According to Billet themselves, they heard nothing about compensation or payback until about 3 hours after the original GN video went live… Which Billet hadnt even replied to before Linus made his post saying they’ve already made the deal on compensation.

  • @[email protected]
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    1051 year ago

    …Yeah that’s enough.

    Blatantly, and knowingly, lying (let’s not pretend that wasn’t the intention) about his compensation to billet is too much. No excuses for that.

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      You know what really sucks? Owning their stuff. I got the screwdriver (it’s pretty nice). I’m drinking from one of the water bottles right now (it’s also pretty nice).

      How am I supposed to go on using that shit? I can’t do it in front of anyone who knows. “Oh you like that LTT stuff? You know what they did right?”

      All that goodwill flushed because of ego. All that cost, sunk. And the worst part is that this discourages me from buying merch from anyone else again, lest I get burned again someday when it comes out they too are the opposite of the image they portray for money.

      I guess there truly is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

      • clegko
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        631 year ago

        Or… just don’t give a fuck and reply with “Bought it before the shennanigans, bro. Not gonna toss it.”

      • @CeeBee
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        131 year ago

        How am I supposed to go on using that shit?

        Lmao. I keep forgetting they sell merch. I refuse to buy merch from those guys. They’ve come across like a bunch of Windows gamers who built a bunch of gaming PCs and then became self proclaimed tech experts and started a YouTube channel.

        Yes, I know Linus worked at NCIX and has memorized a lot of product numbers, but that means nothing.

        Where you see his true (lack) of expertise is in the storage server failure video and all the Linux stuff he did.

        He got mad that Linux was outside of his Windows power-user comfort zone and crapped all over Linux to make himself feel better.

        He’s a tool.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Just pretend that your specific money went into the pocket of one of the employees whose fault this isn’t.

      • OonTaaKissa
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        21 year ago

        I bought a couple of hoodies from them on sale, so I’m in a similar situation. Luckily most of their merch is pretty stealthy so the only people who would recognise them are other ltt viewers. I just hope that Linus can get his head out of his ass and give a proper apology and make things right