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Be damned if you do, be damned if you don't.
I was one of the people criticizing LMG heavily, I even unsubbed way before GN made that video due to the reasons cited in there.
 
What the hell did you actually want?
Them preparing the answers and reading off a teleprompt is not bad, quite on the contrary, considering the size of the company and the passionate response from the community on Steve's video doing that was the correct move.
A moronic step would be answering on the fly without any preparation and forethought, causing a trainwreck of the level of what Linus's first response was in this very topic.

It's proper for a media outlet to reach out to the subject of a piece before publication. This is why you hear "We reached out to so-and-so for comment" so often in news pieces.
 
It's a journalistic best practice. It's not a requirement, and sometimes either isn't possible or isn't a good idea, but given that the GN piece was not time sensitive, and LMG couldn't have done anything to prevent the story from going live, I don't see why GN shouldn't reach out for comment.
 
I still feel the piece is justified, but reaching out for comment would have been a good move, as LMG can now claim to have been treated unfairly. Which is why you should follow such best practices whenever possible.

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

To all who seem to think personal opinion/belief allows them to deadname or misgender: Identity is a personal thing.  Refusing to respect identity is cruel.  If some dude went by Sam, and now goes by Jake because he didin't like being called Sam, your a jerk if you keep intentionally calling him Sam.  If someone was Jewish, then converted to Christian, you would be a jerk for continuing to call them a Jew.  Whether you agree with the reason or not, you don't deadname, misgender, or otherwise misrepresent them.  Your faith has nothing to do with someone else's personal identity, and refusing that identity is refusing to acknowledge their independence. You're telling them they have no right to their identity, and that you don't respect them as an individual.  Plain and simple.  Please, please just show the kindness of respecting people's independence as people. 

For those who didn't know and are being awesome by correcting themselves or otherwise being open to understanding, you're awesome, and are super appreciated!  Keep being excellent to each other!

I hope you understand that "we no longer support them" doesn't mean throwing out all the perfectly functional products you already own & just cause Linus doesn't want to buy something doesn't really stop his wife from doing it 😂
 
edit: rewatched it, also seems they avoid mentioning their name so as to not give them any recognition beyond being a charger & they haven't had them as a sponsor since they dropped them.

the only real takeaway from this video: don't buy trash from NZXT.
 
everything else is preference or your specific use case 

No, they did not, they accept it immediately. However, there was another option on the table so I decided to purchase the PC regardless of the damages and take a gamble on sending it over to LTT! 😄

Thank you very much for this great video and adventure! Cheers to Jake for reaching out and making it happen!
 
As for people discussing sending it back to sharkgaming - I did reach out to Sharkgaming the coming Monday (Post was made friday night, CS closed until monday morning) and they offered me money back or a new identical PC. I took me 1 week to decide what to do as I thought the offer from LTT was a scam at first. But then I decided to accept it, and what more than an upgraded PC I got a great story to tell my friends and others. I don't think sending it back to Sharkgaming would have been the smarter move here, however I did talk to them and tell them of my intentions of sending it over to LTT and the reasons why.
 
I do not blame sharkgaming for the PC being broken nor Postnord, shit happens I'm just glad it ended well! Cheers!

Excuse me what?

Was about to write something along theses lines, it is INCREDIBLY difficult to stay ahead of hackers, especially social engineering tactics. Like you mentioned earlier, a true pain to actually implement best practices and test employees on those best practices.

Lol @LinusTech should love this, given his "fun" experiences with his smart home:
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off (nbcnews.com)
 
TLDR: When building a new school, the school district went with a "smart" solution, with every single light controlled by a central computer and no physical light-switches. Eventually, the software got corrupted and all the lights defaulted to always on and because the vendor had changed ownership several times, no-one could find the original software to fix the system.
 
 

Because you're on Android.
Daddy Apple doesn't like a lot of things and the Floatplane team had to remove many things from the iOS app because of that (Luke said as much many times on the WAN show)
 
If you're on an iOS device, just turn the main website into an "app"
https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/turn-any-website-into-full-screen-app-your-iphone-0384426/

But it did actually represent it quite good. People think amd is better on thremals and power right now and it was a 50/50 split on both performance and price (now favoring amd more which is actually a bit supprising, thought intel would have the edge). Which is all good

The onboard audio for any decent board will likely be better than your old sound card + there's likely no drivers for anything modern. I'd personally use it in a retro build.

No,  B550A chipset was a OEM only chipset, basically a rebranded B450 chipset.
 
In motherboard names, B550M almost always refers to the fact the board is mATX which just means smaller vertical height, so fewer pci-e slots.  There's 3 - maybe 4 - slots possible on a mATX motherboard.
 
Some mATX motherboards also go with only 2 ram slots, otherwise there's no rule, no reason why some features would not be available in mATX form factor motherboards.

Do you know how YouTube's algorithm work?

Are you just speculating?

Why is your speculation more accurate than speculation from people whose business literally is making YouTube videos?

I only updated bios a few times thorugh all theese years.
once on my brothers z97m plus due to a visual bug which made bios unusable I updated to solve. 
once on my thinkpad t420 before upgrading to quad core....which locked it out of quadcore instead lol. Manage to flash a version which did work with quadcore....should have not bothered updating and just ran the default. 
 
4 times on my current b550m tuf gaming.
1st for 5000 support back at launch
2nd to fix vga issue when getting my 3070 10 month later
3rd to suport my 5800x3d a week ago
4th another week later because asus added support for curve optimizer for the 5800x3d in bios.
 
So all have been due to issues with current bios or to support new functionallity or hardware. 
So if you don't have an issue you don't really have to bother. 
Possibly some AMD board from before 2021 and before may be more stable with higher speed memory on newer bioses....but then again you would probably notice issues already.
 
Like my 3600mhz cl16 have ran perfectly since ryzen 5000 launch anyway so I never had to update until I ran into the relatively small VGA issues.

Tech on a tech forum, so future, much edge, so hip, wow.

it's not so much about being an enthousiast, it's that well-made tools cost a lot of money in general, and last a very long time so the "cost per usage" is very low.
 
so you find the product that suits your needs best (in the case of the LTT screwdriver, i assume that would be the EXTREMELY low back pressure for the ratchet, high back pressure is actually the reason why i never use the ratchet on my only ratcheting screwdriver) and use that one for the next 10 years.
 
yes, for the majority of people the "dollarstore" set of screwdrivers will be more than adequate, in the same way that a dacia sandero will be an adequate car for most people... but if you're in the car 8 hours a day for your job, it becomes a very easy choice to spend more for your own comfort.

yup, and Klein makes good tools.
 
Is it better than LTTs?  IDK.  Do you know?  

A screwdriver that takes 3 years to make probably tastes terrible -- the orange juice is definitely bad by now.
 
ba dum tss

That is REALLY bad. That would mean he provided +12v to ground plane of the motherboard. Best case scenario is motherboard and PSU is dead, worst, CPU, ram, motherboard, PSU is.

I am confused as to why @LinusTech would need to explain. Even if Frame work did not plan on fixing this issue, their cause is still great. Even Linus admits its not perfect but a good direction he would like the industry to go on to reduce waste.