Ivan @crescentro.se · 30/09/2026bough an AYN Thor for a trip and wtf you can play Steam games on Android??? even switch games work well! fuck kinda dark magic is this? 121
Ivan @crescentro.se · 27/09/2026coding is solved and no one writes code anymore and there are no bugs because agents solve them all, yet in the year of our lord 2026 i still cannot connect an Android device to an iOS device with a cable and transfer files in either direction 011
Ivan @crescentro.se · 17/09/2026adding system specs to steam reviews was a 300 IQ move from valve because you really get to see people with 2018 GPUs complaining about "lazy devs not optimizing their game" and internalize these people's votes count the same as yours 130
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/09/2026why does my systemd unit randomly terminate? process opens a file on a NFS mount during ExecStartPre ⤷ systemd infers a dependency ⤷ the mount has `automount` and `idle-timeout` ⤷ after some time the mount times out ∴ systemd HELPFULLY deactivates the service WITHOUT an explanation 220
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/09/2026this is something that annoys me greatly about the Linux desktop: vast decades of work sunk into designing clones of proprietary experiences from ages past, clinging to the notion that everything beyond Word 2003, the Start Menu and the App Store is not understandable to the mythical Average User 2260
Ivan @crescentro.se · 07/09/2026The state of European cloud providers in 2026. crescentro.se/posts/euro-c...crescentro.seThe state of European cloud providers in 2026Old man yells at cloud. The cloud yells back. 073
Ivan @crescentro.se · 04/09/2026landlord installed a new ikea oven, the sticker is in cyrillic and the oven has not been on market since 2018 130
Ivan @crescentro.se · 29/08/2026recently got algorithmed into people who pointsmaxx on airlines and i'm impressed by the exploits they find, but also slightly horrified that there are genuinely people who book short haul connecting business class flights just to get their status up 120
Ivan @crescentro.se · 28/08/2026i spent countless hours configuring (n)vim for a decade, just to end up using helix and zed with minimal configs. it's fine guys, let it go. there are better ways to spend your time than to fix your LSP setup every weekend. 2102
Ivan @crescentro.se · 22/08/2026i can finally run all 32GBs of RAM i bought over a year ago in anticipation of The Current Situation and all it took was getting a 7mm taller heatsink for my comically overpowered 9900x 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/08/2026problem: you want to use public transport in helsinki 2025 solution: you download an app and purchase a day ticket. 2026 solution: log in. decline always on location tracking. decline it again. you can only buy a day ticket if you "strongly authenticate". you need to log in with your govt ID. 1/ 131
Ivan @crescentro.se · 12/08/2026nix is great and i love it but it will be defeated by whoever bolts on a human-readable language on top of it 100
Reposted by Ivanaly @aly.codes · 11/08/2026however I would go to latin mass for a year before I installed 'suckless software' on my PC 161
Ivan @crescentro.se · 09/08/2026there's a concerning amount of ai-generated liberal slop "comics" on this platform and they always somehow oneshot the users of this website to the tune of thousands of likes i wish i wasnt here for it or that it was at least blockable in some way 010
Reposted by Ivanaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 05/08/2026KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices 142261351
Ivan @crescentro.se · 19/07/2026it's going to be so over for the music industry when i finally complete my rockbox sync app for linux this is the mass market tech the media execs are trembling in fear of 020
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/07/2026dear diary, today, in my 30th year of life, 25th year of using computers, 11th year of working as a developer, and 14th year of using Linux in some capacity, i have finally invoked `find` with a non-trivial query without googling or copy-pasting. 180
Ivan @crescentro.se · 09/07/2026do you think i can file a chargeback against logitech for sending me an invoice for 80 yen rather than 79.99€? 210
Ivan @crescentro.se · 07/07/2026ok did another cyberpunk 2077 ending today (panam's) and it's significantly better, so i revise my previous harsh judgement 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 06/07/2026finished cyberpunk 2077 for the first time tonight and it was great until the ending 210
Ivan @crescentro.se · 31/05/2026God is dead and we have killed him www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comI went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smokingIt does not give you Bitcoin for smoking. 000
Ivan @crescentro.se · 19/05/2026is there a solution for managing secrets in nix that doesn't require the target system to exist? both (r)agenix and sops rely on the target's public ssh key which is one click too much for my taste 000
Ivan @crescentro.se · 18/05/2026i have 11 years of professional experience in building data intensive applications across several industries but i feel like a mumbling moron trying to understand everything wuthering waves throws at me 010
Ivan @crescentro.se · 17/05/2026friend got diamond earrings that are so tiny even my macro lens had trouble focusing (and these are crops) 000
Reposted by IvanElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Maybe Ticketmaster only sells to scalpers now as punishment for the antitrust action 0222
Ivan @crescentro.se · 03/05/2026you may not like it but this is what peak straight 30yo male music taste looks like 140
Ivan @crescentro.se · 01/05/2026hello! this is Claire 🥰 do you want to know how I know this is Claire? 161
Ivan @crescentro.se · 15/04/2026me except instead tom petty it's underscores so 90% of my brain has been melted into hyperpop 130
Ivan @crescentro.se · 06/04/2026if i ever pass my first class mage exam i want to learn the spell that instantly deflates the tyre of any fatbike 020
Ivan @crescentro.se · 04/04/2026people shit on airpods max for not having an off switch, meanwhile whenever i picked them up they were never empty, but somehow my sonos aces are empty literally always even though i charge them to full every use to the point they are basically just wired headphones now 100
Ivan @crescentro.se · 30/03/2026whenever ai enjoyers at work hit me up with the "i prompted chatgpt with this very obvious and basic question, here's the very obvious and basic response, this could save you a lot of time" dm i feel myself drawn further to participation in the butlerian jihad 020
