TikTok Tech Tips are Terrible
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0:00 Linus Tok Tips Pt 2!
0:55 Thanks VRLA Tech for letting us use your PC for the video!
1:48 DIY RGB?
2:38 Changing your monitor color
4:31 Vinyl wrapping your desk
5:25 How about vinyl wrapping your side panel?
8:00 Competitive Minecraft Mouse Mod
9:57 DIY Monitor Painting gone wrong
10:28 Sticker remover hack faceoff
12:30 Unfollow CarterPC? Y or N?
14:44 Amazon Affiliate Bait Tech Haul!
15:54 Handwarmers...for gaming
16:45 l33t h@x0r mode (⌐■_■)
19:45 Google AdSettings
21:13 NVIDIA Clean Install GPU Drivers - Наука та технологія
Because of TikTok, I had a customer use a two-part JB Weld for thermal paste. That ruined a perfectly good Ryzen 9 3900x.
It worked, it will never be too hot again
@@OlivierCaron Yeah. Plus, that CPU and Heat Sink will never be apart again.
@@OlivierCaron Haha. It probably will never get hot at all.
Oh my...
how to delid your cpu guide?
I worked at a company that "refurbished" old surface pros and we basically only used hand sanitiser
@@user-ui9ni4nf5z that's because nobody asked, because nobody cares..
@@lummatravel reverse psychology :)
@@warpigs9069 only works on kids.
@@imoffendedthatyouareoffended Might not even work that well on them.
i only ever use hand sanitizer in my personal use
Love that he goes from joking to properly showing us how to safely use Spray paint. Caught me off guard but loved how he can transition from being goofy to serious in seconds !
“Paint fumes might be good for creativity” 😂
For alot of games, you can also just rebind the left mouse button to the scroll wheel for very fast "clicking". I did this in Fallout 4 with a "Never-ending" double barrel shot gun as that gun fires as fast as you can click, and the Never-ending legendary effect means you dont ever have to reload. It was very fun.
Yep i did that for both Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 for force move. Because of the rapid "clicks" i can pick loot up easier too
That gets u banned in mc tho
@adamikos nope not in 1.8.9 it’s allowed
So the molten monitor is now pink. I predict it will become LTT lore, like Mythbuster's Buster.
Or the old lambo!
Just needs green stripes to match the old Lambo
@@ccricers Also his server rack.
That answers why the paint job look like s****
or the shunt modded 3090
I once had a client at a business who was complaining about a keyboard not working. I told them to bring it over, plugged it in and it worked fine. Went over to their desk area and plugged it in and hey presto, it was working. They just hadn't plugged it in properly. Ten or so minutes of their work day, gone for that.
Had a client once plug their keyboard into the Ethernet port on their iMac. I had them take a picture with their phone (that they were okay at using) of what it should look like when properly plugged in.
company should send everyone that uses too much desk help to computer 101 troubleshooting class as a punishment.
actually, just send everyone to such a course, if it exists.
class would be mainly about "what to do when printer isn't working, what to do when mouse isn't working" scenarios that they have to solve.
and it would have surprising stuff too, like a friking glove jammed inside the printer. I've had that in real life at work
@@CreativityNull I have to admit (not I don't, but I will) that I have done that once. In my defense, I wasn't looking when I plugged it in, and figured it out right away.
@@CreativityNull I wouldn't expect more from an iMac user really 🤔😂
could've been more
You can actually read NY Times articles by just refreshing the page and then halting the page load before it finishes loading. It looks like the check to add the "sign up" banner is one of the last things that happens, so if you cancel the page load fast enough you can just read the article.
if the entire page gets loaded before the popup surely there's extensions that just remove the popup (or you just disable it yourself in the html)
@@Suzumi-kun Sometimes you can disable it manually in the HTML, but some sites have gotten smart (but not that smart) and when the paywall pop-up loads, it truncates the page so even if you delete it, it's removed the text on the page beyond the first or second scroll.
