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Alex: Hello Floatplane, and welcome back to Alex Week. 2 00:00:03.003 --> 00:00:06.172 Here today I'm going to be answering all of the questions that you have submitted, 3 00:00:06.206 --> 00:00:07.674 or at least most of them. 4 00:00:07.874 --> 00:00:13.513 Doyosake asks, any non tech hobbies/interests that we don't know about? 5 00:00:13.546 --> 00:00:16.549 I think that most of them are just covered in the videos. 6 00:00:16.549 --> 00:00:19.185 I kind of just turned my hobbies into my job. 7 00:00:19.319 --> 00:00:22.088 I think the biggest one is probably food and cooking, 8 00:00:22.088 --> 00:00:25.425 I really like doing big projects for dinners; 9 00:00:25.458 --> 00:00:29.529 like sometimes taking two three days of planning for it to all come together, 10 00:00:29.696 --> 00:00:32.932 and it will be fantastic at the end. 11 00:00:33.566 --> 00:00:36.236 Sammy: I heard you saw Luke's chicken video. 12 00:00:36.403 --> 00:00:41.408 Alex: Luke's chicken video was not up to my standards for cooking; 13 00:00:42.042 --> 00:00:44.611 if you want to make some good chicken, it is very simple. 14 00:00:44.744 --> 00:00:48.615 Ideally like four hours to a day beforehand make sure to marinate it, 15 00:00:48.615 --> 00:00:51.651 get some salt on there so it's able to freaking do the osmosis, 16 00:00:51.651 --> 00:00:53.787 get the salt to penetrate into the chicken; 17 00:00:54.287 --> 00:00:57.323 then just simply go give her a little seary sear on both sides, 18 00:00:57.323 --> 00:00:59.092 get that good old Maillard reaction going, 19 00:00:59.259 --> 00:01:04.264 throw it into the oven at maybe like 420 - 425, somewhere around there 20 00:01:04.264 --> 00:01:05.632 and make sure to have a meat thermometer, 21 00:01:05.632 --> 00:01:08.668 so that when it's at 165 you take her out, everything's great. 22 00:01:08.768 --> 00:01:10.170 Sammy: You're saying you can do better, right? 23 00:01:10.303 --> 00:01:12.872 Alex: I do better three to four times a week. 24 00:01:13.073 --> 00:01:14.307 Sammy: Hahahahahaha. 25 00:01:14.674 --> 00:01:16.042 Alex: JCgoblue sai- 26 00:01:16.609 --> 00:01:20.847 JCgoblue asks, what type of project would you like to do at LTT? 27 00:01:20.847 --> 00:01:24.884 budget, scope, and purpose are not an issue, something you want to do for you. 28 00:01:25.051 --> 00:01:29.089 I think the biggest project that I want to do that I haven't previously 29 00:01:29.089 --> 00:01:32.759 is to hybridize my Golf; it's the sort of thing where 30 00:01:32.792 --> 00:01:34.761 it would be an absolutely massive project, 31 00:01:34.894 --> 00:01:38.698 but I think that there is a real reason that you would want to do it. 32 00:01:38.832 --> 00:01:42.102 First of all hybrid cars, super boring almost all of them; 33 00:01:42.102 --> 00:01:44.771 Prius Prime, kind of fun; for the most part they all suck. 34 00:01:44.771 --> 00:01:48.308 I think it also would be really interesting to see like a front wheel drive car 35 00:01:48.341 --> 00:01:50.777 that is converted to electric in the back, 36 00:01:50.877 --> 00:01:53.947 and there is heaps of space in the back of a Golf GTI 37 00:01:53.947 --> 00:01:56.116 and it's already set up for all wheel drive, 38 00:01:56.149 --> 00:01:59.018 so you can get like the knuckles and sub frames and stuff from a Golf R. 39 00:01:59.152 --> 00:02:01.688 All just kind of bolts on there, it would be kind of easy; 40 00:02:01.888 --> 00:02:05.592 and I was actually sort of close to making this project happen, 41 00:02:05.625 --> 00:02:11.931 but unfortunately the company that made the wheels and motors and stuff got acquired. 42 00:02:12.198 --> 00:02:15.602 Automotive parts manufacturers are very willing to work with you, 43 00:02:15.635 --> 00:02:19.606 until they get acquired by a big guy and they will never answer your email again. 44 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:23.643 Without them it was going to be a 40 grand, and that just killed the project. 45 00:02:23.676 --> 00:02:24.410 Sammy: Oh, that would be- 46 00:02:24.410 --> 00:02:24.644 Alex: Yeah. 47 00:02:24.644 --> 00:02:25.411 Sammy: That's a little too expensive. 48 00:02:25.478 --> 00:02:26.379 Alex: Yeah, it's too expensive. 49 00:02:26.813 --> 00:02:30.183 Alex: Not even to mention that like, would it work? I don't even know. 50 00:02:30.450 --> 00:02:34.587 But having a manual car with a hybrid system just sounds so freaking fun to me, 51 00:02:34.587 --> 00:02:35.555 I want to see what happens. 52 00:02:35.788 --> 00:02:38.625 FrankReynolds asks, what is your bucket list car to drive? 53 00:02:38.625 --> 00:02:40.293 What is your bucket list car to own? 54 00:02:40.426 --> 00:02:44.197 So dream car is the Kimera Automobili Evo 37. 