Nullcaller

Can't wait for films to be shot in in the glorious 5.35:1 ratio when Vision Lite goes mainstream

I just realized something. The cursor is bigger than a real mouse.

This vid might just be one of the best LTTs since the series of GN-sparked controversies. No excessive information, no information is lacking, no oversimplifications, editing is on point, legitimately new interesting concept (not the projectors themselves, but rather "three dudes on a couch marveling at a rented sick projector setup") and legitimately new learning outcome. Good work.

Don't quote me on that, but I think Linus got quoted something like ten times the price of one of the three baller projectors they used in the video, for The Wall only the size that the consumer projector in part 1 could comfortably manage. So I would presume because it's not cheap by itself, and the installation and maintenance costs are probably trough the roof as well. (You need a capable HVAC system, for one. These panels ain't magic, LEDs are only 40% efficient at best, and that's when they're dim, which isn't helpful either. So 70-80% of input power is converted into heat. A lot of it.) And all that for a show that typically lasts a day or three? You bet they're just gonna rent projectors and call it a day.

I don't know about that. I feel like it's a two-way thing. The host has to indicate that they're kind of good with that parasocial relationship, that's the youtuberiness I'm talking about. It's the subtle cues that I can probably only describe as treating the camera as a placeholder for somebody close-ish to you, maybe even as close as a friend (in a limited kind or capacity). News hosts and actors also appear on camera regularly. Yet you generally don't form parasocial relationships with them without additional context (i.e. following them on social media or something).

Also also, actually actually, the point about hosts not having the same youtuber-y parasocial vibe, I don't want to be that guy, but I think it's mega-important. I've been feeling for a long time this weird thing about LMG, that Linus' personality doesn't quite scale as the number of employees goes up, like Linus is still the central cog in the machine, and everything about the video production would break without him. And I couldn't quite put my finger on why exactly I was getting this feeling, whether the hosts needed more creative control, or something... But I think this is why. Linus is a youtuber. And I feel like every single other person employed by Linus Media Group, is not. They're hosts, writers, camera operators — you name it; but not youtubers. James, Riley, Sarah, they maybe come close. But definitely not as close as Linus.

Well, for the video, they don't necessarily have to be clever. Funny = unexpected, see Rowan Atkinson. So they just have to be unexpected enough to be funny on their own or with enough potential for the host to respond with something that is unexpected enough to be funny. I actually find that the vast majority of the jokes that make you fold in half with laughter build on the previous conversational context in unexpected ways. So the comments on their own can't even be that funny if they aren't a paragraph long. Problem is, by now, I think we've heard all there currently is to be said about Linus as a person, with the information we possess, whether positive or negative. So we can't really hear anything unexpected. And other hosts aren't on camera in the same capacity as Linus really. I.e. they don't have that parasocial youtuber-esque "face-to-face content" vibe, and we don't get the same kind of insight into their lives. So we can only critique or congratulate them as hosts, not make fun of or sympathize with them as people, which means we can say pretty much nothing about them, because they're obviously fine at hosting videos. I mean, they got the job, right? So yeah. Nothing unexpected, less funny comments. Also moderation, see above in replies.

Dear sir or madam. If you would be so kind as to read my reply thoroughly, you would see that I have, in fact, made no such assumption. I merely stated that my humble guess is, if one were to do a certain thing like the one described in the aforementioned reply, it could, under certain circumstances, be feasibly considered a so-called 'tax fraud'. I did not (nor will I) comment on the probability of Linus, or the reader, being involved in such a marvelous yet distinctly fishy scheme. Please take appropriate measures to ensure such a fundamental misunderstanding of others' comments by yourself doesn't happen again. Sincerely Yours, Not A Lawyer P.S. I started this thing mildly mockingly pedantic, but then it just sorta snowballed. So anyway, hope you enjoyed.

Well, you can probably save some money if you list your personal pool as a business expense. But I'm pretty sure that stunning legal move is called 'tax fraud' in most jurisdictions. (This is not legal advice, btw)

Does this imply you'll either refund the time spent talking to you or replace yourself with the proper most unlikable douche if it turns out that you're not?

