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mewse posted:Linus's new backup solution is super reliable His follow up is where he manages to spend a loving insane amount of cash on a Thunderbolt tape drive when a Tandberg SAS autoloader would have been about two grand cheaper. Edit: Haha he's using LTFS Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Sep 28, 2018 |
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Thanks Ants posted:His follow up is where he manages to spend a loving insane amount of cash on a Thunderbolt tape drive when a Tandberg SAS autoloader would have been about two grand cheaper. I actually tried to contact them because I have experience archiving projects with a visual effects company. Their storage practices are bad and dumb. I tweeted Jake to ask if I could send him an email about their situation but he never replied. e: I hope they're gonna start archiving stuff to tape and that's what the video is about, I can't watch it until this evening
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Anyone know of a channel that does real world workstation type builds and reviews? I would like to see the practical applications of these specialty graphics cards and one specialty super fast equipment.
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Thanks Ants posted:His follow up is where he manages to spend a loving insane amount of cash on a Thunderbolt tape drive when a Tandberg SAS autoloader would have been about two grand cheaper. honestly most of the appeal of the channel is watching the guy spend inordinate amounts of money on things then proceeding to comprehensively gently caress them up; with that in mind the videos are way more enjoyable the actual reviews are pretty execrable tho what with the graphs flashing up for like a second (i know they want you to pause but it just looks weird). also the infomercial style b-roll and the bits where his wife gestures to parts of laptops (which evoke the plane safety videos where the steward shows you how to put on a life jacket imo). don't get me wrong i loving adore cheese but the dissonance when it's clearly being shot with camera equipment that costs more than my house Generic Monk fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:Unbox Therapy is obnoxious as gently caress. I feel like Unbox Therapy also doesn't really know anything about the things he talks about. His videos are just like "omg look how cheap this Android phone is" and the entire video could just be summed up with the thumbnail. At least Linus knows some stuff.
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Oct 4, 2018 18:35
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I would never watch another unboxing video as long as I live if companies were capable of just clearly stating what comes in the package, and maybe taking a photo of it all like Newegg do/did.
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Thanks Ants posted:I would never watch another unboxing video as long as I live if companies were capable of just clearly stating what comes in the package, and maybe taking a photo of it all like Newegg do/did. I think there's a certain allure to seeing people unbox new gadgets. They definitely get views that's for sure. And that's before even getting into ASMR unboxing videos, which admittedly are a guilty pleasure.
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Oct 4, 2018 19:24
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There was some Gamers Nexus video were PC Jesus was being extra sarcastic and posing in various rooms of a fancy house a few months ago. Does anyone remember what the topic/title/url of this video was?
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GutBomb posted:There was some Gamers Nexus video were PC Jesus was being extra sarcastic and posing in various rooms of a fancy house a few months ago. Does anyone remember what the topic/title/url of this video was? This? https://youtu.be/tRH0-QwhvVQ
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cage-free egghead posted:I think there's a certain allure to seeing people unbox new gadgets. They definitely get views that's for sure. And that's before even getting into ASMR unboxing videos, which admittedly are a guilty pleasure. as long as they don't call it a review when the extent of the review is just gesturing to parts of the product
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Oct 9, 2018 12:39
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Yep that was it, thanks.
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I made the mistake of watching Linus' Honor 8X paid promotion video and felt so embarrassed for him. Not only was the whole thing an expensively shot low effort video, but highlights exactly why his channel is so frustrating. I get that he has to do these to pay the bills, but by god, even with his normal snide remarks was it awful and I feel dumber for not knowing anything about the drat phone. Nearly as bad as those unboxing idiots gushing over new products.
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snickothemule posted:I made the mistake of watching Linus' Honor 8X paid promotion video and felt so embarrassed for him. Not only was the whole thing an expensively shot low effort video, but highlights exactly why his channel is so frustrating. I get that he has to do these to pay the bills, but by god, even with his normal snide remarks was it awful and I feel dumber for not knowing anything about the drat phone. Even Pewdiepie did a promotional video for the Honor phones. Twice actually.
