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

[Soggy paper straw]

They use film grade cameras which need trained operators and introduce tons of technical problems

it's easy to see why editing is probably a massive bottleneck.

It's interesting how there seems to be only 1 fully dedicated camera operator (David), while the rest are now editors who also operate the camera. It is likely that anything static is done by an editor where they just need to turn the camera on and off.

screwdriver that uses a licensed design

And plenty of time from one of the engineers (Linus invited that guy to talk a few times on Wan Show. This was a year or more ago, so I dont have links and timestamps). There was also an issue with the orange not being the LTT orange or something like that (or it may have been another product, but basically a waste for those Pantone color thingies)

Floatplane can't be cheap to run and it need it's own specialized staff so that's more people.

That is on top of the staff on their LMG staff page!


On the data failures: I think Linus knows very well that it is much more fun to watch LTT mess up and having to fix things, than watching an expert do the things correctly. There is nothing wrong with it imo, but you need to know your place on entrainment vs teaching. The issue is that his server videos are at times a "DYI guide" rather than a "LOL Someone pls stop us, we have no idea what we are doing"

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The comments on the Anthony Intel upgrade are always a pleasure to read. Sort by new, sit back, and enjoy
Features 41%, was/where, and horrifying misgendering!!
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[jalopy]

Wendell of Level1Techs is too nice to really "tear Linus a new one", but he does have the experience. He did a talk with Allan Jude, a famous freeBSD developer who works a lot with ZFS, and while neither one says it outright, they still make it abundantly clear how much of an idiot Linus is, how inadequate his setup was, and how much work it was to recover data Linus didn't even care about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYAezxwIxUw

Many thanks for the link, this is great. Hilarious and informative.

Time stamps:

-0:20 Pool was mostly recovered, needed some outside help from one of the contributors of ZFS to figure out all the wierdness
-2:00 A tool called ZDB, which is basically ZFS compiled into a utility, is a great way to recover data from a pool because it runs outside the Kernel and can force the ZFS code to operate in strange ways that optimize recovery.
-3:00 LTT's pool was setup as a bunch of Raid-Z2 arrays. They hadn't run ZFS scrubs in years, basically since startup. Somehow only two mechanically failed drives.
-9:30 The pool was so fucked, including backplane issues and drive failure, that it was the perfect dataset to test edge case recovery scenarios.
-14:37 Wendall had to unfuck the pool from LTT's recovery attempts by pushing the rollback feature as hard as he could. See pedo stache not getting he fucked up and learning to fuck off.
-21:32 Wendall went through the data with a hex editor to find identical blocks for recovery on the messed up drives. Two of the drives where mechanical failures. He also asks to fucking back things up and run scrubs.
-22:20 Linus stuffing every available slot full for the sake of muh petabyte or some such made everyone's job harder. The lack of a hot/cold spare, or an open slot means that copying out a bad drive means one has to swap the bad drive and rebuild rather than having a perfect copy of the troublesome drives since more than one will be shit at a time, statistically.
-29:05 They recovered 99.9% of Linus's data
-30:10 Backplane failure was random, Wendall couldn't find a pattern. Some discussion of SAS vs SATA
-32:00 Discussion of ZFS and redundancy. They poopoo hardware level solutions a bit since they have much less capabilities.
-36:10 Full grey beard moment. Windows 95 and 98 would display a drive as faulty with a single error. Because of this HDD manufacturers would hide errors until they started piling up.
-38:12 List of things to do when array has failed: stop poking it, image the array so you can work on it offline, and call for a pro because you will fuck it up more. This was in the context of Linus's problems. lmao
-39:40 The array went down so they just set it to scrub, where it just sat for a week. This caused the array to go read only because you slammed the thing with pile of small operations. Retards.
-43:40 Future of ZFS Some new block copy features which reduce file copy overhead, discussion on NVME on ZFS
-50:20 "Not a catastrophic situation despite less than ideal inputs" read LTT is a bunch of retards with no understanding of how to setup an array. "Don't be like Linus and ignore your pool" lmao


This was a great reminder to check my server and make sure scrubs and email alerts were still working.

 

[seri0us]

The issue is that his server videos are at times a "DYI guide" rather than a "LOL Someone pls stop us, we have no idea what we are doing"

Oh his server videos are DIY. DIY = Destroy It Yourself

 

[Mr.Bucket]

One thing Linus could do is not have permanent design people on staff. Get a schedule or special item in mind, find a designer and work something out. Steve and Jay have small crews and still manage to do shirts, mats, etc. Once you have a design, all you need is someone to produce said item; the designer is done. Unless you're Macy's or something, you don't need these people on staff.

