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

[CYKA RUSH B]

Anything above a V8 (or V7 really) only has a larger battery. You can get drill battery adaptors from China to use your Bosch/Milwaukee etc batteries on the vacuum. Dyson charges a lot for their crappy batteries. Most people have drill batteries lying around anyway. Don't say Huaqianbei doesn't make good stuff...

V10 and above are basically the same thing, with a slightly bigger drum and more useless features like that dust reveal thing which doesn't work half the time. Their new sub thing whatever is even dumber, just get a $15 IKEA mop.

Spoiler: offtopic expensive vacuum sperg

V8 is competent, but the newer ones they sell they gave up any pretense of compactness and IMO it was the correct move.

I bought a v15 on refurb super special or whatever and the differences are huge compared to the old v8. battery uses 21700 cells so it runs much longer by default at same power levels. There is a particle counter and display which is a dumb gimmick, except they use particle counter and motor current draw to automatically speed up and slow down the suction motor depending on dustiness and floor type. In theory this sounds dumb, but in practice it makes a huge difference in runtime. Vac runs at lowest speed except when you get to a dirtier area where it automatically ramps up. As soon as particle rate decreases again it ramps speed down.

For my use, v15 gets over 1h runtime, is quieter 90% of that time and can clean in fewer passes than the v8

The green laser is mostly a gimmick, but it allows you to see how effective the cleaning is and if you need another pass. Really though the big feature that makes the V15 worth the money is the automatic dirt/motor load sensing.

More generally, the newer axial? straight through? designs (v10 and up) have easier to clean filters and more dust capacity, so there are some quality of life improvements.

I never ever want to recommend a british channel, but this guy has severe vacuum autism and his reviews really reflect it. Do not even bother with other vacuum review sources, this guy is by far the best

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

 

[mandatorylurk]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

 

[Kees H]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

Damn that is one of the most horrifying wiring jobs I have EVER seen in a rack mount computer. I would be terrified to open that thing back up. The water leak alone, goddamnit, these guys are fucking idiots.

 

[indomitable snowman]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

The internals of that look horrifying.

I know Dell and Lenovo makes water-cooled servers. They have connections to an external water supply with a chiller on the roof.
I doubt they'd sponsor one for him lol.
Water cooled data centers are so strange since they're usually pretty quiet.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

I think my crippled teacher would fall out of his wheelchair if he saw this.

 

[Commodore 128]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

I'm not going to click the video but looking at the thumbnail, did he really choose a 1U body for a custom hackjob server? Why not go 2U and give yourself more room?

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Linus really likes wasting money to be special. The amount of fiber, fiber boxes and shit needed to make all these pcs work in a server is just stupid. Just be normal and put them in a normal case in the same room.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

The camera work is so awful in this video. Linus tries to show some connector or bracket and it's just a giant blur

His goons are visually deteriorating. Pedo Stache is sporting a dirty TrueNAS t-shirt and his neckbeard is way worse than I remember

At 14:14 they say through-hole soldered PCI-E connectors are lower quality than surface mount. I would love for an EE nerd to comment on whether you can expect more signal loss on a differently soldered connector. I would've thought the quality of the connector itself would matter more than the soldering method.

Holy shit the blob in the background at 15:48. Linus should institute mandatory diet and exercise before this fucker eats half the logistics team.

What an absolute monstrosity

One thing about professionally built 1U servers is they have very few cables, usually just SAS cables for the backplane and the wiring for the RAID battery. This thing is an absolute monster, it'd be a total nightmare to maintain (lol at Linus thinking he's ever going to upgrade the CPU) and those fans are going to be pretty worthless given the obstructed path to fresh air and low speeds they'll run them at.

Linus' gripes about laptops earlier in the video come across as him being a total retard who can't figure out how to configure power management in Windows. I have some stupid Lenovo gamer laptop, it doesn't randomly power off and works fine with external displays.

 

[mandatorylurk]

One bit on info early on in yesterday's WAN show I heard this morning is that he had water damage in these new server computers and the storenator, and also 2 other rack mounts below. It all started because an cooling pump went out, causing warm water to expand and contract and caused an O-ring to fail.

