Pyrannha

I have a handful of thoughts on this whole thing that have been churning over in my head since I started reading into it.. i guess 3 days ago now? And I feel like I should just post them someplace and they certainly don't deserve their own thread.  In no particular order:

1.       The TMB warranty is the most legit warranty there is. Full Stop. I work in automotive for a living, I’ve bought a great many “lifetime warranty” tools and what Linus has said is the exact truth. A written warranty is worth exactly as much as a company’s willingness to fulfill it. I’ve broken the tip off a screwdriver and been told that I was clearly using it wrong and they would provide no warranty – to which my answer was that I did not buy from that vendor anymore. I’ve also used a Phillips head screwdriver to punch through steel, turned the tip into a flat hunk of metal and had it replaced no questions because that vendor was more willing to just take care of me. I’ve been told that a tool won’t be warrantied because the damage was “normal wear and tear in daily use” and also that “of course that clearly abused tool would be replaced, it’s lifetime warranty!“

I’ve also had a dealership refuse to cover a clearly malfunctioning part on a brand new vehicle with under 10,000 mile son it because they claimed it wasn’t a “warrantable item” while having friends and customers alike having things covered by a manufacturer that were clearly not warrantee issues. It is up to the manufacturer to honor what they say or the consumer to take them to court. Even if a written warranty is legally binding, which in many cases it is not, a company does not have to honor it and can simply take no action even after a court case and very little can be done. I put more stock in a reputable person or company with a track record of standing behind what they do saying Trust Me Bro than I do any piece of paper. Period.


 
2.       The Billet Inc thing is dumb and still makes no sense. The final conclusion to the video was simple. Within the laws of thermodynamics, no matter what the result of the testing may or may not have been they couldn’t justify the price. He said the exact same thing in the WAN show. Yeah they didn’t test it right and got shit results, they should have retested it but it wasn’t worth doing at any price – at a hundred bucks it wasn’t worth doing, the result didn’t change. It looked cool but from a performance standpoint it did not matter. It was too expensive for what it did to make sense. It’s 800 bucks for a GPU water block, if it dropped your temperatures to exactly room temperature and totally ignored all laws of physics that would still be a hard sell. You can do chilled water or exotic cooling with a cooling SYSTEM that costs less than that – it’s about the value proposition, at 800 dollars it’s not a product worth buying, if it had cost 10 bucks to reshoot the test it wouldn’t have mattered, the product isn’t worth the cost.

As for auctioning off the block, if you as a company send someone your stuff and do not have In writing what you expect done with it after they are done with it, its 1000% your fault that what you wanted to have happen to it didn’t happen. Yes they COULD have handled it better but they didn’t see any need to there was no agreement that LTT would send the block back, why shouldn’t they auction it off for charity? In hindsight, with the communications they received AFTER the auction it makes more sense but also I don’t think we know the timelines here. LTT doesn’t shoot a video the day before it goes up, who knows how long that video was done and how long that block sat on the shelf.


 
3.       Also I want to say, in response to gamers nexus, it is NOT his job to ignore personal relationships. The interpersonal relationships in an investigation are a massive part of what makes an investigation trust worthy. Saying that you have to ignore personal relationships when investigating a situation is to say that the entire idea of things like conspiracy (the legal version) collusion, aiding and abetting and insider trading among others are simply your job to ignore. That’s idiotic at best. And then he goes on to spend about half the video to dig at interpersonal relationships, a lot of this video doesn’t make a lot of sense as far as what he’s picking at and trying to claim.


 
4.       As far as the pwnage mouse I’m not sure how it matters that something was given as a whale prize but also not recommended? That’s sponsorship. Someone could have said hey, we’ll give all your whales a free year subscription to amazon prime, doesn’t mean that they are saying that it should be something you buy if you have the option or even use if you get it. There’s very strange logic leaps here that make no sense. How many people do we, as tech people, know that still have some sort of factory cover/shield/protector/plastic on a device they use every day because the don’t know it’s there? I know a good few and those are easy to see.


