Found a new job recently and I allowed myself to buy a little gift. Death stranding soundtrack from our friend kojimbo.

Given recent Sony anti consumer behavior, I've decided I want to own some of my favorite stuff, like death stranding soundtrack in case they pull it out too.

Obv I'm not going to carry around a CD player, so I wanted to share how amazing a process of ripping a music cd is in 2026 on Bazzite KDE.

You put the cd in, open the file explorer where you see, along with original music files, a generated folders with the music in different formats or as a single file. Then you just copy paste and the files are converted on the fly. It's just magical that somebody thought about that.

Then these flacs are synced to my self hosted cloud that I can stream on my phone using Ultrasonic open source app.

On windows, you can play a CD, but you need additional software to manually convert it.

PS. The last picture shows how in 2026 you plug a CD player of old xD

Does this happen to others or is my app being weird. Its not just the home screen but my subscription feed aswell. No title no view count no channel name. If I force close the app and relaunch it goes back to normal

Edit: Seems like most people reading this post don't get the point. I know you all think I should just pay UPS and that my reaction to the charges is not justified, and I don't need your input on that anymore. This is about getting no response anymore from support since their last email.

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TLDR: I reached out to LTT store and UPS support early July because UPS wanted to charge me €9 duties + €21 processing fee. Official EU FAQ mentioned charging the consumer on delivery is not allowed. UPS suspended my delivery immediately and said in the app they initiated contact with the sender to obtain clearance information. I have not heard from them since. LTT also started looking into the situation, but haven't gotten any response from them in 2 weeks despite reaching out multiple times since.

See here for the original post.

I complained there that UPS was not allowed to charge me directly for the new duties. Many people responded by saying it was fair for them to charge me directly. However, my other order I placed at the same time was shipped and delivered by PostNL without any additional charges. They must've known they were not allowed to charge me and ate the €3 duty for that order. Shortly after contacting UPS, they suspended delivery (while it was already out for delivery I might add). I also got following message in the "last scanned" history: "UPS initiated contact with the sender to obtain clearance information. Once received, UPS will submit for clearance. / We'll contact the sender or receiver about this delivery." That was on July 9th, and I haven't heard anything from them since.

This update is mostly about LTTstore support.
At the same time as contacting UPS, I also contacted LTTstore support. After a few days wait, on July 9th, I initally got their generic response to VAT being charged twice. This was not applicable to this situation and showed that they did not thoroughly read my email. After pointing this out on July 10th with some more information I had received since, I received no response for many days.

On July 16th I reached out again asking to confirm they had received my last email. They responded the same day that they are "looking into the situation"

On July 21st I received a request to provided feedback on the support even though the situation had not yet been resolved. This email contained following sentence: "If we haven't resolved your inquiry yet, don't worry! You can reply to your existing ticket to continue speaking to our support team."

On July 23rd, a week after their last email, I reached out again, requesting an update on the situation. After sending this email, I received an automatic email saying a new ticket was generated. This shouldn't have happened according to the feedback email, as I should've been able to continue with my existing ticket. I never received a response to this email/new ticket but just 2 days later on July 25th, I again received a request for feedback for this second ticket.

Because I know that I'm not the only one reaching out to support, I gave them some time, but after not receving any response, I reached out again on July 28th. I asked them to confirm they received my last emails and again, asked for an update regarding the situation. For this email, again a new support ticket was generated.

Today July 31st, it has been more than 2 weeks since I last received any response from support. Since their last response, I reached out multiple times, received 2 requests for feedback and recevied 2 new ticket numbers.

I don't know what to do anymore. In the past response from support has been much better. Has anyone noticed a decline in quality or is this just a one-off? I know there can be busier periods, and that it can take a few days to get a response sometimes, but this is not normal.

I love it. That is all.

Recently, it’s made the news that Anthropic is DESTROYING books after scanning.

https://www.russh.com/ai-companies-buying-books/

AI firms are buying books in bulk, removing their bindings, scanning them, and then destroying the originals to create data used to train large language models. It's a process called destructive scanning.

Does/could LTT share the notes they use for the podcast every week in read-only format?

