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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Didnt know pewds is breaching into the tech sphere (from gaming).
Do I need to sub him now? :p

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

His redemption arch is in full swing.

He has a video on "I switched to Linux, and you should too" and a deGoogle video

[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

Love what you did there. Arch btw

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Beyond his interest in FOSS and privacy, he's also just mellowed out a ton, the dude is in his mid (late?) thirties and you can tell.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Dude is also wealthy as fuck. That helps a ton.

[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His Japan & family vlogs are also really chill - he has become much more chill and proper. If you remember him from when he got big on YouTube 10 - 15 years ago, he was a completely different person!

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't really remember why everyone hated him (Besides being annoying and once using a slur, for which he probably was lacking complete cultural understanding), but he was pretty young when he popped off. Not everyone changes as they age, but many people do. It's very reasonable to say he is a different person now.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel it's reasonable to recognize the wealth he has collected, and to conclude he is not my ally.

I don't fucking care who it is, wealth hoarding causes immeasurable harm, not to mention requires a sociopathic mindset. So...yeah, I'm not even giving him a chance. I got better shit to waste my time on...

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel it's reasonable to recognize the wealth he has collected, and to conclude he is not my ally.

Weird take. But hey: It's a free world and you choose your own battles.

I don't fucking care who it is, wealth hoarding causes immeasurable harm, not to mention requires a sociopathic mindset. So...yeah, I'm not even giving him a chance.

I- I guess?

I got better shit to waste my time on...

Now that's a mindset I can get behind!

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, no two ways about it. Wealth hoarding is exactly the same choice as "push the button, get a million, but someone dies". Same fucking thing. Literally

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Didnt know Pewds killed someone to get the money.
At worst he sold his soul for partnerships with brands (and sold out his morals)

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Somebody, or more likely more than one, suffered in a way like Luigi did, not because of any targeted malice, but a lack of compassion. So his karma is fucked...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Mixed results.

He's less annoying than he was covering gaming, he has some occasional hot takes, but I think overall he's a positive influence.

I never cared for any of his crap until last year when he deep dived into tech. The tech videos are good, he is a generally entertaining person. The dude has unlimited time and too much money, so he gets crazy deep in the weeds. It some ways I would say he is more competent that a lot of engineers. The self-hosted LLM videos are a good start.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've never been into his content but I really enjoyed his journey to build a better local LLM. Way more technical than I thought he was capable of. I identified with his downward spiral into madness on his journey to do something completely useless but super interesting.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

My printer said I should