I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.

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[–] 114 points 2 years ago (1 child)

In short, like anyone else:

He's absolutely right, and utterly annoying

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Seems intelligent and I've enjoyed some of his videos. I don't know much about him other than he's a bit... intense? and he's sparked controversy with some people. I looove the FUTO keyboard app he's associated with. It's the best TTS keyboard I've found, and I refuse to use the Google/Samsung/etc equivalents

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The TTS uses whisper and absolutely dominates. But it is garbage still as a swipe interface. It direly needs to catch up on that front before I can recommend it full-time to friends. I spend SO much time retyping things it gets wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you're looking for a reasonable FOSS swipe keyboard, try AnySoftKeyboard. While still a step below the non FOSS keyboards I've used before like Swiftkey, it gets the job done reasonably well

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He seems like a great consumer advocate and repair activist to me.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He does go a little over the top sometimes so his videos could be considered to be a bit overdramatic with a little sprinkle of rage bait.

    However, I have rarely have disagreed with his views on consumer protection. Actually.... I have never disagreed with his views on consumer protection.

    Him getting viewers pissed off is not what I would consider healthy, but the rage might get some people to stop showing their bellies to large companies. Regardless, his videos do walk a fine line for me personally. He should be getting income from his videos, which is fine. If he ever cracks and starts getting people pissed off expressly for the purpose of income, I'll drop his videos really quick.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago

    I think I agree with most comments here.

    He's usually right and I agree with him, I just find him a little hard to watch. His videos are a bit long winded.

    I 100% support him. I think his heart and mind are in the right place.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    His board repair videos were outstanding. I don't especially enjoy his rants. He's usually right, but I don't really care to listen to how mad he is about it. I can get mad on my own.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I tend to like him and the things he has to say. I like that he helps consumers be more conscious of the things they buy, and cautions against companies with bad practices (such as those that are closed sourced, or lock basic features behind paywalls, etc).

    He strikes me as a little socially awkward himself, and maybe that manifests as his rage at some of these companies and situations; he could stand to take a breath every now and then. I really enjoyed his breakdown of the Honey scam and LTT.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    He's mostly correct about lots of things, but not about everything (for example, he hated on everything GrapheneOS just because its lead dev is a bit socially awkward). Plus he's overly dramatic and verbose which can be annoying. Sometimes you must be to get abstract or complicated points across better, but I still feel he's too aggressive in that regard. I also like what he's trying to achieve with FUTO in general. Overall, he's a great and valuable activist who has almost all of his eggs in the right baskets.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    its lead dev is a bit socially awkward

    Heh. You're being gentle, and that's good. But that's maybe understating it a bit.

    I've seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.

    It's okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Out of interest (because I know nothing whatsoever about GrapheneOS), how does its lead compare to Linus Torvald?

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    He fights the good fight but I don't like his videos very much because he's very whiny and annoying.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    He's doing some really good stuff for right to repair; he get's a bit overly dramatic sometimes but you can tell that he's just very passionate about those things.

    I think he's the best type of influencer; rather than money or fame he strives for an end to the constant enshittification by exposing bad actors and not giving a shit about it.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    good, but man his videos on the SteamDeck are really over negative for no reason. For someone who really supports Linux he doesn't seem to much appreciate the thing getting Linux to mainstream popularity

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    He isn't a bad person, does a lot of good for the IT and repair community.

    But with his recent behavior of bringing emotions into the GN v LMG debacle kind of did sour my opinion of him a bit. There were even comments that were removed by him calling him out on some of the shit he was saying.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I just watched the video and in all sincerity I could not see anything wrong with it. Genuinely asking what was bad about it? He just did an 8 min follow up too which seems objectively right.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    From what I can remember, the LTX thing that Louis brought up was after Linus had apologized for and then they did a colab video where it seemed they buried the hatchet on the main channel in a video where Steve and Louis both called out Linus for not doing in regards to Honey. Louis bringing that up again felt like the cliche arguing with your wife that never fails to forget some little slight you did years ago.

    It all seems like jealousy on the part of Steve's behalf especially since Linus was recently on the Tonight Show then Steve changed parts of his website to not claim to be a journalist and Louis buying into it hook line and sinker. Steve is better off staying in the investigative journalist role and Rossmann would do better not getting into youtuber drama.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Were they removed by him, or were they automatically removed? I've seen some extremely egregious auto moderating on YouTube lately.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I respect the effort he's put into right to repair, and agree (in general) with most of the points he makes about it.

    But I also think he's an asshole and we need a better voice for the RtR movement. I've seen him get into fights and strawman people on reddit as corporate shills just for calling his attitude abrasive.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    He is much too verbose, launches into side topics that have nothing to do with the subject on hand, and he speaks much too fast. But that's his style. I believe he's on the spectrum and doesn't really know how to focus on what he has to say.

    Having said that. I think Louis Rossmann wouldn't be Louis Rossmann, or even be as efficient as he is, if he didn't do that.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Great consumer rights activist and I have agreed with 90% of the takes I've heard from him, but his videos are mind numbingly long and boring.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was just saying the other day it feels like he gets through all that needs to be said in the first half of the video and then spends the rest ranting/reiterating himself. But I think he has good talking points

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    He’s fine. His videos come off as a bit whiny. The stance of pirating content as being justified instead of just abstaining from an unsatisfactory service seems entitled to me but I get it. I think he’s mostly right in his analysis of things, I don’t make it through every video that he posts though

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    He's very annoying to listen to.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    wow not a single mention of how he has a Kiwi Farms account in the comments here, surprising

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where might one find more information on this?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I was wondering this is well. Took me a while to find this discussion: https://woem.men/notes/9ozhpn3l2n5v0b6c

    He claims he only created an account to "investigate" if they were talking about him.

    Another worrying thing I accidentally stumbled on a while back was he was in the streamer "Destiny" chat. Hmm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgF92Wi8J7o (said he used to listen to Jordan Peterson in 2015 too).

    Yeah, IDK what to think about him now. I still like his consumer advocacy though, I guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    He does content? He can be a bit aggressive about his topics, that can rub people the wrong way.

    I don't think he did anything offensively, legally or morally wrong.

    I know just he exists, I don't follow his content.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    "Source available" grifter.

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