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Asus keep having these horrible cases. Smaller sponsors have been dropped for less; I would strongly endorse at least a pause until something's done. I know they're huge sponsor, but they're a huge uncaring-company, too.

Asus keep having these horrible cases. Smaller sponsors have been dropped for less; I would strongly endorse at least a pause until something's done. I know they're huge sponsor, but they're a huge uncaring-company, too.

Asus keep having these horrible cases. Smaller sponsors have been dropped for less; I would strongly endorse at least a pause until something's done. I know they're huge sponsor, but they're a huge uncaring-company, too.

Asus keep having these horrible cases. Smaller sponsors have been dropped for less; I would strongly endorse at least a pause until something's done. I know they're huge sponsor, but they're a huge uncaring-company, too.

Ah, but those were smaller sponsors. 

Asus keep having these horrible cases. Smaller sponsors have been dropped for less; I would strongly endorse at least a pause until something's done. I know they're huge sponsor, but they're a huge uncaring-company, too.

Asus keep having these horrible cases. Smaller sponsors have been dropped for less; I would strongly endorse at least a pause until something's done. I know they're huge sponsor, but they're a huge uncaring-company, too.

I think I morally have to agree with this, at least to a point. I'm not sure what yet to think, but I do know that the sheer amount of fault here indicates a clear losing of direction, and I don't want to support that until I know the company is back on the path that I do believe they want to be on, and set out for themselves.
 
It's okay, everyone loses their direction, and I'm not out here suddenly labelling LTT as money grubbers or morons or X or Y or Z--- I do still have faith in the team, but the team need to take this time to reevaluate, redirect, and restart. They still make good content, good merch, and good decisions - they can continue to do so, and when I see it, I will return to buy those good products and watch those good videos. They do deserve the chance to make things right.
 
However. They must make things right. Less blame, less focus on singular points, and less one-man-at-the-helm. This is now a core LTT issue, which while yes ultimately falls to Linus (and to a lesser extent, Tarran) to spearhead, must be reflected in the entire body, not just the head. It looks like they're pausing video publishing for this, and I hope that's the case. The next public release should be an honest admission of fault, a clear and promise-based public plan of action, and pledges where needed to make right (such as agreeing to buy the prototype back from the auction winner, plus matching that amount for the original charity, and returning it to Billet at no cost.) Linus can front this, and I hope he does, although I hope he is not alone in this.
 
I think they'll do the above; I do trust that Linus, once he's out of his emotions, handles things the right way. Unfortunately, as we can see with how he sometimes talks on the WAN show (and he'll admit himself), his first response isn't always the best. I know his team are great, and I do believe the company is good through and through, in so far as we can see as their audience. If they don't... Well, it will sure put a sour taste in my mouth when I pack my Backpack, and put on my WAN hoodie, unfortunately, and I will definitely not return to the (rather sizeable) list of items I want to buy from the store.
 
Vote with your morals, but more importantly, your wallet, right?
 
LTT have done enough to warrant some faith that they will make this right. But they need to make good on that faith.

I've been carefully watching the channel for the same reason, and it does appear that they've halted uploads, at least for today. Tech news and LMG Clips are still posting (and I think they should, other channels--and other entire teams who operate apart from Linus--should not be punished for Linus'/LTT's mistakes. The inaccuracies, mistakes and faults lie with the core LTT product; LTT, Short Circuit and LMG Media (like Linus posting on here, tweets, etc.) and the news cycle, Mac Address, TQ and so on, having much more railroaded purposes, shouldn't necessarily pause for that. They do still have the responsibility they signed themselves up for to report the news when they said they would, for example, and regardless they should continue to do so. Reviews, research, edutainment and opinion posts, however, are all in question and should be paused for deep scrutiny. Which it looks like they're doing. I certainly hope there's a video coming in the next 24-48 with a sincere response, and I also hope that, while Linus fronts it, others are also hosted, like Tim (to respond to the "we're better than GN/HUB" whoopsie) and Tarran (as the current CEO and as such now equally responsible party) as well as those who appeared in LTT videos where mistakes were pointed out (David, Jake, Riley etc.) - not because they've fucked up, but because they deserve to speak their piece, instead of having Linus speak it for them.

