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Linus Torvalds Now Reviews Gadgets On Google+ (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
If you know anything about Linus Torvalds, you know he's the mastermind and overlord of Linux. If you know him at all well, you know he's also an enthusiastic scuba diver and author of SubSurface, a do-it-all dive log program. And, if you know him really well, you'd know, like many other developers, he loves gadgets. Now, he's starting his own gadget review site on Google+: Working Gadgets...
"[W]hile waiting for my current build to finish, I decided to write a note about some of the gadgets I got that turned out to work, rather than all the crazy crap that didn't. Because while 90% of the cool toys I buy aren't all that great, there's still the ones that actually do live up to expectations. So the rule is: no rants. Just good stuff. Because this is about happy gadgets."
So far Linus has reviewed an automatic cat litter box, a scuba diving pressure regulator, and a Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access point that complements his Google WiFi mesh network.
Linus will be great at this. Just last week I saw him recommending a text editor.
"[W]hile waiting for my current build to finish, I decided to write a note about some of the gadgets I got that turned out to work, rather than all the crazy crap that didn't. Because while 90% of the cool toys I buy aren't all that great, there's still the ones that actually do live up to expectations. So the rule is: no rants. Just good stuff. Because this is about happy gadgets."
So far Linus has reviewed an automatic cat litter box, a scuba diving pressure regulator, and a Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi access point that complements his Google WiFi mesh network.
Linus will be great at this. Just last week I saw him recommending a text editor.
I remember Google Plus! I hope after this, Linus gets a MySpace account!
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Linus does the best reviews!
I would have thought that if anyone, Linus would have a fast enough system so he wouldn't HAVE to wait for his builds to finish.
...but let me tell you, if your product has stupid bugs or bad code say your prayers because Linus' textual red mist will descend upon you.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
And what have you done to the real Linus Torvaldis?
I don't buy no rants. It was happy gadgets that tipped me off.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Slashdot now post shitting (dying) zdnet articles about stupid shit Torvalds buys and reviews.
Linus and Happy.... no.... just no....
It's an Oxymoron....
Linus should finally do a proper review of systemd, instead of pussyfooting around the issue.
Such a review would be much more relevant than one about a cat litter box.
He could address the instability that systemd has brought to the Linux distros that have adopted it.
He could address how systemd is contributing to the Windows-ization of Linux by throwing away the best parts of the UNIX philosophy
He could address how the most successful Linux distribution, Android, actually doesn't use systemd and so much other notable open source software (like X, PulseAudio, GNOME, GTK+, NetworkManager, and so forth).
He could address how systemd is driving more and more Linux users to OSes that don't use the Linux kernel, like the *BSDs, like macOS, and even Windows.
He could address how he didn't really do anything substantial to defend the Linux community from a threat that has proved far more harmful and disruptive than Microsoft or SCO could ever have hoped to have been.
That's the sort of review that would be worth reading.
This is actually kind of cool (being a geek myself :). ... guess what I'm going to buy / try FIRST.
And it will probably save ME a lot of TIME and MONEY.
If Linus gives it a thumbs up, and it is something I'm in the market for
I give him two months.
#DeleteChrome
If Linus is going to review only Happy Little Gadgets, he needs a matching style... Where is the Afro? We could name this style as Afro-Linus... That is a good name for a new Happy Linux Distribution: AfroLinux
I followed his text editor recommendation link, and it had a blog post somewhere w/ a link to a Dilbert strip that has Wally face to face w/ a Dennis Ritchie look-alike who's a Unix user
Which begs the question - which editor does he recommend? vim? evil? Which?
Friendster! ;)
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They work well (good coverage), but I'm surprised he would use it considering the security/privacy aspect of it.
Clearly not the real Linus.
... to see his video card reviews.
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