Linus did say on WAN show repeatedly that his effort of shadowbanning the really, really mentally handicapped (should've worn a helmet, I guess) people was paying off. I guess this is just it. And while I can't fully support shadowbanning people without a cap on ban duration, I must admit, it's quite inspiring that sometimes all you need to do to facilitate quality discussion is ban 0.1% of the people participating in it. The principle of filtering out the garbage by people who produced it is just so powerful, even outside the Internet, it brings me joy.

I think this video is to a regular old review what a 3D movie is to a regular old movie. It feels mainly focused on the nice flow and visuals, with some amount of structure to hold it all together. It's a good review, like Avengers is a good movie. But it's no Oppenheimer. It does bring a PC guy up to speed on how good exactly the Vision Pro is, but I just feel like, after a month in production, it should have been at least just a little bit more, and it saddens me. Not in a snobbish "your lack of elegancy disgusts me" kind of way, but in a "I was invested in it because I wanted to hear a new and exciting take" kind of way. The production issues feel a little bit weird in the video. Showing how the Vision Pro behaves with a poor WiFi signal may actually be pretty valuable, but Linus only mentions this as an annoyance, not as a thing to keep in mind about the product. The Alex's FOV bit is a little disorienting, because it lasts just enough for you to shift your entire attention from what the heck was going on in the video previously onto the Alex segment, and ends precisely at the moment that process ends, leaving you with a "what the heck just happened?" feeling. I think this is perhaps the best review for the dozens of us that are considering actually buying the thing. Which, in my opinion, makes it less exciting for the rest of us that ain't buying it anyway. The best review for those of us that just want to understand the tech powering the Vision Pro and its current state, is perhaps (funnily enough) Snazzy Labs'. There's also a long episode of the Genius Bar Podcast with Quinn of Snazzy Labs as a guest, where he further explains some fun stuff about the technologies of VR. Varifocal lenses are a particularly interesting subject that comes up, and it would have been nice to include some of that information in the LTT review as an explanation for Linus' mysterious eye fatigue after wearing Vision Pro for a while. Snazzy Labs is not a channel that I typically watch for reviews of any kind, it's more of a "and now my brain is gonna be pleased with the shiny lights and funny words of this magic man" type of content for me. Yet here we are. The Verge's review, I think, is probably the best to watch to understand the impact the Vision Pro may potentially have on our future, which at this particular moment is pretty much none. Which brings me to my last point. I think the Vision Pro review may very well benefit from being redone in 3-6 months, when more apps are available for it natively, if they are truly optimized for the Vision Pro. At that point, maybe you will also be able to have some fun with the developer flap hinge thingie with the USB-C port. It's only USB 2. But the darn thing has a MacBook worth of power in it, maybe someone can force it run something. Third-party strap manufacturers will probably ramp up production by that point (i.e. build a hundred or so straps in countires where manual labor costs nothing and call it a day). It'll be interesting, at the very least. And it'll be able to tell a bit more definitely, whether or not Vision Pro is doomed to fail, or set to succeed, provided Apple keeps investing in it.

The whole thing doesn't quite make sense. It just replaces problems specific for your real hardware with problems specific for your virtual hardware. Updating to Mojave is still a hackintosh-flavored pain in the butt: the network drivers break on update, and since there is nobody who is really using anything like that to run Mojave, you just don't know what to do. And frankly, the installation of qemu and setting up the VM are dark and full of terrors for a user who was little experience with linux. At least on my laptop, qemu had some trouble installing it, and I had to resolve some issues before I was able to actually start the machine, which, too, needed some fixing (don't use IDE CDROMs, trust me). It all took about a day. In the end, it would be good, if you could simulate native mac hardware with qemu. Then, you wouldn't have to worry about little things such as audio and network, and it all would be more or less reasonable. (Keep in mind that for your videocard to be used properly by the system, you still need to install the same drivers you would use on a hackintosh) But right now, there's no point to it all, since virtual hardware is just another set of hardware, as rare as any real hardware, and with its own problems.