I think I morally have to agree with this, at least to a point. I'm not sure what yet to think, but I do know that the sheer amount of fault here indicates a clear losing of direction, and I don't want to support that until I know the company is back on the path that I do believe they want to be on, and set out for themselves.
 
It's okay, everyone loses their direction, and I'm not out here suddenly labelling LTT as money grubbers or morons or X or Y or Z--- I do still have faith in the team, but the team need to take this time to reevaluate, redirect, and restart. They still make good content, good merch, and good decisions - they can continue to do so, and when I see it, I will return to buy those good products and watch those good videos. They do deserve the chance to make things right.
 
However. They must make things right. Less blame, less focus on singular points, and less one-man-at-the-helm. This is now a core LTT issue, which while yes ultimately falls to Linus (and to a lesser extent, Tarran) to spearhead, must be reflected in the entire body, not just the head. It looks like they're pausing video publishing for this, and I hope that's the case. The next public release should be an honest admission of fault, a clear and promise-based public plan of action, and pledges where needed to make right (such as agreeing to buy the prototype back from the auction winner, plus matching that amount for the original charity, and returning it to Billet at no cost.) Linus can front this, and I hope he does, although I hope he is not alone in this.
 
I think they'll do the above; I do trust that Linus, once he's out of his emotions, handles things the right way. Unfortunately, as we can see with how he sometimes talks on the WAN show (and he'll admit himself), his first response isn't always the best. I know his team are great, and I do believe the company is good through and through, in so far as we can see as their audience. If they don't... Well, it will sure put a sour taste in my mouth when I pack my Backpack, and put on my WAN hoodie, unfortunately, and I will definitely not return to the (rather sizeable) list of items I want to buy from the store.
 
Vote with your morals, but more importantly, your wallet, right?
 
LTT have done enough to warrant some faith that they will make this right. But they need to make good on that faith.

I think I morally have to agree with this, at least to a point. I'm not sure what yet to think, but I do know that the sheer amount of fault here indicates a clear losing of direction, and I don't want to support that until I know the company is back on the path that I do believe they want to be on, and set out for themselves.
 
It's okay, everyone loses their direction, and I'm not out here suddenly labelling LTT as money grubbers or morons or X or Y or Z--- I do still have faith in the team, but the team need to take this time to reevaluate, redirect, and restart. They still make good content, good merch, and good decisions - they can continue to do so, and when I see it, I will return to buy those good products and watch those good videos. They do deserve the chance to make things right.
 
However. They must make things right. Less blame, less focus on singular points, and less one-man-at-the-helm. This is now a core LTT issue, which while yes ultimately falls to Linus (and to a lesser extent, Tarran) to spearhead, must be reflected in the entire body, not just the head. It looks like they're pausing video publishing for this, and I hope that's the case. The next public release should be an honest admission of fault, a clear and promise-based public plan of action, and pledges where needed to make right (such as agreeing to buy the prototype back from the auction winner, plus matching that amount for the original charity, and returning it to Billet at no cost.) Linus can front this, and I hope he does, although I hope he is not alone in this.
 
I think they'll do the above; I do trust that Linus, once he's out of his emotions, handles things the right way. Unfortunately, as we can see with how he sometimes talks on the WAN show (and he'll admit himself), his first response isn't always the best. I know his team are great, and I do believe the company is good through and through, in so far as we can see as their audience. If they don't... Well, it will sure put a sour taste in my mouth when I pack my Backpack, and put on my WAN hoodie, unfortunately, and I will definitely not return to the (rather sizeable) list of items I want to buy from the store.
 
Vote with your morals, but more importantly, your wallet, right?
 
LTT have done enough to warrant some faith that they will make this right. But they need to make good on that faith.

