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LTT isn't tech support, especially for people with actual needs and problems and not want to be janky AF and fiddle around everything all the time.
 
I am not saying LMG didn't have people who know what they do and have expertise and wisdom in things they do. It's more just that LTT viewers probably don't want to watch 15 minute recap of setting up good old solid storage that doesn't have any glitter, ADHD, brand spanking new features and doesn't boast the newest and most powerful hardware possible. Building rocksolid editing rig that isn't boasting halo products and doesn't have some "wow"-thing in it and installing normal NAS just isn't LTT video and I presume staff knows it and won't be doing that kind of video but would stuff it like thanksgiving turkey with that kind of stuff that would lead to janky as fuck shit that "just doesn't work" but requires support and care afterwards more than people would give and even could give.
 
Like imagine some (imaginary) Top Fuel dragster channel making video about fixing someones work truck, could they do it? Totally but the guy probably won't be very happy with his truck now running only with nitromethane and being incapable to drive longer than a minute and requiring engine rebuild after every couple of drives and the viewers wouldn't like to watch them rebuild just everyday diesel engine without it being at least rigged with enough horsepower to do drag racing.

Honestly, it sounds like he has a general handle on things himself anyways.  Probably just a bad power supply, or something similar that caused the crackle/fried hdd.
 
Honestly the whole Storinator stuff would be exactly why I think anyone should just run from LTT.
 
Just as a reminder, this is the same kind of platform setup that seems to have caused LTT data loss on their archive because it wasn't setup right, and they didn't have the automated messaging of issues arising.
 
iJustine - Moved to Jellyfish, because LTT's setup clearly wasn't meant for her workflow.  Yes it's great to have all those nice features but if you need someone more tech-savvy to utilize it it becomes a nightmare.  Users like iJustine are looking almost for a set and forget setup or at least one where if an issue arises you don't have ample support (something Jellyfish can do0
SlowMo Guys - greatly appears as though he didn't do any research on how much data Gavin had.  SlowMo guys now uses a new storage alternative.
 
In general LTT itself seems to have issues with their workflow from the appearance of things as well, so I wouldn't necessarily trust them to make a solution that doesn't end up having it's own "gotchas" that someone like Coffezilla might need their help again to diagnose.

I remember when Crunchyroll was blatantly stealing subs from fansub groups by cutting out the credits and starting to collect money from using their service like they were something more than a pirate site. Then they got couple garbage level publishers behind them and sued a ton of fansub groups because "ripping their subs" (even when it was vice versa in the first place).
 
And then there were the time of "ooops, didn't mean to do that" when some titles were first shown as "This title is only available to paying subscribers" and when you got the subscription "This title is not available in your country".
 
Then there were the upscaled titles which were... Let's just say 360p needs a bit more than just stretching to get into 720p.
 
Even still from some corners of the internet where I lurk I occasionally hear complaints about the quality of Crunchyroll subs and get giggles because their subs have sucked pretty much from the get go when they tried to be nice and not ripoff fansub groups.
 
Why am I not surprised they would be doing something like this too?
 
(My memory can be a bit hazy about a service which I am each time it comes up more surprised it's still a thing and even more surprised some people pay for that shit. So, I can be wrong in some points but there's a wild history when it comes to asshole named Crunchyroll.)

Favorite?
 
 
But for real products, the 3.5mm TRS to dual-XLR adapters. They're fine if you really know what you're doing but once you connect your phone to the +48V mic port for AUX input, oh boy, are you going to have "fun" time.
 

Just to clear one thing, the SBX Surround is just spreader, not virtual surround. As in, SBX surround is an effect that spreads whatever sound sounding like it would be surround, it has zero idea about spatial audio or anything relating to position of the sound. It's same as some old stereo spreaders that took 1 audio channel in, used some high and low pass filters to create 2 a bit different audio streams and gave 2 channels out, it made mono mix sound a bit more like stereo mix but in no case turned mono mix into stereo mix.
 
DTS and Atmos, at least when it comes to their Windows encoders, are more down mixers, they take in the actual surround mix of the audio and down mix it to stereo retaining the positional "information" (as in adding delays and stuff to trick your brain to think sound comes from certain direction, as in sound that is coming from the back right channel gets tiny bit lower volume and is played 0.something milliseconds earlier on right channel than on left channel with even more lowered volume, and yes, our hearing is that stupid in reality).  They're basicly turning surround sound into the ages old virtual barber demo.

Favorite?
 
 
But for real products, the 3.5mm TRS to dual-XLR adapters. They're fine if you really know what you're doing but once you connect your phone to the +48V mic port for AUX input, oh boy, are you going to have "fun" time.
 

