George Vella

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

Not just a q&a, maybe a crazy new project, old bloopers, and what I really wish: Dennis trying to build a PC on his own @LinusTech take note. Everyone will love dennis attempting to build a PC on his own

Yeah, but it'll be an amazing idea if they could do like an extended WAN show or something like that

Banned because not even your name contains the letter 'F'

banned for banning yourself without giving a valid reason

Good to hear!

Banned because even though it was slightly confusing it helped me understand. Thanks!

Banned because I'd appreciate if @WkdPaulcould tell us more about what's considered spam as not even I fully understood if any messages got removed
 

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This is NOT a thread to mindlessly spam, either participate in the game or enjoy a legit ban.
 
Please report further spamming instead of "playing" with the spammer.

Banned for not using the ten word ban reason lol

Banned because your sentence complaining about a weird sentence, is weird.

Banned because you didn't use ten words in your reason.

Banned for using ten words in your ban reason too!

I'm not really sure it'd work, but maybe you can try adding a symbolic link https://www.schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html to a folder in your C:/ Drive that'll link to the server drives? Otherwise I'm sorry but I have no idea

You can install Winaero Tweaker. Open it, and either search or scroll down to Navigation Pane - Custom Items. Either press the Add Custom Folder to add any folder or if you want to Pin GodMode or WindowsTools ect. Hope this helped!
 
Edit -  if you want to add a folder to This PC scroll up a bit and go to Customise This PC Folders

Right now I'm just using it wirelessly, which is pretty laggy. I've ordered the $30 dock (not the official dex one) Apple really needs to take a hard look at this. IMO, this puts galaxy phones far ahead of apple.

YOu welcome!
Also I forgot a few! Second one has a pre 95 one where the taskbar didnt fully exist yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9Pt5NeTnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyZJ9Lx8TUE
 

Whats special about them? They don't look like anything interesting.
If you want to get into old beta builds go for much older things around the Win95/98/XP era where you see how Windows was shaped over the years gradually.
 

To be honest, I'm trying to collect them all. I'm starting with 10, but already have downloaded some 8.1, 8, 7, xp and vista builds. I'm planning to start the ME, 9x and 2000 era of operating systems in a couple of weeks

Yeah I dont think we will be able to help you with that.

Linus just tweeted that unfortunately we lost Tyler. Tyler was an amazing person, according to what most people said. And from what I saw on camera I agree. I'm really sorry for his loss. If there is anything the tech community can do to help his family, Im sure we'll be able to. May he rest in peace.🤍🤍
 
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The tweet ;
 
They might do a charity stream ;
 

There were nice things about Windows Phones — I actually have a Lumia 1020 I keep around for kicks. It's more just that it wasn't as clever as Microsoft made it out to be, and people certainly didn't take to it like the company thought they would. On this note, get the Elite X3 if you're going to pick one. I remember the Lumia 950XL being less than stellar.
 
My pet theory is that Steve Ballmer not only thought Windows was the best OS, but that every human was genetically predisposed to love it as much as he did. That you'd pick up a Windows Phone, shout "oh mah gawd, it runs Windows!" and smash your iPhone against the wall as you realize you always wanted Internet Explorer and Office in your pocket. The truth, of course, is that many people merely settle for Windows, and that Windows Phone was too little, too late for a market already dominated by Android and iPhones.

The most fantastical part of it was imagining that people would use Windows Phone!

Seen plenty of those around in the 2010's :p. The rolltop goes into the same category of neat but won't work.

Linus just tweeted that unfortunately we lost Tyler. Tyler was an amazing person, according to what most people said. And from what I saw on camera I agree. I'm really sorry for his loss. If there is anything the tech community can do to help his family, Im sure we'll be able to. May he rest in peace.🤍🤍
 
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The tweet ;
 
They might do a charity stream ;