It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”

Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.

Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.

    • @legion02
      5•1 year ago

      What’d they get wrong on the Android TV boxes?

        • DMmeYourNudesEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          What they said is that the devices are rooted and they didn’t vet the products for malware. So given that most of them were rooted, it’s fair to assume that most others would be too and would also be at risk of malware.

            • DMmeYourNudesEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Because the way these products are manufactured in China is basically like ordering off Etsy. You can’t trust random people 10000 miles away to have your best interests at heart.

                • DMmeYourNudesEnglish
                  1•1 year ago

                  dude, don’t order unaudited tech and put it on your network LOL.

                  Also, does this inversely imply that we can trust the products made by American companies? Because if so, that’s an equally ignorant position.

                  there is this really cool place called a court, and i can sue people there for selling me deliberately malicious products. if the company is not in the US, i can’t do that.

    • KushanEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I thought the Linux gaming pc challenge was fair. You have to remember that most users are not technical at all and that’s where Linux falls down.

      The only thing I disagreed with him majorly on was his complaint about the GitHub interface not downloading files you click on by default. I get where he’s coming from as a non-dev, it’s jarring and confusing but as a developer that’s the last thing you’d want. His complaint about GitHub’s interface really should have been directed at all those people using GitHub as a place to store files. But that’s so intrinsic to Linux, it’s hard to get away from yet it’s something that does prevent Linux from appealing to the mainstream.

      Don’t get me started on the reliance upon the terminal and bash scripts to achieve anything. I cringe every time someone says “just go here and copy/paste these commands”, not just because it’s unintuitive but because it’s also a major security risk. Not that windows is innocent of this either but it’s much more common in Linux.

        • KushanEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I’m going to bet your 80 year old gran isn’t playing AAA games and streaming on her Linux PC.

            • KushanEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              I think you’re missing the point I’m getting at. The Linux challenge was specifically a gaming challenge, or at least gaming was a significant part of the challenge and while yes, gaming has indeed come a long way in recent years (and the stream deck is helping drive that further), it still has as long way to go.

              You need to separate the “what’s doable” fun “what works out of the box”, it’s the latter that can fall down for most people and the second you have to open as terminal, you’ve lost the audience that we’re talking about.