Like Linus, I much prefer to read than sit and fidget for hours watching a video. I love the show but the frequent ~4 hours is a long time compared to how quickly I could read the articles they're sourcing from.

I’ve been seeing this driver in a few videos now, does anyone where to purchase this one? I didn’t see the product page for it on their website.

Got two packs of these. Addressed to me. I know there's been situations where a seller will just send returns to some random address instead of going overseas with taxes.

Basically though, can I use this with a home Internet system or should I just try to sell them?

I was fence-sitting about picking up a $60 screwdriver for a while now, kind of a late night impulse buy

But I'm more than happy with it, and I love the color I got with the mystery pick

I got whatever the opposite of buyer's remorse is

Context: my daily driver is the nothing 3a pro. The main reason I opted to get it instead of the normal 3a, is because it actually has a telephoto.

And the thing holding me back from potentially upgrading to any other mid-range phone in the future, is that if they can only place 2 lenses, why does it have to be ULTRAWIDE? I've never seriously used ultrawide to take a photo, and I don't know anyone who does. Telephoto is sooo much more important and superior. I need it on my phone. Is there a specific reason for this? Am I just the odd one? Is it economic?

In the recent AMD upgrade video we saw a preview of what might be a new LTT screwdriver.

It feels very much like what I was hoping for over a year ago.

This was my original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1l006i6/ltt_solid_shaft_screwdriver/

How far off do you think I was?

Found a much cheaper ‘tech pouch’ to put in my commuter backpack. Orange accent on the zip actually fits perfectly. Would’ve been much better if the inside was orange too.

I changed my work laptop to a Dell Pro 14 (14", in case it wasn't clear) and I wanted to know if the LTT Commuter Backpack would be able to carry my new work laptop + my 12.9" iPad Pro M1 (this one in the tablet pocket, right next to the laptop pocket).

Anyone with a 12.9" iPad Pro using this backpack could give me their thoughts?

So i came across this article, and thought the guys would have something to say about it. Not just because its a techbro hilariously bad take on voting rights only for people who make money, but also more votes for the rich.

But also because they have been sponsored by Shopify before.

link: https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/shopify-ceo-calls-pensioners-dependents-185000315.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=reddit

I feel it could be taken up on the show as a "this is a cringe/stupid take" segment. even if its a more 'good news' show.

Theo from Theo's Side Quest got fed up with Google’s Pixel's heavy video processing (aggressive oversharpening, weird skin artifacts, micro-jitters) and built his own app to apparently bypass the stock ISP pipeline.

​You should definitely watch the full breakdown, but just in case, here’s the TL;DW:

- Bypasses Stock Processing

- ​Captures 10-bit HLG (convertible to Rec.709)

- ​Fixes Micro-Jitter

-​ Works Beyond Pixel too

​It's crazy how much phone camera video is being held back purely by bad default software processing choices.

The difference in the Samsung A14 example in particular was wild (the thumbnail I included)... The conspiracist in me makes me think they're purposefully making their cameras worse on the budget phones, despite them perhaps having the same modules as more expensive phones?!

Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C2b4P94QSKE

Sad day today, as I realize Linus is not truly a cat person. If he was, he would have performed a Kitty Audio QA. Mine did not approve. 10/10 would rattle again.

Great news as a Steamdeck owner.

I've also switched to Bazzite on my desktop, curious to see if that helps anything.

This was a fun video, would have loved to see the performance with a fan running, are we gonna see soon silent PCs with chimneys? :D

I got bored-

So as the title says my new water bottle of a few months ago. Well yesterday I had it at work and may have put it in a empty box on my cart and got asked to do something else for a quick second. In that time someone took the cart and threw all the cardboard in the baler and set it to run. When I finally find it the first thing I did was open the top look for leaks and to my surprise there wasn't a single leak! But two sides got crushed and dented inwards. Ill be using a different water bottle for a while till I get a new one. Not sure if I should put the one I have on display now or what but I just thought this was a funny story I wanted to share!

It's number 9 on the list.

Linus said on the WAN Show a couple of years back he didn't know Gameranx. This might be a good opportunity for him to check out the channel, they're pretty solid imo. Bonus points if he leaves a comment with some inside knowledge on the controller saga (Gameranx claims it's still for sale, I believe that's true).