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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@cjandlottie]

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

[@ZedDevStuff]

That's all they're good for /j

[@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

[@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 and zip tied the cooler on and gave it 12v. Dead silent and kept it around 80f

[@Thumper68]

Dude 20 years ago I had a box fan bungee corded to my case right in front of a window a/c unit to keep my Athlon cool that was over clocked from 1.1 to 1.9ghz lmao😂

[@naoltitude9516]

yeah man ONLY an EVGA card could do that, totally

[@ICanHazRecon911]

Dude, Dan is lowkey my favorite member of LTT, we need more of him he's hilarious lmao

[@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.

[@FM-nm4ng]

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

[@TomasPiliponis]

this one killed me good. I love Dan.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@noahbartlett2832]

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

[@ABaumstumpf]

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

[@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

[@SuperDwango]

The guys should have cos played as characters from the red green show for this episode. "Remember if the women don't find ya hansom, they'll at least find ya handy."😂

[@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.

[@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

[@p7j5]

For the alarm clock thingie : it's electrification, electrocution is when you die from electrification.

[@consumer_cam]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@MissesWitch]

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

[@NotJohnnyTamale]

2:45 Paint rant reference

[@whendidamfask]

That fitbit is a whole workout

[@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...

[@smalltime0]

13:00 we did something similar to that in BYOD support at uni. Students going for doctorate; never learnt anything about backups during undergrad, (presumably) masters, A++ grad and future Doctor of 'X'

[@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.

[@UnofficialCyane]

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

[@Sam-tn7bj]

8:42 "Ohw no he set it to spanish" Nice hahahah

[@jester4115]

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

[@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.

[@JocularWand]

That DIY monitor mount at 7:05 is a perfect idea to use old keyboard trays, if you have a monitor where the mount is broken you could absolutely build one from an old keyboard tray

[@Gamepadder]

The evolution of the Cantenna is using old DirecTV satellite dishes to send WiFi a mile or more 😁

[@svpracer98]

The big school energy pics are highly relatable

[@Walker_96365]

I think that may be the most effort put into a sponsor segue to date

[@Powerpety]

I love that Linus looks so tall when he sits next to Jake. 3:10

[@wiG5944]

There was a mistype in the title, it should say: 'You Are all Idiots - Reacting to Your Best Tech MacGyvering'

[@turkey_sandwhich]

true lol

[@colororb4105]

9:16 Gotta love how 3rd party wireless sensor bars included a fake dongle to plug into the Wii to keep the illusion alive

[@vinicio0035]

These 4 members panel react are GREAT keep doing it pleasase

[@_mike]

13:00 - This probably took more time than rewriting the thesis, lol.

[@1timothydillon]

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

[@dannymartial7997]

I have a Grand Seiko Spring Drive watch that I use as a mouse jiggler. It's the only thing in my home that can trigger my cursor to move automatically. I tried placing my mouse on an iPad playing a video, but because the mouse is laser, it doesn't detect changing pixels as movement. So I essentially have the world's most expensive mouse jiggler.

[@Verlisify]

At the local card shop there was a rental wii station with 2 lighters next to it instead of a sensor bar. People really only used it to play Gamecube games so it was just to use the wiimote to start Melee

[@ChriSaito]

Man that Wii with the candles takes me back. For a long time my only way to play as a kid was with some candles. It's janky but it works for games that don't need to point often.

[@countfrackula6707]

At work, people kept deleting all of the desktop icons from PCs, which was a pain to put back (because it happened constantly), so I modified group policy to put a bat file in the startup folder that copied all the files from the default profile to the desktop of the shared login. Now all they had to do was restart the machine to restore icons. Next I had to fix them logging in to these PCs using their user profiles, rather than the default profiles. I forget how I did it, but I found something in group policy to prevent them from logging in to these machines with any profile with a specific security group tied to it. These were Windows PCs that were basically thick clients and all they were used for is launching Remote Desktop and some local phone tools.

[@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.

[@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.

[@FA-ft9sq]

I water cooled my gaming laptop (MSI GL62M) using one of those copper water blocks, secured the block one one of the heatpipes shared by the GPU (1050 ti ) and CPU (i7 7700HQ) using melted ABS dissolved in acetone for a tight fit with thermal and one of my aquariums (50 gallon) with live fish in it, and a spare canister filter with a built in pump. It was actually a closed circuit so I just used longer rubbery tubes as heat exchanger between the aquarium water and the water in the cooler. The water never mixed (would have killed the fish and corroded the copper water block pretty quickly). At idle, I was getting close to 25C to 30C depending on season and never got more than 55C when at full throttle.

