For those who don't watch his YouTube channel or read his blog, Jeff is a fantastic spokesperson for for everything self hosting (enjoying the NTP binge of late!). I really hope this is a success as he's an excellent advocate for a healthy and positive community and framework of understanding this stuff, not to mention his quality as an orator. It would be great to see a cultural push back against surveillance capitalism and centralization of compute and we need good voices and responsible advocates sharing their thoughts to those learning the ropes.
The guy has an obvious conflict of interest - running a youtube channel/taking sponsorships. I've never undestood why so many people take his word at face value. It's at best attempts to manufacture hype for views and at worst shilling for whoever gave him money to shill for them (i.e. qualcomm buying arduino is good actually)
Just to be clear, I've never taken a dime from Qualcomm, Apple, Raspberry Pi, etc—when I do take a sponsorship from any company I'm clear about it.
I always mark videos as sponsored if anything was provided (eg review samples) and not purchased. That never includes payments or editorial oversight, and equipment is either returned or shelved afterwards for future comparisons.
The only thing I accept money for is clearly demarcated ad integrations, like for Micro Center or Surfshark. See <a href="https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships for details.
If I wanted to hype views I would not be sinking a few thousand hours into planning an event ;)
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I always mark videos as sponsored if anything was provided (eg review samples) and not purchased. That never includes payments or editorial oversight, and equipment is either returned or shelved afterwards for future comparisons.
The only thing I accept money for is clearly demarcated ad integrations, like for Micro Center or Surfshark. See <a href="https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships for details.
If I wanted to hype views I would not be sinking a few thousand hours into planning an event ;)