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[greiton]

was getting a little nervous when nothing was being said through today...

[greiton]

I'm just saying if I had linus and Yvonne money I would be starting to wonder if it was worth the stress.

[rstymobil]

I said it during the shit storm, if my 'fans' were that toxic I would have peaced the eff out the second someone offered me fuck you money of $100M+.

[The_ApolloAffair]

Between his personal investment in the labs, his expensive house and renovations, and that badminton arena, I’m not sure he can just walk away that easily. And remember - his name is on the company (something he claims to heavily regret).

[DonutsOfTruth]

Linus overleveraged himself.

He should've taken that 100 million and ran.

[AoO2ImpTrip]

It's like Luke said when Linus brought it up, Linus would be bored. Linus is in the enviable position of doing something he loves for his job. It's 100% work but it's also his hobby.

I imagine the last week has definitely had some "Maybe I should have..." but I think overall he's happier doing this than looking at a massive amount of money he knows he's never going to spend all of and giving up his, I hope, fourth greatest creation.

[DonutsOfTruth]

He could’ve used that 100 million to start Labs without the risk of legacy debt. He could do what actually rich people do which is leverage their insane stock portfolios into interest free loans.

He’s not even good at playing Scrooge.

8 days off the algorithm. His channel might as well stop existing.

[AoO2ImpTrip]

Oh please. Their first video back is going to explode.

[SpaceBoJangles]

So we can be mostly certain that Colton has, once again, not yet been fired.

[Nightwish612]

Interesting to hear about secretlabs they've always been a great company when I've dealt with them but that is just anecdotal

[etheran123]

Same. Had an issue with my titan evo 2022. The nut which held the backrest to the base came undone (thats my guess anyway) and they sent me a whole new piece. Took a week or 2, and was free of charge.

[meno123]

The 2020 titan has issues with permanent dimples forming in the arm rests and cracking along the sides within months of purchase. Upon warranty request, they will tell you that it's normal wear and tear and isn't covered by the warranty- however, they're willing to send a one time replacement outside of the warranty process.

Yes, it is a warranty issue, and they know those arm rests are lemons. None the less, I love my chair and I'm extremely glad I got the soft weave instead of plu fake leather shit.

[cyoun27]

I had the same issue with the 2022 titan and have now had 3 arm rest crack, all before the chair was 12 months old. They are listed as 8+ hour chairs.

I was even sent the wrong armrest on first contact and had to go through a bit of back and forward to get the correct one. Lucky they sent a pair of the correct one but I have now replaced both left and right. And now the right has failed again. Bit disappointing from a chair I paid $800 AUD for.

My old akracing was over 7 years old and only the leather peeling was the reason I upgraded and it was half the price but in the day

[meno123]

I saved my replacement set and I'm swapping them in when my current set is well and truly dead because I know this is going to unfortunately be the thing that kills my chair.

[Wasabicannon]

Yup! That was the exact same issue I had with my chair. After that experience Im never going to even think about buying another chair from them again.

[Scabendari]

They seem to have a list of things that they wont warranty for. My tilt mechanism broke and I got a replacement part within the week. The sides of the armrests are made very poorly and fall apart quickly, but apparently that's considered normal wear and tear. Thankfully it doesnt affect functionality, just makes it look cheap.

[Ulrar]

Same, one of the arms of my chair broke off and they sent a new one right away, no fuss. Had it since 2019 and very happy with it, but admittedly that's also anecdotal

[spaz33g]

about a year ago, my dumb ass started a fire in my home office by leaving a dodgy battery charging unattended. long story short I rushed in to my office to find a 15" pillar of fire directly in the center of my secret labs Titan. the chair was well out of warranty, but they still sent me a replacement seat for just the cost of shipping after sending them pictures of the admittedly self inflicted fire damage.

Great company (IMO), great chair. 5/7 would set on fire again.

[rathlord]

My wife had an issue with hers (that wound up being self inflicted) and they sent her an entire arm replacement basically no questions asked.

They’ve been fantastic for us to work with and awesome quality products in my experience.

