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    • account abandoned@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Yes. I use Google because it gives me the best results of all the FOSS (but shitty) search engines I’ve tested. I won’t change the tools in my workflow until the replacements work the same or better.

        • KuzhinierSileon@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          Well, I’m guessing OP had the same issue as me, where DDG just didn’t deliver any usable results when searching for more technical topics. Unfortunately, no search engine is really there yet. Google just does that one thing too well. I can ditch Google for most things I use, except for search and YouTube. Those two things it does so much better than its competitors. :(

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      At least he wasn’t caught promoting a browser extension that turned out to be a huge scam that stole money from both regular people and other content creators trying to earn some affiliate revenue.

    • Vytle@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Honestly I didn’t really care about the allegations until Steve Burke alleged that Linus told him he’s “less autistic then he used to be”. Its also annoying how he clearly has a superiority complex.

      • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        17 days ago

        All these things listed are blunders (some quite big ones) but I think the person who responded to that comment with the opposing view makes a lot of sense. They added the nuance to the situation that the comment you linked to I think glasses over since they obviously don’t like Linus. Personally their (the response comments) take is where I stand on these issues too.

        Obvious, as LTT has grown they have made mistakes but they have always explained their reasoning or otherwise apologised and tried to make things right.

        Overall I think they are a force for good in the world. They teach millions about tech, how to use it, and how you can save money. As they become more corporate their passion may fade but I think it’s still there and I’ll probably keep watching their stuff for the time being

        • tritonium@midwest.social
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          16 days ago

          My issue is he’s a large channel and their videos are consistently inaccurate. I’ve never watched a video of his on linux or android or android tv and couldn’t find numerous flaws. He is a huge channel with a lot of influence and he’s prioritized pumping out inaccurate videos instead of doing the due diligence and research. I feel with as large of a channel he has and as much influence he has, he has a responsibility. Instead he’s doing the tech community as a whole harm. Literally every video I’ve seen from him regarding linux or android was extremely inaccurate or missing beneficial information. I always wrote it off as he’s just a gamer bro and that’s more his niche but then the gamernexus video dropped and showed he was even getting that wrong. LTT has done more harm to the tech community on YouTube than any other channel.

        • monkeyman512@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          But you don’t understand. This is the Internet. You are either a saint or the anti-christ. There is nothing In-between and nuance is propaganda. And if you don’t agree with my currently held emotionally charged position, you are what’s wrong with (fill in the blank).

          • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            17 days ago

            Unfortunately thats the problem with the world atm. No one cares for the facts, just what ever fits their narrative

      • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I watched his videos on Linux and tried using Ubuntu myself a little while back and tbh I kinda had a similar experience to him.

        Being asked to restart fairly often and finding it difficult to instal more niche things with command line even if I could just copy paste stuff. I like the lack of Microsoft bullshit but the programs I used for uni and games weren’t compatible at the time.

        That being said I tried about a year before steam deck became a thing and I got that a year+ ago and haven’t had too many issues like that (still some though). Looking forward to general steamos release cause I definitely want to try again

        • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          Yeah, I think most people that have 10 or more years experience with linux or unix or other forms think that it has gotten much easier to start out than when they did it, sure it was a struggle back then, but it’s been ten years and I have an easy time with all of it now, so it must be easier now. It may be a bit easier than it was 10 years ago, or 20 years ago, but it’s still very much not “accessible”. Even most steam deck users have a hard time with the very simple, presentable, accessible version that comes on that.

          It’s easy to lose track of how hard something is when it hasn’t been for you in a long time. But linux is unfortunately still very inaccessible for the vast majority of people. It is constantly moving in the right direction, and generally worth getting through the hard part to make it to the other side, but you need motivation to do so, as it will fight back for a long time. But, windows and mac have it almost as bad. Neither one is quite as hard to transition to as linux, but there is still a decent barrier to switch between them. Once linux is around that same level of barrier, that’s when we can expect the numbers to come up notably.

            • msage@programming.dev
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              17 days ago

              snaps forced down your throat, stability issues, lots of bad decisions in the past (unity, ads in menu or terminal)

              none of that is in mint

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    LTT needs Emily back in front of the camera to provide a proper Linux perspective.

