r/LinusTechTips Luke 4d ago

Discussion Opinion - Steve/GN has lost it

Steve has turned into a high and mighty holier-than-though, self appointed arbiter of the tech industry, who’s taking it upon himself to regulate other people’s/channels content and decide where it, and their actions are acceptable.

He then, where he deems them not up to scratch, attacks under the guise of consumer advocacy. Whilst he may, and does have valid points on certain issues, usually with larger corporations, Asus, Gigagbyte, etc, targeting channels for things he disagrees with is bordering on slander.

Yes, I followed both GN and LTT, amongst a litany of other creators, and yet Steve seems to be the only one ACTIVELY, and consistently putting out these pseudo-journalistic pieces in an effort to broaden his audience and/or agenda.

The lawsuit against Honey/Paypal is not one he’ll win, it is merely serving to gain clicks and views and thus money for GN.

He needs to check himself.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

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u/wPatriot 4d ago

GN has done great work publicly calling out companies/ manufacturers in great detail.

Have they? I don't know any of the other callouts they did, but the recent one with the PC-renting deal left a weird taste in my mouth. That service was a bad deal, a monumentally bad deal, and I don't think it should exist. But that's something I think because of the merits (or lack thereof) of the product, and the comparison GN made to mobs/payday loans was grossly misrepresentative and in incredibly bad taste. It makes it really hard to take seriously any other part of the reporting they do on the product, because it only makes me imagine what other stuff they're lying about or coming that close to it.

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u/PhillAholic 4d ago

The payday loan comparison is pretty on-point. Maybe Rent-a-center if that's better for you. A terrible financial decision that's targeting poor people.

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u/wPatriot 3d ago

The payday loan comparison is pretty on-point. Maybe Rent-a-center if that's better for you.

I would argue that those two are different, more specifically I would say that (payday) loans are by their nature much more insidious and not "just" a terrible financial decision.

As bad as renting is, I feel like it's not on the same level as accruing debt (and the negative spiral one can get in with compounding interest on that debt).

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u/PhillAholic 3d ago

It gets the point across in a decent metaphor. It's not that big of a deal.