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Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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3,492 words · ~17 min read
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so today's video is gonna be a lot of fun we actually came in on the weekend
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and cleaned out the server room and one of the things that i noticed
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was that these shelves which are supposed to be the shelves that hold the
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pending projects for our writer instead
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wow indelible marker these shelves all wish that would come
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off easier too which are supposed to hold the projects for our writing staff
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basically haven't even been looked at in
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months and so i was watching other youtube videos i
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wasn't really watching them i was more scrolling through titles and thumbnails and i saw someone's video something
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about extreme declutter and you know what i was inspired we're gonna do
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extreme tech declutter and james is
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so when you say declutter you mean i mean everything that we are never
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actually gonna make a video about needs to come
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off these damn shelves thermaltake pumps
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Jake this looks more like a monitor bracket
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to me wow this is oh this is from RGB
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water cooling this is like why is it on whose shelves it's on
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james's shelf there
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so here's the plan then we're just going to take this james bin and we're going
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to make it into a things james will have to deal with off camera bin what is this
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oh you're gonna love this
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an atari hat not just an atari hat a hat with
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speakers in it
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hey that's creepy
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what what's the point though is it a webcam i think it's like a selfie camera
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oh yeah it's kind of yeah no it's like kind of hard to
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what is the rhythm this is the exact same situation i was like no thanks not
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at this time and they were like ah let's try it and so that is like a personal
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biometrics recording device i don't even
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know what it measures i tried to look up it's all
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it doesn't have a bot it's all acronyms no this is an engineering sample oh dude
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we ended up with serial number one and we never did anything with it
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okay uh we should make an ebay pile a legal keypad for lawyers on the move
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meet the legal pet you can press half the key down
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without actually activating the switch
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oh i'm not impressed so this one's mush city too but you can see it's a normal
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qwerty but on the numpad side it has all
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these weird little legalese symbols so you can more easily write contracts
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and stuff it's a lawyer keyboard it's a lawyer keyboard for
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lawyers who don't feel like being able to hit their enter key with their pinky
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yeah it's it's american legalese with a european
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freaking layout brilliant oh my god is this a wireless music light bulb
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you know what we should do we should get the audience through their upvotes in
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the comments to pick four items for the next handy tech under
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100. so this will be a candidate what are these is this an entire pile of
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keyboards yes and it's a split keyboard oh so there's
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like a telephone wire kind of cable that connects them yeah and they connect with
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these magnets those are the contact points and then these are steel rails so it's a pretty
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sturdy connection
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yeah once it's on there that's not bad and where we just were we gonna review
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it and then just didn't get around to it exactly it's a nice keyboard it's got
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there's different switch types you can order most of them are kales but you can get cherry i think greens and
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whites or something clear ah interesting the uh yeah that's one of the coolest
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things is when it's split apart you can get these other modules that you plug
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onto here that give you that give you like thumb controls touch pad track
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point trackball so those are all for the right side yeah
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and then on this side you can get one that's like a just a cluster of keys
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maybe some tables 225
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and the modules are 60 bucks
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did they just send us all the tilting stuff but none of the modules those
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modules are so cool yeah
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ultimate hacking keyboard if you're watching and you want to send us even
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more expensive stuff that we might never do anything with
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and that's on my wish list what is the keyz and how old is this
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i think it's supposed to just look old it's these things are awesome actually
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so if you have a fob for your apartment you can program it onto here
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and it can learn up to four different low frequency rfids like 125 hertz
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things so let's say you're airbnb slum lord and you have five or four different
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apartments you can put them all in one fob how much is this
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50 bucks 44 45 bucks okay so we can throw this in the handy tech under 100
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candidates the kizi oh god yeah that's ebay the system is
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broken no because this is to be dealt with this we're not obeying this bracket
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oh that was probably going to be the handicap bin okay so this is the bin to
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reconcile later boom oh you failed
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you're supposed to write that and then look up in the camera so the editor could put sunglasses on
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okay we'll reenact it deal
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with it
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uh so this is a webcam cover for privacy it's a privacy cover
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it's slides and they were nice enough to make Linus tech tips branded ones so
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here's a shout out stegall so your shelf was actually pretty clean that was the
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easiest one yeah i'm not dealing with this guy's stuff oh you are this anything no he
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gets his own bin they get their own reconciled you volunteered to help oh my god
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that is for a build that we've been planning to
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do for over a year but uh
