technology vs cavemen brain

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[@AIHumanEquality]

The return of glorious tech queen Lexi. We have missed her.

[@MrGermanQuick]

Me too. All hail Lexi.

[@arcticfluffyfoxy]

YEAHHH

[@maggiemcguire9252]

all hail lexi!

[@jazminescicluna2607]

ALL HAIL LEXI

[@dominikinfante9002]

all hail lexi

[@thatecogamer]

"you sneeze and this spaghetti furby will explode" i need lexi to supply descriptions for everything in my life.

[@bluestreaker9242]

Spaghetti Furby? I just thought OP was building a mini nuke in their home. I think even Deathclaws would be running in the opposite direction seeing that abomination. XD

[@darealxy444]

yum spaghet furry

[@brennanlangless8912]

Definitely going to be horrified if there’s two variants of the furby in their the original version and the new modern version with the monitor eyes the only thing that would be horrifying is the thought that they might have added a interactive et furby adjacent toy is possibly also in there

[@nightmarewolf7632]

12:54

[@autumnsweetfluff5780]

Wait they where building a homemade furby?

[@TheLexikitty]

Hi hello I narrated this not Jack (check description) thx 💞

[@TylerFurrison]

yes emkay pls fix unlike that last post, at least it can be done

[@greenbloxgamer9786]

She wasn’t the snack that smiled back

[@flamebirb6752]

Please fix EmKay. Queen Lexi deserves her credit in the description.

[@isthatrubble]

I think ultimate ears might be a brand? the charger has UE on it

[@TheNewparrot-yx1uw]

I love you.

[@artemis1935]

16:33 I work in IT for my local high school, and that photo was taken by me, the abomination that is that chromebook was made by one of my colleagues.

[@chillenthusiast6169]

This needs to be further up in the comments

[@dieseldragon6756]

Hope they remembered to put a safety shield in front of it afterwards. That battery has a UKCA mark on it... 🔋🔥

[@artemis1935]

@@dieseldragon6756 they didn’t, it’s still displayed there, now I have something new to google

[@mif_sovremennosty]

Cool

[@kevinminecraft658]

i completely lost it with "spaghetti furby". its been 5 minutes and counting and im still cry laughing

[@Ghostfighter797]

It's cool to see Lexi doing tech support on Emkay. Long live the tech queen! :D

[@scottmorrison3929]

3:00 - This is a Walmart Auto Center, and those stickers match up with other promotional fonting Walmart uses. I never worked in the Auto Center, but in my experience in the company, I'm willing to put money that a customer got mad that the price in the POS didn't match the sign, a manager told some underpaid employee to "fix the price on the sign", and nobody knew how. The manager for precisely that one department probably knows how, and probably wasn't present, and nobody else in the building knows. And, more importantly; once the stickers were in place, the "correct price was advertised" and nobody in management cared about the problem any more. God, I hated Walmart.

[@schrodingerscat3741]

"Do you have the key?"

[@jasthebaker]

Well there was also the W+ on a few of them

[@Tech_Otter]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that recognized it was a Walmart Auto Center based on the font of the digital sign alone XD I didn't notice the Walmart+ logo until I went back to grab the timestamp to write a comment about it XD

[@Bryce_the_Woomy_Boi]

Caveman brain says to whack technology with club.

[@demetriajones3231]

*the voices only get louder*

[@AIHumanEquality]

Shaggy: But where's the caveman?

[@firdanharbima6997]

Nono too dangerous use your wet hand

[@awesomenate3058]

Everyone talks about the Latias but I see you just as often, if not more

[@matthewelliott7294]

The Doom-themed music is rising…..

[@MSRTA_Productions]

Lexi has risen

[@HeartsForAiden]

Thank you for not saying first

[@stupidity_lolz]

YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!

[@AIHumanEquality]

This account definitely bot liking their own comments.

[@AroAce_Psychopath]

And descriptions says jaymic...??

[@Heratic_]

@@AIHumanEquality How do you know?