All that tech, all that money, just wiped away, lol it's ok lttstore.com.

 

[Kikkoman]

Servers leaking

Perfect time for their "leather" backpack to go on sale then. $600, not sure where "apple leather" falls on the fake leather quality scale.
They also teased a new screwdriver/fidget toy in today's video of a cheap chinese laptop. Apparently the palm bit on the end of it spins for a really long time.

 

[Kees H]

At 14:14 they say through-hole soldered PCI-E connectors are lower quality than surface mount. I would love for an EE nerd to comment on whether you can expect more signal loss on a differently soldered connector. I would've thought the quality of the connector itself would matter more than the soldering method.

PCI-E uses differential signaling pairs, so most electrical noise cancels itself out. Trying to explain this in a non-EE nerd friendly way, the signal is sent as a positive and negative voltage so you can reject noise that way, by cancelling the noise out that is not in both signals, the theory is way more complicated but that's a non EE nerd way to describe it. This is the same type of transmission of signals that is being used in Ethernet, or XLR audio connectors which reject mains noise, for example.

The difference in signal quality should be negligible, it's more of an aesthetic thing for what I am concerned. I've seen boards with through hole connectors and surface mount connectors, and the difference between signal quality is not measurable with equipment that doesn't cost the equivalent of a house (and even then I'd bet on the difference either not being present or <0,01%). I'd say the through hole connectors are more durable due to having more mechanical support on the board, but when it comes to signal quality it shouldn't really matter. If you see a difference while using a riser you are at the edge of the signal-to-noise ratio allowed by PCI-E anyways and you should just replace the riser for a good quality one.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I'd say the through hole connectors are more durable due to having more mechanical support on the board, but when it comes to signal quality it shouldn't really matter.

Yea, they're a bit tougher, but its pretty marginal since its still just a solder joint at the end of the day.

Regardless, companies like to try and market everything they do as being better, so they'll just straight make shit up about surface mount to make it seem like they're doing it for the consumers benefit. When in reality, surface mounted components are vastly easier and cheaper to robotically assemble - You can easily get an order of magnitude greater throughput on SMD's. Faster production is generally cheaper production, economies of scale being what they are.

The only real downside to surface mounting is that it can be a nightmare to repair or replace the components by hand in the future. Which 99% of consumers will never bother with, not even commercial clients - your not gonna have a guy with a soldering iron try and swap a diode in the field, your just gonna swap the whole board and RMA the busted one. Sucks a lot for the 1% that want to try and fix things though.

 

[LaCreaturaDeLasAmerica]

It's amazing how this nigga managed to find such a butt ugly Asian wife. I'm somewhat of a libertarian myself, work in tech with all the Asians, hang around a lot of changs, etc. It's legitimately difficult to find an Asian girl that unattractive in America/Leafland, generally the ones here are from middle upper class families who are great looking. I genuinely don't understand how that happened. Did he go to Vietnam to find the ugliest one he could find?

 

[Kheapathic]

This thing is an absolute monster, it'd be a total nightmare to maintain (lol at Linus thinking he's ever going to upgrade the CPU) and those fans are going to be pretty worthless given the obstructed path to fresh air and low speeds they'll run them at.

That's my main reason to hatewatch Linus. Sure there's a level of wow; but that's quickly overpowered through 3 seconds of asking what happens if something breaks. It's so fucking hackjob custom that his family dare not try to fix their own thing because God knows what happens if you mess something up; and Dad's too busy running a company. The only thing he has going for him is the ability to drag his employees to his house to be his tech support, since his house isn't even setup to be a one man job.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

it's more of an aesthetic thing for what I am concerned

The only consumer benefit of surface mount I can think of is at least you don't have that "bed of nails" discomfort when handling the motherboard.

Regardless, companies like to try and market everything they do as being better, so they'll just straight make shit up about surface mount to make it seem like they're doing it for the consumers benefit.