55 00:02:44.330 --> 00:02:48.401 A lot of restomods in general I really like, but that one in particular, 56 00:02:48.401 --> 00:02:52.639 like the old rally cars just really get me going 57 00:02:52.672 --> 00:02:56.643 and that one is the most beautiful restomod that I have seen; 58 00:02:56.709 --> 00:03:00.280 especially the way that it's like supercharger, turbocharger, 59 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:03.416 505 horsepower in something the size of a Miata, 60 00:03:03.416 --> 00:03:05.618 man that thing is freaking sick. 61 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.689 Also of course lots of other bucket list cars to drive McLaren F1, Ferrari F40; 62 00:03:09.689 --> 00:03:11.124 all beautiful things. 63 00:03:11.257 --> 00:03:14.494 AxManDo asks, did you go to college, if so what for? 64 00:03:14.527 --> 00:03:17.297 I went to Memorial University of Newfoundland; 65 00:03:17.297 --> 00:03:22.902 I did six out of eight terms there, but it was a work term sort of thing. 66 00:03:22.936 --> 00:03:26.072 So you would do one term in school one term working; 67 00:03:26.072 --> 00:03:30.643 and then the whole oil price crashed there, went into the dumps 68 00:03:30.643 --> 00:03:33.112 and so did all of the jobs for engineers there. 69 00:03:33.146 --> 00:03:36.983 This meant that instead of doing a work term I went to Fastenal. 70 00:03:37.951 --> 00:03:39.452 It was not very fun. 71 00:03:39.752 --> 00:03:46.092 Fastenal is a company that in theory delivers bolts to engineers and companies, 72 00:03:46.092 --> 00:03:50.496 but they actually just deliver sadness and sorrow to everyone involved. 73 00:03:51.130 --> 00:03:54.267 It's an awful company, I hate them genuinely. 74 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:58.037 Not just from me working there, but working with them before and after? 75 00:03:58.204 --> 00:04:00.306 Always a terrible time. 76 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:04.177 Because it was going to be like another two years of potentially 77 00:04:04.510 --> 00:04:10.183 not getting good jobs, like I had a friend with a 4.0 GPA that cleaned pools for a term. 78 00:04:10.316 --> 00:04:15.922 Like, oh I'll just transfer to UNB get it done, get the degree, be out of there; 79 00:04:15.955 --> 00:04:21.127 and too many people failed at UNB and I was not able to get into there when- 80 00:04:21.294 --> 00:04:24.330 I found out about that like a couple days before I was supposed to start. 81 00:04:24.597 --> 00:04:25.732 Thanks guys. 82 00:04:26.165 --> 00:04:28.768 So I decided like okay I have four months to do nothing. 83 00:04:28.768 --> 00:04:32.405 I'm just going to apply to literally every single dream job that I can find. 84 00:04:32.438 --> 00:04:37.744 So like Bose Media Group; they do all of the filming for rally companies, 85 00:04:38.011 --> 00:04:39.979 Veritasium, here. 86 00:04:40.013 --> 00:04:42.615 Just kind of everywhere that I thought could be incredibly cool, 87 00:04:42.615 --> 00:04:46.352 I sent out like 50-60 resumes and stuff and ended up here. 88 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.289 If you want a cool job just apply to a bunch of them. 89 00:04:49.455 --> 00:04:54.294 14RChico asks, what really got you interested in engineering things? 90 00:04:54.294 --> 00:04:58.097 If you had an opportunity to go back and redo something from a previous LTT video, 91 00:04:58.097 --> 00:04:58.898 what would it be? 92 00:04:59.032 --> 00:05:03.169 I don't know I've kind of just always been interested in engineering sort of stuff. 93 00:05:03.202 --> 00:05:06.873 I wouldn't have called that like back in I don't know junior high or whatever; 94 00:05:06.906 --> 00:05:11.077 but just always building dumb things, doing dumb stuff, making dumb projects. 95 00:05:11.544 --> 00:05:15.148 Sort of like in grade six I made a hydroplane, 96 00:05:15.381 --> 00:05:18.451 and ripped around on that for a couple of summers; 97 00:05:18.618 --> 00:05:22.155 always building like ski jumps, skimboarding jumps, that sort of stuff. 98 00:05:22.689 --> 00:05:26.459 As far as stuff that I'd like to redo from previous LTT videos... 99 00:05:26.893 --> 00:05:27.860 Oh that one's hard. 100 00:05:28.061 --> 00:05:30.363 If I'm honest I don't really have a great answer to that. 101 00:05:30.363 --> 00:05:35.635 I normally think of what the next thing is, and very rarely consider like 102 00:05:35.668 --> 00:05:37.470 revisiting stuff that I've already done. 103 00:05:37.503 --> 00:05:38.538 Like I've already got that like, 104 00:05:39.205 --> 00:05:42.775 whatever it was in my mind that I wanted to do is probably done. 105 00:05:42.842 --> 00:05:48.047 And even if it wasn't done as good as I want, I've probably scratched the itch for that 106 00:05:48.047 --> 00:05:51.351 and it's out there and whatever move on, do something else. 107 00:05:51.517 --> 00:05:55.788 Blakehusky asks, do you have any engineering projects you work on outside of LMG? 108 00:05:55.955 --> 00:06:00.893 That's mostly like car stuff, I sometimes do woodworking projects and that sort of stuff; 109 00:06:00.927 --> 00:06:05.631 like I recently made a record player stand, nothing super duper crazy. 