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Linus’ thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can’t seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)
- eighty ( @eighty@lemmy.one ) English113•11 months ago
I can relate to the “how the fuck is being a concerned human being extreme/poltical?” energy in the post hard.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English49•11 months ago
Hate is mainstream politics now, sadly. So yes, not hating is political as well.
- stankbucket ( @stankbucket@lemmy.world ) English8•11 months ago
Yes - if you don’t hate hate then you are to be hated.
- paaviloinen ( @paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz ) English3•11 months ago
That’s what “being political” means. Otherwise you’d be apathetic, cynical and not concerned about anything.
- empireOfLove ( @empireOfLove@lemmy.one ) English99•11 months ago
Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what’s on his mind. And it’s almost always massively based. He’s always been great about that, we don’t deserve such a great mind.
- CrownCrafter ( @CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml ) English37•11 months ago
Remember the time with the anti vaxxer, man was firing with all cylinders
- ipkpjersi ( @ipkpjersi@lemmy.one ) English9•11 months ago
Seriously, we are super blessed to have him.
- flibbertigibbet ( @flibbertigibbet@feddit.de ) English97•11 months ago
Political? For everyone outside of America that’s just common sense.
- LlamaSutra ( @LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works ) English34•11 months ago
In Canada it’s starting to become “political” since our morons are egged on by the morons down south.
- HomoScotian ( @HomoScotian@lemmy.ml ) English10•11 months ago
It’s so exhausting, they treat it like a sport, it’s not about making anyone’s lives better it’s all just about their team winning
- LlamaSutra ( @LlamaSutra@sh.itjust.works ) English4•11 months ago
It’s people creating their own victories because they’re lacking their own.
- xyon ( @xyon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English9•11 months ago
Hello I’m a trans person from the UK here to tell you this is sadly not the case at all.
- paaviloinen ( @paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz ) English8•11 months ago
Outside the US this no longer has to be political, is probably more what it really is.
- SolNine ( @SolNine@lemmy.ml ) English8•11 months ago
Well, unfortunately we have more than our share of the brainwashed here…
- caribou ( @caribou@lemmy.ml ) English6•11 months ago
Politics used to be something people engaged in. Now politics is the core to a lot of people’s identities, which means disagreement or debate is perceived as a personal attack and people will embrace a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance to avoid being wrong.
- Mighty Sashiman ( @mightysashiman@lemmy.ml ) English6•11 months ago
Average US American : “Outsider America… You mean, the Moon?”
- Drew Got No Clue ( @ndr@lemmy.world ) English5•11 months ago
I despite this “trend” of considering just simple opinions and basic statements as “political”. It’s been watered down and turned into a meaningless tag.
- potato_salad ( @potato_salad@lemmy.ml ) English5•11 months ago
The entire middle east has entered the chat
- seirim ( @seirim@lemmy.ml ) English5•11 months ago
Most of Asia enters the chat with abysmal LGBTQ+ rights.
- tubbytoad ( @tubbytoad@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
All of human civilizations outside this recent small blip in history in the developed western world.
- seirim ( @seirim@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
Aye, I wonder if cavemen cared what some minority in the tribe might be doing or just shrugged their shoulders about it. Is it human nature to find it hard to accept? Oh weren’t the Romans ok with it, that was a while ago.
- Elsie ( @Plasma@lemmy.ml ) English90•11 months ago
FOSS is an active political statement!
- Adderbox76 ( @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) English37•11 months ago
Was just coming here to say that. The entire Ethos of Open Source is basically the people owning the digital means of production. So some people really not grasp that?
- OrangeSlice ( @14specks@lemmy.ml ) English12•11 months ago
So some people really not grasp that?
Actually, yes, the original FOSS movement had more right-libertarian roots than anything to the left, although nowadays some might see it as “common ground”.
