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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Well, according to this thread he's an absolute mastermind who never ever does any fuckup and instead always does completely stupid stuff with very careful planning so that he can make videos about it.  Kia Soul Enthusias posted:Their naivety is what generates them content and makes them very successful. They're making millions on entertaining people. 
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Jeff Fatwood posted:Just how much money are they making/hemorrhaging holy poo poo If I'm remembering correctly the property alone cost them 10 million, and they put 1 million down on it, which was apparently a substantial amount of their liquidity. It's going to cost them a fortune to get it started and to maintain it with staff and projects etc. I don't know how you start making money with it with videos alone. Have to imagine they have some other revenue plans. Outsourced testing for smaller companies or something, maybe? Who knows. It's a huge leap for them and I don't envy the anxiety Linus is probably feeling about that big of an investment. I do envy his really big house, though.
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:Their naivety is what generates them content and makes them very successful. They're making millions on entertaining people. I think we all agree on that now. It's just that having the same approach to a property purchase as, say, dropping a CPU seems reckless. The fact that the new place is supposedly for a new level of serious product testing makes it even more, idk, unwise. Again, they are successful and happy, so what the gently caress do I know E 10 million, holy gently caress. I hope that it was all an elaborate ruse. And good luck explaining to companies that you are a serious testing place, in spite of your hundreds of tech-pratfall videos Lmao YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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I don't think any company sponsors LTT videos for actually technical analysis, it's purely for the views. And none of them bar sometimes Anthony seem equipped for anything beyond an entry level helpdesk job in terms of doing anything actually useful in IT. Anyway their clickbait video thumbails still suck me in sometimes.
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Yeah fair. I really need more info to judge how they did the real estate deal, I think people here seem to be jumping to conclusions and don't really know how screwed you get buying in Vancouver. If you take the time to get an inspection someone else will outbid you etc. At least for homes. They expect to sell a lot of their screwdriver and backpacks in the short term to help get some more money.
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10 million for an industrial unit? That sounds like a hell of a lot but maybe the market is just that hot, or it's huge.
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it's both huge and the vancouver real estate market is a total shitshow.
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Three Olives posted:I'd say they desperately need an actual CEO, but a former our supplier was owned by an idiot that grew a small business into multi-million dollar company with hundreds of employees and ran through a series of professional CEOs that he drove off by meddling and micromanaging, I figure Linus would be the same. I have a cousin who took over his father's business who grew it to a point and then hired an actual CEO. They sold it a few years later for a few hundred million. It would never have happened if they kept management in the family. This isn't even a tech business, it's food so the valuation was probably based on something tangible.
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Thanks Ants posted:10 million for an industrial unit? That sounds like a hell of a lot but maybe the market is just that hot, or it's huge. I think he said it's around 20k square feet. The market in Vancouver does look to be incredibly insane right now. I looked up the nearest large city to me (200k population) and Chicago listings for 20-30k square ft. Prices go from 0.9 to 1.5 mil "locally" and 0.8 to 6 mil in Chicago (the lower end ones are just this side of abandoned/blight judging by a quick glance at the pictures). I popped over to Vancouver and prices are 8-18mil (CAD). 10 mil Canadian is 7.75 mil US. So for a modern building that is up to code, it's on the high end, but looks about right for the market at this insane moment.
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lol that it's acceptable to gut a property, removing lightbulbs and doorknobs before handing it over, but also OK to leave ENORMOUS adidas branding stickers on every wall?
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I don't know about you but I'm not eager to take product testing info/advice from Linus Media Group. I generally trust GamersNexus, but the way Linus and his staff throw poo poo at the wall and deliberately half-rear end things does not inspire confidence. Yes, in theory Linus and his chuckleheads won't have their hands all over the Serious Business aspect and someone more competent will do the actual testing, but I can already predict the wave of "Linus Labs did this completely wrong" reactions.
