Over the next few weeks, my wife and I are going to be making some long overdue
techy upgrades to our house. We've lived here for 10 years, but we've never done
much more than throw a wireless access point in and like a Nest thermostat.
I'm talking the whole 9 yards. Network upgrade, security system upgrade, DIY,
air conditioning, inseiling speakers. The only problem is that in order to run
all that stuff, I've actually got to clear out the makeshift floor that I put
in my attic that I use to store the 10
years worth of tech and other assorted paraphernalia
that I have piled up here. So, let's go
on a little archaeological expedition and see what we find.
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So, most of that is like sentimental corner. Uh, this is all kind of like
oversized, including a fair bit of like
tech boxes and stuff. And then this is
stuff that hasn't been organized at all. Let's start with sentimental box
number one. Oh man, this feels like it's
going to be a multi-part video. I hardly even know where to begin with this.
Every item in this pile has a story. Here's my NCIX business card. Great
technology selection and service motherucker. MSI made these back when
they were doing a big military standard marketing push. It's fun for him and for
her. Agent Ruby broke her sword.
Should I get rid of duplicates? Yes. Okay. So, in that case, I only need one
each of the trendet uh soccer and footballs. Should there be a place for
consumables that shouldn't be consumed anymore?
Do we need to keep those? Yeah, they're cool. Our first run of
Linus TechTip shirts as a company. That's pretty cool. These are a piece of
my DIY Duke Nukem costume from that video that I made. Yeah, these were
actually kind of nice gloves that I got the fingers off of, but I had two pairs
of them, so I was like, ah, I could only need one pair of leather gloves. Promptly lost the other pair. This is
the NCIX name plate of the original cameraman whose name was never actually
revealed. These are the coolest case thumb screws that I've ever seen.
They're from I by Power. This was a swag item at CES one year. Is that as
blingastic as you ever did see or what? This is a great story. This was my first
CES badge. Back then, YouTubers didn't qualify as press. So, I was only able to
get in because Corsair, who was our first ever sponsor as a company, just
signed me up as one of their staff. So, I was there as Corsair Components Linus
Media Group exhibitor, one of the ultra wide dream setup winners. Look how young
Luke looks. More photos. This time, Austin Karen's wedding. This hat's
awesome. This was a gift from LG. Apparently, it says Lionus in Korean.
Oh, this was the failed main board that Lewis Rossman actually had me attempt to
repair the proper way after he saw me reflow a graphics card in a toaster
oven. Hold on to that as a little souvenir. We didn't actually manage to fix it, but hey, it's a cool little
keepsake. Here's some of the special Lionus edition black and blue to match
the color scheme of my rig memory that OCZ cooked up for me in true OCZ
fashion. Um, most of it died.
Hey, it still works as a souvenir, right? Watch me. Is this you?
No. Should we watch it?
Haven't had to hook up one of these in a while. What do you think's on here? Oh,
I have no idea. This is way less cool than I thought it
was going to be. What is that? Whatever. This is just a stupid cringy
AMD promotional thing for the uh R9295
X2. Like a bad graphics card.
This is an extreme graphics card. Cool. Swag. Crucial's memory hog. This
is seemingly random, but it's actually the only remaining piece that I have of
our FS700, which was the first major piece of equipment that we bought as a
company. Uh, we never really acknowledged it publicly, but it was stolen a number of years ago. This was
the one thing that they didn't have cuz we didn't have it on the camera cuz we never used it. This is my Disneyland
pass when I was like six. Oh, my failed
project. NX Fusion. This was my concept
to turn NCIX into like a boutique PC
building brand. I said we needed like a custom case in order to really get it
off the ground. And they said, "Okay, great idea. Let's do it, but without the
custom case." I kind of went, "Okay, well, we could make this case badge."
How did I forget about this? We broke a
Guinness World Record, or rather, we set a new one when we participated in the
world's highest elevation land party. Good old Highlander. We made a video
about it. We had Paul and Kyle and in there and everything. It was a lot of
fun, actually. We ready for round two.
No, no, I'm good. Oh. Oh, I'm good. I'm good. Ah, yes. The last time I actually
won Scrapyard Wars season 5, you played
hard and you're awesome. You know, when you give yourself an award, that's cool.
