Windows 10 found 3.99TB of temp files on my laptop with a 1TB hard drive.

I need new friends.

Me: Just Google it..

Friend:
Opens browser (home page is some ad-riddled crap)

Types "Google" in address bar

(Google search page opens)

Clicks first result (google.com)

Types search query.

Me: 😶🔫

My friend called me up once saying the new mouse he bought to use with his laptop wasn't working.
I told him to just plug it into the usb port and it should just work immediately.
After an hour of trying shitload of things I finally gave up and said I'll come over and have a look.

And there was his mouse.

Connected to a phone charger.

To a wall outlet.

Every hobby project I work on.

What about you?😀

Well the screen resolutions are a little messed up and I had to crop the wallpaper in an odd way. But it's something.

When the inventor of the USB stick dies, they'll gently lower the coffin, then pull it back up, turn it the other way, then lower it again.

When your non-programmer friend tries to fit in with your programming buddies.

My first step to a better 2017:
Learning to use git.

I was at the movies today. The subtitles didn't italicize as they expected.

Jerry! Why is the website down?

Had to enter the Apple world when joining the new job.

Used a good hour locating curly brackets, pipe and tilde on that cryptic keyboard.

User-friendly my ass.

HR - There is a 2 years gap on your CV!
Candidate- I was in Yale.

HR - Oh wow that's great! You're hired!

Candidate - Yay! I got a yob!

One last exam tomorrow and I complete my engineering degree.

Oh yeah that.

That's a known bug.

It's been there for a long time now and the customer knows about it.

We ship it as expected behaviour now.

Girl you're so hot... I want to take you ~

Funny SSID names?

That's another semester completed!

He: are you are programmer?
Me:yes.
He:can you hack Instagram and Facebook.
Me:no.
He:then you are not a good programmer.

This happens each and every time.

This isn't my own creation, but I couldn't find it shared here yet.
It is a poem:
< > ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , SYSTEM HALTED

It reads as:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!

@dfox
Double-tapping a rant on the search results page doesn't upvote the rant. Opens the rant instead.

Sooo true...

The girl I loved for four years left me four months ago. It has been the most painful four months of my life and I struggled through the initial days. Both my health and my productivity suffered.

But I feel better now. Trying my best to keep moving forward and stay positive. Realised that shit happens and we can't just sudo our way out of everything.

Just wanted to share. Thank you for reading this far.

Deconstructed Wall-E?
Nope. My project for final semester of engineering.

My friend and I were watching a documentary about Salmon. He suddenly starts to giggle and I ask him whats up.

Friend: Why do salmon suck at version control?

Me: why?

F: because they always git push force upstream 😂😂😂

Once, i accidentally created a directory, called '~'.
I were this afraid, of deleting something.

After ten months. I still hate Instagram's algorithmic news feed. Just because I like a lot of memes doesn't mean I want to miss out on my rarely-posting-friend's posts thanks.
While the chronological feed is never coming back, I just wish they'd add a switch and let us choose what we like.

"I know, I'll set my password as '12345'. No one will guess it because it's too simple right? RIGHT?"

Fuck! Who forgot to put comments!?

Oh wait, that was me 😬

And pressing ctrl five times will start the coffee maker in the kitchen.
src: xkcd

The day without coding
is the day wasted.

People were posting their programming companions. This one kept me amused through my early days with a computer. Who else remembers?

All my life I have been living with my family. I'll soon be leaving my home and going to another city for work. I'll most probably be living alone and I'm quite apprehensive. Anyone willing to share their experiences of relocating to another city by yourself?

I've started logging my sleep patterns on a spreadsheet. Hoping to get some interesting statistics eventually.

At my workplace we have a code word for users. ID10T.

Let me just get right down to it.
FUCK YOU Hewlett-fucking-Packard FOR YOUR SHITTY LAPTOPS! Don't you even keep your customer's needs in mind when you design these things? Besides all the bloatware you stuff into the Windows you ship it with, at least make the quality of your shit better. These flimsy screens and loose hinges, I've had to get that shit replaced multiple times in just the past year.
Want to upgrade to an SSD or plug in more RAM? Guess what! I've to tear the whole thing apart! Keyboard, palm rest, all if it! What even happened to just popping a cover at the bottom to swap out the hard drive!? I have to fucking congratulate you, you fucking cunts, for making an easy process as difficult as it can fuckin possibly get. You guys deserve an award for this, preferably presented to you, shoved up your asses.

When my brother doesn't know weather it's greater than or lesser than....still manages to get marks

Final year of engineering and feel I have so much more to learn reading all these posts on devDrant :/

Being a total beginner to web developmentz I just started working on my personal website. A simple static HTML/CSS page. And the fucking Google font wasn't working on Chrome. I worked perfectly on Firefox and even Microsoft Edge for fucks sake. Spent a good part of two hours trying to figure out what was wrong. Tried all sorts of shit suggested in a ton of SO pages and some of my own noob css tricks. Fuckin none of it worked! And then, just when I was about to Alt+F4 my way out of all that crap, I realized the page worked fine in incognito mode.
Turns out it was a fucking Chrome extension I was using for spell checking which was interfering with the fonts. Like what the fuck.

Want to switch to Linux so bad right now. Getting tired of Windows and its shit. It took 12 minutes just to shut down!!! I'm just holding back until I finish this project I'm working on for Uni so I don't mess things up. After that it's goodbye Windows!
What distro should I try first? ;)

Currently using a Windows laptop at work and have been given the option for a Mac. Should I make the switch?

My college wants me to submit my final project.... On a compact disk!
Yes, I'm sitting here facepalming myself to a pulp.
Like what the actual fuck, those things died six years ago! The last time I burned a cd was probably when I was in 9th grade and had a potato for a computer.

Though

So we had a talk in college on various tools we can use as developers and the guy kept pronouncing it as jithub. I was cringing so hard.

Who here doesn't give a damn about streaming services and still torrents all their movies and TV shows?

Does anyone ever wonder what they'd be doing career wise if they were born before the computer?

@dfox feature request: Multi-window support for Android Nougat so I can read rants and watch YouTube at the same time.

Installing Virtualbox Guest Additions on Fedora is a pain in the ass.

First day at work!

Life of a Software Engineer

Get a girlfriend
Finish the first 200 project Euler exercises
Write some really cool shit
Get promoted

OMG, the one plus 6 is siiiiiick!

My final exams are going on and I'm cramming textbooks all day. It's currently midnight and I still have another 50 pages of reading to do. Plus revise everything before the exam tomorrow morning. I'm exhausted! And this is going to continue through Christmas and New Years Day! What the fuck is my University thinking!?
Anyway, I have to go back to finishing this chapter. Just came here to let off some steam. Thanks devRant for seeing me through this.

Bug:
Rant links don't work on phones without the app installed (when opened in browser).

About to go through the recruitment process for AWS cloud support engineer. Any inputs on what I should expect?

!rant

Ever since the Windows 10 anniversary update. Whenever I resume a video after pausing for a couple minutes on VLC the audio is super loud and distorted. I've been troubleshooting this for a long time and tried multiple driver versions and what not. Anybody else facing the same issue?