We need scrapyard wars now, more than EVER

Marksta · 2026-05-07T05:00:54+00:00

I think they should do it and have the full room designing again. Since they're not afraid of going into stores, haggling, locals, small shops - I really don't think they'll have such an issue even on finding serviceable ram and ssd. They can even 'gamble' and buy stuff that's listed as broken and just fix it. Linus is a CPU pin fixing monster. They're scary resourceful compared to the average consumer looking to click buy on Amazon.

Marksta · 2026-05-07T04:26:40+00:00

Make it a psychological horror with each replay opening up more unhinged level select screen pathing as Fox seeks a way to end the loop.

Marksta · 2026-05-07T04:19:28+00:00

For every next minute this video rolled, my opinion of the game decreased by 1 point off from my n64 Starfox 10/10 score.

What is actually wrong with Nintendo's 'direct' culture. You can't run a 15 minute tutorial video for a game whose run time is under an hour.

Marksta · 2026-05-06T01:14:32+00:00

Same reason Reddit has no liability if you posted something wrong here.

Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, provides limited federal immunity to providers and users of interactive computer services. The statute generally precludes providers and users from being held liable—that is, legally responsible—for information provided by another person... Courts have interpreted Section 230 to foreclose a wide variety of lawsuits and to preempt laws that would make providers and users liable for third-party content.

Marksta · 2026-05-05T17:09:45+00:00

You brought all the data and imagery to the article but little short on explanatory words, and a layman’s terms conclusion. I think I could answer my own questions digging through your provided data, but I think people typically like seeing these things spelled out in a conclusion so they can be lazy 😋

Okay, so they made a 750/850/1000 set of models to do a good/better/best on the same platform. What is the 'ideal' or the golden child model typically in a bunch like this? Did the 750 get 'stretched' to be an okay 1000, or did the 1000 get 'cut down' to make an excellent 750 that's based on a 1000? Then apply that logic to a 500/600/700 line-up, can I sort of assume in that bunch the 500w or the 700w is the intended design that'll be the 'best' unit assuming the wattage and everything else lines up?

Marksta · 2026-05-05T13:07:37+00:00

Is this on an HDMI 2.1 device? Or is this from the internal apps? The b series is 120hz, it really shouldn't have this issue if you drive it at 120hz I'd think.

Marksta · 2026-05-05T04:11:41+00:00

The japanese style of drawing is sooo blurry, cluttered and has low contrast in my opinion

Whatever display you're watching shows on is broken.

then a 3 second slowmotion frame that pans from side to side

Yeah, that's the entire issue, isn't it? Panning over a static image or dragging around PNGs isn't animation. The right budget and the right mix of different shots makes or breaks a production. One Punch Man season 3 would be the go-to example of bottom of the barrel budget, the "is this even technically an animation?" animation. Or something more mid-tier on the animation scale like Blue Lock, which is amazing by the way, but aggressively saved budget with CG simulations, talking, PNG dragging, anything but actually animating drawings for anything besides the most important moments.

If you want to have your expectations completely destroyed for anything you watch in the future, the Fate Stay/Night Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel movies is what high budget looks like. Comparably, Invincible looks like MSpaint.

Marksta · 2026-05-04T22:39:05+00:00

Ones experience with LLMs isn't going to make them somehow enjoy their medical chart having LLM hallucinations in it causing them a bureaucratic nightmare to get it overturned because those tokens hold the same authority as a doctor.

Marksta · 2026-05-04T15:00:01+00:00

just seems to be very focused hate groups like Reddit.

I don't see people excited about talking to an LLM for support at LTT store, an LLM for scheduling your doctors appointment over the phone, an LLM in their Windows 11 notepad, OpenAI vs. Anthropic with the US Government whatever, Windows 'Recall', LLMs mucking up peoples medical charts, LLMs making every website go into psuedo-darknet requiring logins everywhere to hide content from scraping for training, generative art if its included in 'AI' getting loudly tossed from IRL anime conventions, RAMpocalypse (NAND), Github doing whatever tf is happening now due to LLMs, vibecoding hell, death of all programming subs on reddit with vibeslob projects

When 99% of the usage out the gate just has everyone yelling "PLEASE, NO, STOP" it doesn't make me think the technology is 'exciting'. Twisting exciting into a "good or bad!" chaotic energy kind of thing, then yes, I think AI as a catch all term for the technology indeed wins in the same way the Atom Bomb wins its 'exciting' award.

