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

[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 399 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So let me get this straight.

Linus screwed over a small two-person startup with his own incompetence by using the product in an unintended way and not using the GPU and instructions which were provided for him.
Stole their prototype which they needed to develop their product further, even going so far as to sell it at auction.
Goes on record to say "yes, we screwed up but it would cost $100-$500 to fix it so I'm not going to and no, I'm not apologizing for that". (That amount of money is chump change to him.)
Lies about offering to recompense the company. They didn't do that until after getting called out.
When he gets criticized for screwing over this company for his own mistakes, rather than owning up he tries to gaslight everybody into think he is somehow the victim?? "Today was so hard bros" oh poor wittle multi-millionaire Linus... I'll be sure to pray for you while I struggle to pay my rent.

What a fucking piece of shit, fuck him. I hate people like this that simply can't own up to mistakes and have to deflect all criticism.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 188 points 1 year ago

It's not just the Billet Labs thing, GN showed a pattern at LMG of rushing out bad test data and therefore wrong conclusions to keep up the frankly ridiculous volume of videos they put out.

[-] fireflash38@lemmy.world 93 points 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.

[-] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 25 points 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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[-] GravenImages@lemmy.world 37 points 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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[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 37 points 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.

[-] Postcard64@lemmy.world 37 points 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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[-] Bootheal0179@lemmy.world 30 points 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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[-] Bobert@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Woah woah woah woah!

I dunno how many times this has to be said!

He didn't SELL it! He AUCTIONED it!

That's a distinction that needs to be made!

[-] rustyricotta@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

And it was for CHARITY. Surely that obsolves him right?

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[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 150 points 1 year ago

Linus just straight up lied about Billet labs resolution. That alone is horrendous behaviour.

[-] KiriM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 104 points 1 year ago

While not being directly related it might be worth noting that a former employee of lmg has now come forward on twitter to describe in gory detail the kind of treatment she received while working there. The culture there sounds utterly disgusting and based on their history it is all extremely believable. Link to the post

[-] kftX@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This post should be pinned. I went in not liking her because to be she came off on camera as unlikable (giving you this context so you know my mindset going in to the read).

By the end, I was sickened, disgusted and appalled at the treatment she got. I have obviously unsubbed. I was going to wait this out to see how LMG solved this but fuck them. I wish her all the best and as swift a recovery as possible.

The saddest thing is, reading that post, you can tell exactly when she's quoting linus even when she doesn't mention him.

[-] StarPupil@ttrpg.network 32 points 1 year ago

Really makes me think they need a union. Also makes me wonder what all Linus learned from this guy who "taught me everything about management" if this is his style of management.

[-] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Linus is explicitly anti-union. He's stated on camera that "if you treat your employees well, you don't need a union." All this bullshit coming out proves that's a fuckin' lie.

[-] MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Is Madison the one that became popular in the community after being snarky in a video while they were building a new PC for her? I think I remember her getting a job there afterwards. If I remember correctly, she was really funny.

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago

Linus is always dropping shit, and this is no different.

Also, don't fuck with tech Jesus

[-] couragethebravedog@lemmy.ml 64 points 1 year ago

It's looking like Linus should have taken that $100 million offer he got and left when he had the chance.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago

I get that some people like working, and that business founders can be very emotionally invested in their baby.

But to imagine having $100 million waved in my face and saying “nah, I think I’ll just wake up and go to work tomorrow” is crazy to me. But I guess you can’t be a billionaire if you “settle” for nine figures and an absurdly comfortable life with nothing but free time to find new interests and see the world.

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[+] balance_sheet@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

A labs employee mouthed off and GN went full scorched earth

[-] gray@lemmy.boltwolf.net 37 points 1 year ago

Steve actually said in the first video that they didn’t respond at all to the labs’ employee comment.

[-] UhBell@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

It was one of the first things shown in the video. I didn't even know about the comment until watching the GN video.

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

Context seemed to be "this is what we let slide before, but the gloves are off after this new comment" to demonstrate that they at least showed some restraint.

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[-] localidiot@feddit.nl 32 points 1 year ago

Wow. When you're supposed to wait and hear from both sides and this is what comes... Yikes. Went to check and read the whole response and any other replies that might have come from it on their forum and found ~115 pages (oops 2 more while writing this) of discussion after Linus' post.

[-] bron@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

All I want is just good hardware reviews, the rest is noise...

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

All I want is just good hardware reviews

Same. Seems LTT and Short Circuit is out. As demonstrated, they aren't a reliable source.

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