Not just your opinion, CED was a raging dumpster fire and it failed for damn good reason. Sure was an interesting dumpster fire, though.
I don't think I've ever seen Linus in a blazer before. Whereas the brown blazer is Technology Connections style
Normally i would dismiss this as a simple reference. But did he give a direct shoutout to that channel? No? Then you can be sure this is just a calculated move to drive engagement and make people comment about Technology Connections. Yes, i believe Linus is that cynical.
Afaik thats not balancing but just monitoring.
I am so sick of these retarded tricks some youtubers pull to get some 90IQ retard to post a worthless comment.
So I watched the whole thing in the background, and at 1:30:30 his editor Mark comes in to test the new computer build. Because no one actually says anything to people in power at LTT, it turns out the old editing stations are good with the intel chips, it was the Threadripper systems having problems. And that the old systems had 3090s in them which meant a lot of VRAM and they were maxxing those out. At 1:37:00 The new 5080s Linus put in the new systems cap out faster than the 3090s because less VRAM, meaning this was just a sidegrade more like downgrade for 13 workstations
Honestly, not really. Linus uses raw 8k video and transcodes to 4k60, in order to scrub that stuff at a reasonable rate he more or less needs Mac Studios. And that's if the files are local to the device. He insists on using a SAN and never grabbing b-roll from already ingested video, which means he also needs a 40Gb network in order for them to scrub reasonably well.
Why not build $6k pcs when all the parts are being supplied for free from the sponsor, then make a video on it filled with more sponsors. The thing that annoys me is "we make 6 gorillion dollar PCs for our editors... BUT HOW WELL CAN WE PLAY GAMES ON IT!" bullshit to pad out the time. Skimmed the video and hes complaining about running out of vram and not wanting to get 5090s, why not get used 3090 or is 2 gen old hardware not good enough?
I like what he covers and he’s entertaining in a mediocre camp kind of way but it does bother me that he’s a midwit (although he seems to know something about electrical engineering, which I know nothing about). Are there any good tech YouTubers?
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What kind of tech? There's no point in suggesting EEVBlog or Big Clive if you're not interested in electronic engineering, nor is there any point in suggesting Adrian's Digital Basement if you're not interested in troubleshooting and repairing old computers or shango066 if you're not interested in troubleshooting and repairing old TVs.
There's a lot of good tech YouTuber suggestions in the LGR thread https://kiwifarms.st/threads/lgr-lazy-game-reviews-appreciation-thread.207570/
The fact that he insists on not using proxy media and all the editors just going along with it is just mind boggling. On top of recording all the sloptent in 12 or 16k for "future proofing" as if they'll ever:
ThisDoesNotCompute is good, Action Retro is an affable goofball, I want to enjoy TechYESCity more but I don't live in Melbourne Australia and many of his videos are like "You too can get a great deal on a motherboard or video card just by living in the Pacific Rim and dumpster diving/scrapyard diving trash bins all over Taiwan for great deals on used hardware!" No, Brian, all I can get that way is tetanus, assuming I could afford to fly 8000 miles to pull a GTX 1050 out of a recycling dumpster.
The "Make people care to watch it again" is really the thing that kills me, because he's both actually right, and really fucking wrong. Stuff like the junkyard computers stuff they did? That shits evergreen, and makes sense to record as top tier as you can because if you remaster it in a decade, it'll probably get views again - its an entertainment product in which the tech is just an accessory, ancillary to everything else. If 90's star trek had actually been filmed in 12k widescreen and could just be 'exported' to modern resolutions, you bet people would be interested in those again. But do the same for 90's CNET Video, and nobody would give two fucks. Nobody is actively watching review and recommendation media for visual fidelity or content, and its rapidly useless as time moves on and its performance metrics become irrelevant. Whatever the 'normal' production standard for the day is, that's good enough.
Exactly. If Linus ran his business reasonably, he could do what literally everyone else in the business is doing, and just use Mac Studios. Even the evergreen stuff he reasonably could record in whatever K for future-proofing he should really just be ingesting to 1080p before they begin working on the video. That lets his editors do their jobs on standard mid-end machines, and then all they need to do is swap the video source from the low-resolution folder to the raw folder before they hit the start button and go home over the weekend.
Spending dollars to save pennies, see it all the time in tech. People can so easily get fixated on 'streamlining' the occasional pain point that they'll lose sight of the 90% of work that's actually done, and wind up getting less of it finished after having dealt with all the headaches of the 'solution'. And then there's the ongoing costs of outages from it being an oddball homebrew, training, etc.
Actually, Star Trek TOS(The Original Series) and Star Trek TNG(The Next Generation) were shot and edited in film and those films we're stored properly, the 2 series were remastered in early 2010's to full HD and it's considered one of the best series remasters ever done.
And speaking of those total chads, this was their latest video yesterday... 26 minutes of dumping on price gouging on videocards by partner companies (primarily asus) by either just jacking the price up 20-30+% or bundling them with $3000+ of marked up peripherals nobody wants.
