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    Zberg got a reaction from LZETROT in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    Reddit mods are completely unhinged and are the dregs of society.  Power hungry peons who have nothing else going in their life.  It's an echo chamber with the most religious zealots as mods.   
     
    I got banned from one sub for making a critique about how a gross company was promoting LGBTQ stuff without ever actually changing their corporate culture.  Essentially calling them empty promises and that they really didn't have any interest in mind other than the company's...I was permabanned for anti-LGBTQ bigotry, no shit,  and when I requested this be lifted because it is absolutely incorrect, mod said "too bad, I guess think about the way you speak next time".    
     
    The believeallwomen vibes are part of their religion as well, and you cant have any kind of nuance there in this discussion.  It has to be LMG is evil, they abused Madison, burn them to the ground, period.  Any reasonable take is not welcome there.
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    Zberg got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    Holy crap took a look at the various Reddits, and the mob is truly unhinged about this.  Reading any of the threads for a minute and you would think LMG was actively encouraging this, endorsed by Linus, and this is the biggest scandal since watergate.   Like 10,000% doom, this company is done forever, how dare they, they need to burn, doom.
     
    Just a reminder...the ACLU penned an op-ed in I believe the Atlantic, with full throated support for the absolutely clear and egregious physical and mental abuse Johnny Depp put Amber Heard through...I guess Reddit didn't watch that trial and stuck with the OG headlines on that one.
     
    Dont jump to conclusions folks, the GN/Bt saga was egregious on LMG's part, but there is a lot of unknown here, other than the words of a disgruntled employee.  Maybe wait for some receipts before the witch burning this time around ya?
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    Zberg got a reaction from Middcore in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    Ironically, the glory days of LTT videos.  They might make more money on sponsors and views now, but the videos were much better and more fun then.  I miss the kitchen.
     
    I realize this is a complete non sequitur and contributes nothing to the discussion.
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    Zberg got a reaction from dogwitch in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    Ya, I posted a similar comment upthread.  We have seen this with an employee that was struggling with what was likely their first real, hard job.   
     
    They are serious allegations, and need to be investigated.  If true, LTT would and should be in deep shit for it.  But there is a burden of proof you have to meet.   In a company where you have the head as a pretty progressive leaning guy, with a wife that  has a  huge role running the company with him that wouldn't allow this for  a second, you have to bring some evidence to the table IMO
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    Zberg got a reaction from artkingjw in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    So while I think any serious allegations like this should be investigated, and those anyone responsible should be disciplined appropriately if true...it seems a bridge too far.  I know this stuff can happen anywhere, but 2023, post gamergate, post blizzard activision, at a very politically correct, progressive-leaning company (or at least the leadership) that make strong statements about this kind of stuff and supposedly have a zero tolerance policy.  Im not saying it isn't possible, but if these egregious  things are happening left and right as stated, then not only should you have evidence that should be easy to obtain, or witnesses, or contemporaneous verification of some sort...but also the burden of proof is on you for these kinds of claims.
     
    We had an employee quit who was never able to keep up in his role, was late all the time, and was miserable to work with.  When we warned him the first time he went direct to HR and said he was working in a racially hostile environment.  This wasn't substantiated by anyone, including the many happy employees of various races that work here.  After this confrontation he got worse, and eventually fired.  His response was a letter and tirade about how irremediably racist the hospital is, how he experienced regular racism, jokes, the N-word, etc.  Not only was this all not backed up by any other employee he ever worked with, but due to the nature of hospitals nowadays, we have cameras basically everywhere.  0% of his claims were ever verified, and it turns out a review of the camera footage also backed up our claims that he was late ALMOST EVERY DAY.  Like 30+ minutes late.
     
