USB Killer

[@ModernRogue]

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[@decman770]

Hullo

[@Socrates-]

Been waiting for this

[@djroyzaofficial5303]

Finally

[@fire_at_will7307]

4TH PERSON HIII HAH

[@UnfriendlyFire]

I was genuinely expecting you guys to tell Brandt to roll back the injury counter during the soldering portion!

[@AnuragKSakharkar]

"That looks like a clean solder" No, Brian. No.

[@RaXXha]

Right! That was some terrible soldering going on. xD

[@Rugg-qk4pl]

@@RaXXha horrific

[@GRLDT]

Absolutely hideous soldering, the tin doesn't even melt completely lmao

[@FunnyHaHa420]

Pro Tip: Soldering irons have different sized tips for tight spaces.

[@TheJunky228]

but that would mean you'd have to go and buy more tips. I just struggle through using the one tip in my soldering iron that is horribly oxidized and only one quarter of circumference the tip is good

[@leogoetz3705]

@@thedude7726 before watching the video I thought it was supposed to be a thatswhatshesaid joke 🙈🙈☠️☠️

[@matthewzepess5721]

You hear the pad which heats the pretinned wire and you flow solder into the joint. It looks like they got a cold solder joints because they heat the wire and then press it down.

[@doggybone1994]

That’s a really hot tip

[@memedealer2018]

Man I'm dirty minded

[@klosharr]

"that looks like a clean solder" me, an electronics tech: *sobs in desperation*

[@Reddotzebra]

Me, having tried to learn electronics back in highschool, done a lot of practice soldering and then given up on trying to learn where the current is going to go and decided on biomedical science instead: "At least he's heating the wire instead of... No Brian, what are you doing? No. Nooooooo!"

[@lonniemcnerney262]

OMG, how many times are they going to call that travesty of a soldering job a clean solder?!

[@blitz07734]

Seriously. Clean your tip!

[@KeithLburns]

Lmao hearing that after readying this comment I was laughing every time ( a million) they said clean solder.

[@yz250ftony]

me, an RF tech: cringing with every way they used that iron. if only youtubers had a way to learn how to use a skill through their medium of choice?

[@iN00bT00ber]

You guy's soldering work is killing me.

[@usedstarfighter9605]

I mean usually your stand isn't someone's hands and your solder isn't being held by another person than is using the iron

[@joshmeyer7384]

Surely they could find a person in the greater Austin area who can work a soldering iron. At least someone who can give them a 10-minute lesson off-camera before they roll this episode.

[@Lily-white]

@@thegardenofeatin5965 it looked like the definition of a tip needing replacing

[@Lily-white]

(Not to mention... pretty sure their method is just sending the exact same 5v back in nothing extra, it'd be like shorting it directly) oh wait nvm, they've probably lost a load from their arcing soldering job

[@DougTurley]

Too bad Padre is in Rome. Would at least be able to help with that and I think would love this project.

[@quiglag]

Next Episode: The Modern Rogue Learns How To Solder

[@ChrisLeeW00]

Reset the injury counter.

[@reggiep75]

This has to be the next episode... or I'm jumping off a bridge!!

[@TheAcoustically]

Came to be "that guy" aswell didn't think it would be covered by the top comment ahaha !

[@ThatPhilBurgGuy]

I literally just commented this and scrolled down to fing your comment. I deleted mine. Lol

[@uwugamer55]

As a kid going to college for computer engineering, the soldering part hurt so much.

[@doubtful_seer]

Hello kid. Good luck in school. Enjoy it. Things suck after it.

[@nevinherren2738]

I do it for hobby and it upset me.

[@Rugg-qk4pl]

It was a true tragedy

[@Reddotzebra]

@@doubtful_seer That depends on what you pick.

[@frankcastle4715]

@@Reddotzebra taxes

[@firefly5247]

I'd love a data forensics episode - see how much you can recover off a fucked up hard drive!

[@da54177]

Likely the hard drive is not harmed at all by this. The target is the motherboard.

