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    Tawkin reacted to LinusTech in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    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.
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    Tawkin got a reaction from soldier_ph in Ban on socks in sandals   
    So this was in today's (Danish) newspaper .. 
     
    Google Translate of the original link.
    https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.b.dk%2Frokokoposten%2Ffolketinget-vedtager-forbud-mod-sokker-i-sandaler&edit-text=&act=url
     
    Made me instagiggle
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    Tawkin got a reaction from Roll_Like_Rollo in Experiences with non-techies   
    Back in the early 90's, the IT-company i worked for had a customer who had just tossed all their old DOS based PC's to replace them with brand new OS/2 based dittos.
     
    In this company the bookkeeping was done by an elderly lady who at that time probably was in her mid-sixties. She'd been with the company since the sixties and had only reluctantly accepted the introduction of computers into her area of expertise when they came along. This she made sure to tell everybody about, repeatedly, who cared to listen (or like me, the external consultant) was forced to do so.  
     
    Now gone was the old DOS boot menu where she had learned to press 1 and ENTER to start up the management system. Instead she had a mouse, an arrow-cursor on the screen and an icon that needed double clicking. This was the first time she had ever seen a computer mouse so i tried to ease her into the experience very very gently:
     
    - "Mrs. Larsen" i said, "Do you see how moving the mouse around on its pad makes the little arrow move on the screen accordingly?" I asked her.
     
    She tried out the mouse, moved it from one side to the other, and gave me one of those looks elderly people in particular are able to give, that just says "you should be ashamed of yourself for wasting my time so excessively with your juvenile shenanigans".
     
    - "Yes" was the one word that left her lips.
     
    - "Now move it to the corner of the screen, where you see that little blue icon and once there click the left button on the mouse, twice".
     
    She looked at me.
    She looked at the mouse.
    She looked at the monitor and then back on the mouse.
     
    Then she grabbed the mouse firmly, lifted it up, away from the pad, all the way to the corner of the monitor, right in front of that blue icon, and double clicked like a champion.
     
    I had no words. None.
     
    At this point, her boss, the owner of the company, who'd been observing from the door to his office, went into hysterical cramps of laughter. I have never since had a harder time trying to keep my poker face around a customer.
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    Tawkin reacted to Sauron in Dennis   
    You watch LTT videos...
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    Tawkin got a reaction from DocSwag in Experiences with non-techies   
    Back in the early 90's, the IT-company i worked for had a customer who had just tossed all their old DOS based PC's to replace them with brand new OS/2 based dittos.
     
    In this company the bookkeeping was done by an elderly lady who at that time probably was in her mid-sixties. She'd been with the company since the sixties and had only reluctantly accepted the introduction of computers into her area of expertise when they came along. This she made sure to tell everybody about, repeatedly, who cared to listen (or like me, the external consultant) was forced to do so.  
     
    Now gone was the old DOS boot menu where she had learned to press 1 and ENTER to start up the management system. Instead she had a mouse, an arrow-cursor on the screen and an icon that needed double clicking. This was the first time she had ever seen a computer mouse so i tried to ease her into the experience very very gently:
     
    - "Mrs. Larsen" i said, "Do you see how moving the mouse around on its pad makes the little arrow move on the screen accordingly?" I asked her.
     
    She tried out the mouse, moved it from one side to the other, and gave me one of those looks elderly people in particular are able to give, that just says "you should be ashamed of yourself for wasting my time so excessively with your juvenile shenanigans".
     
    - "Yes" was the one word that left her lips.
     
    - "Now move it to the corner of the screen, where you see that little blue icon and once there click the left button on the mouse, twice".
     
    She looked at me.
    She looked at the mouse.
    She looked at the monitor and then back on the mouse.
     
    Then she grabbed the mouse firmly, lifted it up, away from the pad, all the way to the corner of the monitor, right in front of that blue icon, and double clicked like a champion.
     
