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I know you don't care how you sound or how people take things, but geez.

"We paid them off, so they're happy, nothing is gonna change."
 

Long time viewer of LTT and obviously here to chip in my 2 cents on the issue. What I'd hope is that someone is going to go through this thread and see what the community's concerns are seriously, and I'd like to think my opinion was valued like the others who watch LTT.

POINTS IN FAVOUR OF LTT.
1. I personally don't have an issue with the whole Trust Me Bro thing. LTT has a long standing reputation for stellar aftersales service. Hell, anyone having any issues could have just linked in that episode of WAN and it'd be hard for any customer service agent to argue against their own CEO saying approve the replacement.

2. The whole Framework dig is weird to me. Linus bought shares in a company, honestly and openly declares it, and reviews their products objectively. It's all above board and I don't think it shows bias. Do people have issues when Dragons in the TV Show Dragons' Den offer their contacts and marketing teams alongside their investments, because that is far more 'shady' than this? 

3. Minor mistakes, goofs etc have always been a trademark of LTT. Honestly I think sometimes they're considered a part of the 'flavour' of the channel and where they could be cut, they were considered minor hiccups which can have a comedy asterisk.

4. I don't think any of this was deliberately shady practice. By the looks of it the whole Billet thing appears to be an accident where they forgot to return it, then someone else discovered it and thought it'd be good for the auction, although this doesn't make it acceptable. Making mistakes in a review which might not be edited by someone who knows that a 5800X3D has so many mb of cache is obviously wrong isn't the end of the world. 

POINTS AGAINST LTT:
1. LTT runs on a 'we push, or we die' principle. I cannot deny that GN has absolutely nailed that LTT is pushing content as fast as it can and the production line can't stop. I have already noticed occasions where even the host AS THE SHOOT IS ROLLING is aware that things are wrong, but they press on regardless, and I end up thinking at the end of the video 'why didn't you guys just whole-ass this and get it right before putting it out?'

2. I do feel that LMG is too big to reliably say that the whole company is aligned with Linus' view, or has Linus' knowledge. You have editing teams who aren't all necessarily experts on graphics card architecture, logistics personnel who aren't necessarily aware of the chaos a misplaced prototype can cause, and generally speaking there's no way that Linus can go around every single area of the company and ensure everything is as it should be, like he was able to do when there were only 10, 20, 30 people. When you have a big company like that, you can get these instances where you have a customer service rep that turns down genuine returns, a staffer who forgets to send a sample back, someone who makes a dodgy comment about a competitor, and all these things are relatively minor but can blow up into massive drama bombs. To be clear, these things are inevitable with a company this big, but the answer to that is LMG is now a company. It's not a bunch of guys that are all super duper into computer and therefore what one person at that company sees or believes, even if it is the CEO/CVO, is not necessarily representative of that entire company, and to claim otherwise is somewhat false.

3. The car reviews. The GR Corolla review posted recently just made me puzzled. The talk about the drivetrain being fully locked in 50/50 mode and this is the most tailhappy mode was completely factually incorrect, the focus on the stereo and lack of armrest was just weird when 90% of the car's owners are not going to care about that, and don't get me started on the driving and lack of safety precautions. It reminds me of when the BBC tried to relaunch Top Gear with comedians who knew nothing about cars (Harris excepted, although he was forced to play a dumbed down character) and then wondered why nobody cared what they had to say and they kept crashing. Couple this with reviewing 600+bhp, 2 tonne super EVs and somewhat questionable driving talent, there is going to be an accident at some point, and for what? Producing what are frankly car reviews for people who don't care about cars.

4. The worry here is that we are heading towards the Labs era, where hardware reviews will be posted with tonnes of benchmarks from a huge range of games. But what use will that be if the data is full of bugs? If LTT is already struggling to produce ACCURATE data from the amount of benchmarks being run now, it's going to be orders of magnitudes worse when a full suite of automated tests gets going on the RTX 5090.

5. The response to this has already been to say that there is no response. It didn't work for Trust Me Bro, and it's not going to work here either. These are very real concerns that have been raised and they are not going to go away. If anything this thread is revealing that people are getting worn out with the LTT push of content for the sake of content, without actually being able to trust that content because it's just plain wrong half the time. What needs to happen is Terran puts Linus on mute, orders a sit down of the company and makes it clear that accuracy comes first and not profit, and tell the community that loudly and proudly. That ultimately has to happen if the community is going to trust LMG going forward, otherwise there's just this frankly damning video of LMG making mistakes and (inadvertently) screwing a startup, and crickets from the culprits. Linus coming on here and going 'yeah it's okay we're making a few mistakes but it's gonna be better' isn't good enough, and this is actually the point where Terran actually does the job Linus hired him to do - be Linus's boss.

