People complain about their Folds creasing, why not just iron it? -Timestamps- [0:00] *Chapters.* [1:46] *Intro.* [2:15] *Topic #1: Terren Tong is officially the new LTT CEO.* > 3:11 Linus's busy week, Luke's opinion on Linus & Terren. > 6:12 How Linus feels, addressing community thoughts. > 10:06 Can Terren fire Linus? Why Terren specifically? > 14:50 Is Linus an okay actor? Is dropping things "acting"? > 18:36 Linus on the RTX 4060 video, Luke on Linus dropping stuff. > 22:31 Linus's guessing segment idea, Linus on the LTX drop. > 24:56 Linus discussing writing LTT videos, recalls Nick. [29:54] *LTTStore's new PCMR collab merch.* > 33:22 FP LTT Support Plus subs can access LTX 2023 merch. [35:28] *LMG & Floatplane are hiring!* [36:43] *Topic #2: RUclips restricts adblockers' access.* > 38:20 Twitter requires login to watch videos, Linus on revenue. > 40:14 Linus recalls The Simpsons, thoughts on this approach. > 46:10 Luke on YT Premium & Spotify, Linus on family accounts. [51:08] *Topic #3: Activision's "hallucinations" anti-cheat.* > 52:38 Steam & Fallout cheater history, ScriptKid's fake CS:GO cheats. > 54:30 What should LTT do if they caught cheaters in Whale LAN? > 56:32 Linus plans 250 seats LANs, variations of cheating. [1:01:24] *Merch Messages #1.* > 1:02:22 Plans for more woman LTTStore merch? ft. Sarah. > 1:05:30 Thoughts on a Framework handheld conversion kit? > 1:09:20 Nature V.S. nurture entrepreneurial mindset. > 1:14:30 Badminton-playing robot in Linus's center? [1:15:52] *Stranger than Fiction WAN Show segment.* > 1:16:35 Dan explains the game & punishment. > 1:17:38 StF #1: E-bike data stream, "Changeme!" school password, Elon Musk's "burnt hair" perfume. > 1:18:36 Linus's & Luke's StF #1 choices. > 1:19:32 StF #2: Bose's fire hazard recall, Auto drones blackouts, Nintendo's limited hairstyle. > 1:20:18 Linus's & Luke's StF #2 choices. > 1:20:30 StF #3: Flame-throwing robo-dog, A.I. ASMR RUclipsr, robots with insect hands. > 1:21:12 Linus's & Luke's StF #3 choices. [1:21:55] *Sponsors.* > 1:21:59 Corsair. > 1:22:48 iFixit. > 1:23:36 Blackpoint Cyber. [1:24:18] *Topic #4: iOS & Android's screen calls.* > 1:24:26 Linus & Luke discuss screening calls. > 1:26:12 Linus cannot leave Android, unavailable regional apps. > 1:27:44 Pixel Fold's screen issues, LTT backpack carabiner. [1:34:00] *Topic #5: Let Me Spy hacked, data breach.* > 1:36:44 Should such an app be hidden? [1:39:14] *Topic #6: Publisher hires A.I. writer & editor.* > 1:42:12 Canada passes ONA bill, Linus & Luke on Google news. [1:46:33] *Topic #7: Fillian, a VTuber, responds to LTT's shoutout.* [1:49:18] *Topic #8: LTT TV, continuous backlog livestreams.* [Cont.] *Topic #7: Fillian, a VTuber, responds to LTT's shoutout.* > 1:50:02 Luke shows Fillian's reaction. [Cont.] *Topic #8: LTT TV, continuous backlog livestreams.* > 1:51:06 Luke on RUclips's stream keys & fallback. [1:54:30] *Topic #9: Community's response to LTT's cooler video.* [2:02:36] *Topic #10: GameLinked's official debut.* [2:05:10] *Topic #11: Sovereign Tech Fund's Contribute Back to Open Source challenge.* [2:05:50] *Topic #12: LTT community outrage at "lack of milk."* [2:07:22] *Topic #13: AMD announces limited Ryzen 5 5600X3D.* [2:09:06] *Topic #14: TikTok's "Creative Challenge."* [2:11:20] *Merch Messages #2 ft. WAN Show After Dark.* > 2:12:04 What series would you revive? ft. Yvonne, Linus's dad's joke. > 2:15:30 Ever wanted to flex your internet clout for your kids? > 2:19:56 Anyone of you used Microsoft Bob? > 2:21:41 Most expensive thing Linus has broken? > 2:22:01 Is Cosco as bad as Netflix, or are they justified? > 2:24:48 Subtle changes with Terren as the CEO? > 2:28:00 Is the translucent screwdriver going to be a product? > 2:28:36 Was Linus nervous about being a boss? > 2:32:10 What channel you like would you take over? > 2:33:22 Past problems while working with subreddits? > 2:35:20 Realistic end goal for LTT? > 2:37:54 Linus is presented as humble, opinions on the employer style? > 2:39:48 Microsoft's Assassin Creed impact on Skull and Bones? > 2:41:20 What happened to the watercooled RED camera? > 2:41:34 Hardest thing you let go of to avoid the sunk-cost fallacy? > 2:42:45 What's the backstory of the Linus selfie pic? > 2:43:46 Q&A work that was put into the screwdriver? > 2:44:45 Would the Noctua screwdriver be limited? > 2:45:00 Parts of your job that you enjoy that isn't thought as your job? > 2:45:56 Things you knew about housing that everyone should know? > 2:45:38 Videos you decided to make private? > 2:48:40 How often would you replace hard drives? are they a dead tech? > 2:50:08 What do you do with a creators block? [2:50:48] *Outro.*
Linus: Show the specs as an image instead of reading them one by one. (5 min later) Luke: Linus: you might want to show the list. Chief vision officer doing his job right there
It takes one of the best Chief Vision Officers in the biz to know that our vision is entirely vision-based. A stunning display of visioneering right there.
SUGGESTION: Linus, I think it would be good if LTT did a few videos about setting up parental controls on children accounts. I'm a parent of a now adult child. I had "FUN" (note: Sarcasm) setting up xbox, steam, windows, etc. so my daughter could use computers and consoles in a safe-ish environment. I'm a 30 year IT veteran, and I've had trouble figuring out some of this. (and then there are the tools that straight up didn't work.) My daughter was growing up during the period where game manufacturers were getting questions about "why does my child have access to x?" and "How could my child run up a bill on this game?" Their response was, "We built in parental controls." Those controls SSSUUUCCCCKKKEEEDDD!!! If I, someone who works in IT had issues finding and using them, Abandon All Hope for the average parent.
I‘m not even sure I actually want kids, but I‘ll absolutely be the guy my friends are going to come to for this at some point or another, so YES PLEASE.
The best parental control is you, the parent. You actually don't need that many help, a video filter for RUclips sure, but you need to learn kids to use and understand technology, not shield them.
Just bc a product cannot be mass produced doesn't make it a terrible product. It may be a terrible business, but not a terrible product. You've become such a businessman. It's a last gen cooler that's $800 bc that's when they started development. Not long after, 4090 cooler came out. It's a new company and they're prototyping. Again, looking at this from a business standpoint rather than a techie. You have lost your roots.
In addition, with a starting prototype like that Billet could finds ways to make that design cheaper and modify only certain sections to become compatible with a wide range of products. Then it wouldn’t be that $800 halo product anymore, though it could offer such a variant, but now can offer a better solution vs competition. That’s how r&d and product development works.
Came here solely about the billet product. Dude literally called it a bad product like 15 times in a 2 minute span, him not sending it back really seems malicious at this point.
For RUclips premium: I don’t want to be paying the full price of the premium when I don’t want to be using the YT music service as well. I would rather consider a lower cost tier that only blocks ads and doesn’t force me to buy another (music) service I’m not interested in.
Id like to buy youtube premium, however in my country we use our own banking system which youtube does not support. I am not getting a credit card just for youtube without ads. I'd like to see youtube add more alternative payment methods. For cases like mine or something similar.
@@ChristofferETJh I never knew that one exists! Yeah unfortunately that has not arrived to my country yet - but that tier would pretty much address my earlier comment.
In Sweden at least there's RUclips Premium Lite that's 50% of the regular Premium price and it only gives you ad-free youtube viewing if you're not interested in youtube music. Hopefully they'll roll that out to more people
Linus complains about not wanting to spend another $500 of an engineers time to test it again. But Linus, you made a mistake, you're a reviewer, it's your job to fix the mistake you made even if you costs you money. That's how you make it right. Even if you came to the same conclusion of not recommending the product, the product should still be reviewed properly. Honestly this whole thing makes me really skeptical of the Labs thing.
@@DarcMagikianyeah, even with this whole water block issue aside (which it’s still freaking awful on its own) the supposed reason for their “labs” is to provide accurate tests and whatnot. But if the whole thing is compromised by chasing the algorithm and mass producing videos to meet a quota. Then the entire thing is pointless and a waste of money, specially if they don’t own to their mistakes and lose people’s trust as it’s happening right now.
A million views earns him $900-$1400 in RUclips ad revenue. We know ad revenue is still a large part of their revenue, so sponsorship would be likely a similar amount. Let's say $3000 for the video. A sixth that revenue is a lot of money.
Last day as CEO and can’t even bother coming into the office. Thanks Linus for all you have done. Cannot wait to see you more on screen now and hopefully more energized since you don’t have to deal with all the business stuff. Amazing team you and Yvonne have built and cannot wait to see where you all go in the future.
1:59:00 Why even make review videos if you are not going to do them properly? No matter the conclusion, now I don't know if I can trust what is shown in your videos because you are clearly being lazy, and besides that cooler video it can be easily seen in most of your videos. Most of the review videos has errors in them, and some of them really serious, and what you said here explains it all, LMG doesn't whant to spend time in making a good and accurate review.
Regarding Billet. It is not a mass market product to begin with. But there may be 20 people in the world that would find it solving a problem for them and worth buying it for 800$. Some time ago, Linus featured with a case builder that hand builds cases which cost thousands of dollars, are those bad product too, Linus?
