Tech that DIDN'T let me down.

[@clementpruvost8670]

Evil dankpods be like:

[@Croatilillious]

"I HATE the headphone jack and I'm glad it's dead!!" -Evil DankPods

[@oseidwomoh]

Opposite Dank.

[@_SYDGAMING_]

​@Croatilillious "I don't want my PUCKCELL back you can have it " Evil Dankpods

[@Croatilillious]

@@_SYDGAMING_ Frank smells amaaazing

[@_SYDGAMING_]

​@Croatilillious lmao 🤣 that got me 😆

[@confusioned2249]

The problem with good tech isn't that it's rare, it's that when it works flawlessly you eventually forget it's even there

[@Pickelrye]

That's why crap gets more views - It's practically made to be yelled at for your dollars.

[@Moxzot]

And then when it eventually breaks people will call it a piece of crap even though it has never been an issue.

[@hornetthehivewing6265]

Unintentional poetry!

[@AntiPseudo]

It's why being an engineer can really suck sometimes; some of my best work is the stuff that nobody ever notices.

[@thomasseymour4190]

No, it’s rare. Most of it is crap.

[@SmokeyEdits]

"it's all vintage crap... bluerays," instilled a level of terror in me i was not prepared for

[@dotdot..]

Feeling old?..

[@pokehybridtrainer]

@@dotdot.. Yeah. Lots of stores don't sell movies anymore. Gotta order online. I miss browsing to find a movie.

[@SmokeyEdits]

@@dotdot.. I grew up on VHS, I've been old

[@RusticRonnie]

@@SmokeyEditsfeeling older

[@tangerine4606]

Blu ray first came out in 2006. Nearly a 20 year old format

[@skyefarnan2311]

0:50 Valve asks people not to smell the exhaust of the steam deck

[@tedasaurusrex4402]

Gaben can't stop me from huffing exhaust fumes

[@nifiga_prikolno]

​@@tedasaurusrex4402Man I love exhaust fumes nobody can stop me smelling those

[@tedasaurusrex4402]

@@nifiga_prikolno man of taste

[@Sherolox]

Ironically, I first recall that EXACT same exhaust smell from my 6-year old Nintendo Switch. It was addicting. And now my entire Steam Deck case smells like it.

[@Crawfishness]

Isn't it just the smell of the plastic shell heating up? Well, I guess if it's making a smell at all, it means a chemical is gonna be in your nose.

[@GridDweller77]

valve said publicly that you should not huff the steamdeck fumes, despite how good it smells

[@Wampa842]

It smells like lung cancer

[@lilwyvern4]

Telling someone not to do something is just going to make them want to do it more.

[@izitris7]

@@Wampa842 i dont have a steam deck but i bet it smells like ANTI-cancer

[@ArtoriasNX]

It's just them covering themselves, sniff away

[@byrne.]

Shrek watch will now outlast the sun

[@MasterCraft_48]

Shrek never dies!

[@karuuu]

Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

[@leothecat2834]

real

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Year 3000 Archaelogists find that Shrek watch... "Oh the poor green Dingus tribe"

[@samholdsworth420]

Shrock

[@joeofloath]

In 2014 I bought a Fujifilm X-E1 camera, used. Last year I dropped it, and emailed them asking if I could buy parts. They offered to repair my 12 year old camera for a flat rate repair fee that was essentially the cost of labour and shipping. The camera I received back a week later was almost entirely brand new. I can't stop shilling them because that's not just the bare minimum service, that's outstanding. I'd be happy if it's the last camera I ever buy, but they might get a few more customers out of me yet.

[@Girvo747]

Fujifilm are so great. I finally upgraded my X-E1 to an X-E4 haha

[@asadfarraj]

Cameras, in my opinion are still the least affected by enshittification. While yes, Fujifilm is outstanding in this aspect, you can still just send your however year old camera to traditional camera companies like Nikon, Olympus, Canon and they would repair it for a flat rate. I hope it remains this way.

[@jesuschrist711]

​@@asadfarrajimo they have been subject to a form of enshittification. the service and quality of the items is still amazing, but the price the ask has gone up while the actual doing is kinda meh. its not crap but i really struggle to see the sold features being $4k plus worthy. $2k i can absolutely see for those top kings but the current price to performance ratio is just not the same. it seemed to start going down as soon as phones took over but they are still good devices so credit where due

[@blinkx1070]

@@Girvo747 Fujifilm are great, unless you want to buy the Polaroid film and cameras they intentionally under-produce to keep prices up

[@ChristianStout]

​@@jesuschrist711Part of it is that they keep their value for much longer. Cameras might be the only piece of tech that still fetches half its MSRP on eBay when it's 8 years old.

[@Galantium]

enshittification is SO present that this is more useful to me than videos showing something is bad. Bad is the baseline, Quality is the outlier sad as it is, and this really helps with shifting through all the manufactured landfill! 💖

[@ashkitt7719]

I do wonder what it is about DankPods that makes it so he can discuss this and radicalize folks and not get hate for being a "filthy woke commie" or whatever. Whatever he's doing we could learn a lot from him. My hypothesis is that it's subtle. Think Sonic SatAM vs Captain Planet when it comes to 90s environmentalist cartoons.

[@crazydvae]

@@ashkitt7719 Because everyone relates to the phenomenon of "I can't do my job because the tools I was given are breaking". Even if it's a phenomenon that everyone on the left side of the compass has seen coming for decades, it's undeniably affecting everyone on the planet in the present moment.

