Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Do you play or do you just sit? No, I help play. I think.
Hey. Hey. Hey.
What are you going to do about it?
He's really giving a half-assed effort here. What? You threatened that cat.
What are you going to do about it? Oh, nothing. Nothing.
This is an awesome little kitchen helper. A little kid, big helper.
Oh, man. That's not going to work. My ARM doesn't bend out.
My ARM can no bend like that. Okay.
Does that kind of work? Is it weird? Yeah, it's just a hand. It's not an ARM, but how does that sound?
Yeah, that's fine. Before we get started, I noticed in the script
we had the bit about how you do your own home repairs. But it didn't take us long to find some sort of subpar work here, Alex.
That's not my work.
I do a better job than that. Okay. Cool. Slightly.
Yeah. Okay. Good. Slightly. But you mentioned some extra speed holes you put in the wall.
I had to put some extra speed holes upstairs because the line that I ran to here didn't pull very well.
Oh, no. Yeah. That's what you were going to do.
It's going to have you be a little hamster in the attic,
but it broke. It broke when I was testing the feasibility.
Oh, good. Wait, so that is what I'm going to do, or that was...
That's not what you're going to do. You can see, I already pulled the lines. Oh. I got the staff, certified whale staff.
These are inside out. That's weird.
Linus tech tips, whale staff, LTX.
This is crazy. Half your stuff is from work, dude.
Well, we make nice stuff. Why would I not wear it?
Especially when the price is right. Exactly, free 99.
This hard drive busted.
Okay, okay. So this, Callanan bought, who gave it to Jamie, who then gave it to me.
The validity of these claims, I'm unsure of, but...
I don't know what's going to be the toughest conversation for Alex after today.
Talking to his wife about how she apparently takes up space,
or when he admits that he has to move this printer inside
because being in an unheated shed might affect print quality.
Well, the printer, because it's enclosed, it maintains its temperature itself.
No way. Yeah. It can just maintain, like the hole inside of the enclosure is heated?
Yeah, I'm pretty certain. Well, the bed will be heated, so it'll heat up the enclosure.
What about if it's really hot outside? Oh, then it can't cool.
Okay, so then... Then your screw. Then you'll have to bring it inside.
Yeah. Okay. I just won't print in the summer.
Okay. Or you'll just print at work and take our film in. Yeah.
I used to volunteer for Quaycon when I lived in Texas.
I'd volunteer for this thing called Crimp Nation, where we'd literally just sit there
all day and crimp cables for the land.
Nice. And my track record was 100%.
Really? Until I started working with Cat6.
Ah, yeah, okay, there you go. So ugly.
I love it, though. I mean, the AMD logo is not ugly.
The positioning and the color filaments and everything else is very ugly.
It used to be green and green. It used to be green. Because who were they?
They were A... I don't know. They purchased another company.
What? AMD was someone else before AMD, right?
No. AMD's always been AMD. Advanced micro devices.
They bought a GPU maker, though. Oh, ATI.
That's it. Oh, my God, you kids. Linus, I wasn't even born when ATI was a thing.
Oh, my God. I feel like this is the kind of house that's like my house.
Like, if anyone ever buys this from you, they're going to be like,
yo, what the f... What the f... They're going to call you and you're going to be like,
oh, them again, decline.
Guess you should have had it in the purchase contract if you wanted tech support on this house.
This is a weird painting, dude.
I don't know what is going on with this guy.
This guy looks like he's getting stabbed in the back,
but he's like happy about it. This guy looks like he just loves murdering the sh... out of people.
Okay, that painting was in my grandma's house in Surrey.
And when she moved, there was my favorite thing.
She gave it to me. I think it's William Travis at the Battle of the Alamo.
You can see, he actually got shot in the head.
That's him dying. It's wonderful.
It's my favorite thing. It's kind of messed up. It's very messed up, but I thought it was hilarious.
My grandma... Have you ever looked at the look on this guy's face?
What the f... is wrong with him? I don't know. I just love killing!
Are we using this monitor mount, Alex?
Yes. Oh. That monitor mount, the screen will not fit on it.
So you have to... okay. Sorry, what I'm trying to say is this part needs to go on the screen first,
and then it needs to be slid on. Oh, yeah.
Because it won't fit. Uh-huh. You can't mount it afterwards.
Is that a challenge? It's not a challenge.
Physically, it will not work, because I already tried it. Sounds like a challenge.
You want to try it? You've got the dream team here, Alex. If anyone can do it, we can try.
Let's go. We're the Try Guys. Except I didn't cheat on my wife yet.
Oh. It's a cheat.
Also, I was going to say, there's only two of us.
So we can't really be the Try Guys. Oh, yeah. We're the Bye Guys?
Okay, you know that's upside down, right?
We were hoping you wouldn't notice. We were going to flip it away though.
You can fix it in post. Okay.
Can you tell he's worked with Elijah before? He used to have to manage me.
And he couldn't. That's why I had to go to the writing team.
He approached James. He's like, please, just take him.
Your RC truck is in the way.
Can you tell us about this? This seems like an impulse purchase.
No, no, no. Callanand got this for me. Okay.
