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

[Gian-Luca Caluga]

Well Unfortunately I do not like the dude. The fucker is a hypocrite. Anyone who stands with the peaceful protests as he did when he was spouting his political ideology can go and fuck themselves. You do not hear anything now about racial issues now. The reason why is that it is not fashionable as well as THEY WERE WRONG.

The reality of 500 billion dollars of damage to personal/business property as well as COUNTLESS DEATHS because you ARE WHITE.... YOU do not get ANY take backs from me.

He is a IT&T certified ASSHOLE just spouting shit to get his WOKE POINTS checked at the time.

He chose a side. The Woke side. And so I am against him. He can spout off is fancy car and his money.

Well Some of us have money too and we do not forget about his actions and lip service back in 2020 going forward.

Yeah! You hear that, Linus So-Called Sebastian? Stay AWAY from TheRedChair's BINS!

 

[Kheapathic]

I don't like Linus because it feels like he's become less involved in what goes on in his building; but instead of taking a backseat for the people who do have ideas, he has to jump in and be the one to fuck around with everything. I also hate his need for convenience and thus setup irrationally dumb solutions to try and make his shit work. Don't get me wrong, using his home pool to take in the home server rack heat is a really neat idea; but I have to ask does the server stack generate enough heat to heat the entire pool to a noticeable degree, but also, maintenance if something goes wrong. A nifty idea, but nothing I'd ever put in my house unless I was a billionaire who didn't need to run a business to keep money coming in; because when something goes wrong, you're gonna need a lot of money and probably a team of people to get shit working in a timely manner... and God forbid one of those pipes break and drains your pool into your basement and fries every piece of electrical equipment down there. He's literally the architect of his own destruction, because he doesn't want to do shit how normal people do.

I'll be in the comment section laughing my ass off, understanding why simple solutions are the best solutions.

 

[mandatorylurk]

I'm still pushing through the Wan show (it's five hours now with clearly forced and drawn out "bits"), but something happens in it that is very similar to the video they released today; the wacky "make a challenge" video.

This is a video that loses any challenge aspect because of fake things it adds and is becomes more and more cringe, because it was written by that Tanner ginger faggot. Somewhere in the back of my mind this felt like an attempt to redeem Tranthony's failure at fixing his computer versus Linus a year or two ago.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

He's literally the architect of his own destruction, because he doesn't want to do shit how normal people do.

Which makes his convenience obsession so much more fun to watch. He insists on doing things that are guaranteed to fuck him up, dive through incredibly convoluted hoops to save 2 seconds of time such that he guarantees that one failure becomes a cascade nightmare of failures, and then refuses to put in the legwork for sane mitigation of any of the issues that will inevitably come down his way. He's wired up a massive smart home managed by a hodgepodge of crap glued together with random libraries they plucked off the web, run on a server connected to a nightmare cooling situation, and has a horrible history of any data backup and disaster control plans.

That server is gonna leak, its gonna fry, and its gonna take all this undocumented code and configuration for all this locally hosted smart home stuff right with it, and he's gonna be turning on his hundreds of of dollars of smart bulbs and switches by hand like a $2 GE Incandescent Pleb. And he'll try to farm the failure for more content too, of course.

 

[Susanna]

but I have to ask does the server stack generate enough heat to heat the entire pool to a noticeable degree

My pool heater is a big heat pump. Uses a 4kW three-phase connector, so that's probably around what it draws at full load. Linus' server rack is a dumb resistive heater. IIRC heat pumps are usually considered to be between two and six times more effective than a resistive heater, depending on ambient temperature. I keep my pool at 25 degrees average, which is maybe a quarter capacity during summer. The heater dips the temperature during nights and raises it to 27 in the day. It can do a few degrees more, but that's super inefficient because heat pumps, mostly the extra capacity is for autumn. Summer air temperature is around 20-21 degrees. To get prettier numbers let's say that 25% of my heat pump can do about 5 degrees delta. If we assume my pump is 500% efficient vs a purely resistive heater, that's 5kW of equivalent resistive heating to do five degrees. So Linus' server would heat my pool about one degree. For contrast, if I put the (cheapo, ultra-reliable, dead-simple) sun blanket on my pool, the sunlight will warm the water 5-10 degrees all on its own.
One degree is actually more than I was expecting. Linus garden is quite small, and while I do think he's dumb and tasteless enough to want to install a disproportionately big pool, I expect Yvonne has better sense and won't let him, so he'll probably get something fairly small. For a minimal-size pool, the server heater might actually give him two or even three degrees. 24 degree water doesn't sound like much, but compared to 20 degree water it's a huge difference, definitely much more comfortable. If he drops the silly idea of installing a pool in his McMansion garden altogether and just gets a terrace hot tub instead, the server will definitely be enough heater even for comfy 27+ temps.

