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Soul Glo posted:He’s a Pixel fanboy who’s been honest with his problems about the Pixel 6 line, at least. He isn’t afraid to be negative, he just genuinely doesn’t seem to have many gripes about recent iPhones or Samsung phones. Honestly, reviewing a device that sells a trillion units a year and is therefore as polished and refined as it can possibly be, by the largest companies on the planet, honestly must be tough. Like what is there really to say about the new iphone? Its faster than the last one 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Honestly, reviewing a device that sells a trillion units a year and is therefore as polished and refined as it can possibly be, by the largest companies on the planet, honestly must be tough. Yeah, and his refrain the past couple years on every flagship is just that. Technically faster, here’s a small size difference (maybe), what else. MKBHD has even talked about how we might be at “peak smartphone” and how the innovation year over year has stagnated. Every one of his reviews contain something like “you know what to expect here,” because if you keep up with this poo poo, you do know what to expect year over year. I’m not sure what he could be doing to satisfy shill accusations short of pulling his hair out and gnashing his teeth that cell phone makers haven’t put a headphone jack back on their flagships? Like, what do people want. Also there’s a difference between product critiques, product reviews and product shilling, but lots of people seem to think if you aren’t doing the first with deep dives on negatives then you are automatically doing the last, which uh, isn’t true by default. These days a “review” is just an overview and letting the audience come to their own conclusions.
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Soul Glo posted:These days a “review” is just an overview and letting the audience come to their own conclusions. What I'm not terribly happy on MKBHD "reviews" is that there are lot of lying by omission. His AirPods Max video speak wonders about the microphones for noise cancellation and such while forgetting to tell that you will sound like talking in a bathtub in any call.
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Soul Glo posted:MKBHD has even talked about how we might be at “peak smartphone” and how the innovation year over year has stagnated. Every one of his reviews contain something like “you know what to expect here,” because if you keep up with this poo poo, you do know what to expect year over year. Review more phones that are under $500? His 2021 "best value" award was a $600 Pixel 6, which is dumb as gently caress. IMO looking at nothing but flagships is kinda being an industry shill. His sole points of comparison are other flagship phones, so yeah the differences in features are relatively minor. A good reviewer would have a couple cheap phones that are stand-outs in some particular area (gaming, photos/video, etc). And so when discussing a feature set you'd have some wider reference points, and some cheaper alternatives for people that don't need a flagship phone but do want a phone that's excellent at something in particular. Having zero reference to anything under $500 is telling people that they should spend close to a thousand dollars on a phone, which is what the industry would like them to do. That's why it's kinda shilling. (Not that MKBHD is the only person doing this by a long shot. Can't remember the last time I saw Ars Technica review a cheap laptop, and their Cars section has been really gross at catering exclusively to the BMW market. Why would you make content about things made for poor people? That means you'll have lots of poor people in your audience. Your ads metrics will be full of poors!)
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MKBHD is 100% pure shill. In the shilling side, he’s significantly worse than Linus is, just better at hiding it.
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It's been quite a while I watched anything from MKBHD. In regards to Apple, most of it is in the software, and last I remember, if there's been something really annoying or typically Apple obstructive, any criticism he had manifested in tapdancing around the issue trying the hardest to avoid pointing it out directly. The old issue of not making GBS threads where you eat, if you want to keep getting preview devices ahead of release.
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dude's a tech enthusiast, he's welcome to just be someone excited about technology without wanting to look at the nastier underside of things his interviews with people like elon aren't exactly hardhitting journalism. but someone like john gruber isn't exactly the most unbiased person for all things apple either no one really wants to be in the business of tech review journalism, because it's usually a horrible seo/quota grind interspersed with death threats from demented fanboys i don't think mkbhd dips into those awful communities the way jay and linus often do
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yes, so, in summary, a shill nobody's calling for him to be cancelled or burned at the stake, we're just saying he's not a very good reviewer
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buglord posted:We need a GamersNexus of apple products I'll do it: just don't buy them.
