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TL:DW It's a 54:20 video of Fake Linus interviewing with Linus Torvalds. It goes over Linus's views on hardware choice, questions about Linux and several community questions.

The video is long, but it's a good listen.

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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (10 children)

God damn the LTT hate is huge in this channel. I don't really get it, but shit you guys really don't like a tech review channel.

When I posted this, there wasn't a single comment about the actual interview with Linus Torvalds. That's a crazy amount of vitriol.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't hate LTT but they are mostly an entertainment channel nowadays, not a review channel.

Their reviews are focused on sponsored products, sometimes wrong and most of the time don't go into much depth. Not to mention the countless ads, sponsorships and clickbait.

If somebody likes them, more power to them, but I don't go to LTT when I need information about something.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 4 days ago

Something gets popular, people have to demonstrate how unique and sparkly they are by going against it, it's a tale as old as time. I watch their videos occasionally and understand he's neither demon nor god. But try listening to their WAN Show podcast and tell me he's not (mostly) genuine and open...

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago

No kidding, it's intense. I like the channel well enough, and find they've handled their various scandals to my satisfaction, at least. And yes, it's 100% more entertainment than deep technical content I'm gonna learn from, but whatever, guilty pleasures aren't some horrible sin, and it's a better use of my time than reality TV. Being such a large channel does also get them access to some really worthwhile stuff now and again, like major factory tours, or Linus Torvalds, and that is stuff that's really worth my time.

All of that said, I assume there's lots of people here like myself, but it just ain't worth jumping out of the woodwork for the guy. I like him, but not nearly enough to cast myself against this much vitriol for his sake.

This is the coolest video they've done in ages, and Linus Torvalds seems like such an excellent, genuine guy. He gives really thoughtful answers to even some of the silly joke questions, and it's great. I super appreciate his perspective, and he interviews excellently.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

It's a huge deal that a youtuber as big as LTT is promoting Linux. This is how we break into the mainstream.

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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 72 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I refuse to watch a video with Linus Sebastian. I'll get better tech advice from my cat tripping on catnip.

[–] john_t@piefed.ee 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you mean buying computers worth thousands of dollars doesn't make you a computer expert? I'm shocked. Shocked!

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You know, I was fine with LTT for a while (many years ago). I knew they were clowns, but they seemed genuine and well intentioned. Their first Linux challenge made me raise my eyebrows at them, because I was a long time Linux user and knew much of what they said was either off the mark or disingenuous.

Then their storage server video came out and I almost fell off my chair with the levels of bafoonery I had watched. Even the real experts that helped them out had a hard time keeping their words civil while discussing the postmortem of the situation. That's when I lost respect for LTT and Linus Sebastian as a tech "expert".

Then all the other stuff about the lies, the made up metrics, the years of garbage test data from negligent and lazy practices, and the cherry on top which was the Billet Labs thing. The arrogance of Linus Sebastian to do the test in bad faith on a GPU that was explicitly stated by Billet Labs to not be the target device, and then Linus whine on the WAAAH Show that it would cost him too much money to do a proper retest, and then just selling off the prototype. Then doubling down twice in a forum post that LINUS SEBASTIAN is somehow the victim in all of this! Poor Poor Linus Sebastian.

And the moron couldn't even do an apology video without making some wise-ass joke. Couldn't read the room the one time he needed to do it.

He's just an ass-hat.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 41 points 5 days ago (28 children)

He's also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.

Arguably he's also pro workplace sexual harassment, but hey, he made an apology video so that's no big deal.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

He’s also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.

I hear this all the time but people who say this can never seem to find a source for it. What he has said is that if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer. He's gone on the record as pro-union many times.

Arguably he’s also pro workplace sexual harassment

This one though, that's new. I don't suppose you have a source for that one either?

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Thanks for summarizing all that. I knew most of it but forgot some of those details. He is an asshat indeed. I've been saying that for a couple years. Somehow every time I comment about him online multiple people jump in to say he did nothing wrong. Surprised that's not happened here yet honestly.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago

I watch it for the same reason I watch William Osman. They do a lot of fun bullshit videos like trying to watercool a server rack with a swimming pool.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Then don't watch it I guess

I don't really see a reason to announce it here

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Virtue signalling is very important to some people.

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[–] kuro@piefed.social 18 points 5 days ago

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm more concerned about the sexual harassment.

[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Are you referring to the sexual harassment claim that was alleged to have happened via another employee, but never substantiated?

Yes, and I appreciate that you pressed the issue because I never heard what ultimately transpired, since I never really cared for the channel before that. But I see they hired a 3rd party to investigate and the conclusion was that none of the allegations were substantiated. Though I haven't found any mention of a further response from the employee that made the allegations.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

the video was genuinely fun though. real linus has a rare nerd charisma.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 17 points 4 days ago

One of the best videos I've seen on youtube. Torvalds is just cool af.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago

This is so cool

Like how they did community questions

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

TLDW on his hardware recommendations?

  • chill interview, recommended to watch
  • hardware recommendations see below
[–] teft@piefed.social 32 points 5 days ago (7 children)

The parts from the build according to the youtube description:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
Intel Arc B580 GPU
Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU
ASUS ProArt Display PA32QCV 31.5" 6K HDR Monitor

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 days ago

ECC ram. Hardware stability was the main factor.

Real Linus mentions spending days hunting an instability bug in the kernel to have it turn out as bad ram on his pc.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That's such a weird build, why have that PSU? That build doesn't get even close to requiring 1600W, the CPU + GPU are at around 550W together

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Torvalds likes his computer quiet so that psu with so much overhead, the fan probably won’t ever turn on.

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[–] passntrash@midwest.social 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's a perfect build because it validates my personal choice to almost always use Fractal Design cases.

Previously I was primarily going off of vibes, but those have now been upgraded to objective truths.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think the most interesting bit was his stance on ECC memory. Basically he says everyone should be using it.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Blame Intel for making that a bold statement. Their refusal to allow ECC on anything except expensive server SKUs for decades set data integrity back substantially.

Fuck Intel.

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[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago

Worth stating that this video was much more about the interview, rather than giving hardware recommendations.

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[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is there somewhere i can watch this without giving Fake Linus monetary gain?

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

I mean ublock origin seems like a simple answer

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago

invidious, archive.org

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