[@connivingkhajiit]

That's cause all people buy these days is whatever shows up first on amazon, never actually looking into what kind of value a product has or how good a product is

[@qwerty4748]

@@ashkitt7719 what about this is woke?

[@LairdDeimos]

​@@qwerty4748 Nothing, but some whiny people are radical corporate brown nosers.

[@accountid9681]

"my next thing's gonna be linux" "Valve make a desktop version of your OS" I can't wait for the collab with mutahar

[@TheDiner50]

Valve making a desktop/TV Steam device would also be a grate step. And a full blown OS for Winblows first hardware? Yea that would probably force a change in the hardware and software market to not be shit. Say whatever about usability of Windows/Linux. The fact is that booting up Winblows leaves you with a idle desktop that SUCKS power and resources. Hitting ram/cpu/internet constantly without you doing ANYTHING. Whiles Linux is at most talking with your network for the bare minimum to be 'on' the network. There really is NOTHING going on in the background of a Linux OS. SSDs Trim might not even be scheduled to run. While Windows have to repair the filesystem it uses constantly to hopefully not be broken when trying to start it up next time... It is insane having a 4-12core CPU on linux. It barely needs a single core to run. Compared to Winblows that wants 4 cores to do who knows what. 2GB of ram on Linux is not a big issue either. 4GB is more then good enough to do serious stuff on it. Winblows? 2GB is what you probably are left having usable with 'only' 6GB of system memory.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@TheDiner50 the funny thing is they did make a little SteamOS box for your TV, like 10 years ago, but basically no one bought it. Possibly because it had to stream from your gaming PC over your LAN, rather than being truly standalone like the Deck is, but yeah. That's where Big Picture mode came from!

[@problemdude390]

Too bad that guy sucks

[@Ze_eT]

@@TheDiner50 My "as cheap as possible" school laptop couldn't run a consistent 30 FPS on Windows 11 when running _nothing._ Installed Linux Mint immediately, and it runs perfectly even when having multiple programs open or a simple game.

[@Chirishman6]

⁠@@kaitlyn__L they actually shipped a full desktop SteamOS back then but it had serious issues. The state of gaming on Linux was not yet what it has become, Proton didn’t exist yet and gaming using Wine was *rough*. Drivers support especially for gaming GPUs was hit or miss too. The installer also didn’t ask you about drives so it would just wipe all of the hdds that you had mounted at time of install and just kind of… choose one to write itself to. With no warnings. I also don’t remember it having a desktop mode like the DeckOS has but I could be wrong about that. The device that you’re thinking of was called the Steam Link. I actually still have one in a box somewhere. Source: I helped people build gaming PCs for a living back when the original SteamOS/Steam Box thing happened so it was relevant to my livelihood.

[@mransom94]

Wade: All my PCs are now Linux ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

[@Penumbra_Morning_Star]

I've been making the switch to linux as well. there's been plenty of really stressful moments because I have trouble learning new things, but I have a girlfriend who is amazing with it who is helping me lots, and I love it. I'm actually getting excited to do computer stuff again, I haven't been this fascinated since my first Windows ME machine from childhood. the ability to say "this is MY pc and I'll do as I please with it" and not have any giant corporation's fingers all over my data is so amazing, and I can't wait until I can officially ditch windows 100%, I only have a single machine running 10 at this point so I can play some games that dont work on linux with my other gf

[@rami-succar7356]

linux is great tbh

[@nickwallette6201]

I love me some Linux. I usually have no less than 5 computers or VMs running Linux at home for various reasons. But, moving to Mac OS for my day-to-day was the best of all worlds. App support nearly on par with Windows, all the CLI greatness of Linux, and I never have to do anything with it or to it, it just works. I enjoy screwing around with computers, it's my hobby. But for my daily driver, my work computer, and my laptop which doubles as a work computer, I want it to be powerful and invisible. Mac OS is that. Linux has a long, long way to go to reach that level of dependability. Don't get me wrong -- the kernel is remarkably stable, and much of the software I use in Linux is also solid as a rock. But as a desktop..... eeehhhhhhh.... What it needs most is antithetical to the ecosystem: Good project management with a clear vision and a defined roadmap. What it has is an army of hackers following their dopamine.

[@CatLorenzini]

Valve, they make absolutely amazing products twice then fall asleep for years then do it again

[@kiwigaming09]

That's because they can't count to three and has to wait for the timer to reset

[@lady.foxpoint]

still hoping for portal 3 before the glados voice actress inevitably kicks the bucket...

[@thehousecat93]

Steam pays the bills so they’re not going to release something unless they think it completely upends gaming or the gaming industry and good for them. That’s mostly a positive, outside of not getting narrative closure on HL.

[@connivingkhajiit]

Feels like they are the only company that actually cares about their consumers

[@Twiddle_things]

​@@lady.foxpoint I wonder if that does happen, if they'll ever manage to find a suitable replacement. She has such a unique voice 😞

[@cratungai]

Please make this a series. With the world the way it is now, you have no idea how refreshing it is to hear something *positive* for a change.

[@not_kode_kun]

there's only so much tech that doesn't let us down nowadays, sadly

[@sesch629]

It's also good to get recommendations for shit you actually should spend your money on (if you're planning on spending in the first place that is)

[@Markyparky56]

It's a yearly round-up, he's done it for a couple years now I think? Technically a series, just very far apart. Anything faster and things wouldn't get the same level of testing required to meet these standards.

