ALL OF r/TECHSUPPORTGORE

[@vort3x175]

an hour of Lexi as the narrator, cant think of anything better

[@SF3L]

Hear me out, 2 hours of Lexi as the narrator

[@mist5142]

​@@SF3Lno 3 hours of Lexi as the narrator

[@CrushedAsian255]

@@mist5142no 4 hours of Lexi as the narrator

[@imonly1man_]

@@CrushedAsian255 you're thinking _way_ too small. 5 hours of Lexi as the narrator

[@mist5142]

@@CrushedAsian255 no 10 hours is best

[@TheLexikitty]

Oh goodie. Flashbacks.

[@Everything_and_Nothing_Tech]

Ah yes

[@ToastExists]

relatable

[@darkstar1367]

LOL

[@TheRedEnder4884]

LEXI!

[@TheRedEnder4884]

12:33 I love how you had said “Burn that crap with fire” as if we could burn it with snow.😂 But you are always my favorite narrator.

[@KayGreylai]

As the daughter of an IT guy who ran his own IT repair and network setup buisness this was rly cathartic. I have overheard or helped with some of the most ridiculous things when it comes to IT support. From phone arguments over how to let go of a mouse to press a button to someone bringing in a laptop for repair for openong it from the wrong side. Beautiful stories.

[@alyxanderson6213]

The screams of tech support PTSD are just, *chefs kiss*. Speaking as a former helpdesk person, I find much of Lexi's tech support rage relatable.

[@Moonlight-ux5ln]

From someone who's worked on old computer (IBM level old) the things I've seen when we've cracked it open have been uhh…interesting

[@alyxanderson6213]

@@Moonlight-ux5ln my sympathies.

[@VoodooTrashPanda]

I love the temp folder ones because they hit real close to home. When I was learning Blender 3D as a kid I wanted to make a water sim animation, it took an entire night to render and then I realized I didn’t select a spot to save the result. After I finished the acceptance stage of grief I realized the default save location was a folder name I hadn’t seen before. That was the day I learned how to use bash to search for and unhide folders. Especially the /Tmp folder that was now full of several gigs of animation frames and many other renders I didn’t realize I saved.

[@EGPeppered]

Oh hey, poster of "Men, get the hazmat suits" here. I uploaded that manky toshiba YEARS ago, but seeing it brought back the memory of the horrible smell it made. Glad you got a laugh out of it.

[@prehistoricblob783]

Great post, toshiba laptop stink a$$ lol

[@shelbyfox-winkler2445]

What did it smell like??

[@djalexander968]

my dad once told me if i ever have to pull on technology harder than id pull someone's arm to get their attention, it wasn't meant to be removed

[@undecidedmiddleground5633]

5:35 If you have old electronics yellowing issues, get some UV LED strips. Disassemble the device to get the plastic shell that's discolored off. Immerse the plastic in hydrogen peroxide in a clear plastic tote and wrap the tote with your UV LEDs facing inward. Wrap the entire thing in aluminum foil, shiny-side in. Leave for 24-48 hours with the LEDs on. This will eliminate the yellowing effect. This is a common tactic for old console restoration. Watch a few restoration channels to see it in practice, the results are fantastic.

[@Justuravfrogmom]

OR....white nail polish! JK

[@THEROOKANDMIA]

or, not joking, just friggin paint it

[@undecidedmiddleground5633]

@@THEROOKANDMIA That changes the color, but, it doesn't restore the color. Painted plastic looks trashy compared to restoring the factory look.

[@THEROOKANDMIA]

@@undecidedmiddleground5633 if its just for home use then paint it but for non homw use do this

[@shirleyskrapbooking]

@@undecidedmiddleground5633no, he’s got a point. if youre just using it for home use, go ahead, but if its for professional/business use, use the technique in the original comment

[@kimgkomg]

16:55 fun fact: Most cheap calculators are like that. That's why I always shell out the big cents for the premium cheap calculator brands

[@OfficialKayTheFoxYT]

1. The amount of “we made a bomb!” and “that’s a bomb!” is hilarious 😂 2. YESSSSSSS OVER AN HOUR OF LEXIIIIIIII 😀

[@fractalgem]

Many spicy pillows

[@TextualDeviant]

As someone who has never built a computer before, this video taught me four rules: 1) If you smell burning, turn off that shit immediately 2) If you're having a technical problem, and you don't understand exactly what you're doing, the last thing you should do is actually do something. 3) The money put towards your power supply should prioritize quality over quantity. Better you have less than you need than more, because if you encounter the latter... follow rule 1. 4) For the same reason as rule 3, never skimp out or 'self-solution' heating on higher end builds. It might just scoot by on your grandad's Dell, but you're going to start a house fire on your average gaming pc.

