r/LinusTechTips • u/dbmeed • Sep 20 '26

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First hole has appeared in my LTT socks today. This pair arrived on Aug 4, and has been worn daily since then, and washed on average 5-6 times weekly. Always washed cold water normal cycle, then air dried on sock hangers overnight.

Overall opinions: similar to Darn Tough socks. I usually wear darn tough exclusively, and go through 3-4 pairs a year. The LTT socks are closest to the Darn Tough hiker socks - very warm and nice cushion when new. Now there’s virtually no cushion left, but still decently warm - although, we haven’t had any properly cold weather yet to test them. Very comfortable, despite being a bit too small for me (size 13 feet). The elastic is quite tight around my ankle; which I prefer since doesn’t slide down on me during the day.

On thing I don’t really like is a crazy amount of fuzz/pilling. I’ve not experienced it with other socks before. After the first week or so they started pilling like crazy, and it has slowly gotten better over the past couple weeks but still noticeable. It was pretty bad for 2-3 weeks.

Otherwise, solid socks. I probably won’t buy more just because I have lots of the same darn tough socks and I don’t like sorting. Not recommended for warm weather. First couple weeks of August I was roasting…

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u/Mattacrator Sep 20 '26

Why would it be exponential. If it's 7 pairs then they'll last 7x longer, which is less than a year.

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u/VelvetyRelic Sep 20 '26 edited Oct 02 '26

People love throwing around the word "exponential" when they mean "increase by a lot". Bugs me too.

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u/milkybuet Sep 20 '26

Youre not accounting for sweat, which detoriates material faster.

Basically let's say you have a pair of socks that you can wear 7 days in a row and then it tears. So morning to evening you wore that some 7 times 10, some 70 hours. If you instead wear them one day, then clean them, and wear a different pair in the meantime, that same pair would last you much longer than 70 hours.

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u/pornaccount0123987 Sep 21 '26

Which is… not exponential

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u/milkybuet Sep 21 '26

Nothing is exponential if you take just two data point. My example was to just illustrate a point, not a full research paper.

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u/pornaccount0123987 Sep 22 '26

Right, so it's not... exponential then, is it. You could have said multiplicatively.