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Aware posted:I don't think any company sponsors LTT videos for actually technical analysis, it's purely for the views. And none of them bar sometimes Anthony seem equipped for anything beyond an entry level helpdesk job in terms of doing anything actually useful in IT. Anyway their clickbait video thumbails still suck me in sometimes. Currently that's the case, bit they've said that's what's they're planning to do, that's what they extra space and new hires are for. They are a bit vague about it, bit maybe it won't always be part of the YouTube stuff. Yeah, I'm often sucked in by thumbnails. I might try that extension that changes them and see if it's any hood YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Something something just charmingly naive https://twitter.com/linusgsebastian/status/1536933187271610368?s=21&t=gPkWaro45TVbWam5Ljtt2A
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Adolf Glitter posted:Currently that's the case, bit they've said that's what's they're planning to do, that's what they extra space and new hires are for. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-for-you/omoinegiohhgbikclijaniebjpkeopip?hl=en https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clickbait-remover-for-youtube/ I installed it a few months ago and would never go back, also have it set up to alter all titles to just have the first letter capitalised, really cuts back on all the WOW MUST SEE stuff
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Ya'all remember that thing about beige PCs?Tom Hardy posted:Hope all is well.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Ya'all remember that thing about beige PCs? That's interesting and really good of him to come back to you.
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Charles Leclerc posted:That's interesting and really good of him to come back to you.
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Worldshatter posted:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-for-you/omoinegiohhgbikclijaniebjpkeopip?hl=en Nice, thanks.
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This is another must-have extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone
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Thanks Ants posted:This is another must-have extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone Seconded, can't believe it took me this long to get it.
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Thanks Ants posted:This is another must-have extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone Linus Sebastianly: Excuse me sir, this is tantamount to piracy
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Thanks Ants posted:This is another must-have extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone Thanks to you Linus' children will now go hungry. Monster.
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The amount of sections that SponsorBlock has for LTT is hilarious. I had to switch off the "off topic* one though as there were so many that it was unwatchable My stats say that I've saved over 2 days in total, lol That's been s year or so, and I do watch a lot of YouTube though YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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There isn’t anything like SponsorBlock for iOS is there? I loved the Freetube+SponsorBlock app for android and would recommend it for anyone who wants to stay away from the official YouTube client.
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There is, but you have to jump through some hoops with iOS sideloading: https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
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Sponsorblock is fantastic and it really chops up LTT videos more than most lol
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ltt also said on the wan show a bit ago that they wanted to stop doing intros and stuff like that in the beginning, because youtube might ding them for viewers skipping the start of a video
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Sponsorblock is fantastic and it really chops up LTT videos more than most lol The worst for me are car videos lately. Manscaped and Keeps. Ugh. The latest though is Magna which at least is an automotive technology company. Where I don't have sponsorblock I just automatically double tap right 6 times or right arrow 6 times.
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The Grumbles posted:Something something just charmingly naive I can't see the post they're replying to but I don't like "nobody's business but their own"
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Extremely white millionaire has poo poo views on minorities, news at 11
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:I can't see the post they're replying to but I don't like "nobody's business but their own" They must have deleted their post thanks to being overwhelmed by the unneccessary negative spotlight Mr. Sebastian put on the q. But it was essentially just like "Are there any openly queer tech youtubers out there/where's the queer visibility in the tech youtube world? If they're out there I'd love to follow them". Completely innocent and understandable question.
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So that's this week's Wan Show rant locked in I guess.
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Aw shoot a week without a mansion rant?
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maybe to steer it away from mansion chat but I want to shout out TechTV baybee probably responsible for my current tastes in (bad) youtube entertainment. I know Leo laporte has a thing but is his audience just... boomers? And the angry bald guy has a thing but neither of them seem compelling 
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I found this super interesting, one of the most respected audiophile reviewers on the internet goes super in depth on Linus' new headphones measurement rig and rigs in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc__cF6i2mw
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Most of the previous headphone reviews on LTT where top notch audiophoolery.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Most of the previous headphone reviews on LTT where top notch audiophoolery. are you telling me that crab rave is not a scientific measurement
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