Trying TikTok Computer Hacks...
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2024
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:57 DVR HDD hack
4:45 Storage Space hack
6:40 "hacking" hacks
9:46 Homework folder
10:53 Inspect element with extra steps
11:23 Headphone warning
12:16 We hate you Dbrand
12:40 Video on wake
14:02 Memory profiles
14:43 Multiple clipboard entries - Windows key+V
15:05 Reset GPU drivers Win+Ctrl+Shift+B - Наука та технологія
A couple viewers have informed us that prnt.sc is a website that has a reputation for spreading fake crypto wallet credentials that somehow scam the user.
From my perspective, attempting to steal someone's wallet and getting rekt yourself is kinda fitting, but we still felt it was important put this disclaimer here - LS
hello linus from linus tech tips
daamn what a coincidence that this was posted exactly whenu watched this video
btw that crypto thing is f'ed up and i wanna talk to the person who fell into it he must be thinking
OH HEY SOMEONE TOOK A SCREENSHOT OF THEIR CRYPTO WALLET THATS LUCKY LETS USE IT
they ask you for "transaction fees" when you try to transfer. even if only 1 out of 100 falls for it, then that's still a lot of money for them over time
Lol ‘scammer gets scammed’ moment
Hello Mr linus
*Trying creative ways to damage hardware in style*
Hey spiffy
Edit 180+ likes
Hey Spif! Love your vids you lovely chap!
I watched your crypto vid, lol
That's one way to exploit insurance companies.
Oh hello Spiffing Brit. I see you also have LTT notification bell turned on. Funny to see you in a hacking/exploit video comment section on youtube..
For the DVR tip it really helps to look for the DVRs that look like they came out AFTER the whole digital conversion thing.
Yeah bro chose DVRs from 1920
As a metal worker, you haven't seen anything if you think anything Linus was doing with that grinder was unsafe 😂
nothing gets past the safety squint
ive worked with wood and metal without any safety gear... its fun taking risks... not to mention i spent years in st johns cadets learning how to patch myself up if injured... its called being a full diy freak...🧠🦾😎🛠⚠☢☣
@@HydraEncrypto Good luck patching your eye with and exploded disk shard
im a diy expert... if i need to protect my eyes i use what ever matterials ive got to create my own goggles... why waste money on something that ive already possess...as my favorite saying goes... tis only but a scratch... if you dont get that reference what planet are you from...lolz😜
@@HydraEncrypto Sure thing, whatever floats your boat! I'm only concerned for your safety, as safety goggles are made specifically for absorbing high energy impact and I've seen some nasty accidents happening while working with power tools, some whose eyes got saved from sharp exploded disks by these safety goggles.
Don't take this the bad way, doing stuff DIY is really, really cool in my opinion, but there's no shame in protecting yourself from possibly messing up your working body forever, our body is our machine that does all the work, and you gotta keep it healthy!
Stay safe!
I IMMEDIATELY checked the account and didn't see that tweet, but figured something might be up anyway because I TRUSTED YOU, LIE-NUS.
(It was fun, though)
Hey, the Tech Jesus is among us! BTW, I'd totally change my password if I were you too. 😂
Lmao. It was all for content XD
At least he did it for memes.
Better be safe than actually get hacked.
Working in IT, it really nice to see somebody that this was their instant reaction and action.
Linus roasting the kid over his setup is actually the funniest shit I’ve heard this year
for reals i loved it
Definitely agree I was laughing hard when Linus grilled the kid! Classic Linus
linus was cringe i got pc for -0 and monitor for 0 if you don't see the flex I feel sorry for you
It's not even that the setup was bad, but that he just hand waved the cost of literally every component
@@pixlax9037 Its only a "flex" if you took that personally lol, as if he was waving it over your face that it was free, when he was actually just joking about how useless a video like that is.
"These were sent by Dbrand, fuck you Dbrand".
Linus-Dbrand relationship is stronger than ever I see
@@DemeDemetre.... Fck
Yes fff
It's a love hate relation thing man💔💖
Lol
search yourself a partner that treats you like dbrand treats linus
So a note on the DVR HDDs... There is a function called "power-up in standby" which most of them have on by default, and in most cases it will prevent a system from using one as a boot drive.
hdparm (in linux) allows you to turn that function off. I imagine somebody probably knows a Windowsy way.
I'd hope people are not using these HDDs for their boot drive
@@kylehagertybanana or a HDD in general really
@@gamer_man_4350 hdds are still a great way to store large things like games that are huge and is acceptable to start 2-3 seconds slower than on an ssd
@@NerdPub_ well your computer still needs to access those resources while you’re running the game, and loading times can be drastically slower because of that.