Linus' people unthinkingly regurgitating marketing pasta when they have an actual lab that can objectively measure this shit is just sad. What an unbelievable waste of money.

I looked up some surface mount marketing and it's mind-bendingly retarded. (This image is from Asrock)

Electricity takes the shortest path and the shortest path is not via the very bottom of the solder joint.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Perfect time for their "leather" backpack to go on sale then. $600, not sure where "apple leather" falls on the fake leather quality scale.

Jesus. That looks like something you'd get off ebay for $30.

You can get *real* leather backpacks for less than $600.
EDIT: Just a quick google for genuine leather backpacks. Half the price.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Jesus. That looks like something you'd get off ebay for $30.

You can get *real* leather backpacks for less than $600.
EDIT: Just a quick google for genuine leather backpacks. Half the price.

Because you could get it for $30, "Apple Leather" is just upbranded plastic and compost pressed onto a cheap polyester blend and embossed to sorta resemble leather. He's probably paying a fortune to the supplier of this crap because they market themselves as super eco-friendly. Shits barely even water resistant, and I'd bet that the 'break in' period mentioned on the page is literally just the plastic compost blend breaking down structurally as its flexed and worn, leaving you with little more than embossed synthetic fabrics.

If you care about the environment, skip this piece of shit and buy a real leather bag - and learn to take care of it. Treat good leather well and you can get a lifetime out of it, infinitely better for the environment than a constant churn of disposable 'ecologically friendly' products that just cost you a fortune in transport carbon and chemical manufacturing offsets.

 

[sadrefrigerator]

It's amazing how this nigga managed to find such a butt ugly Asian wife. I'm somewhat of a libertarian myself, work in tech with all the Asians, hang around a lot of changs, etc. It's legitimately difficult to find an Asian girl that unattractive in America/Leafland, generally the ones here are from middle upper class families who are great looking. I genuinely don't understand how that happened. Did he go to Vietnam to find the ugliest one he could find?

Being pretty is mainly being good at makeup and not being fat.
When women get married, the don't have to try anymore.

 

[Blue Whirlwind]

I looked up some surface mount marketing and it's mind-bendingly retarded. (This image is from Asrock)

Electricity takes the shortest path and the shortest path is not via the very bottom of the solder joint.

At 14:14 they say through-hole soldered PCI-E connectors are lower quality than surface mount. I would love for an EE nerd to comment on whether you can expect more signal loss on a differently soldered connector. I would've thought the quality of the connector itself would matter more than the soldering method.

Akshually... this is kinda true.

Spoiler: EE autism

It would sure be nice if electricity always took the shortest path, but AC signals (especially the multi-GHz ones in PCIe) do not- they're more like waves that slosh all over the place and only end up in the right place intact if you did everything right. The problem is stubs, which mess with your signal integrity and are pretty important for PCIe 4 and especially 5 (not that you need that for a gaming GPU). One way of mitigating this with the through hole connectors is to take the "retarded path" by adding a via to the bottom of the board where the connector pins end- the path is longer, but there are "unused" parts aka stubs. Apparently this is called a boomerang via:

Still better to use an SMT connector though, which is why it's a selling point now, apparently.

 

[barrow greeter]

his home rack computer build, just wasted money and I wonder if this was right after the GN video because one of his kids is in the video quite a bit as if to human shield any criticisms of this absolute money waste. Of course there's a water leak.

Keep in mind all the many thousands of dollars worth of specialized rackmount server hardware, the custom closed cooling loop from his in ground pool, the finicky fiber optic KVM network running through his walls, all the things that needed to come together for the project in this video, are so his kids can play Minecraft.

So his kids can play Minecraft.

Something that can be accomplished on a $500 Ryzen APU mini PC simply hooked up to a monitor, with minimal noise and heat, and almost no fuss and bother.

How does the LTT channel ever even pretend to provide "tech tips" to the common man? How is any of this bullshit applicable to normal people? It all just reeks of conspicuous consumption and contentless clickbait. Echoing the sentiments of some earlier in this thread, he really does want to become the Mr Beast of tech channels.