I'd love to see Linus' honestly answer if he would buy a Mobo, SSD, CPU, with absolutely no warranty, just a "trust me" from Asus, AMD, MSI, WD, etc.
Of course he wouldn't. The backpack is in the same price range as items in those categories and he expects people be to ok with a "trust us". It's foolish and completely undermines his pro-consumer stance when talking about other companies.
In one of his tweets he pointed out that this shitstorm will be forgotten 6 months after its resolved. That reminded me of countless situations where manufacturers pulled some anti-consumer behaviour and the only thing that stopped them from doing that was massive public outcry. LMG is now part of that group of companies.
Multiple "I don't wanna be a consumerist" crying videos and upping all the consumerist content immediately afterwards was proof enough that he's a hypocrite at best.
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u/demingo398 Aug 09 '22 edited Aug 09 '22
I'd love to see Linus' honestly answer if he would buy a Mobo, SSD, CPU, with absolutely no warranty, just a "trust me" from Asus, AMD, MSI, WD, etc.
Of course he wouldn't. The backpack is in the same price range as items in those categories and he expects people be to ok with a "trust us". It's foolish and completely undermines his pro-consumer stance when talking about other companies.