hello and welcome to the Linus tech tips or Linus media group whatever q a video
in this video i posted a thread on the forum and then posted on twitter and hit
all that kind of stuff and had people ask random members of the team questions
grabbed questions from that list on the forum and then went around asking
everybody what the i don't know the questions ask them the
questions and they answer the questions relatively simple concept this is a q a
let's get started
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description down below to learn more oh yeah i definitely drive the pink
civic and i wouldn't say that i get more attention than i'd like i mean i'm the
kind of person who goes and puts my face all over the internet for two million
people to you know watch me do embarrassing crap or
yeah driving around in a pink car is the least of my concerns
uh we would love to do more factory tours it just really depends on what
brands allow us to tour their factories like there's a lot
that goes into the planning and the approval process and all that
because not that many brands actually want to show off what goes on behind the
scenes you know if there's anything less than perfection from the qc side that
reflects poorly on them so um i'm talking to a few people right now
maybe expect to see something within the first half of next year but uh yeah we
definitely want to do some more factory chores just hang on a minute here
so the rsi is a lot better i've been using a
powerball lately you can look it up it's like a little
gyroscope it's very powerful it gets spinning really fast it exercises every
single muscle in your forearm and i've been using that at least once a week
also working out helps a lot and also i changed my mouse to something that is
more ergonomic i can work i can get back to work now well i found it in uh
australia that's where it originated and
it never been there and then it made its way over here to
canada with the australian people and i
started to mimic it from those aussie folks those lovely chaps but i don't
know i just used to live where there was lots of aussie people at the ski hill so
i thought their accent was cool so i tried doing it myself subconsciously
pretty much any accent i just subconsciously start talking like that
in my own head if i'm around somebody long enough ah so that was a great deal the 8 SSD
array back when i bought it would have been considered a smoking hot deal
because i got the ssds which were
like a crazy blowout price with a promo
on top of it and i bought it at my staff discount which was way lower than what
we were selling them for which doesn't happen very often and i paid just under
a dollar per gig for about a terabyte of SSD storage and
then on top of that i bought a raid controller card for about five or six
hundred dollars so the whole thing came to about 1500 or about a dollar and a
half per gig for storage that was faster than anything that came out for like
three to four years after that uh we have received some negative
feedback due to Linus's antics in the past but my response is always like if
you sponsor this channel that's what you're gonna get and then i don't really hear much back
and they usually keep sponsoring the channel so
i don't know um
yes i'm going to do more videos on the channel i have a mechanoid
gk15 whatever coming up uh robot and i'm
also going to do the flycli scooter um
sort of thing it's got a powered electronic wheel in the back
which is uh both of them are actually spoiler alert kind of disappointing and
then other robot videos i have planned for later as well you
know basically robots like robots
whenever i have time dog
there's no plan just winging it every day
keeping it fresh
keeping it fun
keeping it real those are the only things that we plan on doing at channel
super fun and doing your best every day reaching
for the stars trying hard to do the best job that you
can do at what you're doing
uh basically that what else can you what else can you say i don't want to give
you some plan like yeah we've got a five year plan it's actually really
structured out there's a whole graph and pipe chart and
pie graph and pie something
i don't know i didn't even know i'd be doing this last year what do you think
i'm gonna be doing next year i don't know i could be doing something crazy so
keep your eye out for some crazy stuff to go down
taryn dawg
right now we use Windows movie maker uh obviously
it's just it's the best because it comes with
Windows so that's very convenient i think that was all i wanted to say about that do i
find myself becoming exhausted from video editing not really it's it's
exhausting in a different way right because you're sitting down all day yes
we can stand up and down with this up desks mostly i found myself sitting down
and what i'll do is um every time that i finish a video i will set it to render
and then i'll go bother brandon i'll stand up and i'll walk around and
that helps a lot in fact i kind of want us to get a little bit of like light
workout equipment so we can just like do some pull-ups or something like halfway
through the day you know that'll keep you like it's less tiring to move your body
you can start to feel your muscles just
degrade if you don't use them um yeah i do have
a personal youtube channel it's it's dumb you won't like it
it's just about how premiere is missing a lot of features and has a
lot of bugs and i just complain endlessly about all of the problems with
premiere some people find it very enjoyable there's also a tutorial
three and a half hours long if you want to watch that
on that channel you know check it out if you want
i guess if you're into premiere and who
would be the best settings for media encoder for
outputting videos are the presets because they already exist it takes no
effort
uh if we stopped doing sponsored content
we would not be able to pay anyone so
all the channels would pretty much die
honestly i think that's something that's always come pretty easily for me because
for one thing i used to work for a retailer so every video i ever did was
