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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🌈 @lemmy.wtf

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I dunno, I'm just spit balling here, but when Google drops you from their stupid YouTube rewind videos because you said a bunch of N bombs, maybe you should just go away. I've used Linux as my primary OS since 1999, and my kids, aged 9 and 12 have only ever used Linux. But I'm just offering that even though he promoted Linux we might not praise him for that. I personally think he sucks, have never followed what he's doing, but because he's so popular his misdeeds sometimes come across my news feed.

Reading this thread, I am glad I never said a naughty word in my life ever.
- I can't tell if you're being genuine or not, but there is a difference between using a swear word ever and being a hateful bigot and using slurs against marginalized groups
  
  Yes I never did that ever when I was younger. I only said heck once.

Geeez these comments guys...
So even if you like or dislike pewdiepie. I think him showing of Linux is good. Getting more people to realize Linux exist and is a viable alternative to Windows or Mac is a good thing.
- true
- Assholes being called out for being assholes is a good thing.
- I agree. As more regular people use Linux, it will become more obvious who the gatekeeping losers are and why they should be routinely ignored.
  "Think different" to me is "don't let the people chronically on internet forums dictate your every move."

Lol the pirate party in the country I’m from was co opted by Nazis
Edit: Why would any one downvote this lol it’s factually true. I’m not saying Pewdipie is a nazi, I’m just stating the facts that the pirate party was co opted by Nazis in the country I’m from and basically had to disband.
- Not trying to be a dick, i simply don't know, but what does that have to do with the post and pewdiepie?
  
  Well in the post the OP stated that Pewdiepie was a supporter of the pirate party as if this negated any claims to him being right wing. I just wanted to point out that the pirate party can have right wing elements as was the case here.
  Edit I’m not trying to be a dick but what did adding that statement at the bottom of the post have to do with pewdiepie using Linux?

I have a feeling this thread won’t be about Linux.

I for one am very happy to see! He is a great influence to a lot of people and showing that Linux isn't scary will boost numbers by a solid amount ✌️
- Let's call it "big" influence , maybe?
- He is a great influence to a lot of people
  lmao

Hyprland soon to be known as "the Nazi OS" if it keeps getting shown off by a well known swedish neo Nazi

dropping pewds in ml and getting upvotes wasn't on mine
- The whiteness of these people shows through in weird ways.

I managed to avoid finding out who or what PewDiePie is back when he was a meme and I have no intention of finding out now

Does Hyprland work well for gaming compared to KDE? Can it do HDR, VRR and so on?
Always wanted to try a tiling WM but was afraid of losing features.
- Never tried hyperland, but if you want tiling, I think COSMIC is a very user friendly tiling de. I don't think they do HDR yet though, but it is still in alpha.

Awesome! I hope he will help share this with more folks, the friends who I've talked into finally giving modern non-Ubuntu Linux a shot love it, but there's a lot of work to get over the damaged image created by the countless "linux user installing a browser" memes. I'm sure someone with his reach can help though :)
- Found out just now he made a video about it and explained his actual experience using it, it's really cool! Glad to see more folks sharing this stuff.
- I hope he gets run over by a bus

I've never wanted to use it less now tbh

Cool setup. I used to customise my setup long back but this gave me some inspiration to try again

what's happening now ?

Nazi and transphobic. OP should be ashamed of posting this.
- He's an attention-seeking edgelord and a buffoon, but I highly doubt the Nazi allegations. This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis. We need to be careful about throwing the Nazi-card in all directions, or the real ones will slip through the cracks (some have already managed to skip into positions of power while us plebs are squabbling). He did a couple of insanely stupid things that he should have grown out of by age 15, hopefully he learned from that.
  
  This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis.
  Well, I see the problem now. Punching people doesn't solve Nazism.
  If you were advocating for reeducating them, revoking their right to vote, or even putting them in prison, fine. But punching people is just some weird power fantasy, "I'm better than you because I beat you up."
  The fact you think beating people up just to feel dominant or whatever is good politics shows you have a lot in common with Pewds... and, well, Nazis.
- How about you being ashamed about parroting unbased allegations. PewDiePie never showed significant evidence he is a Nazi and transphobic. The two mistakes he did in his 1000ands hours of content he apologized and condemned the behavior.
  
  The words nazi and transphobe have lost their meaning because of how much hysterical people have used them when they're not applicable.

Last thing I remember was him dropping a hard R.
- That was over half a decade ago. In the meantime he has spent time bettering himself and being a decent person.
  
  You mean like growing up?

hey cool the nazis using the nazi made wm
- I'm out of the loop on this one? A Swedish using a Polish WM, and you call them Nazis?
  I know that the hyprland dev has strong political opinions, but I genuinely dont know what they are because I don't care, and I use another WM. Are they really both Nazis? I dont know because I dont follow these guys. I dont want this word to be misused when actual Nazis are trying to take over the free world again
  
  Vaxry was acting Polish in front of Drew DeVault and was immediately labeled nazi apologist.
  The discussion went like this:
  — is there anything that could sway your opinion towards genocide? — well, claiming "no" would be presumptuous, I am just a human, so, probably yes? — I rest my case
- "look at me! give me attention!"

A transpobic twm and a nazi. Match made in hell.
- Honestly I started looking into it (found some articles from 2017 where he showed Nazi imagery) and started asking myself wtf am I doing.
  Calling people Nazis over the tamest crap is so old. I'm so done with the liberal crowd on Lemmy jerking each other off over simplistic issues. Get a grip.
  
  He said a no no word in a fit of rage in a livestream over half a decade ago. Ever since then he's spent time being a better person. But internet neckbeards never forgive.
- He says slurs and definitely contributed to the popularization of internet that against Indians. Not exactly a good person.
- my thoughts exactly. I'll stick with sway

Doesn't change the fact that he's a Nazi.
- I’m not a fan of this guy. I think he’s an insufferable edgelord.
  But he’s not a nazi. Stop throwing labels you do not understand around.
- I don't watch him, so can't tell, this just popped up in my mastodon feed, from someone else! <3
- What happened?
  
  I don't agree that he's a nazi but he did some pretty heinous things, like tricking these people into writing this horrible sign:
  https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14605060/pewdiepie-disney-deal-lost-nazi-anti-semitic-imagery
  and he did a hard-r on stream.
  I don't think this qualifies for being a nazi (he doesn't advocate for an authoritarian dictatorship or a protectionist economy, nor does he want to scapegoat a group for all of his countries problems), but it is awful, racist, and disgusting.
  But I don't really care if people do call him a nazi, to be clear, it's probably more effective messaging anyway.

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