[@mndlessdrwer]

Also if you smell a fishy smell or if it smells strongly metallic. That's the smell of capacitors leaking or burning, respectively. Had to power off a blade server once because all six of its redundant power supplies smelled like this and I didn't fancy experiencing an electrical fire. Had my friend reach out to their business unit to explain precisely how unsalvageable that ancient and long-out-of-warranty-and-support equipment was.

[@erikstephens6370]

And if your batteries start to look like pillows, run outside, and call the fire department immediately.

[@TextualDeviant]

@@erikstephens6370 Tidepod Challenge: Advanced Edition

[@BrainDeadSlime]

15:47 I would be willing to bet large sums of money someone closed the lid

[@dani33300]

25:12 It's short-term memory loss. (A repeated image goes completely ignored.)

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

It's what? (sorry I had to make the joke)

[@thewallsarespeakingtome]

ba-dum tcchhh

[@binekrasik]

59:38 also a repeated post

[@EvilGuacamoleGaming]

10:00 I had one like that! Yeah, writers like outdated tech because you know what doesn't need updates? Word processing. You know what does? Everything that distracts you.

[@BassGSothertype]

"I hope Taco Bell getsyour order wrong for the next 10 years" is a next level curse that almost made me choke laughing!!

[@jtosety]

As an audio/video installer these have brought up memories. The recent one was a classrooms upgrade where we had old cat cables (and some 5 way video cables we were replacing that the jackets had fallen apart inside the cable management sleeve Another was when I was terminating a bunch of cat cables we had run a few days ago and after being unable to properly terminate one despite multiple tries, we popped open the ceiling to find the conduit our cables were run through sliced and all those individual conductors on several cat cables spliced together. Nearest we can figure the network guys sawzalled the pipe to get their own cables in (strange and messed up conduit runs made this reasonable) and tried to splice their mitake back together with an admirable success rate (just not 100% which meant they were found out)

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

Hey Lexi! You questioned why writers like old tech. I recently dug my old Mac Plus out of storage and it booted up like it shut down only the day before. It's because old Mac was way more intuitive than the current stuff. Macros, for instance. I used to write plays, which require specific formatting as well as repeating character names. Insert a ruler, set the appropriate margins. Drop in your cursor. You call Macros up and a little graphic popped up that looked like a tape cassette. You hit record, hit your tab button, type in your character name, and return. You hit stop. It would then prompt you to assign a key. Since I am not an accountant everything got assigned to the number pad; 1 = Joe, 2 = Sue, etc.. You could get dialogue going just about as fast on paper as it was moving in your head -- and I am a shitty typist! I have tried new stuff and was fully prepared to sacrifice our firstborn male child but my wife stepped in. Ironically, he's now the one most likely to walk me through the modern mess so I guess her first instinct was good. Anyway, THAT'S why!

[@mndlessdrwer]

Also, if you commonly use a language with diacritical marks, Apple really is the only option that makes sense. You don't have to memorize a bunch of different shortcuts, you can just hold the character down and it'll pop up a menu with all the options. It just makes so much sense and Windows STILL hasn't found a way to copy it legally.

[@rusky569]

im sorry sacrificing you firstborn? Why would you neeed to do that?

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

@@rusky569 Because we didn't have a chicken. Catch up there, buddy.

[@JennyEverywhere]

