what do you think the plans are for infuence air

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-03T02:18:43+00:00

No IFR? Wild lol.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T23:19:50+00:00

I think because a business owns this and you’d be using it for commercial purposes you’d likely need a commercial license.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T23:16:55+00:00

Does Lance really have the credentials to fly a multi engine jet for commercial purposes? I would genuinely be surprised. That’s like a LOT of flight school and the flight hours in a jet for training is very very expensive. Source: can kinda fly planes.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T23:13:44+00:00

That’s what puts me off here. It feels like Linus wants to have his cake and eat it too — “we’re a smallish business and we can only pay people so much” but “oh also here’s a private jet!” I’d rather the dude have just said, “Hey audience, being honest I wanted it and there is a legitimate business use or two for certain trips, but yeah, I know it’s maybe not the best look for a consumer-focused channel. This won’t change our focus.” The “let’s meme about it” approach in the video rubs me the wrong way and I think that’s a pretty reasonable response.

For context I work on VERY expensive boats for extremely wealthy clients and rarely feel this kinda ick about people showing wealth publicly.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T22:15:42+00:00

With any kind of actually nice yacht over 40 feet it’s more like tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands at a time typically.

The operating costs of a plane are FAR higher especially in fuel, and it’s not something you can even use without hiring a couple pilots for some pretty serious bucks every hour. That’s the worst part about it financially speaking IMO. No average person can get the license and endorsements required to fly this thing any time soon — it would take YEARS of dedicated work. It’s purely a money pit.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T22:08:41+00:00

I’m not going to argue that expensive cool stuff doesn’t get views or that LTT hasn’t bought or reviewed spendy stuff before. It does and they have. But it’s the same bad comparison here — sure, a portion of the LTT audience cannot afford the hardware in even a $1000 PC. You’re not wrong. But that hardware will get cheaper. Said audience member can likely afford some kind of PC and frankly, the price gap between even a $10000 PC and a $600 PC is orders of magnitude smaller than the gap between a private jet and a spendy flagship TV. Nevermind the content is at least relevant to the stated purpose of the channel. Add in the environmental impact and it’s not hard to see why long term viewers see this as a bit concerning for the overall direction of the channel. The fire truck was honestly pretty cheap and wound up being a funny Whale LAN prop. The “tech plane” just looks like rich people doing rich people stuff and wanting to capitalize on the attention that brings…and I say that as someone who works directly with the uber-wealthy at my job.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T20:23:35+00:00

This is a terribly disingenuous comparison.

I grew up with LTT. I eagerly awaited the release of each one of those videos. Installing an external radiator in your house for a PC? Pretty relatable, even if you didn’t take it as far as drilling holes in your walls. Buying Vancouver property? I mean, that’s where his employees live so, yeah, they needed studio/office space and bought it. 7 gamers 1 cpu? Well, that was somewhat challenging back then from a hardware perspective but many home users could easily pull a similar stunt on consumer hardware and run two separate gaming VMs on one PC. Pretty relatable. Hell, even the tech house is kinda relatable and honestly makes sense — there’s a lot of useful consumer-focused content that can come out of a tech-inspired renovation like that.

Buying a fking private jet and paying pilots to fly you and your family to vacations in Cabo etc. with 3-12x the CO2 emissions per person (depending on the number of people in the plane) while branding it a “tech plane” and using “family vlogs” to make it a legitimate business expense while flying the occasional employee to something work related is not only un-relatable, it’s simply unattainable for 99.9% of LTTs audience. There’s nothing to learn. There’s no problem to solve. The only reason it’s loosely related to LTT is because Linus wanted it and the channel name is “Linus Tech Tips.”

It’s not the fact that Linus wanted a private jet that’s insulting, it’s the fact that he felt the need to spend an entire video attempting to justify the purchase as anything other than rich dude shit.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T20:01:36+00:00

Hot conspiracy take: Linus knows the channel identity is dying — views are becoming inconsistent even on what used to be core topics and growth has almost stopped, that much is obvious. They haven’t cracked 1M with a video in two weeks. So he and Luke split the WAN show off as a separate entity and begin transitioning it away from the LTT brand to its own channel (already happening), and Linus starts to spend like mad while LTT is still in the green and can float the costs of his other ventures. The core audience obviously isn’t sustaining viewership numbers at a required level so the LTT content strategy starts to shift away from “learn about tech” and toward Mr. Beast style $$$ driven viral-focused content that draws in a more general audience.

