I pride myself on high quality tech tips, but those take like 10, 15
minutes. You guys don't have time for that. Could they be distilled into more
like 10 or 15 seconds? To find out, we
took some of the best tech talks, that
is to say, Tik Toks with tech tips, and
we are going to tell you guys if they check out. Starting with this pile of
broken cable boxes. Yep. This is going
to be interesting.
One of the most fun things for me about this is I haven't actually seen any of
these tech talks. And our first one is from Dylan. Dylan 844. Got it. There's a
lot of Dillons. Asked to go to the thrift store and pick up these old Direct TV DVRs. This Tik Tok suggests
that a great way to get a cheap hard drive is to go to the thrift store and
buy one of these old DVRs for as little as five or we paid $10, then strip it
down to extract the Nummy hard drive. Dylan suggests that you can find drives
that are as large as one or even two terabytes inside these units, which
would be one heck of a value. And we can actually already see in this one that
Dylan might be on to something. One thing Dylan glossed over in his very
concise guide though is that those are security screws.
Okay, ju just hold on there for a second. That's not very safe. You can
hold that a bit better. Oh yeah, not bad.
Oh yeah. You want some gloves? I'm going to get you some gloves. No, I'm fine.
I am very covered in metal shards. Can I suggest a thing?
Now it's time to find out what I got for
my $30. Starting with the gray one that definitely has a hard drive inside. Wow,
that is a dusty, disgusting machine. And
sure enough, SATA hard drive. Got some hot glue on the connectors to make sure
that they don't come out. I've seen that trick before. man. Oh, that's a
disappointment. I don't even know what a DB 35.2 is, but I know 160 GB when I see
it. That's not worth the $5 Dylan promised, let alone the 10 that I paid.
This is like those videos where you just open up Pokemon card packs or Kinder
Surprises, except nerdier and way grosser.
There we go. Hey,
500 gigs this time. I mean, I actually
don't know that I would pay $10 for a 500 gig drive, but that's a lot better
than paying $10 for 160 gig drive. Am I
right? Now, for door number three. 500 gigs.
What is a pipeline hard drive, man? These OEM only models that I've never
heard of. Very, very strange. Still, this is at least worth extracting. So,
we got to go ahead and take out two standard Phillips head screws right here
and here. Then do a little bit of negotiating because the other side is
actually held down by these little bent metal tabs and a one.
It's probably great for the hard drive. Oh, no. That's probably fine. Honestly,
actually, the way they validate these things, it's like crazy. A few more
screws to remove the hard drive from its sled. Then we pop this guy off. And
voila, completely standard 500 gig
drive. All in all, we salvaged 1.16 terabytes of hard drives for about $23.
Not the worst deal on earth, but Dylan failed to mention a few things. The
tools required to actually extract the drives. The precautions that should be
taken when working with equipment that has exposed power supply circuitry like
these DVRs, the incredibly important step of checking the model number of the
unit so that you can find out how much hard drive space it has before you buy
it. And of course, the minor detail that
these hard drives have been in use for often times a very long time under non
ideal conditions. And the odds of them actually working are less than 100%. In
fact, only two of them spun up and were detected by our system. And only one of
them, a 500 gig model, managed to pass a short drive self test. So overall, a lot
more creative than chucking external drives. But these emissions are going to
cost Dylan44 a few points. I give this tech talk a 7 out of 10. But if
Adding sketchy hard drives to your system isn't the best idea. What can you
do if your drive is full? Well, one idea is to just free up space on your
existing machine. We watched countless Tik Toks and this one by Hardware Savvy
is definitely the best, but also the most infuriating because he almost got
it right. How to instantly free up gigabytes of space from your PC. And
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,
like this one here. This is all fine. In the next video, I'm going to show you a
tool that's going to allow you to free up tens of gigabytes of data that you never thought existed on your hard
drive. He shows Winder Stat briefly. No video about it ever comes out.
