WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.640 Let's leak some projects. Nick's going to get so mad. It's been so many years 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:10.719 since we've done a formal tour of the Linus Tech TTips office and studio that 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:14.960 I can't even really call it the Linus TechTips office and studio anymore. 00:00:12.719 --> 00:00:19.920 We've got so many channels and so much has changed that you're barely going to 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:24.160 recognize this place. Even our access control doesn't work anymore. Look at 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:28.640 this. Cuz we got a shiny new one from Ubiquiti. And this video is brought to 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:33.040 you by Anker. They got us equipped with their Power Comp Bluetooth speakerphones 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:37.040 as well as their C300 webcams so that we can remote work in style. With that 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.160 said, most people are in the office today. So, let's go see them. 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.399 Starting in the reception room, we get the first look at the 00:00:50.559 --> 00:00:56.480 renovation/makeover that has been mostly spearheaded by 00:00:54.320 --> 00:01:00.000 Ivonne and Janice, but also helped in no small part by Matias and the rest of the 00:00:58.559 --> 00:01:03.440 logistics team because they wouldn't have been able to make it over if it 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:07.840 hadn't been significantly tidied up first. So, we got rid of our old logo 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:11.680 and the textured checkerboard feature wall and replaced it with, well, an 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:19.200 up-to-date logo for the company, which was wrong for a long time, as well as 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:20.799 the thumbnails of our top 12 videos. 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.920 Some of these, it makes a ton of sense that they're here. Some of them, I 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:29.280 wasn't even sure if they were content, but for whatever reason, people watch it. We made some small changes to the 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:33.360 kitchen. So, we've got kind of a graffiti aesthetic going on in the 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:39.040 editing den down here that I think looks super cool in an edgy like 90s early 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:43.439 2000s kind of way. And then our kitchen actually sees very little use because 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.759 again, thanks co we're not allowed to have coffee machines. So, they're like 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:53.119 taped over and stuff like that. Which brings us into Teran's office. 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:57.280 No, but seriously, he doesn't actually get his own office forever. You can see 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:01.600 that while we used to have the headphone wall and some decorations and couches 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:05.680 and play buttons in here, now we've got four more desks for future editors once 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:10.800 we can cram them in and once we actually need them. And this is intended to be 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:12.800 kind of like a quieter editing room. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.440 Karen, can you just run us through how many keyboards do you have now? 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:19.280 Well, there's three. Three, but okay. So, you don't count the Stream Decks as a keyboard even though 00:02:18.239 --> 00:02:24.319 they have like four. They have 32 keys each. Yeah, 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:28.400 that's why we call him the macro king. Moving into the main editing den, which 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:34.080 is now much larger than it used to be. WE'VE GOT WO, WHAT IS THIS? There's an 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:38.640 office. We added a window to this thing so it wouldn't feel like a a dungeon. 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:44.000 And then he goes and turns the light off almost literally all the time. Sup, Ed. 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:47.519 Now that he is our formally like manager of the editors and not just like head 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:51.280 editor or whatever, he needs an office so that he can like have meetings with 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:55.280 people or whatever. You can't tell cuz a lot of them are work from home, but this 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:59.599 is Mark. Oh, hi Mark. We've got probationary employee number four or 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:05.040 whatever. There's so many new hires lately. This is Dennis's desk. Here's 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:09.920 Hoffman. We've got Nicole over there. And finally, we've got probation 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:11.599 employee number G. And then these are 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:15.360 really cool. There's certain things that are better done in an editing booth. 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:19.040 These aren't quite done, but the purpose of this room specifically is color 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:22.959 grading. So, we're going to add bias lighting for the monitor, add blackout 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:26.879 blinds for the door. We're going to come up with a better system for covering the 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:31.280 sensor on this. So, you can basically darken this thing, have all the tools 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:35.280 that you need for proper color grading for HDR, and we're going to start 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:39.440 uploading at least our mainline Linus Tech Tips videos in HDR on YouTube, 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:44.319 which is something that's really exciting. Next door, we have a second 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:48.959 booth that's going to be all about that acoustic foam and all about that sound 