110 00:06:05.631 --> 00:06:09.001 It's mostly just I want to make my car faster or something like that. 111 00:06:09.035 --> 00:06:11.137 Actually what I really want to do right now is 112 00:06:11.170 --> 00:06:15.041 I have an old Logitech steering wheel for sim racing; it's not up to snuff, 113 00:06:15.074 --> 00:06:19.112 so I'm replacing the internals and hopefully I can for cheap make it great. 114 00:06:19.278 --> 00:06:24.016 Legendarymaster8657 asks, what made you want to work at LMG? 115 00:06:24.050 --> 00:06:29.222 They put out a video being like we need writers, we don't have any ideas; apply. 116 00:06:29.889 --> 00:06:30.590 So I did. 117 00:06:32.325 --> 00:06:35.661 I already really wanted to work on like making YouTube videos, 118 00:06:35.661 --> 00:06:39.832 or just videos in general that were specifically educational. 119 00:06:39.866 --> 00:06:43.536 So this was just a very natural spot that I thought that I could do well at. 120 00:06:43.536 --> 00:06:46.372 How do we convince Linus to do more car videos? 121 00:06:46.372 --> 00:06:46.806 I don't know. 122 00:06:46.939 --> 00:06:50.977 Joshua_Carol asks, how has the process at LMG changed 123 00:06:51.010 --> 00:06:53.946 for engineering ventures with Alex and Linus type videos? 124 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:58.351 The biggest thing is that now there's normally a team behind them; 125 00:06:58.551 --> 00:07:03.289 it's not just me doing something but also Justin is almost always involved, 126 00:07:03.289 --> 00:07:06.492 probably Sebastian, Rob, a bunch of people at Creator Warehouse, 127 00:07:06.526 --> 00:07:11.764 and that allows them to be just way more ambitious and it's a lot easier on me as well. 128 00:07:11.898 --> 00:07:14.500 Because there's always two things that you have to balance; 129 00:07:14.534 --> 00:07:17.770 one, you have to make a project, and two, you have to make a video; 130 00:07:17.804 --> 00:07:22.141 and without one of those nothing happens. 131 00:07:22.375 --> 00:07:27.246 So it's really nice when I can offload like some of the 3D design or stuff to other people 132 00:07:27.246 --> 00:07:31.150 and I can focus on making the video as entertaining as possible 133 00:07:31.184 --> 00:07:34.387 while also like getting to go home on time sort of. 134 00:07:34.454 --> 00:07:38.324 FurowsemideFlow, sorry if I mispronounced that. 135 00:07:38.357 --> 00:07:42.428 What is your favorite project that you've ever worked on professionally or personally? 136 00:07:42.462 --> 00:07:47.333 I think my favorite project project has to be the Pyramid PC. 137 00:07:47.333 --> 00:07:51.604 There's just something about how insane that turned out that I really like. 138 00:07:51.637 --> 00:07:58.511 It's just such a crazy thing of excess and it just looks like no other PC that I've ever seen. 139 00:07:58.544 --> 00:08:03.182 But that said, I think the project that I am most proud of would have to be 140 00:08:03.216 --> 00:08:05.184 the Windows modern standby stuff. 141 00:08:05.218 --> 00:08:11.591 I spent like an entire year getting super duper mad at literally every single laptop maker, 142 00:08:11.657 --> 00:08:16.429 and when it became pretty clear that they weren't actually able to do anything about it, 143 00:08:16.429 --> 00:08:21.434 I made a video on LTT where I just said, screw it I'm not using Windows anymore 144 00:08:21.467 --> 00:08:23.936 I'm going to Apple because it's unacceptable. 145 00:08:23.970 --> 00:08:26.639 And I've actually had, since I published that video, 146 00:08:26.672 --> 00:08:31.344 so many people at both chip makers and laptop brands 147 00:08:31.377 --> 00:08:34.714 approach me at like LTX and CES and stuff and be like, 148 00:08:34.714 --> 00:08:38.951 thank you so much for that video on Windows modern standby. 149 00:08:38.985 --> 00:08:42.388 We have been telling Microsoft for years and years that this was a problem 150 00:08:42.421 --> 00:08:44.757 and we were not able to get it fixed. 151 00:08:44.757 --> 00:08:47.960 That video is what lit a fire under their butts to actually fix it; 152 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:49.595 and I don't know about you guys, 153 00:08:49.629 --> 00:08:53.866 but I haven't had Windows modern standby problems in like a year or two? 154 00:08:54.033 --> 00:08:58.004 It might just be because I have been really, really good about reporting 155 00:08:58.004 --> 00:08:59.805 every single time that I have an issue. 156 00:08:59.839 --> 00:09:06.145 And I also have an inside line at Microsoft; so all of my personal issues just get resolved 157 00:09:06.145 --> 00:09:10.883 every single time that I have a Windows modern standby problem I make sure to do like 158 00:09:10.917 --> 00:09:13.953 the whole dump and stuff and report it as an issue to Microsoft. 