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Probably nobody is going to read this, but for the one person that does - I've been a LTT fan since the beginning, when it was NCIX Tech Tips, (you can check my post history saying congrats on 1M subs).
 
I don't usually visit the forum, in fact, this is my first login in a very long time. I actually un-subscribed to LTT sometime around 2017/2018 just when they started making server videos because I was worried that I would learn sketchy IT practices/how not to do things starting my career as a software engineer. But now as a Senior SWE, I re-sub'd in 2022 and was amazed by the progress they've made since then.
 
But anyways, this needs to be said - because this is over a big nothing burger. I am not a shill, I subscribed to floatplane for 1 month to see the employee interviews, and I have not bought anything from LTTStore.com. I am simply stating my opinion for those who care. I also won't be reading responses to this. It seems like people who have problems believing that all this is over poor corporate practices has never worked in a high growth VC startup or some kind of small corporation before, where all the profits are reinvested into the business - yes this phase can last >10 years if the owners want it to. Everytime they put everything on the line like for that semi-recent office building purchase, the grind cycle RESTARTS. Just because they've been around for 10 years and have 100 employees doesn't mean the company can't die at any moment. Multiple people on the interviews have also said they don't have retros, and it's always "go, go, go". No retros = no time for process improvment. People who think the contrary have never worked in this high stress, "if I don't do this, the whole company might go under if I don't deliver" environment and its really apparent. Also, when you are interviewing for a job at an early stage company, it comes implicitly with the expectation that you will work in this type of environment unless you were born yesterday.
 
I don't think Linus is a bad person, and from my gut-feeling, I don't think he intended to harm anyone. Toxic work culture cannot be hidden for 14 years straight. Another thing is, founders don't have line of sight at the top of the house, only what middle management reports back to them. That is why companies hire people, to handle things they don't need to worry about.
 
RE: Incorrect data on screen - Yes, they are rushing because they want to pump out a huge volume of videos. The employee interviews said they grew from 20-30 people to 100 people in 2 years?! That is an insane growth rate, growing pains are basically expected. Labs literally just came online and the first "test" piece of content was the PSU video. It takes time to hammer down internal processes, especially with something new. I would have expected them to come up with QA processes eventually, because re-work at any company is very expensive.
 
RE: Billet Labs - This was probably an email/communication fuck up, I highly doubt Linus would sell their prototype if he personally knew they wanted it back. Many people in the interviews cite communication issues within the company.

RE: Madison - Seems like LTT had a poor middle manager that was made worse by Linus not having all the facts at hand. But we only hear one side, which is always biased. 3rd party investigation is the right move here. I sincerely doubt the work environment is that toxic, and with 100+ people there is no hiding - especially when you have no bullshit-type engineers working for you. Perhaps the person that made those sexist comments and bullying was let go, she only referred to them as "they/them', not sure if it's a single person or multiple.
 
Just my 2 cents, ✌️
 

Probably nobody is going to read this, but for the one person that does - I've been a LTT fan since the beginning, when it was NCIX Tech Tips, (you can check my post history saying congrats on 1M subs).
 
I don't usually visit the forum, in fact, this is my first login in a very long time. I actually un-subscribed to LTT sometime around 2017/2018 just when they started making server videos because I was worried that I would learn sketchy IT practices/how not to do things starting my career as a software engineer. But now as a Senior SWE, I re-sub'd in 2022 and was amazed by the progress they've made since then.
 
But anyways, this needs to be said - because this is over a big nothing burger. I am not a shill, I subscribed to floatplane for 1 month to see the employee interviews, and I have not bought anything from LTTStore.com. I am simply stating my opinion for those who care. I also won't be reading responses to this. It seems like people who have problems believing that all this is over poor corporate practices has never worked in a high growth VC startup or some kind of small corporation before, where all the profits are reinvested into the business - yes this phase can last >10 years if the owners want it to. Everytime they put everything on the line like for that semi-recent office building purchase, the grind cycle RESTARTS. Just because they've been around for 10 years and have 100 employees doesn't mean the company can't die at any moment. Multiple people on the interviews have also said they don't have retros, and it's always "go, go, go". No retros = no time for process improvment. People who think the contrary have never worked in this high stress, "if I don't do this, the whole company might go under if I don't deliver" environment and its really apparent. Also, when you are interviewing for a job at an early stage company, it comes implicitly with the expectation that you will work in this type of environment unless you were born yesterday.
 
I don't think Linus is a bad person, and from my gut-feeling, I don't think he intended to harm anyone. Toxic work culture cannot be hidden for 14 years straight. Another thing is, founders don't have line of sight at the top of the house, only what middle management reports back to them. That is why companies hire people, to handle things they don't need to worry about.
 
RE: Incorrect data on screen - Yes, they are rushing because they want to pump out a huge volume of videos. The employee interviews said they grew from 20-30 people to 100 people in 2 years?! That is an insane growth rate, growing pains are basically expected. Labs literally just came online and the first "test" piece of content was the PSU video. It takes time to hammer down internal processes, especially with something new. I would have expected them to come up with QA processes eventually, because re-work at any company is very expensive.
 