6. Complaining that Steve didn't get in touch first... I get it, you considered Steve as your friend, and I do hope you put aside your differences and work together on this, but he's not exactly hidden the fact that LMG gets treated like a company now. Much like the companies in Secret Shopper get to find out how they did when the video goes up.

7. Y'all are reviewing cars but don't have proper sims in your benchmarks like DCS World? F1 22 is something at least but not really a sim. I mean that's kinda personal but still lol. Baffles me how you claim to be a serious tech/PC/gaming reviewer but then get something like a Moza R12, plug it in for 5 minutes without mounting anything properly, say haha wheel go brr and that's it.

Guys, you can be better, and at least you admit that. But you need to properly own it if people are going to believe you are seriously committed to improving from what is a quite bad place right now. At the moment I pretty much just watch the WAN show and that's mainly in the background so I can get a general gist of the news and the 'Luke take'.

I am seriously concerned that the genuine issues outlined here and repeated by genuine members of the LMG community as concerns that have been growing before the posting of this video will be passed off as a 'bandwagon torch mob' sent by GN and therefore are not to be taken seriously.

I know you don't care how you sound or how people take things, but geez.

"We paid them off, so they're happy, nothing is gonna change."
 

I know you don't care how you sound or how people take things, but geez.

"We paid them off, so they're happy, nothing is gonna change."
 

They are already there morally, and ethically... 🙂

contacting linus personally, and resolving it quietly. is the exact opposite of "proper journalistic practices", what an absolute narcasistic arrogant buffoon

I'm pretty sure the notch/bar area will have a local dimming zone right along the edge, so that it'll be perfectly black when not using that area, ala OLED displays.  It's going to be perfect blacks... let's see if they solved the weird text fuzziness problem.

I hope this doesn't mess up LMG's future.

Source: http://www.recode.net/2016/10/26/13428014/verizon-buying-vessel-jason-kilar

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

When I see "fuck vessel" all I see are entitled product-sponge trolls.  Just sounds like people are butt-hurt that they might lose their free stuff.  "OMG, they gonna take our internet welfare!"
 
Most of the stuff LMG makes is still the same.  They do a one-off project for Vessel that Vessel owns and ya'll lose your collective minds.
 
Let's be honest, you guys aren't going to unsubscribe... no one is producing content of this quality at this rate.  I love Paul and Kyle, but they are single man operations.  Dmitiri and Jay are tolerable, but their content selection has been very questionable at best.  Then there are the old farts (not you Josh) that try a little too hard.  Who else is left?

When I see "fuck vessel" all I see are entitled product-sponge trolls.  Just sounds like people are butt-hurt that they might lose their free stuff.  "OMG, they gonna take our internet welfare!"
 
Most of the stuff LMG makes is still the same.  They do a one-off project for Vessel that Vessel owns and ya'll lose your collective minds.
 
Let's be honest, you guys aren't going to unsubscribe... no one is producing content of this quality at this rate.  I love Paul and Kyle, but they are single man operations.  Dmitiri and Jay are tolerable, but their content selection has been very questionable at best.  Then there are the old farts (not you Josh) that try a little too hard.  Who else is left?

When I see "fuck vessel" all I see are entitled product-sponge trolls.  Just sounds like people are butt-hurt that they might lose their free stuff.  "OMG, they gonna take our internet welfare!"
 
Most of the stuff LMG makes is still the same.  They do a one-off project for Vessel that Vessel owns and ya'll lose your collective minds.
 
Let's be honest, you guys aren't going to unsubscribe... no one is producing content of this quality at this rate.  I love Paul and Kyle, but they are single man operations.  Dmitiri and Jay are tolerable, but their content selection has been very questionable at best.  Then there are the old farts (not you Josh) that try a little too hard.  Who else is left?

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

Could this have helped the Fallout 4 system?

These just arrived!  The sleeving are some samples that MainFrameCustoms generously sent over.  Looks like the Telios Orange is the closest match!

 

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

Here's my version.  I used some cardboard to get the right dimensions before cutting my aluminum sheet.  I went with plasti-dip, but I think I'll use something else next time.  I'm not a huge fan of the texture.  What do you guys think!?

Finished before Grommet

 
 
Grommet #1

 
 
Grommet #2

 
 
It's all about that Jace (Define S)

Here are the grommet pics.  Sorry, no progress pics as the hole saw and dremel to clean it up weren't very exciting anyway.
 
Grommet #1

 
Grommet #2

 
It's all about that Jace...

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For the New Layout of the Modding FAQ click Here.

Hey everyone so after some time I decided to finally create this FAQ for the modding section of the forums with some encouragement from Scheer on the Forums. This will basically go over some of the most common mods, contain reference materials for wiring, painting, components, and templates, with detailed instructions for all the mods.
 