When i worked in hardware maintenance, we got a service call from the local Naval Air Station. They'd had a problem in one of their computer rooms. You see, they tended to leave the backplane plates off for "added airflow", but didn't realize things other than air could go through those holes. In hindsight, enough mice crawling into a PC to stay warm like to bring their own -tinder- *bedding* in with them. Then they seem to prefer peeing inside the power supply case. Maybe it's the smell of ozone? Well, when you're a tiny creature with disproportionately large bladders and a tendency to have HIGHLY electrolyte dense urine, sparks can happen. Did I mention the critters brought in their own bedding? Soft, dry, downy bedding? The kind of stuff that charcloth wishes it could be? Well, out of 121 PCs, we managed to save 14. And even those cabinets were smoke discolored. We smelled like burned brominated polystyrene literally for weeks, just from trying to service these newly-hatched PC Briquettes. The drives, keyboards, mice (the computer kind) were a complete loss. The opened hard drive reminded me of the guy who demanded the disks to install Novell on his server himself rather than paying us to do it. (I was a CNE at the time.) He called us to say his copy of Netware was defective, because it wouldn't load. I went over and looked at it. When I opened the machine, i turned to the client and said, "can you please describe exactly the process you used to install the software?" "I did exactly what it said in the installation instructions." He said. "Please humor me. Tell me the steps you took." "Well, OK... I took the disks out of the protective envelope..." "Yeah about that. What do you consider the protective envelope?" "This things are way too hard to get open! I had to use an X-Acto knife..." "Asher, they meant the red paper envelope. You know, the thin cardboard envelope, not the BLACK PLASTIC WRAPPER for each diskette." ... ... "Well, how was i supposed to know that? They should have been more specific!" Yes, he carefully slit each floppy disk wrapper with a razor blade and removed the magnetic media from inside. Then he sandwiched all of them in a single stack and jammed the whole stack into the floppy drive and forced the gate closed. We charged him for a new copy. He started to complain, until I mentioned "willful damage". I had to replace the floppy drive, too. We couldn't get all those floppy innards out without bending back what he bent up shoving the media into it. Asher was a gem. A gem from a Pharoah's tomb, cursed to destroy who disturbs the Pharaoh's slumber. He chain smoked, and when he got pissed off at his computer, would petulantly blow a strong stream of cigarette smoke into the disk drive.

[@leolen8029]

My god you have seen some stuff.

[@ALEXTHECAMELEON]

A whole hour and 14 minutes of Lexi telling us things that we don’t understand

[@Mag3.1415]

And I still don’t understand it at all

[@Andis-I]

@@Mag3.1415but it’s entertaining

[@Linuxdirk]

It's even funnier when you understand!

[@katanah3195]

​@Linuxdirk Yep. It's especially funny when you understand about half of it... and hardware gore is just kinda inordinately funny to me, whether I understand what's wrong or not. It can be objectively not funny and I'll still end up laughing and not knowing why it's so funny. It's like a computer version of physical comedy I guess.

[@lamMeTV]

educate yourself then! Learning is fun

[@TheShuuman]

As a writer I can say that oold computer towers just attract us like moths to a lamp. We can't help it. Like I have an old emachine tower in my room that I have an unhealthy obession of being determined to find the cords to use. I am beyond help do not weep for me.

[@jamesgillum9604]

"This is a tiny tesla coil of disappointment" that absolutely sent me

[@Lobo2265]

10:06 the part about writers using older computers is extremely true, i got a macintosh classic from 1990 and a writer who owned it originally used it until like 2007, it was completely full of word files (fun read tho). It then blew a capacitor a couple days later :(

[@KhanaCreate]

My mother bought a new cpu and tried to socket it herself but it wasn't fitting...So she flattened the socket's pins to help make it fit...THEN she called me to ask why her PC wasn't working. This video brought back memories.

[@vibechecked7522]

Oh my god. I have my own horror story with tech. I had an old, busted iPhone 5s. It had gone through multiple owners, and I had to constantly keep it plugged up for it to work. I kept it in a LifeProof case, and used a battery pack at all times. I took off the case one night and was listening to a KZbin video, and then I heard a crack, a pop, then smelled awful smoke. My battery literally ballooned then straight up cracked the screen straight off the phone, the popped the glass straight off the metal. Something happened and the battery started smoking, so I unplugged it, then went outside and doused it with a water hose, then took it to my parents, crying. I was 12, so you can't really blame me, but I've gotten better at taking care of my phones, and have had the same phone for over five years (a feat today surprisingly), even with a busted screen. It was 250$. Best 250 of my life.

[@heartofthewild680]

@@vibechecked7522 I mean, I highly doubt it was even your fault to begin with. It sounds like it was having problems when you got it, the battery might’ve already been going bad when you received it, and there’s really not much you can do about that, especially at 12 years old

[@vibechecked7522]

@heartofthewild680 Oh yeah. The battery was fine when my brother got it, but he killed it by being on it while it was charging all the time to the point where it couldn't survive if it wasn't being charged. And by the way, my brother got me a new phone for my birthday! I hadn't had the money to buy one, and the charging system was messing up, the port, not the battery, I learned my lesson. I was considering getting it repaired at my malls tech stand for 20 bucks and calling it a day, but he surprised me with a new phone :) It's not super fancy, and it's not the latest model, but I love it. The screen isn't cracked, and the charger stays put, but it's one of my favorite gifts ever. Idk I just really wanted to share the good news. (And it's 5G compatable, which is great bc my other phone wasn't and they were gonna charge me a fee for me having to stay off 5G.) But yeah, I agree it definetly wasn't my fault, and if it was, who expects a 12 year old to make responsible choices, especially with very fragile items (staring apple down with their glass screens)

