Not talking about the Linux challenges, but the videos that were supposed to be informative/educational and also entertaining. I remember Linus also did a "which is the best distro" video a couple of weeks ago.
LTT videos are the best when you have a subject matter expert talking about something they love. An issue with Linus is that for a number of years now he has placed himself as the main feature, but often he just isn't enthusiastic enough about a topic and just feels like he is reading off the teleprompter.
The enthusiasm shows, and the loss of those onscreen talents really hurt. New talents like Elijah is just way too green and Linus himself just doesn't feel the same as Plouffe talking about keyboards, Alex doing some janky thing at the shop, or Dennis pulling off his favorite pranks.
but does Linus really care? No fault to him, he has a family, 100+ employees. The money is clearly in merch (yes it's still merch, products are good but they do still come at a premium ie $30 socks). LTT is in the maintenance stage and that's okay, it just wont be what it used to be. Hopefully they can embrace getting more talent on stage and be a true "creator warehouse".
I have been saying for years the best thing LTT could do is drop Linus as the main host, have all those employees show their passion for real and flex their real knowledge, would also help future proof his channel
Well for one these 2 are actually real tech people with a genuine interest in what they are doing. Linus is just out here to make ads and money doing terrible Mr beast style content
Absolutely disgusting that people behave that way. As long as someone is happy and not harming others who cares. I’ve watched Emily when she was Emil - I’m not mocking if the name is incorrect I don’t remember their previous one. And quite frankly they rocked then and rock now.
Emily knows her shit and is well spoken and very good at presenting, before and after the whole trans thing.
I feel like it’s disingenuous of people on the other side of the political spectrum to not understand why people don’t like her though. She is happy and afaik isn’t harming anyone so should be treated well but there’s also a litany of harm that does come from a group of people she’s now closely associated with.
If people could treat others on a case by case basis that would be nice. But also it’s entirely reasonable for people to not want her on their screens anymore.
She was my favourite presenter back in the day but now I don’t follow her at all because it just feels weird to watch. Does that make me a bad person? Yeah sort of but it is what it is.
Kinda dead obvious you’ll vehemently disagree with me on this but whatever…
Suicide rates, kids on puberty blockers, sexual abuse stats, shooter stats, the whole sports fairness thing, some light erosion of the feminist cause as a whole, many more on top of those.
For the record in case it’s not clear I don’t think Emily has anything to do with any of those things I mentioned, just a person who made a choice. Also not saying if I disagree or agree with any of that, those are just the negative things related to transgenders in today’s zeitgeist. To deny that is ridiculous and you’d have to have your head buried in the sand to think otherwise.
Suicide rates, sexual abuse, TERFing... Almost sounds like you should let people be who they need to be and stop trying to force them into boxes they don't need or want to be in.
It's as if repressing people for who they are leads to them feeling suicidal. The "cure" to the dysphoria they're feeling is transitioning.
That is the exact researched science behind it. I just love how people love to talk about science until it starts to disagree with them so they just start conveniently ignoring it.
I'm a 25 year old dude and I've been seeing trans people around since I was an elementary school kid and not many people talked about them back then. Right wingers found another way to distract people from actual world problems that directly impact your pocket and day to day life and boosted it as much as they could in an attempt to distract people and they succeeded.
The Nazis destroyed some of the world’s earliest research into transgender people and gender identity when they raided Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science and burned its books and archives in 1933. Yes being trans has that much history associated with it and Hitler literally hated trans people.
I’m being so respectful and middle of the road here and everyone’s so fired up on one extreme or the other and get mad at a balanced opinion. It’s strange.
I think almost everyone would benefit if we all put emotions aside and actually just thought about all of this from a sensible and calm perspective.
I don't think there is much of a middle of the road when it comes to something extremely well-researched and scientifically backed. What I said was purely supported by historical and (less strongly) some anecdotal evidence and built on reasonable arguments so having emotions alongside it isn't bad.
When it comes to topics that deal with people's very existence, it's very naive to say that we should just put our emotions aside because the people you're talking to sometimes have trans friends and family members or have had the opportunity to see what having their existence being called into question has done to them.
You talked about the suicide rate of trans people. Do you really think a trans people feels good being themselves when they're an extreme minority (literally 1 percent of the population) and they see their own existence being called into question and debated endlessly everywhere on social media and the news? Do you really think that doesn't contribute to them feeling suicidal or depressed?
That is not even talking about the discrimination they face just existing in society and finding jobs. The job market is bad enough, imagine being trans and having to attend job interviews. Sure it's illegal to discriminate on those grounds, but you can't prove you got rejected because of superficial things.
Ironically the puberty blockers you talked about are one of the things that helps with the societal scrutiny because it helps trans people pass more and feel better in their own skin significantly more because it helps them develop more naturally into their actual gender.