Also GN's merch is just way fucking cooler than Linus's. Actual custom shit instead of just taking a generic screwdriver or water bottle, slapping their label on it and jacking the price up 500%.
Like these coasters. If LTT did coasters they'd probably be shitty cardboard ones and yet somehow cost more.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Also GN's merch is just way fucking cooler than Linus's. Actual custom shit instead of just taking a generic screwdriver or water bottle, slapping their label on it and jacking the price up 500%.
Like these coasters. If LTT did coasters they'd probably be shitty cardboard ones and yet somehow cost more.

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GN's merch is a lot more computer themed, too. LTT used to have proper designs a couple years back but since then they've switched to just "thing, but with LTT logo". Low-effort, high-price. Great for fleecing smoothbrained consoomers.

 

[Susanna]

While I'm sure the videos won't change, I'm seriously curious if there's gonna be behind the scene problems. After their channel got hacked, they posted a SysAdmin position opening, and then Linus got his old boss to be his new boss. Sure him and his wife retain ownership, which gives them a level of veto power; but having someone run the day-to-day and hopefully someone who is no nonsense about keeping the LTG network alive and working, Linus is gonna have his toes stepped on... and I wonder how much he'll be okay with because it keeps shit alive and how much he'll whine about or God forbid exercise his "I fucking own you" card.

New CEO will earn himself a kiss if his first act is to fire Jake.

God I hate Jake.

 

[Nabeshin]

God I hate Jake.

Same. I never though I was going to say this but I would rather watch tech Fiona daily than watch a video of Jake he's insufferable.

Another thing that I don't like about LTT is that everyone there who claims to be a gearhead hates old cars and shitboxes, while every car fan that I know loves them

 

[mandatorylurk]

Outside of the retarded pink paint he did to his car, I always did respect Linus for riding a beater Civic into the ground, and it was stick as well.

If Jake started working at LTT right from high school intern to employee, no wonder he has that undeserved sense of entitlement, he basically hit the autistic reddit nerd dream job and never had to worry about real life interactions because he's just always around other autists. It's also why he ballooned like the fat fatty he is.

 

[Kheapathic]

Another thing that I don't like about LTT is that everyone there who claims to be a gearhead hates old cars and shitboxes, while every car fan that I know loves them

Like we go on Linus, car groups have their own problems. You have the actual gearheads who enjoy ripping cars apart and doing shit with them; then there's the Jakes who read a manual, remember the marketing specs, and use cars as more of a status symbol, while claiming "I'm totally a car guy."

 

[batigol]

the Jakes who read a manual, remember the marketing specs, and use cars as more of a status symbol, while claiming "I'm totally a car guy."

And buy fingerless driving gloves for your E39 BMW.

 

[guiltyspark85]

New CEO will earn himself a kiss if his first act is to fire Jake.

God I hate Jake.

Sadly, if Jake was ever going to get fired, it would have been years ago. He used to be even more irritating early on, and Linus even mentioned the large number of Jake hate comments and told him to be less annoying. Now I think LTT viewers generally like him, so it wouldn't go down well if they fired him. If they're bringing on a dedicated sysadmin and he's no longer involved in that side of things, then he can no longer be fired for his incompetence in that area either. The only hope for Jake getting fired by the new CEO is if he tries to make LMG a more professional workplace by cracking down on inappropriate comments and jokes. I'm sure Jake would struggle with that.

 

[jalopy]

Also GN's merch is just way fucking cooler than Linus's. Actual custom shit instead of just taking a generic screwdriver or water bottle, slapping their label on it and jacking the price up 500%.
Like these coasters. If LTT did coasters they'd probably be shitty cardboard ones and yet somehow cost more.

Disagree. The screwdriver is unique, not an Alibaba special. It's made in Canada by Mega Pro and is a different size from Mega Pro's own screwdriver while using a different pall gear. The price is out there, ~100% increase but being a bigger tool with unique features while out performing the more expensive Snap On at most metrics. Personally think he should have started with a licensed set of cap tops. Ratcheting screwdrivers are just too weird of a use case. Especially for modern PC building, a <$20 set from eBay would do just nicely for one offs.

I like the the look of the coasters and work mat from GN, wish I didn't already have equivalents tbh
The GN screwdrivers are a bit limited

 

[Soggy paper straw]

If anyone still cares - Anthony seems to have been in open relationships

Archive (Thanks to @Polentic who managed to archive with the ability to show the spoilers)

I don't think anyone wants to know about Anthony or Eric's sex life, but

Spoiler: Other

Spoiler: Runefox Inkbunny

Is this... furry-loli?

