Can This USB Stick Resurrect Your Old PC?

[@renragged]

In the ad, they don't even mention that you'll be using a completely different operating system, which is a HUGE deal to most people.

[@twb0109]

That isn't even a product, it's just a scam

[@FinalKingX]

Maybe they put it in fine print to prevent this but most people don't read it.

[@damian9303]

I feel like they make it obvious though with the whole "OMG! MY LAPTOP IS NOW BOOTING EVEN WITH A DEAD HARD DRIVE"

[@haryholland]

Lucas Zhu yeah I bet grandma knows how to do that

[@renragged]

@@haryholland hahahaaaa

[@EdoVro]

My dad got an ad for one of these and he wanted to buy it. I sent him this video and it made him change his mind. Thanks Linus!

[@bassdrumflextime1253]

Lol

[@alkaupadhyay7650]

@@galipaydogan1958 stfu

[@ieatpizza371]

I'm about to do the same thing. He thinks this thing will fix his pc, he needs a better cpu but won't listen to me. Typical dad shit, despite me building 2 power house PC's my opinion is only of a dumbass and this USB drive is practically made from jesus to him

[@meganesenpai]

To be honest with 80 bucks you could get a (at least 120G) Sata 3 SSD and a 8 gig 1600Hz RAM, which will boost your old PC performance up another notch.

[@darnellyoung-hameed2420]

@@meganesenpai Thank you for this tidbit. My HP Eliteboom 8470p crashed. I do have a USB with terra storage. Would your above suggestion get my system back up and running? Any info would be appreciated.

[@ArchisMarathe]

Yeah, I'm sure grandma knows how to go into boot options

[@splewy]

blaze I imagine grandma would just plug it in, still run Windows normally, and through placebo effect swear her computer was actually running faster.

[@Ragemodepigeon]

It does actually tell u how on the packet. Depending on your pc what button to press.

[@ultirn3338]

Yeah I was thinking that XD

[@Impossible_Fishy]

@@Ragemodepigeon shes gonna press it once and think that it doesn't work

[@nolanpearce6152]

XD

[@stephengere3937]

"Maybe I'll play a little pinball." *IN 3D*

[@p3chv0gel22]

Tbh i still love 3D Pinball

[@Alymoss]

In 3D ... we are in the future

[@slug.racing]

!

[@jackieburkhart3268]

do you know there's also BALLZ in 3D? damn, excitement.

[@FoxCoffee.]

It sound like an ad for Windows XP with some "cool teenagers".

[@Noble259]

LMG video editors are the hero's in the background making every video awesome AF

[@insidious714]

What do the other editors do? Seems like Taran edits everything

[@jamesfromit]

@@insidious714 @Aprime edited this one. :)

[@guspaz]

@@jamesfromit Long before the credits ever hit, I had already said "Oh, this is an aprime video, sweet!" His style is very distinctive. And enjoyable.

[@DragonBuilds]

In one of their ads the guy showed a DVD drive and called it a hard drive.

[@fders938]

He should of jammed a floppy disk into it lol

[@ahmadaamer6]

That made me laugh.

[@starman8853]

Lmao I got that one just now

[@robantsin]

@@fders938 LMAO someone should bring back the floppy with upgrades to replace the internals with m.2 ssd's. Just picture this, the shell of the floppy disks, with the internal storage being made of SSD's and the connection at the base is an eSATA or a reversed(male is in the drive docking bay and the female end would be a part of the floppy) PCI-E connection.

[@Trashpanda115]

Ikr people are so stupid

[@turtleguy123r3]

I feel scammed and I haven't even bought anything...

[@robroy5573]

Lol! Funny joke!

[@turtleguy123r3]

@@robroy5573 I am here all week

[@branquintana]

HAHAHAHAHA nice one

[@nighthawk5295]

ha ha. lol. That's because many reviewers make their living trashing on other products. At least, Linus Tech Tips gave a very fair review.

[@constructor4425]

Ubuntu free download and make your own, its easy and i did it years ago.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

"Oh, Anthony's in the video" *FALLS OUT OF CHAIR IN EXCITEMENT*

[@theproudlinuxer]

@@dcmk4683 What nonsense is that?

[@blackraider777]

@@dcmk4683 no

[@blackraider777]

best part of video

[@theproudlinuxer]

@@blackraider777 Yes you're right... Did you look at the delight in his face?

[@DigitalHandle]

@@dcmk4683 STFU

[@danr2652]

That's like priest coming into my home , going to my sink and filling up a jar with my tap water then placing a sticker with the words "holy water" and selling it to me for 80 bucks.

[@BillCarrIpswich]

Yeah but the jar cost 15, the sticker another buck, and his time 64. You get a refreshing drink and the church gets new Bibles. It's win-win.

[@FinalKingX]

At least your tap water is considered "holy".

[@danr2652]

@@BillCarrIpswich I hope you really didn't pay 15 bucks for a SINGLE glass Jar.

[@Mika-85]

The effort of filling it up and labelling it should be worth it!

[@takkikayo]

thats true, specially SENIOR CITIZEN they take advantage

[@MathijsGroothuis]

Such a techy grandma, opening chrome instead of that blue E.

[@SuperTux20]

Firefox or Chrome? Which is better?

[@samuelkavicky7242]

My grandpa uses that e even tho i showed him that chrime is faster

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Alphabet welcomes her submission... :-) Will Google end up buying Microsoft ?

[@f1catmancl]

No, that's the "button for the internet"

[@ySc135]

@@samuelkavicky7242 my dad does it ...

[@alexferguson8893]

Hah, they're selling a flash drive and a Xtra- PC skinned Lubuntu which is already free. I feel scammed and I haven't bought anything at all.

[@santiagolerin]

Me too

[@LowDoughTech]

That skin actually makes it slower than Lubuntu live, I did a comparison video Showing the performance between the two. Base Lubuntu trounces this piece of junk.

[@rishabhmulay5230]

Lucas Zhu Probably because they want it to seem like they put a lot of effort into the product and not just put a sticker on a usb and install Linux on it (which is what it is)

[@Ash_Lawless]

time is money. making the bootable usb and putting the extra software on it takes time. some people dont have 8 hours a day to fuck around.

[@ajdzanovic]

@@Ash_Lawless its ridiculous to pay $80

[@derpyllama1857]

Imagine paying $70 for a flash drive with a Linux distro flashed on it.

