Ubuntu Linux on Huawei Matebook X Pro, SanDisk Flashback Review, 2019 Headphone Predictions!

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  • Опубликовано: 23 окт 2024

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  • @Gexzumi
    @Gexzumi 5 лет назад +12

    I say it would be great to make some videos on installing Linux. I use OpenSuse, and while the installer is amazing, afterwards a lot is left up to you. I was playing around with Mint, and I was amazed not only by how simplified the installer was, but they also suggested some settings it would be a good idea to configure in the welcome window after the installation. It could help convince more people to at least take that first step with Linux when they see it isn't as scary as they think it is.

  • @TusharKant15
    @TusharKant15 5 лет назад +14

    The real review of any piece of electronics is if it can run linux. The fewer things you need to do to make it run linux the better the product is 😋️

  • @gonzalogutierrez970
    @gonzalogutierrez970 5 лет назад +1

    Hi. Thanks for uploading the video. I have a question: Does the Trackpad work well in Linux?

  • @SuperMelon2008
    @SuperMelon2008 5 лет назад

    Big thumbs up for reviewing Linux distro on laptops! Can't wait to review other laptops that way.

  • @TheBekker_
    @TheBekker_ 5 лет назад +18

    "Speaking of coffee, have you ever lost a thumb drive?"

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад +2

      Or a thumb!

    • @tadej255
      @tadej255 5 лет назад

      @@Tekthing 😂

    • @That_Guy42
      @That_Guy42 5 лет назад

      It was the great coffee accident of '05

  • @jarrodhockley
    @jarrodhockley 5 лет назад +24

    Does the Fingerprint reader work out of the box under ubuntu ?? if not what was required

    • @sivertskarning2129
      @sivertskarning2129 5 лет назад

      It does not work out of the box in Ubuntu 18.04

    • @stale2665
      @stale2665 5 лет назад +2

      Almost no fingerprint readers work well in linux, unfortunately. Don't count on using it.

    • @fabiobcm
      @fabiobcm 5 лет назад +1

      it does on many machines if you install Fingerprint GUI, it is what I use on my thinkpad

    • @UltimateChocoWy1
      @UltimateChocoWy1 5 лет назад

      Fabio Bianchi you have to install it

  • @dummyxl
    @dummyxl 5 лет назад

    Nice that you try Ubuntu on that pc. I'm using it now about 12 years now. It's mutch nicer to use than windows will ever be. Give it a try.. Not only instal it, just geep using it. One tip upgrade to the latest version that one is a lot beter now than the LTS version you currently using

  • @LeongKokJune
    @LeongKokJune 5 лет назад +2

    It's a nightmare to install Ubuntu on Dell XPS due to the nvidia driver, do you have the same BAD experience on Huawei MateBook X Pro?

  • @fac3th3wolf
    @fac3th3wolf 5 лет назад +1

    If we're talking about always leaving your earbuds in your ear...I have a phone, a tablet, a laptop, and a desktop computer....and a bluetooth transmitter that can be plugged into any headphone jack. I want earbuds that can receive audio from all those things at the same time, or at least easily switchable. Once we have that technology, then we can talk about all-day wear.

  • @Jaxseven
    @Jaxseven 5 лет назад +3

    I'm not super confident with dual booting Windows 10 since updates like to screw with GRUB. I actually picked up a Sandisk Ultrafit USB to install Linux Mint to boot on my Huawei Matebook X Pro. Heat is a slight issue, but I haven't messed with TLP and other power settings.

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад +1

      We'll have to keep an eye on it long term!

    • @agustianzafreddy3217
      @agustianzafreddy3217 5 лет назад

      @@Tekthing How do we do that, explain please. Thank You

    • @adriantaker
      @adriantaker 5 лет назад +1

      does everythin work on Mint? I'm about to buy a Matebook X Pro, but I only want it if I can run Linux (i'm ubuntuer) on it

  • @MrPeriscope
    @MrPeriscope 5 лет назад

    Please CONTINUE attempting Linux installs on ALL your Computer reviews! Thanks!!

  • @unsicheresgangbild
    @unsicheresgangbild 5 лет назад +4

    Yes. Can you make a video how to install Linux on the matebook?