And then there's this:
I already called horseshit on the specs and method, it's good to know that audiophile snake oil is still complete horseshit especially when someone throws some actual testing into it. There was also just recently Techmoan video about MQA-CD's and the outtake was pretty much "they seem to be just louder" (the classic "higher-quality audio" trick, just make it louder).

If you're questioning the quality difference, do as I have outlined in the Stahlmann's thread: Internally (with software within your PC so none of your audio equipment matter) record the exactly same song from both services at your chosen qualities, import them to a DAW like Reaper or whatever as long as it can do phase reversal, make sure both tracks start at exactly same time and play exactly the same (zoom in to first sound wave or find some easy to align peak and match both tracks to that), reverse the phase of one track and play both tracks at the same time. The phase reverse will negate the sounds from the normal track and what you have left is the difference between the tracks.
 
Just to make it clear: None of your audio equipment matter before the last step of listening the outcome. If you need to crank your volume up a lot to hear the outcome, well, the difference between the tracks is so minimal it basicly doesn't matter at the listening levels you would normally use.
If you need to boost your volume to hear anything, that is the same as running the audio into oscilloscope and zooming into singular sound wave and comparing the differences of 0.000..0001V region where you will find differences from anything and everything.
It is also the isolated difference, so there's nothign else than the difference so if you hear a small hiss, hearing that hiss through the track is probably pretty damn impossible.

If you're questioning the quality difference, do as I have outlined in the Stahlmann's thread: Internally (with software within your PC so none of your audio equipment matter) record the exactly same song from both services at your chosen qualities, import them to a DAW like Reaper or whatever as long as it can do phase reversal, make sure both tracks start at exactly same time and play exactly the same (zoom in to first sound wave or find some easy to align peak and match both tracks to that), reverse the phase of one track and play both tracks at the same time. The phase reverse will negate the sounds from the normal track and what you have left is the difference between the tracks.
 
Just to make it clear: None of your audio equipment matter before the last step of listening the outcome. If you need to crank your volume up a lot to hear the outcome, well, the difference between the tracks is so minimal it basicly doesn't matter at the listening levels you would normally use.
If you need to boost your volume to hear anything, that is the same as running the audio into oscilloscope and zooming into singular sound wave and comparing the differences of 0.000..0001V region where you will find differences from anything and everything.
It is also the isolated difference, so there's nothign else than the difference so if you hear a small hiss, hearing that hiss through the track is probably pretty damn impossible.

If you're questioning the quality difference, do as I have outlined in the Stahlmann's thread: Internally (with software within your PC so none of your audio equipment matter) record the exactly same song from both services at your chosen qualities, import them to a DAW like Reaper or whatever as long as it can do phase reversal, make sure both tracks start at exactly same time and play exactly the same (zoom in to first sound wave or find some easy to align peak and match both tracks to that), reverse the phase of one track and play both tracks at the same time. The phase reverse will negate the sounds from the normal track and what you have left is the difference between the tracks.
 
Just to make it clear: None of your audio equipment matter before the last step of listening the outcome. If you need to crank your volume up a lot to hear the outcome, well, the difference between the tracks is so minimal it basicly doesn't matter at the listening levels you would normally use.
If you need to boost your volume to hear anything, that is the same as running the audio into oscilloscope and zooming into singular sound wave and comparing the differences of 0.000..0001V region where you will find differences from anything and everything.
It is also the isolated difference, so there's nothign else than the difference so if you hear a small hiss, hearing that hiss through the track is probably pretty damn impossible.

I remember when Crunchyroll was blatantly stealing subs from fansub groups by cutting out the credits and starting to collect money from using their service like they were something more than a pirate site. Then they got couple garbage level publishers behind them and sued a ton of fansub groups because "ripping their subs" (even when it was vice versa in the first place).
 
And then there were the time of "ooops, didn't mean to do that" when some titles were first shown as "This title is only available to paying subscribers" and when you got the subscription "This title is not available in your country".
 
Then there were the upscaled titles which were... Let's just say 360p needs a bit more than just stretching to get into 720p.
 
Even still from some corners of the internet where I lurk I occasionally hear complaints about the quality of Crunchyroll subs and get giggles because their subs have sucked pretty much from the get go when they tried to be nice and not ripoff fansub groups.
 
Why am I not surprised they would be doing something like this too?
 
(My memory can be a bit hazy about a service which I am each time it comes up more surprised it's still a thing and even more surprised some people pay for that shit. So, I can be wrong in some points but there's a wild history when it comes to asshole named Crunchyroll.)

Because it's ridiculously effective and cheaper than doing it yourself.
 
