Headline could be written better, I warned my friend who's sister is a diabetic before realizing its just the lemonade

Aaron Schwartz killed himself over punishments for less

Linus never said he hates unions, he said he'd feel that he failed as the owner if his employees felt so underrepresented that they needed a union.

He has historically expressed support of unions in other companies and hasn't been against one in his own, he just doesn't want his company to need one.

In regards to the misconduct...
Announcement on the WAN show of the 3rd party results
Post that matches the one on Twitter

And the actual contents of the post:

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest employment and labour law firms in Western Canada.” They work with both private and public sector employers.

To ensure a fair investigation, LMG did not comment or publicly release any data and asked our team members to do the same. Now that the investigation is complete, we’re able to provide a summary of the findings.

The investigation found that:

• Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated.

• Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false.

• Any concerns that were raised were investigated. Furthermore, from reviewing our history, the investigator is confident that if any other concerns had been raised, we would have investigated them.

• There was no evidence of “abuse of power” or retaliation. The individual involved may not have agreed with our decisions or performance feedback, but our actions were for legitimate work-related purposes, and our business reasons were valid.

• Allegations of process errors and miscommunication while onboarding this individual were partially substantiated, but the investigator found ample documentary evidence of LMG working to rectify the errors and the individual being treated generously and respectfully. When they had questions, they were responded to and addressed.

In summary, as confirmed by the investigation, the allegations made against the team were largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair.

With all of that said, in the spirit of ongoing improvement, the investigator shared their general recommendation that fast-growing workplaces should invest in continuing professional development. The investigator encouraged us to provide further training to our team about how to raise concerns to reinforce our existing workplace policies.

Prior to receiving this report, LMG solicited anonymous feedback from the team in an effort to ensure there was no unreported bullying and harassment and hosted a training session which reiterated our workplace policies and reinforced our reporting structure. LMG will continue to assess ongoing continuing education for our team.

At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us. We hope that will be the case, given the investigator’s clear findings that the allegations made online were misrepresentations of what actually occurred. We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation.

This doesn’t mean our company is perfect and our journey is over. We are continuously learning and trying to do better. Thank you all for being part of our community.

Frankly both of these maps are deceptive (though the top one is albeit more so). The dot gets colored the primary color in that region, and visually makes the Democrats seem way more dominant when it's much more bipartisan. A gradient would make this map better

Definitely not as big as it used to be. Lineage, Graphene, and Pixel Experience are just about the only players left. Graphene doesn't officially support anything other than pixels actively supported by Google though.

While the implementation of an A/B update system wouldn't be drag and drop from Android to a different OS, they absolutely could implement the same idea to prevent this issue.

The likely reason as to why is storage space, you need two copies of the system, while only one is running at a time. They probably put as little space into these infotainment systems as possible.

If they put more in new models, they'd then have to support two methods of updating the system. It's easier to tell the customer on the rare occasion that an error does happen "oops we made a fucky wucky it's on you to fix it"

The Twitter account is a meme account, they don't actually expect you to tip your landlords, although I've seen landlords that do expect such.

Get a cheap 2.5" SATA enclosure or an m.2 enclosure and throw a real SSD in it. That's what I've been doing and I get significantly higher speeds for significantly cheaper, as well as not having any fail on me

Ads in any kind of app store search should SUPER NOT BE ALLOWED. Microsoft does it, Google does it, even the Apple app store has it. I don't want my grandma to be looking for her bank app and download Fast Cash Transfer Free 2024 Edition instead

Man this reminded me that I had two wives in kindergarten. When did I lose my rizz?

Been an LTT viewer since back in the Langley house days. As people, Linus and I are very similar (obviously based on his on camera personality, I of course have no idea what he's like behind closed doors) and I can absolutely see how these mistakes were made. It's incredibly disappointing to see that he's not learning from them.

I've seen the asterisk corrections and the pinned comment corrections increase lately, but after watching GN's video I realized that for every one I noticed there was a video where I hadn't noticed. These corrections absolutely need to be resolved in production. I don't care if it's a crappy voice over where it's incredibly obvious that it was dubbed in after, it just needs to be audibly corrected.

I get that they're not always going to be caught before they go out the door, I've made egregious errors on stuff that I've looked over and other people have looked over many times to have it immediately called out on someone's first glance. The videos with corrections need to be and should have been IMMEDIATELY privated, corrected, and have had a post stating the previous error and the new correction, at least for the big stuff. Small errors (like Linus mistakenly saying Ti on the 4070) I think is fine to be left in (with the asterisk or comment correction), as there wasn't really any substantial change in the content. I do realize that this has man hour costs, but it's absolutely imperative that their content is reliable if they're trying to enter the testing market. For issues like the Billet labs monoblock, they should be taken down and have the entire thing reshot. With that situation however, it should've never made it to subscribers.

The issue of selling the billet labs monoblock is absolutely massive and inexcusable. There were so many places( where this could've and SHOULD HAVE been caught. The block should've NEVER been inventoried as their own, as it well, wasn't. I'm guessing their inventory doesn't have a distinction between their own stuff and stuff they've been lent (it all should be inventoried so it's accounted for). Linus almost would've had to know about it being auctioned off, especially after making the (frankly kinda arrogant) distinction of saying it wasn't "sold" but rather "auctioned". It should've been caught there, it should've been caught by whoever sent the email to Billet confirming that they were going to return it, and it should've been caught by the inventory. I don't blame whoever sent the email to be very clear, I'm saying that communication within the company needs to improve. This is very clearly an issue in viewer trust. It's very hard to "trust me bro" when issues brought to his attention are not being taken seriously because it'd affect their bottom line rather than somebody else's.

Honestly, Linus should follow GN's lead and not do sponsors, merch messages, ads, anything for the WAN show this week. He needs to address it and address the plan for producing better content. I know his intentions are good. I know how easy it is to make horrible mistakes with good intentions by being completely ignorant in the situation.

POST "what do we do now" VIDEO: Realistically it looks like every concern that I raised here was addressed in the video that went out ~1 hour ago. I'm glad they made this video as well as the decision not to include sponsors (or the lack of ability for this video, but dbrand would've we all know that). Linus confirms that it was a knee jerk reaction to make the comment on the forums, as well as confirming my suspicions that nobody had seen the comment before he made it.

I hope we see improvements that continue and are upheld. I'm hopeful that they've properly used this as a learning opportunity, and will take time in the future to step back and see what's new to learn.

Edit after reading Madison's post:

Yikes. I'm now unsubscribed from all of their content.

She is asking for privacy

Proceeds to publish an article on her situation