  • @Mike_Hogsheart
    @Mike_Hogsheart 5 лет назад

    Just for the record, I watched this video specifically because of the Linux content, if you create more Linux content in the future I reckon there is a good chance I'll be back to watch that as well…
    Only thing I would add is that I think you should talk about gaming as well, since gaming performance is one of the things where Linux and Windows tend to noticeably differ. If you do office work or web browsing, you will be hard pressed to notice a performance difference between Windows and Linux. But for gaming, a laptop that might barely be good enough in Windows to deliver a decent experience might not quite cut it in Linux. The framerate difference usually isn't massive, but it might be noticeable in a laptop.

  • @SMOKE3104
    @SMOKE3104 5 лет назад

    What I like to do is get the micro SD cards and have a SD card reader USB ( which I have a ton of) and have a micro SD card wallet that has all of my SD cards. It's slot more easier and requires less space. Love it!

  • @dojohansen123
    @dojohansen123 11 месяцев назад

    I don’t know what to think of this. Got a used 2020 Matebook 14s and while Windows did work perfectly as far as I could tell, I expelled that spyware immediately. But… I’ve tried lots of different distributions including Ubuntu, and none of them work well. The fingerprint reader isn’t detected or supported - and this modern UI idiocy of hiding everything that isn’t available means I can’t tell the difference, it LOOKS like it’s not detected, there’s nothing in settings for fingerprints or a reader, but they would just hide it if it was detected but unsupported…
    Anyway, I don’t mind that much that the fingerprint sensor is unusable. A much bigger issue is that scaling support is not great. This high-DPI 3:2 screen is a beauty, but at 100% everything is way to small, at 200% it’s way too big, and anything in between… doesn’t work very well. KDE on Kubuntu had a slider for fractional scaling but nothing changed size. Xfce on multiple distros also refused to cooperate. Gnome at last has experimental support for fractional scaling, and Ubuntu uses a forked variant with some optimizations that makes it stable enough for them to offer the feature as non-experimental. It works decently well, but for some reason the entire machine feels slower, including the desktop, than it did on Fedora 38 with Gnome (where enabling fractional scaling via gsettings didn’t bring forth any options other than 100% or 200% btw). MATE offered scaling but setting it to 1.5 made everything SMALLER (I guess the desktop is then bigger, in a relative way…)
    This machine will occasionally be used as a laptop, something I can take along on a trip for example. But for the most part it’ll be plugged in to power and my living room TV, where I will for example watch RUclips ad-free. I chose to pay for Premium lite before because I hate ads, but Be Extraordinarily Evil Google got tired of it and shut it down. They would like me to pay twice as much and get a load of services that don’t interest me, some of which are what you get for free on a desktop/laptop anyway, such as playing in the background. In my country it’s perfectly legal to use ad-blockers, and my slightly bad conscience for content creators who lose out on ad revenue is more than balanced out by my clear conscience I’m no longer directly contributing to the obscene profits of the most harmful company ever to have existed - Google.
    All of this means a very high DPI internal screen will need to work alongside a very low DPI (4K, but 85 inches, baby!) external screen. And the machine will be mostly plugged-in, semi permanently, so it will need more intelligence in the charging approach than “charge to 100% and keep it there” if I don’t want to kill the battery as fast as possible. The screens may have to run at different refresh rates, too, and maybe have different scaling… All of this is actually pretty easy to accomplish on Windows, evil spyware though it may be, but it’s all proving very hard so far on Linux. The only thing I’m not sure I can get working if I sell my soul and install Windows is 4K at 60 Hz with HDR… the HDMI port is likely 1.4b (btw WHY is it still so hard to find out?!? The industry needs to get its act together, it’s ridiculous!!) and can only do 4K at 30 Hz sans HDR. The single USB-C port has some kind of DisplayPort support, but it’s again impossible to find out if it’s 1.2 or 1.4 or even if the port is 3.1 or 3.2 and if it’s Gen 1 or Gen 2 or Gen 2x2 (it ain’t, 2020, but the point still stands. My duckducking-informed guess is that it’s a 3.1 Gen 1 or possibly 3.2 Gen 1 which is the same thing in this context, because that means it uses the data pins also to carry DisplayPort, which in turn means a converter to HDMI can do 4k@60 HDR, but a hub cannot, without disabling the other ports at least, as the DP takes up all the pins and no USB is available. At minimum I need power and DisplayPort to work at once, I can use a USB-A port for my unifying receiver, but it’s nigh-on impossible to find out which hub if any can get the job done.
    USB-C, designed to make everything simple… EPIC failure.
    Three rants in one, against evil corporations, against an industry still failing to be user friendly, and lastly against your pretense computers are simple and everything is easy. Yes, people should be unafraid to try and Ubuntu is a decent choice (but Fedora impressed me more, with third-party repositories welcomed already in the installer I found Vivaldi, my browser, right in the software center, and DRM-ed crap like NetFlix just worked immediately - not so on Ubuntu, which couldn’t even install deb packages out of the box, and where components needed for DRM were missing; not to mention how gorgeous and fast and stable it was).
    It’s not easy however. I’ve programmed professionally a few decades and I don’t find it easy. Don’t insult me claiming that it is.

