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Old laptop screen upgrade/replacement to FullHD. (sleeper laptop?)

Would anyone be interested in trying to do some more interactive things next year, maybe folding month bingo or the like?

1. Quality > Quantity, and in this case, too many channels is diluting content quality. Don’t become the Applebee’s of tech franchises. That may not translate well to Canadians, glad to explain. 
 
2. Don’t lose the light-heartedness and beaming passion and excitement of Linus in the fun, “full-send” videos. Not all videos require a perfect script. 
 
3. Optics matter, and since LMG is a corporation, it’s time to behave more like one including ethics. The optics behind supporting (or not supporting) brands due to personal investments appears to be a massive conflict of interest. Linus needs to be cautious in this space. 

Just for me to understand, looking at the real and assumed incidents, scale, and everything, if you "punish" a company somehow affiliated with Linus, what would be a brand that you would buy hardware from? I'd definitely rule out all of the Big Techs, right? And probably any company using an ODM in China, right?
 
I do understand the emotions boiling up and all, but I ask myself you live your life with the level of morale your obviously applying to your purchases? Or is it okay as long as you don't know about it? If that is triggering your cancel reflex, how do you buy fashion? Or food?

I am still not convinced that it is intentional. And to be fair to Steve No.1, his focus is mainly on LTT inaccuracy, rush work, and demanding routine, which is fair. You don't need Linus input for that kind of content, the quality of their work speaks for itself.
 
He only mentions the Billet Lab situation in passing, which blew up to stratosphere both by the community here and on reddit (and LTT sub on reddit is by far the shittest of shithole that corner of the internet, already famous for assholelery), which led to the change we've seen today. And that's a positive outcome.
 
It could be a recurring accident, it happens. I also think it's fair the first time because it's just that mention in passing. But I must admit that I am starting to have my suspicion. Given Steve track record, he absolutely don't have any problem tackle the topic he knew would cause attract drama (he mentioned it himself once that he often choose to review a product, he know or thought, would have issues and cause drama for entertainment.) But I don't think he purposedly mention the Billet Lab in passing to negate the burden of proof as a reporter.
 
For now, the benefit of a doubt is still with them for me but I'll for sure watch their next drama-type report with greater scrutiny going forward. 

nah, wont be doing anything based on some drama.
the madison stuff is entirely unproven. anybody saying colin verified it, no he just said that she said the same thing. the leaked meeting sounded like a standard corporate meeting, but maybe a lot of people making a big deal about it never worked in that kind of environment before.
the gamers nexus drama..... i mean ok yeah they screwed up and werent fully accurate and probably rushed stuff and blah blah. yeah but i mean is a company not putting the right cache for a cpu on a chart in a video enough for me to want to see the entire company crash and burn to the ground? nah, i'm not that vindictive. a lot of people seem to be tho, cool? lol, i mean if you live off drama and constantly need to villainize somebody so you can lash out online i guess the past few years have been an absolute joy for you.

I wouldn't call it a "fake news" but I do also take issues with this style of report from GN.
 
When handling the issue of major controversy, you always reached out to both side to hear their side of the story. You have the right to not believe either of the sides but as an "investigating journalist", it's your job to listen to their story and preset the completed picture to your audiences. 
 
GN purposedly did not reach out to Asus and LTT, despite doing so with so many others when the matter of integrity is at the state. And in both times, they've made a major omission of the fact (implying that Asus was altering the warranty term to refuse claims - while it was proven to be the same term they've used since years before, mentioned that Linus auction out Billet Lab prototype which is highly important to their workflow but never mention anything about them seemingly imply that LTT can keep their prototype for "testing" purposes initially) that conveniently causing wildfire throughout the community.
 
Would any of these change the conclusion of their report? Maybe not, but that's the same bullshit they called Linus on for dismissing to test the Billet's Monoblock before testing it because "it wouldn't have changed the outcome"
 
As a journalist, reaching out is what testing is to hardware review. You better have a very good reasons, and don't miss anything for not doing so - and they didn't on both counts. I couldn't buy any of the justification they've put in the respond video. 
 
You could argue that it the Billet Lab controversy wasn't the focus of their video and it ultimately brought a positive change to the community, but this is highly, HIGHLY unethical for you as a media outlet if done intentionally. As people who used to do reporting for a living, this makes me feel so uncomfortable. 
 
I would like to, and still do attribute it to negligence and incompetence (after all, Steve wasn't a professional reporter), but if there's a third time I would seriously consider malice as being part of the motivation. 
 

Geesh, Steve makes a video giving LMG/Linus some constructive criticism and suddenly Linus the worst guy in the world...
(Well, Linus response didn't help, but still.)

