Reacting To Your Worst Tech Support Nightmares!

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  • čas přidán 13. 09. 2024

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  • @industrialmonk
    @industrialmonk Před 15 dny +5612

    There is nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works

    • @himaro101
      @himaro101 Před 15 dny +77

      I use this saying a lot at work.

    • @klakiti02
      @klakiti02 Před 15 dny +29

      @@industrialmonk this is so painfully true

    • @trakaisirsis6233
      @trakaisirsis6233 Před 15 dny +25

      i will steal this saying because my job place sometimes needs it

    • @BrandonsUsername
      @BrandonsUsername Před 15 dny +9

      Toothpaste works in a pinch as thermal paste, just watch out for the mold that can grow around the socket from the residual sugars. System still works to this day after a good toothbrushing (lol) with alcohol and actual thermal paste this time.

    • @jaspermooren5883
      @jaspermooren5883 Před 15 dny +4

      @@himaro101 Yeah every time someone suggests a temporary solution I'm like NO! DON'T! Temporary solutions are the worst. And never temporary.

  • @Novous
    @Novous Před 15 dny +1377

    The curved SSD trick is actually a super clever. The dense-ist files fall to the bottom, and the smaller files rise to the top, so it automatically defrags itself.

    • @bane7679
      @bane7679 Před 14 dny +51

      Yeah! And often those heavy big files arent needed as often. So it doesnt matter if they fall further from the port, now the smaller files stay easy to access!

    • @henry_tsai
      @henry_tsai Před 14 dny +24

      But what if the motherboard is placed vertically? Should we bend the SSD side ways then?

    • @Pl4sm4Ro4ch
      @Pl4sm4Ro4ch Před 14 dny

      modern problems require illegal solutions beyond science

    • @rorycadorette8420
      @rorycadorette8420 Před 13 dny +16

      ​@@henry_tsai- yes, you would, but you'll have to put your whole pc in the oven. @150 to help achieve the bend before you start using it, otherwise you could break the ssd and you could loose either your heavy data or all your data through the crack/hole it will create if not properly vertically prebent in the oven.

    • @Fullchaos40
      @Fullchaos40 Před 13 dny +1

      I usually double up on the standoffs so the big files pile up on the front for faster access 😊

  • @PendragonDaGreat
    @PendragonDaGreat Před 15 dny +2125

    I _think_ the Toilet Paper one is because Toilet Paper and Thermal Paste both contract to "TP" so if your build guide just said "Put TP between the CPU and the Cooler" and you didn't know...

    • @pepinlebref7585
      @pepinlebref7585 Před 15 dny +138

      that must indeed be the reason

    • @denistremblay4713
      @denistremblay4713 Před 15 dny +122

      Maybe it was just a shittty computer :-)

    • @Deluxery
      @Deluxery Před 15 dny +24

      Thats insane LMAO

    • @freescape08
      @freescape08 Před 15 dny +47

      I was just naturally assuming some kind of internet troll, this is the kind of thing my friends would try to pull briefly before backing out, because they're not bad people.

    • @LightslicerGP
      @LightslicerGP Před 15 dny +16

      They said "because he read online it was almost as good"
      So they *mustve* knew

  • @user-iw7xe3jw1x
    @user-iw7xe3jw1x Před 14 dny +468

    I know someone who genuinely used "required" as his password when he was using windows 7, just because of the "Your password is required" text made it easy for him to remember it.

    • @AriosQarsute
      @AriosQarsute Před 14 dny +85

      That might actually have been more secure than some of the other 'easy-to-remember' passwords that people use...

    • @333dae
      @333dae Před 14 dny +18

      @@AriosQarsute definitely more secure against guesswork than password or 123456

    • @minty_Joe
      @minty_Joe Před 13 dny +12

      @@333dae "123456? Say, that's the same combination on my luggage!"

    • @bilateralrope8643
      @bilateralrope8643 Před 13 dny +6

      Also, sometimes you have no choice but to put something in the hint field.
      When I run into that, I lie.

    • @vnc.t
      @vnc.t Před 12 dny

      ​@@bilateralrope8643I put "not saying it"

  • @sammcdaniel3744
    @sammcdaniel3744 Před 15 dny +3440

    Holy, Origin must've paid a ton of money for this one. Even Linus was like, "we have to talk about it already, again? Not yet!"😂

    • @jordanmntungwa3311
      @jordanmntungwa3311 Před 15 dny +65

      HP Omen and Asus Zen Book are hot topic in this particular class of laptop. I think they are betting on this sponsorship to get a few sales going

    • @Lego_man165
      @Lego_man165 Před 15 dny

      @@jordanmntungwa3311 Its also back to school season, AKA laptop buying season

    • @BigMan7o0
      @BigMan7o0 Před 15 dny +387

      I hope so for their sake because jesus fuck that was annoying imo

    • @enragedwindows1331
      @enragedwindows1331 Před 15 dny +294

      @@jordanmntungwa3311 Definitely not my favorite ad format. Would have preferred a big chunk in the middle and maybe bookend the video instead of interrupting good content this frequently. No hard feelings toward LTT for getting that bag though, just would like to see less of this format in the future.

    • @Tzarakiel
      @Tzarakiel Před 15 dny +41

      Considering the size of LTT I hope they got at least 500 000 dollars for this. If they didn't they were low balled.

  • @k9turrent
    @k9turrent Před 15 dny +861

    For the car door, it is actually in Ford transit vans and because they are typically used as work vans you can keep the vehicle registration and insurance slip there.
    We had put a large label on the door indicating "NO PHONES"
    Source: Former amazon driver dispatch.

    • @Sil3ntD3ath478
      @Sil3ntD3ath478 Před 14 dny +36

      I drive one for work a lot. Yep, we have the same warning on ours as well.

    • @cameronbaird9550
      @cameronbaird9550 Před 14 dny +46

      After 2016 or 2017 Ford started putting warning stickers there from the factory
      Source: Paratransit Fleet Manager

    • @ZombieCakeHD
      @ZombieCakeHD Před 14 dny +27

      I used to put my business cards in there lol, stopped them from getting beaten up, keeps em straight and sharp.

    • @attack125
      @attack125 Před 14 dny

      why do you people need to lie to strangers?
      not a single person would do that.
      there doesn't need to be a warning sticker there.
      everyone puts their phone in the slot in the center console. (or sadly hold it in their hands).
      the video itself was litterally staged with an old phone.

    • @k9turrent
      @k9turrent Před 14 dny +36

      @@attack125 False, we had to replace around 3 phones over the course of 6 months. Drivers would absentmindedly put their work phone in this danger pocket instead of the cupholder above it.

  • @datboi449
    @datboi449 Před 15 dny +1589

    friend said someone in the office kept going through monitors, they would show up to his IT room dead. He requested the next time to leave it and he wanted to go to the desk to collect himself. When it happened again, he got to the lady's desk to see a small flowerpot on the top of the monitor with plant growing that she would water every day.

    • @16bittango86
      @16bittango86 Před 15 dny +378

      I'm assuming this took place in the time of CRTs, but can't shake the feeling that someone out there is in possession of either the world's tiniest flowerpot, or some seriously impressive potted plant balancing skills, and they're using it to wreck monitors.

    • @scienceguy8
      @scienceguy8 Před 15 dny +89

      @@16bittango86 Or maybe worse. You ever seen those plastic pots that are shaped like an upside down rain gutter? They have a channel running through them so they can straddle a rail, like what you'd find on a balcony or front porch. What if someone out there makes a tiny one specifically for computer monitors?

    • @matthewuzulis5016
      @matthewuzulis5016 Před 15 dny +24

      @@scienceguy8 I'm thinking that the 1"x1" 4 tray seed starter would fit perfectly with monitors today, worse is they have drainage holes / slits.
      I'm thinking back to when I was young they were a thin cheap plastic.

    • @matthewuzulis5016
      @matthewuzulis5016 Před 15 dny +11

      @@16bittango86 Or they balanced the pot on the monitor and back wall of the cubicle. It is not beyond possible at this point.

    • @glittalogik
      @glittalogik Před 15 dny +9

      I had plant pots on the top shelf of my IKEA Fredde desk. They were absolutely fine sitting there, and I was super careful with watering them. Then one day my gf grabbed one to do some repotting and tipped the contents of the drip tray straight into my ergo keyboard 🤦🏻‍♂
      Salvage operation was a fail, but at least it was a good excuse to upgrade.

  • @iknowdawae893
    @iknowdawae893 Před 10 dny +60

    hi there, hospital IT guy here! just to clarify: *NONE* of the medical devices that keep patients alive are (at least should not be) hooked up to IT infrastructure.
    sure you got your VLANs and UPSes and other failover stuff, but its still *WAY* too fragile.
    pretty much all thats hooked up to networks in hospitals are patient monitoring (for example to log your heartbeat or blood pressure), your CTs and other x-ray related devices (which transmit the scans to your PACS, picture archiving and communication system) as well as your HIS (hospital information system).
    hope this clarifies some of the misunderstandings out there

    • @renegade637
      @renegade637 Před 4 dny +2

      Well, that's certainly reassuring. Although, I can't really see a haert-bypass machine requiring a network connection anyways. I would expect something like that to have an SOP requirement that someone remain at the unit as long as it is being used.