    Im not saying this Madison thing is that.  I am saying I have seen this before.  Workers that are unhappy in their position, and maybe having trouble keeping up, say a lot of things when they leave.  The stuff our hospital and group were accused of would  have had us on page 1 of every news outlet in the country it was so egregious.  Fortunately, again, we have non stop camera footage for safety.  The burden of proof for very incendiary claims like this is on the person making them.  
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    Zberg got a reaction from eddieceidde in Madison reveals experiences working at LMG   
    So while I think any serious allegations like this should be investigated, and those anyone responsible should be disciplined appropriately if true...it seems a bridge too far.  I know this stuff can happen anywhere, but 2023, post gamergate, post blizzard activision, at a very politically correct, progressive-leaning company (or at least the leadership) that make strong statements about this kind of stuff and supposedly have a zero tolerance policy.  Im not saying it isn't possible, but if these egregious  things are happening left and right as stated, then not only should you have evidence that should be easy to obtain, or witnesses, or contemporaneous verification of some sort...but also the burden of proof is on you for these kinds of claims.
     
    We had an employee quit who was never able to keep up in his role, was late all the time, and was miserable to work with.  When we warned him the first time he went direct to HR and said he was working in a racially hostile environment.  This wasn't substantiated by anyone, including the many happy employees of various races that work here.  After this confrontation he got worse, and eventually fired.  His response was a letter and tirade about how irremediably racist the hospital is, how he experienced regular racism, jokes, the N-word, etc.  Not only was this all not backed up by any other employee he ever worked with, but due to the nature of hospitals nowadays, we have cameras basically everywhere.  0% of his claims were ever verified, and it turns out a review of the camera footage also backed up our claims that he was late ALMOST EVERY DAY.  Like 30+ minutes late.
     
    Im not saying this Madison thing is that.  I am saying I have seen this before.  Workers that are unhappy in their position, and maybe having trouble keeping up, say a lot of things when they leave.  The stuff our hospital and group were accused of would  have had us on page 1 of every news outlet in the country it was so egregious.  Fortunately, again, we have non stop camera footage for safety.  The burden of proof for very incendiary claims like this is on the person making them.  
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    Zberg got a reaction from ze77y in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  8. Agree
    Zberg got a reaction from CityCultivator in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
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    Zberg got a reaction from Material1 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  10. Agree
    Zberg got a reaction from Origami Cactus in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
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    Zberg got a reaction from ImpliedSilence in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  12. Agree
    Zberg got a reaction from ben025 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  13. Agree
    Zberg got a reaction from dwkekciej in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
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    Zberg got a reaction from Darkpriest667 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  15. Agree
    Zberg got a reaction from jazz3601 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
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    Zberg got a reaction from AlienALX in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  17. Like
    Zberg got a reaction from yobson in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
  18. Agree
    Zberg got a reaction from dustypaws in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Steve out here doing actual journalism.  Love the dude.
     
    I feel bad that LTT is taking a turn for the worse.  Have always loved this forum, learned to build my first PC with LTT videos, loved scrapyard wars and other videos like it.  I haven't made a conscious effort to unsub or anything, but have found myself just never being interested enough to click their videos.  
     
    The lab stuff always seemed like a bad idea.  I remember saying to myself at the time...why are you investing so much money for something that other people already do way better?  There are already established alternatives that cover this kind of boring (no offense, GN) content in depth, and do it very well.  What is the return on investment on boring numbers?  And then when you get it up and running, you make non stop errors?  "you had ONE JOB lab!" is what comes to mind.  If I buy a TI-89 I dont need it to do much other than graph functions for me.  If it cant do that correctly, then it is a very large waste of money.  The lab seems to be that times a million.
     
    The Billet labs contrasted to the Noctua shilling is pretty gross.  You didn't use their prototype correctly, then actively shit all over it potentially losing them tons of business, then auctioned it off...then lied about compensating them for it...while shilling for Noctua (obviously a great company, I know) in scenarios where they either were under capacity or there were better cheaper options...when you have a partnership with them...  Its all a very gross look, and its looking much more like a soulless corporate operation nowadays and much less like the guys in the kitchen set up building a PC, or linus vs luke scouring the internet to make an awesome PC.  These responses to situations seem much less like what Linus has always seemed like, and much more how I would assume Amazon would deal with companies.
     
    Ive gotten tons of great info from LTT and their forum, so Im not unsubbing or deleting accounts or anything,  because I do feel that they have done a lot of good for the community as a whole, but it really seems like they are losing their way and need to get back on the right track.
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    Zberg got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Goodbye Anthony, Welcome Emily!   
    I legit thought about this the other day and was like "huh...I haven't seen an Anthony video in forever".  Welcome back, looking forward to more great in depth tech coverage from you, and hope you find happiness 🙂 
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    Zberg got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in I'm Stepping Down..   
    Long overdue.  Especially with the level of burnout he has discussed in the past.  This kind of decision is a huge game changer for quality of life.  
     