159 00:09:13.953 --> 00:09:17.323 And if you guys are still having issues, make sure to do that; 160 00:09:17.356 --> 00:09:20.059 it seems to actually be getting attention and be getting fixed. 161 00:09:20.126 --> 00:09:24.897 Stalkingpixels asks, what is the biggest waste of money project you've worked on? 162 00:09:25.164 --> 00:09:28.968 I think that has to be the Porsche Taycan review. 163 00:09:28.968 --> 00:09:29.302 I think that has to be the Porsche Taycan review. 164 00:09:29.302 --> 00:09:34.073 That was like the third or fourth really big car review that we did; 165 00:09:34.106 --> 00:09:39.211 and the first couple were sponsored, which is normally how I justify just crazy budgets, 166 00:09:39.211 --> 00:09:42.481 but that one got a little bit out of hand. 167 00:09:42.715 --> 00:09:42.748 Like we rented an entire mansion for an intro, and that was not cheap at all. 168 00:09:42.748 --> 00:09:48.354 Like we rented an entire mansion for an intro, and that was not cheap at all. 169 00:09:48.354 --> 00:09:48.421 We also rented a track for two days and a camera car; also incredibly expensive things. 170 00:09:48.421 --> 00:09:54.794 We also rented a track for two days and a camera car; also incredibly expensive things. 171 00:09:54.794 --> 00:10:00.232 And without a dedicated sponsor behind it, I know for sure we lost a lot of money. 172 00:10:00.266 --> 00:10:03.603 I won't give you exact figures, but it was probably like over 10 grand. 173 00:10:04.003 --> 00:10:05.705 You know what? Screw it let's, let's just get into the numbers. 174 00:10:05.705 --> 00:10:13.212 I'm pretty sure the track was 3, 600 dollars, the camera car was easily like three to four grand. 175 00:10:13.245 --> 00:10:16.782 And I think that we paid like $4, 000 for the mansion, 176 00:10:16.816 --> 00:10:18.884 plus like a bunch of people's time and stuff; 177 00:10:18.918 --> 00:10:21.520 without a dedicated sponsor, you're losing a lot of money. 178 00:10:21.554 --> 00:10:25.558 And we also had to rent the car as well for a month. 179 00:10:25.558 --> 00:10:27.593 I was not the one that organized all of that. 180 00:10:27.627 --> 00:10:31.364 That said, drifting a Taycan on a track, man that was frigging sick. 181 00:10:32.198 --> 00:10:33.966 Oh, and we had to pay a stunt driver too. 182 00:10:34.033 --> 00:10:39.639 I did drift it, but I'm not confident enough to drift it within like three feet of a camera. 183 00:10:39.672 --> 00:10:41.574 Sammy: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah... 184 00:10:41.674 --> 00:10:42.675 Sammy: It's one of those... 185 00:10:42.742 --> 00:10:45.511 Alex: Ploat_Flane asks, what's the most complicated 186 00:10:45.544 --> 00:10:49.749 theoretical electronics work you've had to do in your life, and also in an LTT video? 187 00:10:49.782 --> 00:10:55.955 I think the toughest one might've been "How power supplies work turbo nerd edition". 188 00:10:55.988 --> 00:11:01.794 I went into that video not having one clue how a power supply works. 189 00:11:01.794 --> 00:11:06.232 I don't have an electronics background at all, really; it's all mechanical. 190 00:11:06.232 --> 00:11:12.838 And so I went in that just kind of being like... capacitor? DC? I don't know. 191 00:11:13.005 --> 00:11:18.444 And now I think I have a really in-depth understanding of how a power supply works; 192 00:11:18.477 --> 00:11:20.312 what makes it good, what makes one bad, 193 00:11:20.312 --> 00:11:25.851 and all of that I had to learn for that video by just interviewing a crap load of people. 194 00:11:25.851 --> 00:11:27.987 And man, that really made my brain hurt. 195 00:11:28.421 --> 00:11:32.358 Joshua_Carol asks, how was your Intel Extreme upgrade been holding up 196 00:11:32.391 --> 00:11:36.262 over the last three and a half years? Have you added anything new to your space? 197 00:11:36.629 --> 00:11:42.435 I have moved but that said, it's been pretty much identical the entire time. 198 00:11:42.468 --> 00:11:47.473 I intentionally selected everything so that it would just be reliable and completely 199 00:11:47.473 --> 00:11:52.778 me no have to touch it, for as long as possible; and that is what it has been. 200 00:11:52.778 --> 00:11:59.285 It has been fantastic, I screw around with unreliable, broken computers all day at work. 201 00:11:59.318 --> 00:12:02.088 I do not need to figure around with that when I get home. 202 00:12:02.655 --> 00:12:05.791 CarlyK asks, what was your first day at LTT like? 203 00:12:06.158 --> 00:12:10.029 Well, my first day at LTT I was not actually hired yet; 204 00:12:10.062 --> 00:12:14.967 they flew me out here for a day to do an interview and a day in the job, 205 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.837 just sort of see how I was at doing stuff. 