effectively sponsored like i got paid a paycheck to make the videos so really
nothing has changed in that regard i mean sure it's you know it's squarespace now or
whatever but it's it's all basically the same thing and then number two is that i
follow the valve principle that they at least say if not necessarily following
through on it all the time and that's that you can't lie or try and deceive
the internet because if you do they will catch you and they will never forget so
i've always taken that very seriously it's it's even if i was a dishonest
person what would be the point of trying to
keep that from people because they're just going to catch me and it's going to make it 10 times worse when they do
i don't really have plans to be sponsored for csgo right now but
there might be something in the works in the near future
it's unlikely that there will be a video with me rapping in it again although i
may sing again at some point i do have kind of an idea festering in my mind for
a uh a music video that i'd like to make at some point
why you guys laugh stop staring at me every morning i come in
and i i transfer trans i trans not all those files to china i
need to send in all the scripts and re-transcode some footage
to them and then i start shoot set up green screen and lighting
and shoot and add it
fast as possible and i added all of those i get this
question every day on instagram twitter periscope
um yes i got a bet
right after the vote
and do i like the bed yes thank you for the vote
well the fine dropped okay yes i have um but
i've never damaged it because of the drop i always caught it
so i've never actually successfully dropped a camera i held my personal cam
my black magic camera over a candle once to dry off water and it burnt a little
bit of it so don't do that kids
i think it's a good thing like the entire camera market especially for
dslrs for video has kind of was stagnating for a little while and the
mirrorless cameras give you the ability to do so many different things that you
can't do with a dslr and companies like sony are actually pushing the camera
industry forward unlike canon who are
i don't really know what they're doing but they're not really adding much to
the current market wow tips for starting your own business
uh that's a great question um
the answer is really different depending on a lot of different factors like i was
at this talk that gary vaynerchuk was giving and some guys like can you help
me save my business i bought a a small
free to distribute magazine and we're
struggling and gary vee's like
i'm sorry to hear that man
you gotta have a good you gotta have a good business idea and then if you do
then the advice that i can give is go all in because otherwise if you
accept failure as a possibility then i
think that leaves that's just an excuse to allow it to happen
i think keeping our opinion out of the sponsorship spots is really about
maintaining an appropriate expectation with the sponsor i mean whether it's a
Corsair or whether it's Intel or whoever else they understand
that our editorial content is separate from our advertising content and it
always will be and as long as they know that going in
then when and if they complain hey you know
um the answer is well that was our opinion
so uh ts and you can either continue to
advertise with us and get access to our gigantic audience which by the way we
wouldn't have if we didn't give our honest opinion about things or you
cannot and that would be fine too and so far i think we're at like 95 plus
percent sponsor retention so they've all decided that us being honest with our
viewers is more important than you know us always sugar coating everything hello
Colton hey what's up question for you yeah what's the question what do you do in
your average day at work i manage the
company emails i reach out to new clients and i manage
old clients i'm an account manager and
uh i do a lot of other random crap too
how did i get two copyright strikes on the channel that is a very good question
um pure stupidity i would say um
doing probably doing a bunch of them in a day
um yeah i just mixed i mixed one i mixed
two of them up in a like one month span
so luckily i still have my job to get a job here what happened was
Linus posted a video saying that he was looking for an assistant i was currently
in school and looking for a part-time job he was looking for part-time hours
so i was like hey this might actually legitimately work and i'd live
relatively close to where i would be working so i shot in a resume i was not
the most qualified he was looking mainly for someone to shoot and edit things i
had literally never filmed a video using
any device in my entire life and i had never edited any video on any system in
my entire life but just like kind of faked it by showing him still shot
images that i had taken and then put my computer on my resume my computer was
mineral oil cooled fish tank you can probably find it in the video up here
someone will put it up there um yeah so he brought me in more just to
like talk to the dude that made a mineral oil computer than a serious
interview but then hours later the vid interview finally ended and i somehow
got the job so here we are i do not think that leaving school to
work at this company uh from the start or whatever was a bad
idea i think it was a good idea i don't think that it would have been a good
idea for everyone in similar scenarios
we had a pretty good base to work on and it was still a huge gamble uh sometimes
i do wish that i just stayed and actually got
my degree being that far in and then not getting my degree was a little bit
frustrating i do kind of plan on maybe going back
and finishing off an engineering degree at some point in time
but yeah i don't think overall that it was a mistake i do definitely think it
was right to go with this company i enjoy my job and it's going very well uh
but yeah i would like to finish off a degree at some point so my decision to
pursue tech as a career really happened by accident i mean i was
really passionate about games and gaming so i started doing things like upgrading
