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I pride myself on high quality tech tips, but those take like 10, 15

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minutes. You guys don't have time for that. Could they be distilled into more

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like 10 or 15 seconds? To find out, we

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took some of the best tech talks, that

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is to say, Tik Toks with tech tips, and

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we are going to tell you guys if they check out. Starting with this pile of

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broken cable boxes. Yep. This is going

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to be interesting.

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One of the most fun things for me about this is I haven't actually seen any of

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these tech talks. And our first one is from Dylan. Dylan 844. Got it. There's a

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lot of Dillons. Asked to go to the thrift store and pick up these old Direct TV DVRs. This Tik Tok suggests

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that a great way to get a cheap hard drive is to go to the thrift store and

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buy one of these old DVRs for as little as five or we paid $10, then strip it

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down to extract the Nummy hard drive. Dylan suggests that you can find drives

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that are as large as one or even two terabytes inside these units, which

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would be one heck of a value. And we can actually already see in this one that

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Dylan might be on to something. One thing Dylan glossed over in his very

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concise guide though is that those are security screws.

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Okay, ju just hold on there for a second. That's not very safe. You can

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hold that a bit better. Oh yeah, not bad.

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Oh yeah. You want some gloves? I'm going to get you some gloves. No, I'm fine.

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I am very covered in metal shards. Can I suggest a thing?

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Now it's time to find out what I got for

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my $30. Starting with the gray one that definitely has a hard drive inside. Wow,

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that is a dusty, disgusting machine. And

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sure enough, SATA hard drive. Got some hot glue on the connectors to make sure

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that they don't come out. I've seen that trick before. man. Oh, that's a

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disappointment. I don't even know what a DB 35.2 is, but I know 160 GB when I see

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it. That's not worth the $5 Dylan promised, let alone the 10 that I paid.

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This is like those videos where you just open up Pokemon card packs or Kinder

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Surprises, except nerdier and way grosser.

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There we go. Hey,

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500 gigs this time. I mean, I actually

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don't know that I would pay $10 for a 500 gig drive, but that's a lot better

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than paying $10 for 160 gig drive. Am I

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right? Now, for door number three. 500 gigs.

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What is a pipeline hard drive, man? These OEM only models that I've never

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heard of. Very, very strange. Still, this is at least worth extracting. So,

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we got to go ahead and take out two standard Phillips head screws right here

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and here. Then do a little bit of negotiating because the other side is

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actually held down by these little bent metal tabs and a one.

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It's probably great for the hard drive. Oh, no. That's probably fine. Honestly,

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actually, the way they validate these things, it's like crazy. A few more

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screws to remove the hard drive from its sled. Then we pop this guy off. And

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voila, completely standard 500 gig

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drive. All in all, we salvaged 1.16 terabytes of hard drives for about $23.

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Not the worst deal on earth, but Dylan failed to mention a few things. The

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tools required to actually extract the drives. The precautions that should be

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taken when working with equipment that has exposed power supply circuitry like

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these DVRs, the incredibly important step of checking the model number of the

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unit so that you can find out how much hard drive space it has before you buy

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it. And of course, the minor detail that

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these hard drives have been in use for often times a very long time under non

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ideal conditions. And the odds of them actually working are less than 100%. In

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fact, only two of them spun up and were detected by our system. And only one of

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them, a 500 gig model, managed to pass a short drive self test. So overall, a lot

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more creative than chucking external drives. But these emissions are going to

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cost Dylan44 a few points. I give this tech talk a 7 out of 10. But if

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Adding sketchy hard drives to your system isn't the best idea. What can you

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do if your drive is full? Well, one idea is to just free up space on your

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existing machine. We watched countless Tik Toks and this one by Hardware Savvy

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is definitely the best, but also the most infuriating because he almost got

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it right. How to instantly free up gigabytes of space from your PC. And

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you'll be surprised to find a lot of apps that are taking up a lot of space that you haven't used in a long time,

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like this one here. This is all fine. In the next video, I'm going to show you a

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tool that's going to allow you to free up tens of gigabytes of data that you never thought existed on your hard

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drive. He shows Winder Stat briefly. No video about it ever comes out.