I only use HDDs for my film, music and whatever else collection. I haven't used one as a boot drive for so, so many years now. I don't know how I put up with that in the first place.
While troubleshooting an old media box I found, I opened it to find a 2tb HDD! That now holds all of my games and I’m still shocked to this day that I found a drive that big in something that old
One thing I've learned is don't underestimate old machines
@@TheTallOne890 yep lol
I only store my stuff on SSD’s, and backup on hard drives.
I love it how Linus straight up called a child a idiot literally the funniest shit
To be fair, almost every child is an idiot.
it was clearly an overly privileged, spoiled 13 year old with rich parents, so i think it's ok.
@@_ikako_ it is
I think there's a subreddit for this...
@@zyansheep /kidsare*insert f word*stupid
The IG inspect element hack doesn't even make sense.
If you have to refresh the page, any changes you made with inspect element or developer console would be lost 🤷♂️
That, and any developer worth their salt wouldn't transmit content to a user that isn't meant to see it.
What a waste of bandwidth!
Exactly
Ah yes, changing Inspect Element properties to hack server side encryption.
@@ThumberBulls6 lol
ua-cam.com/video/ivsl98IRLq4/v-deo.html
@5:56 my dad used to store files in the recycle bin because it compressed them easily and he had no extra HDD space 🙃
i think the private instagram post thing wouldnt have ever worked. the document changes made in inspect element should go away after a refresh, unless theres some setting i dont know about that makes them persist, although in that case i dont know why a refresh would do anything at all. anyways, that method is a great way to get around paywalls on news sites, or hide banners that get annoyingly large on low resolution screens and zoomed-in pages
I am pretty sure it was a troll hack, did you not see the content the page revealed during the video? lmao
watching linus completely demolish a child made me way more happy than it should’ve
I laughed so hard
Same LMAO
IKR...I think he thought it was a adult female...but I died...lol
@@faithblack3851 why would he
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques they sound the same sometimes
I love how Linus' employees are the ones ATTEMPTING to enforce safety standards 😂😂😂
Alex:I think you should...
Linus :Nah I'm fine
Viewers: HOW IS THIS FINE
@@DemeDemetre POV: you achived comedy
tbf: gloves and angle grinders do not go together...
@@Medievalfan94 True, but he should at least have worn an apron.
Those tiny metal shards are a bitch-and-a-half to get out of your skin. (And that T-shirt won't stop a lot of them.)
Kinda bugs me as viewers will now also think this is an acceptable way to behave around power tools.
All I wanna say is thanks for showing the space storage hack. My boot drive was filling up for no reason and I've found like 31 gigs that were just there chilling for no reason. All in all, I'm truly thankful! Thanks for the save!
If you really wanna hide a folder on the desktop, just give it a blank icon and rename it to a blank character (hold ALT, type 0160 on your number pad and release ALT). No icon, no name. But it can still be found fairly simple if you view you desktop in the explorer.
"This is gonna be interesting. Unlike our sponsor"
Cablemod: Linus, we need to talk
Needs more likes
He literally said "fuck you dbrand"
@@loganlachance1890 yeah but dbrand and ltt have a bro relationship.
@@keirhan yes they do. Overall a good sponsor relationship.
@@loganlachance1890 I lipread it as "thank you dbrand" but I'm not actually great at this, I might be wrong. After all do you ever really know what's behind a bleep? Otherwise, what's the purpose?
I love how the kid was going on about how they "bought" the additions to their gaming computer, but didn't know how much they paid. Translation: "my parents bought these things for me"
kids will be kids and kids be dumb as hell
@@nighfirst2968 Racist
@@eleven99 epic computer hack: mom said it's my turn on the mac.
Nah I saw the comments on that TikTok and I think he has a job
@@colincasey4963 He sounds like he's 10
10:55 No. This feature (vulnerability) was never there. As soon as you refresh the page, the browser will fetch the legitimate HTML contents of that web url (or pull it from cache)
And besides the logic which determines if you'll be able to see a private Instagram profile or not, actually runs on the server side, and not on the browser.
Ctrl + Shift + Windows + B is a shortcut to reset your GPUs drivers which (from my knowledge) essentially just flashes all GPU settings back to default specified by your currently installed drivers and will in turn reset any overclocks you applied and can sometimes be handy when you accidentally overclock your system too much.
Linus: "Oh god, her voice is so annoying"
Editor: "Are you sure that you wanna go there?"
*Savage*
I don't understand, could somebody explain it?
