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Personally, I find his Linux and privacy-related endeavors commendable, but I widely disregard of his political stances.

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His political stance is garbage but has some usefull videos llike degoogling lineageos

[–] endhits@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Disagree with his politics, but otherwise based.

[–] Ironfist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anything with pepe the frog or anime in the thumbnails or anybody that says "based" is not worth it in my opinion.

[–] Gush@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well he's kinda ironic about that

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, nah, I don't think that's true my dude. I've heard his opinions on the gay agenda, 5g, trans people, and 'cultural marxism' being taught in our schools. I think it's just as serious as the place he gets alot of his views, the image boards we all know. It's the same irony you see on 4chan

[–] adam@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When did he ever talk about those things? Did I miss something?

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can watch the podcast, or longer form political videos, that lukesmith does where he goes onbut he also peppers it into his videos every so often. I haven't watched in a while, so maybe he's calmed down a bit, but he seems to do this more frequently around major events

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Tech content is passable, wish he'd stick to that. Been losing points with politics, cheap merch and lazying out with what basically amounts to reaction videos.

Any other recommendations for tech content? Seytonic and The new oil are nice.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's very edgy, I don't like his content. If I want someone to talk about tech, I'd rather they just talk about tech and not make wojack thumbnails and constantly making fun of politics.

[–] NeonPayload@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

It's because he just regurgitates all his takes from /g/ on 4chan.

[–] Prunebutt@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If he only knew anything about politics, it wouldn't be so bad. He seriously applauded Elon Musk for "fighting" against media bias by "the far-left democrats". 🫠

[–] Justchilling@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see everyone talk about his politics but what do you expect the man to do. Not stand up for his ideological support for FOSS technology and not talk about radical new technology such as the 3D printing of guns?

[–] Justchilling@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

It feel's like being a genuine human being is enough to throw people off nowadays. It's not like he's a grifter, he has given critique on right wing social media, the "freedomphone" and republican legislation regarding tech.

I think he's a good source of knowledge, but definitely has his biases. I especially think it's funny when he laments corpo bullshit, but then defends their right to do the bullshit. As with most libertarians, he gets close to the point and then nose dives off the bad takes cliff.

As with most things, learn what you can, lionize no one.

[–] settinmoon@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Informative tech content. I'm right leaning but more towards the center so I don't agree with everything he says politically speaking, but I have no issues viewing his content since at the end of the day he's still libertarian and anti-establishment. I also have no problems holding conversations with the anarcho socialists on lemmy, because at the end of the day they're also not advocating for more control over my life, we just have disagreements on the technical details of how society should work.

[–] duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Holy shit as a socialist this is the most grounded and respectable take I have ever seen.

[–] sawne128@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He’s a weeb. Enough said.