Say which one would you trust more when looking for a new car: A) The car manufacturer telling you their car is the best ever for you or B) Your friend Suzie being happy with her new car?
B, unless you know that Suzie is a complete idiot and you wouldn't trust her even to boil water without burning the whole house down, but you would still give Suzie's opinion more weight than the pure ad of the car manufacturer.
So, now you have your friendly neighborhood Linus Sebastian bringing you daily whacky content on YouTube and he says putting seaweed into your water will turn your life upside-down and cure even the stupidity of Suzie. He is your friend, he is smart, he makes whacky videos, he would never lie to you. Will you buy the seaweed brand Linus recommends to you?
 
Traditional marketing is super expensive. For top end example, you want your ad into the most watched yearly sport event in the US with crazy reach, that's going to be 30-second ad spot on Superbowl and your marketing budged has just realized to be over $7,000,000 and you still need to pay for the actual making of the 30-second ad. And that still doesn't mean anything and your ad could be just a fart in Sahara if the half time artist has wardrobe malfunction. Normal TV ads depend on time they are shown, length and the show during which they are shown but I would remember we are talking about hundreds to tens of thousands per play. And those are just to get the ad spot, you still need to pay for the actors, camera crew, editor, writer, get the equipment, the shooting location and all that.
LTT video ad spot probably costs around $5-10k and it includes making of the ad, per one million views that is 6th of the Superbowl ad spot cost at worst (LTT videos collect around 1-2M views while Superbowl 2022 gained 115M views).

Because it's ridiculously effective and cheaper than doing it yourself.
 
Say which one would you trust more when looking for a new car: A) The car manufacturer telling you their car is the best ever for you or B) Your friend Suzie being happy with her new car?
B, unless you know that Suzie is a complete idiot and you wouldn't trust her even to boil water without burning the whole house down, but you would still give Suzie's opinion more weight than the pure ad of the car manufacturer.
So, now you have your friendly neighborhood Linus Sebastian bringing you daily whacky content on YouTube and he says putting seaweed into your water will turn your life upside-down and cure even the stupidity of Suzie. He is your friend, he is smart, he makes whacky videos, he would never lie to you. Will you buy the seaweed brand Linus recommends to you?
 
Traditional marketing is super expensive. For top end example, you want your ad into the most watched yearly sport event in the US with crazy reach, that's going to be 30-second ad spot on Superbowl and your marketing budged has just realized to be over $7,000,000 and you still need to pay for the actual making of the 30-second ad. And that still doesn't mean anything and your ad could be just a fart in Sahara if the half time artist has wardrobe malfunction. Normal TV ads depend on time they are shown, length and the show during which they are shown but I would remember we are talking about hundreds to tens of thousands per play. And those are just to get the ad spot, you still need to pay for the actors, camera crew, editor, writer, get the equipment, the shooting location and all that.
LTT video ad spot probably costs around $5-10k and it includes making of the ad, per one million views that is 6th of the Superbowl ad spot cost at worst (LTT videos collect around 1-2M views while Superbowl 2022 gained 115M views).

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

Well, not really. He did a lot of tests to try to separate the metal from alumina (aluminum oxide) and got far in it but didn't manage to separate the alumnium from iron. The one who "found" (successfully separated pure aluminium) aluminium was Hans Christian Ørsted in 1824 but that is contested and he might have had potassium in his aluminium still and the actual person who made pure aluminium metal first would be Friedrich Wöhler in 1845. This is a bit problematic because Ørsted did even consider his aluminium been a find at all and when Wöhler continued his research and made his aluminium and proved Ørsteds method would have left potassium in aluminium Ørsted approved this but later Johan Fogh proved that Ørsted could have made pure aluminium because some miscalculations and happy accidents.
 
If we want to talk about who found out that alumina has some yet undiscovered metal in it, that would be Baron de Hénouville in 1760 who was probably the first to try to reduce alumina into metal or Antoine Lavoisier in 1782 who theorized alumina is an oxide of a metal or even broader spectrum Pierre Macquer in 1758 wrote that alumina resembles metallic earth (which would be pretty much the first time aluminium was considered metal rather than salt). Unless ancient Greeks and Romans didn't figured more about alum (natural aluminium sulfate) but didn't leave written records from it and in couple almost first centuries some aluminium-containing alloys were used in China but again no written records so hard to say how far they got.
 
But either way Sir Humphry Davy didn't manage to separate pure aluminum and so didn't find it. He just coined the other name.