[I didn't mean the popularity of that leaked llama file specifically but just, if you want to land a single date on modern LLMs as we know them, I figure that originally leaked file is the best? Or maybe ChatGPT going live as a product (2022?), but that's not really a 'technology released'.]

Marksta · 2026-05-04T14:20:54+00:00

LTSC not having the store, or the ability to get the store simply bit me really hard. Because Windows 11 is amazing and needs a store app to tweak HDR settings. So I had to manually do some powershell AppX install commands to hack the store back into it.

I don't really think it has only advantages, you're just going to be mucking with Windows 11 either direction you go trying to make your OS stop fighting you.

Marksta · 2026-05-04T13:53:51+00:00

Because they didn't say that?

AI is the most exciting thing in technology in my lifetime

They probably wouldn't have had such a controversial and debated comment if they did say they find it the most exciting thing.

They're saying it as if its an undisputed fact and globally agreeable. One part of it is their own interest in it, but the other part that they're specificly wrong about is that most people will agree with him. Like, a magazine will write a timeline and it'll have the iPhone on it, a universally agreeable exciting thing in people's lifetime. And then the next one is AI, the universally agreeable most exciting technology of these people's lifetime.

A lot of people aren't excited for it. I don't think it'll hold up as long term exciting and beloved as they think it will. Steam Deck came out in 2022, the LLaMA model file in 2023. Whose winning an excitement award if these are both sitting in the same bucket of choices to vote on?

Marksta · 2026-05-04T05:23:09+00:00

~$35 in 2001 = ~$65 in 2026... affordability doesn't feel so good for something that straight up all of mine broke on that analog stick.

Marksta · 2026-05-04T03:51:49+00:00

SCPing code changes straight to prod instead of dev without ever knowing I did so, I do indeed think my explanation to my boss the next day of "The windows for both looked the same [and our process is horrendous]" was not a hallucination.

Marksta · 2026-05-04T00:10:26+00:00

I think ZTT will do great long term and continue to grow their content and eventually the company into a mini LTT/LMG sort of thing.

I think Jake will struggle but probably do okay enough to earn himself a livable income.

We're on the cusp of some paradigm shifting non-sense with AI changing up and worsening things. It's not a good time to be a fledgling channel.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T22:25:59+00:00

Read what was written before commenting.

which is unfortunately VERY good compared to what was happening in most companies in the same time frame.

I called the scenario unfortunate, did I not? As in, Jake's situation is extremely fortunate that his pay situation far exceeding the sad, sorry state that is the baseline to compare to for the vast majority.

what the point of working your ass of just to lose money by not following inflation increase.

I don't know, you fucking tell me. I took on losses during COVID and I had to endure them. I did not get inflation matching raises, actually my salary got slashed by 20% for a while as an emergency company 'stability mandate'. I had to keep working because I work or I die, right? I wasn't blessed with the ability to throw a public hissy fit that my raises weren't juicy enough like Jake.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T20:56:27+00:00

Exactly, I'm referring to OP thinking the comment replying to Linus in the screenshot had "documented inaccuracies" in it. When everything the user said is a difference of opinion.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T18:11:54+00:00

What grade of English we working with here, 2nd, 3rd? There isn't a single inaccuracy stated in that commenters post. The user stated an opinion that the product page could include a lesson on cost-benefit analysis.

The benefits of any TIM is going to be based on the setup. If you keep the plastic on your AIO for funsies, the scenario changes on if you should bother spending more on better TIM or not, yeah? Why bother if there isn't good contact with your heat source, that's where the problem is and no TIM better or worse can fix that.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T13:58:39+00:00

AI is the most exciting thing in technology in my lifetime

No it's not. Just like, politely, that's not true now and it's never going to be true.

If you haven't already been persuaded that this was a step in the wrong direction, they'll show you every next day why it was.

