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

[Kalsarikännit]

underserved niche.

Heh

 

[Spud gun]

Crying about how the phone doesn't automatically cater to him by unlocking the phone when he inputs the correct pass code

It's such a nothingburger issue too, , my Samsung phone didn't have it enabled by default either. It took like 30 seconds to enable it from settings.

 

[hog cranking frog]

I must be a phone idiot but when I switched from stock android to Samsung I got all confused, loads of shit on top of shit. When I switched to Motorola and all the Samsung shit went away Android became pretty cozy again (with a simple launcher installed)

Linus has terrible taste.

 

[Lisa forgive me]

He recommends Ente which i've never heard of over everything.

Their 2FA thing is actually pretty good, I've been using it for a few months now ever since they went open source and published their server code so you can self-host. It runs on Android and desktop, though I haven't been able to perfectly figure out the sync feature. Not really adding a bunch of accounts all the time though so not really a big deal. Their main thing is actually a photo hosting platform but they built the E2E 2FA implementation into the same program. If you want photos, though, go with Immich.

 

[Drama Fan]

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1825988141821432265

LTT vs an /r/buildapc janny when LTT checks different forums for PC building advice

 

[anustart76]

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1825988141821432265

LTT vs an /r/buildapc janny when LTT checks different forums for PC building advice
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Yeah reddit is gayer than Linus. I remember the buildapc subreddit actually being helpful a decade ago. Now it's just like reddit as a whole, totally worthless.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Their 2FA thing is actually pretty good, I've been using it for a few months now ever since they went open source and published their server code so you can self-host. It runs on Android and desktop, though I haven't been able to perfectly figure out the sync feature. Not really adding a bunch of accounts all the time though so not really a big deal. Their main thing is actually a photo hosting platform but they built the E2E 2FA implementation into the same program. If you want photos, though, go with Immich.

i'd switch from authy but my bank is weirdly integrated with it. Still dumb they killed the desktop app.

Its still funny that he recommends and I'd assume uses ente and still got phished.

 

[mandatorylurk]

So Gaynus is replacing the batteries in his fried UPS from his gay home server pool cooled rack. So in a few weeks expect the house to burn down.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

So Gaynus is replacing the batteries in his fried UPS from his gay home server pool cooled rack. So in a few weeks expect the house to burn down.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

 

[just Reading a post]

So Gaynus is replacing the batteries in his fried UPS from his gay home server pool cooled rack. So in a few weeks expect the house to burn down.

"I don't want to spend all that money".
He says now.
When his house is on fire and he is going to have to pay 6x as much in repairs and lost equipment. I would have opted for a new unit.
I think the big irony is when he complains about them not covering his hacked up guts swap on his insurance and warranty. By you know recording himself doing some thing as silly as this and putting up on youtube as evidence that they could use against his claim.
I would not ever put my family in a position such as this. NEVER DO SOMETHING AS DANGEROUS AS THIS IDIOT HAS DONE. BUY THE FUCKING BRAND NEW UNIT.
He prefaced the video i know, but some idiot is going to get blown across a room with high voltage from seeing this prancing gay leaf opening this unit.
Not to mention the revision stickers he pointed out and then shrugged off.
The revision sticker argument is a dubious one. Just because different revisions can work together does not mean it is safe to use them together. Signaling standards, error reporting and other things can be different. See the 100s of same model tvs that have different internal boards.

 

[seri0us]

"I don't want to spend all that money".
He says now.
When his house is on fire and he is going to have to pay 6x as much in repairs and lost equipment. I would have opted for a new unit.
I think the big irony is when he complains about them not covering his hacked up guts swap on his insurance and warranty. By you know recording himself doing some thing as silly as this and putting up on youtube as evidence that they could use against his claim.
I would not ever put my family in a position such as this. NEVER DO SOMETHING AS DANGEROUS AS THIS IDIOT HAS DONE. BUY THE FUCKING BRAND NEW UNIT.

The house and his family will be so cooked.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

"I don't want to spend all that money".
He says now.
When his house is on fire and he is going to have to pay 6x as much in repairs and lost equipment. I would have opted for a new unit.
I think the big irony is when he complains about them not covering his hacked up guts swap on his insurance and warranty. By you know recording himself doing some thing as silly as this and putting up on youtube as evidence that they could use against his claim.
I would not ever put my family in a position such as this. NEVER DO SOMETHING AS DANGEROUS AS THIS IDIOT HAS DONE. BUY THE FUCKING BRAND NEW UNIT.
He prefaced the video i know, but some idiot is going to get blown across a room with high voltage from seeing this prancing gay leaf opening this unit.
Not to mention the revision stickers he pointed out and then shrugged off.
The revision sticker argument is a dubious one. Just because different revisions can work together does not mean it is safe to use them together. Signaling standards, error reporting and other things can be different. See the 100s of same model tvs that have different internal boards.