    The group I am in has partners that are all equal owners.  We have the option to micromanage the employees schedules, trying to optimize shifts to keep them happy while saving on OT, dealing with the accountant/bank, etc.  All of that is a massive headache.  We have a business manager that takes care of all that.  Everything from the employees goes through her.  She handles it in accordance with what the partners have set as our priorities, and brings to our attentions anything that would need our input.
     
    We pay her well.  In exchange, we get to come into work and focus on what we do.  No concerns about whether we have enough employees to cover the day to day, who is on call, are there enough people for breaks, etc.  We just show up ready to do the part of our job that we like.
     
    This is, IMO, the best way to run a business while keeping ownership and control.  We can sell out if we would like, and have 100% of all decisions made for us without any responsibility on our parts, and just show up to do what they tell us.  And we would have zero input.  This way, we get to steer the ship, we just dont have to micromanage the crewmen or make sure every part of the ship is working.
     
    Props to Linus for making this choice, it really is the best way
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    Zberg reacted to Agall in Build update complete, tested, and confirmed: RTX 4090 working well with 850w PSU   
    If you're not OCing the 4090, then I'd expect your gaming load to be around 550W. The RTX 4090 has an incredibly stable power draw, unlike the RX 6000 and RTX 3000 series, something Igor's lab did extensive testing on. It basically doesn't peak to 200% TDP like those previous generation cards, so you can expect a minimum recommended PSU to not trip on OC.
     
    I'd personally just never dial up the TDP meter, but as I say that, my buddy runs a 5600x and RTX 4090 on a Seasonic 850W and has ran a 133% TDP +3GHz OC on it since day 1. I did the same on my RM1000x until I got this Seasonic GX-1200.
     
    Internally adapted 12VHPWR is almost as good as native 12VHPWR, but both are miles better than the silly included adapter. 12VHPWR is definitely worth it and plugging in 3x8pin to a GPU feels disgusting afterwards (speaking from experience with my 6900 XT secondary rig).
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    Zberg reacted to RONOTHAN## in Can I connect a 4090 to a z390 (PCIE 3.0 mobo) using a Gen 4.0 PCIE riser?   
    Nope, that'll be fine. The issue with running Gen 3 risers with 4090s is when you're running them on Gen 4 motherboards, as the board doesn't detect that the riser doesn't support Gen 4 and thus tries to run at PCIe Gen 4. The solution to that situation is to manually set the PCIe mode to Gen 3. Since your board doesn't support Gen 4, it will default to Gen 3 and won't have any issues. 
     
    Whether a Z390 platform will be able to fully drive a 4090 though is a different story, though. 
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    Zberg reacted to filpo in Can I connect a 4090 to a z390 (PCIE 3.0 mobo) using a Gen 4.0 PCIE riser?   
    yes if you set it to gen 3 in the bios 
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    Zberg reacted to jaslion in Can I connect a 4090 to a z390 (PCIE 3.0 mobo) using a Gen 4.0 PCIE riser?   
    It was a pcie 3.0 riser on a 4.0 slot.
     
    The opposite way worked fine without needing to go into the bios.
     
    This was also a 3000 series issue.
     
     
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    Zberg got a reaction from Luscious in The Absolute Fastest Gaming Computer   
    Alex says its doing better 'marginally' or something like that.  
     
    This speaks to the overall trend that OC is increasingly being worth less and less.  Add to that so much tinkering was done with the CPU and most of that tinkering worthless with more gamers moving to 4k (where it is almost 100% GPU, you could run a ryzen 3600).  And even if not, do you really care about getting 300 vs 400 FPS in doom eternal or CSGO at 1080p  (seriously...why are these still benchmarked)
     
    You used to be able to get more out of a CPU/GPU through tuning.  They now ship running much closer to maxxed out.  Which is good for the average consumer.  Not as fun for the tinkerer.  LN2 guys can get a bunch more out of it.  And nowadays, even full liquid cooled systems main benefit is the silence.  
     
     
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