2 days ago Gamer’s Nexus made a video calling out inaccuracies in LTT videos, including a pattern of behavior where mistakes aren’t corrected due to self-imposed time constraints. One of these inaccuracies was testing a prototype water block intended for a 3090ti on a 4090 instead and shitting on it for not performing on the wrong card. GN also calls out LMG selling the prototype water block instead of giving it back to Billet Labs like they were supposed to. The outcry was immediate. Linus made a post in response where he opens with “We didn’t sell it. We auctioned it for charity” which is ridiculous. He claims that they already had a deal to compensate Billet Labs for the prototype. He also basically does a half apology but also doubles down and says the water block is still terrible because of the price regardless of its performance. He’s also like (paraphrasing) “Yeah, I guess we made the wrong video. We should’ve ignored the price and made a power video.” He also is kinda dismissive of the inaccuracies as “mistakes happen” ignoring that they’re happening because of the crunch and also not being corrected because of the crunch. Yesterday GN made a response video admonishing this. Important points include: LMG did not reach out with a compensation offer until after the aforementioned GN video went live. After the video went live, LMG reached out with an offer to compensate to the value of the prototype. Notably, they requested that GN not share the stated value, and GN honored that request. BL had not yet responded to the offer at the time of the video. Additionally, they had a normal LMG video published this day as part of their regularly scheduled content. This video included inaccuracies of the sort that GN was calling out in the original video, as well as basic editorial mistakes. This highlighted the issue at an important time. Today Early this morning, a former employee posted a twitter thread alleging widespread misconduct in the company, including by upper management. It included allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment, assault, and a grind that resulted in her cutting herself to go to the ER to get a day off. It also included mentions of her being harassed by fans when she originally hinted about this (but didn’t directly say because she thought she was under NDA) A few hours later, a video went up on the LTT channel addressing the controversies with the water block and quality issues. However, it was obviously made prior to the allegations above as they aren’t addressed at all. In fact, it has several bits in it that were tone deaf on their own, but could be best described as “immediately aged poorly” in light of the allegations. It leads with their new CEO that they hired a few months ago reading from a teleprompter and trying to break the ice but failing and honestly being kinda mumbly and not great on camera. It includes a section from Colton, the “Head of Business Development, which includes HR, procurement, logistics, events, and sales & marketing”. The section is titled “Colton on ethics and sponsorships” which is poor form to have the person in charge of HR talking about ethics following those allegations. In it, he makes a joke about not having a job after this, which is like… well, maybe not after those allegations happening under your watch. Colton also says that he did respond offering compensation immediately after it was requested, but that he inadvertently didn’t include the company itself on the reply, and instead it only got sent internally. That’s… almost a reasonable explanation. However, it notably included a secreenshot of the email including the value of the protype that the company requested not be disclosed. Either this was intentional and a stab at the people that they should be apologizing to, or it was unintentional and highlights again the issues with quality in their production. Either way, not good. It’s also tone deaf on its own without the allegations. It has lots of reading from a teleprompter, tone-deaf jokes about “a segue to our sponsor… jk”, a plug for lttstore.com, and announcing a new screwdriver color. Overall, a bad response, especially given the timing. The message they were trying to get across, and the only takeaway that’s not bad for them, is that they are slowing the production schedule. In fact, they say they’re pausing youtube video production for a week to do a process review. Who knows what’ll come of that, but my take is that it’ll depend on if they can and are willing to cut out the toxic people and goals they have during this week or if they just spend a week shining a turd.
As a kinda epilogue, they posted in a text post on YouTube a short while ago that they’re bringing in a third party investigator to investigate the allegations.
The original block is something I copied from a post I made on a different site earlier in the day. It had paragraph breaks there, but they didn’t copy over and I was too lazy to add them back on mobile. Then I had to add the addendum because the situation changed since I wrote the first part.
