I was the second child in my family born during the one child policy. They tried to force an abortion on my mother. She was from a village and fled to a city and hide. Once I was born, they couldn’t justify killing a child that has already been born, so they let me live, but my parents have to pay tens of thousands of RMB (¥) and that took several years to pay off. And if you don’t pay that, they deny issuing a birth certificate, essentally you don’t legally exist if your parents couldn’t pay the fine. But they eventually did and got all the documents.

We left China when I was still in elementary school. My mother told me about this when I was a kid and I didn’t really understand what she meant. Then when I was around highschool age, I kinda had an existential crisis. I almost never had a chance to exist because of some crazy government policy.

Most people hate the CCP because of authoritarianism, but for me, it not just the authoritarianism, I have a personal grudge against the CCP.

Personally, I don’t care how good it is, I refuse to use a Chromium-based browser and insist on supporting its only serious competitor: Firefox.

FYI this video is monetized.

Piped linked to avoid Linus making money off his own apology video: piped.video/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY

I feel like people misunderstood what anon was trying to say. He doesnt mean work 7 days a week. He says pile up work, and then work weekends. So do minimum amount of work or no work on monday to friday, and then finish work on weekends. That makes it look like you are a dedicated worker who works on every weekend, when in actuality you are working less overall. I think thats the exploit anon was talking about.

There’s a bit of a theme with Linus, it seems.

Everything is explained by “trust my good intentions, ignore the end effects”.

Controversy about employee payments? “Those who know us understand we have a testing period first! We surprise them with great bonuses after a few months!”

Controversy over warranties? “Nooo why you need a clear contract? Don’t you trust me? I’d totally replace your product!”

Controversy over Labs data being grossly wrong? “Nooo it doesn’t matter, trust our conclusions! They’re made with the customers interest in mind!”

Controversy over partnering with a shady brand? “Nooo we looked into it and trust me, the CEO changed!”

I could keep going. Linus’ thing is a “trust me bro” approach that absolutely does not hold up to the level of investment the Labs is. If you’ve invested millions into industrial testing equipment, and you’ll release data for free… I very much do not trust you, bro, unless you specify exactly how you’re monetizing it and how exactly are you going to keep good relationships with parners such as Dbrand, AMD and similar if you’re now in the business of testing products and releasing data. Will they pay you to silence results? The last time this was answered, unsurprisingly, the answer was “trust me, bro”