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:51.680 isolation. So, we've got some more foam that we're going to be loading up into 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:56.159 the ceiling to help prevent sound from bleeding over the walls. We're going to 00:03:53.599 --> 00:04:00.480 add studio monitors because really that is supposed to be how you edit the sound 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:05.120 for your videos. And we're going to equip this with all the equipment that 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:07.280 we need for proper sound mixing. And at 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:11.760 every one of these desks, we have freaking badass workstations. I 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:17.280 handbuilt every single one of these myself. They are 24 core Threadripper 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:22.400 processors with 128 gigs of RAM. Most of them have RTX3090s or Quadros with more 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:29.360 than 24 gigs of VRAM. So, we can handle that stupid bug with the Ursa Mini 12K 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:31.120 footage. And they've all got 25 GB 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:36.400 networking so that editing on your timeline is as fast off of our server as 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:39.840 it is if you just had the files locally on a high-speed drive. Oh, and of 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:45.280 course, every one of these stations has two pairs of headphones. Why? Well, for 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:49.520 in the non-COVID times, the writer sits next to the editor and reviews the video 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:54.080 together. It's so collaborative. Also, the penguin needs one. Now, it's time to 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:58.479 visit the workshop. Although, we call this the PC build corner now that we 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:02.960 have a proper workshop. So, the main changes here are aesthetic. Matias 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:07.440 redesigned it with new wraps on the countertops. Much better storage for 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:11.440 tools, water cooling fittings, all the cables that we need for building 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:15.280 computers and testing them, and this handy dandy rack so we don't constantly 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:19.919 have to go bother them when we need a monitor for a test station or whatever 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:24.080 the case may be. Also, here is the Techlink set. Uh, if you'll excuse me 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:27.199 though, I have to host Techlink for a second. Thanks for watching Techlink. 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:31.440 We'll see you again on Friday. All right, now you guys have my full and 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:35.440 undivided attention. Over here is our green screen. This used to be used 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:40.160 primarily for Techquickie, but actually now that we've moved Techquiki to more 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:44.560 of like a seated sort of host type of style, we don't really use it that much 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:48.880 other than to mount seamless paper, which we store on the back of the green 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:52.240 screen wall, and then use colored lights to turn that into sort of whatever color 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:55.600 backdrop we want. And then you dress that up with like a desk, a little bit 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:59.199 of furniture, and you can create pretty much any look you want. Which brings us 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:04.080 to the set you guys are probably most familiar with. This is the apartment, 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:08.639 which has been renovated a couple of times, but not structurally. We've just 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:12.560 done new paint, new decorations, that kind of thing. The main purpose of 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:16.880 changing over from having just the old orange walls set to this more homey 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:21.039 feeling one was that we wanted the videos to feel less like they're being 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:26.080 shot in a studio and more like they're being shot in a home and in particular 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:30.080 in a part of a home that is relevant to the type of product that we're talking 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:33.840 about. They shoot everything from A-roll to B-roll to even audio pickups here 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:38.319 because it's one of the areas of the building that has the best acoustics 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:42.720 thanks to the open ceiling and of course acoustic foam that we have sprayed on 00:06:39.919 --> 00:06:46.319 the walls and rafters. Oh, this is something that's actually kind of uh new 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:52.240 since our last tour. So, I kept giving Brandon a hard time about just moving 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:53.919 the same damn lights over here and then 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:57.280 over here and then back over here and back over here and back over here. And I 00:06:55.440 --> 00:07:03.039 was like, "Look, we need something that looks pretty decent, but just is one 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:07.280 click to set up." And he's like, "How much you want to spend?" And we ended up 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:10.479 with that. Of course, a big part of keeping the sets uncluttered is having 00:07:09.039 --> 00:07:16.960 somewhere to store your equipment. And we actually just very recently retoled 00:07:13.599 --> 00:07:19.120 this entire area. Here's our charger for 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:24.160 our Titan tubes. These things are so much fun because they are RGB AF and you 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:29.039 can set up all kinds of cool patterns on them and stuff. And because they're 