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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.

I'm SO not buying the "Steve is being unethical" line here.

Well we know Linus is awake, see Floatplane: (maybe this should be pinned on the forum as well)
 
 

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You're about the 120th post saying that.

Someone should reup only those Esther videos, she was always so fun to watch.

Damn they got all the channels, LTT, Techquickie, TechLinked. Clearly a top level person got hacked.
 

Yes that would make sense. Or even just a simple doc with links to sites that explain these features. Like the HDD error popup, can't find anything about that online. Nice idea Linus, now HOW do I do it?

Yes that would make sense. Or even just a simple doc with links to sites that explain these features. Like the HDD error popup, can't find anything about that online. Nice idea Linus, now HOW do I do it?

I would also love to know how to configure the task to get this popup !

Can someone tell me which event I need to find in task scheduler to get an alert when a disk is failing? (like at 3:00 in the video)?

That regedit tweak did fix it, thanks! This is a lot better than anyviewer! Now, let's just see if I get any angry emails from it 😉 thanks for all your help!!!

If you ever think "am I the only one who ......"
The answer will always be no, you're not the only one.

I'm currently in the process of building a DIY nas (ITX pc with win10 pro).
I don't plan on using any partitions, it'll be a large drive with 3 folders: backups / media / dads backup. It will also run some windows programs, so it really will be a windows pc, the parts are already mostly here.
Then, I want to be able to access that nas pc from any different pc on my network, but I only want to be able to open the first 2 folders, without a password.
My dad however, who lives somewhere else, gets the third folder which he will access via internet, and cannot open my folders.
I, in turn, cannot open my dads folder.
I know we should just trust each other, but there are reasons for this.
Is this possible somehow? It is important that everything on my local network can open my 2 folders. It is also necessary that this pc has no password protected user account (because it will run without a monitor and keyboard).
I looked into bitlocker (cannot do folders), windows's "encrypt contents so secure data" (not possible without a locked user account) and winrar (not usable for media streaming/backing up into those folders with third party software.
 
Is there any way for me to lock folders on ip-base? So that my father can open his folder because he has the right ip, and everything on my network can open the folders because they're local?
 
Thank you!!

Just found this, installed it, works perfectly!

Wonder why the official crew can't / won't just port it themselves, wouldn't it be doable to port the android app?
 
Anyway, thanks for your work!
 
Edit: aaaaand I broke it. I tried clicking 360p to see the difference, then went to back to clicking 1080p, but it didn't change back, stayed at 360p every time.
So I closed the app and re-opened it.
Now every video I click it opens a black screen with the title, says livestream not found, and leaves the video.
 
Ah well, I had a fun 10 minutes!
 
Edit2: clearing cache didn't fix it, but clearing all data did (and had to re login). I guess I won't touch those 360p and livestream buttons anymore because they're both causing trouble.

Budget (including currency): $1500USD before tax 
Country: USA
Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Should work for gaming and Creative cloud
Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 
I am building my first PC with a budget of $1500USD and need some help with getting the price down, i'm not sure which part I need to downgrade but I have attached my list for your reference :) I am also not 100% sure if everything is compatible so if you have have any suggestions for what I could change to make this build worth my money that would be awesome!
 
Thanks!
 
C2Z2

Faster RAM totally doesn't help, right?
 
I can give you many more examples, if you want.

Lol guys it works a lot better if you read the whole question and not just the title
 
So slot 1 does not have to be filled?

You're wrong. He is the god of computers:

Try this program, i used it a couple weeks ago because my rig was taking forever booting up, found drivers for old headphones, mice and a couple programs which kept trying to load up despite being uninstalled, was causing issues with my onboard sound.

Lol you should see my bookmarks sidebar. I always have the sidebar full with bookmarks I use, and have just 1 folder with "old bookmarks" which contains about 500
 
Didn't even find the settings at first, it all works now, awesome, thanks!

You got enough shortcuts pinned to the URL bar?
But I have downloaded CTR in nightly, and in options -> main -> General UI, you have the option to put the star button back in the URL bar and to combine Stop&reload buttons. You don't even need the separate star button addon.
 
And I will be online all day.

Yeah, because I did that too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/starbuttoninurlbar/
It looks slightly different, but it's not really a big deal, and it seems to work.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/?src=ss apparently allows it.
Disclaimer: It was linked by the developer of another addon in response to a comment.

By now I have actually returned the card to the store for warranty, and they couldn't replace it, so I even got my money back. I switched to on board spidf, and that works for now. Just no surround gaming but okay.