MystikIncarnate

Clearly I'm being misunderstood.

THESE scooters:

Scooters. Next argument.

This is mostly right, I remember this part clearly:

The water block was a custom block for both a CPU and GPU combined into one mass. It was supposed to sandwich a specific CPU series chip and a specific GPU. They used the right CPU series with it, but used the next GPU up in the series... I think it was built for a 3080 or something and they put a 4000 series on it.

They realized their mistake, even during the shoot, but Linus didn't want to spend the time, effort and money into retesting it with the proper components, and just steamrolled ahead with the video.

After all that, their team neglected to return the prototype promptly, and took months to even properly communicate with the manufacturer. During those months they held some kind of gathering, either LTX or one of their LANs, and during the event someone suggested the prototype water block for the silent auction, and Linus agreed, so they auctioned it off and gave the money to charity.

There was some drama about it, and Linus did his usual thing of speaking before thinking and digging his grave even further, then eventually made a public apology. They committed to paying the full price for the prototype, well above $20k, if I recall, so that the company could have a new one created.

Yeah. He took flack. It was more about the completeness and accuracy of the reviews rather than being unfair.... at least from what I recall.

They did a whole show of the matter, suspended uploads for a week or so, did some internal restructuring, hired a new CEO. Linus is now chief vision officer or some such nonsense.

Bluntly, I liked LTT videos more when they were a scrappy bunch of nerds working out of a house, putting out a couple videos a week...

You knew the information wasn't perfect and that was fine. It was enough to give you an impression of what to expect. They did a recent comparison that confirmed something I already knew, by taking a smattering of the "same" CPU and testing them against eachother. They found that some were quantifiably better than others. To me this was proof that all reviews are skewed. You never know which way they'll be skewed, and it really doesn't matter. The fact remains that all tech reviews are going to be different than personal experience. They're also going to differ from reviewer to reviewer since, even if they're using the "same" hardware, that hardware might be slightly faster or slower than other reviewers by a small margin. Once upon a time the hardware was so similar and the differences were so small you could effectively ignore this variance. Modern hardware is so fast that even a small variance can make a pretty significant difference to benchmark performance.

So you have to take literally everything posted as a review with a grain of salt. It's not accurate to what you would experience buying the exact same stuff off a shelf. As lithography gets smaller and smaller the relatively minor variance will have a larger and larger impact to the final products performance.

It's the way of things. All things. Whether it's a car or a computer, some just roll off the line different.

You've missed the point I'm afraid.

While people know that Android is based on Linux, a fact that isn't in question, when people say a "Linux" phone, they're not discounting that Android exists or that it runs Linux, they mean to infer that they're discussing non-Android Linux phones. If they meant Android as a Linux phone, they would have said Android.

While android is in the set of "Linux", not all things that are in the set of Linux are Android.

Since we have a specific word for GNU/Linux - Android devices, but almost all Linux based alternatives to Android for mobile devices is basically referred to simply as a "Linux phone", it can be, and should be, assumed that the speaker is referring to Linux phones which are not Android.

It's a nuance of language and technically not wrong to say that "Android is Linux" but that's not what most of the readers understood to be the speakers intention.

That was the correction that the previous poster tried to portray.

Simply put, most Linux enthusiasts and community, doesn't really consider android to be "one of them" since, though it's Linux at its core/kernel, almost everything built on top of it from there is some bastardized/closed source software, or relies on something closed source. Most of the things people want to run on their phone (browsers, camera software, even the dialer), is almost entirely written, controlled and closed source by Google. While some of the "guts" of the OS might be open source/GNU versions, the interfaces are largely all closed source software that Google has published to run on top of Android specifically. This doesn't fit with the philosophy of GNU/Linux, and therefore Android is largely not included when speaking about Linux, at least for Linux enthusiasts.

2x15 "Threshold"

Ground up and steeped in hot water?

The eyeliner was flowing.

.... Or was it guyliner?

Can we talk about the kids that Janeway had with Paris, that they just abandoned on some distant planet?

Well, I certainly don't give what "class" I am any thought day to day. Only on rare occasions like this, do I even give it any consideration at all.

I'm part of the workforce, I do my job, I collect a paycheck, I go home and spend time with my family. I'm not complicated, I don't subscribe to "hustle" culture, and I don't have any need to be wealthy, influential or otherwise noteworthy to anyone outside of my friends, family and coworkers. I'm just not that person. Even inside of those circles, I don't see any one person being in charge, except for my direct manager and whatnot in a work context; everything is cooperative.

That works for me, maybe I'm strange in that respect, but I'm okay with it. I couldn't care less if someone thinks I'm one class or another. I work to live, not the other way around.

I don't think anyone has defined what "upper" "middle" and "lower" classes are too me. I just take it for granted that people who are wealthy (passive income kind of people) are "upper" class, the "middle" class is people getting by adequately. Not really suffering, or fighting to "make ends meet" so to speak, maybe a bit of savings... And "lower" class are people who struggle to pay their bills, live in low cost housing, have few luxuries, etc. Basically, how much disposable income do you have and where does that income come from?

Working, with passive income sources, or not needing to work to cover expenses, is "upper".

Working, with some disposable income, perhaps some savings, but not enough to live on to cover expenses, is "middle"

And anyone without any kind of financial safety, living paycheck to paycheck, only making enough to cover direct living expenses, are "lower".

I have no idea if that's right; nobody has accurately defined it for me. I've always considered myself kind of "lower-middle class" aka, still making enough for some luxuries, but without any significant savings or buffer for financial stability. No issues meeting living expenses.... Kind of the bottom half of middle class, if you will. My father was the same; he was much better with money, mind you, and he was able to dedicate a larger percentage of his earnings to savings. He would forego luxuries and "upgrades" to save money... As long as things worked and the family was comfortable, he was fine with putting the money away. He wouldn't hesitate to spend to replace something that's important, like buying a car to get around when the old one was too broken to work and/or be fixed. But if the vehicle worked, he wouldn't replace it just because it was a bit older.

IDK, I'm working. I need to work to afford to live. I'm almost never at risk of not being able to pay for something I need or want, aside from big ticket items (well into the thousands).... I'm just some guy.

I liked it better when he was kazon.

I actually don't, but does anyone else remember that?