1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Hi, my name is David Pankratz. I'm the Technical Production Assistant here at Linus Media Group. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Today, we're doing a Meet the Team and you get to meet me. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Yeah, and you're also building a PC. Yeah, Sammy decided to take advantage of this and get me to case swap all of the hardware over here from his PC into a new case. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,000 I wanted the Christmas party and I hate working with a Y70, so I'm making you do it. 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 You're going from a Y60 to a Y70. It's basically the same case. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Yeah, and that's why I know it's a painty ass, so I want to move it. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Is it bigger than mine? Oh, yeah. Oh, it looks a lot bigger. 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Y70 is bigger than 60. Damn. Well, let me just figure out how to get the panels off here first and then we can start. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 There we go. That's it. 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:49,000 There's one more. Ry is also shooting his Creative Sponsor video on the background, so if you hear that, guys, that's him. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 We do have the riser over here, so we can use this guy. 12 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 We've got some bags of mystery parts. We'll find out what those are for later. 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Really quick from your side, we have no fans in this right now. 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 We've only got the three fans for the AIO. Do you want me to move anything more? 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Isn't there more fans on my other case? There are three more. 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,000 It will take a bit of time to get them out and get them going. 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 I don't mind doing it. It's just going to take some time. That's all. 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 We can answer a question while I'm taking fans out. 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 So what do you do at the company? What do I do at the company? I do all sorts of stuff. 20 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:30,000 It is everything from building PCs for projects to some kind of project management, 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:36,000 keeping things going and making sure that projects don't stall out, 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:45,000 to coordinating with outside parties, doing research for projects, 23 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:52,000 making sure that the writers are up to speed on topics 24 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 when I have been the one doing the legwork for those projects. 25 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 So you're kind of like a pillar of support. 26 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Yeah. Been involved in the tech industry for a long time 27 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 and have a lot of different unique experiences. 28 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 That kind of leads to my second generic question of what are your experiences prior to LMG? 29 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 I was at the same company actually for close to 16 years. 30 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Oh, wow. We were doing business to business IT support. 31 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 So we would be essentially the IT department for small businesses 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 that didn't have their own IT guy or their own IT department. 33 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 That's where you worked with Eli, right? Yeah. 34 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 When I started there, the company was actually two, three people. 35 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Oh, wow. Me and a buddy from high school and then another co-worker 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:47,000 from another previous job. And then the company grew to about 16, 17 people 37 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,000 during the time that I was there. I went from a technical role doing tech work, 38 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,000 going to client sites, designing networks, doing server installs, 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 kind of migrating servers, all that type of stuff, to service management. 40 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 So I was in charge of the technical team 41 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 and eventually moved up to a general management kind of operations position 42 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 where I was running the day-to-day operations for the company, 43 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:23,000 kind of involved in all facets. Before that, I had a bit of experience in a mechanic shop as an apprentice 44 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,000 and I also did a little bit of time at a small local computer store 45 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,000 called Mike's Computer Shop. That's about it. 46 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Now, Sammy, a question for you. Yeah. Do you want the fans to look good or do you want it to function better? 47 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 What's the difference? Do I stick the fans this way and you have the ugly cage at the back? 48 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Functional form. Okay. You took my PC apart before we started. 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,000 You saw how functional it was. We'll say it was definitely in the right functional state. 50 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 He cleaned my AIO and that was the most dusty thing I've seen in my life. 51 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 I don't think I've seen air physically. Well, that wasn't air that you were seeing. 52 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:03,000 It was dust. The advantage to having these nice big cases is being able to stick your hands through 53 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 all sorts of places that you can't normally get to in a smaller case. 54 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,000 So this is my last generic question before we get to the Q&A that we ask people. 