[@theproudlinuxer]

It actually costs 5 minutes (to flash)

[@LiEnby]

@@theproudlinuxer but u can flash like 300 at once lol

[@theproudlinuxer]

@Big man Oh, but flashing the ISO to the drive takes very less time.

[@theproudlinuxer]

@Big man Leave the downloading part. It takes me half an hour, which was 2 hours before Wifi. I meant the 'flashing the ISO' part alone 😅😁

[@Overfl0w_grrrl]

Its against the GPL to not make the source code available freely, which they aren't doing.

[@Cewyah]

Got recommenced the ad for this and as a person who's installed puppy linux on a 20 cent blank CD it makes me FURIOUS. They're also scumbags for selling linux which is a FREE SOFTWARE, that THEY didn't even make!! >:(

[@TheStevenWhiting]

You're allow to sell any distro of Linux, but yes, they are scumbags.

[@TheDotBot]

Ah the joy of righteous indignation. So pray tell, by what sorcery did you procure said Puppy image and burn it on a blank CD? Wouldn't have been something like _a functioning computer_ with a usable browser would it?

[@Gandagorn]

Technically, Linux is allowed to be sold commercially but yes, it is scummy to sell free software for that much especially when you're selling a product that uses another companies product. If I were setting up linux, I would charge for the service and not the OS. Also, they are taking advantage of the elderly who don't know anything about computers. Paying 40+ dollars for a product that their grandson could set up for free is scummy

[@TheDotBot]

@@Gandagorn Free software means free to distribute, it does not mean you have to give your work away for free. The GNU public licence essentially states what's ok and what isn't. "You are allowed to *sell copies of the modified program commercially,* but only under the terms of the GNU GPL. Thus, for instance, you must make the source code available to the users of the program as described in the GPL, and they must be allowed to redistribute and modify it as described in the GPL." Btw, Linux is the OS. The architecture is 32/64-bit Intel, Arm, etc.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

20 cents is quite expensive for a blank cd

[@BD90..]

literally only here because the stupid ad was playing and i was thinking scam.

[@Hiiamthelren]

BlackDolphin90 well, it is a scam lol

[@Moreo734]

Funny because i saw that same ad on a linus video

[@BD90..]

@@Hiiamthelren it is a scam that is targeting the same people who fall for tech support scams and the like.

[@BD90..]

@@Moreo734 😂

[@ayaseshinomiya6524]

Same here...

[@ForbiddenFate]

So its $80 for linux on a usb flash drive. *interesting*

[@thelegendarywizard]

What a wonderful idea

[@dess.3761]

69. *Whale Breathing* N. I. C. E

[@Mika-85]

To be fair they did some customisation including a start-up wizard and the boot modification. And even if the clone all the USBs it will still take them some time to do that as well.

[@diegomarquez6740]

Linux is free

[@domokun64]

finds random 4 gig usb *ubuntu time bitches* costs like 10 bucks

[@Silentguy_]

My grandparents actually considered getting one of these and I showed them just exactly how easy it is by pulling out one of my identical SanDisk 64GB sticks and dropping Xubuntu on it. I can appreciate whatever mild scripting they did and setup that they included (which most distros already have anyways), but the absolutely extreme markup they do for nothing but their own Linux distro and a cheap flash drive is insane and absolutely predatory. I also feel that this is basically an ethical violation of what Linux was built on to just charge for completely non-transformative versions of Linux

[@donkeykong3x3]

Grandma at the family reunion: By the way I use Arch!

[@hadto8482]

i got a good laugh out of that

[@Evan490BC]

Can your grandma fix my computer, please?

[@lxmcf]

You have to be from devRant judging by that comment

[@johnathanmcdoe]

Meanwhile your weird uncle had a glass too much again and yells INSTALL GENTOO at your mother.

[@nilsirl]

@@lxmcf or from r/linuxmemes or from r/linuxmasterrace

[@umbra1016]

Adding "The" to everything is such an accurate grandmotherly thing to say. The Facebook The VLC The Chrome

[@s0mepi884]

The google bing

[@mdwz]

for facebook, it really was originally called "the facebook", you can even type thefacebook.com and it will go to fb

[@umbra1016]

@@mdwz well, yeah... but no one calls it that. They even bring that up in the movie.

[@EP1CxEMAN08]

The Firefox The KZbin The Reddit The Linus Tech Tips You get the idea

[@mujjuman]

mine watches youtube lol shes 85

[@zion653]

Me: "Hey, grandma, when you see the Splash screen, just hit the appropriate Function key to enter into your computer's bios. Then, just navigate to the Boot options and rearrange the order of the identified boot drives so that the computer is set to boot from the USB drive first. Then..." Granny: (0.0)

[@SamuelLing]

Granny: sudo come help me

[@Jpp-iy4km]

​@@SamuelLingHaha, can you imagine trying to explain the fact that you cant "see" any characters being entered for your password when sudo prompts you to enter it.

[@SamuelLing]

@@Jpp-iy4km oh god

[@InfernosReaper]

@UnitedRaccoon57 Not every bios uses those keys, especially on older systems.

[@geovani60624]

actually, even my 12 years old notebook uses usb for boot by default

[@MightyMattTM]

Linus: “Brings Anthony” Me: “Ah it must have Linux on it”

[@thefunnymanfromamazon374]

OMG IN THE 69TH LIKR

[@strandalx]

I thought Linus literally made Linux though....

[@WaifuDiver]

Windows Updates: "Shut Down your PC and install updates now." Anthony: "Yeah no I don't think so bud."

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

shutdown /s /t 0

[@aaronrennyvargheseOriginal]

Ubuntu: Updates available! Would you like to do it now or remind you on you next log-in? Better than crap windows updates.

[@core36]

it's windows 7. you can log out and then you can shutdown without installing updates.

[@MichaelSanAngelo]

Ain't nobody got time for updates. XD

[@guayabito6946]

Updates don't generally have anything to do with performance.

