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Ah yes, hearing Lexi react to TechSupportGore and learning some things in the process. It's therapy for the soul.
Agreed
Her pain is entertaining. The explanations are good too I guess.
I don't understand what is she's saying but I like how she's explaining it
@@fishHater “Lexplanation”
(Just poking fun)
@@Kingofthepirates918 Actually, I like that.
“This should be straight, but all we have here is the New York City pride parade” -Lexi 2023
Isn't it a bit early to start celebrating Pride Month?
@@1mandraws_ Never too early
i legit died from laughter when Lexi said that.
@@emily_042 sorry to say this but the more you say you're your own thing the more you stand out. Do you want to be accepted in society or be treated as a special case?
@@emily_042 Month gay 1 day 😂🤣😂😂😂🤣
I swear, one of my favorite Lexi sayings is "For legal reasons that was a joke, for moral reasons it was not"
when you have been in the industry long enough and dealt with enough idiots this is the general attitude
I need to steal that line.
This needs to be a T-shirt
@@Whitewolf1984pthat is SUCH a good idea 💀
As an electronic circuit, i am terrified.
As an electronic circuit, i am horrified.
As a motherboard, I feel terrified too
As a USB stick, I am also horrified.
As a daughterboard, i am concerned.
Im just terrified in general
i love how Lexi goes on a 3 minute rant about soldering lol
i wouldnt call that a rant. the braided cords one was by far more of a rant
@@tieflingcorpse9817 true, though it is funny that he was talking about soldering for 3 minutes straight
@@WovenYT *she
@@tieflingcorpse9817 wait lexi is a she? WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS??
@@WovenYT lol yea, she's a trans woman /nm
"You mayonnaise sandwich" is a surprisingly savage insult. Kudos there.
I know right!
That's what I said
Time stamp?
@@Majora404err01r 19:37
Right?!🤣
I have no idea what these big fancy words mean but it’s still fun watching Lexi explain it and get mad
Tell me the first word you didn’t understand, and I’ll try and explain it for you.
The
@@WilburJaywrightall of the ones over 20 letters
@@thefogishere. I don’t think any of them were that long. Prove me wrong, and I’ll sub to your CZcams channel.
@@WilburJaywright I think I've successfully combed through the whole video. There are no words that I found that are 20 letters or longer.
I didn't ask Lexi to give me a lesson in soldering, but I greatly appreciate Lexi giving me a lesson in soldering.
Just love the disgusted and horrified look caught in the reflection at 17:39 in response to the screw being used to "fix" the laptop's hinge XD
As a software engineer student. I appreciate Lexi taking her time to explain why some things are in fact tech support gore
17:36 That guy's face reflection is an accurate portrayal of how I most people would have reacted.
As someone who works with electronics repair, I can confirm that everything Lexi said about soldering was 100% correct and factual, and in fact better explained and more encouraging than any professional soldering-course I've taken
Lexi just shredding that mismatched keyboard made my day.
im using one right now . its not the absolute worst ever
@@tobiwonkanogy2975 I've used one of those budget keyboards for 3 years at the place I made my apprenticeship at. I have no problem with cheap "e-waste" peripherals, it is just the way Lexy rips them to shreds is way to funny.
I just recently bought 2 Razer products, a mouse and a keyboard, and while the keyboard is in italian why I am german, the mouse's wireless switch died on the first day.
Never will buy from Razer again.
Not even a tech and it made ME made
@@BassGSothertype Understandable, I once had a "genius" swap x and t for some stupid reason, and then spent the next 5 minutes rearranging them (without a tool).
@Tobi Won Kanogy its perfectly fine if the only thing you use your PC for is "legally" downloading ROM files
6:26 I think you missed the gore. Not only were the soldering joints terrible… they soldered the pi to the breadboard. Notice the lack of pins not sticking up where there was no solder.
Lexi: 'Do you pay the power company for your internet bill ?!'
I was in tears🤣🤣🤣 Thank you Lexi you always make me smile :)
YOU MAYONNAISE SANDWICH
Ketchup
thing is, you can actually use electric network to make lan network. there are adapters for this. it wouldnt be very fast, but it works.