[@TechnoJon96]

Cannot upvote this hard enough. Dank if you’re listening this was the best watch I’ve had in months

[@ast_rsk]

Good news is Valve _has_ committed to releasing steamOS 3.0 as an independent OS, much like the previous versions before they switched to Arch based. Patiently awaiting, got my system setup with EndeavourOS specifically to prepare for steamOS once it releases for desktops.

[@Twiddle_things]

Valve + 3? What world do we live in

[@rockpie.squashfs]

​@@Twiddle_thingsthis one

[@notme8232]

@@Twiddle_things Half-Life 3 got leaked

[@VoidAlo]

steamOS "3".0 ??😱

[@ardnys35]

that's cool and i hope it works well with nvidia drivers

[@winkystinky]

It's weird to hear Wade happy about tech, but I'm so glad he's finally found solid tech.

[@bens1343]

Tech that hasn't let you down... yet

[@zerodrayton6581]

"please make a desktop version of this OS" meanwhile at bringus studios "YEAH I PUT STEAM OS ON A F**KIN SONIC MENU SCREEN" We have the technology bud

[@electropulse3490]

Yeh. SteamOS ist basically just a custom linux distro with da fancy Steam-Deck-UI thingy preinstalled. Runs on almost anything

[@TyG-wk1uf]

Steam big picture mode is steam os, it used to tell you to press your steam button, it was literally copy paste

[@Cooldrew100]

the Bringus Studios-Garbage Time crossover is gonna go crazy one day, mark my words

[@bradynicolau8049]

@@Cooldrew100 bringus and dankpods crossover finna bring youtube down for a week

[@olivepear0]

Bringle man and Dankpods holy carp

[@zeph_os]

The Nissan Leaf is such an interesting car; it's easily one of the best possible choices for getting into electrification, but the fact it uses Chademo is a huge thorn in its side. The second generation would be a phenomenal pick, but nothing beats the pure unfiltered nugget energy of the first gen that started it all

[@joebot86]

They are so cheap and reliable, even in the US they make amazing secondary city cars.

[@PhilKulak]

There's a CCS1 adapter now!

[@mesiroy1234]

Bro I live near Europe Thic car is half price of tsla And almost cheap as Toyta But it's so small that's why I'd dint buy

[@Thelango99]

Chademo is the main fast charging standard in Japan still.

[@assassinprohd4539]

Mine unfortunately came with cooked batteries dispite it only having 62000km on it. Which sucked because it was so much fun to drive.

[@panagiotispappas1001]

A video about Wade being positive about new tech? WE HIT THE JACKPOT!

[@jakediditagain]

I don’t want to be called a “hater” or for people to think otherwise, since DankPods (and Garbage Time) are two of my favorite channels of all time. But I just don’t enjoy the “tech that let me down” videos since they blend in with many other channels. I’ve kind of had enough of the post-2020 doomerism on KZbin myself. They just don’t feel like DankPods videos to me. I’m curious if anyone else feels the same.

[@panagiotispappas1001]

I’m trying to make a comment about how you can install SteamOS on a regular computer but KZbin keeps taking down my comment because it thinks I’m a bot or something. I f*cking hate this :(

[@Zeldario]

@@jakediditagaini see what you mean but he needed to do more things that ipod and mp3 to dont run out of video material so he changed a bit the formula and personally think it was made great

[@adriandesi2809]

OR its the end of day's!

[@Klaevin]

@@jakediditagain I get that, but from the beginning, he was always fixing stuff, keeping stuff out of landfills and giving good advice to make your stuff last longer. I think that it's perfectly reasonable to then go "and here's what you SHOULDN'T buy, because you will immediately be throwing it away" Louis Rossman used to make macbook repair videos, but as the years went by, it became harder and harder to DO those repairs, and so what started as the occasionnal rant about bad board design turned into political action and militancy to make people aware of what they are losing. Anyone who fixes things will tell you that stuff has gotten WORSE over the years, not better. "tech that let me down" is a reminder that modern crap is built to fail and to force you to buy a new piece of crap, rather for the crap to be repaired, or for the piece of crap to *not* be crap, and just not fail at all. It's also informative as to what brands and products to avoid

[@bruhark]

I hadn't realized you were also rocking the Casio F-91W. Been rocking mine so long the original band dissolved, and I put it in a drawer for a decade or two. Swapped that out and its still going strong. Don't even recall having to touch the battery.

[@smadge1]

I’ve owned several over the years. Sometimes the band would break, and I’d go out and just buy a whole new one.

[@st.altair4936]

The Steam Deck is amazing. I like that every improvement Valve makes to gaming on it also applies to my PC for the most part lol

[@herbertsmutek5395]

so nice to hear that 5 of the hundreds of tech stuff didn't fail you

[@kacperolszowski1331]

>"I played so much baldurs gate on it" >"86 hours" Those are rookie numbers

[@sadluc424]

Fr, now I'm just curious about who did he romance...

[@NoraJae]

"I'm a total loser and still play skyrim." Me with 1000 hours.

[@ChaosPootato]

The man's busy

[@Pet_Hedgehog]

@@ChaosPootato bg3 is the one thing busy is not an excuse

[@cortster12]

​@Pet_Hedgehog Literal children.

[@awesomise]

> 2:50 Golf's gearbox blew up And here I am, driving a DSG golf and the gearbox has been acting funny for a little while 💀

[@gentle285]

I'm sorry to bring bad news, but DSGs were always crap, especially in the beginning. So it will act funny for a long time. The 6-speeds are more reliable because they have a wet clutch system compared to the 7-speed which is dry clutch. They threw reliability out the window in favor to super quick shifting which no-one actually needs on a day-to-day basis (or ever). What a stupid idea to put it in regular cars...