If I have posted these before, I welcome the Late reactions -- I lost track with this degenerate

They are finally delete more and more accounts. It's still a mystery why they didn't do it asap, since there was never any doubt it was actually them. Now they will have to create a whole other furry identity

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Is everyone aware that the screwdriver will be released in new colors?

Bad Reddit archive

Well, it's not. Maybe the transparent one, but the others are a mock-up by a fan.


However - this is real (I had totally missed it):


To all the LTT screwdriver's lovers ITT, you too can sign up to receive one! https://www.lttstore.com/products/noctua-screwdriver?variant=40137980477543

I will point out once again that making people waiting too long for a product is counter-productive. The Wan Show screenshot is from a month ago. So get ready for at least three more months of waiting

 

[TouchFluffyTail]

>made some casually misogynist joke and included me. Oddly affirming!

Jesus christ I hate trannies so much, bros lmao.

 

[BlueSpark]

Probably not the first time Linus has made the handle brown

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

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>made some casually misogynist joke and included me. Oddly affirming!

Jesus christ I hate trannies so much, bros lmao.

probably told him the only way he acts like a woman is how he spazzes out lmao

an interesting observation, these people spend hours insisting that a male bodied "woman" is no less a "woman" than a "ciswoman," yet they say these things and obviously recognize and don't feel like they themselves are women. it's such a fucking lie.

If you want to look good lose weight then fatty. quit making excuses you terminally online fat fuck. jesus, I don't feel sorry for you at all.

 

[Nabeshin]

Disagree. The screwdriver is unique, not an Alibaba special. It's made in Canada by Mega Pro and is a different size from Mega Pro's own screwdriver while using a different pall gear. The price is out there, ~100% increase but being a bigger tool with unique features while out performing the more expensive Snap On at most metrics. Personally think he should have started with a licensed set of cap tops. Ratcheting screwdrivers are just too weird of a use case. Especially for modern PC building, a <$20 set from eBay would do just nicely for one offs.

While I agree with you. I have my thoughts against it. The screwdriver is on a niche market that if wasn't LTT it wouldn't be sell well.

While the screwdriver itself outperforms snap-on and others in ratchet metrics(angle, teeth's, backlash and more) what people forgot is that snap-on and other brands in the same price range aren't meant to PC work but a more industrial one like cars so their ratchet mechanisms aren't made of plastic like LTT one.

 

[The Velvet Spoon]

While the screwdriver itself outperforms snap-on and others in ratchet metrics(angle, teeth's, backlash and more) what people forgot is that snap-on and other brands in the same price range aren't meant to PC work but a more industrial one like cars so their ratchet mechanisms aren't made of plastic like LTT one.

I work in IT and I honestly don't understand the appeal of a ratcheting screwdriver for PC work; there's virtually no torque required. One is useful for assembling furniture, but I don't see the average LTT viewer doing that often enough to warrant the purchase. This screwdriver is nothing but a tool for tools.

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

Disagree. The screwdriver is unique, not an Alibaba special. It's made in Canada by Mega Pro and is a different size from Mega Pro's own screwdriver while using a different pall gear. The price is out there, ~100% increase but being a bigger tool with unique features while out performing the more expensive Snap On at most metrics. Personally think he should have started with a licensed set of cap tops. Ratcheting screwdrivers are just too weird of a use case. Especially for modern PC building, a <$20 set from eBay would do just nicely for one offs.

I like the the look of the coasters and work mat from GN, wish I didn't already have equivalents tbh
The GN screwdrivers are a bit limited

Where did you read that the LTT screwdriver is made in Canada? The internals are made by a chink factory, they bought the license from Mega Pro to have it manufactured. Mega Pro suggested their own manufacturer in East Asia but Linus chose a different company. Only the plastic molded handles are made in Canada.

 

[Slav Power]

I work in IT and I honestly don't understand the appeal of a ratcheting screwdriver for PC work; there's virtually no torque required. One is useful for assembling furniture, but I don't see the average LTT viewer doing that often enough to warrant the purchase. This screwdriver is nothing but a tool for tools.

I think there's only one case and one case only where you need additional torque, and that's mounting case fans, because those are not threaded and you need to thread the screw in by force, and even if you do that before trying to mount them in a case it can be difficult to do.

But that's about the only scenario where you need torque when working on PC, and it just so happens to be a scenario where there isn't a pre-cut thread in what you're trying to screw in.