I have nothing to add except this is a pitchfork post and pitchfork thread and could've just been a reply to the megathread. Needless reaction and post altogether.

Sure you did. 😉
 
You and your brand new profile.

No, and no.  Thanks.

Extreme much.  Geez, kneejerk reactions. 

@LinusTech You know what this whole situation reminds me of the spirit of? The events that lead to creation of the dick shaped logo of the PC building company 😄 Let me explain.
 
First- the response was way too fast. It's not thought through and it clearly was done in a rush. Regardless of what you think about what GN did here, the simple fact is that their video is factual, and you really should have gone: "We saw it, we want to take out time and figure out the details and our response, please give us a few days". 
 
Second - you just committed a cardinal sin of "I have shit to do, I don't have time to deal with this". This is how your whole response and handling comes off here.
 
Three - the "dragon energy" - yup, that's the worst possible application of it here. This requires anything but that and frankly, as the owner who now has a CEO that runs day to day operations, you should have dropped all things but the most critical stuff and look into things as the owner properly and take your time to fix shit. I will be honest here - as a fellow, albeit far far smaller, but still a person who has been in business world for past decade and have had to manage a lot of people (most I had was an IT dept of 100+ people), I would be making some hard choices right about now. And not just fire someone (albeit that is subject to a review and if the fuckups are really piling up due to the specific person(s) - it might have to happen) - I would be pressing the big red "STOP FUCKING EVERYTHING" button and freeing up some people from projects to decrease the clearly unsustainable load that leads to way too many mistakes. 
 
I think what is happening right now is that due to the size of the company, the people that get hired are just not able to keep up and you have to really account for that. LMG can't run at the pace and speed as it was when it was 5-10-20 people any more. 
People also need to be given the KPI of "quality" as the primary goal and you seriously need to re-think the amount of time that's given to people to do their job.
 
Also - KPI's are not meant to be fulfilled 100%. IF you are hitting your KPI's to 100% completion - it's a bad KPI. In the software development world our KPIs are considered "done" if we hit 70% target, anything over it is a bonus and means everyone did an extraordinary job. It also should not be expected that next round of KPI's should be upped - you only up them IF the teams consistently outperform on a significant stretch of time (like a few months at least) to account for the fact that if you up them immediately, the result will be burnout and things will tank badly. My current feel is that the team is undersized or disorganised for the amount of work you want it to do and you are pushing them too hard. At it will make things only worse, do I really need to spell that out? I think I do, because for the past 2 years of watching every WAN show I get a distinct feeling that this is the mistake being made and there are literal company corpses by the hundreds that this mistake has killed in the software industry. The people resource management.
 
 
And in general all the errors GN pointed out I have noticed them all myself as they popped up and I will say this: The amount of corrections in the videos has got to a point where it started to really annoy me personally. I now have to second-guess everything LMG is posting with the reviews of anything. 
Want to also know something? At this point when I hear "labs spent time with the product" automatically puts me into the "doubt everything" mode as in with the current track record your reviews where the hard numbers are present are not to be trusted. At all. As far as I'm concerned until this problem is solved, you should not even post any review videos - just do other content.
 
I love the jank, but lately, the jank has been too much. The home improvement videos as of late have been more like "channel superfun" and less "Linus Tech Tips" main channel and that is a really bad thing. 
 
My 0.02$ rambling cents that nobody will read 😄 At least I got it off my chest.

Same as NSA is doing to the US population then?

Where did you get $2.50 from?
 
His app's premium version is $2.50 per month of which he keeps $1.75 after the App Store's extortionate fees.
 
Some of the remaining $1.75 is donated to some artists who help create artwork for his app. This leaves him with probably around $1 per month or less to pay Reddit.
 
His app used 7 Billion (with a B) API requests in May 2023.
 
$0.24 per 1000 API calls * 7,000,000,000 = $1.68 Million per month.
 
So he rounded up to 2 Million. Not meaningfully larger but there is some difference I grant you.
 
Assuming the app has 800,000 users he would need to charge each user $2.73 just to pay Reddit's fees and Apple's payment processing fees.
 
But many users are not paid users. The Apollo devs says only 50,000 out of the 800,000 users are paying users.
 
That means each paid user(assuming all of them stayed and didn't change to the free version) would need to pay $43.68 per month just to cover Reddit's fees and Apple's payment processing fees. I say it just covers those things because the dev wanted to get paid a bit of money for working on and maintaining the app.
 