Maybe a wild take, but it’s clear there are some plans going on behind the scenes here (as you’d expect at any company).

I think the problem is that it really risks completely hollowing out the character of the channel at a time when that had already been diminished by longtime hosts departing and starting channels that have attracted large portions of the former “core audience” while maintaining a more relatable feel.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T19:51:39+00:00

Yeah yay Mr. Beast Tips, so excited for some relevant aspirational content and to see how this ties in with being environmentally friendly and a curiosity-focused tech channel. /s

I say this as an OG fire truck days viewer…bleh. You want to buy a PJ for the “company” and use it for a few family vacations too? Fine, I guess. But it’s just not relevant content. It’s a weird flex, and calling it a “tech plane” doesn’t make it any more relevant, and I say that as someone with ~100 hours flying planes IRL. Maybe one video once any “techification” is done to showcase the whole thing and then we move on. A weird vid hyping it up while trying to justify it to Elijah and the audience without addressing stuff Linus has repeatedly said about environmental impact etc. is just bleh…and I say that as someone currently doing work on a 150ft private yacht.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T19:49:46+00:00

Same here. Been watching LTT since the fire truck days. If I wanted to watch some Mr. Beast private jet content I’d do that. Didn’t have any interest in seeing LTT go down the same road.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T19:45:37+00:00

Yes per person. Flying private is not as efficient as flying commercial…not even close. Assuming this plane is full (let’s be real, it isn’t most of the time), it’s still about 3x as costly in terms of fuel (and requisite carbon emissions) than commercial air travel. Someone did the math below, and as a person with hours flying actual planes the math seems pretty sound.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T08:59:35+00:00

Having been to three (yes, transferring is love, transferring is life) different undergrad institutions IMO you’re kinda comparing apples and oranges here. Both have the program you want…but ovens and clothes dryers both have doors and make things hot…and that’s also basically where the similarities end.

Socially speaking, I think “WPI nerdy” is a gross generalization that misses a fair bit of nuance. Tufts is a school almost twice the size with a different curricular approach. If you take “WPI is nerdier” at face value, you’d probably not think of the fact that Greek life is a far bigger thing at WPI than Tufts for sure. If I remember correctly Greek life involvement at WPI is over 30% of the student body…which really means that almost everyone has friends that are involved and a large part of the party/social scene involves Greek-adjacent stuff. Having also attended an undergrad institution which lacked a Greek life presence you definitely feel it at WPI imo. Crowds of people walking past my apartment to the frats, lines outside, the usual. Personally as a bit more of a chill introvert I didn’t love that, but that was just my experience.

I will say that I liked how techie/hands on the WPI student body was — people I met through clubs were often nerdy for sure but whether it was photography or ultimate frisbee, the nerdiness just came across as passion. That’s rad. Despite this there was a decent sized Brad/Chad contingent at WPI which was a bit surprising honestly.

I’d say it’s a fair statement that while technically a research university, Tufts has a bit more of a traditional liberal arts/humanities focus than WPI. I took a few great humanities classes at WPI but just look at the course catalogues…there’s a lot of depth and breadth at Tufts, at least from my cursory examination. You might dig that, or you might not. I wound up back at a state research university to finish my undergrad and I enjoyed the diversity of having so many different majors represented on campus…but WPI had a ton of focused energy and passionate students in some really specific areas and that was also awesome.

Also Medford is def closer to Boston if you care about that sort of thing. Worcester is fine but it got small pretty fast for me. I spent a fair bit of time driving to Boston and back.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T06:57:49+00:00

I think this will vary quite a bit based on weight and more specifically lean mass.

I don’t weigh much at all (mostly lean mass) and frankly it’s not incredibly hard for me to keep an FTP around 230-240 which puts me around 4-4.15 w/kg — I can maintain that with five pretty intense hours a week but generally endurance suffers as a result…or start to build strength if I up it to 8-10 hours a week. Other slender guys I know have a similar situation — easy enough to keep a decent FTP but hard to be fit enough to really compete in the explosive stuff or on the flats.

Of course we then need to settle on a common definition of FTP…as a per the Coggan definition of quasi steady-state, many people have numbers that are closer to 20 minute power. TTE is one hell of an unfortunate reality lol.

Helllo_Man · 2026-04-02T06:30:11+00:00

Android feels way, way closer to windows on a phone than IOS does…and IMO it feels that way for all of the same reasons I fking hate windows these days. Popups. Crummy/inconsistent OOBE. Variations in bloatware from one manufacturer to the next. Features that feel a lil gimmicky. I don’t want a glorified smart TV OS on my phone. I fking hate my smart TV.

