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If you want to buy a functional computer for that kind of money (and not a prop for a video), used office laptops are abundant and cheap. I paid about $100 for a Latitude with an 8th gen i5, 8 gigs of RAM, and a 250 gig SSD, to use as a mobile SDR machine.

If you can trade your old phone in, the Pixel 7a is a solid deal. Google's own store has super competitive trade-in values. Alternatively, the Pixel 6a model is one generation older, but the price reflects this. Both punch way above their price point. 

I'm a bit disappointed some important things were left out. 

If you're transcoding on Plex/Kodi (running HDR/4k content to 1080p or mobile displays), you should grab a CUDA enabled GPU. With this, it's important to use Linux if you've got a lot of HDR content. Plex on Windows doesn't support HDR to SDR tone mapping with hardware acceleration. Linux does.

There are many tools to setup a storage backup on a local server. This is huge, and likely a big reason why people have the high capacity Google Drive storage plans.

DO NOT BUY THE $400 DRIVES. I can't begin to understand this. Get a "shuckable" external drive. I got a 10TB WD drive for less than $180 years ago. That's much better $/GB.

Don't get a "SFF" machine if you can avoid it. You'll get a lot more expandability if you just get a "mid-size" tower.

Create an RDP shortcut on your main machine. I don't understand why this was skipped. Even if you use Pulseway, it's helpful to have it on your desktop. 

Enable wake from LAN in your BIOS and get an app to turn your PC on from your phone.

Configure the BIOS to turn the machine back on when it loses power.

Get a UPS!


And lastly... You can also just do this on a gaming rig. I've got Plex, file share, ect on my main machine. It hasn't affected anything, I just leave my PC on all the time. The only thing that's tempting me to move things to a headless server is file backups on a different machine and the HW HDR mapping for Linux on Plex. 

So does anyone actually know what features you can still use after you cancel the ridiculous Eight Sleep sub? So far I've read conflicting info about not being able to use the app at all, or directly from Linus that he can still use the app. But I've also heard from other channels' videos that people who bought back before sub was made mandatory are getting the functionality grandfathered in, which would include Linus. So which is it?
 
All I really care about is being able to do basic controls like set the temp and schedule a timer for when it turns itself on and off - not so bothered about having the 'autopilot' if it means I need to pay for it forever.
 
I'm willing to pay a lot for a good sleep and it would be nice to be able to make an informed purchase before the discount offer expires tomorrow.

It's a pretty disappointing sponsor, and not only do you have to pay a $24USD a month subscription for a lifetime warranty (the base warranty is 1 year on a $2500 product are you joking), the mattress collects your movement, heart rate, respiratory rate, sleep quality and temperature controls and sells them to third party advertisers. Very nice.

If I have a 3.5kW AC unit running 8 hours a night at 24 degress C, that works out to a cost of $26 a month to cool my whole room, or $320 for the whole year. The subscription costs $288 a year.

That means the ongoing cost of the mattress is ($3000 + $288x) where x is the number of years since purchase.
Compare that to the ongoing cost of running the air conditioner which is $320x. Now, solving for the intersection of x, we find that you break even after 93.75 YEARS after having spent a grand total of $30,000 on a mattress

Hello LTT Team and Community!
 
I was fired from one of your sponsors for being trans. I had to hire a lawyer. I have all the receipts. Dozens of screen shots that will verify my story. The slack channels looked like 4chan. It was terrible. People using the n-word among other slurs, talking about commiting hate crimes against gay and trans people, all openly in slack channels that everyone in the org had access to, from the lowest engineer to the CEO. 

Do to the nature of my separation and what I was awarded upon leaving the company, this is all I can share here. I would love to chat in a more private space to share the receipts and org name.
 
--
The proud owner of a LTT screwdriver and your favorite trans chick,
 
   anonLTTfan

Don't see that anyone has brought up infinite cable in here. I ordered 144 short patch cables and the products themself are fine good quality but the package does not seem great and with Linus wanting them to have all sustainable recyclable I thought I should bring this up. Each cable came in it's own plastic bag and then plastic bags for each pack of 10. Seems like a lot a waste that could be improved upon. Plus after unpacking them my hands just felt greasy and dirty.

