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

[awoo]

I don't bother with anything over 720p, 480p is fine most of the time, but I imagine even someone as shameless as George Lucas will look back at the Star Wars prequels that he shot in slightly-less-than 1080p and think 'I wish I'd given myself more leeway for future technological improvements'.

Even if you assume that most people won't ever go over 2K, if you can shoot the same scene from slightly wider in 8K for final output in 2-4K, that gives you a bit of room to cut and maybe even pan around a bit without needing to rely quite so much on your cameraman to get it 100% right for each expensive shot.

I get filming in higher resolution for high budget productions to give room for highly edited films. LTT however produces throwaway internet videos, not movies that are culturally significant to make it into the National Film Registry. Even then storing 8K film after release doesn't make sense for Internet video unless they may "remaster" the video in the future like is done for movies.

When it comes to autism there is only 2 paths, tranny or kiwifarms user. There is no deviation.

There's also JFK/Reagan loving model train boomers

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

I'm in agreement with all that the show is overproduced and shillfest while only surface level interesting.

The last time I watched LTT was over the RED storage expose where they did call out RED for overpricing proprietary SD cards. What are all those expensive 8K RED cameras for anyway? Consumers don't really bother with over 1080p and I wonder what's the point of saving thousands of hours of useless footage. Even the digital hoarder in me knows all that stuff is disposable.

Producing youtube content using digital cinema cameras is one of stupidest overkill things they ever at LTT. IIRC, the story behind that was their video guy was able to talk him into splurging on a RED and that their goal was to get sharper image quality by downsampling.

Nearly every photo/video guy I know is a bit of a gear head, so I get where that guy is coming from, but usually, the talk is in the £€n$€$. Body is always secondary. Hell, a bunch of lights will have a far bigger effect on how picture looks than a RED or an Arri.

I get filming in higher resolution for high budget productions to give room for highly edited films. LTT however produces throwaway internet videos, not movies that are culturally significant to make it into the National Film Registry. Even then storing 8K film after release doesn't make sense for Internet video unless they may "remaster" the video in the future like is done for movies.

It really is a waste. They're not doing anything like low light shit or pushing color grades to really need the use of cameras at that level.

Let's play a game called "spot the autistic parrots who dont like RGB because daddy Steve said RGB bad, RGB malware". In 2018, there really was a grave security exploit in various motherboard and RGB softwares. The security exploit was patched out before Gamers Nexus uploaded their video and it was a physical-only exploit.

To be fair, fuck RGB. I hate that I can barely get any affordable RAM sets or GPUs that don't have those damn things. I hate that they're on by default.

 

[Hmmpf!]

1) The whole video is marked as sponsored

Significant number (like 40%) of LTT Videos for the last couple of years are marked as sponsored, just to note.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I get filming in higher resolution for high budget productions to give room for highly edited films. LTT however produces throwaway internet videos, not movies that are culturally significant to make it into the National Film Registry. Even then storing 8K film after release doesn't make sense for Internet video unless they may "remaster" the video in the future like is done for movies.

I don't think it's entirely stupid that they keep uncompressed rushes of their shoots but I think it's absolutely retarded that they store unchanging archived footage on the same high performance storage that they store in-progress projects.

Were I in their shoes, I'd write out completed projects to LTO tapes for archiving offsite and keep a warm copy on some relatively slow inexpensive storage. I'm sure they've got some old 45 drives chassis collecting dust and a whole bunch of drives they could throw into an array.

 

[awoo]

I've always found it fascinating that in the era of consumer SSDs, long term storage is still done economically with recent magnetic tape advances up to 580 TB drives and 317 Gbit/in²!

Extraordinary 580TB tapes could help accelerate demise of hard disk drives

Magnetic ribbons and cheap-as-chips flash team together

www.techradar.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-tape_data_storage

One of my favorite types of videos is PCB factory and other Chinese factories tours. Say what you want about China but their industrial manufacturing is in a whole another scale. Their parts marketplace is like an engineer's dream - every possible chip and little component in a huge real life AliExpress.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Have they ever talked about their physical security? I bet a gang of thieves could do well in Linus Headquarters.