@@crackny4n 11:30
@@trisjor I saw that, I just don't understand what they mean by "Are you sure that you wanna go there?" Btw, english is my second language.
@@crackny4n No worries; the editor is implying that Linus’ voice is also annoying (likely due to it high pitch).
Hope that helps!
@@trisjor Thanks, I feel really dumb now
"this is going to be interesting..."
"unlike our sponsor, cablemod!"
throwing your own sponsor under the bus
Could be worse... they could be D-Brand lol
My Next PC will have cable management, and still no HDD drives.
Everytime i see sponsor
i smash my monitor
the clause stated "step on me"
although yeah, preferably you want your product to be interesting, probably not in the way linus meant it here, which likely was interesting in the way of "will this actually work or did i just get ripped off by some clout chaser on the internet?", and you definitely *do not* want your customers to feel that way, so therefore the sponsor is not like that at all, because you're totally 100% guaranteed to be satisfied if you buy their product
Those DVR hard drives are the same ones used for like security cameras. They should actually be high speed and high cache for the size. The storage sizes are typically smaller for the same generation hdd, but the other tech upgrades make it worth more than $10.
The inspect element trick was great when I was in high school. In a computer class me and a friend were in, we were stuck on an assignment about coding a basic game. We edited the page to say piracy and theft is good sent a screenshot to the teacher, who forwarded it to the school board, in the end everyone got an A+ and no one had to finish the assignment.
Tiktok is the last place I would ever get my tech tips from
@コイン shut
ok
@Gray Plays shutup
Linus kinda disagrees
Bro you got verified. 🔥
That CTRL+WINDOWS+SHIFT+B key combination actually restarts the DWM pipeline which causes the graphics driver to reload. Highly underused, understated tip. Ever been playing a game and you can tell its still running but the video seems frozen? That combo will prevent you from needing to restart.aaaaaaa
What the fuck?
I used this a lot with a previous monitor I had
I think it's implementation of freesync was pretty borked and it would occasionally start flickering in a subtle but noticable way. This shortcut fixed it anytime it happened.
I rate this 10/10
@@mitchellortiz3689 Also works to fix when the mouse cursor gets detached for VMWARE Horizon client sessions. There's lots of situations where this shortcut can prevent you having to reboot/reconnect :-D
TIL
I've salvaged hard drives from DVRs before. Generally the smart thing to do is look up the model online BEFORE you buy it. You'll almost always find out the capacity of the drive that way.
In Dylans video the dvrs he showing look to be about 10+ years newer then the ones Linus picked up. I'm sure that makes all the difference. Again though finding a few year old model at a thrift store is hard to come by I would imagine, Alot of times the companies want these boxes back if they have not been in service for a long time, probably to reuse the hard drives.
Watching Linus dunk on a 9 year old is probably the greatest thing I have ever seen on this channel. 🤣
He really seemed upset about that one.
I'm surprised he didn't comment on the kid saying "the ENTIRE keyboard" ... 😂
@@SethanderWald custom keycaps are a thing just sayin
@@bearwastaken6579 fair point. And I suppose that makes the $350 price a bit more believable as well.
@@SethanderWald youre gonna be surprised how mechanical keyboards can easily reach 1000$ in price
In his defense all of the ones I've owned didn't have security screws just standard Philips head screws
They just do things different in Canada
This was one of my favourite LTT videos 😅 hoping for a sequel soon! 🙏💖
"Only two drives spun up."
Well you did kinda mangle one with a hammer
It probably would have still worked hard drives can take alot when they aren't spinning
and attach it to the bench on another with a magnetic welding clamp
@@colonelk3000 magnet may erase the drive but not really damage the plate unless extreme condition
Na that's how they work, use the hammer.
@Gray Plays why are you spamming mate?
I can just feel Alex's pain as he's trying everything to keep his boss from cutting off a finger.
Yeah, and trying to give him gloves while using angle grinder. Not very wise..
rn it has 69 likes no joke
@@Brancuu yeah, the fact that his tool/machine "expert" doesn't know the basics of tool 101, makes me wonder if the guy just didn't BS his way in with stuff Linus wasn't 100% about
@Brancu! it is wise. Go work in any sort of metal fab shop and say that wearing gloves while using an angle grinder is a bad idea and you will get slapped by HS. The wheels spin at 13k RPM, if they explode it could take a finger off if not wearing gloves. Not to mention the hot, flying debris from the wheel and work piece can very easily get embedded into your skin.
Also just to add, Linus has excellent technique with using the grinder here, which tells me he has experience in using a grinder.
