Reacting To Your Worst Tech Support Nightmares!

[@industrialmonk]

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works

[@himaro101]

I use this saying a lot at work.

[@klakiti02]

@@industrialmonk this is so painfully true

[@trakaisirsis6233]

i will steal this saying because my job place sometimes needs it

[@BrandonsUsername]

Toothpaste works in a pinch as thermal paste, just watch out for the mold that can grow around the socket from the residual sugars. System still works to this day after a good toothbrushing (lol) with alcohol and actual thermal paste this time.

[@jaspermooren5883]

@@himaro101 Yeah every time someone suggests a temporary solution I'm like NO! DON'T! Temporary solutions are the worst. And never temporary.

[@Novous]

The curved SSD trick is actually a super clever. The dense-ist files fall to the bottom, and the smaller files rise to the top, so it automatically defrags itself.

[@bane7679]

Yeah! And often those heavy big files arent needed as often. So it doesnt matter if they fall further from the port, now the smaller files stay easy to access!

[@henry_tsai]

But what if the motherboard is placed vertically? Should we bend the SSD side ways then?

[@Pl4sm4Ro4ch]

modern problems require illegal solutions beyond science

[@rorycadorette8420]

​@@henry_tsai- yes, you would, but you'll have to put your whole pc in the oven. @150 to help achieve the bend before you start using it, otherwise you could break the ssd and you could loose either your heavy data or all your data through the crack/hole it will create if not properly vertically prebent in the oven.

[@Fullchaos40]

I usually double up on the standoffs so the big files pile up on the front for faster access 😊

[@datboi449]

friend said someone in the office kept going through monitors, they would show up to his IT room dead. He requested the next time to leave it and he wanted to go to the desk to collect himself. When it happened again, he got to the lady's desk to see a small flowerpot on the top of the monitor with plant growing that she would water every day.

[@16bittango86]

I'm assuming this took place in the time of CRTs, but can't shake the feeling that someone out there is in possession of either the world's tiniest flowerpot, or some seriously impressive potted plant balancing skills, and they're using it to wreck monitors.

[@scienceguy8]

@@16bittango86 Or maybe worse. You ever seen those plastic pots that are shaped like an upside down rain gutter? They have a channel running through them so they can straddle a rail, like what you'd find on a balcony or front porch. What if someone out there makes a tiny one specifically for computer monitors?

[@matthewuzulis5016]

@@scienceguy8 I'm thinking that the 1"x1" 4 tray seed starter would fit perfectly with monitors today, worse is they have drainage holes / slits. I'm thinking back to when I was young they were a thin cheap plastic.

[@matthewuzulis5016]

@@16bittango86 Or they balanced the pot on the monitor and back wall of the cubicle. It is not beyond possible at this point.

[@glittalogik]

I had plant pots on the top shelf of my IKEA Fredde desk. They were absolutely fine sitting there, and I was super careful with watering them. Then one day my gf grabbed one to do some repotting and tipped the contents of the drip tray straight into my ergo keyboard 🤦🏻‍♂ Salvage operation was a fail, but at least it was a good excuse to upgrade.

[@SalemTechsperts]

This sums up a normal day in my shop, and people wonder why I'm so unhinged

[@RealOscarMay]

Hi 🎉

[@flyinghigh1868]

The flexiest SSD that's ever lived.

[@falconitesyt2754]

THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THATS EVER LIVED

[@filipstar3156]

how do you only have 18 likes and 3 comments, btw love your content❤

[@zero-c4e]

@@SalemTechsperts yo love your vids

[@k9turrent]

For the car door, it is actually in Ford transit vans and because they are typically used as work vans you can keep the vehicle registration and insurance slip there. We had put a large label on the door indicating "NO PHONES" Source: Former amazon driver dispatch.

[@Sil3ntD3ath478]

I drive one for work a lot. Yep, we have the same warning on ours as well.

[@cameronbaird9550]

After 2016 or 2017 Ford started putting warning stickers there from the factory Source: Paratransit Fleet Manager

[@ZombieCakeHD]

I used to put my business cards in there lol, stopped them from getting beaten up, keeps em straight and sharp.

[@attack125]

why do you people need to lie to strangers? not a single person would do that. there doesn't need to be a warning sticker there. everyone puts their phone in the slot in the center console. (or sadly hold it in their hands). the video itself was litterally staged with an old phone.

[@k9turrent]

@@attack125 False, we had to replace around 3 phones over the course of 6 months. Drivers would absentmindedly put their work phone in this danger pocket instead of the cupholder above it.

[@dracyndutch4306]

As someone who worked as IT tech in education: the problem is that it ISN'T their laptop, there is no feeling of responsibility. We had to start charging fines for damaged laptops as it got so out of hand.

[@xar226]

I'm curious: Did it help, or were they still too far removed from consequences since it was likely their parents who had to pay?

[@MrSousuke87]

Trust me. I work in an hospital IT. It's the same if not worse.. No-one cares about anything if it isn't their.. And no responsibility at all.. And they're grown ups, with an idea of what something would cost, and how long you have to work to afford a similar item.

[@JJFlores197]

@@xar226 I also work in K-12 IT. During distance learning, we started charging parents (technically the student's library account) for damage to Chromebooks. Even then, we some very pissed off parents who did not like the idea of getting charged for their kid's destruction of school property.

[@themightymutt5213]

@@JJFlores197 Wow! Did anyone bother to tell those parents that their anger was seriously misdirected? This is what is wrong with society

[@JJFlores197]

@@themightymutt5213 Our boss, the IT director, would usually be the one who would handle those situations. And the thing is, even though we put a charge on the student's library account, the parents don't have to pay it at that moment. They have until the student graduates high school to pay it off. For some kids, that can be in 10 years, others 5 or 4 years.

[@PendragonDaGreat]

I _think_ the Toilet Paper one is because Toilet Paper and Thermal Paste both contract to "TP" so if your build guide just said "Put TP between the CPU and the Cooler" and you didn't know...

[@pepinlebref7585]

that must indeed be the reason

[@denistremblay4713]

Maybe it was just a shittty computer :-)

[@Deluxery]

Thats insane LMAO

[@freescape08]

I was just naturally assuming some kind of internet troll, this is the kind of thing my friends would try to pull briefly before backing out, because they're not bad people.

[@LightslicerGP]

They said "because he read online it was almost as good" So they *mustve* knew

[@iknowdawae893]

hi there, hospital IT guy here! just to clarify: *NONE* of the medical devices that keep patients alive are (at least should not be) hooked up to IT infrastructure. sure you got your VLANs and UPSes and other failover stuff, but its still *WAY* too fragile. pretty much all thats hooked up to networks in hospitals are patient monitoring (for example to log your heartbeat or blood pressure), your CTs and other x-ray related devices (which transmit the scans to your PACS, picture archiving and communication system) as well as your HIS (hospital information system). hope this clarifies some of the misunderstandings out there

[@renegade637]

Well, that's certainly reassuring. Although, I can't really see a haert-bypass machine requiring a network connection anyways. I would expect something like that to have an SOP requirement that someone remain at the unit as long as it is being used.