[@richardsanchez5444]

14:46 i actually take pride in the fact i put on screen protectors perfectly. OCD or whatever, i dont know but it has to be perfect and no dust either

[@BoaHancock_]

We can all agree that lexi is the best narrator

[@jacobrobertson234]

Yes 1

[@aedrixyoung837]

Damien

[@hackedsword]

Robin

[@pbmishere]

Nope

[@Ad0_657]

Ronin and damien

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

2:10 Oh this brought back a horrible memory. At my mom’s job, for a while they put one of the older copiers in the back room of the library, because they had just spent a bit of a fortune on a new copier that was doing trial runs in the main office, so the old one now served as a backup. One day, she came into work, and when she checked the backroom where the machine was, the toner cartridges had EXPLODED all over the floor, and it was the COLOR carts so the whole floor looked like a unicorn had barfed on it. It took a couple grand’s worth to clean the floor, repair damaged parts on the printer because the toner door was damaged when the carts blew, and replace all of the toner carts as well. Now, most would say it would have been cheaper to replace the copier. NOPE. That copier was incredibly expensive because it was an older model from the 90’s that had by that time gotten multiple retrofits, and getting a replacement after just BUYING a brand new unit that could do all the same things it could would have been even MORE expensive. All in all, it was a very ugly day for everyone, especially for my mom, who couldn’t use that back room which has a lot of important school supplies, because it took several days to clean all the toner out of the carpet.

[@someone69420klh]

When I hear Lexi's voice and energy it always makes my day Edit: thank you so much @Emkay for hearting the comment Edit 2: im stupid and didn't know that editing the comment removes the heart

[@Dork_000]

Fr that's why she's one of my favorites

[@AnaraetheDerg]

​@@Dork_000Yea!!

[@gloxed]

​@@Dork_000she? That's a he

[@your_local_neighborhoodcabinet]

​@@gloxedhe? That's a she

[@someone69420klh]

@RealNoxin its a she its her voice and she's trans lesbian

[@Guilmon35249vr]

I had a laptop with a SMART CARD reader. Dropped it on its right side. Jammed the smart card right in there. *IT CRACKED THE MOTHERBOARD IN HALF.*

[@skypuppeteer]

18:25 Nothing is weirder than hearing the exact type of laptop I'm currently using to watch this video on be mentioned in a tech support gore video lmao

[@lilhedgehog8576]

7:43 when you sleep in the nether in Minecraft:

[@platannapipidae9621]

this is my absolutely favourite subreddit/speaker combination, because it makes me feel a bit smarter and also Lexy talking in her field of expertise is adorable and radiating with happiness. tw: transphobes down below proceed with caution

[@edy21865]

Her? Obviously sounds like a guy. However I would understand you thinking the narrator was a female as Lexi is an unisex name.

[@Vampire_Bat-]

Lexi is a girl?????

[@MysticDeadman221]

​@@edy21865Fuck it. I'll bite. Lexi is she/her.

[@Amity-park]

@@edy21865 this lexi uses she/her pronouns! She said she would try voice training but doesn’t want to stress her voice or something iirc?

[@Amity-park]

@@Vampire_Bat-yes! Lexi uses she/her pronouns. :3

[@LincolnChamberlin]

That you for describing tech explanations and background info. It made this so much more enjoyable.

[@ravenwolfe5821]

To the dude peeling off the glass: I had one cheaper end phone once that broke, but it was double paned somehow so when a few glass pieces came off. It was still functional in those spots... I've never found anything like that again.

[@BatmanPostsMemes]

Built in screen protector maybe?

[@ABaumstumpf]

For temp-files: Microsoft sometimes really is buggy with just how much is stored in temp. At some point Microsoft decided that by default any and all updates - be it service-update, security-updates, drivers etc - should be permanently stored in case somebody else on the same network needed those updates. Then the updates would be streamed from your machine to the other machine instead of going through the MS servers. This is also one thing that for some time was buggy in that it stored many files twice - once in the update-directory and once in temp.

[@demonking1147]

The spicy pillow issues can be solved with a pair of tongs, a barrel, and a .22! Very fun.

[@GunsAndAmmo3]

Please do not shoot your spicy pillows.

[@THEROOKANDMIA]

so .22s are lethal for MORE than 1 mile now?

[@Immortal..]

