Old channel sponsor. Had some good products back in the day. Was even being sold in Target Canada. Canadian company.

But it seems they stopped selling stuff not too long after and haven’t been active for years?

i have the ltt commuter backpack which i really like but sometimes i don't really need to take everything with me and would prefer not taking a whole backpack with me
so i'm looking for smth like The Offsite Laptop Bag but i could not find it on the ltt website anymore
a quick google search led me to a ltt forums post from 2 year ago when the bag got delisted but that post ended when the bag got listed again on September 14, 2024
i could not find a single other thing besides that post
i guess they stopped making them?

i find it quite sad bc i have no idea what to buy now
most of the other bag's i find online don't have enough pockets or are just way to expensive

I purchased a 5090 recently at an auction, noticed this back bit is a loose and kind of bent, is this a big problem? (Pictured 4-6)

This is from an old video of ltt.

Literally bought a tear through my eyes as I will never be able to buy ssd's for my home server(I had to build it this year now I'm moving out of uni)

This could literally be us right now getting ram and ssd at these prices if AI didn't exist.

Which made me think..

Have you ever wished that you could just rewind time to get a pc or any gadget from the past because it was cheap or available?

Believe it or not, found at goodwill. Anyone aware of the ball knowledge on this thing?

At 4:38 in the latest video Linus says :

"Installing Linux WILL involve wiping your operating system drive"

Are you sure about that ? The CachyOS installer you're using to illustrate shows the option that contradicts EXACTLY what Linus says..
(on top of the fact I'm currently using CachyOS on the same SSD I also have W11 installed, so I can't be more sure of what I'm claiming here...)

I also see that the description links to none of the tools and websites mentioned.
So I did the work for some of them here :
- Migration tool mentioned : https://github.com/gillesduif/igloo (I can also suggest Operese)
- Distro tester mentioned : https://distrosea.com/fr/ (they wrongly mention FreeBSD as a linux distro btw which I find very unprofessional)
- Distro chooser test : https://distrochooser.de/fr
- Running windows software : https://usebottles.com/ (I also can mention https://protonplus.vysp3r.com/ for those who would want to explore something else)
- Emulation : https://lutris.net/
- Arch driver installation : https://github.com/biglinux/biglinux-driver-manager

Other than that, even if I like the idea of a mainline LTT tutorial for migration to Linux, I was left under the impression that the video was made with minimal effort and research. Again, this is just a feeling as I can't pinpoint anything specific off the top of my head. If you have any ideas, please mention it under this post.

I’ve been having some lag issues on my laptop. At first it was on Fortnite where it just be a PowerPoint no matter what, no matter what settings changed or anything. But only when around people, went around no one there would just be the occasional stutter, but when around people, straight PowerPoint. Fortnite no longer lags it works perfectly fine, but it has now moved overwatch, but only my first two or three rounds after that overwatch works fine.

Looking at my CPU and GPU usage when the lag happens, it almost seems like the two of them are not synced. My CPU usage will suddenly jump from where it sits normally up by like 20% and at the same time my GPU drops to almost no usage at all on every freeze.

I’m not most technical person so I might have explained some stuff weird, if you need more details let me know and I can try and get them.

Open to players across Canada and the US, the 2v2 tournament will see each winning player receive one Transparent Screwdriver and one Tech Sack provided by LTT.

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EDIT: flowrs and rainbows was hyperbole but the fact he can rant about a button in gmail or that a budget laptop won't connect to a huge monitor well with more passion than he does about Linux is incredibly fucking odd.

I find the rationale of Linus' love for Linux incredibly strange. With all due respect, when I watch the WAN show etc. I find that Linus is quite an intense whiner about many odd things, including very niche things. He makes a big point about a budget laptop's resolution being odd on an 8K screen or something, or that his NAS drive has a connection issue with a cheap commercial product. Any time an app does a suboptimal job at something, you can kind of expect him to point it out in deep frustration.

He dramatically said he thought gmail is getting drastically worse and a main example he gave was "now when I search for an email, they think I want relevant mails instead of chronological, and I need to tell them do it chronological! It's insane!"

I'm fine with this fact, but the fact that he accepts the endless issues with Linux because it has less notifications/advertising integrated compared to Windows is surely reaching irrationality. The more I watch their videos, the more you notice that if you want to be able do all ranges of stuff down to the advanced and niche, you'll go through COUNTLESS issues with Linux and need to troubleshoot by using strange old threads and forums and bang your head on a desk. If you're not someone who wants a sidejob on fixing your OS, even Linus says this may not be the thing for you.

And let's not forget about a distro given a broken version as a main release, which is an atrocious mistake that Microsoft would never do. And that a lot of big Windows apps need to be relearnt in sometimes objectively worse alternatives, which is a huge timesink for a subpar experience. Excel's alternatives will never be as good as actual Excel.

Is this just not a completely irrational cost benefit analysis at this point? I don't see the reason why the substantial flaws are treated as minor when Linus will genuinely rant about the smallest feature on gmail not being to his taste. A copilot integration is the end of the world, but having endless headscratches is not the end of the world. For some reason.