- PorkrollPosadist ( @PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml ) English16•11 months ago
The politics of folks like RMS (personal issues aside) were far above average, but the Free Software Movement was very steeped in liberalism from its onset, and that explains many of of its present shortcomings. Its biggest failing was to believe that Free Software would ultimately win on its merits. In the early days this was understandable, when free software was often playing catch-up to replicate the functionality of established commercial offerings. When the GNU project was just a C compiler you could install on proprietary UNIX systems to dick around with.
Today though, Free Software is more often than not superior to commercially available offerings, with the exception of some niche industrial segments. But still, Free Software adoption by end users remains incredibly marginal. No matter how many merits Free Software stacks in its favor, the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” never comes. We are still drowning in proprietary iOS and Android phones. The overwhelming majority of PCs still ship with Windows. All of it deliberately engineered to become E-waste in a couple of years.
Folks, this won’t change unless we take over the factories where these PCs and phones are manufactured.
- God ( @god@sh.itjust.works ) English2•11 months ago
Hmmm. Ad machine maybe. For profit has bigger advertisement budgets than donation based.
- Jaximus ( @Jaximus@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
Ideology runs this way unfortunately
- nbailey ( @nbailey@lemmy.ca ) English5•11 months ago
Sadly, there’s an entire generation of libertarian anti-GPL “open source” developers that think the preservation of free software goes too far.
- God ( @god@sh.itjust.works ) English1•11 months ago
… What? I may be dumb. I don’t see how libertarianism is compatible with being anti FOSS.
- lntl ( @lntl@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
The idea is that for code to truly be free, you should be able to make it proprietary. If you can’t do that, then it isn’t really free. That’s how I understand the idea anyway
- God ( @god@sh.itjust.works ) English3•11 months ago
But that’s not being anti, just accepting the possibility of it. Like i consider myself a libertarian and if you wanna make it close source, ok, I may dislike it but I won’t regulate against it. But being anti would imply I would go out of my way to censor your ability to do close source.
- lntl ( @lntl@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
It’s a GPL license thing. If you make a derivative work of GPL code, you’re NOT free to do what you want with it. This is where the 'anti come from.
- God ( @god@sh.itjust.works ) English3•11 months ago
Ah. Well I’m pro theft so just use it and close it if you want and pray for the best! Hide the evidence to not get sued.
- sydneybrokeit ( @sydneybrokeit@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
There are two parts to this. On one side, you have the “please follow the GPL if you’re using GPL code” – which is really just asking someone to honor a contract, more or less.
Then you have people like RMS, who believe that there should not be such a thing as proprietary software. They don’t care if you aren’t using the GPL – no software should be proprietary, period.
- lightrush ( @lightrush@lemmy.ca ) English21•11 months ago
This fact eludes some folks.
- Meganium97 ( @Meganium97@beehaw.org ) English30•11 months ago
“Wait, FOSS is political?”
“Always has been.”
- bobslaede ( @bobslaede@feddit.dk ) English55•11 months ago
I don’t see how his, very reasonable, views makes Linux itself (more?) political. What is the point of this post?
- makingStuffForFun ( @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ) English31•11 months ago
The man can say what he wants and it’s nothing to do with Linux. And, his gun stance seems fair to me. I think he is an intelligent man, and I think he’s allowed to say his thoughts without some lame arse trying to tie his ideals to the OS. Move on, nothing to see here.
- jurrasicjonn ( @jurrasicjonn@kbin.social ) 18•11 months ago
This is exactly what I was thinking as well. Why is it so hard for folks to separate what someone creates from the creator? If we found out the person who created, say, the bandaid, was a militant Nazi homophobe who advocated for marriage at the age of 6, should we feel guilty every time we need to cover a cut or scrape?
Personally, I don’t know much at all about Linus, what he prefers for breakfast, whether he wears slippers in the house or goes barefoot, and so on. He could staunchly advocate that my country do away with its present form of government and declare him dictator for life for all I care.
I like Linux. I use Linux. It gets the job done. End of story.