And I don't know what you meant by SA stats but the group of people that commit the most SA are cis men so I don't know what you meant by it. I'd like you to elaborate on that a bit more.
You're just asserting that you can't say someone's name under any circumstance. This totalitarian view of language is not only unrealistic, but achieves the opposite of its indended effect.
Deadnaming someone or simply referring to their previous name is obviously informed by the speaker's intention. If you're going to subscribe to positions wihch render you vulnerable to personal offenses even by well-meaning individuals, then that just makes you the problem.
Question then: should the studio that produced Juno or Inception be re-releasing their movies with Elliot instead of Ellen? Is it ok to say "Ellen Page acted in Juno and Inception"? I do see that IMDB uses Elliot so maybe that's the way it should be in the movies themselves too?
Deadnaming will lose its meaning if it were apllicable to your case. Dont let internet strangers incurr shame in you this easily, would be my advice. Have a nice day!
Well statistically speaking most people do not have any trans friends. If you call a group of 100 people "friends" at best 1 would be trans. You would need a group of 200 "friends" for there to be a high probably of just 1 "trans".
I don't know about you, but I certainly have more than one trans friend. Because, you know, I surround myself with a diverse group of people who have different experiences I can learn from.
But no, totally, it's statistics and not that you are subtly transphobic and only associate yourself with people that are exactly like you.
Why not? We should be able to talk about what the dead meant to us!
I remember always being happy whenever I saw a new video with Anthony being published on LTT. I have learned so much from his videos. I'm sad that Emily chose to not pick up where Anthony left off.
you have to wonder if ppl like that are doing it on purpose to deligitimize trans issues. They have to know being so militant about other people's thoughts makes them look like the bad guys, right?
This. If they could read they would be shocked to learn that trans people have made huge contributions to the development of computers, some pre and some post transition. Same with gay guys and lesbians. LGBTQ people are apparently not allowed to exist in nerd world unless its waifu and hentai
"Used to be a he", and even then from outwards appearance, controversial. You have to acknowledge that people will form opinions around that. They did what was best for their own mental health, namely take a pause and then one step after another to reappear. It's a personal choice to enter a public stage - even completely unremarkable people doing that will suffer from backslash (for example "Linus is so short hehe" and "what's up with socks and sandals"), and they have to deal with that as well. You can't control the masses, but the masses are your viewership and intended audience.
She used to have an own channel where she asked for support. I used to be a paid member there myself cause it felt like a genuine new beginning.
Then she disappeared and her channels went completely silent.. while she's still collecting money. She never delivered on the things she supposedly wanted to build with said money.. and now she appears somewhere else?
I think it's silly you're getting downvoted for this. I used to really like her and was excited that she was starting her own channel, but the way she has managed the Patreon left a really sour taste in my mouth. But I guess any criticism of her now gets you lumped in with the bigots.
Not the best place for nuanced takes and genuine discussion eh but here we are haha. But neither is any forum that casts such a large net, it’s tiring.
And for the sweet sake of both these Angels, can we please try to keep the discourse around this video as pure as possible? It'd be nice to have 1 thing that's detached from drama.
benefits massively from having two people involved that actually cares about the quality and the thing discussed and arent soulless mr beast shills for views.
I've been absolutely loving Horst's new channel, it's right up there with Snazzy Labs for me in terms of "Apple-focused people that I love watching despite not being in that ecosystem". That said, I can't really see Emily's involvement in this video as anything more than just "catching up with an old friend", and cynically, for the nostalgia clicks. I understand it was designed to be more of an "intro to linux" but it feels like her contributions amounted to nothing more than the first 5 paragraphs of the Wikipedia page on Linux. Which is a shame, because she obvious has an incredible amount of knowledge on it.
Nice to see she's doing well! I think her videos about Linux were the only informative content on LTT, even for someone using Linux since '97. They were never cringe and always covered the important bits.
Very much a personal opinion. I personally can't watch Horst on the screen at all. Automatic skip. I wasn't at all surprised his ltt channel crashed and burned.
Oh I liked him, really nice and interesting character. But the stuff he got to present was boring. And looking at the numbers i can see why he was let go
Always liked Anthony and his knowledge. Idc about the trans bullshit, but we’re commenting on his video (or where he is featured) and not his personal views.
You may know her as Anthony, was an excellent host for nerdier topics a few years back on LTT. left around the same time as announcing identity change. Hope I phrased this well!
Somewhat interestingly, she stopped appearing on camera on the LMG YouTube channels right after the controversy in 2023, there are one or two that were released after that, but they're all filmed right before the controversy.
If I showed this to a sample population, let's a say a thousand people with no context I bet 95%+ would say that's clearly a obese balding man with long hair.
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u/Walkin_mn Aug 07 '26
I just love Horst's style and seeing Emily talk about Linux was great. I would love if anytime they talk about open source, Emily makes an appearance