Personally, I find his Linux and privacy-related endeavors commendable, but I widely disregard of his political stances.
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.
Brodie Robertson and The Linux Experiment are probably my favorites for non-vintage tech content
I disagree with his right-wing libertarianism, as many have said. I found him when i was getting into tech privacy stuff and watched it, then youtube started giving me more of the harder weirdos who were a little more fashy. I dont think Mental Outlaw is a facist, dont get me wrong - but the youtube algorithm may send you that direction.
I think his older stuff was better and just had more content in each video. More recent videos (last 6-12 months?) it seems like he’s got two news articles he reads but then he just goes on big tangents to fill space.
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.
Holy shit as a socialist this is the most grounded and respectable take I have ever seen.
Anything with pepe the frog or anime in the thumbnails or anybody that says “based” is not worth it in my opinion.
Well he’s kinda ironic about that
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
When did he ever talk about those things? Did I miss something?
You can watch the podcast, or longer form political videos, that lukesmith does where he goes on. they talk quite frequently about more political matters, but 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
Oh shit fr? 😬
I don’t know since i’ve never visited 4chan
His political stance is garbage but has some usefull videos llike degoogling lineageos
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.
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”. 🫠
It’s because he just regurgitates all his takes from /g/ on 4chan.
For people on 4chan that is as close to developing an own personality as possible. I feel pity for them.
This, never liked his content TBH. Luke Smith is similar but Luke’s Linux content is good.
I actually like his thumbnails tbh
I agree, but the thumbnails are nice.
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?
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 spent so much of my time in the Gentoo community fixing things that have gone wrong through newbies taking his advice as gospel. I’d be happy if he never made another video, and that’s outside of, well, everything else.
Disagree with his politics, but otherwise based.
Overall, Based.
based.win reference?
XD
I really liked watching him at my beginnings with privacy and Linux, but now all things he talk about I already know earlier from Lemmy and Mastodon.
Same as Luke smith, good linux content but they both cryptofascists. Also its funny that they both turned into grifters, one with monero and one with a shitty dropshipping merch.
This exactly
I like his content, he covers open source tech pretty well imo. I don’t agree with his opinions on guns, but I live in a country where any sort of weapons are pretty hard to get and violent crimes are very low. I won’t understand the fear/anxiety of Americans living in open carry states, so take this opinion how you will. I don’t really have any opinion on anyone’s political opinions, including his. I do think it’s cool how he has a chicken farm, a step towards self sustaining ig.
He seems to be a character
I used to like his content and his videos got me into linux but i feel that his newer videos have a lot more politics compared to the older ones and i very much disagree with most of his political views i don’t realy watch him anymore