[@sinanozkaya1729]

honestly i would love to see a macgyver esque type series from them where they were presented with challenges and could only use non ideal tools to help them accomplish the challenge.

[@AidanMacgregor-Personal]

Haha wifi across the street, my broadband for the last 4 years 😂😂😂

[@bgezal]

5:00 I once had a Seagate ST-125 (21 MB 3.5" MFM/ST-412) that the bearing would seize up on if left too long turned off. I found that it had a hole in the PCB that exposed the driving axle for the platters, and by forcibly twisting the axle until it released with a cracking sound would make the drive spin up again.

[@karoufox9135]

16:10 I've done something similar in the past; rewired the vibration motor in an old smartphone to a relay, which was wired to the shock button of a shock collar remote. wore the shock collar around my ankle

[@Dan-Simms]

I've seen banana plugs, and now I've seen carrot plugs.

[@tom_foolery]

When I was in college, I used a stainless steel pasta strainer with an antenna poked through the bottom of it to steal Wi-Fi from neighboring apartments. But that was when a whole lot less people secured their Wi-Fi networks with passwords. It worked amazingly well

[@ANGELX55studios]

the chrome book hanging thing with the explanation is literally insane xD LMFAO

[@gamingguyrob]

I need like an hour-long video with this style. It's so entertaining and such a great watch

[@PlayMilesPlay]

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

[@MiDnYTe25]

I spit my drink at "I had to replace the carrots once". I had no drink in my mouth at the time.

[@Satelitko]

5:39 - I needed to cool down a flash drive during a long recovery session for a laptop, so I turned a can of "compressed air" upside-down and kept spritzing liquid butane/propane mix on top of it. It worked for what I needed, but now the flash drive sometimes just refuses to work. There's a tremendous amount of cooling you can do with liquids that boil at sub-zero temperatures.

[@tomasadams7171]

The irony of that alarm clock... I had that same one growing up. It comes with a vibrating puck that you're meant to plug into the back, and then stick under your pillow! It also has those bright flashing LEDs on the front and is loud af. I think it was called the Sonic Boom alarm clock

[@resresres1]

They are great as a parent. Can wake up with the vibration without waking the kid(s) up.

[@LeaveMyFreedomBe]

Instead of a cantenna, I have used a metal dog bowl to make a small dish. Cut hole in the center, JB weld a USB extension cable to the back, then plug in your USB wifi. It worked!

[@Mikemk_]

4:59 I remember one of my old GameCubes when I was a kid I had to kickstart spinning the disc.

[@freescape08]

5:37 This is awesome! I picked up a Standish usb-c/a 256Gb thumb drive and tried backing up my phone, and it gets too hot to touch in 20 minutes unless you're blowing at or holding it to sink the heat away. I honestly was thinking of adding a fan to it somehow, but ended up just babying it for a necessities only backup before a paddleboarding trip.

[@DiyEcoProjects]

Do MORE of these please ~ ~ ~ theyre fun :) xxx

[@renegadethesandwing02050]

i got a 1.5Tb HDD from my highschool once and the 3 wires to the motor and all 7 pins of the SATA connector were broken so i did some jank soldering and got it working. i also did one where the power connector was broken off so i used a female molex to solder to it and got that one working as well, forget the size of that one tho

[@Amber57499]

About the forklift thing... There's a German 80s instructional video about safely operating forklifts called "Staplerfahrer Klaus". It's a must see!

[@andy_warb]

Using a Drone as a USB Drive to install Windows was next level. Genius!

[@dragonzord6615]

Dan is so happy about these. I dont even understand wtf is going on, but his happiness about them is fun to watch.

[@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.

[@ricklee4220]

The segues have been getting better in the last year or so, I sometimes watch them now.