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.440 battery powered, it saves so much work 00:07:29.039 --> 00:07:34.560 in rigging. We used to have all of our cameras in a lock box, but now we're 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:38.639 going to move to a system where they're all going to be in a cage here because 00:07:37.039 --> 00:07:42.800 it got to the point where it was just like half an hour at the end of the day 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:47.280 and half an hour in the morning just rigging up and then unrigging these 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:51.360 cameras and usually in exactly the same way. Yet another COVID thing is that we 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:55.039 have to have a lot of distance between our camera guys at their desks. Now, 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:58.639 they do more than just operate cameras. David, for example, is on the Carpool 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:01.199 Critics podcast. Make sure you guys are subscribed to that if you're a movie 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:05.440 buff or even if you're not and you just like David's beautiful face because it's 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:08.960 also a video podcast on YouTube. And then that's Brandon's desk where 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:13.039 occasionally he will do things like color work for some of our more 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:17.840 complicated projects like say for example those recent car videos on the 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:22.000 Chevy Volt and Tesla Model Y. And then over here, we have repurposed our old 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.240 laptop charging cart, which we found was actually kind of inconvenient once we 00:08:23.599 --> 00:08:29.840 got down to it, into an all batteries charging cart. So, it's just an all- 00:08:27.919 --> 00:08:34.479 metal enclosure. So, in the event we have an unexpected fire or anything like 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:40.880 that, it will all be contained within this metal cart. Yay. As part of our 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:45.920 upgrade to 25 GB fiber optic networking, we didn't just upgrade the editing 00:08:42.719 --> 00:08:48.880 stations, we also upgraded our ingest 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:54.959 stations. So nowadays with a combination of Red Meg readers as well as USB type-C 00:08:52.000 --> 00:09:00.800 SSDs like we use on the Ursa Mini 12Ks, we can actually do what like up to 500 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:05.920 megabytes a second? 800 about 800 megabytes a second of each of 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:10.720 these concurrently. Andy insisted I show you guys the tape wall. So this is where 00:09:07.680 --> 00:09:12.640 they keep gaff tape and stuff. Um and 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:15.680 then here are their tools for rigging up and tearing down cameras. But I think 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:20.080 it's actually more interesting to talk about this table. So some cameras get 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:24.480 used the same way day in day out. Say for example for ShortCircuit, but other 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:28.240 ones need to be reconfigured and very differently often. So you can see the 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:31.760 battery has been set up to be kind of like a stock that you can support on 00:09:29.760 --> 00:09:36.080 your shoulder. The top here has this nice handy small rig rail thing so that 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:39.519 you can attach it to an easy rig that comes over your head and supports most 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:42.560 of the weight of the camera. You hold here where your record button is. You 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:47.519 got your screen right in front of your face like this. And then you would actually put a follow focus on this rail 00:09:45.839 --> 00:09:51.760 right here. And you can use that to adjust both your focus and zoom on your 00:09:49.839 --> 00:09:56.320 lens. Following the fresh yellow lines on the floor, this is the no zone. So 00:09:53.839 --> 00:10:00.880 you're not allowed to store anything in these walking paths. We've got our 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:04.720 forest of light stands and tripods, as well as our custom seaand holders that 00:10:02.800 --> 00:10:09.200 apparently we are finally getting rid of for a commercial solution. We've got our 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:13.519 bin of light stands as well as our flags. This right here is the short 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:19.040 circuit set. This has been under construction for a few weeks now and I 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:23.600 think looks absolutely fantastic. Shooting ShortCircuit is supposed to be 00:10:20.800 --> 00:10:28.800 as simple as grab the product, grab the host, get the impressions at the table 00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:33.440 and you are done. This is the A cam that the host typically talks into. This is 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:37.360 the Bcam which is actually operated by our camera operator who is monitoring 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:41.839 all three cameras. And then this is our overhead camera. Every single one of 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.560 them is already set up, already ready to go, and we don't even need to bring any 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:49.519 media to the set and install it in the individual cameras. And they're all 00:10:48.160 --> 00:10:55.120 powered off the wall, so there's no batteries. It's just freaking ready to 00:10:52.640 --> 00:10:59.680 rock. ShortCircuit will also have its own kind of homey and unique-l 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:03.279 lookinging space separate from Linus Tech Tips. Oh, hey, the director has 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:07.600 taken his chair over there. Jonno does most of the ShortCircuit channel 00:11:05.040 --> 00:11:10.640 coordination in addition to his business duties. This won't be anything new for 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:15.360 camera people, but for the rest of you, the follow focus that I alluded to 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:19.760 before is basically a separate knob that controls a motor at the other end of a 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:25.680 unit. So that's the way that one camera operator can just have all the focus and 00:11:22.880 --> 00:11:29.040 zoom dials in one spot. At least they will in the future. Right now we've only 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:32.079 got the one hooked up and they can just kind of like monitor everything. It's 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:37.279 pretty cool. Now we're heading into what I call the red light district. This is 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:40.160 where we keep all our sexy costumes and props and all that kind of stuff. 