r/LinusTechTips 2d ago

Discussion Update on the TrueSpec Cables launch

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Hey folks - Happy Groundhogs Day!

So… about the TrueSpec Cable launch.

First: wow. Sales didn’t just exceed our expectations, they ran them over, backed up, and did it again. It’s starting to feel a bit like Groundhog Day around here: we refresh the dashboard, numbers are still wild, we blink, refresh again… yep, still wild. Apparently, releasing a cable that actually meets spec was the right call. The good news? While digging through inventory and supplier pipelines, we managed to shake loose more units for some SKUs. Not all heroes wear capes, and not all cables were found.

Second: because you all collectively chose chaos (thank you), we’re rapidly ramping up production to keep pace with the excitement. More TrueSpec cables are already in motion, and the team is working flat out to make sure supply catches up with demand. 

Third (the “we broke the internet” portion of today’s episode): the launch traffic also exposed a systems issue that’s created all kinds of havoc for our team to fix. Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s annoying. Yes, the team is still working on it. If this feels familiar… well… see paragraph one.

TL; DR:

·       You loved the cable (a lot)

·       We found more!  But not in all sizes

·       We’re making more, fast

Thanks for your patience while we fix the backend and relive this moment one more time.

❤️
The LTT Store Team


r/LinusTechTips 5d ago

WAN Show WAN Show Megathread

29 Upvotes

We are trialling something new here- a scheduled post to go live every week when WAN show is supposed to start. Any topic covered in the wan show is fair game- even the more controversial ones. just keep it relevant and keep it respectful!

WAN show countdown can he found here at whenplane

The Wan show will be live (eventually) here:

Twitch

YouTube

Floatplane

we wont immediately start redirecting all traffic here but hope that community engagement will make this the default area to chat WAN show topics!


r/LinusTechTips 9h ago

Community Only Sorry Dan.

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660 Upvotes

With a 5% / 99% spread, Melania has to go on Dan’s watch list.


r/LinusTechTips 11h ago

Meme/Shitpost Another LTT staff leaves...

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425 Upvotes

And he'll be back at work tmr :)


r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Image Correct me if I’m wrong but it seems people are now faking working and leaving Ltt for engagement farming.

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3.4k Upvotes

This channel popped up on my algorithm today, so I checked it out. All the videos have different people in the thumbnails, and every video follows the same script.

“Today I’m going to explain why I left. I used to make the short form content or gaming B roll. I can’t say anything more because it’s super private, but hey, if you like LTT, sub to me, and I’ll see you next time.”

This seems very much to be someone farming for subs using LTT as a way to get people’s attention, falsely stating they worked there but left due to a disagreement, yet they keep it vague enough as not to be defamatory towards LTT.

Correct me if I’m wrong, and they were a former LTT member, but it seems very suspicious the whole channel.

It makes me wonder if there are other channels out there using LTT to engage and farm, is this a new YouTube trend?

If this is in fact someone pretending, hopefully someone at LTT will see this so they can get ahead of it in case it gets worse and more defamatory towards them.


r/LinusTechTips 17h ago

Image Whats a sign you’ve been following LTT for a long time

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730 Upvotes

They overclock all the GPUs that they review


r/LinusTechTips 12h ago

Link FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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r/LinusTechTips 13h ago

Image Some customers are seeing a 10 week delay on cable shipping due to inventory tracking issues.

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179 Upvotes

r/LinusTechTips 5h ago

WAN Show Luke owning WAN?

32 Upvotes

I’ve seen comments mentioning Luke now owns half of WAN show, I’ve unfortunately had to work nights the last few Fridays and haven’t had the time to go back and watch the show, can someone give me the lowdown on what happened?


r/LinusTechTips 7h ago

Link AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk | Opinions | Al Jazeera

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40 Upvotes

Even one conversation with ChatGPT is wasting a bottle of water.


r/LinusTechTips 16h ago

Image Bbno$ collab prediction

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204 Upvotes

Today I was listening to some of BBNO$, and out of a sudden I listened Linus, and then founded weird.

Then opened the lyrics tab and saw it.

LMAO


r/LinusTechTips 14h ago

WAN Show Positive News Story for WAN Show- California Passed a Free Data Broker Removal Law, With Actual Enforcement. (562 Data Brokers had my info, all have to be deleted now)

96 Upvotes

California Passed a new law & Tool (DROP) allowing Any California resident to have all of their info removed from all of the registered data brokers, It starts August 1st. DROP Tool here: https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/
Not only is it free, but the difference is this legally requires the companies to actually respond back confirming that they've have your data, the status of it, and to delete your data within 90 days, or they face penalties and there is enforcement by the state.

I tried it out and there's over 500 that have my info.
When signing up you can give it your CAR VIN your advertising ID your cell phones IMEI your TV ID, etc it's pretty thorough. The more the info the better, as it checks all the databases for this stuff.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2026/01/08/new-tool-to-block-data-brokers/88081901007/

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/california-tool-delete-personal-data-brokers/3965396/

Here is mine: (Removals don't start until August 1st)


r/LinusTechTips 23h ago

Image Yesterday, Amazon pushed an automatic opt-in "free trial" for their Blink cameras to push all of your video data through their AI software to analyze what is going on in the videos. As someone with indoor Blink cameras, this is a huge invasion of privacy that I never asked for.