1:57:20 This is just wow. LTT is what 100+ mil $, and you left 100-500$ take you down from what s morally right as a product reviewer? Analogy: Imagine trying to fit a different size wheel on your car and then saying is wobbly or tilted and not performing right, must be a really BAD wheel /BAD product then. That s what you did in this case, and for a company that is trying to get out there and trusted you to have a complete and real review you have failed them, and more so you failed us the viewers. And i dont even want to get into you trying to sell/auction this "bad" product, without their consent. Realistic speaking now. What s your job and goal there? To give ppl accurate non biased reviews or to pump as many videos as you can without testing properly? Clearly are some issues inside LTT LMG, maybe ppl are overworked or fatigued or stressed from just jumping from 1 project/video to another without really caring. Either way, i hope you have the will and power to take a step back and reassess.
Bad analogy, he didn't say it was bad because of the performance, he stated multiple times that the conclusions wouldn't have changed even if it performed better than it did. It's bad because you're paying 800 dollars for a cooler of a last gen card that you can achieve for much less money.
@@vigour6786 How do you know you can achieve the same for much less money? You'd only know that if you tested the product. They didn't. Remember that it is joint CPU, GPU monoblock. Prototype. Also I wonder for how much it went in that auction. And it's a last gen cooler, since they started development before there was 4090. Defending their shitty behavior is truly disgusting.
@@jannegrey593 because Linus said you can water cool a pc for a fraction of the cost so why spend 800 on something with the same result as something cheaper and more reliable
I’ve had RUclips premium when it was RUclips red. The amount of days of time I would say I’ve saved on ads is crazy. Also downloading videos when going places with no lte or wifi is huge.
@@ricsip you need to be online occasionally to be able to watch the video, which makes it kinda useless, but you can watch it offline if you're on a plane or smth
About YT premium. Pretty sure if they turned down the price a bit, or added a lower tier, that just disables ads but also has no music, it would find more customers. RN, they market it as "you buy this because it's the right thing to do" and honestly, the Idea of google is that they sell our data, completely kill the concept of privacy online, and in return, give us access to the web. Up until now, that was more or less the unspoken contract between YT/Google and the world. So "you buy this because morals" just doesn't work for me, sorry.
Yeah they ask you to buy premium and still sell your data and use it to serve ads off site and if you don't you will get pre-rolls, mid-rolls, banner ads and then the creators also put their own in video ads in there... It's too much, everyone is quadruple dipping unless you pay and even if you pay there still is a double dip... It's ridiculous. As for Linus' complained about his YT premium family not working with his kids accounts, they literally mention that the family account does not work/count for minors on the YT kids accounts when you are on the selection page op which version you want.
Yeah but also the fact where premium lies. Louis rossman vid a vid on how some features are complete cash grabs like "offline videos" not actually being offline.
yeah offline videos do work offline you just need to check in once a month i think? i have more issues with it being weird pulling the video up when i have spotty connection fot whatever reason. but if i put it in airplane mode works 100% of the time
@@orphanuprising would be flying very close to the sun if a ceo fires an owner from a position. The owner can just simply fire the ceo and give himself whatever position he wants, obviously.
The major difference between Costco preventing cards from being shared and Netflix preventing accounts being shared is that Costco never encouraged people to share the membership cards, Netflix absolutely encouraged people sharing their account passwords. Moreover, the checkout operator looking at the card to see if it matches the person who handed it to them, that doesn't add any inconvenience to the end user. Whereas Netflix users could be required to follow some sort of process to verify themselves as the account holder every single time their IP address changes.
1:04:05 - Yes! Sarah should absolutely make more dinosaur merch. My partner would be so down. If the ltx pads came in the larger sizes, it would have been a sale.
Imma be 100, I only now just realized that Terren the new CEO and Taran, the ex-editor, are different people. I’ve listened to the past 4 or 5 pods thinking they’re the same 😂😂😂
Yeah, I knew which Tarran it was from day 1 because I watched the roast of Linus Sebastian, but sometimes they will just casually say "Well Tarran came in and said X" and I have a sudden thought of "Wait, didn't he leave awhile back?" and have to take a moment to remember.
40:26 I don't think that adblock era is done, the adblock community is made by developers, they'll find a way to get into the page code to disable the anti-adblock, anti-anti adblock exists Linus
if u can't put money for testing (with all that money and 15m subs and that lab and staffs) just say don't buy it and done instead of giving wrong results and giving excuses that its expensive to re-done do it properly and double checked or don't do it at all
Wow, watching this in retrospect because of the Billet Labs controversy GN brought up has me faced palmed. It’s common sense that reviewing a product by using the hardware it isn’t made for is invalid. I’m appalled how unapologetic he is to bad mouth a small start up pretty much wished them to fail.
Good luck Linus! I've been watching since ~2012 and it's amazing to see where this channel came from and has ended up, it was this channel that taught me allot of the trivial stuff I know and use today. :)
Honestly, Spotify Premium is the one subscription I've never questioned (I'm on a family plan that's less than $5/person/month). I use it multiple hours every day, and their song radios and "your mix" algorithms are unbelievably on point. I don't create my own playlists anymore, because I really don't need to. I'm usually able to select one song I'm kind of vibing with at that specific moment and then listen to the song radio for three to four hours without feeling like I want to skip a song or two. It'll play me a great mix of songs I know and love and new songs to discover. It's such a low-friction experience that I've never thought twice about that subscription.
Family plan is great - just requires you to have a family or group of friends already not in the plan My student membership ran out and it tripled in price - £5 to £13 - at that point, not worth imo :(
The whole youtube ad thing wouldn't be so bad... If they hadn't, in the last few years, repeatedly increased the amount of ads you see... Once upon a time I'd get one skipable ad at the start of a video and that's it, now I get 2 unskipable ads at the start, maybe another 2-4 during and that's only on short content, longer stuff it's even worse.
I have recently been forced to look up some things on my work laptop, on which i couldn't install an adblocker (a problem i have since remedied), and i didn't just get 2 unskippable ads. I got 4 unskippable, long format ads, and another 3 during an IIRC 8 minute video. Half the duration of the video was added in advertisements. I would pay for RUclips hadn't they mistreated us, and the community repeatedly and continually for the last 6 years. When ads are forced, i'll move somewhere else. My information, my property. Force it out of me, and i'll force you down the toilet.
This is what people don’t understand. Advertising will only ever get worse as companies get more and more desperate. It’s not “cat and mouse”, this happens on paid services too
@@SimpleCarGuy they would play more ads no matter what. Do not view ads as “we need X to meet costs”, view it as “how much value can we extract from our viewers” It’s why streaming services are starting to put ads in despite you paying already. Advertisers will never relent, and blaming the people smart enough to avoid it is not the answer
My problem with the end of the "free lunch" is that it feels like the strategy of operating at a loss to outcompete competitors until you have a functional monopoly, then raising prices and cutting features because you can.
It's not even close to the same 😂. Blocking ads was always against TOS. You can still watch RUclips for.... FREE. You just can't also block the ads. I cannot get over someone comparing removing ad block to market manipulation. That's just hilarious. RUclips didn't turn into a monopoly because they allowed ad block. They definitely didn't turn into a monopoly because they allowed a block and others didn't. Every company had been subject to ad block for years. It's delusional to compare this to market manipulation to create a monopoly. This idea is silly. The entitlement is incredible.
@@Ohnothisisbad It's not just about the adblocker block, but the direction RUclips has been moving for years now. From the birth to RUclips and for ten+ years, RUclips was free and really good. So good and cheap, it pushed out everyone else. And now that there's no competition, they can start with unpopular moves. That's not good for a healthy market and should frankly be banned under anti-dumping laws. If they were profitable from the start, I'd have no issue with this, I'd even pay for RUclips. But now, after years of getting everyone used to free videos? Hell no.
I dont watch much wan shows but sometimes i just love the merch messages when listening what Linus and Luke talking. "Whats strangest place you've seen LTT merch" dan is like: "probably NASA" 😂
It's difficult to apologize in these circumstances bc there's so much anger coming from the masses. You've been a big influence for my RUclips journey and I highly respect you. That's why I eagerly await how you will handle this.
Actually having a “Tech dinosaur” series would be cool. Old tech and dinosaurs, Jurassic period towers creating the landscape. A dinosaur built out of ancient hardware.
So it would cost you 500 to swap out a damn video card from a 4090 to a 3090. Damn how much do you pay per hour, because I'm in the wrong career field if simply swapping out a video card would cost you $500.
I assume it would probably take a staff of one or two people to film a new video. If anything I'm completely concerned that he's underpaying his staff greatly given how stingy he apparently is
@@mlody969 I'm aware which 500 CAD using the current rate of exchange is 369 USD. So for 369 USD I'll happily swap out a video card. It doesn't take that long to swap out a video card. Though if he was that money conscious, he would've RTFM and done it right the first time. Also he wasted much more money on other projects that the average person never would pay for either.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 Well yes it would take a couple of people to do the video, however if he would've done it right the first time it wouldn't have cost him any extra. Also, if he wanted to test it with both cards it only would've taken him an extra few minutes to swap it out. Especially if he would've RTFM and followed the directions on what the manufacture recommended for installation. Also he wasted much more money on other projects that aren't necessary but can't spend the money to properly test this but will happily trash the company and it's product. Now don't get me wrong I think this is an expensive useless product, however he should've given them the fair chance to properly test it.
@@alphabeta2515What a dumb comment. If Linus want LTT to be a entertainment chanel then should stop PRETEND to be techie and stop showing inaccurate results. Because someone's REAL LIFE can be destroyed by that standards.
RUclips premium doesn't give youtube music. RUclips music is available for everyone just like normal youtube. Just like youtube, having RUclips premium will remove the ads. It's just a different interface/app.
I've had RUclips premium since it's inception and never even considered cancelling it. The ad-free videos is worth it alone. I've also never considered giving Spotify a dime. Their payout to artists and creators is a joke.
