Comment by bitpush
20 hours ago
> I'm one of those crazy ones who likes to own something they purchased, and not have the company watch everything I do with hardware I paid for.
What phone and laptop does Jeff use?
20 hours ago
> I'm one of those crazy ones who likes to own something they purchased, and not have the company watch everything I do with hardware I paid for.
What phone and laptop does Jeff use?
"Likes to own" implies "cannot always own".
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
does his phone/laptop choice detract from the points being made in the post regarding bambu?
From watching his videos, he's an Apple guy for his personal devices, though his server infrastructure (and also the bulk of the devices he reviews and experiments with ) are Linux machines.
Well, cause the current linux phone ecosystem is a wasteland.
Pine sucked all the oxygen out of the environment, with a shit dead-on-arrival product. Pinephone doent even work as a bloody phone.
Other Linux phones are 2-3 generations old, and priced at $700 or so.
So, we're stuck with Apple or Google. Not great choices either way.
I'm guessing a Pixel with GrapheneOS
And I'm guessing an iPhone.
Internet influencers - nothing against this one, I like his videos, I think I got JetKVM because of one video - are a persona which is different from their person. They sell something in their videos and do things in videos that are different from their true self. Videos are primarily done to drive more subscribers. I don't dispute that he might be an exception but he has >1M subscribers which makes being authentic and not driven by audience difficult.
Take LTT as an extreme example.
[Edit] I'm not judging Jeff or saying this is good or bad.
I use Linux as a daily driver, write and modify kernel (mainline and out of tree) and userspace drivers, have reverse engineered various things. ie beyond most of the HN peanut gallery. That said I use an iPhone because I have a day job and nothing “open” is worth dealing with.
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I like both Jeff and Apple products, but this does seem a pretty ... odd ... thing to say within the context of his audience. A normal person wouldn't bat an eye but the kind of people watching Jeff Geerling videos will probably have some strong opinions about it