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The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained
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I'm glad GN didn't reach out. Linus emailed Billet Labs 2 hours after the GN video with an offer to reimburse them for the prototype, so that he could claim that GN got their facts wrong. But we have the receipts!
That was the nail in the coffin, for me. Making mistakes is fine, even big ones. I understand that Youtube is the devil, and it's easy to fall into a trap of shoveling nonsense out onto the platform. I'm honestly sympathetic to that. If Linus said "You're right, quality has suffered cuz we've been going too fast. We need to take another look at this." I'd be completely happy.
But to lie -- not just by words, but by actions -- in order to cast doubt on the people who are trying to give you a reality check and get your work back on track... That's really bad.
Did you watch the response video? It explains that. Colton responded....but had forgotten to add the billet dudes email to it. So it was a bone head mistake that is compounded by bad processes and bad decisions.
It's not as nefarious as people are making it seem.
The knee jerking around this is insane.
I did watch the response video before commenting. Did you read the forum post? He said it’s all settled, it’s just gotta go through the bean counters now. But the fact that he emailed them immediately before posting proves that he knew it was not all settled.
What if they replied “Actually, you can’t just reimburse us for that. The manufacturing process that produced it is being overhauled and we won’t be able to replace it for at least 6 months and we’ve got conferences to demo at between then and now. We need you to get it back.”