206 00:12:17.870 --> 00:12:22.475 First of all, the interview went terribly; it was really, really bad. 207 00:12:23.542 --> 00:12:27.046 I went out to dinner with Yvonne, Linus, and all of their kids; 208 00:12:27.046 --> 00:12:30.116 including a baby that had literally just been born. 209 00:12:30.149 --> 00:12:34.620 Alex: And I was like asleep for the entire thing. Sammy: What!? 210 00:12:34.653 --> 00:12:38.124 Alex: Because it started at like seven or something like that? 211 00:12:38.157 --> 00:12:40.159 Alex: And I had just flown from the east coast. Sammy: Oh, okay. 212 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:46.532 Alex: And so it was taking place at like midnight for me and my body. 213 00:12:46.532 --> 00:12:49.602 So like halfway through I just started being like, Uuuugh huhuh; 214 00:12:50.903 --> 00:12:57.009 but then the next day I came in and did pretty much the entire video for 215 00:12:57.243 --> 00:13:01.514 some stupid HP trash can desktop thing. 216 00:13:01.647 --> 00:13:05.251 So I ended up actually coming in, scripting most of the video, 217 00:13:05.284 --> 00:13:07.553 completely blowing the whole thing apart. 218 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.657 I left it in just pieces in a bin so, they had no choice but to hire me. 219 00:13:11.690 --> 00:13:13.392 No one else knew how to put it back together. 220 00:13:13.526 --> 00:13:17.062 Sammy: Is that a life hack there? Just make it so that when you have- 221 00:13:17.096 --> 00:13:19.532 They have to hire you because you leave it like unfinished? 222 00:13:19.765 --> 00:13:23.669 Alex: Yes, I strongly recommend starting and not finishing a tear down 223 00:13:23.702 --> 00:13:25.204 on your very first day of work. 224 00:13:25.337 --> 00:13:30.009 Absolomb36 asks, do you like equal length exhaust headers? 225 00:13:30.009 --> 00:13:31.610 Yes, I absolutely love them; 226 00:13:31.644 --> 00:13:37.783 me and Andy actually ended up in a skyline with equal length headers just after we arrived in Tokyo. 227 00:13:37.817 --> 00:13:41.821 It turns out people are just nice there; so if you walk down the street and see some cool cars, 228 00:13:41.854 --> 00:13:46.292 people will just take you for rides in them, and it sounded frickin incredible. 229 00:13:55.768 --> 00:14:01.473 Sporeman51 asks, you've put yourself into a neat bucket as the guy that engineers the weirdest setups. 230 00:14:01.507 --> 00:14:05.110 In a world without the LMG opportunity, what do you think you'd be doing? 231 00:14:05.277 --> 00:14:10.850 There's a good chance that I would be doing either mechanical design or finite element analysis; 232 00:14:11.050 --> 00:14:15.187 so both of those are the main things that I focused on while I was in engineering school. 233 00:14:15.221 --> 00:14:20.659 And I think I'm really good at mechanical design, which is sort of the main thing that I do here, 234 00:14:20.693 --> 00:14:25.631 but also finite element analysis I did a whole lot of for a couple of jobs. 235 00:14:25.664 --> 00:14:30.870 Made some software that just like FEAs out a whole bunch of stuff in Excel, 236 00:14:30.870 --> 00:14:33.606 It's a whole bunch of math, not very interesting stuff. 237 00:14:34.173 --> 00:14:37.209 That said though, I really like making videos. 238 00:14:37.243 --> 00:14:41.413 And even in engineering school I was like, how can I make videos doing this? 239 00:14:41.413 --> 00:14:44.350 So there's a good chance that I just end up doing this somewhere else anyway. 240 00:14:44.350 --> 00:14:48.387 Amaqur asks, if you're stuck on a remote island with Linus, 241 00:14:48.420 --> 00:14:51.257 what three things would you take for both of you to survive? 242 00:14:51.257 --> 00:14:53.993 So I think that the first one has to be a gaming desktop. 243 00:14:54.026 --> 00:14:58.898 The second one is another gaming desktop so that we can do you know, LAN parties; 244 00:14:59.064 --> 00:15:04.203 and the third one is a great big solar generator farm, 245 00:15:04.336 --> 00:15:07.373 so that we could have LAN parties on the island. 246 00:15:08.140 --> 00:15:09.008 Sammy: You're not going to ask for help? 247 00:15:10.175 --> 00:15:10.776 Alex: Who needs help!? 248 00:15:10.943 --> 00:15:15.314 Then you can just forego everything that you have to do in your normal day to day life. 249 00:15:15.347 --> 00:15:18.317 Like surviving is easy enough, I've read Hatchet before. 250 00:15:18.450 --> 00:15:22.454 We can figure out how to make water and fires and stuff like that; 251 00:15:22.554 --> 00:15:28.294 but we definitely cannot figure out how to make gaming desktops out in the wild; 252 00:15:29.461 --> 00:15:31.030 so that's what we're going to do. 253 00:15:31.096 --> 00:15:32.998 FullMetalBlast asks, 254 00:15:33.032 --> 00:15:38.203 OMG sweet, I've always meant to ask why does Alex like touchscreens on Windows devices so much? 255 00:15:38.404 --> 00:15:42.074 I notice he mentions them in his reviews of laptops on ShortCircuit usually. 