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now it's no secret that ifixit has been a long time sponsor of our channel and

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we use their kits for all kinds of things from repairing phones to building

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computers to i mean i'm sure someone in this building has picked their nose with

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an ifixit kit that doesn't necessarily mean that an

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ifixit kit is the be-all and end-all of

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tool kits in fact some of you have suggested to us

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that you can actually build your own ifixit kit for much cheaper on

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aliexpress so that is exactly what i tasked Anthony with

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this is what we're calling

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the ifuxit kit we changed one vowel and

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we're gonna walk you guys through how it compares to the brand name ifixit kit

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okay so let's start with what's in a typical ifixit protect tool

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kit you got a few of their astonishingly bendy like pride tools

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you've got one of their suction cups you've got an esd

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wrist strap

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you've got some esd safe tweezer like reverse tweezers you've got a couple of

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little grabber tweezer doodads you've got

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ah these are great so these are their spudgers so these are pry slash poking

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tools you can use these to like pop off a wi-fi antenna or whatever else you've

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got this metal pry tool you've got there uh i forgot they call

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this something knife jimmy jimmy yep jimmy tool

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and then you get their 64-bit driver kit which has the extension

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the driver handle and then a whole bunch

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of different bits that we've used to take apart everything from a nintendo ds

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to a computer monitor pretty much you name it you can take it apart with one

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of these and a guide on ifixit.com but the thing is that none of this stuff is

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really that unique oh i missed the guitar picks which are literally

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guitar picks except blue with an ifixit logo on them like you can get a lot of

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this functionality elsewhere so let's try to do just that Anthony

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hit me with what you found all right well the screwdriver kit is obviously

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the most important part for what most

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people call the most important part and this here is the uh i think it's

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called alouette the alouette so you know

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what this actually reminds me a lot of the older ifixit kit so it's got these

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little rubbery bases that all of the bits go into like that

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it's got a really different looking extension and the driver itself is quite

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different from either revision of the ifixit but

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feels okay the rubberized grip is not bad

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this isn't metal this is plastic um so it does feel a little less

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you know the quality

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um but is this a ratchet i can't really tell i don't know what this is doing you

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know you want yeah oh interesting

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so there's a couple cool features of this guy then now this won't necessarily

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help you get into some of the tight spaces that i've had trouble right with

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the ifixit kit because the way to the only way to extend this one out of the

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box anyway is to take the hex driver that's just

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the same size as the uh as the bits and

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then you can get a little bit of extra length now one other thing that they

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actually removed that they used to have on the old ifixit driver

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is this hex hole through the top that you can use to jam something in it and

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then get a little bit more leverage if you if you don't have enough from the

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rubberized grip they removed that from this revision and that is something that

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i missed from the old one now the last thing that

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i'm not that pleased with is the variety of the bits here

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there's just not nearly as many bits and some of the really obscure ones like

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security torxes are simply not present

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so for those of you not familiar a security torx has a hollowed out middle

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so that you can use it to remove security torx screws all right so that's

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our screwdriver oh wait hold on i want to see if there's anything else

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interesting here three torxes up here with the two tri-wings and then

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a uh um like a phillips a female phillips

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with a hex on the end that's kind of interesting so you could use your

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screwdriver to something something i guess uh there's one pentalobe bit

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that i can see the uh the springy thing here it actually works at

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like very extreme angles so like you can actually do like 180 degrees here that

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looks like a much smoother action there much smoother action there it's

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cross-compatible these use the same diameter i believe oh handy

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so if you liked certain components of a different kit or you just needed a

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top-up of bits or whatever else yep all right so you're saying this is by far

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the most expensive part of our diy kit how much is this yeah it was about

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12 13 oh that is called the Jake me i like this

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and i actually like that it's a little bit longer and doesn't taper quite as

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much it feels a little more secure in my hand so how much does it Jake me the

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Jake me costs two dollars and 42 cents u.s great value recommended cordless

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wrist strap be a bro

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wear an anti-static strap so basically

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as we conduct to the metal screw that's in the

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top through the resistor we will

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we will dissipate some static build up

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i really wouldn't count on this though so the few things that i've seen that

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actually test these out yeah show that it is basically no different

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than if you're not wearing one got it

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so the ifixit spudger actually doesn't go quite so thin at the tip this one's a

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little worn but that's not the entire reason why it's so dull at the end so

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i'm gonna pick a spot okay got my spot

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and i'm gonna just bend it back hopefully without hurting myself so i can bend that back 90