    • @ailivac
      @ailivac Před 4 dny

      Yeah I noticed this about the various pieces of equipment I saw over the past year while my wife was pregnant. Ultrasound machines are all networked so the doctor in the other room can instantly get a copy of everything (although none of them seem to have an NTP client configured by default. I don't know the technicians can stand the clocks all being wrong by 10-15 minutes). Obstetrics triage and delivery rooms have the monitor data fed to a big screen by the central nurses' station. Even the Doppler fetal heart rate monitors, so when our little one wiggled herself around every few minutes someone would pop in within a few seconds to jiggle the transducer around. And everyone's seen the wireless laptop carts with a fairly standard UPS on board used for record entry. But the IV infuser machine was a fairly simple and somewhat ancient looking device with a little monochrome character LCD and a small integrated battery pack.

    • @elucidator1277
      @elucidator1277 Před 3 dny

      Awesome, this was insightful. Thx friend. :D

  • @dracyndutch4306
    @dracyndutch4306 Před 15 dny +1339

    As someone who worked as IT tech in education: the problem is that it ISN'T their laptop, there is no feeling of responsibility. We had to start charging fines for damaged laptops as it got so out of hand.

    • @xar226
      @xar226 Před 15 dny +56

      I'm curious: Did it help, or were they still too far removed from consequences since it was likely their parents who had to pay?

    • @MrSousuke87
      @MrSousuke87 Před 15 dny +129

      Trust me. I work in an hospital IT. It's the same if not worse.. No-one cares about anything if it isn't their.. And no responsibility at all..
      And they're grown ups, with an idea of what something would cost, and how long you have to work to afford a similar item.

    • @JJFlores197
      @JJFlores197 Před 15 dny +73

      @@xar226 I also work in K-12 IT. During distance learning, we started charging parents (technically the student's library account) for damage to Chromebooks. Even then, we some very pissed off parents who did not like the idea of getting charged for their kid's destruction of school property.

    • @themightymutt5213
      @themightymutt5213 Před 15 dny +29

      @@JJFlores197 Wow! Did anyone bother to tell those parents that their anger was seriously misdirected? This is what is wrong with society

    • @JJFlores197
      @JJFlores197 Před 15 dny +25

      @@themightymutt5213 Our boss, the IT director, would usually be the one who would handle those situations. And the thing is, even though we put a charge on the student's library account, the parents don't have to pay it at that moment. They have until the student graduates high school to pay it off. For some kids, that can be in 10 years, others 5 or 4 years.

  • @Dtr146
    @Dtr146 Před 15 dny +450

    An old coworker of mine brought his think pad to work everyday. Chunky little thing. He spilled a coffee shop full of sugar and creamer on it and it came leaking out the bottom. He turns the computer off, takes the battery out, and then washes it in the sink! Then proceeds to let it dry out for the entire day. The next day and for months afterwards. Used it like nothing happened.

    • @tyedie4490
      @tyedie4490 Před 15 dny +88

      Most electronics will survive water if off and allowed to fully dry. It's a bad idea as a lot can go wrong, but it's part of the reason the best advice for a phone dropped in water is to turn it off for forever untill you can be sure it's dry.

    • @SiberCatLP
      @SiberCatLP Před 15 dny +30

      He spilled a whole coffee shop on his laptop?

    • @MiguelY22
      @MiguelY22 Před 15 dny +20

      Some of those laptops are made like that. Waterproof keyboard that lets the liquids drain away

    • @kuebby
      @kuebby Před 15 dny +5

      I would have washed it with isopropyl, but sometimes you get lucky. I once dropped an iPhone 3G in a toilet (just flushed fortunately) and I did the bag of rice thing for a day and it was fine.

    • @guiorgy
      @guiorgy Před 15 dny +25

      ​@@tyedie4490while true that electronics should survive water if there's no power, keep in mind that it often causes corrosion of components and will probably shorten the lifespan of the device.
      It's best to disassemble the device, clean it with water if you must, then clean it by submerging it in a bath of isopropyl alcohol or distilled water and use a brush to make sure to remove all contaminants that may cause future corrosion (careful not to damage components with that brush), better yet would be to use an ultrasonic cleaner, but those aren't common, and finally dry the parts with a hairdrier (cold setting) before assembling it back.

  • @monkeyfeed908
    @monkeyfeed908 Před 15 dny +416

    my mother, who is 60+ was told a couple years ago at the school she worked at that her PC being under her desk would be fine even if she used a heater. She told them that doesnt sound right bcuz her son (me) told her that when electronics heat up they slow down and can even get damaged or shut off. They were just like "nah thats not true."
    Her PC kept shutting off and was super slow and their 'IT' which was very incompetent just kept replacing her PC. They basically just gaslit her about it too saying the PC wasnt slow or shutting off and she must be kicking the PC cord out. She eventually waited until late one day and moved the PC onto her desk behind her monitors where it was kindof hidden then put a plant above it so u couldnt directly see down into it. Magically all her problems with the PC stopped

    • @tzxazrael
      @tzxazrael Před 15 dny +51

      i mean tbf, once the tech got it back to his nice air-conditioned Tech Support cubby, and booted it up when it WASN'T next to a heater, it probably ran just fine, so certainly there was no way to know what the problem could have been. right...?
      lol

    • @DrewWalton
      @DrewWalton Před 15 dny +36

      @@tzxazrael competent school IT would (should) have tested the thing in situ first

    • @TC_ReflexYT
      @TC_ReflexYT Před 15 dny +19

      keyword 'incompetent"

    • @EpicBunty
      @EpicBunty Před 15 dny +7

      omg. putting a plant on it i think will just cause a bigger problem....

    • @Kinjen_
      @Kinjen_ Před 15 dny +8

      There comes a time.... To move the heater closer to the PC lol.
      See if they still say it's fine when it's melted lol.
      And the other person might have had the right idea about it working fine when they take it out, so they don't bother to keep checking it. Not excusing it, but understandable.
      But wouldn't they at least look at event viewer? I think it would log heat related shutdowns.

  • @TassadarRSE
    @TassadarRSE Před 14 dny +22

    As a former Ford technician, that pocket is generally for random papers or loose change. Those are usually larger vans that have paper work that need to be accessed quickly.

  • @mustang8258
    @mustang8258 Před 15 dny +852

    @21:27 This is a Ford transit van. It's supposed to be a small storage place that is inaccessible while the door is locked/closed (for something like a company credit card used to fuel the vehicle). They have a similar design for the gas door and I think they got carried away with the design idea and over-implemented it.

    • @coreyturgeon9869
      @coreyturgeon9869 Před 15 dny +33

      I have also seen owners manuals come in spots like these.

    • @ZeeBri
      @ZeeBri Před 15 dny +91

      @@mustang8258 Modern recent Transits, in Europe at least, have a sticker right next to it effectively saying Do not put your phone on it

    • @itsasinine3337
      @itsasinine3337 Před 15 dny +17

      @@ZeeBri the last u-haul truck i used had a no phone sign embossed right into the plastic

    • @Moonlitmotors
      @Moonlitmotors Před 15 dny +14

      @@mustang8258 yeah I keep my company gas card and the gas receipts in that pocket

    • @seanmcclune6526
      @seanmcclune6526 Před 15 dny +4

      I was thinking a U-Haul box truck, except the ones I have seen specifically say “do not put phone here - we are not responsible if you do”.

  • @xanderlander8989
    @xanderlander8989 Před 15 dny +252

    Our entire office lost Internet because someone saw an unplugged Ethernet cable and plugged it into the same switch it was coming from. This was a very dumb switch and immediately flooded the network with infinite broadcast packets. Took hours to figure out.

    • @victordavalos246
      @victordavalos246 Před 15 dny +45

      @@xanderlander8989 That poor soul thought he was doing his good thing of the day LOL

    • @s0rryfsu
      @s0rryfsu Před 15 dny +15

      @@victordavalos246 nothings wrong, better fix it!

    • @PeterMountUK
      @PeterMountUK Před 15 dny +19

      I've seen that happen before myself about 30 years ago. Someone saw a coax cable unplugged and plugged it back in. The problem was it was removed because the network was being migrated away from 10base2 and that specific office had been migrated but the old equipment had to stay until the rest had been done. Instant loop as this was with Hubs as switches were far too expensive at the time.

    • @TatsuZZmage
      @TatsuZZmage Před 14 dny +1

      Loops are !!fun!!

    • @mrrandomperson3106
      @mrrandomperson3106 Před 14 dny +11

      I did that once. We were replacing a dodgy link between two switches and it was my job to switch them both over. To avoid downtime I plugged in the new one before unplugging the old. The few seconds that they were both plugged in was enough to cause a loop that halted production.
      When I got back to the office my boss sat me down and told me about Spanning Tree.

  • @lordhosk
    @lordhosk Před 15 dny +210

    Back in the early 2000s my friend got a job to clean up a server room like the one at 6:30, we could only work from 8PM to 6AM weekdays or Saturday and Sunday and it had to be fully operational every weekday by 6AM. They had 16 racks with various numbers of devices in each server.
    Three of us went in and pulled one line at a time untangled it traced it and labeled it and plugged it back in. A full 1/3rd of the cables were not plugged into anything they just dead-ended in the drop ceiling or behind desks there were dozens that were cut on the other end but still plugged into the rack someplace. We would go in Friday night, crank the music order a dozen pizzas and just go, we would crash on the couches in peoples offices whenever get up and keep going until Sunday night.
    It took us weeks and yes he charged by the hour for three people. They were happy to pay the thousands of dollars to get it all cleaned up, they were able to remove several racks worth of equipment after they moved things around and cleared off equipment. It saved them money on electricity cooling, AND they didn't have to keep buying more equipment every time they added 4 or 5 more employees.

