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Pilfered Pallbearers posted:We’re in the dead months where no one releases anything. That’s all. Also, the stuff that is out is unobtanium (Ryzen 5000 has been out 4 months and is only now regularly staying in stock at MSRP and GPUs (both current- and last(!)-gen) are still only available at stratospheric pricing) so there's less demand for reviews to decide what to buy because the average consumer just can't buy stuff right now.
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Linus Tech Tips did another insanely expensive and pointless project, this time an Xbox controller made of solid gold (which is so fragile it can only be handled with cloth gloves): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQaV0JidZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk2E1Tunoc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-tDammqiKw Between this and buying $50k of GameStop stock it's a wonder Linus's wife hasn't divorced him yet.
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So for April Fools Linus Tech Tips announced they were opening an Only Fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJwjqZZgcWk Neat joke, huh? Well, they actually did open one and accidentally became a top 1% creator on the platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzx96dGtmws&t=135s Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Apr 3, 2021 |
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I like how they pointed out in the video that their results aren't even valid because they were basically just adding fresh (cold) tap water every minute or so such that the performance of the radiator didn't really matter.
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Apr 19, 2021 19:38
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This is the cringiest LTT video I've seen in a long time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coVxNAYPzWo
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Oct 17, 2021 19:57
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It looks like LTT got jealous of all the fancy test equipment Gamers Nexus was buying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3-6BsWlPk
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Nov 17, 2021 21:42
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Michael MJD normally just makes videos loving around with various tech things, but recently he put out an actual documentary on the iconic Windows XP "Bliss" wallpaper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rildi0Izs
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Jan 4, 2022 00:23
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Linus talks a lot about how much QA/due diligence he does when ordering new merch on The WAN Show, so it probably shouldn't be a surprise it's decent quality for what it is.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:47
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I'm watching the WAN Show and Luke needed to install an ad blocker to read an article (because the ads were literally covering the entire page) and Linus was visibly consternated and reminded him it's company policy that ad blockers are disallowed on company computers 
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Feb 19, 2022 03:55
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 It's because they're a media company that gets ~75% of their revenue from ads and it would be "hypocritical" for them to support ad blocking (even though their employees would be a freaking molecule of water in a bucket).
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Feb 19, 2022 05:44
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I think the rumor was entirely down to him announcing he was leaving Anandtech within like a day of Linus announcing he was creating LTT Labs to do more scientific/analytical reporting compared to their usual fare. I think on the WAN Show right after that he said he'd love to have Ian at LTT Labs but he didn't think he could afford him and/or provide enough material that would be interesting to him.
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Romes128 posted:I’m glad there’s 3 micro centers easily accessible to me. They're probably selling out everything they get in in-store, leaving no inventory for their online store.
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Mar 25, 2022 19:03
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CoolCab posted:took me one and a half since they didn't do the intro, which honestly does not say nice things about my ability to detect LTT rhythms lol IIRC, they mentioned on a recent WAN Show they're planning to phase out the intro since Youtube now punishes you if people skip too much of the first ~minute or so of your video.
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Apr 1, 2022 15:40
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Fun fact: did you know that Linus Tech Tips used to be a house painter? And he is currently getting his new mansion repainted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298tsR9Mgh8
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New 8-bit Guy YouTube Poop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9yp03G3bc
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It's actually because Germany and some other European countries mandated light-colored equipment in offices, and economies of scale kicked in and made it the only color you could get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skbgEGEn80
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May 7, 2022 13:46
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LOL, Linus didn't want to pay for movers so he got his office staff to do it for him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirwWTJ42ck Also, at 10:45-11:05 one of Linus's kids gets a burn in on him
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May 17, 2022 22:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiUFAXU8_lM A particularly  prebuilt gaming PC.
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May 21, 2022 17:39
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Guess which techtuber included this image in a recent video: Yes, it's The 8-Bit Guy.
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Lol, Linus spent thousands of dollars on hundreds of smart switches for his new mansion and they don't work  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAiXzKOTNY
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 Is it just me, or is this meme a bit  coming from a channel whose founder very publicly purchased a literal god-damned mansion in one of the most expensive property markets on the planet.