14:20 It's almost like meme archeology. They grow and then die so fast that those who saw them likely forgot them and those who came after hardly ever heard about them. Who still knows Good Guy Greg? Philosoraptor? Or going further back the Technoviking? Cheezburger?

[@lonniemcclure4538]

12:32 - Opened up a customer's computer once and LIVE roaches came flooding out.

[@carolinemyers9793]

I'm sorry W H A T.

[@danilutka]

I just love when Lexi is so done that they resort to just making noises. I also love the tech talk.

[@imonly1man_]

today there is Lexi and only Lexi...she is the only narrator...no others... until a video comes along with Robin or Jack. not complaining tho, I like all 3 of them

[@Aperson11028]

Same

[@imonly1man_]

@@tonytinza yeah, she. Lexi's a trans woman

[@Aperson11028]

@@tonytinza yea Lexi is a girl

[@Meloncholiac]

@@imonly1man_ Sounds like a dude, looks like a dude, tis a dude.

[@crushin-balls]

@@Aperson11028I honestly didn’t know that until now

[@MikeKrasnenkov]

3:35 winsxs is not an update folder, it’s dll and component storage. Check out side by side assembly for more info.

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

Alternate title: 1 hour and 14 minutes of Lexi suffering

[@eshleyyy]

This is the reddit content I respect. Meaningful commentary and insight, lots of personality. Thank you for your videos, team!

[@tuna5748]

51:32 he replaced the previous fan with the stock amd fan, the actual heatsink is not stock. also, the Previous Thermal paste problem is not cause of quantity, but incorrect mounting pressure (paste is thick on the IHS and on the heatsink but not spread/Squished).

[@dudupintarolas5214]

Lexi is a she by the way

[@kaiplaysyt4091]

​@@dudupintarolas5214 I think he wasn't talking about Lexi

[@Packitagain.]

I used to help my buddy clean a small towns city hall/fire station. Walked into the bathroom to relieve myself and was met with an entire server rack between the toilet and sink. I never thought Id see anything like that again.

[@lilypyrope4620]

over an hour of Lexplanations and Lexiactions a wonderful use of my time, yes

[@Ash-mx7cj]

This is the best comment I've ever seen. I am forever using these words when it comes to Lexi.

[@kagayakuamanda3]

fhkiyouajoooj

[@martinschlegel1823]

Big Bertha probably exists for the following reason: to block disk space. Haven't seen this technique all that much lately but some time ago, when drive space on network drives was much more at a premium, it was a common problem in some companies, that you have a network drive where you should save certain files but you can't because it's full of your coworkers files. One slightly evil "solution" is to create a gigantic text file or something. That way you block disc space for you, and than every time you need to save something on the drive, you reduce your blocking file in size. IT would obviously looove you, so would your coworkers if they found out, but it was effective...

[@amandaduckett3093]

At a cabinetshop I used to work at, all the breakers and important electrical stuff was directly behind the panel saw almost completely exposed. We had to blow the dust off it almost daily. For some reason there ere two single breakers with big levers for the panel saw, and right next to it, the breaker for all of the office upstairs. One day someone turned off the office breaker thinking it was for the panel saw and caused absolute chaos upstairs. After that they were both labeled LMAO

[@AgentSapphire]

Writers like old computers for one or all of the following reasons: There are no distractions like the internet or video games on old computers. It's like a typewriter except you have backspace. They associate the old looking computer with getting into a writing headspace and it makes creativity easier. They have a ton of saved work on the computer and feel that getting all that work moved to a modern machine would be too much hassle.

[@luvz2reed]

Lexikitty is the only narrator allowed to cover tech or computer topics ever, thank you.

[@TheRedEnder4884]

Agreed.

[@Darkminer86]

17:48 Believe it or not, but people have been able to fix a dead GPU by sticking the GPU Logic Board (Without the cooler, thermal paste, pads, backplate, etc...) in the oven for a short-ish period of time at a specific temperature. Enough to ensure that any Residue or water on the GPU is evaporated & dealt with, but without causing harm to the GPU itself. This actually happened to be what fixed my own GPU (EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra) after a very small amount of coolant from my PC (Yes, I run a custom loop), leaked from a quick disconnect fitting whilst trying to disconnect it from the GPU Water Block (So that I could replace a dead pump).

[@LockedKeye]

35:00 reminds me of the time a coworker asked me "Hey do you know why my laptops keyboard is bulging up?" Wondered what the hell they were talking about, stared at it for a couple seconds, and then as calmly as I could told them to shut their laptop off while I grabbed some tools from my desk.