    • @cluckendip
      @cluckendip Před 15 dny +31

      Hopefully that company learned their lesson. Sounds like you guys had fun tho

    • @mikes78
      @mikes78 Před 15 dny +24

      It reminds me of the story I heard about the whitehouse. Obama initiated a cable audit and removal of all redundant cabling when he got the presidency. I don't remember the exact number, but there was something like ten tonnes of obsolete and redundant cabling removed.
      The big reason behind this happening is a combination of laziness and that the contracts for cabling replacement often mentioned only the untermination of redundant cabling and said nothing about it's removal. So contractors being contractors and being paid by the job, they would cut the leads coming out of the wall, stuff the unterminated ends in the wall and run new conduit on top of old conduit and turn the insides of the walls into a layer cake of copper.
      It cost millions of dollars to have this old crap going back to the fifties if not earlier removed when it could have prevented it to begin with.

    • @marjon1703
      @marjon1703 Před 15 dny +21

      That brought back memories. In the late 90s I did a job where the network had evolved from ring to star. There were switches all over the office block and tangled cables all in underfloor crawl space. Previous IT had left and no documentation. It was like coal mining for data cable. I removed about 40% of the install and found one cable going through a wall to "oustside". Hmmm.

    • @dustintroxel6044
      @dustintroxel6044 Před 14 dny +19

      @@marjon1703 At some point you need to hire archaeologists as part of your on-site team.

    • @volkswagenginetta
      @volkswagenginetta Před 14 dny +5

      @@mikes78 part of that is government bureaucracy. Im sure for a ton of those wires you would need a law to change in order for some wires to be removed. I know japan JUST got done with floppy disk. There could be some ordinance from 1985 that a windows 3.1 computer has to be connected using dialup for some server.

  • @SalemTechsperts
    @SalemTechsperts Před 10 dny +15

    This sums up a normal day in my shop, and people wonder why I'm so unhinged

  • @brickcat5342
    @brickcat5342 Před 15 dny +2878

    Clicked on this video because Linus was in the left.

    • @Leo9ine
      @Leo9ine Před 15 dny +610

      He's on the right!

    • @TheSkcube
      @TheSkcube Před 15 dny +348

      I clicked on this video because Linus was on the right, let's battle lol. No seriously he was on the right in mine.

    • @Fygxzx
      @Fygxzx Před 15 dny +11

      True

    • @SpiritofanEagle
      @SpiritofanEagle Před 15 dny

      @@brickcat5342 he's on the right for me and I have completely lost interest.

    • @luis4290
      @luis4290 Před 15 dny +117

      In my case, Linus was on the right, and I have a rule, if he is on the right I inmediatly click and watch the video, otherwise I watch it later at night

  • @sethmeaseles3301
    @sethmeaseles3301 Před 15 dny +748

    I still cannot believe that so many schools were surprised when they loaned out cheap $120 chromebooks out to elementary schoolers and a majority of them came back completely destroyed. It wasn't even the children mishandling them. A lot of the models they bought were built extremely poor and will naturally self destruct after a while. The pandemic was an interesting time.

    • @jimhalpert9421
      @jimhalpert9421 Před 15 dny +68

      Simple solution: Elementary schoolers did never and will never need a computer. What in the world are they thinking? Let's give the kids even more screen time, because surely more is always better?

    •  Před 15 dny

      @@jimhalpert9421 god forbid we teach children computer literacy in school 💀💀💀💀 you might think you're onto something, but we actually do need people growing up knowing how to use computers.

    • @danielmeyer5865
      @danielmeyer5865 Před 15 dny +86

      ​@@jimhalpert9421 During the pandemic when the schools got shut down how were the students including the young ones to attend class without a computer? Not arguing in hindsight that shutting down elementary schools was the right decision, but given that decision computers seem pretty essential.

    • @user-lw3wl4ps7z
      @user-lw3wl4ps7z Před 15 dny +74

      My high school started giving Laptops to the class after me my junior year (yea we were salty AS FUCK bitches those two years) in '04. Under the agreement that if they destroyed it, it was full price to replace. But it was $1 when you graduated to keep it. Damn good incentive for an older laptop that was out of spec by the time you graduated.
      Great deal for both ends. The kids could have a guaranteed laptop for college, already a giant step ahead.

    • @AM-gg4dz
      @AM-gg4dz Před 15 dny

      @@jimhalpert9421can you use your head. It was during the pandemic when schools were physically closed.

  • @questocanale
    @questocanale Před 15 dny +692

    12:30 "it looks like asia", sorry to disappoint, but that infinite daisychain is in Italy, specifically from the small town of Gatteo, close to the San Marino Republic (you can see an ad for a carwash at the beginning and all the sockets are italian...).
    I have to say, as an Italian I'm a bit ashamed of that, but many many houses here are so old that if they are wired for electricity, the wiring won't necessarly be good enough to support your needs or may only be present in one side of the house, so I respect the hustle.

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 Před 15 dny +61

      My house (was my great Granny's) was built before indoor plumbing and electric. It only has 2 breakers for a 3 bedroom house. One for all the single outlets in each room. The other for the light bulbs. The only running water is the single cold water in the kitchen. She passed in the mid 90s and lived using an outhouse the whole time.
      I'm remodeling it to convert the middle bedroom to a hallway and a bathroom. Adding hot water and totally rewiring it.

    • @Vymix
      @Vymix Před 15 dny +18

      average situazione in una cascina di campagna

    • @Masterrunescapeer
      @Masterrunescapeer Před 15 dny +12

      Friend's place here in Austria from ~1870 I think, half the wiring is decent as was pulled new in like 1980 when half the neighboring apartment was bought out, but some of the chandelier stuff is scary, wiring is from like 1900-1920 for stuff that was over 2kW without earth, wiring basically crumbles if you touch it.
      Most of Austria has good wiring though, modern housing laws might even be considered overkill for it.

    • @TigonIII
      @TigonIII Před 15 dny +4

      Why one wouldn't just invest in one of those cable drums that workers use to power their heavy duty tools on work sites, so that one would have a long but direct connection to the outlet, is beyond me.

    • @extrahourinthepit
      @extrahourinthepit Před 15 dny +7

      @@TigonIII 1. As you can see, this leaves a trail of plugs around the place, which will be useful in those other places.
      2. Depending on your luck, this may be a bunch of power strips you have lying around
      3. That doesn't look like the kind of user who knows enough about electronics to think of that

  • @LyubenVassilev
    @LyubenVassilev Před 14 dny +103

    The worst tech nightmare is that there are 11 ad inserts in this one video.

    • @SnabbKassa
      @SnabbKassa Před 10 dny +10

      They are much preferable to google inserted ads, and at least they are marked.

    • @LyubenVassilev
      @LyubenVassilev Před 10 dny +4

      @@SnabbKassa Yeah, no.

    • @admiralspire
      @admiralspire Před 10 dny +4

      @@SnabbKassa This is beyond spittig int eh fae of his viewers at this point. How fuckig abdly does he need the money in ordfer to agressively shovel in an eamoutn of ads even network Tv would deem too invasive?

    • @qers
      @qers Před 10 dny +13

      Are you okay? ​@@admiralspire

    • @mustdy7177
      @mustdy7177 Před 9 dny +9

      These can at least be skipped using timecodes. While for native youtube ones you have to wait and watch degenerate ads 2 times for 20+ seconds

  • @Hannwes
    @Hannwes Před 15 dny +198

    13:32 That ain't the H for Halloween key Linus. That's the J for Jack'o'lantern key. H for house is next to it.

    • @mifmr9710
      @mifmr9710 Před 15 dny +26

      But is it wrong that I actually want this as a keyset

    • @baesedingame
      @baesedingame Před 15 dny +18

      @@mifmr9710 nah, it's cute

    • @jonm4206
      @jonm4206 Před 15 dny +1

      Absolutely fucking wrecked

    • @mrmelon54
      @mrmelon54 Před 14 dny

      I scrolled down to say exactly this

    • @Kurrai6095
      @Kurrai6095 Před 7 dny

      my first thought for the house was H for home row

  • @Metal_Maxine
    @Metal_Maxine Před 15 dny +68

    15:00 Back in the 90s I read a copy of "PC's for Dummies", the best chapter heading was definitely "Your keyboard is not a Coffee Filter"

    • @kevinbarnard3502
      @kevinbarnard3502 Před 15 dny +6

      I thought it was CD-ROM drive is not a coffee cup holder :P Wow, though. i remember having a bookcase full of the "...for Dummies" books.

    • @Irondragon1945
      @Irondragon1945 Před 14 dny +3

      I was in a very famous TV show

    • @Firepulser
      @Firepulser Před 14 dny +4

      I have that book from the 90s, even now. Just to remind me how computing was back then.

  • @Phin_Again
    @Phin_Again Před 15 dny +73

    9:29 KRONII FROM HOLOLIVE JUMPSCARE LMAO

    • @Deses
      @Deses Před 15 dny +15

      Those streams where she got attacked by Cortana were glorious.