19:02 “WHERE DO YOU THINK THE INTERNET COMES FROM YOU MAYONNAISE SANDWICH?!?”
r/woooosh
I love Lexi's explanations, makes me feel less dumb
I think you mean lexplinations
Hey i'm the original post from VGA Cable! (3:25)
For those people what happened to the user, i gave him a new VGA cable and he was happy again using his LCD 1366x768 and about the White VGA Cable one when i fix it and it was working but it's terribly look bad with incorrectly colors, I teach him how to use VGA Cable Properly and he knows how to use VGA Properly now.
Thanks Emkay for showing this my post!
"It's like typing on tuna fish!" Now THERE'S a sentence I didn't know I needed in my life. Now I know how to describe using my cheap laptop. My Asus ROG is pretty good for a laptop, but... Yeah, that's an interesting way to describe it. 🤔 Thank you for the brand new sentence.
As someone who has a surface book, Yea... Those were not repairable. I took it to a repair shop and I was told that they get glued shut, so even if they open it up, it won't sit cleanly after that because aluminum warps when heated. And the battery in the screen did become a pillow after about three years. I have actively advised against buying surfaces, since I ALSO had to get it replaced because the display panel outright failed a day before the warranty expired. I had more issues with the surface in four years than i did with the school laptop I was assigned through high school
Trained apprentice electrician here!
Yea. Don't plug 50 things into an outlet, PLEASE. The death of all outlets is overuse. You'll burn not only the socket, but also the wires to and from, and possibly the breaker if you do it enough.
Also, no window AC units in trailor homes. That's the quickest way to burn the entire trailer down. Thank you, have a good day everyone, and stay safe!
"You mayonnaise sandwich" is insult I've never heard before but you know what I like it 19:37
7:50 they're basically doing what I did when I first tried soldering. They're just putting the solder on the iron tip then trying to scrape it off onto the pad and pin without using the iron to heat them. That's called a cold solder, and the telltale sign is that ball of solder on the pin. The proper process is:
Heat soldering iron to 360-440 degrees. Touch solder to tip to coat it with a small amount of solder. Touch tip to solder pad to rapidly heat it. Feed solder onto the point where the tip meets the pad and it will flow onto the pad and coat the pin. Flux will also help. Put a dab of it on the pin or pad you're soldering to help the solder flow more easily.
i love how lexi is able to talk about soldering for 2 minutes straingt and its actually interesting
I know right, and everything she said is right too
@TheBuilderNpc Lexi’s a woman ^^
As someone who is learning soldering, it is definitely something that takes time to develop. If you get just like a $20 soldering iron from the local hardware store instead of a fancy one where you can adjust the temperature of been most of your solders, regardless of how good you are, will still look rough. But the better you are the more you can do with worse tools
Yeah, I've worked soldering PCBs for a few years now and didn't really realise just how high quility the gear at work was until we used the basic one my brother had. Yikes.
Never forego the soldering flux! Don't rely on the flux embedded in solder wire, it's never enough :D
God speed on your soldering endeavors!
@@DwarfInBlues Thank you for the tip! How do you apply the flux though? I’m still very new with this though I have soldered some basics.
@@EnlistedPlague9 There is a liquid flux, good for surface mounted components and boards, you just drip it on the work area. There is a soldering paste (not to be confused with soldering acid), for brazing wires, you just poke the wire into it. Not too much, else it'll make a mess.
@@DwarfInBlues thank you very much for the information. I enjoy any advice to learn how to improve.
1:00 is just what every keyboard looks like in a school where keys go missing and people replace them with other keys.
LMFAO ikr, sometimes i have to hit certain keys on an alerady messed up keyboard with like 20 keys missing and all of them in the wrong place and ill just make it WORSE by putting keys somewhere.
4:19
I'm crying "they're supposed to be straight but we have new york pride parade"
I love that so much. Rip vga cable. It's seen some shit
Not to mention it was missing a pin in the middle row. It's a DSUB15, not 14! Also - you will still find VGA on plenty of servers these days because HDMI connections have a licensing fee attached to them. VGA does not.