  • @jedikv
    @jedikv 5 лет назад +1

    The two factors that would get me to check out wireless earbuds:
    1) Affordability, I'm thinking less than $40
    2) Battery life, I really don't want another thing I have to charge daily

  • @boyuanning2879
    @boyuanning2879 5 лет назад

    Does the bluetooth work well in ubuntu 18.04 for the matebook pro x? Besides, I do not know if it is possible to setup the trackpad in Ubuntu so that it is able to support gestures like those in Mac OS? Thanks!

  • @johnnyvcrow
    @johnnyvcrow 5 лет назад

    To make bootable USB drive from Linux: Find out the path to your usb drive: lsblk Write an image to the usb drive (My drive is sdc): dd if=/path/to/.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

  • @MichealWeinfurtner
    @MichealWeinfurtner 5 лет назад +1

    Always good content, thanks for all you hard work.

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад

      Thanks for watching!!!

  • @storm91229
    @storm91229 5 лет назад

    Great job, guys! I'd love a video on how to install Ubuntu on any laptop. Would be expecting... ;) :D ...

  • @davidconnor5874
    @davidconnor5874 5 лет назад

    APT X is legit. Bought the $29 Aukey's with APT X after a few years with the Jaybird X 2's, and don't regret it at all. They're so much better. More bass, wider sound-stage, don't hurt my ears, vacuum seal. And I think they come with a 2 year warranty. Anyways, that's my two cents.

  • @KileReeves
    @KileReeves 5 лет назад

    Sinistar: "I Hunger... " My favorite sound from any game.

  • @metallcorn
    @metallcorn 5 лет назад +1

    thumb up for ubuntu installation

  • @JulianOwens
    @JulianOwens 5 лет назад

    X1 carbon dual boot is sweet and it all works. I just never use windows side. Good video.

  • @wayneztube
    @wayneztube 5 лет назад

    Yes! I would love to see Shannon install Linux on everything.

  • @yoyo-ni8xc
    @yoyo-ni8xc 5 лет назад +1

    @25th min: hahaha upto a little less than a year and a half ago, my main (and only ;) PC's cpu was (Trrrrrrrrr-DrumBeat) an Intel E5200 :) which I've had for over 10 years =)
    It sure made me sweat and pray extra over it, but now I've 'upgraded' to an i5 760,which is a true quad core (w/ 4 threads) - huge upgrade :)
    Needless to say I'm not gaming anything wild or editing any videos or so... But the biggest 'leap' for me this year was adding another 8GB stick (to a total of 16GB ddr3 ram) and so now I can use the memory hungry Chrome browser again... Which seems to be the fastest for me (haven't tried quantum Firefox yet...)
    Gl&hf yall
    * Oh BTW, so changing to a modern cpu may save a lot of watts and $$$, does the same go for changing the Motherboard & RAM? TIA

  • @citizenq01
    @citizenq01 5 лет назад +1

    Awesome Tek Thing as always.
    Wonder if you could offer some tips for an Ubuntu issue I'm having.
    My desktop has 3 hard drives in it:
    1. 256GB SSD with Windows 10
    2. 1TB HDD with Kali Linux
    3. 128GB SSD that I just installed Ubuntu on. (Previously I had Parrot installed here and grub worked fine)
    At start up when I go to the boot menu, the only option that works is Windows.
    When I try to boot Ubuntu I get nothing...flashing line.
    When I select the Kali drive I get hit with the grub repair screen. I've followed grub repair instructions and after doing that it does go to the normal selection to choose either Ubuntu or Kali, and both run fine.
    The problem is I have to do that every time I want to boot into either Linux installation.
    Any idea where I'm going wrong?

