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    [–] [email protected] 341 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    LTT is hidden advertising, and there is no money for that in Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Plus, support is pretty nice to have.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Only because it actually takes the real work off the backs from the sysadmins.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You are off your rocker if you think most saas products can be replaced by docker 🀣

    There is a big gap between you running jellyfin in your basement and securely and reliably maintaining services.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    SAAS is a scam developed by venture capital to make their otherwise nominally profitable tech gambits able to bilk clients of cash on a scale not even Barnum could fathom.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    reliably maintaining services

    it's funny that you use that as a selling point.

    In my experience almost no outage happens because hardware failures. And most outages happen because bad configurations and/or expired certs, which in turn are a symptom of too much complexity.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    Imagine thinking availability is all you need to do.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Your experience must be extremely limited.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Is there πŸ€”? I've seen things in production you wouldn't believe. Rigs from the stone age, a 30+ year old DEC still running their version of UNIX and people saving files on tapes. Why? It's how it has always been done 🀷. A firewall/router configured back in 2001 (no one's touched it ever since). An Ubuntu 12.4 install running a black box VM that no one knows what it's actually for, except that it was needed back in 2012 for something related to upgrading the network... so don't touch it cuz shit might stop working.

    Trust me, I've seen homelabs that are far better maintained than real world production stuff. If you're talking about the 0.2% of companies/banks that actually take care of their infrastructure, they are the expection, not the norm.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Homelabs will always be better maintained. In most cases it’s a one man show and the documentation can be slight hints that will help you remember the process when you need it.

    Most of the documentation for my homelab server is a README file in the folder next to the docker compose. At work I’m forced to write a lengthy explanation as to why things are the way they are in Confluence.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    If there is documentation... subcontractors come and go, some leave documentation, others don't.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Most saas products no, most of software i saw advertising on those kind of channels yes.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    You are off your rocker if you think most saas products can be replaced by docker 🀣

    So you're telling me all those products built on top of docker are !!MILITARY GRADE!! ?

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

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

    Even his build guides are awful

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Not ENOUGH money would be a more appropriate answer.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    True, that would be more accurate.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Not if they don't advertise, and if they do, it's so little I never saw it.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

    The Linux Experiment is regularly sponsored by some of them (IE Tuxedo)

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I missed the part where you provide sources/reasons for your allegation of crime?

    [–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I have AMD stockπŸ˜€, 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.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Have you actually seen the video?

    It in no way talks about "hidden advertising".

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

    https://www.piped.video/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

    I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    This is markdown thing. Lemmy supports markdown formatting.

    Like this

    or like this.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

    Everyone else does, why does it matter if MS doesn't 🀷.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    He has stock in framework laptops so Linux should be nice for him.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    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"

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

    system76 makes great desktops

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Damn, that's a large price difference. $300 for spyware, wow.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    The price gap mostly covers assembly.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    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?