Some small corrections here (as I understand them):

In the video, they actually mentioned that Billet's device was intended for a 3090, but "they (Billet Labs) think it should work with a 4090 too." Unsure if anyone from Billet ever commented on that, but that seemed to be LMG's understanding.

Additionally, the device was sent to LMG without an expectation of return. They asked for it back after the poor review, but when it was originally sent over, there were no strings attached.

They did find who the device was sold to, and it was just a random person at LTX (LMG's tech expo), not a competitor. Sounds like they auctioned off a lot of random stuff from videos there, and it was likely mismanagement rather than malice that caused them to sell it.

The Madison situation is obviously shitty, but I think there's a big distinction between her experiences involving sexual harassment and the "grind mindset" culture that LMG seems to have. Both are problems, but one is obviously larger than the other. I believe the new CEO stated they're going to bring in external investigators regarding the sexual harassment claims.

When it comes to them rushing things to keep up an unreasonable video schedule, I think that's a valid criticism, but in no way do I feel like it's some kind of line in the sand that can't ever be forgiven. I also think that GN probably should have asked for comment before releasing this kind of criticism against arguably their largest competitor.

I love seeing "aggressively LGBTQ inclusive" tankies bend over backwards to support a literal homophobic fascist dictatorship and parrot their talking points.

Yeah I was talking about Americans specifically

It's because that's how we talk. We say October 5th, not the 5th of October.

I used RIF for 12 years and I think Thunder is pretty close. The only thing it's really missing for me is better comment navigation.

I actually really enjoy the gesture upvoting it has, and it's very customizable. The debs are super active and responsive on github and matrix too.

CachyOS is also really easy to install and treats KDE well

I don't blame you. I bought mine before I really knew how far off the deep end Elon was, and while I like the car, I doubt my next one will be a Tesla again

Depending on how much you drive and how expensive your local energy bill is, the economics can work out better than you think.

I usually charge at home, and my equivilant cost per gallon (assuming 25mpg) is about $0.50/gallon.

If I drive 1000 miles per month, that's about $140/month I'm saving. If gas prices increase to $6/gallon, which I'm sure they will eventually, that's $220/month.

It doesn't justify a new Tesla, but used ones are getting cheaper finally.

Meta is actually a huge contributor to open source, and I think it's worked out well for them. Hopefully they stick to it.

I started using Linux desktops at work around 5 or 6 years ago, and even since then, the experience has improved greatly.

I've been on various distros with KDE over the past couple of years, but from what I've seen in passing, Gnome "just works" really well with most distros that use it. KDE requires some tweaking occasionally, but since 5.27, it's been rock solid for me, and the KDE team seems really dedicated to making Plasma 6 stable and easy to use.

You might want to fire up a VM or throw Ubuntu on an old laptop and see how it feels. It really has gotten a lot better for the average user, and something like Mint, imo, is really easy to pick up and just use.

Personally, I really like customization, and I work as a DevOps engineer (formerly linux sysadmin), so I don't mind getting really deep into the OS if necessary. But I don't think you have to if you want to have a good experience.

Bad content is still content

CachyOS. It's arch based, but the installer is really good, and it has great repos. It also has a lot of optimizations for modern cpus