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degrees with my hands spudger

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same spot not a freaking chance

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like this

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i don't care how much it cost i wouldn't price something with this because i'd

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probably end up hurting myself you know i'm going to give a pass to the

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screwdriver set because i think it's a great value it's not an ifix's kit but

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so this is ifixit this is the off-brand one

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and in terms of strength i'd say not quite but the blade is a

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little thinner and there are times when that might have actually been handy for

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me it's nice that i get all these other

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options now i don't typically like to use metal tools for prying because you

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tend to leave marks in the casing of whatever it is you're trying to take

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apart but this curved one here it's got quite a lot of strength to it you can

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really get some leverage on that depending how much this whole kit is

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even if i had an ifixit kit i'd probably run out and grab one of these just for

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this guy and then these other similarly bent ones you got a nice wide one here

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and then a more pointed um but wider

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like really strong tip here that you could really put some force on i really

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like uh these extra ones that come with it

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yeah so this one cost three dollars and seventy five cents u.s for those strong

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strong recommendations for these ones

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so i've got the ifixit ones in my right hand and i've got our off brand i fix it in

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my left hand here and you can see that i fix it includes this sort of broader

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tweezer that i actually find myself using an awful lot just to pick up a

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screw that i've dropped that's non-ferrous or whatever the case may be

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but really my main criticism of the ifixit angled one is that the tip if you

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try to do any real grabbing or prying anything forceful with it they do bend

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quite easily and so that's you know where these can

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really stand out to me yeah my ifixit kit at home i ended up breaking off the

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tip of the angled ones because they're a little bit

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you know less sturdy now it's not a direct replacement for a

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broader grippier like more of a grabber and i

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still want one of those in my tech tool kit but uh

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i'm liking these yeah these get a pass how much are they

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a dollar eighty-one heck yeah next round let's go for

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these your suction cups

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these are garbage

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okay i actually had an off-brand suction cup i lost my ifixit one that's from my

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kit a while back so i was using an off-brand one to try and pull the screen

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off and unless you have a really

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good suck

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uh you you can't apply enough force to

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lift up the adhesive uh just uh for your reference though those suction cups were

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1.55 for 50. cool not even worth it as for the rest

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of the stuff in here first we've got our off-brand pry tool now these are really

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really impressive i absolutely love these i think they're one of the highlights of ifixit's kit

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and this one is not

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now the handle itself seems fine but there is no way

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i'd be able to snap one of ifixit's pry tools

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bend yes break

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absolutely not these things are fantastic and this is no substitute

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i can't believe i forgot to talk about ifixit's lifetime warranty though so if

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your spudger from them did this then they'll send you a new one and

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that's something that you won't get if you're ordering random stuff off aliexpress so i think the conclusion

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then of this video is something i wasn't really expecting there's not a clear

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winner here what we do know is that piecing together

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your own electronics tool kit could yield actually better quality than

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what you get from ifixit at a similar or even better price

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but the other thing that we've discovered is that unless you can find

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lots or very reputable reviews

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of the things you're buying it's quite likely that even though

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you're paid half the price half of what you ordered or more

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might not actually be usable or of sufficient quality compared to what

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you're getting from the name brand toolkit yeah it's a real roll of the

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dice

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okay i was sort of expecting a more clear winner or loser

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but we don't have that so hopefully you guys enjoyed the video

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anyway you'll find links to where to buy all the stuff that we feature today in

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the video description but the only ones we're really recommending

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are the tweezers if you need that kind of tweezers the

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screwdriver kit if you don't need all the bits that are included with the

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ifixit kit these pry tools and

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the Jake me these ones i really like these are absolutely going in our

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totally join we don't have shirts like that one anymore unfortunately

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unfortunately this one's pretty it's old school yeah did you just pick that up

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out of like the the swag pile or just i haven't found it in like the walk the

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the warehouse or something i thought you're gonna say in the washrooms i

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originally was going to say the washroom i don't know why um quick question

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though yes if you could tell ifixit to copy any of this

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what would you say to copy

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this guy for sure a greater variety of prying tools in

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general is something i think they could improve on and it's not really any

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better here but a better suction cup is another thing that i'd really like to

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see them improve overall though i mean we've worked with them for a long time

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that's not an accident i've been using ifixit tools since before they were even

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a sponsor and i really i like their stuff because there's that consistency

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yeah whatever it is that i need to do i know that the tool they've included is

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good enough maybe it's not the best

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but it's definitely not just complete garbage

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exposures aren't supposed to do that