I've been watching this thread regarding the Asus issues.

Then I see the Asus sponsored PC build with Esther. Perhaps the video was filmed before all of this was brought to light, I'll let is pass.

Then I watch one of the WAN show clips, LTX '23 is "brought to you by Asus"? Yikes 
 
That was probably all sorted out ages before this came to light, but I sincerely hope it's the last Asus integration with LMG. This isn't the first horror story I've heard from them and I've personally had a few distasteful, but not horrorific encounters with them. (both personally as a consumer and as a repair tech at an authorized service center)

I've been watching this thread regarding the Asus issues.

Then I see the Asus sponsored PC build with Esther. Perhaps the video was filmed before all of this was brought to light, I'll let is pass.

Then I watch one of the WAN show clips, LTX '23 is "brought to you by Asus"? Yikes 
 
That was probably all sorted out ages before this came to light, but I sincerely hope it's the last Asus integration with LMG. This isn't the first horror story I've heard from them and I've personally had a few distasteful, but not horrorific encounters with them. (both personally as a consumer and as a repair tech at an authorized service center)

I've been watching this thread regarding the Asus issues.

Then I see the Asus sponsored PC build with Esther. Perhaps the video was filmed before all of this was brought to light, I'll let is pass.

Then I watch one of the WAN show clips, LTX '23 is "brought to you by Asus"? Yikes 
 
That was probably all sorted out ages before this came to light, but I sincerely hope it's the last Asus integration with LMG. This isn't the first horror story I've heard from them and I've personally had a few distasteful, but not horrorific encounters with them. (both personally as a consumer and as a repair tech at an authorized service center)

why did ltt accept an asus sponsorship for todays video? with everything in this thread from @Genzong and others i kind of thought that at least temporarily asus spots would be put on hold? i still like many asus products but i think clarity is needed and the sponsor spots kind of retract on what i hope is an ongoing investigation?

Oh man, the dreaded Invisble Dust!
It strikes without warning. It is immune to alcohol wipes or compressed air. It attacks RIGHT AFTER YOU OPEN THE PRODUCT! No matter how clean the connector is, or how many tips you try, they're all covered in unremoveable... INVISIBLE DUST
 
Rest assured, our heavily marked up drop-shipped generic AliExpress magnetic non-standard cables are never defective.
The only thing defective.
Is your own eyes.

Find an old Plasma TV. Panasonic and Pioneer were the front-runners for that tech. I have an OLED in the living room and a Pioneer Elite in the bedroom, I can't stand backlight bleed and crushed blacks. 

This is not "meh" or just "shady".  Given it seems very unlikely you watched the video(s) linked, here's a TL;DR:
 
Samsung is seeking to have the United States Customs and Border Patrol block import of ANY OLED or AMOLED screen not manufactured by Samsung.  If Samsung succeeds, this would mean that any person or company in the US purchasing OLED displays would have to get it from one source: Samsung.  Given how ubiquitous OLED are in phones, TVs, smartwatches, even some computers, it's not hard to see just how bad this would make things for everyone.
 
Remember how awful GPU prices are right now?  Imagine if AMD GPUs were banned by customs and border control.  Oh, Intel has integrated graphics?  Ban Intel non-f SKUs then too.  Oh, phones have GPUs?  Banned, unless it's based on an Nvidia Tegra processor.  PlayStaton? Xbox? Steam Deck?  Banned.  Hope you really enjoy the Switch as the only allowed game console in the US, also it's probably gonna cost you at least $800 now.  This is what Samsung is attempting with the OLED/AMOLED market.
 
I don't say this lightly (honestly I find repairing Samsung devices easier than many manufacturers [cough Apple]), but...
 
FUCK SAMSUNG.
 

We use N-Able at work and it's pretty good for the most part!

I know I'm new here with my several-minutes-old account, but I saw Pulseway brought up again, and I just wanted to put my 2 cents in. 
 
