Brian is an all-around cool guy. He runs a non-profit summer camp,
raises three kids with his wife, and just look at him, wholesome.
But spending all that time on other people means he hasn't had any time to work on himself.
And because of that, his setup is bad.
Except what? This looks great. Are you lying to me?
No, no, the other setup's over there. Oh, oh my God, what happened here?
It's not that bad. It's pretty bad, man.
Don't worry, Brian. I'm sure that the setup doctor has a plan.
I'm sure he does. Sorry, guys, I'd be there if I could.
No worries. Reese and I were super competent and I'm sure that nothing will go wrong.
I'm like stressed out. I didn't know that I would have such a visceral emotional reaction.
Some stuff might go wrong, but the gain will be worth the pain.
We got big plans. Bad cable management. It's disease and someone's gotta cure it.
That's why Linus became the setup doctor.
Brought to you by Yougreen. Hi, my name is Brian.
I am one of the directors at a summer camp
and I've been doing this for 12 years or so. We have three kids who are under the age of eight
and we have busy lives. So that's my space that I go to work on things
and not a lot else. I go in there and I tinker and I leave
and I don't spend a lot of time making it look nice.
I do want to know like what is this? This is my first computer. How old is this thing?
This computer is like... Age yourself. Yeah, age yourself.
This computer is probably like 20 something years old. I mean, it looks it.
No, no, no, not at all. It looks young and spry, capable.
But enough about your old computer. What is this new computer?
This is 10 years newer than that one is. Okay, new to you, I guess.
This is like our home server, a.k.a. This is your server of backup hard drive.
I don't know if you'd follow the channel too much, but you know that like we have servers,
Linus has servers and they break all the time and they're closed.
But this way if it breaks, I can fix it. The camp I work at is non-profit
so we can never ever afford tech. So we just inherit people's old computers
and then put them in our office and use them. But less than 10 years old?
Less than 15? Some of them are less than 10 years old. That's pretty good.
It seems like you got a lot of stuff. You got like a power supply, was that an oscilloscope?
That's a multimeter, yeah, the oscilloscope's over here, but I don't know how to use it. They're like handheld now.
How old is this stuff? Very old, my dad gave me this.
He's an electrician. Oh, okay. He built and designed this from scratch for me.
Wait, what? Yeah. He built, he made that? See, look, it's Brian.
That's so cool.
Just looking at this place, one thing I think that you lack is small organization.
We've got lots of big shelves. Yeah, absolutely. But you also just have like a CPU, just out and about.
When it's organized, I come in and I go, I don't know what to do now. Okay, well, we're gonna fix that.
We're gonna teach you how to be organized. Many have tried and many have failed.
This series is all about failing. And learning from that failure.
I'm worried because there's so many,
I'm like stressed out. I didn't know that I would have such a visceral emotional reaction.
One keyboard, ah, ah, ah. Two keyboards, ah, ah, ah.
I put the third one in there. Three keyboards, ah, ah, ah.
That's RAM, it's DDR. It's not DDR2, it's just DDR.
Would you like a Pentium? Oh my God, how old is that?
Logically, this doesn't really make sense to me, but now that we've removed the stuff from it,
it looks smaller. It does actually look way smaller.
That was my problem, the desk was just too small.
Okay, I'm gonna be real with you, Brian. That is not the only problem.
Here's what I see. You have a lot of stuff,
but no suitable place to put it all. Which is why it's all over your desk.
So to remedy this, we're gonna build storage into as many parts of the setup as possible.
New desk, with drawers, walls.
Those are gonna get pegboards. We're gonna move your floating shelf over
to make room for, get this, bigger shelf.
And this table on the left is gonna turn into a rollable black space,
with, get this, storage.
Oh, and we also threw in a ton of extra goodies for you.
All right, boys, let's get to it. Or rather, you guys are gonna get to it.
Oh. That's very heavy, by the way.
Yeah, nothing's too heavy for me.
Ah, okay.
We're good, I only scraped the top layer of skin.
Oh, I have these drawers here. And then, oh yeah, we got all the space we need.
Now that we know that everything fits, we're gonna start doing some drilling.