[@ronsonjames8462]

40$? I'll get an SSD and 2GB more DDR2 RAM instead for 35$

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

Pentium D would be socket 775 with DDR2, but yeah I was thinking the same thing, you could go buy another stick or two make it 8gb for like $10 and put a core 2 duo in for like $3 or a quad for like $9. SSDs are nothing now like $20 brand new, I mean sure you're going to be limited by SATA II, but in a use case like this where the computer is newer than 06' there's an upgrade path that would be dirt cheap and fine for normal grandma use cases, especially if you're going to have to help anyway, at least you can do the labor so she can keep using the same software she's used to, hypothetically speaking. There was an older lady I used to work with who had an all in one with an AMD E2 that she bought I put her together something like what I just stated above and she loves it. Put a basic graphics card in (I think it was a GT 620) so she could use it on her big screen TV hell yeah brother

[@MakisOfEquinox]

Hahaha, I wanted to get a 4gb stick of ddr2 sodimm for a really old laptop of mine so it could run in dual channel. People want stupid money for old ram. Like $35 just for that

[@iCallH4x]

Makis Equinox I might have some, if I do you can have it cheap?

[@k3v1n683]

@@iCallH4x p0

[@pushthepro]

@@MakisOfEquinox Yeah, my grandmother would've also done the same, after browsing through craigslist and hitting up a deal or two right after taking her medicine and sipping tea in front of her fav tv show. After that she'd boot up Apex legends and wreck some kids.

[@LeonSteelpaw]

Its freaking Linux on a stick, thats all it is! Your paying for a customized distro! Linux is free!!

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

but owning a bussiness and runing it and making these drives bootable isnt free,

[@Adam-cq2yo]

@@girlsdrinkfeck I mean, it takes maybe a couple minutes to load up a USB with a lightweight Linux. I wouldn't pay more than a dollar for that labor.

[@TouchedAlot]

You're also paying for the support they provide. If grandma gets stuck she can contact Xtra-PC for support. With free distros, you only get support from the community.

[@TouchedAlot]

@Ye et But you don't get support from the distro that way. Providing support for software is one of the main ways which companies who provide free software make money. Even Ubuntu charges for support.

[@Bidwellz9]

you understand that the whole world doesnt know about computers right? some people literally just know how to turn it on

[@ultraplague]

Xtra Pc: *Exist* Anti 5G USB stick: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!

[@MrKerri888]

What is this comment referring to @Ultra Plague?

[@StarMaverick]

@@MrKerri888 Anti 5G USB scam is just like this, instead they claim that USB makes anti-5G bubble and block any 5G signal in your surrounding.

[@MrKerri888]

@@StarMaverick If you’re referring to 5GBioshield, it’s not a scam, it works for any EMF. It doesn’t block anything, nor does it claim to, it changes the frequency with resonant frequencies. It doesn’t need to be plugged into a computer, but if it is, it just extends the energy field. Blushield works in a similar way. There’s also a stand-alone unit using energised structured water vials and copper, think it’s called Qi Max EMF.

[@plinplinplon_]

@@MrKerri888 why would you want to protect yourself from 5g tho

[@MrKerri888]

@@plinplinplon_ Same reason I wouldn’t stick my head in a microwave oven. Millimetre waves. It’s military tech - more about surveillance than comms, can be used for applications such as V2K (voice to skull), ie, programming etc.

[@pyk_]

At least your grandma has a sweet RGB keyboard to look at while the PC loads.

[@randomdude4556]

Zaleucus lol 😂 gamer grandma

[@noenken]

40 to 80 bucks for essentially free software on a USB stick sounds reasonable to you?

[@Reddo136]

Ultra-quote

[@Tremor244]

well it's a pretty smart business, you can't blame them

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

sure. What's your time worth?

[@videblu]

For someone that will have *NO* idea what a linux distro is, no idea how to create a bootable USB, and no idea how to find out how, you can see the value proposition. I still think it's a scam, as it isn't going to make that big of a difference (KZbin became unusable on lubuntu whereas it still worked okay in win7), but it's not like it'd be easy for gran to do this for free.

[@applemauzel]

The real question is... CAN we create one for 20 to 40 bucks and undercut their profit margin?

[@PCNERD19]

*sells rebranded linux mint for $80*

[@GervasitorSpaceman67]

Actually it looks more like lubuntu (very similar to the one I'm running on my old netbook currently)

[@that1foxxo]

@@GervasitorSpaceman67 I think they were talking about them selling it themself. XD

[@GervasitorSpaceman67]

@@that1foxxo Oh, ok I see. I mean selling a rebranded USB stick on heir merch site and redirecting to their forum for support would be a nice business model I guess XD

[@Liampanto]

@@GervasitorSpaceman67 correctiun its actuly just a linux distro with lxde as the desktop envirment

[@roundduckkira]

@@kushagrakarira You can sell GPL software. There is a problem here though, there is no source code unless you ask them on [e-mail]. I mean, it's allowed under the GPL, but it's a bit of a lazier and fish-ier way of abiding by the GPL.

[@blackstarindustries27]

Love Anthony, he's so chill. Guy could be talking about anything and I'd listen.

[@heinuchung8680]

SOULJA STICK? or SOULJA JAM! for when your computer is in a JAM makes it go fast BAM

[@crides0]

$40 for flashing a boot drive with a Linux? 10 times too much

[@amrsoll]

But it's not just Linux though. I might even wonder if the use of them' legacy icons could be grandma friendly hehe

[@crides0]

@@amrsoll If you think that'd be a point, then a simple google search is enough. 5 minutes. But my guess is they're using Firefox 52 ESR (Extended Support Release), so they get long term support, which is good because grandma probably won't update stuff.

[@SamTehSquirrel]

It’s 40$ too much, Linux is free... Linux is the best

[@crides0]

@@SamTehSquirrel yes I know. My point is, even if you count the work that goes into the process, it's still too expensive.

[@neroxen_]

@@SamTehSquirrel you obviously don't understand the cost USB drives.

[@dom1310df]

An hour to create a bootable Linux USB? Did you use the Pentium for that?

[@azarilh2355]

Yeah, i know, right?

[@deidyomega]

He created a modifed disk, with extra shit. Makes sense. Time yourself on downloading ubuntu, getting a usb, and installing it. Then booting it up and installing chromium on the usb drive. I'll bet it takes you about an hour too.

[@Chariblaze]

linustechtips.com/main/topic/1047789-can-this-usb-stick-resurrect-your-old-pc/?do=findComment&comment=12422219 Anthony explained what he did in the forums. If he had just created a Live USB with persistence (I would have done that, though I didn't know about the disadvantages), then yeah that shouldn't have taken that long. But instead he tried to match Xtra PC's setup, by going through the installation process and choosing the USB stick as a target... which depending on the speed of the drive, can be very slow. Though the drive he was using _was_ -a high end GPU- probably decently fast. Eh.