Say what you want about China but their industrial manufacturing is in a whole another scale.

It's easy to beat the West when the West is paying for it, giving you all the ideas, you have no quality standards, and you have millions of slaves.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Call me schizophrenic, but I feel that when a person has these left-leaning pro-trans views and also grows out long hair, they are well on their way onto becoming a tranny. For example the guy from Technology Connections. He has those libleft views, even has pronouns in his Twitter bio, and he grew out his hair. Him and Anthony seem to me like people who are about to troon out at any second.

It is odd but I assumed he was embracing his inner greasy Italian scumbag. If he starts wearing a gold chain it isn't a sign of trooning out. And RGB isn't just bad it is also embarrassing, I don't want a computer that looks like it belongs in an Axe advertisement.

 

[Markass the Worst]

You might find some interest in Louis Rossman when he takes time to stop pretending to be Jordan Peterson and make repair videos. Rossman is good for keeping up with Right to Repair laws in the United States of course, but he also does a lot of work with Apple computers at his repair shop.
Louis Rossman:
https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/

My opinion, he's less stuck up than Jordan Peterson himself and his JP-like videos are just bonus content relating how he navigated the world. He doesn't make much in depth repair tutorials but he's always down to earth and humble, he always says he's just a guy screaming into a camera (he says that too much tbh).

I'll always at least respect him for making videos calling out Linus and his bullshit, first when Linus ranted about adblock and called adblock users pirates, and second when it was revealed that Linus was a massive hypocrite and wasn't paying a commercial license for a certain piece of software he used all the time in his videos. Rossman also made a video about Destiny being deplatformed from Twitch too.

 

[Matt Damon]

And RGB isn't just bad it is also embarrassing, I don't want a computer that looks like it belongs in an Axe advertisement.

If they were still cheap and plentiful, I'd build my PCs in a plain beige tower.

After the first week, you'll never care what the box looks like again and any lights on it will just become a nuisance. It's literally paying more to annoy your future self.

 

[Pissmaster]

Fuck yall niggas I like my RGB lights. I still need to get one of those lights for my toilet

 

[moocow]

That absurd storage "solution" of theirs triggers my inner engineer. I saw one of their more recent videos about how they lost all their data yet again to that retarded fucking design and then proceeded to build another one exactly like it (what could go wrong?).

They're just doing all sorts of things wrong. Relying on RAID as if it was an alternative to backups (it isn't). Using one single god damn machine for all their data (if it goes down, no data until it's repaired). Then using ZFS in the worst imaginable configuration. They had what, 40+ disks? And they split them into a pair of identically-configured groups, each in raid-z2 (two disks can fail without data loss) and then mirrored. So 20 disks' worth of usable capacity, mirrored onto two sets of 20 disks.

Fun fact: RAID5/6 (and ZFS' raid-Z1/2/3) have an upper reliability limit that, once exceeded, makes data loss extremely likely in the event of even a single disk failure (even RAID6 and raid-z2/3):

A paper presented at FAST in 2007 by Google reveals that the probability of losing data during recovery from unrecoverable errors (UREs) alone on an array of 8 - 8TB SATA drives is over 98%. That means that you have about a 1.1% chance of recovering your data before a corrupted sector makes one or more blocks completely lost causing the entire array to become unusable. According to that paper, even enterprise quality SAS drives only improve your chances of recovering such an array to just over 63%, still not good and if your array has 8 - 12TB drives your chances of rebuilding the down drive successfully drops to 51%.

And these dumb fucks are rolling with 20 disks. Twice. In one big box. There will be great suffering, and it will be glorious to behold.

The only reasonable way to have that kind of storage capacity (1PB+) without just gluing your balls to a machine shop vice and pre-tightening it is to build a storage cluster with a software-defined storage system like Ceph -- multiple commodity machines that pool their storage devices and store redundant copies of everything. These idiots didn't build a system with a single point of failure. They built a system with several different single points of failure.

