Lord of Blackwood

I have taken quite a while before jumping on the bandwagon and share my thoughts. First I wanted to review videos, parse older posts from LTT team, and basically make my own opinion instead of just listening dumbly on GN or Linus. If you're a hardcore Linus Fan, then skip this. To sum up: I have stopped watching LTT videos for the informative content like reviews and bench along time ago because they have never been clear and transparent on their methodology. Also, some of their "findings" were often at odds with what I personally found or what I found on written medias. I was hoping that they would have put in place a strict methodology with their lab. Sadly it is not the case. On the GN vs Linus debate, well there also I got a big disappointment. I expected a point by point response with either an explanation or at least an acknowledgement, maybe even a plan of action to correct that. Instead we got what is clearly a "I am the victim" post. I honestly went to several other channels to get quality tech contents GN for numbers and in depth tech info Jayztwocents for the fun build and no non-sens Craft Computing for Small Office - Home office stuff PC Builder for actual realistic build videos and infos Lately, the past year and a half at least, LMG has lost the touch for their videos. Between unrealistic or unrelatable builds like the $100k desktop and the pointless how many USB can you plug, to the saga Linus builds his dream home, where is the content that LMG used to make: Relatable builds, Ultra gamer builds (that had also a point not just the $$$) the exotic and challenge that also had a lesson behind it like the Wish PC, the Wallmart Gaming PC, the "human interest ones" like who has the best PC in LTT... But yes those videos are from a time where video topics where THE priority. A time prior to the LABS. A timle where content was paramount not $$$. So I am not like other go "bad Linus I won't watch your videos". I'd be lying. What I'll do: No buy any more merch. I am set anyway with the Backpack and the original LTT screwdriver. And as the content is anyway disappointing, cancel my subscription to the LTT Floatplane channel. The one thing I hope is that Terren Tong as CEO will straighten things out.

I wish it was as simple as that English is such a simple language (no offense intended) compared to French. A qwerty keyboard does not have all the accentuated letters we use in most sentences. I even went as far as looking at key stickers. I bought a keyboard once on wish for a test. Terrible idea.

Thanks for the links. I did not get those. I am sad that I can't get it in France with a French azerty keyboard. The only seller sells it for over 2800 euros nearly 3k dollars. I am going to wait and watch.

It's all in the title, a few weeks back the 4900HS based laptop was THE big news It was everywhere on YouTube. Linus did a great review of it. And now I am in need of a new laptop to replace my Lenovo Legion as my virtualization and work laptop (Yes I use a gaming laptop for work. It is cheaper and has better performance than the same cpu in a professional branded laptop) as all the demos I make use too many virtual machines. It is NOWHERE! No retailer has it. IT IS NOT EVEN ON THE ASUS SITE. I checked the US and European sites. The only laptops I find run the 4800 not the 4900 Any idea what happened? I must have missed something somewhere.

Hi guys and gals, I am currently starting to build up a viewing and recording kit to record the bird activity around the bird bath and cherry tree in my garden. I will follow the LTT guide as it is a good base. There is just one issue : Not to scare the birds, the PIs with camera will have to be anywhere from 3 to 5 yards. Does anyone know of good cameras with zoom capabilities and at least full HD ? I have looked at USB cams and for now my best bet would be to use a USB webcam with at least 4K res and use a digital zoom ? If you have any good cam model, please share it whether it uses the internal connector or USB. If you have lenses references (tested) please share them also. I am at the prototyping stage and ready to test and then share here my experiences.