[@scottyhaines4226]

Since there's businesses who's entire purpose is recovering hard drives its definitely possible

[@uiopuiop3472]

@@da54177 you insulted my mother.

[@Reddotzebra]

@Wazaag Break-head But even if you mainline a power spike into the HDD, that would just fry the controller and possibly the motor right? Recovering data off the drive would likely be childs play for anyone with the kind of equipment that can read straight off the plates.

[@user-qk8rt9yf9v]

It doesn’t affect data.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

I initially thought. “Hey that’s a thinkpad!” Nope, just a dell. Fry it.

[@dodslaser2]

A thinkpad would have zapped the USB killer

[@Milesfem]

If it was, you could just spam F7

[@NoName-zz9ls]

Why are thinkpads so popular? People always seem to hail them a lot

[@TheRealAtello]

@@NoName-zz9ls they're legendarily well made and upgradeable (at least the non-ultrabook ones). And they tend to not use weird proprietary hardware, so they play nice with linux. There's stories of old thinkpads (back when it was ibm making them) surviving house fires and being run over.

[@seshpenguin]

​@@NoName-zz9ls They were originally designed by IBM, so they were designed as no-nonsense, industrial and utility-first computers. Tough and rugged, function over fashion upgradable, etc. Nowadays they are made by Lenovo (IBM sold it to them), and are still pretty good, though many of the new mainstream (ultrabook) ThinkPads are similar to other laptops. The thick workstation style ones still exist.

[@WDCallahan]

Uncle Iroh learned how to do that by studying the water benders.

[@WR0]

Lmao

[@Fluffisnoterm]

You win the comment section.

[@dangerx69]

🤣🤣🤣 wtf

[@ifyouarereadingthisyousuck]

Someone's been watching avatar

[@tbr48842]

This episode: Modern Rogue learns how to not solder!

[@somerandomguybody6514]

Howd I know there would be a comment like this lmaoo

[@megahunter223]

I haven't soldered since I was in 10th grade in 2012 and I guarantee I could've done a better job.

[@PorkYoSelf]

This was painful to watch.

[@magicchainsmoker]

Jesus, they could have watched a 5 minute video on how to solder a joint properly. No flux, and the dreaded "hot drop" method are to blame for this failure.

[@magicchainsmoker]

@@RICDirector most electronics solder has a flux core. You still need to add flux. The flux in the core is just to make it easier to tin your tip and wire. It's not enough to make any difference when you're soldering your joint.

[@kirkskywalker1701]

"The bathroom that is the internet" That has to be my favorite internet metaphor ever

[@nejitentenlee21]

I still prefer “bathtub full of poop”

[@kirkskywalker1701]

@@nejitentenlee21 That's definitely a close second

[@Shiny_Hunter_Rob]

"One might say it __resists__ the flow of currency" "Currency", Brian? Seriously?

[@WD-zk6fg]

Weird bitcoin sabotage joke?

[@MisterGlassy]

He's only saying what every hedge fund is thinking.

[@MisterGlassy]

hodl stonks!

[@NefariousElasticity]

I heard it as "current, see?"

[@beepIL]

GME baby

[@you_just]

Watching three grown men struggle to solder a PCB is something I didn't realize would be this funny

[@bernardsmith2994]

"This copy of Windows is not genuine." Ah the old pirated windows. I see the modern rogues are men of culture ;)

[@jerrylindstrom3323]

Probably not even pirated. Just hasnt been activated

[@uiopuiop3472]

haha thats so you Bernard, jokes!

[@diamondflaw]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck Still more stable than Windows ME

[@bbwarwick]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck A price of a share of GameStop is more stable than Windows ME

[@arnie0311]

The USB casing is attached to ground lol

[@warialinth]

The engineers who designed that port knew why it's like that.

[@Ph0en1x778]

As a tech this is hard to watch

[@TheFatVeganOne]

I love how they’re like it’s sparking but all it’s doing is grounding on the casing instead of hitting the data pins.

