• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    First time Linux user

    Knows nothing about the choices you make in Arch to personalize your system

    “Yes, Arch is the one for me! Because I know everything about Linux already.”

    Soon: “I don’t know why X is happening on my system”

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      I used Ubuntu for like a month then switched to arch 8 years ago never looked back… what’s your point

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      He doesn’t need to keep his system working, he can probably pay someone for that. He needs something that will maximize engagement, and a million “I use arch BTW” comments is exactly what he wants.

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        I don’t think that was the goal cause he didn’t post like a post, it’s a story. Engagement on it is not visible and as far as I’m aware, it doesn’t boost anything.

        Also Linux would be the last place any influencer would go for engagement farming.

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      Assuming that’s not some default config I just don’t know, that’s actually a rather competently built config for i3 or similar. If he did that hinself he should manage.

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        Many years ago he paid like 5 bucks to see if some Indian guys would write “heil Hitler” on a sign and hold it up for a video (they did}. He was doing stupid edgy humor and playing with like like many creators at the time. Many people canceled him “fully” a year or so after that when he had the “bridge incident”. He called someone the n word for camping or something while he was playing PUBG. He apologized and took responsibility for using the word…sorta. He continued to make content for a few more years and then he “retired” in Japan with his wife and child. They post update videos every few months but more or less he got his bag and dipped out after he pulled too many stupid moves and was seen as “toxic” to work with.

        I don’t think he’s a bad person, but that’s just as someone who occasionally watched his videos over the years.

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          people here really hate him for something I see in the average TF2 lobby. Also to me it seems like he has taken responsibility and grown from it 🤷‍♀️

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            Ivkenz I understand being mad at him for sure. It’s they staying mad at him forever that I don’t understand. People make mistakes. People change. He didn’t do anything worse than 90% of the guys I knew in highschool at some point. You grow up and you learn that behavior isn’t correct.

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              Changing is insufficient. Apologizing is only sometimes sufficient.

              Sometimes to undo damage you need to actively push against the thing you did.

              You don’t just say “sorry I said the N word, that was bad”. You educate people on why it’s not ok to say and call out others who say it. You put in the effort to make things better, not just good enough.

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        what the other guy said barely scratches the surface. he did so many things, shouting out a straight up neonazi propaganda channel as one of his favorites was one of them. he’s a pussy too, he always has this plausible deniability shit ready to go. but that only works if you’re stupid. you can “accidentally” do nazi shit only so many times before people catch on.

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          […] [he shouted] out a straight up neonazi propaganda channel as one of his favorites […]

          Do you have a source?

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    I wonder if he’ll make a video (if he hasn’t already) on why he chose to switch to Linux; I’m quite interested to hear what made him decide to switch, and I’m also very interested to hear what issues, if any, he encountered along the way.

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      Definitely a one off thing case here. Last week he was on mint and now on arch with hyprland already. He doesn’t upload that much so he’s probably experimenting a lot.

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          I agree. Wish youtubers like Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez try linux. They have been extremely critical of modern tech and are very popular among non tech-savvy millennial audience.

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      Care to elaborate? I’m not updated to PewDiePie’s stuff anymore. I’m living under the fucking rock.

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        He had a bunch of “Haha, I’m just being a nazi ironically and what even is a nazi, this symbol has lots of other historical usages” incidents, such as paying a foreigner to yell “death to jews” and doing a video where he was wearing a shirt with an iron cross on the collar.

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      Engagement bait using linux is just laughably ridiculous. How many arch users do you think there are that also happen to use instagram.

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    This is so irrelevant to me. To be honest I never watched a single video of this person.