Or hitting stop or turning off wifi/data before the payment page usually works
Something important to know about the last tip is that a clean driver installation also resets your NVIDIA Control Panel settings (and probably also your GeForce Experience settings, but I can't say for sure). I learned this the hard way because I followed this tip elsewhere for a different issue and didn't read what a clean install actually does.
Yooo why does tik tok even exist? I dont get how they dodge the copyright hell they should be in.
China
-100,000 social credit points 😨
It'll eventually get banned thankfully
Because it's a Chicom data mining operation
"In the voice of trump": CHINA
real gamers sit on their hands, we're a natural heater.
Nah. Real gamers hold their PP which provides both heat and a source of human touch.
@@MyAmazingUsername Honestly was gunna say all males are born with a natural heater... But wanted to keep it PG :P
@es e Real gamers don't turn on the heat, they bring it.
oh my god this is fucking genius
I for one just fucking sweat while gaming so no problem for me
About the drivers thing; A year or so back my friend that I usually game with was complaining about games running really slow, and his hardware was better than needed for some of these games, so I tried to help him figure out why. After testing a few things I looked at his drivers. When I realized that he just hadn't updated his drivers in 4 years, I was actually floored. He's usually pretty decent with computer stuff, so the fact that something basic like that wasn't something he realized he should be doing kinda blew my mind.
is there any software you suggest to automatically update all the drivers. i have a lenvo thinkpad windows 10
@@studyfocus8197 driver easy driver premium free trial©microsoft
@@kshimi does it require credit card ??
@@studyfocus8197 no ofc
why would u need that??
@@studyfocus8197not always. Windows updates delete my gpu all the time and I have to manually redownload once a week from AMD. Windows doesn't ask about graphics updates only security and windows updates. Sometimes framework. But unless you manually update your GPU it won't update it self. Only the the program does (i.e. amd/Nvidia's graphics controller)
The way Alex is holding his MacBook at 21:50, I don't need this kind of anxiety in my life.
I've been using hand sanitizer over alcohol on stickers and labels for years, just out of convenience, not knowing it's actually better than alcohol.
now you know xD.
@@justinvandermerwe7428 Is that stuff okay on plastic? Guess I can test it on something... I usually use acetone on metal- just got a car bumper dropped at my door with nothing but shipping labels and stickers slapped on it, acetone took it right off, ready to paint.
@@justinvandermerwe7428 depends on the type of plastic. dome hard plastics melt from acetone and some soft ones dont just depends
@@keemoo_7 Thanks, I'll try it out... I almost used it on a motorcycle's plastic fearing, trying to remove some sticky black road grime boogers- Probably shouldn't keep the acetone next to the mineral spirits and paint thinner, all in similar looking cans going forward lol. Now I think I'm gonna try it on a small spot on the inside. That road grime is nasty, and I can't get it to come off.
@@Wooskii1 Please do some research about the plastics you use. You can easily find charts that detail the resistance of certain materials against most solvents. ABS, PBT, PE, PET and PC should all be avoided when using acetone when it's not the material you want to remove. And since those are very common plastics in anything tech related using acetone blindly can f.e. destroy the surface finish of you laptop or worse.
Years ago when I was working in tech store (and Linus was reviewing pc cases on park benches) I was first surprised about people bringing phones that just had 0% of battery convinced that its broken, there were 1-5 of these everyday. So not that surprised anymore that people can't update their own pc drivers, heck some people even don't know how to turn off the computer without pulling the plug.
Why pull the plug? There's a switch for convenience /s
To be fair, I've had a phone that at 0% wouldn't charge other than from a wall socket. I would have thought it was broken if I didn't see it go to 0% just before.
@@nidungr3496 So you couldn't charge it if it died in the car or something like that and if you tried to plug it into a car charger it wouldn't have worked? It only worked if you used the wall charger? Like even if the cable from the car is the same cable you use to charge your phone in the wall. Like just unpluging the wire from the USB from the charging brick and plug that into the USB car phone charger? Or was this one of those old-school car chargers that wasn't USB and the cable and I guess you'd call it the "Cars charging brick" were all one piece?- (I'm putting a lot of eggs in the- "This must have happened in a car/the wire they tried to use was their car charger to try to charge it, but it didn't work, but the wall charger at home did." basket lolol I mean idk if you had a portable power bank with you for your phone or not and tried that. I just know I don't normally do, so if I was out and my phone died, the only way for me to charge it/turn it back on, would be for me to put it in the car.
