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    patriotbarrow reacted to Frederik I. Hansen in LMG Sponsor Suggestions   
    Hi!
    I work for a Danish company called Viso Systems where we make laboratory equipment for light measurement (light distribution, CRI, RGB (and CIE 1931), color over angle, efficacy, etc.).
    My colleagues (especially my boss) and I have been trying to get a hold of your team because we want to loan you one of our machines for your new lab, so you can accurately measure total light output of any light source such as lamps, mobile phones, and displays.
    You could fx. also measure viewing angles, nits and color reproduction of displays.
    Check us out on https://visosystems.com/ and please let me know who to contact! (alternatively you can write an email to frederik.ingemann@visosystems.com)
    As you can probably see, I'm a long term fan of LTT, so collaborating with you would be really really cool!
    @JonoT @CPotter
     
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from Jimbillroo Digital in Your Tech Pet Peeves   
    Not to worry, we have reasons.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to Misanthrope in Your favorite games for Windows 98?   
    To name a few
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    patriotbarrow reacted to TheKDub in Your favorite games for Windows 98?   
    Diablo II, Starcraft Brood War, Dungeon Keeper II, Warlords Battlecry II. (All are from around 1998, give or take a few years)
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    patriotbarrow reacted to itachipirate in GTX 960 for GTA V, 2GB or 4GB   
    Get the R9 280x! Same performance as the 960 with 3gb of vram which is great for GTA. The 4gb 960 is overpriced
    SAVE AMD 2015
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from Totalschaden1997 in How to take screenshots in Windows and OS-X   
    Are you serious? In Windows 7 and newer you just use the Snipping Tool.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to BuckGup in Tech Confession Time!   
    Did you mean gentle? Because that is not what you wrote
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    patriotbarrow reacted to JuztBe in Tech Confession Time!   
    I prefer opera over any other browser. Even if it doesn't work sometimes.
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from EChondo in How do you watch online video?   
    Well..

    My phone has a 4.2" screen.
    My tablet has a 7" screen.
    My two desktop monitors are a combined 41 inches. I'd rather enjoy my media on the larger screen, thankyouverymuch.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to LogicalDrm in New Platform Launch Feedback & FAQ   
    After 4 days and 45 pages I managed to glance through this thread. Here's my thoughts on the matter.
     
    Lets start with the move itself. In all it doesn't matter for me. I have moved from watching all content to only interesting content. There's really not that much that I would want to watch when they come available. In that sense I most likely won't renew my membership for Vessel when the year subscription runs out. Only if there's some other content besides LTT that is more important to see right away.
     
    I'm not going to comment on whole rage on you backstabbing audience or going for money. Not interested about that. But I will say that I'm bit disappointed to the time and way you did this. Whole time @LinusTech has said that he isn't sell out. Yet, he does giveaway which requires mandatory registration, watching and commenting to be eligible to win something. Even if this is free move, I don't like it. Its like TTLs giveaways where you have to be active member of forums (1 week and 10 posts IIRC) to get something. I have been with you whole time when you give change for people outside of forums. This move wasn't good at all. Also the timing of this. I think you really should have waited until beginning of summer or something like that before making announcement to all your viewers. If this was because of Vessel, I understand. But to invite very vocal crowd to website which is clearly still in beta-stage wasn't good move. Having some few hundred test subjects would have been better, at least until they've fixed to biggest issues in quality, playback and mobile support.
     
