that segue joke with the board. Frame it on the wall for next episode and go "And this one was so pretty we had to put it in a frame, our segue. To our sponsor"
Aw man, I JUST missed the window to submit for this video. For about a week before my brand new GPU arrived, I had a 6 inch desk fan sitting inside my PC case facing upward. It kept my 3080 cool enough to sit on 99% utilization all day long, right around 65c. That 3080 had one dead fan, one good fan in the middle, and one fan that PHYSICALLY BROKE and fell out of the shroud, that's how long I had it and how overworked/rarely shut off it was. RIP to EVGA, there will never be another Nvidia manufacturer that makes a GPU you can do path tracing on with a damn desk fan for a memory cooler.
A few years ago the fan on my single fan RX 570 (still using it) died. While I waited for a replacement fan I took off the dead fan, shroud, and side panel and had a desk fan pointing straight at it. Worked better than stock xD
There are PCI fan brackets on Aliexpress that can support 2-3 standard fans underneath the GPU. A pair of 14cm Noctuas does a better job of cooling the GPU than the default fans. Got to remove stock fans and plastic shroud and plug the new ones into the motherboard, because GPU fan header has different shape and voltage. Then use SpeedFan or comparable software to regulate their speed according to GPU temperature, because BIOS can't access GPU sensors. Frankly GPUs, just like motherboard/CPU, should be sold without cooling systems, but with standardized mounting points for them, so that people could use whatever radiator, fan or thermal paste they want without voiding warranty.
My old 1060 6gb fans died, and the replacements didn’t work either. So I just took a hyper 212 and zip tied the cooler on and gave it 12v. Dead silent and kept it around 80f
Dude 20 years ago I had a box fan bungee corded to my case right in front of a window a/c unit to keep my Athlon cool that was over clocked from 1.1 to 1.9ghz lmao😂
About that DB15 (vga) connector, the pencil impression is pretty smart and better than clicking a picture. It can be very difficult to judge the size in a picture. I mean it being a vga connector, picture would have worked perfectly fine. But for someone who didn’t know that it was a ubiquitous thing, getting a perfect size replica was genius.
Agreed, and there have been plenty of connectors that look similar or even are identical in size and shape with different pin counts, or happen to be female rather than male this time that will be hard to identify correctly in a photo. Maybe with enough photo you'd figure it out, and sometimes as with something like a 3 pin vs 5 pin xlr the pin count is small and changed dramatically enough its quite apparent. But just from a photo, especially if its a photo with nothing to give you a sense of scale it would be quite easy to mistake the cable.
When I was in college, we had an ad hoc quake II server running periodically using the school’s wifi. Only problem was, this was absolutely killing the building AP’s bandwidth with all of us on it playing games with hundreds of other students in and around the campus center. So I found a repeater and used a collapsible steamer basket from the grocery store to create an antenna to yoink the signal from the AP in the building across the street from us to separate half of us onto a different AP. It worked pretty much flawlessly for all 4 years I was there. 🤣🤣🤣
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="375">6:15</a> cantennas were used a lot back in the 802.11b/g days to get extended (but super directional) range. Great for wardriving and other legitimate purposes. Note the position of the antenna in the can. The waveguide is in a 1/4 wavelength (18cm/4) from the back of the can. There was a science to it.
I remember seeing a video on YT where they used a Pringle can antenna to connect at what was over a mile to a network. It was out in some desert so there were very little to diffuse the signal. I also remember seeing some people putting up a link using tube style directional antennas to connect wifi to a building. It used more commercial equipment but the idea behind the antennas was the same. I can't remember what channels any of these videos were posted on though.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="98">1:38</a> I'm wheezing over Jake taking back his "that's mint!" immediately after he realizes that it was, in fact, not mint in the slightest
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="550">9:10</a> I remember whenever we were too lazy to set up the IR bar (before playing a game that didn’t require it), we’d just point the wiimote at a lightbulb to navigate the main menu
@@Kuroji07 It emits 2 IR lights for your wiimote to pick up. Your wiimote then communicates with the Wii itself to actually figure out where you're pointing on the screen based on those 2 lights.
The wiimote has a camera in the front that can only see IR light. So it looks for the two dots, and this allows it to see where the TV is, and it help it see how far to tilt the cursor. Seems really janky (and it often was) but some people swear by it, and I've heard that the cursor in Mario Galaxy on the switch isn't half as good, as it's trying to use the Joycon gyro instead to mimick it. The Wii was weirdly genius
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="473">7:53</a> - "My RasbPi is thermal throttling - Argh damn it: i dont have a heatsink... just skrew it." Skrew it indeed.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="418">6:58</a> in my youth, probably 2005-6, we hosted a LAN party in a disused office unit in Glasgow. No internet, but the local hi-rise council flats had a public Wi-Fi broadcast from the roof. We rigged a huge antenna to the dumpster outside and hey presto, BINternet.