    • @sneezyy.
      @sneezyy. Před 15 dny +3

      kroni jumpscar

    • @decemberTakoTako
      @decemberTakoTako Před 14 dny +2

      perfect woman

    • @Ikxi
      @Ikxi Před 12 dny +1

      LMAO
      Good eyes!
      Cortana really traumatized Kronii xD

    • @Justinius117
      @Justinius117 Před 10 dny +1

      Kroniichiwa

  • @NikolaiProkoschenko
    @NikolaiProkoschenko Před 14 dny +35

    Where I was born, there used to be an urban legend that cacti can trap "bad radiation" from CRT monitors, so that a lot of monitors back in the day had cacti on or beside them. It has been incredibly difficult to convince one's mom not to put a cactus on your beloved monitor, but I've been lucky to manage that -- I've witnessed my mom watering a cactus sitting in a kind of woven plant pot atop of my monitor while it's been on. I've shown her water running down the side of a working electronic device and this has actually been enough proof to never have a cactus near my computer ever again.

  • @casimir_123
    @casimir_123 Před 15 dny +177

    I think we can all appreciate him specifying the fact that the 4090 is a mobile version at 16:05 unlike other tech reviewers...

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 Před 15 dny +9

      I was thinking the same thing myself. I wonder if he had to argue with the sponsor for that.

    • @Kebaskia
      @Kebaskia Před 14 dny +3

      LTT wouldn't have taken the sponsor if they had to lie about the product.

    • @Ducksnuget
      @Ducksnuget Před 14 dny

      Wait, people watch the ads?

    • @Kebaskia
      @Kebaskia Před 14 dny +3

      @@Ducksnuget I don't mind sponsorships, I have Premium though so I never see ads anyway.

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 Před 14 dny

      @@Ducksnuget Sometimes it's nice to know about new or interesting tech, and sonetimes discounts are given. LTT is why I bought ugreen chargers. No issues so far.

  • @aydenpb
    @aydenpb Před 15 dny +237

    I can guarantee you that was not a bot on the amazon customer service - I worked Amazon CS for 5 years and the regular "Support" people would literally just be googling in between questions and give you whatever info google spat out - very little actual training for troubleshooting stuff that wasn't Kindle or Echo branded, and the regular CS agents would try and take it into their own hands instead of passing along to Tier 2 or something and then you get this mess...
    That agent probably saw during a random google search for answers that someone "baked" their motherboard and then that worked for them so they applied it to this scenario.
    I also guarantee that person has no idea what the difference between RAM and SSD is.

    • @pacmonster066
      @pacmonster066 Před 15 dny +23

      My favorite was the customer knowing that if they removed their RAM *while the computer was running* it would turn off/bork the computer. Trying to get the CS agent to understand the answer to their problem has nothing to do with the RAM.

    • @chadmckean9026
      @chadmckean9026 Před 15 dny +12

      so basically now employess just use 'AI' chatbots to do there job and copy/paste the trash it spits out

    • @orifkhodjaev1449
      @orifkhodjaev1449 Před 15 dny +8

      Somehow, that makes it even worse😮

    • @DavidRomigJr
      @DavidRomigJr Před 13 dny +6

      Karen asked how they wanted the refund, then do they have a printer, which they answered, then asked both again letter for letter 2 minutes later so the user asked “are you abot?” At 25:22

    • @aydenpb
      @aydenpb Před 13 dny +1

      @@DavidRomigJr It may look that way but its 100% a live agent - Chat CS has a folder of prewritten questions that they can just click on to send, thats why its verbatim. Also, Chat CS can be working on up to 4 chats at the same time when its busy. And the window that you use for chats is a vertical 16:9 window so that you can use the CS CRM software at the same time as chatting. And because of that, concurrent chats can get mixed up if you cant see more context on a chat or the last few messages that youve sent - if youre dealing with 4 different scenarios at the same time, with a timer that flashes and makes you send a message to the customer no longer than 2 minutes apart, this can happen.
      The different chats are colour coded to avoid this sort of thing, but things lslip through.

  • @sumnerm
    @sumnerm Před 14 dny +15

    I love how shocked you are at the state of the school Chromebooks! If colouring stuff in was the worst kids did we’d be good.
    Best I’ve seen was a blog where a kid cut the Samsung logo on their laptop up, and re-glued it to read ASSMUNG.

    • @JJFlores197
      @JJFlores197 Před 14 dny +1

      Where I work, a few students over the years have ripped off every key from their Chromebook and put the letters p e n i s b u t t
      Some have punctured the trackpads, others look like they tried to saw through the screen, stabbed the screen and so on.

  • @doritokllr
    @doritokllr Před 15 dny +114

    21:04 Those pockets are usually for vehicle information or gas cards for fleet vehicles. So this person was likely a new worker with their new van and didn't know. I've seen it often.

    • @Daemione
      @Daemione Před 15 dny +13

      Yup, pretty sure that's a Ford Transit. Insane design to put a pocket there - but fits gas cards.

    • @twonky6909
      @twonky6909 Před 15 dny +14

      @@Daemione It is a Ford Transit. And there even is a No Phone sign embedded in the plastic right above the pocket. Wouldn't be surprised, if that is only present on later models tho.

    • @wesjohnson7074
      @wesjohnson7074 Před 15 dny +3

      It also fits cigarette packs.

    • @compubabble
      @compubabble Před 15 dny +9

      @@twonky6909 The "Don't put your phone here" iconography, which is now a full blown warning sticker in new ones, didn't exist for a long time.

    • @ianivey8549
      @ianivey8549 Před 15 dny +3

      Yeah I worked at a Ford dealer before as a mechanic and they had to remind people not to put their phones there when they started for that reason. Never was sure what it was for, never saw anything in them even working on company vehicles, not to say you are wrong or anything. The pockets in the door are in the Transit vans.

  • @taaamas7785
    @taaamas7785 Před 15 dny +433

    Took me too long to realise the two groups of two were not in the same room together

    • @thomasb1521
      @thomasb1521 Před 15 dny +26

      @@taaamas7785 yea it's impressive how difficult it was to notice.

    • @YuokoII
      @YuokoII Před 15 dny +4

      I’ve realized it after 15 mins of watching 😂

    • @dotnetapp
      @dotnetapp Před 15 dny +28

      didn't realized it had to check after your comment if your shitting with me lol

    • @marcus-indreksimmer2277
      @marcus-indreksimmer2277 Před 15 dny +9

      I wonder why they did it this way. Realized it also when saw either pair not reacting to the other pair lol

    • @Hyperus
      @Hyperus Před 15 dny +6

      Are you sure? That interaction at about 21:25 seems pretty much impossible under those circumstances. Though that could just be editing. Some other situations don't seem very synced at all and/or there is a distinct lack of talking to each other in general.

  • @hooby_9066
    @hooby_9066 Před 15 dny +65

    When I worked at large events with hundreds of computers being deployed, we'd *ALWAYS* use username=password for all the accounts (and they all had admin rights). no kiosk mode either.
    If any PC got borked, we'd just replace it - carry it back to the office - re-clone it - and and then put it in the replacements pile. We'd not even try to identify or fix the problem. That's just not efficient enough in a setting like that.
    With all the untrained staff and temp staff having to use those machines to do their (often stressful) job at the event - you can't enforce any kind of password security.

    • @user-mn8lz7gf6d
      @user-mn8lz7gf6d Před 14 dny +9

      sounds like the best solution tbh

    • @Ikxi
      @Ikxi Před 12 dny +1

      couldn't even do biometrics likely, either people would need their own laptop then which could be annoying if you needed to use another one quickly
      or you couldn't save enough entries for people

  • @dlib89
    @dlib89 Před 12 dny +4

    17:10 It happened similar in our office nearly 10 years ago.
    We had a call that went like this:
    "Guys, I'll leave my notebook there, it fell on the ground and had a "small" dent/warp, could you guys check it out if it still works fine, or maybe change the chassis?"
    Next day the guy sneaks on our IT office while no one was there with the notebook inside a box and run away from the building.
    When I opened the box it seemed like the poor thing was trown from a cliff and proceeded to be smashed by a hammer on how bad it looked. I called my boss and sent pictures of the "small dent" the guy claimed it had.
    Later we found out the true story: The guy forgot the thing at the roof of his car, it slipped on the ground and then he proceeded to get over the poor thing with his car. He just noticed the notebok when it made scrapping noises of it's insides against the ground.

  • @incredulousdisbelief9841
    @incredulousdisbelief9841 Před 15 dny +262

    0:01 Good god I thought that was Linus in a wig in that opening photo he looks EXACTLY like his mom.

  • @mikenelson6630
    @mikenelson6630 Před 15 dny +52

    I too have seen the "Single CAT5 cable holds up rack". At my last contract position, there was a server rack that had a group of cables coming down from the ceiling. As these were all too short to reach the rack, each one had a splice added with 2 or 3 feet of cable added, just enough to reach the server (but NOT enough to properly route the cables). The cables ran through the OPEN ceiling tile, and stretched across to the switch on the rack. The entire bundle of about 20 cables was wrapped together and hung from the ceiling by a MOUSE cord, with the mouse still attached, hanging from the ceiling tile. This was at a location that required government type clearance - much more than standard IT clearance.