19:43 "YOU MAYONAISE SANDWICH"
Keeping that in the books
1:54 so this is what the electrical task in among us ACTUALLY looks like.
Yey, Lexi is back with her normal tech support shenanigans!
"The internet doesn't come out of your power outlet"
_laughs in powerline_
Every Lexi video is to be appreciated. Nowhere else can you get hilarity, wholesomeness, and knowledge all in one!
Hear, hear
agreed agreed
lexi for tech support gore, Robin and That one guy for mildly infuriating and other annoying subreddit, they match the character now
How do I see you everywhere? You're like Christopher moon
@@ShiroCh_ID That one guy??? 😭
Me before starting the video: "Ooh, tech stuff! Lexi video?"
Me 1 second into the video: "Ooh, Lexi video."
Lexi being nice to people who are trying to learn is everything
4:02 "But instead what you have here is the New York City Pride Parade" 😂
3:04 This is an unfortunately common eBay scam. People will sell electronics as "untested" or "not working" when they've already stripped all the good parts out of it so they're useless to anyone hoping to fix them. Since you can't prove they *knew* the parts were missing, it's hard to fight them over it.
You also encounter "parts dump" units where someone has assembled--for example--a game console out of all their leftover bad parts from other repairs. It's dishonest because if you're selling something "untested" or "as-is" there's an expectation that the state is unknown and you're just trying to get rid of it. If you *intentionally* sell something you *know* is useless and hide the fact that you knew that, that's a scam.
3:51 I took one look at that VGA cable and I swear I had ptsd from so many idiots i knew that just butchered those ports. Immediately poured myself a whiskey.
18:00 ... The guy's face in the reflection... The perfect expression for this type of situation!
Many moons ago (The 1990's) me and my late brother sold PC's, and we had to do network instalations and stuff. Severly outdated now, but the feeling of horor and manical laughter arise with these videos. Well done Lexi.
These are not just really funny, but really informative too, thanks to Lexi!
Really enjoyed the solder coaching part. Definitely an extra bonus someone out there needed to hear.
And about the bendy M.2 drive. There's another standoff RIGHT THERE! Just unscrew it and move it over!
Lexi's more calm than I would be.
I looked for this comment about the M.2.
17:54 That face... in the computer screen.... It haunts me
You know, I thought my soldering was bad when I first started. Since then, I have seen some BAAAAD soldering, and I think my first time soldering was actually… really good, lol. I still have my first PCB around here somewhere, I should go admire it again…
6:00 upon closer inspection, it looks like the soldering was done with everything already in the breadboard. There's a fair bit of melted plastic there.
I love the insults Lexi comes up with.
Also, if you say it with a British accent, it gets even better
Lexi needs an IT timer, not to like pressure her into stopping or anything, just to see how fast she can inform us on something relating to IT-
@htss_404
With all due respect, keys.
Now add "dis" to the beginning of "respect" and get rid of the e in "keys".
0:44 i feel like u can hear Lexi's brain breaking the more she explains what's weird about this
FEels like the transformer should have a grill around the opening so people can't put things inside, Murphyproofing is important.
I saw two open screw holes about mid way up the height of the opening. That at least hints to me that maybe some kind of grill is made for them or at least its meant to take one that is made afterwards.
The worst part of the m.2 gore is that the required standoff was JUST TO THE LEFT and just needed to be moved
0:30 "We have an iFixit toolset at home"
iFixit toolset at home:
9:15 There was clearly a plate at one point... put it back or make a new one. Shit looks like a mailbox, people will dump whatever into it.
19:20 There is power-over-ethernet, but **THERE IS NO POWER TO ETHERNET ADAPTER**
Yeah there is… it’s called eop, Ethernet over power. You just need a transmitter and a receiver plugged into the same house.
0:12 for some reason, this remote had a screw on the battery cover. If you look, you can see it on the screwdriver. They had a good reason to get their bits out.
12:27 Me, Myself and I are Electricians...
If you value your skin, do NOT EVER show this to us...
We WON'T kill you...
We won't be that NICE!!!