In defense of <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="643">10:43</a> wooden monitor arm, those are NOT cheap to ship if you live on an island. I have tried to order proper ones online, and have been quoted $100+ in shipping alone. Think "metal item" and "air mail" I think that one is perfectly valid and clever.
Yeah, and it doesn't even look bad in my opinion. Sure, the finish is a bit rough. But it seems to be in a workshop environment so that's perfectly fine. If I had made this I'd actually be pretty proud of it.
yea, idk if they realize that a lot of the cost to get things to islands/smaller countries may be due to the weight of the item not the US$ cost. As a result, it may be less costly to get an expensive light item than it would be to get a cheap heavy item.
And sellers that ship it to their country usually don't buy enough to benefit from bulk shipping because the demand is low. I'm really annoyed with how inconsiderate people are even when they don't know anything about the situation.
I have a moveable monitor. It lives on a ream of paper. When I want it closer, I wiggle it forward. When I want it higher, I add paper. When my printer runs out, my monitor gets lower.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="374">6:14</a> At one point I used a self-built wifi-antenna as well, consisting of some thick copper bent into a figure 8 on top of a an unused CD. Used it to connect to a wifi-based ISP. The AP was on the same side of the road so I had to point it directly to a specific spot on a house across the street where signal bounced off of.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="167">2:47</a> I did this to a computer of a friend, we found the case with everything but a GPU from the e waste at university and put a GPU in (which we also found from the same trash can). Had to cut a hole in the side panel to get the GPU in but everything worked in the end and he got a fully functional PC out of it
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="422">7:02</a> I actually made a custom mount for my EF9500 65" OLED for my bedroom. This TV (unlike newer LG oleds) have a stupid trapezoidal pattern mount, "universal" mounts don't work because universal mounts still expect the spacing to be a rectangle. So I got some solid red oak from the hardware store, made french cleats, screwed 'em into the studs, and the corresponding part screwed into the TV. Worked perfectly despite the bottom holes being closer together than the top holes because i could just drill wherever they need to be. Its rock-solid too. Thankfully despite being a fairly large TV it wasn't that heavy (like 50 pounds without its stand) so i didn't need to get that fancy with the engineering.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="666">11:06</a> as someone who's on that situation, I've seen monitor arms that are the price of two ps4 controllers for comparison, and they're not even great, they're just expensive because "reasons"
@@SCP-tn2ln yeah kinda stupid to look at someone having a control and be like yeah THEY GOT 50$ extra for s monitor support. Even the most CHINESIUM monitor support over here Is like 2x the markup
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="930">15:30</a> I have seen simple office, desk, fans used to cool plenty of racks, sometimes with mission critical systems that can mean life or death in someway or another. Usually this happens when a server room, coms closet, expands beyond the original intent of what that room was supposed to have. a lot of times, these rooms are built in the 50s-60s and only had bix fields and telecom equipment that barely gave off any heat. now they have switches, routers, servers, radios, UPS's among many other rack or wall mounted systems that produce a lot of heat. In some locations, these are hostile (enviromentally, and ... enemy) areas, or extremely remote locations only accessable by air or boat. things MUST continue running so you make do with what you can find around to ensure things stay cool.
Linus' puns are actually impressive. Okay, maybe not the puns themselves. What's impressive is how indirectly proportional how good one is to how sincerely proud he is of it.
My dad in about 1990 had an Opel Ascona... each panel and door was a different colour from different cars from the scrapy. He didn't have a key for it. The car was started using a doorbell button. I was 5, thought it was hilarious because he wired in the bell for a laugh.
Fun Fact <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="440">7:20</a> If you have a monitor without VESA, Broken VESA, or just no Feet, A Music Sheet Stand can be a clever way to Mount it. Or in my case I bought a 16" Portable Touchscreen monitor and a Tablet Mount with 1/4 Mountpoints and just attached it to my full size tripod. Its a handy Go Anywhere solution. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="570">9:30</a> I have an 80's Macintosh Mouse that I have wired as a Play/Pause Keyboard input that is mounted next to my Front Door so I can Play/Pause Whatever I am Listening/Watching when I walk in/Out. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="890">14:50</a> Used one of them fancy Toothbrushes that double as an MP3 Player to copy Files to take to a Printer place back in the early 2ks. the lady behind the counter was not phased at all, guess they have seen everything.
Back in the day I used my OG model 1001 PlayStation's composite out to attach to my MiniDisc player via taping the other ends of male-to-male composite audio cables to the right poles on a male-to-male 3.5mm jack audio cable, which was then plugged into the microphone input on my MiniDisc player, all to record my CD tracks onto MiniDisc.
