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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I honestly never got his channel. Does Linus actually have a tech/engineering background which makes him an authority on this stuff? Watching his videos leads me to believe that he doesn't. He gets basic shit wrong way too often.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linus is both knowledgable and a good entertainer. The problem is he's grown from a casual reviewer to running a 100+ employee business, pumping out multiple videos a week with his face on it - He simply cannot possibly know anything about the product besides what's on the script.

When he is interested in something, it really shows. The way he talks about the LTT Screwdriver or the Framework laptop for example almost never even has a correction, let alone errors. Linus just has no ability to upscale that quality.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the channel was great many years ago. Basically the same time they moved to the warehouse building is when it went downhill, and fast. They started pumping out more lower quality videos, and it was nearly all covered in click bait. They also created the side channel where they tried to make funny content. That's when I unsubscribed. I don't know if that's all still the same, but they clearly got caught up in trying to expand and following youtube trends that they forgot what they were good at.

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago

He's does not have a technical background and he's said as much, gaming and computers are just a passion for him.

He's an entertainer, not an authority. But he speaks so passionately it's easy for a non-technical person to believe he's an authority.

[–] Crunchypotat77@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

He doesn't. He's just being a computer technician for as long as he has worked.

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It used to be an unboxing channel.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

And before that, he was the NCIX guy that did all the videos for their site.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

LTT is just an infomercial

[–] astral_avocado@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Watching his videos leads me to believe that he doesn’t.

Watching his videos leads me to believe that he does, the random knowledge drops he has about hardware and the deeper levels of the software stack convince me of that.

Even if he is parroting knowledge he's getting from his engineers, and I don't think he is, he still sounds very knowledgable. I think everyone's simply jumping on a hate bandwagon for the fun of it.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

No he was basically a marketing guy