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I was going to applaud you explicitly saying it was for your use case, then I noticed the description is a bunch of merch shilling.
Well, I mean, he has to buy food and stuff
You're right, he did a pretty bad job at describing his use case - or, he didn't do that job at all - or, he forgot to cut it in but you could guess from all his other videos and what he speaks about is that of an "average gamer end user who wants to be up to date"
I usually don't read descriptions of videos.
I have also no idea what's wrong with his merch stuff. You know, tracking user behavior and placing ads is bad behavior.
You can place a huge banner of Porsche into the corner of your video if that pays the bills.
A guy trying to run a single-person business promoting and talking about Linux/FOSS puts merch in his description and that's something you find really objectionable?
I mean, I get it, in an ideal world it wouldn't be there, but the guy needs to eat. He needs a roof over his head. Etc. I'm guessing you have a job that you're also paid for, or if you don't, you're provided for by people who do?
We don't live in a star trek world with free housing, and where all our basic needs are provided by replicators. He needs money or he will die.
Nobody's forcing you to click the links and buy shit.
E: I literally had to click "show more" in the description to get to his merch, and he never even mentions it on the channel. Idk guy I think you're being unreasonable. It's not pushed onto you at all.
Looking in Lemmy the advertisements are the very first thing I see, and all I see. Im not against a guy feeding himself, but you can't hold it against me if I don't click on something because I am bombarded with a literal wall of advertisements without anything else.
You said merch. The merch is near the bottom.
It's never really clear from this video what exactly is his use case though.
he mentions DaVinci Resolve as the big reason he can't rate/use Asahi
And the title and description don't mention his use case anywhere.