 
5.       Lasty the whole Madison situation. This is the muddiest one and I think there’s a lot of things at play. I think a HUGE portion of it is Madison’s original, pre-hire, metal health state. I don’t think she’s lying, I don’t think she’s making anything up, I think she saw what she saw and felt how she felt about the situation. I think she was pushed harder than she could handle in a role she wasn’t qualified for and she broke and I think for some of it, a different person would have seen what was going on VERY differently. It does sound like there are some things that happened that are 100% not okay and are definitely hostile workplace/workplace harassment/sexual harassment issues that I would expect the person(s) responsible for to be fired over. I also do not see how you can lay the blame of a person being so ill as to harm themselves to the point of needing to go to the ER at the feet of the company they work for and particularly on that 100+ employee company’s CEO. Her claims sound like a person that was not in good health to begin with or had underlying issues that were brought forward due to the ways she was pushed. I also personally think that her coming out and saying that a statement of “put on your big girl pants” as catastrophic, damaging, sexist, harassment etc., etc. is quite the reach. Depending on the persons, maybe it’s not in good taste but sometimes the push you need, when you’re floundering, is to be told to put on those big girl/boy pants and get to work. And if you can’t do that, you leave.

What’s actually bothers me about her thread was the timing. She can post twitter threads any time, LTT can’t publish videos in an instant and according to my notifications, within about an hour of the break video going live is when she started her middle of the night twitter dump. She’s an old employee, she’s been gone a while, she was holding onto all this and waiting until the time she could do the most damage. It doesn’t take away from how she feels she was treated but, for me, it changes the tone of the conversation. It doesn’t make it sound nearly as much like someone who got out of a situation and wanted to set things straight, it sounds like someone with a vendetta taking their time to find the most damaging time/place to accuse.


 
Take all this for what you will, it’s just my opinion on things and maybe it doesn’t add to the conversation, maybe it does. I wanted to have said it regardless.

I have a handful of thoughts on this whole thing that have been churning over in my head since I started reading into it.. i guess 3 days ago now? And I feel like I should just post them someplace and they certainly don't deserve their own thread.  In no particular order:

1.       The TMB warranty is the most legit warranty there is. Full Stop. I work in automotive for a living, I’ve bought a great many “lifetime warranty” tools and what Linus has said is the exact truth. A written warranty is worth exactly as much as a company’s willingness to fulfill it. I’ve broken the tip off a screwdriver and been told that I was clearly using it wrong and they would provide no warranty – to which my answer was that I did not buy from that vendor anymore. I’ve also used a Phillips head screwdriver to punch through steel, turned the tip into a flat hunk of metal and had it replaced no questions because that vendor was more willing to just take care of me. I’ve been told that a tool won’t be warrantied because the damage was “normal wear and tear in daily use” and also that “of course that clearly abused tool would be replaced, it’s lifetime warranty!“

I’ve also had a dealership refuse to cover a clearly malfunctioning part on a brand new vehicle with under 10,000 mile son it because they claimed it wasn’t a “warrantable item” while having friends and customers alike having things covered by a manufacturer that were clearly not warrantee issues. It is up to the manufacturer to honor what they say or the consumer to take them to court. Even if a written warranty is legally binding, which in many cases it is not, a company does not have to honor it and can simply take no action even after a court case and very little can be done. I put more stock in a reputable person or company with a track record of standing behind what they do saying Trust Me Bro than I do any piece of paper. Period.


 
2.       The Billet Inc thing is dumb and still makes no sense. The final conclusion to the video was simple. Within the laws of thermodynamics, no matter what the result of the testing may or may not have been they couldn’t justify the price. He said the exact same thing in the WAN show. Yeah they didn’t test it right and got shit results, they should have retested it but it wasn’t worth doing at any price – at a hundred bucks it wasn’t worth doing, the result didn’t change. It looked cool but from a performance standpoint it did not matter. It was too expensive for what it did to make sense. It’s 800 bucks for a GPU water block, if it dropped your temperatures to exactly room temperature and totally ignored all laws of physics that would still be a hard sell. You can do chilled water or exotic cooling with a cooling SYSTEM that costs less than that – it’s about the value proposition, at 800 dollars it’s not a product worth buying, if it had cost 10 bucks to reshoot the test it wouldn’t have mattered, the product isn’t worth the cost.

