Are You All Geniuses or Idiots? - Reacting to Your Best Tech MacGyvering

[@siddv]

Hello I’m the VelcSafe guy! It was indeed a washer and epoxy. Wild seeing some jank I posted over a decade ago on LTT in 2024

[@acatinatux9601]

that’s awesome bro lol good idea

[@rebelojt]

You either patent it or opensource it. Great 💡

[@DounutCereal]

I have to ask, how long was that setup in use for? I want to believe you used it for years haha

[@chadfli]

WHy domnt you change velcro for magnets, MAXSAFE

[@CypherpunkSamurai]

@@rebelojt patent it before apple

[@RocketSlug]

Back in the mid 00's, I was in a boarding school for high school that shut off the internet at midnight. A couple of my friends, during an e-waste recycling drive, scrounged up a laptop with a broken screen, installed Linux on it, and managed to sneak it into the network center on campus. From then on we used it as a proxy to bypass the internet shutoff. I visited the school again for an alumni celebration a decade after I graduated, and the computer science teacher was still there. At this point they'd torn down the old science building that had the networking room and built new facilities, but when I asked him if they found a laptop hidden in there when they decommissioned everything, he gave me a wry smile.

[@shiro3146]

"He knew"

[@mieruKai]

I mean, if you were that clever about it, you deserved it at that point 🤣 he probably knew the entire time

[@c4pt1n54no]

That reminded me of my drafting class. A few months into my first year an upper class guy showed me and my friends where they'd hidden a pirated version of Halo on the instructors shared network drive. it was click to run, no install so we'd just close out if someone walked over. My friend's little brother graduated from the same school 8 years later and Halo was still there.

[@mmmbilly]

6:58 in my youth, probably 2005-6, we hosted a LAN party in a disused office unit in Glasgow. No internet, but the local hi-rise council flats had a public Wi-Fi broadcast from the roof. We rigged a huge antenna to the dumpster outside and hey presto, BINternet.

[@PacoCotero1221]

underrated

[@Radovanslav]

this is probably the funniest thing i've read today. thanks for sharing.

[@jojobobbubble5688]

Thats,.... impressive.

[@shiro3146]

why i felt the Old days of Gaming is soo much more fun with peopels going into friends houses and doing Lan party?

[@revengenerd1]

Closest I did around the same time was make a cantenna and picked up the free wifi from the coffee shop next door, but I did have permission.

[@techwolflupindo]

6:15 As a truck driver, I have been "hacking" wifi for over 10 years. I now use a push up pole on the back of my truck with an antenna rotator that has a MikroTik mANT30 dish antenna with a NetMetal box. I can connect to WalMart free wifi a mile away.

[@LatvianVideo]

Impressive, I wonder how far i could see my home network from. A bit ago i discovered that in a specific direction i can connect to it 120m away on my phone!

[@importprogram]

17:18 "audiophile grade carrots" ... That must be some great foodelity! 🥕

[@LightBusterX]

If there are banana plugs, why not carrot plugs?

[@Hazdazos]

I lost it when I heard that! 😅

[@AlexDaDermahurr]

underrated comment right here

[@jacobgames3412]

@@Hazdazos same

[@abyssalczech6719]

i personaly think using small cube of spam could work batter

[@XXMIKEYB]

that IR remote extension... when i was 15 i made one with a 8 meter cable and a 4-in-1 remote so i could control the set top box in the living room that was piped up to the bedroom via a coax splitter! My parents were simultaneously angry and impressed! That was 30 years ago....I am now a control engineer. Start small do what you love!

[@conorstewart2214]

They use a similar thing in bars or other places where they have lots of TVs. One that I worked at basically had a server rack of set top boxes with other devices in the rack that had a fibre optic cables come out of them and attach to the set top boxes where the IR sensor was. This let them control the set top boxes from an iPad.

[@kbhasi]

You were ahead of me, but to be fair, the IR codes transmitted by remotes for the pay TV service I previously used, StarHub TV, didn't get picked up by most IR repeaters, and the first ones that did work with their remotes was a cheap "AGPTEK" HDMI extender I bought back in around 2020 or so. As such, in a couple of instances (one in around 2007 and another in around 2013 to 2019), I had to run out to change channels, but your comment vaguely reminded me that I may have used some mirrors to get the IR signal across.

[@ABaumstumpf]

7:53 - "My RasbPi is thermal throttling - Argh damn it: i dont have a heatsink... just skrew it." Skrew it indeed.

[@Firelamakar2]

5:58 It isn't just "USB flash drives can get too hot in certain situations", that is a Samsung all metal unibody flash drive. I had one. USB 3.2 128 GB. They get hot enough to cause 1st degree burns in quite literally anything you put them in, USB 3 or not, no matter if it is reading or writing. In a TV playing a ripped Blu-ray movie, it caused the plastic around the USB port of a (funnily enough, Samsung) TV to warp. Those flash drives just flat out get far too hot. Their Amazon page is filled with people complaining about how outrageously hot they get. Samsung should have done something, whether that be finding a way to put thermal pads in them, or use a different chip. Those should not have made it to market, and they definitely should have been pulled years ago. They're still for sale. And 5:46, he is wrong. It would work. Since the whole thing is basically an aluminum heatsink for the chip, the ENTIRE thing gets insanely hot. That monster can probably was pulling a good bit of heat, since I did close to the same thing with a bit of Corsair TM30 thermal paste I had and a sealed can of La Croix.

