I think he's trying to recapture that audience with his house renovation videos, but so far that content has either been "new money boss degrades his employees and installs a home theatre in his hideous McMansion" or "'smart' homes suck and I'm a retard". Things like "cooling the computer with a pool" and "putting all your PCs in one rack and remote KVMing into them" is very much like his classic content, but he's either taking ages putting the videos together, or there just isn't enough to film. Presumably the builders tell him to not record them, and he has to actually live with the house so DIY with leaks all over the place isn't an option either.
I do have a pool and I do have watercooled computers, but I don't want to cool my computers with the pool, and the mess of trying to fix the hundreds of problems that will inevitably erupt is actually my smallest reason against doing something like that. It's one thing when Linus messes up the crackhouse he uses as a studio for his hobby, but this is the house he actually lives in, and his business makes too much money to mess with the office either. My home setup is in a closet with a huge radiator on an exterior window that lets me eject the heat directly out of the house in summer, it works perfectly and is deeply autistic, but in practice a video about it would actually be incredibly boring even for me, so I understand why he's struggling to make videos about his setup for his ADD audience. I am actually interested in weird watercooling videos, but instead the rest of Linus' presentation pushes me away. To me him and his staff combined have the charisma of a mold stain.
I read that apparently he's only just now switching over to OEM workstations, from computers custom built by his staff, which is staggering because I'd have made that transition when I had five computers to maintain, let alone fifty or whatever Linus has. Yeah you can make two computers of equal specs for what HP charges for one, but if something goes wrong you can just swap out the broken one for an identical machine, losing maybe half an hour of time, whereas without OEMs you'll have Anthony wasting hours troubleshooting the issue. Linus and Gamersnexus both seem to really struggle to understand the mindset a business takes to computers, that they're tools you don't want to ever think about. Yeah it's a weird power supply, but it meets all the specs, it's super efficient because it's literally a server component, and replacing it is toolless and takes ten seconds. Last time I replaced a consumer grade power supply I had to pull basically everything out of the case to reach the cables, it took me well over an hour before I had the computer back together again.