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399 Upvotes

r/LinusTechTips 5h ago

Link Windows 11 Start menu causes lag and system resource utilization spike. You can lag out a lower end machine by just spamming the start menu.

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11 Upvotes

Gotta love electron

This is a Surface Laptop Studio 1 with an 11th gen i7-11370H 3.3GHz, 32GB ram, RTX 3050 Ti


r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Discussion Merch Message rebrand

429 Upvotes

They should be called

RAM - retail acquisition message

Or

BS - Basket shout

These are the only options


r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Image We read your slogans ❤️

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2.7k Upvotes

r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Image I get advertisements in word now?

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183 Upvotes

This is stupid....


r/LinusTechTips 25m ago

Discussion Sound problem

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Hello,

I'm desperate so I turn to reddit for help.

My pc had a motherboard problem and I couldn't use my mic anymore (no sound went in my mic but it was detected) so I used discord on my phone to talkl to my friends while playing for a long time.

With Xhristms I got a little bit of money so I bought a external soundcard (soundblaster GC7) and a new headset (beyerdynamics mx 330 pro) to finally have a working pc howewer since I got it the problem still stand. The mic is detected and I use all the good options in y settings (good peripheric and all). The first headset I got the mic didn't work on my pc nor my ps5 so the vendor send me another one that worked perfectly fine for 10 days before breaking up and now it dont receive any sound (same problem with my ps5). After I contacted thhe vendor, I got a third headset and it dont work on my pc or ps5.

I am afraid that something on my pc just break any mic that I plug in my system (like a electrical short cut) maybe it come also from my external soundboard.

If anybody have any idea about whats going on pls share all your tips because I am becoming to feel that I've been cursed by the universe (to be honest I already check all my options/dumb things like a mute button on or whatever)

Any help would be appreciated


r/LinusTechTips 5h ago

Discussion Looking for an old video

4 Upvotes

I’m looking for an old LTT video where they make sound proofing from scratch if anyone has the video link that would be greatly appreciated!


r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Image I was browsing through old photos on my PC and found this Gem from 2022. (Back when AI was only good for sh*tposts)

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810 Upvotes

r/LinusTechTips 9h ago

Image Looks like my home town beat Linus to "Tech Town" 😅

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r/LinusTechTips 11h ago

WAN Show This is actually somewhat interesting… WAN show topic?

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6 Upvotes

r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Image new meme template?

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99 Upvotes

r/LinusTechTips 1d ago

Image We need a Secret Shopper "Game Pubilisher" edition to keep them honest.

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106 Upvotes

I would love to see LTT do a secret shopper edition where they test the support of the people who provide us with our games. Afterall they have tested the hardware vendors so why not test the game makers?

Let me tell you a story of the worst customer support experiance of my life thanks to Rockstar Games.

“We are unable to recover the account at this time due to a lack of information on the form and will be closing this ticket.” 

This is my most hated sentence in the world.

I have what I would have thought would be a not unheard of problem.

The email account I used to create my RockStar social account on PC many moons ago no longer exists. The company that used to host it just simply doesn’t do that any more.

Whenever I try and launch a Rockstar game from Steam I am met with a rockstar login page that is locked to that old email address. Well this should be a simple fix I thought….How wrong could I be.

In the world of XBOX and Playstation it is easy, you simply log into their site, request to unlink and move your account and hey presto its done.

No such options exist for steam.

So I thought I would reach out to Rockstar support. I even found a form that seems to be about that very issue. But no every time…..

“We are unable to recover the account at this time due to a lack of information on the form and will be closing this ticket.” 

Okay then well there doesn’t seem to be a place I can send additional information to, so I will try one of the other support sections that allow a little more user detail.

Please utilize the following form to initiate account recovery: <Insert link here>

Be sure to include any information that would assist us in recovering an account. This ticket will be closed after this response.

I fill out every detail I can on the form, my current email, the past email, when was it created (which is a ridiculous question how will I ever confirm that) and put in my linked user names…which are all the same and share the same part of the email address. 

“We are unable to recover the account at this time due to a lack of information on the form and will be closing this ticket.” 

I have begged. I have pleaded for elevation. I have frantically tried sending responses to the ticket (which is says you can do) with receipts and dates of purchases. With details on my steam account. Pleading for someone to let me email them so I can ask a question, see what information they do need. But every time.

“We are unable to recover the account at this time due to a lack of information on the form and will be closing this ticket.” 

No acknowledgement of the other information I have provided.

Every ticket, every time closed without any chance to respond and I am not the only one. There are hundreds of posts on the r/rockstar page with people with the same experiance.

I just wanted to ride the wild west with my girlfriend… but instead I am ....TICKET CLOSED


r/LinusTechTips 15h ago

Discussion Whoa, did they finally fix Floatplane notifications???

7 Upvotes

Just got a Floatplane notification without the app being open in the background on an iOS, first time that’s ever happened