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Charles Leclerc posted:Being performatively mad about how people spend their disposable income, regardless of whether it is a YouTube dork's backpack, a juicero or a smart toaster, is really lame and you should probably stop being so bitchmade about it is my ripping hot take. Imagine being so bitchmade you're buying Youtuber merch, lmao. Also, people should buy less garbage in general. I realize Americans don't know how environmentalism works, but buying garbage isn't the way to a sustainable future.
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you know you can spend money however you want, we are blessed and cursed with a horrible radical freedom to do whatever on earth we want, within reason. that is not the same thing as being above reproach for such actions on the ground of say oh i don't know pull an example out of nowhere taste say, hrm no reason.
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i think one of the things that really suck now is how much fashion is fast fashion, and how much stuff on, say, amazon, is often counterfeit or something arbitrarily ordered from china. amazon/e-commerce definitely didn't help here i wouldn't be surprised if all those trends have helped drive merch sales, aside from the usual community effect; it's nice to just be able to read that a product will support certain things without giving you lead poisoining using the help of slave-like labour, instead of having to cross-reference various descriptions and reports for a product on amazon earlier today, i saw someone elsewhere link some really cool clothes, but the prices were so low i grew suspicious, and it turned out to be some sister company to zara backpacks were going to become a fashion/merch objects at some point, and i don't care too much about the price of the backpack as the absurd hypocrisy of the warranty waffling, on top of the t-shirt reaction
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Aug 28, 2022 20:25
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i simply use a purse and a nice office bag when needed. my fashion is looking fly all the time
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cool, envrionmentally conscious europeans only buy baguette loaves and wicker baskets
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Criss-cross posted:Imagine being so bitchmade you're buying Youtuber merch, lmao. I mean come over to AI and see the dumb poo poo we do with money. Or the water cooling thread. Or whatever else. If it's not taking food off your family's table why are strangers on the internet so bothered about how you spend your hard earned? It's super loving weird.
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If I'd preordered the Linus backpack I would simply be much less defensive about it on an internet forum.
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njsykora posted:If I'd preordered the Linus backpack I would simply be much less defensive about it on an internet forum. no one here has preordered it i don't think three olives was defending his overpriced lovely toaster but that's classic three olives for you
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Aug 28, 2022 22:42
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Arivia posted:no one here has preordered it i don't think Charles Leclerc posted:I can always do a chargeback on my backpack and feel no guilt, so gently caress it all I guess?
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VostokProgram posted:Probably. Most people who would need an expensive backpack have already bought it. E.g. when I went backpacking, I bought a good backpack for that. This is like those 30-minute commercials: convincing you that a gimmick product will change your life when before the commercial you didn't see any need for it. pretty much the entire "tech" youtube space is infomercials
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Aug 29, 2022 01:15
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Most of YouTube (and especially nerd YouTube) is just content marketing at this point, there are weirdos running independent channels here and there but they're pretty rare. Nerd identity is pretty entangled with consumerism and nerds love watching product reviews, so nerd interests are particularly plagued by this. We need a lot more jocks to shove us into lockers so we don't dare to buy  LED stuff
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TheFluff posted:Most of YouTube (and especially nerd YouTube) is just content marketing at this point, there are weirdos running independent channels here and there but they're pretty rare. what the gently caress do you mean you want to see actual functionality tested in an unboxing video
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njsykora posted:If I'd preordered the Linus backpack I would simply be much less defensive about it on an internet forum. i wouldnt. i would be posting photoshopped pictures of myself outside with the backpack and my Tesla Model 3 smirking at all tjhe "poors" around me with their "amazon basics" backpacks.
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Criss-cross posted:Imagine being so bitchmade you're buying Youtuber merch, lmao. I'll be the one laughing when the value of LGR socks goes sky high!
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I've learnt today that ratcheted screwdrivers range in price about 5x what I'd expected. An orange Snap-On screwdriver like Linus used to carry is AUD$192, the Wera is AUD$79 and you can get a Stanley or Trojan for ten or twenty bucks. The LTT model would be about $100, less shipping. If I were so invested in the art of driving screws that I'd be happy to spend $100, I'd probably rather get one from a brand where I could replace a lost or damaged screwdriver the same-day, in-store with an exact same, or near to same, model. It's a strange product. Anyone willing to drop that sort of money on screwdrivers likely has had a lifetime of screwdrivers, right? Are people going through these things and always hunting for an upgrade?
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Charles Leclerc posted:I mean come over to AI and see the dumb poo poo we do with money. Or the water cooling thread. Or whatever else. i like to make fun of dumb products because they make me laugh like a backpack that gets its zipper direction from anime
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Aug 29, 2022 04:31
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A ratcheting screwdriver for $70? What the gently caress? Craftsman, Klein, Milwaukee are all around $20-25 and all offer basically lifetime warranties.
