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

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
Nabeshin said:
What bugs me about LTT storage is that they're setting up a high speed storage as a long term storage. So that's why the lose a lot of data every few years and when people brings that to them on the forums, they shit on the person claiming that they're pro or dodge the question.

The way that Linus setups his storage is by using big disk arrays with little redundancy. For example, IIRC, he uses pools of 10 drives where 2 is redundancy besides that he uses very big disks and from the same manufaturer.

A problem with that is that calculating the parity with big pools takes a lot of time and a rule of thumb in the storage space is that for you to expect others drivers to fail "soon" after the first one fail after a few years if they are from the same batch, so he's wearing down weared drivers when he's recalculating parity to them. That's why you see datacenters like akamai, backblaze and others mixing drivers from different batches and manufacturers on their arrays.

Another problem is the lack of monitoring, they had 2 failures and in every single one of them, they didn't setup a alert system(send an email, telegram/slack message, ...) that something is wrong and with their setup this is problematic.


If I was Linus, I would do one of this things for the setup, use a in house LTO racks(I forgot the name in english), setup some kind of cold HDD storage with RAID 1 or pay for a cold storage on Amazon or Backblaze
Click to expand...
Yeah having all your shit stored on LTO tapes in a cold storage would be your best bet to even have your footage in case your super fast NAS used for editing goes tits up and you lose all your data. He could totally afford it, however not only are they too technologically inept to do so, none of them would bother being consistent with keeping the cold backup up to date since that would require frequent manual juggling of the data tapes, and that's like not automated so like why would I bother doing that LOL.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: byuuWasTaken, ⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛, WelperHelper99 and 9 others
Slav Power said:
Yeah having all your shit stored on LTO tapes in a cold storage would be your best bet to even have your footage in case your super fast NAS used for editing goes tits up and you lose all your data. He could totally afford it, however not only are they too technologically inept to do so, none of them would bother being consistent with keeping the cold backup up to date since that would require frequent manual juggling of the data tapes, and that's like not automated so like why would I bother doing that LOL.
Click to expand...
Hell, there's cloud solutions that exist to be purely backups/archives. Not sure about others as I was trained on Microsoft Azure; but Azure has three levels for people who want file storage. If you want cold storage, it's cheap to store and expensive to access; so unless Linus is some sort of sperg who needs constant access to his ancient footage; he could have his local and two different off-site storage, where one is digital for quicker access if you don't have time to get the tapes delivered and spun up. He has the money to do it, and could probably tie it into a business expense too; if he's that hardup for his footage, he shouldn't be penny pinching.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: Nabeshin, Cowboy Kim and Markass the Worst
indomitable snowman said:
They could get one of those robotic tape libraries from IBM, but they'd probably break it by making it RGB or something retarded.
Click to expand...
I can imagine the clickbait now. A picture of Anthony pouring water on a VHS tape, Linus facepalming, and the title will be "We watercooled our WHAT?!"

Later changed to "We have the COOLEST storage ever"

Original Idea Do Not Steal you owe me cuckbux if you make this video.
 
  • Like
  • Winner
  • Agree
Reactions: byuuWasTaken, Gottahavemysips, Hall of Cost Payer and 16 others
Kheapathic said:
Hell, there's cloud solutions that exist to be purely backups/archives. Not sure about others as I was trained on Microsoft Azure; but Azure has three levels for people who want file storage. If you want cold storage, it's cheap to store and expensive to access; so unless Linus is some sort of sperg who needs constant access to his ancient footage; he could have his local and two different off-site storage, where one is digital for quicker access if you don't have time to get the tapes delivered and spun up. He has the money to do it, and could probably tie it into a business expense too; if he's that hardup for his footage, he shouldn't be penny pinching.
Click to expand...
That's so boring! The data needs to be HIGH SPEED and HIGH CAPACITY with TONS OF REDUNDANCY and SPONSORED BY SEAGATE or something...
Then the quirky LTT way fails and costs more than doing it the boring, right way
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Soggy paper straw, biggacracka and Markass the Worst
Aidan said:
That's so boring! The data needs to be HIGH SPEED and HIGH CAPACITY with TONS OF REDUNDANCY and SPONSORED BY SEAGATE or something...
Then the quirky LTT way fails and costs more than doing it the boring, right way
Click to expand...
What irks me is that he has enough money and sponsors to do both HIGH SPEED LOW DRAG and actual sensible back up for when the former fails
 
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: ⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛, Vecr and Markass the Worst
Nabeshin said:
This showed up on yt for me
Click to expand...
Was it a legit LTT ad or a scam? I'm asking this because Steve from GN talked about the Youtube ad service having scams that use his face and brand (first segment after the intro).
 
