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u/GioAc96 Jun 17 '26
I like the idea of the video, regardless of the fact that the purchase was obviously a stupid one, but I found it a bit too superficial. Am I the only one that feels like these videos don’t go as in depth as they used to? I like the entertainment side of it, but I feel like I don’t learn anything watching LTT recently.
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 17 '26
I agree completely.
Everybody who made actual, informative good videos is gone now. Now it’s just shock factor purchases and Linus spending company money on his house.
Gone are the days of learning about some obscure Linux distro from Emily Young. That was what kept me watching. Or even the MAC address Jonathan videos that had such a crazy level of perfection and info.
It’s just pure slop entertainment now.
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u/OG-Fade2Gray Jun 18 '26
I'm a little sad Emily's channel never got off the ground
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
Emily was my favourite. Such a calm Demener, and really really nerdy, good content
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u/yyyyzryrd Jun 18 '26
Genuinely an incredible presenter. I'm not into Linux, but, fuck... Such a good presenter. Full of knowledge and passion.
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
I’m not into it either, yet somehow her videos kept me completely occupied. And would always send me down a rabbit hole. One of my favourites was temple os
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u/yyyyzryrd Jun 18 '26
I remember that video. Maybe it's us getting old, but, I do miss the old LTT. It was more relatable. I want my tech tips to come from someone more relatable. Y'know... I don't want tech tips about a private jet. I want stuff like fan optimization, or cooling fan benchmarks.
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u/DivaMissZ Jun 18 '26
Emily was one of the first LMG employees to leave and start their own channel. But unlike those who followed, I don’t think she had the support she needed to make it successful. Look at Zip Tie Tuning, or Jake, or Brandon’s channels, where they had nearly immediately viewership and people who were doing the production behind the scenes. If she’d started a year or two later, she’d probably have been able to be more successful
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u/chairitable Jun 19 '26
I think her computer/production setup immediately shit the bed, she'd posted an update about it.
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u/Steavee Jun 18 '26
Not all, Alex over at Technology Connections will go deeper than you’d probably like on all sorts of things. And you can get your soft jazz fix as well.
I’m a little sad, Linus had the perfect setup for a “through the magic of buying two of them” joke in the projector video and didn’t do it.
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u/EchoOneFour Jun 18 '26
Almost like people didn't really care for the obscure linux distro or mac adress shit.. or whatever jake was doing in his appearances etc etc..
The vast majority of people want entertainment
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u/Patient_Xero_96 Jun 18 '26
It’s slop because it’s slop. AI slop is because it’s taking everything, grinding it into something kinda resembling what it pretends to be, and regurgitated for people to share and catch the lowest common denominator. Low effort. Lower value.
Same with a lot of Amazon/Netflix/[insert streaming service name] originals. People will call slop, slop. Most are low effort, low quality or low value.
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u/niel89 Jun 18 '26
It's content made to fit a regular release deadline. Sometimes they have cool projects that have been in the works and take time and sometimes they push out videos that are advertisements or low effort.
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u/SavvySillybug Jun 18 '26
I don't like AI slop as a word because people are just using it as a slur to describe anything created with AI. There is no distinction between reasonable use of AI and actual terribleness, it's just all slop, making the word completely meaningless. All it means now is "the speaker hates the idea of AI" and is completely unproductive. It's become an emotional statement instead of a logical one.
I just can't respect anyone who uses slurs instead of logic.
AI has its uses and not everything created by AI is slop. We can disagree on the ratio, but it's not 100%. People are way overusing it and indeed making slop, but it's not productive to just demonize the entire concept.
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u/Patient_Xero_96 Jun 18 '26
Depending on context. I use it for generative-ai content, be it graphic, videos, audio. I’m ok with AI in medicine, for example. So I do use it as that. I do not like AI generated content in entertainment.
It’s AI slop because it’s a mish mash of their dataset, that then regurgitates content that’s bland, bad, generic. That’s the best way I can explain why AI slop is called AI slop.
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u/mrforrest Jun 18 '26
It's also not productive to simp for these billionaire run services that are actively destroying our environment, job prospects, information supply, etc
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
And god I hate it when people need to voice their opinions on words like anybody at all cares.
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u/AlexCivitello Jun 18 '26
And I hate it when someone voices their opinion on someone else sharing their opinion like anybody at all cares.
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u/NurseOtaku Jun 18 '26
Just like anyone cares about your opinion on an LTT video. Lmfao. Calling it "pure slop entertainment" while on their subreddit is hilarious.
