1:15 I can hear someone's ringtone going off. Edit: I disappear for 8 hours and get a notification that someone liked a random comment I made. Apparently almost 1K. TF?
David Copperfield pulls a bunch of levers and pushes buttons on another planet and in another dimension and that’s how he gets me connected to the Internet and makes my computer work. Thanks Dave!! ua-cam.com/video/V1an73QY0I4/v-deo.html
I see firmware as an intermediary device which helps merge the hardware and software. Similar to drivers, but a bit more on the hardware side than the software. Therefore, I'm starting a petition to rename "drivers" to "limpware", so that we can have hard > firm > limp > soft!
Which is contained in badly soldered and unserviceable chinese components. That cage is nothing for our pal "magic smoke" - comes out whenever he wants!
Great video. Firmware is really important, and it is really "deep". Meaning, a bad firmware may brick your device. I think it was relevant to mention MD5 in this video - which is a method usually used to verify the integrity of a firmware file. 2:46 Someone was really sloppy that day!
As being an employee of HP, i can confirm to you that the method of updating only when an issue arises is not a good method. Some updates are pushed to prevent issues from happening that would in the end require an system board replacement, such as Intel ME firmware. Not to mention it does provide security improvments and bug fixes that may have caused issues you didnt know you were having. Ideally for best performance and stability its recommended to keep all of your drivers, firmware, bios and chipset up to date. Linus is right though there is a risk of doing a bios update, but the chance of something happening is very slim as long as you know what you are doing.
@@jamesbuttery3862 Was the ME firmware bundled with a bios update or seperate install. Most of the time there will be a ME driver that runs in windows and then the actual ME firmware in a seperate update to update the ME engine on system board. If doing all the updates doesnt resolve may want to consider doing a warranty claim if you have warranty.
@@austinverlinden2236 I help my friend with computer recycling business. He wiped the Thinkpad, loaded windows and gave it to me. I received a prompt shortly after for a 'Lenovo System Update'. "Intel Management Engine Firmware - 7 [32,64]/8.1/10 [64] I do the update and it doesn't complete. Saying "The FW Update Utility couldn't identify the systems SKU (consumer or corporate). Please check your ME FW Update Utility package and try again. " Clicking to update manually fails too. I've tried a few things from Lenovo help sites that have failed also. Any tips?? I received the computer free from a friend. No warranty. Lenovo Thinkpad T460
Normal programmer's tools: computer, text editor, debugger. Firmware programmer's tools: computer, text editor, maybe debugger, some weird but necessary propriertary tools, an oscilloscope, a soldering iron, esd equipment and an emergency off button.
@@KeshariPiyush24 If you want to get into doing some embedded stuff then an easy way to start would be to get an arduino or rasberry pi. It requires a bit more knowledge about electronics, but you can often search to find the hardware you need.
Thank you so much for this video Linus! I never thought I'd say that, but you really saved me this time. I've been having lots of outtages lately, and I've been getting anxious about my baby. So now you reminded me that I have to buy UPS to protect my system. Thank you!
At 3:00, this makes me really appreciate the work of doing firmware updates for my quadcopter. The data has to be downloaded through the app on my phone and then sent via WiFi to the aircraft itself.
1:10 there's actually a biological analogy to this called the neuromuscular junction. this is like the difference between a nerve and a muscle cell. At the neuromuscular junction where your nerves connect to your muscles you have muscle cells called motor endplates that have receptors on them and can react to neurotransmitters like acetylcholine in order to activate.
Software is not lines of codes. Lines of codes are ways to make visually see software. When you are pushing buttons which what codes or anything else you want to call, it is equivalent of flipping switches to send current or voltage this direction or that direction. Software is the game plan. You can write your game plan and hand it to someone, telling or instructing them what to do. The writing it on a piece of paper is simply a visual way of seeing your game plan. This needs to be made very clear. I suppose you can call the instruction you wrote on that paper software. Nonthesless it needs to be made crystal clear.