  • @MikrySoft
    @MikrySoft Před 15 dny +162

    I know of a factory where owner decided (rightfully so) that instead of getting super sealed, rugged keyboards, it was cheaper to get cheapest OEM keyboards (it was for machine operators, so key feeling wasn't an issue) and replace them often. You could blow them out once or twice with compressed air to prolong their lifespan, but sometimes the boss got a call from the floor to tell the worker the order keys go back in - when they flew across the room after contact with full ~250PSI of shop air.

    • @linuxguy1199
      @linuxguy1199 Před 15 dny +12

      Boss sounds next level stupid, I wonder what the cost of labor is to replace keyboards and find + re-install keycaps after they fly off?

    • @MikrySoft
      @MikrySoft Před 15 dny

      @@linuxguy1199 99.9% of the time people knew to use the low pressure blow off guns. And cost of labor? "Oh, my keyboard doesn't work too well, let me spend 30 seconds blowing out the dust with the air hose I have within my reach. Didn't help? Welp, now I got to waste 2 minutes grabbing a new one from a closet". And even if the keys fall off, installing all 100-something of them takes what, 5 minutes if you have another keyboard handy as a template? This wasn't an Amazon warehouse where workers don't have the time to piss.
      Math was simple. Spend hundreds on keyboard that lasted a year or spend tens on a couple of cheapest keyboards, that each lasted maybe 3 months.

    • @cooper10182
      @cooper10182 Před 15 dny +11

      Factory I work at does this, the floor computers all have like basic dell/Compac/gateway OEM keyboards if they haven't been replaced in the last 2 years. I think they haven't found a cheap source of those in a while cause now its the cheap Logitech wireless combos you can get from Walmart.

    • @reichstein011
      @reichstein011 Před 15 dny +12

      Surely just using those flexible roll-up keyboards would be a better option?
      They are a kinda crap typing experience, but they are very cheap, and pretty much fully sealed against dust and liquid.

    • @abcpea
      @abcpea Před 15 dny +1

      or just get rubber keyboard protectors?

  • @velzekt4598
    @velzekt4598 Před 12 dny +3

    The irony of Linus Tech Tips criticizing others for how they handle tech when there are multiple videos dedicated to Linus Tech Tips tech failures XD

    • @Egon_Freeman
      @Egon_Freeman Před 12 dny

      I mean, they suffer failures (both random and accidental) just like everybody else. You'll see more of it because these are YT creators.

  • @James2210
    @James2210 Před 15 dny +61

    LTT has figured out how to make sure you see the sponsor: just shout it out every 15 seconds

    • @personwhohasnoname
      @personwhohasnoname Před 13 dny +8

      I wonder if Origin requested the repeat call outs, either way it was really awkwardly done and ruined the flow of the video. In general the sponsor spots have been getting worse.

    • @Lighthammer18
      @Lighthammer18 Před 12 dny +4

      Oh so that's why the video was randomly skipping ahead for me.

    • @chicane90
      @chicane90 Před 11 dny +1

      after i've seen the 4th one, the vid earned a downvote.

  • @tyty2240
    @tyty2240 Před 15 dny +69

    Origin: How many ad segues can you put into one video?
    Linus: Yes.

    • @jamesphillips2285
      @jamesphillips2285 Před 15 dny +1

      They even lampshaded how annoying it is. 14:00

    • @Sevicify
      @Sevicify Před 15 dny +5

      @@jamesphillips2285 With how Linus reacted and considering the next segue was less than 2 minutes after it really seemed like that one wasn't even planned for that time, just seemed like Plouffe just saw a good opportunity to piggy back off the Chromebook "artwork" into it.

  • @WrackPharmd
    @WrackPharmd Před 15 dny +40

    So my dad did the “It wasn’t a drink holder after all” but the best part is after he slammed the door and the door didn’t shut he slammed it even harder. He just had pieces of phone after that.

  • @thomasquigley7040
    @thomasquigley7040 Před 12 dny +8

    We had a community centre that lost it's internet for about 15 minutes at 9 pm every thursday. After months of troubleshooting we found out one staff member was unknowingly unplugging the server to plug in her curling iron. Lesson learned, we had to drop an outlet in the locked server closet.

  • @Ularg7070
    @Ularg7070 Před 15 dny +106

    This is why senior year when they did a test run of the laptop program it wasn't on loan. Cart gets rolled in, you use any laptop for the class. Everything is saved to your profile, you hand the laptop back in at the end of class.

    • @xproflipscarab
      @xproflipscarab Před 15 dny +17

      We do the same thing at my school... Kids still trash them and Teachers don't keep them organised...
      The amount of hours we've spent this summer searching the whole school for missing chromebooks is a joke...

    • @Ularg7070
      @Ularg7070 Před 15 dny +4

      @@xproflipscarab That sucks, I'm sorry. Know they're kids but sucks to deal with still.

    • @JJFlores197
      @JJFlores197 Před 15 dny +8

      @@xproflipscarab Where I work at, we leave the organization to the teacher. We have Chromebook carts (essentially laptop charging carts) in most classrooms. We provide them with 28-36 devices depending on class size.

    • @Deminese2
      @Deminese2 Před 15 dny

      I always did that in school back in like 2009-2012. They just had laptop carts we used for the class period and they expected you to write write/research your essays then. + computer lab was open after hours for a bit.

    • @crytocc
      @crytocc Před 14 dny +2

      That's how it worked back when I went to high school, with laptop carts - but given that there was about a 50/50 chance that you'd grab a broken laptop from it, and there weren't enough spares to give everyone a working one... I wouldn't say that that worked very well either.

  • @DerekWitt
    @DerekWitt Před 15 dny +42

    I used to do tech support for Compaq in the late 90s.
    I had one guy who was told by a previous tech support rep to reformat and reinstall Windows for no sound.
    All he had to do was… wait for it… plug in his speakers!
    The bad thing? This sort of shenanigans were more common than people realize!

    • @notme222
      @notme222 Před 15 dny +7

      I often get the feeling that some tech support's approach is "This is so time consuming it will shut you up for a while." That must have been the case there because the OS would be the _least_ likely point of failure.

    • @alhira5098
      @alhira5098 Před 15 dny +4

      Same with optimization software, TuneUp for example. Friend of mine bought a laptop and next friend convinced him to use TuneUp as it "speeds up the laptop". Sound was gone. Took me almost an hour to find, that TuneUp deactivated the Realtek sound driver. 😂

    • @apocalyptosoldier5527
      @apocalyptosoldier5527 Před 14 dny +4

      Speaking of plugging in your speakers, I remember having one game (possibly COD5) that would crash if you didn't have something plugged into the aux port

    • @DerekWitt
      @DerekWitt Před 14 dny

      @@notme222 oh yeah! The flowcharts that many manufacturers had tech support follow did absolutely nothing. They were only concerned about call times than actually resolving customer’s issues.

    • @DerekWitt
      @DerekWitt Před 14 dny +3

      @@alhira5098 those “optimization” programs were little more than boxed horse manure.

  • @Devastator0
    @Devastator0 Před 15 dny +55

    So on the matter of staff keeping a heater connected at their desks, I worked for global freight company and in our country, there was a standing ban on people plugging in heaters at desks/pods of desks because they would consistently trip circuit breakers and damaged hardware. We (IT) had to go all the way up to the Managing Director to issue a company wide directive on that.

    • @linnoff
      @linnoff Před 12 dny +2

      Last place I worked was a very old building heated with a boiler, but it wasn't very reliable any more. Every room had at least 1 space heater and I'm amazed we didn't trip breakers more often and never set anything on fire. At one point we got a delivery of 10 more space heaters one winter, and I have a hard time believing that was a better option than fixing the building's heating.

    • @Ikxi
      @Ikxi Před 12 dny

      @@linnoff was probably the cheaper option
      like 5 digit probably for getting the new boiler and installed in a large building
      and then you'd need luck that the contractors are reliable
      spending a couple grand on spaceheaters probably seemed cheaper

    • @SPeeSimon
      @SPeeSimon Před 11 dny

      You can also trip the circuit braker by plugging in your laptop power. 🤣
      I was working in a big office and a coworker came in an set up his desk to start to work. When he plugged in the powercord of his laptop all lights, monitors and desktop pc's on the entire floor turned off. People who were working on laptops had no issue. So 20 people or so, had to take an extra coffee break.

  • @vikaskrishnan4018
    @vikaskrishnan4018 Před 14 dny +4

    I'm glad that the red dot on the thinkpad is universally called THE NIPPLE.
    I thought it was only me.

  • @Sismodium
    @Sismodium Před 15 dny +226

    This was Elijahs best video ever - he wasn't trying to be a clown. Please do more of this Elijah.

    • @blewis42002
      @blewis42002 Před 15 dny +52

      Hey now. We love all Elijahs, clown Elijah and normal Elijah.

    • @MordeKa0s
      @MordeKa0s Před 15 dny +25

      I just like him in general, what a great decision to put him in front of a camera.

    • @danc8019
      @danc8019 Před 15 dny +19

      I’m sorry but he’s my least favorite member of the on-camera team. He’s kinda annoying and immature

    • @LegXacy
      @LegXacy Před 15 dny +12

      @@danc8019 He has personality imo, I'm glad there's someone who isn't serious all the time, but knows when to be serious.

