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Harlock posted:Mr. CEO, one follow up question please: what was the purpose of the stripper joke at the end of the meeting I'll hang up and listen. i’m the wrong company name
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Terren tech tips does have a ring to it you know.
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Aug 18, 2023 16:32
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njsykora posted:I will interrupt the thread to remind everyone that certified Good Lad Cathode Ray Dude's great series on weird quick boot systems has now gotten up to a laptop that could just function as a TV. I had a Lenovo gaming laptop from 2009 and snagged a digital tv tuner that fit into its 34mm ExpressCard slot so I could watch live OTA HDTV and record it using Windows Media Center. Technically, it worked surprisingly well, but I never ended up using it as much as I thought I would and by 2015 I had replaced that machine. Unlike CRD's machine though, my Lenovo had to be fully booted into windows which was a painful experience until I eventually put a 240GB SSD in it.
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I still have one of those express card hp tuner sets plus windows media remote in my drawers. Sadly it's DVB-T1, so it cannot catch most of the current hd content and microsoft has killed the media center components after win8, meaning it doesn't have any support app to use.
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Aug 18, 2023 17:00
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I actually just bought one of those Haupauge TV-dongles a month ago. For my father who is stuck in the hospital with lovely wifi, no normal TV, but with a good laptop. I can't imagine many other use-cases for that thing. And the software that came with the thing looks like it wasn't updated since windows xp. And was activated with a code from a printed activation card that came with the dongle.
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For being out and about, the USB dongle solutions are quite good, yeah. A better home-theatre PC solution nowadays is a device like a HDHomeRun - which takes a DVB-C/S/S2/T/T2 data stream, and makes it accessible as a device that can be used by TVheadend et cetera, but over the network. It does make me wonder if CRD is aware of Kodi+TVheadend, though - he probably is, but the mention of MythTV and struggling makes me think he might just've given up (which is entirely fair, I struggled with it myself before discovering TVheadend). EDIT: It's still very much in geek-territory, but an Asus PN42 (a fully fanless UCFF PC) with Linux, Kodi and TVheadend (optionally via LibreELEC) is a ridiculously simple way to get started. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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Aug 18, 2023 17:37
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Harlock posted:Mr. CEO, one follow up question please: what was the purpose of the stripper joke at the end of the meeting I'll hang up and listen. I haven’t listened to the audio but I can fully imagine Linus standing on a table to head all meetings no matter the seriousness
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8 Ball posted:I haven’t listened to the audio but I can fully imagine Linus standing on a table to head all meetings no matter the seriousness but how else could people in the second row see him
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Harlock posted:Mr. CEO, one follow up question please: what was the purpose of the stripper joke at the end of the meeting I'll hang up and listen. Managing to say that they were shocked to see the allegations and confirming that the post-Madison meeting was real in the same breath is an impressive feat.
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Linus & leadership comes off a lot like both an old abusive manager of mine and also the manager above him. Any time you had a problem, it was an immediate categorical denial of the problem itself, and a whole bunch of largely irrelevant personal defenses. Quickly followed by atttacks about how sad they are about how you brought up the problem, how these issues haven’t been addressed in the right way, that this is very unprofessional, vaguely threatening your next performance review or future career. Every one of my coworkers took this up the chain, when they talked to the managers above him, they all got the “nobody else has said anything” and “this is the first I’m hearing of this.” Just absolute poo poo lies. Don’t address the problem. Don’t acknowledge the problem. Deny ever hearing about it, deny that you had anything to do with it, deny that it’s a problem, and so on. Modern “third party investigation” practices are mostly smokescreens for more of these same tactics - they exist to facilitate the usual corporate strategies of minimizing or sweeping problems away rather than dealing with them.
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I bet the wan show sticking point is going to be that he didn’t sell the water block he auctioned it
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Accidentally auctioned, don't forget! The accident part makes it okay. But don't worry this was a one-off so they don't need any new SOPs to avoid any future accidental auctions.
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Wild EEPROM posted:I bet the wan show sticking point is going to be that he didn’t sell the water block he auctioned it And that it was auctioned off for charity, don't forget. So they meant well, when they auctioned off a small company's expensive prototype that they had already agreed via email to ship back to them E: Sydney Bottocks fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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Aug 18, 2023 18:41
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Listen, they auctioned it. For charity. You're not saying you're against charity....are you?
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Aug 18, 2023 18:44
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When Linus is crying on stream about how everyone is being so mean to him, someone let him know I’m willing to be mean to him for charity
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Aug 18, 2023 18:46
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No fun this week y'all https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1692593238908301316
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EngineerJoe posted:No fun this week y'all loving guarantee that the CEO the hired sat down and explained in very small words that this was going to be a loving PR disaster. Which, good on him, that's pretty much him earning his paycheck. I mean, I'm sad I won't get to rubberneck the trainwreck, but still, he's doing his job.
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Aug 18, 2023 18:53
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Yes, absolutely the right call.
