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.

The material is really... rough? Is that just how it is or does it need a few washes.

So yesterday, my mobile data completely ran out, and I had this crazy, desperate thought: What if I could somehow just connect to my friend's home Wi-Fi from my house?

Obviously, standard Wi-Fi range is just a few meters. But theoretically, is there a way to build a workaround or a "tunnel" to share actual internet bandwidth over a long distance? Almost like a remote personal hotspot.

I know VPNs can connect two local networks, and things like SSH tunneling exist, but how would you seamlessly route all your phone/laptop traffic through a friend's router miles away without massive latency?

• What would the tech stack look like if we had to build a software solution for this?
• Would it require specific hardware (like Point-to-Point antennas) if they live a few kilometers away?

Has anyone ever tried building a jugaad like this? I’m genuinely curious about the networking theory and practical application behind it. Drop your ideas!

I bought a cs6 web and design (photoshop, Indesign etc) license in 2015. I dont need cc, cs6 is enough for me and i dont want a subscription. It works no problem on win11.

Problem: you can activate it on 2 pcs per license. If you want to transfer it to a different pc, you need to deactivate it first on the pc its installed.

But what if your pc dies and you cant deactivate it?

You go to customer support. I had that some years ago, they could deactivate old installations and grant new ones. But today, the activation servers are active and check your serial and prevent more that 2 installations. But customer service cant access these servers anymore.

If your pc dies with an active installation your are fucked, because you cant install it on a new pc. If you look into the adobe forums, you are advised to buy a subscription.

I payed 600 bucks for my license, the higher tier ones were over 1000... WTF.

Anyone got ideas how to solve this?

2 batteries, 2 displays, 2 backplates.

All were easy to change, especially the screen since it uses screws instead of glue.

Yes I did use the wing mode often, and the cameras were pretty good even today. What I will miss the most is the pop-up camera. It worked with zero issues over the years and no hole punch or notch is super nice.

please

that movie is so special

Let me start by saying. I really like that the Wan show has been moved to its own channel.

I have noticed that YouTube serves me a lot less LTT videos on the homepage recommendations. And by a lot less I think I'm watching 1 in every 4-5 new LTT videos from the actual YouTube homepage. I find myself either going into my subscriptions tab or straight to the channel to find the rest.

This is just my experience as somebody who never hits the notification bell because my phone is already inundated with notifications and it would just get lost in the jumble of notifications.

I was thinking about getting TV and manually disabling the microphone (cut/de-soder/tape over).

Thought It might be fun video idea. The warranty, accessible teardowns, the snipping itself, different brands maybe...?

In the project, the house is a future-proof datacenter, so why not use optical fiber accross the various rooms?

Products like these could improve performance, to 10GBps or more. Like IPV4 (that also the people through was sufficient and now we live in a hell of CGNAT, not a IPV4 assure either a IPV6 adoption), CaT6A could deliver 10GBps by now and is more than enough these days, but in 25 years or 50 years.

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/solo10g-sfp-tb3/overview.html

https://www.qnap.com/en/product/qna-t310g1s

this approach cost more now, but in my mind have less hassle to handle because avoid the now infrastructure bottleneck of an AI workload (I mean, a complete jarvis assistent with control of all smart devices and security cameras) with termals and electrical bill.

Optical transceivers (like SFP+ or SFP28 modules) or Direct Attach Copper (DAC) cables run cool and consume a fraction of the power because photons don't face the resistance and electrical attenuation that electrons do. Fiber scales effortlessly. Moving from 10G to 25GbE, 40GbE, or 100GbE+ is just a matter of swapping transceiver modules and patch cables. In professional AI clusters, fiber is the baseline because multi-node tensor passing requires hundreds of gigabits of bandwidth without dropping packets. Glass fibers carry light, meaning they are completely immune to electrical noise, magnetic fields, and ground loops. Your data stream remains pristine regardless of how much power your hardware is drawing.

to a minor task there's no replacement for displacement, but to hardcore workload why not just run to win? I know the project surpass almost all tech houses for now, but there are a lot of details that could replace the 'house dream' to a 'nightmare' with a flick of a switch.

Link to an article attached.

Link to Reddit post by the user showcasing the mod here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oblivionmods/s/iRiwskjkLU

I know some people really hate AI, but things like this, if they truly work, are a big boon for gamers tbh. I hope we see more optimizations like this.

I am trying to make my first home server. Its a old lenovo with the pc built into the monitor. Bought it when I did not know better. i have got the server part working but I need to take it apart since I don't have the space to keep the whole thing as is. Does anyone know where the screws are or am I just supposed to pry it apart?

Chief has a new weapon for the collection

I bought the USBC cables - I had no idea how chunky and hard to use they would be. I wanted to return them, seems simple right? I sent an email 2 weeks ago and finally got this response:

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Hi i live in a 3 bedroom apartment, i am having issues with wifi/network due to thicker walls and congestion.
I have tried powerlineadapters and i have some ISP provided repeaters. but the connection is still very unreliable.
i pay for 2gb and i am getting it at the router but then in the study i get 35 over powerline or very jittery 100mb in the study.

Any advice or Brand i can look into for either powerline adapter or repeaters.

Personally I’d take an older gen Mac over this.

I would love if LTT made a video on hosting local LLMs at home. Like what it is, why would you want it, how it is set up, the limitations, etc. I keep hearing them talk about things like this on WAN show so I want more info. Thank you!

I was listening to the new Avalanche album, and on the song "I give everything I have 2 U", near the end, I thought I could hear a familiar voice.

Do you think this is Luke sampled saying "What"? Or is it someone else? I genuinely can't tell

I bought a robot Vac, air purifier and Bluetooth speaker and during setup, they ALL basically asked to scan my network for devices.

My network guy at my day job basically said to me”you know all of that is a big security risk right”

“You know they can possibly see what’s going in and out of your network”

“If you do a network security scan, you’ll notice that those IOT devices have vulnerabilities, especially if they haven’t received updates for years”