A_Mediocre_Kangaroo_Farmer

I traded in an expensive unit for a newer model with a local branch of a multi billion dollar company. I shipped it to them in a custom pelican case and they had agreed to return the case with the new unit inside. The unit was already sold to a different business in a different country before they received it. My case got a new label and off it went. I received the new unit in a standard case (these units are always shipped in pelicans) and when I contacted them about it they had no idea this had happened or why. They just told me they'd reimburse me and there was no way to retrieve the case. It doesn't matter how simple something can be to get right, shit happens. It's what you do when it does that is most important.

I agree, everything about this block including the price tag speaks custom. Adam knew that, wanting to show this product off in the right for a cool tech video. Linus is correct in saying that the product is not going to be a big seller because of how bespoke any system using it would have to be. In the past this has never stopped them from making videos about nonviable but cool tech.

Even though he made it clear in the video and in his first response to this thread why he thinks the water cooling solution is not a market worthy product (has nothing to do with performance) it seems many consider the negativity to be related to the poor testing methodology. This is bad simply because it's bad practice, but it wouldn't affect the commercial viability of this product. The coolness factor might have been negatively impacted but he does praise the product where it deserves praise, other than performance (we don't know if it's actually good though, that's the bad part). It's really unfortunate that the prototype was auctioned off. Linus probably had nothing to do with that personally, but he gets the blame and the bill. I'm curious, what would you consider "making this right" though? May I suggest giving time to a future Billet Labs product if it's video worthy? After all that's why they got the first video to begin with, it was a really special product.

(shameless self quote, please don't kill) Didn't have to wait for long for the response. The watercooler seems to be what upset people the most and it's unfortunate but no where near malicious as many seem to claim. (People who know Linus Sebastian's character would have been more inclined to believe there was another side to this) As with all things there is a very small portion of the community that is "hardcore" and the rest are always less knowledgeable and involved. As Linus has stated before, the masses don't listen to everything, remember what he has said before or bother with the full context. To me this means it's important to address things that can affect LTT/LMG. As for the lab, the willingness to "hit the ground running" as it were might be a decision based on "float or sink" for all I know. I don't like to see unpolished processes even though I fully expect the lab will become a global influence on product quality and product claims. With the stated goal of the lab project it will be under constant scrutiny and will be opposed at every turn. This is why it needs to be (as) perfect (as it can be).

Steve has a sarcastic sense of humor, and a sarcastic way of pointing out faults. He's sarcastic, if you don't like it then that's fine. Doesn't mean he's wrong. I wouldn't agree that this is the most snide he has been though.

Legally sure. I can't speak for everyone, but I was never trying to argue a legal point. I've been following LTT for a very long time and the way I see it LMG is slipping. Now slipping is fine, a relatively mild downturn and I fully expect (as long as Linus, Luke and Yvonne are in control) them to find their balance in time. There is a psychological element to "opening Pandora's box" when cutting corners or breaking with one's principal. The long time para-social relationship makes me consider Linus to be a hardworking and heartfelt guy, and honest. That's why I know he's very emotional and might not do or say the right thing at all times. Not gonna pretend to know how he will respond to this though.

As someone who has a significant ownership of the business I work at, I consider the money that I invested to be my personal money and act accordingly. I work at my business, just because the stocks are not cash in my bank account it's still mine. Same goes for all the different investments I have. I don't consider it money spent and gone.

That's a completely different kind of bias

Maybe Edzel is unable to watch, fact check and rebounce 25+ videos in his work week.

but they are mostly irrelevant to the video. You seem to be upset that GN, almost to a level of annoyance, puts accuracy and ethics above LMG's "entertainment" factor. an irrelevant statement of my own: I've noticed LTT videos becoming more focused on including their children viewers and I think their twitch "meme" status has given them a huge growth in child viewership and so they are trying to capitalize on this. It must be insanely good for their bottom line

the argument LTT fanboys use when defending Linus' OBVIOUS conflict of interest framework investment is that as long as he's being factual it doesn't matter. Would you say GN is being factual in their assessment of LMG's deviation from accuracy, ethics and responsibility?

considering the current state of intel arc support I absolutely do expect them to use it. Jellyfin fully supports it so yes, I expect them to be able to as well. Paid service being worse than free opensource projects providing the same service is unusual.

