Comment on HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs

• fireflash38@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s the sort of thing that makes me really, really sad for the people working there. That crazy breakneck pace cannot be good for mental health.

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  • buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the kind of thing a union (which Linus, of course, has said he’s very against) would help with

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    • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I kept thinking about that watching GN’s last video and how it’s so perfectly in line with what GN exposed.

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    • jwagner7813@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unions, the bane of rich people that take advantage of their workers via positions of power.

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  • GravenImages@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They somewhat recently did a “what do lmg employees really think of working here” video, and it seemed like the #1 complaint was the pace. I really hope they take this criticism to heart and just… Slow down for a bit

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    • CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But they won’t. Cos $$$.

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    • galloog1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Part of the equation here is the transparency. It’s good that they are transparent and I do think they listen. Part of the interesting side to watch is the interaction with the community.

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• Nefyedardu@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to like LTT up until their "Linux Challenge" videos which were just a pain to watch. Shit like this coming from the biggest tech channel on youtube just drives me up the wall.

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  • Postcard64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    After this happened, GitHub added a Download button to their for preview pages. So they themselves considered it was enough of a problem/inconvenience to not have a download button.

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  • catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That bit made me cringe. You go to the file, and can download using the Raw button or using wget. It’s not hard, it’s ignorance.

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    • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It also has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with how Github works. I actually give him a pass on nuking X while installing Steam, that shouldn’t happen(although he did get a nice big warning, but that warning was far from user friendly). But some of the other stuff they ran into was “This doesn’t work exactly like windows, therefore is bad.” type stuff.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In that video he did everything that everyone recommends not to do when trying out Linux:

        • Never copy paste and execute random code from the internet.
        • Never execute commands on the terminal you don’t fully understand what they do.
        • Never say yes or okay to any dialog prompt unless you understand what the dialog is asking about.

        He is stupid, he paid the stupid price. Linux didn’t do any of the things that went wrong in that video, it was his own stubbornness and ignorance.

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    • transistor@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How would someone who doesn’t use GitHub or linux know how to do that?

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      • ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And to prove the point there was a website dedicated to taking GitHub links and turning them into download links.

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        GitHub shouldn’t be a method of software distribution, but a lot of FOSS devs take the easy way out. Understandably so; they’re volunteering their time. Still, Linus is in a position to show how it works rather than complaining.

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I loved watching him type out "yes I understand the thing that I'm about to do is going to break my computer" and then complain that the thing that he did broke his computer!
• Bootheal0179@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Linus shits on entrepreneurship with his continual BS with easily caught bad data. No reputable companies should touch him. Anything he pushes to his viewers should be suspicious. I’ll be wondering how much LMG gets under the table for posting positive reviews.

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve seen videos where he’s just basically repeating the script marketing have given him… zero difficult questions. No doubt they’re quite lucrative.

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    • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately they’re his most accurate ones.

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