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

[The Great Milenko]

I don't think he has enough hubris to hurt him. If his numbers are correct, its not hubris, its just speaking the truth.

Just to highlight the lolissue from the Thermaltake video, Steve is banging on about how the % calculation is "artificially" (in his mind) better because Thermaltake's Engineering/Marketing department is using Celsius to calculate a % increase in cooling.
Steve's autism in the video says they are are completely wrong because if you use Kelvin and run the same calculation, then the % increase is smaller. Hence the "it's not theory, it's math" from Steve. No shit. And it doesn't matter. If you continue to read this thread response in the video, some people point that out.

Christ, even if you open electronic component datasheets from CERN, all things are rated in Celsius. This is understood and industry standard.

So while pegging the reference to absolute zero in the Kelvin scale is correct, there is literally nothing wrong with pegging your reference to Celsius either. The reference is understood and known. It is a retarded hill to die on.

This is the hints of super Autism that I worry about; otherwise, he does good work.

 

[Susanna]

So while pegging the reference to absolute zero in the Kelvin scale is correct, there is literally nothing wrong with pegging your reference to Celsius either.

Well no, pegging your reference to 0K is just lunacy, because you’re not running your computer in a room cooled to absolute zero. Ambient temperature is probably somewhere around 20 degrees, so while zero degrees is still a misleading point to peg your comparison to, it’s a hell of a lot more realistic than -273.15 degrees.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

This is the hints of super Autism that I worry about; otherwise, he does good work.

Ok I didn't know about it and this I completely agree with. Its like he expects marketing teams to measure in Kelvin for whatever reason. And if it was reversed and they were inflating the percentage numbers for something by measuring in Klevin, that would be actually misleading for the consumer as well. Hopefully he keeps it in check.

Yes, with the newish YouTube feature that segments the audience and shows different thumbnails to different people at the same time

My bad, thanks. I thought all A/B tests were successive / sequential.

Note that YouTube only offers this feature for thumbnails, so YouTubers who are "A/B testing" titles are just "gambling".
YouTube's help even mentions this

Yeah, its like they're obsessed with finding the best lipstick to put on their (very often,) pig of a video. Its like they've completely forgotten the idea that thumbnails and titles are supposed to present a video and not be the only things relevant in a video. I guess that once youtubers become big enough to be surrounded by yes-men or lose touch with their audience, a/b testing is the magic bullet they gravitate towards.

 

[The Great Milenko]

Well no, pegging your reference to 0K is just lunacy, because you’re not running your computer in a room cooled to absolute zero. Ambient temperature is probably somewhere around 20 degrees, so while zero degrees is still a misleading point to peg your comparison to, it’s a hell of a lot more realistic than -273.15 degrees.

We are in violent agreement. Kelvin scale is used in specific disciplines and pegging to Kelvin in that context is fine.

Ok I didn't know about it and this I completely agree with. Its like he expects marketing teams to measure in Kelvin for whatever reason. And if it was reversed and they were inflating the percentage numbers for something by measuring in Klevin, that would be actually misleading for the consumer as well. Hopefully he keeps it in check.

There is a newer video that I came across this year, maybe a few months old? He made a passing comment in the intro about hammering on the appropriate use of temperature measurements and I knew immediately what he meant. This is not just a one off, Steve and his team think Kelvin is the True and Honest way of measuring temperature performance for consumer electronics.

 

[Marmite Despiser]

not sure about other industries but in my industry standard reference conditions are 25C and at sea level.

kelvin obsession tells me it's an autistic larp to feel smarter or more technical than he is. like someone who never went into engineering and wish they did or flunked out and is bitter about it

 

[bort420]

not sure about other industries but in my industry standard reference conditions are 25C and at sea level.

kelvin obsession tells me it's an autistic larp to feel smarter or more technical than he is. like someone who never went into engineering and wish they did or flunked out and is bitter about it

Kelvin degree and Celsius degree are identical, why the fuck would you peg it to 0K

F/Rankine work the same way

probs b/c thermal conductivity is measured in W/mK and he's being too dense to realize C and K are interchangeable assuming you are taking the difference between two temperatures. C = K + 273.15 exactly by definition.

the Kelvin in a lot of measurements is intended to be a difference, not an absolute.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

Ok so I decided to look into kelvin and celsius because I don't know. Through about 5 hours of google searching the difference between the two I think I found the answer after about 4 hours and 58 minutes of gooning and 2 minutes of actual research. What I am reading is that Kelvin and Celsius are quite LITERALLY the same with one exception. Kelvin has it's zero set to absolute 0 as opposed to Celsius who has their 0 set to freezing temps of water. The difference between the two is by the very specific number of 273.15. So to go from Celsius to Kelvin you just add 273.15 and vice versa if you want to go from Kelvin to Celsius.
What this tells me is that this entire fucking debate on YOU SHOULD USE KELVIN is absolutely fucking retarded and the only winner is the companies that quite literally ignore this bullshit. Steven quite literally should shut the fuck up about kelvin because not a single fucking person besides him gives a fuck about kelvin. Nobody fucking measures shit in absolute zero because how many mother fuckers live in places where they can even reach absolute zero temperatures? You'd likely fucking die in the matter of minutes at best. Even doing just a big more digging apparently atmosphere can't even exist in absolute zero temperatures so you'd die very quickly from either lack of breathing or the cold, whichever comes first. Again nobody gives a fuck about kelvin because nobody could even fucking survive those fucking temperatures in the first place and it's not even a feasible reality to think about. Freezing water is far more common hence the Celsius being set to freezing water.

