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

[Car Won't Crank]

The issue here is that he’s using CCTV recordings to make videos, not that he has a CCTV system. In this day and age there’s no excuse for anyone not to have CCTV on the exterior and in the shared rooms of their homes, IP cameras and a NAS to store a month’s worth of video are cheap and there are pre-made Linux distros that make setting it up easy, as well as installation guys who’ll do it reasonably cheap if you don’t want to deal with it yourself.

But using these clips for his YouTube channel I consider a huge breach of trust. I actually think it’s worse than those “parenting channels”, because at least in those the kids are aware they’re being filmed. I wouldn’t have minded if he’d put up a camera on a tripod or something, the children would have been aware they’re being recorded, but without that there’s not even the illusion of consent. Abusing surveillance video like this is pretty dark.

Is Linus still using analog surveillance system? Also pretty bad putting cameras inside the house where there's potential for it to be hijacked. I'm sure he'll whine to a sponsor to provide some new IP camera and NVR setup. I don't think Linus is one to go through the hoops of setting up a Linux based system. Usually people who diy an IP camera setup go to Zoneminder or BlueIris which is windows based.

Which premade Linux distro are you referring to that's setup for NVR duties? In my search the best free and open source software I've found is Frigate NVR but that's a container based install. Homeassistant is commonly used to interface with it but you're limited in how you use your server if you dedicate one machine for HASOS.

 

[Susanna]

Which premade Linux distro are you referring to that's setup for NVR duties? In my search the best free and open source software I've found is Frigate NVR but that's a container based install. Homeassistant is commonly used to interface with it but you're limited in how you use your server if you dedicate one machine for HASOS.

I was referring to the NAS portion. My experience with DIY CCTV is that IP cameras can usually upload to an SMB or FTP server. Specifically I was thinking of TrueNAS Scale.
You’d set up your NAS with a CCTV share, and have the cameras connect to it. The cameras only need write and directory listing permission, not read. Write a systemd service to automatically remove the oldest videos whenever free space on the backing zpool drops below whatever you deem reasonable. There probably are pre-made scripts for this on GitHub, but it’s easy enough to do yourself if you have any Linux experience. You should also block your cameras from having Internet access in your switch/router. After initial configuration they only need to see the NAS.

Linus probably is using something like TPLink Cloud, which I’d consider a privacy disaster, but it’s not like westerners care about their privacy anyway.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Is Linus still using analog surveillance system

With all the free ubiquiti shit, he's probably using unfi protect. I'm sure they've given him dozens of cameras while real customers can't get any because they are always out of stock. Not to mention ubiquiti increasing prices and shit like 100% while removing "free" shipping.

 

[Phony Chicken]

With all the free ubiquiti shit, he's probably using unfi protect. I'm sure they've given him dozens of cameras while real customers can't get any because they are always out of stock. Not to mention ubiquiti increasing prices and shit like 100% while removing "free" shipping.

Yeah the way the text overlay looks in the screenshot that was posted matches how Ubnt cameras do it so I agree, he's using Unifi Protect. Ubiquiti refuses to even add in ONVIF support so you either use their shit or you have to manually set up some other NVR software pointing to the RTSP. Linus won't do that because it's too hard for him so he'll be using Protect.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I was referring to the NAS portion. My experience with DIY CCTV is that IP cameras can usually upload to an SMB or FTP server. Specifically I was thinking of TrueNAS Scale.
You’d set up your NAS with a CCTV share, and have the cameras connect to it. The cameras only need write and directory listing permission, not read. Write a systemd service to automatically remove the oldest videos whenever free space on the backing zpool drops below whatever you deem reasonable. There probably are pre-made scripts for this on GitHub, but it’s easy enough to do yourself if you have any Linux experience. You should also block your cameras from having Internet access in your switch/router. After initial configuration they only need to see the NAS.

Linus probably is using something like TPLink Cloud, which I’d consider a privacy disaster, but it’s not like westerners care about their privacy anyway.

So you're really only talking about creating a NAS share using one of the many Linux options out there and telling the cameras to write to it. That's only half the solution for a robust IP camera setup though. The DIY standard right now is to use the RTSP streams many cheapo cameras from the likes of Amcrest and Dahua output and configure them with your NVR software. Payware like Synology/QNAP Surveillance station and Blue Iris can also use onvif but that's not really needed. Frigate NVR and others already have video retention policies you can specify so writing your own script to delete them is added work if you just want something up and running. VLANs are definitely a must with these cameras to block them from the internet.