[@ICANTTHINKOFANYTHINGORIGINAL]

They did it because a manual gearbox is cheaper to build, more efficient, and more reliable. They just failed on the reliability

[@theplayer12312]

@@gentle285 It isn't about the reliability, it's about how much service Volkswagen can charge you for

[@masterkamen371]

Can someone explain to me the logic behind putting a DCT in a Golf? It's still rubbish in the straight line and it's still horrible in cornering. A 15000€ bike engine powered formula car with a manual transmission will always run circles even around supercars. It's like buying a racing bicycle to improve your performance when you are 30 kg overweight. Honestly sounds like brainwashing from the manufacturers "oh but the DCT makes your shifting 0.03s faster!" to keep their repair business thriving and vehicle prices skyrocketing.

[@goonko2715]

9/21/2024 will be an interesting day for your engine

[@rartolak]

7:38 I found one in a dumpster. Still works fine

[@hotgamezyt5992]

W?

[@wingsandbladesreal]

who in the right mind would put one of those in a dunpster *facepalm*

[@lorenipsum93]

3:21 I see they took notes from honda.

[@spartacus778]

Now we need the final video. Tech that MIGHT let me down

[@AyyEf]

That would be just a nugget lucky dip

[@WingMaster562]

Tech that will never give you up

[@SlyMan420]

7:46 "being in my 30s has made me un-fun" why you gotta hurt me like this bro

[@Markyparky56]

I'm not 30 just yet but I'm growing increasingly interested in air filters and dehumidifiers. Funny how our tech tastes evolve with age.

[@clorky2250]

I totally understood: "being in my 30s ended me - I'm fine." And I really don't know, which version I like more.

[@nickwallette6201]

@@Markyparky56 It gets worse. Some day you'll be contemplating appliances and yard care and getting great satisfaction out of things that would make your 20-year-old self profoundly sad.

[@Markyparky56]

@nickwallette6201 Already there, my friend, already there.

[@sickbozzer]

6:30 wade, my family still have a dyson fan from 06, which is 3 years older than me. It works like brand new and is SILENT whilst using minuscule amounts of electricity. bloody marvels of engineering and 100% worth the extortionate price

[@WiddlPeppuwu-sx3rx]

Dyson products have never let me down. I still use my Dyson vacuum from around 2004 and it chugs perfectly along

[@guitarfreakizoid]

It's scary to me that someone born in 2009 is writing sensible and coherent comments on KZbin. I'm old.

[@jannikwillma7330]

@@WiddlPeppuwu-sx3rx But they are definitely getting worse. My roommate bought a new handheld vacuum. I laughed at him when he had to install an app to use it and when the vacuum has to get updates before using.

[@xenotiic8356]

@@guitarfreakizoid They're in high school now. Time comes for us all...

[@jannikwillma7330]

@@guitarfreakizoid Remember, when he was born, the iPod was almost a decade old

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

0:30 My Steam Deck completely stopped booting after a BETA update. Whatever you do, stay on the regular stable updates.

[@Christhegoldenboy]

Had something similar happen when I updated one of my old phones. I downloaded a beta update from Apple and it basically bricked my phone.

[@AlexanderHansen-8Bitz0]

Betas are betas for a reason. You can always re-image the disk with SteamOS if this happens. If using the beta channel somehow completely bricked the device, Steam support is amazing and will probably help you out.

[@PanAndScanBuddy]

@@AlexanderHansen-8Bitz0 They are. I already shipped it in because I don't have what's needed to re-image. I can only imagine the headache of smuggling one to Australia just to be told you're SOL. I live near Seattle so it's not so bad for me.

[@Problematist]

Have you tried the Steam Deck recovery image?

[@myrmeko]

3:33 I'm surprised that James didn't tell you, but you have to change the reductor oil and diff oil at some point. Idk if the Leaf has any water cooling, but also the cooling liquid needs to be changed in EVs that have it. The OG Leaf needs to have the oil changed, even though there isn't a well defined interval, oil should be changed every 50-100k km. These "gearboxes" tend to go bad in about 8 years if driven a lot without the oil changed. It just loses its properties from the heat cycling. People are saying that at 100k km the oil is already black and full of metallic sparkles. Also, the official interval for coolant is 200k km. That's straight from Nissan. It's in the Leaf's service manual. Just don't mess up your Leaf because of some uninformed decision.

[@binja_]

Desktop versions of SteamOS do exist but there's not much of a point IMO. You can just use the new steam big picture mode on any Linux distro and get a similar, and in some ways better, experience.

[@Memphis98NT]

Except for gamescope integration mostly, getting gamescope working on some edge cases outside of SteamOS is kinda fiddly. But yeah, New Big Picture is pretty great.

[@EeveeEuphoria]

i use bazzite OS on my main PC, it works a treat. albeit, i use the non-gaming mode version. but i do use that on my steam deck (yes really) and it works amazing well. i think the utility of that is underrated, whenever i upgrade my PC, i'm getting all the old parts into a new motherboard in a small case to sit under my TV, because that'd be insanely useful to have as a mini-console PC, that doesn't suck.

[@Rerum02]

Bazzite supremacy! Great docs too

[@ScriptCatz]

Also steam announced there will be a desktop version soon

[@BamsyTheSergal]

bazzite is dope asf, and works pretty well with nvidia now!

[@pastedtomato]

Wade becoming a Linux user will be the highlight of the year

[@10brokenradios]

year of the linux danktop!!

[@AceH.-jk5kn]

he's been using linux for a while

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

He's too angry for full time Linux.