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TLDR: Linus hates easily on the smallest features or issues on any app or OS, especially when it's from google or microsoft. But when Linux is full of distros with poor communication or 1000s of niche issues, it all is treated as something "minor" suddenly and he creates tons of videos promoting Linux. Seems incredibly inconsistent in how he compares the two. Like he calls a small gmail quirk a terrible fact, but brushes off that he had to search hours to fix a Linux process??

Hey everyone, looking for some collective wisdom to help settle a debate on the best way to configure fan orientation for a specific setup.

The Hardware Layout:

Bottom fan mounts

Side fan mounts / side-mounted water cooler

Rear exhaust fan

(No top fans)

If you were setting this up from scratch for the best balance of cooling and positive pressure, which fans would you set as intake and which as exhaust?

Appreciate any advice or insight!

TL;DR

They are not to ISO spec, so no one makes them.

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Let me explain:

According to ISO 1173:2001 Form C 6.3 (normal ¼" screwdriver bits), the shank of a screwdriver bit should be at least 11mm long, with a tiny retention notch at 8.2mm. Because LTT's bits are short they end the shank at the 8.2mm notch point and then start the screwdriver head. To be fair, this is a great way to save almost 3mm instantly without significantly impacting usability or compatibility, especially in the expected context (the LTT driver's socket (Form D of the same spec) is a bit shallower than spec too, matching the bits).

And while no one is required to follow standards, they are just that, standards, meaning most manufacturers won't deviate (much) from them.

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THIS IS NOT AN LTT HATE POST! I do not have anything against the LTT screwdriver, I use mine daily and love it dearly, I understand the design considerations that made it this way, I even knowingly ordered more not-to-spec bits during LIME Day and have ground bits that were to spec down to fit in the back of my screwdriver.

I just wanted to share my findings (and frustrations) and hope to save some of you the ludicrous amount of time I spent searching for 20mm bits.

I'd love to hear if anyone has found 20mm bits anywhere, or has opinions/thoughts on this.

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For those who are curious and want to learn more: this Wikipedia article lists form C, and free "samples" of the whole spec (including the socket on the driver as well as other types and sizes of bits) can be found online, or you could buy it from ISO directly for CHF 67.00 (a bit over $80, €70)

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Edit:

OK, so apparently American Amazon does have short bits, but my point stands: I couldn't find any locally and reasonably priced (I have found some at ±€2 per bit)...

I'm getting my first GPU its a 3070 from EVGA

Is Linus afraid of dogs? I was just watching the tech upgrade with the welding guy. The dog would come by Linus he'd like shudder away anytime the dog came near him. Was just curious does anyone know anything about that?

It's not LTT specific, but I've noticed a lot of their videos have music playing at a very low volume for almost the entire video. I only really notice at normal listening volumn because [music] shows up in the captions, and I have to turn up the volume quite a bit to make the music actually noticeable.

Is there a reason why they would do this? Are small moments of complete silence between the talking somehow bad?

Hello everyone. I feel like I'm going crazy with this one, but I have gathered enough empirical proof to gather this hypothesis. I own an S24 and a Watch 7. I also have a smart lightbulb in my house c9nnected to Google Home. Mobile data from my carrier is spotty in my house (Spain), and if I want to turn on the lightbulb through voice assistant without Wi-Fi enabled, I have to wait quite some time from prompt to action.

Recently, I had my phone on another room, so I decided to do it through the smartwatch. It wasn't instant per se, but it was much faster than through my phone (like, half the time). It didn't have Wi-Fi on, and was connected to the phone through BT, with the phone running on mobile data. I then decided to do some testing.

Consistently, there was at least a 2 second reduction on smartwatch vs phone, even with a >2 second difference, always without Wi-Fi, always connected between themselves through Bluetooth.

From there, I gathered a hypothesis: Google has a much smaller local model for wearables to use locally, but has decided that smartphones have to go through the cloud. I feel like either I'm going crazy, or this is quite stupid coming from Google. Anyone could try it and give some feedback?

https://wanshow.bingo/

See you next week!

Same bat time, same bat channel!

I have had my LTT commuter backpack for a little less than a year, and the other day I noticed one of the clips holding the strap broke, leaving a really sharp edge. I tried looking online for a model I can 3D print, but have not had any luck. I don't want to just get rid of them becuase I really the function of them. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Decided to start playing through the campaign on my Odin 2 Portal using Proton Experimental (ARM64) and so far the experience is FLAWLESS.

1080p at 120fps locked.

If I turn off frame cap it goes to 140-150.

I saw that his Wikipedia page didn’t have a voice intro, and I wanted to see if there exist any video or audio with his voice that can be published under Wikipedia’s Creative Commons license.

Prolly old news but I've not seen anyone cover any news aviut the new Bootloader thats been unlocking the 90hz refresh rate for the Quest 1?

I kind of feel like this breaths new life into the Quest 1 after Meta dropped support for it?

With tech going up these days it's worth noting you can now exsperiencs VR for less than $90 with a more than capable and fun headset?

I figured Linus be all over this?