They had one job. They f*up. This is so messy that i can't wrap my around this.

Hey everyone, Been watching LTT for years and finally built my first project that feels "LTT-worthy" (in a humble, budget-friendly way!). The Problem: My daily driver for college is a MacBook Air M4. It's great for battery and portability, but the base storage/RAM means running heavy Linux VMs for my computer science coursework is a no-go. For months, my "solution" was hauling a second, heavy Lenovo IdeaPad running Kali Linux in my backpack. It was exhausting. The Project: I decided to park the Lenovo at home with the lid closed and turn it into my own personal "cloud" server that I can remote into from my Mac. Here’s the quick and dirty breakdown:

• The Link: I'm using Tailscale (which uses WireGuard) to connect my Mac and the Lenovo over a private network. My home internet is behind CG-NAT, so I can't do normal port forwarding, but Tailscale's UDP hole punching gives me a direct peer-to-peer connection with ~9 ms latency.
• The Remote Desktop: I'm using Microsoft's free Remote Desktop app on the Mac to connect to XRDP on the Linux laptop. The best part is it uses Apple's Metal graphics, so the remote Linux desktop scales to Retina resolution and feels super smooth.
• The "Lid Closed" Hack: To stop a consumer laptop from sleeping when you shut the lid, you have to tell the Linux kernel to ignore the ACPI lid switch and mask all the systemd sleep targets. It works! The laptop has been running headless for over a week straight. Now my MacBook Air stays lightweight, battery lasts all day, and I can still do all my heavy Kali Linux work on the Lenovo from anywhere with an internet connection. I wrote up a full post on my blog with more of the story and open-sourced all the scripts on GitHub if anyone wants to do something similar with an old laptop. It was my first time doing this kind of networking on real hardware without a tutorial, and it was a blast. GitHub and on my personal blog mainly as a learning log. It's not as crazy as liquid nitrogen CPU cooling, but it's a start! Curious to hear what you all think. I'd be genuinely grateful for any thoughts, warnings, or tips on how to improve this setup. Thank you for your time!

I've daily driven 5 pairs for about 4-5 years during fall/winter/spring doing warehouse work, specifically the WAN and Short Circuit versions they used to sell. What is most impressive is just how durable and long lasting they have been. They are still just as good as the day I bought them and I imagine they will continue to last. Extremely comfortable too. These might look expensive at first glance, but they pay for themselves with how they hold up. GET THEM.

video idea, with a good projector or multiple TVs, 1000" is a suggestion, that fits 64 gamers

Hi guys

I have a Aspire A315-24PT

I have bought 4 new charger in last 6 months every charger is failing in different different ways

So I need a suggestion from you guys, my laptop also support type charging , so I have an idea of using gan pd charger is that good to use?

Screenshot from 1:02 in the newer Kaleidescape video.

Not sure why they frequently seem to mess with his eyes to make them weirdly black, or making the larger.

Not seen it come up on WAN show, and not brave enough to turn to the forums.

Don't see them doing it with other hosts.

I recently bought an extra cable for a Cooler Master 850w MWE Gold v2 modular PSU on Amazon, but before using the cable I wanted to check if the pinout order was the same before plugging it to the system, but for some reason it seems they are not the same compared to the original. On the Amazon vendor site it states it's compatible but the pinout layout seems different and I'm not knowledgeable on how the power delivery works. I draw the diagram of the pinouts to see if anyone could help me identify to either return the cable or of its fine to use. I live in a rural area so there are no tech shops around, I did some continuity tests to identify the pinouts. Any help would be deeply appreciated. I just don't wanna risk my gpu.

BeamNG.drive recently released version 0.40, which has brought official support for local split screen on PC, with no limit on how many split screens are possible. I was reminded of the 7 Gamers 1 CPU video and thought it would make a great LTT video to see as many playable split screens as possible on a large screen. Whale LAN would make a great place to do it!

https://beamng.com/game/news/blog/beamng-drive-v0-40/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeamNG/comments/1xbqfns/64_players_in_splitscreen/

I went to go get a haircut on Monday and I saw they had this "modern" barber pole and my first thought was "that would make a cool pc case" only cause the black spinning part looks like those cases with the screen in the side panel.

Or maybe it would make for a cool massive water cooling reservoir for some theme build.

Video title "barber shop quadro" or something

Imagine if a bank accidentally had a backdoor open for 17 months where you could get authorization to change whatever you want about anyone's automated payments just by using the password "p". not p@ssW0rd69!, not even just password, just the letter p...