[@BatmanPostsMemes]

What tools? A cross?

[@hawker131]

7:30 that is a fake iphone 6s and the real one does infact just say S on the back

[@Just_a_commenter]

A compilation to bestow upon us over an hour of Lexi content... Divine! If only she uploaded on her own channel more often. I know you read these comments, Lexi! Please, upload more on your channel so we can support you there, too c:

[@elementall3623]

"I did better with a heavier mouse" My imagination: "Now we need an anime-heavy mouse that weighs 100kg per weight."

[@Quasita]

Your comment about writers keeping to older computers but not necessarily the same attitude is present for things like keyboards makes complete sense to me... It's kind of like when computers became more mainstream for household use, you would see a lot of writers opting to write specifically using a mechanical typewriter. As a writer myself, it makes me think of two separate things... The first of these things is that it reminds me of a similar habit that I had for very long time, which was that I would only write with a college ruled spiral notebook and a blue papermate pen, the pen being specifically the kind that was a stick with a white body and a blue end, not the ones that were fully blue.. AKA the fine tip. For probably a decade, these were the only tools I would use for the first draft of any poetry or song lyrics that I would put together, and I have collections of these notebooks and I probably have an ungodly number of those pens tucked away in all of my storage lol But specifically to the computer itself, my guess is that those older computers, where it's either that dark brown screen with orange writing or the black screen with green, they pose a specific benefit at this point in our technological history.. that is, they didn't have the capacity to have a bunch of games, they're unlikely to be internet ready, it's essentially like the typewriter in the sense that it's such a simplified tool that it helps a person avoid distraction... Modern computers can be really fun and interesting but with all of the default conveniences that they come prepped with, grammar checkers and stuff, I've found it annoying to try and eliminate all of those things and set it up just right so that I'm not at risk of either having unwanted influence on the quality of my writing or the easy access to distractions. I imagine using an older computer like that would allow for a person to still have the benefit of using a keyboard and the speed at which you can put down your thoughts using that but would make it so that there wouldn't be a ton of temptation towards distraction.. it would mean they'd have to go to a different device to do any kind of research, that they wouldn't get random messages or anything of that type, therefore eliminating a very distracting set of side quests that often derail writers from their task at hand.

[@keneshindev]

8:07 jokes on you i think that would actually work if you put it in dvi-d port and if you somehow get the pins back up you could still use it for the original dvi-i

[@mtnbkr5478]

"That's a GPU! I have one of those" -Lexi

[@Kitkat5335]

I have seen some gore in my day....and needless to say, nothing is quite like seeing it first hand then having someone turn to you and say 'Can you fix it?'

[@gaojen3365]

I know this was a cringe-fest for you to narrate, but I very much appreciate that this video was presented by someone who understands and appreciates the true carnage which is being presented. Usually these posts are an inside joke, by IT Support people for IT Support people. So it falls on dead ears to all non-IT Folk. But to have someone we can commiserate with, is pure genius! There are other KZbinrs which present this data with some knowledge (i.e. Uncle Reddit), but my Hat is off to you Lexi & EmKay! Thank you!

[@vap1777]

Yeah a lot of these tech subreddits are absolutely laced with IT inside jokes, and it makes me cringe insanely hard when tech laymen narrate these videos as an IT student.

[@ridleydiddley5872]

If you're curious, engorged temp folders can be caused by CAB files left over from updates or installs. Windows tends not to clean them properly, and the same update failing to install can generate them multiple times. I've seen them eat up almost 300GB on their own. It's downright insane.

[@thessie]

Lexi losing it at the EmKay team for assigning her this subreddit gives me life 😂

[@matthewelliott7294]

All I can say is that the certain member of the EmKay team who assigned her this subreddit probably now fears pink lights and the Doom music.

[@renegadethesandwing02050]

41:09 it looks like an older laptop where they only had to remove the bottom and the fan so MUCH better than many modern ones...

[@cyrus05w]

I'm hoping that Lexi has more videos on their own channel here soon. Also joy another video for trying Lexi's voice

[@cyrus05w]

I actually have a tech question after making it through part of the video here, say if someone has one of those original plasma TVs still running and working. If when any menu screen pops up so far say for the TV itself or for the video device I have plugged in, You can hear a slight popcorn noise inside the TV like pop pop. I am thinking about getting a new TV although I really really enjoy the plasma visuals because I have eye problems just like Lexi, although I don't think I've ever heard Lexi complain about the brand new LED type screens (whatever these new TVs are). Would anybody happen to know why the plasma TV's making a popcorn noise very very quietly? If it's something on the inside one can clean I'm totally willing to take the plasma TV apart and deep clean. I'm worried though that it's a component failing.