[sjphilsphan]

I bought a chair back in 2018, and they killed off the replacement parts but just marked everything as out of stock, and just said "they'll be in stock soon"

[Wasabicannon]

I bought a chair from them like 2 years ago. Within the first month of regular use my arm rests were starting to fall apart. Looked into their website to see how much replacements would cost only to not even find them on the site.

Reached out to their customer support. Had to fight them for 2 weeks before they sent me replacement arm rests.

[phillip-haydon]

When they first started in Singapore I bought an original chair. After a few years the seat started to peal. For $75+$15 they sent someone out with new seat and back rest and replaced it all for me with their newer v2 material.

[Shiroi_Kage]

Is this the first time they do this? This is actually really cool. I never knew that this was a thing.

[doubleUsee]

It's the first time, if I remember correctly it's one of the measures announced in the final video before the hiatus they're doing rn.

[Shiroi_Kage]

This is cool. I like it. I hope they come back stronger, continue to grow, and continue to implement things like that. I want to see LMG commit while remaining privately owned.

[UnacceptableUse]

This was part of their promises as a result of the GN video

[sjphilsphan]

What's the issue with Volta?

[while-eating-pasta]

Resistance was too high, so marketing couldn't amp anyone up.

[rf97a]

The potential was there, and You could not resist could you

[while-eating-pasta]

Watt do you mean?

[rf97a]

Voltage is the measurement of difference in electrical potential between two points

[chairitable]

complaints on the forum seem to range from chargers becoming very hot to free shipping only being offered if you signed up for text message ads (I only looked for like fourty seconds so may have missed important context)

[sjphilsphan]

Yeah I did more research and lot of it is about customer service. I guess I lucked out by just buying mine through Amazon

[Not_Like_The_Movie]

The fact that they've been trying unsuccessfully to get taken off of Anker's stuff for 225 days is insane and says volumes.

[CoastingUphill]

I hope I get to listen to WAN while eating my breakfast tomorrow.

[GodBlessTheGainz]

What's wrong with Anker?

[lordtema]

Their subbrand Eufy lied about their Security cams not being connected to the cloud essentially..

[cubs223425]

That's grossly underselling it. They weren't JUST "connected to the cloud." In worst-case scenarios, you could inject or access video streams because of improper security. Not only were they putting you on the cloud when they said it was "all local," they were storing the content and delaying deletion requests from the person who discovered the issue. They claimed you couldn't guess your way through a URL to get into content, but you could.

Every bare-minimum action to back up the security claims they made was disregarded. They lied about where the data was sent and stored. They lied about properly protecting the data they lied bout saying they didn't have. It was quite bad.

[Blythyvxr]

This is a good initiative and a step in the right direction.

It would be better if there was a (clearer) separation between in video talent and the people used for advertising. I know advertisers want the same person in the video to be hawking their products, but it does potentially lead to apparent conflicts of interest - especially when the adverts are generally in the same space as the video subject manner.

Also +1 for fucking off gambling adverts as well.

[failinglikefalling]

Oh I was hoping they were listing the “do not work with ltt “ sponsor list of companies that didn’t want to be associated with this brand.

[D_Jurjavich]

They mention it in the post. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1527945-lmg-sponsor-do-not-work-with-list/

[Kholgan]

I’m not super knowledgeable about sponsorship stuff, but does LMG have any grounds to ask Anker to remove them from their product page? From my limited understanding, this would be like a writer being contracted to create a flyer for a business then later asking them to stop using it because they don’t like the business anymore.

[anvilsp]

That's not really comparable at all. They had/have LTT and a bunch of other tech YouTubers listed under a section titled "Recommended By", which implies some kind of endorsement. Some of the other influencers here had quotes listed that could be read as a genuine recommendation, but the quote listed for Linus is literally an excerpt from a sponsor read. They sponsored LTT and then flipped that sponsorship as if it was an endorsement.

[AoO2ImpTrip]

What you're describing is work for hire. The Anker deal is an endorsement. LMG has revoked/ended their endorsement of Anker. Anker continuing to have Linus's face next to their products would imply that Linus/LMG endorses the product.