[@yoyboiYT]

the flippy power plug isn't called ears, the speaker brand is UE (Ultimate Ears)

[@nighthawk6777]

THANK YOU! I was going to say the same :)

[@atomicfox_TF]

Eh I'll call em ears anyway

[@mintgaming9198]

Wild. I thought UE just made fancy custom IEMS.

[@ParanoiderNutzer]

1:40 part of the gag is probably the 50(€)cent coin to stabilize the cpu-cooler.

[@peelzboyplays6089]

I had to go back and pause the video. I didn't even catch that! Good eye 👁️🕳️👁️

[@daanwilmer]

You don't need to be legally blind to miss that, well-spotted! Also, Lexi, if you read this: modern PCs don't have a north bridge and south bridge anymore, what used to be done by the north bridge is now done by the CPU, and the south bridge is just called the chipset.

[@talentlessidiot8384]

Just noticed the coin lmao

[@elrohirshouldercheaptrick9452]

Lexi's explanations are the most effective method of teaching ever. I'm by no means a tech guy and even I am engaged in the content

[@Game_Blox9999]

Same thing with me. I’m no tech expert, but even _I_ know not to let my tech get to this state of disrepair!

[@starlight_maven]

Absolutely! If Lexi taught a class about tech stuff, I would attend every single session!

[@ucitymetalhead]

That mess at 12:10 looks like a microcenter exploded and a computer formed in the rubble.

[@chocoking2103]

11:45, biblically accurate device

[@Trainboi1983]

Be not crash

[@WilburJaywright]

14:14 they’re talking about the postal UPS. They whacked their electronics package really hard, aka “punt” as in played golf with it.

[@necrocomicon8]

yay, lexi is back!!! i thought she had a falling out with slazo, im glad she came back.

[@sodadimensional2418]

"usually if you break something it stops working" is an amazing quote

[@undecidedmiddleground5633]

10:20 The best method for straightening these old pin-style CPUs that my group of friends found in the yesteryears was with a credit card. It did actually work, but tolerences weren't as precise 30-20 years ago.

[@Fridelain]

8:22 the screw heads are on the side of the Velcro. It would have to have been mounted upside down. Also the fan that came with the heatsink is missing. And there's no dust on any of it.This was someone having a giggle putting the Velcro on and taking the photo. The CPU with bent pins, you use a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. Put the bent pin inside the tip of the mechanical pencil, then move the pencil to straighten it. Works a treat.

[@MrGrumblier]

Definitely a gag photo.

[@fishainsley]

I just want to say that lexi’s analogy of pipes vs water pressure and volts vs amps helped me finally get the difference. thanks lexi.

[@IsM1ku]

It's a pretty common comparison, I got taught that in school, there's even an anime shitpost about it. From what I know, voltage is usually constant while current is pulled as needed, if you short circuit the connections then it'll pull as many amps as the cable will allow until your breaker pops or the cable limits it, putting a load in between causes resistance which limits the current to a certain amount, so if your wall can supply 240V and you've got a device that needs 480 then it'll pull 2 amps since voltage (V) x current (A) = power (W)

[@fishainsley]

@@IsM1ku honestly my high school physics teacher sucked ass so i’m really not surprised that the comparison is actually common knowledge

[@gemhunter498]

15:50 it looks like it’s reading the same data multiple times, that would explain the wild amount of storage it thinks it has.

[@john_michael97]

Ultimate ears is the name of the brand of speakers to which the adapter belongs not the prongs of the plug.

[@Ryanthusar]

1:50 - That actually looks like crappy plaster board, not masonry they have screwed into and its now hanging precariously judging by the angle of those screws. Meaning they dont have it secured to the joists so it will just be a matter of time before it comes crashing down.

[@satyricyst]

at 7:30 I think I woke up my entire flat block shouting WHAT

[@ABaumstumpf]

No, USB-ports are allowed to go up to 48V now - but that is only after USB-PD negotiations. With no compatible device plugged in it is 5V. (USB-PD initially allowed 20V 5 A - so 100W. and in 2021 they added further modes up to 48V 5A for 240W. There is currently no mode supporting more than 5A).

