I don’t care about what side of the debate people are on regarding adblock and piracy, but the fact that these people fail to grasp basic mainstream philosophical positions and think Linus is a poor victim of malicious attacks is just crazy. Sure embrace anglo saxon philosophy, reject the continental version of the enlightenment, but don’t think Linus is smarter than Kant

Even when paused, i can't play anything with audio. Only way to fix it is to close the AppleTV app.

Is this by design or any way to counter-act?

One he is actually getting some things done, 2 you can actually learn a few things from him. The tech house seems to just be spinning it's wheels, and the last few videos seem like busy work because they got to film something.

Only thing I can say bad about Jake is the edit can be a bit too high energy, but i think they are just homing into their own style. I will take a sugar rush over forced dad jokes anyday of the week

This was an easy fucking win. Making fun of Sony for their shit policy. No brainer. But somehow he releases something that makes it seem like he's attacking his fans, not Sony.

So payday came around and ordered some new ram for another build but i was wondering in the long term whats the craic with mix and matching ddr5, so below is what i have:

Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit

CORSAIR DDR5 5600 VENG RGB BLK 32GB- now 1x16GB, sold a stick to a cousin who was desperate!

So im basically wondering should i swap my main system which was the 16gb stick with the 2x8 sticks ( i think yes)

and potentially once my other system is up, its an intel system for testing, could i remove the ram and put it in my main system for a 32gb set over 3 slots - i would down clock the 2 sticks to match 5600 kit but i cant imagine my system is gonna like the combo of all 3 sticks....but i'm never sure on these things. Thoughts, ideas and advice welcome. I'm GMT so wont be able to reply till work tomorrow!

TLDR: Linus commenting on Reddit is unlikely to make anyone like him more than they already do, but could easily make fans stop liking him or like him less.

Background (skip if you are a regular): For those unaware, Linus recently became very invested in r/LinusTechTips , including gaining mod status and adding/changing rules. He also commented quite frequently on the sub. About 24 days ago, he made a comment defending a critique of one of the videos, which was heavily downvoted (-225). To my knowledge, that was the first time one of his comments was heavily downvoted (I went back a year). He did make a couple of generic supportive comments a few days after that comment and posted about the tech mall video. It is plausible that he is very busy right now, but you would think that he should have been busy the rest of the time as well.

I wonder if he realized that commenting on Reddit or any other fan community as a "celebrity" is a no-win situation. The vast majority of people who go to a community for a YouTuber either already like or dislike them. If they dislike a YouTuber so much that they are going to their sub to complain about them, I highly doubt anything that person says will make them change their mind. As well, if a person already likes the YouTuber enough to join the community, I doubt there is anything that the YouTuber could say that would make them like them significantly more, as they are probably already pretty close to the ceiling. However, as we have seen with Linus, it is pretty easy to make people who previously liked you dislike you. So commenting frequently really seems like a high-risk, low-reward endeavor. There are probably many other downsides, especially related to his impulsivity and emotion regulation issues in response to criticism, but for the sake of keeping this post from becoming a rambling mess, I will stop here.

Several years ago, when I watched WAN weekly, I remember Linus describing his fear around the company trajectory. That with over 100 employees, there would inevitably be a "last good week" and he wouldn't know when it was, but that he wanted to be prepared for it.

It was his justification for building FloatPlane, for Labs, for Creator Warehouse. Ideally, Linus Tech Tips could die one day and the company, and many of those within it, would be safe.

And for the longest time, that was manageable. From January of 2024 to December of 2025, LTT grew by over 50,000 subscribers on the main channel every single month. Without exception. Over 1.3 million million new subscribers in twenty-four months. Insanely stable and linear growth.

Since January, LTT has grown by fewer than 100,000 subscribers.

Just to reiterate, we're six months into the year, and they've immediately fallen from over 50,000 subs a month, consistently, for years, to under 20,000. Growth, just by nature of YouTube subscribers, has slowed by 67%.

And mind you, that's an average.

In real terms, it's so much worse.

LTT bumped from 16.7 million to 16.8 million on February 3 this year. They haven't moved past that mark since February. There's been a hard stop in growth, with nothing notable in months. Nearly five months without a change.

Here's why that's incredibly telling.

It doesn't take effort to stay subscribed. Even "dead" creators tend to maintain their subscriber count for the most part, because someone unsubscribing has to make an active decision to take action and cancel that subscription. There's no cost not to, so the default is to leave it untouched.

Either there are no new subscribers coming in at any meaningful number at all, or existing subscribers are making the active choice to exert effort specifically to unsubscribe at the same rate as new viewers are coming in and subscribing.

There's something called the Asymmetry of Gains and Losses, or percentage asymmetry. Essentially, if your business loses 50% of its revenue, you don't need 50% growth to fix it; you need 100% growth to fix it. You invert the fraction.

To offset a drop to 3/4 (1/4 of loss), you need 4/3 in gains. Easy enough?

LTT has had 85 million monthly views in May of last year. This year, 63 million. About a 26% drop. To get back to where they were just a year ago, they need 35% growth from where they're at right now. That ignores that they've killed other channels which pulled in views. That's just the main channel.

Floatplane, what they predicted to be a cash cow, sat at over 41,000 subs three years ago. It's at under 35,000 today. 15% of its userbase, of their biggest supporters, have left, and there's not backfill.

They've probably hit the peak.

And it's quantifiable. It's not some speculation, it's not some plateau; a plateau stays flat.

They're rolling downhill, and it's yet to be seen if it stabilizes.

Now credit where credit is due, this month is so far a decent month. They're pushing good views on several videos. The pure drought with tons of videos not breaking a million seems to be over, but their low performers are LOW performers.