Is $43.68 per month reasonable to you? Cos if his paid subscriber base stayed the same that's what he would have has to charge them. But as he points out, most of his paid subscribers are on yearly plans and so would not be billed $43.68 per month.
 
Assuming half of his paid users are on a pay monthly plan that means he'd need to charge them $87.36 per month until all of his paid subscribers are renewed at $43.68. 
 
Is that reasonable to you?
 
7 Billion API calls is a lot but he said he could reduce the API usage of his app if given more time but Reddit wouldn't give him more time to work on that.
 
No.
Why? Reddit have said they won't back down. There's nothing to gain for either of them by lying.
Why? Businesses can't operate on surprise. They need advance warnings of things in order to prepare.

In that one instance they did not want to go on a call after hearing how they talked to Apollo. They were willing to talk previously and Reddit refused to budge on their position regarding pricing or extending the transition period beyond 30 days.
 
It'a not the responsibility of app developers who effectively built up Reddit's value to subsidize Reddit's existence because Reddit can't figure out how to their site profitable
So the person who has no reason to lie is the liar and the company with no reason to tell the truth is telling the truth?
 
The Apollo dev has not argued in bad faith. Reddit's the one who made up the lies about the Apollo dev  blackmailing them.
 
Apollo was forced to publish the audio recordings to defend himself from lied that Reddit perpetuated knowing they were lies.
Each user in his current app uses significantly more API calls than you account for in your calculations.

Eli the computer guy said it in his video. They were paying for both trademark and API usage.
Not true at all. They were willing to talk but Reddit was the one blocking any progress with the situation.
It is possible to charge a reasonable amount if money for something. It's not like doing so would hurt Reddit if they were profitable. They only have themselves to blame for losing money for the last almost 2 decades.
So you're calling the Apollo dev a liar then?

Old laptop screen upgrade/replacement to FullHD. (sleeper laptop?)

Ugh, I hate that. That's how OSS projects lose momentum and eventually die. The people with power either:
a) don't listen to any input "This is how it is, because I want it to be this way (despite that's not how any competitive software, or even similar software do it)" 
b) depend on software libraries built upon software libraries, and refuse to update them because it's too hard.
 
Like, yes, use libraries to save time, but when you app or game uses 6000 libraries to write "hello world", might want to reconsider the surface area for bugs to come out of that.
 
Software written in python, ruby, node, perl, all have this intense code-rot problem caused by depending on libraries or wrappers around C++ libraries and they are constantly "looking for maintainers", someone to basically chase the coderot the developer of the C++ library induces by needlessly changing or refactoring, or updating from C++03 to C++17, or changing to or from Boost to the C++ compiler's native STL. Writing software in C++ has become less portable over time, and since it's the foundation layer of every scripting language, so many things just get needlessly broken.
 
Maybe that's where AI "programming" can solve things. No need for maintainers, just tell the AI to upgrade the syntax to work with newer languages.
 

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Everyone in this thread ignores the fact that Musk's twitter account is the most followed account on the platform by a wide margin. Period.
When you change the algo's, if you tweak the to account for accounts size as a factor, it's not unreasonable that algo will start to push that account harder.
But the same effect has been reported for a lot of other big accounts too. A lot of people have reported that their tweet engagement skyrocketed.
Musk's visibility is just byproduct of tweaking the algo that was set to de-prioritize big account outreach in conjunction with other stuff that was shown in Twitter files that affected many many accounts for political shenanigans of the previous management. 
 
Think about it - if all they do now is tweak the algorithm to be less convoluted and deliver the more popular content to the people, what if we are seeing what the true state of Twitter should have been all along?
Gotta say that my Twitter experience has been getting better and better as updates are coming in and they tweak the system.

sources have been provided, proof has not.  Claiming that I will just seek proof of your proof and then proof of that proof is not  a valid argument to excuse providing proof. 
 
You are literally asking me to trust you and that you have had some sort of "special conversation" that makes it all true.
 
All we have is you making claims based on a journalist with the words from a secret source. we have no emails, no chat logs nothing that can be verified. Hell, it doesn't even loo like we have more than one person making the claims, so it isn't even being corroborated by others.
 

A word direct form the horses mouth versus an unknown source and no corroboration.  It seems the most logical conclusion in the absence of evidence.
 
Or do we not care about evidence anymore?  like seriously, has the world become that gullible that emotional feelings weigh more than evidence?

anything that phones home from those countries sure, but Rivatuner and its derivatives dont. If that is your main question about the software because you just NOW learned it was a russian. you are not generally asking the right questions at all. 

And no, many people did not think MSI was the dev, Rivatuner is OLD. The only people who dont know would be people who got into overclocking only inside of the last decade.