[@MooseMoosely]

You can tell Jason's story at the beginning is made up because nobody has ever possessed more than one Smash Mouth mp3.

[@ronaldmahan8417]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck Man people always told me the world was gonna roll me. I had zero clue about it being fake.

[@spero-sx5qy]

Hey now your a rockstar. I did not catch that. Gotta get my game and go play.

[@Roaryer]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck yup, what a concept

[@firemonkeykar]

I do

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

This comment chain is incredible. Seriously, All that glitters is gold.

[@firefly5247]

Seeing Babak was nice! It was like when James Bond talks to Q, only dumberer

[@nova2512]

*English Q: helps save the world. American Q: tries to overthrow the gvmnt*

[@Daniel.Liddicoat]

Did he make his glasses out of cardboard and a sharpie?

[@MaoMaster69]

"don't put uknown devices in anythng you care about."

[@matthewellisor5835]

Good life rule. It goes right next to: don't put your device in any unknown things.

[@FemmyFoxxo]

Don't put unknown devices I'm anything that is yours. That's the moto i was told. But a good rule of thumb in life. Just don't put anything you find in a PC or whatnot

[@saigyl9149]

which goes along with the greatest rule of all, don't put your device in crazy

[@squishy2229]

Don’t put weird electronics in your butt. Got it.

[@Killer1986Chris]

@@saigyl9149 But crazy is so much fun at the time

[@imacrashtestdumy]

im definitely upset that they tried theirs on like 4 different things but the one that worked they only used on the laptop

[@Blutzen]

They _did_ say, while talking to Babak about his USB killer, that they were able to get their homemade hack job to fry smaller stuff, so it sounds like they were later on able to get it to fry the tablet and game, but for some reason didn't include that footage in the video.

[@Alleroc]

As someone who develops electronics. The soldering hurt to watch.

[@tonyrulez69]

Next best thing was zapping the grounded casings of the connectors hoping it would kill the laptop.

[@KaedeDaKae]

"Old Knock off game system" Me: Ah yes black ops declassified... my childhood.

[@kacklal]

"I think I got it there in time" - after sticking the wire with melted solder on it to a cold pin 😄

[@Cionaoith]

The statement regarding air purifiers assumes that outside air is "clean." Check your local air quality index and decide if an air purifier is better than opening a window. Even if it does produce ozone, it's probably safer and cleaner than the air in Phoenix or LA.

[@LordZarano]

An ionizer will pull a little bit of dirt out of the air (and deposit it on the table around itself) But if you REALLY want to clean the air you gotta buy a purifier that's just got a HEPA filter and a fan in it. Those things can work miracles. Wirecutter has recommendations for them but there's also this pretty great video where someone puts one in a box with multiple smoke bombs, worth looking it up.

[@LordZarano]

Found the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIKwpIyhiNChisk

[@vsevkrawczeniuk8019]

The arc is jumping straight to ground when you hold the wire to it, that's why it's fine. Also it would've been better if you soldered to the bottom of the board not where you did and also held the wire to the pad while melting the solder, not quickly moving it, which just cools it off.

[@PaulHofreiter]

The soldering physically hurts to watch 😂😂😂

[@1224chrisng]

a Smash Mouth reference in the first minute, I can tell that this is a good video

[@bakingsteele]

As Big Clive has talked about tons, this is an ozone generator type. He's got lots of videos of 11v and 120v version of these ion generators that discharge ozone.

[@Reddotzebra]

Or as I like to call them: "Corona discharge zappy-zappies."

[@gamefan6142]

Brian and Corey : *soldering* Me(An electrician): That's not how you do it Rogues.

[@athands]

When they heated up the wire and then just stabbed the board, I cried. Also, when they talk about tinning the tip and then showing a disgusting tip, that was hilarious.

[@gamefan6142]

This should have been titled : The modern rogue vs electronics.

[@Reddotzebra]

@@athands And then showing them heat the wire to fake me out, then melt a blob of tin onto the tip and then running the wire through it like it was hot melt glue...

