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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Somtaw in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Gaz3ll3 in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Lurick in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Dutch_Jammie in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Synaptic Cipher in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Alex T88 in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Needfuldoer in LTT Backpack not being double layered on the bottom?   
    Yeah they can't leave that up once they've learned that it's not actually there. Glad they took it down right away.
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from TheLANguy in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from helgehelge123 in LTT Backpack not being double layered on the bottom?   
    Yeah they can't leave that up once they've learned that it's not actually there. Glad they took it down right away.
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from cardiffcal in LTT Backpack not being double layered on the bottom?   
    Yeah they can't leave that up once they've learned that it's not actually there. Glad they took it down right away.
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from FFLORO in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Spotty in Got the LTX exclusive desk mat, thank you!   
    I really wanted one of these but I couldn't go and didn't realize I could get it with floatplane sub.
    But I bought the mystery deskpad during the sale event and got it!
     

     
    Thank you LMG!
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from jtaylor991 in LMG Sponsor Complaints   
    Just wanted to talk about the today's sponsor, Solid Works.
     
    At my work I had a conversation with a customer who was being shaken down by Solid Works's (Dassault Systèmes) Legal dept, claiming they were using too many computers without the valid licenses.
    They provided MAC addresses of the NIC's and the IP addresses of the offending connections. Neither of these showed up in the customers logs.
    The customer was provided the connection information for the last year and a half to prove they're never had that IP address.
     
    The response they got was basically "doesn't matter, we've already determined that you owe this 100,000$, and need to tell us how you're going to pay in the next 10 days, or we're going to litigate".
     
    I was pointed to a thread on Reddit (
     
    I sent this over to our customer, they pushed back like the others did in that Reddit thread, and Solid Works backed off and haven't contacted them since.
     
     
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Basti0815 in Has your view of LTT or Linus changed?   
    At first I was disappointed, but after a lot more was discussed about the timeline of events etc, I actually feel bad for LMG.
    The whole, "keep it we don't need it back, oh wait we changed our minds, send it back."
    Then after watching GN's video, seeing that smirk on his face, it was clear this was personal and not unbiased journalism. After that video I had to unsub from GN.
    After all the back and forth, the evidence etc, it all points to employee's at LMG being very very busy (especially the lead up to WAN show), and things not getting taken care of in a timely manner. Yet tons of people on the internet, including on these forums, claiming Linus personally selling another companies proprietary prototype.
    Also, the amount of articles that I've seen in my feed with headlines like "Ex employee alleges sexual assault" with a picture of Linus on the cover......I have no words for bullshit like that. Literally every articles thumbnail had a picture of Linus on it.
     
    So at this point I've swung back around, I've yet to see anything from Linus to make me question his review or unboxing of a laptop. The things he says are factual or his personal preference, and he states them as such.
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    Aluminumhaste reacted to leadeater in Incorrect Information in "Does HTTPS REALLY Keep You Safe?"   
    That really depends on how the Guest wireless network has been setup in such a scenario. Lots of places for the Guest network specifically don't use any encryption at all, only Captive Portal and 'Client Isolation' but this does not prevent wireless traffic snooping.
     
     https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/help/faq/what-s-the-password-for-using-wi-fi-in-a-mcdonald-s-restaurant.html
    https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/services/free-wi-fi.html
     
    This is the most common type of "Free WiFi" any person will encounter and it's done like this to achieve, as best as possible, no technical support requirement and the simplest connectivity possible. McDonalds does not offer any support in restaurant for getting connected.
     
    So it's actually extremely likely someone could snoop. If you don't know if encryption is being used on the WiFi connection and it's a Guest/Free WiFi then the most prudent and best advice is to assume it is not encrypted and anyone can snoop the traffic.
     
    Non "Guest/Free WiFi" is, almost always, encrypted. Within an at work situation network layer monitoring should be assumed, at a minimum traffic logging at the firewall, but could also be going through a transparent proxy that is logging web traffic and in more rare cases SSL Full Inspection (responsible disclosure should be applied, tell your users).
     
    This information was provided, it's just difficult to insert in to a TQ video without that one subject area dominating it over the rest, consider if you keep expanding and adding more detail to each thing the video quickly becomes not a TQ. The other factor is this isn't really all that easily comprehendible to a non IT person in this field. It's one thing to provide this information and another to assume that it's been understood and sufficiently encapsulated in to the script/video.
     
    The second go around of this video was not reviewed by ECC, a good amount was changed and I'll assume even reshot going by the T-Shirt change and the very long time between ECC looking at the original and the public release here.
     
    This is a good point but also in my opinion beyond the scope of this TQ video.
     
    This was a correction/addition from the original video. Tip, any "Grey shirt Riley" is new and originated from ECC review and comments (with the note of these not being reviewed) aka the corrections weren't able to be corrected heh.
     
    Same comment as above although from memory much of this was in the original video, just some minor changes here other than 4:04 which has been feed back already that this was not the correct/sufficient way to portray the concept as domain names, DNS and URLs are different subject areas in this context.
     
    Chrome actually does but not in the way shown in the video, I think just a large amount of confusion/misunderstanding went on here.

    https://blog.google/products/chrome/milestone-chrome-security-marking-http-not-secure/
     
    This is the warning Chrome gives to any site not using HTTPS, the warning shown in the video is improper HTTPS functionality and Chrome will display similar warning page as shown in the video with details about what specifically is the problem if possible. Overall in large part that type of warning page is reserved only for issues with HTTPS as it's more critical to warn on these.
     
    P.S. Sorry time codes I have give up to this point are the FP version, now switching to YT since I see that is your source.
     