[@ailivac]

Yeah I noticed this about the various pieces of equipment I saw over the past year while my wife was pregnant. Ultrasound machines are all networked so the doctor in the other room can instantly get a copy of everything (although none of them seem to have an NTP client configured by default. I don't know the technicians can stand the clocks all being wrong by 10-15 minutes). Obstetrics triage and delivery rooms have the monitor data fed to a big screen by the central nurses' station. Even the Doppler fetal heart rate monitors, so when our little one wiggled herself around every few minutes someone would pop in within a few seconds to jiggle the transducer around. And everyone's seen the wireless laptop carts with a fairly standard UPS on board used for record entry. But the IV infuser machine was a fairly simple and somewhat ancient looking device with a little monochrome character LCD and a small integrated battery pack.

[@elucidator1277]

Awesome, this was insightful. Thx friend. :D

[@shiyahumi4203]

I understand. A lot, IMO, most hospitals just don't invest in IT. That's just the way it is. It's not the right decision but it is just a decision that is made. You've sometimes got 1 or 2 staff covering a thousand people and god hoping you have more.

[@LonneLpp]

I too work in the hospital currently and in the main electrical room is where you can do some real damage😅😆

[@sammcdaniel3744]

Holy, Origin must've paid a ton of money for this one. Even Linus was like, "we have to talk about it already, again? Not yet!"😂

[@jordanmntungwa3311]

HP Omen and Asus Zen Book are hot topic in this particular class of laptop. I think they are betting on this sponsorship to get a few sales going

[@Lego_man165]

@@jordanmntungwa3311 Its also back to school season, AKA laptop buying season

[@BigMan7o0]

I hope so for their sake because jesus fuck that was annoying imo

[@enragedwindows1331]

@@jordanmntungwa3311 Definitely not my favorite ad format. Would have preferred a big chunk in the middle and maybe bookend the video instead of interrupting good content this frequently. No hard feelings toward LTT for getting that bag though, just would like to see less of this format in the future.

[@Tzarakiel]

Considering the size of LTT I hope they got at least 500 000 dollars for this. If they didn't they were low balled.

[@mustang8258]

@21:27 This is a Ford transit van. It's supposed to be a small storage place that is inaccessible while the door is locked/closed (for something like a company credit card used to fuel the vehicle). They have a similar design for the gas door and I think they got carried away with the design idea and over-implemented it.

[@coreyturgeon9869]

I have also seen owners manuals come in spots like these.

[@ZeeBri]

@@mustang8258 Modern recent Transits, in Europe at least, have a sticker right next to it effectively saying Do not put your phone on it

[@itsasinine3337]

@@ZeeBri the last u-haul truck i used had a no phone sign embossed right into the plastic

[@Moonlitmotors]

@@mustang8258 yeah I keep my company gas card and the gas receipts in that pocket

[@seanmcclune6526]

I was thinking a U-Haul box truck, except the ones I have seen specifically say “do not put phone here - we are not responsible if you do”.

[@monkeyfeed908]

my mother, who is 60+ was told a couple years ago at the school she worked at that her PC being under her desk would be fine even if she used a heater. She told them that doesnt sound right bcuz her son (me) told her that when electronics heat up they slow down and can even get damaged or shut off. They were just like "nah thats not true." Her PC kept shutting off and was super slow and their 'IT' which was very incompetent just kept replacing her PC. They basically just gaslit her about it too saying the PC wasnt slow or shutting off and she must be kicking the PC cord out. She eventually waited until late one day and moved the PC onto her desk behind her monitors where it was kindof hidden then put a plant above it so u couldnt directly see down into it. Magically all her problems with the PC stopped

[@tzxazrael]

i mean tbf, once the tech got it back to his nice air-conditioned Tech Support cubby, and booted it up when it WASN'T next to a heater, it probably ran just fine, so certainly there was no way to know what the problem could have been. right...? lol

[@DrewWalton]

@@tzxazrael competent school IT would (should) have tested the thing in situ first

[@TC_ReflexYT]

keyword 'incompetent"

[@EpicBunty]

omg. putting a plant on it i think will just cause a bigger problem....

[@Kinjen_]

There comes a time.... To move the heater closer to the PC lol. See if they still say it's fine when it's melted lol. And the other person might have had the right idea about it working fine when they take it out, so they don't bother to keep checking it. Not excusing it, but understandable. But wouldn't they at least look at event viewer? I think it would log heat related shutdowns.

[@ChristopherAndersonPirate]

19:30 I am 38 and my great grandfather died in the early 90s because he was a stonecutter a long time ago and when he was young that stoned Dust got into his lungs and he could barely breathe by the time he was 80. I still have his antique tools and the mask that was supposed to protect him. Apparently they had to reach a settlements because of his failing health and they needed money so they couldn’t take it all the way, so they just got a small amount of money from the company he worked for most of his life..

[@VinnieRawlings]

I know someone who genuinely used "required" as his password when he was using windows 7, just because of the "Your password is required" text made it easy for him to remember it.

[@AriosQarsute]

That might actually have been more secure than some of the other 'easy-to-remember' passwords that people use...

[@333dae]

@@AriosQarsute definitely more secure against guesswork than password or 123456

[@minty_Joe]

@@333dae "123456? Say, that's the same combination on my luggage!"

[@bilateralrope8643]

Also, sometimes you have no choice but to put something in the hint field. When I run into that, I lie.

[@vnc.t]

​@@bilateralrope8643I put "not saying it"

[@questocanale]

12:30 "it looks like asia", sorry to disappoint, but that infinite daisychain is in Italy, specifically from the small town of Gatteo, close to the San Marino Republic (you can see an ad for a carwash at the beginning and all the sockets are italian...). I have to say, as an Italian I'm a bit ashamed of that, but many many houses here are so old that if they are wired for electricity, the wiring won't necessarly be good enough to support your needs or may only be present in one side of the house, so I respect the hustle.

[@user-neo71665]

My house (was my great Granny's) was built before indoor plumbing and electric. It only has 2 breakers for a 3 bedroom house. One for all the single outlets in each room. The other for the light bulbs. The only running water is the single cold water in the kitchen. She passed in the mid 90s and lived using an outhouse the whole time. I'm remodeling it to convert the middle bedroom to a hallway and a bathroom. Adding hot water and totally rewiring it.

[@Vymix]

average situazione in una cascina di campagna

[@Masterrunescapeer]

Friend's place here in Austria from ~1870 I think, half the wiring is decent as was pulled new in like 1980 when half the neighboring apartment was bought out, but some of the chandelier stuff is scary, wiring is from like 1900-1920 for stuff that was over 2kW without earth, wiring basically crumbles if you touch it. Most of Austria has good wiring though, modern housing laws might even be considered overkill for it.

[@TigonIII]

Why one wouldn't just invest in one of those cable drums that workers use to power their heavy duty tools on work sites, so that one would have a long but direct connection to the outlet, is beyond me.

