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I'm not Linus' target demographic, an older tech whose been there and done that, not really interested in surfing the bleeding edge every minute of every day. I knew nothing about Linus, maybe I had seen him in my recommended list here and there, I might have actually watched one of his early vids dunno, don't remember. What I do remember is I was subbed to an American dude who was (is still?) living in Shenzhen who loved going around to all the tech malls picking up parts, and fixing, then remaking old iPhones. I hate Apple, and have never bought a single one of their products, and never will, but this guy was so sincere in his reverse engineering and process it was captivating. One day, outta nowhere he said he was meeting another YouTuber, and that guy was such an offputting purposefully annoying cunt on camera, so diametrically opposed in tone and attitude as the channels host, I stopped watching the channel all together, just put me right off that the dude I had been enthralled by was such a poor judge of character that not only had he invited this Linus kook onto his video, but after experiencing firsthand how fucking annoying he was, decided to publish it.
So yea, not a big fan of Linus.
What's it like not being able to even comprehend that people have different opinions to yours?
Because clearly you can't, as a rational person would go "well I should just avoid the singular thing I don't like". But apparently it is so critically important other people - who you will never interact with outside of this context - are fully aware just how much the mere existence of another human being ruins your enjoyment of something so largely unrelated to that person.
You didn't have to say that this way