@@CorneliusCornbread no. It sounds like you need to watch that video because this wasn't constructive. You wanted linus who makes his money when people watch his videos to title his videos in such a way that a lot of people wouldn't actually watch it.
@@davidmcguire6043 Oh yes, because concatenating " | firmware" onto the title means he won't get any views or get any traffic. I just suggested the title was unclear. Not sure why you're so aggressive over a mere suggestion. I'm just saying that his current titles are lacking clarity, it's now his job to then take this criticism and try to work around it. Neither of us are UA-camrs, so YOU don't know what works for a title, and neither do I. With that being said, we can both make suggestions to LMG as we sit fit as long as it's constructive.
Very informative video on FW. As an embedded developer (i write FW) its always very hard to explain what i do to people. I just started to say "i write code". Its simpler.
Tech Quickie: Explain all things power including PSUs (ratings +12v rail output), PDUs, UPSs, 3 phase vs single phase, DC vs PWM, properly distributing loads not to fry components using sata vs molex power properly. These fundamentals are often overlooked by most builders!
I suggest techquickie to add the word firmware to the title. If after sometime someone is searching what firmware means it will be very helpful for them and as well as for the channel.
Firmware is a set of instructions or a program that runs microcontroler(s) in your electronic devices driving it's principal functions and usually stored in eeprom memory chip. Without this code\firmware your device is literary a brick. "Conventional software" is also a program but sits on a higher abstraction level that allows us to control the device. The best analogy would be, think of the firmware as an autonomic\parasympathetic nervous system in human body, that controls basic functions like intestine peristalsis, heart beat rate and etc.
What makes ALL YOUR electronic work? Me: uh, yeah, well, probably someone built a box, and a wizard spluffed in it. And now it's magic, and that's how technology works.
However in some devices such as smartphones and especially for IPhones and IPads the operating system is designed in a way that it’s also the firmware at the same time so there’s a dedicated part of the operating system that acts as the firmware! :)
• You forgot to mention that eventually all products will be discontinued and support dropped, so firmware updates will cease. • 4:50 - You don't need to hack firmware to damage hardware; there have been malicious programs that could destroy hardware for decades, like one that would keep slamming the drive-head in a C64 drive against the back-stop until it is misaligned and can't read disks anymore, or the Turkey virus that focused the monitor's beam on one spot to burn it in.
I've been working on this pc tower for over a year and one other. Just to realise this morning aching from work, and worn down from constant yt guides and os jimmying that the "operator" in the 1st matrix film was in fact a program. Like as in compared to an os being "but a simple program" and the fact that I got d in the bios tonight lmao. And yes Linustechtips is morpheus aperantly. Lolol. Good day gentle sirs and legitimate ladies of wee hour goblin activities. Lolol. Idk about you but this is most awesome to me.
A button placed somewhere strategically on whatever device you are using at that time. These buttons signal gerbils to turn the wheel that gives the aforementioned device, whatever it may be, power to turn on. The gerbils them self are powered by lettuce. Just don't forget the lettuce.
For example, Bose offer firmware updates for their QC headphones to reduce the noise cancelling and therefore make the 700 series look more appealing. And of course the latest firmware isn't downgradable.
So good bios can prevent hardware bug and DOS prevent firmware proplem and OS prevent software bug. A standard system can help mirror standard in trouble shoot by conccurently restored
What Makes ALL Your Electronics Work?
me an intellectual: electricity
Me a lower intellectual: Satan
Magic smoke...duh!
Well he ain't wrong
@@rashakawa The only correct answer.
Sad truth: Chinese labor conditions
1:15 I can hear someone's ringtone going off.
Edit: I disappear for 8 hours and get a notification that someone liked a random comment I made. Apparently almost 1K. TF?
lmao
Yes it happened like 3 times in the video
That is very true my friend
BIGDUDE Nice name bruh
Also in 2:45
1:15 Wife is calling.
2:46 Again?
RealSteelPlays he got divorced 😫😭
@@sheryarfarrukh8464 what?