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forest spirit posted:ssshit what are the other youtuber threads, I only know of RLM and I don't go there. So are they entertaining dumpster fires? As mentioned the other big one is the one in RGD which mostly focuses on media critics and lefty video essayists. It regularly has multi-page derails, most frequently about Star Wars, Zack Snyder, and anime, which can on occasion be entertaining but are mostly tedious. I'd say it's at least worth a skim to check out what videos are being posted, even if you ignore all the discussion inbetween. C-SPAM also used to have a Youtube thread but it became too much of a cesspit even by the standards of the C-SPAM mods so they shut it down and told everyone to go post in the RGD thread instead  .Edit: I also just remembered there's one in YOSPOS as well, though it's pretty low-traffic.
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The 8-Bit Guy failed to repair a CRT driver board and had to ask Adrian to help him. Normally I wouldn't give 8BG too much poo poo over it since 8BG is clearly not any kind of electronics expert, but the main problem with the board was that 8BG put a replacement chip in backwards even after his brother warned him to double-check the orientation as he was doing it which is just  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiSXeCf9tw
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Linus didn't mention it but the YT chat for basically the entire 3 hour show was people arguing about whether Linus is good or bad. No, that's way out of character for WAN Show chat. Usually they're decently engaged with whatever topic Luke and Linus are talking about, and Linus brings up points raised in the chat. Linus was also really pointedly ignoring their paid "merch messages" (superchats that don't give YouTube a cut) until the very end of the show whereas he normally also answers a few inbetween main topics.
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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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On the WAN Show, Linus just announced he's planning to launch a Spanish version of the channel. That wouldn't be too unusual, but they are LTT so of course they're doing it differently: they plan to use machine learning to transcribe their videos, machine translate the transcription, and then synthesize a new voiceover. He gave a quick demo and it was pretty dire, especially the voiceover. The chat was practically begging Linus to just use subtitles instead.
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Props to Linus, he addressed the defective backpack carabineer pull design on the WAN Show tonight. He demonstrated how easy the current ones are to break and he's saying he will send a full set of replacement zipper pulls to all backpack owners once he has a finalized design for the replacement, showing off multiple prototypes during the show.
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So apparently Twitch streamer Asmongold and a bunch of others got together and started a PC building company with the former staff of Artisian Builds. Linus Tech Tips did a video review of one of their more expensive systems and then Asmongold did a live reaction to Linus's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPrJKQ2HH28 (He plays Linus's video in its entirety, including the sponsor segments.) It has some pretty funny moments, including how mad he gets at Linus dunking on the company's logo (which, Linus's puerile humor aside, is terrible because I assumed it was supposed to be an Atari 2600-style joystick and not a hammer, which is what Asmongold insists it's supposed to be). Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:I'm just watching the WAN show in background, the piece about Youtube's 4K premium poo poo, and they mention that Youtube was running an experiment by resetting people's playback settings to some lower resolution, checking to see how long it took to react, if at all. The same thing happened to me too! Another time I was also in a different "experiment" as well which broke the Transcript feature on Firefox (it worked in a private browsing tab and when logged out and I verified I was being delivered different JS bundles between logged in and not). In that case, after I used the "Send Feedback" option to report the bug they reverted me to the default player.
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Tiny Timbs posted:In the context of other Batman games, remember that Arkham Knight performed so poorly on PC that it was pulled from sale until they could patch it. They didn't even really patch it, either. They just rereleased the same broken version once the controversy had died down. Fortunately a community member figured out the issue and wrote their own patch. It turned out that either they had no texture caching or it was completely broken, and shimming a cache in plus a few other tweaks pretty much fixed the issue.
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Remember that LTT video where they were pushing Nvidia's "8K gaming" talking point last gen? Now that they're no longer getting paid by Nvidia to talk about it they put out a new video debunking it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y5jEK-72JQ
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 (This is a "reverse" AI art bot where you give it an image and it generates a prompt that would cause other bots to give you something close to the original image.)
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LTT put out a pretty good video debunking some audiophile garbage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFQ3YvR3Eo
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AlternateAccount posted:It almost makes more sense for video cards to have a separate power brick externally and a plug of their own at this point. 
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Jeff Geerling did a collab with Serve The Home to compare a cluster of Raspberry Pis against a "real" ARM server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5UbSJOyog
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It looks like LTT were actually in touch with the Stadia developer that sent them their system so they were able to get a lot of documentation and other information about developing for Stadia that Steve didn't get (since he purchased his system off a random auction listing), some of which Linus shares in their video.
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LTT did a reaction video to all their worst and cringiest videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E44CQ-8ooI
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