[@David-gk2ml]

🤯

[@cooper1794]

Odd, I have one that I still use and it'll get warm but never that hot.

[@zeero4ever]

I have a 64GB Kingston all metal USB stick, that also gets burning hot. I put a key ring on, on which I can pull that thing out without burning my fingers.

[@CMurdoch-n3t]

If the flash drive is generating that much heat, is it really better to have a plastic case and trap all that heat instead, or melt the plastic? Sounds more like those flash drives are getting far hotter than they should, and it probably would cause long-term damage to the flash. Ain't an aluminium issue.

[@Firelamakar2]

@@CMurdoch-n3t it’s not an aluminum issue. It being all metal unibody is probably the best heatsink you can get. It’s definitely a chip issue, which is why I said Samsung shouldn’t have released it with a chip getting that hot, whether it be better thermal pass through to the aluminum body, like a thermal pad, or a different chip entirely.

[@ANTHR1CH]

The UKTV one was a whole thing about 10 years ago. They're a British TV network running about 15 channels, and they scaled so rapidly that their infrastructure couldn't handle it and they frequently went down. This was their solution for a few months until they got a proper solution in place 😂

[@themightymutt5213]

I thought that was really weird that something that seemed so crucial to keeping them on air...was depending on something so flimsy

[@glitch1039]

@@themightymutt5213 insert image of a laptop server with the lid slightly open, with a paper saying to never close the lid or the server will go down

[@jackielinde7568]

16:40 - As someone who did IT Service Desk for 19 years and had to deal with all the flipping "I need this fixed, but I left it at home/work/the car/etc. and I can't access it right now", making an impression sketch of the end of the connector you need to get is brilliant. I don't know of ANY tech that can't work with "I don't know what I need is called, but here's a sketch of what it plugs into". If they can't work with that sketch, they need to be fired.

[@littlewicky1]

"Don't worry it's temporary.... Unless it works" Red Green

[@maighstir3003]

"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works." - I've no idea where I got that quote from.

[@MrAcuta73]

Gods I miss Red Green!

[@pippen1001]

we have an elevator at work, temporarily permanent closed it says on the door, its been like that since i started there in 2012

[@ghollidge]

As someone who works in construction, this is lore

[@DB-fj9gg]

@@MrAcuta73 they have a red green KZbin channel here that has all the seasons and episodes!

[@restinpeace-s8c]

14:30 if you are wearing those ear protectors you're not going to hear anything any ways they are made for use in places were the sound will damage your ears i used to use those in the marines around jets spinning up their engines

[@conorstewart2214]

However by modifying them like that they likely compromised their sound isolating ability.

[@goelandz878]

09:00 I wanted to play Wii (Super Smash) again, so I bought a Wii. It didn’t come with a sensor bar, but whatever. I tried the candle trick, and it worked well. About a week later, I went to a friend’s house for a party and brought my Wii along with my candle. People liked it, and we started playing Smash until we realized we had set a plant that was too close on fire. It was funny, but I had to buy a new plant for the lady.

[@user-hs7hz1io1e]

😂😂😂😂

[@AceBoy2099]

Not that I need it, but what's this "wii candle trick"? I've never heard of it.

[@conorstewart2214]

@@AceBoy2099 all the “sensor bar” for a Wii is, is two IR LEDs, so you can replace them with any IR sources, like two candles separated by about the same distance. The actual sensor is in the Wii remote and it uses the two IR lights to tell its orientation.

[@drwoHeylK]

@@conorstewart2214 *4 or 6 IR LEDs, the candles work but the "sensor" has extra precision because the extra IR LEDs. (Pretty sure it was 6, one of my sensor bars are generic and sometimes you can point out the red lights on it.)

[@goelandz878]

@@AceBoy2099 You can use candle instead of sensor bar, since the controller use infrared. The bar simply provide infrared.

[@WildcardZwei]

17:27 "I'm sure they're juicy on the inside like all of us." Never change, Dan.

[@consumer_cam]

15:05 The haunted look in Dan's eyes when he says "I have done horrible things"

[@Engy_Wuck]

I can feel with him... my worst (for now): in the days before BurnProof I burned a CD at 2x speed over the 4MBit wireless connection our dorm was connected with our university, FTP and a FIFO virtual device. With the CD drive on my knees, because it didn't fit in the case and the cable wasn't long enough for anything else. Amazingly it worked... but I needed do... not.... move or half an hour

[@nong333]

Like the old saying goes: Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

[@ehsnils]

a temporary solution that works that is. If it doesn't work it has a very short life.

[@phelpsfilchat]

that segue joke with the board. Frame it on the wall for next episode and go "And this one was so pretty we had to put it in a frame, our segue. To our sponsor"

[@y.vinitsky6452]

Fair point I agree

[@transformerstuff7029]

I loved how happy Linus got and how the other guy just sighed in defeat.

[@hofweb]

I wonder how many people are learning from this joke that "segue" is not spelled "segway."

[@ArthurLeywin_01]

Me​@@hofweb

[@ancogaming]

@@hofweb Here's one of 'em, yours truly. I had no idea until now. If you google 'segway' to check if it's actually spelled like that, you won't find any help. I've tried.

