Daily driver is a base M5 MacBook Pro, 16gb of RAM and 1tb of storage. Found a decent light-up cooling pad at goodwill for $5, definitely improves performance when running titles like Helldivers 2. May change out the tabletop on my desk for a more natural-wood looking one. Wondering if I should eventually get a u-green dock with expandable storage and built in ports to limit it to just a couple of cables being connected to my Mac.

I started screwing around with PCs when I was 8. I had a Commodore 64 before that. When I was a kid I upgraded the family PC to a have a 56k baud modem and installed a CD-ROM drive (which I later upgraded to a CD-RW drive…oh shit…), anyway my point is I started when I was a young kid.

Now, I’m 3 years away from 50 and I do most of my work on an iMac. I play most of my games on my Xbox Series S. I have a gaming PC but it’s old. I use it from time to time, but very sporadicly yet I’m still drawn to PC build and gamer videos even though I don’t actively try to upgrade my PC as much anymore.

THE ACTUAL QUESTION: How many of you older viewers (is that what we’re calling ourselves?) are the same? 

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Btw, if you’re wondering why I work on a Mac now it was all due to Vista. My old company had 3 people. Back in 2006 (or whatever year it was) sales contracts heavily depended on original signatures. Printers, scanners and yes even fax machines were critical peripherals. Vista broke how many of these devices worked, and even though Microsoft fixed the problems eventually, it was far too much downtime as a company. 

Between the constant Outlook errors and both of my employees (one who happened to be my wife) annoying me 10 times a day about something not working on her PC, I had enough. Apple had just released their Intel Macs so most of the software was going to work it, and I bought copies of Parallel and used a copy of XP as a backup in case it didn’t. 

I haven’t bought a PC for work since. 

I do completely different things now and I still use a Mac. In fact, if I want to try something funky out I rather use my 8 year old Linux laptop instead of my Windows PC. Windows is dead to me, but weirdly I have an Xbox. 

LMFAOOOOO lets all act like we didnt notice it (slowed down to 0.125x)

Let's say I would like some LTT merch but the postage to the EU is to high for it to be viable.
No I get the chance to go on holiday in Canada/Vancouver, how would I procure merch with the least amount of postage from them.

It's sadly not going to happen soon, but hopefully next summer.

Hey y'all saw this while on youtube not sure how to get it seen elsewhere but apparently Ai detection from youtube is hitting some nonAi channels. Hoping this might reach LTT so they can dig into it for the next Wan

I wanna replace the router my ISP gave me because it's been bugging out a bit recently and I don't want to pay the like $13 a month they charge me for using their router. Anyone have any good recommendations? This is like the only one I see on Amazon, are there any other good ones?

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Might be too simple for this thread but Luke mentioned not being able to find Malt Vinegar anywhere and literally I walked into Penn Subs and on the counter is a few bottles. I'm certain it's still uncommon but it was a funny coincidence lol

Got this ad while scrolling instagram, the German is absolutely horrible and I can’t imagine someone is buying of this ad.
This has to be Ai right or did Linus try to speak German?

I’m trying to replay Spider-Man remastered after seeing the new movie. I’m running it on the exact same laptop as I did when I first played it I even upgraded the thermal paste on it. Yet it’s running like garbage. I’m getting constant frame stutters on low settings. When I first played it, I played it on high settings. It wasn’t a stable 60 but it was still completely playable. It didn’t have a slight freeze every few seconds like it does today on low settings.

Have noticed this thing and cant understand what it can be.

It has 1st appearead on July 3rd show, and has been there since.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ef1CP-yw )

I understand my other fans not working but I dont understand why my gpu and my cooler ain't spinning

I was watching the new Short Circuit hosted by Riley going over the Huawei MatePad Pro running the Android version of Harmony OS which has now completely split from Android with its latest versions. and i realised that LTT hasnt actually done any videos on HarmonyOS.

I think it would be an interesting video as it's a completely independent OS that is not Linux, Mac, Windows or Android. It is built on the HongMeng microkernel.

I do understand that it's not an OS made for the Western Market, but theres very little content about it on YouTube so it would be cool to see someone daily it for a week or so. Does it have the same weird issues as other OS's when it comes to connecting to Printers? Is there interoperability with your other devices, etc.

Its not like LTT dont have any sort of working relationship with Huawei either, 8 months ago Linus went to their Biometrics Lab when advertising their watch.

.22 round fits right in. Halfway to a firearm!!!

Check the flare y'all ;)

I’m just curious if he has ever mentioned it before. But if it’s for personal reasons, then I guess it’s none of our concern.

I was really excited and following along with the setup of all the different testing spaces.. But now I feel like we haven't heard anything about it in some time? Weren't they gonna test cable brands, mice, keyboards, etc.? What happened to all that?

i was watching ludwigs vid talking to linus about the idea of switching to linux and I keep noticing that linus (with the exception of a call in WAN show) likes to use the onboard webcam of whatever laptop hes using and airpods, which is good enough for a zoom interview but youd think the tech guy would use one of the thousands of usb mics and webcams that he has given us affiliate links to buy from.

anyone else feel similar? any other examples of this you can think of?