Sir Humphrey Davy named it alumium in 1808.
After Swedish Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1811 coined the term aluminium in 1812 Sir Humphrey coined the aluminum for his chemistry textbook which Thomas Young reviewed and proposed to use the aluminium rather than the less Latin sounding aluminum and after that the aluminum was only used by some in Britain while everyone else (including Americans) used and adopted the aluminium.
 
Why Americans use aluminum and the rest of the world (pretty much) aluminium isn't about who coined the term but actually about who made American dictionary. In 1828 Noah Webster released his "American dictionary for English language" where he used aluminum and as it became the American dictionary against English dictionaries (like the later Oxford English Dictionary) the American scientists moved to use aluminum because now that was kind of official American-English.

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

Try to wipe and reinstall the audio drivers (seems to be kind of rare Windows "feature" to F up audio device identification and start using wrong drivers), it is not once or twice that my Sound Blaster Z is recognized as Reacon3D after unsafe Windows shutdown and every time it's reinstalling the drivers because for some reason Windows is unable to reidentify the card.
Also, if your monitor has speakers and HDMI-audio input, it very likely also has headphone output (at least I don't remember ever having seen HDMI monitor with speakers without one, I have seen few without speakers having one thou).

Another corporation pisses on it's paying customers!
 
Also aren't all of those games more or less old? At least I don't recall any of those being recent remakes but like at least SF 30th Anniversary is from 2018 and Resident Evil Revelations is from 2010 and not in the immediate remake list?
 
Well, anyway, if you can't get updates, you can't get questionable new DRMs.

Try to wipe and reinstall the audio drivers (seems to be kind of rare Windows "feature" to F up audio device identification and start using wrong drivers), it is not once or twice that my Sound Blaster Z is recognized as Reacon3D after unsafe Windows shutdown and every time it's reinstalling the drivers because for some reason Windows is unable to reidentify the card.
Also, if your monitor has speakers and HDMI-audio input, it very likely also has headphone output (at least I don't remember ever having seen HDMI monitor with speakers without one, I have seen few without speakers having one thou).

Another corporation pisses on it's paying customers!
 
Also aren't all of those games more or less old? At least I don't recall any of those being recent remakes but like at least SF 30th Anniversary is from 2018 and Resident Evil Revelations is from 2010 and not in the immediate remake list?
 
Well, anyway, if you can't get updates, you can't get questionable new DRMs.

Not to even mention that there's quite a large amount of music where the lossless doesn't really do anything because the music is mixed and mastered for the masses. Pretty much if the source is CD quality, mp3-encoding really doesn't do that much damage it would be noticeable. With higher than CD-quality releases you must be very source critical as modern studios rarely use higher than CD quality digital recording because it's enough and 99% of the listeners don't notice the difference between CD-quality and higher quality recording (even upping the bitdepth from 24 to 32 is a MAJOR investment that hardly pays back a cent).
 
As in, if you listen any mass produced music, there's a good chance either or both the mixer and the masterer went and checked their work on car stereos, if it sounds good, to the press it goes and your  thousands of dollars costing aluminium shelf with balanced floating feets is pretty much an overkill.
 
Now a cool trick to actually HEAR the difference between whatever two almost identical sounds, like if you have mp3 and FLAC version of the same track: Get Reaper or whatever DAW you can, input the tracks, make sure they have identical timing (so one isn't even 0.whatever milliseconds ahead of another, the "base signal" of the tracks is identical), flip the phase of one of the tracks, play both tracks simultaneously and what you hear is the absolute difference between the tracks (the inverted phase will be negate itself from the other track like noise cancelling).
Note: There will be something left unless the tracks are completely identical. But most of the time this is the way which will rip apart even the house valued speakers some of the audiophiles have and you can laugh at them for wasting tens/hundreds of thousands on speakers that aren't PERFECTLY identical. This is the audio equivalent of taking out the oscilloscope, zooming in and then acting like the 0.0000001V difference for 0.000001s between the signals is somehow meaningful and you should sacrifice your last kidney to fix it.
 
Edit: As in, here is the difference between Judas Priest Metal Meltdown 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC @ 1051kbps (total size 36MB) and the same in MP3 320kbps (total size 11MB).

FLAC-mp3_320.wav   There's a tiny hiss with some noticeable audio if you turn your volume up, but be careful with that volume because you're going to need to turn that way up and you don't want to forget it there. And if you can't hear anything, don't worry, just means you definitely are wasting money paying for lossless streaming since your audio equipment literally cannot produce the difference between lossless FLAC and 320 mp3.
 
And here's the difference between the same FLAC and MP3 192kbps (total size 6.64MB)

FLAC-mp3_192.wav   Now the hiss and the audio is a bit more audible but we are also around 850kbps lower on the bitrate.