[@TheLexikitty]

Thanks, yea I knew about the 20V update but hadn’t checked in since then.

[@dieseldragon6756]

[Have-a-Go electricians' voice] A USB port will go up to what I want it to go up to! ⚡ _Camera pans past a UK mains plug with a suspiciously thin cable coming out of it, terminating in a female USB connector. Remember that our ring mains can potentially deliver 60A to any one outlet..._ 🔥

[@ABaumstumpf]

@@dieseldragon6756 Huh - the insulation likely would hold up to 240V, now it would be interesting how much current you could draw before the cable obliterates :D

[@dieseldragon6756]

@@ABaumstumpf I once¹ tried charging an iPhone using an official Apple „Lightning“ cable that was connected to a railway overhead line energised at 25kV. The cable did *not* hold up to what the name reasonably implied it would take... ⚡💥📲😉 (¹ - If you know how powerful 25kV electrics are, you'll know why I didn't try it twice! 🙃)

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

​@@ABaumstumpf more than you would expected. Some of the proprietary charging protocol use 10A or even 11A transmission and the cable for those can easily transmit 8A of 220VAC. The bigger issue would be the pin pitch. I don't think usb-c port can transmit 220V safely as the pin pitch is so small.

[@digitalrailroader]

3:12 and I IMMEDIATELY Recognize that electronic pricing board as belonging to my employer! if you think THAT is bad, the iPad based app we use out in the shop is EVEN WORSE. multiple issues ranging from configuration errors if the ipad is connected to the wrong Wi-Fi network (we have 3 different networks; the free Public Wifi, the associate only WiFi, and the Wifi for Company owned hardware), the app randomly closing completely and erasing any information you may have put in (although I suspect that's more an apple thing than the app itself), randomly disconnecting from the peripheral hardware like sticker printers, barcode scanners and wireless keyboards, and a VERY steep learning curve if you aren't tech savvy. EDIT: Lexi explaining the Slideshow thing is EXACTLY what some other stores are doing to advertise add on services! (there's usually 2 boards and they just duplicate the exact same image onto both)

[@jkolbly1]

18:25 We are taught how to fix the traces in multilayered boards in micro/miniature school, basically involves excavating each layer until you are down to the damaged layer and repairing it, covering it in epoxy to the height of the next layer and repairing that once dry, then epoxy again to the top layer and repairing that once dry. That board would certainly be written off as a non-economical repair and just be replaced. Unless it is an extremely expensive card with relatively simple inner trace damage, it probably won't be economic to repair it.

[@oliverer3]

It's also nigh on impossible if you don't have access to the PCB layout files on anything but the lowest density boards in my experience.

[@WooShell]

7:20 that looks a lot like the CPU heat spreader was actually soldered or superglued to the heatsink.. no surprise it delidded instead of coming loose.

[@Luscinia_Nightengale]

For the GFCI broken power plug tine post at the very start: Just hit the "TEST" button - it will disconnect the circuit and you can cut out your part as the middleman getting shocked.

[@philippak7726]

I wonder if the spaghetti furby is an art project kind of thing of "how bizarre that this still works" kind of thing. There's such a purposefulness to that chaos

[@ABaumstumpf]

4-layer PCBs are.... kinda entry-level stuff? It gets crazy when you get to old mainframe hardware and you see 16 layer ceramic-PCBs that have giant metal slab on both side and are oil-cooled cause they burn like 3kW. Mainframes were kinda insane and crazy fast: 40 years ago you could see them using over 100kW and doing over 1Gflops.

[@griffingreat1569]

2:05 as a member of an FRC robotics team, I approve of the zip tie. ZIP TIES ARE LIFE

[@MagicianFairy]

"Spaghetti furby" is now my new favorite expression

[@spcs1]

2:33 I can't believe Lexi just said "P.o.E. over Ethernet"

[@fatboysgarage7984]

The TV that showed oil change options is at a Wal-Mart TLE/ACC. When I worked there, it was part of the job to memorize all of the options.