With all the free ubiquiti shit, he's probably using unfi protect. I'm sure they've given him dozens of cameras while real customers can't get any because they are always out of stock. Not to mention ubiquiti increasing prices and shit like 100% while removing "free" shipping.

Those cameras are unreasonably expensive but I guess that's keeping with Linus's spendthrift style.

 

[mandatorylurk]

At around 9:35 Linus reads a screed of leftist leaf CYA about buying from companies vs. scalpers/used GPUs, and talks about how he has come to terms with his expansion of consumerism and of course does the usual gay leftist thing of bringing up capitalism as some kind of excuse for being a faggot, but then he tries to absolve himself because he tries to reduce and reuse things and is always about using what you have. For fuck's sake Linus, if this is the case why are you constantly getting the gibs from companies to shill their stuff, always trying to do the worst kinds of "cutting edge" tech rigs like your home PC setup, and to go even further why didn't you just stay in your old home and let someone else buy that Vancouver mansion? When you're trying to justify your existence you've already lost, go get your dick sucked or hit the gym.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

I find it funny how he claims HE ran all the tests. Bitch ass didn't do anything but plan more house videos while his 25 employees did tests.
Its kinda funny to me how labs is still a failure and they still don't have the new place remotely ready for anything.

 

[The Great Milenko]

I find it funny how he claims HE ran all the tests. Bitch ass didn't do anything but plan more house videos while his 25 employees did tests.
Its kinda funny to me how labs is still a failure and they still don't have the new place remotely ready for anything.

Equipment benches can be setup and ready within a couple of days once equipment arrives. Researching what you need and the actual shipping time are the longest poles in the tent. Linus is an idiot for it to take this long.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Equipment benches can be setup and ready within a couple of days once equipment arrives. Researching what you need and the actual shipping time are the longest poles in the tent. Linus is an idiot for it to take this long.

Linus feels the need to shit out a video a day on the main channel and I don't know how many he makes on his other channels because I don't watch them. From what I see on the main LTT channel -- I see no reason for him to need so many employees. I just don't see how his business survives; those sponsor spots must pay as assload.


The first 3 seem to put out a video every other day or so. And he wonders why he's overworked and has no time.

 

[Nabeshin]

A friend who watches xqc sent me this



edit: Linus is really on his livestream https://www.twitch.tv/xqc

 

[tehpope]

At around 9:35 Linus reads a screed of leftist leaf CYA about buying from companies vs. scalpers/used GPUs, and talks about how he has come to terms with his expansion of consumerism and of course does the usual gay leftist thing of bringing up capitalism as some kind of excuse for being a faggot, but then he tries to absolve himself because he tries to reduce and reuse things and is always about using what you have. For fuck's sake Linus, if this is the case why are you constantly getting the gibs from companies to shill their stuff, always trying to do the worst kinds of "cutting edge" tech rigs like your home PC setup, and to go even further why didn't you just stay in your old home and let someone else buy that Vancouver mansion? When you're trying to justify your existence you've already lost, go get your dick sucked or hit the gym.

That video is super late. I wonder why. They promoted it a while back then nothing. If you look at some of the articles and web sites they show, they're all from october 22.

 

[mandatorylurk]

