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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Qyygle in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Honestly, having watched both channels for a long time, I hope that Linus will take Steve's criticism at face value and learn from what he's saying here. Because, he's hitting the nail pretty dang center.
     
    LTT's informative value for me has dropped a lot over the years. They truly have become the Top Gear of tech channels, where you don't watch for actual reviews, you watch for fun, while GN, HardwareUnboxed, and several others have taken the technical lead. 
     
    Another comment noted that it seems Linus has built a team which does unfortunately tend toward this attitude. LTT has other voices, like Luke and Ivonne who have more neutural takes, but more and more, they seem to be taking a back seat to the actual content being put out. It's fine if you want the channel to represent these kinds of views, but having put a lot into LTT Labs over the past year, realize that you are moving into a space where that neutral tone is not only expected, but also necessary. If the point of Labs is to provide hard data, it has to be accurate.
     
    Some of this almost feels like it's Linus's past of not finishing his degree coming back to haunt him. He has a very intuitive feel for how to shoot videos, write scripts, get views, but the hard technical side has always eluded him. By comissioning the Labs and claiming all the things he hopes it will accomplish, this is exactly the kind of thing he's not equipped to manage. There's a lot to be said against the need of a college degree in the current world, but for science and engineering roles, you definately need some kind of background there, or at least show the willingness to put the time and energy aside to learn it. I just don't think Linus has that patience and it really holds him back sometimes in understanding why a lot of the hard techy audience cares for the accuracy and methdology that someone like GN has really focused on over the years.
    GN's not perfect either, but they're constantly showing they're taking steps to improve or learn more. 
     
    I haven't seen that level of commitment from Labs yet, and every video released with yet another mistake, or typo, or rushed mis-step only pushes it further from that level of respect LTT is striving for. In short, I think the tech audience in general accepts that everyone all make mistakes. But show us you're also willing to learn from them. You can blame GN for not giving you a heads up, sure, but that's not addressing his points, which are pretty clear and concise.
    Do better, and we all win here.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to mirai99 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    What do you mean there won't be a big WAN show segment? I mean it does not neet to be this week, but if there is not one this or next week... the allegations are serious, given how you have established the vision of Labs as a professional outlet, well-researched, and well documented. I have seen all of the screw-ups over the weeks and months, but watching GN's video made me look at the big picture.

    I am a floatplane subscriber, and i would REALLY expect a WAN segment discussing the video within the next 2 weeks...
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Wolta in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    The last time I posted on the LTT forums was around the time LTT had just released the first GTX 700 series reviews. I really enjoyed your content in those days.
     
    You’re correct that GN has not followed a journalistic etiquette by allowing the party of topic to respond prior to publication of a critical piece, if you weren’t contacted beforehand.
     
    However, it is impossibly difficult to gloss over the ethos behind this statement; the writer of these words has evidence against them, from a source with historically larger ethos through publication accuracy, that their own professional practices lead open holes for inaccuracies and fallacy in their own product. 
     
    If you found it disappointing that a piece was produced without adhering to etiquette not employed constantly but rather only intermittently by other outlets than The Associated Press, Ritzau, Reuters and the like, imagine the disappointment of us who’ve followed your channel and supported your team monetarily for well over a decade when dishonest practices are revealed - and the response is “Did we make mistakes? Yeah. But we’re humans.”
     
    Repeated offences in reporting accuracy or professionalism costs most of us mortals our jobs. Not just our internet popularity. They are corrected with stringent plans of improvement and outlining how honest mistakes occurred, and how they will be corrected, with future projects safeguarded against these mistakes.
     
    Linus’ reply is not a plan of action or clarification of future intent. It’s an excuse, alongside self-pointed questions, a classic method of deviation away from critical questions so overused it appears as a joke in a certain children’s movie.
     
    5 years ago, when Xiaomi made a MacBook Pro lookalike, LTT and a few other YouTube channels produced content covering it. I bought it off of those reviews’ presentation, implying they were analyses of a product and the analysis showed it was a good product. It turned out to be an insanely flawed laptop, with easily uncovered issues, many of which I since listed in the comments on those videos, if you spent anything more than 24 hours with it. And I got a response to it. 
     
    “Sorry, we just don’t have that amount of time to cover these products so you can’t expect us to do that much.”
     
    I asked back then, and I will ask now 5 years later once again: if covering these products to their exact specification, use case, and the results they deliver in those circumstances is too much work, then why in the world do you brand yourself a reviewer? Why do you talk big game about a “lab” (an insult to anyone having anything to do with actual laboratory science granted the “lab”s flawed results so far…) if you’re not willing to give products and testers the time they need in the first place? Brand yourself as what you are instead - and entertainment influencer - and leave genuine reviews to the organisations that take the time and due diligence to apply scientific standards and proper methodology - and scrutiny, an absolute requirement - to channels that take the extra time to produce this content. 
     