    • @DrShockz
      @DrShockz Před 15 dny +2

      @@danc8019 literally bro, and he was having the biggest sook on scrapyard wars like he just kills the vibe

  • @AMAudiot
    @AMAudiot Před 15 dny +11

    LTT: How much shout outs to the Sponsor do you want?
    Origin PC: Yes!
    LTT: no worries. I‘ve got you covered.

  • @nike9971
    @nike9971 Před 15 dny +103

    Origin... if you re listening.. Mentioning Origin multiple times is not helping your cause, rather making us hate you more, if not anything else. Once or twice is the limit of it.

    • @robertp457
      @robertp457 Před 15 dny +3

      Calm down Francis.

    • @MuhlisErtugrul
      @MuhlisErtugrul Před 15 dny +17

      @@robertp457 Let him cook.

    • @Kleyguerth
      @Kleyguerth Před 15 dny +4

      I guess their idea is that if someone sends the video timestamped to one of the gore examples, that viewer will also see the ad...

    • @Damindeater
      @Damindeater Před 15 dny +1

      If the make you hate them, they have created an emotion. Emotions make you remember stuff. So they imprinted their name and message into your mind. Even when you hate them, you now remember that they have some new laptops with custom prints.

    • @Kleyguerth
      @Kleyguerth Před 15 dny +6

      ​@@Damindeater But if I hate them, I'll actively look for custom printed laptops from another company, out of spite.
      This works if you're big enough that you own dozens of brands though. I checked, Corsair is their parent company... I guess that works for them...

  • @petermccavington8232
    @petermccavington8232 Před 12 dny +3

    05:24 dude really opposed to an open piss bottle as opposed to the existence of piss bottles at all which tells me he's experienced in the matter 😂😂😂

  • @YonsungLee
    @YonsungLee Před 15 dny +660

    Adult Linus looking like a carbon copy of the lady in the photo

    • @DarcMagikian
      @DarcMagikian Před 15 dny +44

      well she is his mom.

    • @Greedy-Allay
      @Greedy-Allay Před 15 dny +5

      @Mohit-k7j thats fake bro

    • @DccToon
      @DccToon Před 15 dny +1

      @Mohit-k7j not remotely related to linus, this is self promotion.

    • @uderzo1984
      @uderzo1984 Před 15 dny +1

      I think that is his mom, the way that's family DNA works, they only make carbon copies, lol. Just look at his sister, they look very much alike, and his kids are a perfect blend of himself and his wife :D

    • @OrangeCatEwE
      @OrangeCatEwE Před 15 dny

      I thought it was a deep fake of linus

  • @ShopGalbo
    @ShopGalbo Před 15 dny +65

    Would've wish they were all actually recording this reaction together instead of separately, I believe the reactions would've been even more gold!

    • @bahamutbbob
      @bahamutbbob Před 15 dny +12

      Yeah, usually this type of video everyone is on set together, even if they're sitting at different desks.

    • @tsKroony
      @tsKroony Před 15 dny

      Yea some weird disjointed energy from this one.

  • @jordii_vv5471
    @jordii_vv5471 Před 15 dny +39

    As someone who worked IT in a school that used Ipad's (For some godforsaken reason) I can assure you, that not only drawing on the devices happened near daily, but the peeling the glass of the screen happened surprisingly often. As in I would get a device like that every 2 or 3 days often......

  • @tylergerdes5778
    @tylergerdes5778 Před 10 dny +2

    Kids who treat laptops like that, I’ve found, come from homes where that behavior is permitted and unquestioned. It’s not the kids’ fault, it’s the parents’ fault for letting their kids get away with straight up disrespectful behavior.

    • @JJFlores197
      @JJFlores197 Před 10 dny

      Yep. Its very unfortunate. I saw that a lot during distance learning work helpdesk in IT at the local school district.

  • @shandromand1675
    @shandromand1675 Před 15 dny +139

    5:55 - years ago I was contracted to help clean up a hotel's network and was told the client said 'It's a little messy.' I took a picture and sent it to my recruiter and said, 'uh, did I hope they paid you well, because this is going to be way more than the four hours you asked me to work. WAY more.'
    ...
    'Yeah, why don't you come on back to the shop.' They had to renegotiate the contract and they also had to send someone else because I was double-booked for server/POS upgrades.
    I don't miss contract work, really I don't.

    • @kraftypk7283
      @kraftypk7283 Před 15 dny +1

      Where do you even start 😂

    • @adog8123
      @adog8123 Před 15 dny

      @@kraftypk7283 This is only scary to newbies. Network tools are your friend here there's a reason most wire maps are also tone generators. Old factories/hospitals/giant corp. offices all have scary looking network closets from decades of actual use. The only reason these guys are like "WhO kNoWs?!" is from inexperience. You can see the port on the switch you're on from a network tool and work from there.

    • @user-mn8lz7gf6d
      @user-mn8lz7gf6d Před 14 dny +1

      "why don't you come on back to the shop"
      lol

  • @Sturmx
    @Sturmx Před 15 dny +29

    Man baking the ram reminds me of when I was 16. My GTX 570 was artifacting and I fixed it by taking off the cooler, all the pads, putting it on aluminum balls and baking it in the oven. Forget what temperature but it actually fixed it. I guess it resoldered something? Worked for 2 years after that. Wouldn't EVER do that again but was happy at the time it worked!

    • @Bozebo
      @Bozebo Před 15 dny +4

      Yep not quite resoldering but it can weaken the solder just enough that it can change the contact a little and settle differently. I fixed my failing laptop's graphics for an extra two years by blasting it with a heat gun :)

    • @user-mn8lz7gf6d
      @user-mn8lz7gf6d Před 14 dny +2

      it's called reflowing

  • @XanderFenikkusu
    @XanderFenikkusu Před 15 dny +124

    9:33 Kronii appearance on LTT

    • @S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok
      @S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok Před 15 dny

      total Holo world domination

    • @TheHammerGuy94
      @TheHammerGuy94 Před 15 dny +18

      Ah yes, the Cortana vs Kronii incidents!!!

    • @ZachLayne
      @ZachLayne Před 15 dny +5

      Hi! I'm Cortana.
      Hi! I'm Cortana...

    • @aquilaaltair6303
      @aquilaaltair6303 Před 15 dny +7

      Kronii: activates Cortana
      Cortana: experiences Requiem

    • @foxtrots5223
      @foxtrots5223 Před 15 dny +12

      Yeah as soon as I saw it I instantly started to look in the comments for if anyone else saw it

  • @ninnusridhar
    @ninnusridhar Před 14 dny +3

    This reminds me of the worst server room i ever saw. It was a filing storage room plus server room. There were a hundred boxes of 15 year old documents just molding. Wires everywhere. No air conditioning. The only ventilation was a small window high up in the room where a pigeon was living quite happily.
    The fact that someone high up had deleted some financial data illegally took a back seat to us dealing with the absolute mess first

  • @andrewfelsher7872
    @andrewfelsher7872 Před 15 dny +18

    21:49 There was 100% some discussion about liquid metal versus thermal paste and bro read "TP" as toilet paper.

  • @vittorioballeriocastoldi6171

    A friend of mine is a wood worker, he and his family are from the best in the business in Bergamo. He told me that once he smelled smoke and in a wood working shop is obviously dangerous especially because he noticed that the computer was smoking, apparently was full of wood dust. Now he has a different solution for the cnc computer

  • @roryoconnell815
    @roryoconnell815 Před 15 dny +136

    "H for Halloween"
    *zooms in on the J key with a Jack-o-lantern*

    • @BauwenDR
      @BauwenDR Před 15 dny +19

      The key next to it was H for House, was wondering what else the House could have stood for

    • @jonathanwessner3456
      @jonathanwessner3456 Před 15 dny +1

      Made the Kite next to it seem odd.....

    • @kuebby
      @kuebby Před 15 dny +1

      Thank you, I was trying to figure out what J word it could be. Once they'd primed me with Halloween I couldn't think of anything else.

  • @mieruKai
    @mieruKai Před 3 dny

    I love introvert vs extrovert jokes and how absolutely respectful these guys are of another. Probably getting paid and know they're clearly recorded, but... I like to imagine this is their work vibe

  • @waynemacleod3416
    @waynemacleod3416 Před 15 dny +47

    worked for a call center that provided PC OS and hardware support for a pc manufacturer. after putting the new hires through "training" (which primarily entailed using the pc manufacturer's online tools) called the computer technicians. Well,,,, one said tecnician was visiting a friend on a weekend with pc problems. So the determined the pci cards needed reseating, and proceded to do so with the PC still on. One dead pc later the call center later changed people's title from "computer technician" to "tech support agent"

  • @seraph3667
    @seraph3667 Před 15 dny +50

    i liked the breaks in this Origin PC ad video

    • @veenmikki27
      @veenmikki27 Před 15 dny

      @@seraph3667 showed a good usage of the product this video is about

  • @thor6485
    @thor6485 Před 15 dny +231

    What's with all of these reactions in my Origin sponsorship video ?
    Jokes aside mentioning Origin every 2 video reacts was a little jarring.

    • @Amathaeon
      @Amathaeon Před 15 dny +8

      Agreed its a bit of a scummy advertising tactic that you would see in the 1950s

    • @BugattiBoy01
      @BugattiBoy01 Před 15 dny

      What?

