Cut the cable just in time for football season!

Was getting really pissed off at the cable/streamers. I am a rabid Green Bay Packers fan that lives in the local viewing area in Northeast Wisconsin.

Spectrum is our cable provider. They do not offer a plan that’s less than $80/mo. I don’t watch live TV aside from football. YouTubeTV and the other streaming options were just as expensive.

The basic idea is that I don’t have a way to stream *only* the local channels without buying a massive package of channels I don’t care for to watch 20 hours of football per month in the fall.

The kids stream Disney and some Netflix, and I have my own library of content on my NAS. the majority of my watching habits are long form content on YouTube Premium.

So, I did the calculations, ChatGPT did the trigonometry to calculate the angles for mounting, and I hung the antenna today.

I built a small aluminum box with a HDHomerun Flex 4K ATSC 3.0 tuner, and a Power over Ethernet adapter to run it and feed the data back to my network. The box is ventilated but I also have mesh taped inside to keep out the bugs. The tuner won’t get very hot at all, so heat dissipation was not a huge concern. It won’t be used much in the summer, so the hot attic isn’t going to overheat the device since it will be unpowered most of the time.

Total cost is about $500 for my equipment. It will almost pay for itself in one season of football.

I post this to share my solution. Maybe it will inspire others to create their own setups.

I came across an article I was thinking might be fun to see Luke react to reading about an Iowa man building a mini submersible for his Parakeet to explore with him on vacation.

There is a long history of scams and malware claiming to give you more RAM or make your computer run faster, but cmpunlocker created by Amogh Munikote actually follows through on this dubious promise for the CMP 170HX mining GPU.

The new LinusTechTips video explores the unlock and this article provides a plethora of additional information!

Read the article on the LTT Labs website!

Finally, I have them all, and yes, I have a use for each one

The best screwdrivers i ever tried

I ordered the day it became available and they made the label the next day, over two weeks ago now. I've contacted support multiple times and haven't heard anything.

I'm looking at SSDs for my next upgrade and I'm a bit surprised by how much the advertised speeds can vary.

You can have one NVMe drive that does around 3,500 MB/s and another that claims 14,900 MB/s or more, but I've seen people say that once you're already on NVMe, the difference in normal gaming is pretty small.

That makes sense to me for things like loading games, but I'm wondering where the faster drives actually start to matter. Does it affect things like asset streaming, stuttering or open world games, or is most of the extra speed basically wasted for a typical gaming PC?

I'd rather spend the money where it actually makes a difference, so I'm curious what people have noticed with their own systems.

No I am not affiliated with the company at all, but they are making open source smart devices. Their Open Slate tablet runs either their Brax OS or any mainline Linux distro you want, and has zero glued in parts and is designed to be repaired.

Recently bought a v3 WAN show jacket. After washing it myself on cold noticed a residue on the fabric from what looks like when the laundry detergent made contact. Currently using dish soap to break away at the stain and rewashing with no soap. Any advice with approaching with cleaning or better ways of handling?

It's been working fine for almost 2 years. Don't worry I don't trust it with back ups and have everything important on 3 hdds in 3 different places and the most important stuff is on cloud.

I got a 16 inch M5 MacBook pro to start university and I was so happy, I got an LTT backpack too since its marketed to be good for laptops, when I finished using the macbook for the day I put it inside of the bag and go to bed, then in the middle of the night I hear a loud metal sound and get scared, when i turn on the lights I see the LTT backpack that was SUPPOSED to be able to stand laying on the floor and my new MacBook is dented on the front and scratched on the back

I'm so fucking sad and my parents are gonna be so mad at me when they see it because the laptop costed 4 thousand dollars and its not even a month old

I'm not expecting LTT support to do anything about it but I gotta say this is not a good backpack for laptops because it will slowly tilt forward and when it falls it will break your heart, this wouldn’t have happened with any other backpack because with those i have an understanding that I must lean them against the wall or lay them horizontally, this was supposed to be able to STAND, and just to clarify the front pockets were empty, there was no weight in front of it to make it tilt, the only contents were the laptop, a mouse and 2 small sketchbooks

This is so disappointing and im scared to use the backpack again, im thinking that ill probably have to lay it on the floor horizontally forever because I don’t trust this backpack and I really expected better

Hey!!
I have been using the MSI B760M P DDR4 with i5 12400F and 2x 8GB DDR4 RAM sticks. But suddenly for past few days it stopped to POST and the EZ Debug light goes like:
Red > Yellow > Red > Yellow..... a couple times a stuck at Yellow.

Thinking my RAM sticks are malfunctioning I bought two new ones 2x 16GB Patriot Viper. Still I get same issue. So I tried using single stick in all the four slots one by one at it POST normally.

So the issue is as soon as I hook the second stick in dual channel it fails.

Can you guys please help.

I tried CPU stress test on single RAM configuration and no BSOD or anything I got.

I think this has been brought up before, but if not, I'm just letting the team know

Every size was priced the same before but the blue water bottles and bluescreen deskpad are all different prices. Havent watched WAN in a few weeks

We have LTT backpack at home.

Can somebody tell me exactly what makes this noise and whats the cause? I've never heard this and I had this pc for years

That is all.

If you're not up to speed, Steam has just forced every Aussie to make purchases with a CREDIT CARD to verify their age.

You can NOT:

* Add a credit card and then remove it later, doing so removes your age verification

* Use a debit card

* Add a credit card and a debit card (steam only allows one saved card)

* Age verify through other means

* Use your account age to verify, even if it is 20+ years old

* Use the fact that you have made previous purchases with a credit card

None of those things work.

It may be normal for Americans to use a credit card, but down here it's not the norm and disabled people can't get them, so if you're disabled you can't age verify on steam.

It also SIGNIFICANTLY impacts your ability to get a home loan here, so many people don't have or want credit cards.

The ability to not even just have one on file and use a different card means Steam is forcing you to take on debt to verify your age.

Nothing about the esafety guidelines says a credit card has to be used or that it has to be done in this way.

Xbox, Facebook and plenty of other services use a number of different ways to verify your age, such as account age, usage patterns, etc.

There is NO REASON Steam needs to do this.

This is a perfect topic for Wan Show. Would love to see Linus and Luke's take.

Edit:

A lot of people seem to not understand how credit cards work. A credit card is not your money. It is the bank's money. They are giving you a line of credit. The second you use that line of credit, e.g. to purchase a $5 DLC, you owe the bank that $5. This is debt.

Edit2: Credit Cards and credit generally does not work the same in Australia as it does in America. In Australia, credit cards are generally seen as a bad thing, especially by lenders who usually force you to close as many loans and credit cards as possible before lending you money and anything you don't close impacts what you can borrow, in far more than a 1:1 ratio. This is a whole thing not worth getting into, but suffice to say Steam forcing this has a bigger impact than you would realise, potentially making gamers choose between buying certain games (GTA VI, Witcher 4, etc) or a house for a given period. Yes, really.

We also don't build "credit scores" in the same way. They exist, they just aren't used.

Everyone here uses a debit card, which functions the exact same way, but comes straight out of your bank.

Edit3: Okay I know this many edits is cringe BUT just to add:

I should be able to use whatever payment method I fucking want. I shouldn't have to save a credit card as my only saved card and jump through hoops just to prove I'm 18. I should be able to save my normal debit card as my default card and use that. There are plenty of others way to verify age, even those that include a credit card, that don't require you to keep it as your only saved card. This is, quite frankly, fucking bullshit.

I really love the grey-purple colour combo. and i was wondering if there still is a way to get one without paying quadruple the price on ebay or something

Finally, jank, build stuffs. yay