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submitted 1 year ago by Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Watched Louis Rossman today, and he's part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more.

adblock already integrated, works amazingly with a quick test on my end - it's an app in the Lemmy spirit

(it's got a paid model similar to winrar, you don't have to pay - but they do want you to - opensource and all)

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[-] owlboy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So Rossmann is a lobbyist for an activist billionaire?

I think right to repair is important btw. Not questioning that.

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. And a right libertarian. I stopped watching him when he went from repair content to months long complaining about taxes and talking up Florida and Texas as some great place. Honestly, I am 100% convinced that the only reason he even cares about right to repair is for his work. He has shown no signs of caring about anyone else other than himself in any of the dozens of hours of content I watched of his.

I’m so glad I trained under Jessa at iPad Rehab instead of taking his course.

[-] owlboy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He’s always felt off to me. And it’s not just because I’m into Apple products. I find it hard to articulate. But I see I’m not alone, thanks for sharing.

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was in the industry when he got big, and it was hard not to love his anger towards Apple, but eventually it became apparent he was just an angry person and Apple was only his current target. Once he had secured his platform, he felt more comfortable to share his absurd views, and I fear he influenced many impressionable people towards the right with his rhetoric. Dude is not who I want representing the repair community.

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 1 points 1 year ago

the only reason he even cares about right to repair is for his work

This is exactly it. I appreciate that he's a strong advocate for it, and he's a single issue voter/lobbyist, but he really wouldn't care about it if it wasn't his business. As can be seen in how, while he so strongly believes in a right for third parties to maintain hardware, he very clearly doesn't believe in a right for third parties to maintain software with this app being source-available and not FLOSS.