[@extrahourinthepit]

@@TigonIII 1. As you can see, this leaves a trail of plugs around the place, which will be useful in those other places. 2. Depending on your luck, this may be a bunch of power strips you have lying around 3. That doesn't look like the kind of user who knows enough about electronics to think of that

[@lordhosk]

Back in the early 2000s my friend got a job to clean up a server room like the one at 6:30, we could only work from 8PM to 6AM weekdays or Saturday and Sunday and it had to be fully operational every weekday by 6AM. They had 16 racks with various numbers of devices in each server. Three of us went in and pulled one line at a time untangled it traced it and labeled it and plugged it back in. A full 1/3rd of the cables were not plugged into anything they just dead-ended in the drop ceiling or behind desks there were dozens that were cut on the other end but still plugged into the rack someplace. We would go in Friday night, crank the music order a dozen pizzas and just go, we would crash on the couches in peoples offices whenever get up and keep going until Sunday night. It took us weeks and yes he charged by the hour for three people. They were happy to pay the thousands of dollars to get it all cleaned up, they were able to remove several racks worth of equipment after they moved things around and cleared off equipment. It saved them money on electricity cooling, AND they didn't have to keep buying more equipment every time they added 4 or 5 more employees.

[@cluckendip]

Hopefully that company learned their lesson. Sounds like you guys had fun tho

[@mikes78]

It reminds me of the story I heard about the whitehouse. Obama initiated a cable audit and removal of all redundant cabling when he got the presidency. I don't remember the exact number, but there was something like ten tonnes of obsolete and redundant cabling removed. The big reason behind this happening is a combination of laziness and that the contracts for cabling replacement often mentioned only the untermination of redundant cabling and said nothing about it's removal. So contractors being contractors and being paid by the job, they would cut the leads coming out of the wall, stuff the unterminated ends in the wall and run new conduit on top of old conduit and turn the insides of the walls into a layer cake of copper. It cost millions of dollars to have this old crap going back to the fifties if not earlier removed when it could have prevented it to begin with.

[@marjon1703]

That brought back memories. In the late 90s I did a job where the network had evolved from ring to star. There were switches all over the office block and tangled cables all in underfloor crawl space. Previous IT had left and no documentation. It was like coal mining for data cable. I removed about 40% of the install and found one cable going through a wall to "oustside". Hmmm.

[@dustintroxel6044]

@@marjon1703 At some point you need to hire archaeologists as part of your on-site team.

[@volkswagenginetta]

@@mikes78 part of that is government bureaucracy. Im sure for a ton of those wires you would need a law to change in order for some wires to be removed. I know japan JUST got done with floppy disk. There could be some ordinance from 1985 that a windows 3.1 computer has to be connected using dialup for some server.

[@tylergerdes5778]

Kids who treat laptops like that, I’ve found, come from homes where that behavior is permitted and unquestioned. It’s not the kids’ fault, it’s the parents’ fault for letting their kids get away with straight up disrespectful behavior.

[@JJFlores197]

Yep. Its very unfortunate. I saw that a lot during distance learning work helpdesk in IT at the local school district.

[@TheFunniBaconMan]

They may even learn it from their parents. I've seen people teaching kids to leave garbage in Shopping Carts before.

[@sethmeaseles3301]

I still cannot believe that so many schools were surprised when they loaned out cheap $120 chromebooks out to elementary schoolers and a majority of them came back completely destroyed. It wasn't even the children mishandling them. A lot of the models they bought were built extremely poor and will naturally self destruct after a while. The pandemic was an interesting time.

[@james_halpert]

Simple solution: Elementary schoolers did never and will never need a computer. What in the world are they thinking? Let's give the kids even more screen time, because surely more is always better?

@@james_halpert god forbid we teach children computer literacy in school 💀💀💀💀 you might think you're onto something, but we actually do need people growing up knowing how to use computers.

[@danielmeyer5865]

​@@james_halpert During the pandemic when the schools got shut down how were the students including the young ones to attend class without a computer? Not arguing in hindsight that shutting down elementary schools was the right decision, but given that decision computers seem pretty essential.

[@user-lw3wl4ps7z]

My high school started giving Laptops to the class after me my junior year (yea we were salty AS FUCK bitches those two years) in '04. Under the agreement that if they destroyed it, it was full price to replace. But it was $1 when you graduated to keep it. Damn good incentive for an older laptop that was out of spec by the time you graduated. Great deal for both ends. The kids could have a guaranteed laptop for college, already a giant step ahead.

[@AM-gg4dz]

@@james_halpertcan you use your head. It was during the pandemic when schools were physically closed.

[@TassadarRSE]

As a former Ford technician, that pocket is generally for random papers or loose change. Those are usually larger vans that have paper work that need to be accessed quickly.

[@aydenpb]

I can guarantee you that was not a bot on the amazon customer service - I worked Amazon CS for 5 years and the regular "Support" people would literally just be googling in between questions and give you whatever info google spat out - very little actual training for troubleshooting stuff that wasn't Kindle or Echo branded, and the regular CS agents would try and take it into their own hands instead of passing along to Tier 2 or something and then you get this mess... That agent probably saw during a random google search for answers that someone "baked" their motherboard and then that worked for them so they applied it to this scenario. I also guarantee that person has no idea what the difference between RAM and SSD is.

[@pacmonster066]

My favorite was the customer knowing that if they removed their RAM *while the computer was running* it would turn off/bork the computer. Trying to get the CS agent to understand the answer to their problem has nothing to do with the RAM.

[@chadmckean9026]

so basically now employess just use 'AI' chatbots to do there job and copy/paste the trash it spits out

[@orifkhodjaev1449]

Somehow, that makes it even worse😮

[@DavidRomigJr]

Karen asked how they wanted the refund, then do they have a printer, which they answered, then asked both again letter for letter 2 minutes later so the user asked “are you abot?” At 25:22

[@aydenpb]

@@DavidRomigJr It may look that way but its 100% a live agent - Chat CS has a folder of prewritten questions that they can just click on to send, thats why its verbatim. Also, Chat CS can be working on up to 4 chats at the same time when its busy. And the window that you use for chats is a vertical 16:9 window so that you can use the CS CRM software at the same time as chatting. And because of that, concurrent chats can get mixed up if you cant see more context on a chat or the last few messages that youve sent - if youre dealing with 4 different scenarios at the same time, with a timer that flashes and makes you send a message to the customer no longer than 2 minutes apart, this can happen. The different chats are colour coded to avoid this sort of thing, but things lslip through.

[@dlib89]

17:10 It happened similar in our office nearly 10 years ago. We had a call that went like this: "Guys, I'll leave my notebook there, it fell on the ground and had a "small" dent/warp, could you guys check it out if it still works fine, or maybe change the chassis?" Next day the guy sneaks on our IT office while no one was there with the notebook inside a box and run away from the building. When I opened the box it seemed like the poor thing was trown from a cliff and proceeded to be smashed by a hammer on how bad it looked. I called my boss and sent pictures of the "small dent" the guy claimed it had. Later we found out the true story: The guy forgot the thing at the roof of his car, it slipped on the ground and then he proceeded to get over the poor thing with his car. He just noticed the notebok when it made scrapping noises of it's insides against the ground.

[@mikenelson6630]

I too have seen the "Single CAT5 cable holds up rack". At my last contract position, there was a server rack that had a group of cables coming down from the ceiling. As these were all too short to reach the rack, each one had a splice added with 2 or 3 feet of cable added, just enough to reach the server (but NOT enough to properly route the cables). The cables ran through the OPEN ceiling tile, and stretched across to the switch on the rack. The entire bundle of about 20 cables was wrapped together and hung from the ceiling by a MOUSE cord, with the mouse still attached, hanging from the ceiling tile. This was at a location that required government type clearance - much more than standard IT clearance.

