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Computer of Theseus. Bit by bit it's rebuilt over time as I upgrade the weakest link. Some components are 7 years old. The latest upgrade was 1080 --> 3070, bronze PSU --> titanium.
 
Tech:
 
3900x stock because stability > speed 64gb 2666 stock because stability > speed x470 Tachi 3070 Noctua gigantic big-ass-tower-of-cooling-LTT™ Edition™ Phanteks case Seasonic titanium 1000w 4 spinners + 3 SSD's, 27TB total 3x 27'', one of them 144hz Bic Acoustech sub, Edifer speakers, custom stands Schitt hardware and HD700's Some other misc stuff including $100 in extra-long cables for the monitors, interfaces for the microphone and a 14-port power strip under the desk to power everything Quality of life stuff:
Desktop is a wooden door I got from a resale shop for $5. Desk frame is a $800 standing desk rated to 500lb because a) standard desks don't go high enough B) the setup weighs 200+ lb and I needed the capacity  A 2 inch section of oak handrail I cut from the stock at Home Depot, drilled into the side of my desk to act as a headphone holder Best aesthetic decision I ever made was getting two $10 lamps from Amazon and throwing the lowest wattage bulbs in them behind the screens. Fills out the room with a beautiful soft cast. Everyone should do this.  Three cheap Arctic whatever monitor arms for like $20 each. They actually work unlike the triple-arm scams that cost $200-500 and don't work. Highly recommend mounting monitors on any setup.  Take the arms off your chair and use your desktop as armrests if you're a tall person. It just works better.  Sound treatment in the room. I have a nasty 38hz room resonance that I will never get rid of because physics, but the cheap treatment I did do makes for huge improvements to audio "tightness" in the listening position. Controlling those first reflections is so important.    

Computer of Theseus. Bit by bit it's rebuilt over time as I upgrade the weakest link. Some components are 7 years old. The latest upgrade was 1080 --> 3070, bronze PSU --> titanium.
 
Tech:
 
3900x stock because stability > speed 64gb 2666 stock because stability > speed x470 Tachi 3070 Noctua gigantic big-ass-tower-of-cooling-LTT™ Edition™ Phanteks case Seasonic titanium 1000w 4 spinners + 3 SSD's, 27TB total 3x 27'', one of them 144hz Bic Acoustech sub, Edifer speakers, custom stands Schitt hardware and HD700's Some other misc stuff including $100 in extra-long cables for the monitors, interfaces for the microphone and a 14-port power strip under the desk to power everything Quality of life stuff:
Desktop is a wooden door I got from a resale shop for $5. Desk frame is a $800 standing desk rated to 500lb because a) standard desks don't go high enough B) the setup weighs 200+ lb and I needed the capacity  A 2 inch section of oak handrail I cut from the stock at Home Depot, drilled into the side of my desk to act as a headphone holder Best aesthetic decision I ever made was getting two $10 lamps from Amazon and throwing the lowest wattage bulbs in them behind the screens. Fills out the room with a beautiful soft cast. Everyone should do this.  Three cheap Arctic whatever monitor arms for like $20 each. They actually work unlike the triple-arm scams that cost $200-500 and don't work. Highly recommend mounting monitors on any setup.  Take the arms off your chair and use your desktop as armrests if you're a tall person. It just works better.  Sound treatment in the room. I have a nasty 38hz room resonance that I will never get rid of because physics, but the cheap treatment I did do makes for huge improvements to audio "tightness" in the listening position. Controlling those first reflections is so important.    

Computer of Theseus. Bit by bit it's rebuilt over time as I upgrade the weakest link. Some components are 7 years old. The latest upgrade was 1080 --> 3070, bronze PSU --> titanium.
 
Tech:
 
3900x stock because stability > speed 64gb 2666 stock because stability > speed x470 Tachi 3070 Noctua gigantic big-ass-tower-of-cooling-LTT™ Edition™ Phanteks case Seasonic titanium 1000w 4 spinners + 3 SSD's, 27TB total 3x 27'', one of them 144hz Bic Acoustech sub, Edifer speakers, custom stands Schitt hardware and HD700's Some other misc stuff including $100 in extra-long cables for the monitors, interfaces for the microphone and a 14-port power strip under the desk to power everything Quality of life stuff:
Desktop is a wooden door I got from a resale shop for $5. Desk frame is a $800 standing desk rated to 500lb because a) standard desks don't go high enough B) the setup weighs 200+ lb and I needed the capacity  A 2 inch section of oak handrail I cut from the stock at Home Depot, drilled into the side of my desk to act as a headphone holder Best aesthetic decision I ever made was getting two $10 lamps from Amazon and throwing the lowest wattage bulbs in them behind the screens. Fills out the room with a beautiful soft cast. Everyone should do this.  Three cheap Arctic whatever monitor arms for like $20 each. They actually work unlike the triple-arm scams that cost $200-500 and don't work. Highly recommend mounting monitors on any setup.  Take the arms off your chair and use your desktop as armrests if you're a tall person. It just works better.  Sound treatment in the room. I have a nasty 38hz room resonance that I will never get rid of because physics, but the cheap treatment I did do makes for huge improvements to audio "tightness" in the listening position. Controlling those first reflections is so important.    