[@NathanCrouse611]

13:00 I work at a computer repair shop and have done that 3-4 times. it's fairly common for people to keep their only copy of data on a flash drive because they think it's safer on there, and then break the connector off and need the data back. I can't always fix it, but when it works people are forever grateful. 15:40 The backlit keyboard on those is just a removeable piece on the back of the keyboard. They just put strips of color and then the backlight goes back on. Wouldn't affect how they keyboard types at all. Quite clever.

[@mrboxy3970]

We use painter's tape on some keyboards to soften the key clacks and give a smoother response to press. This ignores lighting unless it's through the key, but this is what they're referring to.

[@Kilanov]

Aw man, I JUST missed the window to submit for this video. For about a week before my brand new GPU arrived, I had a 6 inch desk fan sitting inside my PC case facing upward. It kept my 3080 cool enough to sit on 99% utilization all day long, right around 65c. That 3080 had one dead fan, one good fan in the middle, and one fan that PHYSICALLY BROKE and fell out of the shroud, that's how long I had it and how overworked/rarely shut off it was. RIP to EVGA, there will never be another Nvidia manufacturer that makes a GPU you can do path tracing on with a damn desk fan for a memory cooler.

[@maxcchiru]

A few years ago the fan on my single fan RX 570 (still using it) died. While I waited for a replacement fan I took off the dead fan, shroud, and side panel and had a desk fan pointing straight at it. Worked better than stock xD

[@Reirainsong]

There are PCI fan brackets on Aliexpress that can support 2-3 standard fans underneath the GPU. A pair of 14cm Noctuas does a better job of cooling the GPU than the default fans. Got to remove stock fans and plastic shroud and plug the new ones into the motherboard, because GPU fan header has different shape and voltage. Then use SpeedFan or comparable software to regulate their speed according to GPU temperature, because BIOS can't access GPU sensors. Frankly GPUs, just like motherboard/CPU, should be sold without cooling systems, but with standardized mounting points for them, so that people could use whatever radiator, fan or thermal paste they want without voiding warranty.

[@apollo7557]

My old 1060 6gb fans died, and the replacements didn’t work either. So I just took a hyper 212, zip tied the cooler and gave it 12v. Dead silent and kept it around 80f

[@naoltitude9516]

yeah man ONLY an EVGA card could do that, totally

[@MasterGeekMX]

Eh, you won't be still featured in the video. I frequent this sub and all the entries they commented were the top of all time.

[@Munden]

My best fix was for an overheating CPU at a remote location. Thermal paste had dried up and needed to be replaced. I didn't have thermal paste and I was over an hour away from anywhere that had it. The closest store that was open was a big box hardware store. I found one of those tubes of red lubrication farm grease. It said dielectric on it and that was good enough for me to give it shot. I put a dab on the CPU and checked the temps, which went from 90+C down to usable 55C, as a temporary fix. That temporary fix lasted until it was replaced 3 years later.

[@the_bearded_jay]

"Oh no, I set it to Spanish" made me die. We don't deserve Dan.

[@FAB1150]

Yeah I actually audibly laughed which is rare during a KZbin video lol

[@RawAutos]

That one got me, too. It made me think of Toy Story. So damn funny.

[@XxZannexX]

That’s easily the LTT joke of the year.

[@ScientiaFilms]

8:42

[@CragScrambler]

8:29 That remote totally reminds me of when I was a kid and our VCR remote had a wire on there, used to have to physically plug in the remote and then tune the TV channels into the VCR so you could switch TV channels through the VCR. 😂 Yes im old lol 44 I was about 6 when we had this incredible technology lol

[@thenosehero]

In defense of 10:43 wooden monitor arm, those are NOT cheap to ship if you live on an island. I have tried to order proper ones online, and have been quoted $100+ in shipping alone. Think "metal item" and "air mail" I think that one is perfectly valid and clever.

[@firstname8637]

Yeah, and it doesn't even look bad in my opinion. Sure, the finish is a bit rough. But it seems to be in a workshop environment so that's perfectly fine. If I had made this I'd actually be pretty proud of it.

[@boss566y]

yea, idk if they realize that a lot of the cost to get things to islands/smaller countries may be due to the weight of the item not the US$ cost. As a result, it may be less costly to get an expensive light item than it would be to get a cheap heavy item.

[@rayok_zed]

And sellers that ship it to their country usually don't buy enough to benefit from bulk shipping because the demand is low. I'm really annoyed with how inconsiderate people are even when they don't know anything about the situation.

[@abigaillilac1370]

@@rayok_zed It's called "privilege" and it can blind even well-meaning people.

[@Metal_Maxine]

I have a moveable monitor. It lives on a ream of paper. When I want it closer, I wiggle it forward. When I want it higher, I add paper. When my printer runs out, my monitor gets lower.

[@DennisStewart]

That TV station fan took me back to my broadcast days. No lie, if there is hvac issues you do whatever you have to to get air moving across the equipment. At least every 16 months we would have a tube of modified garbage bags tunneling air from a fan set up in the closest door with access to cooler air from outside of the hot ass room, which of course was on the opposite side the control booth.

