and he's using Arch, not even a mainstream distro

Please don't, he's going to launch into some philosophical dilemma that's not relevant because these cars aren't making decisions.

No, I'm not going to do that. I just didnt know what they meant.

RT is certainly losing my favor, it's Disney garbage everywhere, the top movies consist of whatever came out in the last 2 years, the algorithm just isn't good.

Their algorithm is mostly unchanged as far as I can tell. They take a bunch of critics and aggregate their reviews as positive or negative. Therefore most of their highly recommended movies are, and always have been, predominantly broad-appeal films that are mostly inoffensive.

RT's increasing popularity has created pressure to make more mass-appeal mediocre movies, as movies are rewarded for being "watchable" and get no bonus points for being "excellent" (and excellence which might turn off segments of the audience if any controversial choices are made en route).

I'm not entirely convinced this is a result of RT. Studios have been looking for ways to produce broad appeal blockbusters forever.

The "You didn't build that" types vs. the self-made man with a million dollar trust fund types.

Medium isn't a respected platform in the first place.

For having ruled the computer world, I'm noticing the same few examples repeated over and over.

He's intolerant, have they seen his show? This is insanity.

that's so incredibly naive, you're going to get ads on top of a cryptominer

That's not an argument.