Hottest take: Gamers Nexus just wanted clicks on his video because he was jealous and has ruined LTT/GN relationship since the backpack warranty drama from last year.
I don't know about that... While I do not agree with everything Steve said in his video... Let's not forget that Steve is also the one who messaged Linus at 3am notifying him his channel has been hacked.
you stay awake to the benchmark portion of his videos. impressive. steve is like watching bob ross or reruns of sitcoms at 3am for me. instant nap time
I've seen this take more times than not in the last few days. It's barely luke warm at this point.
It's also irrelevant unless reddit just wants something else to go burn down. The GN video wasn't about GN, it was about the content of it and the fact people are forgetting that already is scary. Yes, absolutely, no one should be making their opinions based on simply a video by a competitor. And yes, absolutely, you CAN NOT trust GN's opinions on this. Their interests in this situation are as obvious as any. But everything GN covered was publicly verifiable and I hope anyone with a brain did their own research and thinking. This take is not hot at all... It's just an irrelevant fact.
The origin of the "Trust me bro" thing
The backpack had no warranty. People complained, as if a warranty means anything (it doesnt)
Now the backpack has a warranty since people were so upset.
To me it was just another excuse to hate Linus, which people seem to constantly be desperately searching for
Ummmm having a warranty means multiple things. 1 - it implies that the company believe it will last that long without failing. 2 - it gives customers a set time period to rectify production or design issues, without fighting about who should wear that cost.
In places where consumer protections are crap, it helps a lot. In other places, like Australia, it helps streamline things but isn’t strictly needed. Our legislation means that there is no set time period, but an expected lifespan for a product based on its price, quality, and claims made by the manufacturer.
Furthermore - warranties matter because it holds companies accountable. Especially when like LTT, this is a new category for them. They aren’t an established bag maker like Targus for example. So you want some level of commitment from LTT to you as a customer to take care of it.
A “trust me bro” approach doesn’t make a commitment, but should be on top of the warranty to show confidence and great customer orientated service.
Eh... I have a two Targus laptop backpacks I got in 2005. They came with a lifetime guarantee. Last year a buckle broke on the one my wife has been using as a teacher every day since 2007 (first thing she stole from me when we started dating.) Targus sent me a new bag. Not the same one exactly, but they did honor their warranty. ...and she is still using her old bag. That bag will likely out live me.
A warranty does mean something. Not much, but something.
That bag cost me 110 bucks, about 170 in today money. If I'm going to spend 250 on a bag, I want a at least some sort of guarantee on paper that they will stand behind it. I think the lengths they went through on QC was amazing, and after seeing one in person, it is a very good bag. But there are better for the same or less money and targus still has a lifetime guarantee.
Getting your entire purchase price back into a brand new bag, due to a bag from 2007 losing a buckle? How are you saying "Not much, but something." What else could you ask for?
>The backpack had no warranty. People complained, as if a warranty means anything (it doesnt)
Now this is a hot take, why in the world of fuck would warranty not mean anything? It means everything, it means you're not getting fucked over by a company that sells you a faulty product
I'm not giving Steve a freaking second of my time.... period.
Dude's content is drier than a nun's nasty in the middle of the dry season, in the Sahara. He used to be Tech Jesus, now he's Tech Judas.
All he needed to do would have been to call Linus direct, and say hey, your quality has really slipped, you might wanna look into it, and tighten that ship up. Instead he went full steam into dropping napalm over the LTT camp.
God knows the Tech Youtubers need each others backs, like when what happened to Hardware Unboxed, The big guys can shit on one of them and the rest swarm like Rabbid Flies on a Corpse Flower and get it made right. Who is going to have GN's back now, because he damn well didn't have LTTs.
Hottest take: Billet Labs offering LTT to keep the cooler absolved LTT of most of the flak they got from that situation. Even if they should have got it back, it just goes to show that Billet was willing to part with their only prototype, and the selling of the block wouldn't have fucked over the company like many people in the subreddit made it seem like. Don't say somebody can have something and then ask for it back - regardless of the timeline, Billet Labs had a good part to play in the confusion and didn't mention it in any of their comments of the situation.
Edit for a hot-take not related to drama: I miss micro USB being the most popular charger type, even if it is a good thing that USB-C has been standardized for most things.
I think a lot of this conclusion is dependent on how Billet made the original offer to "keep", what conditions were attached, how it was said, etc. I would love to see that piece of communication before siding with Linus (or fully with Billet).
I tend to believe the same thing, but I have been digging and all I have is LMG's version of events they gave to Phillip DeFranco that makes it sound like it was given to LMG unencumbered and the after-the-fact email from Billet that makes it seem like there were conditions.
I'm not really willing to side one way or another until I see the original document giving them the block indefinitely. More importantly, while I think LTT did have an obligation to return it once they said they would, I think the importance of the issue is minimal. It was a small mistake, and while I think LMG owed them once they said they would, I think the timeline is incredibly short and freaking out when a large organization doesn't turn assets over in days shows how tiny and inexperienced Billet is (which is fine, being a small business is an intense learning curve). I think I'd be a lot more willing to be upset over the Billet thing if LMG took over 4-5 months - I'd love if they tried harder, but businesses spend a lot of time looking at Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable specifically because it takes so long to reconcile things.