- goddard_guryon ( @goddard_guryon@lemmy.ml ) 11•11 months ago
Giving a medical example for comparison is spot-on since a lot of our knowledge about human body actually comes from experiments done by nazis :)
- altair222 ( @altair222@beehaw.org ) English15•11 months ago
you do realize that linux has very political basing in it, right? do you realize that politics is a structure of governance and hence everything the authority on linux has to say will eventually, if not automatically, affect the project?
- beepnoise ( @mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml ) English30•11 months ago
I don’t think the title is good, but I do think it’s notable to some extent. With people having weird, shitty opinions, it’s nice to see someone who is relatively famous in the tech community for having somewhat sane opinions and being vocal about it.
In my experience, the Linux community has got its own bunch of free speech weirdos who would reject some of these political points (especially the trans position), so I do think in that context it is kind of important.
- ElectronSoup ( @ElectronSoup@kbin.social ) 15•11 months ago
I’ve seen people on other sites malding about how this proves linux and the GPL are communist. I suppose it’s important to know just what those people are melting down about this week.
- Andreas ( @Andreas@feddit.dk ) 3•11 months ago
Surely that already happened in the Code of Conduct drama a few years back? Or the “Linus is rude and difficult to work with” callout even before that?
- animist ( @animist@allthingstech.social ) 2•11 months ago
@ElectronSoup @juergen @bobslaede I feel like the FOSS community has a lot of different types, but the two that stand out to me the most are the Eric Raymond right-libertarian (“I just want to say the n word without repercussions”) and the Richard Stallman vague leftist (minus the creepy shit).
- v_krishna ( @v_krishna@lemmy.ml ) 1•11 months ago
Obviously they are anarcho-syndicalist jeeze.
- Andreas ( @Andreas@feddit.dk ) English8•11 months ago
Gloating? Complaining? I thought the FOSS community has matured past “creator’s views = views of everyone who uses their creation”, honestly. And isn’t Linus supporting the Democratic party already well known?
- Lilium ( @Metallinatus@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
Well, there was drama here yesterday about Lemmy’s creator and maintainer being a tankie or whatever and one person trying to say “Lemmy bad” because of that.
This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.
- clumsy_cat ( @clumsy_cat@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.
As the person who posted the original post: i don’t like/trust tankies and them being tankies is one of the reason i deleted my lemmy.ml account.
My impression is that Linus also doesn’t speak in his post about tankies, but instead i think the word “communist” is equal to some general leftist.
But i kind of agree, that this post can be seen as “in support of tankies”. hmm.
my impression is, furthermoore: because the more tankie politics is on lemmygrad.ml, an instance which is easily blocked, it is not that bad / could be worse. I kind of hope instances like beehaw.org have the most users someday, because they are really awesome i think
- Lilium ( @Metallinatus@lemmy.ml ) English18•11 months ago
First, not every communist is a tankie, second, yes, Linus is not talking about being a literal communist, but about the “everyone to the left of Trump is a communist” meaning of the word.
Third, what I was saying is that this post about the political views of the creator of a huge FOSS project is very well timed after yesterday’s discussion about Lemmy’s creator.
- honk ( @honk@feddit.de ) English1•11 months ago
Could you maybe link that debate for me? I can’t find it.
- depreciated_cost ( @depreciated_cost@lemmy.ml ) English6•11 months ago
I just want lemmygrad defederated. I geniuinely thought the whole instance is satire but holy hell
- clumsy_cat ( @clumsy_cat@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
beehaw.org is a great instance which defederates from lemmygrad, i think :)
- Garrathian ( @Garrathian@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
lemmy.ml probably won’t because it’s kind of the de-facto default instance where the devs can communicate to everyone. You’re best bet is to create an account on an instance that blocks lemmygrad (like Beehaw that was mentioned, i’m sure others do as well)
- Rod_Orm ( @Rod_Orm@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
of course all topics have to do with politics, this is America
- xenago ( @xenago@lemmy.ml ) English53•11 months ago
Linus has always been political and principled, I mean he chose the GPL for a reason! Glad to see him state all of this outright though, it only makes me respect him more.