I think I morally have to agree with this, at least to a point. I'm not sure what yet to think, but I do know that the sheer amount of fault here indicates a clear losing of direction, and I don't want to support that until I know the company is back on the path that I do believe they want to be on, and set out for themselves.
 
It's okay, everyone loses their direction, and I'm not out here suddenly labelling LTT as money grubbers or morons or X or Y or Z--- I do still have faith in the team, but the team need to take this time to reevaluate, redirect, and restart. They still make good content, good merch, and good decisions - they can continue to do so, and when I see it, I will return to buy those good products and watch those good videos. They do deserve the chance to make things right.
 
However. They must make things right. Less blame, less focus on singular points, and less one-man-at-the-helm. This is now a core LTT issue, which while yes ultimately falls to Linus (and to a lesser extent, Tarran) to spearhead, must be reflected in the entire body, not just the head. It looks like they're pausing video publishing for this, and I hope that's the case. The next public release should be an honest admission of fault, a clear and promise-based public plan of action, and pledges where needed to make right (such as agreeing to buy the prototype back from the auction winner, plus matching that amount for the original charity, and returning it to Billet at no cost.) Linus can front this, and I hope he does, although I hope he is not alone in this.
 
I think they'll do the above; I do trust that Linus, once he's out of his emotions, handles things the right way. Unfortunately, as we can see with how he sometimes talks on the WAN show (and he'll admit himself), his first response isn't always the best. I know his team are great, and I do believe the company is good through and through, in so far as we can see as their audience. If they don't... Well, it will sure put a sour taste in my mouth when I pack my Backpack, and put on my WAN hoodie, unfortunately, and I will definitely not return to the (rather sizeable) list of items I want to buy from the store.
 
Vote with your morals, but more importantly, your wallet, right?
 
LTT have done enough to warrant some faith that they will make this right. But they need to make good on that faith.

I've been carefully watching the channel for the same reason, and it does appear that they've halted uploads, at least for today. Tech news and LMG Clips are still posting (and I think they should, other channels--and other entire teams who operate apart from Linus--should not be punished for Linus'/LTT's mistakes. The inaccuracies, mistakes and faults lie with the core LTT product; LTT, Short Circuit and LMG Media (like Linus posting on here, tweets, etc.) and the news cycle, Mac Address, TQ and so on, having much more railroaded purposes, shouldn't necessarily pause for that. They do still have the responsibility they signed themselves up for to report the news when they said they would, for example, and regardless they should continue to do so. Reviews, research, edutainment and opinion posts, however, are all in question and should be paused for deep scrutiny. Which it looks like they're doing. I certainly hope there's a video coming in the next 24-48 with a sincere response, and I also hope that, while Linus fronts it, others are also hosted, like Tim (to respond to the "we're better than GN/HUB" whoopsie) and Tarran (as the current CEO and as such now equally responsible party) as well as those who appeared in LTT videos where mistakes were pointed out (David, Jake, Riley etc.) - not because they've fucked up, but because they deserve to speak their piece, instead of having Linus speak it for them.

"Trust me Bro"
Sorry Linus, not anymore, not at this point.
@LinusTech How you respond to this, maybe on the WAN show, will decide how many viewers you keep or sacrifice to your hasty and poor response in this thread.
All my planned merch purchases (stubby screwdriver, backpack, new water bottle lid) are on hold till you respond properly to this topic.

I have supported you since you were filming in the garage, I watched you grow to be a powerhouse on YT. But I believe you have rushed the expansion of LMG at the cost of quality in the last couple of years, slow down, and get things right. You said you wouldn't watch what your employees had to say on those videos recently, I hope you got an anonymous breakdown of the things discussed. Because there were a lot of people unhappy with the speed of video production and this is what is causing the errors, they all see it, yet nothing is changing the best we can see.

People keep saying "People make mistakes" Yes they do, but in many other industries mistakes can be deadly, as such there are more checks and balances put in place. Yes, it slows down the process, But If your mistakes are going to cost people their jobs due to ruining a business's reputation, be it your own or someone like BilletLabs, you may cost them more than their job...