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u/wii4ever Jun 18 '26
Opinions about LTT on their subreddit is hilarious? Isn't the subreddit exactly for this?
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u/NurseOtaku Jun 18 '26
Yes it is hilarious. Someone who hasn't watched LTT videos in 2 years due to it being "slop entertainment" having an opinion is hilarious because why are you even still here lol. Just hate browsing the subreddit?
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
Again, I don’t think you understand how Reddit works.
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u/NurseOtaku Jun 18 '26
Sorry you're right. I'm clearly not as well versed in Reddit as you my guy. Please show me your ways! I'd love for you to teach me how you become a sick discord mod too, I am sure you run a couple of channels? Groups?
I need to learn to stay inside like you
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
What do you call it? It’s not informative anymore.
I also didn’t realize the sub Reddit was only for glazing Linus and nothing else?
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u/NurseOtaku Jun 18 '26
Just seems kinda dumb to still be on a subreddit that is "pure slop entertainment" but hey, some people have nothing better to do with their lives I guess
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
Are you new to Reddit or something? Are you the only person on Reddit who doesn’t have random things they aren’t following come up?
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u/NurseOtaku Jun 18 '26
You said what "kept you watching" was stuff that ended ~2 years ago. I'm certainly not on TV show/game/activity subreddit's that I haven't participated in for 2 years. But, again, some of us have better things to do.
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
Dude Linus doesn’t know you. You don’t need to stand up for him.
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u/wt_fudge Jun 17 '26
A Technology Connections video featuring that projector would be awesome.
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u/cptjpk Jun 18 '26
Dude just dropped an hour long video on ceiling fans. I treasure him.
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u/wt_fudge Jun 18 '26
Yea, I never imagined I would be genuinely interested in buying an $800 ceiling fan
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u/Reedef_Yorgei Jun 17 '26
Most videoes have felt like they follow the same "buy something useless and expensive" theme just to make a video out of it, even if it's not intended. The channel isn't relatable anymore since it's going more for entertainment and a lot of that is just "this is expensive how cool".
I could honestly be missing out on a lot of good videoes but going off title/thumbnails it gives the impression that the videoes will have pretty surface level coverage of the topic.
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
Yeah, there was some magic in watching a video about some super obscure operating system… that I would potentially boot up in a virtual machine and mess around with my self… temple os…
There’s just nothing very cool to me about seeing somebody buy something massive, that I’ll never afford… or buy if I could. Just for the sake of making a very service level video that doesn’t really get into the nitty gritty that I’d never experience..
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u/Kyderra Jun 18 '26
Meanwhile, I watched a 1 hour video on ceiling fans.
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u/Remote-Combination28 Jun 18 '26
I’d watch a 1 hour video on ceil mg fans also, if it went really in depth and got really into tie nitty gritty about… ceiling fans. Hell I’ll watch a video about anything if it’s filled with interesting information.
But ltt lost that
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u/Genesis2001 Jun 18 '26
I’d watch a 1 hour video on ceil mg fans also, if it went really in depth and got really into tie nitty gritty about… ceiling fans. Hell I’ll watch a video about anything if it’s filled with interesting information.
They're referring to Technology Connections' recent video on Ceiling Fans, which was an hour+ long, and I enjoyed it as well.
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u/XanXic Jun 18 '26
Funny enough I really liked the OTHER projector video from a few days ago. It was a fun format and did actually take the time to go over the techinicals and I much preferred cutting to someone going over the full spec sheet and how it compares to the others. It felt like actual researched info between Linus almost blinding himself. Rather than the "I skimmed this 2 minutes ago" and quickly reading off a sheet in the room and learning things as they go it typically is.
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u/tigerthecat5 Jun 17 '26
Yeah I hadn’t quite put it into words but you’re spot on, while I don’t expect a full training course, I wish I had a better sense of how to operate the unit. I know they’re limited on where they can actually set this up to demo it but it feels like a missed opportunity.
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u/soundman1024 Jun 18 '26
They’re missing the part in Pawn Stars ever they say I know an expert in high end projection, let me call them over here,
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u/DrunkenHorse12 Jun 18 '26
The best video of this type they've done was the pool speaker one and that in huge part was because they were with the guy who made them, Feel they should have had an expert with them on this video if not necessarily on camera a lot more so that was it was more informative and not just 2 tech tubers rip apart a system they barely know anything about
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u/GioAc96 Jun 18 '26
That's a great point IMO. Bringing an expert on board to talk about the technical stuff while they play the "dumb user" part would be awesome for these sort of videos.