[@azarilh2355]

@Greyson Lynch Try out Rosa.

[@azarilh2355]

@@Chariblaze Yeah, makes sense.

[@eTxZombie]

I've been giving grans elementary OS lately, and they absolutely love it. I charge $69 for in-home backup/restore, install and training, and my customers have been super happy about it. elementary OS is so clean and user friendly, and super low on resource usage. They feel like they've got a brand new pc. The difference is that I'm with them through the entire process, and I'm only a phone call away if they have any issues. You don't get that with this extra-pc garbage. Great review though.

[@MrKerri888]

Do you also provide remote appointments, for eg, screenshare pc plus have a video call on another device?

[@eTxZombie]

@@MrKerri888 yup, I sure do.

[@MrKerri888]

@@eTxZombie Do you have a web page? I’m in Australia, would that matter?

[@arootube]

Be honest, you charge $69 just to know that somebody somewhere is gonna say "..nice."

[@pjlecy1]

I might be wrong, but I believe you can order a bootable USB/CD from distributions for a much lower price.

[@hadinossanosam4459]

If you have any empty flash drives, you can even make one *for free*!

[@craigmosey]

like this? seems cheaper. thelinuxshop.co.uk/manjaro-32gb-drive-p-328.html

[@_mkc]

Years ago, Ubuntu used to send out these nicely packaged DVDs for absolutely free. I have 2 of them at home somewhere. It's too bad they stopped.

[@hurley2609]

nah mate all you need is any usb drive and the right software

[@ShiroKage009]

The idea is having the entire thing loaded and ready to go.

[@wodstalker2819]

80 bucks for a 64gb usb and a linux disto wich is free... Nah im sorry i dont see how thats fair

[@CommodoreFan64]

this is what you call a scam!

[@BitterCynical]

Recently bought two 120GB SSDs for less than 30USD each for my desktop computers. An Intel compute stick costs about 130USD which is enough for what grandma needs. Actually grandma should get paid for putting up with the pain of trying to use a bootable linux USB drive...

[@TypicalNerds]

If you think about it, someone had to make that a bootable usb themselves, unless automated software did loads of drives at once

[@operator8014]

Hey, scammers gotta eat too.

[@rasmachris94]

I suppose Linus' argument was that an older person or someone not tech savvy wouldn't know how to go through the process of making one, or setting up a linux distro. Or just not have the time to do so. But considering I just bought a 64Gb usb for £11 [$15] and this 'product' is likely a preconfigured linux distro with preinstalled apps that you can get and do for free, you can imagine how much they're making in profit. There's also that this is quite literally a scam. The way it's advertised is to make the hardware run better, not install a new, less taxing operating system. Besides, if you bought this for gaming - unless you know how to use wine and the like, you're games are going to run equally slow, or slower anyways. A scam is selling a product that is advertised as doing something it doesnt do and quite simply, this exorbitantly priced product does not do as advertised - improve the performance of your hardware. It simply reduces the load on that hardware a bit.

[@bassdrop001]

How will grandma know how to boot the drive from BIOS?

[@jorelplay8738]

the real question here

[@Mindroix]

Magic dude

[@Vlad-1986]

You'll need to make sure it boots from USB first, so you need a bit of "helping hand"

[@DapperCracker512]

Speak for ur own grandma bruh

[@deidyomega]

Most computers nowadays actually default to booting from usb before hard drive. And on pre win8 machines, it was even easier without the extra security ms and hardware companies put in place.

[@eierhai1831]

How to make old pc’s faster: Clean it up from dust!!!!

[@InfernosReaper]

yeah, does wonders, surprisingly. It's almost as if components don't work well when they're insulated in a layer of dust that makes them the temperature of the sun....

[@insanitylol]

Brendan 5629 Just did that. Saved 3pb of storage. Computer now runs at 1000fps, can open up to 5 million chrome tabs and run 300,000 programs. Windows now boots in 1 microsecond and takes 0.49 microseconds to sign in and 0.2 microsecond to open a program. Games are 0.4 microseconds. My cpu runs at 60thz at 50 degrees My gpu runs at 180pflops My fans run at 0.1db And it takes 5 microseconds to install updates

[@arootube]

@@insanitylol Do you have ANY idea how many sperm cells gave their lives in the process of growing that homework folder?

[@paradoxzee6834]

My dad once clean his PC with the vacume cleaner and somehow break the plastic RAM holders. I remerber placing the RAM back and told him not to look at the PC funny. Because than it was just RAM without anything holding it

[@sleepingtrack6350]

i'm surprised granny had a gaming mouse that's a legit nan

[@lachlandoyle]

Squidleepop lmao 🤣

[@lettuce7378]

*legit NaN

[@Americanspy-hn2kw]

I got my gma a gaming pc

[@carlangelo653]

My grandma bought a G502 for the scroll wheel.

[@redux2984]

I’m surprised she can type that quick to

[@robinroesler7605]

Why not spend the money on a ssd and install Linux on it

[@Rob-qc9en]

Robin Roesler Cuz grandma doesn't know how to do that while she is excited for the present she will be getting for being the 1.000.000th visitor of google. ;) Sry for the bad joke, i am from germany and we have a problem with the article 13 and the people who decide what our law says. Just look for #axelsurft and you will find (many good and bad jokes) Btw did you know Axel Voss finds it funny that the biggest part of the world uses windows 10? -He already uses windows 95!

[@pooptubesex]

druaga1 here

[@screes620]

Or just buy an SSD and clone the old drive to it.

[@dynamicsinesdynamicsines1161]

EXACTLY

[@elsandosgrande]

@@destroyer_of_water_planet OK, that's a bit much (Gentoo is giving me a royal pain right about now).

[@guy_incognito7538]

"After this message from Glasswire!" *Double Tap* "...link below." Thank you Linus. Thank you.