    A such source has called out this unacceptable contrast between branding and actual content delivered by LTT as a content source, and the response is now excuses and self-aimed questions and answers so cliché they’re jokes for kids. 
     
    This is ignoring blatant long term health issues of speeding your employees to a point where they cannot stand behind their own work. This is well documented and meta analyses on the topic are readily available with overwhelming evidence at the US National Library of Medicine’s website. I would know - I wrote my BA on the damned psych. category and designing interventions for it. It’s horrific long-term and killed one of my parents. Shame on you for this alone.
     
    In conclusion, I regret supporting this company entirely and whole heartedly. I’m sorry your day is awful. I hope your company seriously revises itself.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Alvin853 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Well LMG has really been going downhill lately, I hope they see this as a wakeup call to reconsider some of their strategies. I'm not a fan of drama, but I have noticed a lot of issues with LMG videos lately and was hoping sooner or later this topic gets brought up so LMG can do the right thing.
     
    Just look at this segment: 
    Mr Framework Investor and supposed Right to Repair advocate Linus thinks it's "pretty cool" that the mainboard and case are non-standard so once you want to replace either one of them, the other one is unusable and becomes e-waste. 

    Stuff like this happens way too often, and if LMG doesn't want to become a joke and untrustworthy they need to work on it.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to ZombieMan762 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    The callousness of the way Linus has handled the entire Billet Labs situation has been TERRIBLE.
     
    - Figured out they were using a card the GPU was not designed for
     
    - Decides to use wrong card anyways instead of stopping production
     
    - Gets data the block was not cooling the card correctly
     
    - Published the video trashing the block 
     
    - Gets obviously annoyed he was called out on the video
     
    - Says it's not worth a couple hundred dollars to retest it
     
    - Says none of prior ethical mistakes matter because it's not worth $800 anyways
     
    - Doesn't send a prototype part back to the company
     
    - Puts Billet Labs behind on development of their product
     
    - Uses it for an auction at LTX
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Lyre in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    We're not here to jump on LMG, we're here to help you make better content regardless of how it may seem, We wouldn't be here if its not something we cared about, on wan show this weekend you mentioned wanting to make some sort of fact checking squad, weather that is internal or external it is something that I think is good start. - A passionate LTT fan.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to bizzehdee in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    contacting linus personally, and resolving it quietly. is the exact opposite of "proper journalistic practices", what an absolute narcasistic arrogant buffoon
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to FadedSpark in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Specifically responding to this and while I don't expect a reply, this just is an excuse to me.
     
    How many times have you done something extreme just for the sake of doing it? Or because you wanted the absolute best price be damned?
     
    Whole home water cooling. Water chiller. Mineral oil PC etc etc.
     
    If it was the best waterblock money could buy, someone will buy it.
     
    You shouldn't have accepted the review if you weren't going to at least commit to doing it right. If you weren't comfortable with the expense of doing it right, then you should have declined.
     
    All you did was damage a fledgling companies image.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Josysclei in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    First of all, the whole Billet Labs stuff is completely absurd if true. I don't think they would intentionally sell something they couldn't, probably some massive fuck up in communications happened between the team responsible for sending it back and the people choosing the items to be auctioned, but it's still a huge issue and 100% LTT's responsibility to fix it and make sure something like this never ever happens again. 
     
    About the rushed content, it's something that a lot of times crosses the border of "fun jank" to being just frustrating. Every single project they do seems to be rushed, unfinished, untested and plagued with issues and oversights. And that could be their content "brand", seems like many people enjoy the jank. But if they now want to present themselves as serious testers, someone the community can look up for reliable data with Labs, that mindset needs to change, FAST. How the hell can I trust someone who has to correct themselves almost every video? And makes errors that a basic review of the content could catch? 
     
    You need to pump out 7 videos a week? Sure buddy, but maybe allow more time sensitive projects to be properly planned, executed and reviewed and throw some "here's 10 fun crap we found on aliexpress" videos to make up for it.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Chiyawa in What mobile games do you recommend that don't play like mobile games?   
    Hmm... Well, I play Mindustry. It's a game where you command a builder to build your mining machines, factories, power plants, liquid pumps and turrets, build a series of conveyor, piping and electrical pylon to feed your infrastructure and defend your base from ongoing enemy waves. There's Campaign as well as free play options, a map editor to create your own maps, and there's multi-player options.
     