I'm not going to commit to canceling all my subscriptions to your content, but I may "privateer" a lot more of it in the future as I don't want to pay you for inaccurate content.

This is a great look on the tech community. Channels holding other channels responsible for their actions. People don't realize how brave it is to actually criticize the biggest tech channel publicly. The backlash is inevitable. 

This situation isn't going to harm LMG, and it may improve it.

There's no reason to be angry at Steve.  He did Linus a favor.

Why should there be a "counter move"? Linus said it himself, this should not be about sniping at each other. Even asking for drama like that is ridiculouly childish.
 
Bring on Steve instead. Talk about the issues (which ARE present, there is no denying it, especially on the quality of review data and annotations in post) and commit to resolving them. It would be most satisfying for the viewer, too.

No, Linus, this is not a case of you "reading the room wrong". This is about how you treated a small company's product with blatant disrespect because you couldn't be bothered to test it properly to achieve a fair review. And the reasoning for this decision appeared to be entirely monetary from your comment on the WAN show. It just wasn't worth your team's time and money to go back and run the tests correctly, regardless of the damage your video could have done to Billet Labs reputation. They trusted you with their product and you broke that trust by refusing to give it a proper trial.
 
Your company is making a huge deal about the launch of the Lab, yet you don't seem to be connecting the dots. How are your viewers supposed to trust your testing/review methodology coming out of the Lab if you are going to be flippant with going back and redoing flawed tests on products that have been entrusted to you simply because you decide they aren't worth your time or you believe they are a bad value?
 
Furthermore, the block that Billet Labs provided to you was a Prototype; a proof of concept. Of course it wasn't going to be a good value to the average consumer! It was literally 1 of 1. Products become cheaper when they are mass produced and this was nowhere near the finished product. If the intent in providing LTT with their only working prototype was to build interest in their design so that they could launch a cheaper, more refined version later on with broad name recognition, your video effectively killed that goal by never showing what their design's full potential was. Small companies live and die by this sort of publicity.
 
Your message to Billet Labs was you aren't worth my time. And that attitude isn't going to make other vendors want to send you their products. And it certainly isn't going to instill trust in LTT's review/testing methodology.

Linus and team,
 
As with other things, when people react to things, whether reacting positively or negatively, it means they care.
 
I have watched you and your videos since I can remember, since Luke was part of the channel and you recorded videos in your garage cooling PC's with Refrigerators.
 
When I saw GN video yesterday, I though "finally someone who speaks about this!"
 
We love your channel and we want it do do great. But we also want you and the leadership team to stop, look around and make some needed course corrections.
 
We also want you to know we appreciate what you and all of your team do. Take this opportunity to self reflect and make a change with the support of the community.
 
 

Well if you really want to set it up this way you can share the drive with the network. Then you should be able to map it as a network drive on the machine you want to access it from. As for the backup you'll need a piece of software that can actively check & update the data on the array to the backup. FreeFileSync isn't ideal but it'd backup the files periodically if setup to do so.

Id stay away from using the router, there normally slow and not great when it comes to featuers and security.
 
For backup, id plug your external into your pc every few weeks and run a backup, then remove it. Leaving a backup plugged in all the time can increase the chance of data loss.

Are you being held hostage?
 
One iPhone rumor for no, two for yes. 

its betty betty dangerous to mess around on your mobo when the flower power of love is on, and in your case you short circuited though your rgb header, but just an rgb header right? Only controls the lights, not a big deal unless you love rgb, and hopefully it didn't effect anything else important.
Good luck brotherane 

first off i have no clue why you got a 1070TI over a 1080, but thats besides the point. its entirely possible that you didnt damage anything, i have sparked loads of headers myself and nothing has ever died. you just shorted a coupple pins, triggerd over current protection or something and it shut off

Best case scenario, you've killed the RGB header, so you won't be able to use that anymore, but everything else will work fine.
Worst case scenario(which is unlikely to have happened) is that you've killed the motherboard when you shorted out the header, but that's unlikely.