Great. Is this shelf only held up with like two screws or something? Three.
Okay. All right. Hi.
I put a level on top to level it, and never took it off.
All right, we're done with the cable management. Thank you so much, Brian.
Your cable management upgrade is done. It's amazing. So much better in here.
You good? You can tell from the cinder blocks how level the floor is.
Yeah, this is, just don't look at the corner. Don't look at the lines.
Brian, can you explain this networking situation to me?
This is our router. The brown line comes from a building over there,
which the internet comes from outside of that. And then the blue line goes into our house,
and then there's a Wi-Fi router and a switch in our house. And that goes to the places.
The plan is we're gonna leave this kind of, as it is, we might just wanna purty it up a little bit.
And we can leave this up there. Yeah. You don't have good Wi-Fi in here though,
because your actual wireless router is on the other side of this concrete brick.
Okay. So I think we can deal with that, because I think we can get you a small router
for like, they'll just put on the same network. That big old power bar, is that gonna go under?
That depends on what you wanna do, because I also understand that like, you wanna have easy access to just unplug and plug stuff.
And if that plug is there, then I think we could put the power under and then.
And then that can be like your modular, your permanent plugs are under here.
And then when you need an extra thing, you can just put it in the top. Yeah, let's do that.
Sounds great. Scatis. That's the Ikea peg boards. The reason I went with these is because
on like, Thingiverse or printables, there's just tons and tons of custom 3D printed stuff
that works exactly with this. So if you have to hang like anything
that you ever could imagine, somebody's probably made a plan and you've already got that 3D printer on your desk.
You'll be able to easily print some stuff. Didn't you actually do any print any stuff for it?
I did. Oh. It's probably gonna have been out there.
It's almost like we planned this. I'm not gonna say the thing I was about to say. I'm just gonna say, let's get pigging.
I definitely drilled the holes for where the... For where those things are not to...
So I've watched all the videos where Elijah puts extra holes in. But I now let the homeowners drill holes in their wall.
Is this part of this? No, this is a computer test bench
that we just grabbed for you. So instead of having to swap parts in and out of a chassis,
you can just have functioning parts on here. Take whatever you want out of the computer,
test on here or plug anything in, and it'll save you a lot of time. And it'll look a little bit cleaner.
While Reese is gonna keep working in the workshop, I'm gonna come in here and help cable manage this setup.
Now it looks pretty clean on the top, so good job.
Thank you. Underneath though. You don't look under the desk.
We could use a little bit of work, you know? So we're gonna just tidy some things up for ya
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And these are your headphones? Yeah, those are my headphones, yes.
How do they... They work fine. They don't even... Well, they don't work when they don't play music through them.
Oh, I see. I mean, like they don't even sit on your ears.
They like... They sit on my ears. Do they? Probably.
Basically, we just made a big, massive tool kit
full of every possible length of like every type of cable.
Cause a lot of what solves your cable management problems
is just having the right length of cable. It's not necessary. A lot of times you just want to do what you can
with what you got, but having the right length makes your life a lot easier.
We just took the paper off of the magnetic plate that we're going to put on here.
That's about where we want it to be. Now it's held in there. Now we're going to just quickly take our screws
and put them into the back of the desk. Don't worry, Brian said that this is okay.
Just like that. We'll take all of our cables, put them in and boom.
Oh, it's so nice. And then because they're not like Velcroed or tied down or anything,
if he wants to adjust his monitor or move it, these will just pull through nicely.
Should probably vacuum under there, but outside of that it'll be really easy
cause there's no cables in the way. What's funny is I did vacuum up to the cables.
Yeah. Oh wow. Hey, look at that.
That's up safe and secure. It's absolutely 100% permanent deployment.
Never going to fall. This is amazing. This looks so much better already. It actually really does.
I'm so excited for you. And just like that, we chose a white table top.
It only comes in that size in white, but that doesn't matter
because we have an LTT mod mat
that's gonna be nice and cover most of the top.
Got everything you'd ever want to know about computers. I will never wonder what size a fan is ever again.
That's great. I will say that we don't go so far back as to have this Vex for DDR,
but we do have three onwards. Yeah, that's good. Get it where you want it.