-DarkViperAU is on at the beginning to basically be a light circle jerk about react channels and stuff, Linus says he'll watch videos if he's going to comment on them in future shows but he's still gonna do this stupid read the comments thing. He defends his new wan show writer (a woman) which seems like pathetic m'lady defending
-at 45:30 there's a bit about the new Youtube revenue sharing with shorts videos and ads and how the first ads don't count in favor of the creators, and Linus says he deliberately held back from saying something sooner because youtube asked him to even though in return it seemed they answered none of the questions creators had about the system, and this means Linus is just gonna say what he wants in the future, to which I roll my eyes, this guy is more accustomed to sucking big tech dick than Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire
-at 1:13:00 Linus talks about the Mr. Beast eye surgery video, it becomes a screed against America and it's America's fault doctors leave Canada to work down there because healthcare is predatory. Better predatory than never seeing a doctor up north, and when you do get in to see a doctor they just say you should kill yourself. Linus also never mentions his butt buddy Hasan Piker's retarded take on the situation, which is really showing how much this faggot suffers from addiction to clout and his so called creator friends.
-there is a game implemented by the new writer which is where the two have to guess which soundbite provided is real or made by AI. This is the kind of gayness that's going to ruin the show, I just want to hear topics and news while I'm doing weekend work, this type of padding the show out is going to backfire.
-at 3:08:45 there's a question about lack of female tech creators on youtube that is obviously an attempt to push Linus to have more females on camera, he talks about there maybe being one tech girl at LTX (guessing its iJustine), but he doesn't bend the knee and say he's going to put more on because his gay prime minister says its current year.
-at 3:17:00 Linus defends being a faggot to the Jasco customer service rep during his ridiculous "smart lights dont work" bullshit because they were reading from a script and he didn't like not being escalated up the ladder. He acts like he did everyone a favor thanks to calling them out despite it being something he screwed up to begin with.


Null's 4 hour Kiwifarms stroll down memory lane was the better weekend honey-do stream.



While I have this post going this was the new Channel Super Fun video, a very sad look at Linus doing work:

He seems so out of it and also seems to do nothing while claiming he's burning the candle at both ends that he needs an assistant. All asians look alike, and your assistant has a man-bun, big oof Linus, very problematic.

 

[BlueSpark]

I see no reason for him to need so many employees

Buying crap to fill his soulless existence, but with people as well as all the manchild toys he wastes money on.
It's like he's been having a midlife crisis for more than a decade.

 

[quaawaa]

-at 45:30 there's a bit about the new Youtube revenue sharing with shorts videos and ads and how the first ads don't count in favor of the creators, and Linus says he deliberately held back from saying something sooner because youtube asked him to even though in return it seemed they answered none of the questions creators had about the system, and this means Linus is just gonna say what he wants in the future, to which I roll my eyes, this guy is more accustomed to sucking big tech dick than Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire

Why is Linus pretending that that policy is new and that it is secret? The blog post (archive) announcing it is dated September 20, 2022.

• Beginning in early 2023, current and future YPP creators will be eligible for revenue sharing on Shorts.
• In Shorts, ads run between videos in the Shorts Feed. So, every month, revenue from these ads will be added together and used to reward Shorts creators and help cover costs of music licensing.
• From the overall amount allocated to creators, they will keep 45% of the revenue, distributed based on their share of total Shorts views. The revenue share remains the same, no matter if they use music or not.

That sounds identical to the policy he described on the WAN show.

Why would anyone click on the Shorts feed if they weren't driven there by Shorts creators?

No one watches TikTok/YouTube Shorts because they care about specific creators. The whole point is that it is random feed weighted towards things you like watching.

Linus' shorts are pretty bad though:

They're getting around the same number of views as his full-length videos.

Typically, Shorts get way more views than longer videos because they are recommended more aggressively:

A random example of a successful YouTube Shorts creator. Note how his recent full-length videos have 500k-2 million views while his recent Shorts have 2 million to 62 million views.

This is similar to the difference between Veritasium's successful clickbait and LTT's unsuccessful clickbait.
Linus has no clue how to make popular videos and is coasting on his popularity that he gained when YouTube was a much smaller website.

Unironically, if he wants to improve, he should watch Mr. Beast. Jimmy is actually very smart and understands exactly how to make a viral YouTube video that the median viewer enjoys watching. He articulates his strategy very well in interviews:

Anytime you say the word "algorithm" just replace it with "audience" and it works perfectly. Like, the algorithm didn't like that video? No, the audience didn't like that video. No, you know, because literally that's it. If people are clicking and watching then it gets promoted more and that's all, that's literally all the algorithm does is reflect what the people want to a tee and if you deny that you just make terrible videos that are trying to find a scapegoat, like uh, I mean there's a reason everyone loves YouTube and spends hours every single day on it.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Why is Linus pretending that that policy is new and that it is secret? The blog post (archive) announcing it is dated September 20, 2022.

That sounds identical to the policy he described on the WAN show.

No one watches TikTok/YouTube Shorts because they care about specific creators. The whole point is that it is random feed weighted towards things you like watching.

