No idea where it's from or what it usually looks like since I just nabbed this off of Facebook, but my guess is to display ads, or perhaps some slo-mo videos of fresh fruit being tossed in an appetizing manner in an attempt to trigger your Pavlovian reflex to buy some of those oranges.

Couldn't find any pictures of that particular setup operating under normal conditions, but here are some similar ones to give you an idea:

Perhaps it runs on a Raspberry Pi?

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Well, it doesn't look like a core dump

Or an Adafruit, perhaps?

Using an actual hard drive for an embedded system like this would be a failure in and of itself.

Unless it literally has to store several hours' worth of HD video content, no reason the entire system couldn't fit on an SD card.

Found the Left-Libertarian

No doubt. git rebase is like a very sharp knife. In the right hands, it can accomplish great things, but in the wrong hands, it can also spell disaster.

As someone who HAS used it a fair amount, I generally don't even recommend it to people unless they're already VERY comfortable with the rest of git and ideally have some sense of how it works internally.

I haven't seen this thing in action under normal conditions since I just looted the picture off Faceborg, but I imagine it probably shows a slideshow of ads.

I'm coming back, I will return
And I'll possess your daemons and make your CPU burn
I have ring 0, I have your cores
I have the power to make my evil take its course

This has a very "facts don't care about your feelings" kinda vibe to it, which I honestly understand, but seems to ignore the fact that feelings don't care about your facts. When people hold irrational opinions, that's by definition not based on objective reality, but likely some sort of personal experience.

Perhaps try asking them where their views come from? Ideally in a non-confrontational way, because they might already be aware of their internal conflicts but too ashamed to admit them. Some people are afraid of water because their parents just threw them in a pool and expected them to figure out how to swim by themselves or something like that. It's not rational from the perspective of someone who learned how to swim in a healthy and normal way, yet it's also kinda rational from the perspective of someone who was traumatized in the process.

Of course, that's not an easy solution because you might have to be willing to do some work in order to help them overcome their trauma (should they be willing to do so), but it probably has a better chance of changing their minds than presenting them with a list of facts has (which is kinda passive-aggressive if you think about it). Of course, they might also say no to your offer, in which case you still have the option to decide where to go from there.

GitLens?

GitHub Desktop is literally "Baby's first git GUI".

Well... did she?

Awesome, makes me happy to be able to contribute.

If a literal toaster can do it, I'm sure this thing probably can as well.

Kein Problem: https://ddp.im/

Well yes, internally that's what it does, but from a user perspective it just looks like being handed the package, you never see any of the failed attempts (unless delivery fails completely because the company went out of business). It's sorta more like having a butler who orders it for you and deals with any potential BS that might happen, and then just hands you the package when it finally arrives in one piece.

Accurate AF

I’m a mathematician by training who has worked extensively (and exclusively) in the software field. While I realize I’m probably biased here, I think I write very solid code and have rarely received any complaints from trained software engineers about it.

I did however also take quite a few computer science classes in college and have spent a lot of time learning how to write better, more readable and maintainable code. Having had quite a few jobs at the start of my career where I was the only programmer on a project and therefore forced to eat my own dog food has certainly also helped.

Iron Maiden would like to have a word with you