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VostokProgram posted:I'll do it: just don't buy them. WASTE OF SAND
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM waste of everything
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buglord posted:We need a GamersNexus of apple products Weirdly, that's the reason LTT launched their Mac Address channel with its own host. Linus identified that there was a gap in the market of Apple device coverage for someone who wasn't dependent on Apple sending them review samples and Mac Address was the result. Of course, it's still not as in-depth or journalistic as Gamers Nexus but it does seem to be better than most Apple-focused media. EDIT: On the WAN Show after it launched, someone asked if he'd do a similar Linux channel and basically said there's no money in catering to Linux nerds.  (Not in those words, of course.)
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Klyith posted:Review more phones that are under $500? I would like literally any phone reviewer to do this whenever they're complaining about how nothing at the flagship end beyond the foldy gimmick is interesting. Go down and see what's going on in the mid and low range, see how much performance is being squeezed out of products that don't have infinite budget because the kind of people who buy flagships will literally pay anything. As the $1500 foldable market has handily demonstrated.
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njsykora posted:I would like literally any phone reviewer to do this whenever they're complaining about how nothing at the flagship end beyond the foldy gimmick is interesting. Go down and see what's going on in the mid and low range, see how much performance is being squeezed out of products that don't have infinite budget because the kind of people who buy flagships will literally pay anything. As the $1500 foldable market has handily demonstrated. When people click the affiliate links, 0.5% of $150 is not as much as 0.5% of $1,200. The end. Ad revenue is poo poo compared to affiliate link revenue for product "review" channels.
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wargames posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM waste of everything The special short handle for Linus-sized hands definitely indicates this as not solving Linus' specific problems in an incredibly expensive way.
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wargames posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM waste of everything Boy they should have listened to that first company. I hope for everyone at LMG's sakes their next hardline product gets a defined Product Manager to handle the entire process that isn't Linus.
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Mr.Radar posted:Weirdly, that's the reason LTT launched their Mac Address channel with its own host. Linus identified that there was a gap in the market of Apple device coverage for someone who wasn't dependent on Apple sending them review samples and Mac Address was the result. Of course, it's still not as in-depth or journalistic as Gamers Nexus but it does seem to be better than most Apple-focused media. Yeah I’m actually subbed to that because the host is nice to listen to. He seems to love apple products but also is critical about them if they miss the mark.
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wargames posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5Gqp1cEcM waste of everything I'd rather get this Wera ratcheting screwdriver which comes with a Lifetime Warranty. It is also cheaper and in stock. https://www.kctool.com/wera-073661-kraftform-kompakt-27-ra-2-sb/
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let us remind ourselves here that what we're doing here is subscribing to product reviews as entertainment. like, you're voluntarily submerging yourself neck deep in consumerism and making it part of your identity. it doesn't really matter what the hosts actually say at that point. gamersnexus skirts the edge because they're more of an independent industry news outlet than a content marketing studio, and even in their product reviews you can tell they're trying to tone down the consumerism aspects. people complain about their reviews being boring with steve just reading numbers off a chart, but knowing Steve that might actually be kind of intentional on some level - you shouldn't be watching the review just for the sake of watching the review. of course, not even Steve is immune to the economic realities of the advertising economy and you can tell he's been frustrated lately because it's been difficult to get people to actually watch the content he thinks is interesting, rather than just the usual "hey look new shiny product" fare. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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TheFluff posted:let us remind ourselves here that what we're doing here is subscribing to product reviews as entertainment. like, you're voluntarily submerging yourself neck deep in consumerism and making it part of your identity. it doesn't really matter what the hosts actually say at that point. Disagree on this. I watch most of the GN reviews so I’m up to date and can help other people build. Plus it just keeps me in the loop for when I’m ready to build. GN doesn’t do shilling of any kind, or even really skirt. For their advertising, they absolutely refuse to make dubious claims or statements. Steve has talked before about specifically denying advertisers or copy because they won’t make those claims, even in a very clearly marked paid spot. GN doesn’t even take money for flights or lodging to cons or announcements. They go extremely out of their way, even more than is probably necessary, to remain impartial. They don’t even show marketing slides unless they have to, or as a comparative basis for their own data. The only thing the really actually adhere to is review embargo dates, and even on that they go out of their way sometimes to get retail samples if they’re available.