[@DJFilms-ze9fp]

12:15 thats a bomb idc what you say thats a bomb

[@somecheesychips0529]

As an I.T. student at college, I would give SO MUCH for Lexi to be one of our lecturers. The little explanations as she reviews this sub are so on point and understandable it's amazing.

[@Fluxkompressor]

11:00 Step-down converter in there (maybe a smart one with QC3.0 or something) got fried and is outputting the full input voltage of what ever it is connected to (amplifier, powered seat control...) I have no doubt that this USB port was delivering 5V at some point If the switch in an step down converter fails short, you get the input voltage at the output. That is why you have something that is called a crowbar circuit for sensitive stuff at the output, that shorts it (like throwing a crowbar on the power rails) if the voltage goes outside of some limit

[@naikorustar2671]

I was holding my breath when I clicked on the video to see if The Great Lexi Kittie was back then cheered when I heard her voice! So happy to hear you back!

[@kasamialt]

0:09 a GFCI with a test button is probably the second most fortunate place for that to happen actually, second only to a switched outlet. If it's functioning properly (I can't guarantee that so don't sue me please) you can push the test button to isolate it, yoink the pin preferably using an insulated tool to be double safe, and then reset it.

[@M43L57R0M]

17:35 The example you show is at LEAST 6 layers of conductive traces. its more likely a 10-12 layer board with reference power planes (not shown) for impedance matching of high speed signals. the most layers in a single PCB designed by my company was 32, along with flexible circuit sections. Note that PCBs will normally have layercounts being a multiple of 2 (with the exception of single sided PCBs)

[@Just_a_commenter]

Seeing the thumbnail, I got excited that this may be a Lexi narration... And my hopes were realized! Long live the fabulous tech queen of EmKay! :D Edit: the description references our favourite snack instead of Lexi - pls fix to give this gal recognition :3

[@ArtemisAYO]

In an ideal society, Lexi is the only narrator

[@demetriajones3231]

:3

[@Alvarin_IL]

I love Lexi's narration, you can FEEL the emotions in her descriptions! Also, bit of tech knowledge boost.

[@RhinoRapscallion]

Test your GFCI outlets every now and then. Getting a plug stuck in them is a perfect opportunity. The test works by literally causing what they're meant to detect, so they disable the outlet in response, allowing you to pull out whatever stuck.

[@The_Keeper]

1:49 Yeeaaahhh, about that. Those are Wood screws, not Masonry screws, and I'm not seeing any rawl-plugs, so those those screws are *definitely* gonna pull out of those holes at even the slightest amount of horizontal force. The only thing I can think of that is less likely to stay in the wall would be just normal nails... 5:04 As someone who watches TronicsFix, I can say with absolute confidence; This is liquid damage. Lots and lots of liquid damage. That board is a *complete* write-off.

[@ram_stick_samurai]

As a computer person (who showed their Neocitites website in a school computing lesson) I went absolute bullsh*t when my sister (who is 8) nearly downloaded Roblox from SOFTTONIC, BLOODY SOFTTONIC. we need a single computer person in every family.

[@alecrisser12]

13:50 It looks like there's a cockroach in the upper right, but I'm not sure how that could be causing the problem.

[@ravioli0239]

11:25 USB now has the ability to do quite significantly over 5V, in fact the latest PD standard has added 28V, 36V and 48V standards to the USB standard. However, devices should *always* communicate to the charger that it wants a higher voltage than 5V. This is done by changing out resistors at the female socket. No USB port should *ever* output more than 5V unless specified otherwise. Also at 18:00 we now have motherboards with at least 8 layers (Asus ROG Strix and Dark Horse boards)

[@WackoMcGoose]

Hackaday did a series of articles about how to USB-C. You need resistors in the line for it to deliver power _at all_ (and for orientation detection), and to get more power out of it requires _digital negotiation_ (there's premade chips that speak USB-PD to do it for you, or you can bitbang if you're that determined), but then there's also the issue that host and device may both be capable of XYZ watts but _the cable_ might not be, etc etc...

