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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What? I thought Nvidia didn't want to mainline the open driver??

Edit: Grrrr, clickbait. This is not about their open driver but as far as I understood about exposing a more minimal driver for vGPU usage, in light of development of Nova, a Rust based nouveau successor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don’t understand the hate, this guy makes great videos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

how so ? he isn't saying anything really... because he rarely says an opinion of his own, and when he does he does so briefly... like he grabbed it from someone 👀... yeah.. why I'm not surprised every video idea he has is LITERALLY stollen from a Reddit post or a comment ( source : him )..

plus anyone can go and read from a blog post or a github discussion and come out with same amount of information if not more...

lastly quantity over quality: this complements my last point, because the only way to make a quality video is by doing deep research، these YouTubers skip shit ton of critical information, and it makes people have a flawed perspective

less than 2 days to research, record, and edit and make a thumbnail ? Seriously ?! It should tell you something is off

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

He reads article or forum thread. Thats it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

No, he doesn't. He's obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's probably the thumbnail, but I can't do much about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Why? You get a kick from your GPU drivers being a proprietary black box or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No thanks to random YouTube accounts or proprietary hardware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's Nvidia. That's not going to change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I get a kick from not buying Nvidia

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I mean same I guess, but I still view their cards finally potentially working properly and not wasting shitloads of manhours for distro/DE devs as a good thing that will benefit everyone.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hate those obnoxious Youtube thumbnails.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Seriously. Why the hell is the guy's face in there anyway? I would understand if it was Nvidia's logo that was large as hell. I imagine it might be to tell his followers "it's me" but whatever.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because its proven to generate more views, why do people criticize the guy for trying to make a living? Literally every other big youtuber does this... Its effective. I do not understand why people hate someone for complying to an industry norm. Do you also hate real estate agents for putting their smiling face on billboards? Lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Totally agree. The content may be good, but title and thumbnail are marketing only. A silly thumbnail doesn't make the content worse, so nothing wrong in the creator trying to use it as a way to increase their reach

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you also hate real estate agents for putting their smiling face on billboards?

Yes, we do in fact!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Okay, I'm sorry clearly I'm the irrational one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Because humans love faces. We love looking at them, we love seeing them. Our brains are wired to handle facial recognition very well and be drawn to faces.

In fact, the effect is so strong that we often see faces where none exist

People being drawn to faces has led to thumbnails with faces on getting far more attention. Tbh, if you were trying to make a YT channel your job, it's very likely you'd start doing it too, you'd be actively sabotaging yourself for the sake of pride otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well, I hate human faces on youtube video thumbnails.

I want to see a preview of the content instead of being biologically exploited into clicking on it.

For anyone who feels the same way: https://dearrow.ajay.app/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're saying it's biological exploitation? So do you have a dog? Do you play fetch with it? Or is that biological exploitation? Is it biological exploitation for food companies to monopolize on our taste buds? Just curious where you are getting these ridiculous claims. You do know that you can mouse over a video to get a preview of the content, right? Look up the definition and purpose of a YouTube thumbnail. Tell me what you find.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Is it biological exploitation for food companies to monopolize on our taste buds?

Yes. Thats the only reason why there is so much sugar in everything. Which is rather unhealthy, but we keep eating it because sugar makes us want it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ok then, but you're very much in the minority. People wouldn't do it if it didn't work.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it has been proven that putting a stupid human face into the thumbnail makes your audience much bigger. It would be nice if YouTube had a "show stupid face" option.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Weird, a grimace in the thumbnail usually drives me away, because it implies overstipulated trivia for teens to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I feel the same way but Brodie's usually fine

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like that this exists but I don't want to use it because i want to know the content creatos to avoid, thumbnails are part of the game, but putting your face on them feels like a cheap trick ( since it's unecessary ), effective.. yes... but cheap..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Huh, nice extension. Thanks for the heads up.