@@austinwolfe7295 nah not at all. If you use gloves with any kind of grinder youre kinda stupid. If it catches even a Little bit of material, your hand is gone
6:00 I would also say Space Sniffer works well. Very similar, more monochrome, but quite user friendly.
I love so much the CTRL+Shift+Win+B function!!! Since i saw this video i have used A LOT (my gpu breaks quite a lot) and most of the times it works.
"What is on the agenda to do today boss?"
Linus: "I need you to watch hours of tik tok."
Linus: "Why did you ask me? That's literally your job Madison"
Madison: _zoomer noises_
Also they : screaming fortnight kids 11:29
Linus : nah not that shit again!
This should be forbidden by the Geneva convention.
You forgot the last line of dialogue: "I quit."
“NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” *all sane employees run away screaming*
Everyone: How to reduce your boot time
Tiktocker: How to increase your boot time by adding an intro before the desktop
To the person who is reading this
You are awesome 😎
My goal is to hit 30K any help would be amazing 🤠
Me: Computers can be turned off?
Those idiots man fr.....
Guessing by name another Lankan.
Well, every
I got couple of hard drives I took out from old digital TV receivers, I use them with my WII. Also used the power boards and fans for some Arduino and Raspberry projects, faster and cheaper than ordering from China. Besides sometimes things don't work as expected, so it's nice to have a bunch of spares. And it's really soothing to disassemble things.
The graphic driver shortcut comes in hand at work (Tech support) there is a display glitch that occurs in windows where the top portion of the screen doesn't display the open window - and the graphic reset driver is a quick way to resolve this , instead of restarting the PC (also fixes the issue)
I feel Alex's anxiety hard about Linus with the grinder
“can i suggest a thing”
*NOPE*
Well, _kurz gesagt_ would have used a nuke or the end of the entire world as we know it as tool to open the DVR
I don’t know much about shop safety but that felt like a lot of metal shards for short sleeves.
@@finchhawthorne1302 Not only that. That's the wrong disk he used.
@Gray Plays stop cat phishing
I was taught by my machine shop teacher to never wear gloves when using a grinder. If the glove fits too loosely, it can catch on the grinding wheel and pull your hand into the grinding wheel that's rotating at thousands of rpms. I follow my teacher's advice because he had been a machinist for 25 years and still had all of his fingers.
And if it's not your hand that's pulled into the wheel, "degloving" fingers is a very real injury
That shit keeps me up at night imagining it
@@Spideryote
Ah shet, I'm uncomfortable around work tools now
Grinding = gloves
drilling/milling/lathe work = no gloves
If your glove touches the grinder wheel, it's gonna wear, rip, or tear. If your gloves (or other loose clothing) catches in a lower speed rotating impliment like a drill press, milling machine, or lathe, it will catch, and pull appendages/body parts with it.
@@NickCressman It really depents on the kind of grinder you use. or rather what type of attatchment you use. If you use just a simple grinding stone on it gloves are fine, if you use a really coarse one or even something resembeling a saw (or heaven forbid one of those chainsaw heads) then leave the gloves... if the glove gets caught on just one of the edges it will cost you your hand... or your live. There is a pretty good youtube video out there where a woodworker explains how he almost got decapitated by his grinder because his grindingtool got stuck on a piece of hard wood he was working on and spun all the way from his extended arm up his belly towards hios head within less than a second.
Remember kids, a Grinder is calledn an "Angle Grinder" for a reason. you should not use it as general worktool just because "it can" do these jobs. It was designed to grind through bolds, not to cut, saw or polish. The more grid your head on the tool has, the more you should avoid using it.
@@Buffalo_Soldier I mean, what about milling machines, drill presses, lathes...
The thing about the private Instagram one is the fact that when you refresh the page the inspect element goes back to normal, you can’t change the website permanently so when refreshing you go to the original one so it will never work
12:26 i love how Linus just popped off at a random kid online, funniest shit ive seen in forever
Alex: **makes a single sound**
Linus: *NAH I'M GOOD*
@@DemeDemetre bruh. never thought i was gonna get rickrolled in an LTT video's comment section.
I believe we need a series!
I've never watched any of those TechToks, but sure - I wanna see if they are real/fake. And Linus tearing down those is just gold.
you should rarely listen to advice on tiktok anyway. another youtuber, 74gear, debunked a bunch of bullshit tiktoks about planes (hes a pilot), and i hsve found a bunch if bullshit about cars too. tiktok can lie snout everything
@@imblack011 Oh Sure thing, I will never do that, but this format of a video was hella good, so I'm up for more!
