PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google
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He switched to linux a while back. Now he's trying to switch as much of the rest of his digital life to FOSS/non-profit stuff. He advocates for duckduckgo, firefox, paid email, graphene os, selfhosted vaultwarden, nextcloud, anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
You had me unti kodi was lumped in with google maps?
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Listen, we don't read the article and we don't watch the video before commenting. Maybe we're reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.
Exactly!
So has anyone tried this pewpowpie recipe and does it taste any good? -
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That's going to be one long arc though
He'll be crawling around xmpp chatrooms talking about anarchists soon.
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watch the video and you will find out wink
I prefer not to use youtube
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I just use down sub to pull the transcript from his video It's only 60% as annoying.
He has the normal privacy versus cost worries which are reasonably valid. Then he rambles on, plugs a product that he's shilling that's unrelated to the subject matter, says he's replacing Google search with a local LLM, does some hot takes on alternatives, does some reasonable takes on some alternatives.
To be honest, this is probably the least helpful de-googling video I've seen, other than the fact that he's a major influencer and is telling everyone they should be doing it.
this is probably the least helpful de-googling video
I don't think it was supposed to be particularly helpful. It's more of him sharing his passion with his audience. Which isn't going to be interesting if you don't care about him.
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anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
You had me unti kodi was lumped in with google maps?
I don't think they're including Kodi with Google maps, I think they're just continuing with the list.
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Listen, we don't read the article and we don't watch the video before commenting. Maybe we're reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.
To be fair, watching random YouTube videos can be demotivating. A transcript would be much nicer.
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Same, it feels surreal.
I was typing out in the comments that he should try nextcloud before I finished the video, and towards the end I saw that he was running Nextcloud. Fantastic
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Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.
It still baffles me why anyone likes him in the first place tbh
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Let's hope so.
What's next, Open source electric car? Building and living in an Earth Ship?
Earth ships are so cool
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To be fair, watching random YouTube videos can be demotivating. A transcript would be much nicer.
Yeah, I definitely prefer to not read some text as compared to not watching a video. If it's just someone talking, it should've been an article.
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Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.
Wait for it, I bet a whole bunch of people mentioned it in the comments of this one. That will probably be the topic of his next video. Although I'm hoping for stopkillinggames.com.
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started with minecraft & redstone, now linux & degoogling, can we extrapolate that in some years pewd's gonna start hrt lol
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has he stopped "accidentally" naziing?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I really don't get how so many people here are so happy that a Nazi is using Linux and doesn't like Google anymore. That's not the kind of clown I'd want representing or being a spokesperson for my interests and it's really making me second guess the people here.
Edit: @[email protected] 's comment has provided info I didn't have, and recontextualizes the attitudes here I wasn't understanding, so now I get why there's support for this.
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has he stopped "accidentally" naziing?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah this is why it's so offputting seeing so much praise for him here. I don't believe he's ever outright apologized and owned up to what he's said and done in the past (I could be wrong though?). Last I checked the dude was literally a neo nazi.
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I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.
I think you're seeing the wrong causation when it comes to enshittification. FOSS licenses prevent that sort of thing from happening. Linux is already, by far and away, the most popular server OS so consumers moving to it isn't going to make it worse.
I dunno, maybe be less of a hipster bestie?
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One million hours in gimp
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I'm sure all the reactions will be nothing but respectful and factual, and not riddled with festering teenage emotions.
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Love this, although I think he will realise pretty quickly that hosting on his >!Steam deck!< might have some drawback haha (I'm thinking storage here)
