Sir_Loin_Ofsteak

Its sexual harassment. Full stop.

Very clear that this has nothing to do with what happened between LMG and Billet for you and is just an excuse to vent your issues with women. Take that shit somewhere else. 

Cut the crap. It isn't cute. If she had posted this before the current happenings, she'd have been attacked by everyone and you know it. She finally felt safe to say something now that the public has a better understanding of how terrible this company actually is.

Chronically online people: why don't women come forward with this stuff sooner? why did she wait?!?
 
Those same people: she's lying! she wants a payout! isn't the timing suspicious?!
 
Thank everything that the overwhelming majority believe Madison, and I hope this marks the end for a vile company.

Beyond disappointing to see the contrast in community reaction between the GN/Billet thread and here.
 
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Young female LTT employee opens up about being bullied, harassed, and possibly assaulted during her time at the company? Community proceeds to debate the timing, stroke their chins over what "inappropriately grabbed" means, belittles the work the employee did, and attack her professionalism and mental health. And of course the mouth-breathers are in here too adding some unveiled misogyny to the mix.
 
I haven't been on these forums much or at all the past few months because I was growing disenchanted with LTT's content and I was focused on other hobbies besides PC stuff. This thread makes me not want to be a part of this community at all. Although I'm not sure I would want to have to acknowledge "Yes, I'm an active member of the LTT forums, yes that Linus" after this week anyway. 

Wow parts of this community is toxic...
 
1. HR exists to protect the company and not the employees. Unions protect employees, HR finds ways to make situations go away with as little damage to the company as possible. I have seen this play out on so many occasions. This is why you have so many sexual harassment, bulling, wrongful termination and payment issues in companies, because HR tried to minimise damage and remove / screw the employee. In some American states HR is so good at protecting the company they get away with child labour, killing employees and stealing from employees.
 
2. Victims of harassment and bullying hardly ever make formal complaints, the same as victims of rape do not report it. They are either afraid of repercussions or do not want to keep reliving the situation. If they are still employed at the company then they are also afraid about loss of income, which leads to loss of accommodation / savings etc...
 
3. As has been shown with other investigations, it is known that more victims come forward once a company / person is being held accountable in public for their actions. People suggest this is handled behind closed doors where on one side you have well paid and resourced lawyers and on the other a disgruntled employee, a perfect balance of power there...
 
4. Going to court costs a lot of time and money and can be very damaging to someone already suffering from mental issues caused by their employment. People commit suicide all the time over issues like this.
 
5. For people asking for her to provide 'receipts' I don't see you asking for LTT to do the same. As far as the cooler issue goes, the timeline and compensation agreement is disputed by Billet who say they were contacted after the GN video went live and not as Linus suggested. Linus also suggested GN said they sold the hardware where as in the GN video they do say it was auctioned and provide a photo of the auction. From this alone LTT cannot be trusted, they are playing their viewers for fools as we can easily find evidence to the contrary.
 
Now no one is asking you to believe 100% what Madison is saying, you are instead being asked to believe it might have happened. That is all, no one needs to harass her or start calling her names or sending her threats.
 
But what you can do is look at the childish response that Linus did to an accusation that could be very damaging to his company and then extrapolate that to how he might handle accusations from an employee of his company about behaviour of himself or his friends. What I see was someone being extremely unprofessional and letting their emotions get in the way, which in the latest LTT vid is kinda alluded to. Behind closed doors I expect this attitude was worse if they didn't see anything wrong with the video they initially released on the subject / his posts & comments.

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

As someone who works for a large public corporation when we have an incident like this we either say absolutely nothing (always dangerous) or our corporate comms department carefully constructs a public statement vetted by our lawyers. We tend to go with the second option most of the time.

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

I can understand Linus' reaction to a point. He still sees LMG as a scrappy startup he's poured his blood into to make something of it, and feels an attack on the company is an attack on him personally; something that isn't helped by how much he's very much the face of the company still.
 
With that said, LMG is now valued at $100m and is not a scrappy startup anymore. Their opinions pull real weight with people, and they are looking to get into serious testing. You CANNOT become a serious testing house with the kind of mistakes being made, and changing company focus towards that at this point could be a disastrous move.
 