    • @Amathaeon
      @Amathaeon Před 15 dny

      @@BugattiBoy01 the Novelty tactic

    • @lolly166541
      @lolly166541 Před 15 dny +5

      @@Amathaeon Sure, but did you know about the new Origin PC Eon SL? It's a bit smaller and a bit less powerful but with a less pricy pricetag?

    • @DrCornTato
      @DrCornTato Před 15 dny

      I felt the same way. It was quite annoying and disruptive.

  • @Corristo89
    @Corristo89 Před 14 dny +3

    You know how it always starts? IT admin doesn't have the correct length of cable around, doesn't want to get the correct one because he's lazy and just uses what's lying around... which is almost always going to be too short or too long. So you end up with ports in the same rack connected via a 10m cables or run so tight that they're holding on for dear life. And does anyone bother cleaning the mess up? NO! Because that would involve documenting everything, shutting everything down, taking it apart and then running cables cleanly. There's no documentation (physical network diagram), no one feels responsible and no one wants to take the blame when it's not working after the clean-up.

  • @lily-c8u
    @lily-c8u Před 15 dny +653

    Was that Linus' mom at the beginning or was it a faceswap of linus and some random photo

    • @itanasoaie
      @itanasoaie Před 15 dny +48

      think she was because she looks just like his sister!

    • @mustafar
      @mustafar Před 15 dny +62

      he looks like his mom

    • @Klaevin
      @Klaevin Před 15 dny +17

      @@lily-c8u it must be the mom! I hope dropping stuff isn't as genetic as the face!

    • @gordonoboh833
      @gordonoboh833 Před 15 dny +46

      Bro, I see Linus with a black wig, pearls and dress, you can’t convince me otherwise

    • @DeepDownInTheOcean
      @DeepDownInTheOcean Před 15 dny +25

      If that's his mom, he's an exact copy of her, just a male version.

  • @ArtForSwans
    @ArtForSwans Před 14 dny +9

    The slow realization that crept up my spine when I realized the half-finished bottles of power-aid weren't actually half-finished, they've been refilled.......

  • @max_archer
    @max_archer Před 15 dny +13

    That coffee spill laptop is just a a "Pad" now because there was definitely no thinking involved there.

  • @alex_allier9
    @alex_allier9 Před 14 dny +3

    21:35 If im not wrong and that's a truck, that's for your hand, to help you get inside the driver seat. You hold to that point and one that's on the other side of the door frame.

  • @vaat
    @vaat Před 15 dny +100

    Elijah's idea to read top comments was actually a really fun touch!

  • @MikronyxReborn
    @MikronyxReborn Před 15 dny +213

    Holy ad's batman, how much did origin pay to plug them 3+ times throughout the video, yikes.

    • @acewright-n4q
      @acewright-n4q Před 15 dny +20

      The whole video was paid for by Origin. Its a way to have a sponsored video and not do the stupid boring overview videos

    • @Bassalicious
      @Bassalicious Před 15 dny +5

      that's what I thought too. every 2 minutes some plug or other.

    • @cubertmiso
      @cubertmiso Před 15 dny +1

      ad's were better than the content from that eliah guy

    • @Wavpro
      @Wavpro Před 15 dny

      ​dont hate on elijah@@cubertmiso

    • @ryans413
      @ryans413 Před 15 dny +5

      4x actually once at the beginning then again part way through then again and then the end

  • @thealmightynjections3858
    @thealmightynjections3858 Před 15 dny +9

    I love how unhinged Jordan is. Teaming him and Elijah was an amazing idea

  • @Kakail
    @Kakail Před 11 dny

    I did phone support for computer problem for 2-3 years. The best tip i can give is: when a customer ask something that doesn't make sense, ask: Why are you saying that? Generally, there is a assomption that wrong. It amplify to the point that he doesn't make sense.

  • @moilane
    @moilane Před 15 dny +54

    21:04 That's a Ford Transit. Stupid design having an inaccesible pocket (when door is closed) meant to hold a wallet or something and they "fixed" it later on by putting on a sticker that says don't put your phone in it.

    • @jasonbaren3595
      @jasonbaren3595 Před 15 dny +2

      rip amazon drivers phones

    • @LuxO2__
      @LuxO2__ Před 15 dny +12

      @@moilane I use it for company gas card since I can grab it on the way out and not lose it

    • @michaeltempsch5282
      @michaeltempsch5282 Před 15 dny +2

      @@LuxO2__ Also looks about the right size for the rectangular acrylic/plexiglass ice scrapers, so I'd probably use it for that, along with a micro fiber cloth for various uses + anti rattle.

    • @jamesstack7237
      @jamesstack7237 Před 15 dny +2

      Huh. Interesting. I honestly assumed it was just part of the vent for defrosting the window. Good call, sir or ma'am.

    • @looseycanon
      @looseycanon Před 15 dny +3

      I thought, that it was for ice scrubber, cause, you know... not accessible, while the doors are closed. Škoda does this better, they have a holder on the inside of the tank door.

  • @solaceinrage
    @solaceinrage Před 15 dny +60

    My brother is a car salesman, he told me some years back the little cubby thing mistaken for "Phone holders" on some car doors are for parking ticket stubs. If you have to put a ticket stub n to pay to exit a parking deck, you leave it in that holder and there is no risk of losing it or damaging it in your pocket, purse etc.

  • @AndTecks
    @AndTecks Před 15 dny +114

    The "not a phone holder" is in new Ford vans(maybe others) and there is a large sticker that says "NO PHONE". It's a pretty stupid decision to add that slot imo

    • @Zhajn
      @Zhajn Před 15 dny +7

      what is the slot for though?

    • @TheSkcube
      @TheSkcube Před 15 dny +9

      @@AndTecks if they put a usb plug/wireless android auto/carplay, and make most phones fit in the cavity, it could help prevent distracted driving.

    • @TheSkcube
      @TheSkcube Před 15 dny +10

      @@Zhajn apparently just storage that's inaccessible when the door is closed.

    • @Ra-Hul-K
      @Ra-Hul-K Před 15 dny +1

      maybe it's only meant for the Razr folding phone

    • @Grandwigg
      @Grandwigg Před 15 dny +12

      ​@@Zhajnothers have said it was for something like an ice scraper.
      One person said they use it for the company gas card so they don't have to carry around and it's always in the vehicle and just grab it with gasing up.

  • @UPROARIOUSDINGUS
    @UPROARIOUSDINGUS Před 8 dny +2

    how to give IT anxiety. Just say your going to the server room with a pair a scissors in hand.

  • @vuxpee
    @vuxpee Před 15 dny +16

    Asking how much that is in celsius killed me 😂

  • @doctorcoke5072
    @doctorcoke5072 Před 15 dny +81

    Man, that image at 4:32 is old af. I've seen it posted in "battlestation threads" on 4chan as far back as 15 years ago, which of course tracks with the classic model Xbox 360 in the image.

    • @TestyMcTesterson
      @TestyMcTesterson Před 15 dny +5

      @@doctorcoke5072 right?? I laughed the minute it came up on screen, old old picture

  • @M15tER-X
    @M15tER-X Před 15 dny +16

    NGL I installed an SSD like that my first time working with SSDs. It was (and still is) an Intel 660p 1TB and worked completely fine for over 3 years bent like that. When I realized there was something wrong with the mounting, I put the apposite standoff, remounted the SSD and than put the heatsink on top so it would press down the SSD and straighten it. That SSD is still serving me and doing its job completely fine and now it’s even almost straight

    • @LucidGhostYT
      @LucidGhostYT Před 14 dny +5

      "almost straight" sent me lmaoooo

    • @TatsuZZmage
      @TatsuZZmage Před 14 dny +2

      that is both horrifying and a testament to its quality.

    • @M15tER-X
      @M15tER-X Před 14 dny +2

      @@TatsuZZmage when I reinstalled it and put the heatsink on I really thought that the PCB would crack or that some traces would be ruined while “straightening”, but it was a secondary SSD at that point so I didn’t truly care if it’d happen. Instead it continued working perfectly to this day. Every time I think about what I’ve done I cringe a lot, but that thing is freaking reliable

    • @user-mn8lz7gf6d
      @user-mn8lz7gf6d Před 14 dny +1

      hardware is a lot more robust than people give it credit for.

  • @andrewnitin
    @andrewnitin Před 15 dny +196

    0:02 My God, I legit thought Linus was photoshopped as a woman rather than it was his ACTUAL MOTHER! 🫢😂

    • @luis4290
      @luis4290 Před 15 dny +9

      Damn, didn't notice but it is like the female version made by an AI

    • @Licensedbeast
      @Licensedbeast Před 15 dny +8

      Prime example of a boy looking like his mama

    • @kaijukebox
      @kaijukebox Před 15 dny +2

      Thought the same thing!

    • @Klaevin
      @Klaevin Před 15 dny +4

      gives a whole new meaning to "mamma's boy"

    • @MrPruske
      @MrPruske Před 15 dny +3

      Usually how it goes. I remember someone saying something similar when Linus has his sister co star

  • @tomthenot9786
    @tomthenot9786 Před 14 dny

    Omg can we talk about how effective this way of doing an ad is? the ads are just short enough for me to not be bothered to skip, but like interesting so i watch it aswell. holyyyy

  • @pinking5555
    @pinking5555 Před 15 dny +44

    At 16:17 it normal happens because that server room needs 100% up time like in hospitals and such. Where the IT guy can't shut down the servers to rewire every time an upgrade is needed.

