Oh he reached out to them, agreed to send it and their graphics card (that they didn't use for the testing) back to them and then sold auctioned it off.

Rules for thee, not for me.

Linus is a massive narcissist. He literally thinks he's special.

Yeah. That hit me hard was well. Dude is apparently way more unhinged than most people knew. In his rise to fame, he's become a complete hypocrite (which also isn't unique).