[@tmntleo]

It gives me so much joy to know I'm not the only one who misses physical buttons, I buy so much old tech just for buttons these days.

[@allenqueen]

Just today I was looking up mp3 players and cassette players. Too bad good ones are hard to come by

[@n_art_cissist]

It’s also a huge accessibility issue for low vis and blind ppl like myself

[@corruleumblue3317]

Yeah, physical buttons are just so much more satisfying. (Personally I liked them too much to leave them behind in the first place, except when I got my ereader. Only device I own that uses touchscreen as a sole/primary input method.)

[@AlexGelinas42069]

FWIW I've been very pleasantly surprised by my Garmin watch! It isn't a "smart watch" in the Apple Watch sense; but as a fitness device, it's been nearly flawless. I use it every time I go mountain biking, and it's been extremely reliable alongside having an absolutely bonkers-good battery (legitimately like 3 weeks on a charge, but less if I'm actively tracking a ton of activities). When this thing finally bites the dust in like 30 years, will definitely be replacing it with another!

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

I'm so glad a positive video finally came out. I'm so tired of the gloom and doom. I want things to go right for a bit

[@dtomvan]

1:35 That's the best part, since steam made steam OS they replaced the old big picture mode in desktop steam with "steam OS" which controls in the same way either with mouse and keyboard or even with your controller! PS4 killer!!!

[@AmyNumberSeven]

Yeah but it's still Windows, and they still nag you.

[@Troy-ih8gb]

Would be cool if Steam just made steam os available on pc for like 20-50 bucks so you can download that instead of Windows, cuz Windows is getting worse each day Edit: If Steam decides to make an official desktop steam os they might make it free, cuz that way they can sell more games, with less competition

[@the_otamatone]

​@@Troy-ih8gbor they could make it free 😮

[@the_otamatone]

Like every other operating system

[@the_otamatone]

And windows, because who pays for windows.

[@Momo-bb2fn]

4:00 M-powered macs are awesome; they do things no other laptop can do. But I just can't forgive the egregious sin of forcing the customer to pay $200 for 8gb more of ram. People say that the 8gb of ram is enough given the M chips' efficiency, but it's not. Even with the M chips 8 gb is not enough. It's not. And $800 for 2TB of storage, jeez.

[@sylfrear]

the ram is somewhat justified (maybe not $200 but it makes sense for it to be more expensive) because it’s a completely different type of ram architecture than what you’re used to on x86 machines, storage prices are ridiculous though

[@stevewalker9870]

Seriously, you can buy 32gb of RAM for < $100 and a 4tb HDD for < $90, Apple just knows people will pay just about whatever they charge so they price gouge like crazy

[@snil4]

I love my m1 macbook air as well but you don't want to buy the base model ever, even if it gets stupidly expensive I made the mistake of having to deal with only 500gb. Just like wade it's the best laptop I've ever owned but my next laptop won't be from apple.

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

For what i typically do, it would be great. But it's still a Mac, so it can't do what most other laptops can.

[@grqfes]

@@stevewalker9870 a hard drive on a laptop an arm based laptop at that in 2024 is absolutely criminal and foul and i cannot believe you just recommended that be honest youre just exaggerating. yes the storage prices are bad. no you cant get 4 good terrabytes for less than 90$. thats silly.

[@scramblerbricks7293]

Dankpods is the KZbinr that hasn't let me down

[@Vi-yu6sz]

this, so many have but not dankpods

[@BunkerSquirrel]

The Dyson bit is surprising. Not a fan of whatever plastic they use (feels cheap) but considering how overengineered they are on the exterior it’s nice to know they’re putting that extra work into the bits that count too

[@plumokin5535]

Yea I just wish the repairability was better

[@fredwupkensoppel8949]

@@plumokin5535 Oh, do they break?

[@plumokin5535]

@@fredwupkensoppel8949 They break more often than other products in the same category, but that's not the biggest issue. Because the products are over engineered, once they break, it's expensive and difficult to repair them. So even if your reliability is good, something is eventually going to need repairs, and once it does, it's going to cost a lot

[@maximes2613]

earing that you are switching full linux brought me a smile, linux is so good

[@savantshuia]

8:00 are you trying to woo me, sir?

[@haysonwong9687]

But did it give you up, and did it run around and desert you?

[@captcha42]

God damn it !

[@Nahyoudontgetthat]

​@@captcha42 Did that make you cry?

[@notme8232]

@@Nahyoudontgetthat Goodbye

[@ArinStitch]

@@notme8232the Earth is flat (this is a lie)

[@gentle285]

Niiice 🤣

[@xmoncocox]

1:25 : bringus studio is currently watching.

[@chipznmusic]

I can attest that the Yamaha mixers are amazing. I have one my Grandpa gave to me that the drummer in the band he was in used for a while. He's had it for years and years and years. Still works top notch today. It's the Yamaha MG06X.

[@pjonesmoody]

Solar - ☑️ EV - ☑️ Dinguses-a-plenty - ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ You’re living the life, mate! 💪

[@ashyofficial23]

we have the tech that let him down, now we have tech that didn't!

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Year 3000 Archaelogists find that Shrek watch... "Those poor green people" 😢

[@Beegstation]

4:39 "I do have an M3" A BMW???

[@hikaru9624]

M3 is apple's cpu

[@2շշ]

​@@hikaru9624r/whooosh

[@archux_]

smartest man born in chernobyl

[@lrogan4634]

@@hikaru9624 A BMW???

[@ThePaperKhan]

​@@hikaru9624 i knew apple was still making the apple car! I don't know why their car needs potato chips though...