 

[Kheapathic]

If he drops the silly idea of installing a pool in his McMansion garden altogether and just gets a terrace hot tub instead, the server will definitely be enough heater even for comfy 27+ temps.

And to me, that'd be the way to do it; at least the hot tub part. I understand wanting to have a pool, but one of the ways to do things is have your pool, and then have your hot tub/jacuzzi built with the pool, like this.

And if you notice, the smaller part with the warm water is slightly elevated and pretty much spills over into the cool water pool. It's less energy to warm the smaller area, but still get your warm water as well as your pool.

 

[King Vidiot]

It was a new standard that didn't go anywhere, it was called MXM - Mobile PCI Express Module. Dell and MSI weren't the only ones doing it, it was a push for the laptop segment that I guess flatlined because people want thin laptops that look Apple:ish. You could probably get a non-MSI/Dell MXM card and slot it in.

Dell actually used their own, "new" format called DGFF which is why there were never any other cards available outside of the 3 or 4 that they actually produced. It's a real shame because the A51m was a genuine desktop replacement. They didn't want to cannabilize their other "thin and light" (lol, no such thing really for aw but anyway) laptops, particularly the newly designed m17x that came out a year or two later.

I remember Lenovo laptops used to have UltraBay slots, which could hold optical drives, hard drives, a battery, or a second video card. I was very interested in buying the Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p when it came out since it was capable of using dual GeForce cards in SLI mode. It is a shame modular hardware upgrades for laptops never really went anywhere.

 

[Chief Nigwelfacheqee]

Re: hating Linus

I don't hate Linus. I do hate some of his political soapboxing, and the way he fronts being a techguru while still managing to fuck shit up all the time is annoying, but it's hard to truly hate someone as overall inoffensive as him when we have had people like snakething on this site.

I'd also go so far as to say that people like jayztwocents are even worse when it comes to both lolcow status and worthless content generation.

 

[quaawaa]

I'm still pushing through the Wan show (it's five hours now with clearly forced and drawn out "bits"), but something happens in it that is very similar to the video they released today; the wacky "make a challenge" video.

This is a video that loses any challenge aspect because of fake things it adds and is becomes more and more cringe, because it was written by that Tanner ginger faggot. Somewhere in the back of my mind this felt like an attempt to redeem Tranthony's failure at fixing his computer versus Linus a year or two ago.

Linus is trying (and failing) to copy Mr. Beast’s formula of giving away big prizes with a twist. His video is way too long with too many lulls and too lame of a prize.

He’s even trying to copy Mr. Beast’s trick of having a troon on staff. Anthony

 

[TapewormSalesman]

Re: hating Linus

I don't hate Linus. I do hate some of his political soapboxing, and the way he fronts being a techguru while still managing to fuck shit up all the time is annoying, but it's hard to truly hate someone as overall inoffensive as him when we have had people like snakething on this site.

I'd also go so far as to say that people like jayztwocents are even worse when it comes to both lolcow status and worthless content generation.

Wait, is there a thread for Jay somewhere? I remember he was seriously suffering from the formerly bullied boomer on the internet syndrome, where he'd feel the need to "defend himself" every time someone said something about him and came off as extremely butthurt, but he didn't seem to have any particular jucy drama since the Mayhems orange coolant debacle

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Not that I'm aware of. I see him telling people to fuck off on twitter about giveaways and videos warning people about tech issues. The only quasi lolcow techtuber was bitwit/awesomesauce network and his breakdown after getting his divorce. I stopped watching him after because it was just sad.

 

[Autistic Spergout]

Despite my comments during this thread but Linus is good starting point to get an idea about computers and other general tech. In saying that I would not go to him or anyone on his team about anything too technical or specific to your needs.

I will admit there was at one stage where I used to wake up in the morning to another LTT video and watch it and made a few purchases via their recommendation (When I say a few I literally mean 2-3 purchases and that was with a lot of research and I can't even remember what they were.) When I started to actually study IT seriously, there were a lot of things missing in those videos that could help more advanced users without impacting on those who barely knows how to turn a computer on. If they did that it would make them seem like a more reliable channel, when those new users get into IT a bit more. That sad thing is that doesn't make as much money as making an ADHD child wanting the latest tech or sponsored thing that mommy and daddy can't afford.