- gun/linux ( @original_ish_name@lemmy.ml ) English49•11 months ago
THE LINUX KERNEL HAS A FEDIVERSE INSTANCE??? :D
- maegul ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) English8•11 months ago
And it’s not a mastodon instance either … instead they’re using pleroma.
- gun/linux ( @original_ish_name@lemmy.ml ) English11•11 months ago
no, it’s a fork of pleroma called akkoma
- maegul ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) English5•11 months ago
Oh right … my bad. I know about akkoma, for some reason I thought they were using pleroma. Thanks.
- maegul ( @maegul@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
And it’s not a mastodon instance either … pleroma.
- seahorse [Ohio] ( @seahorse@midwest.social ) English47•11 months ago
I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I’m not giving mine up while they have them.
Everything else he said is 100% based.
- Lilium ( @Metallinatus@lemmy.ml ) English49•11 months ago
Well, yeah, fascists having guns is a “randomly giving guns to any moron with a pulse” problem.
- Andreas ( @Andreas@feddit.dk ) English11•11 months ago
When you’re in power, the fascists are the “morons with a pulse” who don’t get guns, but when they’re in power, YOU’RE the moron with a pulse who loses your ability to defend yourself. The point is to remove the ability of the authorities to decide who gets the right to own weapons, because it can easily be turned against you. Besides, morons obtain weapons illegally all the time. Firearms ownership is illegal in my country (except for licensed use like hunting) but we still have problems with gun violence because of weapons trafficking.
- Hexorg ( @Hexorg@beehaw.org ) English13•11 months ago
Yeah the gun law regulators generally ignore the fact that everyone and their grandma already has guns. And those with guns are not willing to do trade in programs.
I’d like to see better psych eval and requiring to re-license every so often. That should start steering the country in the right direction. Of course I don’t see this happening any time soon.
- jiml78 ( @jiml78@lemmy.ml ) English14•11 months ago
The US has no chance of passing anything around licensing of firearms in the short term. We can only hope that Gen Z votes all the gun nuts out of office.
- stankbucket ( @stankbucket@lemmy.world ) English3•11 months ago
Not much of that matters if you can’t get 2/3 of the states to get in line with your re-write and we can’t get 2/3 of the people to agree on anything. Also, there is a wide swath of opinion between what you call “gun nuts” and what other people call “common sense laws.” Very few people are arguing that “any moron with a pulse” should have a gun.
- The Doctor ( @drwho@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
They can vote against the ammosexuals all they want. Many politicians get money from firearms companies, though, on both sides of the fence, and they all know which side their bread is buttered on.
- workinkindofhard ( @workinkindofhard@lemmy.ml ) English11•11 months ago
I do think it is funny that there is significant overlap between the ACAB crowd and those that would want to disarm (or at least heavily restrict) the average Joe so only police have access to modern firearms
- rakkhun ( @rakkhun@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
I think fascists is going too far… they’re crazy and dumb, that’s it.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English12•11 months ago
They attempted a violent coup. They’re crazy, dumb, and dangerous
- Venus ( @Venus@slrpnk.net ) English3•11 months ago
Nah, they’re fascists. Maybe not every republican, but a solid 70% or so of them. And a decent chunk of democrats too.
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months ago
I agree with you 100%.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English45•11 months ago
Hard fisagree. Linux isn’t political. Everyone has an opinion, it’s obvious Linus would too. But I am pretty happy that his opinion is one I personally agree with. Linux can be uaed by anyone though, and nothing stops far right activists (terrorists) from making a distro, which would still be Linux. There’s a heavily religious distro too, but that doesn’t make Linux as a whole religious.
