Bassem

Didn't know you wanted the device to turn off.  No idea what your use case was for but glad you fixed it.
 
 

I would say it depends what purpose and how time sensitive it is (also your budget)
 
Like if it's just something like a whole house power outage, where you want to know when it comes back online; I would just have a computer that boots up when power is restored (some have it in bios settings); or something like a rasp pi if you don't want a computer running.
 
From there you just run a script that sends an email on boot.  It's probably the cheapest way I can think of (if you already have something laying around).
 
The thing about UPS/rasp pi/network solution is that starts getting more costly; for I feel not as much benefit unless if lets say speed is needed.

Long story (almost) short.
Raspberry is powered from the UPS, and also connected via to USB to it. And NUT, aka Network UPS Tools, part of several linux distro, including raspbian, could send email every time the power is missing.
If put close to the CPE/ISP provided router, put also under UPS, could deliver messages when the power is missing... and even if internet don't work (need to configure the timeout for trying again to send the message).
 
I forgot to mention: you should buy a UPS which can be used by NUT easily. So before buy: look at NUT project to know which UPSes are finely supported. They are not few, neverthless, it's not all the market.

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.

me too (and you don't have to be a fan,I just wish people were more reasonable), I'm not talking about you, go read the first few pages, it's disgusting
every one wants to judge LMG, without trying to understand what happened (which doesn't deserve this outrage), and they feel good about themself 

this's ridiculous, you people are toxic and unloyal, you enjoy attacking other people, your negative takes started before you even saw the video
I'm glad I'm not one of the LLT team, otherwise I would be so disappointed by this community
 

this's ridiculous, you people are toxic and unloyal, you enjoy attacking other people, your negative takes started before you even saw the video
I'm glad I'm not one of the LLT team, otherwise I would be so disappointed by this community
 

This community sucks. Maybe the forum should be renamed GamersNexus.
 
Beyond disappointed at the reaction of LMG so far, slamming the brakes on production was a poor choice, the lack of Floatplane content even worse, and the cancelling of WAN show even worse still.
 
All because a drama-driven youtube channel took a pop at you? Grow the F*** up and move on, stop wallowing.
 
Anyone that believes Steve @ Gamers Nexus at face value is also a fool.
 
I'm done with this forum - toxic, childish, sycophants everywhere. 

Why the outrage?

Tampermonkey?

LMAO! That's literally what I do for a living. But the equipment I use is very, very expensive. I measure points on the field all day long with a Trimble GPS. Then I plug the data into AutoCAD/Covadis and connect the dots to produce 3D maps. It sounds exciting that way, but it's extremely boring and repetitive. Funnily enough, this job (land surveying) is in extremely high demand in Paris. 
 
 

like 20 minutes worth of work. suuuuper basic though

click on start menu
click on all programs
click on accessories folder
click on paint
 
or
copy the image
and paste the image
 
or search for images in a search engine, and copy and paste
 
or get a 3D program and waste endless hours
 
 

It was created by a 3D program that uses 3 sided polygons(triangles).
It is from an Opengl source since it shows points that are usually not rendered. 
 
If I was doing it I would use old 3d program like Imagine to build the object. I  would randomize the polygons and then add an explosion FX to probably a sphere over the glass and the lower part of the glass then check the frames to see which one looks best. Then I would do a 4k Opengl screenshot and bring it into PhotoShop to clean it up.
 
It is sort of what I did for 30 years.
 
 
   

screenshot from "Designated Survivor" S2:E16

He's using an invisible Google Glass™

Maybe my eyes are bad, but I don't see a monitor.

screenshot from "Designated Survivor" S2:E16

http://www.theportablepc.com/
 
Built to spec

Jajajajaja sure it does something, it opens a website (webview)

$25 an hour x3 markup fee

You need to charge for that. Making it an standalone app even if it's just a hidden browser it's marketing. You need to charge your time of setting up the dev account on the different application stores. Managing updates later on when new device goes out. It's not much but the app itself is not worth anything. You sell the service of setting up everything which is worth more than the app itself.
 
Back and forth with the client and setting up everything is at least 10-15 hours. I would charge setup time. Add charge for update and device support if needed. The app code itself would be the same for all client buying the app.

Jajajajaja sure it does something, it opens a website (webview)

I need to buy a phone number online, I don't care from which country, as long as it's cheap = cheaper than Skype $7/month. I'll use it for Whatsapp, I'll not be calling or texting from it.
I don't want a free one!