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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Kuritan Deplorable said:
I suspect it depends on the nature of your current engagement, and their current fixation. Like how they're pushing shorts really hard right now, and its getting annoying, because they want that infinite doomscrolling junk food content market.
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I do find it amusing that I googled "How to remove Shorts from the subscription tab" and a day or two later Shorts are just gone from the sub tab. They're easy enough to remove from the home page but I don't use the home page and even on a 1440p screen Shorts took up over half of my vertical space on the Subs tab and there wasn't any way to remove them shy of screwing with hiding elements via adblock etc. Now I'm not seeing them at all anymore

I wonder if they don't (or just minimally) mess with my experience because I'm such a stubborn user, I still use youtube like it's 2008/9 and stuff outside of my subscriptions tab barely exists to me and if it's not similar to my current subs it may as well not exist. I mentioned getting lots of watch repair videos now and while that is a very specific thing I do watch a lot of [insert random other things] repair videos so it's not out of my wheelhouse.

Interestingly, I was just clicking through my tabs to make sure shorts weren't appearing at all and when I went back to the subs tab I saw that massive Shorts bar try to pop up only to disappear before any of the thumbnails could even load
 
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This is still relevant as that is what I have seen with his recent plan of action.

The Narcissist's(Linus) Prayer:
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
 
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Belegar said:
For engineers there is a long adjustment period between work and school where they are effectively useless.
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This explains why labs has been so useless. In my field there can be two or three levels of QA between a graduate engineer and the product. I doubt an undergraduate student has the skillset to set up a robust testing regime and QA process.
Mind Goblins said:
Sure his comment was the pebble that started the avalanche, but that comment would never have made it into a video if the film crew asked for a re-take on that, the video editor cut around it, the producer didn't approve and publish the video (please tell me it isn't the editors themselves making these decisions...), and hopefully another two or three checks that would happen before a video goes out.
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In many companies your boss would look askance if you made a derogatory comment *without cameras rolling*. Management has ultimate responsibility for setting the tone. I don’t blame a young kid for making a mistake like this so much as I blame their manager for not enforcing professionalism in the workplace.
 
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Belegar said:
So what does this mean? I have a hard time thinking Linus would downsize the labs after dropping millions in to the project. I'm actually kind of shocked after all of that bragging how he is hiring REAL engineers it's actually students rather then people who has experience. It now makes a lot more sense why the labs is taking so long. For engineers there is a long adjustment period between work and school where they are effectively useless.
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In all likelihood because despite the butterfingered gnomes protestations of "try me bro" when it comes to salaries, REAL engineers are expensive while being exponentially more likely to both sniff out your bullshit and call you on it. Even if the sandal wearing beaver nonce was willing to pay the best part of $150-200K US I doubt his willingness to have a department of people who wont drink his piss flavoured cool-aid.

TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve said:
I definitely agree on the multiple algorithms thing, I don't know about youtube specifically but with Chrome they're pretty open about disparate experiences while testing new features. I'm just curious if, say, having a pre-GoogleTube account locks you into a non-shit/premium feature set because aside from occasional buffering issues (which hasn't been a problem in years) YouTube has always been a really good experience for me
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I've had my YT account since 2006 and the experience has always been more or less fine and when I subscribe/unsubscribe or click "don't show me this/ignore this channel" it sticks, with the only changes I see being the global ones like when they removed the old style of channel banners.
 
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Blue Whirlwind said:
Between the obvious impeding(? might have already happened tbh) failure of LTT Labs, and the upward trajectory of Gamers Nexus (see: their latest video. They bought a buttload of CPUs for ~10k USD to prove a point anyone with knowledge in this area knew already, then gave them away with merch at a loss. pure flex), I can't wait to see what's next for Linus and co. They (pretty miraculously) avoided much of the PR disaster that could have happened in the last weeks, but I think it's more of a pyrrhic victory than it appears.
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You're forgetting a key point: Imbecile Linus mentioned in his little video about the plan going forward that this was a HUGE story the "labs" are working on, alluding in clickbait fashion that the results were very surprising.

1 week later, steve drops this exact video. AFAIC this was steve saying "linus tongues my anus"

Kees H said:
You know how jokes work? They don't always have to be 100% accurate. Autism is a hellufadrug.
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What makes a decent joke great is autistic attention to detail. Even the greyscale ones need help: Lower contrast, make the white more grey, add blur.

I'm surprise no one went with one of those softcore porn books for women with absurd titles and stock photos of bodybuilders all over amazon such as this:

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