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Oct 10, 2018 23:27
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64bit_Dophins posted:I feel like Unbox Therapy also doesn't really know anything about the things he talks about. His videos are just like "omg look how cheap this Android phone is" and the entire video could just be summed up with the thumbnail. That fucker shows up in the recs in any video that is remotely consumer tech related. YT really likes pushing their megamillions yet trashy low-effort superstars.
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Palladium posted:That fucker shows up in the recs in any video that is remotely consumer tech related. YT really likes pushing their megamillions yet trashy low-effort superstars. I feel like it's been getting worse lately. I'm getting heaps of TED talks and things like Valuetainment in my up next. The moment I started clicking on those things I'm getting tons of only the bigger people. Its annoying, I've lost all my indepth tech and dev stuff to a billion Linus, LGR (I do really like this guy, but I don't want him flooding my up next) and random crap videos. Admittedly it's probably my own fault for clicking on that stuff and will probably resolve itself if I abstain again.
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Oct 13, 2018 11:03
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If you're gonna click poo poo, click the poo poo in incognito mode. That way it doesn't fill your history. It doesn't solve the problem but it helps.
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Oct 13, 2018 11:55
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Or don't let it track your history in the first place. YouTube only recommends stuff to me based on what I've liked and favorited.
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You should switch to dark mode.
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I use watch history so youtube only recommends poo poo I've already seen 50% of the time rather than 90% of the time.
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Oct 14, 2018 06:53
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We talk about good tech reviewers. Or people we would like to do better. But I found the worst guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfHZNDTuoM he paid to promote that review as a good example of his work
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Arivia posted:We talk about good tech reviewers. Or people we would like to do better. But I found the worst guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfHZNDTuoM I'm fairly certain this guy's a serial killer.
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I wish people building machines talked about why they use the parts they used. Watching Jay and some Mac guy build a PC for video editing work is fine, but they’re putting a 1080ti in there and it’s not even clear whether they need it for that job or that the building newbie is aware of how overkill it is (they don’t, as evidenced by mounting it vertically against tempered glass to choke for air.) Edit:Apparently it was free from EVGA so that’s why. Wish he had said that up front at the start.
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Craptacular! posted:I wish people building machines talked about why they use the parts they used. Watching Jay and some Mac guy build a PC for video editing work is fine, but they’re putting a 1080ti in there and it’s not even clear whether they need it for that job or that the building newbie is aware of how overkill it is (they don’t, as evidenced by mounting it vertically against tempered glass to choke for air.) I always assume the safest bet for their hardware choices are the centre of the venn diagram of 'who is sponsoring,' 'what freebies we have lying around,' and 'what is totally loving overkill because we can.' I get it when it comes to rando benchmarking vids where they want to eliminate any possible bottlenecks to get an idea of the true, unconstrained performance of a part in isolation, but most of the time it's the nerd equivalent of making it rain.
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Linus's latest crazy project is not going well. Who would have thought connecting 18+ PCIe devices to the same motherboard might not work so well? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBQHK7jIojk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6UtNpbGSHs Also note that this monstrosity is taking up the main meeting room in their office so I'm sure that's fun for all his employees. Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Probably not as annoying as the giant plastic dragon taking up the entire loading dock.
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Company owner taking over an entire conference room so he can crawl around equipment for a project that probably won't work.. seems almost cliche
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Mr.Radar posted:Linus's latest crazy project is not going well. Who would have thought connecting 18+ PCIe devices to the same motherboard might not work so well? What he's going for is kinda neat, but entirely impractical - six editors using one machine, meaning six times the downtime if the server fails, and tons more places for things to go wrong. Not sure why you'd want that vs six discrete workstations that would probably end up cheaper (when you factor in the US$20K in CPUs alone) that you could tweak and upgrade individually. For nerd-cred however, it's cool. That said, why the ever-loving christ doesn't he mount the parts in the case vs. having them all dangle around everywhere (even if he's still tuning things), use a KVM mux vs six uncessesary discrete KVMs, and build things up bit-by-bit vs. trying everything at once and getting frustrated when it doesn't work? If I was trying that sort of thing, I'd start with one complete machine then move on to the next, etc. until I hit problems. Easier to debug, and you also know what subset of your original goal is achievable, instead of "whelp, no idea why it doesn't all work". Edit: I do like LTT videos for the incompetence and sheer volume of product reviews, but man is their editing and click-bait titles annoying.
