Luke Smith was -- before becoming a crypto [influencer](influencer.md) and a turd in a suit (around 2022) -- an Internet tech mini-celebrity known for making videos about [suckless](suckless.org) software, independent living in the woods and here and there about historical, political, linguist and religious topics. He played a big role in making suckless more popular, however he later started to behave in hugely retarded ways and now isn't worth following anymore.
His look has been described as the *default Runescape character*: he is bald, over 30 years old and lives in a rural location in Florida (exact coordinates have been doxxed but legally can't be shared here, but let's just say the road around his house bears his name). He has a podcast called *Not Related!* in which he discusses things such as alternative historical theories -- actually a great podcast. He has a minimalist 90s style website https://lukesmith.xyz/ and his own [peertube](peertube.md) instace where his videos can be watched if one doesn't want to watch them on [YouTube](youtube.md). He is the author of [LARBS](larbs.md) and minimalist recipe site https://based.cooking/ (recently he spoiled the site with some shitty web framework lol).
He used to be kind of based in things like identifying the harmfulness of [bloat](bloat.md) and [soyence](soyence.md), but also retarded to a great degree other times, for example he used to shill the [Brave](brave.md) browser pretty hard before he realized it was actually a huge scam all along xD He's a crypto fascist, also probably a Nazi. In July 2022 he started promoting some shitty [bloated](bloat.md) [modern](modern.md) [tranny](tranny_software.md) website generator that literally uses [JavaScript](js.md)? WHAT THE FUCK. Like a good [capitalist](capitalism.md) he instantly turned 180 degrees against his own teaching as soon as he smelled the promotion money. Also he's shilling [crypto](crypto.md), he's anti-[porn](porn.md), anti-[games](game.md) and leans towards medieval ideas such as "imagination and boredom being [harmful](harmful.md) because it makes you search for porn" etc. He went to huge [shit](shit.md). Though he even now still probably promotes [suckless](suckless.md) somehow, he isn't a programmer (shell scripting isn't programming) and sometimes doesn't seem to understand basic programming ideas (such as branchless programming), he's more of a typical [productivity](productivity_cult.md) retard. As of 2023 he seems to have become obsessed with adopting a new identity of a turd in a suit. All in all, a huge letdown, bye Luke, you won't be missed.
His videos consisted of normie-friendly tutorials on suckless software, rants, independent living, live-streams and podcasts. The typical Luke Smith video is him walking somewhere in the middle of a jungle talking about how retarded modern technology is and how everyone should move to the woods.
Luke studies [PhD](phd.md) in linguistics but is very critical of academia -- he "speaks" several languages (including [Latin](latin.md)), though many of them to a low level with bad American accent and he can't sometimes even speak English correctly (using phrases such as "the reason is because", "less people" etc.). He is a self described [right-winder](left_right.md) and talks in meme phrases which makes his "content" kind of enjoyable. He despises such things as [soydevry](soydev.md), [bloat](bloat.md), "consoomerism" and [soyence](soyence.md).
