If we’re being pedantic, that’s still being hacked. Social engineering is, like, the #1 source of hacking.

Or the audible sound that’ll make every house and bit of land around it an absolutely miserable place to live, because you’ll feel it in your bones at all time :)

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful.

Just because it’s where all the users already are. You couldn’t start Reddit today, it’d immediately get spammed by AI bots and no one would stick around.

Hell, Reddit’s API changes had a noticeable impact on most text-only subreddits I was a part of, and then the AI content just made a lot of the remaining ones die off. No one’s rushing to Lemmy to fill those niches. They’re just not participating in them online, instead.

Some things are preventative. There’s plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.

I think it’s fair to call out reviews that say:

“This works out of the box, and requires no tinkering at all. Anyways, here’s what you’ll need to do to get it to work.”

Having to tinker with settings and commands is literally not what “requires no tinkering” means.

The real problem with these videos is that Linus decides to try and emulate the average user, but then refuses to do even the smallest amount of troubleshooting “because the average user wouldn’t do it”. So it leads to a lot of moments where something doesn’t work out of the box, there’s a trivially simple solution that comes up as the first Google search result (if you ignore Gemini’s output), but he doesn’t bother and just throws his hands up (like the average user would, I guess).

It just gets frustrating, because their Linux videos end up being entertainment first, and educational… fifth, maybe?

Yeah, Timmy’s had a hate-boner for anything related to Valve and Linux for years. He’s been lying through his teeth non-stop whenever either topic comes up.