And so you're saying it wasn't an impulse purchase? Maybe by Callanand.
Not by me. My dog and my cats love it though.
Okay, cool. You want to show us how it works? Yeah, sure.
So you now have your wife, your boyfriend, and your...
Well, don't forget about my wife's boyfriend.
Where do I fit into this rectangle?
I think at a certain point it becomes a pentagram with all the inter-drawn lines.
Only Satan would approve of this type of relationship mesh.
Listen, that's fine. Mesh-topology relationship.
Wee! Let's go!
We're going to hear the thump down the stairs.
Wow, she torques. It's not bad.
He knows how much I love old trucks.
So he got me an old truck. Not this again.
That ShortCircuit, you know.
You've been defeated.
Ow! Broom, broom.
Some people will get the reference.
This is not tight enough. Do we have an Allen key?
Okay. Who's Allen? You knew this wasn't exclusive.
Okay, hold on, hold on. Okay, no, no, yeah, but...
I'm holding it. Damn it, Elijah. Well, you can't hold it there because the...
It's going to pinch your hand. You're going to scissor your hand.
No. Yes. I am strong enough I would have been able to catch it.
And gosh darn it, people like me. That's a reference you won't get.
What? I didn't even know that was a reference.
It's a... It's been a long time. I'm sorry, not gosh darn it.
Doggone it. Doggone it, people like me. That's not a word.
Doggone it? Yeah. It's not a word.
It's a word. Doggone it. It's like God d*** it, but...
Whoa, what? Doggone it.
You boomers in your language. I don't get it.
We need it to study how the zoomers think.
Well, he's missing his subway surfers monitor.
That's priority one. It's a subway surfers monitor.
I don't even know that. You have a vertical monitor. Yeah.
It's dedicated to only play subway surfers. What's a subway subway surfers?
So there's a thing on TikTok where they play in the top half of the information, something
you want to watch. In the bottom half, they just play some random gameplay or random content.
Yeah. Because the idea is the player or the viewer will be able to go, oh, I can actually pay
attention because my eyes can focus on something and then subconsciously listen to the information.
That's not how paying attention works.
So... It is. No, it isn't.
He doesn't get TikTok culture. It's fine.
We'll teach him. $25. For what?
My offer for this when you have to get rid of it.
The walnut costs more than $25. I know, but $25.
No. I put a lot of time and effort in that thing.
It's beautiful now. Okay, so what are you going to do with it when you have to get rid of it?
I don't have to get rid of it. I couldn't help noticing this is in your bedroom, sir.
Oh, okay, yeah. Well, that's why I have the other keyboard and it's wireless.
So that's for looks and when it's not night time.
Come to think of it, that's far from the worst thing about this setup.
Where the heck is your mouse pad? Okay, so I had an LTT dust pad, but it was on my old desk and when I got this new one,
it was too long. Okay. So I took it to work and then I forgot to grab another one.
You mean you forgot to buy another one?
Yeah, I was trading. I was trading an old one.
Do we have a trade-in program? I don't know.
Yeah, probably stolen from the office. I think it's a cable mod cable.
No comment. Are you just going to stand there forever?
You're blocking my path, sir. Thank you.
It's sometimes scary to ask him to move. You never know if he's going to snap or something.
Wow.
All right. I remember actually asking you to move. I think it was like my third weekend and you had never talked to me yet.
I was so nervous. I was like, I don't know. Maybe this is just like the, you know, you don't talk to Bill Gates kind of thing.
Like, I don't know. Like, I was worried.
So I didn't ask you. I just went back. I came back five minutes later.
And now look at us. We're the bye guys.
Oh my God. I got this like spam text.
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Sure. May I ask your number on WhatsApp?
I can notify the job owner to share complete details. You must be able to operate a smartphone or computer
and have basic experience in using the internet. Hey, that's you.
Should I just take it? Yeah. That'd be so good for a video, I think.
I'm going to take this job on TaskRabbit. Stay tuned.
YouTube.com slash Linus Tech Tips.
Yeah, it's a really narrow hole.
Do you have a smaller bit that actually fits? Uh, yeah.
Cool, because I just stripped the hell out of this one. Cool.
What is, you gotta, you gotta pull the collar and then pull it out.
Who's collar? What? Oh!
It's called a collar, Elijah.
I don't know. I'm not an engineer.
Also, if you drill it slow.
Sure. It won't strip.
Well, that's what you say.
Oh, it's so stripped. Oh.
And I just dropped the other screw and I dropped the bit. Oh, God, Elijah.
It's because you gotta pull the collar to lock it in.
Thanks, Dad. Now it's locked in.
Now you can take, maybe try, if it's, is it like strip, strip?
Oh, yeah. I'm going to try going lower. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, it's completely stripped. Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's done, though. Okay. Cut it with a kick pedal for a drum.
No, it's for the sewing machine, Elijah. Why do you need a pedal for the sewing machine?
Because your hands are busy. But it just, what do you mean?
Your hands are moving the fabric. Good God.
Of course your hands are busy, but it just goes. How does it go, Elijah?
You hit power and boom.
