LTT vs Google.
I’ll side with LLT on this, but that doesn’t mean I want to support their channel.
Why? What did LTT do?
Out of the loop on this.
Other than the stuff already mentioned here, people (probably fairly accurately) thought Linus was a salesman douche with no real knowledge of computers back in the NCIX days.
It was partially true, he was basically a warehouse manager who happened to get lucky making a successful youtube channel which he turned into his own media business after NCIX died.
But that’s what the key term is. It’s Linus Media Group. Their top goal is to create content that generates views for revenue, and not content that might be useful or takes a lot of effort to do.
Which is why you will almost never see any heavy IT people watching his videos. There are so many examples of people running entire data centers in their house better than LMG could do with actual budget, server space, and hardware. They used to use windows server for everything because they didn’t have anyone who knew linux lol.
They used to use windows server for everything because they didn’t have anyone who knew linux lol.
Obviously a Windows bad. Nothing else expected.
Because obviously this is the year of Linux desktop.But yes, Windows sometimes is annoying. But so is Linux and it’s ton of distros.
Doesnt prevent me from using best of both worlds.Tell me you haven’t worked with servers without telling me you haven’t worked with servers.
I do and had a very annoying evening last weeks friday.
Windows server is notoriously terrible compared to Linux on a server. Most tech people (even those who happily run Windows on their desktops) know this.
The parent’s comment isn’t about “Windows bad” or “this is the year of the Linux desktop” it’s about a group of people cosplaying as tech wizards when they use laughably bad software to run their business because they lack technical expertise.
They’ve been criticized of rushing and skimping on accurate / ethical review practices. There are also allegations that LTT is a fairly toxic work environment, but, the former has more concrete evidence since the janky reviews were recorded and uploaded.
And on a more subjective note, a lot of people aren’t really into the way that Linus behaves on camera. I’m in this camp. I find that he often comes off pretty arrogant and belittling when he’s interacting with his staff on camera.
I saw one of his videos like a decade ago and was immediately turned off.
Apparently posted a video about how to avoid ads on YouTube using adblockers, etc.
Linus once said that ad blocking is piracy/theft. Fuck that clown.
I left when every other video was about the personal lives of Linus or his staff. I know that developing the parasocial is important to any channel, but it turns me off.
I actually like those, and started to watch the channel regularly after the house remodeling series.
What’s barely sufferable are the “we bought stuff from the internet and here it is. check out our sponsor…” videos that’s been published a lot lately.
Right? I learned how to block channel in FreeTube motivated entirely so I don’t have to see his stupid face in my recommendations
I feel like we’ll find out this was engineered for clicks by them.
i mean thumbnails are almost always engineered for the most engagement, yes.
and theirs are clearly clickbaity
They actually recently had a video about their thumbnails, and how different people see different thumbnails for the same video as they experiment to see what works.
At least they’re honest about it I guess.
For visibility, here is a list of ways around youtube ads the video was supposedly banned for mentioning:
Desktop:
- https://freetubeapp.io/
- https://github.com/LibreTubeApp/LibreTube
- https://github.com/yattee/yattee
- https://invidious.io/
- Apparently searching for a youtube url in Bing.com and clicking on the thumbnail gives you the video with no ads
Android:
I personally use Freetube and think it’s great
Also revanced
I just bought a Google Pixel!
So that I can install GrapheneOS on it.
I wish it didn’t have to be that way, lol. Can’t we have some quality third party hardware?
I went through three Pixels (6, 6 pro, and 7) with Graphene before I finally gave up. Not because of Graphene, but because Pixels break so easily, and even small damage to the screen will almost certainly render the phone unusable. I’m a contractor, and I need a phone that can handle some moderate abuse. But even with Otterbox cases, my Pixels could just not hang.
Sadly, with a heavy heart and a wounded concience, I’ve gone back to Samsung. Yes, they spy on me, and yes I absolutely detest it, but at least I can drop my phone once a month and not have to replace it or pay $200 for a screen replacement.
That really blows. I have an office job and am generally easy on my electronics. Hopefully I won’t have any serious problems, but thanks for the heads up.
Dropped my phone (Pixel 7) a number of times. Can’t say I am trying hard.
I have a matte screen protector and a regular case on my phone. No cracks.I put mine in a case right away. Hopefully I won’t have problems.
Lmao, not trying to jinx myself here, but I break my phones yearly, except this pixel 8 pro, which mostly only has the scratches on it that I got while waiting for the liquid glass screen protector to come in. This phone is a pretty good contender for being my longest used, minus my BlackBerry z10, a phone I miss dearly (you could replace everything minus the main board for 40 bucks). But yeah, it’s got some scratches since then, but again, I seem to break my phones yearly.
Here is the video in question.
Hopefully it stays up. If not, someone might want to push to archive.org / peertube /etc…
Was it about how to live without Google or how to bypass ads on YouTube?
both
This dude is so smart but has literally the worst vibes I just can’t stand him for no reason lmfao
No way this wasn’t calculated by LTT.
Although I agree that this content should be up on YT, I wouldn’t be surprised if LLT were well aware that this was a high risk video that could get struck down.
I hate conspiratorial thinking, but LLT is likely to benefit from this attention, and they have a history prioritizing subscriber counts over getting useful information into the hands of people.
I’d bet dollars to donuts it was planned. They’re all about views, sponsors, and subs. The “info” they publish is hack at best. They’re entertaining at times but it’s just that, entertainment, not tech news.
They have a separate channel for tech news. They also have a several hours long podcast style show on Fridays that focus on recapping the week’s tech news.
They also write and shoot videos weeks ahead of publication. Day and date news just isn’t the focus of the main LTT channel.
The fact Louis had to disable comments on that video tells a lot 😄