55 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 How did you get into tech? I have always been interested in tech. 56 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 My dad worked in accounting. 57 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I'm not sure exactly how, but somehow became kind of the de facto tech person for his company. 58 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:30,000 So from an early age, we had a computer in the household and I'd been kind of exposed 59 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 to computing stuff all the way back in like the MS-DOS days. 60 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I remember going to the office with my dad and playing DOOM on the LAN and working through 61 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 the whole thing. That was very interesting. 62 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I see you put stickers on the fans and then the uglyness goes away, right? 63 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Sure. Can I take those stickers off? 64 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Genuine question because I don't know. I am not 100% sure because sometimes they use the stickers to seal the bearing in the back. 65 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Ah, okay. And you don't want to expose that because then your fans will die very quickly. 66 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,000 My Tanar, how did you learn about your first brief experience with Crappy Awards? 67 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Did you know it was Luke right away? I didn't know it was Luke right away, but the voice sounded familiar. 68 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 What threw it off for me was the, I believe it was the makeup artist that came in with 69 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,000 him. She did a bunch of the talking initially and he was just kind of like trying to not be 70 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 obvious about who he was. His voice is really recognizable. 71 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:38,000 It was around the time that we got into the CCAN that I was like, oh man, I really know 72 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 that voice. Where's that voice from? That's where it's from. 73 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 That's where Elijah and I used to work together. So I was Elijah's manager at one point. 74 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Now we're coworkers. To some degree, I kind of answer to him because the writers have the creative direction on 75 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 which way a project goes. It's a collaborative effort. 76 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 It is a collaborative effort, but they get the final say. Yeah. 77 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Well, I think everyone needs a final say or a guy, no matter what. 78 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Yeah. Yeah. Or like nothing ever gets done. 79 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Also, I have another question related to your previous job. Sure. 80 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:13,000 From T-TotsTV. How was your time working at the computer store and what value, skills, or traits did you 81 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 learn there to help you transition to LMG? 82 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,000 I'm going to assume that you mean my last position where you saw it on Scrapyard Wars. 83 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:28,640 That was a business-to-business IT support company. So we weren't so much a computer store where you'd have walk-in traffic. 84 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:34,360 We did remote work for businesses and we did a bunch of onsite work for businesses. 85 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:40,640 So I learned all sorts of things there. When you're working in that kind of environment, you see all sorts of different types of networks 86 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:47,720 and setups. So the variety forces you to be able to learn a lot. 87 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,600 That's where a large breadth of my IT expertise came from. 88 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,240 Through my time there, I had the opportunity to get into some management stuff and learn 89 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:04,760 some skills in that area, too. Realistically, the move I made over here was so that I could get back into working hands 90 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,120 on on the tech again. You want to do less management stuff and more focus on? 91 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:14,320 Yeah. The management stuff has got its own rewards. 92 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,640 It is really cool to be able to mentor people, see them grow. 93 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,880 But I got to a point in my career there where if there was something technical that needed 94 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,280 to be done, I shouldn't be the one working on it and it just kind of felt bad when your 95 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,160 passion is the tech. Sorry, I'm just releasing the Blue Screen Death Speed One contest. 96 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,760 I love the vibe in that video. That was great. Oh yeah. 97 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,920 Do you want to tell the story about how I messed up my AIO? Oh gosh. That's good. 98 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:48,600 So I was taking Sammy's old computer apart and found that this guy here is a little 99 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:59,720 bit shorter than this one and this one. So there is no way that you can have all of the mounts tightened down on the CPU anymore. 100 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,840 I was screwing in and I was like, oh, it's not screwing all the way. So I kept screwing it in. 101 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:08,040 And then I heard a snap. I was like, what the? There was only nuts on these two. 102 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,120 So there's only two that's actually holding it down. 103 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,360 We'll see if we can find a third one there, but no guarantees. 104 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,360 Ryzen 9,5900X. Yeah, it's good. It's still not bad. 105 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,000 I future-proofed my PC and I'm really glad to add it because... Future-proof is a very strong word. 106 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,200 I just want to say, I asked David if he's okay with working on my computer. 