    • @andljoy
      @andljoy Před 15 dny +11

      You ether have planned downtime or unplanned downtime there is no other option. Our trust finally came around to this but it was hard work :P. I mean we did not even get time to patch servers before wanacry.

    • @zoarsnowpaw3549
      @zoarsnowpaw3549 Před 15 dny +4

      I worked as a student in the hospital IT department where I live and every server room was a mess of jumbled wires,
      But yeah they can't have any downtime as who knows what kind of work is being done by the enduser

    • @wyterabitt2149
      @wyterabitt2149 Před 14 dny

      You just segment the wards/sections better with the IT servers. There's no excuse for it, I mean the way to do it properly without this issue is 10x easier than operating that kind of mess.

  • @partypopper318
    @partypopper318 Před 15 dny +60

    It took me half the video to realize that the two pairs of hosts were reacting separately from each other 😅
    Seriously, good job to the editors for making this such a seamless viewing experience.

    • @noap1236
      @noap1236 Před 15 dny +5

      I probably wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for your comment

    • @craigmccune6066
      @craigmccune6066 Před 15 dny +2

      for this vid i went
      1. together
      2. Are they apart?
      3. nope together (at one point, it seamed like linus was reacting to Elijah)
      4.Nope apart

    • @omegadecisive
      @omegadecisive Před 15 dny +1

      Reality is a lie 😭

  • @iap7597
    @iap7597 Před 15 dny +18

    Props to whoever edited this to make it look like everyone filmed it together!

  • @DimusTech
    @DimusTech Před 13 dny

    This should be a constant video series every few months or so!! I laughed really hard! thanks!

  • @echtogammut
    @echtogammut Před 15 dny +9

    6:01, I took over as CTO of a company that had a room like that. The bizarre thing was it wasn't all the company's wiring. The telco had used the network room as a local distribution center (I never got a complete story on this, it was a deal from the 50's) and when they moved out, they left behind a rat's nest and the company moved their patch panel into the same room, leaving all the telco's wiring intact. I still remember walking up into the network room and having this OF moment, wondering what I was looking at, because the amount of wiring didn't make sense. Nothing was labelled and it was a bizarre collection of equipment.

  • @LoftechUK
    @LoftechUK Před 15 dny +27

    26:42 please let me add this was the most funniest video you lot have done in years. I’m dying in tears. Thank you all of you.

  • @birdiemaradoth
    @birdiemaradoth Před 15 dny +27

    Elijah and Jordan are the duo i didnt know i needed

  • @ganashal
    @ganashal Před 14 dny

    Having Jordan and Elijah is awesome, and having Elijah giving out great tips (and his archival knowledge of the back catalogue) is really cool. Really like the vibes of this one, more please :)

  • @tau93
    @tau93 Před 15 dny +152

    I literally saw the title change from "Reacting To Your worst Tech Support Gore" to "Reacting To Your Worst Tech Support Nightmares" on desktop. The page updated the title under the video dynamically... And the Page Header, in the Browser Tab, still says "Reacting To Your worst Tech Support Gore"

    • @doderiolarkisso4038
      @doderiolarkisso4038 Před 15 dny +2

      okay and

    • @Veetiful
      @Veetiful Před 15 dny +14

      They A/B test titles

    • @pkjon
      @pkjon Před 15 dny +3

      Interesting

    • @BlueRayofLight
      @BlueRayofLight Před 15 dny +1

      @@Veetiful nope they do this to make their push notifications look more attractive

    • @SariusxX
      @SariusxX Před 15 dny

      @@doderiolarkisso4038 ratioed :)

  • @AlvinTheLAW
    @AlvinTheLAW Před 14 dny +10

    9:34 I spot a Canadian Kronii, on alleged Canadian CZcams (Cuz Linus group is in Canada)

  • @BlueXephosiscool
    @BlueXephosiscool Před 15 dny +11

    04:34 as someone who has extreme depression and anxiety i can confirm my room is actually worse than that right now. Most likely not fake.

    • @notme222
      @notme222 Před 15 dny +5

      The fact that you're aware of it is a positive step. I can relate to depression and a lack of self-care. But clearly this is unhealthy on several levels. Are you taking anti-depressants?
      (In my case, hoarding runs in the family so even though I'm good with trash I never know if I'm properly balancing the "This might be useful later" thoughts.)

    • @BlueXephosiscool
      @BlueXephosiscool Před 15 dny +2

      @notme222 true. In my case I am not taking anti depressants, at least the right ones. Basicly just scraping by until I can head back to my family as I'm in another country currently.

    • @m0taboy
      @m0taboy Před 14 dny

      This is most likely, perhaps from early 4chan era?

    • @midloran
      @midloran Před 2 dny

      I hope you'll get better, Anne Frnak, I know you can do it, we all do!

  • @MCKornbred
    @MCKornbred Před 10 dny

    Been feeling a bit depressed lately. Thanks for posting this. I’m in literal tears from laughing so much 🤣🤣🤣

  • @KangoV
    @KangoV Před 15 dny +15

    I watched an IBM engineer replace RAM in an IBM AS/400 while it was running. The system even told the engineer which bank contained the defected stick. It just said "thanks" and carried on. This was in 1997! PCs are just so far behind.

    • @kered13
      @kered13 Před 15 dny +7

      It's definitely possible, but it's extra complexity that is simply not needed for the average PC. It's only useful on servers that cannot afford to go offline.

    • @ketapillar
      @ketapillar Před 15 dny +2

      Could have done that in 1986 as well. AS/400's have always been like that.

    • @epobirs
      @epobirs Před 15 dny +6

      It's not that they're behind as they have different economics. The prices and margins IBM got on those machines are in another universe from the PC business. You could engineer and build a PC to have such features but it would be unsellable at the price required to make money on it. It's like complaining that a Toyota Camry lacks some of the maintenance features of a Peterbilt tractor that sells for a price most people would expect when buying a house. Uptime has a cost.

  • @DasNoodle
    @DasNoodle Před 15 dny +25

    21:40 the toiletpaper was probably bc they read the abbreviation of TP for Thermal Paste but thought it was Toilet Paper

    • @roactheraven
      @roactheraven Před 15 dny

      That was my thought as well :)

    • @random_n
      @random_n Před 15 dny +2

      Better than the other way around. Thermal paste is tough enough to get off your fingers, never mind... 😬

    • @cocoadragon8554
      @cocoadragon8554 Před 10 dny +1

      @@random_n but bro, think about the cooling benefits. no summer swap ass!!

  • @FrobergDK
    @FrobergDK Před 15 dny +12

    So it seems like we have Anthony v.2 - with humour and self-confidence. Cool. I'm here for it. Don't know why, but the dude reminds me so much of Anthony. No-one else is saying anything, so it's probably just me, but I'll die on this hill.

    • @user-neo71665
      @user-neo71665 Před 15 dny +3

      At first I thought Anthony had shaved his head. With all the damn people employed there they're gonna have to start wearing name badges.

    • @bahamutbbob
      @bahamutbbob Před 15 dny +4

      Emily is still at LMG. She transitioned.

    • @benwu7980
      @benwu7980 Před 15 dny +1

      @@bahamutbbob The vast majority of people know that, but so many still do the dead-naming thing to sound edgy or worse.
      That she almost never appears in videos is a loss for us all, but can completely see why.

    • @FrobergDK
      @FrobergDK Před 15 dny +2

      @@bahamutbbob I know, which is why I said REMINDS me of Anthony.

    • @FrobergDK
      @FrobergDK Před 15 dny

      @@user-neo71665 Yeah that'd be helpful. He seems like a fun character though.

  • @robinbegley1077
    @robinbegley1077 Před 11 dny +1

    I had a summer job fixing chromebooks for charter schools, we had an entire bin of chromebooks with just ants. fire damage or were violently stabbed through. As with stickers, The district wanted them to look like new, so if it got scuffed removing stickers, they ended up buying a new chromebook after all the plastic tabs broke trying to change the lid.

  • @carlosmafia
    @carlosmafia Před 15 dny +4

    I laughed out loud at multiple moments of this video. This is GOLD.

  • @Ra-Hul-K
    @Ra-Hul-K Před 15 dny +17

    21:35 probably ventilation to blow cool air into that cup holder to keep drinks cold 🥶

    • @thedrexter
      @thedrexter Před 14 dny +2

      I was considering it being a spot for some sort of service manual since this looks to be a van.

    • @Alex0VAIF3
      @Alex0VAIF3 Před 14 dny +2

      @@thedrexteryep it's a Ford Transit. I've seen this exact thing happen (almost to me!)

    • @ayrtonthompson750
      @ayrtonthompson750 Před 14 dny

      Ye it’s normally got a symbol that’s a phone with a cross through it, it’s not a vent just a pocket for something

  • @skinny2651
    @skinny2651 Před 15 dny +13

    I love how Linus calls the j-key graffitied with a pumpkin Halloween instead of jack-o-latern. Meanwhile the picture of a house to the left😂😂

  • @HiccupHmm
    @HiccupHmm Před 13 dny +1

    The tech gore literally made me cry and caused me to feel so much pain i wanted to scold the IT department for allowing these cables to run like that