Linus is the type of guy who doesn't buy insurance because he doesn't plan on getting into an accident. And just like that, he ends up paying more on the long term to maintain his shit because he does things like buy used server HDDs on Craigslist and never hire a dedicated IT guy.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

So Gaynus is replacing the batteries in his fried UPS from his gay home server pool cooled rack. So in a few weeks expect the house to burn down.

There are certain kinds of equipment you don't mess around with if you can help it. Shit that generates mains voltage is one of them. Outside of his general incompetence, outside of the obvious incompetence of "If you can make a plumbing job fail, what makes you think this will work" and outside of any other real factors, this is still retarded. Experienced circuit repair folks would be reluctant to touch this shit - Its not just the risk of it blowing up itself, its the risk of it having undiagnosed chip faults from the water damage that lead it to put out bad voltages that kill tens of thousands of dollars of downstream equipment.

This is actually peak retardation, there's not even a silver lining shit here. Its incredibly negligent for him to even suggest this is a good idea, much less do it. For once in your fucking career Linus, the appropriate action really is to beg a Vendor to give you a new toy.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

buy used server HDDs on Craigslist

This is so based though, only the real gs get through the full time server load. The enterprise has already claimed the warranty for you, and big liquidators have their own warranties which they do actually support in my experience. I have 40+ used enterprise drives running right now, many of them are >10 years old with >60k hours. You can get three used for the cost of one new... With a warranty on each one! The math is so in your favor it's staggering.

 

[generic sauce]

This is so based though, only the real gs get through the full time server load. The enterprise has already claimed the warranty for you, and big liquidators have their own warranties which they do actually support in my experience. I have 40+ used enterprise drives running right now, many of them are >10 years old with >60k hours. You can get three used for the cost of one new... With a warranty on each one! The math is so in your favor it's staggering.

Where do you get your drives from, going to be building a storage server soon. Nothing that can't be redownloaded so losing drives isn't a huge issue.

 

[just Reading a post]

This is actually peak retardation, there's not even a silver lining shit here. Its incredibly negligent for him to even suggest this is a good idea, much less do it. For once in your fucking career Linus, the appropriate action really is to beg a Vendor to give you a new toy.

What is the safety of your family and your entire network and computers, next to the value of the youtube video he gets to make when his house burns down. The views, the Views! bro. We could get a new series of video's, of them restoring the rooms that get burnt.
You know he could have made a more interesting video in showing how those battery's could be recycled in to new battery's. Factory tour etc.
I just hope it is just for the memes bro and he just replaced the unit with a brand new one.

 

[Commodore 128]

This is so based though, only the real gs get through the full time server load. The enterprise has already claimed the warranty for you, and big liquidators have their own warranties which they do actually support in my experience. I have 40+ used enterprise drives running right now, many of them are >10 years old with >60k hours. You can get three used for the cost of one new... With a warranty on each one! The math is so in your favor it's staggering.

Agreed. For actual business use, of course you should get new disks. But for home, used disks are fine. I have a 180 TB HP MSA that's about 12 years old, a lot of its disks are still original and the rest I've just been buying used in bulk (packs of 3 or whatever) from wherever I can find them cheapest. I typically have 1 disk failure a year. I often need to swap out the caddy with the "new" disk too because the newer ones come with different caddies, but other than that there's been no issues. That said, I am keeping an eye out for a newer SAN or NAS that's more dense and uses less power, because these HP MSA's are hungry, not to mention hot.

Where do you get your drives from, going to be building a storage server soon. Nothing that can't be redownloaded so losing drives isn't a huge issue.

For me, I just google HP + the model number of the disk, and find whatever source that's cheapest and doesn't appear to be a scam. Sometimes just ebay. The warranty that some resellers offer hasn't been much use to me, because the disks almost always outlast their warranty period.

 

[macrodegenerate]

And just like that, he ends up paying more on the long term to maintain his shit because he does things like buy used server HDDs on Craigslist and never hire a dedicated IT guy.

If you have the money and want real reliability, you have to buy quality SSDs. They last longer as long as they are cooled. Even moreso with NVME.
Now, if you want space for cheap, buying a shitload of enterprise HDDs used can be fine, as long as you run those drives in RAID and make backups. Still it's risky because you need to make sure you swap those discs pronto when it even looks like one's starting to fail. You could automate that with a spare though, and monitor SMART. Then mark the defective drive and pop it after the raid rebuilds.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Where do you get your drives from, going to be building a storage server soon. Nothing that can't be redownloaded so losing drives isn't a huge issue.

in no particular order, I've had good experiences with goharddrive, techyparts, and bitdeals.tech (since defunct, unfortunately). goharddrive has anywhere from 1-5 year warranties, though that reflects on the price, obviously. the absolute cheapest drives (that still come from professional liquidators) will tend to have up 30-90 day warranties. but even goharddrive is at least half the cost of new, typically less for any given model.

