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Pretty damning review.

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[-] XanXic@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

As someone who's been running unRAID out of a tower and like 5 drives; it's weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear. Like I do more research for myself and I'm not jumping on video. Ultimately I like the videos, I enjoy seeing the approaches, but they try to come off like authority figures. Then they don't even know how to properly parity swap and make unRAID look harder than it is.

[-] CeeBee@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

it's weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear.

As someone who is very technically savvy, let me assure you that these guys are clowns. They are tech entertainers, not experts. Give yourself some credit.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have people knowing their stuff, it's just Linus playing around and figuring out. Anthony with old hardware and Linux and Jake does know a thing or two about server stuff

[-] Vince@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

This pretty similar to why I stopped watching their vids. I always thought they were a trusted authority, until they covered a product that I had some familiarity with. I wasn't even an expert at it, I was just interested so I read some articles, visited some forums and subreddits about it for a week or two. Their video on it had a couple of mistakes and they omitted a couple of minor features, but were important to me. There was nothing egregious but it was pretty surprising to me that in this one thing, I knew more than them, despite not doing much research.

[-] LemurEyes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah they're good for keeping aware of what's new in the tech world mostly. Their actually reviews of products are so poor and out of touch. If I hear them nitpick the bevels on a display without actually framing things into the cost and value sentiment one more time I'm buying a farm

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

They have zero consistency in platform or hardware and don’t seem to setup any monitoring as well.

Other than building gaming PCs I would not look to LTT for technical advice.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

I just watch the videos where they do silly stuff... Cooling a server with a pool is something I would never be able to do, that's the kind of shit I want to watch, them building their thousandth gaming PC is just meh.

[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

it’s weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear.

Exactly, bumble fuck is what every one of their server videos or home automation videos seems to be about.

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