Okay. Uninstalling unused programs and cleaning up temporary files are both a
good start, but the truth is that 4 gigs isn't even enough to install many game
patches these days, let alone the entire game. And that's where the type of tool
that TechSavvy showed us, but then didn't demonstrate how to use is much
more useful. We're going to go to nite.com, select Windstat, get your
Nite, and we're going to install one of those tools, and show you guys how to
use it. Now that Windstat is installed, all we need to do is wait for the
analysis to run. You have 18 1/2 gigs in your recycle bin, Alex. When the
analysis is done, you get this great visualization that shows your entire
drive as a mosaic of little squares and rectangles. Then if you select a
particular folder, you can actually see an outline of every one of the
individual files inside that folder. And that's what's really great about a tool
like this is instead of only targeting temporary files that the operating
system itself created and knows are temporary, it can target files that you
created temporarily and then totally forgot about. Overall, we were able to
free up almost 30 GB of unneeded data. So I give this tech talk a 10 out of 10
for the idea. The implementation where he doesn't actually make the video he
promised drags it down to about a three.
We have no idea why these videos are so big on Tik Tok. This is not hacking.
It's the easiest, cheapest content ever, but for whatever reason, it racks up
millions of likes. So there, fine. We tried it. But that wasn't really the
point of this segment. The point of this segment is to try out some of the top
Tik Tok hacks that are about as hacking
as what I just did was.
Our first hack from DS has 3/4 of a million likes and almost 100,000 shares.
You go up to this top bar and you type in P R N.
SC/ any two letters and any four numbers and
you press enter and it will give you a screenshot from somebody's phone. Okay.
So, we're just going to an image uploading service, typing in random
characters, and hoping to creep someone's pictures. Yeah. So, I did this
for about 20 minutes. There are a couple that we can't show, but those were just
stuff like full GPA breakdowns, English proficiency tests, and someone's
onboarding for a job in India as a mechanical engineer where they were
making $3 an hour. Also, lots of invoices, and some Bitcoin wallets, all
of which are not things you should be putting on here. Okay, so what's
happening here is people are using more advanced screen capture software than
what's included with their computer. Snipping tool, which comes with Windows,
will allow you to drag a window and then save that file, but it only saves it
locally. Some of these other programs, like Shareex, for example, have features
that allow you to automatically upload the image to an image sharing service
and then they will actually take that URL, automatically copy it to your
clipboard, and then allow you to paste it and share it with someone else. It's
very convenient when the images you're capturing aren't confidential or
private. But this goes to show you how easily people could stumble across them,
whether by accident or in this case on purpose. Do you want the best one that I
found? Not porn, is it? I'd be enjoying a glass of wine, sitting back in a black
leather armchair, watching a fireplace while the walls of the room I'm in are
covered in screaming and wailing faces.
Yeah, definitely a way to kill an hour if you have nothing else to do. And
unlike any of our other hacks, you are actually accessing compromised
information someone didn't intend to share with you. I'm giving it a 10. Time
for our next hack. Everyone knows about inspect element. Yep. It allows you to
edit the contents of a web page. But if you go to console and write
document.design mode equals on, you can edit just about anything on the page by
typing normally. Still not a hack, but
if you're into doctoring screenshots and causing mayhem within your social
circle, I could see this one coming in handy. I give this one a nine. It's just
so convenient. I can share this with Steve right now. Steve just got back to
me. WTF? What the is this? Lol. Joke or
no? I am literally the worst friend. I dropped everything and immediately
changed the password and checked the account. Can I upgrade that one to a 10
out of 10? Yep. Time for our next hack. This one's my favorite.
Oh god. Okay, I see where this is going. Time to hide this homework folder.
Customize. Change icon. Pick an icon no
one could ever look for. Yep. Hidden
forever. Hiding in plain sight. It's not hacking, but I give it an eight and a
half out of 10. Really? Well, the thing about hiding a folder is that if
whoever's looking for it knows how to show hidden folders, they will be able
to find that one. So, you can see it's as simple as changing my file explorer
settings to show hidden folders and boom. Now, MSN network shows up and you
can see it's kind of grayed out. That's what hidden folders look like. So, me,
an intellectual, I'm going to go someone was trying to hide this. Oh my.