computers and then from there i just really liked it and in a very short
period of time i went from being a gamer who tinkers with his computer to make his
games run better to really being a computer tanker who ran games
periodically even though i'm not very good at them as an excuse to have a hot
rodded computer and i'm really not sure exactly how it happened but part of it
came from my passion for helping people with things i was actually a member of
the ncis tech tips forum with like six or seven thousand posts or something
along those lines just from just to talk about any excuse to talk
about computers if it was someone wanting to pick a video card or someone
wanting help reformatting their hard drive i was like yeah i can talk about
computers if i type an answer to this question so um it just kind of snowballed from
there i got kind of good at it and here i am today
squirtle is still alive and running i actually have a lot of new parts for
squirtle not all the new parts for squirtle that i want but quite a few of
them a big part of the reason why we haven't had an update on it is that uh
well one the plan changed i'm now actually going in a case not just gonna be on a
test bench i have the case i have a lot of the other components but
two three i don't know whatever uh we've been plugged with videos for the holiday
season the holiday season like october november december are all our busiest
months so probably in the next couple months after ces we will maybe hopefully
see another squirtle update there will be another spiral update
uh it's a little different having to share my office because i got very used
to being alone over the like probably what was that year and a half that i
worked alone but it's actually really nice having a close-knit team and being
able to work with john in the same room is actually really helpful we bounce
ideas off of each other we work on things together uh he helps me out i
like to think that i help him out i like working with the team i like the
team floor aspect i like the idea of new companies where a huge group of people
work in one area so i've got one
working on it maybe there'll be more people in the future
so here i have two major things i usually take care of one of them is
benching um there's usually when i'm benching stuff i'll try to choose a
number of tests based on what exactly it is i'm trying to find out
sometimes i'll do synthetics or sometimes i'll do like a load test to
test things like heat power draw that kind of thing i've
recently i started doing stuff more inside the case
the other thing that i do a lot of obviously is writing i'm the main writer
for fastest possible i also do some writing for ldp as well um they're quite
a bit you know sometimes if i get a topic that i know a lot about i can just
kind of go and it's really no problem a couple different things
sometimes i'll choose a topic based on oh if it's a more technical thing that
is a little straightforward because really you're just presenting the results but there is a little more to it
than that um
um about what your can we scratch this this is that what i try to do is find a
way to make the numbers meaningful interpret it somehow say does this make
um i'm also the one who makes all the graphs for the video so but you know i
try my best to come up with a with a good conclusion
besides that um i do like some general sort of tech support stuff around here
um nothing but yeah that's pretty much what i do here and i hope i answered
your question thanks for checking out the forum
so the lct forum today uh i would
view it as kind of a little bit stagnant in the public eye i'm going to say
public eye specifically because this is the alpha forum and this is the
currently viewable public forum this has been being worked on by a little bit
myself not much though largely uh cat
with a smiley face colonel mortis and blade of grass and this will be being
pushed out to uh the the main site actually relatively
soon if you're on youtube maybe by the time you see this video what we've been
saying for a long time now is in the suggestions for features thread and all
that kind of stuff like hold up we're waiting for the new forum
this is it this is the new forum so we will hopefully finally be implementing
some really cool stuff that we've been wanting to for a really long time for
camera videos i hope i do a lot more i want to have a bunch
of ideas that i want to do and stuff i want to try as for nab
i hope we go i'm like 90 percent sure that we will but
we'll see the exact urls of my youtube and twitch
channels well twitch is relatively easy it's twitch.tv luke underscore lafr on
there every friday after the WAN Show i do a
game stream and uh
usually on sundays i like to do an
editing stream where i edit some videos for my personal youtube channel and on
other random days i usually play games or edit videos or even 3d print things
sometimes my youtube channel i just recently got a custom url for so it's
youtube.com c slash luke lafrenier
on there uh right now i'm just kind of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what works
so i've got an ice bucket challenge a random joke video with my mom unboxing
and reviewing a computer um myself getting stuck on a bridge and a vlog i'm
planning on trying to get to weekly content within the next
few weeks here yeah check it out um
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there you go thanks for watching guys i don't know if
this video was that interesting so let us know in the comments down below this is the first time we've done this style
of q a and i'd love to do more in the future one thing that i want to make a
note of is you guys can ask things if we do q and a's like this in the future but
like technical questions and stuff like if you want to ask brandon how to film
something specific you can ask him that if you're asked want to ask taran how to
do something weird with editing or edsel how to do something weird with editing
you can do that so go ahead next time we do q and a's go ham ask whatever
question you want anyways yeah i thought it was kind of fun thanks for watching