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Mr.Radar posted:EDIT: On the WAN Show after it launched, someone asked if he'd do a similar Linux channel and basically said there's no money in catering to Linux nerds. He's not wrong, though searching 'linux' on the LTT channel it looks like their linux content actually does ok -- not mega viral but nothing has less than 1M views. But also L1Techs already exists and nobody at LTT is gonna do better. TheFluff posted:let us remind ourselves here that what we're doing here is subscribing to product reviews as entertainment. like, you're voluntarily submerging yourself neck deep in consumerism and making it part of your identity. it doesn't really matter what the hosts actually say at that point. A little bit, but you're also making yourself a more informed consumer (if you're watching / reading outlets that do good reviews, and not glorified unboxing shills). If you do a thing as a hobby, it's valuable to know things about the hobby. If I do backpack camping I want to know about backpacks and hiking boots and tents. Knowing nothing about those things and buying crap that sucks is going to ruin the experience. Same with the uninformed consumer who buys an Alienware so-called 'gaming' PC. It's mindless consumerism if you then go out and buy poo poo that you don't use, or is stupidly in excess of the requirements. The PC space has plenty of this -- people who drop several K per year on having the best esports PC possible at all times. I've often thought that if you swapped out a few components in many people's high-end enthusiast PCs with mid-range stuff, the owners actually wouldn't notice. But this is not unique to PCs; pretty much every other hobby that you can spend money on is like that. People spend money in pursuit of status? No poo poo!
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i like to know stuff about computers and it seems objectively true that the multimedia format has taught me in a few years what decades of experience hadn't. you can inform and educate about this stuff, which is very routinely obscured to gently caress and develop useful tools you can use to help people in your life, as a nice pocket skill and ability to help your friends. i like that stuff, i like to tinker.
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I bought the linus screwdriver which I'm sure isn't a wise purchase, but seems neat enough I don't think I will regret it very much. I can pretty reliably guess what my impressions will be of it. It's very very similar to my current favorite screwdriver, also made by Megapro. The attempted improvements on the linus one seem to be made with good intentions but I can only hope there isn't some significant flaw, but these improvements definitely aren't worth the 3x price increase over the MegaPro compact. The current screwdriver I have is the MegaPro Compact Ratcheting Screwdriver which sadly seems to have been discontinued and the only ones left are in random online Canadian hardware stores. Linus was right about wanting to shorten the length of the standard Megapro IMO. 
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Someone buy him a case that isnt 20 years old
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the new ltt screwdriver video has linus saying "i'm a perfectionist control freak who hates making money" we know linus
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Jeff Fatwood posted:Yet he seems to be a millionaire, curious he, like us, does unfortunately live in a society
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Watching him giggle at how much money his "Trust Me Bro" shirt was making definitely makes me feel that that statement about not caring about making money is perhaps maybe not true.
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THF13 posted:I bought the linus screwdriver which I'm sure isn't a wise purchase, but seems neat enough I don't think I will regret it very much.
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I've never been in the midst of tightening the screws on computer components and thought 'i wish this screwdriver ratcheted'. If I'm honest I'm not sure I even know what a ratchet is outside of rap music.
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The Grumbles posted:I've never been in the midst of tightening the screws on computer components and thought 'i wish this screwdriver ratcheted'. If I'm honest I'm not sure I even know what a ratchet is outside of rap music. It means that when you turn it one way, it just spins. So uhh... you don't have to let go of the screwdriver as you're turning it, you can just go back and forth. Which is very important for PC building because as we know all the screws are very long and the hard part is definitely turning them in and not lining them up to get them started. Also, with all the corrosion and stuff in PC screws the ratchet mechanism will definitely work and not just spin in reverse anyway because there's too little load.
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I've got a ton of screwdrivers but the super long ones that come with the Scythe Fuma 2 and Mugen 5 to reach down to the mount through the fin stack are really useful for PC building since they're Philips #2 with an extra long shank. Wera laser tip are good for household stuff, though. I got a 60 year old rusty bathroom fan out of the ceiling a couple of weeks ago with one and it didn't slip unscrewing the numerous 1960s flat heads from the brackets they used.
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I guess if you're doing a lot of work that needs a screwdriver the ratchet will save you time and be a little bit less annoying than the way you normally use a screwdriver. Though as K8.0 says, PC screws usually don't have enough load to make the ratchet actually turn. When I've tried using a ratcheting screwdriver I've often had to turn the ratchet off.
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ok lol we don't need to tear down the idea of a ratcheting screwdriver, cowboy
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