• @gabowo
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    2 years ago

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

    • Marxine
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      292 years 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
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        162 years 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
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          72 years ago

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

      • @rtxn
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        92 years 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
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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
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        172 years 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…

        • @sznio
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          72 years ago

          Classic /g/ YouTuber.

        • Limitless_screaming
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          72 years ago

          Not only that, but they also love to bring LGBT people into their friendly “discussion”; right now the top comment on MentalOutlaw’s latest video on odysee is someone complaining that he cannot use anything related to the fediverse, because it’s filled with trans people, and the one below it is complaining about defederalisation in the “faggiverse”.