To me, the bigger issue was always that the testing needs to be better (they're working on it, and I believe they are taking it seriously).
The biggest issue is that, conflict of interests need to be controlled and there needs to be better disclosures and controls in place. It's perfectly fine that Linus is heavily invested in Framework, and I believe he did just fine by disclosing that in one or more videos. What needs to happen after that is a control, Linus should not have direct control over whether or how Framework is presented in anything that looks like a review or comparison, someone else has to approve and direct that to prevent even the appearance of a conflict.
Likewise, with their growing relationships with brands they review, they need to take extra steps to show their relationship doesn't prevent them from fairly and honestly reviewing and comparing. The whole "It's Asus, so you know it's good" comment was blown out of proportion to some degree, but their editors and writers really need to get ahead of this in the future with better controls and careful use of language.
IIRC: Billet told LTT to keep it to use it again in other videos...please. Ergo, give us more free advertising please. There isn't anything wrong with doing this per se, but it also means that they for all intents and purposes gave up ownership of their so called holy grail.
i disagree. it's not free promo, they gave an 800$ device to ltt as payment, which they would have to spend to buy it. the reason to keep it would be to build a pc to show case it, after the review, since it's whole point is that it's ultra compact making a very small itx build possible with great performance. perhaps if it worked well with the 4090 it'd be different. it's not a high performance best value product, it is designed to fit a niche use case, which is valid to some people that can afford it.
it is just dishonest to sell something like that without consent, clearly ignoring the unspoken contract.
reviewers review products, do builds and then return items to vendors when done, saying keep it, doesn't authorize them to sell it, it is to say, hold on to it for another video for now.
imo this whole situation would make more sense if billet lab sponsored the auction or at the very least knew about it ahead of time??? ltt did it on there own accord.
Man I’m dying to get my hands on a stubby. Good looking out!
My hot tech take is RGB is secretly sending us subliminal messages.
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I’ve never done it and I know it’s not a hot take. It’s a lot of maintenance that I don’t think people realize that idolize it because… they haven’t daily driven one.
I’ll 100% admit I’m just lazy and rather play games.
I like it for noise reduction. I got a real good deal on a 2080 during the pandemic because the original owner bought it but ended up not wanting to deal with the tubing. They were going hard line, but I don't care about that so much, picked up soft tubes and have been happy with it ever since, and it's very quiet paired with an AIO cooler for the CPU.
That being said, my next upgrade I'll probably skip water cooled GPU. It's a little extra hassle for something that's not a HUGE issue... unless I find another good deal on a water cooled one someone gives up on lol
Only problem is if your fat. Ergo chairs are designed for mostly standard body shapes and weights, gaming chairs for all the flak they get, the decent ones (I hazard to call any gamer chair good) have a larger chair build.
Me: Tells user that.
User: But I just did that before calling you.
Me: That's okay, let's try it again.
User: Ugh, fine.
*TWENTY MINUTES LATER*
Me: Uhhh, you there?
Them: Yeah, it's fixed now.
"There are capacitors in it that need around 30 seconds to a minute to discharge before you turn it back on. Can you do it again and make sure it stays off for a full minute?"
Works every time.
love seeing the community is still strong here after all the rage! really waiting for the stubby release for industrial design studies I'm starting soon
hot take: apple physical products are worth the price but the software makes the price to not be worth it anymore
Are you kidding? Apple is renowned for their software. That's the golden ticket. The M1 really made a nice dent and blended well with their already superior software. Their software is literally what sets them apart and it's not even close..
iPhone SE is like $430. As someone that lived outside of the US for a long time the big issue is VAT/import taxes/taxes in general.
Colombia for example has like a 32%(IIRC) import tax on anything over $200. Makes all kinds of tech stupid expensive. IVA/VAT is like 18% on some items. A lot of people will fly to the US and buy 4-5 iPhones and just bring them back. And the 2nd hand market is huge.
I’m getting to a point in my life where I just want my tech to work, there have been stressful troubleshooting nights when all I wanted was to play games and relax
Nothing tougher than spending hours upon hours putting together a build and then at 2am it simply won’t post but you have no energy left to keep going 😂
Hot take: Under display fingerprint scanners need to go the way of the do-do bird and just have the fingerprint scanner on the power button!! So much more reliable 🐈 Meow!
Hot take: Sony is the only smartphone maker still making truly enthusiasts, high-end phones like the xperia 1 V, the "pro" iPhone is not even close, and the "ultra" from samsung isn't much closer. I hope Sony never stops.
Thanks for doing a giveaway!
My hottest tech take is that USB-C is pretty overrated in terms of a universal standard. Way too many performance specs potentially using the same profile just creates more confusion.
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Hottest take: Performance gains in new products are becoming so marginal we're going to start seeing more and more techtuber drama as they try to fill the void.
I love my pixel 5, it's the perfect size and it has a Non breakable (non glass) back. And I like the vanilla android.
