HarkMahlberg

I should have provided a link, my bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs was widely praised despite and/or because of its over 2 hour length. I think if the video has a lot to say and says it well, who's to say how much time it should be worth?

I think he's referring to the "AI is banning books" argument (a strawman) not the "Republicans are banning books" which we all know.

I wasn't just talking about Luke, sometimes other folks stand in. Though yes Luke is most often the co-host, the show is structured such that Linus does a vast majority of the talking regardless of who else is there. Even Dan in the audio booth just curates and reads questions from chat.

You should see the WAN Show, their podcast. His co-host always looks nervous to say anything out of turn, they basically just read the next topic that Linus wants to talk about.

Or the time where Linus almost took Jake's fingers out with a hole saw trying to drill holes in a RUNNING PC. Man's a workplace hazard in more ways than one.

Trust me, you weren't missing much.

But many bosses are getting impatient, and many are using the approaching Labor Day holiday as an occasion to officially put “work from anywhere” policies to bed, whether workers like it or not.

Oh the irony.

Yes, the impracticality is one of the major points of wish fulfillment. It's fantasy and most reasonable people don't actually want the crap Linus builds. They just want to see it, it's make-believe.

And I wouldn't call destroying a startup's intellectual property, ignoring their requests to return it, and then selling the detritus as "merch" at an auction "just having some fun." That's what I would call negligent and unprofessional.

That's kind of the problem, they did fire their developers.

Yeah I mean it's kind of wish fulfillment innit? Like Scrapyard Wars, or Whole Room Watercooling, or building 5-figure rigs, or his tech'ed out data collection mansion, that's all stuff most people won't be able to do themselves, but they want to watch someone do it.

His fame, like most fame, is the duality of a carefully curated persona as cool and hip, and an arrogant micromanaging back half. Most people are only going to see Wish Fulfillment Linus, and Egomaniac Linus only comes up rarely (and mostly on his podcast).

How am I not surprised this is how he would respond. This is the same guy who said "AdBlock is piracy," he doubles down on every shitty take he has.

How am I not surprised this is how he would respond. This is the same guy who said "AdBlock is piracy," he doubles down on every shitty take he has.

Oh I'm not throwing shade at Stefan, but the entire organization. A product like that doesn't happen because of one journalist, it happens because upper management constantly undervalues the time and effort it takes to put it together.