[@TheExileFox]

20V has been delivered to some USB type-A ports by Lenovo since at least 2015. Thankfully the plug has a slightly weird shape so you can't send 20V into a normal USB 3.0 port. It still sucks that Lenovo only put 3 USB ports on a laptop where one of these ports is also used for charging.

[@wonderturtle2018]

For the first one with the GFCI if you just press test it should trip it and make it safe to pull out. What is generally best to always disable it from the breaker as well.

[@AbyssPriestess]

"I don't do acid, I just listen to a lot of psytrance." Never have I related to something so hard.

[@44R0Ndin]

On the positive side, the way they say "Houston, we have a dud" sounds like they GOT the motherboard that way and didn't want to have to go thru the RMA process, but... If you see damage like that right when you open the box, DO NOT TOUCH IT, Take a picture, put that picture on 2 USB thumb drives, and send both the motherboard and one of the thumb drives back when you RMA it. Therefore irrevocably proving YOU DID NOT DO THAT. The reason you make two copies is so that YOU still possess a copy of the image that can be sent to them AGAIN if they don't get it. If you need to, you can literally fax it to them (somehow faxes carry more legal weight than emails, don't ask me why that is, but that's how it is). Or print it out on nice photo paper, and send it to them in the mail. Because these days nobody has good customer service anymore. EVERYONE WANTS TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND BLAME YOU WHEN IT'S THEIR FAULT. Half the time I'd say you're better off getting some legal consulting for how best to pin the tail on that particular donkey (and I use that specific euphamism because c'mon now, the companies are being asses about it).

[@llmkursk8254]

The only lady I trust for my tech voiceovers.

[@vanillathebard]

The worst part is that very first thing has happened to me even down to the same side of the plug being stuck in the wall lol

[@DrummerLocnar]

5:40 i have a galaxy tab at work in this exact case. the top half of the case has a non adhesive screen protector. they left the screen protector on the screen protector. it's a nice case actually

[@mossymosscreature]

The spaghetti furby resembles the magic transfer machine from "The Magicians" which is cool because that thing was also a violent explosion waiting to happen if even one wire was out of place.

[@daviscalledfred]

they say when you see tech screaming, lexi is soon to follow suit

[@burberthetechpriest]

Now I want to see her as a tech-priest fiddling with a laptop

[@mailcs06]

I’ve missed Lexi! I also started working as a Target Mobile tech semi recently, and about a month ago I encountered by first bulging lithium ion battery!

[@valerierodger]

Wow, Jack really has perfected his Lexi impression! (Pls fix the description and give Lexi the deserved credit!)

[@mustafamehdi8126]

I love to watch her videos because of how technical she makes it. I learn a lot and would like more

[@internetuser8922]

"usually if you break something, it stop working" words of wisdom right there

[@Game_Blox9999]

7:14 That ain’t thermal paste, that’s thermal _glue!_

[@alexanderlambert295]

Love getting tech support with Lexi.

[@pirobot668beta]

It's like learning a new language, this 'tech thing'... Some people are simply incapable of the mental gymnastics. That's OK...most of my professional career has been spent fixing the things y'all are so good at breaking. Neaderthal lives among us still!

[@ExploringNew1]

This video shows why we have switches for every single outlet in UK

[@balthasaur]

LEXI!!! you need to do more techgore and tech videos. love your content and miss it!

[@Zodaxa_zdx]

lexi my queen returning to recoil in pain from tech teaching us very important things thats what I'm here for

[@GamingWithAlex21]

7:57 I don’t know if anyone noticed, but is it the top of the CPU cooler look at the screws to me that looks like the top. Why TF is the cpu on the top?