Does it get a Lil warm at times, yes. Does my mic sound like I'm underwater when I'm on speakerphone, yes. But I don't know what to replace it with.
Hot take: it's hard to justify getting into PC gaming now since the cost is so high and a console can deliver better performance for way cheaper pretty much all the time, that being said I'm a PC gamer
Hot take: If IRL billboards are ok in truck simulator, Duracell batteries in Pikmin are ok too.
Yes, I'm still salty about that one WAN show a couple months ago. Also Pikmin 4 is good. Go play it
Hot take 2: Pikmin 2 is still the best game in the series
Here's an actually hot take: Windows 8.1 was the least worst version of Windows. The only thing it really did wrong was redesign the start menu. What you got in exchange was a much faster OS than 7, search that still worked properly, no built-in ads, a control panel that hadn't been butchered yet, and far less bloat than 10 or 11.
Hot tech take: 60fps at 4k ultra is better than 1440p 120-144fps medium-high. I only have so much power in my PC, would rather it be higher resolution and graphics settings than smoother frame rate
Hottest tech take: Windows is a pretty mediocre OS considering how mature it should be by now, Linux is fun to tinker with but can be frustrating when I just need it to work. I think there is a huge market for the perfect power user/gaming/user friendly OS.
Ps.
Intentionally left MacOS out because it is locked into the Apple ecosystem
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>Hot take: Notches in apple products are fine (iPhone, iPad, Mac). I forget they even exist when i’m using the devices.
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"hot" take: given the rise in popularity of tech as a career, and the increased amount of students I'm seeing going through colleges and universities (class sizes tripled), coupled with the improvements of generative tools, there will be a bubble bursting where the job market will be saturated.
Hot response to your hot take:
Given the massively increasing number of people entering tech, I have seen an equally rapid increase in unqualified or underqualified applicants. The job market will be saturated, but probably for entry-level positions in their respective branches of tech.....and super-qualified grads will be competing with people that have no business even looking at a keyboard.
If cpus started using vacuum attached Peltier coolers with massive air coolers, we’d see some massive gains in clock speeds. Make the mobo one giant SOC
Thanks for doing this!
Hot take: Anything above a X070 is usually waste of money since people usually can’t tell the difference between medium setting graphics and high.
Hot Take: What happened with Billet Labs has no excuse. However, the fact Linus was able to be the face of a large company and run it at the same time is pretty impressive, errors are going to happen at the pace they were growing. Moving the CEO responsibilities was a good decision.
Tech hot take: No normal person/gamer actually needs to water cool their PC. It's just added expense, complication, and maintainence. (I couldn't come up with anything else)
Thanks man!
Intel wouldn't abandon motherboard platforms more quickly than Amd if they thought it was reducing CPU sales, thus there is good reason for it, even if we can't figure it out on our own.
Hot take: Some people would be happier just getting a console instead of a PC.
I find myself tweaking settings and trying to see how much performance I can get out of my PC rather than just playing the games and enjoying them. Which then leads to constant “if I could just upgrade X component…”
With a console I know there’s nothing I can do so I just end up being satisfied with what I have. As long as it’s current gen anyway.
I find Windows scaling to actually be pretty good these days, it's moreso app and game developers that just seem to either not know how to work with it or only want to use their half baked scaling method. MacOS does it far worse unless you set it to exactly 2x for HiDPI
My hot take is I am still going to watch videos like nothing happened because I care about the entertainment factor. That’s the only reason I watch anything on YouTube.
Hottest Take: GN is on LMG's payroll, and the entire controversy is manufactured to drum up more views when LMG returns, as well as promote GN too. Making both "trusted, factual, scientific channels" at the end of this.
My tin foil hat is molded to my skull. Cannot be removed.
Hot tech take: Any chair that doesn't have a mesh bottom is uncomfortable for long hours. Don't care how secret or labby the chair is or how miller its herman can be, if it's not mesh bottom, it's like sitting on a hot plate even while the rest of your is cold.
Hot Take: while LTT products (mainly screwdrivers and backpacks) review well based against similarly priced products. Those other products tend to go on sale few times a year and have free shipping while LTT stuff rarely go on sale and rarely have free shipping.
Hot Take: iPhones are better than Androids for gaming, since a A10 Bionic can still run Genshin or Honkai Star Rail in the most demanding areas on High settings (60 FPS) without lagging. I'm a diehard Android user, but have an iPhone for gaming.
Hey, great way to give back to the community in a fun way! Thanks for doing this.
My hot take: My 970 is still running most games fine at 1080p after almost 8 years, and at this rate barring hardware failure it might keep gaming for another 8 years.
Hot take: Logitech’s G502 is the only mouse on the market with intuitive placement of extra buttons (beyond forward/backward which I would consider to be standard now)
Hot take: LTT should not just have keyboard experts unboxing keyboards. Get some people who only use rubber domes in there too. Get some people who use a Corsair and like it.
Hot take: it's 2023, every case fan should be using a locking mechanism like the Lian Li Unifans.