[@tomboz777]

Caleb Teague man knows what he's doing. 😏

[@guy_incognito7538]

@@tomboz777 and I thank him for it 👏👏👏

[@fitmotheyap]

actually thanks.. unlike other yts... 2 minutes 1 sponsor then another one right after 30 seconds linus better than most others

[@ZeldaLord1]

I cant even use glasswire I’m a apple user

[@anky_but_on_steroids3750]

This is so me

[@gavinthecrafter]

I got an ad for this recently, and out of curiosity, I clicked it. I laughed so hard reading the article and all the misleading claims they were making 😆

[@G_Confalonieri]

I don´t think it´s gonna work. My grandma passed away 20 years ago.

[@johnspence8141]

hilarious

[@G_Confalonieri]

@Jimmy Evil creepy

[@G_Confalonieri]

@Jimmy Evil hilariously creepy 😅

[@must4rd375]

@Brainlet Johnson Lol

[@liliethcameron7110]

@@G_Confalonieri Lmao, rebooting grandma lol.

[@thelastcube.]

$40 for just a customized free Linux distro? Forget it, might install puppy Linux or xfce over arch or something instead given you probably have to come to gran to boot from USB anyway

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

you can't fault 'em for initiative.

[@basshead.]

I rather use Windows XP.

[@RackaApps]

@@basshead. madlad

[@adrianul85]

My thoughts exactly, puppy linux boots directly to ram, very fast on old computers, even on single core and 512 mb of ddr 1.

[@Henk14789]

Advertised as speeding up a PC. I'm already feeling sorry for all the people who need to come in and fix grandma's PC when she boots into bloody linux and goes into panic mode.

[@edwardandrewmowbray5820]

More of Anthony! He needs his own Geek series!

[@leighcameron8833]

Yessssss

[@leighcameron8833]

It depends on if he can handle it

[@Soulthym]

I mean, that's how Linus started at NCIX x)

[@iQKyyR3K]

Just let Taran, Anthony and the other writers create articles to accompany the videos with more technical detail and guides. Could literally increase the amount of ad revenue by getting views on Forum/Website, they could also document and publish their testing procedure and results.

[@ImAManMann]

He looks like a cartoon character ... I just can't place it.... but yeah more.

[@thelovertunisia]

The only time I really felt this 'resurrection' moment was with my old 2008 macbook when after 10 years I put Lubuntu 18.04 lts on it and suddenly could play youtube and browse modern websites again.

[@ZekeMe0ut]

Anthony is the best. He's the perfect compensation for Linus over-the-top-ness

[@kennethflorek8532]

Dump Linus. Replace with Anthony.

[@SolidSnakeAce]

Anthony is chill as fuck

[@JStation3]

Anthony is a great cast member

[@joels7605]

This is true. Anthony should be in every video.

[@SecondHandTech]

The guy's voice is just so soothing and chill.

[@keithputz918]

For $80 you can buy a used Dell business PC that does so much more.

[@Meechety]

LOL

[@bombslayer876]

Or a think pad ♡

[@Jahwi]

After giving your grandma Linux: Grandma: sudo when are you going to come visit me?

[@fionafiona1146]

Mine just got something against the bad "radiation" it has blue light. www.memon.eu/en/company-memon/

[@JonaFolgt]

When you're at your grandma's cd ..

[@guychensn]

sudo eat this you look skinny

[@YankeeTM]

Shutdown

[@coryc123]

@@guychensn I'm dead

[@iyeetsecurity922]

Ha! I remember that "performance gauges" widget! I felt like such a badass geek using them as a kid. I'm pretty sure they didn't really work either.

[@Balashka89]

Yeah right. We bragged a lot with the 1 GB RAM, while the others were basking in the shadows with 512 MB RAM and humiliated them with the neon-turquoise gauges showing performance that was hardly achieveable at that time and is today a history.

[@googaagoogaa12345678]

I remember feeling bad ass for seeing the CPU at 100 and ram at 80 or so. Turns out my PC just sucked!

[@Kossmok]

Yeah, preuploaded video. Glorious 2160p viewer experience

[@julius9727]

Wait are you saying this is pre-recorded and not live😠

[@davidjuneja]

Bruh what's your internet speed??

[@Scitch87]

Glorious 2160p experience on my 720p display.

[@twizz420]

@@Scitch87 life.

[@lzcats7431]

Me> 1440p peasant

[@legoshaakti]

me at the beginning: it's just lubuntu isn't it me at the end: oh nevermind, it's actually *slightly different* lubuntu

[@wta1518]

Yeah, see there’s a background.

[@theproudlinuxer]

Have you used the i3 Window manager?

[@drewfus5037]

$8 micro center 64 gb USB stick, free download of any linux distro , one hour, and you just saved $50

[@shaunpatrick8345]

It's not for people who know what they're doing, it's for people who click adverts on Facebook.

[@iQKyyR3K]

"hour" sudo dd if=./ of=/dev/sd* get coffee, done

[@WhatTheHellMang]

@@shaunpatrick8345 all the more reason to tell them not to do it.

[@thelastcube.]

@@shaunpatrick8345 If those people even end up buying that, they need someone to boot from USB in the bios settings first (given they're not a "computer person"), at that point why even bother if you can just install lubuntu or better, xfce over arch or puppy Linux and Save those $50 for something like a SSD for granny?

[@Jonathanfarias916]

Or just made $50 🤨

[@silverwatchdog]

Adding “the” to every app sells the impression so well

[@angrynerd2103]

So you bought a flash drive with free software on it?...

[@CC-vv2ne]

For the price of decent SSD

[@nekkooogacha8745]

Sweet

[@TiffanyTwisted-u9m]

I lolled so hard

[@PieStudios]

I don't think I would want Linus to be my grandmother

[@PieStudios]

Ohmagad my grandma liked my comment!

[@loganrossignol]

my grandmothers are dead

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

@@loganrossignol so are mine...

[@lightningdev1]

I would

[@vgamesx1]

Well I definitely wouldn't because he almost certainly would've dropped me as a baby.

[@flashed333]

lol its just lubuntu, a linux distro designed for old hardware and guess what you can download it for free!

[@Liampanto]

you dont even need ubuntu you can have eny distro with lxde as the envirment

[@purplegill10]

@@Liampanto if you want to go further you can get Linux Lite which is more or less made exactly for this kind of application

[@dodoslavn]

its not designed for old hardware and it has nothing to do with it, its normal ubuntu with removed stuff !!!

