• Crunchypotat77@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That whole video, and the follow-up, were incredible. I used to trust LTT quite a bit, but after the video, I’ve just chunks of respect for LTT. Dunno if i can ever trust them.

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    I work in the tech industry. I work for an A tier company that makes servers, storage and more. I cannot imagine fucking up a benchmark/performance characterisation chart THIS badly even for an internal presentation.

    I have spent hours double checking and re-running tests to ensure I’m getting the right numbers.

    And to see a channel as big as LTT goofing up numbers so badly, which have the potential to affect thousands of purchasing decisions, i can’t even.

    We also work with vendors, who sometimes send hardware prototypes. And we can never be THIS unprofessional to them.

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      1 year ago

      I’m somewhat conflicted on the entire matter. I felt like their quality was slipping for some time and it’s been difficult to watch them.

      Linus has handled almost every community crisis extremely poorly because when under pressure he gets defensive and speaks without thinking often pouring gasoline on the fire.

      At the same time I can understand his motivations as the livelihoods of his now very large number of employees depends on it.

      I think if LTT had responded officially and earnestly to the criticism addressing and laying out of roadmap for remediation it would have bought a lot of goodwill. I think Linus needs to be removed from LTT public relations but I don’t think that will ever happen.

      Truly a sad day, glad we have GN

      Edit: I wish I could understand what I said that was down vote worthy

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        Yes, for some time I felt the best videos from them where the infrastructure and server ones, just Jake and Linus united in chaos. The reviews in the other hand, as soon as you look at the graphs for more then the time they are shown, something felt off.