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  • He’s had some controversial things. In 2017 he said the n-word while live streaming a game. The other big one I know of is he made a video where he showed he has paid one of those fiverr groups of Indian children to hold up a sign that said “death to all Jews”. Pewdiepie didn’t think they would actually do it.

    They are really not great situations, and the second one I mentioned he should have realised was a bad idea and not done at all. Back in that 2017 era he positioned himself as an edgier meme YouTube, but he has since apologized and vastly changed his content, and i personally believe he’s a very changed person from a decade ago. But the stigma has stuck around.


  • I would personally recommend popos or mint. I have varying amount of experience with the others.

    Bazzite is very hyped on Lemmy, I don’t quite understand how it works, it seems good for what it is, but I don’t know if I would recommend it as someone’s first Linux daily driver.

    Manjaro seems great most of the time, until the maintainers mess something up and royally screw up your system. But that’s just things I’ve heard, your milage will vary.

    Nobara worked really well for me, but ultimately I wasn’t very comfortable to use a distro maintained by one guy, even if that guy is glorious egg roll.

    I personally use popos. I wish it was fedora based like Nobara, but you can’t have it all. Wow works straight out the box. There are appimages or deb packages for warcraft logs and curse as well, so they work fine.









  • I agree kotlin can be a cool language sometimes. And I’m sure it’s been a more gradual journey if you’ve worked with it while it’s been evolving. But man, jumping in at Android 10/11 having to remain compatible with 7 (we’ve moved up to a minimum of 10 now thankfully) with how much background services and file storage permissions changed right around that time was an extreme headache to work around.

    But I definitely prefer C#'s async/await Tasks than trying to wrap my head around all the various coroutine scopes, runBlocking and all that jazz. I know they are very similar concepts, but there’s just something with coroutines that isn’t clicking in my head.


  • Android is the worst environment I’ve ever worked in. Concurrency? Use Threads! No wait, we got handlers and loopers now. Oh wait sorry, we’re doing coroutines this year.

    Now let’s do DI with Koin. But ooh google released their own version with Dagger, but oh no! It’s clunky to use, so well slap some more stuff in top and call it Hilt!

    Networking, persistent storage, UI, permission flows, any other API they have follow the same pattern of new shiny thing, oh it didn’t turn out very good, here’s a new thing to replace the old. Congrats, every blog and SO answer is now outdated. Even the build system has gone from Maven to Gradle in Groovy to Gradle using Kotlin.

    And don’t get me started on Android Studio itself. The worst IDE I’ve ever touched. Any changes to the manifest and now you need to manually sync the project. Be prepared to create a shortcut to gradle’s cache folder for easy deleting whenever it shits the bed.

    Fuck Android development, I hope I’ll never have to touch it again after this job.