[@oversizedtrashpanda7514]

Okay i thought that was a birds eye view of like something on google maps 5:12

[@endervoir]

WHAT THE LEXI?! raaahh i missed ur narrations so glad to have u back!! :3

[@RGVS1225]

That velcro on the cpu is making me scream internally, god it hurts to watch

[@WilburJaywright]

16:45 about stupid vehicle inspections, “Hey guys, welcome to a new episode of @justrolledin …”

[@THTB_lol]

wow description is 100% accurate

[@bleachrocks2]

Thank you Lexi for informing me that not every state has vehicle inspections!

[@ForYouPlays]

Lexi please do another lexplanations

[@AroAce_Psychopath]

She does that on auto mode lmfao

[@cinnamoone3553]

always good to hear from Lexi :3

[@jadusstone]

makes me happy about my own stupid computer choices like ignoring a clicking sound for a year

[@BrandonReichle]

5:52 I have the exact same case.😂😂😂

[@frauleinloonylove7273]

Lexi! So good to have you back narrating chaos!

[@beeb-the-nardo]

"i just listen to alot of phytrance" phytrance is a fire genre, and as a DJ ive been wanting to do a phy-trance/phy-techno mix for forever, such a amazing genre.

[@sciencetestsubject]

10:45 this multimeter is measuring AC voltage, having 30v between the case of a double insulated device is totally normal. I myself have a usb charger that gives 80v AC between the shield and earth. It's good to keep in mind the multimeter has a 10Mohm input resistance, so the current is just 3 micro amps.

[@WackoMcGoose]

15:13 Molex to Sata? Crispy.

[@Mrdogedog]

Not even 30 seconds in and its already got me laughing. Ultimate ears is the brand of the power adapter not a nickname for the prongs on the plug😂😂

[@SNESPrime]

I could listen to Lexi talk tech all day! Good to have you back, Lexi!

[@sebforce1165]

9:00 My mouse comes with programmable options for F13 to F24, and I'd _love_ so much to use them in games so I don't have to keep using stupid existing keys that are all used elsewhere, but nothing I have recognises those keys, so I've effectively got like 3 bonus keys on my mouse that do nothing, and it's _frustrating._ More frustrating that most things recognise the _Forward and Back_ keys.

[@thatGUYbehindthemask]

0:49 had that happen to me once. used a credit card to remove it because i cant just shut off the breaker at work. i dont have a key to the electrical closet lol

[@elstarnor4628]

I cleaned out a couple gigs of storage space in my phone in the middle of watching this video

[@ABaumstumpf]

Due - but Plasma was SOOOoooo good for TVs - if you got an actually decent one and not the utter garbage that was the lower segment. They were fast, colour accurate and had incredible dynamic range - and in winter they also worked as space-heaters.

[@dartimes6048]

THANK YOU EMKAY for putting the subreddit in the thumbnail.

[@layna-heyhey]

lol love Lexi . Always close to ranting on each pic xD

[@yokin_owo]

Missed you, it's been so long pls make more videos

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

First one happened to me before. Phone charger broke apart as I pulled it out of the socket. Switched electricity for that room off before removing it.

[@BlackKnight865]

The best part of that first photo is that it’s a gfci, just hit the rest button to cut off power then pull out the stuck blade easily.

[@arxeon_matt]

4:10 its called LTPO hope that helps

[@CinderFallenAngel]

The screen burn one reminds me of one of our pricing/ticket ordering/signing devices at work. Funnily enough it seems to have a different one everytime, I guess someone left the ‘sleep’ feature set too high.

[@marshallravlin7833]

Now I cant get the image out of my head of Lexi just casually browsing reddit with the new IM album on

[@t.kersten7695]

@11:45 looks like some doomsday device to ward off IT-Experts

[@Gohan1138]

when i heard you say molex i was like "now thats a name i havent heard in a long time"

[@someone4229]

You always have to assume people are dumb enough to do anything.

[@sonikkuwerehog]

you have no idea how happy i was to hear lexis voice oh my god