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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byuu said:
Shipping from America to Europe is very expensive. 50$ is not unusual.
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That's why serious businesses have logistics centers that receive containers straight from China, or partnerships with other companies that would have to do shipping from Europe to America.

For comparison, GMT games is a niche boardgame company for American boomers, moving 5-10k units per month at most, and they manage to get their shipping costs down to 5 dollars/lb for their preorders just by trading favors with EU companies to distribute their games in America. LMG, a multi million dollar company that projects to move ten times the volume, is simply not looking for solutions for their logistics issues. Possibly because their corporate culture would require them to first buy a building to house their logistics offices (7 hours away from the warehouses, of course), then hire 25 millennials as the logistics and shipping team, and only then would anyone be allowed to talk to Linus about their dumb ass shipping rates.
 
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$20 for US & Canada/$50 elsewhere sounds like it's retail pricing. At least that's what it usually was in experience. Either they have a business account but are pretending not to so they can grift more money or they're stupid enough to not have one for an online store.
 
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byuu said:
Shipping from America to Europe is very expensive. 50$ is not unusual.
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It depends, USPS used to be really cheap and very fast.

There's also customs and tax fees on the backpack going to europe, that's always a pain in the ass and overtly expensive.
 
Also their dumb backpack is a knock-off Mosspack (which the big wahoonie used to own) but costs $150 more for reasons.
 
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The server stuff should be done now, it's all on one rack with one header, but the video shows they made their UPS' blow up due to poor ventilation. And while I don't want to buy any of his merch and the questions on WAN show are moderated, I would like someone to somehow get a question that if you're going to keep employing people with fat bitch tits, can you at least mandate they wear Hawaiian shirts instead of a size too small t-shirt? You'd think for as faggy as the company is (people are still wearing masks in the building) they would at least realize fat people are bad for the environment they claim to respect.
 
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Linus mentioning Wendell, an actual tech nerd who can make things, happen reminds me...

Chad Wendell of Level1Techs
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virgin linus from ltt

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unoriginal; don't care
 
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awoo said:
I don't think it's necessary to hoard popular media - you will always be able to find episodes of The Office or Drake albums or whatever years from now, simply because it's so widespread on the p2p network already. It's still nice to keep a local copy if you wish for speed but I would be much more inclined to save harder to find media such as older TV shows (some of the more obscure ones having no known copies) or porn (which seems to disappear quickly and sometimes is hard to search for).
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It really depends on if something has staying power. Remember that there are episodes of majorly popular shows that have been lost for decades. I agree with you that more recent popular media might be harder for everyone to collectively lose track of, but it can still happen.
 
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Toolbox said:
It really depends on if something has staying power. Remember that there are episodes of majorly popular shows that have been lost for decades. I agree with you that more recent popular media might be harder for everyone to collectively lose track of, but it can still happen.
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It comes down to how paranoid you are about the availability of such media in the future. I know of a few people who backed up the "controversial" episode of Fawlty Towers after the woke came for it in the UK. So there will at least always be a copy of the controversial episode somewhere online and on peoples private drives. Ready to spring back up online when the fun police fuck off. You don't have to get too faggy about archiving every show, because as you said. It is very popular media. It is not just political shitters you have to worry about. Plain old human incompetence can have a big consequence on it as well. Lost episodes of the old Dr Who is an example or that cut of that horror film Event Horizon. It all links back in to the digital DRM arguments as well with the stuff on Netflix being beholden to film/tv show licenses from the studios and tv networks. Few years ago, you could watch all the classic Disney movies on Netflix, now you have to sub to Disney's service. You download a copy of Lion King, it is going to stay on that HDD no matter what Disney does.

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I like the admittance of the burning UPS being an issue, that Linus was responsible for. They admitted it the latest video on the main channel that Linus let the server room get hot as the fires of hell and that contributed to their UPS going up in flames. Half the time i feel sorry for his wife being the background paper work grunt. I would have loved to have heard the conversation where he explains how he has to buy a new UPS on the company card, because he set the last on on fire. Her reaction must have been a sight to see.
 
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HullDown said:
That's why serious businesses have logistics centers that receive containers straight from China, or partnerships with other companies that would have to do shipping from Europe to America.

For comparison, GMT games is a niche boardgame company for American boomers, moving 5-10k units per month at most, and they manage to get their shipping costs down to 5 dollars/lb for their preorders just by trading favors with EU companies to distribute their games in America. LMG, a multi million dollar company that projects to move ten times the volume, is simply not looking for solutions for their logistics issues. Possibly because their corporate culture would require them to first buy a building to house their logistics offices (7 hours away from the warehouses, of course), then hire 25 millennials as the logistics and shipping team, and only then would anyone be allowed to talk to Linus about their dumb ass shipping rates.
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$5 for a kg of shipping via airfreight isn't outrageous. But there is a chargeable weight that is calculated based on volume (size of product). Bag full of air and low density is going to cost a lot more to ship if it weighs the same as a game.

Ltt setting up multiple distribution centers even if outsourced would be full of fails. They can't even design a product, imagine them then forecasting demand and stock holdings in different regions. And the tax implications
 
So I've been scraping the backpack inventory counter since my post bitching about shipping costs yesterday.
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It's sampled every ~60 seconds, the first sample was taken Thu Aug 04 2022 08:29:54 UTC and latest was Fri Aug 05 2022 20:30:22 UTC. I've attached the CSV (epochs are UTC) and I'll keep on capturing data for as long as I can.

I'm curious how slow it'll get after a week and whether it'll grind to such a halt that they'll start desperately shilling it every show like they do with the water bottles.
 

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Flaming Dumpster said:
So I've been scraping the backpack inventory counter since my post bitching about shipping costs yesterday.
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It's sampled every ~60 seconds, the first sample was taken Thu Aug 04 2022 08:29:54 UTC and latest was Fri Aug 05 2022 20:30:22 UTC. I've attached the CSV (epochs are UTC) and I'll keep on capturing data for as long as I can.

I'm curious how slow it'll get after a week and whether it'll grind to such a halt that they'll start desperately shilling it every show like they do with the water bottles.
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They made 27,000 of those things!?
 
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Flaming Dumpster said:
They're making 40,000! (39.7k on the site, guessing the missing 300 is due to sampling and the popup shop)

I missed the beginning of this sadly.
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They're right on time for the school year starting. I guess that's the target market?

50$ shipping to bongland sounds more than fair. The backpack will be boxy, heavy, and I'm sure they're paying extra for insurance. If you're dumb enough to import a luxury children's YouTube channel backpack though, dunno, you kinda deserve to be paying 300. Do they add some VAT on top of that? What's it come out to in Europe, 350$ or so?

Years from now we'll see civil war videos in Central African Republic with warlords decked out in Linus's best.
 
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