DanKepke

I like to call LMG the TopGear of tech. If i want super in dept reviews on a chip, i go to GN. If i want to know about a laptops performance, jarrod got me covered. LMG just has this vibe of the original top gear trio going on adventures with silly cars and then racing around the newest hyper car in the next episode.
 
On a character level, while not perfect, Linus is a really ok dude from what i've seen. Same for luke. Luke and linus are one of the best duos i've ever seen and both seem like genuine humans, especially in the WAN show. Being a real human is fucking hard man. 
 

@LinusTech I've been watching forever. OG Floatplane sub when it was driven from the forum. I've managed multi-million dollar projects with many, many employees. I've never posted here prior. I can tell you, with absolutely certainty, that this is a crisis and that you are responding to it poorly. (with both the quoted post and all of the others prior)
 
Ideally, your crisis response would be:
Make an effort to understand the issue - both from the initial report and from the community resonance. Quickly acknowledge that you've seen the issue, understand how important that it is, and will be responding very soon. Take time to craft your message and select the broadest medium for response. Eliminate emotions. Get others to participate. Apologize. Take responsibility. Make it clear that your taking steps to swiftly improve. Detail these steps. Invest in ways to correct the situation and monitor their impact so that issues don't reoccur.   
So far, there appears to be a limited understanding of the root of the issue, and denial about the breadth and depth of the impact. To be clear:
There is an issue with factual accuracy in LMG videos. There is a situational consistency issue with LMG videos. There is a conflict of interest issue with LMG videos. There is a clear issue with how you all impacted the manufacturer of an LMG video subject product. Beyond that, the response has been taking issue with the messenger (Steve at GN), general statements about how improvement is needed, attempted assertation that the impact to the video subject has been addressed, clearly emotional reasoning, promises of a future Labs solutions, and ignoring/rejecting the most common, community suggested path to correcting the situation (slowing down, taking time to get it right). I don't think that it's a stretch to stay many people would find these infuriating at worst and a nothing-burger at best.
 
 
I'm asking -- begging -- please stop, analyze, bring in others, and respond again -- correctly this time. Apologize. Take responsibility. Make it clear that your taking steps to swiftly improve. Do the damn thing and follow up on it.
 
Less Travis Kalanick. Less Deepwater Horizon.
More of what the best version of Linus would do.

I'm not a hardcore follower of LTT, but i've been someone lurking around as a sub and viewer of many videos since the old noctua unboxing outdoors on some free parking spots. I watch the WAN show every week, rarely live but as podcast or yt vid on the side it's been my favourite and constant habit for years now. I love linus and luke and i do believe in "trust me bro".
 
But, for a few years now, i've stopped watching the wast majority of LTT videos. Many reasons have already been stated here, but i still want to add my 2cents because banana. I feel like LMG is in a loop of "video quantity to survive" and "staff to make quantity happen". While LMG now has 100+ people employed, i don't feel like the videos represent all man power invested.
 
Please don't ask for examples, but many videos had great ideas and would have been cool af, but let me down by what i can only describe as a feeling of low effort and impatience. The recent CNC desk PC for whatever youtuber was SICK AS FUCK and was executed superb. I don't need every video to be a 100K$ project, but you have to admit, a properly planed and executed project like that really is amazing to watch, especially if the project lead add good flavour explanation and details.
 
I like to point at the wooden desk PC video. (watch?v=iHYe1eHYrDw) The idea is cool, but... DIY perks is one guy and did it better, without rushing to make it to the wan show. I even found the filming done better. 
 
LMG has grown, but need to chill out, refocus and maybe take a cheap prosumer camera and do some pasionate projects with a american portion sized chunk of time for them.
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Regarding the correctness of data, i see GNs point. You got the staff, give them time. If you don't have it, take the L and create the time needed. Labs not 100% reliable? tripple check result with multiple people. I work in the beverage industry and everyone does a quality check on their part of the job and before we hit the "produce 100'000 bottles" button, we all come together to one designated area to double check each others work so we can deliver a flawless product.
 
Most of the crap i just wrote might be.. crap. Just finished my shift and listend to the GN video on my drive back home and wanted to add my fart to the musty room. I just want good "og TopGear of Tech" videos, where everyone is satisfied with their work, instead of hitting quotas. 😞
 
 

I'm not a hardcore follower of LTT, but i've been someone lurking around as a sub and viewer of many videos since the old noctua unboxing outdoors on some free parking spots. I watch the WAN show every week, rarely live but as podcast or yt vid on the side it's been my favourite and constant habit for years now. I love linus and luke and i do believe in "trust me bro".
 
But, for a few years now, i've stopped watching the wast majority of LTT videos. Many reasons have already been stated here, but i still want to add my 2cents because banana. I feel like LMG is in a loop of "video quantity to survive" and "staff to make quantity happen". While LMG now has 100+ people employed, i don't feel like the videos represent all man power invested.
 
Please don't ask for examples, but many videos had great ideas and would have been cool af, but let me down by what i can only describe as a feeling of low effort and impatience. The recent CNC desk PC for whatever youtuber was SICK AS FUCK and was executed superb. I don't need every video to be a 100K$ project, but you have to admit, a properly planed and executed project like that really is amazing to watch, especially if the project lead add good flavour explanation and details.
 
I like to point at the wooden desk PC video. (watch?v=iHYe1eHYrDw) The idea is cool, but... DIY perks is one guy and did it better, without rushing to make it to the wan show. I even found the filming done better. 
 
LMG has grown, but need to chill out, refocus and maybe take a cheap prosumer camera and do some pasionate projects with a american portion sized chunk of time for them.
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Regarding the correctness of data, i see GNs point. You got the staff, give them time. If you don't have it, take the L and create the time needed. Labs not 100% reliable? tripple check result with multiple people. I work in the beverage industry and everyone does a quality check on their part of the job and before we hit the "produce 100'000 bottles" button, we all come together to one designated area to double check each others work so we can deliver a flawless product.
 