    I had no words. None.
     
    At this point, her boss, the owner of the company, who'd been observing from the door to his office, went into hysterical cramps of laughter. I have never since had a harder time trying to keep my poker face around a customer.
  6. Funny
    Tawkin got a reaction from kachel94 in I think LTT makes up a majority of Vessel views...   
    Absolutley no need for @LinusSebastian or anyone else from the LinusMediaGroup to explain themselves. Keep up the good work, the high quality of content and great sense of humor that you've been providing us all with - mostly free of charge - for the past half of a decade.
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from tuffjuff in I think LTT makes up a majority of Vessel views...   
    Absolutley no need for @LinusSebastian or anyone else from the LinusMediaGroup to explain themselves. Keep up the good work, the high quality of content and great sense of humor that you've been providing us all with - mostly free of charge - for the past half of a decade.
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from givingtnt in I think LTT makes up a majority of Vessel views...   
    Absolutley no need for @LinusSebastian or anyone else from the LinusMediaGroup to explain themselves. Keep up the good work, the high quality of content and great sense of humor that you've been providing us all with - mostly free of charge - for the past half of a decade.
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from ChrisCross in I think LTT makes up a majority of Vessel views...   
    Absolutley no need for @LinusSebastian or anyone else from the LinusMediaGroup to explain themselves. Keep up the good work, the high quality of content and great sense of humor that you've been providing us all with - mostly free of charge - for the past half of a decade.
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from Tigerbomb8 in I think LTT makes up a majority of Vessel views...   
    Absolutley no need for @LinusSebastian or anyone else from the LinusMediaGroup to explain themselves. Keep up the good work, the high quality of content and great sense of humor that you've been providing us all with - mostly free of charge - for the past half of a decade.
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from MrUpload1000 in Network layout showoff   
    A quick draw up of my setup.. Ask and I'll gladly elaborate..
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from Ceatra in What was your first computer?   
    The first real computer i sat in front of was the old Pet 2001


     
     
    The first computer i owned my self was a Lambda 8300, ZX-81 clone


     
    The Computer i first started programming on was on the RC Piccoline / Comet. The programming language was Comal-80 - a mix between Pascal and Basic.

     
    Then came the C64 / C128 / Amiga 500 before it all turned PC
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    Tawkin reacted to Archetype in What was your first computer?   
    IBM PS/2
     

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    Tawkin reacted to TacticlTwinkie in Worst WAN show ever!   
    More like best WAN Show ever.
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    Tawkin got a reaction from Popemaster69 in 10K Viewers on the WAN show ...   
    Congratulations guys =)
     

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    Tawkin got a reaction from Robi_g in 10K Viewers on the WAN show ...   
    Congratulations guys =)
     

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    Tawkin reacted to Blueprint in 10K Viewers on the WAN show ...   
    Perhaps in the future?
     


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    Tawkin got a reaction from TheMcSame in Experiences with non-techies   
    Back in the early 90's, the IT-company i worked for had a customer who had just tossed all their old DOS based PC's to replace them with brand new OS/2 based dittos.
     
    In this company the bookkeeping was done by an elderly lady who at that time probably was in her mid-sixties. She'd been with the company since the sixties and had only reluctantly accepted the introduction of computers into her area of expertise when they came along. This she made sure to tell everybody about, repeatedly, who cared to listen (or like me, the external consultant) was forced to do so.  
     
    Now gone was the old DOS boot menu where she had learned to press 1 and ENTER to start up the management system. Instead she had a mouse, an arrow-cursor on the screen and an icon that needed double clicking. This was the first time she had ever seen a computer mouse so i tried to ease her into the experience very very gently:
     
    - "Mrs. Larsen" i said, "Do you see how moving the mouse around on its pad makes the little arrow move on the screen accordingly?" I asked her.
     
    She tried out the mouse, moved it from one side to the other, and gave me one of those looks elderly people in particular are able to give, that just says "you should be ashamed of yourself for wasting my time so excessively with your juvenile shenanigans".
     