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:45.680 There's not really that much here because we just purged an absolute ton 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:47.040 of it. And we've got Andy's desk. Poor Andy. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:52.000 I'm a problem. Yeah, co safe. He's got to be way over here. Don't worry, we'll get you over 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:55.839 there with the other shooters soon enough. Behind the sets, where it just 00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:00.240 used to be a ton of clutter, we now have our DMX control modules for our RGB 00:11:58.880 --> 00:12:05.839 lighting. that's over in the bedroom set, as well as our giant diffusion 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:09.920 flags and our ladder for getting up into the grid and stuff like that. It's way 00:12:08.160 --> 00:12:13.279 more organized. And we've got these nice motion sensing lights back here so you 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:18.079 can actually see what the heck you're doing. Bringing us into the bedroom set, 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:21.360 which is likely to be the resting place of our Mac channel that we're working 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:26.720 on. I'm just going to hit this light so we can actually SEE WHAT WE'RE AH, 00:12:23.680 --> 00:12:28.399 basically it used to be a bed and kind 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:32.480 of like a bedroom setup in here, which is why we call it the bedroom set, but 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:35.680 all that's left of the bedroomness is a mattress in the corner. And we're just 00:12:33.920 --> 00:12:39.600 going to make it more of just like a homey cool hangout. A super cool thing 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:44.240 about the bedroom set is that you can actually close it in so that you can 00:12:41.760 --> 00:12:50.160 shoot in any of the four directions in here. There we go. And not have any 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:55.920 doorways in the way. Well, except this one anyway. This is our super tidy thank 00:12:53.760 --> 00:13:01.120 you Jake networking setup for the set. So all of the ports thanks to this 00:12:57.680 --> 00:13:02.720 microtick switch are 10 GB. So even if 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:07.760 we're doing something really more testbenchy and less shooty on set, we 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:12.959 can get full speed networking and benchmark to our heart's content. 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:18.000 Left or right? Left. Okay. Now we're in what used to be 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:22.880 one of the only office spaces in this building, but it has been significantly 00:13:20.160 --> 00:13:27.440 redecorated. So what used to be the writing den out here is now the 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:31.200 accounting department. We got special agent Janice, who was of course 00:13:28.959 --> 00:13:35.760 responsible for a lot of what we did except this. Janice was not responsible 00:13:33.680 --> 00:13:40.000 for that network port over there not working and us needing to hook up to 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:44.800 this one. And this used to be my office. It is now Ivonne's office and she shares 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:48.480 it with two more members of the accounting department. Can we all take a 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:53.120 moment to appreciate, by the way, how hilarious the name of the accounting 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:57.600 department is? Accounting corridors. Get it? Cuz they're accounting corridors. 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:01.440 And this is our boardroom. We have significantly remodeled this thing. 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:06.000 We've kept the original table and built-in bench. But now when we're 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:10.480 having meetings, we get to look at that wall and be inspired. and look at this 00:14:08.079 --> 00:14:14.079 one and also be inspired. All of our chairs grew legs when we hired a bunch 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:18.880 of new people, so there's actually no chairs in here, but we recently added 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:22.959 the Anker Power Confest 3, which they sent over as part of the sponsorship for 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:26.240 this video. It's got a really nice clear sounding speaker that everyone in the 00:14:24.560 --> 00:14:29.920 room can hear, and more importantly, it's got six microphones built in, so 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:34.000 you can actually see them all around it so that the person at the other end of 00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:39.120 the call can hear everyone in the room clearly. It is a huge benefit. And 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:43.040 because we've got uh there it is, this handy dandy USB equipped power thing 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.079 there. We just leave it right there. We have a really short USB that we plug in 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:49.680 when it needs to be charged and we're good to go. Coming out of the conference 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:53.519 room, we've got Clarence, who I think has probably the second most badass 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.880 workstation in the building. Look at this. He even went to the lengths of 00:14:55.199 --> 00:15:00.800 putting gaff tape in between the monitors so that he wouldn't get, you 00:14:58.800 --> 00:15:06.800 