About Me (rambly)

The Basics

Hi, I'm Taz! I'm most well-known for my presence hosting GNULectures, a casual/edutainment YouTube Channel about technology, particularly in regards to GNU/Linux, Free Software, and Random Hardware. Taz is not my real name, but it's based on a nickname that is similar to my real name. I started GNULectures as part of a project for school/college.

However, my presence on YouTube predates GNULectures as I used to have a radically different channel called "HeyIt'sTaz! :D", it was originally meant to be an animation channel, but I can't draw so it ended up being about storytelling through parodies (I have a very silly sense of humour).

I ended up deleting that channel due to human error, but I have a new channel called NotNapoleon.

Not just another techie

As strange as it may sound, I do not work in tech. I won't share too much about my career besides the fact I'm a type of engineer. I enjoy tinkering with computers and other kinds of electronics, but I find sitting at the same desk for 8 hours a day to be very dull, I'd rather do something hands on. Some experiments I've done include:

For some of these experiments, the real credit goes to the talented developers of Free Software (people like ptitSeb and Leah Rowe). I'm basically a guinea pig who reads documentation for their projects and tries to put it into practice.

Not a Linux YouTuber??

Despite making a lot of Linux content and being a Linux user myself, I don't like calling myself a "Linux YouTuber" for a few main reasons:

  1. Not all my content is directly related to Linux itself - especially since there's a lot of overlap with other topics (e.g., Free Software, Privacy).
  2. I don't make typical Linux content - for example, I don't do distro reviews because they're overdone and most distros aren't that unique or interesting to me.
  3. Linux YouTuber is an arbitrary term - who counts as a Linux YouTuber? Some of the most popular channels are radically different to each other.

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