[@TednTin]

Guess what your grandma will say when you say her to download LUbuntu or any other light weight distro and install it to USB

[@scrub_jay]

Why would you tell her that instead of just doing it for her? If you have a computer and a flash drive you can easily make the exact product shown in the video and the most expensive part will be the postage stamps to send it to her.

[@Toasty-qs1tp]

"im your grandmother" didnt know linus died

[@aeyde]

Uyyyyyyyyy what really

[@dougiebell9944]

@@aeyde r/wooosh

[@tavi501]

@@dougiebell9944 i kindly inform you that redditors can go on their own site and be overly annoying THERE

[@killertigergaming6762]

@@tavi501 r/whoosh

[@tavi501]

@@killertigergaming6762 as i was saying, please go back to your shitty website and learn to spell the subreddit

[@DavidImrie]

If you are willing to spend $80 on speeding up grandmas computer, then an SSD wins every time.

[@System0Error0Message]

if you looked at windows 7, the CPU was being overtaxed. You can tweak windows 7 and get it to use less resources too.

[@jamesvandamme7786]

I just got a $30 SSD (240G) and put MX Linux on it. WOW!!I use my HDD for data.

[@shawnb.2558]

For that money you could get an SSD and throw it in there...

[@InfernosReaper]

Yep, that'd actually improve things, unlike running an OS off USB2, which makes things worse...

[@jhonshephard921]

quick, new business idea. Sell Pre-Installed Linux on SSD, then charge for customer support.

[@swagsurgin6907]

@@jhonshephard921 You could? and it'd make money. The world we live in...

[@IosaJ]

Exactly

[@reschw9280]

Hold up a second... *You're not my Grandma...*

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Oh really? Did you actually see your supposed grandma giving birth to your mom or dad?

[@reschw9280]

@@NJ-wb1cz No... Is Linus really my grandma?

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@reschw9280 well, he looks sweet, sensitive and adorable, and he doesn't remember your name.... I'd say yes he is!

[@reschw9280]

@@NJ-wb1cz O:

[@fadelpw511]

Wait a minute

[@joshuasibayan1726]

“Pc companies hate this product!”

[@MrKerri888]

The operative question is why? Because it negates their expensive services? Or?

[@AvengedDH]

"Everyone hates this product!"

[@aadisahni]

"Turn your old PC like the day it was bought with this one easy trick"

[@peterkernohan778]

underrated comment

[@yasyasmarangoz3577]

cringe 😬

[@theblinkstykrab3106]

This seems exactly like something Soulja Boy would do

[@aapovalkeapaa8746]

Gotta get that Soulja OS

[@WDC_OSA]

Oh my god that's just about a perfect description of this

[@alemutasa6189]

Ok: WTF is exactly Soulja boy? Please, someone, help a non-anglophone-country-living-fella

[@seraphis]

@@alemutasa6189 An American musician. Google his recent antics.

[@6jackace]

The soulja stick

[@ItsJustRyansChannel]

4:55 - Linus says "Lubuntu restricted add-ons..." 5:24 - Linus proceeds to ask what distro this is... IT'S A TRAP!!!

[@Kevimars]

Underrated comment😂

[@ItsJustRyansChannel]

@@Kevimars lol thanks. I love finding these little discrepancies in life.

[@FinalKingX]

I mean he is "Lie-Nus" (April Fools 2020 video) when he pays people to make it look like he knows everything.

[@haseenabadshah5381]

69 likes lmao

[@whatiskensworth]

Misleading marketing is bad. Anthony in videos is good.

[@FranciscoMNeto]

More Anthony plz!

[@mountneerdubai1176]

@@FranciscoMNeto Thats what your mother said

[@Praneel]

@@mountneerdubai1176 lel

[@randomgrinn]

"Misleading Marketing" is redundant.

[@connornorris2569]

@@randomgrinn lol, sad but true

[@quincya]

Damn, granny's got some sweet peripherals

[@MrZombie999]

pfff Great scam charging 4-5x more for a USB that has some cut down Linux on it that you could have got off any number of sites after minimal research into which version would be best for your needs for FREE or you could just Make /or Order a Live Linux CD from one of the many Ubuntu builds

[@leon-set]

Thanks a lot for pointing out I agree.

[@xerzy]

Just get Lubuntu, or if you're capable of maintaining it, something like Void Linux, SliTaz or maybe even Haiku. Using a distro that who knows who made it, how properly up-to-date and maintained is, and if it's even legal in the first place (GPL, codecs, so on) is not worth the extra price tag.

[@Zestyclose-Big3127]

that's kinda like calling restaurants great scams for charging more than a better version of their dishes you can with minimal research cook yourself though

[@MetalMachine131]

@@Zestyclose-Big3127 You can go and just buy an ubunu or whatever linux stick for like 20 bucks.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@Zestyclose-Big3127 Exactly correct. GrubHub is a SCAM, because they bring me food that I could very easily drive over and pick up myself. Now, Linus' point about it being deceptive in their marketing is valid.

[@PixelOutlaw]

My grandma has been using Linux Mint for 7 years. That said I've only had to set up a printer once during that time. Not this crap though. The best part is she can visit all the shady online solitaire sites she likes and I don't have to worry about viruses.

[@theodoros_1234]

#LinuxForLife

[@AUserCAAP]

I've installed my dad and my older aunt Linux Mint and all have been smooth, they don't even call me to ask anything, everything is intuitive.

[@pieterrossouw8596]

Yup Mint really is the only distro I can install on non-linux people's machines and they immediately know how to use it. Mom's been running mint for quite a while and since I showed her Google Docs she hasn't asked another question. Mint is also way faster than windows obviously. She even set the printer up herself, it's legitimately easier than on windows if you have a typical HP/Epson/Canon/Samsung Inkjet printer. I installed TeamViewer just to be safe but I haven't needed to help her once.

[@cros13]

My 93-year old grandma was using ubuntu and late mint 10 years ago as well. I wouldn't put a novice or power user on anything but linux (or maybe macOS or chromeOS should the situation dictate), the only people who have an issue is the few stuck in the middle with too many windows-specific habits and niche use-cases.

[@Sgtpeterenis]

I once transferred my mother to Ubuntu (but she just didn't use that computer - she uses my dad's office PC and her tablet), and I've transferred my girlfriend to Mint and Ubuntu as well. Even the printer worked with the standard configurator. I taught her to apt install and she managed to install one or two things, I believe. If you can google, you can use Linux. If you can't google, everything that comes preinstalled will most likely be enough for your computing needs.

