OJTheAviator

wait it has windows...

The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and put one in nearly everyone’s pocket. But the iPhone didn’t appear from nowhere - it owes much of its inspiration to the ill-fated Apple Newton.
 
 

loved this 

Hey y'all, I know that this thread has been kind of semi-active and up in the air for a while.
I've dealt with a range of feelings about myself for most of my life, and moving out really enabled me to look inwards and examine what I truly wanted.
 
While it's been a grueling road at times, I'm pleased to say that I'm starting HRT in a couple weeks and I couldn't be happier. This thread has always been wholesome and I love it for that.

Always kind of questioned myself and had uncomfortable experiences when it came to dating with the opposite gender. Identified as Bisexual / Pansexual for a large period of my life but after finally getting into a relationship with a person who identifies solely as male, and it strictly classified as a "MLM/Gay" relationship, I realised a lot of stuff about my past feelings and all that.
 
Nothing negative, luckily! Or at least I don't think so anyways...

Only thing that can be done, is to treat those toxic commenters with the indifference they fully deserve. Report and move on, and engage with those that are positive, and don't succumb to the negativity.
 
I appreciate Emily as she's always knowledgeable, and is well versed in communicating her knowledge to the audience, and appears to be a nice person in general. She is an incredible addition to the community, and gender does nothing to change this. I feel at some point that the community, and the real fans of LMG (not the thoughtless fanboys, but rather, referring to the ones that call out LMG's missteps, that want to see them continually step up their game) need to take some responsibility, and make clear that those engaging in unjustified hateful and threatening discourse, are neither welcomed in the community, nor are fans of LMG.
 
We want our content creators to do better, but also, it is our engagement, that can hopefully provide the inspiration for them to press on, and do so as well.

Sorry for the words: idiotic dumbassess.
Young is a fine person no matter what name is chosen for call

The super abrupt ending feels odd, but a solid response overall -- at least regarding the topics that can be talked about. Increasing mental health benefits was a nice touch, albeit for a sucky circumstance.
 
I'm curious to see how the potential fallout of people potentially being let go as that audit goes through is discussed, if at all (i.e., a forum post noting the reason for dismissal, but then you get into the whole blackballing people from all opportunities and opening them to harassment again thing) given the nature of LMG's medium, but hope however it's handled is tactful to everyone involved.
 
I'm also hoping to see Linus and Steve sort things out. Steve's video was definitely targeted but felt it came more out of frustration than malice, and Linus' response wasn't exactly...great. I hope y'all were able to mend things, even if it wasn't in the public eye.
 
I wish the team well, and looking forward to a healthier LMG!

Now this was a good video. For me at least I can safely say I've found closure and I'm also confident that they'll do justice to Madison and remove the culprits responsible for the toxic workplace environment. Considering just how low LTT's turnover rate is I think it's safe to say that it's a case of overwhelming majority of people being good and professional with just a few bad apples inbetween.

No. It’s company practice to always go FP first. Not understanding that is being a dick. 

Why not. Totally disagree. The people paying to support LMG directly should always get the video first. And having floatplane is supporting LMG with money month after month. The whole ordeal about FP is to get early access, be it in good times and bad. 

It's fine to give the most loyal people SOMETHING. 
 
This is literally a case of waiting. 
 
With that said...
 
LET ME IN

I think the video was very well handled. This was the level of professionalism we expected in the first one. I’m looking forward to seeing how these improvements evolve the content. Great job ya’ll. These changes sound good, but they also sound like a lot MORE work, which is a Catch 22. Take it slow. Get it right. Also, thank you for taking a stance against the mob. People have been out for blood and it hasn’t been healthy for anyone. It was especially concerning when some of the big name Twitter nuts started rushing to your defense. Now… how about you finish that AMG GPU for a month challenge? 

Just finished watching. For those curious, they did not directly mention Madison's situation (as expected, it isn't done yet), but they did bring up mental health and harassment in general, some of it in regard to harassment from the community.
 
Overall, a lot of good things. No joking around this time, which is nice. There seems to be a clear plan forwards. No more daily uploads, either. They have updated their policy to prioritize stopping the production of a video if there are any problems that arise with enough severity. Big fan of that.
 
The only thing really left is to see whether they actually stick to this, which I'm hopeful of.

It was an fyi, if you did something wrong you would already know... Moderators can still interact with the community on the same level.

Matters under legal precedent cannot be commented on in public during an official investigation as it can influence said investigation. And have legal ramifications. Any conjecture outside that is just conjecture. Opinions are still opinions, but vilifying based on conjecture and opinion is a fools errand. FYI.

There are genuine reasons for waiting until after the investigation to share the results. The biggest one being that what is known right now might not be true or representative of what actually happened.

what would you rather have? We have investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong? Works so well for fossil fuel companies. /s

The most highly-anticipated video in recent memory.

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.

It's been ages since I've been on the forum (much less this thread) but I stopped by the forum and wanted to pop by and just wish everyone a happy, safe, and overall lovely pride month! 🙂

It's been ages since I've been on the forum (much less this thread) but I stopped by the forum and wanted to pop by and just wish everyone a happy, safe, and overall lovely pride month! 🙂

Heya, it's been a while. In fact, long enough that the dead thread warning message has now graced us. 

I'm just coming to say that I completed my bloodwork required for HRT yesterday, tomorrow I'll be starting blockers and then in 4 weeks I'll start estrogen. Turns out I'm 32lbs underweight, so I actually need to put on more weight for estrogen to really do... well, just about anything. Honestly, that'll be the hardest part. I'm quite relieved to finally be starting this step of my journey. Though my life was severely complicated by my state's government shutting down trans care clinics days before my appointment several months ago, this event led me to a clinic in the beautiful city of St. Louis. Sure, had to get a hotel room + drive six hours, but St. Louis is a wonderful, accepting city with, for lack of better syntax, a chill vibe. Toured Washington University while I was there and it's currently top of my list for colleges to consider, so perhaps it's not all abd in the end. 

Boox Mira Pro review. It's a 25.3 inch e-ink display, probably the largest e-ink display ever made or at least the biggest consumer model. It works as a standard display. Would be interesting to review it and of course try to game on it.

Oh, also: I agree with LogicalDrm that just having LMG sign up for a single Mastodon account is pointless.
 
If LMG wanted to do Mastodon the plan would be completely different: run an LMG-owned Mastodon instance with closed signups; only LMG employees can post. That lets you know that @linus@mastodon.linustechtips.com (or @luke@mastodon.linustechtips.com or whatever) are the real deal and not impersonators.