The idea of a TV channel-like 24*7 live stream is appealing to the kid in me who grew up watching cartoons on TV. Didn't think scheduled times for each show would be something I miss. Back then, I would have been super down for watching Power Rangers whenever I wanted than just 19:00 to 19:30 in the evening
"back in my day pirates used to call themselves pirates" put the image of Luke in a pirate hat with his birds on his shoulders in my head and it's glorious 😅
the only issue i have with adds is when they have 10 add stops in 10 mins plus the way it breaks the content it makes content almost impossible to watch
Usually when it's that often it's the creator setting that many to make more money, that isn't RUclips's fault that's just people who are greedy, most videos I watch don't have anywhere near that many, my issue is when there's a 4+ hour ad, like I'll be using RUclips to listen to stuff in the background when I do things and don't always bother skipping the ads if I'm too busy and it's really annoying that it could be a 4+ hour Nissan and or like an entire episode of some bs rightwing talk show
@@pixelated.dreams yeah but it's usually only a few, when it's excessive like they were referring to it's typically the creators at least from my understanding
Wait people were really that bothered that a placeholder recording ended up in the final 4060 video? It was clear that was meant to be replaced in editing but they simply had no time due to the flight delays. GPU embargo's and the release of reviews are needed to be put out as soon as they are lifted since if you want to have anyone even remotely care about what you have to say. They could have had someone else record that in the studio but that didn't happen either since none expected the delays to be that bad.
The problem with Twitter requiring login for me is Amber Alerts, Severe Weather, or that scare Hawaii had when an accidental missile launch alert went out... They all go to Twitter for some fuckin reason for more info. Can't view the info ads or not without fumbling for login info or your authenticator to login. These are time sensitive kinda things. They shouldn't require you lookin up a password or fighting a biometric lock.
I don't read written media from game journalists. Not when they lowered the bar so much that someone who can't even get through the tutorial also gets the job
Ads are brain cancer. There's simply no other way of looking at it. Their entire purpose is to highjack thought and direct it to a cause, usually with the intent of taking money from the viewer. If there's no reasonable way to watch something without ads, it's time to switch to another form of media that still respects us. Might be time to get on the backlog of novels. Companies may feel they have the right to profit, but users should have the right not not be psychologically manipulated. If leaving a platform is the way to do this, I hope everyone does exactly that.
Have had RUclips Premium about a year after it came out when it was still RUclips Red. The no ads, background play, and able to download videos made it great when I worked as a security guard in places with bad internet for 12 hour shifts.
Moving from a startup to a scaleup is really hard. Having a CEO who can help you cross that threshold is really important. I wish you all at LMG the very best
Can't wait to see how much of the AD-Blocker thing actually translate in increase of net profits for them. I bet it will be negligible. Some studies show it can actually hurt the business because of migration to other browsers with built-in and more efficient AD-Blocks and way better privacy.
RUclips premium is worth it to me. I split it with several family members so it isn’t so expensive. It’s worth it to support creators and not be annoyed by all those ads.
No free lunch? Then no lunch for me. I have other ways to entertain myself. Ad blockers are essential for staying sane on the internet. YT red being a package deal for me is a big nope too. Also deleted my Netflix as I mostly had it for family to use. So don't miss it in the slightest. So if the YT ad blocked app on my TV no longer works, it'll be just for gaming and moledia streamed from PC in the future. I guess people spending less time consuming online content is actually a healthy thing. Go outside ppl! =D
39:00 no, the reason why we ended up with "these obnoxious moving ads" is because the platforms servicing those ads got greedy and let it happen. The fact that companies are expected to generate increasingly higher profits YoY is what's killing the browsing experience on the Internet.
In regards to the RUclips Premium vs Spotify thing: I have Spotify instead of RUclips Premium primarily because of all the 3rd party websites and apps that integrate with it. Like I spend a lot of my spotify time on a website where it's a room full of people and it rotates through different DJs, like a sorta virtual "pass the aux cable" thing. The song radio and discovery algorithm on spotify is also better than youtube, spotify makes a TON of daily playlists and you have loads of ways to control/ad to/remove from them. If you're just casually "oh I want to listen to this song" using a music service I'm sure they're basically identical but once you start trying to get more into it Spotify is just better. I also hardly ever watch RUclips on my phone so literally the only benefit I'm getting out of RUclips Premium is no advertisements, and I'm losing out on all this cool 3rd party stuff.3 And before someone says it, no I don't use an adblocker, I have no problem watching 5-15s of advertisements before a video. Someone has to pay for the servers and they sure aren't going to do it for free. Granted if I was making like $100,000+ a year I'd pay for RUclips Premium, because fuck it why not at that point.
Well said kind sirs!!!!!!Now, I do have to ask tho..... what's that thing you talked about? That .. virtual pass the aux cable... that sounds awesome!!!!
I used Apple Music for a few months about 5 years back, then moved to Deezer and when I tried Spotify at that time, it didn't feel quite right. Last month I stopped using Deezer because I lost access to my old account so I signed up for a RUclips Premium trial, but RUclips Music is a joke and the cost is higher then I'd like to spend to bypass ads. The 3rd party website with the dj/pass the aux option seems very interesting, so I'll give Spotify a try again. What is the name of the site?
I have no problem watching ads so long as RUclips and its advertisers respect the time of the people watching and not oversaturate videos with lots of advertisements and/or overly long ads.
I get that RUclips has to make some income to pay for their employee's and their hardware. I'm split though between wanting a cheaper subscription that only removes ad's and not paying at all because RUclips has done idiotic decisions one after another, ignoring problems on their site and being extremely frustrating for creators to work with (as an example Adrian's Digital Basement got banned for impersonating, himself). So with that I'm not sure I want to directly financially support such a company that just ignores their community (*cough* dislike count) Edit #1: I also do not use Spotify (nor do I pay them)
You are smoking some major copium there. Regardless of whether or not you think RUclips competent or fair in how they run their business, they have every right to charge whatever they want for their services. They have no obligation to you, or "their community", to justify anything they do especially when the people who are butt hurt by the changes are violating RUclipss terms of service and are literally stealing from them. I have no idea how you can say "I'm split though between wanting a cheaper subscription that only removes ad's and not paying at all" while using the very service you bemoan. Like how can you not realize that RUclips doesn't have to serve you or anyone who isn't paying for their content whether through ad revenue or payed subscriptions. But if the recent events are any indication, then you will either have stop using RUclips, or the much more likely option, you get over yourself and realize that no matter how indignant you are it wont change reality. Also I really don't care about RUclips loosing money, ad block, or even strait up theft. I am probably the most morally bankrupt person you are likely to meet, but your attitude is painfully entitled and it majorly pisses me off.
As a RUclips premium subscriber being able to not hear a single ad for years now while listening to RUclips on my phone is great. For me RUclips is my only source of entertainment, and that’s worth the price for me knowing I am supporting those I watch more.
1:19:00 They are laughing at the password thing, but this has actually happened in my school, back in like 2007. Everyone's password was set to something 4-letter, everyone having the same thing. At some point they also started blocking access and limiting time, because people were playing runescape and other games, so when you'd run out of shit on your own account, people would just log into some other kids' profile and continue
Endless "how i got rich", casino and LOUD regional grocery stores ads await from now on. Thank you Google for doing nothing about it, while taking away ad block.
google doing nothing about it? ... Do you even think about what you write? Try reading it and realize just how dumb you sound... That is how they make money - on adds... it has always been... since day one, google made money on adds. They have done something about it! They have tested how many adds people are willing to endure, and they keep pushing it - boiling the frog so to speak. And if you don't want to pay with your time, you can pay with youtube premium instead, not only will that get rid of adds, it also gives you a few other perks. But more importantly, if you care, the creator gets a lot more money from your view than when it is add based. There wouldn't be a Linus, or any of the other youtubers you watch, if not for adds, that is what pays their rent, even if LTT at this point has enough other ways of making money to make it without youtubes money! I am not saying you should buy premium, there can be reasons you don't think you have the money, but you should wake up and understand how the world works! Nothing is free, and if it free, you are the product - in this case, your eyeballs and your time. And if you don't have the money for premium, they still allow you to watch for free - if you watch the fucking adds. and many of them are still skipable - they didn't have to do that - remember that... I can however hint to maybe looking into using a VPN and signing up from another country if you think it is too expensive where you live, the prices are not the same worldwide.
Linus (and youtube) is missing the forest for the trees on the adblock issue. Video "The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead" is pretty much a must see as far as the whole ad situation goes, because there's a LOT more to the issue than "I don't want to pay/if you aren't paying we don't need you". But to briefly summarize key points: users can be valuable even when they don't view ads, forcing adblock users to view ads can lower clickthrough rates and ultimately hurt ad revenue, pissing users off is never a good idea, especially the more technical ones, and finally, there are reasons beyond simple freeloading why users turn to adblockers, generally relating to bad or excessive ads. The main solution proposed is to get better ads that people will want to watch or at least be willing to watch. Suggesting that the investment in better ads will feedback on itself to solve the problem instead of wasting money on a non-solution trying to force users to view ads they don't want. Honestly Linus of all people should understand how there are both good and bad ads, and good and bad ways of pushing them. After all most LTT videos are themselves ads, or still functionally so in the case of many non-sponsered products, and they even contain ads within the ads for LTT products and other sponsers. And people actually willingly watch them, even people who use adblock. Not everybody watches everything of course, but some people choose to consume these ads because they are good ads for them. And the CTR for LTTstore ads is probably through the roof compared to any forced youtube ad.
About the 4060 Review: I thought it was a metaphor for how much thought and work Nvidia put into the 4060. And because of that i thought it was kinda fitting.
There should have never been a "free" internet service, that is all the discussion on this topic that is necessary. Access to content should have been paid and ad and tracking free or paid for with ads and data tacking. Ads as something more than simple video or graphics file are a security concern and should be either heavily regulated or banned all together, and of course, there is another security concern about scammers. So no, I don't allow ads on my machine.