I don't know if this is where I want it. So it's okay where it is?
Yeah, I think it's gonna come up, Reese. We'll move it later if we want. Thank God.
So I guess it's kind of time to start putting stuff back. Getting your setup organized.
So you can take your screwdrivers. That's an LTT screwdriver, specific one.
It's designed exactly for us. And then we've got a bunch of extra hooks.
So if you ever need one more thing to hang,
you can just go print them off for like five, 10 cents each.
Like they're changed there. Perfect. We're gonna try and use the power bar keys
that we normally use for power bars, but these keys are a bit too thick.
So we decided to use the power brick holders, strapped them to the bottom and they're good to go.
It's actually a bigger power bar. So the bigger magnets will actually kind of
work in our favor. I got you a new router, like a little, if you wanted a Wi-Fi out here,
that's just plugged into your router. Sweet. So I figured we could just toss it up here,
tidy this area up a little bit, make it a little bit less Ugo,
or hide it behind the Ugreen NAS or something. Yeah, I just don't see how this is a good place
to put this in this exact scenario.
Do you just put it against the wall? Like with the double-sided magnet part?
You know what I'm saying? That might be it. I do want to give it some slack.
So that if you need to like pull the NAS a little bit, otherwise it has a, I mean, it has a barrel jack, is it?
Yeah, yeah, that's no problem. Then we'll do that. We'll magnet it to the wall.
I also got you speakers. Seriously? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
So that you can listen to tunes. Yeah, these are amazing. And a Fire R1280 DBs.
They are great, simple budget speakers, bookshelf.
They're powered. The phones have Bluetooth, so you can connect it to your phone or whatever.
If you have it with your laptop, however you want to do that, as well as it has speaker wire and just RCA.
They're great, great budget speakers.
There. Wow.
That's fun. Is that all the slack we got? How much more do you need?
Like literally like an inch. Oh, I don't know if I can give you that.
Oh, oh, oh, they were in. That wasn't at the cost of a hideous wire,
just on the wall up there, was it?
No. Are you saying that because it's true
or because that's what you think I want to hear? No.
Do the dance.
Sounds great. It sounds amazing. Oh, this is going to be so perfect on your desk
when we have a little, like, to talk to a cute little guy.
We can have a little charger in your desk and place your phone. But if you're on the go,
there's also a magnetic battery pack. Does the same thing, but also can be a kickstand.
All right, it was a long day, but we're finally done. And holy cow, does it look so much better.
All right, I can't wait to see how this turned out.
Wow. Dude, you guys do your best work
when I'm not around to supervise. Look at this, there's barely any cables under there,
but everything's nicely managed. If you need to, like, hook up your computer, just pull those out.
We've got the new desks, tons of storage, that pegboard, he's got our new mod mat,
got the MagSafe charger there. We've got your new speakers
so you can jam out while you're in here and this new shelf that holds all of your computers
so neat and tidy. Yes. If you do, and I know it's easy to fall into old habits,
you're not going to, right? No, no. Everything's gonna be clean. Forever, everything will be like this.
At least in here, I don't care what you do any other room, but this one needs to stay clean.
For you? I won't even use it. That's perfect, that's what we want.
And if you do decide to use it and make it messy eventually, you have this nice little extra movable table
that you can bring on over if you need a little bit of extra workspace or for anything else.
And it's got even more storage in there.
I mean, it's still obviously a functional space, you know?
Like there's a lot of kind of stuff on the shelves, but at least he's got enough shelves to put everything on.
It's amazing what a difference maker, a little bit of organized storage can be.
This is great. Yeah, great job, you guys.
Doesn't it feel good? It feels great. This is amazing, thank you. Oh yeah, and also we've got your Ugreen NAS.
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especially the NAS. The NAS is really, really cool. I'm very excited about it.
Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, why don't you watch a previous episode of The Set Up Doctor?
It's just as fun and it's pretty dang cool. And Reese is in it and everyone loves Reese.
Look at him. Hi, hi. And thank you, Brian, for having us out here.
Yeah, thanks for coming and doing this for me. I really appreciate it. Bye. Bye.
Thank you, thanks, Ugreen.