The TLDR is Kelvin 0 is absolute zero and nobody could survive that shit and thus we don't care about it. Celsius 0 is freezing water temp and is thus used as the zero for Celsius. Add or remove 273.15 to from Celsius to Kelvin and vice versa. Steve is an idiot for caring about this shit that nobody is gonna use except specialized researchers and specific jobs and I (a retard on the internet) could figure this out in a 2 fucking minutes.

For those who don't care to read either of the above. You will get far more value out of your life jerking it to porn (or Linus's wife (I know there's at least one of you in the thread that does it)) than caring about kelvin.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Also the LTT is a terrible screwdriver for people who actually do work I guess if your building computers but as someone who knows how to do electrical and is moving back into that field it's not a good screwdriver.
Then again I did pick it up at a yard sale

 

[Susanna]

Also the LTT is a terrible screwdriver for people who actually do work I guess if your building computers but as someone who knows how to do electrical and is moving back into that field it's not a good screwdriver.
Then again I did pick it up at a yard sale

It’s not the type of screwdriver you want to build a computer with either. It’s needlessly bulky (no screw in a computer needs to be tightened hard enough to justify a thick handle) and you can’t ergonomically use the ratchet in the narrow spaces of a computer case anyway. What you actually want are precision screwdrivers.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

It’s not the type of screwdriver you want to build a computer with either. It’s needlessly bulky (no screw in a computer needs to be tightened hard enough to justify a thick handle) and you can’t ergonomically use the ratchet in the narrow spaces of a computer case anyway. What you actually want are precision screwdrivers.

Yeah I got a set of those that were like 350 for my friend who's a computer tech for Christmas the nice

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

What you actually want are precision screwdrivers.

Nah fuck those things. Easy to lose and limited choice of bits unless you buy a shit load of them. I suggest the Wiha Xiaomi-branded set (which has been shilled relentlessly here anyway)

https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-Precision-Screwdriver-Magnetic-Electronics/dp/B07FZ5DSWC

Contains every bit you could reasonably use with such a small screwdriver. Magnetized tips and easy to keep it all together since the metal outer casing is just a sleeve that clicks in place. Takes up almost no room so I also take this when traveling in case I need to work on my laptop or whatever.

 

[mandatorylurk]

To talk about the thumbnails and constant revisions to video titles at 1:45:30, Linus acts like he has to do it because you won't watch a video otherwise. There was some gay video earlier in the week about renting an AirBnB to check if there were cameras using some electronics detector, and Linus was all pumped for it, but no one would watch it if it was called something by its real name. There was also talk about backlash to calling the $600 Mac Mini review the first time "a Mac for poor people" with tents in the background of the thumbnail, but Linus did that on purpose and signed off on the name.

In all, Linus is pissy about people not caring for clearly clickbait videos that feel like they're just there to fill out his sponsor slots.

and at 1:16:00 there is talk about health insurance for the company, people wondering why you have it if you're canadian, and then Linus in a level of complete stupidity trying to say yeah cancer's progress stages due to wait times in Canada but people don't go bankrupt or have their broken bones irreversibly change due to people scared of hospital costs (a very weird moment where Luke acknowledges the issues with Canada commie care but Linus can't).

then at 1:23:30 there's talk about future tariffs affecting graphics card prices and Linus again showing TDS, but thinking if Canada stops giving energy to Minnesota it's enough of a threat to scare Trump. A) the amount of energy Canada provides America is next to nothing and b) go right ahead, freeze all the people in a blue state, they're your people, faggot.

 

[GosuGopher]

Linus acts like he has to do it because you won't watch a video otherwise.

whenever you hear someone complaining about the "algorithm", replace the word with "audience" to find the real issue with their videos.

When he started, Linus was adamant that he'd “never do clickbait" didn't really need to elaborate beyond that. Then sometime in 2018/2019, Veritasium put out a video about how his form of "clickable" clickbait is ok and all the large youtubers (Linus included) began to parrot the line they: “only use clickable titles that are honest."
If you complained, they'd tell you to blame the YouTube algorithm, don't hate the players, hate the game. The only concession he gave is that he'd change titles to something normal after a couple weeks, and that they'd always be normal on Vessel/Floatplane.