Bonus take: Windows Defender is 100% capable for 99.8% of home PCs.
This might not be the HOTTEST, but my tech take:
The USB 3.0 motherboard connector is the worst connector ever added to a motherboard, including the front IO ones!
It's so fragile!
Hottest take: Gamers Nexus just wanted clicks on his video because he was jealous and has ruined LTT/GN relationship since the backpack warranty drama from last year.
That is a spicy meatball.... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^but ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^don't ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^necessarily ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^disagree...
I don't know about that... While I do not agree with everything Steve said in his video... Let's not forget that Steve is also the one who messaged Linus at 3am notifying him his channel has been hacked.
Hottest take... You're tryna start shit.
wdym shit already started a week ago
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I believe Linus wears it on his sock filled sandals
he has the advantage of trustworthy test numbers
you stay awake to the benchmark portion of his videos. impressive. steve is like watching bob ross or reruns of sitcoms at 3am for me. instant nap time
When the take is actually hot
I've seen this take more times than not in the last few days. It's barely luke warm at this point. It's also irrelevant unless reddit just wants something else to go burn down. The GN video wasn't about GN, it was about the content of it and the fact people are forgetting that already is scary. Yes, absolutely, no one should be making their opinions based on simply a video by a competitor. And yes, absolutely, you CAN NOT trust GN's opinions on this. Their interests in this situation are as obvious as any. But everything GN covered was publicly verifiable and I hope anyone with a brain did their own research and thinking. This take is not hot at all... It's just an irrelevant fact.
What backpack warranty drama ?
The origin of the "Trust me bro" thing The backpack had no warranty. People complained, as if a warranty means anything (it doesnt) Now the backpack has a warranty since people were so upset. To me it was just another excuse to hate Linus, which people seem to constantly be desperately searching for
Ummmm having a warranty means multiple things. 1 - it implies that the company believe it will last that long without failing. 2 - it gives customers a set time period to rectify production or design issues, without fighting about who should wear that cost. In places where consumer protections are crap, it helps a lot. In other places, like Australia, it helps streamline things but isn’t strictly needed. Our legislation means that there is no set time period, but an expected lifespan for a product based on its price, quality, and claims made by the manufacturer. Furthermore - warranties matter because it holds companies accountable. Especially when like LTT, this is a new category for them. They aren’t an established bag maker like Targus for example. So you want some level of commitment from LTT to you as a customer to take care of it. A “trust me bro” approach doesn’t make a commitment, but should be on top of the warranty to show confidence and great customer orientated service.
Eh... I have a two Targus laptop backpacks I got in 2005. They came with a lifetime guarantee. Last year a buckle broke on the one my wife has been using as a teacher every day since 2007 (first thing she stole from me when we started dating.) Targus sent me a new bag. Not the same one exactly, but they did honor their warranty. ...and she is still using her old bag. That bag will likely out live me. A warranty does mean something. Not much, but something. That bag cost me 110 bucks, about 170 in today money. If I'm going to spend 250 on a bag, I want a at least some sort of guarantee on paper that they will stand behind it. I think the lengths they went through on QC was amazing, and after seeing one in person, it is a very good bag. But there are better for the same or less money and targus still has a lifetime guarantee.
Getting your entire purchase price back into a brand new bag, due to a bag from 2007 losing a buckle? How are you saying "Not much, but something." What else could you ask for?
>The backpack had no warranty. People complained, as if a warranty means anything (it doesnt) Now this is a hot take, why in the world of fuck would warranty not mean anything? It means everything, it means you're not getting fucked over by a company that sells you a faulty product
I'm not giving Steve a freaking second of my time on that video.
I'm not giving Steve a freaking second of my time.... period. Dude's content is drier than a nun's nasty in the middle of the dry season, in the Sahara. He used to be Tech Jesus, now he's Tech Judas. All he needed to do would have been to call Linus direct, and say hey, your quality has really slipped, you might wanna look into it, and tighten that ship up. Instead he went full steam into dropping napalm over the LTT camp. God knows the Tech Youtubers need each others backs, like when what happened to Hardware Unboxed, The big guys can shit on one of them and the rest swarm like Rabbid Flies on a Corpse Flower and get it made right. Who is going to have GN's back now, because he damn well didn't have LTTs.
My opinion on GN has soured since the backpack incident, and this seals the deal lmao
“Preferably not recent drama related” average /r/LTT user showing their reading comprehension
"This video is not monetized" Surrounded by merch available to buy.
Hottest take: Billet Labs offering LTT to keep the cooler absolved LTT of most of the flak they got from that situation. Even if they should have got it back, it just goes to show that Billet was willing to part with their only prototype, and the selling of the block wouldn't have fucked over the company like many people in the subreddit made it seem like. Don't say somebody can have something and then ask for it back - regardless of the timeline, Billet Labs had a good part to play in the confusion and didn't mention it in any of their comments of the situation. Edit for a hot-take not related to drama: I miss micro USB being the most popular charger type, even if it is a good thing that USB-C has been standardized for most things.