- raresbears ( @raresbears@lemmy.ml ) English14•11 months ago
Does that really make it totally apolitical though?. Like obviously it’s not inherently attached to a wide reaching political ideology, but it still is political in the same way that any free software is kind of political.
- cnnrduncan ( @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org ) English14•11 months ago
IMO the GPL and similar licences are inherently political, and Linus very intentionally chose to release the Linux kernel under the GPL licence rather than under BSD or a proprietary licence.
- Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) English12•11 months ago
The very concept of free software and open contribution is political. That as a thing doesn’t necessarily exist within every political framework or culture. But that’s the nature of politics, ultimately in some way basically everything can have a political framing, and since politics are essentially “opinions on the way things should be” it’s ultimately inescapable.
- Ferk ( @Ferk@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
Everything can have a political framing, but that’s not the same as saying that everything is political.
Only “opinions on the way things should be” are political, and not everything is an opinion.
Linux is not an opinion, even if you can have an opinion about the role of Linux in society, or about the intent in its creation. You can even say the creation of Linux might have been politically motivated, or that its license was designed with a political purpose (like all licenses are, including the most restrictive and non-free), but that’s not the same as saying that Linux on itself is political.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
Personally I disagree but that’s ok, we can’t all see it the same way :)
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) English8•11 months ago
I don’t think we get to use cold reason to determine if something is political or not, just like a dictionary doesn’t control the meaning of a word, nor does a small group of ants decide what the colony does next. If Linus came out as a right wing extremist, it wouldn’t matter how apolitical the linux source code is, people would decide to distance themselves from him and everything he represents. Something is political the moment a society perceives it as relevant to their politics.
- averagedrunk ( @averagedrunk@lemmy.ml ) English5•11 months ago
There’s a heavily religious distro too, but that doesn’t make Linux as a whole religious.
More than one! There’s Ubuntu Christian Edition (if I had to guess, that’s probably the most popular one), Computers4Christians, there used to be Jesux (using the Christian Software Public License), Jewbuntu, Bodhi Linux, and (jokingly, but real) Kubuntu Satanic Edition at the very least.
And, while not Linux, I have to mention TempleOS, the open source Christian OS designed by a schizophrenic who claims it was written to God’s specifications. It was written in HolyC and was just so out of place in 2005 when it was released.
None of this matters in the context of your comment. I just wanted to throw it out there because I find the whole thing fascinating.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
IIRC templeos is not open source. But I didn’t know there were more
- averagedrunk ( @averagedrunk@lemmy.ml ) English3•11 months ago
I had to go look it up to make sure I was remembering right. Wikipedia says it was released as public domain under the open source model.
The whole thing would be incredibly hilarious if it weren’t for mental illness, much like my life.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
That’s interesting, I thought the reason why it can’t be messed with and improved for daily use is that it’s closed source and therefore can’t be updated. But guess I was wrong fair enough.
- Generator ( @Generator@lemmy.pt ) English42•11 months ago
Maybe because he’s not “American” and comes from a country with regulations like the rest of the world, and people care when they vote to make things work.
And like most of the rest of the world, there are more than two political parties, and is not a drama show.
- Andreas ( @Andreas@feddit.dk ) English33•11 months ago
He has American citizenship and lives in America, he’s talking about America here. And I promise you that other countries, yes even those in the magical fantasy land of Europe, also have lots of political drama despite having more than two parties in the government (They tend to form alliances based on left/right and split into two blocks anyway).
- Generator ( @Generator@lemmy.pt ) English25•11 months ago
I know, im from Europe.
The drama is not compared to USA, we don’t vote on celebrities.In my country we even have a party for the animals and climate, so when USA still trying to vote for basic rights, we already ahead and vote for animal rights and more climate change.
- Andreas ( @Andreas@feddit.dk ) English29•11 months ago
Yeah no, this “America Bad and backwards 3rd world country while us Europeans are so enlightened” circlejerk isn’t constructive either. The American political system is terrible but a lot of European countries, mine included, are copying their “celebrity drama show” attitude towards politics because of extreme American cultural influence. We shouldn’t deny our own problems.
