oh my what is going on that's your embarrassing tech story wow what a
perfect segue hey we should ask hey I got an idea Sammy oh I just came up with
this we should ask other people at line speed your group what their most
embarrassing tech stories are maybe they did something that dumb come on so I
feel bad now that wasn't are you okay no Sammy I think my most embarrassing tech
story is when you had me on ShortCircuit and I warned you that my German was
bad when you were reviewing AI glasses and we just we did it anyway I hear you
saying that that was embarrassing for you but I just want you to know that to me
it was it was charming did you see the comments from people who speak proper
German Sean don't feel bad you only lived in Germany for eight years or something
I know you have an embarrassing tech story why I have two one when Ariana pushed
me down the stairs and I don't know if this counts as embarrassing as more of
an admission of crime I did like borrow the RAM from my school's computer like
they had a school lab a computer lab well that is super embarrassing and then
we'll cringe well the embarrassing part is because I just profited all the money
after I sold it that's just fraud thank you and you you came out on top in that
situation yeah I made money actually that's not all my computer had the most
RAM out of everyone else's computer so I won twice I'm imagining okay here's
hear me out okay I'm imagining you've been in a situation where you like you're
young you invited a girl over to hang out and your idea of a good time was
building a PC and so you're trying to put the GPU in but she's like what's the
problem you're like it just won't just give me a second she's like and you're
like no and then she's like I'm out of here I'm going to the other cool PC
builder guys house and then she like walks out and you're like no that story
is pretty close but it wasn't a GPU I have to go now I can tell a past work
story about Elijah oh no because you guys I'm not gonna know which one you're
talking about cuz you guys work together you worked with Elijah yeah yeah you
give us an embarrassing story about Elijah Elijah there was a time where he
was building a server for a client and a girl no it was for a client okay no
girls we were throwing everything together we were trying to get it just
started for the first time couldn't get it figured out couldn't get it figured
out and he's like what the heck is going on I ended up coming over helped
disassemble what he had put together found that there was a standoff sitting
right in the pins of the RAM and that was shorting things out and it was not
going well standoff was in the pins yeah like it was a this was in the thermal
take case that we were building the servers in and the RAM can't remember
what client but the RAM sticks were above the CPU socket on this particular
board like it was one of the stand it was one of the standoffs that you have to
screw in it was a not so normally this standoff right here but because of the
way that the board was configured the RAM was up here so the standoff was still
there and it was shorting things out in the back and I know that he was
struggling for under the rain yeah exactly why didn't you know that was
there Elijah this is memories gone I do not remember this was before the fall
okay before the fall oh of your previous company no before the fall of
Elijah tell me it better be so bad I'm one of my earliest computers we like
just got in the CD-ROM yeah and for whatever reason I was trying to move
to a different computer and I tried to hot swap it but it was the IDE CD-ROM so
when I pulled the power out I just short circuited everything and it's a big
spark and everything would dark is anyone in the room my brother laughed at
me that does sound like the worst if there's anyone that you don't want to
laugh at you well that's kind of what they're for though as well that's kind
of his main job in life really yeah so embarrassing but within the bounds of
acceptability pretty much a childhood tech thing yeah so I I guess this would
have been high school so not so like super childhood but I was taking a
computer repair class in school and we had gone through just the whole
disassembly of a computer taking all the parts out and I decided to go show my
parents when I got home be like this is the processor I took everything apart
took the processor out and like this is what actually drives everything tried to
put it back together and it wouldn't start oh and your parents are like what
are we paying for well they said that you better fix it otherwise yeah it was
your family computer okay that has some stakes to it now now mom and dad can't
get work done didn't you guys didn't file your taxes that year I guess that was
it might maybe everything was on paper still a back then I got it back together
but I what I was a console gamer in high school okay Xbox guy subscribe to
Xbox magazine played Starcraft on Xbox I don't know where I oh I did some
piece of gaming I really liked Starcraft I knew that Starcraft 2 is gonna come
out this is in 2007 okay wait did you actually play Starcraft on Xbox I don't
think it was on Xbox was it as I said that I thought that I'm like I don't
think it's on Xbox either but what do you you're saying your console gamer but you like Starcraft had a PC we had a great PC in my house but my stepdad
lorded over it and I like barely got to play it but I did play Starcraft and I
was excited for the sequel so when I went to university I was in the army and
they gave you some money towards your supplies and I was an engineering student
so I needed a particular strength of computer to be able to do use like you
know modeling programs and stuff like that so I got $500 towards a computer I
tried to get my whole computer written off but they only give me 500 bucks I think but the point is I bought this like Dell XPS that was like over $2,300
Canadian it was very expensive it was the first time I ever bought a PC but my
roommate and like close friend from high school was through and through PC gamer
and he was just flabbergasted he was like I can't believe I can't believe you
spent that much money on a laptop like how was that possible it's not even a
gaming laptop I didn't really have a sense of like what things cost well it
was a gaming laptop you're just a kid in the army and they paid for some of it and
also I had come back from basic training where they paid me a salary so I like I had some cash so I was like yeah whatever and I bought it Blizzard being