[@robspiess]

@6:15 cantennas were used a lot back in the 802.11b/g days to get extended (but super directional) range. Great for wardriving and other legitimate purposes. Note the position of the antenna in the can. The waveguide is in a 1/4 wavelength (18cm/4) from the back of the can. There was a science to it.

[@notme222]

Pringles tubes, we used.

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

I remember seeing a video on YT where they used a Pringle can antenna to connect at what was over a mile to a network. It was out in some desert so there were very little to diffuse the signal. I also remember seeing some people putting up a link using tube style directional antennas to connect wifi to a building. It used more commercial equipment but the idea behind the antennas was the same. I can't remember what channels any of these videos were posted on though.

[@je2555]

Also the wireless adapter being used is an old TP Link one that was super popular with wireless hackers back in the day because it had an Atheros chipset which had brilliant Linux driver support (ath9k). The driver would let you put it into monitor mode which allowed you to sniff all the packets without even being associated with an AP. Combine that with an external antenna connector and a cheap price and they were the perfect hacker's WiFi adapter. Still got mine!

[@skylordquasar]

"Huh, I need something to bridge my RCA cables" *Opens fridge

[@cheeseisgreat24]

When I was in college, we had an ad hoc quake II server running periodically using the school’s wifi. Only problem was, this was absolutely killing the building AP’s bandwidth with all of us on it playing games with hundreds of other students in and around the campus center. So I found a repeater and used a collapsible steamer basket from the grocery store to create an antenna to yoink the signal from the AP in the building across the street from us to separate half of us onto a different AP. It worked pretty much flawlessly for all 4 years I was there. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Filip_Phreriks]

So much win

[@user-jg9pn9wh3g]

What a hero!

[@gordonfreeman5682]

This is awesome

[@worgle123]

Guess what? Long story, but we live in rural Australia. Our Starlink is mounted 100m from our house on a small shed. Because the WiFi would obviously never reach, and we weren't able to place CAT-6, I rigged up a system: Power goes in to Starlink modem, and up to dish Ethernet comes out of Starlink adaptor, and enters an Ethernet over Powerline adaptor (will abbreviate to EOP) - here's where things get a little interesting . . . Because the small shed is on a different circuit to our house, I had to run a series of extension cord across the 100m span of our paddock, and then connect another EOP adaptor to the end of it. This would allow us to keep both on the same circuit. Then, the EOP which was connected to the extension cable, was connected via an ethernet cable to another EOP on our house's circuit, with the final one providing wired connections to wherever we wanted to place a final EOP. Result: Despite all of the crap in the middle, latency is still pretty good - servers about 500km away get 30ms give or take, and when the distance is larger (let's say to the other side of Earth) it never really gets above 330ms. Speed is about 70-90 on the download, with 18-30 upload. If you connect directly to the Starlink, speeds are way higher - approx. 350 for download, and I think 90 for upload. Ping drops about 10ms, which is just testament to how damn fast these adaptors are these days. 🎉🥳For country internet, those numbers are crazy good. With our old provider, we couldn't ever breach 30 on download, and ping was horrendous - it would often exceed 1 WHOLE SECOND!! It's a crazy rig, but it's still working half a year later. I made my own ethernet cable, but of course it ended up 20m too short. Bugger. 😑

[@SCP-tn2ln]

11:06 as someone who's on that situation, I've seen monitor arms that are the price of two ps4 controllers for comparison, and they're not even great, they're just expensive because "reasons"

[@davidfigueroa8335]

@@SCP-tn2ln yeah kinda stupid to look at someone having a control and be like yeah THEY GOT 50$ extra for s monitor support. Even the most CHINESIUM monitor support over here Is like 2x the markup

[@pacifico4999]

Damn, even here in Brazil it's not that bad. A vesa arm is about half the price of a basic Xbox One controller

[@fenrir324]

I'm in another part of canada ( quebec ) and just because they use the excuse of 2 taxes the cheapest mic arm I could find was 50$. One of my friend in another province check that pne and it was 20$.

[@bugsygoo]

The guy is in Australia, I reckon. Amazon au monitor arm is aud50. Just cheap.

[@old_liquid]

Monitor arm costs like, $10.

[@katanah3195]

As for the impractical laptop, the idea of building a modern computer into a keyboard as one unit, like how some of the very first home computers were built, is something I find very cool. Practical? Hell no. Awesome? Absolutely. There's something about "modern capabilities, retro aesthetic" tech that I absolutely bloody love.

[@Un1234l]

Sounds like a smartphone

[@Donnerwamp]

Worked in a PC shop that did repairs and data recovery for a while, and yes, old HDDs can run open in a pinch and to get as much data off of them as possible. Especially old IDE drives were comparably rugged in those regards, but they also only held up to 160GB if I remember correctly. Had more than a few drives that needed a little push to run on the desk. Oh, and after I killed one of our own SATA drives that way, we built a poor mans cleanroom/-box from a plastic bin, some 3M halfmask filters and a broken hoover. Worked better than it should have and increased successrates by quite a margin!

[@zyeborm]

Instead of taking the cover off btw try holding the drive and giving it a sharp spin around the rotational axis of the spindle to get it going. It's like the "phase 1" of push starting if you need to. You can go up from there of course.

[@Donnerwamp]

@@zyeborm that was what we did first, if that didn't help... Off with the lid!