    Oh, you can search for Mindustry and download for PC (I think from Itch.io, it's technically free), or you can get it from Steam (requires you to pay for the game, but saves you from manually updating if they release new builds).
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Kitsan in 5800X3D direct die   
    Solder was different to intel, I applied Liquid Metal twice and it was very slow to break it down. So I used a razor in the end.
     
    There is no scoring to the surface, it’s the remaining solder.
     
    I’m a bit too tired to put it in my system tonight, but hopefully will have an update tomorrow.

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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Kitsan in 5800X3D direct die   
    Delidding was very easy, literally only took 5 mins. 
     
    Removing the solder residue and then I’ll see if my AIO will fit.



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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from Alex_Bluff in Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked   
    I feel LTT was a shit target for the crypto scam, as the large majority of subs are way too tech savvy to fall for that crap
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from Miicat_47 in Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked   
    I feel LTT was a shit target for the crypto scam, as the large majority of subs are way too tech savvy to fall for that crap
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from riba2233 in Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked   
    I feel LTT was a shit target for the crypto scam, as the large majority of subs are way too tech savvy to fall for that crap
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from Euphoria in Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked   
    I feel LTT was a shit target for the crypto scam, as the large majority of subs are way too tech savvy to fall for that crap
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from C0MPI in Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked   
    I feel LTT was a shit target for the crypto scam, as the large majority of subs are way too tech savvy to fall for that crap
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from Phrozenbit in Linus Tech Tips, Tech Quickie, Tech Linked channels hacked   
    I feel LTT was a shit target for the crypto scam, as the large majority of subs are way too tech savvy to fall for that crap
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to James in LTT has a New Home...   
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from teddygala in SlickWraps data breach   
    So, I just received this email with my valid (altough old) home address.
     
    This is the link with the whole story.
     
    https://medium.com/@lynx0x00/i-hacked-slickwraps-this-is-how-8b0806358fbb (link was taken down, here's a copy http://archive.is/yEIJT ) 
     
    It actually seems pretty bad.

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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to GoodBytes in Using Bitlocker to prevent data leaks on case of ransomware?   
    Keep in mind that ransomware will encrypt all data, it doesn't care if it can read it or not. Encrypted files will be encrypted with its own algo.
     
    The solution to ransomware is to have hourly  backups (with the possibility to go back in time on data) on an external server that would be protected against ransomware (can do it's backup but can have files deleted). Mix with daily offline backups. So if a ransomware, at worst, will only make you loose a day of work if the hourly backups failed to be secured properly.
     
    Your next problem is data to that has been stolen. There is not much you can do other than working with a security expert company, to give you the best advice for your company serup and identify your current issues with the resources you have. We are not security experts here.
     
    For a home setup, I suggest to have offline backups, and use Windows File History enabled, where the data us stored on a NAS. The idea is that if your data gets encrypted, you can roll back. If your NAS fails and lost your data, you have your offline backups.
     
    You can also enable Windows Defender Personal folder protection feature, to black all apps accessing your personal files, and only allow those you want to be able to access those folders, and / or you can set your system (options in Settings panel) to lock itself to start blocking non Store apps from running that nor already installed. Meaning everything you installed now, will run fine, but all future apps needs to be from the Store (or until you switch back the option to allow all apps from anywhere).
     
    Again I am not a security expert, no one here is, so follow the advice at your own risk.
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    RafaelSoaresP got a reaction from Seyrren in Need advice to permanently disable things like win10 updates, defender and apps   
    Try w10privacy
    It's amazingly powerful and simple to use.
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Eigenvektor in Using Bitlocker to prevent data leaks on case of ransomware?   
    I suspect the most secure way would be to physically isolate the data and only attach it when needed. Or keep it on another system that requires (different) credentials to access it.
     
    Then maybe some form of "manual" encrypt where you have to explicitly decrypt the file before use and then encrypt it again when it was modified. But both of these are not very convenient. Not sure how you'd automate that as much as possible while still keeping it secure. Not really a security expert.
     
    Your best bet would be asking in a place like this: https://security.stackexchange.com/
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    RafaelSoaresP reacted to Eigenvektor in Using Bitlocker to prevent data leaks on case of ransomware?   
    With full disk encryption, data is encrypted at rest. Meaning if I go into your server rack and take one of those disks, I won't be able to read it after plugging it into my own PC.
     
    While the server is running, Windows and/or programs can obviously read the file's contents, encryption/decryption is transparent. So malware running on the server can read anything it has access to.
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