Blizzard took so long to make Starcraft 2 by the time that game came out I had a
different PC I didn't even use that laptop for that I basically played Team
Fortress 2 with it Starcraft 2 when did Starcraft 2 come out it finally came
out like in 2010 or something like that like way later wow I totally every time
I see you I forget you were in the army it was a pretty short time honestly I
should and you do judo jujitsu people should just be more scared of you I
think you've seen 1% of James you've never been embarrassed about tech I will
say I will say my oh yeah okay then my next PC was a PC that I you know PC
part picker built out I almost got one of those six core AMD CPUs back when it
was like no one's buying AMD right now but they just had more cores than any
than Intel Intel didn't even have six cores and then the people of the forums
I don't know if it was the last hectic form I actually just don't remember someone on internet forums talked me out of it I almost got those like worst AMD
CPUs ever before Ryzen yeah I mean the wood would be like I do I don't need
your yeah yeah AMD was pretty embarrassing for a while there if you
had an AMD processor at all it's like oh it's enough hmm well I'm glad you
survived I've only ever been perfectly competent with technology my whole life
so no embarrassing story sorry to report it's cuz I yeah it's cuz I only use
Apple products we live together and we had my that same PC that didn't have an
AMD processor was connected to our TV in the living room and we set it all up
and I remember I think it was your dad who came over and Andrew was just in his
glory showing him the setup and I I swear you said something very close to
note the cable management you were like specifically show them how we like had
a route of the cables around the living to be discreet I just remember being like
nerd alert your dad's in the cable man he's in two things being tidy and clean
in the house yes so that's pretty embarrassing that you cared about what
your dad thought do you have an embarrassing story embarrassing or funny
story related to tech I got I wanted an iPod for Christmas one year and instead
I got an eye river which was like a cheap South Korean knockoff I took it to
school and everyone thought it was really stupid an eye river everyone's got
iPods and everyone's super cool and then you show up to school with that well
not that I had a nicer looking one they don't have a picture of it it wasn't
any of these hold on honestly Adam I think I look at you a little bit
differently now I don't think I would want to be friends with you in high school thank you for sharing that part of yourself with us
namaste you were at a dance event and you tripped over a cord and I'm unplugged
the speakers like I've I've I've walked over cables tripped and unplugged
speakers and sound goes out I room turns around looks at me and Sean I haven't
known you long enough to know whether you're being sarcastic or not no this
is true what how could I how did I just like guess an event that happened in your
life perfectly you with the one thing I know about you which is that you do
dance yes you were absolutely spot on with it and how did that make you feel
when that happened that might potentially multiple times it happened
multiple times and it was embarrassing and it's kind of running joke now well
first of all why are why are there why were there cables important cables on
the dance floor I don't know honestly maybe I wasn't looking it was dark you
know there's lights everywhere and people are moving and I still don't know
whether I believe you this is my first time appearing on camera oh do you think
that you have to live for the video no that's one tone with everything that we
do like with everything would you like a Floatplane embarrassing technology we
shouldn't be using it it's not right it's unnatural I'm asking for embarrassing
tech stories I'm Brad I'm new I feel like my biggest tech embarrassment is that
my audio video desyncs on my TV soundbar constantly and sometimes I just let it
happen when I'm too tired oh my god I know it's a psycho move but it's that's
crazy happens so often lately and I just like I'm running out of patience fixing
it I'm just like good I just won't look at them won't look at the mouths that's
I people's eyes I feel like that doesn't sound that embarrassing to me because as
an owner of a sonos soundbar it's just been broken for like over a year and I
just I plugged into one time it didn't work and I'm like I get the soundbar in
this story is also sonos so this so I guess it's embarrassing for sonos can
you include that Sammy why not so I have a Bluetooth I have Bluetooth speakers at
home you have your hard Bluetooth speakers okay we all got blue two sometimes we put on some tunes in the morning when we're getting when I'm getting ready to
go and Shay works from home on actually that's too much information sometimes my
partner has a job not at office and so I put on tunes on the music box and then
I go down to my car which I also connect to using Bluetooth and the one time
actually several times I've been driving up the driveway which goes right past my
apartment and then for some reason my music stops playing in my car so I go
oh I turn the knob on my on my car stereo nothing goes up I'm like oh my
sonos like muted on my phone for some reason crank it on my phone and it's
just blasting like death metal as loud as it can Shay's like in bed she's like
yeah and then she dumped me and she left and now I don't have then she took
the Bluetooth speaker with her in the divorce that's not too soon man you may
be scared for a second that you actually like got divorced and I was like oh what the fuck divorce we're not even married I thought you did get married Sammy what
happened something what happened to you that was embarrassing I so in Korea you
can put no so in Korea you can put money and computers at the hospital so you
can play computer games at the hospital I didn't know that was a thing and started
doing that and then when I went home to play a computer on my dad's computer I
put coins on my dad computer and I broke that's a great story so what a perfect
place to end this video in conclusion nothing embarrassing happened to me ever
pretty much and hopefully nothing ever will thanks for watching guys float
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