I just about fell over when y'all didn't know what Microsoft Bob was. It wasn't a full OS. It was an app that came with Windows 95. The description Dan gave was somewhat accurate: it was a "virtual house" where you could move around point and click style (think original Myst) and do activities. There wasn't much actual productivity though... It was more like a very early Sims concept where you could play with a virtual house. Awesome episode btw! Congrats Linus on your transition to your new role!
@@ElliottVeares And it SUCKED. Tell me how they're going to keep a viable business model with the amount of data stored and served without ads at the very least. No one wants another monthly subscriptions for what can be free with a few annoying ads.
i have been a youtube premium subscriber for such a long time, i dont genuinely remember when i wasnt. Ive used youtube at a friends house and was genuinely shocked when an ad plays. i spend so much time watching content on this platform, i dont watch tv, i dont watch movies at all, i dont watch twitch, just youtube videos. when youtube music replaced my beloved Google Play Music which i was a subscriber of forever, I was happy to get the discounted rate w/ the combo sub.
@LinusTechTips I tuned into wan show live for the first time last night after being a subscriber for years, since my birthday is Canada Day, and I just want to say that your rant on ad blockers and comparing it to Spotify legitimately got me to sign up for RUclips Premium. Thank you, and I hope your new tenure as Chief Vision Officer is much less stressful than CEO. Cheers!
I first came in touch with LMG with "The Roast of Linus" many years ago. As roasting is not common in Europe, I just thought wtf, but came back a little later for a sub 😁 And since then seeing what you all achieved and what you all went through. I think Terren will take good care of your baby. And most importantly, you can do more things you love. I am so glad for you how everything turned out! ❤
For Android phones, you CAN transfer all your contents from your old device to a new device. The app is a native Samsung app and comes pre installed in phones. It is called Smart Switch. It automatically turns on when you plug in a data cable between devices.
Can you have someone from Mac Address be there when talking about iOS. Both Luke and Linus have one point and would like an opinion from someone who uses this on a regular basis.
Galaxius made a good video about internet adds (The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead). The big question is: What has changed ? Nothing. Companies are just more & more greedy and they just want all the cash in the world. For me the solution is quite simple. Firefox, different add-ons and if stuff like AdNauseam wont work - then I just um.... I would not watch RUclips. Just like voting with my wallet - I am gonna vote with my time. It is kinda like f2p live service video game. What would happen if all of the sudden you change it to b2p or add adds ? You would lose a lot of playerbase and the paying players would not have anyone to fight against and in the end the game would start to die Ecosystem simply collapses. In RL, the amount of space for adds is regulated by law & governments. On the internet ? Not so much. There is your problem right there. Add blockers would not be needed if the amount of adds was balanced.
About that TikTok thing, that used to be (may still be) super common in the art commissions space. A company holds a competition for a grand prize and everyone submits but few win. Company basically gets 1000’s of options to choose from, winner gets cash prize, everyone else loses
Linus’s phone upgrading frustrations are something that iOS perfected literally over 15 years ago. I’ve essentially been using the “same iphone” since the original launched in 2007, just the soul happens to get transplanted into a new vessel every year. Locally stored backups and restores to a new device are practically effortless and eeeevvverything transfers over just like that as if I was already using the new iPhone the entire time. This is such a major plus of the iOS ecosystem. Only downside is it’s soooo slow over Lightning’s USB 2.0 transfer speeds. But at least it looks like that’ll finally be changing this year too.
When success goes to your head the only way is down.....Clearly he just makes up his mind on things and god help any of his staff trying to change it. And then when he's proven wrong he just doubles down instead of taking things on the chin. Best thing was for him to step down and let people who know how to run a succeful company of the size it has grown to run it properly. It was disgusting the way he "assumed" what and how Billet Labs intended to market this product. And if I want to be "entertained" LTT is the last place I'd go. Mind you this "come-uppance" has been very entertaining.
RUclips premium is a great deal. I have had it for years. No commercials, background play, screen off play and youtube music premium. That's a great package for under 20 bucks a month
This will be GREAT!! I will have so many hours of free time now that I won't waste time with youtube. The only down side is those 3 free will be wasted since there is no way to "vet" the videos since the like and dislike buttons have been purposefully made meaningless and thus yt will spread misinformation more easily
40:00 It's not free though, we still give our time and data in return. If companies want to charge a subscription or make us watch ads then we need to completely be able to opt out from any data harvesting.
The problem with comparing RUclips premium to Spotify is that people don’t want to leave Spotify. They’re already invested in that platform & it’s better for music than RUclips music. If RUclips premium was $4/month without the music service it would be a much easier purchase for many people.
I think the youtube ad/free thing is a lot more complex of an issue than people realise or talk about a lot. I will still be massively oversimplifying but basically there is this gigantic international public desire to use the internet to share and upload video based content in a way that is open and free for everyone, this seems to be a *human* desire to leverage the technology this way. There is also resulting pressure for this to be a single unified platform- we don't actually *want* to go to multiple places to go looking for stuff, we want it all in one single place because that's most convenient. We absolutely *do* want people to make a living off this type of content, but I strongly believe the fundamental desire is a lot more wholesome than most people maybe realise- I genuinely just think people want to be able to connect with one another online and video is one of the main mediums to do so. Obviously however that's not free, but I do think at a certain point our desires, as a species, are somewhat incompatible with the notion of having all of our services and interactions be profitable. How to solve that issue in the real world I have no idea, but I really do think that an open and free video platform is something the human race as a whole genuinely has a strong desire for and it's something we should be looking to maintain, I think the troubles with adblock are representative of the notion that we do not want everything in our lives to be monetised, that we just want some things to be available to everyone
The issue with RUclips premium is that when downloading a video for offline playback before a trip it will not let you play without having internet to verify that you still have premium(info from Louis Rossmann).
People complain about their Folds creasing, why not just iron it?
-Timestamps-
[0:00] *Chapters.*
[1:46] *Intro.*
[2:15] *Topic #1: Terren Tong is officially the new LTT CEO.*
> 3:11 Linus's busy week, Luke's opinion on Linus & Terren.
> 6:12 How Linus feels, addressing community thoughts.
> 10:06 Can Terren fire Linus? Why Terren specifically?
> 14:50 Is Linus an okay actor? Is dropping things "acting"?
> 18:36 Linus on the RTX 4060 video, Luke on Linus dropping stuff.
> 22:31 Linus's guessing segment idea, Linus on the LTX drop.
> 24:56 Linus discussing writing LTT videos, recalls Nick.
[29:54] *LTTStore's new PCMR collab merch.*
> 33:22 FP LTT Support Plus subs can access LTX 2023 merch.
[35:28] *LMG & Floatplane are hiring!*
[36:43] *Topic #2: RUclips restricts adblockers' access.*
> 38:20 Twitter requires login to watch videos, Linus on revenue.
> 40:14 Linus recalls The Simpsons, thoughts on this approach.
> 46:10 Luke on YT Premium & Spotify, Linus on family accounts.
[51:08] *Topic #3: Activision's "hallucinations" anti-cheat.*
> 52:38 Steam & Fallout cheater history, ScriptKid's fake CS:GO cheats.
> 54:30 What should LTT do if they caught cheaters in Whale LAN?
> 56:32 Linus plans 250 seats LANs, variations of cheating.
[1:01:24] *Merch Messages #1.*
> 1:02:22 Plans for more woman LTTStore merch? ft. Sarah.
> 1:05:30 Thoughts on a Framework handheld conversion kit?
> 1:09:20 Nature V.S. nurture entrepreneurial mindset.
> 1:14:30 Badminton-playing robot in Linus's center?
[1:15:52] *Stranger than Fiction WAN Show segment.*
> 1:16:35 Dan explains the game & punishment.
> 1:17:38 StF #1: E-bike data stream, "Changeme!" school password, Elon Musk's "burnt hair" perfume.
> 1:18:36 Linus's & Luke's StF #1 choices.
> 1:19:32 StF #2: Bose's fire hazard recall, Auto drones blackouts, Nintendo's limited hairstyle.
> 1:20:18 Linus's & Luke's StF #2 choices.
> 1:20:30 StF #3: Flame-throwing robo-dog, A.I. ASMR RUclipsr, robots with insect hands.
> 1:21:12 Linus's & Luke's StF #3 choices.
[1:21:55] *Sponsors.*
> 1:21:59 Corsair.
> 1:22:48 iFixit.
> 1:23:36 Blackpoint Cyber.
[1:24:18] *Topic #4: iOS & Android's screen calls.*
> 1:24:26 Linus & Luke discuss screening calls.
> 1:26:12 Linus cannot leave Android, unavailable regional apps.
> 1:27:44 Pixel Fold's screen issues, LTT backpack carabiner.
[1:34:00] *Topic #5: Let Me Spy hacked, data breach.*
> 1:36:44 Should such an app be hidden?
[1:39:14] *Topic #6: Publisher hires A.I. writer & editor.*
> 1:42:12 Canada passes ONA bill, Linus & Luke on Google news.
[1:46:33] *Topic #7: Fillian, a VTuber, responds to LTT's shoutout.*
[1:49:18] *Topic #8: LTT TV, continuous backlog livestreams.*
[Cont.] *Topic #7: Fillian, a VTuber, responds to LTT's shoutout.*
> 1:50:02 Luke shows Fillian's reaction.
[Cont.] *Topic #8: LTT TV, continuous backlog livestreams.*
> 1:51:06 Luke on RUclips's stream keys & fallback.
[1:54:30] *Topic #9: Community's response to LTT's cooler video.*
[2:02:36] *Topic #10: GameLinked's official debut.*
[2:05:10] *Topic #11: Sovereign Tech Fund's Contribute Back to Open Source challenge.*
[2:05:50] *Topic #12: LTT community outrage at "lack of milk."*
[2:07:22] *Topic #13: AMD announces limited Ryzen 5 5600X3D.*
[2:09:06] *Topic #14: TikTok's "Creative Challenge."*
[2:11:20] *Merch Messages #2 ft. WAN Show After Dark.*
> 2:12:04 What series would you revive? ft. Yvonne, Linus's dad's joke.