107 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:31,760 He said it's okay. Oh yeah. I don't want him to seem like I actually forced him to do this. 108 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,080 I gave him the option to bail out. Yeah, no, this is fine as I struggle with the AIO. 109 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:42,440 Kind of workout fan orientation. I think we're in the right spot now, at least. 110 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:48,760 This is before you had the fans that would just clip nicely together. 111 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,680 That's ready to go in. So before I stick that in, we're going to stick the motherboard in. 112 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:58,000 Oh, it's got the screws already in here. 113 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,000 We should have mentioned this. So the Y70 difference is that it comes with a built-in screen. 114 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,920 That's also a touchscreen. Now it's... It's also bigger. 115 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,880 It's also bigger. I don't know because I didn't do any research because I don't do any research in general 116 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,080 when I buy my very expensive PC products. 117 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:21,480 Is the screen a monitor or is it part of something? 118 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:27,200 Looks like you've just got a DisplayPort connector out the back. So you plug that into your video card and it acts just as another screen. 119 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,920 My graphics card has 3-H DisplayPorts and 1-HTMI. 120 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:35,480 The 3080 Ti from MSI, which I bought at peak scalp prices. 121 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,560 That would have been probably close to a $2,000 graphics card then. 122 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:45,800 $2,000 CAD. I think it's like $2,300 CAD because at the time I was financing, so I just wanted a 123 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:53,440 really beefy computer. But I didn't know what makes a beefy computer out of the big number. 124 00:09:53,440 --> 00:10:00,280 If you need to use hardware for business, it makes sense. 125 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,840 There is a financial return on spending that money. 126 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,640 I didn't peel that. I bought this last year. 127 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:18,800 You got a brand new motherboard again. The first time that I was on camera, I was the guy behind the Vault Boy Mask in the Arc 128 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:26,400 B580 video. The funny thing with that Arc B580 video is that was about two weeks after I started, 129 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:33,040 so I couldn't be on camera. But I was doing all of the prep for the workstations that we were using there. 130 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,800 One of the first tasks I got was, here is a 15 terabyte SSD. 131 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:43,600 Here is a list of games that we've had shouted out. Go and download as many as you can fit onto this SSD. 132 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:49,200 So I downloaded about 12 or 13 terabytes of games over that two weeks. 133 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:55,080 Mortem saw Mia. What's the strangest request that has been asked to do while at LMG? 134 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Strange request. Yeah. Do you think that's a strange request? 135 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:05,040 No, it's not a super strange request. It felt really weird getting paid to download games, but that's kind of par for the course 136 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,840 here. Yeah. I feel like sometimes I'm like, am I really game paid to do this? 137 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,280 Am I really getting paid to sit here and watch, have someone fix my computer for me? 138 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:19,360 Yep. That's what's happening. But this is content, so I was like, okay, I guess it is. 139 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,440 Doing the underwear shoot? That's got to be up there for strange requests. 140 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,720 You've got four sticks of 16 gig, 3600 CL18. 141 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,600 I assume it's good. Because I actually had the, there's an RGB version of that. 142 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,480 I used to have that, and I said Darjeel looks ugly, so I just bought more RAM. 143 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,880 Just throw this guy into the top. 144 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:43,480 Go through. See, this case is a pain. No, the case isn't a pain. 145 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,920 RGB fans are a pain. That's what the pain is. 146 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,640 This is all of your RGB wires. That's all of them? Is that more? 147 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,880 Well, there's those. And then these are for the fans. 148 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,960 Oh, I mixed one of them up. 149 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,720 Oh, one of the one. So I had a final Scrappy Wars question. 150 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,760 Ethan and Mordo, would you do Scrappy Wars again? Oh heck yeah. 151 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:10,360 Maybe as a team captain to show the two L's how it's really done. I was really blown away when you revealed that it was you who let Luke into the container 152 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,400 in 2024 Scrappy Wars. It was so much fun. 153 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,200 It was a lot of work still too over the, I think we had four days, but it was essentially 154 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:29,040 three days because the last day it was cut off for judging. I don't know if I would necessarily say that I would be a team captain to show them how 155 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:35,680 it's done. I think I'd put up a good fight as a team captain, but they are the original Scrappy 156 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:40,440 people. Scrappy Wars is one of the series that I really enjoyed before I started working here. 157 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:48,440 I watched through all of them numerous times. I had helped put together some of the notes to do the compilations that got released as 158 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:55,320 well. There were reasons one through three as just full length videos and we added a little bit 159 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:02,800 of animations here and there to kind of help the story narrative be easier to follow through 160 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:08,520 the video. I had to go through so much raw footage to find out the pricing for some things because 161 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:13,040 there was no mention on camera how much things were and then all of a sudden it's just like 162 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,520 Linus I'm out of money. 