GN's main criticism in the original video is not enough time is being spent; neither in the quality of review testing, nor in overall process management within the company to ensure a debacle like Billet Labs never happens. These are very fair criticisms.
 
If, as Linus claims, LTT is all about the consumer, then be about us. Slow down, take your time and yeah, spend the extra $500 to do it right. If what LTT is actually about is its bottom line, that's a different direction; stay doing entertainment, which you guys are great at. 
 
I find all of this extremely disappointing. I really hope the organisation grows in the end and faces up to its failures, and Linus with it. That response to valid concerns was not good...

The Coolermaster boards are good. At their price point you probably won't find another board with RGB and genuine Cherries.

The Coolermaster boards are good. At their price point you probably won't find another board with RGB and genuine Cherries.

The Coolermaster boards are good. At their price point you probably won't find another board with RGB and genuine Cherries.

Should also be noted though that if you're used to membrane keyboards, all mechanical keyboards will feel loud by comparison. 
 
Nothing beats membrane for quietness...

"I'll put off patching a critical security flaw in the design of my CPU because I don't want to lose performance on my SSD."
 
I dunno about any of you, but I patched as soon as I saw MS had the package up. Yes, I'll admit things feel slightly more sluggish on my SSD than they used to. But I'd rather do that, than risk exposing a critical security flaw in the design of my CPU to an internet-connected machine. Perhaps with time this will be mitigated, but stalling on updating on something this big is just idiotic.

Microsoft releases a statement that the security issues affects AMD and ARM CPUs as well, this is confirmed by Intel as well:
 
Microsoft says:
 
Intel statement:
 
Microsoft says that Windows 10 users will start getting the update at 5pm EST time (so, out now).
And Windows 7 and 8 users will get it on the next Tuesday Patch.
 
Sources from the Verge says that Skylake architecture based CPUs won't have much of an impact on performance, but older CPUs can have more visible one.
 
Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846784/microsoft-processor-bug-windows-10-fix
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846540/intel-processor-security-flaw-bug-response
 
Update
As you noticed, ARM CPUs are affected as well, and Google confirmed that Android and ChromeOS are affected by this, and that they working on a fix as well (although no info on release time). Also, ARM confirmed that iPhones and iPad ( Cortex-A series) are affected as well.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16846840/intel-arm-processor-flaw-chipocalypse-windows-macos-linux
 

@Dutch-stoner Thanks for the input; the 980Ti killed itself while I was playing The Witcher 3; I was in-game and heard a loud bang and the smell of burning plastic, and that was sort of that. I hadn't fiddled with it; it came with a factory overclock (it was an Inno3D, so not a top drawer vendor but they've been in the market a pretty long time and I didn't expect that!).
 
For the BIOS update I downloaded it off their site then launched the update function from a USB drive. It's not running the latest version because I heard *some* Skylake chips don't like the Kabylake BIOS updates, so it's running the penultimate Skylake one (for some reason the latest Skylake BIOS available gave me a checksum error despite me redownloading and trying again so I backed out of the update). I didn't download the update from the BIOS utility, if that's what you meant...
 
@kb5zue - I haven't actually checked the battery, although I'd imagine that if it were that the clock would stop working (before it connects to the internet and syncs) wouldn't it? I haven't changed it, but it's only a couple of years old. I haven't actually tried clearing CMOS, so that's a good idea, I'll give that a go. :-)

Don't worry guys, it can't be that bad. It's not like the Intel CEO sold all his shares in the weeks leading up to the reveal or anyth...wait. Shit...
 
https://www.americanbankingnews.com/2017/12/01/intel-corporation-intc-ceo-brian-m-krzanich-sells-889878-shares.html

Still rocking this beauty 5 years, 10 weeks and 2 days later

 
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S

Attention viewers: water is wet.
Lesson learned: don't pair a mediocre budget PSU with a very power hungry CPU and expect it to handle it well. The CX500 isn't a bad power supply on its own, it just wasn't made to tackle stuff like this.