A while later; around the same time that Linus became overly prescriptive with how he defines a review, an ad, a first impression, an unboxing, etc. LTT's position on video titles became: "as long as the title is technically true, it's fine."
And overall just became more antagonistic and miserly with anything related to criticism.

Now; very clearly, the party line is: “as long as the video itself is good then we need to clickbait it, because *you* only click on the fake titles.”
It's the viewers fault not his. And if you complain you're an anti-fan who needs to touch grass, you don't *have* to watch the video or buy the product after all. It's not for you.

 

[Kikkoman]

Has LTT paid for ad spots for their screwdrivers before? This is the first time I've seen one that wasn't just them giving a youtuber one for free.

 

[bort420]

clickbait is a prisoner's dilemma unfortunately.

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

Just to highlight the lolissue from the Thermaltake video, Steve is banging on about how the % calculation is "artificially" (in his mind) better because Thermaltake's Engineering/Marketing department is using Celsius to calculate a % increase in cooling.
Steve's autism in the video says they are are completely wrong because if you use Kelvin and run the same calculation, then the % increase is smaller. Hence the "it's not theory, it's math" from Steve. No shit. And it doesn't matter. If you continue to read this thread response in the video, some people point that out.

TechnologyConnections veers into the same retarded pedantic smugness at times. Seems like an easy trap to fall into when you write video essays, because nobody is really pushing back on the pedantry. Have any of these guys ever had a real job in technical writing?

Percentage changes are almost always a flawed metric. That being said, using K would be retarded because to get any halfway readable number you’d have to make the chip go sub-zero which is literally impossible. Maybe using the ambient air temperature would give a more meaningful number, but it doesn’t seem worth the hassle. Using Celsius is really the best approach.

 

[Kheapathic]

Have any of these guys ever had a real job in technical writing?

Just writing in general; know your audience. Even if your audience may be on the right side of the bell curve; only chemists, physicists, and fart-huffers would use Kelvin. Know the ambient air temperature of your test environment and post results. It's absolute zero, "everything stops," may as well try to calculate if the PC exists in the vacuum of space, because that's how likely your viewers will be gaming in the wilds of the arctics during the cold part of the year.

 

[Nabeshin]

Even if your audience may be on the right side of the bell curve; only chemists, physicists, and fart-huffers would use Kelvin.

This will be a bit of autism but as someone on the right area of the bell curve in computer. They're just using the fallacy of authority in their videos.

Like how Linus began this year to use MTs (mega-transfers) instead of MHz to show RAM speeds without giving context of why or explain what it means but if you take for example the Computer Architecture book from Hennessy and Patterson which is considered to one of the References books in the Computer Architecture area, they explain that while MT's is the proper term they will use MHz because it's easier to understand and use towards the entire book without giving a shit because it's a thing that doesn't matter a lot in the end.

Another example is their push for watercooling, except for looks, silent machines or overclocking, water-cooling isn't something worthy, the advantages for watercooling in heavy overclock is that you can use the way higher than air water heat capacity to transfer more heat from the processor/gpu to the water and use bigger radiators to exchange it's heat to the air which is good for silent machines and OC as you can use the fans in a lower speed and have the same/better temps than air cooling, but most people from LTT and GN doesn't OC or push their machines above the limit of air cooling, so they ended up just adding another point of failure on their machines.

They do that because they know that the people who can fight them won't care and even if they did their fanbase would call them pedantic and other shit, so in the end it will only serves to inflate their ego.

 

[wew lad]

Nah fuck those things. Easy to lose and limited choice of bits unless you buy a shit load of them. I suggest the Wiha Xiaomi-branded set (which has been shilled relentlessly here anyway)

https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-Precision-Screwdriver-Magnetic-Electronics/dp/B07FZ5DSWC

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Contains every bit you could reasonably use with such a small screwdriver. Magnetized tips and easy to keep it all together since the metal outer casing is just a sleeve that clicks in place. Takes up almost no room so I also take this when traveling in case I need to work on my laptop or whatever.

I was one of the ones shilling this, and it's still my go-to travel screwdriver to keep in a backpack. I did buy one of the iFixit Mako kits a while back because i needed something with a tri-point bit on short notice, and those are also nice if you don't care about how compact the case is. The iFixit kits also come with a flex extension, which makes a lot more sense for an electronics screwdriver than a fucking ratchet mechanism.

 

[Boiling Oil]

What's all this talk about travel screwdrivers? I didn't know traveling computer repairman was a thing. Are you guys really opening up your laptops on the road? Why?

Just writing in general; know your audience.

Good point. Most tech audiences would have a grade-school science education to vaguely recall learning about SI units but not remember enough to realize that Steve & Co.'s reasoning for using it is retarded. "Muh Kelvins" is the equivalent of a quirky factoid that two spergs in a computer store can get themselves into a huff over and claim they're victims of false advertisement.