And it just auto-detects the fabric? Well, no, because it just goes 24-7 and you just feed it.
I don't sew. We know.
Or I don't know. Elijah, you don't know a lot of things.
I don't know how the world works. I do know how the world works.
I think he knows how the world works. In my bubble.
When you're Elijah, you have a lot of experience with how the world works.
And they've got the needle with the foot. Sure.
It goes like that. Sure. Okay.
Then you've got these little things under the foot that go. And they feed the fabric through.
Okay. So the pedal tells it how fast to feed the fabric.
Or just a little bit.
But you're feeding the fabric. No, you just hold it. You're guiding it.
Guided steady. It's like a car.
It's like, how do you push the pedal faster? Yeah.
But there's no gas.
Okay. I can't tell if he's trolling or not.
See, my stepdad does this thing. Once he understands that he was an idiot,
he tries to make it seem like no one could be that stupid
by making another joke. And so you can't tell where the line was
between what he actually didn't understand and what he's joking about.
I've never... I think he pulled that move.
Man, that is a big, big screen for this room.
Is that a hundred inches? It's a hundred inches. But I thought it was going to be like a TV.
So like, diagonally, but it's a hundred inches wide.
Oh. There's your problem right there.
Yeah. You know what, Alex?
Yeah. I think what you actually need to do is not change
your light fixture. You need to move this whole thing down.
See, I had it down and it was too close to the...
It was too awkward. That's where these holes came from.
I see. Okay.
It was a little bit higher. Okay. And it didn't feel so weird.
Right. It didn't feel like I was going to die.
And what you really needed to do was steal a different projector from work.
A short throw. Yeah. I don't really know much about projectors.
Yeah, that's fine. This one was... It seemed decent.
Oh, no. This is a... That is a very decent projector.
Yeah. Yeah. Let's just play around with the keystone a little bit, though.
I'll help. Yeah.
That's a huge hop line.
Spits all over. His kids aren't home, so I'm trying to help fill that void.
I think the space bar is delayed.
Really? You should try.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Try typing actual words, though.
It is.
Overall, I can't fault the effort when it comes to beautifying the place, though.
These are some spectacular Christmas ornaments. I especially love this one.
We picked that up in Hawaii. I see that.
You can tell. It's very, you know, it's Hawaiian-themed. Yeah.
It really fits the whole vibe you've got going on here. Yeah.
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. On some merchandise from LTTstore.com.
Yeah, I got a lot of it. He admits it.
I have tons. It's the one benefit of being a big boy.
Oh, I see. The free samples. Right.
They're never picked through. So, okay, so to do one of the cameras, we have to do the switch first.
Oh. Because it needs the PO.
Actually, we need to do the switch first if we want to adopt anything.
I see. Well, I wasn't going to adopt them initially.
I wasn't going to install them. Okay. This is kind of cool packaging.
Yeah. Ubiquiti does a really good job.
Got this, like, exploded sort of view looking, deely.
It's just the pain to put back in the package.
So, like, after we sticker them, having to put them back in can be a nightmare.
Well, there's some feedback for you, Ubiquiti. It's very pretty, though.
We have to pull one of those cables on the bottom up to the top and feed it through the
hole. Oh, so we're going the exterior route strategy.
Yeah. Got it. We have to deal on that.
How to kind of do it properly with putty and everything.
Hey, look at that. Look at that. Look at that.
We got some Alex Plus. Yeah.
Oh, look at that. And I guess you're keeping your patch panel.
Yeah. That is so screwed in.
Yeah. Well, I didn't screw it in because I knew this had to go.
Right. And then this is going to...
Okay. What is this? What are you doing, bud?
What do you mean? Okay, okay, okay, okay. What is this?
Oh, God, I can't remember where that went to.
I pulled it out.
What is that? I don't know.
This is the downstairs access point that I don't need anymore.
Yeah. But that's not the problem. The problem is why didn't you just terminate this?
You went to all the work to put it in this female housing.
It just... Oh, yeah. That's because it was in the patch panel, but then I moved everything around and it didn't
fit anymore. So this was temporary.
Temporary. The most permanent form of airy.
Yeah. Look at these buttons. Wow.
What does that do? I don't know. What does that do?
I don't know. Who knows? Something good, probably.
Yeah. Do you know how to start it? Because there's no...
This one. Yeah, yeah. There's no button on it.
Yeah, but it's start shaped. That's start shaped? Yeah, it's a diamond.
Diamond is start? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Diamond hands, baby, to the moon.
Okay. Do I have the wrong side? No, I have the right side.
Oh, you have the right side. Excellent. This is a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be.
Alex, a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be dick.
Yeah. I've probably never heard that one either.
I haven't either.
Let's see what was worth cheating on LTT Store for what?
Really this? Yeah. It was the cheapest one that could be delivered today.
Interesting. Mouse pad, that's not even a brand.
There was an Amazon basics, but I thought this would be better.
It was a whole $7.98.
Delivered today. You know, on LTT Store, you could have gotten a gigantic mouse pad.
I could have. For $29.99 and cut it up into like nine of these.
I could have. I could still do it.