[@lightning11ashu86]

8:02 yooo i have the same watch and use it on a daily basis

[@cutsleeve117]

Hell yeah, I got it when I was in the army, and it's been my daily driver for non formal use ever since

[@pulanjuri1]

Valve did launch a SteamOS image, but for desktop you would probably be better off with a regular linux distro

[@LordofDiamondsMetal]

3:47 damn, Wade's hair must be reaching impressive proportions

[@ootoot2152]

2:28 SHROCKS SPOTTED

[@DrAnimePhD]

The Deck OLED being the thumbnail puts a smile on my face. Valve seriously start selling it in Australia. You need to expand the handheld to more regions already.

[@hendvanduijn758]

"my 2017 car is still working" I feel so sad that that's an achievement for cars nowadays, like I drive a volvo v70 from 1998 and it works perfectly, I own a volvo 740 from 87 and it works great, my parents bought a 2010 land rover, and the bastard breaks down every single time. I hate consumerism and that companies are focused on it. Keep things alive, make stuff that's sturdy 🥺

[@soupypunk-pk5ys]

I will forever regret trading my 2004 Corolla for a 2013. The ‘13 has always given me SOME issue. The ‘04 only ever lost a vertical sway bar on a wheel. Changed it and it never had a problem again after that. I beat it up as a teen and drove it across the US to move… Currently my ‘13 AC doesn’t work, stereo touchscreen and buttons work rarely, one wheel always needs to be refilled. The person I sold the ‘04 to wrecked it in a DUI a couple months after. Such a shame.

[@soupypunk-pk5ys]

P.S. the switch happened in 2020. You do the math 😭.

[@urgay1992]

There have always been lemons, for example my '97 BMW which was in a junkyard by '05... The fact that some car models are bad is not a condemnation of modern cars as a whole because there have always been bad models. In fact most modern cars are much MORE reliable than cars in the past, people just tend to focus on the golden examples and forget all the turds.

[@lexikuro]

GOOD OL' CASIO F-91W! Cheers man, definitely one of the watches of all time.

[@LeoFlipnotes]

Thanks James for fixing the watch

[@misterx420]

2:16 - Yamaha has always been top notch!

[@Y33haw355]

On a related note, I have two Casio guitar synths from the 80s that are still working perfectly. Both can be completely dismantled in under a minute, and have full service manuals available down to the level of individual capacitor specs. I miss old technology.

[@Sohryu-Asuka-Langley]

Even their car engines, various performance engines from Toyota and Ford were developed with Yamaha and happen to be very loved and capable designs. Even the little Ford 1.25 used in some nuggets originated from a Yamaha/Ford developed design, and they're a tough little motor.

[@sacrosanctgrave1958]

Threy also made all the wood accents for Lexus at one point because they're pianos still last to this day, and "Toyota's" wood didn't last. My lexus still has perfect glossy wood.

[@gentle285]

@@Sohryu-Asuka-Langley Yes, or the 1.6 Zetec-S, which was also co-developed. I have a Mk1 Focus with the 1.6 and a 4-speed automatic which was co-developed with Mazda. Also.. the Volvo 4.4 V8s!! They're bulletproof and sound soo nice!

[@itsdokko2990]

is there anything that Yamaha has made that is absolute dogsh*t?

[@BigManFred27]

Why is an australian man talking about random things so entertaining

[@GridDweller77]

also idk if it's just tesla cars, but I do think electric cars have oil in the motor for lubrication and heat management, so it does need to be changed. If the leaf doesn't have it, then, boy do I look stupid

[@nickwallette6201]

I seem to remember there being an enclosure for coolant, but AFAIK, there's no oil. Not sure if there's any maintenance schedule for that, or if it's meant to be run until some part of the loop fails (o-rings, tubing, etc.) I believe most electric motors are completely maintenance-free though. You will often find the motor controller needs to be actively cooled, and sometimes the charging system -- and in some cases, the batteries themselves -- do too. That said, ICE cars also require coolant systems, and I will take flushing a coolant system over changing the oil ANY day.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

4:50 not gonna lie, the #1 grit stone on the upper right of the screen made my laugh more than I should XD😂

[@MrMarcost2]

Nokia dumb phone, Casio watch and Linux everything? Oh no, wade has been possessed by an arch user

[@archgirl]

My apologies...

[@the_otamatone]

1:28 they actually are!

[@the_otamatone]

An official port, that is, they are already making the rog ally compatibility better.

[@OrthodoxPriest69]

0:09 thank you for reminding me of my bi-monthly checking on James Channel

[@abhijithnarayan1370]

00:18 COMRADE WADE

[@Benrysim]

There is a desktop version of SteamOS called HoloISO. Can be buggy but if you use an AMD Ryzen CPU and a Radeon GPU then it tends to work very well.

[@bandyinkeplayz4404]

Tech product that didnt let me down 1: frank 💀

[@archgirl]

Snech product*

[@Desmodious]

1:30 holo ISO is a recreation of the SteamOS, at least till steam does a full release. I haven't tried it personally but Ive heard good things.

[@sonicunleashedfan124]

6:00 there is a Linux distro for these M-series Mac’s, take a look at Asahi Linux

[@hotgamezyt5992]

Nuh uh

[@sonicunleashedfan124]

@@hotgamezyt5992 I was talking to Wade, not you

[@Tessicaria]

I love that the first thing you show is the friggin steamdeck. Learning how to apply mods from sources outside of steam's workshop was an adventure.