What we WILL do is use chains and concrete blocks to hang you naked from the ceiling splayed out in an X shape then use a sandblaster loaded with table salt to SLOWLY skin you alive while frequently dousing you with a mixture of iodine, hydrogen peroxide & rubbing alcohol in a max. saturation saline solution (water with the maximum amount of salt it can hold dissolved in it)...
The solution serves 3 purposes...
1) It prevents you from falling unconscious from Shock...
2) It prevents you from dying prematurely from Infection induced Sepsis...
and
3) It MASSIVELY increases the PAIN your suffering from!!!
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
r/foundsatan
No, seriously... That is a nightmare
@@100purenacl3 Which is the Nightmare?
What was in the video or what Me, Myself & I would do to anyone that showed it to me?
@@HappilyHomicidalHooligan what was shown in the video, I endorse what you'd do
Lexi went on a whole-ass soldering rant
I feel like it was less rant and more...electronics practical lab TA instructing a beginner on some at home practice recommendations.
And it was super informative! I need to learn to solder sometime soon for my job!
9:00 Something about the sunlight on the table makes me think it is possible it gets too focused at certain times of the day and caused the melting.
The bridge from that one pin on the pico to the transistor horrified me. AND THEN I SAW THE BOOTSEL BUTTON.
And the thing I like to think is that solder, proto boards, etc. are consumables. If you learned, you don't waste them. Pico boards.... not so much.
9:05 Looks more like sunlight focused from the window on that corner with like a sun catcher or something, or perhaps a makeup mirror. That looks nasty.
of all the hard drives to put bullets (?) through, why did it have to be a 1TB Seagate Barracuda?
I 100% appreciate the soldering talk.
Things that are genuinely useful to hear said in the kindest realest way.
Your a good human, thank you.
8:50 that bright spot on the table makes me think some decoration in the window was the culprit.
I missed the tech subreddits, thank you EmKay gods.
I'm absolutely enamored with faults analysis at the Raspberry Pi soldering!
About the penultimate one, there are contraptions (not this way) that connect your modem to power socket and make your power wiring work as Ethernet carrier, but you do need more specialized encoder/decoder for that, than a phone charger...
I have those. They are basically non-compliant and spray noise all over the RF spectrum.
In theory the have "notch" filters for important frequencies like air traffic control. But as soon as you hit a diode: you get sum and difference frequencies. On old-style power bricks the transformer would filter the RF out. But on more compact power bricks: you can have a switching element connected directly to the line.
16:27 I like how there's literally a standoff just standing off in the 22110 screw hole.
One way my dad got around the "don't want to be constantly fixing your family's IT issues but also don't want them paying someone to fix things poorly" is we pay for any replacement parts and have to help him with the repairs so we can potentially do it ourselves in the future (though i refuse to do anything that requires taking multiple layers out of the computer because i don't trust myself)
One of my laptops managed to last nearly seven years with faith, painter's tape, and spite with his help, and that thing fell down half a flight of stairs early in its life (bag opened on the side and wasn't zipped properly)
Lexi narrates:
Internal happiness
Love this subreddit. It’s so, like, to say the least, interesting.
Hey Lexi don't worry about being a keyboard snob. My grandma spent almost an hour in office depot looking for the exact keyboard she previously had because she liked it and then bought two because she knew the letters would fade again (the only problem with said previous keyboard) and painted over the letters on every single keycap with clear nail polish so the letters would last longer. She only got a new keyboard because no one else was forced to fully memorize the keyboard in elementary school.
'WHERE DO YOU THINK THE INTERNET COMES FROM? YOU MAYONNAISE SANDWICH' lmao
19:33 ahhh now, there actually ARE network adaptors that use the mains power lines to transmit data... quite how I do not know, I'd have thought mains would be far too noisy for any kind of reliable data transmission, but they are a thing. While this probbably isnt one, it is a thing.
Powerline works pretty we although it does not usually cross circuit breakers.
i have been learning more about technology in general and IT stuff for reason’s and now these videos are starting to feel like a punch in the gut
I had a professor that once told us something along the lines of "we work with software, we don't fix hardware, at most we determine what's failing and replace it" so I'm not exactly surprised than that guy tried to glue the key back
Oh, my. I was not emotionally prepared for the beating my eyes took at 0:56. I see you're starting off strong, Lexi.