But I know a lot of people do have and use those portable power banks around with them.
I once spent two hours on the phone navigating someone who used windows daily to the start button. I 100% believe this.
I work in a school (K12) and I always joke about "what do these kids do with their phones when they die?" because the kids let their chromebooks completely die and then try to say they have no idea what is wrong with the device.
but now I'm reconsidering things...
10:26 - the rubbing alcohol, lol. I had to explain to nurses why the "streak marks" on their screens weren't going away. They had been using alcohol prep pads and ruined the finish on the screens for about a dozen cart computers they use to chart int he patient rooms.
Telling their manager what happened was fun. Also telling them that the warranty was void and that they'd be on the hook for new screens if they wanted them - customers always love that.
19:30 in future, know that if you press the power button 5 times it will trigger SOS. Try to avoid doing that unless there is a real emergency
It seems like everyone is doing "reacting to tiktok rage bait" videos, it's cool to see someone discussing the proper methods instead of just squealing at intentionally bad content
Baited, stooged and fanboid.
I really like the Donut Media series were they have mechanics react to TikTok advice, it's a good one to watch if you also enjoy cars (there's a surprising amount of overlap between people who love cars and people who love computers lol)
I love that LTT never does low effort content, they put a ton of effort into his work, including silly videos like this.
"Intentionally bad content" is a fantastic way to describe TikTok lol
Except some of these "pros" like that privacy and security "expert" are getting REAL jobs from their BS. It needs to be mocked.
Ive used Zoom for 3 years now and can tell you, yes people DO in fact need a dedicated mute button. Not a lot of them but definitely some.
But do you really think the people do dumb (or not well-behaved enough) to use a muting correctly would actually use a mute button as intended? I doubt it...
@@TheMightyZwom I didnt specify what kind of people i was talking about. Thanks for putting words in my statement. Middle to late aged people (50-80 years old), whom ive been on Zoom with a lot, have issues with muting/unmuting themselves and not knowing if they are on mute or not etc. The interface, though simple for most of us, is still overwhelming for some. Like i said, some have learned but some definitely need a button.
There is a dedicated mute button: the space bar.
I've got a dedicated mute on my Razer headset. It helps when you're gaming with open mic and need to easily mute/unmute for whatever reason mid-game
@@Sarkli dedicated mute button will also confuse them , as with keyboard shortcut or anything you have to look on screen to make sure your are mute or not.
so dedicated won't solve anything , because as you mention they don't understand they are on mute or not .
18:13 To bypass signup walls on article sites, open the Inspector or developer window, find the css for the modal (that layer that darkens or blanks the screen) and set it's visibility to none. Then go up to the body tag and set overflow to scroll.
Or disable JavaScript. Also, not only will all the adverts not load, but neither will the adblock detector! And if the website breaks because no JS, it probably wasn't worth visiting anyway
Sadly most of the pages got smarter.
I just deleted the popups
19:08 didnt expect that linus, as the tech guy, didn't know the samsung menu lmao
Loved Linus's face when Alex sarcastically says "income is high for some reason". The silent offence he took is gold. 20:37
Everybody thinks they're middle class
I love ur name
I love how Alex just brings out the whiteboard
That's an engineer for you
Um Michael Jordan is misspelled
The last one is serious business! I worked for a repair shop and you'd be surprised of the number of people that come to repair their PC and telling you it's broken or smthng, but all you have to do is upgrading the system or flash Bios or updating the drivers or even uninstall/reinstall drivers, its 70% of the jobs sometimes
Those battery bank hand warmers are actually so underrated. I've had a dif one for almost 5 years and it's a life saver when you're out in the cold. Cause cold ruins your lithium battery charge, having a warm and charged pocket to keep your phone good while you're skiing on the mountain is amazing.