Most of the crap i just wrote might be.. crap. Just finished my shift and listend to the GN video on my drive back home and wanted to add my fart to the musty room. I just want good "og TopGear of Tech" videos, where everyone is satisfied with their work, instead of hitting quotas. 😞
 
 

Man, if you get decent 5 or 6XL stuff, i might shop only at lttstore. It's a chore to find good clothing when you're tall and have a belly. I just bought a work fleeze jacket because it was 3XL but fit me, while most 6XL jackets or hoddies have way to short sleeves or lft above my belly whenver move. Shirts are worse. You get good prized shirts that fit, but have random garbage printed in full size on the front and you look like a 197cm overweight toddler. sadge
 
Most overlooked fact about people buying 5 or 6XL is that we need lenght for both torso (if we have a belly we need even more) and sleeve lenght. Usually tall means your limbs are long too.
 
Applied for trials, but i got no hope being located in switzerland kek

Man, if you get decent 5 or 6XL stuff, i might shop only at lttstore. It's a chore to find good clothing when you're tall and have a belly. I just bought a work fleeze jacket because it was 3XL but fit me, while most 6XL jackets or hoddies have way to short sleeves or lft above my belly whenver move. Shirts are worse. You get good prized shirts that fit, but have random garbage printed in full size on the front and you look like a 197cm overweight toddler. sadge
 
Most overlooked fact about people buying 5 or 6XL is that we need lenght for both torso (if we have a belly we need even more) and sleeve lenght. Usually tall means your limbs are long too.
 
Applied for trials, but i got no hope being located in switzerland kek

Man, if you get decent 5 or 6XL stuff, i might shop only at lttstore. It's a chore to find good clothing when you're tall and have a belly. I just bought a work fleeze jacket because it was 3XL but fit me, while most 6XL jackets or hoddies have way to short sleeves or lft above my belly whenver move. Shirts are worse. You get good prized shirts that fit, but have random garbage printed in full size on the front and you look like a 197cm overweight toddler. sadge
 
Most overlooked fact about people buying 5 or 6XL is that we need lenght for both torso (if we have a belly we need even more) and sleeve lenght. Usually tall means your limbs are long too.
 
Applied for trials, but i got no hope being located in switzerland kek

Yo,
 
Dug out my LTT account to talk about this. https://youtu.be/wXJxxWEz3zY?t=1823
 
I was wondering, why not use us gamers for it? Anyone playing PC games is likely to use Steam (or any of the other launchers) and Steam already has it's Survey thing where they record user hardware. Why not extend that and include the FPS? A store page benchmark if you so will.
 
Imagine you going to the Steam Store to buy GAME XY. Upon landing on the store page you have access to a performance tab that shows you minimum and recommended hardware, like usual, but now you also see the top 50 GPU measured with GAME XY. It could have options such as RTX 2060 FPS in combination with 5 different CPU. It could all be a checkmark in the Steam Settings where one can opt-in and the system would just record the FPS during a selected point in a game or an integrated benchmark. One could also add an "this is my GPU, what performance can i expect" tab to the store page.
 
Wouldn't impact gamers since it's just FPS recording, would make it easy for gamers to find out if a game would run on their rig, could save devs some work and if devs and hw manufacturers work together, even post patch/driver updates could be recorded.
 
Idk, maybe this is already a thing somewhere, but i don't pay attention to anything besides food, sleep, r34 and more food.

I just hope this is over soon.  :wacko: Just a little bit shacking and it disconnects because of that stupid SuperSpeed Micro B.  <_<
 
I also like Knex, played a lot with it as a kid!  :wub:  Shame that there is no high end kit made of carbonfiber, titanium and all that highend stuff to build pc's with it.

I just hope this is over soon.  :wacko: Just a little bit shacking and it disconnects because of that stupid SuperSpeed Micro B.  <_<
 
I also like Knex, played a lot with it as a kid!  :wub:  Shame that there is no high end kit made of carbonfiber, titanium and all that highend stuff to build pc's with it.

You dare facing me in ghetto cooling?
 

 
Had somehow to cool down those two drives since i'm in the middle of transferring 2,7TB of data to integrate that goddamn LaCie drive in my 4-Bay dock. :mellow:  This should be proof to everyone out there that 7200rpm drives need active cooling or they will go beyond 55°C after a few 100GB of R/W even in open air. Now they stay beneath 35°C.  :rolleyes:

Does external storage count if you have a notebook?
 
Since i download everything that's some sort of anime i collectet quiet a few external's:
 
2x 3.5" SeaGate Barracuda 3TB
1x 3.5" SeaGate Barracuda 2TB
1x 3.5" Samsung Something 2TB
1x 2.5" Toshiba Something 2TB
1x 2.5" WD Scorpio Blue 320GB
2x 2.5" SeaGate Momentus XT 750GB (+8GB SSHD stuff)
1x mSata SSD Samsung 830 Series 250GB
 
14TB-ish~
 
Some of those droves like the Samsung one have allready 10'000h on the back and the Momentus ones 11'500h.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

I like that! eGPU should be a more used consept for gaming notebooks. Something like a docking station where you slide your slime notebook in as soon as you'r home which connects to a monitor, bam, your gaming pc is set to go.

So, i did 60min of DA:I and did make befor and after screenshots. Ignore the typo~
 
Before:

 
After:

 
Next to each other:

 
There was a total writte of 400MB if i calculatet correctly. That's 44,6GB less than the rumor spreader called out! So no danger at all just BS.