[@drcyb3r]

0:25 I guess the sim card holder was broken. The grounding pads on the front and all the pads on the back have solder on them. That would only happen if you remove the slot.

[@gtxviper]

My dad in about 1990 had an Opel Ascona... each panel and door was a different colour from different cars from the scrapy. He didn't have a key for it. The car was started using a doorbell button. I was 5, thought it was hilarious because he wired in the bell for a laugh.

[@3GORY]

@@gtxviper peak opel

[@MachtPlays]

lol Opels have always had a special place in my heart due to Gran Turismo.

[@LRM12o8]

Still better than stock Opel electronics! 🤢

[@Noitanis]

The mouse jiggler at 11:59 reminded me of a story an anesthesiologist told me about an info screen running in a break room in his hospital. An update to the system running the screen had had an update which re-enabled the screensaver or sleep mode. IT was unavailable since they don't work weekends, but the manager did have a key do the case the computer was in. So they took a spare blood cradle (a cradle you put blood bags on to prevent coagulation of the contents by rocking the bag back and forth), opened the case and put the mouse on the blood cradle and the mouse was moving every few seconds.

[@MissesWitch]

11:59 the fan using the mouse, I love it! It's so wholesome and cute in a way!

[@Ghostkilla199129]

We had an small offsite office who's network was terrible and required resetting the modem anytime the network went down. Rather than spend money to replace the modem. Repurposed an old desktop with a pencil on the CD/DVD drive. The script would ping scan google and if it could not reach it, it would eject the disc drive and the pencil would press the reset button on the modem. Saved us a drive and more importantly time.

[@shashi20008]

About that DB15 (vga) connector, the pencil impression is pretty smart and better than clicking a picture. It can be very difficult to judge the size in a picture. I mean it being a vga connector, picture would have worked perfectly fine. But for someone who didn’t know that it was a ubiquitous thing, getting a perfect size replica was genius.

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

Agreed, and there have been plenty of connectors that look similar or even are identical in size and shape with different pin counts, or happen to be female rather than male this time that will be hard to identify correctly in a photo. Maybe with enough photo you'd figure it out, and sometimes as with something like a 3 pin vs 5 pin xlr the pin count is small and changed dramatically enough its quite apparent. But just from a photo, especially if its a photo with nothing to give you a sense of scale it would be quite easy to mistake the cable.

[@Daunlouded]

The person most likely didn't have a camera to take the picture.

[@phuzz00]

I've done something similar to work out what a connector or screw was when I couldn't see it, or get a camera near it. You push your finger hard enough onto the connector/screw that it leaves a dent in your finger, which should last long enough for you to look at it and work out what cable/screwdriver bit you need.

[@ahoannon5711]

@@Daunlouded That! I've used VGA long before digital cameras were a thing. And I believe that by the time I had a phone with built in camera I already upgraded to DVI.

[@williamcampbell9859]

Just in case they had one of those vga micros hey? 💀

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

A few years back I wanted to use my Discman (portable CD player) but did not want to change the batteries all the time. So I twist tied the +5V and Gnd parts of a cut up USB cable to the internal battery cables and connected it to a USB wall ward. Worked like a charm!

[@cjandlottie]

Love that it's a Chromebook that's being used as a school clock 😂

[@ZedDevStuff]

That's all they're good for /j

[@nekomimicatears]

@@ZedDevStuff /srs

[@morosis82]

Could be a good general purpose display too, I imagine you could put all sorts of messages on there

[@ScrubyMcBubble]

@@cjandlottie I bet it uses more power than a clock would so we're really picking and choosing between the 3 R's haha. Reduce? Nope, Reuse.

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

@@ScrubyMcBubble It doesn't reduce energy consumption, but I always took reduce to mean reducing waste, and that's 2 chromebooks worth of ewaste that are now clocks. How bad can the power consumption really be anyway, we're looking at education so they're probably cheap ARM CPU models that are now at idle all the time. Your standard chromebook charger at full power gives 45w, still less than an incandescent lightbulb, but these are idle so it's probably more like 10w.

[@bobingabout]

12:43 I used to work at a college, I was the Electronic technician. I had to make one of these every few weeks to save student's data. and I'm like "This works, it's a bodge fix, Copy the files onto something else, then don't use it again." I don't think I ever had one return later saying "It broke again" so they either listened to me, or didn't want to come back embarrassed that they didn't do what I said. Also the USB connector itself wasn't always usable, so I used to have to chop the A connectors off things like old mice.

[@RiteshRajbhandari-lp]

1:38 I'm wheezing over Jake taking back his "that's mint!" immediately after he realizes that it was, in fact, not mint in the slightest

[@FabiVoltair]

😂😂😂

[@Pratalax]

Oh man the pencil rubbing of the cable port speaks to my heart. Beautiful. They even folded it so it wouldn't rub off before they got to the shop!

[@AMemeFrom06]

9:10 I remember whenever we were too lazy to set up the IR bar (before playing a game that didn’t require it), we’d just point the wiimote at a lightbulb to navigate the main menu

[@Kuroji07]

what even the point of the sensor bar? does it just tell the wii mote that it has the sensor bar as reference in 3d space?