Linus' shorts are pretty bad though:
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They're getting around the same number of views as his full-length videos.

Typically, Shorts get way more views than longer videos because they are recommended more aggressively:
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A random example of a successful YouTube Shorts creator. Note how his recent full-length videos have 500k-2 million views while his recent Shorts have 2 million to 62 million views.

This is similar to the difference between Veritasium's successful clickbait and LTT's unsuccessful clickbait.
Linus has no clue how to make popular videos and is coasting on his popularity that he gained when YouTube was a much smaller website.

Unironically, if he wants to improve, he should watch Mr. Beast. Jimmy is actually very smart and understands exactly how to make a viral YouTube video that the median viewer enjoys watching. He articulates his strategy very well in interviews:

Mr.Beast would know. At the end of the day, a video's performance is based on weather the  people like it or not, not how much effort you put in, sad as it is. If people aren't clicking, you aren't getting views, that simple. I got plenty of guys in my sub box that I simply don't watch any more for a variety of reasons. You don't owe these youtubers anything. Don't let them treat you like you do.

 

[quaawaa]

Mr.Beast would know. At the end of the day, a video's performance is based on weather the  people like it or not, not how much effort you put in, sad as it is. If people aren't clicking, you aren't getting views, that simple. I got plenty of guys in my sub box that I simply don't watch any more for a variety of reasons. You don't owe these youtubers anything. Don't let them treat you like you do.

Unless you're making restricted content (e.g. videos about conservative politics or guns), YouTube's algorithm is literally just "recommend videos that you haven't seen that other people with a similar watch history enjoyed". Everything else is an implementation detail that video creators should not concern themselves with.

The only algorithm "hack" I've heard of that actually works is translating your videos (or not having any speaking) so that they get recommended in more countries (i.e. to people who watch a nearly completely disjoint set of videos than your current viewers), but that's still no substitute for making good videos.

PewDiePie became big by uploading videos in a bunch of European countries which caused the algorithm to recommend them as "local" content, Mr. Beast significantly increased his views by hiring voice actors to dub his videos in Spanish, and the pastry chef I shared above never speaks so his videos are recommended in every country (as shown by his comment sections containing dozens of languages).

 

[WelperHelper99]

Unless you're making restricted content (e.g. videos about conservative politics or guns), YouTube's algorithm is literally just "recommend videos that you haven't seen that other people with a similar watch history enjoyed". Everything else is an implementation detail that video creators should not concern themselves with.

The only algorithm "hack" I've heard of that actually works is translating your videos (or not having any speaking) so that they get recommended in more countries (i.e. to people who watch a nearly completely disjoint set of videos than your current viewers), but that's still no substitute for making good videos.

PewDiePie became big by uploading videos in a bunch of European countries which caused the algorithm to recommend them as "local" content, Mr. Beast significantly increased his views by hiring voice actors to dub his videos in Spanish, and the pastry chef I shared above never speaks so his videos are recommended in every country (as shown by his comment sections containing dozens of languages).

See the translation thing actually makes sense. It's not going to recommend a purely English speaking video to say, India. It gets annoying when the big fish like PewDiePie and Mr. Beast have explained in detail how they made their millions, but no one listens.

Linus remains stuck where he is because he not only refuses to implement these changes, when he has the money to do so, but he's a sell out, and everyone knows.

 

[Nabeshin]

Linus remains stuck where he is because he not only refuses to implement these changes, when he has the money to do so, but he's a sell out, and everyone knows.

It's funny that he talked on a few WAN shows ago that his bilibili account began with some fans dubbing it and posting there and after they discovered that they were big there, they hired them to keep doing it. So he knows that this is a way to grow but he ignores it

 

[WelperHelper99]

It's funny that he talked on a few WAN shows ago that his bilibili account began with some fans dubbing it and posting there and after they discovered that they were big there, they hired them to keep doing it. So he knows that this is a way to grow but he ignores it

From a simple buisness standpoint, not capitalizing on the Chinese audience when you actually have a account is stupid. Now I think your a traitor for cucking that hard, but if you already have the account, you can be like all the movies that get their ass saved by the Chinese.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Buying crap

Makes sense I guess, he doesn't need to buy material things so he buys people instead.