Its the gelification of an evaporating solvent that gives it more time to penetrate. They purposefully do this in art restoration with various solvents to allow more working time and penetration on small areas so something harsher doesn't have to be used.
Hand sanitizer will get just about anything off of a hard non permeable surface. It's also good for getting dried paint out of paint brushes.
I use it for so many things around my house that when 2020 hit I had just under 2 liters of it already in the house.
It is also amazing for actually getting white boards cleaned to the point of being white again.
Acetone can clean out the paint from brushes but probably ends up shortening the life span of any brushes made from artificial hair. I only use it on brushes that are ruined and I used on harsh paints like spray paint (for touch ups of minor scratches or nicks)
I use Goo Gone and it gets stickers off but leaves an awful-smelling oily residue that I then have to clean off with something else. Hand sanitizer will be tried next time.
also a sanitizes the surface for you.
@@zebraloverbridget You can by spray bottles of white board cleaner. The one I have is mostly ethanol - the main ingredient of hand sanitizer.
But does it work on the legendarily bad paper GameStop stickers?
Having recently started a new job as a GeekSquad agent, can confirm, you would be VERY surprised the types of things the average consumer brings their devices to repair/tech support for. Talking like forgot their password, then it turns out they have 2FA hooked up to their landline (no texts) or something, and we've got to explain to them 10 different ways that we can't magically fix that.
..how do you enable 2FA on a landline??? Doesn't it send a test text first so you can actually enable it???
@@bersspon3256 same question here
@@bersspon3256 sometimes you could youse a „code over voicecall“ option
Linus being a curious noob in the hidden menu is the best part of this whole thing for sure.
17:24 that makes me so nostalgic because that's the kinda thing you'd see on meme sites back in the day, I'm glad to know that some things never change.
A gamer has a gaming PC. They don't need anything else to warm their hands. All gaming PCs have warm air blowing out of them somewhere.
Well, yes, but that "somewhere" is not always the side that is convenient for you to access. Sometimes, they only blow warm air through the back side, which means you need to stand up, walk to the back of your setup, and then warm your hands.
The correct way is, as discussed in another comment thread, is to simply sit on your hands. Or to have a hand warmer at hand...
... in the form of an always-filled hot cup of coffee. 😎👍
The only time my hands are cold in my hot room with my pc running is when I took my adderall.
I had a gamer complain about the cold temperature and the wind chill that made it even colder. I had to explain that the temperature outside the house was different than the temperature inside the house, and that the wind shouldn't be blowing inside if the windows and doors are closed. They still didn't get it.
every laptop owner has his hands pretty warm most of the time.
is that only me the first thing comes to mind is putting them on balls
It's really easy for an established UA-camr to dunk on TikTokers for being ridiculous, but something I appreciate about this video (and LTT in general) is that you went out of your way to shout out TikTokers who are actually giving good advice, potentially sending traffic their way
The problem with TikTok, and YT too, is the content farming. They just pull shit out of their hat to make as many videos as possible for views to get ad revenue. Usually the hacks just don't work, but more than often they actually destroy your equipment and way too often they are dangerous to the point you could get injured or even killed. Both platforms are plagued by that shit.
It's not tech related that much, but channel "How to Cook That" by Ann Reardon regularly goes over some "life hacks" made by content farmers and explains the science why they won't work, and she does show articles about people who have been permanently injured because they followed the faked videos of these content farmers. The worst part is that UA-cam or TikTok couldn't care less as long as they get their share of the money.
Though not so much of that in these LTT examples, except that one weird video where the audio didn't even match the video at all. That was probably AI generated random crap or just randomly thrown together by some content farmer, which is why I kinda wanted to bring this up. And that glitter thing was pretty obvious content farming.