As for auctioning off the block, if you as a company send someone your stuff and do not have In writing what you expect done with it after they are done with it, its 1000% your fault that what you wanted to have happen to it didn’t happen. Yes they COULD have handled it better but they didn’t see any need to there was no agreement that LTT would send the block back, why shouldn’t they auction it off for charity? In hindsight, with the communications they received AFTER the auction it makes more sense but also I don’t think we know the timelines here. LTT doesn’t shoot a video the day before it goes up, who knows how long that video was done and how long that block sat on the shelf.


 
3.       Also I want to say, in response to gamers nexus, it is NOT his job to ignore personal relationships. The interpersonal relationships in an investigation are a massive part of what makes an investigation trust worthy. Saying that you have to ignore personal relationships when investigating a situation is to say that the entire idea of things like conspiracy (the legal version) collusion, aiding and abetting and insider trading among others are simply your job to ignore. That’s idiotic at best. And then he goes on to spend about half the video to dig at interpersonal relationships, a lot of this video doesn’t make a lot of sense as far as what he’s picking at and trying to claim.


 
4.       As far as the pwnage mouse I’m not sure how it matters that something was given as a whale prize but also not recommended? That’s sponsorship. Someone could have said hey, we’ll give all your whales a free year subscription to amazon prime, doesn’t mean that they are saying that it should be something you buy if you have the option or even use if you get it. There’s very strange logic leaps here that make no sense. How many people do we, as tech people, know that still have some sort of factory cover/shield/protector/plastic on a device they use every day because the don’t know it’s there? I know a good few and those are easy to see.


 
5.       Lasty the whole Madison situation. This is the muddiest one and I think there’s a lot of things at play. I think a HUGE portion of it is Madison’s original, pre-hire, metal health state. I don’t think she’s lying, I don’t think she’s making anything up, I think she saw what she saw and felt how she felt about the situation. I think she was pushed harder than she could handle in a role she wasn’t qualified for and she broke and I think for some of it, a different person would have seen what was going on VERY differently. It does sound like there are some things that happened that are 100% not okay and are definitely hostile workplace/workplace harassment/sexual harassment issues that I would expect the person(s) responsible for to be fired over. I also do not see how you can lay the blame of a person being so ill as to harm themselves to the point of needing to go to the ER at the feet of the company they work for and particularly on that 100+ employee company’s CEO. Her claims sound like a person that was not in good health to begin with or had underlying issues that were brought forward due to the ways she was pushed. I also personally think that her coming out and saying that a statement of “put on your big girl pants” as catastrophic, damaging, sexist, harassment etc., etc. is quite the reach. Depending on the persons, maybe it’s not in good taste but sometimes the push you need, when you’re floundering, is to be told to put on those big girl/boy pants and get to work. And if you can’t do that, you leave.

What’s actually bothers me about her thread was the timing. She can post twitter threads any time, LTT can’t publish videos in an instant and according to my notifications, within about an hour of the break video going live is when she started her middle of the night twitter dump. She’s an old employee, she’s been gone a while, she was holding onto all this and waiting until the time she could do the most damage. It doesn’t take away from how she feels she was treated but, for me, it changes the tone of the conversation. It doesn’t make it sound nearly as much like someone who got out of a situation and wanted to set things straight, it sounds like someone with a vendetta taking their time to find the most damaging time/place to accuse.


 
Take all this for what you will, it’s just my opinion on things and maybe it doesn’t add to the conversation, maybe it does. I wanted to have said it regardless.

I remember the video where Linus went to the NCIX auction to get the silver play button. The OG button with the NCIX name on it that he was the one making the videos for that he was the creator responsible for. That was literally HIS play button. Had it been me, I would have held fast on that stance but he had enough buttons from other channels and decided you know what, what happened to you sucked, keep it man, and moved on. That the community took a different stance says literally nothing about Linus or his company, he did literally the most right thing he could have. Got emotional at first and then said you know what, you deserve this, I have two. let me shout out your channel, take care man. how on EARTH is anything else that came after Linus's fault???

No thanks, If I decide to support a content channel, a small controversy won't stop me from doing so even if twitter is in outrage.