256 00:15:42.107 --> 00:15:47.546 I do a lot of making videos, so a whole lot of the time I will just have the script open like this. 257 00:15:47.579 --> 00:15:51.917 And as Linus talks, I'll just be going through it making sure that he's saying the correct thing. 258 00:15:51.951 --> 00:15:56.322 It's really easy to just say something stupid and wrong when you're reading off of a prompter 259 00:15:56.355 --> 00:15:58.424 or when you're just saying things in general. 260 00:15:58.457 --> 00:16:01.760 So it makes our lives a whole lot easier if you're just making sure that it's correct, 261 00:16:01.760 --> 00:16:07.566 and he didn't say like, oh "the 14 inch QHD plus touchscreen that goes up to 500 nits"; 262 00:16:07.566 --> 00:16:10.402 when it's actually 13 inch, it's really easy to make mistakes like that. 263 00:16:10.436 --> 00:16:14.540 Also on show floors and stuff like that, we typically will instead of 264 00:16:14.573 --> 00:16:17.977 uploading a script to a prompter, I will just make a bunch of notes 265 00:16:18.043 --> 00:16:19.912 and then do it sort of like this. 266 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:25.250 We'll get a brand rep or sort of whoever, make the text really nice and big. 267 00:16:25.284 --> 00:16:28.887 And then they have to scroll like this for my talking points, 268 00:16:29.421 --> 00:16:34.159 as I go through reviewing something for a ShortCircuit or LTT; 269 00:16:34.493 --> 00:16:37.796 and that way it's really easy to just be like, okay I'm going to move it right here, 270 00:16:37.863 --> 00:16:39.431 touchscreen up, down. 271 00:16:39.465 --> 00:16:42.401 If you had to do that with the keys and stuff, it's just not as intuitive. 272 00:16:42.634 --> 00:16:49.441 Nathanallen8083 asks, what is your all time favorite laptop you've either owned or reviewed? 273 00:16:49.708 --> 00:16:53.379 I think it has to be the HP Dragonfly Elite. 274 00:16:53.379 --> 00:16:56.015 I just frigging love that thing, it is such a great laptop; 275 00:16:56.048 --> 00:17:01.387 And as someone whose job is writing scripts and doing a whole bunch of typing, 276 00:17:01.420 --> 00:17:04.923 it is still the laptop with the absolute best keyboard on the market; 277 00:17:05.024 --> 00:17:09.461 it had I/O that was really nice and solid, and I kind of want to go back to it, 278 00:17:09.495 --> 00:17:12.564 but it's really unfortunate because I switched to the Surface. 279 00:17:13.365 --> 00:17:19.171 It is also a really great laptop and switching back is more effort than I feel like doing? 280 00:17:19.972 --> 00:17:23.909 And also sadly, HP has killed the Dragonfly line; they have a new EliteBook 281 00:17:23.976 --> 00:17:26.311 and it's pretty good, but the keyboard's like meh; 282 00:17:26.378 --> 00:17:29.948 It's like an A, instead of the A++ of the Dragonfly, I'm sad. 283 00:17:30.349 --> 00:17:35.087 Jerrramy-from-account asks, what is the line in your opinion between janky and stupid? 284 00:17:36.288 --> 00:17:41.460 I think it's if it's funny or not; if it plays well and is amusing in a video, 285 00:17:41.493 --> 00:17:43.395 then it's janky and it's fun. 286 00:17:43.529 --> 00:17:48.100 If it just doesn't work and is a bad implementation, then it is stupid. 287 00:17:48.267 --> 00:17:53.705 silver_toad asks, at LMG which 3D printers get used more, FDM or SLA / resin? 288 00:17:53.739 --> 00:17:59.244 It has to be FDM for sure; it's way cheaper, it's way faster, you can do bigger stuff I think? 289 00:17:59.244 --> 00:18:03.782 I don't know how big SLA is, but it's cheaper and faster which are the main things. 290 00:18:03.816 --> 00:18:09.288 And typically, we aren't super concerned about the quality and strength of a print 291 00:18:09.321 --> 00:18:11.356 for something that we're just making for a project. 292 00:18:11.390 --> 00:18:17.329 FDM is really easy to work around its limitations and just get it on there, get it done. 293 00:18:17.362 --> 00:18:19.865 FilthyBob asks, how do you like your coffee? 294 00:18:19.898 --> 00:18:25.671 I am a little bit of a coffee nerd, so I always have my weekend and my weekday coffee. 295 00:18:25.704 --> 00:18:29.808 So the weekday coffee has to be pretty darn good, 296 00:18:29.842 --> 00:18:33.512 but it can't be so expensive that I just put myself like, 297 00:18:33.512 --> 00:18:35.547 I don't know, on the street or something like that. 298 00:18:35.547 --> 00:18:37.683 I really like agro coffee roasters, 299 00:18:37.716 --> 00:18:41.553 because you can get like five pound bags of their stuff and it's really tasty; 300 00:18:41.587 --> 00:18:44.456 but it does not just ruin you financially. 301 00:18:44.690 --> 00:18:50.863 That said, on the weekends I really enjoy spending a bit of extra time making it with the pour over, 302 00:18:50.929 --> 00:18:57.436 having it be all nice and fancy and having like a little 300 gram bag that cost you $25 303 00:18:57.503 --> 00:18:59.538 and just being like, wow what an experience. 