I like Linux a lot, but saying you can’t understand why someone would run Windows on a server just shows a lack of knowledge. Linux is great in a lot of server applications in the application realm. However, it doesn’t get close to the power of Active Directory and Group Policy for Windows device management. Besides that, a lot of people are more comfortable with a UI for managing DHCP, DNA, etc in a SMB environment. Even if they prefer a command line for those tools PowerShell allows those people to coexist with those that prefer a GUI. Under certain circumstances, (mainly ones where a business is forgoing AD for AAD), Linux can be the right choice. Pretending that there’s no place for Windows Server, though, is asinine.
Notice how you’re ignoring the machine management and selectively choosing to focus on the user management. User management might be fine with Linux, but machine management can’t compete with GPOs, especially for managing Windows clients, which is what businesses are using for workstations whether we like it or not.
You can’t buy that kind of thing by just putting it in a shopping cart and checking out on some website. You have to call, work with a salesperson for a company that specializes in the product, and then place an order. They’ll send you the product and an invoice with payment instructions. This will usually be a check or wire transfer. If it’s a big enough order, you also have to work collaboratively on logistics to receive it. How far they will take it and how far you have to go get it will depend on your contract. This can be as little as “you have to pick it up from our warehouse” or as much as “we’ll get it into your warehouse” They might take it as far as the nearest rail yard and you have to organize trucks for the last mile.
If you don’t pay a subscription you can’t see the history of use, it’s limited to the latest 5 events. When I bought the ten devices (=I paid 150 euro for the hardware), it was 100 events
Whether or not the price is right is another discussion, but I will point out that they’re not charging for you to see the events. Like you said, there’s a web server and API for that. They’re charging you for them to store the history and serve it up on demand, which does have ongoing costs and I understand not accepting a one-time purchase for.
If you want history, hook into the API with Home Assistant or Grafana or something and store it yourself. It’s either that or pay them to store it. Infrastructure that stores and serves up the history doesn’t come from nowhere, and an ongoing cost for an ongoing service kinda makes sense.
Ha. They got you. My dad taught that it’s 2 spots in one (cardinal) direction, then 1 spot in another direction (demonstrating that the other direction has to be 90° to the original direction).
This godforsaken country is introducing the bill that allows to strip people of birth-given russian citizenship for some things - like desertion and discreditation of army (which happens every time you question war)...
I think they were making the type of joke where people will call movies “documentaries” when they’re really “fiction that can kind of almost be attributed to real events”
I got one of these a few months ago. I could tell it was fake before I even answered, but I was curious so I pointed my own camera at a blank wall and answered. It was creepy to see my friend’s face (albeit one that was obviously fake if you knew what to look for) when I answered.
I had this attack tried on me. It was a video call from my friend’s Facebook account. If I didn’t know enough to be suspicious, I wouldn’t have answered. Luckily I have that friend on Signal, so I knew they wouldn’t have called me on Facebook asking for money. I tried calling on Signal, but they didn’t answer. They must’ve not had their phone on them. Calling their home phone worked, though, which is kind of a weird thought.
CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.
What's happening with Linus Media Group?
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what is the procedure of buying a ship load of any cargo? ex; corn or paraffin wax?
You need 100 metric tons of paraffin wax. How do you aquire it?
Intentionally chose an open ecosystem for the smart relays in my house, now they crippled the app adding a $4 subscription (feddit.it)
If you don’t pay a subscription you can’t see the history of use, it’s limited to the latest 5 events. When I bought the ten devices (=I paid 150 euro for the hardware), it was 100 events
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Microsoft has created a pizza-scented Xbox controller (www.theverge.com)
It’s part of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles marketing campaign.
What happens if you lose all citizenship?
This godforsaken country is introducing the bill that allows to strip people of birth-given russian citizenship for some things - like desertion and discreditation of army (which happens every time you question war)...
It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !! (lemmy.world)
The time has come for us to make passwords for identifying each other…
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Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of Trump's 2021 conversation about classified documents | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify.
Domain registrar
Seeing the news with Google domains, I’m looking to move registrars, and was wondering who everyone uses.