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Hubris is defined as trying to start selling hand tools in a world where snapon and klein exist.
🌟 Internet Famous 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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CheeseMonger
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Harbor Freight also replaces shit that breaks, no questions asked and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. There is zero reason to buy a $70 ratcheting screwdriver. The megapro these are based off of cost half of what they charge.
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What sucks for Lienus is if this continues to be a thing, the average three years to break is a horrible spot to be in. Too late to actually adjust production to solve the problem or try and put it at the feet of your chynese nigs who will just ignore you still, yet enough of a pain in the ass where it could really be a moneysink for them in the future to have to hold cash aside for this issue, be it in extras for replacement or unplanned expenses. It's like buying a BMW at 50,000 miles.
And I'll just laugh because the prick deserves it.
And I'll just laugh because the prick deserves it.
Apparently a "tech tip" is buying unknown used hardware from facebook marketplace and craigslist to build a PC cheaper than a brand new PS5 since Sony jumped up the cost, or you could just buy a used PS5. But if you just buy 2-4 generation old hardware you can beat the ps5 in some metric somehow.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel to shovel content onto youtube.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel to shovel content onto youtube.
CheeseMonger
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When does he get those braces off and why did he choose colors that would be easily seen on camera. His mouth looks like a christmas tree.
Nabeshin
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If I'm not mistaken, his bracers are invisalign ones which means that they're removable and the reason why he uses during videos are mainly performative ones
SYN-ACK-ACK-ACK
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Everytime Jake does these videos it comes across as more and more smug, as if he's looking at everyone going "I was able to get on the last helicopter out of Saigon."
In the video he mentions the 3D printers and laser etcher being given to him, he keeps begging Milwaukee to sponsor him as well as a CNC maker to give him a $30k machine, he's literally begging and getting gibs the way some filthy foreigner does when they arrive here. I know he's used to it in his gay leafland, the jeet mentality overtook his mind, but it just looks like shit.
Actually the more I watch the video the more I get angry, he didn't clean the barn beforehand and is just winging it when he should have just fixed the amps/electrical first, then done some foundation work, clean, and then start putting stuff in. But now he's put in shelves (editor joke about Jake's line about affording things at 10:25), put in his 3D printers while also making a dusty shop area, the whole thing is going to turn to hoarding shit. The nigga also does something really annoying in pulling a compound miter saw to cut something instead of pushing, bitch have you ever used a saw? And it's a blessed Makita saw, too.
He is going to hurt himself or someone with his shop faggotry, within the year.
In the video he mentions the 3D printers and laser etcher being given to him, he keeps begging Milwaukee to sponsor him as well as a CNC maker to give him a $30k machine, he's literally begging and getting gibs the way some filthy foreigner does when they arrive here. I know he's used to it in his gay leafland, the jeet mentality overtook his mind, but it just looks like shit.
Actually the more I watch the video the more I get angry, he didn't clean the barn beforehand and is just winging it when he should have just fixed the amps/electrical first, then done some foundation work, clean, and then start putting stuff in. But now he's put in shelves (editor joke about Jake's line about affording things at 10:25), put in his 3D printers while also making a dusty shop area, the whole thing is going to turn to hoarding shit. The nigga also does something really annoying in pulling a compound miter saw to cut something instead of pushing, bitch have you ever used a saw? And it's a blessed Makita saw, too.
He is going to hurt himself or someone with his shop faggotry, within the year.
Molokroid
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How do I put this lightly.. He does not exactly seem very technically or mechanically competent when working with anything that is not electronic consumer LEGO (plugging graphics cards and CPUs into a motherboard, plugging off the shelf wires with connectors to a computer case).
I am fatigued from the whole genre of "I did my best" type maker slop videos that pop up like Dankpods, UWOs Lab, Linus' ridiculous projects and now this guy.
That is equipment the average Makerspace, High School and more commonly the average hobbyist can now relatively easily buy, after all the Prusa and Creality stuff intended for them. I really do wonder what this guy is going to produce that will be so bone chilling, spine tingling, unique and high effort that it will separate him from other more established channels. He mentions wanting to get a fancy looking (Chinese) CNC mill but those get real expensive, real quick even if the machine itself is "donated". You still need a CAD & CAM package (probably Fusion subscription), tooling, coolant, the raw material itself and then there is the expertise required to use all of that to get parts within spec.
