WEBVTT 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. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Today, we're doing a Meet the Team and you get to meet me. 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. 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. 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:27.000 You're going from a Y60 to a Y70. It's basically the same case. 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. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 Is it bigger than mine? Oh, yeah. Oh, it looks a lot bigger. 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. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.000 There we go. That's it. 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. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:54.000 We do have the riser over here, so we can use this guy. 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. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.000 Really quick from your side, we have no fans in this right now. 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? 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:08.000 Isn't there more fans on my other case? There are three more. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:12.000 It will take a bit of time to get them out and get them going. 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. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.000 We can answer a question while I'm taking fans out. 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. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:30.000 It is everything from building PCs for projects to some kind of project management, 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:36.000 keeping things going and making sure that projects don't stall out, 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:45.000 to coordinating with outside parties, doing research for projects, 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:52.000 making sure that the writers are up to speed on topics 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:56.000 when I have been the one doing the legwork for those projects. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.000 So you're kind of like a pillar of support. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:03.000 Yeah. Been involved in the tech industry for a long time 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.000 and have a lot of different unique experiences. 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? 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:16.000 I was at the same company actually for close to 16 years. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.000 Oh, wow. We were doing business to business IT support. 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.000 So we would be essentially the IT department for small businesses 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.000 that didn't have their own IT guy or their own IT department. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.000 That's where you worked with Eli, right? Yeah. 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.000 When I started there, the company was actually two, three people. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:41.000 Oh, wow. Me and a buddy from high school and then another co-worker 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:47.000 from another previous job. And then the company grew to about 16, 17 people 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:53.000 during the time that I was there. I went from a technical role doing tech work, 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.000 going to client sites, designing networks, doing server installs, 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:01.000 kind of migrating servers, all that type of stuff, to service management. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.000 So I was in charge of the technical team 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:08.000 and eventually moved up to a general management kind of operations position 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.000 where I was running the day-to-day operations for the company, 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 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:29.000 and I also did a little bit of time at a small local computer store 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.000 called Mike's Computer Shop. That's about it. 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? 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? 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.000 Functional form. Okay. You took my PC apart before we started. 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. 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. 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. 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 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.000 all sorts of places that you can't normally get to in a smaller case. 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. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:13.000 How did you get into tech? I have always been interested in tech. 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.000 My dad worked in accounting. 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. 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 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.000 to computing stuff all the way back in like the MS-DOS days. 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 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.000 the whole thing. That was very interesting. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.000 I see you put stickers on the fans and then the uglyness goes away, right? 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:52.000 Sure. Can I take those stickers off? 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. 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. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:11.000 My Tanar, how did you learn about your first brief experience with Crappy Awards? 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. 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 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 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.000 obvious about who he was. His voice is really recognizable. 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 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.000 that voice. Where's that voice from? That's where it's from. 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. 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 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.000 which way a project goes. It's a collaborative effort. 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.000 It is a collaborative effort, but they get the final say. Yeah. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.000 Well, I think everyone needs a final say or a guy, no matter what. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:04.000 Yeah. Yeah. Or like nothing ever gets done. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.000 Also, I have another question related to your previous job. Sure. 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 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.000 learn there to help you transition to LMG? 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. 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. 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:34.360 We did remote work for businesses and we did a bunch of onsite work for businesses. 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 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:47.720 and setups. So the variety forces you to be able to learn a lot. 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:52.600 That's where a large breadth of my IT expertise came from. 