He was referring to Linus Tech Tips; alias:
- "Mister made a video bragging about upgrading to 10Gbit Internet when most of his viewers can't even commit enough felonies to get 1GBit service at any price"
- Virtue signals by ranting about nvidia shadow-banning Hardware Unboxed, even though he already uploaded about four sponsored videos the same day said rant went on the air
- Mister "optical drives? what is this, 2005?"
- Mister Unironically drops 20% off their review scores for hardware that isn't festooned with more RGB than a literal pride parade
- The same doofus that "built" an anti-RGB pc by taking the previously made "all the rgb" build and plasti-dipping it all hap-hazardly then acts dumb about why oh why doesn't it work anymore
Even with all that aside, the dude claims to be old (with the beard), but still has a voice that sounds like taking orders from him should instantly set off amber alerts within a fifty mile radius, like he used speedrun glitches to skip puberty or something.
Oh yeah, I remember watching a response to that video. Forgot LTT was Canadian for a moment, that's why I was confused.
Linus isn't really that intelligent.
>doesn't like Linux for reasons that aren't really valid
>constantly fucks up
>repeats the same information that is already common knowledge online
>does not really understand computer history very much
This guy isn't a computer nerd, he's a gamer. A gamer who likes benchmarking, and thinks he's smart because he can look at FPS bar graphs and charts generated by a program he double clicked on.
I don't totally hate the guy. But it's not really surprising he would shill for Google when he clearly doesn't understand enough about the internet, nor computers in general, to see how YouTube is stepping on our freedoms.
Who's the fat guy with a beard that helps him out in some of his videos and constantly makes Linus look like a child by comparison by providing more educated explanations and holding his hand? Props to him for putting up with all that.
Anyway, making fun of LTT aside... Here's an idea, why don't the patches used to make Vanced be released again and used to patch the official YouTube app obtained by the user legally? SNES ROM hackers have been doing this for ages to work around DMCA's, and Aliucord does this for Android. Vanced itself isn't illegal, it's only part of a copyright violation because it's distributed pre-patched with Google's proprietary binaries included. If they just gave us the instructions to make Vanced ourselves, Google's lawyers can't do anything.
Worst case scenario they try to pull a DRM bypass card like they did with youtube-dl, but Vanced hardly falls under that definition if at all so I'm not sure how that will work out for them. It's a stupid law anyway, but I couldn't expect much better from the USA. Old people are not very good with copyright laws and the DMCA has some very annoying rules that don't make a whole lot of sense.