[@Nb4Taco]

@@Kuroji07 Pretty much. It has some amount of IR diodes that flash on wiimote

[@brentr9161]

@@Kuroji07 It emits 2 IR lights for your wiimote to pick up. Your wiimote then communicates with the Wii itself to actually figure out where you're pointing on the screen based on those 2 lights.

[@ajpink5880]

The wiimote has a camera in the front that can only see IR light. So it looks for the two dots, and this allows it to see where the TV is, and it help it see how far to tilt the cursor. Seems really janky (and it often was) but some people swear by it, and I've heard that the cursor in Mario Galaxy on the switch isn't half as good, as it's trying to use the Joycon gyro instead to mimick it. The Wii was weirdly genius

[@squidwardo7074]

@@brentr9161 Communicates how? With radio?

[@BigBoiiLeem]

16:05 I had this alarm clock at one point. Without the TENS MacGyver it has an 85db alarm, has a mattress vibrating pad, and very bright red LEDs that flash.

[@MyCraigslistVideos]

Fun Fact 7:20 If you have a monitor without VESA, Broken VESA, or just no Feet, A Music Sheet Stand can be a clever way to Mount it. Or in my case I bought a 16" Portable Touchscreen monitor and a Tablet Mount with 1/4 Mountpoints and just attached it to my full size tripod. Its a handy Go Anywhere solution. 9:30 I have an 80's Macintosh Mouse that I have wired as a Play/Pause Keyboard input that is mounted next to my Front Door so I can Play/Pause Whatever I am Listening/Watching when I walk in/Out. 14:50 Used one of them fancy Toothbrushes that double as an MP3 Player to copy Files to take to a Printer place back in the early 2ks. the lady behind the counter was not phased at all, guess they have seen everything.

[@Housestationlive]

i love the format with 2 teams of 2 reacting to the exact same things and having toldly different points of view.

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

The car window thing was probably real. Reversing polarity just makes the motor spin in the other direction. So the official switch did not do anything differently electrically speaking.

[@bones6978]

19:05 the IED push to talk pressure plate is wild 😂

[@kevinbarnard3502]

Linus' puns are actually impressive. Okay, maybe not the puns themselves. What's impressive is how indirectly proportional how good one is to how sincerely proud he is of it.

[@Gastell0]

12:05 - "7 years go noone knew about mouse jigglers" now that's a lie, if you worked in IT and needed to constantly image/provision computers, you definitely used a jiggler at some point 10+ years ago

[@FM-nm4ng]

8:42 - "Oh No! I set it to Spanish!"

[@TomasPiliponis]

this one killed me good. I love Dan.

[@CaptainRex332]

12:24 sir that is a BOMB

[@Cobinja]

6:14 At one point I used a self-built wifi-antenna as well, consisting of some thick copper bent into a figure 8 on top of a an unused CD. Used it to connect to a wifi-based ISP. The AP was on the same side of the road so I had to point it directly to a specific spot on a house across the street where signal bounced off of.

[@kaptainkaos1202]

I worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory for much of my career. Our group did much of our work in the field doing communications research. We would go to sea, install aboard aircraft or even subsurface vehicles. One of my colleagues was the original MacGyver. He was the best of both worlds, a top of the line engineer and a world class technician. John Bashista was truly my hero! An award was created in his name. The write up was one of his famous lines “I didn’t fix it but I made it work”. Anyone who has done field research knows if anything is going to fail it will do it at the worst possible time in the field. Johnny B saved so many field experiments with his incredible knowledge and best of all he was the best guy and friend you’d ever have.

[@Dataanti]

15:30 I have seen simple office, desk, fans used to cool plenty of racks, sometimes with mission critical systems that can mean life or death in someway or another. Usually this happens when a server room, coms closet, expands beyond the original intent of what that room was supposed to have. a lot of times, these rooms are built in the 50s-60s and only had bix fields and telecom equipment that barely gave off any heat. now they have switches, routers, servers, radios, UPS's among many other rack or wall mounted systems that produce a lot of heat. In some locations, these are hostile (enviromentally, and ... enemy) areas, or extremely remote locations only accessable by air or boat. things MUST continue running so you make do with what you can find around to ensure things stay cool.

[@fnsmike]

Absolutely. Used to work in a datacenter and summer temps continued to climb to new records ever year, every August we'd break out a whole collection of desk fans, box fans, and big industrial drying fans to get more airflow through especially hot aisles and racks. There were even documented SOPs on where to put each fan and where to point it to get the best results. Eventually the whole cooling system was redesigned and upgraded, but that takes a long time and a big investment. Sometimes you need a solution right now.

[@Awrethien]

Yep Im a field tech for a business focused ISP and I have seen some serious jank. The worst are blue collar construction(asphalt, cement and plants etc) and surprisingly doctor offices. I have lost count of how many janitor closets that are doing dual rolls as the dmark and a janitor closet. The only ones I get super surprised by is when its in the bathroom. Only 4 of those so far lmao.

[@1steelcobra]

43. If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

[@Eriol244]

Was going to add this myself if somebody else didn't beat me to it. Well done.

[@jester4115]

Need to do a couple more videos like this. Looking at people's cool or janky solutions to stuff is surprisingly entertaining.