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:56.240 Through my time there, I had the opportunity to get into some management stuff and learn 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 00:07:04.760 --> 00:07:08.120 on on the tech again. You want to do less management stuff and more focus on? 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:14.320 Yeah. The management stuff has got its own rewards. 00:07:14.320 --> 00:07:18.640 It is really cool to be able to mentor people, see them grow. 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 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 00:07:28.280 --> 00:07:32.160 passion is the tech. Sorry, I'm just releasing the Blue Screen Death Speed One contest. 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:35.760 I love the vibe in that video. That was great. Oh yeah. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:11.120 So there's only two that's actually holding it down. 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.360 We'll see if we can find a third one there, but no guarantees. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.360 Ryzen 9,5900X. Yeah, it's good. It's still not bad. 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:42.440 Kind of workout fan orientation. I think we're in the right spot now, at least. 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:48.760 This is before you had the fans that would just clip nicely together. 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. 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:58.000 Oh, it's got the screws already in here. 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. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.920 That's also a touchscreen. Now it's... It's also bigger. 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 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:15.080 when I buy my very expensive PC products. 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:21.480 Is the screen a monitor or is it part of something? 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. 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:30.920 My graphics card has 3-H DisplayPorts and 1-HTMI. 00:09:30.920 --> 00:09:35.480 The 3080 Ti from MSI, which I bought at peak scalp prices. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:40.560 That would have been probably close to a $2,000 graphics card then. 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 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. 00:09:53.440 --> 00:10:00.280 If you need to use hardware for business, it makes sense. 00:10:00.280 --> 00:10:03.840 There is a financial return on spending that money. 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.640 I didn't peel that. I bought this last year. 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 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, 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. 00:10:33.040 --> 00:10:37.800 One of the first tasks I got was, here is a 15 terabyte SSD. 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. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:49.200 So I downloaded about 12 or 13 terabytes of games over that two weeks. 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? 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:58.080 Strange request. Yeah. Do you think that's a strange request? 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 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? 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? 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. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:22.440 Doing the underwear shoot? That's got to be up there for strange requests. 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.720 You've got four sticks of 16 gig, 3600 CL18. 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. 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. 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:38.880 Just throw this guy into the top. 00:11:38.880 --> 00:11:43.480 Go through. See, this case is a pain. No, the case isn't a pain. 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.920 RGB fans are a pain. That's what the pain is. 00:11:46.920 --> 00:11:50.640 This is all of your RGB wires. That's all of them? Is that more? 00:11:50.640 --> 00:11:53.880 Well, there's those. And then these are for the fans. 00:11:53.880 --> 00:11:56.960 Oh, I mixed one of them up. 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.720 Oh, one of the one. So I had a final Scrappy Wars question. 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:03.760 Ethan and Mordo, would you do Scrappy Wars again? Oh heck yeah. 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 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:14.400 in 2024 Scrappy Wars. It was so much fun. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:16.520 Linus I'm out of money. 00:13:16.520 --> 00:13:22.080 I know that we were pushing to get those compilations out for a while. 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 00:13:28.280 --> 00:13:32.280 YouTubers and the regularity of working with Linus as your boss? That's a good question. 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. 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 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 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 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 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:13.120 for it. You are. Very tech illiterate or not as techy compared to everyone's here. 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 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 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 00:14:29.040 --> 00:14:32.960 writers sometimes. Oh, that's most of my work working with the writers. 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 00:14:37.800 --> 00:14:45.080 faster is very helpful. Yeah. I am a big part behind the scenes on projects. 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 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. 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? 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 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. 00:15:16.640 --> 00:15:24.000 So it was really neat to explore what is possible through that project. 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 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.320 have done other things that would have been even more cool. 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:37.680 So I went home on the weekend and took a look at some of the suggestions. 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. 00:15:43.920 --> 00:15:46.920 Did he ever run? Oh, yeah. No, it ran. 00:15:46.920 --> 00:15:53.280 There was a suggestion from someone who said, check out Wabajak, which put together kind 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 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. 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.600 I think it was like 150 gigs and then decompress. 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:13.240 So it's like 300 gigs and then it just worked. It was great. 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 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 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 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 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 00:16:53.280 --> 00:16:57.400 with mods that you don't actually end up playing the game anymore. 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. 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:07.880 Seeing something like Wabajak where it was able to load an extensive mod list and get 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:14.080 that going pretty easily, like I said, by Sunday after the video released I had that 00:17:14.080 --> 00:17:17.360 2500 mod install of Skyrim running. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.000 it alone for a little bit so that I don't get too frustrated with it. 