I will be watching his channel with great interest to see if he succeeds and what he makes. Honestly after escaping the LTT ratrace he might actually deserve it.
batigol
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Because they were designed by somebody that understood that if you over-constrain a design (by reducing the tolerances to remove the play) you end up with a spontaneously self-disassembling screwdriver the moment some dirt gets in the mechanism.
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I could only stomach a couple of minutes, but I get Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor vibes from Jake, only more incompetent.
Ure Buggued
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5000$ of printers and future 20k CNC in uninsulated barn, which has condensation / surface rust on every older wood working tool stored. Bold strategy cotton. 
3 similar prusa machines don't really make sense in a workshop. They are mostly designed for PLA toys or prototype parts while there are better printers for "engineering" filaments like nylon and pc (-cf) for car parts etc. he said was the intention to make.
3 similar prusa machines don't really make sense in a workshop. They are mostly designed for PLA toys or prototype parts while there are better printers for "engineering" filaments like nylon and pc (-cf) for car parts etc. he said was the intention to make.
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Good question, where does he get the money for all this shit?
Back at ltt he was renting a broom closet and now he's buying hundreds of thousands worth of shit and a barn. He doesn't have march and his patreon is likely netting him around $35k USD before taxes.
So he accidently used his socket puppet account on reddit and got caught by the reddit snark or whatever subreddit
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Canadian media production loans, probably. They'll throw around money to ego stroke over ensuring there's enough 'Canadian Content' on platforms.
I'm really curious how he's going to actually engineer the parts. I've used Fusion for 3d printing to make my own original designs. And its a proper engineering tool from that perspective, but its just the tool to CAD it out. You still need to design the actual part. Luke does not strike me as the type to suddenly become a full blown engineer. Is he going to hire a real one? Or are we going to see him fuck up a car by designing parts without understanding any of the basic principles underlying that engineering?
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My thoughts as well. Try running a 3d printer in an unheated garage or keeping your tools from rusting in a barn. Near impossible know from first hand experience. Prints won't work as the temp and humidity fluxuations will fuck everything up and any metal tools better have some paste wax on them or you'll be restoring them every other year.5000$ of printers and future 20k CNC in uninsulated barn, which has condensation / surface rust on every older wood working tool stored. Bold strategy cotton.
Molokroid
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That's the fun part, he won't!
In all honesty if he is just making one-off widgets, decorative items or exact replacement parts not a lot of engineering would necessarily be required. (I hope) He is not going to make car steering components or safety critical systems, so as long as he just overbuilds whatever screwdriver holder/car AC knob/fidget spinner he prints out of PETG or mills out of 6061 Alu he will be just fine. His one off projects do not require squeezing every last penny out of the BOM so whether he is using 10g or 15g of filament is irrelevant.
Fusion is actually breddy gud as it fully integrates everything from standard CAD and mesh modeling (i.e. dealing with scans) to programming CNC toolpaths and running basic FEA analyses. They charge an arm and a dick (yearly) for full functionality but he could go for their basic or even hobbyist package and have most of it.
BjörnJärnsida
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I will never the obession from youtubers with cnc machinery. For 99% of their use cases they could have used a regular mill/router and those you can buy in good condtion for scrapyard value that are made in Canada/US/Western europe. There is a huge learning curve to both and misstakes with a CNC can get really expensive.
Later on he shows off a huge millwauke toolchest and if he bought it then he is completly retarded. That's the beginers trap that gets every new mechanic. That they with their new paycheck go and buy a shiny new toolchest that they end up paying of for years to come. Usually its Snapoff but the point still stands. I was in the market for one of those covid times and I remember going to my local hardware store when there was a Millwaukee sales event and I asked him what it was going to cost me. He said 2500 dollars WITH rebate and it tought it wasn't to bad with tools and he said No.. thats the price WITHOUT tools and the upper chest was gonna run me another 1700 dollars. If you want tools with it its double the price.
Later on Jake opens it up and it contains millwauke branded tools. It's proably not as expensive for you people in america but if you are strapped for cash like Jake there is no reason to spend thousands of dollars on shiny toolboxes and branded tools. When Millwaukee dosen't even make their own hand tools they just buy them from china like everyone else. Also all of them look brand new and barley used. Stolen valor?
Software is suprsingly affordable if you are willing to go for one of the smaller alternatives that still offer perpetual licneses.
I would imagine that for structurual parts he wills stick to mostly sheet metal parts which most modern cad software have built in tooling for. If you understand the basics of metallworking its hard to fuck up.