dusk

It’s a long time ago, I don’t remember the specifics of the video, and probably didn’t like his video (partially) due to it being just another one jumping on the ltt screwdriver bandwagon, that sh*t was everywhere, I tend to block channels that have linus’s munted head in their thumbnails these days.

I do remember jeff having a weird bunch of fans hanging off of his every word, I wondered who this guy was, and why he seemed so famous, but I had never heard of him. I have seen some of his videos since, he seems like a twat, unfortunately common in the pc tech space.

Handy tip, hopefully I remember that one

So he has ungoogled chromium, and floorp as top tier, uses them, but doesn’t see them as the best

Then he has vivaldi, watefox, librewolf, and zen in 2nd tier, but they are the best ones?

It’s like a tier list on reddit, someone just wanting to look at the pretty pictures while not making much sense

Some obvious omissions too: firedragon, mullvad, tor, ddg

ai will be the death of open source.

/trash

ungoogled chromium and floorp were the top tier, only one of them is ff based, neither one of them is new, both are weird choices for the top.

The majority of governments are at least partially at the mercy of the usa government in this respect though, easily one of the most absurd, and corrupt governments on the planet.

Didn’t every single option in that ‘vote’ include using ai though?

And didn’t they all seem like very deliberately long winded options, designed knowing that the majority of users would only read the titles?

Also [email protected]

and [email protected] (maybe ignore this one though)

It was a successful/cheap way of attracting views/likes, that also increased ltt’s screwdriver sales. It was transparent, and lacked integrity. The screwdriver itself was just a lightly reworked screwdriver form a different brand, with ltt branding, and a $69 price tag. Tools for fools.

Project Farm did it worse (and more successfully), he reached a result that didn’t place the ltt screwdriver in 1st place, so he removed one of his own criteria to change the final ranking… and was applauded for doing so.

8 butt is probably more my style

The manual, section 1:

Jeff never made sense to me, his videos seemed dodgy, the first one I saw he was jumping on the linus screwdriver silly hype train, but his fans just adored him, to the point I assumed some of them were drooling. I didn’t see much more of him over the years, so my view is definitely limited.

After glancing at the manual, I now know I was previously correct stopping at the home page

I haven’t managed to get past their home page yet, it just looks like an inside joke.

Weird little guys is an interesting read, I was surprised to find Jeff Geerling there, I always thought he was just a really crappy youtuber, with really stupid fans. I was half expecting to find Linus SebastiDouche on the list afterwards.

Some links to anti-ai digital things:

https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index

https://www.newinlinux.com/ai-free-linux-distros-open-source-operating-systems/

https://noailist.org/

f-droid repository: https://izzyondroid.org/docs/general/AppInclusionPolicy/#ai-policy

“How did you react to Debian’s decision?”

I deleted it, debian was thankfully not my main, just a backup/something of interest.

The ‘vote’ itself seemed dodgy, every option was going to ai in some form, or another.