Hope you all find it useful and enjoy! 
 
Table of Contents
General Wiring
Terminal Types
PSU Pinouts and Diagrams
Sleeving
Powering RGB LED's
Wiring up LED Strips
5V or 7V Molex Mod
Modding
Templates and Dimensions
Materials
Tools(Cutting)
Window Mod
PSU Shrouds
Vinyl Wrap and Decals 
Painting
General Painting
Plasti-Dip
Motherboard and RAM Painting
PSU Painting 
GPU Painting
 
Reviews/Information on Modding Supplies or Components
This is an informal section where different things regarding modding or reviews will be added periodically.
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/407754-modding-faq-common-mods/?p=5493607
Review of Addon Custom's LED's
EL Lighting
  If there is anything you want to see added, or contribute let me know by either posting below or messaging me I'm always open to new ideas.
 

General Wiring:
 
Terminal Types

This is a general overview of all the terminals one may encounter inside their PC when sleeving or making new cables.
 
 
PSU Pinouts and Diagrams

PSU pinouts are mainly used for custom sleeving and this includes the diagrams of all the connectors.
 
 
Sleeving

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Sleeving is a very popular option for customizing a system to match a certain color scheme or look. This will cover paracord and PET(plastic) sleeving and both heatshrink and heatshrinkless style.
 
 
Powering RGB LED's

RGB LED strips will require a controller to cycle through the different colors and modes and to power that requires a special adapter.
 
 
Wiring up LED Strips

For LED strips there are multiple ways of wiring them for operation, one using by soldering and another with LED crimp connections.
 
 
5V or 7V Molex Mod

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This is a method of manually undervolting fans that are directly power to the PSU to run quieter without low noise adapters.
 
 
 
Modding:
 
For a bunch of great modding guides and ideas, check out MNPCTech.com:
http://mnpctech.com/case-mod-tutorials.html
 
Templates & Dimensions

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This will include many templates and measurements of motherboards, fan cut-outs and a variety of other diagrams.
 
 
Materials

For creating new panels, mounting plates, covers, or even entire cases many different materials can be used and each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
 
 
Cutting Tools

Tool selection for projects depend on the job and situation where cut quality speed and precision are all important factors.
 
 
Window Mod

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This will cover the procedures of cutting a window in a case and the details when refinishing and installing in the new window material.
 
 
PSU Shrouds

To create your own PSU shroud it will require measuring your specific case for cuts and sizing since it can vary between cases, the shroud itself can be made with a variety of materials from metals to plastics.
    Vinyl Wrap and Decals

Vinyl wrap is a great way to change the look of cases and parts to color coordinate a system or add a new look with custom designed decals, they come in a variety of colors and finishes with some evening being mirror finished metals, to brushed aluminums.
 
 
 
Painting:
 
General Painting

This will go over the main topics and techniques mainly for spray painting plastic and metals including clear coat finishing, and touch on brush painting.
 
 
Plasti-Dip

The spray we all love to use, as of recently it’s probably the most common modding product used for re-coloring. In general this will go over the properties of plasti-dip and some of the good and bad.
 
 
Motherboard and RAM Painting

Re-coloring heatsinks or heat spreaders to color co-ordinate builds are common practice and can be done fairly easily with spray paints or coatings with little impact to heat dissipation.
 
 
PSU Painting

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Painting a PSU is possible but does require some understanding in wiring and comes with a certain risk when opening a PSU.
 
 
GPU Painting

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This is a fairly general guide on GPU painting and will focus on painting accents or shrouds where it will not have an impact on cooling performance. 
 

I dunno... show me a nice example of a cardboard case/mod?
Small update: decided to re-do the shroud, as the bends were not right and left a weird bulge. Also, painted the PCI slot covers black.

So here are some progress pictures... if anyone cares... I used the cardboard and drew out the pattern on some aluminum sheet I bought at Lowes.  Snipped it out, and filed down some of it.  Then I made the bend... it's crooked as the third picture clearly shows... anyways, I bought some Plasti-Dip Black and plan on finishing up this "version 1" soon.
 
edit: I think I'm going to make a hole on the top deck of the shroud and stick a grommet into it.  I think the PSU wires coming from the bottom would look better.
 

So here are some progress pictures... if anyone cares... I used the cardboard and drew out the pattern on some aluminum sheet I bought at Lowes.  Snipped it out, and filed down some of it.  Then I made the bend... it's crooked as the third picture clearly shows... anyways, I bought some Plasti-Dip Black and plan on finishing up this "version 1" soon.
 
edit: I think I'm going to make a hole on the top deck of the shroud and stick a grommet into it.  I think the PSU wires coming from the bottom would look better.