Um, can you give some examples (with proof) of where LTT got paid to give a good review?
That’s an extreme accusation, and everything I’ve watched for the past decade+ seems to contradict that.
For obvious reasons that’s something they want to avoid. Hell they’re still happy to get on the bad side of companies for integrity, they’re just way less aggressive and outspoken about it compared to GN.
In fact I feel like GN sometimes overplays it a bit.
I mean it’s fair to avoid “drama” no matter who stirs it, but most of their controversies were fairly well handled and largely overblown.
I think my biggest issue was the whole “trust me bro” “warranty”, but that was mostly a cultural clash and Linus still had some good points even originally when he talked about it, even if the way he did so was extremely tone deaf.
Again, what? Where? Their most informative videos do reviews and testing, which is regular journalism at best.
I can remember maybe one or two videos that were somewhat investigative.
It’s just not what they do or what they claim to do.
Especially since they could ship the JS polyfill With the browsers. Seems like a decent middle ground to me.
In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.
The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.
I don’t think LTT ever did or claimed to do investigative journalism (or really journalism at all)?
They make entertainment videos that sometimes have mildly informative value.
Um, no? They can provide an IBAN and then you can pay almost instantly with most banks, with the worst ones taking a business day or two.
Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards.
Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It’s opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used.
Didn’t even know there was an EU website for that. Would be neat to have it there.
Huh? They just made the walls. Out of cement.
Making the walls of a house is one of the easiest steps, if not the easiest. And these would still need insulation, electrical, etc. And they look like shit.
Reddit certainly had its problems but was actually pretty good for the ~15 years before it started getting enshittified more and more to try to extract value.
There is still a lot of software and some very popular games that just don’t work on Linux.
TBF I looked at it recently-ish and it isn’t that bad. The shitty part is that it’s the default and a bit non-typical, but it’s still a fairly normal “select from these 3 options with the most profitable for us selected by default”.
Wow, what an amazing thing to be associated with, Microsoft.
They sell you a yearly subscription but with monthly payments, then require you to finish paying for the whole year if you cancel early. It is a bit discounted from the actual monthly plan and selected by default.
And they have shitty UX that doesn’t make this blatantly obvious, hence all the people who have issues with this.
They can get fucked. A while ago O was like you know what let’s give them money, seems only fair. So I finally subscribed, and then like a month later they sent me an email they’re raising the prices effective immediately - basically changing the deal on me without any delay.
So I unsubscribed, because fuck that.
More recently I looked into sharing the family plan with …my family, but it turna out they consider family only in a single household, and I’m not gonna try to give them money while also potentially having to prove how much of a family we are, so yeah…
Fuck them, either take my money when I’m actually trying, or I guess they didn’t need it that bad. I’m over YouTube, and would probably ditch it earlier than ever watching an ad there.
The better UX could have been making this a regular option, and (by default) showing a warning dialogue if using backspace to navigate would clear out a form.
No, it’s not “Windows-like” in anything but some basic appearance (and that would be Windows from the previous decade). It’s not similar in anything else, and from my experience the similarity in appearance only confuses users.
I really wish people stopped recommending Mint as if it was some proper Windows replacement because it’s overall a very mediocre distro that’s IMO more likely to detract users from using Linux than anything else.
Patents would be fine if the bar for “innovation” would be much higher, software patents weren’t a thing, there was way more research done into prior art, and there would be different (shorter) lengths for patents depending on what industry they target.
Like, if it’s manufacturing or something like drugs where it takes years before you can start making profit, sure, make them 10-20 years. If it’ something you make money off of immediately, it should be shorter.
The thing is, he does that fairly rarely, and seems to have mostly learned (to at least keep his mouth shut).
And TBF I don’t think he could build a company like that without a bit of cockyness, and he certainly does deserve recognition for what he achieved.
The vast majority of stuff they do - even if it’s a fuckup - they actually handle well and make everyone whole. In away they’re sometimes forced a bit by circumstances but in general I feel like they’re genuinely trying to do their best and be fair.