[@qurqo]

I install Linux Mint for senior users. It's easy to use and all they basically need is the Chrome shortcut on the desktop and shortcut to filemanager.

[@kakaoen4]

It´s also the distro that mostly resembles Windows. I have it too on my pc to learn how to use it and as a getaway from Windows.

[@jfk4229]

You can also use a Windows Xp theme for it.

[@cidsx]

Or deepin, because it is speedy, easy to use, and just pretty

[@MrSaphareas]

Don't forget Timeshift. This plus a seperate /home partition and granny's PC is un-fuck-upable.

[@joby602]

Yep, Mint for my grandma. It's been trouble free with her for 5 years now. No chrome though, not going near anything google that isn't hugely better than alternatives out there, and chrome isn't.

[@Gandagorn]

Oh wow, they have their own bootloader!! They must be legit! (Heavy sarcasm)

[@Xemerius7]

No One: Linus: I'm now your Grandmother

[@brianx105]

I can't tell how a 10$ USB stick with a really old version of Lubuntu is worth 50$. Not to mention, do you think Gran can navigate to the boot menu in the BIOS to boot off the USB stick? Or if she even knows what a USB stick is and where to put it in the computer?

[@ppang]

Well you can gift your gran a 10$ usb with LFS pdf along with all the required tarballs.

[@krozareq]

Good point that Linus didn't bring up. Not every BIOS/UEFI configuration is going to boot off USB by default.

[@Inf1e]

@@ppang LFS is an overkill in this point, but to make a linux distro booting from the flash is not to hard

[@azurfen1613]

canonical sold Ubuntu sticks for like 7$ So much for the "reasonable price"

[@hoixthegreat8359]

Yep, people on eBay here sell 16gb usb sticks with Ubuntu LTS, Mate etc etc for £8 (Kingston 3.0 sticks)

[@PneumaticFrog]

That's pretty cheap

[@dieselfox8612]

Live furry friend. run be free

[@SergeGuillaume]

We definitely need more Anthony!

[@KyleHulton]

When you notice Anthony's built linux experience, the username was Just The Tips

[@Drev222]

Giggity, lol

[@mukhammadalikhon6994]

Bruh if you bought two of the 80$ ones you could literally just buy a new computer that is a lot faster

[@quarantinecompute]

Mukhammadalikhon 699 and sell the old one

[@twb0109]

Or by paying $0+a SSD cost and making your own bootable USB (just about half an hour, not a whole hour) and then installing a lightweight distro by yourself and installing the SSD.

[@quarantinecompute]

@@twb0109 Better idea

[@macsnafu]

@@twb0109 No, no, you're doing it for your grandma, not for yourself! ;-)

[@twb0109]

@@macsnafu The grandma doesn't need to do it, you do it for her

[@TuxPeng]

Linus's lack of Linux skills never ceases to amaze me

[@Rainaman-]

For a geek that he seems, that is bit amazing

[@Reddo136]

@@Rainaman- **embarrassing

[@TednTin]

Well, have you ever considered that there is no need for him to learn about those stuff since he is busy with stuff that matters more to him? Edit: It is same as many of his employees not knowing how to build a computer. They just don't need to know those stuff to go about their life.

[@Robertin258]

@@TednTin BUT HE IS CALLED LINUS

[@tapank415]

XD

[@huh6449]

Bruh my grandpa just bought one of these despite me telling him 20 times it’s a scam. Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@Oskar_Zhitnica]

F

[@cabij2475]

So useless when you can download more ram and storage from the Internet explorer for free

[@rylyguy]

This made my day. Thank you.

[@33ordie]

Haha ha ... ok

[@kendricklamargaming8174]

lol

[@huntermurphy583]

im mad

[@Dot_UwU]

you made my day

[@JonnyInfinite]

This is a terrible idea. Better off putting a friendly distribution on an SSD and installing that. Cheaper and faster than this BS.

[@krozareq]

$20 for 120GB SSDs. Didn't realize they got that low. We're now in the age of throwaway SSDs and rescue boot SSDs.

[@ronald4life1]

That's the problem. USB 2.0 is far too slow to be used like this. It's only meant to the test it.

[@SuperTux20]

I would put Mint or maybe WindowMaker Live on a USB and install it on the SSD. A funny note, I installed Mint 19 on a thumbdrive, so I can basically take my "computer" anywhere

[@JohanAulin]

@@ronald4life1 There are plenty live distros meant to be used daily. They load as much as possible into a RAM disk, so speed isn't really a problem unless your RAM is less than the size of the live distro.

[@harleyme3163]

mm... ssd's are a waste of money.. your basically buying a drive that will eventually turn into a doorstop after it runs out of writes.. if your looking at speed get a ramdrive. gddr5 is faster then any ssd.

[@leighcameron8833]

Anthony owns. Thanks Linus for bringing him to LMG. I enjoy how he presents himself & the information. He's funny as hell.

[@johnfite2567]

My mom is 79. I put Zorin OS on her pc a year ago. I installed chrome browser and she uses the browser for almost everything. Google sheets for her spreadsheets and Gmail for email. I'm not a huge fan of chrome or Google but it works for her. I haven't received a tech support call after making the switch.

[@benitollan]

I doubt it can bring the pieces together after Linus drops it.

[@simeonl5149]

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[@MisakaMikotoDesu]

I think by "resurrection" they meant PCs that won't boot.

[@weeb3856]

Especially, in that case, this is a great product. I don't quite agree with the price though...

[@meatsafemurderer7743]

Well now...that would depend on what exactly is stopping it from booting, would it not? Once again it comes back to "it's not a magic bullet".

[@wildk5367]

MeatSafeMurderer yeah i agree unless you for sure its windows thats causing the problem

[@michaelvansise4887]

A system completely clogged with spyware and viruses might boot faster from the Linux stick. ;)

[@kionera96]

You could get a 120GB SSD and a Core2Quad for that price.

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

that's like $30 or a little less, you can squeeze a RAM upgrade in there as well

[@Rainaman-]

Hey grandma - swap the cpu you old hag!