304 00:18:59.571 --> 00:19:01.440 Sammy: I didn't know how much of a coffee person you were 305 00:19:01.473 --> 00:19:04.042 until we did that influencer food video for Floatplane? 306 00:19:04.076 --> 00:19:07.579 Alex: Yeah, so here are the things that you need to know about coffee. Sammy: Hahahahahahahaha. 307 00:19:07.613 --> 00:19:09.381 Sammy: No, no, no, no; they can watch that video. 308 00:19:09.381 --> 00:19:11.817 Alex: No, it's very fast Sammy. 309 00:19:11.950 --> 00:19:12.718 Sammy: Okay. 310 00:19:12.885 --> 00:19:15.854 Alex: Make sure that it has the roast date and that it is pretty recent; 311 00:19:15.888 --> 00:19:19.091 if it's like from a couple of months ago, don't look at it. 312 00:19:19.124 --> 00:19:23.829 Also get it locally, because just for one putting it on planes makes it taste worse, 313 00:19:23.829 --> 00:19:26.064 but also support your local coffee roasters. 314 00:19:26.064 --> 00:19:30.102 I guarantee you that there's someone within easy driving distance that makes great stuff. 315 00:19:30.402 --> 00:19:33.238 And if you're not totally sure who that is, I don't know, order some agro; 316 00:19:33.238 --> 00:19:34.640 I'll shout them out again. 317 00:19:34.673 --> 00:19:40.579 Jackus9 asks, what's your favorite tool? Maybe one sub a hundred dollars and one at any price. 318 00:19:40.612 --> 00:19:42.948 What's the scariest thing you've ever seen Linus do? 319 00:19:43.215 --> 00:19:46.952 So my favorite tool, the one that I'm going to shout out is the mini flip. 320 00:19:46.952 --> 00:19:51.423 It's a little miniature spatula that I use for cooking all the time; I absolutely love them. 321 00:19:51.590 --> 00:19:54.226 They're really cheap, you can buy like 15 of them 322 00:19:54.259 --> 00:19:57.162 and then not have to worry about them being semi-disposable; 323 00:19:57.162 --> 00:20:00.766 and it's so great for like, you want to get into your eggs and flip them over 324 00:20:00.766 --> 00:20:01.967 and not break the yolk. 325 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.035 Really great. 326 00:20:03.035 --> 00:20:06.138 You probably were asking for like a tool for working on things, 327 00:20:06.171 --> 00:20:08.440 but I really, really love my mini flips. 328 00:20:08.473 --> 00:20:09.541 Alex: This is a mini flip. 329 00:20:10.475 --> 00:20:14.513 Watch this, oh, ooh; it wants to be stuck right there, 330 00:20:14.713 --> 00:20:16.915 but the mini flip can just come into action. 331 00:20:18.183 --> 00:20:19.918 Okay, I can't be looking at my phone. 332 00:20:19.918 --> 00:20:21.019 One sec, I hope the framing's fine. 333 00:20:21.019 --> 00:20:22.254 Oh, look at that. 334 00:20:24.056 --> 00:20:25.023 Boom! 335 00:20:26.258 --> 00:20:28.627 That was a tricky one too, but the mini flip did it. 336 00:20:28.794 --> 00:20:30.329 Sammy: Can we get one for tools then? 337 00:20:30.362 --> 00:20:31.230 Sammy: Hahaha. 338 00:20:31.330 --> 00:20:35.267 Alex: I think that my favorite sub hundred dollar tool has to be the LTT screwdriver. 339 00:20:35.300 --> 00:20:37.502 Like for one, I helped design the handle; 340 00:20:37.536 --> 00:20:42.507 but two, it is just legitimately useful in so many different applications; it feels great; 341 00:20:42.608 --> 00:20:46.678 it is really good, the other one would have to be side cutters are a must have. 342 00:20:46.678 --> 00:20:50.616 Scariest thing I've seen Linus do, uh... 343 00:20:50.682 --> 00:20:55.520 Probably anytime that he touches like an Olfa knife, those things are really fricking scary. 344 00:20:55.621 --> 00:20:59.358 I- My whole ethos in the shop around safety is make sure 345 00:20:59.358 --> 00:21:02.494 that the Olfa knife is the scariest tool in the shop 346 00:21:02.494 --> 00:21:06.298 and use other safety precautions to make sure that that is always the case; 347 00:21:06.331 --> 00:21:11.503 and his technique with it can be a little bit questionable at times. 348 00:21:11.536 --> 00:21:15.941 darkrainbow asks, what's your favorite spicy food? Saw you eating it in quite a few videos, 349 00:21:15.941 --> 00:21:18.310 always like seeing you try to air cool your mouth. 350 00:21:19.044 --> 00:21:21.813 Probably ramen? I really like some spicy ramen. 351 00:21:21.847 --> 00:21:24.149 I eat ramen all the time, like multiple times a week. 352 00:21:24.182 --> 00:21:28.654 I made ramen broth that took 20 hours this weekend in the slow cooker; 353 00:21:28.654 --> 00:21:30.155 it was fricking delicious. 354 00:21:30.222 --> 00:21:34.893 Actually for a single thing, favorite spicy food is the Buldak two times hot sauce; 355 00:21:34.893 --> 00:21:41.266 order it on Amazon, it is great, it is basically just like chili paste, MSG, and chicken stock. 356 00:21:41.300 --> 00:21:46.271 And it is like my Frank's put that shit on everything, but like 10 times spicier. 