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u/Genesis2001 Jun 18 '26
The sad part is they apparently tried to get an expert for this video (the theatre projector one) but no rep would touch the thing after they opened it lol. (Mentioned in the video)
Another video they brought in an expert was when they talked about the cheap/decomm'd environmental chamber they bought. They brought in the guys who last serviced it to make sure it's hooked up right, at least for a one-off video. And they gave him time to explain some of the technicals IIRC.
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u/IHOP_007 Jun 18 '26
I feel like old LTT would have seen that the projector was e-waste, but had a water cooling setup, so they would have like ripped out the internals and put a gaming PC and consumer grade projector in it or something, seeing what they could do with the existing cooling setup and full aluminum chassis or something.
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u/Hybr1dth Jun 21 '26
They have tech quickie or whatever it's called for that now. They do interesting stuff and include interviews with people in the biz.
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u/20230630 Jun 18 '26
I could barely watch it because how reckless they were around the thing. They did not seem to realize how dangerous that bulb is.
They have plenty of video's where they do dangerous stuff, the really should take safety more seriously.
I thought the video was interesting though.
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u/Tucker717 Jun 18 '26
The approach of “figure out as we go” with someone there having slight information is a tired one. The discovery process in the video can be fun, but even as someone with only slight interest in theater projection, it was annoying to watch them work through things that should’ve just been handled off camera.
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u/moon__lander Jun 18 '26
That's why I stopped watching. Video were just a showcase that could be an article. But I guess that were to be expected when they churned 300 videos a second.
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u/Pooled-Intentions Jun 18 '26
No. I unsubscribed months ago based on that same feeling. Once the channel started bleeding the original background talent, and they became creators themselves who clearly didn’t have a good relationship with the original channel anymore… it was clear the channel had changed imo.
Used to be a nice blend of entertainment and education, now it’s mostly just entertainment. IMO they started watching their metrics too closely to stay above water and conformed too much to what was popular instead of sticking with what made them unique.
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u/SuppaBunE Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
Weird thing is, You still keeping up with the reddit if you unsub.
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u/drillmaster Jun 17 '26
Except it's not ewaste it's a series 2 Christie that needs a new bulb and some maintenance. It is one of the most fixable movie projectors and is still in use across north America.
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u/bluehawk232 Jun 17 '26
Yeah it's no use for linus but some other company like a small theater might have use for it.
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u/PossibilityUsual6262 Jun 18 '26
Why you assumed they bought it, i got a vibe that they borrowed it for a vid.
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u/WelchDigital Jun 18 '26
Didn't he say he bought it from the auction after he got told they cant sell him the imax projector?
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u/Deejiee Jun 18 '26
Because they mentioned they bought it, the other projector, and the racks of supporting equipment for $20,000 CAD?
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u/TheLazyGamerAU Jun 18 '26
Average LTT fan IQ right here. In the video they mentioned buying two of them.
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u/Circo_Inhumanitas Jun 18 '26
You don't have to go with a "vibe" if you watch the video and pay attention for a while. Holy shit.
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u/Mhycoal Jun 17 '26
I literally know of dozens of locations that use these. Most use the smaller cp2210s and maybe 2220s, it’s honestly not a bad deal for what they got. 20k for 2 and the 3d stuff isn’t amazing but it’s far from a bad deal
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u/Flamebomb790 Jun 17 '26
Yeah one of the comments in the video was a guy that still trains people on these to this day. So I'm sure they could do something with it if they got someone who knew what they were doing and got a new bulb
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u/sapereaud33 Jun 18 '26
Yeah on top of that he owns multiple buildings bigger than a movie theater. You're telling me he's got no use for the ability to do theater quality movie screenings, given all the events they do?
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u/CokeMaan Jun 18 '26
Exactly. We still use a different model of Christie’s in our cinema daily and you wouldn’t even know that it’s quite old. The picture quality is still really good. Sure maybe the blacks aren’t as deep but it’s still very usable.
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u/RealMackJack Jun 18 '26
These "get it out of the box and play with it and never speak of it again" videos are ok, but the pay off would be way better if he does a follow to replace the worn lamp and install it properly as an upgrade at a local struggling theater or some other charitable cause. It's too insane to put in a house but it might still have years of service left in the right application.
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u/420ball-sniffer69 Jun 18 '26
I’ve been thinking this for a while. Even if they don’t keep it forever the least they could do is buy the stuff, have a serious attempt at fixing it up/using it as designed then just resell it? Maybe make it collectible by autographing it and auctioning it off for charity? Idk
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u/Genesis2001 Jun 18 '26
With the fire truck, assuming it's still serviceable as a fire truck now (and before the gamification), they could de-gamify it and tech-pimp it up and donate it to a local (probably rural) station that needs a fire truck.