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EngineerJoe posted:Yes, absolutely the right call. The right call for the business but I WANTED a train wreck and all the BS from that.
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EngineerJoe posted:No fun this week y'all I’m genuinely disappointed to lose this opportunity for more live meltdowning. The idea that the WAN Show would exist at all past this is actually funny to me though. Like sure, just keep on giving Linus more places to show off his “foot in mouth” disease where he always comes off as entitled, whiny, and super defensive literally every week. They gave him a vaccine for it on Monday, it takes only 10 days for it to fully inoculate. He’ll be cured soon guys!
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Cyrano4747 posted:loving guarantee that the CEO the hired sat down and explained in very small words that this was going to be a loving PR disaster. Totally agree with this. It is 100% the correct move, which means Linus had nothing to do with and probably active fought against it (to quote mr plinkett).
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Hardcastlemccormik posted:Linus & leadership comes off a lot like both an old abusive manager of mine and also the manager above him. Yeah that is the textbook DARVO: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.
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beep by grandpa posted:
Ty for reading my post, Tennen
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Cyrano4747 posted:loving guarantee that the CEO the hired sat down and explained in very small words that this was going to be a loving PR disaster. Ie. He took our suggestion and just has someone following Linus around to keep him from doing more stupid poo poo. Hopefully said person has a Taser.
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Cyrano4747 posted:loving guarantee that the CEO the hired sat down and explained in very small words that this was going to be a loving PR disaster. I don't think Linus would have been able to go more than 15 minutes tops without trying to portray LMG as one big happy family (while dismissing Madison's complaints about them as just the whining of a disgruntled ex-employee, the Billet Labs debacle as a harmless mistake that they've graciously been trying to rectify, and the GN video as just shade being thrown at them from a former friend who is jealous of their YT success).
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Linus getting in front of a live camera right now would have been his downfall and I would have been here for it.
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grack posted:Ie. He took our suggestion and just has someone following Linus around to keep him from doing more stupid poo poo. Hopefully said person has a Taser. Any time Linus’ mouse cursor gets anywhere close to a post button, he gets tased in the balls. They should have done that live, when Linus says “I’m sorry” they just immediate tase him before he can continue that sentence with “…that the public response has been so negative and forced me to do all of these very rational and normal things because I’m so sad by how much you hate me now since I’m a good person”
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While the prospect of a WAN show was entertaining, I'll settle for the mental image of the CEO trying to explain to Linus why he can't do the show, and building up to just shouting "SHUT THE gently caress UP. JUST SHUT THE gently caress UP. YOUR TALKING GOT US INTO THIS SITUATION SO JUST SHUT THE gently caress UP!." I mean, he probably didn't, but it's a funny mental image.
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Cyrano4747 posted:loving guarantee that the CEO the hired sat down and explained in very small words that this was going to be a loving PR disaster. The CEO and everyone else around him. Just as likely Luke and Dan refused to do the show and that is what changed Linus's mind. Hopefully the CEO got Linus and Yvonne to go on a long vacation in a location with no internet as well.
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What makes you think he won't say dumb poo poo next week when it's business as usual after the 7 day break. This is just a temporary delay, the bad decisions will continue
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the CEO and Luke coming up with a fake on-location video at a fake company's fake factory in Potemkin Taipei to keep Linus out of the way for a week
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Luke and others did push back on a lot of Linus' bullshit, but Linus continued to do it anyways because it kept working.
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VostokProgram posted:the CEO and Luke coming up with a fake on-location video at a fake company's fake factory in Potemkin Taipei to keep Linus out of the way for a week And they can just have some of their Asian staff act as workers in the factory, since they've already demonstrated Linus doesn't notice when they swap one Asian assistant for another.
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Randalor posted:While the prospect of a WAN show was entertaining, I'll settle for the mental image of the CEO trying to explain to Linus why he can't do the show, and building up to just shouting "SHUT THE gently caress UP. JUST SHUT THE gently caress UP. YOUR TALKING GOT US INTO THIS SITUATION SO JUST SHUT THE gently caress UP!." Linus didn't get them into this situation. That Labs goober did.
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Randalor posted:While the prospect of a WAN show was entertaining, I'll settle for the mental image of the CEO trying to explain to Linus why he can't do the show and building up to just shouting "SHUT THE gently caress UP. JUST SHUT THE gently caress UP. YOUR TALKING GOT US INTO THIS SITUATION, SO JUST SHUT THE gently caress UP!." I, too, will now have this mental image, which is quite funny. Thank you, friend.
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Arivia posted:Linus didn't get them into this situation. That Labs goober did. Pretty sure the bigger situation is Madison at this point and Linus and Yvonne 100% got themselves into that situation.
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FlapYoJacks posted:Pretty sure the bigger situation is Madison at this point and Linus and Yvonne 100% got themselves into that situation. Yeah I was just joking. Linus himself said the poo poo about retesting Billet Labs, anyway.
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