@@plumcakey Nah, its a troll
ImLavaNdino it’s a joke
@@sheryarfarrukh8464 not funny, didn't laugh
2:46 Someones phone went off in the background.
And 1:17
His Phone!🤣 Do you see how he puts his hand at his pocket?
@@gamezocker1238 Nah, it's a teleprompter
WeirdVideo Channel nope
@@DysKoneko same
There is an easy way to remember what hardware and software are:
The hardware is what you kick
The software is what you swear at
🗣️🗣️
And the firmware is when you can do either, but works neither. ^_^
Hardware is what you kick, software is why you are kicking xd
This makes me sad. 😿
@@Mr.Whiskers work with computers a while, your response would be more like 'yep'
Magic makes my electronics work.
Do you still play PUBG bro?
@@jdmnissan Not in a while, but Im a bit bored of the games I have right now so I thinking about playing PubG again.
@@ZtriDer no bro, it's impossible to stop playing fallout
@@jdmnissan Fallout is a classic, that is a game one always comes back to several times :)
David Copperfield pulls a bunch of levers and pushes buttons on another planet and in another dimension and that’s how he gets me connected to the Internet and makes my computer work. Thanks Dave!!
ua-cam.com/video/V1an73QY0I4/v-deo.html
Still waiting for the time when even TechQuickie switches on the Dark Mode....... Come on Jon
You wot?
so true, always watch my videos in bed, I get blinded everytime I watch a Techquickie
Devansh Jangid 69 likes
nice
Yup, their videos go online around 2am here...
@@maxi531 on Android there is blue light filter, and countless screen dimming apps. You have no excuse 😜
0:43 I just understood the term firmware. It's amazing what things you just don't think about but just learn and adopt.
Draugo it’s amazing you don’t think and just adopt.
Ikr, sometimes the level of my genius......................... sometimes it scares me!
Bruh who's phone blowing up in the background.
If this is a joke then I do not understand
@@rearmisser 1:15 and 2:45 you can hear a notification sound very quietly.
@@Notius Yes I could hear that but I'm talking about the "blowing up" part
@@rearmisser "blowing up" is sometimes used to describe repeated notifications in a short period of time
Ah ok, thanks for explaining
"What Makes ALL Your Electronics Work
"
I was gonna say batteries/electricity but ok... :D
Me too lol.
I thought it was the magic smoke. When you see the smoke your electronics stop working.
@@AG-qq3zlwell you was totally wrong by thinking that
I see firmware as an intermediary device which helps merge the hardware and software. Similar to drivers, but a bit more on the hardware side than the software.
Therefore, I'm starting a petition to rename "drivers" to "limpware", so that we can have hard > firm > limp > soft!
Lmao genius😂
nice pun lol
Never skip software day
Easy: the magic smoke. Don’t let it out.
Beat me to it.
love it
Good advice. Last time I did it toke the form of a dragon and roasted me...
Scrolled down looking for this specific post.
@@AEON. no wonder why they're so inexpensive!
Wait a second
Soft (ware)
Firm (ware)
Hard (ware)
One of the few good tech naming conventions.
Wgesh8
spy (ware)
Mal (ware)
Share (ware)
Free (ware)
Bloat (ware)
Me: I need some ware!
You: Which kind? Soft, Firm, Hard, VM, Spy, Mal, Bloat, Share, Free?
Me: ALL OF THEM!
@@GeneralBlackNorway *Shssssh* speak low when buying mal and soft together
"What makes your electronics work?"
Magic smoke!
When the magic smoke comes out it stops working
electricity
Which is contained in badly soldered and unserviceable chinese components. That cage is nothing for our pal "magic smoke" - comes out whenever he wants!
Oooooonnnn weeeeeeedd
FDMtech I used to snort Pixie Sticks that my teachers gave me when I was 7 or 8 like they were rails of cocaine when they weren’t looking! Lol!!
'Oh I was going to our sponsor...'
Well Linus, that was totally unexpected.
Great video.
Firmware is really important, and it is really "deep".
Meaning, a bad firmware may brick your device.