know, little slits of light distracting him from his Excel superpowers. Um, this 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:10.480 is inconvenient. I was going to say that Nick's office is no longer Nick's 00:15:08.800 --> 00:15:15.040 office, but now Nick is sitting in it because he wants to confuse everybody. I 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:18.800 guess this is now a call/meating room. And for some reason, Nick is talking to 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:22.560 someone who doesn't work here anymore. So, that's a little that's a little 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:27.040 strange. Yeah, it's an awkward way to find out. Colton, sorry about that. But, 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:31.600 uh, okay. See you later, buddy. Nick has now moved over to Creator Warehouse, and 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:34.800 we will go there, but not yet. First, I'd like to show you guys Colton's 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:40.000 office. Colton's work from home because it's an awful long drive for him and 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:43.279 also I think about a third of the space in his office is now storage. We took 00:15:41.839 --> 00:15:47.519 away the business team shelves. Hopefully they will uh turn them over a 00:15:45.839 --> 00:15:51.600 little bit faster. Coming out of Colton's office, we've got the team that 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:55.519 he pretty much exclusively manages now. We saw Jonno downstairs. Chase, I don't 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:59.839 know what Chase is doing today, but he does event coordination for us. And then 00:15:57.680 --> 00:16:04.480 we've got probationary employee number six or whatever it is we're on here as 00:16:02.079 --> 00:16:08.639 well as Jeff and Matt. So Jeff's in sales and then Matt does procurement. 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:13.199 And if you guys aren't disoriented yet, you will be now. This is the stairwell 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:20.560 down to the main entrance that used to only go one way but now goes two ways. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:26.320 This unit over here was where we used to have the lounge downstairs, but now has 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:30.480 the lounge upstairs, and it has been completely remodeled. We now have more 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:35.360 than enough room for our ping pong table, more than enough room for our 00:16:33.199 --> 00:16:40.079 games table once we're finally able to do staff events after hours. We've got 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:45.199 our Dbrand provided current generation consoles. Thank you 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:48.959 very much for that, Dbrand. and our sick Klitchch/LG 00:16:46.959 --> 00:16:51.600 OLED home theater setup that's not really a home theater I guess cuz it's 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:55.519 more like a work theater. We're actually going to be upgrading this soon with an 00:16:53.920 --> 00:17:00.240 incredible Sony laser projector. So stay tuned for 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:04.959 that video. You are going to want to be subscribed. All the computers have been 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:10.079 moved upstairs now as well. So we're almost ready to get some sick Worms 00:17:06.959 --> 00:17:13.120 Armageddon action going. And check this 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:15.839 out. The logo has returned, but now with 00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:22.959 its very own feature wall. Not only does it still have RGB. Oh yeah. But this 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:27.919 thing looks absolutely incredible as an absolute work of art. So, Special Agent 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:30.640 Janice and Ivonne mixed their own blue 00:17:27.919 --> 00:17:35.440 and bluey green paint colors. Did the entire wall with this sick pattern that 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:39.520 we all thought was great already. Then they covered the whole thing in masking 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:43.840 tape, painted it black, and then ripped it off. So, we have this like sick 00:17:41.520 --> 00:17:47.840 circuit boardy style pattern to go along with our illuminated logo. On the 00:17:45.679 --> 00:17:51.840 subject of painstakingly difficult projects, uh, this one wall is 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:55.360 responsible for how many hours of work fun? Oh, that's 00:17:53.360 --> 00:17:58.640 And then we ruined the whole thing with a comic sandslttore.com at the top. 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:04.640 Perfect. And lucky creator warehouse. They get to be right next to the lounge and this 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:07.919 basketball hoop. Sarah, hey, thanks. We don't have a basketball. We lost it. But 00:18:06.320 --> 00:18:13.360 we do have these Linus plushies that are soon to be available on ltstore.com. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:17.679 Wow, that was really terrible. Anyway, the point is this is where our engineer 00:18:15.840 --> 00:18:20.960 Kyle sits. We've actually got two more engineers that are starting so we can 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:26.880 work on all kinds of projects that involve injection molding, PCB design, 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:32.880 all that kind of stuff for ltttore.com. In the middle, we've got customer 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:35.919 service, as well as Bridget and Hannah, 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.679 our fashion designer, and uh I guess 00:18:35.919 --> 00:18:41.600 pattern maker would be probably the best way to describe Hannah's job. So, for 00:18:39.840 --> 00:18:46.000 that reason, a lot of the new projects like Wan Hoodie V2, which is finally 00:18:44.080 --> 00:18:50.400 coming soon, are going to be up. Oh, you know what? Let's leak some projects. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:55.760 Nick's going to get so mad. Where's the uh WAN V2? Okay. Oh, here's the original 00:18:52.960 --> 00:19:01.120 one. So, it's the original WAN hoodie. See, we still have some brand new ones, 00:18:57.280 --> 00:19:03.039 actually. And uh that's not Nick coming 00:19:01.120 --> 00:19:06.400 over, is it? I don't want to get in trouble. The best way to not get in 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:10.799 trouble is to have him not see me doing things that get me in trouble. So, this 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:15.760 is new hoodie. Still got like all the like waterproof pockets and stuff. 