> 2:15:30 Ever wanted to flex your internet clout for your kids?
> 2:19:56 Anyone of you used Microsoft Bob?
> 2:21:41 Most expensive thing Linus has broken?
> 2:22:01 Is Cosco as bad as Netflix, or are they justified?
> 2:24:48 Subtle changes with Terren as the CEO?
> 2:28:00 Is the translucent screwdriver going to be a product?
> 2:28:36 Was Linus nervous about being a boss?
> 2:32:10 What channel you like would you take over?
> 2:33:22 Past problems while working with subreddits?
> 2:35:20 Realistic end goal for LTT?
> 2:37:54 Linus is presented as humble, opinions on the employer style?
> 2:39:48 Microsoft's Assassin Creed impact on Skull and Bones?
> 2:41:20 What happened to the watercooled RED camera?
> 2:41:34 Hardest thing you let go of to avoid the sunk-cost fallacy?
> 2:42:45 What's the backstory of the Linus selfie pic?
> 2:43:46 Q&A work that was put into the screwdriver?
> 2:44:45 Would the Noctua screwdriver be limited?
> 2:45:00 Parts of your job that you enjoy that isn't thought as your job?
> 2:45:56 Things you knew about housing that everyone should know?
> 2:45:38 Videos you decided to make private?
> 2:48:40 How often would you replace hard drives? are they a dead tech?
> 2:50:08 What do you do with a creators block?
[2:50:48] *Outro.*
Thank you timestamp guy 👍
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Incredible, they are already here, thank you so much Nok1119
Thank you
Awesome work, thanks
Linus: Show the specs as an image instead of reading them one by one.
(5 min later)
Luke:
Linus: you might want to show the list.
Chief vision officer doing his job right there
He is live, there is no editing and having someone pulling up something on the stream will take them longer than actually reading it.
@@sparty278They can screen share from their laptops and Luke had it on his screen so it would literally take 2 seconds to show it on the stream.
It takes one of the best Chief Vision Officers in the biz to know that our vision is entirely vision-based. A stunning display of visioneering right there.
@@jfolzCould almost call him a visionary.
Vision Officer, making sure people see stuff.
1:54:30 - BIllet Lab part
*uses product in a way it wasn't designed for*
*call it bad because it "makes no sense"*
professional reviewer
SUGGESTION: Linus, I think it would be good if LTT did a few videos about setting up parental controls on children accounts. I'm a parent of a now adult child. I had "FUN" (note: Sarcasm) setting up xbox, steam, windows, etc. so my daughter could use computers and consoles in a safe-ish environment. I'm a 30 year IT veteran, and I've had trouble figuring out some of this. (and then there are the tools that straight up didn't work.) My daughter was growing up during the period where game manufacturers were getting questions about "why does my child have access to x?" and "How could my child run up a bill on this game?" Their response was, "We built in parental controls." Those controls SSSUUUCCCCKKKEEEDDD!!! If I, someone who works in IT had issues finding and using them, Abandon All Hope for the average parent.
That's is a really good suggestion! I suspect a lot of people would be in this position.
I‘m not even sure I actually want kids, but I‘ll absolutely be the guy my friends are going to come to for this at some point or another, so YES PLEASE.
This is why I abandoned all hope for most people working in IT.😂
The best parental control is you, the parent. You actually don't need that many help, a video filter for RUclips sure, but you need to learn kids to use and understand technology, not shield them.
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Just bc a product cannot be mass produced doesn't make it a terrible product. It may be a terrible business, but not a terrible product. You've become such a businessman.
It's a last gen cooler that's $800 bc that's when they started development. Not long after, 4090 cooler came out. It's a new company and they're prototyping. Again, looking at this from a business standpoint rather than a techie. You have lost your roots.
Context? What time stamp are you referring to?
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@@zacharylowe8083 1:54:30
@@zacharylowe8083 1:57:20
In addition, with a starting prototype like that Billet could finds ways to make that design cheaper and modify only certain sections to become compatible with a wide range of products. Then it wouldn’t be that $800 halo product anymore, though it could offer such a variant, but now can offer a better solution vs competition. That’s how r&d and product development works.
Linus dropping that CEO title harder than a 3090 Ti, truly history in the making
And dropping hard R also
Low blow.
@@AllWeKnowIsParamore Well he is short...
@@kadefringe Truly one of the Linus moments ever.
@@kadefringe1:04 1:06
Hopefully the 500 dollars you saved were worth it, Linus.
where is the clip
Came here solely about the billet product. Dude literally called it a bad product like 15 times in a 2 minute span, him not sending it back really seems malicious at this point.
what are the time stamps?
@@papapotatopie
@@PaverickFA18 1 hour and 54 minutes in is roughly when it begins.
@@PaverickFA18 1:57:20 for the non-apology clip. The topic starts at 1:54:30
For RUclips premium: I don’t want to be paying the full price of the premium when I don’t want to be using the YT music service as well. I would rather consider a lower cost tier that only blocks ads and doesn’t force me to buy another (music) service I’m not interested in.
Yeah me too. People are often like „yeah but it includes that as well“ and I always think „yeah, but I don’t want that“.
Id like to buy youtube premium, however in my country we use our own banking system which youtube does not support. I am not getting a credit card just for youtube without ads. I'd like to see youtube add more alternative payment methods. For cases like mine or something similar.
I'm on Premium Lite. Not available everywhere, and there are some annoying limitations. But it's a steep discount over regular RUclips Premium.
@@ChristofferETJh I never knew that one exists! Yeah unfortunately that has not arrived to my country yet - but that tier would pretty much address my earlier comment.
In Sweden at least there's RUclips Premium Lite that's 50% of the regular Premium price and it only gives you ad-free youtube viewing if you're not interested in youtube music. Hopefully they'll roll that out to more people
Looks like luke sensed something was off with linus' take
1:57:20 Aged like fine milk,hope the 500 bucks were worth
The Billet discussion is at 1:54:30 for those wanting more context on the GamersNexus commentary. The nexus clips left out a lot.
GOAT
It's literally worse 💀. I was expecting him to be more reasonable, but nah no excuses here.
Linus complains about not wanting to spend another $500 of an engineers time to test it again. But Linus, you made a mistake, you're a reviewer, it's your job to fix the mistake you made even if you costs you money. That's how you make it right. Even if you came to the same conclusion of not recommending the product, the product should still be reviewed properly. Honestly this whole thing makes me really skeptical of the Labs thing.
@@DarcMagikianyeah, even with this whole water block issue aside (which it’s still freaking awful on its own) the supposed reason for their “labs” is to provide accurate tests and whatnot. But if the whole thing is compromised by chasing the algorithm and mass producing videos to meet a quota. Then the entire thing is pointless and a waste of money, specially if they don’t own to their mistakes and lose people’s trust as it’s happening right now.
Oh man, $500 bucks for a video that got a million views, such expense
exactly, lol. He clearly does not value the accuracy of his content.
A million views earns him $900-$1400 in RUclips ad revenue. We know ad revenue is still a large part of their revenue, so sponsorship would be likely a similar amount. Let's say $3000 for the video. A sixth that revenue is a lot of money.
"Nothing that obeys the law of physics would have change the conclusion"
Gamer Nexus destroyed that with the simple fact check.
Last day as CEO and can’t even bother coming into the office.
Thanks Linus for all you have done. Cannot wait to see you more on screen now and hopefully more energized since you don’t have to deal with all the business stuff. Amazing team you and Yvonne have built and cannot wait to see where you all go in the future.
He was sick like cmon man
Guess this didn't age well.
1:59:00 Why even make review videos if you are not going to do them properly? No matter the conclusion, now I don't know if I can trust what is shown in your videos because you are clearly being lazy, and besides that cooler video it can be easily seen in most of your videos. Most of the review videos has errors in them, and some of them really serious, and what you said here explains it all, LMG doesn't whant to spend time in making a good and accurate review.
Regarding Billet.
It is not a mass market product to begin with. But there may be 20 people in the world that would find it solving a problem for them and worth buying it for 800$.
Some time ago, Linus featured with a case builder that hand builds cases which cost thousands of dollars, are those bad product too, Linus?
1:54:30 Why bother with being accurate. Not like anyone comes here for accurate information.
1:57:20 This is just wow.
LTT is what 100+ mil $, and you left 100-500$ take you down from what s morally right as a product reviewer?
Analogy: Imagine trying to fit a different size wheel on your car and then saying is wobbly or tilted and not performing right, must be a really BAD wheel /BAD product then. That s what you did in this case, and for a company that is trying to get out there and trusted you to have a complete and real review you have failed them, and more so you failed us the viewers. And i dont even want to get into you trying to sell/auction this "bad" product, without their consent.
Realistic speaking now. What s your job and goal there? To give ppl accurate non biased reviews or to pump as many videos as you can without testing properly?
Clearly are some issues inside LTT LMG, maybe ppl are overworked or fatigued or stressed from just jumping from 1 project/video to another without really caring. Either way, i hope you have the will and power to take a step back and reassess.
Bad analogy, he didn't say it was bad because of the performance, he stated multiple times that the conclusions wouldn't have changed even if it performed better than it did. It's bad because you're paying 800 dollars for a cooler of a last gen card that you can achieve for much less money.
Thanks for the timestamp
@@vigour6786 How do you know you can achieve the same for much less money? You'd only know that if you tested the product. They didn't. Remember that it is joint CPU, GPU monoblock. Prototype.
Also I wonder for how much it went in that auction. And it's a last gen cooler, since they started development before there was 4090. Defending their shitty behavior is truly disgusting.
@@jannegrey593 because Linus said you can water cool a pc for a fraction of the cost so why spend 800 on something with the same result as something cheaper and more reliable
@@jannegrey593 the dude was reiterating linus’ train of thought: “expensive block = bad”
Reading comprehension.