I run mirrored pairs on my live NAS and raidz on my backup NAS, which I would do anyway even if I was buying new drives... You just have to always plan for drives to fail. they *will* die. it's not a matter of if, but when. You always have to be prepared. You can't be increasingly prepared as time goes on as you suspect that a drive is more likely to die. If you can get a live mirror and a cold spare for the same price as a new drive, and look at what the failure statistics are actually like... You win.

for any weirdo that cares, here's a list of drives in my main nas rn including their power on hours.

Spoiler: Long list

Drive: /dev/sda Model: Kingston SSDNow UV400/500 Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB] Power-On Hours: 41389 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdb Model: Kingston SSDNow UV400/500 Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB] Power-On Hours: 41389 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdc Model: HUS724040ALS640 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 21418 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdd Model: ST4000NM003A Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 21970 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sde Model: MG07SCA14TE Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB] Power-On Hours: 37071 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdf Model: H7280A520SUN8.0T Capacity: 7,865,536,647,168 bytes [7.86 TB] Power-On Hours: 56721 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdg Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 72048 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdh Model: SAMSUNG SSD PM871a 2.5 7mm 512GB Capacity: 512,110,190,592 bytes [512 GB] Power-On Hours: 48119 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdi Model: MG07SCA14TE Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB] Power-On Hours: 40059 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdj Model: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 66321 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdk Model: Seagate Barracuda Green (AF) Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 47338 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdl Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 77781 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdm Model: Hitachi/HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 34600 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdn Model: MG07SCA14TE Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB] Power-On Hours: 39738 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdo Model: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 75094 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdp Model: HUS724040ALS640 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 25878 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdq Model: Crucial/Micron Client SSDs Capacity: 512,110,190,592 bytes [512 GB] Power-On Hours: 6414 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdr Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 45871 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sds Model: H7280A520SUN8.0T Capacity: 7,865,536,647,168 bytes [7.86 TB] Power-On Hours: 56833 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdt Model: Hitachi/HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 34601 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdu Model: Western Digital Red Capacity: 8,001,563,222,016 bytes [8.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 55789 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdv Model: MB4000FCWDK Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 71933 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdw Model: Toshiba 3.5" DT01ACA... Desktop HDD Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 81461 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdx Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 78069 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdy Model: H7280A520SUN8.0T Capacity: 7,865,536,647,168 bytes [7.86 TB] Power-On Hours: 56316 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdz Model: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 66484 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdaa Model: Western Digital Caviar Black Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 95469 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdab Model: HUS724040ALS640 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 25875 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdac Model: Crucial/Micron Client SSDs Capacity: 512,110,190,592 bytes [512 GB] Power-On Hours: 6429 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdad Model: ST4000NM0025 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 24556 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdae Model: ST6000NM0014 Capacity: 6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 35588 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdaf Model: WDC WD101FZBX-00ATAA0 Capacity: 10,000,831,348,736 bytes [10.0 TB] Power-On Hours: 17698 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdag Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 3215 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdah Model: H7280A520SUN8.0T Capacity: 7,865,536,647,168 bytes [7.86 TB] Power-On Hours: 56750 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdai Model: Hitachi/HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 34596 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdaj Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 78078 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdak Model: SK hynix SATA SSDs Capacity: 512,110,190,592 bytes [512 GB] Power-On Hours: 9466 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdal Model: Seagate Desktop HDD.15 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 51262 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdam Model: H7280A520SUN8.0T Capacity: 7,865,536,647,168 bytes [7.86 TB] Power-On Hours: 56369 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdan Model: HUS724040ALS640 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 25261 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdao Model: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 66339 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdap Model: MG07SCA14TE Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB] Power-On Hours: 37019 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdaq Model: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 81151 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdar Model: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 44795 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdas Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 30261 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdat Model: H7280A520SUN8.0T Capacity: 7,865,536,647,168 bytes [7.86 TB] Power-On Hours: 56283 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdau Model: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 46913 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdav Model: ST4000NM0023 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 49574 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdaw Model: Hitachi/HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 34597 -------------------------------- Drive: /dev/sdax Model: MG07SCA14TE Capacity: 14,000,519,643,136 bytes [14.0 TB] Power-On Hours: 39987 -------------------------------- Average power-on hours across 50 drives: 46164.72000000000000000000 hours

Drive: /dev/sdaa Model: Western Digital Caviar Black Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Power-On Hours: 95469

western digital caviar black, my beloved... my dad bought this drive when it was new, in like, 2008. the first consumer 1tb drive wd had on the market. still going stronk at nearly 11 years of runtime. may it yet live to reach voting age.

 

[Drama keen]

This looks like a nice gay porno movie. What is the title?