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318 points

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

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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?

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40 points

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

Even his build guides are awful

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146 points

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.

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

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9 points

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.

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12 points

Plus, support is pretty nice to have.

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39 points

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.

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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!! ?

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

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Is there 🤔? 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.

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23 points

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Have you actually seen the video?

It in no way talks about “hidden advertising”.

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-6 points

windows don’t pay him too

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-10 points

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

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24 points

?

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15 points

Everyone else does, why does it matter if MS doesn’t 🤷.

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28 points

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

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6 points

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

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19 points

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

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Not ENOUGH money would be a more appropriate answer.

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7 points

True, that would be more accurate.

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