 

[Slav Power]

That absurd storage "solution" of theirs triggers my inner engineer. I saw one of their more recent videos about how they lost all their data yet again to that retarded fucking design and then proceeded to build another one exactly like it (what could go wrong?).

They're just doing all sorts of things wrong. Relying on RAID as if it was an alternative to backups (it isn't). Using one single god damn machine for all their data (if it goes down, no data until it's repaired). Then using ZFS in the worst imaginable configuration. They had what, 40+ disks? And they split them into a pair of identically-configured groups, each in raid-z2 (two disks can fail without data loss) and then mirrored. So 20 disks' worth of usable capacity, mirrored onto two sets of 20 disks.

Fun fact: RAID5/6 (and ZFS' raid-Z1/2/3) have an upper reliability limit that, once exceeded, makes data loss extremely likely in the event of even a single disk failure (even RAID6 and raid-z2/3):

And these dumb fucks are rolling with 20 disks. Twice. In one big box. There will be great suffering, and it will be glorious to behold.

The only reasonable way to have that kind of storage capacity (1PB+) without just gluing your balls to a machine shop vice and pre-tightening it is to build a storage cluster with a software-defined storage system like Ceph -- multiple commodity machines that pool their storage devices and store redundant copies of everything. These idiots didn't build a system with a single point of failure. They built a system with several different single points of failure.

A bit of an off-topic question, what kind of backup solution would be good for home use? Currently I just plug in a 4TB hard drive every now and then to back up my drives with Duplicati.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

They had what, 40+ disks? And they split them into a pair of identically-configured groups, each in raid-z2 (two disks can fail without data loss) and then mirrored. So 20 disks' worth of usable capacity, mirrored onto two sets of 20 disks.

In the Dream video I think they mentioned they had 15 drive vdevs? (Edit: Checked the video, 15 was right. Watch from https://youtu.be/Ti8scviDiYc?t=942 to see their retardation in action) I feel like a tard for having a 12x3TB raidz3 volume. I don't know how they sleep at night with 15 drive vdevs (probably raidz2 and using extremely high capacity drives. Imagine the rebuild times!)

Given their desire for good read and write performance, I don't get why they don't use RAID 10. It'd eliminate the URE risk, gives really fast rebuild times and while the worst case scenario is single drive redundancy, the best case scenario is losing 50% of your disks and still having a usable degraded array. I guess they can't accept "losing" half their space.

I wouldn't be surprised if their share is open to guests with full read/write and no snapshotting too. Can't wait for the ransomware saga.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

A bit of an off-topic question, what kind of backup solution would be good for home use? Currently I just plug in a 4TB hard drive every now and then to back up my drives with Duplicati.

That's fine for home use and the drives might be different dates/manufacturers/capacities which isn't a bad thing, making an array from a bad batch made at the same time in the same place is bad. Run Crystaldiskmark or something similar once in a while to gaze at the endless mystery of what SMART numbers mean... If it says caution then do not rely on that drive, stop everything that might be writing to it and back it up immediately, if you don't have a drive for it just unplug until you do.

 

[Slav Power]

That's fine for home use and the drives might be different dates/manufacturers/capacities which isn't a bad thing, making an array from a bad batch made at the same time in the same place is bad. Run Crystaldiskmark or something similar once in a while to gaze at the endless mystery of what SMART numbers mean... If it says caution then do not rely on that drive, stop everything that might be writing to it and back it up immediately, if you don't have a drive for it just unplug until you do.

Yeah that I know, any bad sectors popping up and the drive is as good as dead. I even have CrystalDiskInfo running in the background, usually notifying me that the system SSD is slowly degrading. So far none of the hard drives are getting any bad sectors or anything like that.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Yeah that I know, any bad sectors popping up and the drive is as good as dead. I even have CrystalDiskInfo running in the background, usually notifying me that the system SSD is slowly degrading. So far none of the hard drives are getting any bad sectors or anything like that.

That's alright then. You have a form of ""cold"" storage that isn't running all the time(the backup) and if you are worried about fires or natural disasters... There's online cloud storage(encrypt the volume to not give them more data) or just leave the backup at another place.

