And how many people are really able to do stuff like that? I can tell you, a very small percentage. They are offering something that's done for normies - not for geeky types. Gab are doing more than anyone else has and have been on it now for at least 4 years - give them a fucking break.
Even if it's done for normies, it (at this current point) looks like "snake oil". You can easily set up a way better device with the resources he's getting. It's not even that much development cost to setup a decent media center with a Raspberry Pi or whatever and just 3D Print the case and stuff. It's not that hard of a project if you are a maker/developer. The biggest setback would be the servers and he already has that, allegedly, because to me Gab is slow as fuck and buggy as hell.
I appreciate all the icons we have like Alex Jones and Mike Lindell and etc, but fuck, they do sell overpriced crap… Which I don't mind that much but god damn it, someone at some point should start selling something that's got great inherent value at a reasonable price.
All the stuff you say to do cannot and will not be done by probably 90% of the country. A boomer wouldn't have the first clue for any of that. A lot of people would rather drop the $200 than be bothered to learn something new as well.
I say good for Gab for filling the giant hole in the market. They saw an opportunity and are taking it. I hope they become the new Google (email, phones, video services) for the right and inspire others with resources to make banks, payment processor, etc that will follow the constitution.
LOL. Guess what, all the generations after boomers are worse at tech. We've tried hiring some.
Kludging together one-off devices DIY may sound cheap and easy but Gab is doing this in an extremely hostile environment. Look at what the bankers have done to him and his family. Now you try, without bad guys working actively against you, to put together a product that will be resilient, SUPPORTABLE, able to be mass-marketed, and NOT using any Chinese spy gear. We'll wait.
I hear that. There is a very specific age range or people who were kids when home computers boomed. They (I) were tinkering them from the age of 5-10 back when you had to know everything about the fucking things to get them to work. Boomers thought it was a fad so they didn't learn, younger kids grew up with them "just working" so they never learned either. Walking my 18 year old niece through fixing some hardware is just as painful as helping my mom.
I am not enthusiastic about Torba becoming a new Google or whatever, because if he ends up being crooked as well, it's the same or worse. Not thrilled to crown a new evil overlord; I remember when Apple was the underdog, and when Google was the underdog, and etc. they ALL promised improvement and prosperity… Look at them now.
And my comment wasn't saying that common people should do it, but rather that what he's showing is subpar with what a normal developer or maker could do, specially without the income and attention he has right now.
I am, have been working on developing a Pi environment focused on another area (home security), and have written some minor apps in C, some functionality in shell, and etc.. I don't specifically see the issue with the entertainment side and stuff, but maybe because I personally don't have the problem: I select my Youtube channels, almost don't watch normal cable except for normie non-political shit like Home and Health and Discovery Channel and etc., and I wouldn't pay for exclusive content like the Mugclub of Crowder, the McInnes show or anything like so.
I personally doubt there's a market there right now, but who knows.
What I know for sure is that that pic Torba showed is just garbage and doesn't show anything.
I am mexican, my parents ate at a cardboard table and had to borrow money for milk, when my father was a kid he had shoes that had holes in them and soles that he made out of cardboard because his father died at the age of 10. I learned to code before there was any kind of online video tutorial with fucking AOL free internet disks, I taught myself sysadmin and Linux alone while attending school until university…
So if this strikes you as "priviledge" kindly go fuck yourself, because it's fucking hard earned.
He'd do it at cost (or at least a lot closer to at cost) if he's trying to be magnanimous. I don't care either way but the tech savvy pede bro's got a legit point.
And how many people are really able to do stuff like that? I can tell you, a very small percentage. They are offering something that's done for normies - not for geeky types. Gab are doing more than anyone else has and have been on it now for at least 4 years - give them a fucking break.
Even if it's done for normies, it (at this current point) looks like "snake oil". You can easily set up a way better device with the resources he's getting. It's not even that much development cost to setup a decent media center with a Raspberry Pi or whatever and just 3D Print the case and stuff. It's not that hard of a project if you are a maker/developer. The biggest setback would be the servers and he already has that, allegedly, because to me Gab is slow as fuck and buggy as hell.
I appreciate all the icons we have like Alex Jones and Mike Lindell and etc, but fuck, they do sell overpriced crap… Which I don't mind that much but god damn it, someone at some point should start selling something that's got great inherent value at a reasonable price.
Lol... "normies" and "3D print" dont go together.
Normies buy a lot of 3d Printed shit, some without knowing.
Of course I wasn't referring that normies would 3d Print something.
All the stuff you say to do cannot and will not be done by probably 90% of the country. A boomer wouldn't have the first clue for any of that. A lot of people would rather drop the $200 than be bothered to learn something new as well.
I say good for Gab for filling the giant hole in the market. They saw an opportunity and are taking it. I hope they become the new Google (email, phones, video services) for the right and inspire others with resources to make banks, payment processor, etc that will follow the constitution.
LOL. Guess what, all the generations after boomers are worse at tech. We've tried hiring some.
Kludging together one-off devices DIY may sound cheap and easy but Gab is doing this in an extremely hostile environment. Look at what the bankers have done to him and his family. Now you try, without bad guys working actively against you, to put together a product that will be resilient, SUPPORTABLE, able to be mass-marketed, and NOT using any Chinese spy gear. We'll wait.
I hear that. There is a very specific age range or people who were kids when home computers boomed. They (I) were tinkering them from the age of 5-10 back when you had to know everything about the fucking things to get them to work. Boomers thought it was a fad so they didn't learn, younger kids grew up with them "just working" so they never learned either. Walking my 18 year old niece through fixing some hardware is just as painful as helping my mom.
I am not enthusiastic about Torba becoming a new Google or whatever, because if he ends up being crooked as well, it's the same or worse. Not thrilled to crown a new evil overlord; I remember when Apple was the underdog, and when Google was the underdog, and etc. they ALL promised improvement and prosperity… Look at them now.
And my comment wasn't saying that common people should do it, but rather that what he's showing is subpar with what a normal developer or maker could do, specially without the income and attention he has right now.
Why don't you build and market them?
I am, have been working on developing a Pi environment focused on another area (home security), and have written some minor apps in C, some functionality in shell, and etc.. I don't specifically see the issue with the entertainment side and stuff, but maybe because I personally don't have the problem: I select my Youtube channels, almost don't watch normal cable except for normie non-political shit like Home and Health and Discovery Channel and etc., and I wouldn't pay for exclusive content like the Mugclub of Crowder, the McInnes show or anything like so.
I personally doubt there's a market there right now, but who knows.
What I know for sure is that that pic Torba showed is just garbage and doesn't show anything.
I'm all for a "MAGA Pi" build!
It's just the normal pi then, linux hasn't so far degenerated into politic shills, at least not in software.
This smacks of a life of privilege.
I am mexican, my parents ate at a cardboard table and had to borrow money for milk, when my father was a kid he had shoes that had holes in them and soles that he made out of cardboard because his father died at the age of 10. I learned to code before there was any kind of online video tutorial with fucking AOL free internet disks, I taught myself sysadmin and Linux alone while attending school until university…
So if this strikes you as "priviledge" kindly go fuck yourself, because it's fucking hard earned.
sell china to boomers that cant do it ? doesnt sound ok id rather teach for free then see that
He'd do it at cost (or at least a lot closer to at cost) if he's trying to be magnanimous. I don't care either way but the tech savvy pede bro's got a legit point.
No, he does not. See my post above.
You sir, are extremely correct. It's not that it can't be done. It's that nobody is doing it.