I hear you on the frustration with the errors and the Billet Labs situation; those were legitimate issues

I didn’t mention Billet labs once. But since you did mention it, let’s get into that.

That whole situation further highlights the mindset of Linus Sebastian. Instead of taking a beat to figure out what’s going on, he wrote a reactionary post… TWICE… on floatplane and kept digging in his heels further.

The clown always plays the victim. That’s his MO in everything he does. That’s his go to whenever he gets called out. He couldn’t even be serious the one time it freaking mattered, which was during their “apology” video.

But getting back to the Billet Labs issue. The reason it went down the way it did is because Linus Sebastian doesn’t care. If he did then he would have been respectful and done the test with the hardware it was defined for. If he cared then he wouldn’t have gone on a rant on the WAAH show after getting called out about spending extra money to get someone to run the test again properly. Because it “wasn’t worth the extra time”.

As for why it got auctioned off, he literally played the victim again by blaming other people for not tracking it properly and it got “mixed up”. Despite that excuse being a complete lie, it still looks really bad for him. Because it again means that he doesn’t care, because he’s more important. In his mind he’s thinking that he did the favour by showing the product on his channel.

Have been building out their lab infrastructure (their PSU testing and articles can be really neat)

Trust is hard to earn once it’s been lost. It’s one thing to have a new group out of nowhere providing stats. But it’s a completely different thing when the people providing those stats have a proven track record of negligence and garbage quality practices.

But if we don’t acknowledge when people/companies make genuine efforts to improve, what’s the incentive for anyone to try?

I haven’t seen any evidence of “genuine efforts” from those clowns.

Most of us have professional screw-ups we’ve learned from.

Screw ups are fine. Actually I like screw ups every so often because it humanizes people and can help keep egos in check. But we’re not talking about “screw ups”, we’re talking about blatant lies on top of tech illiteracy, with an extra serving of tripling down on said lies.

I think the question is whether the response was adequate

The response wasn’t adequate, because they’re still in business. They have directly influenced the purchasing decisions of countless people that trusted their bad data, and if it wasn’t the social media blowup around the Billet Labs stuff, they likely would have caused irreparable reputation harm towards Billet Labs. So millions of dollars worth of bad purchasing suggestions and nearly running a small start-up out of business.

LTT can rot for all I care.

All of those are streamers

Wait, so you want me to list maintainers of projects or something? Someone that isn’t well known?

I really have no idea what you’re asking for.

Linus has been pushing for Linux adoption for people outside of the community for some time now

Wouldn’t know. Don’t care.

He’s a lying cheating clown. Literally every single video, review, and product recommendation from LTT prior to the Gamers Nexus video about them is null and void. That means tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands (or more), of people made purchasing decisions based on bogus data.

Then there was the storage server video. That was basically using-a-porcelain-dinner-plate-to-hammer-a-nail levels of “expertise”.

His opinion literally means nothing to me.

Hardly, Linux adoption has been going up steadily for many years, and it’s accelerating. And for reasons completely different than this.

He honestly did a great service for linux in getting them to really start improving the user experience

All he did was make the maintainers of apt realize they need to account for the lowest common denominator. As in, really stupid people like Linus Sebastian who can’t read. No one else had that problem.

All their product reviews had been found out to be wildly bogus. The stats they show for comparisons in their videos are inconsistent, inaccurate, and self-contradicting.

They’ve lost all their credibility. I have no idea why people still watch their garbage.

In your opinion, who is, and is it on a single digit list of people who are for you?

I don’t know what you’re trying to say here, but I’m going to guess you’re asking who is a reliable tech expert. So if that’s your question, here’s my answer:

For general hardware/server/enterprise stuff: Wendell from L1

Consumer hardware repair stuff: Louis Rossmann, although he’s been doing less of that for a bit

Linux stuff: anyone of the Jupiter Broadcasting hosts

BSD and ZFS: Allen Jude

More general consumer hardware reviews and stats: Gamers Nexus

Then he’s changed his tune. I haven’t watched him for years at this point when I realized how technologically inept they are. I’m thinking specifically of the storage server video.

My problem with LTT is that they have demonstrated for years that quality and accuracy isn’t a priority. They also aren’t experts in tech. The drama stuff is just icing on an already bad image.

The problem with this is that it gives legitimacy to an idiot YouTuber who has gone out of their way to discourage new Linux users.

And nevermind all the other garbage from LTT

I really wonder why Linus Torvalds is giving that clown the time of day.

The fact that the origins of maxOS (OSX) is forked from BSD means nothing. Apple has rewritten just about everything from the ground up at this point.

MacOS is “Unix” in paid certification dollars only.

I have hundreds of hours in Helldivers 2 and I haven’t played a single minute on Windows.

Vaccinated doesn’t mean “can’t get it”

Believe whatever you want. I’ve been to China and have Chinese family members (born and raised in China). The West and China are polar opposites.

But like I said, believe whatever you want. Go ahead and move there if you like.

To be clear, I’m not American. I think the USA is amongst the most messed up countries in the world. And yes, I’ve been there many times, and I also have extended family from there. I’d want to live in the USA as much as I’d want to live in China.

If your point is that “bad things happen in the US also”, then you’re arguing in bad faith. Bad things happen everywhere. Bad people exist everywhere.

Hell, one of the links you shared is from a legal news site reporting on the lawsuit of the issue!

That can’t even happen in China.

No, that’s very different. That’s a mega corporation doing horrible things, and they can and will get sued and charged over it.

My example was the actual Chinese government hiding the issue. And this happens all the time in China. There are entire villages where more than half the population has cancer due to contaminated ground water. And the other residents who don’t have cancer can’t do anything because they don’t have any money to deal with it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/04/china-villages-cancer-deaths

https://qz.com/55928/china-now-has-up-to-400-cancer-villages-and-the-government-only-just-admitted-it

This is just the tip of the iceberg with China. Remember, all their news agencies are state controlled and they censor everything coming out of there. There’s no “free press” to report on these kinds of issues. The rest of the world only hears about it when it becomes too big to control.

Another example is kidnapping of children. It’s a big issue in China and we’re only just starting to hear about it because it’s become such a problem. Same thing with the “revenge against society” attacks.

My point is that China is already the dystopia you worry about.

Edit: autocorrect

The nightmare of a dystopian system. Recently it was discovered that an elementary school was built on an old heavy metal processing site, and the kids had 1000x the safe limits of lead exposure. But parents only found this out when they went to hospitals far away, because the local government told the local hospitals to lie about the exposure levels.

That kind of thing happens all the time in China.

I really do hope China wins or something

People in China are currently living your nightmare, and you want China to win?

Explosions of what exactly?