 

[Miller]

I'm in agreement with all that the show is overproduced and shillfest while only surface level interesting.

The last time I watched LTT was over the RED storage expose where they did call out RED for overpricing proprietary SD cards. What are all those expensive 8K RED cameras for anyway? Consumers don't really bother with over 1080p and I wonder what's the point of saving thousands of hours of useless footage. Even the digital hoarder in me knows all that stuff is disposable.

Exactly. What's the point of having RED cameras for a channel like LTT, especially on Youtube?
I mostly watch videos in 360p on Youtube unless there's something important and I pick 720p 60fps. LTT doesn't even upload videos in 60fps. At one point they stopped editing videos in 16:9 because they all had ultrawide monitors in their office.

Call me schizophrenic, but I feel that when a person has these left-leaning pro-trans views and also grows out long hair, they are well on their way onto becoming a tranny. For example the guy from Technology Connections. He has those libleft views, even has pronouns in his Twitter bio, and he grew out his hair. Him and Anthony seem to me like people who are about to troon out at any second.

I think you're right.

Spoiler: Not him but it's only a matter of time

 

[Kramer on the phone]

Aside from financial stuff, she also does a lot of management stuff…like coordinating Linus’ constant expansions and renovations of the office, and hiring. She’s mentioned several times wanting Linus to “slow down” on the business stuff so they could raise a family, and his response was that he’d slow down when his kids were old enough to remember dad not being there. What a fantastic father and husband. Apparently that day never came, and now that the kids are older he sees no reason to stop expanding until he needs to put out 10 videos with cringe thumbnails per day just to break even.

I guess that's what happen when you marry a manchild.

maybe i just don't have the drive but wouldn't it have been easier to get profitable, then coast while raising your kids or making more? especially when "growth" or a youtube 'network' literally hasn't worked anywhere its been tried? just get to 24 employees, hire people to do the editing, recording, uploading, all the annoying crap, and just spend the rest of your time with your wife. IIRC Jay Leno worked as close to the minimum number of hours needed during his tonight show days, he was just the presenter and acted like it. plus once you have a set goal for employees, revenue, etc. you can determine how many videos you truely need to upload. 2 videos a day is obscene, thats indian scam company tier.

And here is the difference between millionaires. It's all about perspective.

He drives a sportscar, lives in a large Mc Mansion. AND HAS TO WORK.

I drive a 2012 Nissian Versa, Live in a middle class home and I bet ya my home is worth as much as his since he lives in Canuck Land. But most importantly is...

I've been retired for 16+ years laughing at people like him, making money while sitting on my old and hairy ass while playing video games.

Oh yea... I love cooking... And getting up whenever I want too. And never having to worry about bills.

He can have his lifestyle. I'll drink my beer on my porch and enjoy life.

George Floyd retired at 19, he mocks hoity toity folks like you who need a car from this decade or a 2br/3ba home.

 

[awoo]

e. IIRC Jay Leno worked as close to the minimum number of hours needed during his tonight show days, he was just the presenter and acted like it.

for the clowning Jay Leno got for his late night show, I think a lot of people including me appreciated that he retired and did what he was more passionate about instead of dragging on his high profile show forever.

since we're on the topic of backup solutions, I've had the idea for a while to buy a consumer grade NAS with maybe 6 TB storage and two drives mirrored. (I estimate about $400 total) Most of my files is raw footage for youtube, computer backups, and 20 years of family photos/videos. I also thought of a poor man's "NAS" of literally just a RPi hooked up to an external drive. Which sounds more reasonable? Currently I'm just manually backing up compressed tarballs to an external drive, but if I want to free up space on my computer, I need to have the video files existing redundantly somewhere (I've had a past external drive almost catastrophically fail which means ideally the external drive which has files from a bunch of different places itself has a backup)
edit: of course I could just store it in a aws bucket but where's the fun in that

 

[Harvey Danger]

Linus is clearly monitoring this thread, and has responded to our mocking his Red cameras!

TL;DW it's YouTube's fault for not changing their software to support higher grade formats' metadata

Spoiler: archived title and thumbnail because he'll change it to try and goose the algorithm