[@dalewood7537]

I don’t know why I like these videos so much. I don’t even have a PC. Just something satisfying about watching the builds the tech the stats and the explanations. I watched one of the small form builds and it was so dense with powerful tech in such a pleasing package

[@urhomarkkanen]

2:47 I did this to a computer of a friend, we found the case with everything but a GPU from the e waste at university and put a GPU in (which we also found from the same trash can). Had to cut a hole in the side panel to get the GPU in but everything worked in the end and he got a fully functional PC out of it

[@jsharpvideos1861]

This is the most beautiful video, it actually feels a bit like seeing behind the curtain of a magic trick

[@jsharpvideos1861]

The Graphite-Impression trick was taught to me in elementary school, thank goodness for public education

[@PlayMilesPlay]

That shower rod drop was a genius cost-saving measure.

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

I always respect the grind, you just gotta do what you had to do!

[@ShasLaMontyr]

@14:38 they put music inside EAR DEFENDERS, all the communication on a site where you wear those would be visual in hand signals because the environment is so loud around them that it's one dangerous and two too loud to hear people yelling stuff.

[@nocelebrity6042]

It was a work HP pre built computer, so I never took a photo of it, but the case had a raised power button mounted on the top right corner. You could accidentally turn the thing off if you accidentally put a heavy enough box on it--which a coworker did. You could also turn it off if you accidentally propped up a foot on it--which a coworker also did. I found some scrap foam core, and securely taped it to the outside of the case right beside the power button: Instant recessed power button! I also had a work keyboard whose legs didn't raise the keyboard to a comfortable enough ergonomic angle on the desk. I securely taped some more foam core to the back to prop it at the angle I preferred. Good times!

[@noahbartlett2832]

a sim card? you must have missed the meme where someone did a cpu 😂

[@plebisMaximus]

I've seen that image. Can't even imagine the time it must've taken.

[@thisflyingpotato4227]

I grew up in a "do what you can with what you have" home so I have some good memories haha. Once had the plastic thingy that hold the CPU agaisnt the motherboard melting, adhesive wasn't strong enough to support the heatsink and it's fan so I sew it back, dozens of string later and everything was working good as if nothing happened. Also fixed my keyboard with kinder packaging, another time with bread, chewing-gum, nail-cutter, my teeths, small nail and blu-tack etc I finally switched to wireless after dozens of "fixes" and exhausting every solution I could think of

[@mysss29]

string is truly one of humanity's MVPs

[@owenblankenship8314]

I needed a nas for game development but I’m kind of broke. I took an old laptop and put it in a free pc case I found in my neighbors trash. The internal ssd completely crapped itself so I plugged in another ssd to the usb port (with adapter) and I boot off of that. After I slapped Tailscale and nextcloud on it, I have a remote access NAS. Linus, please clown on this.

[@David-gk2ml]

I had to look up nas, it means Network Attached Storage.

[@robtek3592]

"This is the guy whos going to be driving a forklift into somebody " LOL 🤣

[@herodoesstuff]

for the mouse door one i absolutely am obsessed w how many signs they need telling you to press the button to open the door

[@Amstroid]

Well, you have proved their point because you kinda missed the sign that said you need both buttonS 😅 not just THE button

[@melvinklassen]

As posted elsewhere in this thread, it is at some extended-care facility for residents with dementia. Over their life, they learned, and have retained, how to use "normal" door-handles, but their failing short-term memory prevents them from learning & retaining the knowledge on how to work this door-opener. So, visitors can easily follow the instructions. Much cheaper than a surveillance camera wired back to the nursing station, forcing a worker to be present, 24/7, to watch their screen, and press a "release" button.

[@zach.0]

Took me 15 minutes to realize all four of them weren't together.

[@vinicio0035]

These 4 members panel react are GREAT keep doing it pleasase

[@altamiradorable]

I was working in IT for a big insurance company. One of the VP had a problem with his laptop and ABSOLUTELY needed the data on it. Noticed the hd crashed when it overheated. Decided to back it up...while in the company's kitched freezer ! I got many laughs an a success !

[@Efreeti]

Back in the day I used my OG model 1001 PlayStation's composite out to attach to my MiniDisc player via taping the other ends of male-to-male composite audio cables to the right poles on a male-to-male 3.5mm jack audio cable, which was then plugged into the microphone input on my MiniDisc player, all to record my CD tracks onto MiniDisc.

[@ElectroSpectre]

I've sorta got one: Whenever I'm doing cable-management with plastic zip-ties I'll keep a pair of finger nail clippers handy to trim the leftover thread. Not just because they're sharp enough to cut through plastic pretty easily, but because they also leave a smooth/convex finish every time- one that wont scratch or snag you or your cables (maybe pick up a new pair though if you're looking to try it, for sanitary reasons; though anecdotally I've heard American ones aren't too well-made, so it may be worth importing a cheap pair from Australia or Japan where I hear they're sold at a higher basic manufacturing-quality).

[@mysss29]

I never use zip ties, so when I recently tried flush wire cutters on one I was surprised to learn that they actually do cut the ends short enough that you can't feel them at all. Similar price to good nail clippers.

[@1timothydillon]

Linus: Dude, how have we never made a video on cantennas? We need to do it! Jake: Do we?