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well it has a ryzen 5 1600x in it the build
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literally got outdated in the time that we were thinking about actually doing it
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yeah like i said over a year pretty sure it was halloween last year
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that we first started looking at this eight mags of edo ran
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good thing that's on the shelf taking up valuable shelf real estate okay i
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actually know the story behind this so
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this is a motherboard for the um
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the bare bones super micro server that we used for 10 gamers or eight gamers
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depending how you count it one CPU oh my
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god so half of your shelf is stuff from brian's basement we need to do a tech
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hoarders episode on brian's basement remember the
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guy from the like uh uh electric car charger video yellow is
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this an actual commodore 64. yes
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does this work as far as i know actually this would be a cool sleeper is that an
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apple ii uh
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you get one shelf
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for dos gaming pc okay
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anything that doesn't fit on the one shelf goes back to brian
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or free geek or whatever so you heard it here first guys we're doing a dos gaming
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pc it was supposed to be a surprise well it's not anymore what is this oh that's
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the cheapest monitor oh
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this is the cheapest monitor on amazon right yeah oh my god we should do this
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video right now yeah alex shall we have a look at your
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shelf oh let's why don't we start with this
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so that's the singularity i know what it is
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i'm just for the viewers that might not know
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be careful with that it's it's one of a kind
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no i think he's made quite a few at this point well yeah but this is the first
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prototype so is this the way we should be treating
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it then oh my god you're getting a call
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hold on hold on hello this is james's answering
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answer a few questions related to media usage in your household but i've
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contacted you on your cell phone so i would like to ensure that it's safe for
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you to
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uh sorry i'm driving um
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sorry about that i gotta go
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there are still ssds in here yep
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what the hell are these the 850 pro one
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terabytes these are labeled that's what these are
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isn't it probably these are labeled missing in the system oh
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what the hell these this has been here for like six
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months you're always so negative this is we just found two missing ssds you know
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how much these were worth when it was lost do you know how much they're worth
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now about the same no
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alex this is where all the Noctua industrial ppc fans are
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alex
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all right what's this is this just the box for this blade
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thumbs up retweet if you want these what is this
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um that's from the rave pc but it still is a fully functional laser
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light show
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we needed a laser light show the other day did we use this
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no because yeah we couldn't find it reservoir and pump yeah that's going to
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be super your problem to figure out where the packaging is for it
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there we go
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nailed it all right smart guy
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then where's the package for this one
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yeah more harder question yeah you think also remember how i was
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running around the office looking for one of those molex to ac power adapters
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that are 40 each that we ordered more of to replace them today
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well here's one goes in there's a bin over there
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this whole thing is it yeah that whole thing is one adapter i'm gonna cable tie
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it thank you go through stuff oh my god this is like almost as bad as Anthony's
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this is the itx form-factor pc from like
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a decade ago which you can we're considering popping into your system
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after interfacing i was yes no i wasn't yes you said it's not
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completely stupid okay Windows xp okay me saying something is
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not completely stupid it's not the same as me considering putting it in my car
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so basically it's a computer that goes in your dash into a mini yeah gently
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man what even this is gift wrap
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lighting because the stock header tube was like too bright so it made it custom
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like this yeah dog is that mushkin red lines right
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here here dawg so this board needs to go back to
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whichever kind viewer sent it to us yeah
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gentle this is my prize graphics card collection why is it here because i
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never took it home after it was displayed ltx
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that was six months ago i know i am a well aware it's a graphics card
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with Ethernet jacks all over the back of it
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yeah we'll explain that later why
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do you still have all these old ass gaming machines and why are they all
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here all of them are here answer is 42. do you have any gaming pcs at home left
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yes they're not as old but quite as obsolete
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show me the hand strength
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it's flexed a little actually weird flex
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oh my god it still has the peel on it oh please do it no no i can't this is
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like this is vintage here man you can't peel that they're all
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on oh this
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this was the board to have when i was
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getting into being a pc nerd so this is the old wd velociraptor
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this was the pinnacle of hard drive performance back in those days back when
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hard drive performance was not an oxymoron oh my god 2006 pipe dream
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product sync you know what i'm going to do do it what'd you say you ever seen that
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big before
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only in my dreams