[@aJoats]

I for one appreciate that you made the audience feel better about their first time soldering experiences 😉

[@frollard]

Should clarify - those little carbon brushes are there so that the high voltage has spikes to jump off the circuit into the air, ionizing it. The brush doesn't filter shit. It charges particles in the air which then find other surfaces (everything you own, particularly stuff that is electrically grounded) to stick to.

[@Reddotzebra]

It would, except someone (probably in China) realized that it's much cheaper/easier (for some reason, probably a few cents) to make ozone generators instead. So these days most if not all "ionizers" are actually corona discharge ozone generators. Which kills germs but does very little for dust.

[@minecrafter023]

Built something like this a few years ago. I used a disposable camera flash (was powered by battery and shocked as soon as you put it in the USB slot). Worked mighty fine.

[@jdatlas4668]

Oh, I remember these things! I’m only very mildly surprised that they still work even despite how easy it’d be to build computers in a way that isolates the ports and prevents it from damaging everything else, but such is life.

[@allstarwoo4]

If I remember correctly that was one of the purposes of the USB killer. When this first came out commercially. Apple started using data line protection to protect from this kind of attack. Basically the port would have a special gate that would only allow data or in simpler terms limit voltage. Then tech enthusiast started doing destructive test to try and force companies to adapt. I don't think it worked but now we have the sub killer as a commercial product.

[@majorphysics3669]

remember thats a much older computer. i think newer computers have much better protections now. At most you kill the port, instead of the whole computer

[@allstarwoo4]

@@majorphysics3669 I found the name of the circuit. It's called an "opto coupler". I believe initially manufactures refused to do it because of the added cost but I don't know how common it is today.

[@jdatlas4668]

@@majorphysics3669 I think it's still only Apple and maybe a handful others that do it. As Nathan helpfully pointed out the thing usually used is indeed an opto coupler, which pretty much makes sure that at worst it kills the individual port or group of ports depending on how it's set up. It essentially converts the data to an optical interface then immediately back to electric so a surge like this at worst fries one half of the converter and whatever is on the same side.

[@RickDupuis]

@@jdatlas4668 version 4 is much stronger watch?v=FLkXiP1fC2A

[@darkinertia2]

oof that soldering is killing me inside guys lol you need both parts to be hot for solder to make full contact....you cant just touch an iron to a wire, wave it around like its a glowstick at a rave and expect it to attach

[@MrKoblepot]

Best description of what I saw ever 🤣😂🤣

[@tylercoley8327]

Hey guys, I love your videos and have been watching for years, my house recently burned and your videos have kept me going, I love you guys and what y’all do

[@instinctualhavoc]

I used the same USB killer on a server room at my old job and it worked beautifully. You can find em on amazon for like $100

[@lloydmunga4961]

Rule 1: Get a pinout schematic for whatever you're working on Rule 2: learn how to solder A USB port can go offline with voltage fluctuations ... if I remember correctly, default amperage is 100 milliamps

[@bjgaspar]

NordVPN. The bathroom door guard that took a break that one time, but won't tell you about it for a year and a half. But hey, maybe they've changed... and I don't blame you for keeping the lights on.

[@bjgaspar]

@@thedude7726 Not necessarily. I will not use them so I can't say. 2-3 years ago, they had a breach involving - IIRC - their data transferring through a non-secured server (which they fixed). However, they didn't disclose the breach for a year and a half, well past a timeframe where their customers could take steps to protect themselves.

[@Reddotzebra]

@@thedude7726 Which means that as long as whomever is DDoSing you on Xbox is some random script kiddie, any VPN would work. At least until they figure out your new shiny IP and put that in instead. Does Nord offer DDoS protection as an extra service?

[@thomasesr]

The voltaic arc is jumping directly to ground (the metal case around the plugs) which is the easiest path instead the rest of the computer.

[@jonathanclark7444]

Anyone else forget that Jason has an rfid chip in his finger?