    • @bryanberch1824
      @bryanberch1824 5 лет назад

      When dual booting from a single drive, I never had a problem. When using multiple hard drives with one os on each this is what I do. Disconnect all hd's except the one I want to install on. Install on that hard drive then reconnect the others. On boot up, I hit f10, choose the hard drive I want to boot and good to go.

    • @citizenq01
      @citizenq01 5 лет назад

      I figured it out.
      In my bios my boot mode is set to Legacy+UEFI.
      When I start it up and go to the boot menu and look for my USB drive, there are 2 choices there. One just says "Generic USB" and the other says "UEFI Generic USB". I never noticed that one because I was focused on just seeing my USB.
      So I was booting in Legacy, and trying to install and fix the grub in Legacy mode.
      When installing it did give me a Grub error and would not install Grub no matter what option I choose. It told me that I was in Legacy mode, but since I didn't really pay attention..I thought I could repair the grub later.
      Long story short, the fixes wouldn't take because I was constantly booting the USB in Legacy mode.
      Once I stopped and paid attention and finally booted in UEFI mode, the boot repair worked just fine and now grub is working just fine.
      Moral to the story, when you're not sure what a word or phrase means...stop, look it up and fully understand it before pulling your hair out and assuming that it's not working for no reason. There's always a reason and most times it's user error. I was doing it wrong.

  • @JadenHybrid
    @JadenHybrid 5 лет назад

    those ultra fits pretty much are set on fire after 5mins in your laptop, on any transfer pass 1Gb.

  • @VinodJacob181
    @VinodJacob181 5 лет назад

    Does the Flashback work with any other drive or just SanDisk only?

  • @EduardoAG
    @EduardoAG 5 лет назад

    How about running Ubuntu on the Alienware m15? I want to buy that laptop so it'll be great to know if everything works fine.

  • @BigPoppa23
    @BigPoppa23 5 лет назад +1

    Great show! ✌

  • @barkingbandicoot
    @barkingbandicoot 5 лет назад +1

    Yes please, install Linux on everything!!

  • @gengpan
    @gengpan 5 лет назад

    i wanna know how good this can support those windows apps. most used ones.

  • @esra_erimez
    @esra_erimez 5 лет назад +6

    Linux on *EvErYtHiNg* !!!

  • @onkelberra3166
    @onkelberra3166 5 лет назад

    What did you change? 1st video in a while where the audio is in sync :D

  • @dany456789
    @dany456789 5 лет назад

    LOL i used to watch this show when i was a child. Back in the day it was tekzilla with Veronica Bellmont

  • @ericnicholls3955
    @ericnicholls3955 5 лет назад

    Does the camera work? with Ubuntu?

  • @JohnWeland
    @JohnWeland 5 лет назад

    Snubs! you need to do a 2019 dual boot tutorial. I need something like this for work.

  • @DanijelTurina973
    @DanijelTurina973 5 лет назад

    Removing grub from the MBR of the review unit might prove to be difficult. :)

  • @MrTintin345
    @MrTintin345 5 лет назад

    One question. i dual boot windows(turn on bitlocker) and ubuntu, when i try to start windows 10, it asks me for recover key(i do have it) every time. I did google it, can't find any solutions. Any suggestions?

  • @dragonballjiujitsu
    @dragonballjiujitsu 5 лет назад +5

    Ubuntu no. Mint, Elementary OS, Pop OS, Linux Lite or Peppermint yes.

    • @adriantaker
      @adriantaker 5 лет назад

      Have you tried them on the Matebook X Pro?

    • @dragonballjiujitsu
      @dragonballjiujitsu 5 лет назад

      adriantaker no, but all are better choices than Ubuntu. And considering they are all based on the same thing they should work fine.

