This is the leat surprising information anyone could have told me about working for LTT/LMG.
Time and time again, tech jobs and game dev jobs in workplaces run by "old internet edgelords" always (always) results in shit like this.
No, in so far as its a valid community to link to considering this is beehaw (not federated with a few large instances) and it's 100% relevant to the thread they posted it in.
How Linus publicly responds to these very fairly laid out criticisms will really affect their standing in the tech review space going forward.
Linus generally sucks at taking warranted feedback & criticism, so I can see him crashing and burning super hard in whatever post or podcast comment he makes publicly about this.
This looks like a huge issue as far as moving from a "haha wacky video" tech channel to a "hard data driven testing" tech channel, but also it's not like they haven't done "serious" reviews prior to the Labs stuff in the past so I'm not about to hand wave away their issues as "growing pains" or anything like that; it's just indicative of sloppy workflow and low effort internal culture.
They definitely used to lock it behind a paywall; back in the early 2010's the ROM they shipped had the option greyed out unless you paid for the data tier that supported it
I don't know enough about the specifics to say whether or not it's something that would be useful upstream. It's possible that it's just their unique combination of software & hardware that makes it work the way it does.
I'm sure someone in their Matrix server could offer more insight.
I have never had to babysit an update on Endeavour. It's extremely user friendly, especially if they're already used to using the dumpster-fire that is Manjaro...
I initially went with Kbin and Beehaw since it was clear that kbin and lemmy were going to mostly diverge on key features from the start.
At the time, Beehaw was getting a ton of traffic thanks to the join-lemmy homepage placing them at the top of the suggested instances list, so there was no real criteria that went into my choice other than that.
Eventually deleted my Beehaw account though, after the admins made it clear they were not prepared for the influx and were being rather dramatic about their defederation choices as a result. It left a bad taste in my mouth, and while I understand their stance was "safe place first, popular site second" it just didn't vibe with what I expected from an open reddit alternative.
Moved to VLemmy after that, and we all know how that went, but my rationale was that it was a growing but moderately small instance.
Afterwards I made 2 new accounts: one on infosec.pub and the other on lemdro.id.
At this point I'm mostly sticking with the Lemdro.id account, since they seem to be offering some very friendly support via their matrix space, and they have some apparently unique changes to backend to make it a very fast and easy to scale instance.
My kbin.social and infosec.pub accounts are mostly just alts gathering dust as a result.
In my defense I was really only trying to find a handful of specific videos from a certain porn site... But you know how sometimes it's just easier to grab an entire album or an entire season / boxset of a show, than it is to find a specific song / episode in high quality? Well that same rules applies to porn, and since I had no issue with space (I have a very large NAS) I just grabbed the whole siterip since it actually had a decent number of seeds lol
I really just cant stand the weird plastic-looking screens they all have on the inside.
Also yeah being anywhere from double to triple the price for something that I think looks objectively worse than a regular glass phone screen is just... not gonna happen.
Mostly you've got the right idea. Important to note that seeding is not only done after you have 100% of the file downloaded (the whole time you're downloading you are also uploading back the files you already have up to that point) but private trackers mostly make the assumption that anyone in the peer swarm that isn't at 100% yet is leeching until proven otherwise.
RCS is our last hope...