@@DemeDemetre Same
@@imblack011 Yeah, I can see the format making it really easy to make shit up without revealing that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Funny thing is, I actually went through with that "HDD shucking" hack.
Was browsing thrift stores when I saw one of these things. Looked in the grid. 500GB SATA drive, just right there!
Did use an iFixit security bit, though; too much of a wuss to actually use power tools lol.
Did the drive work? Im too lazy to search for drives tbh.
My friend introduced me to WinDirStat a few years ago. Every three months I take an hour and do a clean of my computer and it's so useful.
I need to look into that multiple items on clipboard thing. It's super useful on phones, idk why it's not a default on computers.
I love how Linus absolutely roasts this kid.
He should roast my friends for flexing on me with there "$100,000" gaming setup. And I guarantee it was at least $1,000 and they say I am a very poor kid for not even having a $500 gaming setup. (It is just a ps4) but I am thinking to build a $1,000 computer that is better than my laptop. Which is already good. It can run roblox at 60fps unlike my family computer which is at 30fps.
Not sure if this is a troll comment or genuinely what a kid would say. I think it was the Roblox that did it.
@@ethangreen2022 damn
@@TomNook. my friends lie to me I think it is just a $1,000 gaming setup.
@@TomNook. and my laptop has intergrated graphics and I want to get a gtx 1080 for 120 fps on Minecraft so I have room for mods. (Also at 4k)
Absolutely lost it when Linus was pricing up his setup and cussed out d-brand ahahahaha
Why does he swear at D-brand they promote them almost every other day LUL
@@Xxcilo they probably got a contract that lets them say things like that
About that "gold" coin is actually made Linus mad of Dbrand, because Dbrand used a bag of those gold coins as a sponsor payment for a video.
Dbrand thought it was a joke like any other joke they have done before to Linus. But still, it's not a professional thing to do for such a business thing. That's why Linus is keep jokingly mad about that.
They have a love hate relationships. It's great
@@n_core I don't understand a word of what you're saying.
As I come back to peek at this year-old tech tip, thought I should mention that eBay is better for hard drives honestly.
You can find deals like 4Tb 3.5" SATA HDDs for around $28, or in my case since I needed 16 SAS (different than SATA) drives for a server, I found a deal for 4Tb @ $20 and then proceeded to work a deal for $16/ea since I was getting 16.
So if you're buying multiple, building a home server, or just filling out your desktop PC's storage, there are some competitive deals.
Considering Linus paid $30 expecting 3x1Tb drives only to get 1.16Tb, you could get 4Tb for the same price. Just thought I'd share since I was just in the HDD market this month.
Linus mocking that kid absolutely made my day, and the "fricking idiot" was cherry on top
Keep this a series please, there's so much random tech stuff on tiktok. Ranging from legit to generous
generous?
Did you perhaps intend to write Dangerous?
Oo
Autocorrect can be generous sometimes.
you mean bulshit to more bulshit ?
@@DemeDemetre you sound a like a 14 yr old redditor
@@johnmadden52 they're actually called "Redditards" lmao
idk y ppl think "rick rolling" is remotely funny, its just a cringe thing to do
11:21 because tiktok users know nothing but scroll, double tap, repeat.
Over in the UK we have similar DVRs called sky boxes, that had up to 2tb drives in. The only difference is that people often give them away for free, so it's always a good deal no matter if it's a 80gb drive or a 2tb drive
Linus: *hits hard with a hammer*
Also Linus: "So this hard drive is broken because of the DVR"
Lmao
He also put those red welding magnets right up against the DVR to hold it during grinding....
@@evbunke2 fucking this.
@@IamRyanLPs did you ask it for consent
@@sql64 Linus didn't ask those HDDs for consent, also your username is awful.
I love that he call the kid a "freaking idiot", my thoughts exactly. Lol
i dont understand that part honestly lol, why was he an idiot for such thing???
@@jwork5680 Cause he was just bragging about the pc their parents bought for them. No one cares how expensive his pc was, but he had to get it out anyways, because he's a spoiled brat. Still weird hearing Linus insulting a kid. Should be better than that if you ask me
@@Max-uv3eg i see your point, but isnt it kinda stupid to say the kid is stupid because the dude on top asking for the setup price and the kid did exactly that
@@jwork5680 No one likes spoiled people acting like the things they got for free are something they earned. The kid says he paid this much for that and that much for this, which we all know is not true as he doesn't even know the prices of half the things he's talking about. This clearly shows the purpose of his video was pure flex.