I think it was relevant to mention MD5 in this video - which is a method usually used to verify the integrity of a firmware file.
2:46 Someone was really sloppy that day!
Phone call
Constantly hearing the Samsung ring sound in the background, legitimately thought it was my old S3 that I swear I turned off yesterday.
2025: what makes linus's voice work
Text to speech.
As being an employee of HP, i can confirm to you that the method of updating only when an issue arises is not a good method. Some updates are pushed to prevent issues from happening that would in the end require an system board replacement, such as Intel ME firmware. Not to mention it does provide security improvments and bug fixes that may have caused issues you didnt know you were having. Ideally for best performance and stability its recommended to keep all of your drivers, firmware, bios and chipset up to date. Linus is right though there is a risk of doing a bios update, but the chance of something happening is very slim as long as you know what you are doing.
Yeah I've been getting an error on my Intel ME Firmware ever since the first update on my Lenovo Thinkpad. Something about can't read the SKU
@@jamesbuttery3862 Was the ME firmware bundled with a bios update or seperate install. Most of the time there will be a ME driver that runs in windows and then the actual ME firmware in a seperate update to update the ME engine on system board. If doing all the updates doesnt resolve may want to consider doing a warranty claim if you have warranty.
@@austinverlinden2236 I help my friend with computer recycling business. He wiped the Thinkpad, loaded windows and gave it to me. I received a prompt shortly after for a 'Lenovo System Update'. "Intel Management Engine Firmware - 7 [32,64]/8.1/10 [64]
I do the update and it doesn't complete. Saying "The FW Update Utility couldn't identify the systems SKU (consumer or corporate). Please check your ME FW Update Utility package and try again. " Clicking to update manually fails too.
I've tried a few things from Lenovo help sites that have failed also. Any tips?? I received the computer free from a friend. No warranty.
Lenovo Thinkpad T460
As a firmware programmer i can con"firm" everything he says is correct. Sorry..
Normal programmer's tools: computer, text editor, debugger.
Firmware programmer's tools: computer, text editor, maybe debugger, some weird but necessary propriertary tools, an oscilloscope, a soldering iron, esd equipment and an emergency off button.
@@noergelstein pretty accurate. I work on firmware on pumps so it also involves water, that's a great combination.
@@PepsiBandit1 how to become one....I am CS student and I will love to learn it.
@@KeshariPiyush24 If you want to get into doing some embedded stuff then an easy way to start would be to get an arduino or rasberry pi. It requires a bit more knowledge about electronics, but you can often search to find the hardware you need.
H a h a-
MyReaspond:ClapClap
Thank you so much for this video Linus! I never thought I'd say that, but you really saved me this time. I've been having lots of outtages lately, and I've been getting anxious about my baby. So now you reminded me that I have to buy UPS to protect my system. Thank you!
You don't need a UPS if you use a Laptop
Also,Power Outages would never happen very often
At 3:00, this makes me really appreciate the work of doing firmware updates for my quadcopter. The data has to be downloaded through the app on my phone and then sent via WiFi to the aircraft itself.
1:10 there's actually a biological analogy to this called the neuromuscular junction. this is like the difference between a nerve and a muscle cell. At the neuromuscular junction where your nerves connect to your muscles you have muscle cells called motor endplates that have receptors on them and can react to neurotransmitters like acetylcholine in order to activate.
Software is not lines of codes. Lines of codes are ways to make visually see software. When you are pushing buttons which what codes or anything else you want to call, it is equivalent of flipping switches to send current or voltage this direction or that direction. Software is the game plan. You can write your game plan and hand it to someone, telling or instructing them what to do. The writing it on a piece of paper is simply a visual way of seeing your game plan. This needs to be made very clear. I suppose you can call the instruction you wrote on that paper software. Nonthesless it needs to be made crystal clear.
Wish this actually had "firmware" somewhere in the title
It looks like you need to watch a video on how UA-cam ad revenue works.
@@davidmcguire6043 Sounds like you need to watch a video on how constructive criticism works.
