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No. And for good reasons - it's a legal minefield. Especially since they are the former employer, there are data protection laws and all kinds of other shit you need a lawyer to even think of addressing. In any case, if they ever do - it is going to be filtered through lawyers.

It's not how the law works in many places. LMG owns the platform, it's their duty to keep it clean. And you don't want people attacking Madison and writing all kinds of nasty shit about her on the platform you own, especially since she is a former employee. You have to remember that their worker/employer relationship is covered under Canada laws and those differ from USA laws on worker rights significantly in favour of the employees.

In cases like this, the government will help you a lot, it might not even cost you a single penny and a good lawyer will take a case like this based on winning it and getting their bill paid by the defendant.

Considering the content of the tweets, I would lock down the ability to discuss this on the resources I own for legal reasons. Considering the stuff people already wrote there, it can be used as an argument that LMG is giving people a platform to further harass Madison.

Look, it always can be better. But considering how many mistakes have been made over the recent months, I also not giving LMG any space for a manoeuvre. I've wrote this about a year ago and I will re-iterate it right now: Linus is overworked, in over his head and takes on too much work to the point he lost sight of the errors and doubles down instead of pulling back and re-evaluating. Frankly, it's a common mistake. This is fixed by 2 things: Dropping everything and focusing only on fixing the problems - forget all the plans he has, he has no plans as of this moment for next 1-2 weeks. Two - after the situation is stabilized - he needs to take a 2-3 week vacation. And when I mean vacation, he should not be allowed to be anywhere near the office and the only person allowed to call him in an emergency is the CEO of the LMG. He is burning a multi-dimentional candle in 6 dimensions right now. This whole thing reminded me of his Stargate Atlantis scene: The only difference is Linus is not gonna blow up a solar system and things are not as dire. Yet.

Journalism is not about being nice, nor does it require " talking it out" when all the info is already publicly known and you are stating the facts. LMG does not get preferential treatment just because they are in the same space - they got treated like any other corp would be and at their size it's the way to go. They have the resources to not do mistakes of that level and they need to get their shit together as a company. Thing everyone ignores is that everything is "Linus fault" - I would stake a 100$ that Linus probably had no fucking clue about the whole Billet Labs situation - the management and employees downstream probably have fucked it up and all he can do is deal with the consequences of it now. His fault lies with the organisational problems as in processes. And while it's clear they have been trying to address it, it clearly is not enough and Linus as the owner of the company needs to get through his head that he needs to "drop everything and fix the damn problems NOW" as a matter of emergency and say "NO" to literally everything but the most critical things that he is relied upon. His default response to everyone but the "you need to host this video" and "this is related to us fixing our org issues" should be "BEGONE WENCH, GO ASK THE CEO/MANAGER". And he should cancel his participation in any videos that require from him a sizeable chunk on time for a few weeks too, keeping only the essential stuff where it cannot be done without him.

@LinusTech You know what this whole situation reminds me of the spirit of? The events that lead to creation of the dick shaped logo of the PC building company Let me explain. First- the response was way too fast. It's not thought through and it clearly was done in a rush. Regardless of what you think about what GN did here, the simple fact is that their video is factual, and you really should have gone: "We saw it, we want to take out time and figure out the details and our response, please give us a few days". Second - you just committed a cardinal sin of "I have shit to do, I don't have time to deal with this". This is how your whole response and handling comes off here. Three - the "dragon energy" - yup, that's the worst possible application of it here. This requires anything but that and frankly, as the owner who now has a CEO that runs day to day operations, you should have dropped all things but the most critical stuff and look into things as the owner properly and take your time to fix shit. I will be honest here - as a fellow, albeit far far smaller, but still a person who has been in business world for past decade and have had to manage a lot of people (most I had was an IT dept of 100+ people), I would be making some hard choices right about now. And not just fire someone (albeit that is subject to a review and if the fuckups are really piling up due to the specific person(s) - it might have to happen) - I would be pressing the big red "STOP FUCKING EVERYTHING" button and freeing up some people from projects to decrease the clearly unsustainable load that leads to way too many mistakes. I think what is happening right now is that due to the size of the company, the people that get hired are just not able to keep up and you have to really account for that. LMG can't run at the pace and speed as it was when it was 5-10-20 people any more. People also need to be given the KPI of "quality" as the primary goal and you seriously need to re-think the amount of time that's given to people to do their job. Also - KPI's are not meant to be fulfilled 100%. IF you are hitting your KPI's to 100% completion - it's a bad KPI. In the software development world our KPIs are considered "done" if we hit 70% target, anything over it is a bonus and means everyone did an extraordinary job. It also should not be expected that next round of KPI's should be upped - you only up them IF the teams consistently outperform on a significant stretch of time (like a few months at least) to account for the fact that if you up them immediately, the result will be burnout and things will tank badly. My current feel is that the team is undersized or disorganised for the amount of work you want it to do and you are pushing them too hard. At it will make things only worse, do I really need to spell that out? I think I do, because for the past 2 years of watching every WAN show I get a distinct feeling that this is the mistake being made and there are literal company corpses by the hundreds that this mistake has killed in the software industry. The people resource management. And in general all the errors GN pointed out I have noticed them all myself as they popped up and I will say this: The amount of corrections in the videos has got to a point where it started to really annoy me personally. I now have to second-guess everything LMG is posting with the reviews of anything. Want to also know something? At this point when I hear "labs spent time with the product" automatically puts me into the "doubt everything" mode as in with the current track record your reviews where the hard numbers are present are not to be trusted. At all. As far as I'm concerned until this problem is solved, you should not even post any review videos - just do other content. I love the jank, but lately, the jank has been too much. The home improvement videos as of late have been more like "channel superfun" and less "Linus Tech Tips" main channel and that is a really bad thing. My 0.02$ rambling cents that nobody will read At least I got it off my chest.