    • @adriantaker
      @adriantaker 5 лет назад

      @@dragonballjiujitsu well.. I've always have ubuntu on my computers except at work(macOs) and I'm confortable with it, anyways if ubuntu doesnt work well on the Huawei I might try another distro

    • @pineapplepie9662
      @pineapplepie9662 5 лет назад

      Pop OS is basically Ubuntu with a few more added stuff, what u even talking about??

    • @dragonballjiujitsu
      @dragonballjiujitsu 5 лет назад

      @@pineapplepie9662 If you have used both Ubuntu and PopOS you would notice there is a huge speed difference. Yes, Pop is modified Ubuntu but what ever they do to it speeds it up significantly.

  •  5 лет назад

    They should release Huawei Matebook Developer Edition.

  • @ryanvarley2391
    @ryanvarley2391 5 лет назад

    Shannon installs Linux!

  • @palatork
    @palatork 5 лет назад

    On ubuntu, fingerprint reader doesnt work, and only 2 speakers work out of 4

  • @johnnyvcrow
    @johnnyvcrow 5 лет назад

    I would like to know how kali and Parrot run on the new alienware 15. :)

  • @henriquemartins5260
    @henriquemartins5260 5 лет назад

    How to install Ubuntu on a 2017 13 inch Macbook Pro, last time i tried the keyboard and trackpad didn't work :(

  • @MartinCameronHamiltonNZ
    @MartinCameronHamiltonNZ 5 лет назад

    How about a Lenovo Yoga c930 for Ubuntu

  • @bsdacid5662
    @bsdacid5662 5 лет назад

    can u do a review of it runnin on freebsd

  • @randyflask5142
    @randyflask5142 5 лет назад

    Love Ubuntu it's awesome!

  • @jbloodwo
    @jbloodwo 5 лет назад

    Love the snubs installs Linux idea

  • @krutznutz1215
    @krutznutz1215 5 лет назад +1

    Sandisk likes your information

  • @Jakeu1701
    @Jakeu1701 5 лет назад

    Earbuds or Bone induction listening devices?

  • @Mewain
    @Mewain 5 лет назад

    9:50 "It's sooo much easier now to have dual boot with ubuntu !"
    What ?? It's exactly the same process as 10 years before !

    •  5 лет назад +1

      They probably meant shrinking the encrypted drives are now easier within Windows 10. It was easy before Windows encrypted drives, because you could just use gparted or whatever available on the Ubuntu installer image, but now it must be done from inside of Windows.

  • @aliancemd
    @aliancemd 5 лет назад

    I use pop_OS(it's basically Ubuntu) everywhere these days.

  • @Patrick1985McMahon
    @Patrick1985McMahon 5 лет назад

    I would lose thumb drives then find them months later.

  • @v300
    @v300 5 лет назад

    Can you test Linux Manjaro on a Huawei laptop

  • @orcaflotta7867
    @orcaflotta7867 5 лет назад

    Why does it always have to be Ubuntu, one of the wurstest Linux distros? YT peepels, use Mint, MX-18, Manjaro, Antergos!!! Far far betterer and more satisfying and easy to use and more realistic for nowadays usage.

    • @Hamabeach
      @Hamabeach 5 лет назад

      Orca Flotta because it just works. I tried Mint before Ubuntu and it would crash for reasons I don’t know.

  • @PrimalNaCl
    @PrimalNaCl 5 лет назад

    Does that fine Huawei device come w/PRC gov't-mandated hw backdoors?

  • @JadenHybrid
    @JadenHybrid 5 лет назад

    Mine heats up hard, after 5 min, 128gb Ultra Fit USB 3.1

  • @ToddThiner
    @ToddThiner 5 лет назад

    If you have Broadcom wireless drivers good luck with support

    • @MyurrDurr
      @MyurrDurr 5 лет назад

      Same with some realtek wifi drivers

  • @evilpl-u9m
    @evilpl-u9m 3 года назад

    wow. wat about Huawei D14 R7 512?

  • @danimoosakhan
    @danimoosakhan 5 лет назад

    How do u do dual boot?

  • @Aemilindore
    @Aemilindore 5 лет назад

    If the files backed up were not encrypted prior to backing up, this sort of a solution being promoted on your channel is fishy.