RE: Billet Labs - This was probably an email/communication fuck up, I highly doubt Linus would sell their prototype if he personally knew they wanted it back. Many people in the interviews cite communication issues within the company.

RE: Madison - Seems like LTT had a poor middle manager that was made worse by Linus not having all the facts at hand. But we only hear one side, which is always biased. 3rd party investigation is the right move here. I sincerely doubt the work environment is that toxic, and with 100+ people there is no hiding - especially when you have no bullshit-type engineers working for you. Perhaps the person that made those sexist comments and bullying was let go, she only referred to them as "they/them', not sure if it's a single person or multiple.
 
Just my 2 cents, ✌️
 

Probably nobody is going to read this, but for the one person that does - I've been a LTT fan since the beginning, when it was NCIX Tech Tips, (you can check my post history saying congrats on 1M subs).
 
I don't usually visit the forum, in fact, this is my first login in a very long time. I actually un-subscribed to LTT sometime around 2017/2018 just when they started making server videos because I was worried that I would learn sketchy IT practices/how not to do things starting my career as a software engineer. But now as a Senior SWE, I re-sub'd in 2022 and was amazed by the progress they've made since then.
 
But anyways, this needs to be said - because this is over a big nothing burger. I am not a shill, I subscribed to floatplane for 1 month to see the employee interviews, and I have not bought anything from LTTStore.com. I am simply stating my opinion for those who care. I also won't be reading responses to this. It seems like people who have problems believing that all this is over poor corporate practices has never worked in a high growth VC startup or some kind of small corporation before, where all the profits are reinvested into the business - yes this phase can last >10 years if the owners want it to. Everytime they put everything on the line like for that semi-recent office building purchase, the grind cycle RESTARTS. Just because they've been around for 10 years and have 100 employees doesn't mean the company can't die at any moment. Multiple people on the interviews have also said they don't have retros, and it's always "go, go, go". No retros = no time for process improvment. People who think the contrary have never worked in this high stress, "if I don't do this, the whole company might go under if I don't deliver" environment and its really apparent. Also, when you are interviewing for a job at an early stage company, it comes implicitly with the expectation that you will work in this type of environment unless you were born yesterday.
 
I don't think Linus is a bad person, and from my gut-feeling, I don't think he intended to harm anyone. Toxic work culture cannot be hidden for 14 years straight. Another thing is, founders don't have line of sight at the top of the house, only what middle management reports back to them. That is why companies hire people, to handle things they don't need to worry about.
 
RE: Incorrect data on screen - Yes, they are rushing because they want to pump out a huge volume of videos. The employee interviews said they grew from 20-30 people to 100 people in 2 years?! That is an insane growth rate, growing pains are basically expected. Labs literally just came online and the first "test" piece of content was the PSU video. It takes time to hammer down internal processes, especially with something new. I would have expected them to come up with QA processes eventually, because re-work at any company is very expensive.
 
RE: Billet Labs - This was probably an email/communication fuck up, I highly doubt Linus would sell their prototype if he personally knew they wanted it back. Many people in the interviews cite communication issues within the company.

RE: Madison - Seems like LTT had a poor middle manager that was made worse by Linus not having all the facts at hand. But we only hear one side, which is always biased. 3rd party investigation is the right move here. I sincerely doubt the work environment is that toxic, and with 100+ people there is no hiding - especially when you have no bullshit-type engineers working for you. Perhaps the person that made those sexist comments and bullying was let go, she only referred to them as "they/them', not sure if it's a single person or multiple.
 
Just my 2 cents, ✌️
 

Probably nobody is going to read this, but for the one person that does - I've been a LTT fan since the beginning, when it was NCIX Tech Tips, (you can check my post history saying congrats on 1M subs).
 
I don't usually visit the forum, in fact, this is my first login in a very long time. I actually un-subscribed to LTT sometime around 2017/2018 just when they started making server videos because I was worried that I would learn sketchy IT practices/how not to do things starting my career as a software engineer. But now as a Senior SWE, I re-sub'd in 2022 and was amazed by the progress they've made since then.
 
But anyways, this needs to be said - because this is over a big nothing burger. I am not a shill, I subscribed to floatplane for 1 month to see the employee interviews, and I have not bought anything from LTTStore.com. I am simply stating my opinion for those who care. I also won't be reading responses to this. It seems like people who have problems believing that all this is over poor corporate practices has never worked in a high growth VC startup or some kind of small corporation before, where all the profits are reinvested into the business - yes this phase can last >10 years if the owners want it to. Everytime they put everything on the line like for that semi-recent office building purchase, the grind cycle RESTARTS. Just because they've been around for 10 years and have 100 employees doesn't mean the company can't die at any moment. Multiple people on the interviews have also said they don't have retros, and it's always "go, go, go". No retros = no time for process improvment. People who think the contrary have never worked in this high stress, "if I don't do this, the whole company might go under if I don't deliver" environment and its really apparent. Also, when you are interviewing for a job at an early stage company, it comes implicitly with the expectation that you will work in this type of environment unless you were born yesterday.
 