At work, people kept deleting all of the desktop icons from PCs, which was a pain to put back (because it happened constantly), so I modified group policy to put a bat file in the startup folder that copied all the files from the default profile to the desktop of the shared login. Now all they had to do was restart the machine to restore icons. Next I had to fix them logging in to these PCs using their user profiles, rather than the default profiles. I forget how I did it, but I found something in group policy to prevent them from logging in to these machines with any profile with a specific security group tied to it. These were Windows PCs that were basically thick clients and all they were used for is launching Remote Desktop and some local phone tools.
The UKTV one was a whole thing about 10 years ago. They're a British TV network running about 15 channels, and they scaled so rapidly that their infrastructure couldn't handle it and they frequently went down. This was their solution for a few months until they got a proper solution in place 😂
The car window thing was probably real. Reversing polarity just makes the motor spin in the other direction. So the official switch did not do anything differently electrically speaking.
Stares at trackball in "Well, I am setting up a raspberry pi to run a screensaver on an old work monitor for something to stare at when I space out at work and I'm building a 2x4 shelf for a linux HAM station this weekend."
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="938">15:38</a> , i put colored cellofane under my bright white powerbutton and HDD led on my Be quiet Dark Base Pro 900 V2, now it's Magneta and a lot less bright to the eyes.
I water cooled my gaming laptop (MSI GL62M) using one of those copper water blocks, secured the block one one of the heatpipes shared by the GPU (1050 ti ) and CPU (i7 7700HQ) using melted ABS dissolved in acetone for a tight fit with thermal and one of my aquariums (50 gallon) with live fish in it, and a spare canister filter with a built in pump. It was actually a closed circuit so I just used longer rubbery tubes as heat exchanger between the aquarium water and the water in the cooler. The water never mixed (would have killed the fish and corroded the copper water block pretty quickly). At idle, I was getting close to 25C to 30C depending on season and never got more than 55C when at full throttle.
I needed a nas for game development but I’m kind of broke. I took an old laptop and put it in a free pc case I found in my neighbors trash. The internal ssd completely crapped itself so I plugged in another ssd to the usb port (with adapter) and I boot off of that. After I slapped Tailscale and nextcloud on it, I have a remote access NAS. Linus, please clown on this.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="780">13:00</a> we did something similar to that in BYOD support at uni. Students going for doctorate; never learnt anything about backups during undergrad, (presumably) masters, A++ grad and future Doctor of 'X'
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="339">5:39</a> - I needed to cool down a flash drive during a long recovery session for a laptop, so I turned a can of "compressed air" upside-down and kept spritzing liquid butane/propane mix on top of it. It worked for what I needed, but now the flash drive sometimes just refuses to work. There's a tremendous amount of cooling you can do with liquids that boil at sub-zero temperatures.
Dan's current role at LMG is to produce jank solutions. On FP we've seen his network switch cupboard ventilator for the badminton centre, which is a lot of noctua fans cable-tied to a ventilation grill and the remote monitoring system for the tormach which is a go pro velcro-ed to the side with an added wifi address.
The guys should have cos played as characters from the red green show for this episode. "Remember if the women don't find ya hansom, they'll at least find ya handy."😂
YES YES YES you need to make a video on Cantennas! I had a real Hawking Labs wifi dish years ago that tripled my range would love to see what we could do now!!!
For my first PC (Tandy PC/1000) my first hard drive was a full-height 5.25" MFM 40MB one. I had to put it on top of my PC and run the MFM cable through an open slot cover in the back, and power it with a full size AT power supply I just had set next to it. Eventually it started getting hard to start--I would kick-start it just by flicking that AT power supply off and on a couple times. Lasted long enough until I moved onto my next PC!
That DIY monitor mount at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="425">7:05</a> is a perfect idea to use old keyboard trays, if you have a monitor where the mount is broken you could absolutely build one from an old keyboard tray
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="540">09:00</a> I wanted to play Wii (Super Smash) again, so I bought a Wii. It didn’t come with a sensor bar, but whatever. I tried the candle trick, and it worked well. About a week later, I went to a friend’s house for a party and brought my Wii along with my candle. People liked it, and we started playing Smash until we realized we had set a plant that was too close on fire. It was funny, but I had to buy a new plant for the lady.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="556">9:16</a> Gotta love how 3rd party wireless sensor bars included a fake dongle to plug into the Wii to keep the illusion alive
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1025">17:05</a> This one kinda confuses me since every single RCA cable I have ever owned has been able to just shove the male end into the other end 😂
I mounted an old wired mouse onto a wood pedestal and disabled the right button. Then attached it to my Kodi movie PC so my arthritic father could scroll through the movie collection with the mouse wheel and trigger the movie with the left mouse button to play/pause the movie.