[@xanderlander8989]

Our entire office lost Internet because someone saw an unplugged Ethernet cable and plugged it into the same switch it was coming from. This was a very dumb switch and immediately flooded the network with infinite broadcast packets. Took hours to figure out.

[@victordavalos246]

@@xanderlander8989 That poor soul thought he was doing his good thing of the day LOL

[@s0rryfsu]

@@victordavalos246 nothings wrong, better fix it!

[@PeterMountUK]

I've seen that happen before myself about 30 years ago. Someone saw a coax cable unplugged and plugged it back in. The problem was it was removed because the network was being migrated away from 10base2 and that specific office had been migrated but the old equipment had to stay until the rest had been done. Instant loop as this was with Hubs as switches were far too expensive at the time.

[@TatsuZZmage]

Loops are !!fun!!

[@mrrandomperson3106]

I did that once. We were replacing a dodgy link between two switches and it was my job to switch them both over. To avoid downtime I plugged in the new one before unplugging the old. The few seconds that they were both plugged in was enough to cause a loop that halted production. When I got back to the office my boss sat me down and told me about Spanning Tree.

[@Hannwes]

13:32 That ain't the H for Halloween key Linus. That's the J for Jack'o'lantern key. H for house is next to it.

[@mifmr9710]

But is it wrong that I actually want this as a keyset

[@aesingame]

@@mifmr9710 nah, it's cute

[@jonm4206]

Absolutely fucking wrecked

[@mrmelon54]

I scrolled down to say exactly this

[@Kurrai6095]

my first thought for the house was H for home row

[@The_Nametag]

For old Western Digital hard drives, "put it in the oven" actually was one of the solutions for when it started sticking. Mind you, that was meant as a temporary solution "do this, and then quickly back up as much data off it as possible because it will fail again soon." But that's HDDs not SSDs, and we're talking mid to late 90's. Other solutions included "hit it with a rubber mallet" and "throw it flat at a carpeted floor". They just needed to get unjammed to recover data.

[@hooby_9066]

When I worked at large events with hundreds of computers being deployed, we'd *ALWAYS* use username=password for all the accounts (and they all had admin rights). no kiosk mode either. If any PC got borked, we'd just replace it - carry it back to the office - re-clone it - and and then put it in the replacements pile. We'd not even try to identify or fix the problem. That's just not efficient enough in a setting like that. With all the untrained staff and temp staff having to use those machines to do their (often stressful) job at the event - you can't enforce any kind of password security.

[@user-mn8lz7gf6d]

sounds like the best solution tbh

[@Ikxi]

couldn't even do biometrics likely, either people would need their own laptop then which could be annoying if you needed to use another one quickly or you couldn't save enough entries for people

[@mnxs]

Couldn't you have sent them their password by the same mechanism that you sent them their usernames? Even if that means sending a password in plaintext in an email, that's better security than password = username. I realise that they'd have to remember that extra piece of information though, might indeed be problematic... still, I find username = password to be absolutely abhorrent.

[@hooby_9066]

@@mnxs That's not how events work. You are there - at the venue, and hired people (sometimes rented personal from some event company - sometimes just students or interns) show up two hours before the visitor gates open. They'll probably spend one hour getting introduced to everything by the event organizer - meaning you get the other hour to teach them everything they need to know, to be able to use the system to... sell tickets, manage speaker presentations, or whatever they are supposed to be doing. You typically don't know their emails in advance - not even their names. They might be staff of the event organizer - flown in the night before, heavily jet-lagged. There might be last-minute replacements for someone who got sick... You got maybe 20 computers and 20 staff - and they might switch stations during the day... like the 5 stations closest to the entry must always be manned, so no matter the working hours and break-times... people always got to switch places to keep those 5 occupied at all times. You're not gonna create 20 individual accounts... with 20 usernames and 20 passwords.

[@doritokllr]

21:04 Those pockets are usually for vehicle information or gas cards for fleet vehicles. So this person was likely a new worker with their new van and didn't know. I've seen it often.

[@Daemione]

Yup, pretty sure that's a Ford Transit. Insane design to put a pocket there - but fits gas cards.

[@twonky6909]

@@Daemione It is a Ford Transit. And there even is a No Phone sign embedded in the plastic right above the pocket. Wouldn't be surprised, if that is only present on later models tho.

[@wesjohnson7074]

It also fits cigarette packs.

[@compubabble]

@@twonky6909 The "Don't put your phone here" iconography, which is now a full blown warning sticker in new ones, didn't exist for a long time.

[@ianivey8549]

Yeah I worked at a Ford dealer before as a mechanic and they had to remind people not to put their phones there when they started for that reason. Never was sure what it was for, never saw anything in them even working on company vehicles, not to say you are wrong or anything. The pockets in the door are in the Transit vans.

[@DerekWitt]

I used to do tech support for Compaq in the late 90s. I had one guy who was told by a previous tech support rep to reformat and reinstall Windows for no sound. All he had to do was… wait for it… plug in his speakers! The bad thing? This sort of shenanigans were more common than people realize!

[@notme222]

I often get the feeling that some tech support's approach is "This is so time consuming it will shut you up for a while." That must have been the case there because the OS would be the _least_ likely point of failure.

[@alhira5098]

Same with optimization software, TuneUp for example. Friend of mine bought a laptop and next friend convinced him to use TuneUp as it "speeds up the laptop". Sound was gone. Took me almost an hour to find, that TuneUp deactivated the Realtek sound driver. 😂

[@apocalyptosoldier5527]

Speaking of plugging in your speakers, I remember having one game (possibly COD5) that would crash if you didn't have something plugged into the aux port

[@DerekWitt]

@@notme222 oh yeah! The flowcharts that many manufacturers had tech support follow did absolutely nothing. They were only concerned about call times than actually resolving customer’s issues.

[@DerekWitt]

@@alhira5098 those “optimization” programs were little more than boxed horse manure.

[@petermccavington8232]

05:24 dude really opposed to an open piss bottle as opposed to the existence of piss bottles at all which tells me he's experienced in the matter 😂😂😂

[@xeridea]

At a construction site I used to work at the for a 22 story building, the construction elevator would often be backed up, so you would find these bottles laying around.

[@Sturmx]

Man baking the ram reminds me of when I was 16. My GTX 570 was artifacting and I fixed it by taking off the cooler, all the pads, putting it on aluminum balls and baking it in the oven. Forget what temperature but it actually fixed it. I guess it resoldered something? Worked for 2 years after that. Wouldn't EVER do that again but was happy at the time it worked!

[@Bozebo]

Yep not quite resoldering but it can weaken the solder just enough that it can change the contact a little and settle differently. I fixed my failing laptop's graphics for an extra two years by blasting it with a heat gun :)

[@user-mn8lz7gf6d]

it's called reflowing

[@Metal_Maxine]

15:00 Back in the 90s I read a copy of "PC's for Dummies", the best chapter heading was definitely "Your keyboard is not a Coffee Filter"

[@kevinbarnard3502]

I thought it was CD-ROM drive is not a coffee cup holder :P Wow, though. i remember having a bookcase full of the "...for Dummies" books.