I’ve had RUclips premium when it was RUclips red. The amount of days of time I would say I’ve saved on ads is crazy. Also downloading videos when going places with no lte or wifi is huge.
The download is the main reason I got red in the first place
That’s why I have premium
You still need to be online to allow the starting of the downloaded video. Its technically not fully offline replay of downloaded files.
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Not true. I start watching downloaded videos when I am not connected to the internet all the time.
@@ricsip you need to be online occasionally to be able to watch the video, which makes it kinda useless, but you can watch it offline if you're on a plane or smth
About YT premium. Pretty sure if they turned down the price a bit, or added a lower tier, that just disables ads but also has no music, it would find more customers. RN, they market it as "you buy this because it's the right thing to do" and honestly, the Idea of google is that they sell our data, completely kill the concept of privacy online, and in return, give us access to the web. Up until now, that was more or less the unspoken contract between YT/Google and the world. So "you buy this because morals" just doesn't work for me, sorry.
Don't you have premium lite? It's like €7 here. It literally gets rid of ads, nothing more.
@@BArTI007not in the US.
Google markets it differently depending upon where in the world you are.
Yeah they ask you to buy premium and still sell your data and use it to serve ads off site and if you don't you will get pre-rolls, mid-rolls, banner ads and then the creators also put their own in video ads in there... It's too much, everyone is quadruple dipping unless you pay and even if you pay there still is a double dip... It's ridiculous.
As for Linus' complained about his YT premium family not working with his kids accounts, they literally mention that the family account does not work/count for minors on the YT kids accounts when you are on the selection page op which version you want.
Yeah but also the fact where premium lies. Louis rossman vid a vid on how some features are complete cash grabs like "offline videos" not actually being offline.
yeah offline videos do work offline you just need to check in once a month i think? i have more issues with it being weird pulling the video up when i have spotty connection fot whatever reason. but if i put it in airplane mode works 100% of the time
1:56:24 "You guys would have hung me up from the nearest tree."
Yeah, that would have been *awful*. Really dodged a bullet! /s
i rolled my eyes at the "can Terren" fire you question.
linus literally owns the company. he's just not ceo anymore.
Wife fired him years ago lol YTT Yvonne Tech Tips CCP
I mean technically he could fire him from his "creative whatever" postion, but that wouldn't make him any less majority shareholder.
@@orphanuprising would be flying very close to the sun if a ceo fires an owner from a position. The owner can just simply fire the ceo and give himself whatever position he wants, obviously.
@@nmnmmnmn9272 Linus the soul of the company, if they ever fire him the company is dead.
It’s just a joke.
This aged like milk
The major difference between Costco preventing cards from being shared and Netflix preventing accounts being shared is that Costco never encouraged people to share the membership cards, Netflix absolutely encouraged people sharing their account passwords. Moreover, the checkout operator looking at the card to see if it matches the person who handed it to them, that doesn't add any inconvenience to the end user. Whereas Netflix users could be required to follow some sort of process to verify themselves as the account holder every single time their IP address changes.
1:04:05 - Yes! Sarah should absolutely make more dinosaur merch. My partner would be so down. If the ltx pads came in the larger sizes, it would have been a sale.
Imma be 100, I only now just realized that Terren the new CEO and Taran, the ex-editor, are different people. I’ve listened to the past 4 or 5 pods thinking they’re the same 😂😂😂
Hay dw I’ve known they were different and still got confused frequently lmao.
Don't feel too bad, i'm still catching myself.
Yeah, I knew which Tarran it was from day 1 because I watched the roast of Linus Sebastian, but sometimes they will just casually say "Well Tarran came in and said X" and I have a sudden thought of "Wait, didn't he leave awhile back?" and have to take a moment to remember.
Lmao I thought they were the same as well. I was confused about the immigration statement in the video
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Man, what a way to trip over your own vanity in style.
40:26 I don't think that adblock era is done, the adblock community is made by developers, they'll find a way to get into the page code to disable the anti-adblock, anti-anti adblock exists Linus
Most of the people use Chrome, so Google has the upper hand.
@@manup1931 people are moving away from chrome because of the manifest V3 fiasco, which severely limits adblockers
@@manup1931 I'm using Opera since forever,fuck Chrome(it even has a built-in customizable adblock).
@@666MaRius9991Opera GX user here, very nice.
if u can't put money for testing (with all that money and 15m subs and that lab and staffs) just say don't buy it and done instead of giving wrong results and giving excuses that its expensive to re-done
do it properly and double checked or don't do it at all
no longer CEO, already working from home 🤣😂
Wow, watching this in retrospect because of the Billet Labs controversy GN brought up has me faced palmed. It’s common sense that reviewing a product by using the hardware it isn’t made for is invalid. I’m appalled how unapologetic he is to bad mouth a small start up pretty much wished them to fail.
Good luck Linus! I've been watching since ~2012 and it's amazing to see where this channel came from and has ended up, it was this channel that taught me allot of the trivial stuff I know and use today. :)
"The test result does not matter" - why bother pretending to test?
Do an unboxing then.
oh no, 500 bucks, how could a multimillion bussiness possibly afford that? 😢
hopefully it was worth your authenticity and integrity! 😃
Honestly, Spotify Premium is the one subscription I've never questioned (I'm on a family plan that's less than $5/person/month). I use it multiple hours every day, and their song radios and "your mix" algorithms are unbelievably on point. I don't create my own playlists anymore, because I really don't need to. I'm usually able to select one song I'm kind of vibing with at that specific moment and then listen to the song radio for three to four hours without feeling like I want to skip a song or two. It'll play me a great mix of songs I know and love and new songs to discover. It's such a low-friction experience that I've never thought twice about that subscription.
Family plan is great - just requires you to have a family or group of friends already not in the plan
My student membership ran out and it tripled in price - £5 to £13 - at that point, not worth imo :(
The whole youtube ad thing wouldn't be so bad... If they hadn't, in the last few years, repeatedly increased the amount of ads you see... Once upon a time I'd get one skipable ad at the start of a video and that's it, now I get 2 unskipable ads at the start, maybe another 2-4 during and that's only on short content, longer stuff it's even worse.
I have recently been forced to look up some things on my work laptop, on which i couldn't install an adblocker (a problem i have since remedied), and i didn't just get 2 unskippable ads.
I got 4 unskippable, long format ads, and another 3 during an IIRC 8 minute video.
Half the duration of the video was added in advertisements. I would pay for RUclips hadn't they mistreated us, and the community repeatedly and continually for the last 6 years. When ads are forced, i'll move somewhere else. My information, my property. Force it out of me, and i'll force you down the toilet.
I had an ad (which was skippable) that was over an hour long!! How the f is that an ad, it was almost 5 times the length of the video I was watching!
This is what people don’t understand. Advertising will only ever get worse as companies get more and more desperate. It’s not “cat and mouse”, this happens on paid services too
Wouldn’t more people blocking ads force RUclips to play more ads to cover it?
@@SimpleCarGuy they would play more ads no matter what. Do not view ads as “we need X to meet costs”, view it as “how much value can we extract from our viewers”
It’s why streaming services are starting to put ads in despite you paying already. Advertisers will never relent, and blaming the people smart enough to avoid it is not the answer
My problem with the end of the "free lunch" is that it feels like the strategy of operating at a loss to outcompete competitors until you have a functional monopoly, then raising prices and cutting features because you can.
somebody should write a book about this
It's not even close to the same 😂. Blocking ads was always against TOS. You can still watch RUclips for.... FREE. You just can't also block the ads. I cannot get over someone comparing removing ad block to market manipulation. That's just hilarious. RUclips didn't turn into a monopoly because they allowed ad block. They definitely didn't turn into a monopoly because they allowed a block and others didn't. Every company had been subject to ad block for years. It's delusional to compare this to market manipulation to create a monopoly. This idea is silly. The entitlement is incredible.
@@Ohnothisisbad It's not just about the adblocker block, but the direction RUclips has been moving for years now. From the birth to RUclips and for ten+ years, RUclips was free and really good. So good and cheap, it pushed out everyone else. And now that there's no competition, they can start with unpopular moves. That's not good for a healthy market and should frankly be banned under anti-dumping laws. If they were profitable from the start, I'd have no issue with this, I'd even pay for RUclips. But now, after years of getting everyone used to free videos? Hell no.
The EA model.
@@Ohnothisisbadidiot
I dont watch much wan shows but sometimes i just love the merch messages when listening what Linus and Luke talking.
"Whats strangest place you've seen LTT merch" dan is like: "probably NASA" 😂
That's expected. Wieird would be like an NBA or NFL game.
Seen on a New Zealand RC channel. I think it was Ron wearing it.
@@FutureJacket There was an Olympic athlete with LTT merch a while back. That was probably one of the most unusual
It's difficult to apologize in these circumstances bc there's so much anger coming from the masses. You've been a big influence for my RUclips journey and I highly respect you. That's why I eagerly await how you will handle this.
Actually having a “Tech dinosaur” series would be cool. Old tech and dinosaurs, Jurassic period towers creating the landscape. A dinosaur built out of ancient hardware.
I was thinking more of something like a t-rex using an ancient Motorola brick phone or something, but that would be cool too!
Beige boxes and jurassic period ferns lol
So it would cost you 500 to swap out a damn video card from a 4090 to a 3090. Damn how much do you pay per hour, because I'm in the wrong career field if simply swapping out a video card would cost you $500.
I assume it would probably take a staff of one or two people to film a new video. If anything I'm completely concerned that he's underpaying his staff greatly given how stingy he apparently is
And you know he is from Canada and canadian dollars aren't USD?