@@CorneliusCornbread no. It sounds like you need to watch that video because this wasn't constructive. You wanted linus who makes his money when people watch his videos to title his videos in such a way that a lot of people wouldn't actually watch it.
@@davidmcguire6043 Oh yes, because concatenating " | firmware" onto the title means he won't get any views or get any traffic. I just suggested the title was unclear. Not sure why you're so aggressive over a mere suggestion. I'm just saying that his current titles are lacking clarity, it's now his job to then take this criticism and try to work around it. Neither of us are UA-camrs, so YOU don't know what works for a title, and neither do I. With that being said, we can both make suggestions to LMG as we sit fit as long as it's constructive.
But then it wouldn't be clickbaity enough.
this video was posted literally right as i bricked my phone. that timing is scary
“Don’t worry I’m paying attention” hears notification
Very informative video on FW. As an embedded developer (i write FW) its always very hard to explain what i do to people. I just started to say "i write code". Its simpler.
Nice.
1:16 every Samsung user reached out and grabbed his phone
Incorrect. Source: I always change the default sound.
Tech Quickie: Explain all things power including PSUs (ratings +12v rail output), PDUs, UPSs, 3 phase vs single phase, DC vs PWM, properly distributing loads not to fry components using sata vs molex power properly.
These fundamentals are often overlooked by most builders!
Electricity. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
tjis changed my life ty
Bios hands control to operating system like Windows or MacOS
Linux users: angering
"What makes your electronics work?"
Magical pixies from the wall socket
Someone should mute his Samsung :D
Edit: Time 2:46
I suggest techquickie to add the word firmware to the title. If after sometime someone is searching what firmware means it will be very helpful for them and as well as for the channel.
2:47 I hear a ringtone
0:17 for anyone wondering, that's python code, more exactly, from the library called "logging" . also the IDE used it's pycharm
This is the reason why i check comments after the video finishes, theres a lot of information in the comments which can be useful sometimes.
I'm using electricity to watch this video
Ah techquickie, thank you for existing. So many things I can explain to my dumbfounded console friends by linking your videos.
Seems that Linus, like the true professional he is, forgot to mute his phone...
Firmware is a set of instructions or a program that runs microcontroler(s) in your electronic devices driving it's principal functions and usually stored in eeprom memory chip. Without this code\firmware your device is literary a brick. "Conventional software" is also a program but sits on a higher abstraction level that allows us to control the device. The best analogy would be, think of the firmware as an autonomic\parasympathetic nervous system in human body, that controls basic functions like intestine peristalsis, heart beat rate and etc.
Techquickie: "what makes all your electronics work?
Me: electricity.
Cut. Print. That's a wrap, everyone. See you on the next video.
Thank you for the clear information brother
Someone is REALLY going wild with that Duke falling scream voice clip, wow
What makes ALL YOUR electronic work?
Me: uh, yeah, well, probably someone built a box, and a wizard spluffed in it. And now it's magic, and that's how technology works.
“What makes your electronics work” ?
UNLIMITED POOOWWEEEERRRRRR
Ha ha power go brrrrr
Satisfying that his sweater is zipped down perfectly to where the colour changes
YES 3ds home brew got shown!
i like some 3Dshacks
@@oussama7132 dont they have those in island themed games??
Favorite episode so far! I've been binging all the popular
2:02 No I don't.
However in some devices such as smartphones and especially for IPhones and IPads the operating system is designed in a way that it’s also the firmware at the same time so there’s a dedicated part of the operating system that acts as the firmware! :)
2:45 nice notification you got there
• You forgot to mention that eventually all products will be discontinued and support dropped, so firmware updates will cease.
• 4:50 - You don't need to hack firmware to damage hardware; there have been malicious programs that could destroy hardware for decades, like one that would keep slamming the drive-head in a C64 drive against the back-stop until it is misaligned and can't read disks anymore, or the Turkey virus that focused the monitor's beam on one spot to burn it in.