@@TheRokkis omg thank you for this rabbit hole. It's such a niche topic that I didnt even think such a page existed, but I remember reading about a case where this happened involving a microwave, i think they were making rice or something lmfao
"cause don't do that" is my new favourite quote
the 'why' and 'noooo' at 0:30 😂
i feel you bro
watching linus learn drag clicking is peak comedy
yea lmao
he only got 11 cps with a roccat 💀
@@aurniox yup 💀
as a bedwars/boxing main i find watching him try to be the funniest thing ever
Wtf is drag clicking??.
I remember a repair shop could not diagnose the cause of my instability when I was younger. Years down the road I could. This guy in the last tiktok killed it. Driver and bios updates and default settings for diagnosing is the first thing you do.
Totally agreed, update drivers and default settings.
90% of Other common issues are fixed by Checking cables and connecters.
And check installation and seating of ram, cpu, and gpu.
I think you needed to go to a therapist not a repair shop for that kind of problems mate.
@@undeadmage that joke was uncalled for but damn I laughed hard
@@beseakos the way your comment its written it really seems like your talking about mental problems
@@amoloch yeah, reading it back later it really does lmao
Can't wait for the second course. I'm going to be using my modern times PC like a.. like a cutting-edge tech person soon.
1:42 "AAH IT'S EVERYWHERE" - Mark Rober's Glitterbomb moment
The thing about these is, for example, a child would easily be able to do the first one with any art and craft kits that most children get for birthdays/Christmas. And I can only imagine a parents reaction to glue and glitter all over a VERY expensive work computer and an unknowing child thinking they did their parent a favour ;-;
Hand sanitizers are made out of multiple things such as he said. The most notable for why it worked better than Isopropyl Alcohol is because they often have sodium content. Allowing for a finer cleaner scrub.
I use orange oil, works like a charm.
Wait. Sodium?
I would have expected something like 70% isopropanol would be better because more time before it evaporates.
Was not expecting one half of table salt to actually help.
Or you could just use Goo Gone
I'm kinda disappointed they didn't try plain old water on the stickers, 99.9% iso is not going to work on water soluble glue.
50% iso generally better as a general solvent because it is slightly more polar.
Hand sanitizer uses a different type of alcohol than isopropyl
I've used the hand sanitizer to take of goo. Honestly thought that wasn't a "trick" It just stays on the surface so you can scrub it more and the gel helps suspend the goo in the sanitizer vs just smudging it on the surface.
8:19 ngl didn’t expect Linus to react or see a drag clicking TikTok, as someone who likes Minecraft and still cant drag click this was useful lol
1:48 “The glue will protect it I think!”
Yeah lol I bet he just died when she said that 😂
The thing is that a lot of these are intentionally fake "hacks" literally for the purpose of getting younger children to semi-permanently or often permanently damage expensive things around the house, as a "prank"
I have that rabbitgoo window film and it looks INCREDIBLE with the sun shining through it!
My old go-to for cleaning screens in the days of the 22'' Trinitron BEHEMOTH was rubbing alcohol. We also used it to clean the windows on movie projector booths. Better and cheaper than windex.
So about the hand Sanitizer one, It happened to me once that I got a big drop of fast dry super glue (the transparent one that is used to glue plastics) and I started to panic, by the time I got to the bathroom to wash my hand it was already dry, I try scrubbing my hand really hard and it didn't work, so in a last ditch effort I used Hand Sanitizer, and I removed it without trouble, apparently many glues dissolve on Hand Sanitizers
Best way is to have it under warm water for about 2 minutes,
Just use some acetone based nail polish remover. Readily dissolves CA glue.
That chihuahua has been in Samsung phones' testing mode for as long as I've had Samsung Android phones, dating back to the Galaxy Y I had in 2012. Have some fond memories with that phone (some I still have screencaps of, test mode chihuahua included).
It doesnt work on my phone sadly
@@dutifulbarrel9084 some carriers will disable that diagnostic menu, but if you are carrier unlocked, then you can get it.
@@Dwivil what menu is it unther i can't find it.