I have to disagree with you, nicely, though ? I have seen more than one Kickstarter project based on Raspberry Pi. It also would be quite easy to organize Step 0 defining the number of kits : eg. 1, 3, 5 cameras and defining the base number of each kit before quotes Step 1 prototyping the Pi + Camera Cases using 3D printing Step 2 prototyping a Pi 4 enclosure with a couple of lower end ssd for caching then streaming to your NAS Step 3 getting Quotes from China with the stl for the tooling and injection molding Step 4 getting Quotes for gross order of Pi Zero W Pi 4 1Go (Sufficient for up to 3 - 5 cams) 8 Gb SD Cards Premastering of the 8Gb SDCards with pre configured media for a set camera number (1 type per Kit + the central server + setupguide card) Sata Hats for Raspberry PI for 1 ssd Alternatively for NAS enclosure such as the "QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry PI" (it is very expensive) to offer an integrated and dedicated NAS solution for packing and shipping from fullfillment firms Step 6 using the quotes and a "reasonable" margin for risk management and cost overuns define the number of units required for breaking even Step 7 prototyping the setup guide for each camera kits Step 8 firm up the quotes based on the break even number of kits Step 10 prepare the project and manufacturing planning based on the manufacturing time estimates from suppliers Step 11 add 2 - 4 months to the estimates for manufacturing delays (you will never be the priority in case of production bottlenecks) Step 9 define the campaign objective factoring Kickstarter's cut Step 10 set the kickstarter campaign Step 11 Run the campaign Step 11.1 Use social medias to promote the campaign Step 11.2 Send a 3D printed prototype kit to Linus in hopes that he reviews it before the end of the campaign ? Step 12 get the funds and launch initial runs Step 13 set an indiegogo campaign for pre orders (cheaper than setting up your own internet store Step 14 get Fullfillment to package and ship Step 15 deal with all the crap during the campaign and fullfillment on Kickstarter comments Step 16 deal with fullfillment error and quality control PB requiring double shipments Step 17 realize that you spent more than you got on KS Step 18 get you reputation totalled on KS then on Indiegogo or if the campaign ends up well realize that a chinese firm is offering your product for half the price Step 19 Swear that you will never waste your time on such a project before locking yourself up in rehab All jokes aside, it is a viable project if you decided to spend the time on it.

Hi, I decided to revisit this post for my new project : a multi view points observation and image capturing setup for surveying the amzing number of birds in my garden. Thanks for this guide. André

So basically, I could stay on the RX580 and save my money to replace my aging NAS to secure my storage, if I read you correctly ?

Hello guys, A long time ATI user, I am now migrating my systems to Nvidia following the renewal of my hardware. I have : CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X RAM : 2 x G.SKILL Aegis Mémoire RAM D4 2133 C15 16 Go MB: ASRock AB350 Pro4. SYS/Primary PRG : Kingston SSD A1000 (SA1000M8/240G) - 240GB Disque Flash SSD, M.2 2280, PCIe NVMe Secondary PRG/Local Data : Western Digital Green 240GB M.2 240Go M.2 Série ATA III Graphics adapter : RX580 >> TO BE REPLACED Displays : Make Size Scale Width Height Connection DELL 24" 16/10 1920 1200 DVI DELL 24" 16/10 1920 1200 HDMI LG 34" 21/9 2560 1080 Display Port LG 34" 21/9 3840 1600 Display Port It functions pretty well like that with a Graphic card temp at around 60° celcius most of the time which is not too bad with the hardware I have on it. Mass Storage is held on an aging Synology DS1812+ and a Synology DS1813+ that serve for hosting the files of the VM running on my ESXi and HyperV servers, my VM archive and project archives for a total of 12TB, as well as my iso's, audio collection and ebook library for 1-2TB. Network Services (DNS, DHCP, LDAP) are handled by a DS212+ My extranet is handled by a DS212 that host my media jukebox, COPDS servers, and picture backup solution (from my phone to the DS212 where it is encrypted, then from the DS212 to a cloud where it remains) I mainly do server administration on my virtual machines (for my lab), tech documentation, audio acquisition and editing (converting old LP's to flac and mp3) and some video viewing (mostly youtube and local HD movies). I migrated all my gaming on a second computer an older Core I7 with 16Gb RAM and a GTX 1050 TI OC with 4GB Ram. Even there, I do not do much gaming as I mostly do World of Tank and Warships, OpenTTD, Starcraft I & II (rarely as have been disappointed with it). The question is : What Grphics card should I get from Nvidia to replace the RX580 to plug in my 4 screens. Do I need 2 cards ? If so which ones knowing that cost is more an isssue than frame rate as I no longer game on those screens. Thanks in advance, André

How about using it for a virtualisation box? 64 cores times 8 means 512 virtual cpu's more than enough for any lab. @linus I am ready to take that board off your hands. ?

Imagine playing Overwatch or Guildwars on this.... Or even better, Starcraft. And watching the death star run of the Starwars Episode III remastered haaaaaaa.