[@Dementiadotcom]

"im gonna drive that thing until it doesent work anymore" Apple software support (for stuff older than 1 year): you sure abt that?

[@BFDIFinalistsfan2763]

Dankpods just posted

[@EdibleGymSock]

I don’t believe you

[@DanielAy_]

no shit you melt

[@JamesChurchill3]

Thank you, I wasnt sure which video I just clicked on.

[@DatSun.]

ok

[@MediumFryVR]

It’s beautiful day because of this

[@KidCit.y]

Remember: He’s not sponsored to talk about ANY of these things. This isn’t advertising; it’s an Honest Customer review.

[@SedraKotova-wb9ib]

You deserve so many more subs!

[@memes_gbc674]

bot

[@Dvlx1]

3:06 lol he said weewee.

[@fiishs_]

hehehehehe weewee 😊

[@XGD5layer]

6:41 just a heads up that they Dysons are great for moving air around but if you actually want air filtering then you need a model that actually passes air through the filter instead of just accidentally doing it sometimes. Rtings tested a bunch of them recently and found the dysons to be worst in class for filtrering (but superior in moving air masses around). Heck, a DYI model was more effective.

[@cloudycolacorp]

I think I've played more games on steam deck than any system I've owned in years lol, very convenient to have the backlog on its own nugget

[@max373-1.0]

5:50 Welcome to the dark side :)

[@YakiAttaki]

1:30 They did that though. Yonks back. From memory nobody bought or used it and they sorta wrote it off. Killed the Steam Controller as well from memory, which I really like.

[@ToastyMozart]

It was a janky 3rd party based approach (like the Zune of gaming), but yeah. I'm still bummed the Steam Controller got discontinued.

[@YakiAttaki]

@@ToastyMozart Honestly, the Steam Controller is my favourite to use on PC. The trackpads instead of dual sticks is weird but you get used to it very quickly. Damn shame, but at least we have the Steam Deck now.

[@FiatUno2003]

It's sad how nowadays almost everything is craply made with no quality standards whatsoever. I have a microwave that's probably 20 years old and it still rocks and never had to get fixed, meanwhile, some people that I know bought new microwaves and they had to get replaced in like 3 months because something inside of it blew up and it was too expensive to fix. Like, why can't we get stuff that's properly made anymore?

[@EquaTechnologies]

In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable. The rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle"). It is the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a product to force people to purchase functional replacements. (from Wikipedia)

[@Laz7481]

​@@EquaTechnologiesAt a certain point I have trouble believing it'd planned obscelesence, three months, your going to buy a different brand

[@jacketpotato2058]

The Music rooms in my school have those exact Yamaha desks lol

[@Steakkiller]

2:23 I actually thought you'd mention the iPad instead of the Leaf for number 3...

[@SirScythe]

Asahi Linux is a Linux distro for Apple silicon macs and it's slowly but surely getting to the point of being daily driveable in case you want to go full Linux everything 😁

[@robotnikgaming9976]

it's actually really cool, I've tried it on my m1 air a few times.

[@commander3494]

The dev behind it is absolutely mad. In just the best ways. Not only do they have a complete OpenGL 4.6 driver now (unlike Apple, which stopped at 4.1) but they're also working on a Vulkan driver (which Apple doesn't support at all natively!) and they're progressing soooo quickly!

[@UnrelentingAssault]

@@commander3494 Agreed! They’re absolute beasts. One major setback right now is DP-altmode (slated for release this year), and once that’s out I know I’m switching. For what I do, MacOS has seriously deteriorated over the years. :/

[@stevewalker9870]

@@commander3494 Wait, Mac doesn't have a Vulkan driver,? that's... kinda dumb...

[@boratlmao]

​@@stevewalker9870they didn't want to implement Vulkan in favour of their own low level API Metal, most likely to vendor-locking their own OS. But thankfully there is a translation later for Vulkan to Metal called VKMolten, which I heard is pretty good.

[@Koisheep]

So, Arch Linux? (Don't install Arch Linux it's a headache and a half but SteamOS is just Linux) 1:30 EDIT: 5:53 well ghat answers ghe question

[@DJ_Level_3]

Pretty sure you can just install SteamOS

[@piotrherda7062]

Yep, you can indeed install it. There are even modified versions of the SteamOS itself (I mean it's just Arch btw but still)

[@EeveeEuphoria]

gonna be replying to all these comments i guess lol, bazziteOS would handily smash installing just steamOS. especially when fedora atomic (which is what bazzite is based on) is extremely convienent to use, and has a bunch of good features that are lacking from steam OS. not saying steamOS is bad btw, i just prefer it, i have it on my steam deck (and main PC) for a reason :p

[@piotrherda7062]

@@EeveeEuphoria I had an experience that Fedora was working poorly compared to like Arch btw on a low-end PC, but honestly Linux is Linux, distro is your preference and no one should judge that. I'm happy that it works well for you :)

[@dgbsbalv]

archinstall makes it rather easy to install arch

[@premprabhakar805]

1:30 holoiso is the unofficial steam deck os that can be installed on anything

[@raekkk1038]

I liked how you showed a little bit of the road when you launched the leaf… it gave me a better feel for the acceleration than just a speedometer. Just mentioned because I’m considering buying

[@pizzadude808]

"please make a desktop version of this OS" literally any linux distro with KDE

[@lorenipsum93]

5:30 yeah, no joke. You could fry an egg on them I swear.

[@AlexofZippo]

Literally the only reason I don’t have an electric vehicle is that I actually need to travel like, 1000 miles in a couple days occasionally. If there was a battery that could last that long or charging stations were more common (especially in the Mojave here in the states…) I’d go for one in a second. Also I like being able to move house in like, 3 trips with my current car. It’s so nice.