I got a diagnostic menu, no Chihuahua though.. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
It's iconic
Oh my gosh! That “rainbow vinyl hack” and pink washitape/vinyl are stuff I did on my pink “cougar conquer”-like case. It’s not for everyone, but I LOVE my PC and monitors (one of the monitors is borrowed from the studio I work for so I can’t paint it). Some of these are hard to watch, even for a crafty person like myself. Hahaha😂
About wrapping the side panel window: A friend of mine used the rest of the chameleon tint foil he had left from wrapping his car window and used it on his pc side panel window. It looks fire and I would have never gotten the idea to do this. Amazing
I love how Alex was like oh wow lmao people taking their PC into a repair shop just for them to update some drivers, when, having worked in a PC repair shop, I can 100% confirm that it’s a painfully accurate depiction of what being a PC tech repair guy is like 😂
10:28 As a postal clerk who at times has to remove VERY sticky labels that accidentally get stuck to my work area, I can say that hand sanitizer does work quite well in a pinch at removing sticky paper and residue. After 2020, it's just become something that's readily available, so many are finding other uses for it.
The dog thing on Samsung is amazing. I love it so much.
As someone who has incredibly cold hands during the Winter...my laptop's always-on-fire fans have done the trick for all those 10 years.
You could say I'm quite a fan.
That hand sanetizer trick ive actually used at work sometimes when my ordinary cleaning stuff is empty, or a couple of stairs down in the car...
Working with Ventilation in mostly apartments, so it often alot of grease and fat that a bit of hand sanetizer actually doing a pretty good job of removing without very much residue.
Me and my mates discovered the *#0*# trick on a samsung phone way back in elementary school in the early 2010's and it felt like we reached the peak of hacking.
"Samsung phone back in elementary school in the early 2010s" Dang, that made me feel old as shit. 😅
@@DanAndHoe It was back when one kid in the class had a Samsung Galaxy S2 and it was like the coolest thing ever. Hard hitting nostalgia lol
Doesn't work on a note phone it seems.
@@Woogoo336 doesn't work on a Razr 5g either
@@magich8ball Some carriers block access to diagnostic codes in the phone firmware.
"My palms are sweaty. Knees weak arms are heavy. I'm gaming ready." Who tf needs a hand warmer when gaming?
That hand sanitizer hack, that's a really good hack for for removing glue and also gunk off fans too, you can get unsented handsanitizer that has no aloe in it. put is on a rag and clean the fan blades and stuff just melts right off folks.
19:40 its really a lifesaver for seeing what can be wrong when the phone (a friend i have works with repair and he said this was the best thing to use to repair)
My father got some of those hand warmer/power bank things, and to me they seems like they decided to turn their product overheating into a feature
I've used hand sanitiser to take stickers off computers since early 2020 (when hand sanitiser became ubiquitous) and it works brilliantly. I hate cable ties and only use velcro ties.
"IT'S NOT BETTER! What's in you?!" That made my day. :D
Yeah I've used hand sanitizer in a pinch at work to remove sticker goop and permanent marker. The consistency seems to help keep the liquid against the material.
And it doesn’t evaporate as fast as alcohol, although acetone will remove sticker goop faster but if the finish on what surface you’re applying it has weak bonds, don’t use it or test in an area that’s not visible.
Yup it works pretty well, I used to do the same.
WD40 works the best for sticky residue. Found that out when removing stickers from Ikea glsss
cabinets
It just use oil (like olive or vegetable oil) to remove the goop, then use Isopropanol to remove the oil.
Alternatively, the goof off spray works wonders.
20:39 Linus is like "Hey? I pay you enough!"
Wouldn't have caught it that's too funny
I caught the face he was making like dude I kinow how much I pay you 😂😂😂😂
if you want to remove adhesive residue from stickers, for example, use cooking oil! this has always worked well for me!
Fun anektodal story from Windows 95 days when hardly anyone knew much about computers there were companies that had customersupports answering and helping people with their PC "problems".
Like CD disc readers for example, what they were or did.