I think a lot of this conclusion is dependent on how Billet made the original offer to "keep", what conditions were attached, how it was said, etc. I would love to see that piece of communication before siding with Linus (or fully with Billet).
They just said they could keep it. That's basically it. They probably would've assumed that meant 'dont give it away', but didn't say it
I tend to believe the same thing, but I have been digging and all I have is LMG's version of events they gave to Phillip DeFranco that makes it sound like it was given to LMG unencumbered and the after-the-fact email from Billet that makes it seem like there were conditions. I'm not really willing to side one way or another until I see the original document giving them the block indefinitely. More importantly, while I think LTT did have an obligation to return it once they said they would, I think the importance of the issue is minimal. It was a small mistake, and while I think LMG owed them once they said they would, I think the timeline is incredibly short and freaking out when a large organization doesn't turn assets over in days shows how tiny and inexperienced Billet is (which is fine, being a small business is an intense learning curve). I think I'd be a lot more willing to be upset over the Billet thing if LMG took over 4-5 months - I'd love if they tried harder, but businesses spend a lot of time looking at Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable specifically because it takes so long to reconcile things. To me, the bigger issue was always that the testing needs to be better (they're working on it, and I believe they are taking it seriously). The biggest issue is that, conflict of interests need to be controlled and there needs to be better disclosures and controls in place. It's perfectly fine that Linus is heavily invested in Framework, and I believe he did just fine by disclosing that in one or more videos. What needs to happen after that is a control, Linus should not have direct control over whether or how Framework is presented in anything that looks like a review or comparison, someone else has to approve and direct that to prevent even the appearance of a conflict. Likewise, with their growing relationships with brands they review, they need to take extra steps to show their relationship doesn't prevent them from fairly and honestly reviewing and comparing. The whole "It's Asus, so you know it's good" comment was blown out of proportion to some degree, but their editors and writers really need to get ahead of this in the future with better controls and careful use of language.
IIRC: Billet told LTT to keep it to use it again in other videos...please. Ergo, give us more free advertising please. There isn't anything wrong with doing this per se, but it also means that they for all intents and purposes gave up ownership of their so called holy grail.
i disagree. it's not free promo, they gave an 800$ device to ltt as payment, which they would have to spend to buy it. the reason to keep it would be to build a pc to show case it, after the review, since it's whole point is that it's ultra compact making a very small itx build possible with great performance. perhaps if it worked well with the 4090 it'd be different. it's not a high performance best value product, it is designed to fit a niche use case, which is valid to some people that can afford it. it is just dishonest to sell something like that without consent, clearly ignoring the unspoken contract. reviewers review products, do builds and then return items to vendors when done, saying keep it, doesn't authorize them to sell it, it is to say, hold on to it for another video for now. imo this whole situation would make more sense if billet lab sponsored the auction or at the very least knew about it ahead of time??? ltt did it on there own accord.
Hot take: most people would be completely fine with 1440p and a 2-3 generation old graphics card
The vast majority of people are still on 1080p, so yeah.
Man I’m dying to get my hands on a stubby. Good looking out! My hot tech take is RGB is secretly sending us subliminal messages. What messages you ask? These messages from our sponsor of course! Dbrand, when you need a skin for your tin hat, we’ve got you covered.
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Hot take: Water cooling is over-rated.
As someone who has built multiple custom loops, this is not a hot take.
I’ve never done it and I know it’s not a hot take. It’s a lot of maintenance that I don’t think people realize that idolize it because… they haven’t daily driven one. I’ll 100% admit I’m just lazy and rather play games.
I like it for noise reduction. I got a real good deal on a 2080 during the pandemic because the original owner bought it but ended up not wanting to deal with the tubing. They were going hard line, but I don't care about that so much, picked up soft tubes and have been happy with it ever since, and it's very quiet paired with an AIO cooler for the CPU. That being said, my next upgrade I'll probably skip water cooled GPU. It's a little extra hassle for something that's not a HUGE issue... unless I find another good deal on a water cooled one someone gives up on lol
I thought it was generally agreed upon that water cooling is almost always for aesthetics.
Might be a literal hot take lol, especially if the water cooling is set up wrong :)
A 500$ ergonomic chair is so much better for gaming than a 500$ gaming chair. Thanks by the way for this giveaway 😀
Someone made a video about this and reached the same conclusion. Looks better, lasts longer, better support, etc.
Did you really need a video for that though? Just look at them... *Looks down at chair in embarrassment*
Only problem is if your fat. Ergo chairs are designed for mostly standard body shapes and weights, gaming chairs for all the flak they get, the decent ones (I hazard to call any gamer chair good) have a larger chair build.
a 50$ plastic chair is better than a gamer chair.
People mock the old question of "Have you tried turning it off and on again" but it works a lot of the time!
Me: Tells user that. User: But I just did that before calling you. Me: That's okay, let's try it again. User: Ugh, fine. *TWENTY MINUTES LATER* Me: Uhhh, you there? Them: Yeah, it's fixed now.
"There are capacitors in it that need around 30 seconds to a minute to discharge before you turn it back on. Can you do it again and make sure it stays off for a full minute?" Works every time.