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EpicCodeMonkey posted:Edit: I do like LTT videos for the incompetence and sheer volume of product reviews, but man is their editing and click-bait titles annoying.
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dissss posted:Probably not as annoying as the giant plastic dragon taking up the entire loading dock. You have to wonder how many of his staff were secretly hoping that crate was gonna collapse under him, when he was sitting on top of it and started kicking away one of the sides.  Also, while I like Linus and his vids for the most part, that particular video was just terrible. Especially near the end when he was trying to "pwn" his wife over how totally cool and rad it was to waste $900 on it, and she was the living embodiment of  about the whole thing.
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I think the first time I heard about LTT on these forums, it was described as Top Gear but with computers. It's a very accurate description: ambitious but rubbish.
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mobby_6kl posted:I think the first time I heard about LTT on these forums, it was described as Top Gear but with computers. It's a very accurate description: ambitious but rubbish. This right here. I enjoy watching his vids, primarily because they're more often than not completely impractical from a PC enthusiast perspective (let alone an actual, real-world business standpoint). It's basically the computer version of watching to see if a trainwreck happens. With that said, there are some enjoyable vids where Linus is forced (for budgetary or practical reasons) to actually come up with a sensible solution instead of the usual "ZOMG LOL SO WACKY" goofiness. Like the one video where he's redoing the wifi for his wife's relative's house in Taiwan, and actually has to put something in that works for what they need and blends in with their decor.
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For me the thing with Linus is he doesn't do actual smart/clever stuff to be interesting and the stuff he does while often kinda dumb usually isn't dumb enough to be actually entertaining. Plus I find his voice very irritating.
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mobby_6kl posted:I think the first time I heard about LTT on these forums, it was described as Top Gear but with computers. It's a very accurate description: ambitious but rubbish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJdrlWR-yFM I want to see Linus send a 486 in space.
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Mr.Radar posted:Linus's latest crazy project is not going well. Who would have thought connecting 18+ PCIe devices to the same motherboard might not work so well? What really funny is he's doing it in the dumbest way possible, the rtx series has a usb-c now, he could do the whole project with 6 rtx 2080 ti and 6 usb-c monitors and skip the exotic pci switch. He could even use single slot rtx's and do it without pci-e extenders.
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mobby_6kl posted:I think the first time I heard about LTT on these forums, it was described as Top Gear but with computers. It's a very accurate description: ambitious but rubbish. I used to watch most of his stuff years ago when he and Luke did a Friday night livestream out of his garage, and he seemed really down to earth, just a guy who was really passionate about computers. I havent watched any of his stuff for over a year and I think that hits the nail on the head; its turned into Top Gear with computers. I actively avoid clicking his videos now so my feed isnt full of him.
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I cackled like a loving fiend at that PCI extender monstrosity that he was doing with more hardware than my life is worth - and yet was completely shut down by good old device identifier limits or whatever. Linus really shows that money doesn't mean sense.
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Arivia posted:I cackled like a loving fiend at that PCI extender monstrosity that he was doing with more hardware than my life is worth - and yet was completely shut down by good old device identifier limits or whatever. Linus really shows that money doesn't mean sense. Quite similiar to him thinking making a raid with the /dev/sd[a-z] format and seeing what happens when you out in the 27th drive.
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Last Friday I watched Linus's stupid livestream about his dragon. And then he hosted Techlinked. And then I watched the WAN show. Much too much imo
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Linus just did a video on affordable VR and never mentioned that you can get a Windows MR headset for like $150 vs $400 for the Rift. Because it's a sponsored video by Oculus lol.
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mobby_6kl posted:Linus just did a video on affordable VR and never mentioned that you can get a Windows MR headset for like $150 vs $400 for the Rift. Because it's a sponsored video by Oculus lol. ...And? It was made clear the whole time that the video was sponsored and while it didn’t tread any new ground it’s always nice to point out that VR doesn’t actually take a computer that costs a ton. The affordable part was the machine not the headset.
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