    - "Yes" was the one word that left her lips.
     
    - "Now move it to the corner of the screen, where you see that little blue icon and once there click the left button on the mouse, twice".
     
    She looked at me.
    She looked at the mouse.
    She looked at the monitor and then back on the mouse.
     
    Then she grabbed the mouse firmly, lifted it up, away from the pad, all the way to the corner of the monitor, right in front of that blue icon, and double clicked like a champion.
     
    I had no words. None.
     
    At this point, her boss, the owner of the company, who'd been observing from the door to his office, went into hysterical cramps of laughter. I have never since had a harder time trying to keep my poker face around a customer.
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    Tawkin reacted to LarsReviews in How Do You Like Your Coffee?   
    black
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    Tawkin reacted to LinusTech in Random Approaching Nirvana Album Giveaway   
    Since we often use their music (for free! They're such cool guys) and (usually correctly) credit them, they sent me 10 codes for thier latest album "Reboot"
     
    The first ten people to redeem these codes win!
     
    3rk4-5unf av3j-b5vm r9a8-cftg a2ft-wpuu 7va5-ga6s xb9g-u78l ha2n-ej7j 4fmm-uypk qwr6-juu8 ghv2-gpmn   Sorry, once they're gone, they're gone. I expect this to last a matter of seconds. 
    If you miss out on the giveaway, and you love Approaching Nirvana's music, then check out the album here   http://bit.ly/1r4Z2TH
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    Tawkin got a reaction from mayu in Is your steam library going to last forever?   
    Very much not planning on being alive in 2100 ... (I'd be 131 yo by then) .. but since you can pretty much VM anything to day I'd expect a compatibility option to be there. One example is the MESS project where software from all the way back to the 1950's are being kept alive today .. 
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    Tawkin got a reaction from Mujteba in The increase in views since this summer   
    (as discussed on the after-party tonight)
     
    I'm pretty sure I have a good explanation as to why and it has everything to do with this video.


     
    In short, it's all about community engagement. Inviting your followers in behind the polished and scripted productions at the kitchen counter, to see all the crap and chaos around that surrounds it, is plainly and simply very engaging to a lot of people. This goes for the whole room water cooling vid's as well as most of the "Channel Super Fun" videos.
     
    Also, however frowned upon, planting teasers for upcoming vid's in the beginning of the one you're watching drives people to subscribe. 
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    Tawkin reacted to linusforsell in The increase in views since this summer   
    I completely agree. Showing the audience behind the scenes truly invites for a much more deeply rooted engagement. Its always fun to see and hear about the issues and challenges one can run into, for example.
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    Tawkin got a reaction from terrytek in The increase in views since this summer   
    (as discussed on the after-party tonight)
     
    I'm pretty sure I have a good explanation as to why and it has everything to do with this video.


     
    In short, it's all about community engagement. Inviting your followers in behind the polished and scripted productions at the kitchen counter, to see all the crap and chaos around that surrounds it, is plainly and simply very engaging to a lot of people. This goes for the whole room water cooling vid's as well as most of the "Channel Super Fun" videos.
     
    Also, however frowned upon, planting teasers for upcoming vid's in the beginning of the one you're watching drives people to subscribe. 
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    Tawkin got a reaction from EarthboundHero in The increase in views since this summer   
    (as discussed on the after-party tonight)
     
    I'm pretty sure I have a good explanation as to why and it has everything to do with this video.


     
    In short, it's all about community engagement. Inviting your followers in behind the polished and scripted productions at the kitchen counter, to see all the crap and chaos around that surrounds it, is plainly and simply very engaging to a lot of people. This goes for the whole room water cooling vid's as well as most of the "Channel Super Fun" videos.
     
    Also, however frowned upon, planting teasers for upcoming vid's in the beginning of the one you're watching drives people to subscribe. 
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