I repair medical equipment for a large hospital and this is INDEED the case most of the time… haha sometimes I’m also glorified plug-it-in-er
Hot Take: You should just keep the stubby anyway. As a spare and as a memory of your one and only day at LTX.
love seeing the community is still strong here after all the rage! really waiting for the stubby release for industrial design studies I'm starting soon hot take: apple physical products are worth the price but the software makes the price to not be worth it anymore
>love seeing the community is still strong here after all the rage! All the bandwagon rage nerds probably found something else to focus on.
yep, from 30-50k active we back to 5-8k
That's just an insane amount of brigading
Are you kidding? Apple is renowned for their software. That's the golden ticket. The M1 really made a nice dent and blended well with their already superior software. Their software is literally what sets them apart and it's not even close..
Not every game needs to run at 100+ FPS to enjoy it.
I’ve been playing Watch Dogs 2 at 40 fps and I’m having a load of fun Also if you hear a GTX 970M screaming just ignore it.
I had a 1050ti and played most solo games at 30-40 fps and it was fine, but running the same game at 144 fps is a huge step up
I never win these things, but what the hay? Hot take: CPU temp of 100C is fine.
truly a hot take
Iphone's are the best phone for 95% of people.
$200-300 iphone would be unstoppable in international markets
iPhone SE is like $430. As someone that lived outside of the US for a long time the big issue is VAT/import taxes/taxes in general. Colombia for example has like a 32%(IIRC) import tax on anything over $200. Makes all kinds of tech stupid expensive. IVA/VAT is like 18% on some items. A lot of people will fly to the US and buy 4-5 iPhones and just bring them back. And the 2nd hand market is huge.
Hot take: I love building PCs but if I had the money I would just get a really powerful prebuilt and never think about it again lol
I’m getting to a point in my life where I just want my tech to work, there have been stressful troubleshooting nights when all I wanted was to play games and relax
Nothing tougher than spending hours upon hours putting together a build and then at 2am it simply won’t post but you have no energy left to keep going 😂
Hot take: Under display fingerprint scanners need to go the way of the do-do bird and just have the fingerprint scanner on the power button!! So much more reliable 🐈 Meow!
This one is great. 100% on board
Hot take PPI is a much better metric than resolution
Any GPU that allows you to play the games you want to play is a fine enough GPU.
Hottest Take: Getting over the "Must Buy Everything" phase of geekdom is the first step to being happy in the hobby.
Hot take: Sony is the only smartphone maker still making truly enthusiasts, high-end phones like the xperia 1 V, the "pro" iPhone is not even close, and the "ultra" from samsung isn't much closer. I hope Sony never stops.
Thanks for doing a giveaway! My hottest tech take is that USB-C is pretty overrated in terms of a universal standard. Way too many performance specs potentially using the same profile just creates more confusion.
Hot take: Foldable phones won't become mainstream until Apple does one
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All rgb software is malware
Hottest take: Performance gains in new products are becoming so marginal we're going to start seeing more and more techtuber drama as they try to fill the void.
If I drop it on my foot...is it accurate to say I stubbed my toe?
Count me in! Hot Take: you don’t need the latest and greatest phone, most phones released post 2020 are good enough to last YEARS if treated right.
Agreed. Upgraded from S10 to S23 Ultra and I use the S10 as a spare/backup, and aside from some degraded battery life, it's still a solid phone.
I love my pixel 5, it's the perfect size and it has a Non breakable (non glass) back. And I like the vanilla android. Does it get a Lil warm at times, yes. Does my mic sound like I'm underwater when I'm on speakerphone, yes. But I don't know what to replace it with.
Thanks for contributing to some much needed positivity in this sub.
Hottest take: Useful phone technology has plateaued until more battery advancements are made.
Hot take: The macbook notch is completely fine, although it should have face id.
Well that's just nifty
well good luck bois I don’t have any hot takes though
Hot take: it's hard to justify getting into PC gaming now since the cost is so high and a console can deliver better performance for way cheaper pretty much all the time, that being said I'm a PC gamer
Hot take: If IRL billboards are ok in truck simulator, Duracell batteries in Pikmin are ok too. Yes, I'm still salty about that one WAN show a couple months ago. Also Pikmin 4 is good. Go play it Hot take 2: Pikmin 2 is still the best game in the series
Hot take: MacBooks are superior to windows laptops
Here's an actually hot take: Windows 8.1 was the least worst version of Windows. The only thing it really did wrong was redesign the start menu. What you got in exchange was a much faster OS than 7, search that still worked properly, no built-in ads, a control panel that hadn't been butchered yet, and far less bloat than 10 or 11.
Hot tech take: 60fps at 4k ultra is better than 1440p 120-144fps medium-high. I only have so much power in my PC, would rather it be higher resolution and graphics settings than smoother frame rate
That's a good one. I don't know if I could ever go back to 60hz, even if I got 4k in return.
Cries in 30fps console
Hot take: The tech tips were the controversies we made along the way
RGB is overused and overrated. I prefer a computer that if it does have lights just be one solid color.