[@dstrbd223]

They eluded to it in the video

[@anteodak2965]

@@dstrbd223 wooosh

[@jonathanclark7444]

Huh

[@Reddotzebra]

Isn't it in the loose flap of tissue between the finger and thumb?

[@Tunkkis]

@@Reddotzebra Correct.

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

I work at a recycling plant. I've found and plugged in many a USB drive. Saving grace is that I run Linux so the likelyhood of malware that can attack my system is small, and also I have a lot of computer and electronic components to fix any damage.

[@warialinth]

Linux being invincible to bad stuff is story from far past and actually misinformation these days :D

[@FemmyFoxxo]

@@warialinth Yeah but you're more likely to not get hit my wide spread attacks such as on the web. As most instances of Linux are well CLI and Linux does come with a pretty good firewall. Eitherway it's much less likely to get malware than windows. Butttt still there is absolutely no point in saying it's safer to use. It's harder but still possible

[@ravenbarsrepairs5594]

@@warialinth I didn't say it was invincible, just that it's unlikely for someone to put the effort and money in to target less than 4% of the personal computers out their. I also have the ability to fix any damage that may occur. Killer USB's effect is dependant on how the USB port circuits were designed. Most times it just kills the function of that USB port.

[@ushiocheng]

13:45 I actually learned something 🤣 being a maker working with LiPo battery somewhat frequently, knowing how to find out a battery is on fire is a great skill

[@jeremy486]

I'm so glad you guys keep Cory the adult around.

[@cranfill]

Ya, he's the best.

[@jeremy486]

@@cranfill Little known fact: Monty Python's Life of Brian, starring of course Brian Brushwood, would not have become a movie without Cory keeping him alive between takes. This sparked a long lasting relationship, and with the addition of Mr. Jason Murphy, Cory still saves Brian on a regular basis today.

[@lettersnstuff]

worth mentioning that a lot of usb ports have optical couplers now, which electrically isolate the ports from the rest of the pc specifically to prevent this kind of attack

[@benjaminshields9421]

The best place to look for information on where the data or power pins or anything else is to look for that thing's datasheet! its a drag in the moment, but it saves a lot of guesswork. You can google most and find it in 5 minutes off your phone now

[@wokthiswaychef]

RE: The Fight Club Reference- I believe it was Ed Norton messing with the fuse box in the flooded basement...

[@wokthiswaychef]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck Yes, yet also no! FURTHER SPOILERS (?) Had Jason said "Tyler Durden" or "The Narrator" or even just "the main dude in Fight Club" he would have been ultimately correct. Though since he named the actor, rather than the character, he's still technically in the wrong :P

[@isaacgepperti9956]

I believe that the outer part of the usb is ground so when you try and shock it it shorts to ground to protect the important parts aka data lines. You’d have to connect to data line without being to close to ground parts.

[@AlmostEpic89]

Ha! You guys are like Facebook, I was just talking about one of these yesterday to a friend and now you're showing me videos about it!

[@sageblack9919]

I love how you guys are playing king jebediah at the end!

[@nuclearfish010]

These guys really aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

[@buddyclem7328]

They were looking kind of dumb...

[@samueltheblonde]

With their fingers and their thumbs

[@deckwolf3442]

I did the same thing with a breaker. Send a direct current from one side of the outlet to the other. The result is a flash bang and a blackout.

[@jakemccain9825]

I started watching this channel years ago and your videos have made me interested in radios but also given me a lot of inspiration for payback

[@tepono9807]

An video on soldering seems to be due.

[@spacetexan8695]

“I’m not sure it will work, but I’m sure we did it” story of my life brother!

[@ItsCrashy]

Okay honestly thank you guys for teaching me about tinning because I completely forgot what that did and I needed to know that because I'm doing a project right now that has to do with soldering and I can't thank you guys enough for that

[@AskPat4any]

If I found a usb of smash mouth mp3s that would be a prized possession that will be handed down for generations.