@@Max-uv3eg It's kind of worse than that, the kid has been taught his self worth is in things rather than himself intrinsically. It's pretty damaging and can create very horrible adults.
Linus would like to salvage some HDDs, and takes some beefy magnets to hold down the DVR :D :D :D
9:53 A long time ago in High school, using the Change Icon trick, We used to make Batch files on the computers in the computer labs running either W98 or XP, I can't remember which OS
The one we did the most was a batch file that would endlessly open new Solitaire games and overload the computer so it had to be rebooted. We would save this batch file deep in the PC files, Make a shortcut to it on the Desktop so we could change the Icon it used making sure to pick the Solitaire Icon, and then Rename it to Solitaire. Anytime someone decided to try to play Solitaire instead of working on their School work they would crash the PC they were using, iirc we also did one for Minesweeper
I remember another time a friend used the MSG command on command prompt to send a message to every PC on the school network at the same time, He sent Hello World and then the entire school network crashed shortly after lmao
Another thing we did one time that has nothing to do with Icon changing, was we installed the Original PC version of Halo on the schools file network which allowed us to run it on Multiple PCs in the computer lab at the same time with the one install, So when we would finish our assignments for the class we would all sit there and start playing Halo CE
Lol, I remember the Desktop Screenshot too, that was another good one
Another game I remember we did was Chex Quest, it was pretty much a Doom clone that came in boxes of Chex Cereal that we put onto the server
Another thing someone did one time was I guess on PCs back then, if you took the little "belt" off of the CD tray spindle the PC would endless try to Reel in the CD tray and eventually crash the PC and give up
I'm honestly loving this new era of chad linus just wrecking shit and throwing it off the table. lol. xD
just like our moms
To the person who is reading this
You are awesome 😎
My goal is to hit 30K any help would be amazing 🤠
😅
He's just saving time. Throw it before you drop it.
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I love Alex keep popping in to tell him to do his job safer and he’s like “nah I’m good” than instantly like -
*I’m covered in metal shards*
Linus was 100% tight tho. Gloves can get caught into the spinning wheel at a couple thousands RPM and you could lose a hand.
From a discussion with an AMD Radeon driver engineer, it does NOT restart the graphics driver. It does appear to discard the desktop surface buffer and re-create the allocation from DWM (on a healthy system the desktop goes black for a second).
Me and my step brother would dumpster dive for those and we found like 5 new cable boxes with 1tb and some with 2tb! Pretty awesome.
I don't get why you need so much space. Why not delete movies you already seen
@@agnosticmanquestionsall2409 for real, but shoot we weren't complaining 😂
I actually lost it like Alex when he said “Fricking idiot” xD
Linus said it.
"And one hard drive failed self test"
Linus: *throws, rudely tilts and drops and rips out the hard drives or their 'enclosures'*
Also Linus: "This is fine" :)
I wouldnt buy a hard disk drive in the year 2021.
@@fynkozari9271 don't get me wrong, but having one is fine.
I am using 3 SATA SSDs and a NVMe SSD but also a 5TB 2.5" HDD. It's just a reliable storage. I have seen my old SSD wear out and honestly... I was glad that I had backup points and all
Also... Saving important data on there is my way to go because even if it dies, I can still recover Data.
@@fynkozari9271 To be fair, Hard drives are still usefull as they are very affordable and have alot of space. whereas SDD's are still a little bit too pricey to be worth the space you get. atleast in my opinion.
@@julius6889 HDD is good if u dont have already. I have many HDD. WD blue Sn550 1tb NVME SSD is good price for new gamers with new mobo, usually they have 2 or 3 nvme slots on 2020 motherboard. My 4 year old aorus x370 only has 1 nvme slot. So I need to buy PCI adapter to add more.
With a pair of needle nose pliers, that tab could have been twisted straight...
actually, my father was having issues w his surface pro intel graphics and this fixed it sure enough! Thx linus
The dvr hard drive hack sometimes doesn't require a saw to get in as i just found one at a tip without the security screws. It just had hex screws although it was only a 500 gb wd green drive from 2015
9:30 is my favorite part of this video
🦧
Dapz moment
I hope you can give me money for me to have good life
Same
Wait, it's the man with the superpowers?
"pick an icon no one would ever look for..."
*immediately selects MSN*
I actually had an unused cable box sitting around and took it apart for the fans a few months ago, and i found a 1TB seagate drive.
New "prank" idea:
- Open cable box
- Remove drive
- install virus on drive
- replace drive
- close cable box
- send cable box to donation center
- wait for an LTT video
Honestly a great concept for a series. Tackling popular questions, seeing as the videos themselves have a shit load of views, but greatly improving upon the advice and advising further. And it's all guaranteed to be beneficial seeing as they are popular topics to begin with. So many birds with one metaphorical stone.