[@jacobvarley5453]

I'm an OG and we started modding when an athlon xp year 2000ish, and oh boy, do i have some photos for you! I put a bathroom squirrel cage exhaust fan IN my pc. My friend used a solid state relay to activate c9 christmas bulbs off the HDD light. My friend brought 3ft stereo floor speakers to a lan. I painted my monitor and bought a petina kit from home depot and made it look copper aged. We added neon tubes from autozone, to the inside and drenel cut designs and added plexi glass. And boy does the list go on!

[@maxcsw5809]

9:33 I'd bet anything that this is at an old folks home. They have to come up with very clever ways of stopping people with dementia wandering out, but still making it easily accessible for friends and family.

[@dominicharrison3926]

This was literally my favorite video you’ve made in a long time!!! (I mean I watch all of them and love them but this is and probably will be my all time favorite for a while until you make a part 2)

[@KRESpeedGamer]

12:19 that is not getting through TSA 💀

[@lfcbpro]

The OS boot from the USB inside is just perfect, my hat is off to you sir !!!!

[@MikeBehrensWX]

15:14 that happened at a TV station I worked at before haha.

[@angrysob7962]

Easily the funniest tech video I've ever seen. Awesome stuff. Loved the commentary.

[@s1gne]

15:38 , i put colored cellofane under my bright white powerbutton and HDD led on my Be quiet Dark Base Pro 900 V2, now it's Magneta and a lot less bright to the eyes.

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Way to much work, just put some electrical tape on top or use nail varnish :)

[@Dash20]

14:22 This is how we made noise-reduction headphones in film school before they became more readily available. Bluetooth didn't even exist at that time, mine were wired! 😂

[@whendidamfask]

That fitbit is a whole workout

[@topherdale]

The car window hack, the Oklahoma used car world has seen tons of examples over the years, but it's peak use was in the late 90's into the early 00's. It's not as common as it once was, but we still see it and I have installed a few myself (when not employed by any dealership or repair facilities. 100% freelance, don't live fact check me!).

[@UnofficialCyane]

16:23 I recognize that body pillow.That's Yoko Littner from TTGL

[@thewinterprince1731]

"It charges from 0 to 60% in-" I see what you did there. That's funny.

[@NotJohnnyTamale]

2:45 Paint rant reference

[@NathanStrutz]

This was the coolest video I've seen in your channel in a while. Thank you!

[@commandstring]

2:03 more like the UGREEN UWU series

[@yaboyaleyy2]

@@commandstring underrated comment.

[@commandstring]

@@yaboyaleyy2 glad I’m not the only one who saw it 😂

[@aesycos]

Your sponsor plugs are the only "ads" I think I really enjoy watching and don't mind being in the middle of a KZbin video.

[@Cowclops]

7:02 I actually made a custom mount for my EF9500 65" OLED for my bedroom. This TV (unlike newer LG oleds) have a stupid trapezoidal pattern mount, "universal" mounts don't work because universal mounts still expect the spacing to be a rectangle. So I got some solid red oak from the hardware store, made french cleats, screwed 'em into the studs, and the corresponding part screwed into the TV. Worked perfectly despite the bottom holes being closer together than the top holes because i could just drill wherever they need to be. Its rock-solid too. Thankfully despite being a fairly large TV it wasn't that heavy (like 50 pounds without its stand) so i didn't need to get that fancy with the engineering.

[@danielkeller6610]

More of this! My new favorite LTT video! This was amazing

[@KevinDC5]

@14:47 A coworker once tipped over a forklift by overextension because he was listening to music and not paying attention to his rigger foreman. dropped a 20' segment of 8inch schedule 40 pipe BYE BYE

[@DeepConnectionTGR]

"This is the kinda guy who's gonna drive a forklift into somebody and just drag them half a kilometer" LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@RipleySawzen]

3:57 I'm sorry but no. These two chromebooks use 10x more energy than a clock would. This is not green.

[@CapOlimar]

True, but they'd be mostly idle so they probably use less energy than a light bulb.

[@KrissFliss]

It can also display announcements!

[@LizordSword]

better than disposing them

[@strawberyyicecreamdream216]

It is still a trivial amount of energy for a large building and the energy to produce something like that is substantial.

[@RipleySawzen]

@@LizordSword No, the point is it's literally better to dispose of them.

[@robumf]

Back in 2000, start up tech company. Hay, there was 6 total people. When traveling in motel Wi-FI was dropping out. Walk to the local grocery store. Used a metal mesh, kitchen drain filter as a reflective disk.

[@Kaltsut]

I wouldn't call Linus a genius until he finds a way to not drop stuff

[@kermitthefragg]

So witty

[@jacobgames3412]

Real, i'm always crying that he drops things that I would be more careful with than I am with my life

[@allanau]

👏 👏

[@CitrusDruidxCDx]

Yea he just needs to learn how to reverse gravity

[@davidgriffin9247]

Hey now, I don't see you out smarting gravity buddy...

[@eliwatson1628]

i had a similar velcro setup back when i was using my old equium a100. it had mounting holes for use as a terminal so I used it as a remote media server for years hanging from the wall. the battery was dead so ran off the mains and used the velcro to keep ac, ethernet and i/o in. funnily enough, it actually saved the machine a few times from being ripped off the wall by acting as a quick release if the cables got tugged, i was one of those guys who could never stop breaking the clips off ethernet.. forgot all about it until i saw this.