    This was addressed during the review however it seems to have been incorrectly addressed and wordage of URL rather than Domain used. SSL Certificate Inspection information was provided as one form of Meta Data possible to be obtained when accessing HTTPS websites, since that and TLS handshake are how this is obtained/can be obtained. But this is only for the Domain being accessed, also URL Re-Writes and transparent redirections that direct traffic to another place behind a Forward Proxy/Load Balancer where SSL Bridging or Offloading may be used complicate that matter further (Beyond the scope of this TQ video).
     
    This has been feed back since the video release. Some of this was covered during the review however I don't think sufficiently, or at least wasn't understood well enough. I can't see the review comments anymore so going off memory.
     
    One thing I asked for that stemmed from the original review of this video was the scripts to be posted for review first, which is just now starting to get done.
     
    Wireshark capture of a TLS Handshake I provided to them today:
     
    The last thing I'll point out is the objective goal of TQ is short digestible information targeting around 5 minute video run time. Maybe or maybe not you underestimate how difficult that actually is. You can be technically correct on all points and details covering specifics but can you do it in 5 minutes? Mixing up usages of DNS, Domain and URL is certainly fair criticism obviously but do remember to keep this point in mind and what TQ is, aka not to learn about half the details talked about in this topic. Once you start talking about TLS Handshakes, SNI, ESNI, SSL Inspection vs SSL Full Inspection then we're no longer in TQ territory (each of these alone can be talked about for more than 5 minutes, so their own TQ or details omitted).
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    Aluminumhaste reacted to William Payne in Thank You To Linus Media Group.   
    I would like to take the time to say a serious thank you to Linus Media Group. I am a man of science and engineering. Sure I spend way too much time playing video games same as everyone. But LMG have taken the time to go beyond their normal audience and show fantastic videos like their recent IBM tour, and past videos showing data centers, quantum computing, fusion reactor development, machine learning. 
     
    The tour videos of these types of facilities I really appreciate. None of this kind of stuff is going on down here in New Zealand. So being able to see it on youtube I am thankful beyond what I can put into words. 
     
    Scientific and engineering computing video's probably due to the limited audience are not as easy to find as I want them to be. I have often wished there was a channel devoted to scientific and engineering computing, I would do it myself but I am not qualified to do it properly, nor do I have the access. 
     
    I don't know who will read this but seriously. 
     
    Thank You. 
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    Aluminumhaste reacted to LinusTech in Thank You To Linus Media Group.   
    Some of us hang around here sometimes 🙂
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from AkimaAE in DP disconnect issue with 7900 xtx   
    I solved a ton of weird issues like that with my AMD GPUs by disabling ULPS (Ultra Low Power Saving/State).
    Just search the registry for EnableULPS and change it from "1" to "0" and reboot.
     
    I no longer get crash to desktops, driver timeouts, random reboots, blue screens etc.
     
    The 7900XTX and 6800XT have been rock solid since doing that.
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from QwertyChouskie in LMG Sponsor Complaints   
    And called all of it trash basically saying don't buy anything from these websites.
    EDIT: Thereby letting his community who might not know, to stay away from these sites.
     
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from dogwitch in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    That Billet Labs themselves told him it "should" work with. Please stop leaving that part out. They reached out to BL's about that. Had BL said "No, it only works on a 3090", then they probably would have tried harder to use it on a 3090.
     
    And as much as that video was a lot of cringe and I was disappointed in it, I have to agree with Linus on that one; who would spend 800$ on a water block to use on previous gen hardware? Even if it performed at the level it was claimed to be at, it still wouldn't have changed their conclusion. Don't buy it.
     
     
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from Basti0815 in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    That Billet Labs themselves told him it "should" work with. Please stop leaving that part out. They reached out to BL's about that. Had BL said "No, it only works on a 3090", then they probably would have tried harder to use it on a 3090.
     
    And as much as that video was a lot of cringe and I was disappointed in it, I have to agree with Linus on that one; who would spend 800$ on a water block to use on previous gen hardware? Even if it performed at the level it was claimed to be at, it still wouldn't have changed their conclusion. Don't buy it.
     
     
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    Aluminumhaste got a reaction from QwertyChouskie in LMG Sponsor Complaints   
    Just wanted to talk about the today's sponsor, Solid Works.
     
    At my work I had a conversation with a customer who was being shaken down by Solid Works's (Dassault Systèmes) Legal dept, claiming they were using too many computers without the valid licenses.
    They provided MAC addresses of the NIC's and the IP addresses of the offending connections. Neither of these showed up in the customers logs.
    The customer was provided the connection information for the last year and a half to prove they're never had that IP address.
     
    The response they got was basically "doesn't matter, we've already determined that you owe this 100,000$, and need to tell us how you're going to pay in the next 10 days, or we're going to litigate".
     
    I was pointed to a thread on Reddit (
     
    I sent this over to our customer, they pushed back like the others did in that Reddit thread, and Solid Works backed off and haven't contacted them since.
     
     
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    Aluminumhaste reacted to perryckd in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    Nope, i dont care or subbed to any of these 2 channels FYI. I do read and watch many reviews, i do not solely depend on 1 place to get my information.
     
    I just cannot stand guerilla nexus antics, very hypcritical, faked, shit stirrer. I had such work experiences, i feel strongly against people like steve. I got stabbed in my back by someone who kept presenting themselves as goodie 2shoes and  turned the whole offices against me. 
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    Aluminumhaste reacted to perryckd in Gamers Nexus alleges LMG has insufficient ethics and integrity   
    he  got spooked by LMG strong comeback video yesterday.  spooked by Dr Cutress call out of his bad behavior of sprinkling nasty editorial comments much.
     
    So he has not apologised or retracted his video of his error on asus vsoc, on his error about nvidia AI hardware. COWARD + EGO = steve guerilla nexus
     
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