Miller said:
Was it a legit LTT ad or a scam? I'm asking this because Steve from GN talked about the Youtube ad service having scams that use his face and brand (first segment after the intro).
Click to expand...
Possibly. linus did do a children's book a few years back.
I'm unfamiliar with youtube ads but if they are allowed to look better than my 1st go using powerpoint did (assuming its a real LMG ad of course) then maybe they need to have a talk with whoever does them.
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Cowboy Kim, Markass the Worst and Miller
Miller said:
Was it a legit LTT ad or a scam? I'm asking this because Steve from GN talked about the Youtube ad service having scams that use his face and brand (first segment after the intro).
Click to expand...
On an off-topic note, it's always fun when Steve reminds everyone he's actually fluent in Mandarin, like in this video at 20:17, and then you remember that Linus only knows English and French because that's what's required in Canada.

Steve went out of his way to learn one of the biggest linguistic clusterfucks so that he can travel to China and Taiwan to do proper factory tours and whatnot, meanwhile Linus barely ever leaves Cucknada, nevermind trying to learn a new language. :story:
 
  • Like
  • Informative
  • Feels
Reactions: byuuWasTaken, Imagine a world without n, Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 and 8 others
Slav Power said:
Steve went out of his way to learn one of the biggest linguistic clusterfucks so that he can travel to China and Taiwan to do proper factory tours and whatnot, meanwhile Linus barely ever leaves Cucknada, nevermind trying to learn a new language.
Click to expand...
You'd think the man who has a Chinese wife, who's first language is Mandarin, would also learn it. For his life long partner. Or something like that.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Imagine a world without n, Pee Cola, Cowboy Kim and 2 others
OliverKlozoff said:
You'd think the man who has a Chinese wife, who's first language is Mandarin, would also learn it.
Click to expand...
She's from Hong Kong, so probably it would be Cantonese. Not real point in learning Cantonese, it's harder than standard Mandarin and anyone in Guangzhou worth talking to will know Mandarin anyway.
 
  • Informative
  • Disagree
Reactions: Windows XP Home Edition, byuuWasTaken and Pee Cola
Miller said:
Was it a legit LTT ad or a scam? I'm asking this because Steve from GN talked about the Youtube ad service having scams that use his face and brand (first segment after the intro).
Click to expand...
Advertisers on Youtube can forcibly place ads under someone else's video and the ad will appear with the logo of the channel it's placed on and the name of the channel after the word ad ("ad • [channel name]") which can give the false impression that the advertisement is endorsed by the channel. The owner of the video the ad is placed on has no say in this.

Here's another Youtuber explaining it:
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Hall of Cost Payer, Vecr, Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 and 2 others

-from 20:00 to 26:00 we find out people aren't doing proper check out and inventory procedures, ram they bought to be pairs and was XYZ 1/2, 2/2 are all separated somewhere. Linus takes a dig at someone in logistics who didn't know of this setup because it had been busted before he even started

-26:20 Luke is back to working in the office, conflict about remote work and office work. You can tell Luke doesn't like it but it does allow him to socialize and help mediate possible situations down the line. I think it comes down more to Luke's office and his department are right through a line of constant foot traffic, which is stupid. at 3:13:00 this is elaborated more because Luke's big issue is remote work is the best way to work due to Vancouver being broken in real estate and cost of living. But Linus likes it there so that's it.

-then there's about an hour of AI talk from 1:29:00 to 2:20:00 which I admit to just letting go through the ears, I don't give a fuck

-2:29:00 they're adding 4, 5, and 6 XL t-shirts and want some volunteers for it to help with fit. Absolutely disgusting for ralphamale gunts.
 
  • Informative
  • Like
  • Winner
Reactions: byuuWasTaken, Flaming Dumpster, OliverKlozoff and 9 others
biggacracka said:
Isn't Gargantuanthony fat enough to try them? or is he too fat for them? 🤔
Click to expand...
Been a while since I've seen people who need shirts that big IRL, but I would actually venture that he's not big enough. Anthony is big fat, but he's still toeing the line in which he can engage in normal human activities for limited periods and sit in normal furniture with only modest damage and discomfort. 4XL+ is entering the permanently Bariatric realm, where everything you do is redefined by your sheer mass, as if your distorting the ergonomics of everything around you into a twisted mockery of the human form.
 
  • Informative
  • Agree
Reactions: Cowboy Kim, mandatorylurk and biggacracka
I cannot be bothered to watch the Wan show, but I am very curious as to what happened with the woman who became a writer/director (?) for the Wan show and did that activity thingy a few weeks ago?

I scrolled through the chapters and I did not see any segment that was clearly labelled as an activity or game, but there are so many segments that I may have missed it

LTT is one of the few businesses where selling large t-shirts makes sense (not the hoodies tho, they cost too much to produce and unsold inventory would really hurt and add up... cough cough backpacks). If he orders just a few of the 5 or 6 XL, then he will be fine. That is to say, let's just watch him saying in the next Wan Show how he was offered a 5% discount if he ordered 10k 6XL t-shirts and he just had to do it!! Oh, and the hoodies! Of course he also must have the hoodies in 6XL!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back