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Freeman

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  1. I don't understand, if it has coreboot, why couldn't you boot into Linux for comparison? The video went over this part very quickly, so I didn't really understand. From searching, it seems that crostini is just a virtualization layer that allows some *nix container to interact with the hardware. Since chrome os uses Linux kernel, accessing hw shouldn't be difficult, so why use crostini, why not just boot into Linux? (I don't know much about chromebooks, I just want to know).

  2. On 4/13/2022 at 12:22 AM, JonoT said:

    Everyone! 

    Thanks for bringing this up. We decided to remove the Nikon Z9 video due to the glaring issue regarding the specific auto focus mode that was never tested, which ultimately lead to the wrong conclusion. We weren't able to simply fix it by our typical methods or refilm as the loaner camera was sent back after the video was released for retesting and posting a new video. 

     

    We're going to develop a few new ways to address we don't run into this issue again, but thanks for your patience with us on the matter.

     

    Thanks, it's really nice to see a reaction directly from a producer and even with a full explanation, now it makes a perfect sense and thanks for caring about quality of the content. News agencies could learn a lot from you.

     

    2 hours ago, Vilacom said:

    It’s kind of strange to me seeing these kinds of videos on LTT, as a photographer to see a channel like this one reviewing the top of the line S tier gear targeted towards professionals and discussed as a review like anyone who doesnt know exactly what this thing is and if they’re going to buy it or not is kind of like if Linus started reviewing data center machines the same way he does consumer video cards.  

    A review of a high end Leica or the Z9 is just worthless to anyone who is just kind of curious about cameras, as are most things about cameras not in the category of “phone cameras”.  Any discussion of high end camera equipment without discussing lenses is disingenuous at best.  If Brandon wants to just play with cool cameras then sweet! I’d happily watch that, its a good time, but any kind of review is just…eh.

     

    While it's nice to have review for cameras in the $100-600USD range, these videos are useful as well. First of all, there are some pretty loaded people who will buy it just because they like the texture of the grip or whatever, then there are semi-pro photographers who are maybe not so much into the scene, but they've found success within their niche and need to upgrade fast. Many of us are employed at companies with marketing departments, documentation departments etc., those will have a camera like this and incidentally, they probably wouldn't have even bought lenses for it or made sure their glass is compatible, so it's nice to be at least a little familiar with the camera, if you are going to borrow it. And lastly, these do go down in price on a second hand market, so they'd eventually be in a price range of non-photographers.

  3. 13 hours ago, AlexBlob said:

    From what I watched they failed to do some basic research into how the camera operated and just applied the logic that other cameras use. Example being using AF-C rather then AF-F and then saying the camera would not grab focus. 

     

    Ah I see, that is likely it. It would be great if LTT informed on these situations, but it's great that there is a attentive community and a place to discuss this, thanks 🙂 .

  4. I've wanted to go back to a nice review of Nikon Z9 from Brandon, but it has been switched to private. It was not all that positive, but seemed fair and had a lot of information, what has happened to it? Why was it pulled? It was a breath of fresh air to actually hear some constructive criticism in a review, it's really helpful to know about things that might not work well in a class of device, so that you know what to look out for.

  5. Darn, going from an OK title "This Cheap CPU is REALLY Expensive!" to a really silly one "How is this even possible?". That's the opposite of the promised switch to more sensible titles one the video has it's initial surge.

     

    I wanted to watch it and wouldn't have found it, if forum didn't keep the better title.

  6. I love that you are doing factory tours again. I realize that this might have been a limitation imposed upon you, but the structure if the video didn't really take advantage of the fact that you were on location. You were in one spot, talked a bit, then cut to another place. It didn't literary take us through the process and you didn't point things out, just talked about them. If that wasn't a choice of direction, but requirement from the company, please disregard this feedback 🙂 .

  7. 6 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

    The video was what it had to be at launch, and it was explained in detail in the subsequent WAN show. And they said they'd do more in-depth comparisons later. 

     

    Thank you for the additional information, this does make it better. I whish they'd put it in the description, annotation, OP of this thread, anywhere. I just don't know how to discern the entertainment content from the informative content, the high effort from the improv ones. There are some extremely informative and educational videos from LTT that I have learn a ton from, just as there are some videos that are so interesting and you just see the days and weeks that went into them, but then there are some barely scripted that stretch a 2minute idea into 12 minute almost reminding me of a video blog, but with a high production values.

     

    I'm looking forward to the full review, the big-little architecture is quite intriguing.

  8. I have watched a video where you have proclaimed your commitment to in depth reviews, building new facilities, expert hardware analysis and then I watch this video, that I have at first missed because of the non-descriptive title and instead of providing useful information, you've compared the new CPUs on a yet unrefined OS with low adoption rate and wildly inconsistent performance and used different RAM with wildly different clock rates.

     

    Sure, it produces interesting number and makes for an entertaining narrative, but if you are an entertainment channel, just say so, don't make statements about you journalistic commitment, taking the flag from traditional tech media. If you were after informative content, why couldn't you also use the same DDR4 in the 12th gen chips for at least few tests? Why couldn't you run at least a few test on W10, 2k19, Debian and RHEL? All of them much more mature platforms. That would have been genuinely informative content. Why should anyone trust that you will surpass the tech press with state of the art facilities and commitment when here, you could have made an informative content with no additional HW requirements, just additional effort and man-hours and you chose not to?

  9. This is one of the coolest videos you have done and I almost didn't click it because of the terrible title. Fortunately, it popped up in search results. I mean, you even went back to the video, according to metadata, you came back and added subtitles (which is great, it makes the video easily searchable), why not add at least "PTP" or "precise synchrnonization" to the title?

