What are your thoughts on Louis Rossmann?
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I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.
wow not a single mention of how he has a Kiwi Farms account in the comments here, surprising
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The ones that are speaking out against him have all been removed, and I doubt YouTube would do that automatically. Found a very in depth comment on my TV but couldn't on 3 other devices.
Ah yeah that's pretty solid evidence. My own experience has been with my own comments getting removed, and it happening far too quickly to be manual moderation. If you actually saw someone else's comment, and then noticed it gone, it's hard to call that anything other than a deliberate silencing of their viewpoint.
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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
We are allowed to guide the growth of things and show where they need work.
Didn't you people have report cards?
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wow not a single mention of how he has a Kiwi Farms account in the comments here, surprising
Soo, what? Does he actively participate in harassment?
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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.
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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I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.
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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He fights the good fight but I don't like his videos very much because he's very whiny and annoying.
Lol, him screaming quietly pisses me off.
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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
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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I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.
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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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.
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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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 extreme 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.
He said he wasn't going to use GrapheneOS anymore because Daniel Micay threatened to blackmail him because Rossman had made a comment on a video describing his behavior online.
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Soo, what? Does he actively participate in harassment?
This comment shows your stripes..
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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
First half is generous imho. From the one I just watched it felt like 3/4 was spent rehashing the same thing over and over.
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I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.
"Source available" grifter.
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I'm just wondering, because I have seen some negative comments on here about him, but they don't usually provide specifics.
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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He said he wasn't going to use GrapheneOS anymore because Daniel Micay threatened to blackmail him because Rossman had made a comment on a video describing his behavior online.
Blackmail?
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wow not a single mention of how he has a Kiwi Farms account in the comments here, surprising
I long wondered how he manages to identify as a libertarian despite what he spends all his time talking about, now it's starting to make more sense lol
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Blackmail?
The dev threatened to "expose" him for supposedly supporting people swatting his house.
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wow not a single mention of how he has a Kiwi Farms account in the comments here, surprising
Where might one find more information on this?
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Where might one find more information on this?
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.
