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    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 147 points 13 hours ago (12 children)

    People always call Linus Torvalds an asshole, but I've yet to see anything from him that didn't make sense. And the fact that he eventually took community feedback and decided to take time off to deal with his anger issues is commendable.

    Linus TT can go and fuck itself though.

    [–] OmegaLemmy 35 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    Only an asshole when talking about contributing to Linux from what I've seen

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 68 points 13 hours ago

    That may be, don't think I've heard him talk about anything else. One of my favorite clips ever is his message to nvidia. Some things are worth being angry about. And because of his angry public reaction, I became aware of nvidia's anti-FOSS efforts. So it's not all bad imo.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 27 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    You spend all your adult life nurturing a baby like the Linux kernel, a lot of it unpaid, and you'll be a bit touchy about what goes into it too.

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    [–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    True.

    Here's a dataset of most of his rants from the LKML along with the "hate" rating of each.

    https://github.com/corollari/linusrants?tab=readme-ov-file#linusrants

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    [–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago

    For an embarrassingly long time I thought they were the same person, and I wondered why anyone would look up to that tool, and call him a genius, when he couldn't even benchmark an HDMI cable correctly (literally the only video of his I watched, and yes, I know that it wouldn't have mattered even if he did do it properly).

    Now that I know that its 2 separate assholes, I feel like LTT is even more of a tool who leans into the identity confusion on purpose for more internet clout.

    [–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (24 children)
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    [–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 43 points 12 hours ago (15 children)

    "ThE aLlEgAtIoNs WeRe PrOvEn To Be FaLsE By aN iNdEPeNdEnT tHiRd-PaRtY iNvEsTiGaTiOn."

    [–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Good lord. what happened this time?

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    [–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    That he paid good money for.

    [–] dwalin@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    Thats how that works no? Who should pay for it?

    [–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

    Preferably, these 3rd party investigations should be done by a regulated entity, chosen by a 3rd party that the business being investigated has no say in, with no contact between the chosen investigative party and the business being investigated until the investigation has started.

    So yes, you are correct that LTT needs to be the ones to pay for the investigation, but they shouldn't be allowed to know who they were paying until after the fact, and they certainly should not be allowed to choose who they paid.

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago

    Torvalds's history of verbal abuse is well documented in public mailing list archives.

    I can't speak about whatever happened behind closed doors at LTT nor am I defending anything by LTT but Torvalds is not sunshine and rainbows either.

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    [–] grue@lemmy.world 67 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

    LTT needs Emily back in front of the camera to provide a proper Linux perspective.

    [–] Player2@lemm.ee 40 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Emily left a couple months ago

    [–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

    Did she mention why? I was expecting her to start doing videos again at some point...

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    [–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Needed to search who Emily is. I was totally out of the loop.

    Yeah she was the best.

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Sorry about that. I don't know the right way to reference a trans person who was famous under their former identity but not their real one.

    [–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 hours ago

    Me neither, I think the best approach is to use the new identity always, if the person is interested they can search for it.

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    [–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Uhm aktchewally, its the GNU-Linus Tech Tip system, a complete free software advice and content engine

    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 13 hours ago

    Linus Tech Tips is just one of many distros that run on the Linus Media Group kernal

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    [–] the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip 24 points 13 hours ago (27 children)
    [–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    https://lemmy.zip/comment/13100245

    Here's a quick roundup of some, but not all of the issues people have with LTT.

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    [–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    you speak of foss yet you use Google curious /s

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