Came for tech gore, stayed for soldering tips 😂
Yay Lexi is back she needed a break from this and im glad she got one lets give her a happy subreddit next video 😊 also I'd pay Lexi any amount for electronic repairs because i know she knows what dhes doing
0:51 and then it’s revealed that the keys weren’t just installed wrong, the circuitry is wrong too.
19:54 top row actually looks pretty well wetted on the top side, but they used too much solder and/or it didn't wick down into the hole (which isn't necessarily required). Very likely they bought a spool of solder wire from the hardware store, and it is way way way too thick for this application. You always want to err on the side of thinner solder wire when you are working on a circuit board.
Bottom row looks like a whole lot of not enough flux. I can see burnt flux between the two pads on the left end (looks like maybe they tried using solder wick/braid there? always leaves black gunk behind), but the like blobby misshapen masses of solder and generous spatter all around look like a sure sign of insufficient flux. Either their solder wire lacks sufficient flux to begin with (they bought cheap crap or no-clean solder), or they tried to re-flow the joints without adding more (which you can't do, you need fresh flux because flux is a single-use thing).
Also worth mentioning that lead-free solder will not necessarily be shiny even in the best case. This person might have tried this with lead-free (which would add to the difficulty) although some of it looks too shiny to be lead-free.
Lexi makes my day so much better. 😌
Same
I do soldering at school for one of my classes, and the soldering irons they have are pretty bad and probably very old. most of them barely heat the solder enough, and it takes 10 or more seconds to melt it, making it practically impossible to do it at all well even though i know how to solder
Yeah, a good soldering iron is everything. And fresh, clean tips. A coworked once carried their own tip around since the other's were so often messed up.
4:03 I was right about to crack a joke open not until Lexi did so herself 💀
i am absolutely LOVING how im actually learning while begin entertained.
14:05 This actually work for nonmechanical keyboards XD Did it to my K key from like 3 years ago.... still works lol
13:48 I am more hardware but I try to learn software
18:30 Thats the power cable and an anti-theft cable. Smells like a future short!
11:30 I love braiding trunk/bonded links, which is exactly what this looks like. Makes it very clear which ones belong together and should only be touched all at once.
Hearing Lexi infodump on tech stuff gives me life. 💜 Sounds like shed be fun to hang with. Ill infodump about biology and she can about technology, perfect!
Something about being called a mayonnaise sandwich hits differently.
9:45
Remember, if there is any way for operators(employee or not) to hurt themselves,others, or a machine, they'll do it. Assume that they're stupid, so put solid safeguards in place.
Now, Apple. Don't try to use that as an excuse for you to use 30 DIFFERENT SCREWS on a phone. We all know that you did that just to make it impossible to repair unless they work for Apple or they are a highly skilled technician, so if they try to fix it, they damage something important and they have to get a new phone. Don't lie.
Extension cords are a TEMPORARY solution. They are only meant to be temporary.
LOL HOW DO YOU BLOW SEVERAL HOLES INTO A HARDRIVE LMAO
Intentional data destruction is my guess. Either that or someone got really really mad at that specific drive.
Never missing an Emkay video!
Same
"Circular pyramid." ... That's a cone, Lexi.
I really like the fact that after 8hrs of learning IT at school I can go home and watch Lexi teach even more IT whilst we both look at some images in fear.
5:14 i have never seen someone docking with an SD card
woooooo more lexiplanations I love these!
Yes.
Thank you Lexi for teaching us about soldering
I've only just started my IT classes and I watch these to make myself feel better about my lack of knowledge, bc while i might not be the brightest, i will always have more common sense then these examples 😅 also keep up with the explanations! as funny as the are they are genuinely helpful!
2:32 Thermite works better than gas...
EVERYTHING will burn with Thermite even the metal!!!
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
4:25 I feel like that friend should sue because well, they scammed the friend AND damaged their property
Well, first time I have heard someone use IDF and actually know what the acronym is outside of me and a few coworkers.
Thank you for taking the time to explain, I love learning ❤️
Lexi! Yay! We all love Lexi!