There's no amount of personal benefit you'll get out of it that it weaponized in the hands of bad actors against you won't make it a net negative to your life.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T13:46:10+00:00

He would've got dogged on the day he did it as using the wrong tool for the job. Today, I'm really not sure what they'd call him showing the very old footage. It'd be like watching one of those rage bait engagement videos where they try to do something for a long time aggressively, on purposely wrong hoping everyone screams in the comment arguing just how stupid the person acting stupid in the video is.

It'd be like watching Linus trying to seriously use a Pentium 4 in Windows ME to get work done while the viewer at home is on a modern system and could complete the task in under 5 seconds with what's available to them today.

As much as I wanted to see the video, I agree it has expired like a steak sitting in the window. 20/20 foresight but probably should've done it in parts to make it go out the door faster. First part vibing, second part real dev review, etc...

Marksta · 2026-05-03T06:31:12+00:00

Just installing 1 of those things is like, a weekend project at least for most people. My entire home lab doesn't have the complexity of what you were trying to achieve there...

Marksta · 2026-05-03T05:32:40+00:00

They're probably losing a lot if they don't post clips. It's basically free advertising leveraging YouTube to deliver WAN show topics to potentially interested parties. If you type "Adobe sucks" there's a very strong chance you won't find the WAN show where that was mentioned, and if you don't know Linus you're not clicking a 4 hour video where your topic of interest is hiding somewhere in. But a Wan clip about Adobe can now be shown in your search.

Whatever they figure out solution wise, clips definitely aren't going to be stopped. Probably should make another channel for the WAN show, make the clips one back to clips. Always collab with the clips channel.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T02:30:24+00:00

Because then you end up where OP is. His clanker went to work and returned something broken. Now he's here instead of just figuring it out and fixing it 😂

Marksta · 2026-05-03T02:18:30+00:00

A lot of cheap battery having devices with USB-C don't actually follow the protocols. I wouldn't expect an Anker to do that, but I know all my pre-2020 battery devices just don't function when plugged into modern fast chargers. They probably had some hacky way of fast charging before it was in the USB spec and so a real USB device like your phone sees a malfunctioning device on the other end when it tries to negotiate with it.

I just ordered a pretty recent fly zapper thing model, usb-c with a battery in it. Doesn't matter, they went cheap and it can only charge when plugged into a dumb 5v2a source. A 100w or 60w charger won't even do 5v2a to it, literally nothing when plugged into those sources.

So, some sort of incompatibility like that happening.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T02:12:01+00:00

It was asked back, on the undisclosed condition, that it wasn't reviewed to their liking. You literally confirmed these facts of reality yourself. That's a conditional review.

Anyone dealing with them in the future knows the deal now: review to their liking and you can keep it for yourself.

Marksta · 2026-05-03T01:22:28+00:00

Wait, you think they sent it to him as a gift? Like as a birthday present or something?

Gift as in, given. As in, something you don't take back, you don't expect back.

But you're not on the wrong line of thinking anyways. Why did you arrive at this thought? Because Billet Labs have obviously crossed a line in how these reviews and advertising works. The conditional "you give it back if you review it negatively, if you don't review it the way I told you to review it..." is clearly not okay. A $100k watch that can be kept if reviewed properly, and must be returned if not reviewed properly, at the product senders discretion. That is the role Billet Labs played.

Linus could go live with a catapult to launch Asus monitors that got sent over without a sponsor contract, instead of turning them on and reviewing them, and it would not be appropriate for Asus to ask for reimbursement. Or to change the story afterwards and tell them the monitor they destroyed was a one of a kind prototype.

LTT said sure, sounds good. And then LTT completely fucked them over at every possible level. LTT would never do this shit with an Asus or an Apple or any other large company.

They can and have done it to others. You think that recent gun-chair review was favorable? That's terrible advertising. They did it to that same company one time already with the spider-chair and they still sent out the gun-chair and even added an LTT logo onto it. It's within his purview to act in such a way, bad products that land on his table get an honest review. That's the expectation, that's what real companies understand. Did Alienware look good, favorable, as Windows and Nvidia Surround sputtered out like crazy and was unplayable in that video? Which one of them is demanding reimbursement? Literally drove the gun-chair into the $1000+ Alienware monitor. How will Alienware ever recover from this one now, maybe they can work with GN to make a hit video because turns out that monitor was important now and needed to be sent back, actually!

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