Personally, I find his Linux and privacy-related endeavors commendable, but I widely disregard of his political stances.
I think he’s a good source of knowledge, but definitely has his biases. I especially think it’s funny when he laments corpo bullshit, but then defends their right to do the bullshit. As with most libertarians, he gets close to the point and then nose dives off the bad takes cliff.
As with most things, learn what you can, lionize no one.
Good on privacy and monero. I wish he would do more hands-on I2P and Monero stuff.
Dislike the politics. But alt-right sympathizers have been part of the scene ever since I can remember.
I prefer the European cyperpunk scene. Less guns and bootlicking, more sticking it to the man. Sadly, we aren’t really producing much English language content, so Americans still have an edge online.
I love how you casually ignored the existence of English speaking countries in Europe. I think at least Ireland deserves better lol
For sure, but population wise they are also just smaller. Not that many British/Irish content creators relative to the Americans.
The USA dominates the anglosphere.
I’ve been to Ireland many times but didn’t know they can speak english over there.
How can I get into this “European cyberpunk scene”? I am bilingual. Do you mind linking some channels or online communities you like?
He’s very edgy, I don’t like his content. If I want someone to talk about tech, I’d rather they just talk about tech and not make wojack thumbnails and constantly making fun of politics.
I agree, but the thumbnails are nice.
I’d prefer not to associate linux content with politics of any kind, but he’s enjoyable sometimes
Anything with pepe the frog or anime in the thumbnails or anybody that says “based” is not worth it in my opinion.
Well he’s kinda ironic about that
Yeah, nah, I don’t think that’s true my dude. I’ve heard his opinions on the gay agenda, 5g, trans people, and ‘cultural marxism’ being taught in our schools. I think it’s just as serious as the place he gets alot of his views, the image boards we all know. It’s the same irony you see on 4chan
I don’t know since i’ve never visited 4chan
as an American who just recently got into Linux, I genuinely thought he was a parody channel when I first found him. everything from his mannerisms to his motivations seems perfectly in line with the less than pleasant stereotypes of Linux dweebs, and I think if he was my only source of Linux content I probably wouldn’t have gotten into Linux when I did.
His political stance is garbage but has some usefull videos llike degoogling lineageos
I like his content, he covers open source tech pretty well imo. I don’t agree with his opinions on guns, but I live in a country where any sort of weapons are pretty hard to get and violent crimes are very low. I won’t understand the fear/anxiety of Americans living in open carry states, so take this opinion how you will. I don’t really have any opinion on anyone’s political opinions, including his. I do think it’s cool how he has a chicken farm, a step towards self sustaining ig.
As an American who has to hear about shootings pretty consistently, I’d like to say the fear can be pretty justified. I don’t really know what it’s like to live in a world without guns and their presence, so it’s hard to imagine life without the necessity of them to protect yourself. It’s just one of those things that’s hard to understand unless you’ve lived in it I guess.
I totally get qhat you’re saying, but I can’t help but feel bad about what you’re saying too, because this isn’t how it’s supposed to be… You’re not supposed to have to live with constant fear. I wish it was different 😔
Love his content, he is quite entertaining, even when just doing a cooking video, has some good takes and some bad takes but who doesnt at this point.
Informative tech content. I’m right leaning but more towards the center so I don’t agree with everything he says politically speaking, but I have no issues viewing his content since at the end of the day he’s still libertarian and anti-establishment. I also have no problems holding conversations with the anarcho socialists on lemmy, because at the end of the day they’re also not advocating for more control over my life, we just have disagreements on the technical details of how society should work.
Very much agreed, his tech stuff and farming is good content, but the rest I do not agree with in any shape or form.
Disagree with his politics, but otherwise based.
What are his political stances?
Guns, mostly.
😂
Based, mostly
I actually haven’t found much value in his videos lately. I followed him during the time that he was covering more informational topics like android ROMs and a smattering of how to walkthroughs. Haven’t seen anything like that in awhile. The few I have watched have basically been news bites about some event in the tech world. I guess those are OK, but still not super helpful in discovering new tech or services.
Now that I think back, he did do a video on how to switch from
sudotodoasin Linux, which was awesome. One or two videos like that are enough to keep me monitoring the channel.Why does his political stance on anything matter? Is your mental skip button broken?