  • @whatdamath
    @whatdamath 5 лет назад

    does the Huawei laptop only send my credit card information the Chinese government or all of my personal information too? I'm ok them knowing my digits, but I'm not okay once they learn my childhood secrets.

  • @HKLabs-tech
    @HKLabs-tech 5 лет назад

    21:00 you want cybermen?? This is how you get cybermen!!

  • @plusmanikantanr
    @plusmanikantanr 5 лет назад

    If you could do a Devuan or Mint installs ...

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад

      Debian, or is Devaun a new (to me) distro? -P

    • @plusmanikantanr
      @plusmanikantanr 5 лет назад

      @@Tekthing Devuan is the newer fork of Debian expressly to remove SystemD from it.
      My reasoning is Mint and most of the user-friendly distros have SystemD now. But there is some debate if SystemD actually benefits the User Desktop experience.
      Devuan is without the SystemD and now in stable version available. Unlike Slackware, there should be minimal requirements from the user experience to get Devuan installed.
      Is a non-SystemD "Debian" better overall compared to the SystemD Debian ? :-)
      The whole idea of SysInitV is "If it Ain't Broken DONT Fix it. And Keep it Simple Silly! " very UNIX-y philosophy in design and purpose. While SystemD is "My way or the Highway" which is a very "Corporatist" and close-minded way of looking at things :-D

  • @RyoKimball
    @RyoKimball 5 лет назад

    INSTALL LINUX ON EVERYTHING!!

  • @InfoForNow
    @InfoForNow 5 лет назад +1

    Nostril cam? Older xps? You weren't kidding haha

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад

      No we weren't! -Patrick

  • @abeplus7352
    @abeplus7352 5 лет назад

    I think you need more stickers on your laptop

  • @csdlcdtftpfcsmt2613
    @csdlcdtftpfcsmt2613 5 лет назад

    Pfff finally..someoane on Linux. ..😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
    Ubuntu is installable iven by kids....isint so hard..you mentioned Puppy. ...isin' t so good for new pc's. .

  • @tinyfossil
    @tinyfossil 5 лет назад

    yes pls shannon doo it plz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @AndrewVaughn
    @AndrewVaughn 5 лет назад

    Aki sighting 11:02!

  • @LoomisRex
    @LoomisRex 5 лет назад

    I run a MS Surface Pro 4 with ubuntu.

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад

      Thanks for the heads up! -Patrick

  • @hh83917
    @hh83917 5 лет назад

    Huawei = Security risk?

  • @funkyjamma
    @funkyjamma 5 лет назад

    I lose flash drives all the time.

  • @nabinbhatta3109
    @nabinbhatta3109 5 лет назад

    I have never seen such 10 min long ad

  • @venasoftuz
    @venasoftuz 6 месяцев назад

    no sound install ubuntu

  • @tadej255
    @tadej255 5 лет назад

    Woooow..the usb drives got cheap over the past few years :)

  • @TecHError
    @TecHError 5 лет назад

    Congratulation

  • @Iglum
    @Iglum 5 лет назад

    Why even bother with windows? :D

  • @MorkTheChicken
    @MorkTheChicken 5 лет назад +4

    RUclips comment

    • @esra_erimez
      @esra_erimez 5 лет назад +1

      RUclips comment reply

    • @mrmeow1012
      @mrmeow1012 5 лет назад

      @@esra_erimez RUclips comment reply reply

  • @mariozenarju6461
    @mariozenarju6461 5 лет назад

    Install Gentoo! :-D

  • @mianunya7607
    @mianunya7607 5 лет назад

    Skype looked horrific oh god

    • @Tekthing
      @Tekthing  5 лет назад

      Apologies, but there's almost nothing we can do to improve some Skype connections. -P

    • @mianunya7607
      @mianunya7607 5 лет назад

      understandable, lol @@Tekthing

  • @atomicorang
    @atomicorang 5 лет назад

    I have no sense of humor

  • @davidmaxwaterman
    @davidmaxwaterman Год назад

    Is it so difficult to pronounce Huawei correctly? When you pronounce it, it sounds like Wah-way. You've dropped the 'h' completely, but it is actually pronounced.

  • @okaudi
    @okaudi 4 года назад

    dislike too much useless content and idle talk.