[@GunmetalEar]

​@@cyrus05wit's not necessarily a failure, plasma tvs get really hot when they have been ran. This causes the metal chassis of the computer to go through heat expansion, popping the parts in and out of each other. It's like a computer jet engine fanning for the tv.

[@cyrus05w]

@@GunmetalEar thank you tons!

[@CaptainNate12]

At 8:15 when Lexi is talking about the usb inside the rj45 port. For those who are wondering what laptop that is. I can tell you they is a Lenovo t420 variant just by the design of the speaker grills and the 4 ports I can see. I ran that laptop for many years and it never skipped a beat and ran perfectly. Now it’s a sever for friends and still works perfectly to this day with a new cpu as it is upgradable as it has a non soldered cpu.

[@HDxEXoThERMiA]

31:25 We used to use those things at home to get internet upstairs. Eventually I upgraded to a very long cord which runs across the living room floor, over the doorframe, under the door, up the stairs tied to the supports for the hand rail, over and under two more doors, and eventually along the edge of my bedframe before joining a bunch of cables between my bedside table and desk. It's not elegant, but it does the job perfectly well. Certainly better than the through the mains thing ever did.

[@Zanthum]

39:18 I had to do this to an industrial barcode scanner with 9 connections that was accidentally cut while replacing an air line inside a machine. Had to be repaired in place because replacements were not available because of age and it couldn't be removed as that would require recalibration of the entire machine. The repair worked, but immediately after one of the cameras died which condemned the entire machine.

[@Pikeya]

Having a really rough night. Lexi's voice helped me get some much needed sleep

[@madammonarch1]

someone needs to show Lexi r/spicypillows. Not sure if she'd love it or hate it, but her reaction would be great either way.

[@samsimington5563]

I've been to a bowling alley that had these small flat-screens TV's and the screen of all of them was only lit by about five or six large LED's and the display was so much dimmer than the LED's creating it that it was legitimately causing light bleed

[@Lucario5197]

1:11:00 Yeah, I had a friend who worked at a bank, and she told me her computer systems at their branch were still running DOS. They were trying to upgrade to a new(er) system in the past few years, but it's been... Mixed to say the least. She got handed a big binder when she started working there of DOS commands she, "Wouldn't need to memorize because of the new system, but should know them anyway." It was two years later and they still struggle with those systems.

[@brycethoreson9216]

12:11 Yeah, the guy got his revenge but they most definitely sued him

[@CassielOSky]

30:53 I need like at least an hour of Lexi talking LIKE THAT. I LOVE IT. IT'S ADORABLE.

[@seraphiszurvan]

Fun fact, at 7:23, the "iPhone S" back is the back of an iPhone 6S! I had one of these. While the internals is definitely not an iPhone, that back definitely was something Apple did make!

[@honesttoolreviews6444]

To answer your question about why writers love really old computers from a actual person who has tried sitting down and writing and ultimately just uses it to write the content for my own videos, these older computers tend to include a version of word that is free that when you export the documents to USB drives and email and everything else, it's still word. It's still Microsoft word, whereas everything you'll buy from anywhere across the internet. Walmart Target when you bring home a new laptop or desktop, it immediately tells you you have to buy word and spreadsheet and all of those things. These old ones have them for free and they work just fine. Granted attempting to run Minecraft on this could potentially cause a fire let alone a steam game. They work really fine for low end typing well

[@Thischannelbedead227]

Only three likes why, that’s absurd. This deserves more likes this instant.

[@TheWebdomeZ]

welp you got your wish...

[@LeElister64]

The "wireless" speakers at 17:25 made my day.

[@J-404]

Robin is definitely my favorite narrator but something about listening to Lexi explain technology for 1 hour and 14 minutes is absolutely amazing.

[@JustAnotherAlchemist]

The SanDisk thing isn't really SanDisk's fault IMHO, rather, the laptop manufactures fault for putting the USB ports all so close together.

[@KitsuneAlex]

PoE doesn't even use unused twisted pairs, it adds the power onto the pairs as a DC offset in addition to the data, and a consumer can decouple the data from the offset to get both respectively. That's why most RJ45 crimp ports have an integrated miniature transformer, for galvanically isolating the PoE DC offset from the actual data lines in case someone plugs PoE directly into a non-PoE device. Love the video

[@davidmiller9485]

hold up, you can wash your mother board and it will be fine. You just have to make sure it's fully dry before turning it on. It's how many of us refurbish old 8 bit computers.