Don't pay for plex if you have an a770 and don't buy an a770 if you want to use it for hardware transcoding in plex. Jellyfin does support the A770 though, so that's free advice that's free.

yeah I know he's full of shit. I have ECC working perfectly on an asus prime x570-b board with 5700x.

Source?

I would love to see a sponsor deal with lttstore.com!

y Not looking for a "seperate 4k setup" solution. I'm going for compatibility with all devices and to only have one version of any video file at the highest possible quality (not always 4k HDR).

Server is used, so that's what it comes with in terms of ram. The SSD was a prize and so it's basically a spare. I want to be able to stream 4x HDR 4k streams at once (it's my probable max, normally 2-3 at the same time), connection is 1 Gb/s so 4 streams directly peaking bitrate should still be fine I think. The "whatever the 1080 Ti can handle" bit was mostly just to be sure the 1080 Ti won't be bottlenecked and as far as I understand it's not likely to happen even if I have to downscale or upscale video between 1080 and 4k. I'm mostly trying to be sure I'm not ending up with something incompatible with running a plex server on unraid with ZFS. Thanks for the feedback.

I'm planning to set up a plex server. I'd love to hear some input or be warned of any red flags with this plan. I can either buy a used server rack or just stuff a regular cabinet full of drives and upgrade my rig. I want the system to be able to handle whatever the 1080 Ti can handle in transcoding, I'm fairly certain both rigs will be fine for this. I already have 2 9211i HBA's in the mail and I will be using a SN750 1TB m.2 2280 NVMe SSD as cache. Prebuilt option: 12x 3,5" slots 2x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2660 v2 25M Cache, 2.20 GHz 10C/20T 128GB ram (unspecified) Dell PERC H710p 1GB Minicard RAID kontroller. (Seller offers preflashed to IT mode for small charge) 2x 750W PSU 4x 1GbE ports Idrac 7 Enterprise managment system +1080 Ti from old rig cost ~$1000 (drives not included) OR 1x i7 8700K 8 or 16gb of cheap cheap ram any case that can fit 12 drives Single PSU 1x GbE port LSI 9211i HBA's cost ~$300 (drives not included)

HDD prices are still double compared to march prices (and mid april), is there any other reason for the sustained high prices for HDDs? The way I understand it, the large capacity HDD's for the consumer markets are only a small marketshare for the sale of drives, but is it so small that chia miners can keep the prices up for much longer? (if that is the only reason)

It's an ASUS ROG GL552VW 15.6"

The massive amount of airflow would be going through the heat sink, assuming I sealed it well enough. It wouldn't need to run at max speed but I think the fan header is good for about 1A. Is the cheapest possible fan from aliexpress going to be anything other than a printed picture and a triple A battery? I'd be soldering the older connector to the new fan wires, very important or else it wouldn't spin. I don't think there is any risk involved there though.

I've got a buddy who's laptop is pretty toasy, can't run for more than 30 minutes before it shuts down. And no wonder since his fan doesn't spin. He's got nothing to lose here as he's either going for a new one or let me frankenfix it for cheap. (Replacement fans are weirdly expensive as they have to be imported and with the tax and toll fee it's gonna be over 100 USD) Now I think I got a solution. I'm going to remove the old fan, drill holes or just make a cutout in the bottom cover for a 120mm cheapo fan and mount it on the outside. Then I'll have to put some legs on the thing, probably solder the old fan connector on and somehow make a decent seal so the air is forced into the teeny radiator. My question for you guys, other than rating this "hack" idea out of 10, is there anything you could think of that could go wrong here?

I found this post after receiving my bottle and reading that it's not dishwasher safe, so I wanted to see if there was any type of soap that would be recommended or warned against as the bottle is designed to hold hot liquid hot it's not a temperature issue.

I mean, the link was right there. If you want I can take a guess at what OS you use and provide you with 2 fewer clicks https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/LCD Monitors/Utility/MultiFrame_1_1_1_1.zip