[@FirstLast-cc6cv]

Rumor says smash mouth MP3s cannot exist in close proximity to eachother, they become too powerful

[@christopherabbott3484]

Why didn't they reset the injury counter when Brian electrocuted himself? Was it because he didn't bleed?

[@spoonge_bab967]

Shocked*

[@user-cf3so7mi2o]

Brian is gonna manage to cut his hand with it

[@krbruner]

I used to test telephone equipment in a former life, but I did use to test ESD discharge on devices, with the upper limit of the testing was 22kV of electricity. One phone that I tested had this metallic paint on the face of it, and the paint itself would retain a charge. The gun would not arc to the phone, but when touching the phone after, the phones paint would discharge to my hand...rather uncomfortably.

[@ryanclark6402]

Aah, Jason. “At least there’s a pretty light.” Salute to you and your fellow Men at Work! :)

[@caseymcmurtry2124]

"I got that reference!" -Captain America

[@MGlBlaze]

Basic electronics knowledge would lead me to believe that you need to make a complete circuit and have the other data pin connected to ground for it to do anything, not half a circuit with one side connected to the high voltage and the other connected to nothing. Dunno if it would actually have worked then, but it would have been worth trying. Definitely look at some videos of how to solder as well. You do know about tinning the iron and the pieces to be connected, but the process is a bit different than what you were trying; you need to make sure both sides melt together smoothly in to one piece. Trying to heat one end up and then stick it to the other like it was glue doesn't give you a proper connection. Hold both sides together, then hold the soldering iron against them so the solder melts around everything, add some more solder if needed, then remove the iron. Adding some extra solder flux can also be helpful, but most solder is sold with a flux core so it isn't totally necessary in that case.

[@Gemini-Lion]

As a high school student (currently on summer break, but going to be a Junior) planning on getting a job in IT, this is interesting to me

[@vigilantmug5028]

Fun thing about esd. You'd have to be plugged into an outlet to create enough esd to damage a board cause with the resistance of the skin any esd you output us way too weak to damage things like ram. Unless your working with the most fragile silicon chips made for like a satellite you aren't gonna have a problem while handling bare technology like when you're assembling a computer.

[@king8pin3]

Cory missed the opportunity to say that Jason and Brian aren't the sharpest tools in the shed

[@iwontliveinfear]

I do this all the time! I have a virtual machine that runs on an obsolete netbook dedicated to plugging in found USB drives.

[@SteelSkin667]

For a really good breakdown of how those USB air ionizers work and why they might break your USB ports even unmodified, there's an older video on the bigclivedotcom channel. He takes apart a unit that's pretty much identical to that one.

[@bcsmith]

“Ask your parents” about Fight Club? How young do you think we are?

[@HowToGuys]

Omg😂 that was the 3$ usb killer I built 4 years ago😁 brought back those memories 😭 i lost my pc by this ionizer thing🙏so powerful!

[@tzisorey]

I don't recognise that specific model, but most models in that era had the USBs on the left of the keyboard, directly on the mainboard - but the USBs on the right were on a daughter-board, so that might also be why the DIY one didn't kill it.

[@mc3hamburgerechols561]

Is it just me or does Brian and Adam Savage look related

[@josher-ch6sf]

The glasses help a lot

[@themarlboromandalorian]

It's not just you.

[@feedmeseemore5046]

@themodernrogue - you did an episode turning candy into alcohol drinks and mentioned skittles changing the green from lime to sour apple. Well in the uk They are still Lime. Just brought a pack today. Secondly... doesn’t matter what the flavour is because all skittles have the same flavour but different scents - so lime or sour apple they have the same flavour just the scent is different

[@Enonymouse_]

if you were to do this a lot (tinning wire leads) as in a production environment, you'd have a small preheated pot of solder nearby and just dip the wire.

[@ronray3293]

Excellent! More modern rogue!

[@TheCrystalGlow]

I am fairly certain that those brushes are actually electrostatic propagators for generating ozone gas.

