• Marxine
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      01 year 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.

      • @rtxn@lemmy.world
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        01 year 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@lemmy.world
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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…”