[@Lolwutfordawin]

Modern plug-in hybrids are pretty decent at filling both roles nowadays! Small battery for daily errands, and an engine for long trips.

[@mjc0961]

Does patrolling the Mojave looking for a fast charger make you wish for nuclear winter? 🤓

[@mjc0961]

@@Lolwutfordawin Modern plug-in hybrids are the most useless cars out there. Battery range is too low to cover even the most basic daily commute to work + errands, so nearly every day you'd still need gas. If I wanted a gas car, I'd have just bought a gas car. If a plug-in hybrid could get around 100 miles of electric range instead of 30-40, they might be worth something. But they can't, so they're not.

[@Lolwutfordawin]

@@mjc0961 40 miles covers most Americans actual commutes just fine. Yours might be longer, but the majority isn't. Besides, even if you need the engine for the last few miles, you've still saved 90%+ of gas, which is a lot of money if you have solar or other cheap electricity.

[@OverwatchPlaysGames147]

I have had a lot of cars, probably about 20 or so by now. I still maintain that the little leaf that I had was one of the best cars ever. Such a dependable beast! I only got rid of it because I moved out of town and needed more range.

[@JayFochs1337]

0:12 I have a Shrek figure from McDonald's in 2001. Still makes noise like it's supposed to 😂 same batt

[@coondogtheman]

I'd love to own a steam deck but the cost of it isn't worth it to just play games. I'd like to use it to also play music and video files and be able to get online. It should do other things than just play games. Not a fan (pun not intended) of those dyson fans because they are so expensive and they could possibly clog up with dust in the internal fan. I'll stick with my $30 Lasko pedestal fan. I even have a remote, sort of. $20 for a wireless plug remote does the trick. 7:10 kinda surprised no one had tried to play Doom on this fan with that screen.

[@imstupidbut]

it’s trash

[@knockemout1271]

I don't know how you have gone so long without knowing this but the steam deck has a complete desktop environment which you can access at anytime and use as a laptop if you hook it up to a monitor will work flawlessly as a pc.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

The steam deck is basically a weird looking laptop. There is a desktop you can use on the included os so you can do regular pc things, you could even install windows if you wanted.

[@archgirl]

What made you think you can't do those things on Steam Deck? It's just a PC.

[@coondogtheman]

@@archgirl I've watched lots of videos on it and no one showed it playing mp3s and videos. Checking email, accessing Google, Wikipedia, KZbin. None of that was shown, just playing games.

[@ArcaneGhost0524]

3:48 mate somethings a bit off there isn't it?

[@novanation5870]

4:13 now, I'm a pc nerd. I'm the biggest apple hater out there. But M1/M2 MacBooks? PEAK. The compatibility is still pretty shitty, because of it being an ARM based system instead of x86 like Intel and AMD. But this thing is a powerhouse. In the games and actual good applications that can run it, this thing beats EVERYTHING. A windows based workstation wouldn't be able to compete with an M1/M2 workstation, I'm just saying. These systems with the M chips are absolute beasts, and I hope ARM becomes more mainstream and accessible for other applications because believe it or not, ARM systems are the future. Eventually, the AMD and Intel race isn't going to go anywhere, and AMD already has access to the patent of ARM. Computers in the next 5-10 years are going to be INSANE, mark my words.

[@hotgamezyt5992]

Yes

[@nuffens]

I'm totally into learning about the good "old" tech you have running and working well

[@CaptainRex332]

Not to mention with the Steamdeck if say a stick breaks on it you can just buy replacements and make a video about fixing it or something

[@whatbroicanhave50character35]

1:18 ah yes, the second most OP class in skyrim, the impact destruction mage with 100% reduction gear. My preferred playstyle. Would be better than stealth archery if it weren't for the dumb amount of soul gems you need for 100 enchanting to make the reduction gear. Stun locking your enemies and decimating them with infinite expert spells (master destruction spells suck ass) is so fun though. Turns fights like the ebony warrior and all dragons into a complete joke. Need alchemy if you want to play comfortably on master or legendary though, base spells have absolute dogshit for damage. Third most op class is any melee discipline with vegetable stews. Basically infinite power attacks.

[@TSAlpha2933]

steam deck OS for PCs is coming, it was supposed to be out already, but the link isn't fixed yet.

[@n4uski]

Its the big screen mode in steam but if you want the full OS its a different question

[@seendabeen1740]

@@n4uskithere’s actually multiple distros that mimic steam os to a really good level

[@matthewsaenz4968]

I honestly just use Fedora with KDE Plasma for my living room PC and leave it in Big Picture mode all the time. Feels right at home alongside my actual Steam Deck.

[@mesiroy1234]

I can't with steam deck fan biy It'd can't wven run the most famous valve game ca go😂 And rog can xbox natrualy(

[@ToastyMozart]

​@@mesiroy1234Are you feeling OK? If you smell toast you should tell us.

[@sammydunbar8823]

ROCK AND STONE!

[@RayTheFloofyBoi]

Did I hear a rock and stone?!

[@Lorentz_Driver]

ROCK AND STONE to the bonneee

[@Wampa842]

ROCK AND STONE, BROTHERS!

[@Mesozoic00]

FOR KARL

[@heggle-]

MUSHROOM!

[@samtorbert6554]

You inspired me to buy my very own Leaf. It's awesome, thank you

[@thejackimonster9689]

Awesome video! It's great to see tech can still be good.