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      Most of the “tech” youtube world is based around presenting mostly useless consumer products as it was technological advancement.

      Most of their SAAS advertisers could be replaced by a “docker compose up”, hardware ones, most of the time are just regular tools with one or two gimmick.

      The way to get money advertising on linux is by misleading business people into getting useless enterprise services.

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        Entreprise services are there so client companies have someone to blame contractually if there’s an issue instead of themselves, that’s very valuable.

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          Exactly why banks almost always use one form of a corporate UNIX based OS for this or that. Shit hits the fan --> blame the other guy. You can’t do that with community based distros, even with Debian, they offer no guarantee whatsoever.

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      Hidden? What else is there to get from a tech illiterate channel?

      Even his build guides are awful

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      Wouldn’t advertising laptops that have Linux pre-installed work for that? Also niche hardware like the Raspberry Pi 5 for example

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        I’ve blocked his channels, so I can’t give recent sources. But it was VERY clear he ignored AMD graphics for years around 2014-2018, until when they began to advertise, they suddenly got attention. Also it was very clear that when Intel stopped their program to support reviewers, he did a 180 and was suddenly VERY EXTREMELY negative on everything Intel. Coinciding with when AMD began to advertise on his channel.
        Just pay attention if you use his channel, and I bet you’ll see it very quickly too.

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          Yep, Gamer Nexus ripped Linus a new one recently. Linus only talks for money. Well proven by the Billet Labs scandal among many others.

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            Nothing what GN was talking about was about money though, it was about rushing things and making mistakes

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          Have you noticed how Intel is doing so much worse than AMD pretty much across the board though? Maybe it just reflects reality :)

          You can look at the stock chart for a quick summary.

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            I have AMD stock😀, I was always an AMD guy and stuck with my trusty Bulldozer FX CPU when they were really bad compared to Core2, I predicted way back in 2016 AMD would compete with Nvidia on compute, and later AI. But even for me what Linus did was too thick.
            Intel was still ahead in single threaded at the time, but Linus focused ONLY on negative things.

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          Have you actually seen the video?

          It in no way talks about “hidden advertising”.

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            Yes I watched it in it’s entirety. He talks about it. As in Linux doesn’t do anything if there’s no money involved. How he acted towards Billet Labs in a pathetic way because they were an upcoming small firm with little to no money. Another commentator in this post had already mentioned how he turned from positive to negative towards Intel when Intel stopped paying reviewers. Do you remember when they monitised the fricking apology video on YouTube? Clues are all over the place if you are willing to see with an open eye.

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            Could you please correct your bot to not use double return for new line, which causes empty lines? And instead use a double space at the end of the line, and then return, which works as a normal return.
            I have no idea why Lemmy does formatting this very counter intuitive way, but that’s how it is.

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              They are different things. space+space+return is for a new line, yes, but return+return is for a new paragraph, which is a different thing. There is supposed to be a space, some clients just reduce it to a little less than one full line to look more compact, while others just leave the full empty line like you say. Either way it’s the intended behaviour.

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            Seems unfortunate that there’s no “pre-built ready to use with Linux pre-installed” option starting at ~$1499.

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              A “Ubuntu LTS” option would be great here, yeah. It’d be next to impossible to support every distro and I get the feeling linux users who have distro preferences are also the type who would prefer to do it themselves.

              Source: Me I guess. I’d rather setup Fedora myself

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                That’s good for workplaces at least. Everywhere I’ve worked, Ubuntu LTS is the standard with everything else being “good luck, just don’t let it get in the way of work”

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                  Those are the exact words my first boss used when on my first day, I asked if I could use linux mint instead haha. That’s pretty spot on.

                  For good reason too, it has waaaay more support for your basic workplace apps than anything else (not that other things don’t but it’s easier to find a .deb than a .rpm)

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              The slightly above average users wouldn’t accept it either way. “What is this ugly Ubuntu? I want my gentoo minimalist install with awesomewm” etc

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              Seems unfortunate that there’s no “pre-built ready to use with Linux pre-installed” option starting at ~$1499.

              system76 makes great desktops

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      Hidden? It’s pretty fucking opaque. The point of most videos is to explicitly talk about whatever item(s) is about (CPU, GPU, cooling device, chair, tons of accessories, etc), he mentions lttstore at least once per video, and explicitly calls out sponsors.

      Which advertising is hidden?