I heard a story from a person i knew that worked at such customerservice, someone called and complained that the coffey cup holder (CD tray) was broken. That person actually used CD tray for his coffeycup and found it convinient that the "coffey cup holder" had a automatic button that ejected the "Coffeycup tray" from the computer.
Eventough i myself was new to PC's laughed kindly to that. Cause i knew what CD reader player was and had bought my first computer a 486 computer with integrated monitor and "coffeycup holder".
WD-40 is another way to remove sticker residue, depending on the material. They used to make WD-40 pens that were great for it
Plus a magic eraser with it. Works everytime
I've used hand sanitizer as a facilities painter for spilled paint before. Offices and schools are abundant in it and it's amazing for a quick cleanup job on tough cleans
On the other end, for all the great uses for WD-40, it shouldn't be used in locks/keyholes or squeky hinges. It's a temporary fix that will inevitably make your situation worse. Once the WD-40 dries it leaves a residue making your lock/keyhole worse and the squeaking will return. Use a dry lubricant like graphite.
I love how for some of the bad TikTok, you also gave good TikTok alternatives...
The main issue with TikTok is that it's a lot easier to gain views... the videos are so short and easy to go through that it's a lot easier to watch the bad videos...
On UA-cam, you don't just scroll through videos, you search for them and then the algorithm recommends them to you... so even if you like the bad videos, you'd be stuck in that community and the people who don't like them will probably never see them...
I have that vinyl on my bathroom window lmao it does actually look pretty good on that white rainbow build though!
I’ve been holding on to my phone for a couple years and wanted to wait another year. But this one is definitely tempting me to get a new one
hands down the best part of the video is when alex says google has him in the high income category "FOR SOME REASON" and then linus has a slight delay of information processing before realizing what he just heard lmao
7:05 - For when you want to show off your RGB, but you're ashamed of what parts you have.
NGL, def used the dir/s in my IT support role to finesse users into rebooting.
Remote in, run dir/s, user sees a buncha stuff in a CLI rapidly changing and thinks it must be doing something. Once its done "OK now that that's done, we need to reboot your machine real quick and you should be all set"
How to apply vinyl very easily : spray the surface with water ( if able) and add the vinyl without the wrap thing that protects the sticky side use a squeegee to squeeze the water out and cut the excess off the sides then leave to dry for a minute or something so the vinyl can fully stick and done!
I love the "dir /s" thing 'cause i was definetly doing this when i was 13 on the school computers 😂
(For some reason cmd was not disabled. That was good fun)
(For even more fun : open notepad, type :
Color a
:1
Dir /s
Goto 1
Save as a .bat file, run it. It just loops forever. I used to even add prompt asking if i want to proceed with the hacking which was pretty fun and somehow convinced people that O was hacking something 😂)
should've added a TROLOLOLO or something xD
Had a fun time at a A/V site where the machine was having issues and needed to restart, their tech guy's like yeah we disabled the restart button so you can't restart it
Me: win R, cmd, shutdown /r *restarts*
Mmkay carry on.
One of the benefits of Windows having like 17 ways to shut down lol. Have fun finding them all to disable. Anytime you open the command line everyone thinks you're hacking XD
@@Lizlodude exactly, there are far too many things to try disable.
I actually learned that you can easily change the color with that color command, pretty neat.
I did some funny things... crashed a couple of computers whit a cmd command I found hehe
Nooo, you can't just tell that table is vinyl, that table was my "look at it, I want that when have a good work and my own home", now it's just vinyl.
Now it's a table you can have now 😏😏
i literally was warming up my hands with the air coming out of my top fans as you said that and i'm scared now.😳
I love how this channel's plugs are for stuff I'd actually want and not RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
That vinyl wrapped side panel actually looked incredible
Yeah, I wonder when the first companies start making these instead of just darkened tempered glass.
@17:32 😂😂 that’s how I always imagined hackers would sound like when they are in the zone
As someone prone to addictions, the delicate topics section of AdCenter was super useful.
I worked at Amazon, corporate doing tech support, and for the laptops that were turned in covered in stickers. We just let hand sanitizer sit on them, and then scrape them off with a razor blade.