A better way to hide it is to just leave it in plain sight then and encrypt it.
So now our original MSN network, boom, is empty. And this new folder can only
be accessed by me. Now that's a money shot. How to view any private Instagram
post. So what you're first going to do is you're going to rightclick, hit
inspect. Oh, good. We're back to inspect element. Click that and you're going to
hit remove. So after y'all remove the page hide button, all you got to do is
hit the refresh button. Boom. There y'all go.
That is pathetic. If that actually works, we reload the page.
Maybe at some point it was this easy. Apparently, it doesn't work anymore. I'm
giving this a 1 out of 10. Why does it have 23,000 likes? One really popular
type of tech talk is people showing off their epic gaming rigs and talking about
just how affordably they can be obtained. Much was my gaming setup. Oh
god, your voice is so annoying. First off, with the PC, when I bought
it, it was around $1,100. However, I made a few upgrades so far. So, I think
that price goes up to around $1,300. You think? You think I think the entire
keyboard was around $350. I think the
mic was free cuz it got sent out to me. I paid for my boom ARM. So, the total
for my gaming setup was around $2,560. By that logic, wow, you guys wouldn't
believe how affordably you can get this setup. I paid $0. ZK sent this over to
us so that we could put it in videos and had like a sick gaming rig. And uh wow,
these two plants we got from IKEA for a total of I think it was $10. I got these
lightsabers. Maybe these were 20 bucks each at the Disney Store. Who's counting
anyway? Uh these gold coins. These were sent by Dbrand. You Dbrand. Obviously,
the best part though is this LTT Store Northern Lights dustpad. Only $29.99.
ltstore.com. Samsung sent us this monitor. They
actually sponsored the video we made about it. So net, this cost negative. So
in total, this gaming setup costs you less than $0. Enjoy. Hope it was
helpful. Freaking idiot. Watch what happens when I turn on my
Epic Gaming Battle Station.
Okay. Rigging VC to open a video file when you turn on your computer. Not
exactly a hack, but I can see why the kids would be into this. Unfortunately,
what they didn't show you is how to do it. Step one is you'll need someone to
control your RGB lighting. Andy, uh, do you want to come out from behind the
table? Yeah, we had an iPad to do that, but the app was being complicated, so
Andy pressed the button. Anyway, the point is all you got to do is go on
spiceworks.com and there's this great topic called Windows 10 play a video
upon login before loading the desktop. It's a bit of doing. It will take a
while, but the point is if you really want to do
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
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
here? Oh, good. Hardware Savvy is back. Here's how to make your computer faster
in 10 seconds. Restart your computer. When you enter your BIOS, find your
RAM's XMPP profile. Click on it and choose it. Oh man. Okay, there's a few
things here. One, yes. Okay, XMPP can be a way to get a little bit more speed out
of your computer. But in many cases, the XMPP rated speed of your RAM will not
actually run stably with your motherboard and the integrated memory
controller on your CPU. I give this tech tip a 6 and a half. It's a valid tech
tip, but there's a lot of details missing. Yeah, hardware savvy could have
mentioned that it's called DOCP on AMD systems. That's that's useful. That's
good to know. Oh my god, shut up. Okay,
so it shows you how to add multiple things to the Windows clipboard. All
right, that's pretty handy. Let's try it. Ctrl
+ C. Just make sure that you don't enable this feature on a shared computer
if for whatever reason you are copying things that you wouldn't want anyone
else to see. Good tech talk. 9 and a half out of 10.
I like it. Our final tech talk from the Savage 1013 has 59,000 hearts and 2,000
shares. Push the Fn Windows and shift
key with B. This is going to reset slash
fix your drivers for your graphics card. Okay. Control, Windows, Shift, B. Okay,
nine out of 10. Could be a useful tech talk. If you guys enjoyed this video,
but you're looking for something a bit more serious, maybe check out our time
card video. That's right. It's a card designed to keep time in your PC. It's
actually really cool.