Technology

Different generations. They didn't get each other's cultural references.

God forbid someone who's made their life tech is very excited that Torvalds has come to visit them and turned out to be a really nice guy.

Torvalds will probably be the highlight guest of his entire career, and he knows it. Of course that's enormously exciting.

It was off, it’s LTT. It was intertainment with some interview.

Still, L.T. had fascinating things to say, and a refreshing down-to-earth outlook on things like data storage (keeps no files really, just uploads to git and lets others worry about whether it’s worth saving or not), a.i. (important, somewhat inevitable, overblown hype, horrible business practices), and how he geeks out playing with hardware designs for things that are completely out of his expertise so it’s low stress (e.g. guitar effect pedals but he doesn’t play).

That's fair ltt is never going to be everyones flavour