    • kboy101222@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I pretty much stopped watching after Emily stopped being on camera and unsubbed entirely after the harassment and overworking allegations came out.

      And I’m not even a Linux person 99% of the time! I do run a home server, but my daily driver is windows. Emily was just one of the only people on the channel that not only seemed to know exactly what she was talking about, but also didn’t behave like a total tech dude bro the entire time

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Needed to search who Emily is. I was totally out of the loop.

      Yeah she was the best.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Sorry about that. I don’t know the right way to reference a trans person who was famous under their former identity but not their real one.

        • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Me neither, I think the best approach is to use the new identity always, if the person is interested they can search for it.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 days ago

          No, I knew she had stopped being on-camera and switched to being a writer only (I assumed temporarily until she felt comfortable/confident post-transition), but I had no idea that she more recently quit LTT entirely. @Player2’s comment was news to me!

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        I know people know “Anthony;” I was just uncertain of the appropriateness of mentioning that name.

        Also, LOL at this comment on the video:

        @jeffc3051 1 year ago
        Oh thank god. I thought you were going to say you started using Windows.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Steve called out LTT for knowing about the Honey marketing scam but not saying anything because it would harm his business (This isn’t speculation. Linus said it publicly.) LTT called for peace with Gamer’s Nexus using the veiled threat that Gamer’s Nexus comments are causing material harm to his business.

      Steve responded by posting an old text exchange he had with Linus regarding a LTT Wan show that copied a Gamer’s Nexus video without even mentioning they they were using Gamer’s Nexus script (almost identical in topic order, format and words) for their show. If Steve was a serious business instead of a fan running a channel as a business, that’s where lawyers would have been brought in to sue LTT. Instead Steve only asked for acknowledgment- which Linus never gave.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    People always call Linus Torvalds an asshole, but I’ve yet to see anything from him that didn’t make sense. And the fact that he eventually took community feedback and decided to take time off to deal with his anger issues is commendable.

    Linus TT can go and fuck itself though.

    • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca
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      17 days ago

      For an embarrassingly long time I thought they were the same person, and I wondered why anyone would look up to that tool, and call him a genius, when he couldn’t even benchmark an HDMI cable correctly (literally the only video of his I watched, and yes, I know that it wouldn’t have mattered even if he did do it properly).

      Now that I know that its 2 separate assholes, I feel like LTT is even more of a tool who leans into the identity confusion on purpose for more internet clout.

    • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      He’s definitely a fuck your feelings type. No nonsense and sometimes harsh but like you said it’s almost always justified. I’ll take that over fake ass, greedy LTT Linus “oops I got caught so now I’ll apologize or try to hide it and then apologize” any day of the week.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        16 days ago

        LTT could have just said fuck you’re right my bad, every single time he gets caught fucking up.

        Honey: yeah we really wanted to do but that NDA was nasty and have you seen their lawyers, sorry guys We have ousted sponsors before but it just didn’t make business sense in this case. 99% would have went “yeah we get you”

        Billit labs: We did not mean to fuck these guys over, erm twice. We have (repurchase the prototype off who we sent it to or compensated them for the price of machining a new part too sufficiently high tolerance) and if they provide us with a another piece and exact instructions we’ll cover them in a future video gratis.

        These things didn’t need to turn into PR disasters.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Torvalds is a C programmer who didn’t even consider himself accomplished until he made Git, long after Linux.

    Sebastian is a warehouse manager who still thinks he’s better than everyone else because he worked at NZXT NCIX lol.

      • David_Eight@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        A former LTT employee made claims of sexual harassment and poor working environment. LTT paid a third party to investigate those claims and unsurprisingly didn’t find evidence that supported those claims. A lot of LTT stans use this as “evidence” that the accuser was lying. Assuming that is clearly false logic, investigating yourself isn’t proof of innocence.

        • lurklurk@lemmy.world
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          16 days ago

          Usually it’s frowned upon to demand that people prove their innocence. We’ve tried that system and a bunch of innocent people ended up dead

          Failing to find evidence of course also doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, only that we don’t know, because there’s, you know, not enough evidence