Oh, wow. My old DS light is in here. Uh, there's a problem with the shoulder
button because I played a lot of that Mario Kart. Anybody remember Funk mouse
pads? They were like local and this was a custom one. Obviously, they couldn't
actually make a Playboy mouse pad because like copyright and all that, but
they did a custom one for one of my old friends at NCIX and he gave it to me and
I used it until it was completely unusable and warped and like it's all
sticky on the back and gross. Martial arts uniform. That's Mr. L. Sebastian to
you ladies and gentlemen. My Happy Bunny calendar. This was a gift from Ivonne
early on in our relationship. And this is a classic. Go back to the earliest
NCIX tech tips episodes. Hand airbrushed. Stylish. You wouldn't
understand. I used to unironically wear this hat like all the time. You can vouch for me, right?
Yeah. All right. Down we come. Now, a lot of
this is more recent stuff, but some of
it is the coolest stuff. This is sick.
This is one of those cool clocks that someone sent me. Unfortunately, one of
the tubes stopped working like shortly after I got it. Oh, you know who sent it
to me was our subtitling group. This holds a lot of sentimental value. It's
just the first piece of YouTuber swag
that I was ever sent by YouTube as like, you know, acknowledgement of my
existence. So, I don't think they actually sent out that many of these.
So, it's got bird poo on it. There's those birds that went into our attic.
They pooed on my YouTube peg. This isn't disappointing, though. As a troll,
someone printed up Luke Tech Tips mouse
pads to go along with an April Fool's joke that we ran on the forum. Going to
hold on to that forever. I feel bad for not remembering who salvaged this for
me, but this is awesome. What an appropriate sign, right? Closed. Please
use another counter. Actually, I think it was at LTX last year, and it might
have been these guys. I think it was uh dis might have been disappearing inc.
Don't quote me on that one though. Here was my bid card at the NCIX bankruptcy
auction. I tell people at events I'm like, "Oh no, I don't take swag." And
yet I have all this swag. But this is cool swag. How could I not keep this?
It's a Microsoft Windows ugly Christmas sweater. Like come on. This is neat.
This is a batch of letters that people sent me. Uh, Jeppe probably wasn't
expecting a reply 4 and a half years later, but uh, thank
you for the letter, Jeppe. I do not pretend that you reply me because I know
seeing your videos that you're too busy. I just hope you read this letter. Sup,
Jeppe. This was a wonderful birthday present from my staff. This is a ModelM
keyboard that was manufactured in the year that I was born. The badge that I
wore at the home show back when I was running that uh, painting company. This
is how I make all my content decisions now. Are people gonna like this video?
Cannot foretell now. What's the point? Thanks, YouTube. Oh, fun. I've only been
featured in print media a couple of times, but I have kept them all the
times that I've remembered to get the thing. Hey, there you go. This guy. I
picked the LG Graham for what I'm into back in whatever 2017. Hey, there's some
other familiar faces here. Look at this guy.
This is the radiator from my old personal rig. Uh it's got some special,
you know, emotional value to me because I got it for next to nothing. It got
dented in shipping and I told my boss, "Hey, like we can't sell this and they
won't take it back cuz we would have to pay more than the worth of the item to
ship it back to the UK. So like you should just give it to me for like 10
bucks." And he did. Okay, that's not it's not the most amazing story, but how
about this one? This is the first water cooling radiator that I ever bought. And
I continued to move it forward in my rigs uh until I finally did my rack
mounted one just because, hey, there was always a piece of my first ever water
cooled PC. All right, fine. I'll find something cooler. These KEF speakers,
great speakers, great sound quality. Something about the finish on these
makes them really sticky and disgusting. Ah, before it was super easy to control
all your fans and lighting and everything with one dongle. Uh, you had
to use the MCubed T balancer. This thing sucked. Was a nightmare to configure.
Yeah, paid like $150 for that.
But this I am never getting rid of. This was the
first big ticket item that my now wife,
then girlfriend, ever bought for me as a
gift. She surprised me with a Silverstone TJ07, which was my dream
case, and it's been through a lot of changes. It's actually been painted
multiple times. Got my own glass side panel that was modded in after the fact.
I had to use fan screws to cover up the second power supply mount because it got
so eaten away by the process of stripping off the paint one of the
times. These are
I was really into UV lighting and you can see that uh they weren't very well
designed back in the day. The plastics were not actually designed to tolerate
UV light. Other notable inclusions, this was uh a custom created T-virus themed
reservoir. You could put a UV cathode down the middle of it so that it would
illuminate the UV uh like double helix.
Definitely some imperfections on it, but if I ever built in a tower again, my
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out with some kind of tech project. And that's it. The highlights of my 10year
career as a YouTuber. Look at how bad this Agent Ruby doll is. So brutal. She
doesn't even deserve her sword.