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[–] 408 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (15 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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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago (25 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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    [–] 246 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Jesus fuck Linus. Half the reason you are popular is because people trust your statements; and you are just flushing that away.

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago

    They would have never done this to a larger manufacturer, but since the prototype was a passion project by two tech enthusiasts they simply did not care at all. It's frankly disgusting.

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    [–] 151 points 3 years ago

    Linus just straight up lied about Billet labs resolution. That alone is horrendous behaviour.

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  • [–] 109 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    While not being directly related it might be worth noting that a former employee of lmg has now come forward on twitter to describe in gory detail the kind of treatment she received while working there. The culture there sounds utterly disgusting and based on their history it is all extremely believable. Link to the post

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago*

    This post should be pinned. I went in not liking her because to be she came off on camera as unlikable (giving you this context so you know my mindset going in to the read).

    By the end, I was sickened, disgusted and appalled at the treatment she got. I have obviously unsubbed. I was going to wait this out to see how LMG solved this but fuck them. I wish her all the best and as swift a recovery as possible.

    The saddest thing is, reading that post, you can tell exactly when she's quoting linus even when she doesn't mention him.

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    [–] 69 points 3 years ago

    Linus is always dropping shit, and this is no different.

    Also, don't fuck with tech Jesus

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  • [–] 65 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    It's looking like Linus should have taken that $100 million offer he got and left when he had the chance.

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    [+] 52 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A labs employee mouthed off and GN went full scorched earth

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

    Steve actually said in the first video that they didn’t respond at all to the labs’ employee comment.

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  • [–] [B] 49 points 3 years ago

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago

    Wow. When you're supposed to wait and hear from both sides and this is what comes... Yikes. Went to check and read the whole response and any other replies that might have come from it on their forum and found ~115 pages (oops 2 more while writing this) of discussion after Linus' post.

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