I love LMG, I've bought some merch and love the screwdriver, but every time I see a Pulseway spot, it personally pains me to see LMG accepting what is basically blood money to me. 
 
To give some background, I'm a small business owner, I own an IT Consultant / MSP / Software Dev studio and employ 12 full time staff. We used to be a Kaseya Customer, we got burned HARD by them. It cost me a lot of money and sleepless nights. They are not a friendly company at all, and they know it, that's why they go around steal acquiring their competitors to lock in more customers. It is my understanding that after owning a controlling stake in Pulseway for about 5 years now, they have recently acquired the rest of the company and now own it outright. Their ToS change last year hinted at that (it is now the Kaseya ToS with the company name replaced). Their sponsor spots make it seem like it's a simple month to month low commitment product. I actually went through the process of checking it out a while back, it tries to lock you into a Kaseya 3-year contract. They WILL send debt collectors after you if you try to get out of it. They WILL make it impossible to cancel and not auto-renew after 3 years. They don't care that those practices are illegal in many places they serve customers. 
 
I was a customer of IT Glue, then it got acquired by Kaseya. Once my contract finally expired, we closed our account, this was over 2 years ago now. For those who don't know, IT Glue is a documentation and password management platform for IT teams. I just checked, it looks like our data is still on their system, and they had a security breach a few months back. They of course will lie and say data is deleted, but it's there still. Links still work. 
 
I was also a customer of RapidFire tools, and then it got acquired by Kaseya as well. I was on a month-to-month plan, but when i decided to part ways with Kaseya, they told me i was now on a 3-year plan that they sent me an email about at some point (i never got the email, i never agreed to a 3-year plan). They kept trying to chase payment. 
 
Finally, I was a customer of Kaseya directly when they got hacked. We were on the cloud platform of VSA and BMS, the hack took it down for well over a week, and when it finally came back up, many features were disabled, and we had to spend a lot of time running around making sure things were secure. For our troubles, we were only ever offered a 20% discount on that month's service fees for the inconvenience and claimed that the breach was not grounds to end the contract. We dug into the details of the breach, and it was nothing short of negligence in how they managed their code. The vulnerabilities had been reported to them well over a year prior to the breach, and they never acknowledged or patched them. 
 
I know they will do the same with Pulseway, they already have started with the 3-year contract in their new ToS. I don't want to see any other business tricked and destroyed by their shady practices. I know that by bringing this all up LMG will probably ask them about what I've said, and they will see this post, and then their Legal team will get involved and send me letters, but whatever, it's more important to me to do the right thing and try and save someone else from what I and many others have gone through.
 
For the record, I really don't want to recommend other RMM/PSA tools, because that's just going to come across as shilling (especially as I'm a new account) but have a look in the MSP subreddit and you will get some idea of the company's people prefer there. While I don't use them, I have heard good things about HaloPSA/HaloRMM and NinjaRMM. But I struggle to understand how LMG's target audience would benefit from an ad spot from something that can only be used by companies, and not something to use personally the way Pulseway is marketed (even though it also isn't good for personal small-scale use)

FYI barney is female : look tag on twitter "@Barny"
 
i dont agree its out of laziness, how would a struggling content creator from the UK with little money start a lawsuit against someone in the US? sounds expensive and a lot of work that they may never get the return from.
 
better to try making money to live and call it a loss, while call out to avoid others having the same result  
 

I had no idea they bought Pulseway. I'm not going to share links to any specific controversial content, but I've seen low regard for Kaseya in the world of Managed Service Providers during my time browsing various MSP and IT related subreddits.
Sorted by Relevance - https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/search?q=kaseya&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
Sorted by Top - https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/search/?q=kaseya&sort=top&restrict_sr=on&t=all

I like presentations of niche products that not much people remembers now, and I got disappointed.
 
All I got was in standard LTT fashion fake/forced reactions and little to none care about the actual product. This GPU does support 1080p as advertised, look at this review https://pcper.com/2011/01/galaxy-geforce-gtx-460-1gb-whdi-edition-wireless-hdmi-streaming/3/ just need to select proper resolution.
 