357 00:21:46.271 --> 00:21:50.309 47AJ98 asks, what's the coolest car you've ever driven? 358 00:21:50.342 --> 00:21:54.579 I think it has to be the Lucid Air; I think it's just so incredibly fast 359 00:21:54.613 --> 00:21:57.316 and the handling is absolutely incredible. 360 00:21:57.349 --> 00:22:01.887 Like it's the sort of thing where it just redefined what an EV can do in my head; 361 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:06.792 and it also is so incredibly fast and competent that it made 362 00:22:06.825 --> 00:22:13.632 everything that I drove after it for quite a long time, just feel kind of dull and boring. 363 00:22:13.665 --> 00:22:17.502 The only thing that's sort of scared me like that since, 364 00:22:17.536 --> 00:22:20.605 cause you know, you build up your tolerance to things that are insane, 365 00:22:20.639 --> 00:22:24.376 is Jake's supercharged M3; that thing's pretty spicy. 366 00:22:24.743 --> 00:22:29.648 KoboldPilot asks, what are some hiking / mountain climbing techniques / tips you have? 367 00:22:29.681 --> 00:22:31.550 This is based off photos on Insta. 368 00:22:31.550 --> 00:22:39.157 Uh, so I recommend first getting a bit out of shape and not really knowing what you're doing. 369 00:22:39.191 --> 00:22:43.328 Then you just decide you want to be on the top of a mountain, and you walk to the top of it. 370 00:22:43.462 --> 00:22:47.199 Uh, it's pretty important to make sure that you have a couple Modelos in your backpack; 371 00:22:47.199 --> 00:22:51.636 cause A they're heavy, and B they're very satisfying to have at the top of a mountain. 372 00:22:51.636 --> 00:22:54.439 Then you just don't walk for like two or three days after. 373 00:22:54.473 --> 00:22:57.609 Sammy: Why do you get out of shape though? Why can't you just do it when you want to do it? 374 00:22:57.609 --> 00:22:58.343 Alex: Hahaha. 375 00:22:59.378 --> 00:23:00.312 Alex: It's a requirement. 376 00:23:00.846 --> 00:23:04.583 I'd also recommend going to the top of mountains with people that actually know what they're doing. 377 00:23:04.983 --> 00:23:08.987 Someone that's really strong that you can bring with you that carries the heavy pack, 378 00:23:09.020 --> 00:23:10.422 also highly recommended. 379 00:23:10.555 --> 00:23:12.657 Actually one more thing, get good hiking boots. 380 00:23:13.024 --> 00:23:19.531 Uh, I would have definitely like broken my ankle like 19 kilometers into the weeds one time 381 00:23:19.564 --> 00:23:23.502 if I did not have good hiking boots, get good hiking boots; that's the actual recommendation. 382 00:23:23.535 --> 00:23:26.004 Sammy: Do you recommend buying it used or should you buy new? 383 00:23:26.037 --> 00:23:27.038 Alex: Nah, buy it new. 384 00:23:27.172 --> 00:23:30.542 It's the sort of thing where you don't need someone else that's already broken in your hiking boots; 385 00:23:30.542 --> 00:23:35.247 that'll give you blisters, just, just eat it, spend the $250, 386 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:38.116 they will last you for 15 years or whatever. 387 00:23:38.250 --> 00:23:41.987 Deadrawkstar asks, what's your favorite Top Gear special? 388 00:23:41.987 --> 00:23:45.090 I think it has to be Botswana; there's something about it 389 00:23:45.090 --> 00:23:49.027 being the first and the last that is just very poetic. 390 00:23:49.060 --> 00:23:52.197 And in both times, it's such a crazy spot to go, 391 00:23:52.230 --> 00:23:57.736 and it's so cool seeing especially like the cars from the first WAN Show up in the last one; 392 00:23:57.736 --> 00:23:58.603 it's very nice. 393 00:23:58.737 --> 00:24:03.108 Zuikaku asks, how much do you relate to the character you play on the show? 394 00:24:03.141 --> 00:24:05.444 I don't know, I don't really play a character on the show; 395 00:24:05.510 --> 00:24:08.280 it's just me doing what I normally do. 396 00:24:08.280 --> 00:24:10.282 I don't, I don't really know what you mean. 397 00:24:11.049 --> 00:24:16.354 Like it's, it's the same person just like a little bit louder and more outgoing; 398 00:24:16.388 --> 00:24:19.558 because you need to do that on camera or it seems like you just hate being there. 399 00:24:19.825 --> 00:24:23.061 Sammy: Do you- Do you think you're the quote on quote "character you play" 400 00:24:23.094 --> 00:24:25.697 cuts corners a little more for videos? Cause it's funny? 401 00:24:25.831 --> 00:24:26.364 Alex: Okay I do definitely- 402 00:24:26.364 --> 00:24:27.499 Sammy: Hahahaha! 403 00:24:27.499 --> 00:24:30.001 Alex: I do definitely cut corners sometimes intentionally, 404 00:24:30.001 --> 00:24:34.306 if I think it's going to be funny or get a big rise out of Linus for the content. 405 00:24:34.673 --> 00:24:36.408 A huge thanks for watching guys. 406 00:24:36.408 --> 00:24:39.244 I hope that you've been enjoying Alex Week so far and have a great old day! 407 00:24:39.244 --> 00:24:40.445 I'll see you in the next one.