[@atlys258]

Oh my gosh, Anthony is so funny "yea extreme fever, you're dead" slayed me

[@FinlayDaG33k]

$80 for a 64 GB with a modified Lubuntu distro on it which would cost you like 20 bucks nowadays... #worth

[@ProtoPropski]

I was expecting this to be a virus in a USB, but this is just a stupidly overpriced Live USB with persistence.

[@ClaytonRego]

Essentially

[@NdleNb]

lol all it is is a usb with a firmware VC running an OS on it..gets loaded in boot and good to go.... but the set up process is stupid af.... and certain viruses and malware target usb port devices and makes your computer less safe to use. id rather an SSD.

[@NdleNb]

did i just hear him say steam is only available on ubuntu?

[@dacracking5768]

Another example of if you can do it yourself , you can get it for much cheaper

[@adamjc9683]

@@NdleNb as Linux distros go...

[@notapplicable2636]

I think virtually ANY USB drive can have Linux loaded on it... #MAJORRIPOFF!

[@MrZombie999]

yup got Kali and some version of Ubuntu hereabouts someplace and both run well from their USB

[@antikommunistischaktion]

@@kaz_iaa They get away with it because they're technically selling the drive.

[@sherkhan_5050]

I run Lubuntu from usb

[@amunak_]

You don't pay (just) for a USB drive. You pay them to install (and market and sell) a ready to use Linux USB drive.

[@HellScream107]

Totally not worth $40 dollars unless it also cooked dinner and did the laundry.

[@Larsykfz303]

For $80 you might as well buy a 128gb sata ssd and install linux on that, faster load times, cheaper. you cant transfer it from pc to pc as easily as an usb drive tho.

[@sherithnoorey1419]

Buy a USB 3.0 external SATA SSD then.

[@jope783]

for like 50 bucks more you could probably get a chromebook that would work better for just browsing the net and fb stuff

[@Akkordinator]

Not a bad idea. You could even try that on the old hardware with chromium os.

[@jope783]

@@Akkordinator well that defeats the purpose of it being old people friendly if they have to know how to install and etc compared to just turning it on. lol

[@Akkordinator]

@@jope783 They just need you to know. I mean this whole video is based on the premise, that someone sets it up for them and they just use it.

[@GoldenTreesMC]

Because a grandma would call opening chrome "firing up the internet".

[@michaelszczys8316]

Kind of like “ firing up the ole Hemi “ sounds like a grandma thing

[@DeltafangEX]

The interwebs?

[@tylersummers6209]

Anthony is my favorite employee that you have. His abilities and his demeanor he is tech lol! I like the Linus clap intro he got.

[@ThusharaJayarathna]

Is Xtra-PC product can increase my Mac book air memory and speed

[@flemtone]

Nope and Nope... There's no way a free Lubuntu distro and a 10 quid flash-drive should cost that much, plus it didn't even look as if it was configured properly for running on that media type. Scam!

[@Evan490BC]

10 dollars. Remember, those guys are Canadian.

[@zachwax22]

@@Evan490BC no, canadian

[@Evan490BC]

@@zachwax22 Oops, sorry! In any case, they don't use the term "quid" in Canada, do they?

[@zachwax22]

@@Evan490BC not really sure cuz i'm american myself, but i know lmg is based in vancouver

[@_mkc]

It's not necessarily an old Firefox version, it's just an icon theme.

[@harshityashwardhan]

Yup firefox on linux still has that logo if u didn't chnage it.. bec in linux the icone is determined by the operating system

[@sandwichgames8122]

he said that it's old logo

[@nextlifeonearth]

@@harshityashwardhan Without a theme it usually has the same logo as the current official one. You're dealing with some crappy maintainers if they don't upgrade the desktop icon.

[@MaksKCS]

He never said it was an old version though

[@xerzy]

@@nextlifeonearth Yes, without a theme it's the same logo, but it's not that they made a bad job at maintaining the icon theme - instead, they just lazily left the Lubuntu icon theme (designed like that to feel familiar) and left it as is... and because they noticed it looked too much like Lubuntu, they picked up OpenSolaris' window theme, Nimbus, and slapped it on top

[@DarkestValar]

I know we're getting more anthony but please, more anthony.

[@elijahr6261]

I love the ads for this product where they claim to be holding the pc hard drive but it’s actually a CD drive.

[@allurego9030]

me: hi grandma linus... i've come to visit... grandma linus: here have some ram me: no grandma linus im full grandma linus: *forced feeds me ram* me: im not chrome... grandma linus: *feeds me another 32gb ram*

[@cheshirefoxxx]

lol what

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

@@cheshirefoxxx he's a sick puppy.

[@JoshM7]

Is chrome still being bashed on about ram lol?

[@harpyproductions6771]

taking into consideration that other browser can do what chrome does without all the ram consumption, i would say all this ram is used on doing things to spy on you. after all google is known for spying on everyone for all the advertisers stuff

[@UniqueWildCard]

Cringe

[@BrianHollingerSHTF]

So basically, it's Puppy Linux on a Stick for $50. Rip off. You can get any Linux for free.

[@Dan-sk2ff]

Yeah, well. Creating it as is costs time and resources. And as we all know : Time is money.

[@Dan-sk2ff]

@@ictoan5966 But we're talking about the customization and software included. Not just flashing a random empty distro.

[@EminoMeneko]

But still. There is time and efforts put in there. Is filerez a regular Linux software available anywhere ? Seems like a software they provide. Even if not that doesn't change much.

[@colejohnson66]

“You can get any Linux for free.” *cough* RHEL

[@CabooseSon]

@@Dan-sk2ff Yhea, well maybe when you are not working you can do this in your spare time, stop putting money on your fuc... extra time, enjoy your life and some extra free linux. Not everything has a price. 80 dollars for this crap can not justify a search on our master google.

[@moneymike422vids]

Just buy a $15 SSD, transfer Files nd call it a day

[@TheGunman889]

moneymike422vids then install Linux :3

[@willanrac]

if the computer is that old, it might not be able to support sd? XD

[@bunnypeople]

$15 SSD? Lol find me this

[@Rooster_Salgado]

@@bunnypeople Like, first gen 40gb ssds run for about that.

[@fortunefed8719]

@@girlsdrinkfeck How is an old person going to know how to boot to bios, select the usb drive, and then find and connect all their old programs on linux? In any case a more tech savvy person will have to do some work.

[@DaVince21]

Holy shit the editing in this one is AMAZING. Bring back more humor like the explosion gag please.