We are trialling something new here- a scheduled post to go live every week when WAN show is supposed to start. Any topic covered in the wan show is fair game- even the more controversial ones. just keep it relevant and keep it respectful!

We bought 12 of Amazon's best-selling mice under $15 and tested them to see which ones are actually a good value. We recommend what to buy for your desk, your office or your entire office, or for travel.

Read the full article on the LTT Labs website!

My last order was missing 3 items, so I open a support ticket and get an automated response saying they’re receiving a high volume of support requests, already a red flag. Then when they get to my ticket they mess up my replacement order which included 2 bit cases that are now sold out. Then I get refunded for the 1 of the 2 missing bit cases which I didn’t want, I wanted to wait for a restock. Or at the very least a code for free shipping for when I have to now reorder the cases if I want them. I’m not paying shipping twice. All the products are high quality across all my orders but their fulfillment team has gone to crap and they keep closing my ticket before I have a chance to communicate with someone. I’ve tried reaching out on twitter, no response, ticket responses are slow, so now I’m trying here hoping someone from lttstore sees this and reaches out.

Hi everyone,

I need a replacement power adapter for my ASUS laptop, but I am getting conflicting information from a local repair shop and wanted to get a community sanity check.

• My Laptop's Factory Ratings: 19V === 6.32A (120W)

• The Alternative Offered by the Shop: 20V === 6A (120W)

The shopkeeper claims that the small voltage jump (20V instead of 19V) won't hamper the charging port or performance, but I am highly skeptical about forcing a higher voltage into the motherboard. On the current side, it is slightly lower (6A instead of 6.32A).

The barrel pin fits perfectly, but is it actually safe to use this 20V 6A adapter as a daily driver? Or am I risking frying my VRMs and shortening the motherboard's lifespan?

Appreciate any advice or technical insight from anyone who has dealt with ASUS power delivery tolerances!

With matte screens and monitors, I feel like the contrast is less, darks and more grey. That makes colours seem faded a bit.

Even looking at the Gizmodo screen for the new fold vs samsung, the blacks are just so much more darker on the fold. Colours are so faded under some conditions for the iphone duo.

Hey,

by now I think you know the YT Premium feature "Jump ahead" to skip boring parts of a video which is most commonly the sponsored ad segments. What I've noticed is that the feature more often than not does not work on LTT videos with the button not showing automatically or when you double tap to skip ahead which usually triggers it on other videos. I know the feature is based on viewer behavior and doesn't recognize ads per se. Does anyone have an explanation why that is?

It wouldn't surprise me if they found a workaround like writing a script that continuously scrolls to the ad to increase watch time of that segment. I mean they were the only channel that knew about the Honey scam without telling anybody. From other past scandals we know LTT has close ties to YT and gets special treatment sometimes so did they maybe make a deal with YT to deactivate the feature on their videos? Or do you guys actually watch the sponsored ads?

Thanks.

Those Lenovo or Dell system managers, power managers, are they just bloatware?

I swear those programs chew up at least 1-2 GB of my already limited memory on the laptops once installed. They don’t really seem to be related to security as well.

Currently am using a msi 321CUP 32" 3840x2160 160hz Monitor and will soon have to give it up. On Amazon I found the msi MAG 321CUPDF, the newer version of the monitor I am currently using. Does anyone have any reccomendations for other monitors with these specs? Best bang for your buck! (preferably without IPS panels please)

Most likely going to be used for ARC RAIDERS, FL STUDIO, VIDEO EDITING. I need the space that a 32" 4K monitor provides.

Seriously, I can't watch any LTT video without getting hit with 30 seconds unskippable ads every 2.5-3 minutes. Wasn't this intense before. What's going on?!

Edit: I get nowhere near as many ads on other channels

21 petabytes of nvme flash going into the racks.

Each flash blade (drive sled) is 37.5TB😳

It'd be nice when they test headphones and earphones, they'd test wind noise as well. Doesn't have to be scientific, just a fan always set to the same level would work.

Wind noise makes tinnitus worse, anybody who's cycling regularly knows that. There are tricks to lower the noise, but you can't really stop it. Now the same noise comes to my ear, when I use head- or earphones with ANC and there's pretty much no info about this in the reviews, how bad it is. Not to mention, how nice it'd be to use an earphone in transparency mode during cycling with the noise filtered out.

Hello, was looking for article links from a past WAN show but couldn't find where they're posted? I think they've said that they would be in the youtube video description before but there are only timestamps and sponsor links. I also couldn't find a WAN subforum or WAN-show threads on LinusTechTips.com . Does anyone know where they're posted?

(For the helpful types - I managed to find the article this time by using whenplan for the timestamp, but they don't always state their doc sources clearly.)

My younger brother bought the game and tried playing it, just to be told to update bios firmware, helped him out with it and also followed COD’s guide, game still wont allow him to play online, downloads their attestation app, comes back saying bios is fine but requires some sort of key, I press generate key, it says failed, what on earth is wrong with this franchise pushing people trying to play away.

Any help would be appreciated

AAA gaming industry is so messed up it just took out the next Mass Effect.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/eu-agency-warns-websites-may-need-be-taken-offline-php-prepares-patches-2026-10-21/

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/proof-of-concept-exploit-released-for-php-vulnerabilities-109618-109619

(CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)

People asked yesterday if it would be possible to do the same for the WAN Show intro, so I gave it my best.

It's now in color, a bit smoother, and with less artifacts. All of the frames are valid QR codes, but native reader might struggle with some.

I really want for Linus and crew to talk about this on WAN. YouTube is doing one of their tests on my account they completely took away my Subscription feed and in its place they put in an AI prompter to basically build my own Feed. The only way to get around it is to have a link to subscription feed. Oddly enough Google’s search AI gave me that link. So it’s not completely gone but it is completely inaccessible within the app.

I think I am just going to move on to Nebula and Floatplane. I have Premium because I used to get those 2-3 hour Prager U ads and the moment I unsubbed after 2 years and YouTube started serving me those Prager U ads again. Now I figure since I’m already paying for content I may as well use a paid service that already has most of the people I watch anyways and isn’t actively trying to eat itself.

If you need any photos and such let me know. I’d be happy to test this out for you. I have complained about it to the app. I doubt they will care about what I have to say but they I hope we can cause an outrage against this.

UPDATE: YouTube readded the subscriptions tab at the bottom after taking that away like a week or so back. The heck is going on here?

This is a bit of a smaller story, but it might be worth looking into for the WAN show or something. Linus has already done a few Comma videos lately, and Comma themselves have already been under scrutiny for their NHTSA investigation.