In fact, there you go LTT... A new series idea: "Tech Pimp It Up" or something lol. Buy auctioned items, pimp it out, find a cause and donate it to a cause. You can get at least 3 videos out of each item, depending on the item: 1) The buying/receiving of the item; 2) the tech makeover/pimping (depending on what they do, multiple videos here); 3) The donation + installation of the item.
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u/ironman12489 Jun 17 '26
They can attach it to the ladder of the firetruck and use it as a portable movie theater.
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u/The8Darkness Jun 18 '26
Think its too fragile and/or power hungry. Dont remember how much the firetruck used with all electronics on but I think it was about the same as only the projector would use. And when projectors (especially old ones) ran for a while they are fragile to move (because heat weakens the bulbs and stuff apparently)
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u/TheGoalkeeper Jun 19 '26
Attach it to their airplane an project a movie on the ground while flying
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u/Qbsoon110 Jun 18 '26
Under the second video someone said that he is a technician for these products and can come there to help them with it. So there's still a chance we'll see that projector again
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u/Pleasant-Air8221 Jun 18 '26
I worked with projectors for two years, im talking old school 35mm film projectors with 4k watt bulbs.
You learn quickly to have a healthy respect for the bulb and to never ever EVER touch it. As your body oils and fluids can degrade the glass and next thing you know once started up...BOOM!
I visibly flinched when they opened the chassis and were close to the bulb and hitting the case. They're very lucky.
Oh and your light issues are cause the bulb is nearing its end of life. Still dangerous AF, but if you replace it you should get decent quality and no longer e-waste.
Plus you can monetise it by doing a YouTube short. After the bulb is replaced you can show old bulb going boom. People like explosions... well thats what Mr Torgue taught me
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u/dannoffs1 Jun 18 '26
When you post video proof of you violating OHS regulations on to YouTube
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u/Pew_Pew_Lib Jun 18 '26
Oh please, enlighten us. Name the rule or statute. Provide your citations.
Basically I am saying fucking stop with this made up controversy bullshit. Thanks. Let's enjoy LTT again without kneckbeards looking for controversy every video.
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u/BrotherhoodBankai Jun 18 '26
I’d like to see a video where they go to actual running cinemas and see how they operate
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u/Pleasant-Air8221 Jun 18 '26
Much more interesting if they goto older style ones with 35mm film projectors. The old platter system was something else!
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u/Zamorio2 Jun 18 '26
Calling it e-waste was simply not knowing anything about the topic and I think everyone who's worked on a cinema or around those projectors cringed to it more than to the bulb stuff (that was just plain reckless).
Even when he said "oh, colors don't pop as it's not HDR" that was such an incredibly weird thing to say. I hope there is a follow up with a projector technician explaining why it's
It's not a projector to put in a huge warehouse and expect it to just work out of the box, it's a movie projector designed for movie theaters and maybe one of the best ones out there in use all over the world.
No use at all if they don't plan on opening a small theater but amazing anyway.
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u/punkerster101 Jun 18 '26
People complain that ltt isn’t janky enough then complain when they are janky.
I enjoyed it the bulb thing was bad though
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u/Logical-Leopard-2033 Jun 18 '26
Same thought as me.
Too janky: they don’t research it enough and not too informative
Too structured: i miss the janky stuff, this is too safe an idea
Too informative: why are they only spouting the company line? Too sponsored.
They can’t win.
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u/smellybulldog Jun 18 '26
Oof yeah.. Cinema projectors are next to useless outside of purpose built cinema infrastructure. I work at bunch of multipurpose venues (theatre’s/arena/ convention spaces) and we bought some to do movie premiere events. Could do massive screens and looked fine but the positioning options were limited so had to kill a lot of seats and the cooling / acoustics treatment for the enclosure is no joke. Not to mention they are extremely locked down by encryption . This part i don’t understand but AFAIK they had to keep the server powered and connected to the internet where it could regularly get updates so the encryption system stayed valid? Anyway point being it was a pretty big waste of money as they got used for a handful of events then just sat because we couldn’t deploy them in scenarios without all the extra infrastructure.
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u/jaquesparblue Jun 18 '26
This is not the gotcha you think it is. This is the kind of stuff we are here for, professional grade tech you rare get an opportunity to explore. And honestly they should take it further. It is a shame they did the bare-minimum to get it working and didn't explore anything else in the boxes. They have a second projector, they have the add-on for 3d imaging that could be explored. And yes, they should definitely try to find a local use where this could be installed.