There is also embargo's. Where a video is done, uploaded and rendered on the platform. But not "published" or marked private until a specified time. Or videos which had been expected to be taken down. Plenty of tricky subjects. They're fortunate there seems to not really have been anything amiss with what was public for a time period. That could have caused some serious problems were an embargo'd review leaked by no fault of their own. I could only imagine the legal shitshow that would entail. 
 
Also really goes to show how important thumbnails are for a channel and the "clickability"  of a video. Seeing the a\b difference is wild. 

Computer of Theseus. Bit by bit it's rebuilt over time as I upgrade the weakest link. Some components are 7 years old. The latest upgrade was 1080 --> 3070, bronze PSU --> titanium.
 
Tech:
 
3900x stock because stability > speed 64gb 2666 stock because stability > speed x470 Tachi 3070 Noctua gigantic big-ass-tower-of-cooling-LTT™ Edition™ Phanteks case Seasonic titanium 1000w 4 spinners + 3 SSD's, 27TB total 3x 27'', one of them 144hz Bic Acoustech sub, Edifer speakers, custom stands Schitt hardware and HD700's Some other misc stuff including $100 in extra-long cables for the monitors, interfaces for the microphone and a 14-port power strip under the desk to power everything Quality of life stuff:
Desktop is a wooden door I got from a resale shop for $5. Desk frame is a $800 standing desk rated to 500lb because a) standard desks don't go high enough B) the setup weighs 200+ lb and I needed the capacity  A 2 inch section of oak handrail I cut from the stock at Home Depot, drilled into the side of my desk to act as a headphone holder Best aesthetic decision I ever made was getting two $10 lamps from Amazon and throwing the lowest wattage bulbs in them behind the screens. Fills out the room with a beautiful soft cast. Everyone should do this.  Three cheap Arctic whatever monitor arms for like $20 each. They actually work unlike the triple-arm scams that cost $200-500 and don't work. Highly recommend mounting monitors on any setup.  Take the arms off your chair and use your desktop as armrests if you're a tall person. It just works better.  Sound treatment in the room. I have a nasty 38hz room resonance that I will never get rid of because physics, but the cheap treatment I did do makes for huge improvements to audio "tightness" in the listening position. Controlling those first reflections is so important.    

Computer of Theseus. Bit by bit it's rebuilt over time as I upgrade the weakest link. Some components are 7 years old. The latest upgrade was 1080 --> 3070, bronze PSU --> titanium.
 
Tech:
 
3900x stock because stability > speed 64gb 2666 stock because stability > speed x470 Tachi 3070 Noctua gigantic big-ass-tower-of-cooling-LTT™ Edition™ Phanteks case Seasonic titanium 1000w 4 spinners + 3 SSD's, 27TB total 3x 27'', one of them 144hz Bic Acoustech sub, Edifer speakers, custom stands Schitt hardware and HD700's Some other misc stuff including $100 in extra-long cables for the monitors, interfaces for the microphone and a 14-port power strip under the desk to power everything Quality of life stuff:
Desktop is a wooden door I got from a resale shop for $5. Desk frame is a $800 standing desk rated to 500lb because a) standard desks don't go high enough B) the setup weighs 200+ lb and I needed the capacity  A 2 inch section of oak handrail I cut from the stock at Home Depot, drilled into the side of my desk to act as a headphone holder Best aesthetic decision I ever made was getting two $10 lamps from Amazon and throwing the lowest wattage bulbs in them behind the screens. Fills out the room with a beautiful soft cast. Everyone should do this.  Three cheap Arctic whatever monitor arms for like $20 each. They actually work unlike the triple-arm scams that cost $200-500 and don't work. Highly recommend mounting monitors on any setup.  Take the arms off your chair and use your desktop as armrests if you're a tall person. It just works better.  Sound treatment in the room. I have a nasty 38hz room resonance that I will never get rid of because physics, but the cheap treatment I did do makes for huge improvements to audio "tightness" in the listening position. Controlling those first reflections is so important.    

Yeah that's a fair point. There could be a large amount of technical debt of how the backend systems work. Youtube accounts, Google accounts with Youtube accounts, video editing, flags, everything. Imagine how they would have had to bodge in merging of Google & Youtube accounts into one unified system. Two probably completely different db systems, done live, seamlessly to the user. 
 
Still though. You would think after 4 years of dealing with disaster recoveries someone could come up with a process to un-fuck it... 

Then why not do both? If a formal warranty doesn't actually make a difference - why not just include it as a formality?
 
People feel like they aren't being told WHY it isn't being included, if, according to Linus, it doesn't make a difference and the end result is the same. If that were true, you would just include it anyway, especially when pressed about it. But because it's completely off the table, there must be some "Cost" attached to it that is potentially more expensive than the honor system he's currently saying is the policy. 
 
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It's got to be a widespread systemic issue for this to happen to a tech journalist like this. The probabilities otherwise are just too remote.