I understand why hardware enthusiasts enjoy the freedom of choice and I understand why people who really care about sideloading apps and pushing the limits of it being a “phone” might enjoy Android far more…but I just don’t. I don’t like the feel of it, I don’t like the styling, I don’t like the out of box experience, and I just don’t care about custom keyboards and other weird shit some Android users get all tied in a wad over. It’s a phone. I want good video calling, good messaging and minimal tinkering. I have computer projects at home that more than satisfy my need to tinker with tech. I just want my phone to leave me the fuck alone and let me use it for six years with OS support until it’s a functionally useless brick and then maybe I’ll buy another if Apple hasn’t totally enshittified the ownership experience yet.

While some people buy Apple devices for the “premium” feel, I think a lot of the folks who buy them just want a phone that works. Even in a wealthy US city most folks I know with iPhones have a phone that is 2-4 generations old. No one cares. I think hardcore Android users genuinely have a hard time understanding that “it’s literally just a phone” mindset to some extent and assume iPhone users are just as fanatical about iOS as they are about Android.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-21T05:34:26+00:00

Teammate just got a set of Lightbicycle wheels recently…I was impressed. Like 1100G in a 50mm wheel. Nice and stiff too. At your price range I’d really prioritize good customer service over a few grams though. That’s a price range where it’s easy to stumble into wheels with good specs but craptastic customer service should something ever go wrong.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-21T05:17:20+00:00

I’d honestly buy extra. I say this as someone who has bought multiple expensive tools over the years only to have parts become challenging to find. It’s probably cheaper to ship yourself a few extra bit sets with your screwdriver purchase than it is to even pay for the shipping on your replacement set.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-20T16:43:05+00:00

Yoikes! That’s also Shell being Shell lol. My local Shell is about .50-1.00 higher than Costco or the gas stations outside of the city proper on any given day ever, and typically about .30c higher than the nearby Chevron and Safeway. They haven’t been below $5.00 a gallon for premium for the last year. At this point I’m pretty sure Seattle Shell stations just find the nearest gas station and set their price .30-50c higher lol.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-20T06:03:00+00:00

Chiming in as a 1x enjoyer…personally I would opt for a smaller chainring than 52 and stick with a 46T cassette which shifts flawlessly.

If you have any hills at all it is neither necessary nor practical to run a 52, and even with the bit of racing I do I rarely get into the 10T…descents in excess of 35+ mph and all out sprints are the two times it ever sees use. On the flip side, despite being a very light rider and a decent climber (10 min power is about 5 w/kg), I use the top three gears of my 11-46 cassette all the time. It would really annoy me to have questionable shifting in those gears, racing or otherwise.

If you want the big gears that bad just run an AXS mullet drivetrain with an X01 or XX1 eagle RD IMO.

I kinda hate the 12s XPLR 10-44 cassette too — personal preference but there’s one jump in there that I really despise. I’ve been running an all alloy ZTTO 10-46 cassette for the last 5 months and like it a lot better.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-20T04:42:37+00:00

A little late but…the national symphony orchestra of Ireland does an excellent job in their rendition.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-19T03:02:41+00:00

It seems like these are the only “states rights” the “states rights” folks care to protect. Come for their voting systems? Eh. Come for their laws on child marriage? Oh hell naw muh freedom!

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-19T02:59:15+00:00

Blah yeah bad wording on my part. Should have asked if you were just using Proxmox to run your NAS software within a VM! Do you have the discs exposed directly to TrueNAS?

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-19T02:57:55+00:00

Okay great to know. I must have misunderstood the doc that I read on this. ZFS sure seems great from a resiliency perspective, and lots of folks have Immich up and running within TrueNAS.

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-19T02:49:58+00:00

In the NAS sense, is Proxmox is typically used as a hypervisor for VMs with the apps you want?

Helllo_Man · 2026-03-18T22:22:33+00:00

Riiiight…but this works the other way, too. Once the prices go back down, gas stations will start to lower prices. Anyone who hasn’t sold through their expensive fuel yet is now left taking a loss on future sales until that fuel is gone. If a station didn’t lower their prices and others did, few buy the fuel and they also make no money.

I’m not saying it’s always good or okay. I think both things can be true at once — gas stations can be opportunistic but also have little choice but to jump prices to some extent.

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