[@Irondragon1945]

I was in a very famous TV show

[@Firepulser]

I have that book from the 90s, even now. Just to remind me how computing was back then.

[@Devastator0]

So on the matter of staff keeping a heater connected at their desks, I worked for global freight company and in our country, there was a standing ban on people plugging in heaters at desks/pods of desks because they would consistently trip circuit breakers and damaged hardware. We (IT) had to go all the way up to the Managing Director to issue a company wide directive on that.

[@linnoff]

Last place I worked was a very old building heated with a boiler, but it wasn't very reliable any more. Every room had at least 1 space heater and I'm amazed we didn't trip breakers more often and never set anything on fire. At one point we got a delivery of 10 more space heaters one winter, and I have a hard time believing that was a better option than fixing the building's heating.

[@Ikxi]

@@linnoff was probably the cheaper option like 5 digit probably for getting the new boiler and installed in a large building and then you'd need luck that the contractors are reliable spending a couple grand on spaceheaters probably seemed cheaper

[@SPeeSimon]

You can also trip the circuit braker by plugging in your laptop power. 🤣 I was working in a big office and a coworker came in an set up his desk to start to work. When he plugged in the powercord of his laptop all lights, monitors and desktop pc's on the entire floor turned off. People who were working on laptops had no issue. So 20 people or so, had to take an extra coffee break.

[@Bruellhusten123]

15 years ago when I started off in a company that does IT service I was told this: "The rack cable management must be pristine! Once the spaghetti starts you can't stop it unless you tear it all out. A clean server rack is way better advertisement for us than a fancy business card."

[@WrackPharmd]

So my dad did the “It wasn’t a drink holder after all” but the best part is after he slammed the door and the door didn’t shut he slammed it even harder. He just had pieces of phone after that.

[@brickcat5342]

Clicked on this video because Linus was in the left.

[@Leo9ine]

He's on the right!

[@TheSkcube]

I clicked on this video because Linus was on the right, let's battle lol. No seriously he was on the right in mine.

[@Fygxzx]

True

[@SpiritofanEagle]

@@brickcat5342 he's on the right for me and I have completely lost interest.

[@luis4290]

In my case, Linus was on the right, and I have a rule, if he is on the right I inmediatly click and watch the video, otherwise I watch it later at night

[@casimir_123]

I think we can all appreciate him specifying the fact that the 4090 is a mobile version at 16:05 unlike other tech reviewers...

[@Guru_1092]

I was thinking the same thing myself. I wonder if he had to argue with the sponsor for that.

[@Kebaskia]

LTT wouldn't have taken the sponsor if they had to lie about the product.

[@Ducksnuget]

Wait, people watch the ads?

[@Kebaskia]

@@Ducksnuget I don't mind sponsorships, I have Premium though so I never see ads anyway.

[@Guru_1092]

@@Ducksnuget Sometimes it's nice to know about new or interesting tech, and sonetimes discounts are given. LTT is why I bought ugreen chargers. No issues so far.

[@briandeschene8424]

I’ve seen people use port splitters when there were free ports on a switch because they ran out of physical ports mapped to a particular VLAN and “the guy” who knew all the switch/router stuff was let go and no handover or documentation happened.

[@nike9971]

Origin... if you re listening.. Mentioning Origin multiple times is not helping your cause, rather making us hate you more, if not anything else. Once or twice is the limit of it.

[@robertp457]

Calm down Francis.

[@MuhlisErtugrul]

@@robertp457 Let him cook.

[@Kleyguerth]

I guess their idea is that if someone sends the video timestamped to one of the gore examples, that viewer will also see the ad...

[@Damindeater]

If the make you hate them, they have created an emotion. Emotions make you remember stuff. So they imprinted their name and message into your mind. Even when you hate them, you now remember that they have some new laptops with custom prints.

[@Kleyguerth]

​@@Damindeater But if I hate them, I'll actively look for custom printed laptops from another company, out of spite. This works if you're big enough that you own dozens of brands though. I checked, Corsair is their parent company... I guess that works for them...

[@jordii_vv5471]

As someone who worked IT in a school that used Ipad's (For some godforsaken reason) I can assure you, that not only drawing on the devices happened near daily, but the peeling the glass of the screen happened surprisingly often. As in I would get a device like that every 2 or 3 days often......

[@Ularg7070]

This is why senior year when they did a test run of the laptop program it wasn't on loan. Cart gets rolled in, you use any laptop for the class. Everything is saved to your profile, you hand the laptop back in at the end of class.

[@xproflipscarab]

We do the same thing at my school... Kids still trash them and Teachers don't keep them organised... The amount of hours we've spent this summer searching the whole school for missing chromebooks is a joke...

[@Ularg7070]

@@xproflipscarab That sucks, I'm sorry. Know they're kids but sucks to deal with still.

[@JJFlores197]

@@xproflipscarab Where I work at, we leave the organization to the teacher. We have Chromebook carts (essentially laptop charging carts) in most classrooms. We provide them with 28-36 devices depending on class size.

[@Deminese2]

I always did that in school back in like 2009-2012. They just had laptop carts we used for the class period and they expected you to write write/research your essays then. + computer lab was open after hours for a bit.

[@crytocc]

That's how it worked back when I went to high school, with laptop carts - but given that there was about a 50/50 chance that you'd grab a broken laptop from it, and there weren't enough spares to give everyone a working one... I wouldn't say that that worked very well either.

[@joejoseph3078]

I worked at a company that was 2 floors and a basement. On a friday night a water line on the 2nd floor burst and it flooded the building for 2 whole days without anyone knowing until it reached the basement and flooded the servers. Luckily the business was a multi site company and there were backups at other locations, but this was during COVID and almost everyone was working at home, and the servers were already stretched with all the remote working. The building had to be half gutted for repairs, and it was a historical building as well so the repairs had to be done by specialty contractors. The basement now has safety systems in place to alarm if flooding happens, and there are multiple sump pumps in place.

[@Taaaamas]

Took me too long to realise the two groups of two were not in the same room together

[@thomasb1521]

@@Taaaamas yea it's impressive how difficult it was to notice.

[@YuokoII]

I’ve realized it after 15 mins of watching 😂

[@dotnetapp]

didn't realized it had to check after your comment if your shitting with me lol

[@marcus-indreksimmer2277]

I wonder why they did it this way. Realized it also when saw either pair not reacting to the other pair lol

[@Hyperus]

Are you sure? That interaction at about 21:25 seems pretty much impossible under those circumstances. Though that could just be editing. Some other situations don't seem very synced at all and/or there is a distinct lack of talking to each other in general.

[@incredulousdisbelief9841]

0:01 Good god I thought that was Linus in a wig in that opening photo he looks EXACTLY like his mom.

[@SpezyCoasters]

@@incredulousdisbelief9841 I just wanted to write that haha

[@JohnLasseter-ct5in]

You mean that ISNT him in a wig?

[@devnol]

you're saying that is not edited? Dear god.

[@jaydyer6682]

She looks so linusy

[@SirClicks.]