- jimrob4 ( @jimrob4@midwest.social ) English4•11 months ago
Laughs in 1930s
- mjohanning ( @mjohanning@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
Sounds like Germany.
- bigotryiscringe ( @RenaHersch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 40•11 months ago
Holy shit a based Linus is not what I expected to see today. Makes me prefer Linux even more than I already did.
- sin_free_for_00_days ( @sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one ) 1•11 months ago
What would you use for a synonym for based? I keep seeing that used. I always thought it was just some alt-right meme bullshit, but I’m learning I was wrong. I still don’t get the use. My mind always thinks “based on what?”
- Puls3 ( @Puls3@lemmy.ml ) English39•11 months ago
One great thing about about software is you don’t have to agree with or care about what the creators thoughts and beliefs are, software is at the end of the day just software.
Doesn’t get any less political than that.
- Jonny ( @ravermeister@lemmy.rimkus.it ) English26•11 months ago
I create software by myself and disagree. First it’s very political where and for whom I choose to develop software. Second, software is always made for a purpose and the purpose can be indeed (and is) very often linked to political or social cause. E.g. a software which only purpose is to harm people, say for controlling mass destruction weapons is in my point of view a very political software
- Puls3 ( @Puls3@lemmy.ml ) English6•11 months ago
software is always made for a purpose and the purpose can be indeed (and is) very often linked to political or social cause
Its not though, typically software exists to serve a basic function at its core, and it could be used or contributed to by anyone for any number of things.
- Panos Alevropoulos ( @panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml ) English21•11 months ago
You are thinking of software as if it exists in a vacuum. Software that is libre is a political statement. Software that is proprietary is also a political statement. Lemmy choosing to be decentralized/federated/interoperable is also a conscious political decision just as Apple chose to create its own proprietary ecosystem instead of caring about interoperability.
- Ferk ( @Ferk@lemmy.ml ) English10•11 months ago
You can grow potatoes for political reasons too. Everything a human being does might be politically motivated, but that doesn’t mean potatoes are political.
Anyone can take that same software, that was created as a particular political statement, and use it for the completelly opposite political reasons to make a completelly different political statement. Just the same way as many have used songs in contexts that are completelly politically opposite to what the original author of the song intended.
In the end, the only thing that’s political is the goal/purpose/motivation of an action, not the result of the action. No piece of software/hardware/thing is political when you dettach the artist from the art and just see it for what it is, regardless of what the author might have wanted you to see it as.
- Panos Alevropoulos ( @panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
That’s true. It’s the human element that creates the political attribute.
- honk ( @honk@feddit.de ) English12•11 months ago
I disagree. Of course it’s political to some degree. It might not really make a difference whatever a software’s authors stance on gun control is as it’s not directly related to the software. But of course the political beliefs of a person might influence the product itself when it’s more related like for example the licensing. FOSS software enables the user of a software to effectively maintain ownership of their own device which is 100% a political thing.
- Puls3 ( @Puls3@lemmy.ml ) English7•11 months ago
FOSS software enables the user of a software to effectively maintain ownership of their own device which is 100% a political thing.
That’s an entirely different domain of politics in my mind, my point was there’s no reason to focus on what divides you from the creator when 9 times out of 10 the software itself is unrelated and contributed to by thousands that all have differing opinions on the same topic.
No need to try and find issues where there aren’t any.
- Hexorg ( @Hexorg@beehaw.org ) English37•11 months ago
I’m also happy to discover social.kernel.org instance!!!
- V ( @vanderbilt@beehaw.org ) English36•11 months ago
Linus delivering the well-deserved beatdown as always.
- comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) English13•11 months ago
Now with 300% more diplomacy!
- maddison ( @maddison@lemmy.ml ) English36•11 months ago
average based Linus take.