Samsung notifications in the background
I've been working on this pc tower for over a year and one other. Just to realise this morning aching from work, and worn down from constant yt guides and os jimmying that the "operator" in the 1st matrix film was in fact a program. Like as in compared to an os being "but a simple program" and the fact that I got d in the bios tonight lmao. And yes Linustechtips is morpheus aperantly. Lolol. Good day gentle sirs and legitimate ladies of wee hour goblin activities. Lolol. Idk about you but this is most awesome to me.
No, it's electricity
Electricity is only a part of what makes it work.
@@av28379 r/woosh
Negative Ghost Rider, it's magic smoke.
@@Fizzyxd no it's r/woooosh it's four os
@@KSPAtlas r/cringe
I like the 2:45 text message noise, lol. You can see his hand dive down into his pocket to turn the volume off.
I thought you took a long pause after “tolerate”, but it was just the video buffering 🤣
What makes electronics work? Smoke. When it is let out the electronics quit.
2:02 lttstore.com
*wears an MKBHD tshirt throughout the video*
Was that Notification sound linus pocket ?
3:27 Underschtand, that's sounds so german-pronounced.^^
0:08 _"…the computing experience that we know and __-love-__ tolerate."_
Easily the best part of the entire video!
This video should be named "So.. What's Firmware?"
And have some cheesy thumbnail with a dozen of question signs
I’m asking a simple question I unpugged my phone I say the update I just unpugged by mistake and this just my dam phone
“Firmware is software, but it’s not software”. This just sums up how much Linus knows about software
ROM:
Read
Only
Chips
*3:35* _Important point to look while buying motherboard(s).👍🏽_
Thanks Linus for being so _INFORMATIVE._ Be like this _ALWAYS._
1:18 can hear a phone notifcation lol
This guy should do a channel about tech and tips he seems very knowable is these sort of things!
1:17 I thought I got two text messages
3DS homebrew scene gets a shoutout at 4:22. Nice.
Download your firmwear at LTTstore.com.
"We have clothes for your FIRMware"
Electricity?
Linus's phone going off at 2:45 had me
Electricity
A button placed somewhere strategically on whatever device you are using at that time. These buttons signal gerbils to turn the wheel that gives the aforementioned device, whatever it may be, power to turn on. The gerbils them self are powered by lettuce. Just don't forget the lettuce.
missed opportnity for "just imagine use a smart pizza cutter to cut fresh pizza, speaking of fresh...."
Good introduction. Ive never learned what a lot of this stuff refers to or what they are responsible for but I find it fascinating.
Haha, firm, that's funny.
I like the video, great explanation. Thank you!
You're giving me embedded systems engineering ptsd, stop. I've left that life of soldering and schematics behind.
"To provide us the compitung experience that we know and L-tolerate"
Well said, well said indeed.
Who else loves....
Pewds?
Don't search Moobicap on youtube
No
Me: searching Moobicap on UA-cam
1:16 those notification sounds be vibing
I know the answer: electricity.
Nah. It's Atoms.
@@GodSkul Nah, It's Electrons
last time I was this early, channel super fun was still a thing
8 comments. 0 comments. Thanks new UA-cam comments update.
For example, Bose offer firmware updates for their QC headphones to reduce the noise cancelling and therefore make the 700 series look more appealing. And of course the latest firmware isn't downgradable.
Who else is sick of these who else comments?
Don't search Moobicap on youtube
I was just thinking about this today! I was like, "how does my stove clock work if it doesn't have ram or a cpu or SSD or HDD?" then I saw this! thx!
Stop with the clickbait titles. Put Firmware in the title. I thought this video would be about electricity or something - the title is very vague
Very good explanation on firmware Linus !!
Tech quickie just ain't long enough. I'd love a series that goes into more depth
That'll be techlongie lok
1:17 You got mail!
2:46 You got more mail!
Thanks Freshbooks!
Great info and good explanation 👌🏼 thanks
Nothing brings me more joy than Linus's segways lol
Bless you Linus.
So good bios can prevent hardware bug and DOS prevent firmware proplem and OS prevent software bug. A standard system can help mirror standard in trouble shoot by conccurently restored