163 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:22,080 I know that we were pushing to get those compilations out for a while. 164 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:28,280 They've been on the back burner for the last bit though. Coordinator Kerry asked, what was it like going from fan excited to meet your favorite 165 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:32,280 YouTubers and the regularity of working with Linus as your boss? That's a good question. 166 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:38,320 Let me find these screws that I'm looking for first. It is a job when it comes down to it. 167 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:44,040 I approached it very much that way so it is really cool being involved in the company 168 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:52,080 that I had been following for so long and I had actually put in a lot of effort to find 169 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:57,360 a position here. I had been applying for various positions over the span of about two and a half years 170 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:06,480 before actually getting the one that I've got right now. I show up, I get my stuff done, I try and do the best that I can and I think I'm appreciated 171 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:13,120 for it. You are. Very tech illiterate or not as techy compared to everyone's here. 172 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:17,440 It is very, very, very, very, very helpful to have someone where I can just go walk through 173 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,800 and say, hey, I need help for this and then you just know the answer instead of me stressing 174 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:29,040 it and figuring it out and praying I'm doing it correctly. But I'm sure everyone else also feel appreciated because you also do work with a lot of the 175 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,960 writers sometimes. Oh, that's most of my work working with the writers. 176 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,800 Yeah. I'm sure having the extra person just helping them get through, chuck through things a little 177 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:45,080 faster is very helpful. Yeah. I am a big part behind the scenes on projects. 178 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:53,320 So you don't necessarily see me on camera tons, but I do a lot of work to make the projects 179 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:58,160 that you see on the channel come to life. So some of the notable ones that I did. 180 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:03,720 Well, there's actually a question by Joseph Barcet. What videos do you enjoy most making slash helping with? 181 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,120 Obviously, I did a whole bunch of the work on the modding video that came out right around 182 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:16,640 the New Year's. That was a lot of fun. I had dipped my toes into modding at that point before, but hadn't really done tons. 183 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:24,000 So it was really neat to explore what is possible through that project. 184 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:29,320 And then of course, after the project is finished, there's all sorts of comments about how I could 185 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,320 have done other things that would have been even more cool. 186 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:37,680 So I went home on the weekend and took a look at some of the suggestions. 187 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:43,920 And I went and had an install of Skyrim running with like 2,500 mods or something by Sunday. 188 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,920 Did he ever run? Oh, yeah. No, it ran. 189 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:53,280 There was a suggestion from someone who said, check out Wabajak, which put together kind 190 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:59,200 of a large vetted mod list with the load order already taken care of and the mod manager already 191 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:05,080 taken care of. So it was pretty much as easy as load this up, wait for it to download. 192 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,600 I think it was like 150 gigs and then decompress. 193 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,240 So it's like 300 gigs and then it just worked. It was great. 194 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:22,760 That was way easier than what I did. I can tell you that much, even though a lot more, a lot more stuff was loaded once it 195 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:30,200 was done. I actually have two questions regarding the modding video. Casual Gamer Floater asks, when you research games modding for those videos, did it make 196 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:35,720 you want to mod games in your off time for you to game with it or did it make you want 197 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:46,760 to shy away from it or neither? I enjoy the process with modding and that's, I think, the struggle when it comes to actually 198 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:53,280 enjoying the game is the game becomes modding the game and you can spend so much time fiddling 199 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,400 with mods that you don't actually end up playing the game anymore. 