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I have never considered the idea of a warranty for something like a backpack, i can't really imagine what would go wrong with it other than something tearing or a zipper going bad but I figure that just comes with the territory
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Aug 29, 2022 04:52
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My old man was a mechanic for decades and, based on how he talked about them, Snap-On tools cost as much as they do is because their warranty policy is basically: in the trivial unlikelihood that a tool ever wavers in your lifetime then the employee that made it will hand deliver you a replacement same-day and you are allowed to slap them in the face medium strength up to 3 (three) times There is no way that LTT is seventy dollars worth of standing behind these things
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DoombatINC posted:My old man was a mechanic for decades and, based on how he talked about them, Snap-On tools cost as much as they do is because their warranty policy is basically: in the trivial unlikelihood that a tool ever wavers in your lifetime then the employee that made it will hand deliver you a replacement same-day and you are allowed to slap them in the face medium strength up to 3 (three) times Snap on has to cover the costs of their calendars too (aroogah!)
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Snap-on doesn't even sell directly to customers right? You have to go to a truck and do a super secret mechanic handshake to buy from them
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When the time is right (you will not know, they will know) you will be visited by The Snap-On Guy; they travel by van but their van travels by mysterious swirling dust cloud that no one else is able to see
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Charles Leclerc posted:Being performatively mad about how people spend their disposable income, regardless of whether it is a YouTube dork's backpack, a juicero or a smart toaster, is really lame and you should probably stop being so bitchmade about it is my ripping hot take. Linus has gone from Sherpa of the computer people to out of touch millionaire in record time and people are having fun clowning on him for it I think you're reading the room wrong on this, I don't think anyone is mad here. But also your take is still somehow wrong, like if people did wanna get mad about bad products thats cool too. Stuff doesn't emerge out of nowhere and the juicero shouldn't exist in a world that is literally in the process of ending because we can't stop making and buying objects
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Just lol at him being baffled and amazed at a loving power distribution connector. Something that is in the majority of servers and workstations. Any machine with a slide out type of psu has one, just usually partly covered Oh and then claiming to have thought up the concept already, in his galaxy brain Oh, and the one when he was visibly angry at the work shelf of the psu tester as he assumes, probability correctly that it will be expensive. Pure Small Business Brain to spend 6 figures on specialist equipment and then want to save a fraction of the cost by homebrewing part of it to save gently caress all. Same with the included pc. Good luck getting support for it if you connect it to your own slightly cheaper computer YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 10:55
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impossible to tell what this video might be about, this clickbait has gotten out of hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dNzSjaFQQ
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YouTuber commentary on YouTuber commentary? These guys must be at the benthic part of the food chain
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HUB wants to get invited back to LTX
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kliras posted:impossible to tell what this video might be about, this clickbait has gotten out of hand It's one of their monthly Q&A videos, which tend to be where some of HUB's dumber opinions come out like "It's only right for GPUs to increase in price according to performance"
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njsykora posted:It's one of their monthly Q&A videos, which tend to be where some of HUB's dumber opinions come out like "It's only right for GPUs to increase in price according to performance" Lol I paid $150 for a RIVA 128, so it makes sense that a 3090 costs $850,000, given the amount of additional performance it provides.
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as long as this means intel will pay me $150 to get an arc
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kliras posted:as long as this means intel will pay me $150 to get an arc Intel extreme tech upgrade for the little guy
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Snap-On's warranty isn't even that good, particularly on power and air tools. The first tool-truck-brand hook is that the truck comes to you. You don't have to leave in the middle of work or in your free time to go to the store to maybe find the tool you need. The Snap-On guy will have it when he comes around, or he will get it pretty fast. The second hook is the financing. Don't have the cash for that $9000* toolbox? No problem. The Matco guy can finance it for you. The third tool truck hook is success signaling. If you have a Craftsman or Husky box, you can't possibly be the Master Tech. * That is not an exaggeration at all. The tool truck toolbox is objectively better than what you can get at the hardware store. The drawer slides are so strong you can stand in the drawers, the metal is thicker, the casters roll better, etc. Is it 6X price better? Not for me it isn't. That price is not an exaggeration at all. The toolboxes are absurdly expensive. Anyway, the only time I have ever damaged a tool when working on a computer is when I knew I was using the wrong tool for the job (example: trying to use a flathead screwdriver to try to loosen a tight torx screw or a #1 Phillips where a #2 is obviously called for). Tool truck tools are generally meant for automotive work where the passage of time, extreme temperatures, and exposure to corrosive elements are a factor.
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Tiny Timbs posted:YouTuber commentary on YouTuber commentary? These guys must be at the benthic part of the food chain Linus loooooves to come in at the tail end of whatever mild controversy is brewing in the tech youtube space to act like the only adult in the room and deliver the self-proclaimed final word. Watching him be the target of his own shtick is kind of hilarious.
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It's going to be funny when Linus's testing lab encounters a company with poo poo warranty service and he has to call them out on it
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FuturePastNow posted:It's going to be funny when Linus's testing lab encounters a company with poo poo warranty service and he has to call them out on it It's 100% going to happen. He's going to get destroyed while uber fans say "It's not the same!!!!1"
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"They don't offer a warranty, but a written warranty is worthless, anyways. I trust them, and you should, too!"
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Oh did the latest folding phone everyone’s hyping over have it’s screens start cracking after a month like every other folding phone?
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K8.0 posted:Can't wait for every monitor to also be folding so they can break for no reason. I think I saw corsair or someone made one that can be curved or flat, lol.
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