Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

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Linus is forced to tape over his light switches because he bought gay "Motion Sensor" switches, now he's having to create custom z-wave code using his employees (manslave) to separate the motion sensor function from the normal switch.
He ended up spending 50 bucks a pop on these retarded things.
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Reminder that "smart lights" are a dumb trend for teenage girls and no electrician uses this shit for a reason.
 
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Linus is forced to tape over his light switches because he bought gay "Motion Sensor" switches, now he's having to create custom z-wave code using his employees (manslave) to separate the motion sensor function from the normal switch.
He ended up spending 50 bucks a pop on these retarded things.
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Reminder that "smart lights" are a dumb trend for teenage girls and no electrician uses this shit for a reason.
He's just using his channel now to put GE on blast because he either got these for free from them and they suck or he was too stupid to research iot garbage before buying 100 of them. He then doesn't blur the customer service reps name, who has no control over GE releasing this trash tier hardware and software, and will most likely get in trouble or even canned for this.

Jesus, he then tears into a phone rep who can't just send out random internal software.

Amazing content. What's next on Linus's tax-deductible home upgrade complaint show? Maybe he can go scream at teenagers working at Home Depot?
 
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Linus is forced to tape over his light switches because he bought gay "Motion Sensor" switches, now he's having to create custom z-wave code using his employees (manslave) to separate the motion sensor function from the normal switch.
He ended up spending 50 bucks a pop on these retarded things.
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Reminder that "smart lights" are a dumb trend for teenage girls and no electrician uses this shit for a reason.
Linus didn’t even bother to read the Amazon description:
Occupancy mode turns lights ON/OFF automatically, while lights are turned on manually and off automatically in the vacancy setting. To deactivate the motion sensor, select manual operation. With five time-out duration options ranging from five seconds to 30 minutes and up to 180-degree detection coverage, the switch accommodates any room with varying amounts of activity.
The behavior he complained about in the video (that the light turns on immediately after being manually turned off), is because he had the switch set to occupancy mode. If he had it in vacancy mode, then there would have been no issue, as the light doesn’t turn on automatically in that mode. He also could have used the switches in occupancy mode as designed and just leave the room to turn the lights off.

He’s essentially complaining that the switch doesn’t have a mode where it turns on automatically but off manually, but he was unable to articulate that in a 32 minute long video. That’s a reasonable enough feature request, but it’s not worth attacking the manufacturer during a podcast and making a video about.
 
YouTubers know nearly nothing about the recommendation algorithm, which is a giant ML model with thousands of features. Google has published several papers on how the algorithm works (search for “YouTube” here), though they don’t mention the features used in the models for obvious reasons. Based on my experience it tends to weight watch history really heavily. So if people watch your videos a lot, lots of your new videos will be recommended to them, but if they don’t, fewer of your videos will be shown to them, even if they are subscribed to you. This implies that it would be better to make fewer higher quality videos than more lower quality videos. As an example, compare the average views to subscriber ratio of channels like StuffMadeHere and NileRed to LinusTechTips. The first two channels upload rarely and frequently get significantly more views than subscribers, while Linus struggles to get more than 15% of his subscribers to watch a given video.

If a YouTuber can’t show data explaining how a trick works, don’t believe them.
Google may act like they know how it works, but it clearly doesn't function as is intended, and they continue to fuck with what it was actually supposed to do.
 
Google may act like they know how it works, but it clearly doesn't function as is intended, and they continue to fuck with what it was actually supposed to do.
The “fucking” is 100% intentional to stop the spread of “misinformation” and Google knows exactly what they are doing. The old algorithm, before they freaked out about people being “radicalized” by YouTube recommendations, recommended content that people like you watched and was very good. Since that update, they bias a lot more towards the current video’s channel and your subscriptions and filter out “controversial” channels.
 
The “fucking” is 100% intentional to stop the spread of “misinformation” and Google knows exactly what they are doing. The old algorithm, before they freaked out about people being “radicalized” by YouTube recommendations, recommended content that people like you watched and was very good. Since that update, they bias a lot more towards the current video’s channel and your subscriptions and filter out “controversial” channels.
I agree they've tried to ruin it for that reason, but it's fallen apart in it's ability to actually generally recommend things. It will feed you endless volumes of garbage content unrelated to what you actually put watch hours into even if you aren't watching political videos. Searching things without even watching anything that shows up will lead to whatever was searched being fed to you. Not to mention YT search works even worse than Google these days, but that's another topic.
 
Why the fuck would you need a smart switch to begin with. You turn the lights on when you enter the room, you turn the lights off when you leave.
Because midwit types like Linus would rather spend 10 hours installing something to remove 1 second of inconvenience. Either that or he's desperate for new content for his decaying Youtube channel.
 
Beyond even that, why is it so hard for these people to just not have these basic things automated, is walking into a dark room and folding a light switch really that hard

To be fair they are a god send to people with impairments, my mum's losing her sight so having the ability to say Alexa play this radio station, Alexa what time is it, alex set a alarm for x... There is stuff like fall sensors as well that are useful for OAP's, that can alert friends and family and emergency services and that can be a life saver.

She doesnt have the lights connected to it but anything that requires reading or fine vision skills is becoming a problem for her so it makes sense to have them, but I've got them on there own network and are not able to see anything else on the rest of the network, but I can't see why some people use them so much for basic things they can do like turning the lights on or off etc.
 
By the time you have all that setup, I'd think you wouldn't have saved very much money in electricity, but fair enough

It's just for OCD control freaks. Normal people don't spaz out because they left a closet light on when they left.
Especially with modern LED bulbs pulling only a handful of watts. Turning off your HVAC for an hour a day saves more power then a lightbulb will when turned on 24/7
 

Here's a walkthrough of the newest lab they bought. It very quickly devolves into buyer's remorse and overall the hosts seem unhappy by the end.

Only having 25 parking spaces seriously limits the scope of this building. Street parking is possible but I can't imagine it would be easy.

I never liked higher-ups having their own offices in this type of startup space, especially when the higher-ups are rarely around. It just becomes unused real estate that could be made more useful.
 

Here's a walkthrough of the newest lab they bought. It very quickly devolves into buyer's remorse and overall the hosts seem unhappy by the end.

Only having 25 parking spaces seriously limits the scope of this building. Street parking is possible but I can't imagine it would be easy.

I never liked higher-ups having their own offices in this type of startup space, especially when the higher-ups are rarely around. It just becomes unused real estate that could be made more useful.
Remember he paid 13.5 million CAD for this shit hole & now its looking like the basic building renovations are going to cost another couple mil.
 
Remember he paid 13.5 million CAD for this shit hole & now its looking like the basic building renovations are going to cost another couple mil.
I'm not sure how buying commercial works at all, should people be investigating the building for safety before a transaction occurs? Seems like some poor planning if they spent so much on a building only to get hit with a high start-up cost. Maybe they knew about the initial costs and were just playing it up for the video?
 
Only having 25 parking spaces seriously limits the scope of this building. Street parking is possible but I can't imagine it would be easy.
The building actually has around 75 parking spaces, but Linus bought the half of the building with only a third of the parking. There is also street parking.

LTT Labs is the left half of the building and a greenhouse climate control company is the tenant of the right side of the building.

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Stop trying to think you'll have a lab on par with BMW, this is getting sad.

The parking thing makes me mad because at an old job in one of these types of office parks there was a new company whose influx of too many employees broke the honor system everyone had and created too much unneeded friction and tension to the point of tow trucks being called and then property managers becoming cunts with lopsided rules.
 
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