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HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs (m.youtube.com)
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[–] 408 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

So let me get this straight.

  1. Linus screwed over a small two-person startup with his own incompetence by using the product in an unintended way and not using the GPU and instructions which were provided for him.
  2. Stole their prototype which they needed to develop their product further, even going so far as to sell it at auction.
  3. Goes on record to say "yes, we screwed up but it would cost $100-$500 to fix it so I'm not going to and no, I'm not apologizing for that". (That amount of money is chump change to him.)
  4. Lies about offering to recompense the company. They didn't do that until after getting called out.
  5. When he gets criticized for screwing over this company for his own mistakes, rather than owning up he tries to gaslight everybody into think he is somehow the victim?? "Today was so hard bros" oh poor wittle multi-millionaire Linus... I'll be sure to pray for you while I struggle to pay my rent.

What a fucking piece of shit, fuck him. I hate people like this that simply can't own up to mistakes and have to deflect all criticism.

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  • [–] 192 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It's not just the Billet Labs thing, GN showed a pattern at LMG of rushing out bad test data and therefore wrong conclusions to keep up the frankly ridiculous volume of videos they put out.

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  • [–] 94 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's the sort of thing that makes me really, really sad for the people working there. That crazy breakneck pace cannot be good for mental health.

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  • [–] 105 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    This is the kind of thing a union (which Linus, of course, has said he's very against) would help with

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They somewhat recently did a "what do lmg employees really think of working here" video, and it seemed like the #1 complaint was the pace. I really hope they take this criticism to heart and just... Slow down for a bit

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Part of the equation here is the transparency. It's good that they are transparent and I do think they listen. Part of the interesting side to watch is the interaction with the community.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I used to like LTT up until their "Linux Challenge" videos which were just a pain to watch. Shit like this coming from the biggest tech channel on youtube just drives me up the wall.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That bit made me cringe. You go to the file, and can download using the Raw button or using wget. It’s not hard, it’s ignorance.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It also has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with how Github works. I actually give him a pass on nuking X while installing Steam, that shouldn't happen(although he did get a nice big warning, but that warning was far from user friendly). But some of the other stuff they ran into was "This doesn't work exactly like windows, therefore is bad." type stuff.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    In that video he did everything that everyone recommends not to do when trying out Linux:

    • Never copy paste and execute random code from the internet.
    • Never execute commands on the terminal you don't fully understand what they do.
    • Never say yes or okay to any dialog prompt unless you understand what the dialog is asking about.

    He is stupid, he paid the stupid tax. Linux didn't do any of the things that went wrong in that video, it was his own stubbornness and ignorance.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    the problem with a lot of these recommendations though is that to a non-linux user: all code is random, and no commands are understood. you only learn by doing, and if you cant do until you know, you'll never get anywhere. you gotta make a few mistakes to learn anything, and thats what happened. yea he paid the stupid tax, but so does everyone else while they learn a new thing. that was the entire point of the challenge: how hard is it? and it turns out, quite! info is scattered, theres lots of commands and code that sounds like it'll do what you want but is actually a bad idea (as evidenced by the recommendations you point out), and things can break easily. thats the video.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    How would someone who doesn't use GitHub or linux know how to do that?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    GitHub shouldn't be a method of software distribution, but a lot of FOSS devs take the easy way out. Understandably so; they're volunteering their time. Still, Linus is in a position to show how it works rather than complaining.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Linus shits on entrepreneurship with his continual BS with easily caught bad data. No reputable companies should touch him. Anything he pushes to his viewers should be suspicious. I’ll be wondering how much LMG gets under the table for posting positive reviews.

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  • [–] 73 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Woah woah woah woah!

    I dunno how many times this has to be said!

    He didn't SELL it! He AUCTIONED it!

    That's a distinction that needs to be made!

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  • [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was almost ready to be with you, but after reading the tweet from Madison elsewhere in the thread, Linus is going to have to go above and beyond to fix things.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    See, everything's really actually tooootally fine and Linus is a totes wonderful dude who runs a happy little family worth a hundred million dollars.

    Except his employees endure various forms of abuse and are visibly afraid of him at least some of the time. So much suffering is clearly a price many are willing to accept. Companies drive people to breakdowns and literal suicide and... oh well, I guess? What are people gonna do, think a little? Care a little? Post one tweet (or Xcretion or whatever the fuck) on the way to go buy the latest from a company that just killed someone, or destroyed their mental health and ability to live, or maybe "just" (said very sarcastically) groped them a bit and caused a crapload of undue stress besides? No wonder my mind's all fucked up: I look at the people around me and few of them would so much as skip a DLC to make this world any better. Everything is fucked and it's only going to get worse and I feel like I'm gonna implode if I have to see one more comfortable prick explain how his precious fucking rich white guy parasocial pal only accidentally constantly screws people over. He's really a nice guy, actually! Probably tons of fun to have a beer with! Funny on screen!

    What's some peon's life, or a dozen, or a hundred or thousand or million of them compared to the complete comfort of someone who's just such a good ol' boy?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    FWIW, Luke was clearly trying to prod Linus into acknowledging the problem of the "trust me, bro" warranty on the WAN show instead of treating it like a joke. I think he was also making some expressions of dissatisfaction about how that cooler block review was handled, which is a major part of this.

    Obviously, there's only so far he can push things on his employer's platform. Plus, the two of them have been friends for a long time. But I do wonder if he's going to break in the not so distant future.

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