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all right all of it all of it balls don't go in the mouth
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oh it doesn't taste right
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Jake's is actually not as bad as i thought it was gonna be my expectation
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for him was very low it's because he takes his junk and puts
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on other people's shelves like that part straight from the beginning look my
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you gotta wait for the camera to actually be rolling
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it's like he's actually this annoying all the time
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this is copper tubing why does it say RGB build yeah
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it says what's this cartoon build there you actually did a good job of putting
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away the cooler for your card sort of mostly what that's an excellent job
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i i blame matt james you blame james yeah for helping
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james what is your rebuttal he was too lazy to put it up in 101 so he dumped it
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in my hands and then i put it on my shelf in the meantime oh
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what you didn't even tell me what this was for i literally i asked you and then i
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was like oh wait i don't need it and then you're like oh well too bad you got it and then you walked away you gave me
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a hangout it's been like you stopped that's what happened you still have that
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wall mount thing here here's the oh the proper one that only
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arrived today yeah well and where's the bin
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well you know what i'll do a favor i'll put this back on the shelf for you yeah
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do me a favor yeah do it do yourself a favor
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well i have made this worse that was entirely your fault okay so this is
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basically just a bin of garbage yeah sure inside another bin of garbage
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that's not garbage that's an LTT edition fan
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which brings us finally to the cleanest and most organized of all the shelves
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all right Linus how do you explain this
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someone's screwing me over here no ow oh why'd you step on my oh what are you
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wearing socks and sandals at work so basically
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this is completely like working
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is it still dripping and like ready to go it's been upgraded
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to a gtx 1070 that hasn't actually been submerged yet because
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uh the other one like sparked in the middle of a video that we're making
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about it the motherboard's been replaced as well
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i think yeah it's the original power supply so
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the issue we had was that the case for it
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you can drop it right on my toes i'm wearing real shoes oh yeah those those are going to protect
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your toes so much no
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no the audience believes me it is leaking oh god there's oil over the floor
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oh
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oh okay yeah that's why that bag was there thank you
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um don't get your socks wet
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okay so here i'm gonna put this oh yeah it's here then yeah yeah that's
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okay ah
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okay so the problem was that the outer
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acrylic aquarium for it was leaking
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um we actually solved that problem
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so here's the original castle and everything that was inside it this paint
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held up surprisingly well to the middle oil by the way um
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and this is actually a new aquarium that puget systems gave us out
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of their reception room because their mineral oil pc
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finally died and so they they dropped this off for us
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i think is this the one they dropped off for us Jake that's the one that yeah
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they brought to my house yeah so this one is new so it's just a matter of like
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putting it back together and i've had it on my shelf because i thought maybe it's
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a video but like it seems like a short video
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literally just we could do a live taking that putting it in there
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yeah we could stream it yeah we could just like maybe upgrade it again let us
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know in the comments if you want to see mineral oil resurrected live stream
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that'd be pretty sweet okay yeah so in that case yes this is an
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active project he'll say anything to keep this stuff on his shelf
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well i just i don't want to get rid of it it's got a lot of sentimental value
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to me what when did that video i think we have
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a new record here before any of you worked here if you
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guys worked here before you'd probably have that older stuff too all right so
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that's the benefit of if you like something a lot he says oh just yeah
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it's technically an ongoing project because we're going to make a video out here yeah no everyone else who works
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under you have to take this stuff and pack it up literally the definition of
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of an ongoing project we're gonna make a video about it we're gonna you decide
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who makes the video we're gonna livestream it on friday
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one of a kind this is a prototype of an aio cooler
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landed in the mineral oil
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so this is a prototype of a of an aio cooler that doesn't require a pump
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oh yes i remember this yeah so i was thinking
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do you want to see a video about it it doesn't really like work properly it's
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just a prototype it's like a proof of concept it doesn't perform well but do
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you guys want to see a video like it does work
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right no fine go ahead you try
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what's most of this spell
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you can't team up on me like that that's it i'm done oh yeah what about all this
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apologies to the editor for this one though this is a completely unstructured message mineral oil all over poorly
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marked headphones got totally wrecked i'll give
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them to ivan he loves free headphones it's a gift
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it's a gift and a burden that's the best kind of gift how do you
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clean up mineral oil you basically can't i'm good
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i've just been dabbing it isopropyl alcohol kind of works but not really
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well why would dancing help clean it
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get it uh yeah
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dabbing dazzle sort of