@@mlody969 I'm aware which 500 CAD using the current rate of exchange is 369 USD. So for 369 USD I'll happily swap out a video card. It doesn't take that long to swap out a video card. Though if he was that money conscious, he would've RTFM and done it right the first time. Also he wasted much more money on other projects that the average person never would pay for either.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 Well yes it would take a couple of people to do the video, however if he would've done it right the first time it wouldn't have cost him any extra. Also, if he wanted to test it with both cards it only would've taken him an extra few minutes to swap it out. Especially if he would've RTFM and followed the directions on what the manufacture recommended for installation. Also he wasted much more money on other projects that aren't necessary but can't spend the money to properly test this but will happily trash the company and it's product. Now don't get me wrong I think this is an expensive useless product, however he should've given them the fair chance to properly test it.
You could have done an honest test but it would have cost you money so you instead just told everybody the product sucks!?
Taran: Linus ur fired
Linus: why
Taran: its for a video.
Linus: fair enough
1:57:22 : disgusting. Completely irresponsible.
get a life mate.
@@alphabeta2515What a dumb comment. If Linus want LTT to be a entertainment chanel then should stop PRETEND to be techie and stop showing inaccurate results. Because someone's REAL LIFE can be destroyed by that standards.
@@alphabeta2515 we want accurate tests, not "how many USBs can you plug in" or "Ltt's house tour videos" . Something no one's PC consumers ever asked
RUclips premium doesn't give youtube music. RUclips music is available for everyone just like normal youtube. Just like youtube, having RUclips premium will remove the ads. It's just a different interface/app.
I've had RUclips premium since it's inception and never even considered cancelling it. The ad-free videos is worth it alone. I've also never considered giving Spotify a dime. Their payout to artists and creators is a joke.
$ def changes people.
The idea of a TV channel-like 24*7 live stream is appealing to the kid in me who grew up watching cartoons on TV. Didn't think scheduled times for each show would be something I miss. Back then, I would have been super down for watching Power Rangers whenever I wanted than just 19:00 to 19:30 in the evening
Scheduled times actually made us prioritise things, be punctual and appreciate things leaving us wanting more :))
That might be what I decide to fall asleep to from now on.
"back in my day pirates used to call themselves pirates" put the image of Luke in a pirate hat with his birds on his shoulders in my head and it's glorious 😅
the only issue i have with adds is when they have 10 add stops in 10 mins plus the way it breaks the content it makes content almost impossible to watch
Usually when it's that often it's the creator setting that many to make more money, that isn't RUclips's fault that's just people who are greedy, most videos I watch don't have anywhere near that many, my issue is when there's a 4+ hour ad, like I'll be using RUclips to listen to stuff in the background when I do things and don't always bother skipping the ads if I'm too busy and it's really annoying that it could be a 4+ hour Nissan and or like an entire episode of some bs rightwing talk show
@@noodlelynoodle. Sadly if the creator doesnt change them, youtube will auto include adds at set intervals.
@@pixelated.dreams yeah but it's usually only a few, when it's excessive like they were referring to it's typically the creators at least from my understanding
Wait people were really that bothered that a placeholder recording ended up in the final 4060 video? It was clear that was meant to be replaced in editing but they simply had no time due to the flight delays. GPU embargo's and the release of reviews are needed to be put out as soon as they are lifted since if you want to have anyone even remotely care about what you have to say.
They could have had someone else record that in the studio but that didn't happen either since none expected the delays to be that bad.
The problem with Twitter requiring login for me is Amber Alerts, Severe Weather, or that scare Hawaii had when an accidental missile launch alert went out... They all go to Twitter for some fuckin reason for more info. Can't view the info ads or not without fumbling for login info or your authenticator to login. These are time sensitive kinda things. They shouldn't require you lookin up a password or fighting a biometric lock.
Worse is when I’ve seen things like this go to twitter, but that tweet it goes to is just a link to more information.
I don't read written media from game journalists. Not when they lowered the bar so much that someone who can't even get through the tutorial also gets the job
Summoning the timestamp lord, blow the horn lads!!!!
Ads are brain cancer. There's simply no other way of looking at it. Their entire purpose is to highjack thought and direct it to a cause, usually with the intent of taking money from the viewer.
If there's no reasonable way to watch something without ads, it's time to switch to another form of media that still respects us. Might be time to get on the backlog of novels.
Companies may feel they have the right to profit, but users should have the right not not be psychologically manipulated. If leaving a platform is the way to do this, I hope everyone does exactly that.
Have had RUclips Premium about a year after it came out when it was still RUclips Red. The no ads, background play, and able to download videos made it great when I worked as a security guard in places with bad internet for 12 hour shifts.
Moving from a startup to a scaleup is really hard. Having a CEO who can help you cross that threshold is really important. I wish you all at LMG the very best
Can't wait to see how much of the AD-Blocker thing actually translate in increase of net profits for them. I bet it will be negligible. Some studies show it can actually hurt the business because of migration to other browsers with built-in and more efficient AD-Blocks and way better privacy.
now is also a terrible time for Google to antagonize users, with decentralized alternatives gaining ground
Can't wait for the Intel/AMD Extreme Upgrade marathon. Please include interim segments like "Next up: this video!"
RUclips premium is worth it to me. I split it with several family members so it isn’t so expensive. It’s worth it to support creators and not be annoyed by all those ads.
No free lunch? Then no lunch for me. I have other ways to entertain myself.
Ad blockers are essential for staying sane on the internet.
YT red being a package deal for me is a big nope too.
Also deleted my Netflix as I mostly had it for family to use. So don't miss it in the slightest.
So if the YT ad blocked app on my TV no longer works, it'll be just for gaming and moledia streamed from PC in the future.
I guess people spending less time consuming online content is actually a healthy thing. Go outside ppl! =D
39:00 no, the reason why we ended up with "these obnoxious moving ads" is because the platforms servicing those ads got greedy and let it happen. The fact that companies are expected to generate increasingly higher profits YoY is what's killing the browsing experience on the Internet.
In regards to the RUclips Premium vs Spotify thing: I have Spotify instead of RUclips Premium primarily because of all the 3rd party websites and apps that integrate with it. Like I spend a lot of my spotify time on a website where it's a room full of people and it rotates through different DJs, like a sorta virtual "pass the aux cable" thing. The song radio and discovery algorithm on spotify is also better than youtube, spotify makes a TON of daily playlists and you have loads of ways to control/ad to/remove from them. If you're just casually "oh I want to listen to this song" using a music service I'm sure they're basically identical but once you start trying to get more into it Spotify is just better.
I also hardly ever watch RUclips on my phone so literally the only benefit I'm getting out of RUclips Premium is no advertisements, and I'm losing out on all this cool 3rd party stuff.3
And before someone says it, no I don't use an adblocker, I have no problem watching 5-15s of advertisements before a video. Someone has to pay for the servers and they sure aren't going to do it for free.
Granted if I was making like $100,000+ a year I'd pay for RUclips Premium, because fuck it why not at that point.
Well said kind sirs!!!!!!Now, I do have to ask tho..... what's that thing you talked about? That .. virtual pass the aux cable... that sounds awesome!!!!
I used Apple Music for a few months about 5 years back, then moved to Deezer and when I tried Spotify at that time, it didn't feel quite right. Last month I stopped using Deezer because I lost access to my old account so I signed up for a RUclips Premium trial, but RUclips Music is a joke and the cost is higher then I'd like to spend to bypass ads. The 3rd party website with the dj/pass the aux option seems very interesting, so I'll give Spotify a try again. What is the name of the site?
@@maestrodillingerklopfgeist @themehguy3936 It's called RVRB
I have no problem watching ads so long as RUclips and its advertisers respect the time of the people watching and not oversaturate videos with lots of advertisements and/or overly long ads.
I get that RUclips has to make some income to pay for their employee's and their hardware.
I'm split though between wanting a cheaper subscription that only removes ad's and not paying at all because RUclips has done idiotic decisions one after another, ignoring problems on their site and being extremely frustrating for creators to work with (as an example Adrian's Digital Basement got banned for impersonating, himself).
So with that I'm not sure I want to directly financially support such a company that just ignores their community (*cough* dislike count)
Edit #1: I also do not use Spotify (nor do I pay them)
You are smoking some major copium there. Regardless of whether or not you think RUclips competent or fair in how they run their business, they have every right to charge whatever they want for their services. They have no obligation to you, or "their community", to justify anything they do especially when the people who are butt hurt by the changes are violating RUclipss terms of service and are literally stealing from them.
I have no idea how you can say "I'm split though between wanting a cheaper subscription that only removes ad's and not paying at all" while using the very service you bemoan. Like how can you not realize that RUclips doesn't have to serve you or anyone who isn't paying for their content whether through ad revenue or payed subscriptions. But if the recent events are any indication, then you will either have stop using RUclips, or the much more likely option, you get over yourself and realize that no matter how indignant you are it wont change reality.
Also I really don't care about RUclips loosing money, ad block, or even strait up theft. I am probably the most morally bankrupt person you are likely to meet, but your attitude is painfully entitled and it majorly pisses me off.
@@walfman100 whale alert
@@walfman100 dude why you crying
As a RUclips premium subscriber being able to not hear a single ad for years now while listening to RUclips on my phone is great.
For me RUclips is my only source of entertainment, and that’s worth the price for me knowing I am supporting those I watch more.
1:19:00 They are laughing at the password thing, but this has actually happened in my school, back in like 2007. Everyone's password was set to something 4-letter, everyone having the same thing. At some point they also started blocking access and limiting time, because people were playing runescape and other games, so when you'd run out of shit on your own account, people would just log into some other kids' profile and continue
Saaaame we had a 4 number code and we all just used our birth year... 1991 and 1992 were about 80% of us lmao 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you gor everyone you and the twam built. You deserve every bit of peace you can get as this transition gets made.
*for
Endless "how i got rich", casino and LOUD regional grocery stores ads await from now on. Thank you Google for doing nothing about it, while taking away ad block.
google doing nothing about it? ... Do you even think about what you write? Try reading it and realize just how dumb you sound...
That is how they make money - on adds... it has always been... since day one, google made money on adds. They have done something about it! They have tested how many adds people are willing to endure, and they keep pushing it - boiling the frog so to speak.
