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"GN didn't reach out to Linus, Linus deserved more" People can definitely say GN didn't reach out for comment is malpractice, but: 1. Some of the issues GN raised in the video, Linus already commented on previously. 2. Some of the concerns were raised directly by LTT's employees. That's why the video should still be taken seriously. However, GN, LTT, or other reviewers always reach out to manufacturers for comments before posting a negative review or comment, even if GN is treating LMG as a company, they still should've given LMG a chance to respond, and include the response in the video.

Linus personally doesn't like it, that's fine, but viewers don't only care about Linus' opinion, each viewer has their own priorities. Linus chooses to misrepresent a product that normal people don't get to test for themselves, which hurts the viewer, the "trust me it's bad" attitude is awful. Many viewers watch tech videos because we don't get to try and test all the products before buying. Linus chooses not to spend the $100, $200, or $500, and the consumers take the consequences, or the companies that made the products pay, that's not necessarily wrong, but as someone who always talks about integrity and holding themselves at a higher standard as Linus does, this smells hypocrisy.

LTT has been making more errors than before, some are serious ones, that need to be called out, and if you are a regular viewer you definitely have noticed. LTT has a responsibility to not mislead the public as much as they can. Labs creation progress has been rushed, they literally show their testing methodology is still a work in progress. You might be personally fine with the error tolerance, but that doesn't mean LTT can't be called out on putting out unpolished products, especially when they are stating they want to be respected as serious testers and hold other companies accountable while having staff downplaying other creators' testing validity. LTT's mixed content format makes people feel like their videos should be taken as pure entertainment, but that's not the case when it comes to reviews and tests, LTT Labs should've had a bit of separation from the main channel from the get-go, but obviously, Linus wouldn't commit to the cost associated to that. Linus is asking the public to do a lot of the heavy lifting in parsing through information before purchasing products. As someone who stated that the communicator has more responsibility than the receiver of information, this does seem hypocritical. People don't always watch LTT videos with 100% of their attention, some of those correction notes only are on the screen for a short time, and people don't always notice or go back, those band-aids are more for covering Linus' ass than making it easy for people to receive accurate information. LTT needs a re-group, not just small fixes here and there while the public is taking the consequences. It's not the first time Linus choose the defensive route when being criticized. The "there's nothing more to be said" attitude is wrong, the new CEO needs to course correct.

I turned on HDR in windows and other games could do HDR as well. So my previous assumption about DisplayPort 1.2 not supporting HDR is just wrong then?

I have the MSI Optix MAG274QRF-QD. On paper the monitor supports HDR but it comes with DP 1.2 and it's only 300 nits so I just ignored the HDR feature. But yesterday I played Madden 21 and the game automatically turned HDR on and the monitor went into HDR mode. I then tried Cyberpunk and Shadow of the Tomb Raider and both games had HDR greyed out. Is this due to the HDR implementation of Madden? How did it even get HDR to work on DP 1.2?

can someone help me understand the benchmark here? I want to know if there's anything abnormal and if I want to upgrade what I should upgrade first? CPU or GPU? DX12, 1080P, DLSS off, RTX off, AA:SMAATx2

Most SD cards speed is under 60Mps, so that means USB 2.0 reader will handle it fine. Will there be a performance upgrade if I buy a USB 3.0 reader?