Dude yes

[@vittorioballeriocastoldi6171]

A friend of mine is a wood worker, he and his family are from the best in the business in Bergamo. He told me that once he smelled smoke and in a wood working shop is obviously dangerous especially because he noticed that the computer was smoking, apparently was full of wood dust. Now he has a different solution for the cnc computer

[@TheEvilMrJeb]

Former IT guy here, this was painful from the secondhand cringe of these clips because I’ve seen similar. A pc so clogged with ash from a smoker that it stopped working inside 5 min. Daisy chaining. People screwing up components. Ugh, I got stressed from watching this video. And yet… excellent vid, I will continue watching.

[@MikrySoft]

I know of a factory where owner decided (rightfully so) that instead of getting super sealed, rugged keyboards, it was cheaper to get cheapest OEM keyboards (it was for machine operators, so key feeling wasn't an issue) and replace them often. You could blow them out once or twice with compressed air to prolong their lifespan, but sometimes the boss got a call from the floor to tell the worker the order keys go back in - when they flew across the room after contact with full ~250PSI of shop air.

[@linuxguy1199]

Boss sounds next level stupid, I wonder what the cost of labor is to replace keyboards and find + re-install keycaps after they fly off?

[@MikrySoft]

@@linuxguy1199 99.9% of the time people knew to use the low pressure blow off guns. And cost of labor? "Oh, my keyboard doesn't work too well, let me spend 30 seconds blowing out the dust with the air hose I have within my reach. Didn't help? Welp, now I got to waste 2 minutes grabbing a new one from a closet". And even if the keys fall off, installing all 100-something of them takes what, 5 minutes if you have another keyboard handy as a template? This wasn't an Amazon warehouse where workers don't have the time to piss. Math was simple. Spend hundreds on keyboard that lasted a year or spend tens on a couple of cheapest keyboards, that each lasted maybe 3 months.

[@cooper10182]

Factory I work at does this, the floor computers all have like basic dell/Compac/gateway OEM keyboards if they haven't been replaced in the last 2 years. I think they haven't found a cheap source of those in a while cause now its the cheap Logitech wireless combos you can get from Walmart.

[@reichstein011]

Surely just using those flexible roll-up keyboards would be a better option? They are a kinda crap typing experience, but they are very cheap, and pretty much fully sealed against dust and liquid.

[@abcpea]

or just get rubber keyboard protectors?

[@NikolaiProkoschenko]

Where I was born, there used to be an urban legend that cacti can trap "bad radiation" from CRT monitors, so that a lot of monitors back in the day had cacti on or beside them. It has been incredibly difficult to convince one's mom not to put a cactus on your beloved monitor, but I've been lucky to manage that -- I've witnessed my mom watering a cactus sitting in a kind of woven plant pot atop of my monitor while it's been on. I've shown her water running down the side of a working electronic device and this has actually been enough proof to never have a cactus near my computer ever again.

[@mieruKai]

I love introvert vs extrovert jokes and how absolutely respectful these guys are of another. Probably getting paid and know they're clearly recorded, but... I like to imagine this is their work vibe

[@shandromand1675]

5:55 - years ago I was contracted to help clean up a hotel's network and was told the client said 'It's a little messy.' I took a picture and sent it to my recruiter and said, 'uh, did I hope they paid you well, because this is going to be way more than the four hours you asked me to work. WAY more.' ... 'Yeah, why don't you come on back to the shop.' They had to renegotiate the contract and they also had to send someone else because I was double-booked for server/POS upgrades. I don't miss contract work, really I don't.

[@kraftypk7283]

Where do you even start 😂

[@adog8123]

@@kraftypk7283 This is only scary to newbies. Network tools are your friend here there's a reason most wire maps are also tone generators. Old factories/hospitals/giant corp. offices all have scary looking network closets from decades of actual use. The only reason these guys are like "WhO kNoWs?!" is from inexperience. You can see the port on the switch you're on from a network tool and work from there.

[@user-mn8lz7gf6d]

"why don't you come on back to the shop" lol

[@ShopGalbo]

Would've wish they were all actually recording this reaction together instead of separately, I believe the reactions would've been even more gold!

[@bahamutbbob]

Yeah, usually this type of video everyone is on set together, even if they're sitting at different desks.

[@tsKroony]

Yea some weird disjointed energy from this one.

[@andrewfelsher7872]

21:49 There was 100% some discussion about liquid metal versus thermal paste and bro read "TP" as toilet paper.

[@trulybtd5396]

Hey, "experts", the reason you use rj45 "splitters" isn't due to lack of ports in the switch, but due to lack of cables in the wall. They don't split the port, you use one on one side to truncate two ports into one cable, and one on the other side to split them again. They work fine, if you only need 2 of the 4 pairs in the cable, which is the case for 100Mbit ethernet on rj45. For Gbit you need all 4 pairs. The second pair may be wonky tho, especially on cat5 as the brown pair (not used in stabdard 100Mbit cabling) is not twisted the same way as the others and is more sensitive to noise.

[@quickclips5449]

You mad bro

[@trulybtd5396]

@@quickclips5449 experienced, you mean?

[@Sismodium]

This was Elijahs best video ever - he wasn't trying to be a clown. Please do more of this Elijah.

[@blewis42002]

Hey now. We love all Elijahs, clown Elijah and normal Elijah.

[@MordeKa0s]

I just like him in general, what a great decision to put him in front of a camera.

[@danc8019]

I’m sorry but he’s my least favorite member of the on-camera team. He’s kinda annoying and immature

[@LegXacy]

@@danc8019 He has personality imo, I'm glad there's someone who isn't serious all the time, but knows when to be serious.

[@DrShockz]

@@danc8019 literally bro, and he was having the biggest sook on scrapyard wars like he just kills the vibe

[@waynemacleod3416]

worked for a call center that provided PC OS and hardware support for a pc manufacturer. after putting the new hires through "training" (which primarily entailed using the pc manufacturer's online tools) called the computer technicians. Well,,,, one said tecnician was visiting a friend on a weekend with pc problems. So the determined the pci cards needed reseating, and proceded to do so with the PC still on. One dead pc later the call center later changed people's title from "computer technician" to "tech support agent"

[@M15tER-X]

NGL I installed an SSD like that my first time working with SSDs. It was (and still is) an Intel 660p 1TB and worked completely fine for over 3 years bent like that. When I realized there was something wrong with the mounting, I put the apposite standoff, remounted the SSD and than put the heatsink on top so it would press down the SSD and straighten it. That SSD is still serving me and doing its job completely fine and now it’s even almost straight

[@LucidGhostYT]

"almost straight" sent me lmaoooo

[@TatsuZZmage]

that is both horrifying and a testament to its quality.

[@M15tER-X]

@@TatsuZZmage when I reinstalled it and put the heatsink on I really thought that the PCB would crack or that some traces would be ruined while “straightening”, but it was a secondary SSD at that point so I didn’t truly care if it’d happen. Instead it continued working perfectly to this day. Every time I think about what I’ve done I cringe a lot, but that thing is freaking reliable

[@user-mn8lz7gf6d]

hardware is a lot more robust than people give it credit for.

[@ramirezthale]

for any of you out there, do not use origin pc's for a custom computer, they are over priced and when they have shortages on parts they will not tell you until you contact them to ask why the computer hasn't shipped 3 weeks after the initial estimated shipping date and then will proceed to try to up charge you for different parts to "expedite" the build.

[@Phin_Again]

9:29 KRONII FROM HOLOLIVE JUMPSCARE LMAO

[@Deses]

Those streams where she got attacked by Cortana were glorious.