200 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,720 So that is something that I knew I struggled with before, with the little that I had done. 201 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,880 Seeing something like Wabajak where it was able to load an extensive mod list and get 202 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:14,080 that going pretty easily, like I said, by Sunday after the video released I had that 203 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,360 2500 mod install of Skyrim running. 204 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:22,480 To be honest, I haven't touched it much since then, but it is sitting there and I've got 205 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:28,520 it kind of set not to update so that I can explore it a little bit more. 206 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:36,640 I've got a couple of other games that I'm going through right now that I want to finish up before starting something new, but it's there ready to go. 207 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,960 What games, if you don't mind me asking? I'm working through Expedition 33 right now. 208 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:47,960 I'm getting close to the end, I think. I have been going back and forth with Silk Song, making a bit of progress and then leaving 209 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,000 it alone for a little bit so that I don't get too frustrated with it. 210 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:56,720 It's a great game, but there are points where I just have to put it aside for a little bit, 211 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:01,440 cool down, continue later. Not a question based on the modding video from Floaters. 212 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:06,720 Seeing as you made the modding video games video, are there new or old classic games 213 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:15,480 that you mod on regular? Not really. I think Skyrim, like even before the video, Skyrim is the thing that I had poked around 214 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,800 with the most. Trying to think if there's anything else that I had tried to mod much, I mean I tried 215 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:25,040 to mod Oblivion way back. It was not in a great place to be modded even at that time. 216 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:31,000 I need another one of these. Oh, I actually have an update for you. 217 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:36,480 You have an update for me. You use D-L-O-S data, you should use R-D-O-S data. 218 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,000 Yeah, I know. Apparently that's what someone said on the line. I saw it after the fact. 219 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Oh, did you? 220 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,800 Yep, Dell is for files, R-D is for remove directory. 221 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:58,480 I was watching the video later and in the replay even, I listed the directory again. 222 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,840 It was still there. I'm just like, I think I got it. It's sitting right there. 223 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:06,800 I think we're at the point now where all of the fans are taken care of. It's not pretty, but all of the fans are taken care of. 224 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:10,320 These don't have a theme, so I'm just kind of asking you random questions. Sure. 225 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,800 I think it's a pretty interesting one. Leetwin, how did you decide it was time to appear in videos? 226 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,800 That is a pretty big decision and must have been scary. 227 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:23,640 It's been super scary, actually. I knew that working here, I'd probably be on camera at some point. 228 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,880 Almost everybody appears on camera at some point. 229 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,960 You might just be in the background, but you'll be there somewhere. 230 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:36,120 Presenting on the other hand, I didn't come into the role thinking that I would do that, 231 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:40,040 but it's been a new skill that I've had a lot of fun exploring. 232 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,480 I'm always interested to learn, as long as you guys find me interesting. 233 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,840 You know, Pankrats, I don't care what they think. I think you're interesting. 234 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,920 Your ShortCircuit is also coming up today. Your first ShortCircuit. 235 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:57,120 We ran it as a training session just to see how it would go, and after Bell did a review 236 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:02,560 and Andrew Muir did a review, they had some positive feedback on it, so I think they sent 237 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,880 it to Linus just to make sure that we've got the go-ahead, and it's pretty cool. 238 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:12,320 I don't know where you had this USB cable plugged in, the one for your pump. 239 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,920 I couldn't tell you. I'm sorry. As long as my computer runs, I'm okay with that. 240 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,120 I'm going to unplug your RGB one for now. 241 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:26,720 It won't be difficult to figure that out later, but I think you need some different hardware 242 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:32,720 to be able to have the RGB all controllable as well. 243 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,240 So it will still light up. Oh, that's all I need. But you can't program it. 244 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,640 That's fine. You're not going to have USB-C at the front. No! 245 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,880 Okay, that's fine. I don't think I even did from the start. Your motherboard doesn't have a USB-C port? 246 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,360 Yeah, that makes more sense. Where are the front ports on it? 247 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:51,280 Yeah, I don't think it worked for you anymore. Those two will work? That one will not. 248 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,440 Does the headphone thing work? Yeah, that works. That's the most important part. 249 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,480 VayMax asked, are you a Linux person? 250 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:04,080 If not, are there Linux workflows, for example, audio processing, video processing, that would 251 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:09,520 make for an interesting, I tried this job on Linux video that you would enjoy creating. 