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Okay. Uninstalling unused programs and cleaning up temporary files are both a

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good start, but the truth is that 4 gigs isn't even enough to install many game

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patches these days, let alone the entire game. And that's where the type of tool

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that TechSavvy showed us, but then didn't demonstrate how to use is much

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more useful. We're going to go to nite.com, select Windstat, get your

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Nite, and we're going to install one of those tools, and show you guys how to

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use it. Now that Windstat is installed, all we need to do is wait for the

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analysis to run. You have 18 1/2 gigs in your recycle bin, Alex. When the

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analysis is done, you get this great visualization that shows your entire

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drive as a mosaic of little squares and rectangles. Then if you select a

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particular folder, you can actually see an outline of every one of the

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individual files inside that folder. And that's what's really great about a tool

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like this is instead of only targeting temporary files that the operating

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system itself created and knows are temporary, it can target files that you

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created temporarily and then totally forgot about. Overall, we were able to

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free up almost 30 GB of unneeded data. So I give this tech talk a 10 out of 10

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for the idea. The implementation where he doesn't actually make the video he

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promised drags it down to about a three.

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We have no idea why these videos are so big on Tik Tok. This is not hacking.

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It's the easiest, cheapest content ever, but for whatever reason, it racks up

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millions of likes. So there, fine. We tried it. But that wasn't really the

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point of this segment. The point of this segment is to try out some of the top

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Tik Tok hacks that are about as hacking

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as what I just did was.

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Our first hack from DS has 3/4 of a million likes and almost 100,000 shares.

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You go up to this top bar and you type in P R N.

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SC/ any two letters and any four numbers and

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you press enter and it will give you a screenshot from somebody's phone. Okay.

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So, we're just going to an image uploading service, typing in random

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characters, and hoping to creep someone's pictures. Yeah. So, I did this

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for about 20 minutes. There are a couple that we can't show, but those were just

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stuff like full GPA breakdowns, English proficiency tests, and someone's

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onboarding for a job in India as a mechanical engineer where they were

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making $3 an hour. Also, lots of invoices, and some Bitcoin wallets, all

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of which are not things you should be putting on here. Okay, so what's

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happening here is people are using more advanced screen capture software than

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what's included with their computer. Snipping tool, which comes with Windows,

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will allow you to drag a window and then save that file, but it only saves it

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locally. Some of these other programs, like Shareex, for example, have features

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that allow you to automatically upload the image to an image sharing service

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and then they will actually take that URL, automatically copy it to your

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clipboard, and then allow you to paste it and share it with someone else. It's

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very convenient when the images you're capturing aren't confidential or

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private. But this goes to show you how easily people could stumble across them,

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whether by accident or in this case on purpose. Do you want the best one that I

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found? Not porn, is it? I'd be enjoying a glass of wine, sitting back in a black

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leather armchair, watching a fireplace while the walls of the room I'm in are

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covered in screaming and wailing faces.

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Yeah, definitely a way to kill an hour if you have nothing else to do. And

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unlike any of our other hacks, you are actually accessing compromised

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information someone didn't intend to share with you. I'm giving it a 10. Time

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for our next hack. Everyone knows about inspect element. Yep. It allows you to

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edit the contents of a web page. But if you go to console and write

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document.design mode equals on, you can edit just about anything on the page by

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typing normally. Still not a hack, but

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if you're into doctoring screenshots and causing mayhem within your social

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circle, I could see this one coming in handy. I give this one a nine. It's just

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so convenient. I can share this with Steve right now. Steve just got back to

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me. WTF? What the is this? Lol. Joke or

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no? I am literally the worst friend. I dropped everything and immediately

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changed the password and checked the account. Can I upgrade that one to a 10

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out of 10? Yep. Time for our next hack. This one's my favorite.

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Oh god. Okay, I see where this is going. Time to hide this homework folder.

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Customize. Change icon. Pick an icon no

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one could ever look for. Yep. Hidden

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forever. Hiding in plain sight. It's not hacking, but I give it an eight and a

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half out of 10. Really? Well, the thing about hiding a folder is that if

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whoever's looking for it knows how to show hidden folders, they will be able

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to find that one. So, you can see it's as simple as changing my file explorer

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settings to show hidden folders and boom. Now, MSN network shows up and you

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can see it's kind of grayed out. That's what hidden folders look like. So, me,

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an intellectual, I'm going to go someone was trying to hide this. Oh my.