[@sneezyy.]

kroni jumpscar

[@decemberTakoTako]

perfect woman

[@Ikxi]

LMAO Good eyes! Cortana really traumatized Kronii xD

[@Justinius117]

Kroniichiwa

[@tyty2240]

Origin: How many ad segues can you put into one video? Linus: Yes.

[@jamesphillips2285]

They even lampshaded how annoying it is. 14:00

[@Sevicify]

@@jamesphillips2285 With how Linus reacted and considering the next segue was less than 2 minutes after it really seemed like that one wasn't even planned for that time, just seemed like Plouffe just saw a good opportunity to piggy back off the Chromebook "artwork" into it.

[@James2210]

LTT has figured out how to make sure you see the sponsor: just shout it out every 15 seconds

[@personwhohasnoname]

I wonder if Origin requested the repeat call outs, either way it was really awkwardly done and ruined the flow of the video. In general the sponsor spots have been getting worse.

[@Lighthammer18]

Oh so that's why the video was randomly skipping ahead for me.

[@chicane90]

after i've seen the 4th one, the vid earned a downvote.

[@TikkaQrow]

1:40 hospitals. Nothing can be taking offline. Lives literally depend on continued up time. So as equipment is added/removed, ideal routing can't always happen. after a decade, it gets bad and it STAYS bad.

[@jamesdavis3116]

@@TikkaQrow I’m not quite sure about that granted systems need to talk to other systems, but I am unaware of a system in a hospital solely running off of network connection to keep the person alive. We’re not quite there yet.

[@AMAudiot]

LTT: How much shout outs to the Sponsor do you want? Origin PC: Yes! LTT: no worries. I‘ve got you covered.

[@seraph3667]

i liked the breaks in this Origin PC ad video

[@veenmikki27]

@@seraph3667 showed a good usage of the product this video is about

[@XanderFenikkusu]

9:33 Kronii appearance on LTT

[@Eh_Nope]

total Holo world domination

[@TheHammerGuy94]

Ah yes, the Cortana vs Kronii incidents!!!

[@ZachLayne]

Hi! I'm Cortana. Hi! I'm Cortana...

[@aquilaaltair6303]

Kronii: activates Cortana Cortana: experiences Requiem

[@foxtrots5223]

Yeah as soon as I saw it I instantly started to look in the comments for if anyone else saw it

[@thomasquigley7040]

We had a community centre that lost it's internet for about 15 minutes at 9 pm every thursday. After months of troubleshooting we found out one staff member was unknowingly unplugging the server to plug in her curling iron. Lesson learned, we had to drop an outlet in the locked server closet.

[@ArtForSwans]

The slow realization that crept up my spine when I realized the half-finished bottles of power-aid weren't actually half-finished, they've been refilled.......

[@MikronyxReborn]

Holy ad's batman, how much did origin pay to plug them 3+ times throughout the video, yikes.

[@acewright-n4q]

The whole video was paid for by Origin. Its a way to have a sponsored video and not do the stupid boring overview videos

[@Bassalicious]

that's what I thought too. every 2 minutes some plug or other.

[@cubertmiso]

ad's were better than the content from that eliah guy

[@Wavpro]

​dont hate on elijah@@cubertmiso

[@ryans413]

4x actually once at the beginning then again part way through then again and then the end

[@moilane]

21:04 That's a Ford Transit. Stupid design having an inaccesible pocket (when door is closed) meant to hold a wallet or something and they "fixed" it later on by putting on a sticker that says don't put your phone in it.

[@jasonbaren3595]

rip amazon drivers phones

[@LuxO2__]

@@moilane I use it for company gas card since I can grab it on the way out and not lose it

[@michaeltempsch5282]

@@LuxO2__ Also looks about the right size for the rectangular acrylic/plexiglass ice scrapers, so I'd probably use it for that, along with a micro fiber cloth for various uses + anti rattle.

[@jamesstack7237]

Huh. Interesting. I honestly assumed it was just part of the vent for defrosting the window. Good call, sir or ma'am.

[@looseycanon]

I thought, that it was for ice scrubber, cause, you know... not accessible, while the doors are closed. Škoda does this better, they have a holder on the inside of the tank door.

[@Happymali10]

13:00 My dad once had his laptop-charger in a three-plug extension plugged into a timer he usually used for lights. He got upset that his laptop didn't charge over night (when the timer was off). I tried to tell him that that was the reason, but he told me the timer was "just for the lights" and the laptop should still get power. Yeah...no. That 30+ years old timer that you can hear mechanically clicking forward does not care what you plug into it.

[@YonsungLee]

Adult Linus looking like a carbon copy of the lady in the photo

[@DarcMagikian]

well she is his mom.

[@Greedy-Allay]

@Mohit-k7j thats fake bro

[@DccToon]

@Mohit-k7j not remotely related to linus, this is self promotion.

[@uderzo1984]

I think that is his mom, the way that's family DNA works, they only make carbon copies, lol. Just look at his sister, they look very much alike, and his kids are a perfect blend of himself and his wife :D

[@najamkhalil123]

I thought it was a deep fake of linus

[@solaceinrage]

My brother is a car salesman, he told me some years back the little cubby thing mistaken for "Phone holders" on some car doors are for parking ticket stubs. If you have to put a ticket stub n to pay to exit a parking deck, you leave it in that holder and there is no risk of losing it or damaging it in your pocket, purse etc.

[@mnxs]

In this particular case, that doesn't make sense. Here, the little cubby gets completely covered by the overhanging dashboard. You wouldn't be able to access the space with the door closed, which would normally be the situation when you're at the gate exiting a parking lot.

[@solaceinrage]

@@mnxs You take the stub out when you get back in the car, when the door is open anyway.

[@pinking5555]

At 16:17 it normal happens because that server room needs 100% up time like in hospitals and such. Where the IT guy can't shut down the servers to rewire every time an upgrade is needed.

[@andljoy]

You ether have planned downtime or unplanned downtime there is no other option. Our trust finally came around to this but it was hard work :P. I mean we did not even get time to patch servers before wanacry.

[@zoarsnowpaw3549]

I worked as a student in the hospital IT department where I live and every server room was a mess of jumbled wires, But yeah they can't have any downtime as who knows what kind of work is being done by the enduser

[@wyterabitt2149]

You just segment the wards/sections better with the IT servers. There's no excuse for it, I mean the way to do it properly without this issue is 10x easier than operating that kind of mess.

[@DiyEcoProjects]

That was fun Guys ~ make this a regular feature please

[@vaat]

Elijah's idea to read top comments was actually a really fun touch!

[@ganashal]

Having Jordan and Elijah is awesome, and having Elijah giving out great tips (and his archival knowledge of the back catalogue) is really cool. Really like the vibes of this one, more please :)

[@alex_allier9]

21:35 If im not wrong and that's a truck, that's for your hand, to help you get inside the driver seat. You hold to that point and one that's on the other side of the door frame.

[@newmachine00]

Now i just need another video like this NOW!

[@iap7597]

Props to whoever edited this to make it look like everyone filmed it together!