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:19.360 There's matching sweatpants. Oh, yeah. Sarah, do you recall how much 00:19:17.280 --> 00:19:23.840 this stupid fit mannequin cost? Way too much. Yeah, it's like hundreds of dollars. And 00:19:22.320 --> 00:19:30.919 and according to Bridget and Hannah, this isn't even like one of the really good ones. So, see if he's wearing 00:19:27.919 --> 00:19:30.919 pants. 00:19:31.679 --> 00:19:37.679 Down the other side, we've of course got Nick, an empty spot for a new hire in 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:43.120 the future. The one and only Sarah Butt with her army of dinosaurs protecting 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:48.160 her workspace from intruders. It's excellent, Sarah. And then this is 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:52.720 Lloyd's desk where he has made his own sunlight blocking thing to protect his 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:56.160 screen. and Sarah's eyes or whatever from the sun. You know, we put them in 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:59.200 the one part of the office that has natural light. The one freaking part of 00:19:57.919 --> 00:20:07.120 the office that has natural light. They complain. Shall we make our way down into the hole? Logistics here does so 00:20:03.919 --> 00:20:09.440 much more than just a typical warehouse 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:14.240 type of role. Like for example, they still do have to receive inventory, 00:20:11.840 --> 00:20:18.000 which sometimes is small and easy to deal with, and other times is extremely 00:20:16.320 --> 00:20:23.280 large and on the back of a truck and fragile. But in addition to that, they 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:29.120 also have to do things like diagnose sometimes, you know, very arcane pieces 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:34.320 of hardware or stuff that they might not have a ton of familiarity with, like say 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:36.640 for example, this maybe sort of not 00:20:34.320 --> 00:20:41.360 working, you know, boom ARM for a microphone. They've got to do all of it 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:46.080 while looking extremely pretty, which is a challenge in a department like this 00:20:43.679 --> 00:20:51.120 because there's so much hardware coming in and out of this place that it can be 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:53.760 difficult to keep it all organized. There's Matias right there. I got to 00:20:52.320 --> 00:21:00.159 keep my 2 meters from him cuz I'm not wearing my mask. And then we've got Nicholas as well as Serge who is hiding 00:20:57.600 --> 00:21:06.799 over by the jackets cuz he's so shy. Go get Serge, Andy. See Serge, this went 00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:08.720 from zero to absolute freaking hero. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:12.720 Look at this. This might as well be an electronic store. We've got our cooling. 00:21:11.120 --> 00:21:17.600 We've got our water cooling. We've got our motherboards. They are sorted by 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:20.880 chipset. We have magnetic labels so we can move them around. We got our power 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:25.760 supplies. All right, ladies and gentlemen, they're sorted by wattage. 00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:29.360 Freaking love it. The point of this is that when we have multiple projects on 00:21:27.600 --> 00:21:34.559 the go, which happens often, I will show you that area soon. It's nice if 00:21:31.919 --> 00:21:38.880 multiple people can have a 2080 Super or whatever it is that they Look, even we 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:43.280 like we don't have a huge surplus of 3000 series. These are 3090s, but these 00:21:41.520 --> 00:21:49.520 are actually for our editing stations when we water cool them in the very near 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:52.000 future. This is the old CPU/ 00:21:49.520 --> 00:21:57.600 RAM storage rack. Yeah. And of course, now that M.2 is a thing, we've got our 00:21:54.640 --> 00:22:02.799 SSDs here as well. This is probably the sickest shelf in the entire office. if 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:09.360 you guys are into like I don't know computers or whatever. 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:12.240 Down here is our podcast/live 00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:18.000 streaming setup. And why is it here? Because this is going to be the new set 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:22.080 for ideally both Carpool Critics and the 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:23.919 WAN Show. That is once we've put in some 00:22:22.080 --> 00:22:27.760 acoustic panels and some big thick carpet and stuff like that. This is 00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:32.400 something I'm pretty proud of. This is the graveyard system. So, it used to be 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:35.679 that if we had a case that went back without some accessory and then we found 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:39.280 a spare accessory, but we didn't know what case it went with, the accessory 00:22:37.600 --> 00:22:45.600 got thrown away, and then the case didn't have it the next time we opened it, and then it was useless. But now, 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:49.600 we've got graveyards. So, if you find a thing that you know looks important, but 00:22:47.840 --> 00:22:53.600 you're not sure what it goes with, you just put it in one of the graveyards, 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:58.559 and then hopefully they will become reunited with the thing that they came 00:22:55.520 --> 00:23:00.000 from, and everything will be hunky dory. 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:04.000 Left or right? Left. Okay. 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:10.720 Now, let's see what would have happened if we had turned right instead of left. 00:23:08.080 --> 00:23:17.840 Haha, I get it. We would have ended up in the writer's block. 