Or just advocate for everyone to delete the app. Most businesses that deal with secure data ban employees from installing the app on their devices and networks as well as military members are banned from accessing the app through their base's network. Tik Tok really should have been banned worldwide, but we know the CCP stretched it's arm across and stopped that.
I literally spend entire days in multi-million dollar companies adding permissions and blocking all of the tik tok servers and checks from reaching the network because of how malicious the app is. Several companies across the country have been attacked by russia and china already due to unsecure devices that use tik tok's kernel-level data-harvesting. Yet our government still refuses to ban the app from all our networks, despite strong warnings from the FCC, FBI, CIA, and NSA.
Delete Tik Tok, ffs.
true that. linus can be the dude that rips on stupid tik tok hacks but for computers
@@evolicious interesting, elaborate.
@@MrGamelover23 He already did, wtf.
@@evolicious Thats because none of the high ranking government got caught out because of it. Seems like the only way to put something on their radar is hurt their election chances.
I enjoyed that while Linus almost certainly has numerous security screw bits lying around, he chose to open the DVRs with a grinder just for the fun of it
All for dramatic effect
It's not like he could have drilled them out or something like that...
I'm sure it was 1000 times easier to find the grinder than to find those bits
Yeah and he used grinding discs to cut instead of proper cutting discs.
Sparks shiny
The hack one where you go to inspect to show private things will not work bc when you reload a page it resets what you did bc you can't save the changes unless you are a dev.
I swear you guys have the MOST well-timed and original promotion of your own brand.
Referring to 12:20 😂
"without the dramatic close-ups and, like, a booming techno score, real-life hacking is just… typing."
its barely even that. Its more just opening a program setting a target and walking away while your pc does all the hard work.
Don't forget the Guy Fawkes mask!
I like how he gave them actual fair ratings instead of just being kneejerk "wow. I have no words. epic fail" like reaction UA-camrs often do
@Yukia 💕🤤 wow
@Yukia 💕🤤 go sit in a jet engine
Thank you for the video! I don't use tiktok so I wouldn't have realized that I could get more hard drives! I see a ton of old DVRs at my local recycling depot every week!
HDD aren't very expensive idk kinda seems too much trouble for a used one ...
2:00 Just use a sturdy screwdriver and pry it open from the sides. 10 minutes of prying is quicker than a grinder.
Alot of dvrs use the same pipeline drives so you can raid them together in a raid mirror with a lot of success
One point completely missed on the "DVR HDD hack" portion is that often enough, these drives have flags set so that they do NOT just spin up and power on when thrown into a system as is suggested here (perhaps these 3 weren't set up as such). There is a non-insignificant chance that you'll need to create a bootimage to load up a custom utility that can flip these flags so that the drive will then function as normal from there on out.
It's been a couple years since I've messed with it, but if memory serves, it's the PUIS (Power Up in Standby) flag specifically that is at "fault". Which, is honestly preferable in terms of actual wear put on the drive given the use case of a DVR.
How would you fix this
@@sebaschan-uwu You use a boot image such as Hirens and disable the PUIS flag.
So that it raises the chances of that working?
can't you just use dban?
Also another point not mentioned in either the TikTok or by Linus is that you really should look at the manufactured date on the label. If it says it was made in 2006 or some other absurdly old number, then it'll have a 500GB max drive unless it was user replaced (which is highly unlikely. I've seen 1 replaced drive out of about 15 DVRs). And the quality of that drive won't be the best for everyday use. The later you go after 2010, the higher the chance you get a larger capacity drive, and a greater chance that the drive will still be good.
6:00 "You've got 18 gigs in your trash can Alex" Shh Linus, that's where he keeps his "homework" folder.
5:55 *
You joke, but I very recently had to explain to my step dad why all of the emails he was hanging on to in his trash folder were suddenly gone, and no, there was no way to get them back.
@@waveformdistortion file recovery wouldn't work?
@@waveformdistortion Your step dad is stupid AF to keep important emails in the Trash
@@MrGamelover23 If it had been local that would be one thing, but is kind of hard to attempt file recovery on a server stored in some data center I don't have physical access to.