    So about Vessel then. Beside the obvious issues with the things I already mentioned, they have really shitty UI. I mean one of worst modern UIs I've seen lately. If they are indeed backed by Amazon, I get it. You can't expect good UI from company that has had same for last 10 years. But to problems I've found (last check today). To be clear, I use browser addons to YT. Because I'm "paying" for Vessel I expect at least that they would have same stuff that those addons provide. Or even the things Vimeo has.
    Player/Site doesn't save player preferences. This is huge for me. Having to pump volume and set player to "High" every login is not 2010s. No stop-autoplay and buffer ahead, no indicator for buffer amount. The auto-play stopper is addon function which I use all the time. I open several videos to tabs and having to pause them manually isn't cool at all. The buffer indicator is standart to several video players, including YT, Twitch and Vimeo. So why doesn't paid platform have it? Zoom problems. As @Hazy125 pointed in more website design perspective, having site that doesn't react well to custom zoom is just plain stupid. To be clear, currently I have got my players about same size in YT and Vessel. Thats 110% zoom for YT and 90% zoom for Vessel. If I would use 110% for both (better because of text size), Vessel player would be too small and the top bar would be too big for my screen. Some "What were you thinking?" moments. Related videos as default "tab" for video? I want to check video details more often than related. This is why YTs overlay and sidebar methods are much better. Text over video... for people with low vision this is always bad thing. Also why would you have "Play" sign for every video on video service? The low vision thing is important when checking channels. I dislike transparent bg's on many occasions but most with white/black text that doesn't have outline or shadow to pop it out. White against light image (or with older LTT video, black cables against black surface) is just stupid. The header. I meantioned this in zoom section and how it changes size. With video player I have problem minimized. But with channel page it comes annoying. Having text in two rows mean two times the screen hog. So when it finally gets black bg, I'm dealing with just header taking almost 1/5 of my available screen (1440x900).  
    Those are my biggest problems atm. Things like buffering failures when returning to play and sometimes lack of quality are minor. No choppy play here either. And the mobile support. Well, its USA company. Who in USA uses Android anyway? Why would they need to make app for that.
     
    Plus. And only one.... comes from having HTML5 player. Hopefully this means no trouble with my Linux laptop.
     
    E: Let's add. Where's todays Vessel video?
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from Elliott Game in OS Version?   
    Is there a specific reason for you to downgrade? Windows 8 has better hardware support for your laptop and is faster overall.
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from Williamchan87 in Looking to buy a better camera   
    Every camera in the RX100 series is very well regarded. I doubt you could go wrong with that choice.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to Skylight in LTT Slogan Suggestion Thread   
    “We dump our data in the bathroom”
    “Linus let Luke loose”
    “Left the laptop in the fridge this time…”
    “Tech in progress…”
    “Unboxing in progress…”
    “Our computers hosted life once”
    “We also partition our videos”
    “Your eyes should be up there”
    “do (not) feed the Linus some tech”
    “Sharing the house with tech”
    “Luke is hungry for cards”
    “We work out by benchmarking”
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    patriotbarrow reacted to Silyy097 in LTT Slogan Suggestion Thread   
    (Name of other employees)TechTips
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    patriotbarrow reacted to EarthboundHero in LTT Slogan Suggestion Thread   
    I liked the not just the tips one.
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    HNNNNNNNNNNNG
     
    want ._.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to Uwillparish in The Wan Show Website is no longer being shutdown   
    R.I.P. Hackzzilla Wan WebsiteEdit: Archived as best as can here http://web.archive.org/web/20150307225351/http://wanshow.weebly.com/
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from The Crazed Child in Uhh.... WHAT?!?!   
    CPU. As @RevoltTrain mentioned, AMDs have a hard time getting along with SpeedFan. According to it, my cpu idles at 85 degrees.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to niofalpha in SSD Cons?   
    I have to go to the Metro UI to see what color I have the background as, because my system boots faster than my Monitor turns on...
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    patriotbarrow reacted to Clear17Mud in How to make my PC silent?   
    this
     
    not this
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from JeffreyEagan in how to make a lot of emails at once   
    This.
    Either buy a business plan, host your own email server and domain, or stop doing whatever it is you want to do.
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from Dabombinable in Tech Confession Time!   
    Got the exact same WDAC280 and it still works, albeit with a few unreadable sectors. Makes me wonder about its uses, since my mp3 player has 25 times the storage capacity.
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    patriotbarrow reacted to 1Scotty1 in Tech Confession Time!   
    I once left my laptop next to my bed and grandma thought it was a weighing-machine.... Conclusion? My grandma weighs a 1000€
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from SkilledRebuilds in Turn HP low profile into decent PC?   
    Then your question has been answered. It'll be hard, mostly pointless, and expensive.
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    patriotbarrow got a reaction from Nup in i made the first pic of Google   
    'grats! One of my photos is on the second row of google's image search for "talk to the hand"
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