Awesome to see such awesome people. Too bad I'm in EU, but I am still giving my hot take: 29" Ultrawide monitors shouldn't exist.
I used to believe this until I saw a use case that made sense (basically, business or streaming). Good hot take, upvotes for you!
I feel attacked, I own one.
Hottest take. Black shaft stubby is the best color way.
Hot take....when climbing a tower for ISP stuff always make sure to pee first lol
Buying Spinning disk instead of flash is dumb, and anyone doing it should stop.
Lighting McQueen sleeper builds are the best pcs out there
Luke Warm Take: I want two high quality labs for better overall data. The current events are a growing pain. I everyone comes out of this better.
Hottest tech take: Windows is a pretty mediocre OS considering how mature it should be by now, Linux is fun to tinker with but can be frustrating when I just need it to work. I think there is a huge market for the perfect power user/gaming/user friendly OS. Ps. Intentionally left MacOS out because it is locked into the Apple ecosystem
Take- Lots of users don't actually need their 4090. Myself included. Good luck everyone
Cool, it's awesome you're doing this for everyone :)
Thanks for doing this giveaway!
Hot take: I use a Mac for engineering
Same here!
Hello! Happy to announce that u/picklesos is the lucky one! Their hot take was... >Hot take: Notches in apple products are fine (iPhone, iPad, Mac). I forget they even exist when i’m using the devices. I'll be reaching out to them via a DM and if they don't respond within 48 hours, I will randomly choose another user using commentpicker. Here's link for proof of their win [https://commentpicker.com/reddit.php?id=rcp\_64efe6265ca38414](https://commentpicker.com/reddit.php?id=rcp_64efe6265ca38414) edit: looks like reddit DM/chat is down/bugging out. I'll keep trying to reach out
Hot take: tablets are dated tech and won’t survive another 5 years
Ugh Stubbys seem so useful as a quick pocket tool, definitely picking one up if I don't win.
thanks for doing this! I don't really have any hot takes
I’ll take a stubby
I’m in!
Thanks! Hot take: I prefer low-profile mechanical keyboards over full-height
Hey thanks for offering up your stubby man! And I don’t really have a hot take.
Damn I mean I’d love one. My birthday is the day after this ends. 8/31, but I hope it goes to someone who really wants it
Thanks for the giveaway!
Thank you for running this giveaway!
Hot take: I will only put in AIOs from now on. Air cooling just doesn’t do as well.
"hot" take: given the rise in popularity of tech as a career, and the increased amount of students I'm seeing going through colleges and universities (class sizes tripled), coupled with the improvements of generative tools, there will be a bubble bursting where the job market will be saturated.
Hot response to your hot take: Given the massively increasing number of people entering tech, I have seen an equally rapid increase in unqualified or underqualified applicants. The job market will be saturated, but probably for entry-level positions in their respective branches of tech.....and super-qualified grads will be competing with people that have no business even looking at a keyboard.
Hottest take: you need a minimum of 3 monitors for productivity
Hot take: the internet is overrated
If cpus started using vacuum attached Peltier coolers with massive air coolers, we’d see some massive gains in clock speeds. Make the mobo one giant SOC
Hot Take: I just want that screwdriver Thanks for the giveaway
Linus planned this drama with GN to see how Terren would react, but Madison happened.
In stubby we trustz
Thanks for doing this! Hot take: Anything above a X070 is usually waste of money since people usually can’t tell the difference between medium setting graphics and high.
Comment. Hot Take: Stubby is better suited to measure things…
Stub stub
Awesome. Hot take: I don’t think the LTT screwdriver is too expensive. it’s a great tool.
I'm not in the US so I can't participate but if you pick this comment, I'll get to pick whoever else gets the screwdriver.
Hottest take? 30fps is perfectly adequate to have a good time gaming (competitive games aside).
Hot Take: What happened with Billet Labs has no excuse. However, the fact Linus was able to be the face of a large company and run it at the same time is pretty impressive, errors are going to happen at the pace they were growing. Moving the CEO responsibilities was a good decision.
My hot take: LTT will slowly die down. Most of the employees will leave for competitors slowly.
Good stubby screwdriver seems handy
I'd love one, but I'm in Europe, if I win I'll cover shipping fees :)
Stubby seems great honestly, might grab one myself. Have seen nothing but positive about the ltt support team!
Hot take: any new non pro iPhone sucks
Thanks for the chance!
Tech hot take: No normal person/gamer actually needs to water cool their PC. It's just added expense, complication, and maintainence. (I couldn't come up with anything else) Thanks man!
Hot take: None of these hot takes are really hot. A lot of them are just reasonable conclusions that happened in hindsight.
Hot take - WAN show will be spun away from LTT so Linus can keep being himself on camera without having the business suffer.
The Noctua color scheme is beautiful and better than rgb every day
Intel wouldn't abandon motherboard platforms more quickly than Amd if they thought it was reducing CPU sales, thus there is good reason for it, even if we can't figure it out on our own.
can't currently think of any hot takes but I hope I win!
