Pretty damning review.

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    Anyone watching LTTs server videos hopes it is only for entertainment as following what they do other than for your home lab would be a disaster.

    However they are building up the LAB and are selling it as serious detailed reviews… This would be a shift from their current content.

    Flip side Gamers Nexus is hard core serious and I always have to skip through their videos as they put me to sleep.

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      To be fair, GN provides excellent Chapter selection to encourage you to skip to whatever you want to know. You don’t have to watch the whole thing if you don’t want to. I’m more annoyed by them using those idiotic clickbait thumbnails. Complete no-go for me.

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        Even with the chapters they yammer on in every section. They could say the same thing in half the time and their videos would STILL be long.

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          I’ve started consciously avoiding clickbait looking thumbnails for a while. While this addon looks great on paper, I do prefer to support creators who don’t treat me like a kid in a candy store. That being said, I had no idea this addon existed, that’s pretty cool

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      As someone who’s been running unRAID out of a tower and like 5 drives; it’s weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear. Like I do more research for myself and I’m not jumping on video. Ultimately I like the videos, I enjoy seeing the approaches, but they try to come off like authority figures. Then they don’t even know how to properly parity swap and make unRAID look harder than it is.

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        it’s weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear.

        As someone who is very technically savvy, let me assure you that these guys are clowns. They are tech entertainers, not experts. Give yourself some credit.

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          They have people knowing their stuff, it’s just Linus playing around and figuring out. Anthony with old hardware and Linux and Jake does know a thing or two about server stuff

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            Anthony with old hardware and Linux

            Anthony isn’t with LMG anymore. Their name is Emily now. Also, while Emily knew about Linux, having just a single person knowledgeable in that topic isn’t enough. In any case, it’s moot because she isn’t there anymore.

            Jake does know a thing or two about server stuff

            Have you seen the storage server video? The one where they lost petabytes worth of data because they had zero clue how to configure a ZFS storage pool for proper redundancy? Even before this whole thing went down they’ve been heavily criticised for how they set it all up. As though it was done by an amateur who never configured a ZFS system before.

            Edit: NM, Emily is on vacation, she didn’t leave.

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        This pretty similar to why I stopped watching their vids. I always thought they were a trusted authority, until they covered a product that I had some familiarity with. I wasn’t even an expert at it, I was just interested so I read some articles, visited some forums and subreddits about it for a week or two. Their video on it had a couple of mistakes and they omitted a couple of minor features, but were important to me. There was nothing egregious but it was pretty surprising to me that in this one thing, I knew more than them, despite not doing much research.

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          Yeah they’re good for keeping aware of what’s new in the tech world mostly. Their actually reviews of products are so poor and out of touch. If I hear them nitpick the bevels on a display without actually framing things into the cost and value sentiment one more time I’m buying a farm

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        They have zero consistency in platform or hardware and don’t seem to setup any monitoring as well.

        Other than building gaming PCs I would not look to LTT for technical advice.

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          I just watch the videos where they do silly stuff… Cooling a server with a pool is something I would never be able to do, that’s the kind of shit I want to watch, them building their thousandth gaming PC is just meh.

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        it’s weird watching like four people who are definitely more tech savvy than me just bumble fuck their way through all this server stuff with enterprise level gear.

        Exactly, bumble fuck is what every one of their server videos or home automation videos seems to be about.

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      I would never follow what they do in server videos exactly, but I learned a ton from their server video backlog. Also find their server shenanigans very fun. Think server and the occasional actually useful tech tip video are still their best stuff.

      Most else feels half baked or falls into the GN video criticism.

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      Gamers Nexus makes extremely detailed videos, but after 10 Minutes of non-stop fact firework my brain just starts to fade away

      Either i’m not that into tech or it is my brains fault

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        But that’s the goal of those videos for the audience they’re trying to reach. For the people that will only ever use the hardware with windows, then that’s really is the most practical metric to look at.