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

[AltisticRight]

For those that aren't too oriented with the subject: Taobao is kind of localized ecommerce site where TONS of different exporters get their products from; often much cheaper than Aliexpress or other resellers sites because you're having one middleman less in the project. It is Chinese-only but you can get stuff from there yourself, proven that you are capable of using Google Lens to translate security prompts or proficient in searching for something that isn't absolutely mangled by machine translation (infamous 'fuck the duck until exploded' fits within this realm).

Alibaba is where you get stuff at bulk. Taobao is for consumers in China and to a lesser extent Chinese that are abroad. You can usually get bulk pricing at Taobao too but you need to ask.

Spoiler: Rest of the irrelevant information

AliExpress is the western facing version of Alibaba.
Then there's xianyu which is Chinese Craigslist/gumtree, a site where people trade used goods and locals only.

Pinduoduo is where you get scammed with slave products, or we know it as Temu.

Taobao uses Alipay and accepts credit cards such as visa/mastercard.
Taobao is only cheaper because essentially you're tax dodging and the companies there won't hire extra people who are fluent in a foreign language.

Edit:
To get stuff from there, you can simply use the myriad of personal shopping services or get a Chinese friend to do it. Convince him with a bag of rice and say "Ni shi sha bi cao Ni ma" which means "please help me buy stuff".

Lol, if he becomes a real farmer, he will become a radicalized survivalist in no time like Wranglestar.

He's already a farmer, a rice farmer.

 

[AnOminous]

I still do some of that in Win10, I have a simpler Rainmeter setup now, Wallpaper Engine, and Stardock Curtains, among other minor things. Still using those old custom cursors too. But it certainly doesn't have the same charm as the old customization did.

I got autistically attached to XP enough I always had at least one VM running it until about 2015 or so. Now I don't even bother customizing it at all and I still have the "Activate Windows" in the lower right corner of Win 10 because I don't even care enough to pirate it properly.

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

I still have the "Activate Windows" in the lower right corner of Win 10 because I don't even care enough to pirate it properly.

I used to take pictures of win7 keys in big box stores from the bottom of laptops and the side of the display pre-builts. I just built a new computer literally 2 days ago.... they still work. I've used this specific key on 3 different machines now.

 

[indomitable snowman]

Threadripper review didn't perform well so they likely won't be doing those types of videos anymore (super server reviews

Threadripper and Epyc are professional and productive products. They're for boring workstations and boring servers. The people interested in them are not the type of people to watch LTT. Professionals need accurate and real world info, not some benchmarks from cinebench and tomb raider.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Browser extensions (especially in Firefox) were incredibly powerful and could completely change the entire UI of the browser and do many powerful things that Chrome's gimped extensions can only dream of.

I was reminiscing about Firesheep the other day and it still blows my mind that back in 2010, Firefox add-ons were so powerful they could literally packet sniff open Wi-Fi networks and steal session cookies on the fly.

Remember DownThemAll? Absolutely awesome add-on that was good enough I kept Pale Moon installed just for it. The WebExtension version is a pile of shit compared to the old, somebody did implement a more faithful alternative (DownZemAll) and it literally relies on installing an external application. At the point you might as well use JDownloader.

 

[Homoshrexual2]

Zoomer PC enthusiasts tend to love Linus's schtick, but almost every Gen X PC enthusiast I know can't stand him.

That's because Gen X seethes about being poor while Zoomers know they'll always be poor and live vicariously through internet personalities.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Whats after zoomers? Are zoomers 12 and under, because most of the LTT audience are children or manchildren with minds of 6 yearolds. Look how they sperg out over overpriced screwdrivers and merch.

Average LTT viewer



Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/18a2ndb/black_friday_specials_arrived/

 

[AnOminous]

Whats after zoomers?

The end of civilization.

 

[Fapcop]

HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU CHARGE 90$ FOR A SCREWDRIVER?!?

That’s some kiked up business practices for sure.

I’ve paid out the ass for some high quality German screwdrivers before, but not that much. And it looks like a tool that the manufacturer MSRPs for 20$ on other sites.

Going to stop you right there, because you said "double click" which is a concept I've actually had to explain to a zoomer who had only used, as you said, tablets and phones before.

It seems to be a phenomenon that kids these days, despite having grown up with the internet and got a tablet as a toddler, know fuck all about technology.

One of my coworkers have noticed this as well with their younger siblings.

Back in the day, you needed some basic hardware and software skills just to HAVE a computer. Not even talking about the 80ies or 90ies, but just in the early 2000’s where you’d eventually need to install extra memory or fuck around in regedit, to make Windows work.

These days? They’re just expecting it to work like a toaster, and look at you baffled when you bring up drivers or suggest cleaning their machine.

Old man rant over.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Whats after zoomers? Are zoomers 12 and under

in my expert opinion, a zoomer is anyone born in the late 90s or early 2000s who doesn't remember the world before 9/11 but does remember the world before smartphones were commonplace. they may, if they were blessed with access, have acquired the computer skills more common to 80s and earlier 90s kids. gen alpha is anyone born in the later 2000s who doesn't remember life without an ipad shoved in their face. they will never know what a double click is.

