GoKawiilHasan Piker spends seven to eight hours a day, seven days a week, streaming on Twitch. The far-left political commentator got his start in 2013 interning for (and sometimes hosting) the Young Turks. More than a decade later, he’s a powerhouse newsfluencer with the number-one channel in Twitch’s Politics and Commentary category. More than 3 million people follow him for his takes and humor on the crumbling American empire, foreign policy, and why Bernie would have won. He is also considered, by some, very hot. Piker works out every available morning and eats 1 pound of chicken with some rice at 6 pm. The rest of his free time is spent researching, planning his streams, and getting in fights with people who have AI avatars.
Phone model: iPhone 16 Pro Max
For years and years, I would do the classic iPhone-on-its-last-leg on principle, because I hate the planned obsolescence and I just am a very stubborn person. I’d have the oldest possible iPhone I could for as long as I could until I’d have it basically stuck to an electrical outlet for it to work.
Now I have to have one of the latest ones for cybersecurity reasons. That's what the civil rights lawyers I talk to tell me. We're kind of all just trying to do our very best for privacy and for security against warrantless surveillance by the government. But they tell me, “You got to get the newest and you got to always keep it updated.” It's been very frustrating for me, because I hate the new iOS, Liquid Ass. It's so ugly. It's so unintuitive. I cannot believe it. It's so frustrating.
Computer model: Intel PC, gifted by Starforge
It's a PC, a prebuilt sent to me by friends. The previous one I had was made by Linus [Sebastian, creator of Linus Tech Tips]. We called it “Big Red.” I still have it in my house and use it as my secondary. It’s a behemoth that has the USSR crest and Jeff Bezos’ head on a dinner plate on it. It's beautiful. There's a YouTube video where he makes it and gifts it to me. He took out one of the legs so it always leans left.
I have an iPad as well. I'm a “screenager” now officially. When I traveled, I used to just use my phone, but then I realized I'm on planes for 15 hours at a time. Why am I putting myself through this?
User Behavior A regular series that quantifies the tech lifestyles of the rich and/or famous.
Daily average screen time across Apple devices (not including PC): 7 hours and 8 minutes
Oh my Lord. That's a lot. Last week I spent 22 hours and 14 minutes on Twitter. And my daily average is three hours and 42 minutes on Twitter alone. But to be fair, I read articles off Twitter, so I don't know if it’s counting that as well.
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