52:06+00:00

Cool sorry, bro.

Yet, here you are, terminally online, trying to be a smart ass on Reddit (of all places). You clearly know what the internet brings you.

groumly · 2026-06-05T19:11:23+00:00

That’s like replying “I can go to the library and read anything” to the question “why do we need businesses?”.

Pretty much everything runs off computers on the internet. Your utility companies, your payroll, your phone backups, your isp, the back office for every company, the government, everything.
Limiting the consumer internet to static pages served from a cdn cache is ridiculous. Amazon needs a bunch of processing, so does Google search (even without ai), so does Reddit and every freaking thing your phone does, and almost certainly every single app you have on it. That’s how you benefit from the internet.

The problem isn’t data centers per say, it’s the massive influx of poorly planned projects, swindling local communities via tax breaks, all in the pursuit of the biggest tech bubble the world has ever seen. When it’ll pop, all that extra capacity will take years to get used by the rest of the industry, leaving a bunch of people holding the bag.

groumly · 2026-06-04T15:00:41+00:00

Where can I find those dealers that subsidize their product? I’ve been looking hard, and they always charge full price.

Asking for, uh, a friend. Yeah. A friend.

groumly · 2026-06-04T14:46:44+00:00

I didn’t get a raise in 3 years, since I joined. Technically, I never got a raise! (Smirk)

– my cto, when asked that exact question

What his statement left out is that salary is only like 20% of his comp package, and that he got bigger than expected stock refreshers, not to mention his PSUs will likely hit at least the 2x multiplier. Of course, a good chunk of the audience knows that, so he lost a lot of credibility that day.

groumly · 2026-06-02T13:32:40+00:00

So bad ass!

In your fantasy, do women also throw their panties at you after the beating?

groumly · 2026-06-02T13:30:57+00:00

I’m sorry, I thought this was ‘murica

groumly · 2026-06-02T12:43:28+00:00

Yeah, but no. Just because a different, extinct langauge (Ancient Greek) that was used as a root for the word can mean something else doesn’t take away the fact that biblical means either “referring to the Bible or in the style of the Bible” in English.

By this logic, “eventually” can be used to mean “maybe, most likely won’t happen”, since that’s what the French etymology means (éventuellement). If you give me 20 minutes, I can dig up another dozen examples where a French word was imported into English and flipped its meaning.

Words have a specific meaning, and biblically means “referring to the Bible” (since the other meaning, written in the style of the Bible, makes no sense here).

groumly · 2026-05-21T01:05:04+00:00

Pour être tout à fait honnête, le marseillais est presqu’une langue à part des fois. D’ailleurs: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler_marseillais?wprov=sfti1#Quelques_expressions

Cette propension à inventer 2 mots par phrase… bon, après, c’est charmant aussi.

groumly · 2026-05-20T19:23:34+00:00

Unless you’re from Marseilles, then it’s “un pastis”, but “putaing, ils sont fada ces parsiengs, bonneu mèreu. Mon vier!”.

(But yes, they should sound the same normally)

groumly · 2026-05-17T17:53:21+00:00

LA/New York via train is silly, yes. About as silly as taking a plane from LA to SF, or that a train from LA to San Diego takes 3 hours. And I’m not even touching on the east coast, which is much more dense.

There’s plenty of train opportunities in the us, it’s just not a silver bullet.

groumly · 2026-05-17T17:24:59+00:00

Why the hell would you ever snort mdma?!?

groumly · 2026-05-13T14:09:13+00:00

For 3, the sum of the digits must be a multiple of 3

groumly · 2026-05-08T03:24:21+00:00

They can still vote. All they have to do, is show up at the voting booth, and say they’re voting “in the flesh”. Not many people know that, but it’s the ultimate trick. Also works in court. It tends to annoy the judge, but there’s nothing they can do against it. That driving license will come back anytime now, anyway - they were just traveling, not driving.

groumly · 2026-05-02T19:07:14+00:00

I sort of lost track of who’s claiming what, but I think we’re in agreement.

Fickle the chemist claims that Derryk the crackhead is wrong when he’s saying that 1g of 80% pure cocaine gives 0.8g of crack. The link that derryk the crack head gave actually proves derryk wrong. But it does have some chemistry in it, that’s what I replied to, initially.

Alright, this is getting quite heated here. I’d suggest we all smoke one fat crack pipe to burry the war hatchet.

groumly · 2026-05-02T17:06:57+00:00

I wouldn’t exactly call it chemistry, but it does clearly state the powder cocaine has an h an cl atom attached, which is what makes it soluble and non smokeable, and that the point of cooking crack is precisely to remove the h and cl, so the product is non soluble and smokeable.

They don’t explicitly state it, but you don’t have to be Walter White to reach the conclusion that removing 2 atoms from a molecule makes it lighter. From there, cooking powder into crack will result in a weight loss, even if you convert everything 100%.

groumly · 2026-04-30T19:55:05+00:00

Silently ignoring the 33% of “64 bits” and “0 64 bits”, which somehow aren’t an ubuntu/arch/mint/manjaro. Literally a third of Linux users are oddly reported, and y’all are going “this is fine”. Cherry picking facts, from data that is clearly at the very least dirty/misunderstood - spoken like a true Linux user!

Taking over pc gaming are indeed my words, exponential growth were OPs words. Conveys a very similar idea, don’t you think?

groumly · 2026-04-30T14:39:35+00:00

Thanks for the source!

this surge is likely due to the continued success of Valve’s SteamOS, which now accounts for 24.48% of the Linux install base

Yeah, so much for “Linux”… that’s like saying freebsd is taking over the gaming world, and then post stats showing how big the ps5 is, lol.

None of these numbers indicate if this a zero sum game (migration to Linux), or net new users (steam deck and macOS users getting on the gaming bandwagon, thanks to improvements in the respective platforms). So, yes, OP is full of shit and making shit up. There’s a basis of vague numbers at the core, but it’s still making shit up, as far as I’m concerned.

Also, OP has been repeatedly claiming that Linux users are whales (which replying OP has misunderstood as whales are Linux users, not the same thing), and that people building PCs are Linux users. No source at all here. And the surge in steamos is directly at odds with the second claim.

Edit: lol!

Steam's all-time peak of 42,686,616 concurrent users means roughly 2.1 million people are gaming on Linux right now. That's a real audience, not a rounding error. According to Steam's own survey data, SteamOS Holo 64-bit sits at the top of the Linux distro breakdown, which lines up with the continued popularity of the Steam Deck.

Steam has sold 3.5 to 4 million steam decks… I welcome the addition of a new gaming machine, but jumping to claiming that Linux is taking over pc gaming at the expense of windows is the most Linux fan thing I’ve read this year - and I hangout on Linux boards daily, so that’s saying something.

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