252 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,480 Am I a Linux person? I haven't really run Linux on my own. 253 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:23,040 The time that I've had here has let me explore Linux more than the entire career before that. 254 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,240 So I am learning a lot there, too. 255 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:32,440 I know that there are some things that I could run at home on Linux. 256 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,680 I'd love to build a NAS at some point, and I'd probably use TrueNAS for that. 257 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,400 TrueNAS, FreeNAS, what's it called now? It's TrueNAS. 258 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:46,360 We did use TrueNAS at my previous work, and I did get involved in administrating that 259 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:50,840 a bit, but it wasn't a ton. 260 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,280 If I'm going to go down that road, too, I'd probably load up a few containers on TrueNAS. 261 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,840 Maybe play around with some home automation, because I've got some IoT devices, but right 262 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,880 now it's pretty light. Honestly, Linux seems so scary. 263 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:12,840 It is definitely less scary if you have grown up with command line. 264 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,280 I learned how to use a computer with DOS. 265 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,640 My first OS was Windows 7. Windows 7? 266 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,440 Yeah. I think. I've used that one. 267 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:38,480 I would also. I went through doing the retirement of Windows 7 when it went end of life, and the retirement 268 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:49,240 of Windows XP when it went end of life. There was a lot of system upgrades and replacements and whatnot when those happened. 269 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:54,200 Paul asked, stupid question, is that a live disconnect at your desk, and what is it for? 270 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,840 I don't 100% know, but I would assume so. 271 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:02,520 There are two large breaker panels right beside those very large switches. 272 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,920 We should pull it figured out. Yeah, as long as there's content, it's fine, right? 273 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,920 It's fine. It's fine. Where did I stick those four screws I just took out? 274 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,920 I can just steal some new ones. Yeah, you can steal it. 275 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,680 It's mine. I want it. They came with the case in the Ziploc baggies. 276 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,760 This is easy stuff now. I have one more question. One more question. 277 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,480 And then I can look for more questions, though, if you need to. 278 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,360 D-Man123 asks, what is your favorite piece of tech? 279 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:31,360 Favorite piece of tech? That's not a computer. That's not a computer. 280 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,040 That's a cop-out answer. I mean, the phone is the cop-out answer. That's what everybody says. 281 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,760 Phone? Phone. Okay, no phone, no computer. 282 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:45,760 I want something interesting, David. We want to know you. I mean, I like mechanical tech. 283 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,480 I like cars. Those are fun. 284 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,480 There's a lot of car people in this company. Oh, yeah. 285 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,480 No, there's lots of cars. I hope mistakes were not made. 286 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:02,240 I hope so, too, for a month. No, just whether or not this will all fit behind the side panel. 287 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,640 Oh, that screw hole doesn't hold anything anymore. You didn't need it anyways, right? 288 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,640 What? No, it's fine. There we go. 289 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,640 EPS connector. Or CPU power. Yeah, that one sucks. 290 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:17,480 Yeah, that one, freaking, I hate that one. 291 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,840 In this case, I feel like it's one of those cases, and once you get it, you just don't 292 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:25,480 touch it ever again, but I think I've touched that Y-60 case like six times. 293 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,680 So here's the situation. 294 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:36,400 We've got a hard drive that this is how it was before, not hooked up to anything. 295 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:41,040 Then you got this guy that's just kind of floating around, and then this guy, he is 296 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:47,520 hooked up there, but there's another one that's not hooked up underneath. 297 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:52,160 I want them all hooked up, but some of them won't work, so I was like, I don't know. 298 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,400 And then when I plug in some things, other things don't work, so this is the combination 299 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:02,480 that worked. I think I'm at the point where I'm going to test fire this guy and make sure that we 300 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,320 turn it on at least. It worked, guys. We did it. 301 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,320 I didn't do anything. 302 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,520 Thank you guys for watching. Let's him know how you liked the new format here. 303 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,120 He's trying to shake things up a bit, kind of bring a little bit more spice to the meat 304 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,000 of the team instead of just sitting at a table and answering some questions.