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KING OF THE DIRTY DANS

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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from DDR6RAM in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from mfatihy in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to tsmspace in Looking to begin soldering. What is a good starter iron for a complete beginner?   
    You're going to try to self educate, so expect to spend a little more than someone who already knows what they are doing, and will buy everything they need. 
     
    Having said this,, why not just start with the cheapest soldering iron you can find that arrives quickly,, then buy a toy kit to put together, that doesn't matter if you goof it up?? You can buy something that blinks lights or squeals, (just buy a few little kits), and has nice big pads,, so a cheap soldering iron won't be a problem putting it together, and you've only invested a few dollars. 
     
    You will hear that solder has flux in it already,, which is true,, but you MUST buy some flux if you want to skip a lot of hard days. it's expensive, raises the ticket a lot, but is the best thing you can start to learn about early. 
     
    Once you've started making solder melt with a cheap iron, you might spend some time thinking expensive irons are a waste of money,,,, they're not. However, knowing which expensive iron will meet your needs takes experience, and if you buy a nice iron right away, you will clumsily corrode tips, and won't be able to produce the quality of work that justifies it anyway. 
     
    If you were going to buy ANYTHING that's pretty affordable, and you know nothing about, you should expect to need to buy several to get the one that works well for you,,, if you're serious about learning to solder, do the same. Go to walmart, and buy what they have there. Sure, you will want to pick a nice iron sooner than later, but if you just go to walmart and buy their solder and iron, you can start practicing , and you can right away start getting closer to useful competency. That doesn't mean don't buy a good iron from amazon,, like a ts100, which most drone pilots swear by,, but don't let people shy you away from the iron at walmart. it gets hot, melts solder, and costs basically nothing. your first try won't go well no matter what you do. (of course, with soldering, your first try WILL make a joint, and work, but there's a lot that ends up mattering over time). 
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to Beskamir in Parents Don't Like Phones At Schools   
    It should be up to the student to decide if they want their phone to be a distraction or a helpful tool. Being able to quickly google something can be better than stopping the entire class to ask a trivial or off topic question so even though most people would prefer to distract themselves with their phones I think we shouldn't punish those that would use their phone to aid their learning.
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to Mephi00 in What is a good way to get better at For Loops (C++/Java)   
    Sort an array of integers by size, smallest at first increasing.
     
    dont search for sorting algorithms.
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from XgamerXMaze in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from Shreyas1 in playing the witcher 3 with new graphics card has not gone well   
    Its probably a CPU/Ram bottleneck
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from da na in Now this is what I call a trusty cable   
    Approved
     
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to Turtle Rig in Is Streaming worth it?   
    Just make sure your streaming at 30fps. If you try do it at 60fps it will be very slow and slow up your game.  Also output should be 1080p no matter what your in game resolution is. 
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to AlexOak in Is Streaming worth it?   
    Use restream and set your encoder to nvnec setting in obs. I know because i have the same set-up you could do 60fps
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from Ezra_Build_CO in Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions   
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from PenguinMaster in New Gaming PC   
    Less ram, and a better cooler 
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to SpookyCitrus in ram?   
    Get new ram.
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from ARikozuM in Browsing the internet as privately as possible   
    I would use adblockers, and use an os Like Linux or Mac OS, so your Tor browsing will be safer on the Deep Web
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from Crunchy Dragon in Browsing the internet as privately as possible   
    I would use adblockers, and use an os Like Linux or Mac OS, so your Tor browsing will be safer on the Deep Web
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from PineFreshGuy in Why does nobody seem to talk about MSI peripherals?   
    I have an MSI headset, Its fine
    I know a guy with an MSI keyboard at campus (hes an asshole), but it works fine for him.
    I just think people associate them with Motherboards and GPUs
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from steelo in Any good Oculus games for free?   
    TF2 has VR support
     
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to SquareWAV in Burning Steel   
    Hey guys! Check out my modded build, it's the first one I'm sharing on the LinusTechTips forum. Enjoy! 
     
    PCPartPickerLink: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/X73bt6
     
    https://imgur.com/FeUNzpg
     
    https://imgur.com/HO1lSoI

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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS got a reaction from Ben17 in Are AMD Stickers Poisonous?   
    This post is more poisonous than the stickers
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    KING OF THE DIRTY DANS reacted to KeyboardCowboy in Does anyone know anything about Xbox soft-modding?   
    Saw your post, thought I would chime in. Back when I got mine modded (had a friend do it).... a long long time ago... there was some sort of drive hot-swapping involved, long story short ya ran the risk of nuking your PC's motherboard. But hey! good news, the hardware is so old now its almost cake.
     
    Secret Documents
    Maybe if your lucky someone more versed in console hacking will help ya out.
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