     

    Ahmad and Alex, as well as the rest of the team, had made a great job explaining this, I've learned a lot and am glad to have found the video, but many more wont. I assume there is some reason why you don't just prepare more descriptive title and set like a 3 day reminder to change it, once the views have already spiked, I just can't fathom what it could be.

  10. I think that this video has been out for long enough, that you could put the name of the laptop and more importantly, the company, in the title. I really thing they need to put their name out there, so having it right in the title would be very helpful and would be a great help when navigating the search results.

  11. Yes, these would be great in a home server, so it'd be great if you could fill in their power consumption at idle and under load, compared to Ryzen and also elaborate more on the available MOBOs and the PCI-e expansion they offer at different price-points, since if I have to spend extra in order to utilize the extra, although slower, PCI lanes and then spend more money running it, it might be quite a bad deal...

  12. I've often been wondering, why are the PCI expansion cards that allow access to the disks individually so much more expensive that the ones that offer HW raid? I understand that these HBA controllers that offer a lot of sharing of capacity and crazy expansion with expander modules are pricey, buy if I just want a simple pass-through and don't care much about latency or speed, is there some option for that?

  13. Why does LTT have a cool studio full of cool and talented people, yet every video it's just Linus at his house, usually with a static or a handy cam either doing little prepared unscripted video that takes twice as long as necessary, or one like this, where he just reads a script someone else wrote, which could have just as well been done by a robot.

     

    We are well into month 2 of the two weeks isolation based on symptoms that seem to be based on a marketing decision, rather than reality, since they've never really materialized and this whole thing couldn't feel any more phony.

  14. I was hoping they would compare it against the original passive cooler when it gets a decent airflow, like it might in your standard system. Nothing against the worst case scenario, but with that as the only representation, the information value of the video is somewhat diminished.

  15. 14 hours ago, floofer said:

    This is probably more political than tech really. The way the website says, the malicious code is inserted when user goes to a specific website. Much like any other computer virus. It also targets all devices. Not really apple news or tech news. The source for the news is full of ads and baloney. 

     

    TechCrunch is well known and reputable news source. And the news absolutely is tech, it deals with use of recently discovered exploit and it's use to extrapolate personal and logistical data from mobile phones.

     

    14 hours ago, Commodus said:

    To expand on what floofer said: the exploits also targeted Android and Windows devices.  iOS just got the initial attention because Google's Project Zero disclosure focused on that platform.

     

    If anything, I'd argue that Android users are under greater threat since Google's OS update policies mean there are likely Uyghurs whose phones are permanently vulnerable to the exploits if they're just a year or two old.

     

    The malicious code on the infected websites, which might have been added without the site owner knowledge or consent, was indeed targeting any device, but the attack vectors were critically different. The point of breach used for iOS devices used watering hole 0 day attack that required no further interaction from the user apart from visiting the website. Such an attack is extremely dangerous, as it is hard to do due diligence if you can't even apprise the website safely.
    The Android and Windows attack vectors focus on known penetration practices and require the user to take further actions upon visiting the website in order to gain unauthorized access.

     

    I'd also like to point out how well the community handled this incident. Project Zero worked with FBI on blocking access and with Apple to quickly implement the fix, the whole situation was professionally handled and only then published. These vulnerabilities are unfortunate, but the impact could be mitigated with professional approach and proper communication, both within the industry and by communication with the wider userbase (something I'm trying to help with, at least a little :) ).

  16. 1 minute ago, lewdicrous said:

    With the things that they've already done to those people, I'd be surprised if they haven't done more than what we already know.

     

    3 minutes ago, HeathCliff said:

    Not even surprised at this point. 

     

    True, but I think it's still important to report on it, both to make sure we don't forget about their plight, but also to make sure we don't go down the same way. It's crazy that I still do know people that think China is a great country we should learn from.

  17. The recentl iPhone exploit discovered by Project Zero has apparently been utilized for more than two years by the chinese government to spy on its Uyghur population living in the Xinjiang province.

     

    Quote

    A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned.

    Sources familiar with the matter said the websites were part of a state-backed attack — likely China — designed to target the Uyghur community in the country’s Xinjiang state.

    It’s part of the latest effort by the Chinese government to crack down on the minority Muslim community in recent history. In the past year, Beijing has detained more than a million Uyghurs in internment camps, according to a United Nations human rights committee.

    Google security researchers found and recently disclosed the malicious websites this week, but until now it wasn’t known who they were targeting.

    Original exploit disclosure

    China backed group behind many of the incidents

  18. Quite disappointing video. The idea sounds very interesting, the execution was a huge waste of time. Instead of answering the question in 10 or less minutes, the video drags for 40 minutes, while trying to imitate the format of top gear TV show. Unfortunately, that format was held by the hosts, not its own quality, so for someone who doesn't like the humour displayed, the video is unwatchable.
    Sadly, the attempt to make a funny video has also destroyed the information value. We learn how well can Linus and Brandon compose a shots, not much about advantages of expensive camera. Giving a pro photographer and an amateur a cell phone, mid range camera and pro-summer camera, each for a month, to use in day-to-day life for capturing interesting moments and then seeing the difference in quality of captured images would be much more informative and could be conveyed in fraction of the time used here.

  19. There is still more and more of these blog style, fake banter, less scripted episodes, as opposed to the more compact planned out episodes where host reads the teleprompter. I hope this doesn't become the new standard, as it takes way more time to push across the same amount of information.

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