[@echtogammut]

6:01, I took over as CTO of a company that had a room like that. The bizarre thing was it wasn't all the company's wiring. The telco had used the network room as a local distribution center (I never got a complete story on this, it was a deal from the 50's) and when they moved out, they left behind a rat's nest and the company moved their patch panel into the same room, leaving all the telco's wiring intact. I still remember walking up into the network room and having this OF moment, wondering what I was looking at, because the amount of wiring didn't make sense. Nothing was labelled and it was a bizarre collection of equipment.

[@user-mn8lz7gf6d]

a lot of ISPs did that.

[@max_archer]

That coffee spill laptop is just a a "Pad" now because there was definitely no thinking involved there.

[@Kakail]

I did phone support for computer problem for 2-3 years. The best tip i can give is: when a customer ask something that doesn't make sense, ask: Why are you saying that? Generally, there is a assomption that wrong. It amplify to the point that he doesn't make sense.

[@LyubenVassilev]

The worst tech nightmare is that there are 11 ad inserts in this one video.

[@SnabbKassa]

They are much preferable to google inserted ads, and at least they are marked.

[@LyubenVassilev]

@@SnabbKassa Yeah, no.

[@admiralspire]

@@SnabbKassa This is beyond spittig int eh fae of his viewers at this point. How fuckig abdly does he need the money in ordfer to agressively shovel in an eamoutn of ads even network Tv would deem too invasive?

[@qers]

Are you okay? ​@@admiralspire

[@mustdy7177]

These can at least be skipped using timecodes. While for native youtube ones you have to wait and watch degenerate ads 2 times for 20+ seconds

[@thealmightynjections3858]

I love how unhinged Jordan is. Teaming him and Elijah was an amazing idea

[@ninnusridhar]

This reminds me of the worst server room i ever saw. It was a filing storage room plus server room. There were a hundred boxes of 15 year old documents just molding. Wires everywhere. No air conditioning. The only ventilation was a small window high up in the room where a pigeon was living quite happily. The fact that someone high up had deleted some financial data illegally took a back seat to us dealing with the absolute mess first

[@winstonslone2797]

Saw something similar in the network closet of a nursing home I was doing I.T. for. Took hours to trace the cables. Took an entire shift to get it looking half decent. I was actually working like that just a few printers had lost connectivity. What a nightmare. I always label everything and neatly manage the cable runs. I'm medically retired and this makes my happy after seeing this.

[@birdiemaradoth]

Elijah and Jordan are the duo i didnt know i needed

[@LoftechUK]

26:42 please let me add this was the most funniest video you lot have done in years. I’m dying in tears. Thank you all of you.

[@AndTecks]

The "not a phone holder" is in new Ford vans(maybe others) and there is a large sticker that says "NO PHONE". It's a pretty stupid decision to add that slot imo

[@Zhajn]

what is the slot for though?

[@TheSkcube]

@@AndTecks if they put a usb plug/wireless android auto/carplay, and make most phones fit in the cavity, it could help prevent distracted driving.

[@TheSkcube]

@@Zhajn apparently just storage that's inaccessible when the door is closed.

[@Ra-Hul-K]

maybe it's only meant for the Razr folding phone

[@Grandwigg]

​@@Zhajnothers have said it was for something like an ice scraper. One person said they use it for the company gas card so they don't have to carry around and it's always in the vehicle and just grab it with gasing up.

[@spurdo4434]

with all those cable hell server room situations i think the best and most efficient way to clean up the cables is to shut off all the servers take everything out, sort out the cables, catalog them and then see what needs to go where and just completely redo the cable work properly

[@vikaskrishnan4018]

I'm glad that the red dot on the thinkpad is universally called THE NIPPLE. I thought it was only me.

[@thor6485]

What's with all of these reactions in my Origin sponsorship video ? Jokes aside mentioning Origin every 2 video reacts was a little jarring.

[@Amathaeon]

Agreed its a bit of a scummy advertising tactic that you would see in the 1950s

[@BugattiBoy01]

What?

[@Amathaeon]

@@BugattiBoy01 the Novelty tactic

[@lolly166541]

@@Amathaeon Sure, but did you know about the new Origin PC Eon SL? It's a bit smaller and a bit less powerful but with a less pricy pricetag?

[@DrCornTato]

I felt the same way. It was quite annoying and disruptive.

[@vuxpee]

Asking how much that is in celsius killed me 😂

[@wir7460]

I enjoyed this video! And kudos to the editing, I gotta say that was pretty smoothly done, it worked really well. That was a lot of sponsor spots though, but this is why keyboards have arrow-keys.

[@doctorcoke5072]

Man, that image at 4:32 is old af. I've seen it posted in "battlestation threads" on 4chan as far back as 15 years ago, which of course tracks with the classic model Xbox 360 in the image.

[@TestyMcTesterson]

@@doctorcoke5072 right?? I laughed the minute it came up on screen, old old picture

[@roryoconnell815]

"H for Halloween" *zooms in on the J key with a Jack-o-lantern*

[@BauwenDR]

The key next to it was H for House, was wondering what else the House could have stood for

[@jonathanwessner3456]

Made the Kite next to it seem odd.....

[@kuebby]

Thank you, I was trying to figure out what J word it could be. Once they'd primed me with Halloween I couldn't think of anything else.

[@JeffGrandinetti]

Apparently the kid drawing system works 'cuz they clearly know their keyboard layout better than these adults did

[@N01RxN3K0]

21:17 I believe this is in the Ford transit the first few generations only had a slight embossed symbol with a Crossover a cellphone. I think now they have a big colored warning sticker

[@MCKornbred]

Been feeling a bit depressed lately. Thanks for posting this. I’m in literal tears from laughing so much 🤣🤣🤣

[@partypopper318]

It took me half the video to realize that the two pairs of hosts were reacting separately from each other 😅 Seriously, good job to the editors for making this such a seamless viewing experience.

[@noap1236]

I probably wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for your comment

[@craigmccune6066]

for this vid i went 1. together 2. Are they apart? 3. nope together (at one point, it seamed like linus was reacting to Elijah) 4.Nope apart

[@omegadecisive]

Reality is a lie 😭

[@sumnerm]

I love how shocked you are at the state of the school Chromebooks! If colouring stuff in was the worst kids did we’d be good. Best I’ve seen was a blog where a kid cut the Samsung logo on their laptop up, and re-glued it to read ASSMUNG.

[@JJFlores197]

Where I work, a few students over the years have ripped off every key from their Chromebook and put the letters p e n i s b u t t Some have punctured the trackpads, others look like they tried to saw through the screen, stabbed the screen and so on.

[@sumnerm]

@@JJFlores197 damn, that's crazy. never seen them take saws to stuff

[@c7ndk]

@25:12 absolutely don't do it in the oven you use for cooking foods. fumes from glue, expoxy, solder(espically if containing lead) etc generated under heating of a pcb isn't healthy

[@jordanwhalen6705]

I haven't laughed so hard in a while, Ive been having a rough time lately and I really needed that. Thanks Linus and team.

[@DasNoodle]

21:40 the toiletpaper was probably bc they read the abbreviation of TP for Thermal Paste but thought it was Toilet Paper

[@roactheraven]

That was my thought as well :)

[@random_n]

Better than the other way around. Thermal paste is tough enough to get off your fingers, never mind... 😬

[@cocoadragon8554]

@@random_n but bro, think about the cooling benefits. no summer swap ass!!