There are a lot of ways that LTT could actually become a money grab business, for a channel with their reach the easiest thing would be to take sponsor money without any restrictions.

That is not the issue here nor what was raised in GN video, so crawl back to twitter or reddit with this nonsense. I don't get why people love to pile on hate
 

I remember the video where Linus went to the NCIX auction to get the silver play button. The OG button with the NCIX name on it that he was the one making the videos for that he was the creator responsible for. That was literally HIS play button. Had it been me, I would have held fast on that stance but he had enough buttons from other channels and decided you know what, what happened to you sucked, keep it man, and moved on. That the community took a different stance says literally nothing about Linus or his company, he did literally the most right thing he could have. Got emotional at first and then said you know what, you deserve this, I have two. let me shout out your channel, take care man. how on EARTH is anything else that came after Linus's fault???

I remember the video where Linus went to the NCIX auction to get the silver play button. The OG button with the NCIX name on it that he was the one making the videos for that he was the creator responsible for. That was literally HIS play button. Had it been me, I would have held fast on that stance but he had enough buttons from other channels and decided you know what, what happened to you sucked, keep it man, and moved on. That the community took a different stance says literally nothing about Linus or his company, he did literally the most right thing he could have. Got emotional at first and then said you know what, you deserve this, I have two. let me shout out your channel, take care man. how on EARTH is anything else that came after Linus's fault???

I remember the video where Linus went to the NCIX auction to get the silver play button. The OG button with the NCIX name on it that he was the one making the videos for that he was the creator responsible for. That was literally HIS play button. Had it been me, I would have held fast on that stance but he had enough buttons from other channels and decided you know what, what happened to you sucked, keep it man, and moved on. That the community took a different stance says literally nothing about Linus or his company, he did literally the most right thing he could have. Got emotional at first and then said you know what, you deserve this, I have two. let me shout out your channel, take care man. how on EARTH is anything else that came after Linus's fault???

I remember the video where Linus went to the NCIX auction to get the silver play button. The OG button with the NCIX name on it that he was the one making the videos for that he was the creator responsible for. That was literally HIS play button. Had it been me, I would have held fast on that stance but he had enough buttons from other channels and decided you know what, what happened to you sucked, keep it man, and moved on. That the community took a different stance says literally nothing about Linus or his company, he did literally the most right thing he could have. Got emotional at first and then said you know what, you deserve this, I have two. let me shout out your channel, take care man. how on EARTH is anything else that came after Linus's fault???

I love my Logitech G933 headset, my girlfriend and I both have one they're very comfortable, the mic is adjustable and it has some nice features. The auto mute whne the mic is up and the G buttons are handy too (I have one set for push to talk so if I'm away from the keybaod i can still talk). You can run it wired or wireless and comes with the stuff to set it up to be used with older equipment that just runs off RCA wirelessly. 

Supreme Commander is a great RTS if you're in to that kind of game (Not SupCom 2) we pretty much always end up playing FlatOut 2 as the night winds down becasue i'ts great goofy fun for all. Dont Starve Together is frequently somethign we play as we wit for people to show up. Smite is a common one for us as well. About hafl of us are EVE nerds so sometimes we do that for a bit. One thing that's worth figuring out is if you do better with playing WITH each other cooperatively or AGAINST each other and have games that each "faction" can play.

So what you're talking about and confusing, it seems to me, is your flight controller and your radio transmitter. Your flight controller will have a radio receiver that is bound to your radio transmitter. Your flight controller will have your ESCs, receiver, and video transmitter connected to it. Flight controller is what translates what you tell your quad to do with your transmitter into actual motor speed changes whereas radio receiver just takes the signals you send with your transmitter and relays them to the flight controller. Before you rush out and just buy a thousand dollars worth of stuff, i highly suggest you check out Joshua Bardwell's youtube - in particular his series on leaning to build a racing drone and his introductory flying videos. Feel free to ask any more questions, I do have half a clue at least - also welcome to the moneypit...er hobby. 

I've been a consistent fan of my Logitech G933. I like that it has cloth ear cups that dont suction to my head. My brother has a Razer Man O' War he loves though, i think that was about $150?