[@BrunoThiaolayel]

Remembering doing the Johnny Lee's wiimote whiteboard in highschool, I didn´t have any money to buy the stuff and find my way with an old TV remote for the LED and some pushbutton and wires from an old school project. Could still be fun to do today :D

[@L0CKW0OD]

i love this format keep up the good work

[@projectporvette1914]

Funny, 2:47 is actulally a PC I built back in 2014-2015. I was spending a lot of time at my (then) gf's dorm and I wanted to play Dota 2 in my free time. That's an optiplex with 7750HD (no need for external PSU) It was a cheap solution at the time, it was great. I sold it/gave it away at some point of time, and everytime this picture pops up on the internet, it reminds me of a simplier time!

[@ku8721]

YES YES YES you need to make a video on Cantennas! I had a real Hawking Labs wifi dish years ago that tripled my range would love to see what we could do now!!!

[@revnook]

That clock was one of the kinds that shakes your mattress. And it's well over 100db to boot. I use to put the shaker under my side (against my ribs) because it still couldn't wake me.

[@Nobody-vr5nl]

If ur just running a rotohammmer all day, having music is a god send.

[@chowrites6179]

Ok, the one at 14:28 I can promise you, as someone who drove a forklift for years and has been around other warehouse equipment, this is no where NEAR as bad as some of the stuff you will see us commit when OSHA isn't looking! lol I literally worked everyday with one earbud for 10-12hrs a day listening to metal and no one knew or gave a shit

[@aceholeas]

Intelligence is wild Jake is so smart I'll watch some videos of him talking and feel like a 3 year old. Then I watch this video and he's like "what's a tens unit"

[@bobspldbckwrds]

The shower rod drop is great, I've done drops with copper pipe, and ended up loving the patina.

[@MD_Builds]

Tens uints are usually used to help relieve backpain, they can over load the nerves enough to ease the pain.

[@cwagrant]

I really hope you do more of these, I love them!

[@absiddique139]

1:12 Still looks better than my Computer

[@homelessEh]

i remember my buddy got a big stainless basin cut a lil hole in the bottom so he could put a wifi usb stick in the middle of it to jack a wifi signal from down the end of the street about 120+m away lol

[@NightRogue77]

I really like the fact that Linus is consistent with his love of Jank lol

[@iitzwolfy]

That Ugreen robot plug is the cutest spy and I want one 😂

[@DeWorDeR]

8:16 I have that remote too and can confirm you really need to point it to the tv for it to work :DDD

[@Novous]

When I was a teen, at a lan party one of our PCs power switches stopped working so I took an empty Sunkist soda can, taped each side of the wires to the can and the tab(insulated) so when you pushed the tab down it turned the PC on. Another time I used a gummy vitamin bottle as a coolant reservoir.

[@kelvinle8662]

Shit. I remember my dad making an antenna out of a pringles can. Core memory unlocked.

[@TomCee53]

Cantenna: I had to extend Wi-Fi to an outbuilding and made a parabolic reflector out of a block of wood and a sheet of aluminum. I put a usb adapter on an extender cable at the focus.

[@MissesWitch]

7:55 that is a really cool looking heatsink~ I'd never use a screw but, I'd love a spiral heatsink~ Maybe a spiral copper one would do!

[@rayous5480]

16:07 lmao literally the same alarm clock as me, fellow heavy sleeper XD

[@Meandbroafter2]

I like how these guys NEVER run out of ideas

[@servissop151]

Between the probably like 120-150 people that work there at this point, there's enough ideas floating around the Microsoft Teams chat

[@acee5044]

That segue transition got a laugh out of me lol.

[@spirruts]

5:42 I actually own this drive, it's the Samsung Bar. It's made of titanium, and it runs at a staggering 400 MB/s and gets OBSCENELY hot. Samsung says this is okay, but I've actually gotten concerned because it heats up my entire system ever so slightly-- I approve of this fix.

[@BoomGiggity]

I mounted an old wired mouse onto a wood pedestal and disabled the right button. Then attached it to my Kodi movie PC so my arthritic father could scroll through the movie collection with the mouse wheel and trigger the movie with the left mouse button to play/pause the movie.

[@TheTrueSir0Robin]

I've actually done this with a 60 inch plasma TV that the mounting brackets were incompatible. So my dad and I mounted a plywood board to the back of the TV and then the mount to the plywood board.

[@o-hogameplay185]

7:57 i remember using 3-4 keys on a 4 FETs in a DC motor controller i was working on years ago

[@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

[@joshwindom7882]

The best segue joke thus far! Actually had me laughing.