Their laptops had a 50% failure rate at Linus Media Group, according to Luke during a WAN Show. Linus kept pushing them on his viewers though.
This was years ago, and I will never understand how the company was not shamed into bankruptcy. Well, I guess I do understand. You can buy favorable media coverage and it scares the crap out of me.
I always used to like Asus as a company when I built computers back in the 90s. Still great quality.
I am not sure why you are upset at this outcome, given the company name.
/s
And with streaming becoming popular, "functional" didn't really cut it anymore. Having a black MX Master/MX Keys combo doesn't really "pop" on screen. It's gotta have lights, match the aesthetic, etc. It working is almost immaterial.
Razer, on the other hand... I was once gifted a secondhand Razer Blade laptop whose mainboard went dead after a year or two of use. They quoted me $500 for parts alone on a 3+ year old model.
They didn't have replacement screws, period. We had to buy them from a third party on Amazon. Kind of a clown company between that experience and every time I've bought one of their mice or keyboards (I learned my lesson after the third time...)
They were like the Beats Audio of mice for MMO folks.
The sheer number of buttons helped. Logitech had the G60? Mmo mouse but it didn't have the 'edgy styling' of razer' products.
That said, I still have two of the logi's (never did MMO, but that thing was awesome for CAD) one is over a decade old, more than I can say about any of the razer trash my friends bought
That said, I'm not advocating Razer, especially nowadays.
Do you have link to that particular show? It's surprising it was mentioned and that Linus was still 'supporting' it at the time.
I cobbled together the correct yt-dlp command to get all the subtitles and a little Python glue to search them.
Thanks for taking the time. Now I need to learn more about yt-dlp.
Would you mind sharing the yt-dlp command which helped you get all the subtitles?
./yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --sub-format json3 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw7PhlnAr4pZZz2QubIbujH"
That'll grab all the WAN shows (that's the playlist LTT provides for the WAN) of the autogenerated subs in a rather, uh, unique, JSON based format. From there I wrote some throw away quality Python to find razor or blade near percent: import os, json
hits, files = 0, 0
for cur in [x for x in os.listdir(".") if x.endswith(".json3")]:
files += 1
with open(cur) as f:
data = json.load(f)
words = []
for event in data["events"]:
at = event["tStartMs"]
for seg in event.get("segs", []):
words.append((len(words), at, seg["utf8"].strip().lower()))
span = 10 * 1000
for i, at, word in words:
if word in {"razor", "blade", "razors", "blades"}:
span_min = min(x[0] for x in words if abs(x[1] - at) <= span)
span_max = max(x[0] for x in words if abs(x[1] - at) <= span)
for other_i, other_at, other_word in words[span_min:span_max+1]:
if other_word in {"percent"}:
print("-" * 100)
loc = min(at, other_at) // 1000
loc = f"{loc//3600}:{(loc%3600)//60:02d}:{loc%60:02d}"
print(loc + ": " + cur)
phrase = " ".join(x[2] for x in words[min(i,other_i): max(i,other_i)+1])
print(phrase)
hits += 1
print(f"{hits} hits in {files} files.")
It found some false positives (maybe one, don't remember), and the hit shared above.It was awkward as heck. I gained a lot of respect for Luke that day for keeping it real.
Both me and my wife had issues with right mouse button switches failing and registering two clicks instead of one. This was 5 mice across 2 models (2 we bought, 3 we got as warranty replacements) in just a year.
It's been over a decade and it's still a razer-free household.
Nowadays Razer and other high end mouse vendors use immortal Optical switches.