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="990">16:30</a> the funny thing is that the alarm that's pictured there comes with something to put under the mattress that vibrates the bed - it's also INSANELY loud. Speaking from experience as I used to use that exact same alarm clock.
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="852">14:12</a> how do you hate on how much effort a couple pieces of wood to hold up a monitor were but love this lol
I have a Grand Seiko Spring Drive watch that I use as a mouse jiggler. It's the only thing in my home that can trigger my cursor to move automatically. I tried placing my mouse on an iPad playing a video, but because the mouse is laser, it doesn't detect changing pixels as movement. So I essentially have the world's most expensive mouse jiggler.
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="887">14:47</a> A coworker once tipped over a forklift by overextension because he was listening to music and not paying attention to his rigger foreman. dropped a 20' segment of 8inch schedule 40 pipe BYE BYE
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> I once had a Seagate ST-125 (21 MB 3.5" MFM/ST-412) that the bearing would seize up on if left too long turned off. I found that it had a hole in the PCB that exposed the driving axle for the platters, and by forcibly twisting the axle until it released with a cracking sound would make the drive spin up again.
Man that Wii with the candles takes me back. For a long time my only way to play as a kid was with some candles. It's janky but it works for games that don't need to point often.
I was a school IT guy for my first job out of college for 2 years in Alberta. I gotta tell ya, some schools just dont get alot of funding and repurposing a bunch of shit and that's not completely broken is probably a consistent thing in schools.
honestly i would love to see a macgyver esque type series from them where they were presented with challenges and could only use non ideal tools to help them accomplish the challenge.
The car window one is some straight up Red Green level hackery. If you don't know who that is, you're a youngn'. I respect EVERYONE of these solutions.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="967">16:07</a> I have that alarm clock. It runs on 9V DC, is extremely loud, and has a vibrating pad that goes under your mattress. It's called "sonic boom". Designed for the deaf but great for heavy sleepers too.
On the topic of can-tenna, my friend used a collapsible vegetable steamer as a dish, and a USB stick wifi receiver on a long USB cord, propped up in his bedroom wondow to "borrow some internets" from the school nearby (very early 2000s)
When I was in college, I used a stainless steel pasta strainer with an antenna poked through the bottom of it to steal Wi-Fi from neighboring apartments. But that was when a whole lot less people secured their Wi-Fi networks with passwords. It worked amazingly well
The ipod video had one of the biggest portable hdd/ formats you could carry around back around 2010. I used to re-use it with a cobra 360 to play my backups on you guessed it, a 360.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="573">9:33</a> I'd bet anything that this is at an old folks home. They have to come up with very clever ways of stopping people with dementia wandering out, but still making it easily accessible for friends and family.
At the local card shop there was a rental wii station with 2 lighters next to it instead of a sensor bar. People really only used it to play Gamecube games so it was just to use the wiimote to start Melee
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="970">16:10</a> I've done something similar in the past; rewired the vibration motor in an old smartphone to a relay, which was wired to the shock button of a shock collar remote. wore the shock collar around my ankle
Worked in a PC shop that did repairs and data recovery for a while, and yes, old HDDs can run open in a pinch and to get as much data off of them as possible. Especially old IDE drives were comparably rugged in those regards, but they also only held up to 160GB if I remember correctly. Had more than a few drives that needed a little push to run on the desk. Oh, and after I killed one of our own SATA drives that way, we built a poor mans cleanroom/-box from a plastic bin, some 3M halfmask filters and a broken hoover. Worked better than it should have and increased successrates by quite a margin!
I still give my best segue award to Nicholas Plouffe from the video " Who Can Find the Weirdest PC Parts on AliExpress? " at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1075">17:55</a>
The irony of that alarm clock... I had that same one growing up. It comes with a vibrating puck that you're meant to plug into the back, and then stick under your pillow! It also has those bright flashing LEDs on the front and is loud af. I think it was called the Sonic Boom alarm clock
Ok, the one at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="868">14:28</a> I can promise you, as someone who drove a forklift for years and has been around other warehouse equipment, this is no where NEAR as bad as some of the stuff you will see us commit when OSHA isn't looking! lol I literally worked everyday with one earbud for 10-12hrs a day listening to metal and no one knew or gave a shit
Instead of a cantenna, I have used a metal dog bowl to make a small dish. Cut hole in the center, JB weld a USB extension cable to the back, then plug in your USB wifi. It worked!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="337">5:37</a> This is awesome! I picked up a Standish usb-c/a 256Gb thumb drive and tried backing up my phone, and it gets too hot to touch in 20 minutes unless you're blowing at or holding it to sink the heat away. I honestly was thinking of adding a fan to it somehow, but ended up just babying it for a necessities only backup before a paddleboarding trip.