I honestly doubt that any of the ones working there could work in computer repair shop or for a medium to large corporation in the IT department. If they want to prove me wrong they have the influence to do so. It could make a few fun videos Linus! If you do that I demand writers credit. I'll be aware if you do that~

 

[Chief Nigwelfacheqee]

Yeh I've bought a couple of things based on some of their vids. Not necessarily because of their recommendations but because I saw the product and though "huh, that's neat". For example, that gulikit controller.

 

[Nabeshin]

Yes, powerful servers are cool. But you've seen them one, you've seen them all. They just get faster under the hood, sleeker on the outside; and sometimes end up looking Gamer-ish. That's it.

I personally think there is, there's a lot of cool tech that I see in channels like STH and Level1Techs, like filesystems that implements zero-copy, nvme over fabrics, clustering and more.

For example, linus has 3 servers with 1pb+ of storage and he did the same cringe ass video for all of them. He easily do better by using Storage Arrays insteads and it would be a more interesting video because he would show a dummy box that can fit 80 drives and connects to a server by a SAS or NVME-oF cable and can be daisy chained. By he doing that, he would have way more content, like comparing benchmarks by SAS and NVME-oF, using different NVME-oF cables and interfaces, bechmark between direct and daisy chained arrays and even by using storage accelerators.

But he's and his team ADHD edit wouldn't let they do it and even if they do, they would fuck after a few years

 

[seri0us]

I personally think there is, there's a lot of cool tech that I see in channels like STH and Level1Techs, like filesystems that implements zero-copy, nvme over fabrics, clustering and more.

For example, linus has 3 servers with 1pb+ of storage and he did the same cringe ass video for all of them. He easily do better by using Storage Arrays insteads and it would be a more interesting video because he would show a dummy box that can fit 80 drives and connects to a server by a SAS or NVME-oF cable and can be daisy chained. By he doing that, he would have way more content, like comparing benchmarks by SAS and NVME-oF, using different NVME-oF cables and interfaces, bechmark between direct and daisy chained arrays and even by using storage accelerators.

But he's and his team ADHD edit wouldn't let they do it and even if they do, they would fuck after a few years

And right now, as we type, the bitrot on the current server(s) is on the move, corrupting data because they're evidently too dumb to maintain their own archives.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I personally think there is, there's a lot of cool tech that I see in channels like STH and Level1Techs, like filesystems that implements zero-copy, nvme over fabrics, clustering and more.

For example, linus has 3 servers with 1pb+ of storage and he did the same cringe ass video for all of them. He easily do better by using Storage Arrays insteads and it would be a more interesting video because he would show a dummy box that can fit 80 drives and connects to a server by a SAS or NVME-oF cable and can be daisy chained. By he doing that, he would have way more content, like comparing benchmarks by SAS and NVME-oF, using different NVME-oF cables and interfaces, bechmark between direct and daisy chained arrays and even by using storage accelerators.

But he's and his team ADHD edit wouldn't let they do it and even if they do, they would fuck after a few years

I'm still surprised he doesn't have tape backup- it would have saved him in the latest crash. A lot of archives use it because it's just that stable

 

[indomitable snowman]

I'm still surprised he doesn't have tape backup- it would have saved him in the latest crash. A lot of archives use it because it's just that stable

I remember he has done a video or two on tape drives. Didn't seem like it was something they would implement. LTT doesn't seem to understand storage tiers. You don't need everything on the highest and fastest tier of storage. How often do they really need the raw footage from a video 5 years ago? Move that shit to a tape drive and keep the super NVME SSD storage for stuff they are actively working on. And semi recent stuff on slower HDDs.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I remember he has done a video or two on tape drives. Didn't seem like it was something they would implement. LTT doesn't seem to understand storage tiers. You don't need everything on the highest and fastest tier of storage. How often do they really need the raw footage from a video 5 years ago? Move that shit to a tape drive and keep the super NVME SSD storage for stuff they are actively working on. And semi recent stuff on slower HDDs.

Basically this. It's called archiving for a reason, you store it so if anything happens, you have backups. He has the money to do it, hes just lazy

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

LTT doesn't seem to understand storage tiers. You don't need everything on the highest and fastest tier of storage. How often do they really need the raw footage from a video 5 years ago?

Especially with as deep of a production pipeline as they have. Sure, they're expecting to put out daily videos, but they're also working with more editors then they have days in the week. If its gonna take 40m to pull a video from deep storage into working storage, that editor can probably just swap to another project, work somewhere else on the timeline, or just dip out early that day and come back to workable data the next day. They're not chasing sub-hour turnaround times on these things.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

If Linus didn't have that video on SMB multichannel, I might not have become a NAS autist. Maybe it would have been better that way.