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.
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.
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.
Why does any even watch Linus Tech Tips, it feels like most his facts are based on his opinion, rather than any grounded reality, while he will flaunts it as fact. Then goes and make noob mistakes with his setups, while acting like computer Jesus. A fake interview only perpetuates this state of him making up content, to what ever pleases his himself and his patron audience. Truth only gets in the way of a good story, and this guy seems to know how to spin the tallest of stories
Wtf even is a fake interview lol, he had a lengthy talk with Linus Torvalds in where they discussed a wide variety of things and asked him numerous questions, how is that a fake interview
I refuse to watch a video with Linus Sebastian. I’ll get better tech advice from my cat tripping on catnip.
Do you mean buying computers worth thousands of dollars doesn’t make you a computer expert? I’m shocked. Shocked!
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.
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.
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?
That’s an entire post about the testimony of a single person.
He’s also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.
Arguably he’s also pro workplace sexual harassment…
Untrue on both counts, but I’d love to see a source that proves me wrong
You realize that most of us here have watched plenty of LTT content, right?
I don’t know if you would call it a regular occurrence, but on more than a few videos I’ve watched he has made explicitly anti-union comments, including saying that organized labor is unnecessary.
And looking at your comment history, you’re an avid LTT viewer, so you already knew that.
Burden of proof is on the accuser.
I can’t prove a negative, but he has stated multiple times that he is pro union.
Additionally, the 3rd party law firm that investigated the ex employee’s claims against LMG (the company) found that:
Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated.
Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false.
You should also note that the former employee never accused Linus Sebastian (the individual) of being a sex pest. Certain people lie about this constantly on the internet, and others believe it is true without verifying the facts
Burden of proof is on the accuser.
The burden of proof is on the party making a positive claim. This is true when in a debate, or maybe a professional setting.
But this is the internet. No one owes you anything here, besides, Linus Sebastian’s statements are generally known. And often he directly contradicts himself from show to show.
Having seen multiple videos of him ranting about unions, I find your claim laughable.
But wow, I wasn’t aware that a law firm they paid said they did nothing wrong, that changes everything.
We investigated ourselves, and found nothing wrong.
Oh I’m sorry, let me fix that:
We paid someone to investigate us, and once our payment cleared, they found nothing wrong.
Ah. You’re that guy I’d been expecting to hit this thread. Ya know you can still like his content without trying to tell other people they are completely wrong about a thing they’ve clearly thought about more than a little.
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.
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
TLDW on his hardware recommendations?
I think the most interesting bit was his stance on ECC memory. Basically he says everyone should be using it.
Worth stating that this video was much more about the interview, rather than giving hardware recommendations.
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 MonitorThe Intel Battlemage is an interesting choice. I’d put one in non-gaming PC if the price was right, but what is his reasoning? I have alchemist cards that have been running 8 hours a day on QA PCs perfectly fine for 2+ years. They sucked for the first couple months until Intel significantly improved the drivers.
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.
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
Torvalds likes his computer quiet so that psu with so much overhead, the fan probably won’t ever turn on.
Just don’t put fans in to begin with. Run the rig in a container full of mineral oil.
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.
There’s a parts list on the YT description.
Here it is (links excluded):
Check out the parts from the build:
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:
Is there somewhere i can watch this without giving Fake Linus monetary gain?
I mean ublock origin seems like a simple answer
invidious, archive.org