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:19.919 Get it? Get it? 00:23:17.840 --> 00:23:25.120 Over here, we've got Madison, our social media coordinator, with her excellent 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:29.520 goggly eyes on the back of her chair. And then over on this side, you're going 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:33.600 to find a lot of familiar faces. The one and only Jake, who set up that ubiquity 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:36.480 access control along with our new security cameras, along with my videos, along with my 00:23:35.760 --> 00:23:41.919 network infrastructure. You guys know what you've done. Don't worry about the Minecraft Discord server on the side. 00:23:39.760 --> 00:23:45.200 James, who has actually, I think, been promoted since the last time I like 00:23:43.679 --> 00:23:50.080 formally did a tour and talked about people. So, he is my my right hand, you 00:23:48.320 --> 00:23:52.880 know, and I'm right-handed, so that's a good thing. So, he helps me manage the 00:23:51.520 --> 00:23:56.080 rest of the writing team as well as continuing to produce videos on his own. 00:23:54.559 --> 00:24:02.000 He also does a lot of the hosting these days on Techlink, Techquiki. Um, we've 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:04.000 got the one and only Riley. See, I'll 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:07.919 take the place of Riley today. This is Riley's desk. He writes Techlink, as you 00:24:05.760 --> 00:24:12.240 guys probably know. the one and only the legendary Anthony who has been of course 00:24:10.320 --> 00:24:16.799 writing LT um helping out with the Mac guys uh 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:20.640 providing technical support for the technical support and then he's been 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:24.720 doing quite a bit of Linus tech tips hosting lately. Massive high five to 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:28.640 Anthony. Good job. Thank you. Now we're not actually allowed to touch. Uh over 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:33.440 here we've got someone on probation so you can't see them. And then now we're 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:38.720 in sort of like the NG corner. So Colin's desk is right here. He's off 00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:40.640 today. And then Alex's two desks. Oh, 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:46.080 you put this here for this, didn't you? Oh, yeah. I know you did. This is our absolute 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:52.080 one-of-a-kind 10 million subscriber diamond play 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:54.320 button RGB lit gaming PC. I'm calling it 00:24:52.080 --> 00:24:58.960 a GL gaming PC. We've got these cool little shelves and like wall mount 00:24:57.520 --> 00:25:05.679 things where we can put all the different knickknacks we need like little compressed air thingabooers for 00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:10.159 cleaning stuff out, alcohol for cleaning off CPUs, I fix it kits, all those 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:14.480 little materials that we need so we can keep our workspaces a little tidier. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:18.159 These are the scripts of some of our top videos including all the little 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:22.240 annotations that we do to help the editor with their visualizations. So 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:25.919 that's kind of one of the collaborative things that the writers and the editors 00:25:23.760 --> 00:25:29.919 work together on. This has been where we've hosted the podcast, the Carpal 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:33.679 Critics podcast, but soon it won't be. This is going to be the call/meating 00:25:31.840 --> 00:25:38.640 room for the writing team once all of this podcast crap is out of here. And 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:41.919 then this is my office. Colin is still working on my upgraded desk PC. So 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:45.840 hopefully I'll have a video on that for you guys soon. So this is still the OG 00:25:43.760 --> 00:25:52.400 one. And of course, this is actually a perfect opportunity to show off my Anker 00:25:48.159 --> 00:25:55.840 C300 webcams. They do 1080p 60fps with a 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.919 115 degree field of view. Not necessary 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:01.840 for me since I end up sitting so far from my webcam. But what does help when 00:26:00.320 --> 00:26:05.440 I'm so far from my webcam is the microphone is excellent. I get 00:26:03.679 --> 00:26:09.039 absolutely no complaints whatsoever about my audio quality. And I really 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:15.440 like that they use a USB type-C connection because if I do want to take it with me on the go, you can just kind 00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:16.559 of fold it up, grab your cable, and you 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:21.520 don't have to worry about like which way it goes in when you're hooking it up to your laptop. This is my workbench where 00:26:19.679 --> 00:26:25.440 I've got a UPS just in case the power goes out while I'm flashing a BIOS or 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:30.720 whatever the case may be. Everyone has UPS's on their workstations and on their 00:26:28.080 --> 00:26:35.520 test benches. I cannot overstate the importance of a good UPS. This is where 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:38.559 I put all my awards like uh you know. Oh, do I have any that I lost here? No. 00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:44.080 No. Here's one though. I'm going to put this up in it in place of honor here 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:48.880 next to my uh my dead Threadripper. There you go. 404. Success not found. 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:51.600 Scrapyard War 7. Here are the chairs people sit in when I'm having meetings 00:26:50.159 --> 00:26:56.000 with them. Oh, if you guys haven't seen this video, by the way, make sure you go 00:26:53.200 --> 00:27:01.200 watch it. My chair is pretty special. It's actually got uh sub ambient chilled 00:26:59.360 --> 00:27:04.880 water cooling built into it for those hot days. Oh, these are the LTT sticker 00:27:03.360 --> 00:27:08.159 packs that you get with current orders on ltstore.com. And I guess that's 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:11.600 pretty much it for this room. It does have some cool decor that Ivonne and 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:16.240 Janice worked on, but it wasn't part of this makeover, like my Apple clock and 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:20.159 my Apple themed corkboard that the adhesive kind of came off a little bit. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:23.760 Minor minor issues. Just outside my office, we've got the writing team for 00:27:21.520 --> 00:27:28.799 the upcoming Mac channel as well as another on probation LT writer. All of 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:32.480 them have these same anchor webcams. Uh the reason for that is we have to 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:37.360 conduct all of our meetings over like Microsoft Teams now because thank you co 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:40.880 but hey at least it helps to have nice fast autofocus. That's another one of 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:44.559 the sort of key points about these. Bringing us finally to the workshop 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:48.000 which doesn't have an inside doorway into the rest of the office because it's 00:27:46.159 --> 00:27:53.120 a concrete supporting wall for the building that we're in. This place is 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:59.360 basically unrecognizable from the last time I showed it to you guys. It used to 00:27:55.360 --> 00:28:02.000 just be that bathroom boxed in and then 00:27:59.360 --> 00:28:08.000 an open freaking empty concrete warehouse. And I got to say, they have 00:28:04.159 --> 00:28:10.480 done a pretty bang up job of it. We've 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:15.360 got our vertical and horizontal belt sanders. I had only ever seen this. And 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:19.919 now that I've seen this, it absolutely changed my life. Got our bench grinder. 00:28:17.840 --> 00:28:23.440 Got our sand blaster that I think we It is pristine in here. We've yet to 00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:28.240 actually use this one. I use it once. Did you use it once? All right. We've 00:28:25.520 --> 00:28:33.440 got a way better band saw than we used to have. Drill press. All the fittings 00:28:31.760 --> 00:28:36.960 that we could want. Well, I could still want more fittings, but that's a lot of 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:40.480 fittings. Pretty much all the tools we could want. This is going to be a paint 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:44.720 booth at some point in the future. Oh, wow. They've actually made progress on 00:28:42.399 --> 00:28:49.919 this since the last time I looked at it. So, the idea is that it's supposed to 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:51.919 suck air in through these filters and 00:28:49.919 --> 00:28:56.799 then that's an air replacement from outside so that we don't end up with 00:28:53.520 --> 00:29:00.000 negative pressure in here. This is Kyle 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:02.159 who has a toaster oven. So, that's our 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:07.760 workstation for like soldering or electronics work. Here's our Speedy 400 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:11.600 Flex uh laser. Let's call it a cutter. We use it for engraving, too, though. 00:29:09.360 --> 00:29:17.080 These are the discs for the reservoir for my new desk PC that Colin is working 00:29:13.679 --> 00:29:17.080 on. In fact, 00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:24.320 ow. After I made fun of Ivonne so much for dropping her phone on her face and 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:29.120 cutting her face, here's our sink/ eyewash station that 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:33.760 cost an absolute fortune to get installed. We had to cut out and like 00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:38.320 dig into the foundation of the building in order to get the plumbing over here. 00:29:35.520 --> 00:29:42.000 Ivonne made it work. Thank you, Ivonne. Here's our lathe that I have now been 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:45.360 informed sucks. And we're getting a better one. We're getting like a CNC one 00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:50.159 now or something like that. Here's where we put all of our devices that need to 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:55.600 be charged like our, you know, impact and heat gun and all that kind of stuff. 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:58.320 The uh mill is definitely going. This is getting replaced by one from 00:29:57.760 --> 00:30:03.520 Tormach. Tormach. That's right. That thing is going to be 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:07.279 tool changing sick. You can actually have the machine automatically change 00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:12.399 out those bits for you in the middle of the job. So you don't have to be constantly watching over it and like 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:17.760 hand changing things which is pretty sick. And then of course there's our CNC 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:22.640 router which we've had to use for both router and mill duty all this time but 00:30:20.159 --> 00:30:26.399 now we'll be just pulling router duty so we won't have to cut out stuff like this 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:30.399 on it and we can more use it for like you know plexi and wood and that sort of 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:34.080 thing. If you want to find the details for any of these tools, we'll have some 00:30:31.840 --> 00:30:37.679 of the key ones like the Speedy 400 Flex, which you can learn more about at 00:30:35.520 --> 00:30:41.760 the link in the video description. Also linked in the video description, we will 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:46.960 have Anker, who is featuring their power comp as well as their C300 webcam. And 00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:51.520 thank you to them for sponsoring this video. I hope I managed to hit where the 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:56.559 cut is on my eyebrow. You did and I hope you guys enjoyed this tour of 00:30:54.480 --> 00:31:00.080 the Lionus Tech Tips, well, Linus Media Group studio. I haven't even talked 00:30:58.080 --> 00:31:05.600 about some of the really cool stuff like that uh compressor outside means we have 00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:09.279 compressed air like everywhere in this room like all the hookups and 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.279 Everything.