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A better way to hide it is to just leave it in plain sight then and encrypt it.

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So now our original MSN network, boom, is empty. And this new folder can only

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be accessed by me. Now that's a money shot. How to view any private Instagram

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post. So what you're first going to do is you're going to rightclick, hit

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inspect. Oh, good. We're back to inspect element. Click that and you're going to

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hit remove. So after y'all remove the page hide button, all you got to do is

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hit the refresh button. Boom. There y'all go.

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That is pathetic. If that actually works, we reload the page.

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Maybe at some point it was this easy. Apparently, it doesn't work anymore. I'm

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giving this a 1 out of 10. Why does it have 23,000 likes? One really popular

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type of tech talk is people showing off their epic gaming rigs and talking about

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just how affordably they can be obtained. Much was my gaming setup. Oh

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god, your voice is so annoying. First off, with the PC, when I bought

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it, it was around $1,100. However, I made a few upgrades so far. So, I think

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that price goes up to around $1,300. You think? You think I think the entire

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keyboard was around $350. I think the

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mic was free cuz it got sent out to me. I paid for my boom ARM. So, the total

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for my gaming setup was around $2,560. By that logic, wow, you guys wouldn't

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believe how affordably you can get this setup. I paid $0. ZK sent this over to

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us so that we could put it in videos and had like a sick gaming rig. And uh wow,

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these two plants we got from IKEA for a total of I think it was $10. I got these

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lightsabers. Maybe these were 20 bucks each at the Disney Store. Who's counting

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anyway? Uh these gold coins. These were sent by Dbrand. You Dbrand. Obviously,

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the best part though is this LTT Store Northern Lights dustpad. Only $29.99.

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ltstore.com. Samsung sent us this monitor. They

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actually sponsored the video we made about it. So net, this cost negative. So

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in total, this gaming setup costs you less than $0. Enjoy. Hope it was

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helpful. Freaking idiot. Watch what happens when I turn on my

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Epic Gaming Battle Station.

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Okay. Rigging VC to open a video file when you turn on your computer. Not

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exactly a hack, but I can see why the kids would be into this. Unfortunately,

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what they didn't show you is how to do it. Step one is you'll need someone to

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control your RGB lighting. Andy, uh, do you want to come out from behind the

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table? Yeah, we had an iPad to do that, but the app was being complicated, so

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Andy pressed the button. Anyway, the point is all you got to do is go on

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spiceworks.com and there's this great topic called Windows 10 play a video

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upon login before loading the desktop. It's a bit of doing. It will take a

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while, but the point is if you really want to do

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that, you can follow this guide or maybe there's a better one. I don't know. I don't care. It doesn't matter. I give

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this one a four out of 10. It's definitely cool, but they don't show you how to do it at all. What else we got

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here? Oh, good. Hardware Savvy is back. Here's how to make your computer faster

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in 10 seconds. Restart your computer. When you enter your BIOS, find your

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RAM's XMPP profile. Click on it and choose it. Oh man. Okay, there's a few

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things here. One, yes. Okay, XMPP can be a way to get a little bit more speed out

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of your computer. But in many cases, the XMPP rated speed of your RAM will not

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actually run stably with your motherboard and the integrated memory

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controller on your CPU. I give this tech tip a 6 and a half. It's a valid tech

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tip, but there's a lot of details missing. Yeah, hardware savvy could have

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mentioned that it's called DOCP on AMD systems. That's that's useful. That's

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good to know. Oh my god, shut up. Okay,

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so it shows you how to add multiple things to the Windows clipboard. All

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right, that's pretty handy. Let's try it. Ctrl

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+ C. Just make sure that you don't enable this feature on a shared computer

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if for whatever reason you are copying things that you wouldn't want anyone

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else to see. Good tech talk. 9 and a half out of 10.

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I like it. Our final tech talk from the Savage 1013 has 59,000 hearts and 2,000

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shares. Push the Fn Windows and shift

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key with B. This is going to reset slash

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fix your drivers for your graphics card. Okay. Control, Windows, Shift, B. Okay,

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nine out of 10. Could be a useful tech talk. If you guys enjoyed this video,

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but you're looking for something a bit more serious, maybe check out our time

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card video. That's right. It's a card designed to keep time in your PC. It's

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actually really cool.