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, 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:01.440 cool down, continue later. Not a question based on the modding video from Floaters. 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:06.720 Seeing as you made the modding video games video, are there new or old classic games 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 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 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. 00:18:25.040 --> 00:18:31.000 I need another one of these. Oh, I actually have an update for you. 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. 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. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.000 Oh, did you? 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:48.800 Yep, Dell is for files, R-D is for remove directory. 00:18:48.800 --> 00:18:58.480 I was watching the video later and in the replay even, I listed the directory again. 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. 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. 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. 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? 00:19:13.800 --> 00:19:16.800 That is a pretty big decision and must have been scary. 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. 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.880 Almost everybody appears on camera at some point. 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:29.960 You might just be in the background, but you'll be there somewhere. 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, 00:19:36.120 --> 00:19:40.040 but it's been a new skill that I've had a lot of fun exploring. 00:19:40.040 --> 00:19:43.480 I'm always interested to learn, as long as you guys find me interesting. 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:47.840 You know, Pankrats, I don't care what they think. I think you're interesting. 00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:50.920 Your ShortCircuit is also coming up today. Your first ShortCircuit. 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 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 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. 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. 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. 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.120 I'm going to unplug your RGB one for now. 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 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:32.720 to be able to have the RGB all controllable as well. 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. 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.640 That's fine. You're not going to have USB-C at the front. No! 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? 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:47.360 Yeah, that makes more sense. Where are the front ports on it? 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. 00:20:51.280 --> 00:20:55.440 Does the headphone thing work? Yeah, that works. That's the most important part. 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.480 VayMax asked, are you a Linux person? 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:04.080 If not, are there Linux workflows, for example, audio processing, video processing, that would 00:21:04.080 --> 00:21:09.520 make for an interesting, I tried this job on Linux video that you would enjoy creating. 00:21:09.520 --> 00:21:13.480 Am I a Linux person? I haven't really run Linux on my own. 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. 00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:27.240 So I am learning a lot there, too. 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:32.440 I know that there are some things that I could run at home on Linux. 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. 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:40.400 TrueNAS, FreeNAS, what's it called now? It's TrueNAS. 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:46.360 We did use TrueNAS at my previous work, and I did get involved in administrating that 00:21:46.360 --> 00:21:50.840 a bit, but it wasn't a ton. 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. 00:21:55.280 --> 00:22:00.840 Maybe play around with some home automation, because I've got some IoT devices, but right 00:22:00.840 --> 00:22:04.880 now it's pretty light. Honestly, Linux seems so scary. 00:22:05.800 --> 00:22:12.840 It is definitely less scary if you have grown up with command line. 00:22:12.840 --> 00:22:17.280 I learned how to use a computer with DOS. 00:22:17.280 --> 00:22:20.640 My first OS was Windows 7. Windows 7? 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:24.440 Yeah. I think. I've used that one. 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 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. 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? 00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:57.840 I don't 100% know, but I would assume so. 00:22:57.840 --> 00:23:02.520 There are two large breaker panels right beside those very large switches. 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? 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? 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:13.920 I can just steal some new ones. Yeah, you can steal it. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:17.680 It's mine. I want it. They came with the case in the Ziploc baggies. 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.760 This is easy stuff now. I have one more question. One more question. 00:23:20.840 --> 00:23:24.480 And then I can look for more questions, though, if you need to. 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:28.360 D-Man123 asks, what is your favorite piece of tech? 00:23:28.360 --> 00:23:31.360 Favorite piece of tech? That's not a computer. That's not a computer. 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. 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:39.760 Phone? Phone. Okay, no phone, no computer. 00:23:39.760 --> 00:23:45.760 I want something interesting, David. We want to know you. I mean, I like mechanical tech. 00:23:45.760 --> 00:23:49.480 I like cars. Those are fun. 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.480 There's a lot of car people in this company. Oh, yeah. 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:55.480 No, there's lots of cars. I hope mistakes were not made. 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. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:06.640 Oh, that screw hole doesn't hold anything anymore. You didn't need it anyways, right? 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.640 What? No, it's fine. There we go. 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:12.640 EPS connector. Or CPU power. Yeah, that one sucks. 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:17.480 Yeah, that one, freaking, I hate that one. 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 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. 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:28.680 So here's the situation. 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. 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 00:24:41.040 --> 00:24:47.520 hooked up there, but there's another one that's not hooked up underneath. 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. 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 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 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:06.320 turn it on at least. It worked, guys. We did it. 00:25:06.320 --> 00:25:09.320 I didn't do anything. 00:25:09.320 --> 00:25:12.520 Thank you guys for watching. Let's him know how you liked the new format here. 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 00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:19.000 of the team instead of just sitting at a table and answering some questions.