[@wumbology6072]

Time to sleep with lexis tech speak, it’s calming ❤

[@heysolanisx]

15:39 Ready Player One poster to the left. One of my favorites.

[@BatmanPostsMemes]

Very different from the book but still a good one

[@EShirako]

Welp, you have topped my "I had a proper mouse nest in a computer a user wanted me to recover for them' computer, that's for sure. In MY case, the mice were more terrified of the result than I was...though the nest had been occupied for a LOOOOONG time and it was pretty gross in there. Not nearly as gross as the dusty-case at 12:24 was, though, THAT is foul.

[@zcarp8642]

That computer had massacred an entire cricket bloodline

[@tigertoxins584]

12:33 is crickets, which is marginally better than finding cockroaches or a mud dauber nest inside a tower.

[@wizwitch5318]

Fun thing with people putting USB plugs in not-USB ports: on the left side of my laptop is a USB port with an Ethernet port above it and an HDMI port below it. I usually use the left USB port because then whatever's plugged in stays out of my way more easily My dad (aka my IT guy) has been to make me put tape over the Ethernet and HDMi ports because I once spent half an hour not understanding why my USB wasn't working (hint: I wasn't looking when I plugged it in)

[@PhantomMattcraft]

Man $110 USD for a 1TB SSD is expensive AF. Smth like the 2tb Team MP33 (Phison E13T/SMI SM2263XT controller, HMB for metadata cache, Kioxia TLC NAND, x4 PCIe 3 interface) is $90 USD at more common retailers at the time of this comment. Was around $90 - $110 a year ago and was also $60 USD some months ago at common retailers. Can also usually get that kind of SSD for $60 USD rather regularly now-a-days if you know your more uncommon retailers. Brands also dont matter a whole lot as you just need to know the specs, if the firmware sucks, and build quality (which brand doesnt confirm any of those. An example would be Samsung and their 980 NVMe, lot of firmware and RMA issues. Or for HDDs, Seagate and a moderate chunk of their models like their 3TB HDD which fail quickly [based off Backblaze data reports]).

[@xXIkaron]

50:20 I believe is mounting pressure because the thermal paste is quite thick both on the CPU and the cooler... It looks to me like the pipes of the loop sit right on top of that fat capacitor on the right, so when tightening it down, all they did was squeeze the cap... 51:20 Is an AMD stock fan (Wraith Stealth?) mounted to some aftermarket heatsink

[@gavinherr9420]

As a future electronics technician. I’m so scared the the PLCs I’ll be working on will have this bad of cable management as some of these servers

[@cynari4ever]

i absolutely love Lexi and Robin’s voice

[@spidermanmyers]

Writers, some of us like old computers because 1) we don't actually need too impressive of machines, especially since word processing is a very old solved problem, and 2) having it be vastly different from other devices allows us to get in the head-space easier.

[@TvDudeYT]

the strangest thing about this vid is that you can put it on loop and it will be never ending

[@TheKaukas]

36:54 I did the same thing, but I used my normal sized old pc case to fit better power supply, CPU cooler and 2 HDD + 1 SSD. Only physical modification was for power button connector in old pc case. Only one down side is I have to press F1 every time I start PC.

[@apriltaurean3668]

I feel like the server rack in the bathroom started as a closet, but then females were hired and required a bathroom so the toilet was added to accommodate. I've seen stuff like this NUMEROUS times in the oilfield.

[@flyingstonemon3564]

This explains a lot of things, I kept seeing supply or electrics/electronics in the female bathrooms everywhere

[@RAYM4N]

Are we not going to talk about how the portable outlet looks like a little Cesars cheese stick

[@monsterman6718]

Alright. Another emkay video. A perfect way to watch on my lunch break at work

[@EloquentTroll]

I'm an Air Force veteran who worked on a Navy project as civilian contractor and that FA-18 joke landed for me without incident.

[@allenic]

i really love the videos, especially these long ones. swear this is not a diss, but i also love falling asleep while listening. it's so relaxing and comforting for no reason.

[@lilhedgehog8576]

13:15 aww, it’s not that bad now you have an excuse to get some fancy keycaps.

[@reflectivedark4309]

Emkay has blessed me with an hour of Lexi. Thank you.

[@Peikkomies]

Writers tend to like old computers because they don't need (and in fact avoid having) internet connection on their writing machine. This is for their own protection and to keep their functional architecture stable.