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.
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.
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.
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.
This one though, that’s new. I don’t suppose you have a source for that one either?
https://indiecator.org/2023/08/18/the-problem-with-linus-tech-tips-part-2-a-toxic-work-environment-sexism-assault-and-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:
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
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.
I‘ve watched a lot of LTT and WAN show. I do not recall him ever speaking out against unions. He only ever said, he‘d see it as a personal failure as an employer, if his employees felt the need to unionise. He wouldn’t try to stop them if they did though.
Yeah, I guess the accuser really should have been the one to pay tens of thousands to a third party right?
I’m fairly sure that nothing could change your mind at this point, but by all means keep spreading your misinformation.
Parasocial relationships are wild.
ad hominem much?
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.
What alternative was there? This is such a disingenuous take.
You just claimed Linus was pro-union, when all of us have watched the videos of him ranting about his distain for unions and saying they’re unnecessary.
Forgive me if I don’t take your critique at face value.
Show me the proof where he said he is anti-union.
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.
Other than attacking me, what is the point of you commenting?
That “attack” was actually a gentle suggestion. You can just like LTT. You can ignore all the people who don’t.
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.