Everyone in this thread ignores the fact that Musk's twitter account is the most followed account on the platform by a wide margin. Period. When you change the algo's, if you tweak the to account for accounts size as a factor, it's not unreasonable that algo will start to push that account harder. But the same effect has been reported for a lot of other big accounts too. A lot of people have reported that their tweet engagement skyrocketed. Musk's visibility is just byproduct of tweaking the algo that was set to de-prioritize big account outreach in conjunction with other stuff that was shown in Twitter files that affected many many accounts for political shenanigans of the previous management. Think about it - if all they do now is tweak the algorithm to be less convoluted and deliver the more popular content to the people, what if we are seeing what the true state of Twitter should have been all along? Gotta say that my Twitter experience has been getting better and better as updates are coming in and they tweak the system.

Here's an actual device that was shown at CES - PC World got a whole interview and lemme tell ya - this thing is CRAZY and if their ambitions work out, it will change the laptops quite soon and PC cooling in mid term A LOT.

Something that nobody seems to remember/know is that the bigger issue with that 30% cut is the fact that at least Apple (not sure about Google) in the contract demands that your price be the same across all platforms. Meaning either you raise your price 30% FOR EVERYONE regardless of what other platforms charge as their transaction fee or you eat 30% loss for the Apple's store compared to other ways of getting paid. And that applies for across your whole business. Have a desktop app and use Stripe to process those payments? By Apple's contract the price of that should be exactly the same as for the iOS store. It was discussed on one of the WAN shows. There is a chance my memory is playing tricks on me, since that WAN show was probably around a year ago or so. If memory serves me right, it was the reason why they could not just put in Apple pay in the iOS app and have prices be 30% higher if user chooses to pay via Apple pay instead of going to the website and paying there via a different payment provider.

And to be frank - all the money advice you can listen to is still just that - advice. Sooner or later you will make decisions you will regret regardless of how good the advice was just because that advice didn't fit your specific situation. Just make sure you don't dump all your money and end up in a situation where you have nothing left and no safety net to fall back on (considering y'r 14, I would guess parents do take care of you). It's also not a bad idea to talk to parents about it and explain your reasoning and ask them for advice (and I mean advice, not them controlling what you do with the money since it's yours if you earned it yourself).

May I offer a bit of a side view? The OP is 14. As far as I know, the earliest age to drive in US I ever heard was 16? (maybe there is some small corner where it's lower). That means in worst case scenario it's 2 years of wait still. 2 things will happen: Inflation is going to eat into that 2k and that is as sure as taxes are. In 2 years you probably could earn quite a bit more, both due to legal restrictions not applying as heavy due to age and because you will have more experience, meaning you could find a better paying job. A decent PC, while is not necessary, sure does help with the ability to do more things on it that an old PC might make it painful to a point where you would go "screw that". So, you have to be honest with yourself and think what will the purpose for that PC? Are you going not only game on it, but also try doing some things that might lead to a future career? If the answer is yes, well, I don't see a problem. Computer skills these days are a huge gateway to boosting your earning potential significantly if you hit the right combo for the industry you want to be in. Also, trying things out early and realising it's not for you is also very valuable.

Ah, makes sense. And yeah, I know about the written site stuff. Been following LTT since Langley house days -definitely started before the full house water cooling project Still waiting on take 2 on that one :trollface:

Nah, leave it to the community and the active moderation team. Just talk to them about some rules for the labs section you would like to enforce to keep it extra civil. Pay them for that work as independent contractors if need be. They have been at this for a long time and they can and will do a better job anyway - speaking as someone who owns a sizeable Discord and moderates a few 30k+ Discord's and is responsible for building out a moderation team at the moment. Delegating is a hard skill to learn, you get burned along the way, but such is life. At least in my opinion. You certainly had experience with this numerous times

Actually I'm not a self-proclaimed Pirate, I'm in fact a very guilty one I even run the biggest torrent tracker in my region back in the day, so technically (the statute of limitation has long passed on those events) I'm one of the most guilty people in my country in it's history on the "privateering" front by proxy But it was a different time, a different economic reality of a post-ussr state. These days I run YT premium since the moment it was available in my region, pay for Netflix, have a few anime streaming service subscriptions, I pay for all the software I use that's not open sourced (I also migrated to Linux Mint about 2.5 years ago by wiping my Windows drive that had a licenced windows on it) and support creators I like directly be it floatplane, twitch or Patreon and occasional PayPal donation. And I still privateer quite a chunk of movies, TV series and anime for a simple reason - there is no legal way to get that content in my region. They just do not bother distributing it. They do not want my money? Well, it's their problem, not mine then