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  • gabowo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Cautiously optimistic. His community and comments tends to be a mixed bag.

    • Marxine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I follow him for his privacy and FOSS content, but some of his takes can be quite… controversial, and those attract some questionable folks.

      • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The only video I watched of him was about sudo being “insecure, bloated, useless” and telling people to download a port of doas uploaded by some random user on GitHub… so you’d get 2 surfaces of attacks now, one which is definitely not being fixed as quickly.

        • Marxine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          That has to be one of his worst software takes, oof… Hope not too many people decided to follow this ‘advice’

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I feel like that’s the case with most tech expert channels. I’d even say Mental Outlaw is relatively mild compared to Distrotube (“if you support open-source, you should also support guns”) and especially Luke Smith (holy shit, where do I even begin).

        I watch them because their expertise in FOSS technologies is beyond question, but that is where my trust in them ends.

        • marlowe221@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Both Distrotube and Luke Smith are firmly in the category of - I used to watch their videos until I was like “whoa buddy, I thought we were talking about Linux and stuff…”

      • gabowo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        His comment base seems to be populated en masse by hardcore antisemites even off odysee, which he has literally never addresses. His content is cool sometimes, but it’s just… uhhhh. yeah…

  • anthoniix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like a lot of his content… but I honestly think he’s far right. He has a video where he says they’re just “teaching marxism” in college (the section of the video is literally labeled “LeftWing Propoganda”), and the reactions he has to certain things make me uh… skeptical.

    In this very video he says he’ll post his content “wherever I’m allowed to”, letting me know he knows how he’s being perceived.

    • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      …and why exactly are you highlighting his “political preference” as a some sort of problem? This ain’t “Politics.world” as far as I’m concerned.

      • xXemokidforeverXx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Because as long as politics is still fighting for human rights, rather than discussing the best way to implement them, it matters.

        • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          “There is a place for everything”, and forcing unrelated subjects/situations into everyone “because its a fight for human rights” is not the way to sort/deal with it. But rather, create unnecessary noise and trouble. Or else we’d have folks saving the world by shouting against the wall(s) constantly – which is (pretty much) at the same level of importance than what is being (forcefully) proposed here.

    • OptimusPrimeRib@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I watch his content and its pretty good but you’re right his leanings are a bit questionable. A couple of months ago he made a youtube short about complaining about gas prices and blaming Biden because obviously POTUS controls world wide gas prices.