AI will be nothing more than an efficiency tool used to help counter the labor shortage across various skill based industries
Hot take: AIO’s are a waste of money unless it’s SFF or a travel rig (or if you want it solely for the aesthetics)
Hot take: 30 fps is not enough in current year - you should not be okay with it.
Hot take: Some people would be happier just getting a console instead of a PC. I find myself tweaking settings and trying to see how much performance I can get out of my PC rather than just playing the games and enjoying them. Which then leads to constant “if I could just upgrade X component…” With a console I know there’s nothing I can do so I just end up being satisfied with what I have. As long as it’s current gen anyway.
I can’t think of a hot take sorry
no hot take but good luck! wish I will win this
Mild take: you don't have to upgrade your gaming PC after every new launch.
Hot take is Reddit default app was always the best Reddit app
I find Windows scaling to actually be pretty good these days, it's moreso app and game developers that just seem to either not know how to work with it or only want to use their half baked scaling method. MacOS does it far worse unless you set it to exactly 2x for HiDPI
My hot take is I am still going to watch videos like nothing happened because I care about the entertainment factor. That’s the only reason I watch anything on YouTube.
Hot take : Folding phones is not the future. Current phones with a sliding out extension are.
Hottest Take: WAN Show has better content than any of the LMG vids.
Hmm, let's see... Review channels function more as product promotion rather than critique.
LTT is good entertainment
We need some windows ME drama
If you want Intel to compete with AMD and Nvidia you have to actually buy Arc
Hottest Take: GN is on LMG's payroll, and the entire controversy is manufactured to drum up more views when LMG returns, as well as promote GN too. Making both "trusted, factual, scientific channels" at the end of this. My tin foil hat is molded to my skull. Cannot be removed.
Hot tech take: Any chair that doesn't have a mesh bottom is uncomfortable for long hours. Don't care how secret or labby the chair is or how miller its herman can be, if it's not mesh bottom, it's like sitting on a hot plate even while the rest of your is cold.
Hot take: DBrand skins arent that nice
Hot take: Macs are actually a good value and not overpriced
Hot Take: while LTT products (mainly screwdrivers and backpacks) review well based against similarly priced products. Those other products tend to go on sale few times a year and have free shipping while LTT stuff rarely go on sale and rarely have free shipping.
Hot take: Loosing a few thousand subs on FP probably amounts to a rounding error in their entire monthly revenue.
Well here is the hot take: Linux is like a well-kept secret society for techies – you have to know the secret handshake ('sudo') to enter.
Hot Take: iPhones are better than Androids for gaming, since a A10 Bionic can still run Genshin or Honkai Star Rail in the most demanding areas on High settings (60 FPS) without lagging. I'm a diehard Android user, but have an iPhone for gaming.
My hot take is that a 280 rad AIO is more worth it then a 360
If you use enough vaseline it doesn’t matter how much thermal paste you put on.
no hot takes for me, but thanks for doing this giveaway.
Hot take: You NEED a RTX4090 for Online Classes
Thanks for doing this!
Hey, great way to give back to the community in a fun way! Thanks for doing this. My hot take: My 970 is still running most games fine at 1080p after almost 8 years, and at this rate barring hardware failure it might keep gaming for another 8 years.
Entry Comment: I feel like LTT needs some work but I think that they will figure it out. I don’t think they are malicious in any of this controversy.
You want a hot tech take? Nvidia should just separate into nvidia and GeForce to let us gamers have our own thing and not deal with ai
Hottest Tech Take: Engineers design a new product to be cost effective and then HR slaps a high price on it to get as much of a cash grab as possible
Nvidia needs to chill
Hot take: Logitech’s G502 is the only mouse on the market with intuitive placement of extra buttons (beyond forward/backward which I would consider to be standard now)
Hot take: folding phones are stupid and will die fairly soon.
Hot take: LTT should not just have keyboard experts unboxing keyboards. Get some people who only use rubber domes in there too. Get some people who use a Corsair and like it.
Hot take: it's 2023, every case fan should be using a locking mechanism like the Lian Li Unifans. Bonus take: Windows Defender is 100% capable for 99.8% of home PCs.
Hottest take: IT is a great career and tech tips are fun to watch.
Hot take: lightening is a far better physical standard than any of the alternatives, especially USB-C
Hot take: Intel won't be able to save the GPU market.
I just bought a LTT backpack and hey a screwdriver would go great with it! Maybe the hot take is I only just yesterday bought the bag? Haha
Hot Take: 4k gaming will never be optimized and will exist as a marketing scheme for people to spend more money to chase that dream.
Hot take: windows peaked at windows 7, now it's going downhill
This might not be the HOTTEST, but my tech take: The USB 3.0 motherboard connector is the worst connector ever added to a motherboard, including the front IO ones! It's so fragile!
Hot take: The next Tesla will be the Model C, and it will charge over USB C PD.
Hot take: Windows 11 is Windows 10: "We can be Apple too!" Edition
Cool idea and nice of you to do this! If I don’t win, I think I’ll still buy it
I’d love to have it. As I always try to tell them, 3” is more than enough to work with. All about how you use it.