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All Things Tom Scott
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Tom holds a high standard for his content, and we should maintain that as his fans. There isn't a strict definition for this, but in general, just use common sense and be polite. Disagreements are fine, but be respectful and keep it strictly to the topic at hand -- no personal attacks, no "straw man"-ing or any other bad-faith agruing. Bigotry will be banned without hesitation.
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Isn't his new shit on Nebula?
Idunno, I unsubscribed many years ago after he kept on shitting on FOSS devs and shilling Windows despite the obvious enshittification. But the interface here looks like youtube, so my guess it's on there
Can you tell me more about that? That doesn't sound like someone I'd want to follow.
It was in a couple of videos, the one I can remember right now is https://youtu.be/lIFE7h3m40U?t=294 (it's especially funny because you could do this entire project on Linux in a few lines of udev and a trivial actkbd config)
The other video was on some other channel, I can't find it right now. I don't remember the exact quote but the gist was "Linux is not a serious or usable OS", he just dismissed it outright. I'm generally ok with people shitting on Linux, but I remember that was particularly annoying and dismissive of both developers and users, especially so since he's a techy person.
He might have changed his stance since, but I've not been keeping up so I don't know 🤷
Dude, he plugged all 14 Keyboards and without touching a terminal it all worked. For customizing he ran a free software program. Again no terminal.
Your comment on udev and actkyb is exactly the reply he mocked.
I run Linux but for most people a computer isn't a lifestyle. And these videos are from 10 years ago.