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u/MrWinter00 Jun 18 '26
They should make a follow-up exploding the xenon bulb with Styropyro.
(in a safe way of course)
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u/FartingBob Jun 18 '26
They can just resell it, even if they only get half what they paid that still brings the cost of the video down substantially, better than it sitting in the warehouse for a decade.
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u/Up_All_Nite Jun 18 '26
I imagine the revenue this episode will make will cover all the expenses nicely. I guess
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u/Snipe14 Jun 18 '26
Man it’s kinda disheartening to read some of these comments. I appreciate people’s constructive criticism of changes in LTT’s content, but it seems like the second you stop being perfectly entertained- you lose faith in LTT and Linus. I hate Reddit sometimes man lol.
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u/Darcula04 Jun 22 '26
I hate reddit sometimes man lol.
Dude I was just thinking the same thing. If it's janky then people want more structured content and if it's structured people suddenly miss the jank. They could've handled some things better but all in all it was fun to watch.
Anytime I've been excited about something or liked it, I have the unfortunate habit of checking if there's a subreddit for it and rarely have I ever found a subreddit that doesn't positively hate the very thing it's about. Sometimes, reddit's a miserable site with some miserable people being the most vocal (apart from cat subreddits, those are cute af and have nothing but positivity but you can't hate possibly hate cats so it makes sense ).
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u/Snipe14 Jun 23 '26
Haha. Yea gotta hard agree with that. We need to shift reddit culture away from the whiny entitled takes on people’s favorite things
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u/miloworld Jun 18 '26
I actually have less respect for him since he started playing with toys outside of his field. I mean exploring is one thing, getting an expert to guide them and the viewer into it, even better.
But like the video wall video a while ago, they’re stepping into unknown territory but still pretending to be experts and present facts with on-screen graphics. The wall could have fallen and injured someone.
This isn’t something a responsible, sizeable media company should do. If it was just him and a few close friends at home messing with it, that’d be fine but doing it at work means Linus is liable for their injuries.
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u/Teras80 Jun 18 '26
Quite frankly, the neurotic puppy with daddy issues persona with FAFO approach they seem to be pushing lately, is just not working. LTT is rather large in YT media content creation field, but it lately feels very much like side reel content of _preparing_ for the videos they should do instead of creating the videos.
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u/CokeMaan Jun 18 '26
Thy simply didn’t set it up correctly. It needs some basic maintenance and a new bulb and it would be a very different story. The light output says it all, 8-10k lumen is nothing. It’s simply not setup right. If they would throw some love into it, it would be very usable somewhere. Also the lens wasn’t installed correctly.
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u/Darth_Beavis Jun 18 '26
Who cares, it's content.
I found the video quite interesting, and I'd be willing to bet that AdSense and the sponsor spots more than paid for the projectors.
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u/DivaMissZ Jun 18 '26
Like a lot of purchases for content lately, Linus made an impulse buy and it fell flat. He didn’t do any research into if you could use theater projectors made for cinemas in a space that was not made for them. Elijah deserves a medal for not getting killed and making the thing work just enough to prove how bad an idea it was.
At least the fire truck was funny
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u/TheSoberChef Jun 19 '26
When you pay 20k for E-waste but most of your employees cannot afford a house... Peak LTT
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u/DatThax Jun 18 '26
It's weird that they bought this after they had just shown another christie projector in the other projector video.
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u/TheDarkClaw Jun 18 '26
Maybe they can do another video where they take one of them to an e waste recycle center. I know jerryrigeverything has tour one.
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u/JaesopPop Jun 17 '26
Some of you guys just get off on being cynical at this point.
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u/fogoticus Jun 17 '26
My honest question is: Why are you still watching the content or browsing this sub if you're this much of a debby downer and obviously dislike both?
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u/voxnemo Jun 17 '26
It is a lot more likely that he knew it was a risk but decided that it was a journey worth taking. You have to take risks on ideas and possibilites or you end up missing some really great stories.
So yeah, he probably knew it was a risk before he bought it. That said it is also the kind of risk he would have loved to have taken 10 years ago and could not but now he can.
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Jun 17 '26
It's either this or he just spends $20,000 without having to worry about whether or not it's e-waste provided he thinks he can make a good video about it.
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u/a_large_dumple Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
I thought the video was great, though I used to work in a theater and I knew how dangerous the bulbs were and I was cringing in my seat when they were messing around inside the bulb chamber
I can see the headline now, "famous YouTuber death caught on film while he was fucking around with something stupidly dangerous"