I like how Linus is like "wow that is a terrible way to do that" and then shows a video where they cooled a PC with propane and melted the back of a monitor.
At the beginning of the pandemic when isopropyl became pretty much impossible to find we had to use hand sanitizer at our shop, I was surprised at how well it worked.
@@blockedrex it really wasn't
linus: Gets one of the best pcs ive ever seen from a sponsor,
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Also for those of you wondering if linus waited for the glue to dry? It actually doesnt matter. That glue is water soluble even when dry. Thats why its so good for kids bcuz even if they get it all over themselves it can just be washed off.
Edit: also i had a friend who had a GTX-1080 since a little after release and didnt update the drivers for it... for 6 years... He literally didnt even know that was a thing and just assumed his computer was crashing more and more bcuz something in his computer was going out but in fact it was bcuz the newer games required the newer drivers to run correctly. Showed him how to update the drivers and suddenly no more crashing, higher FPS, no stuttering, better performance, lower temps. Like a brand new computer.
Unlike UA-cam, if TikTok started deleting old videos on their site, nothing of value would be lost.
I think a great application for the vinyl wrap is that when a tempered glass accidentally shatters, there will be less fragments over the place since it will be held by the wrap
I love that some them were actually good tips! Not what I expected.
So glad you showed how to paint the monitor!!
14:43 third option: hire him
I'm actually genuinely surprised at how useful or cool some of these tips ended up being. Wow. Thanks for testing them out - for science!
My classmate covered the entire cover of his school chromebook with stickers, and after removing them all and trying to use hand sanitizer to remove the residue, it did not work amazingly.
The thing about hand sanitizers might be not so much alcohol at all, but the fact that some glue actually dissolves in oils... 8-bitguy is known to use WD-40 to remove stickers (often intact to be reused)... And I think I have seen others use similar methods for removing stickers and glue residue, in the vintage computer restoration.
I once removed stickers from a glass jar, soaked it in water for ages, tried all the usual kitchen tricks, and try as I might, it would have taken forever to simply scrub it off... Then I just happened to try some olive oil, and there just happened to be one bottle out of date and a bit oil left, just sitting there waiting to be disposed of... So there was nothing to lose, and it actually worked. Now it did leave the glass a bit oily, but that is nothing one could not get rid of with a bit of soap.
I worked at Staples for a little over 18 months. We'd have people come into EasyTech all the time to have us just update their stuff. Cost them around $30 to do it if they didn't have a protection plan for it (which typically costs $200 by itself for 2 yrs).
Alex really enjoyed writing this episode 🤣
Back when I volunteered at my local Free Geek we used Goo Gone to remove stickers, then used alcohol to clean off the Goo Gone.
I have a customer that I can only imagine is clicking on a 'Make Google my Homepage' link every so often. His regular homepage is his comcast e-mail, so every so often I get a call from him saying "Google took over my e-mail again." He shushes me every time I try to explain to him how to set up his homepage, telling me he just wants me to fix it, he doesn't want to have anything to do with it. So 5 or 6 times a year, I charge the guy 40 bucks to change his browser homepage.
"A really cheap hand warmer that is really cheap as well."
Hand warmers gor gaming when you have an 800 watt space heater right next to you.
You know what is even cheaper? Warm water. Just fill your sink with warm water, put your hands in it and in less than a minute they are warm again.
Better tip: Sit on hands
$23.
@@Finkelfunk the lotion for the dry skin, not so cheap. Better than affiliate money for lithium ion banks, though. The real hack is rice in a sock, in the microwave, though.
dbrand at 6:37 - "That's the part where we are right about you."
The hand sanitiser one is because of the gelling agents acting as surfactants (carbomer in the one you used)
Same thing that helps it spread across a surface also helps it dissolve stuff (i.e. how soaps work) - In practice yeah the 99% is gonna work better, but hand sanitiser is a bit easier to find than the high conc alcohols or organic solvents
i honestly love how you can barely hear the ventilation but he starts basically yelling over it anyway hahahaha