I don't think Linus is a bad person, and from my gut-feeling, I don't think he intended to harm anyone. Toxic work culture cannot be hidden for 14 years straight. Another thing is, founders don't have line of sight at the top of the house, only what middle management reports back to them. That is why companies hire people, to handle things they don't need to worry about.
 
RE: Incorrect data on screen - Yes, they are rushing because they want to pump out a huge volume of videos. The employee interviews said they grew from 20-30 people to 100 people in 2 years?! That is an insane growth rate, growing pains are basically expected. Labs literally just came online and the first "test" piece of content was the PSU video. It takes time to hammer down internal processes, especially with something new. I would have expected them to come up with QA processes eventually, because re-work at any company is very expensive.
 
RE: Billet Labs - This was probably an email/communication fuck up, I highly doubt Linus would sell their prototype if he personally knew they wanted it back. Many people in the interviews cite communication issues within the company.

RE: Madison - Seems like LTT had a poor middle manager that was made worse by Linus not having all the facts at hand. But we only hear one side, which is always biased. 3rd party investigation is the right move here. I sincerely doubt the work environment is that toxic, and with 100+ people there is no hiding - especially when you have no bullshit-type engineers working for you. Perhaps the person that made those sexist comments and bullying was let go, she only referred to them as "they/them', not sure if it's a single person or multiple.
 
Just my 2 cents, ✌️
 

The true sadness of all of this is the chance of LTT cutting most of the fun of their videos for corporate safety. Even the behind the scenes stuff will have to change because it was used as ammo on this hit piece. "Tech Jesus", hope you really take a good and forever bump in views after this to be worth.

Yes, 800 for one that covers both is still very unreasonable. For 99% of consumers...

Anyone else getting sick of not getting any new LTT videos? 

Uh... tape it to floor? 

Uh... tape it to floor? 

Or when I go to futureshop, their ''GAMING'' PC's have like a core i7 (not specified more) 12 gigs of RAM and a gts 450... Yeah gaming my ass...

My sister, upon buying her first laptop, spent a good 5 minutes getting increasingly annoyed. Apparently it was broken, because it wouldn't turn on...
..... turns out she thought the spacebar was the power button. Not the massive big green button with the power symbol on it.

My mum feels the need to turn off my wireless network at night because she fears "The waves will affect her brain."
...apparently only when she's sleeping too

I actually do have a story now I'm thinking about it.. Let me sum it up
A coworker of mine (I work at a supermarket) sees himself as a tech fanatic. Once he was talking about a build he wanted to do.
He started talking about getting all top tier Asus ROG stuff, 7970's, H100 (at the time).. All massively overpriced stuff. And.. four 250GB harddrives in a Raid 0.
So I asked him why would you do that? Raid 0 is a stupid raid, just get one big fast drive and a SSD for boot and stuff, much more reliable that way. But he didn't move one bit.
Some time after that we we're having a break and we started talking computer again. I asked him why he wants to go AMD in stead if Nvidia for a GPU. He replied: ''No, Nvidia cards are made by Intel, and I dislike Intel!''. I told him Intel only makes integrated graphics and not discrete ones and that Nvidia and Intel are in no way affiliated, but he wouldn't change his mind.
After that he started talking about coolers. He said he had a H100 once before. ''Yeah, that thing is so nice the temps of my CPU we're lower than the temperature of my room!''
I tried to teach him a small lesson in physics on why that would be entirely impossible, but he kept yammering about.
One time after that he started talking about thermal compound and how he always spreads it over the entire CPU instead of a single blob in the mid. I tried to tell him why that method is shit, to which he replied ''I always do that and I have the lowest temps of all my friends!'' (Obviously made up).
Usually I don't care if people believe things that aren't optimal/true/good in any way, but this guy was so immensely dense it was unbelievable, and a complete tool too. Every word you tried to throw at him just bounced off.

I built a PC for my younger brother. Worst mistake, he thinks I owe him a lifetimes worth of customer support or something.

Dad: Why doesn't my keyboard work anymore?
Me: Because you constantly spill water on it
Dad: Oh is that bad for the keyboard?
Me: ........

A couple of years ago, I decided it would be a good idea to look inside a computer, the bad thing was, it was the pc which every person in the house used to do his or her work on.
After looking for a couple of minutes i somehow decided that it would be a good idea to get the heatsink of the graphics card and put my finger on the actual chip to feel if it was hot, by doing that the thermal paste sticked to my finger and burnt so hard i had a big blister on it for more than a week. Second bad thing was the fact that the graphics card died so i had to tell my parents. instead of telling them what actually happened I told them that probably the fan of the heatsink got stuck and that would be why it was broken. My dad decided it was time for a new for a new PC anyways so a wee later we had a new pc in the livingroom:P
I Still think it wasn't worth the pain but yeah.. a new PC is never a bad thing...
Lesson I learned of this, never remove the heatsink of a chip while the machine is running...

The best one I've experienced is when people call any form of internet "wifi"