And if you don't want to pay with your time, you can pay with youtube premium instead, not only will that get rid of adds, it also gives you a few other perks. But more importantly, if you care, the creator gets a lot more money from your view than when it is add based.
There wouldn't be a Linus, or any of the other youtubers you watch, if not for adds, that is what pays their rent, even if LTT at this point has enough other ways of making money to make it without youtubes money!
I am not saying you should buy premium, there can be reasons you don't think you have the money, but you should wake up and understand how the world works! Nothing is free, and if it free, you are the product - in this case, your eyeballs and your time. And if you don't have the money for premium, they still allow you to watch for free - if you watch the fucking adds. and many of them are still skipable - they didn't have to do that - remember that...
I can however hint to maybe looking into using a VPN and signing up from another country if you think it is too expensive where you live, the prices are not the same worldwide.
Just buy premium lol
@@dontgetmarriedyes
But seriously why aren't advertisers responsible to what they're advertising?
You missed the ads for "Ad blocker" that constantly pops up. ( I don't watch ads, I watch the timer ).
Linus (and youtube) is missing the forest for the trees on the adblock issue. Video "The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead" is pretty much a must see as far as the whole ad situation goes, because there's a LOT more to the issue than "I don't want to pay/if you aren't paying we don't need you".
But to briefly summarize key points: users can be valuable even when they don't view ads, forcing adblock users to view ads can lower clickthrough rates and ultimately hurt ad revenue, pissing users off is never a good idea, especially the more technical ones, and finally, there are reasons beyond simple freeloading why users turn to adblockers, generally relating to bad or excessive ads. The main solution proposed is to get better ads that people will want to watch or at least be willing to watch. Suggesting that the investment in better ads will feedback on itself to solve the problem instead of wasting money on a non-solution trying to force users to view ads they don't want.
Honestly Linus of all people should understand how there are both good and bad ads, and good and bad ways of pushing them. After all most LTT videos are themselves ads, or still functionally so in the case of many non-sponsered products, and they even contain ads within the ads for LTT products and other sponsers. And people actually willingly watch them, even people who use adblock. Not everybody watches everything of course, but some people choose to consume these ads because they are good ads for them. And the CTR for LTTstore ads is probably through the roof compared to any forced youtube ad.
About the 4060 Review: I thought it was a metaphor for how much thought and work Nvidia put into the 4060. And because of that i thought it was kinda fitting.
Linus, Tell Sarah to make a line of Digital Dinosaur merch. It has tech.
I WAS HERE, for Linus' last day as CEO! 😊
Can't wait for the free cake and ice cream on next week's show :>
The free cake and ice cream has to be approved by the new CEO!
If anybody is curious about the video at 18:41, its name on FP is: FP Exclusive: Linus Host Tips (Intel A770 GPU Extras)
There should have never been a "free" internet service, that is all the discussion on this topic that is necessary. Access to content should have been paid and ad and tracking free or paid for with ads and data tacking.
Ads as something more than simple video or graphics file are a security concern and should be either heavily regulated or banned all together, and of course, there is another security concern about scammers. So no, I don't allow ads on my machine.
I just about fell over when y'all didn't know what Microsoft Bob was. It wasn't a full OS. It was an app that came with Windows 95. The description Dan gave was somewhat accurate: it was a "virtual house" where you could move around point and click style (think original Myst) and do activities. There wasn't much actual productivity though... It was more like a very early Sims concept where you could play with a virtual house.
Awesome episode btw! Congrats Linus on your transition to your new role!
For youtube adblocker one: We watch as venture capitalist render everything they manage useless for everyone but the most naive or tolerating people
RUclips was ad free for Free in it's early days (2005 - 2010) and that's the way it should still be!
@@ElliottVeares Ads were already here on YT around 2007.
@@ElliottVeares Dream on mate. Eventually this site needed to earn money to be able to run.
@@adamblyth9972 I'd tolerate some ads, once google started paying their fair share of taxes.
@@ElliottVeares And it SUCKED. Tell me how they're going to keep a viable business model with the amount of data stored and served without ads at the very least. No one wants another monthly subscriptions for what can be free with a few annoying ads.
i have been a youtube premium subscriber for such a long time, i dont genuinely remember when i wasnt. Ive used youtube at a friends house and was genuinely shocked when an ad plays. i spend so much time watching content on this platform, i dont watch tv, i dont watch movies at all, i dont watch twitch, just youtube videos. when youtube music replaced my beloved Google Play Music which i was a subscriber of forever, I was happy to get the discounted rate w/ the combo sub.
Linus and Filian crossover now possible??? Let's gooooooooooo!!!
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@LinusTechTips I tuned into wan show live for the first time last night after being a subscriber for years, since my birthday is Canada Day, and I just want to say that your rant on ad blockers and comparing it to Spotify legitimately got me to sign up for RUclips Premium. Thank you, and I hope your new tenure as Chief Vision Officer is much less stressful than CEO. Cheers!
I first came in touch with LMG with "The Roast of Linus" many years ago. As roasting is not common in Europe, I just thought wtf, but came back a little later for a sub 😁 And since then seeing what you all achieved and what you all went through. I think Terren will take good care of your baby. And most importantly, you can do more things you love. I am so glad for you how everything turned out! ❤
Great positive comment!!
For Android phones, you CAN transfer all your contents from your old device to a new device. The app is a native Samsung app and comes pre installed in phones. It is called Smart Switch. It automatically turns on when you plug in a data cable between devices.
Can you have someone from Mac Address be there when talking about iOS. Both Luke and Linus have one point and would like an opinion from someone who uses this on a regular basis.
love that they played "Wait, Wait.... Don't Tell Me!" on WAN show, i grew up on that show
Galaxius made a good video about internet adds (The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead). The big question is: What has changed ? Nothing. Companies are just more & more greedy and they just want all the cash in the world. For me the solution is quite simple. Firefox, different add-ons and if stuff like AdNauseam wont work - then I just um.... I would not watch RUclips. Just like voting with my wallet - I am gonna vote with my time.
It is kinda like f2p live service video game. What would happen if all of the sudden you change it to b2p or add adds ? You would lose a lot of playerbase and the paying players would not have anyone to fight against and in the end the game would start to die Ecosystem simply collapses.
In RL, the amount of space for adds is regulated by law & governments. On the internet ? Not so much. There is your problem right there. Add blockers would not be needed if the amount of adds was balanced.
What! Do you mean 5 minutes of ads for every 2 minutes of content is a little bit extreme?... ( sarcasm alert ).
About that TikTok thing, that used to be (may still be) super common in the art commissions space. A company holds a competition for a grand prize and everyone submits but few win. Company basically gets 1000’s of options to choose from, winner gets cash prize, everyone else loses
I might, just might consider YT premium if I knew that my data isn't being sold further.
Linus’s phone upgrading frustrations are something that iOS perfected literally over 15 years ago. I’ve essentially been using the “same iphone” since the original launched in 2007, just the soul happens to get transplanted into a new vessel every year. Locally stored backups and restores to a new device are practically effortless and eeeevvverything transfers over just like that as if I was already using the new iPhone the entire time. This is such a major plus of the iOS ecosystem.
Only downside is it’s soooo slow over Lightning’s USB 2.0 transfer speeds. But at least it looks like that’ll finally be changing this year too.
Huge fan of the new “fake news” section or whatever it’s called. Would love to see more!
The change I've noticed is Linus trying to leak as much as possible on wan show while he's still ceo
When success goes to your head the only way is down.....Clearly he just makes up his mind on things and god help any of his staff trying to change it. And then when he's proven wrong he just doubles down instead of taking things on the chin. Best thing was for him to step down and let people who know how to run a succeful company of the size it has grown to run it properly. It was disgusting the way he "assumed" what and how Billet Labs intended to market this product. And if I want to be "entertained" LTT is the last place I'd go. Mind you this "come-uppance" has been very entertaining.
RUclips premium is a great deal. I have had it for years. No commercials, background play, screen off play and youtube music premium. That's a great package for under 20 bucks a month
This will be GREAT!! I will have so many hours of free time now that I won't waste time with youtube. The only down side is those 3 free will be wasted since there is no way to "vet" the videos since the like and dislike buttons have been purposefully made meaningless and thus yt will spread misinformation more easily
40:00 It's not free though, we still give our time and data in return. If companies want to charge a subscription or make us watch ads then we need to completely be able to opt out from any data harvesting.
So, wait, RUclips is going to help me stop watching RUclips vids?
The problem with comparing RUclips premium to Spotify is that people don’t want to leave Spotify. They’re already invested in that platform & it’s better for music than RUclips music.
If RUclips premium was $4/month without the music service it would be a much easier purchase for many people.
I think the youtube ad/free thing is a lot more complex of an issue than people realise or talk about a lot. I will still be massively oversimplifying but basically there is this gigantic international public desire to use the internet to share and upload video based content in a way that is open and free for everyone, this seems to be a *human* desire to leverage the technology this way. There is also resulting pressure for this to be a single unified platform- we don't actually *want* to go to multiple places to go looking for stuff, we want it all in one single place because that's most convenient. We absolutely *do* want people to make a living off this type of content, but I strongly believe the fundamental desire is a lot more wholesome than most people maybe realise- I genuinely just think people want to be able to connect with one another online and video is one of the main mediums to do so. Obviously however that's not free, but I do think at a certain point our desires, as a species, are somewhat incompatible with the notion of having all of our services and interactions be profitable. How to solve that issue in the real world I have no idea, but I really do think that an open and free video platform is something the human race as a whole genuinely has a strong desire for and it's something we should be looking to maintain, I think the troubles with adblock are representative of the notion that we do not want everything in our lives to be monetised, that we just want some things to be available to everyone
The issue with RUclips premium is that when downloading a video for offline playback before a trip it will not let you play without having internet to verify that you still have premium(info from Louis Rossmann).
1:03:06 - Happy to see her make an appearance. She always perks me up.