[@PotatoLover112]

Corry is correct the outsides are power and the insides are data (also the bottom ones are just for holding it on The reason why its not working is because its arcing to ground instead of going direct to data If you want I can specially design a USB killer or a kit for yall to make

[@HowToGuys]

Those, who know Kedar Nimbalkar for Usb killer ,raise your hands🙌. Nice demonstration 👍

[@Sansrage.]

If the modern rogue has thought me one thing it is that, if it exists it’s probably there to be nefarious in some way and I have to thank them for me double checking literally everything I can think of because it might be something sneaky that I can use to my advantage.

[@Enonymouse_]

USB 'plugs' self regulates, the controller of the device plugging in negotiates what voltage it will use. Your onboard USB ports may have considerably more buffer between it and the circuitry of the board.

[@adnamamedia]

wild that you guys have a million subs now! I remember back when this all started

[@mbs6585]

me: owns a 300 dollar soldering iron for quadcopters Them: using a 3 dollar gas iron with basically plumbers tin Me: oh no, oh no no no no

[@mikehunt4357]

Best show in the world for my adhd. Love picking up should from here

[@DeckDogs4Life]

First part of this with them trying to kill the laptop reminded me of the LTT video where they were trying to kill a desktop using simulated ESD. They were intentionally trying to kill a PC with electricity and it was insanely difficult.

[@thames_music1219]

Stop teasing us and just finally say that Cory is officially joining the Modern Rogue as a third co-host

[@OldManBurton]

Is no one going to mention Babak’s glasses? Those are the coolest glasses I have ever seen!

[@thegermanempire9015]

The modern rogue and technology, my two favorite things.

[@batchampa]

Things don't stick to the brush, the brush ionises the air which causes the particles in the air to stick to nearby surfaces

[@ckafi1011]

You guys should buy a soldering iron that is specifically for electronics. The Miniware TS100 is like $60-$70

[@neoneinar5761]

I have watched this channel for years now and loved it the entire time. But as someone who went to trade school for electronics, this one was so very painful to see

[@bradleymorgan8223]

seeing 3 people solder a joint like that makes me realize how well Big Clive has taught us, holding the iron in one hand, and both the work and the solder in the other

[@seraph8672]

All the usb ports use the same voltage. 5volts. What is different is that some olddddd ones will only supply .5 amps, others will be able to supply more than .5 amps depending on a negotiation that is done with the device being plugged in. Then when you get into USB Type-C and the associated Power Delivery spec things get REAL spicy.

[@spero-sx5qy]

You could just soder the end on a USB phone charge to a high voltage generator or taser

[@altfurr7276]

"Iam sure we have clean solder..." me: proceeds to look at that horrible blob of solder me: continues crying

[@PseudoLlama]

What were you crying previously for?

[@altfurr7276]

@@PseudoLlama For my doggo

[@PseudoLlama]

@@altfurr7276 Sorry man

[@altfurr7276]

@@PseudoLlama thats okay man.

[@AlphaMachina]

Someone needs to teach these guys how to take care of a soldering iron. lol that tip is grot.

[@LaskyLabs]

It let out the magic blue smoke. My favourite.

[@LaskyLabs]

Also he is right about it smelling sweet. I've smelt lithium-ion batteries when they go, it almost smells like gum.

[@KruzSanchez]

Hey Modern Rogue! I'm commenting to let you know that this is actually the first modern rogue video that has popped up in like months in my subscriptions and recommedations. I literally thought you guys took a break which sucks cuz i missed a lot of great content over these months. idk why, just thought i'd let you know.

[@Entropy72]

"This copy of Windows is unregistered" - you rogues!

[@stupedhurts16]

You guys should do black powder pistols and rifle, you can order them directly to your door and they are just really cool

[@kellenwalburn5238]

Can we bring red team alliance back for more pen testing stuff? I found a few talks Deviant did on KZbin and found them wicked fascinating and I REALLY think you guys would love them (especially Jason given that he owns a Slim Jim)

[@CWGminer]

Babak's glasses always look like they're photoshopped on