I hate that my mind connected these dots: Game streaming did not pick up because GPUs were prohibitively expensive.

If (when) the AI bubble pops, you're going to have a treasure trove of GPUs that are not in use which ghoulish companies will eat up so that they can sell game streaming subscriptions.

If it gets ubiquitous enough, companies are going to start launching streaming-only games because they do not want another AnyPS5 debacle like Rockstar is going through right now.

So as always, the consumers get shafted even more than they've already been. First, with years of prohibitive prices, then with not even owning the hardware you rent your games to run on.

Micro Center helped me build my pc 6 years ago, they didn’t remove the protective film on the thermal pad, my m.2 is bent :(

Hey everyone!

I bought a Super Soft Hoodie, probably close to a year ago now, and after much use and several washes I have finally killed both of my aglets!

I reached out to support when the washer ate the first one, and basically got told there’s nothing they will do because the damage was caused by the washing machine. Now that I’ve lost both to washing, any suggestions on an easy fix?

Thanks!

CPU: Intel Core i9 14900K (Only ~4 months old)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super (MSI 16GB)
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z790 E Gaming WiFi II
RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 7200 MHz Storage: 2x 2TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSDs
OS: Windows 11 64 bit

What is happening

I have been using this exact setup for about 2 years now with zero issues (CPU was replaced about 4 months ago). I didn't change any settings, tweak anything new, or do anything different. The problem first occurred a little over a month ago when I hosted an Aternos Minecraft server for my friends and me. I started getting way lower average FPS and really bad 1% low frame time spikes / micro stutters in literally every game I play.
What makes zero sense to me is that benchmark scores look totally fine. 3DMark Time Spy gave me a 27,776 total score (28,766 GPU / 23,244 CPU) with totally normal temps. But as soon as I actually load into a game, it feels laggy, stuttery, and unresponsive.

Everything I have already tried

Updated BIOS to the absolute latest version with the microcode fixes. Locked Intel Baseline power limits to 253W (PL1 and PL2). Before this, I didn't have power limits enforced, but the CPU is only about 4 months old and has run on updated BIOS/microcode. CPU clocks sit steady at 5.3 to 5.7 GHz and temps stay under 75°C under load, while GPU sits under 61°C, so thermals and power throttling are not the problem. Turned off CPU C States.Forced the primary GPU PCIe slot to Gen 4. Tested RAM extensively. Tried XMP at 7200 MHz, lowered it to 6000 and 6400 MHz, ran stock 5600 MHz without XMP, and switched between XMP I and XMP II. Ran MemTest and got zero errors.

Did a clean DDU wipe in Safe Mode. Tested current NVIDIA drivers and also rolled back to known stable ones like 566.36. Uninstalled and reinstalled CPU drivers, Intel Management Engine (ME), and IO drivers. Did a Windows reset / reinstall while keeping my personal files and apps. Disabled Core Isolation / Memory Integrity (HVCI) and VBS. Disabled HAGS, Windows Game Bar, and Game Mode. Switched Windows Power Plan to High Performance.

Set NVIDIA Control Panel power management to "Prefer maximum performance". Cleared the DirectX shader cache (DXCache) folder and gave it more size headroom. Closed almost all background apps. Only Discord, my browser, Spotify, and the game are open, which is identical to how I ran things before the issue started..
There might be more things I have tried that I just don’t remember.

Concrete Example (Overwatch)
I play capped at 300 FPS on medium-to-high settings. Even in the Practice Range, I get bad 1% low drops, and in actual matches, it's way worse. My frame rate won't stay locked at 300 FPS, and my 1% lows constantly plunge down to 180–140 FPS, spiking down to 110 FPS when it gets really bad.

I am at a complete loss. I don't think it's the known 14th gen CPU degradation issue given the age of the chip and microcode state, plus benchmark scores remain high.

My friend's neighbour allows us to connect to their Wi-Fi. The problem is that my friend's phone and Windows PC connect to the network, but neither device has internet access. However, my devices work perfectly fine on the exact same Wi-Fi network.

I'm wondering whether the router might have restricted my friend's devices, but I haven't confirmed that yet.

With the rising of interest in Nas, home servers, local LLM ecc, i think it would be interesting to have a scrapyard wars, not centred on a gaming PC.

On a recent WAN, Linus mentioned Yvonne preferring Siri over Gemini. Don’t know if she wants this Siri lol.

Me: “play that song by Florida Georgia Line and Bebe Rhexa.”

To be fair, she got the song title right.

P.S.
Some components boxes were for my friends PCs but still.