 

[dappouROCK]

Whats after zoomers? Are zoomers 12 and under, because most of the LTT audience are children or manchildren with minds of 6 yearolds. Look how they sperg out over overpriced screwdrivers and merch.

I believe that's generation Alpha, which started in 2010. The name is rather ironic.

Zoomers were 1995 - 2009, iirc. I believe this generation was coined once the internet became commonplace for recreation, and computers became a common household item.

So it could be a bit of both, depending in the year.

 

[Susanna]

in my expert opinion, a zoomer is anyone born in the late 90s or early 2000s who doesn't remember the world before 9/11 but does remember the world before smartphones were commonplace. they may, if they were blessed with access, have acquired the computer skills more common to 80s and earlier 90s kids. gen alpha is anyone born in the later 2000s who doesn't remember life without an ipad shoved in their face. they will never know what a double click is.

It was my understanding that zoomer per definition meant "has been educated over zoom or other e-conferencing solutions", ie someone who attended school or university during the covid lockdowns. That effectively blocks out all the 90s except for particularly long uni programmes, like doctors.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

It was my understanding that zoomer per definition meant "has been educated over zoom or other e-conferencing solutions", ie someone who attended school or university during the covid lockdowns. That effectively blocks out all the 90s except for particularly long uni programmes, like doctors.

the term "zoomer" predates covid. zoomer originated as "gen z + boomer". the tail end of 90s kids have always been included in gen z. you shouldn't listen to common definitions anyway. generations are defined by technological or cultural changes that take place within them. the way a child born in 1998 and a child born in 2004 grew up was so vastly, unimaginably different, due to the advancing pace of technology and global monoculture, it's not fair to count them together at all.

and I think we need yet another term for 2010s babies after everyone on earth had a smartphone... idk what though.

 

[Corn Flakes]

It seems to be a phenomenon that kids these days, despite having grown up with the internet and got a tablet as a toddler, know fuck all about technology.

One of my coworkers have noticed this as well with their younger siblings.

Back in the day, you needed some basic hardware and software skills just to HAVE a computer. Not even talking about the 80ies or 90ies, but just in the early 2000’s where you’d eventually need to install extra memory or fuck around in regedit, to make Windows work.

These days? They’re just expecting it to work like a toaster, and look at you baffled when you bring up drivers or suggest cleaning their machine.

Old man rant over.

Yep, things "just work" for them so they have no reason to learn how the device functions.

The generations up to early Millennials were the computer equivalent of people that had to live with the Ford T and other early cars. Things broke and the user was expected to be able to do at least some level of maintenance on their machines. Zoomers and late Millennials grew up too late for that. They're the people who only started interacting with cars in the 00s, where if something broke unless you were a gearhead to begin with, you'd just take it to the mechanic or phone a tow truck to do it for you.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I’ve paid out the ass for some high quality German screwdrivers before, but not that much. And it looks like a tool that the manufacturer MSRPs for 20$ on other sites.

It's based on a $20 screwdriver design but I'm willing to bet it does cost them serious money to manufacture as they ship incomplete screwdrivers to Canada for the plastic mold, then send them back to the far east (Taiwan I think? Edit: China. Taiwanese cucked Linus) for final assembly, only to be shipped back to Canada for distribution.

By the way you're literally destroying the world if you include slightly too much packaging, even if your product is manufactured from start to finish in the same block in Shenzhen.

 

[Battlefield42]

I was reminiscing about Firesheep the other day and it still blows my mind that back in 2010, Firefox add-ons were so powerful they could literally packet sniff open Wi-Fi networks and steal session cookies on the fly.

Remember DownThemAll? Absolutely awesome add-on that was good enough I kept Pale Moon installed just for it. The WebExtension version is a pile of shit compared to the old, somebody did implement a more faithful alternative (DownZemAll) and it literally relies on installing an external application. At the point you might as well use JDownloader.

I still miss DownThemAll. Was fucking sad when firefox updated and it was gone.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

the term "zoomer" predates covid. zoomer originated as "gen z + boomer". the tail end of 90s kids have always been included in gen z. you shouldn't listen to common definitions anyway. generations are defined by technological or cultural changes that take place within them. the way a child born in 1998 and a child born in 2004 grew up was so vastly, unimaginably different, due to the advancing pace of technology and global monoculture, it's not fair to count them together at all.

and I think we need yet another term for 2010s babies after everyone on earth had a smartphone... idk what though.

This seems to be needed here.

 

[TVB]

The end of civilization.

Billions will die and billions will watch Family Guy funny moments compilation videos

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

Older OS's were a lot more fun. XP had things like Clippy who helped you write essays and Rover who helped you find files.

Aw man. I remember being a kiddo and loving these two little guys. When a Win7 PC finally came to the house I was so confused why I couldn't see either of these two anywhere.

 

[The Ugly One]

Threadripper and Epyc are professional and productive products. They're for boring workstations and boring servers. The people interested in them are not the type of people to watch LTT. Professionals need accurate and real world info, not some benchmarks from cinebench and tomb raider.

This is the kind of benchmark that matters for EPYC:

https://altair.com/newsroom/partner-perspectives/maximizing-cae-throughput-with-altair-solvers-and-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processors

That kind of software costs $10K-$50K per seat, and benchmarks either come from the ISV or the hardware vendor directly.