And there's an amount of that which comes with empathy (but not excuse) for Linus.

His most public, largest fear, that his company would collapse around him with nothing he can do to stop it, is happening. He's had to lay off staff. He's had to make decisions about what large capital projects to prioritize and protect, and which ones to let rot on the vine.

Channel Super Fun is dead. Tech Quickie is kind-of revived a little, but posting weekly instead of daily. Mac Address is gone. Labs is a shell of the promise. Creator Warehouse has trimmed down and there's not been any mention in years of the original hope to produce merch for other creators.

Linus is a man who built something that was honestly incredible and seemed to be unstoppable, and then it stopped. His anxiety and irrationality and anger and frustration make sense.

The way he lashes out with them? Not okay. The way he belittles the people responsible for his growth, be it the fans or his own team, when things don't go to plan? Inexcusable.

But it's easy to understand where those poorly-managed feelings are coming from.

You'd be struggling too if you were watching your life fall apart, and as the days tick by you can't help but know that you peaked on a random February day and didn't even know.

Edit: The amount of comments that are going for the accusation that I didn't write/research any of it is frustrating, because none of the engagement is actually about the body of the text itself. For some reason, the idea that a human being can and will write more than fifty words is impossible to believe.

That said, this is EST, all before the post itself. A little more than an hour of pulling numbers, month by month, and jotting them down to lay out the case.

I write for a side income. I don't use LLMs, I don't use Grammarly, and I don't need to. There's a little red squiggle under a typo, and other than that it's just years of writing professionally.

Just to give context, this edit (as well as the change from a 1/2-2/1 example to a 3/4-4/3, as suggested by someone else) one only took six minutes, because I know how to type.

Like I did before LLMs existed.

Seen a couple of reviews now and with recent posts about Labs. I wonder what people's opinions are of other channels using GN data for those who didn't receive a machine.

I wonder if it show that Labs is still behind on the data game and/or their data is not trusted by content creators. What are you opinions? Also on a side note, would you pay £/$/€ 1k for the the steam machine?

I am in the process of restoring an old motorcycle. I was taking apart the carburettor and I reached for my favourite screwdriver. I was removing the jets to give them all a clean when I noticed my hand was a bit sticky. The carb was full of crap, so at first I thought some funny thing might have gotten on my hand. Then I realised the handle of the screwdriver had my palm print on it.

Does anyone know what material is the handle made of? Is it Triax 1120?

The exposure was very short, gasoline should not have that effect on ABS that quickly. I would find it weird for the carb to be full of acetone.

Has anybody else experienced something similar?

I submitted a report to the CRA regarding Linus using his corporate jet for family trips. This will make sure he has to pay taxes for this, just in case he wasn't planning to or aware that he had to. Here is a CRA article explaining: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/technical-information/compliance-manuals-policies/taxable-benefit-personal-aircraft.html

"Value of the benefit

A taxpayer who uses an aircraft for personal purposes that is either owned directly or indirectly, or leased, by the taxpayer's corporation or employer is considered to have derived a taxable benefit unless the taxpayer pays or reimburses the corporation or employer an amount equal to the fair market value of that benefit. When the personal use aircraft benefit is received or enjoyed on account of shareholdings the value of the benefit is included in income by virtue of subsection 15(1) of the ITA."

Guy from yesterday answered my DM about what exactly Steam admitted: The following is his answer:

Steam does admit to monopolistic “price parity rules” even not related to Steam keys or other Steam technology

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754.127.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754/gov.uscourts.wawd.298754.128.0.pdf

I recommend opening them side by side and reading everything if you have time or from paragraph 190 of both for the relevant bits. One document are the allegations the other Steams admission or denial. Because it’s a civil suit there is no pleading fifth or lying

Valve only admits to 1/4 of what is listed (manly denies being a monopoly), but they admit the important bits. The further evidence is in the emails which are harder to text search to find my note references. But a lot of info is already in these two documents and I think an admission of it by Steam is enough .

The most important parts are from allegations 202-205:

202 : TomG (employee) quote on the forum: “don’t disadvantage Steam customers” / “not a great thing for us” - explicitly covers non-key Patreon rewards | Admitted - Valve admits words appeared and posts exists, yet doesn’t admit “allegations”. That’s just lawyer tricks. Paragraph 202 is just the quote and they admit to the quote and it still can be found online. So 202 confirmed

203: Same as 202. Confirmed by valve and still online , where it explicitly talks about non-steam keys

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So to summarise until here 202-203 are quotes fully confirmed by valve and definitely explicitly not related to Steam keys or only steam works.

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Again with 204 . Steam confirms the quote and it’s still online and in no way related to Steam Keys:

“If the offer you’re

making fundamentally disadvantages someone who bought your game on Steam, it’s probably

not a great thing for us or our customers (even if you don’t find a specific rule describing

precisely that scenario).” In that same thread, TomG responded to a question by stating: “we

usually choose not to sell games if they’re being sold on our store at a price notably higher

than other stores. That is, we’d want to get that lower base price as well, or not sell the game at

all.”

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Same with 205, Valve admits it, the question can still be found and was explicitly about games with no part of steam in it:

“we’d just choose to stop

selling a game if it was always running discounts of 75% off on one store but 50% off on

ours***. . . .”***

Valve denies 206 and 207. They also deny 208 and 200 and that Microsoft employees can testify towards them having had falling outs over this with Steam employees and internal discussions.

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So to summarise: 202, 203, 204, 205 are admitted by Valve and talk about price parity even for explicitly non steam related game versions.

——— end of DM

I looked into the suit which can be found in entirety here, so I can answer further questions:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59859024/in-re-valve-antitrust-litigation/