You could also just choose a transparent icon and have no title and put it in the corner of your desktop and its practically invisible
the graphics driver refresh shortcut is very useful in my IT support job, thank you much Microsoft
loved when he roasted the kid with his setup 😂
i was going to add that comment, but You said it first before me and i'll stand behind you in support. quote "Zero Freaking idiot" STOP IT
roasted kid ROFL
edit: our inner "pick on the little guy"
the kid reacted to it on his tiktok
hes fine with it
@@emiwelefeo149 Kid is alright by me in my book LOL Thanx for the update Bro!
It makes me happy every time I see someone point out Win+Ctrl+Shift+B. Sometimes your GPU can just kinda glitch out (especially when trying an overclock) and resetting the graphics stack is enough to keep going without resetting the whole PC.
Does it reset or refresh, cause I don't want to have to re-download my GPU drivers every time I do it, stupid question, thanks.
@@_BaileyK It's resetting the graphics stack, basically restarting your GPU/drivers. It won't touch the driver installation. It may crash any open games or 3D applications if they haven't already crashed so be careful.
In my case, my one monitor (purchased as a pair, other one is same situation) keeps not restarting properly unless I fully power it off then back on, and even then it's a gamble. Oddly I used the one that was 'broken' (same reason) for 3 months and then when the good one failed, I swapped and it started working. I now wonder if I can't trick the monitor to cooperate by resetting the GPU this way.
EDIT: Nope. Monitor still fucked. Best $600 I wasted on a pair ever.
@@FlameSoulis This shortcut won't fix anything that a normal PC restart won't. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
After building & owning PCs for getting on for 20 years, I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of this shortcut before! & it is useful in some circumstances! I can't believe I learnt something from a bloody TikTok video 😞
Thank you great information. Y’all r a huge reason I like tech stuff so much. Nice beard too
Things like DVR hard drives are quite likely to have nonstandard firmware, even if they look like a generic drive. Seagate, WD, etc will happily tailor the drive performance and features for OEMs that are buying by the pallette. That means their general purpose performance may be subpar.
Linus is the only youtuber that can lowkey roast his sponsors and get away with it
They're just cables /shrug
And The Sponsor Can Also Torture Linus The Way They Like And He Is Forced To Do It.
Lowkey? The man literally said “f*ck you dbrand”
Why does he hate d brand
@@NLamki2002 Cause Dbrand Sponsor Him To Annoy Him For No Reason.
This should be a recurring series. There’s so much content for it.
Linus is insanely knowledgeable Anthony maybe even more so
15:13 personally this one was really helpful to me I ram my pc for a few days straight and it started bugging out even after giving a few days to cool down and this fixed it
TikTok is the death of good content and genuine creativity.
I love how linus called that kid an idiot lmao. That kid is only bragging with his parents buying him a pc and he fully deserved it IMO
Hey noob
I too found a lack of sympathy for that reason 😅
pretty sure Linus drives that obvious point home by pointing out some of the sponsored hardware he has in the video.
It was at that exact moment that I upvoted this video
i follow that creator and he said he gets a majority of his money from allowance, birthdays, streaming and refereeing fencing matches
Linus: "You have 18 GB in your Trash Bin, Alex."
Me: **automatically checks my Trash Bin**
Also me: **has 41.5 GB in my Trash Bin...**
strange flex, but I'll allow it, lol
Fuck bro I’m gonna go do that right now
Just checked and I had 12GB in there, mainly ISO files
I have 0GB in my trash bin due to having it set to delete instead of move to trash
I might as well disable my recycle bin, at this point I just shift-delete everything reflexively.
with my experience (i am a middle schooler with basic tools a.k.a multiple flathead screwdrivers and a bunch of stripped Phillips head screw drivers) with those security bits I sometimes use a small flat head and it SOMETIMES works, depending on what shape it is
I once found a DVR at a scrapyard and It worked better than our old DVR and it had a working 1TB hard drive! The best part is that it was easily opened just by lifting off the top!
The changing the icon trick, i used that on my brother once when the starcaft 2 beta came out. He was a massive fanboy. When he got home from work and clicked it, it was a rickroll, great time.
respect
*RESPECT+++*
How did you hide the name under the icon?? This "tip" does not address that, thus I rate it another 1 like most so-called tips.
Okay the gaming rig and the sarcasm was actually hilarious.
That last one I actually used to use in games sometimes just to "refresh" the drivers. I forget what game it was but it was a common fix to an issue the game had
4:01 i did this a lot a few years ago when my dad threw away loads of tech with hardrives in, trust me when i say all you need is something metal that doesnt bend, and time, plus its way more fun ripping apart than carefully disassembling, i got 3tb for free no heavy machinery required, just a hammer, a screwdriver and a few tears
We need an entire video dedicated to Linus roasting children. That was the best part of this video.
That and dbrand