Evaluating product with wrong resolution set, on some bottom of the barrel monitor which itself probably has dozens of ms of latency. Not validating HDCP, not trying to use it as an actual product. And to be honest for 1080p HTPC setup even today it sounds like nice thing. (yeah, I know 4k is a thing).

I guess making nice product overview is not as "fun" as farming content by shitting on a product... while most issues are caused by users.

 

If you're using HDR to SDR tonemapping, (HDR rips being sent to SDR displays/devices), you'll NEED newer  NVENC (not sure what gen) or Quicksync (8th gen+ CPU's with iGPU's). The budget friendly setup that I did was an i3 10100 on Ubuntu. It looks like Plex got around to adding the HDR to SDR for Nvenc to Windows, but for Intel, you'll still need to be on Linux.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/hdr-to-sdr-tone-mapping/

Don't get a dedicated Nvidia GPU for this unless you're hell bent on running it within Windows instead of Linux. I can understand why, there's a lot of things that are just easier when using Windows for a Plex server, but I've been able to adapt after not using Linux for about half a decade. 

For context, my 10700k in Windows couldn't keep up with a single HDR to SDR stream, I've tested up to five on the i3/Linux setup without a hitch. 

I don't think promoting manscaped is a good idea.
I just bought the The Performance Package 4.0. The fine print of the Peak Hygiene Plan is pretty dishonest of the company in my opinion. I went to cancel it but then it says that I loose my warranty if I do so. It also puts me through like 3 pop ups to convince me not to cancel with loosing my warranty being the last one.
Of course I don't want to loose my warranty, so I'm not going to cancel. But the option to "skip next shipment" of the Peak Hygiene Plan better have no restrictions. It is a waste of time to have to go and indicate that I want to skip it every three months.

i tried like 3 or 4 amd gpus last couple of years... tbh they *did* get better,  last one was a rx590 and it was pretty ok, not as awful as the others,  ie i think if you're willing to tinker a lot you could probably get it to work,  although the same could be said about intel, latest drivers seem to have improved a lot, so if someone really wanted to they could definitely go that route, nvidia while better, isnt perfect either and has some annoying issues too (gfe, bugs, etc)
 
i might go intel at some point,  if its a significant improvement over my 3070, why not.

Unfortunately, ARC GPU's aren't mature enough for most user's daily gaming.

I tried AMD once, had driver issues in 3/4 games I was trying to play (5700XT, about half a year after release)

Because of those two things, I'd still grab Nvidia off the shelf, but I can't convince myself to pay more than $500 for a GPU. I theoretically should, I would love to play more PC games on my OLED, but my PS5 does more than well enough for sightseeing games so a 3060 (paired with a 240Hz 1080p BenQ) stays in my rig for CS:GO, older games, and the occasional game that isn't released on PS. 

Unfortunately, ARC GPU's aren't mature enough for most user's daily gaming.

I tried AMD once, had driver issues in 3/4 games I was trying to play (5700XT, about half a year after release)

Because of those two things, I'd still grab Nvidia off the shelf, but I can't convince myself to pay more than $500 for a GPU. I theoretically should, I would love to play more PC games on my OLED, but my PS5 does more than well enough for sightseeing games so a 3060 (paired with a 240Hz 1080p BenQ) stays in my rig for CS:GO, older games, and the occasional game that isn't released on PS. 

Unfortunately, ARC GPU's aren't mature enough for most user's daily gaming.

I tried AMD once, had driver issues in 3/4 games I was trying to play (5700XT, about half a year after release)

Because of those two things, I'd still grab Nvidia off the shelf, but I can't convince myself to pay more than $500 for a GPU. I theoretically should, I would love to play more PC games on my OLED, but my PS5 does more than well enough for sightseeing games so a 3060 (paired with a 240Hz 1080p BenQ) stays in my rig for CS:GO, older games, and the occasional game that isn't released on PS.