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Pretty sure that was one that wasnt even made by LTT but instead a different company that made it and sent it in to them. I dont think its something they are making and quite frankly would probably be highly cost preventative 

Paid off all $33,000 of my credit card debt today, does that count as a purchase?

11 hours ago, FlyingPotato_is_taken said:

Hot take: It's a good choice.

Finger are fat. Screws are small. Slots are tight (e.g. screw falls between RAM slots). Tweezers are the perfect answer and magnet is the next best option.

 

Question: Why not ship the stubby with the complete standard set instead of just 4 bits? The default configuration would be utterly useless for me (and probably most people here) as it lacks the PH0. With the default config you can not install an M.2 SSD as it's PH0.

 

second question: Why is there still no PH00 when a stubby is planned? The stubby is large for a PH00 screw driver but better than nothing as standard length bits aren't compatible.

I think its 6 bits not 4, and I guess my point was I just dont think the stubby will have the reach needed to make the magnetic bit very useful in most instances. I would have prefered they included a PH0 bit as you mentioned over the magnetic one.

Just listening to the WAN show and they are talking about the stubby load out. Why on earth would the magnetic bit be included. I cant fathom a time that I would use a stubby to try to reach a metal piece with a magnet that I wouldnt just use my hand for. Like the handle is pretty big and the shaft is obviously very short so its not like its gonna reach into a hard to reach place. Just seems like a useless bit to me. I love it in my regular sized shaft screwdriver but in a stubby I cant see it.

Ok I just read this thread start to finish, Im not gonna comment on every post in here I disagree with as its kind of beating a dead horse but at one point in time the OP stated he is 14. A 14 year old 99% of the time would never see the value in a $250 bag, your life style wouldn't dictate a bag like that. And you definitely at that age should not be spending that much on a backpack. But just because you cant justify that price based on your life style doesnt mean others cant.

When you compare things like build quality your Nike bag is not in the same league. Id put money on the fact that if I wanted to rip the straps off your bag with my bare hands I could, I wouldnt say the same about the LTT bag. You yourself said your bag had plastic buckles, that is a far cry from metal. The protection offered by the padding and the layout of the LTT bag will not be the same as your nike bag I bet, the LTT one will be better. I mean im obviously making some educated guesses here but if you find a picture of your bag online that you can link us to that would certainly help.

But its also kind of irrelevant because lets say you did find and amazing bag at $20 at the outlet store that offered the EXACT same quality and features as the LTT bag, that would only prove you found an amazing bag because a simple browse through Amazon at backpacks will show you that that $20 price point does not inherently have bags of the same quality. 

Also on your car point, as someone that has been professionally working on cars for 23 years ill say this about BMW, they arent reliable, they are overpriced, they dont hold value and in general should be used as lease vehicles and once they are out of warranty should never be held on to unless you can maintain them yourself and have  a hook up on parts cause you are gonna need a lot of them. The amount of kids I have come into my shop with mid 2000s-2010 BMW that have problems and they cant afford to fix them would make your head spin, but why do they have them, cause they were "cheap" compared to the price they were when they were new and the kids didnt stop to question why they are so cheap

Thats basically what the elemental designs are, just wait, I think Linus said there is another run coming up soon.

Use the search function my friend and you will find many threads discussing why this is no where on the current plans, its just not realistic based on their size

On 3/31/2023 at 3:02 PM, Mark Kaine said:

no, using apple just means u like getting ripped off and prefer bling over actual quality.  if you really want to move away i would recommend doing it in 1 big sweep, just like nicotine addiction, its best to get off the snake oil immediately as that has the best chances of succeeding. 

 

ps: dont go Samsung they're just as bad if not worse 

Well thats just one big ignorant statement. "ripped off" is quite subjective and your statement just makes you look plain ignorant. Are there some things apple makes that are a bad value, sure, I mean $400 wheels and $1000 monitor stands are just plain unjustifiable but for tablets they are still the go to, for wearables in most cases they are also the best choice. When it comes to things like laptops, its user dependant. Using the words "rip off" is just stupid

I had one, I work in an automotive shop and this thing didnt last, maybe for light work like computers and regular "around the house" stuff it would have been fine but the teeth broke in the ratchet when I was trying to use it on a car. I was a wave 1 LTT buyer and have been using the screwdriver in the shop since I got it and so far so good.

43 minutes ago, Heliian said:

Yes, you'll want the most up to date driver for that buggy mess of a game. 

 

If that doesn't work then a clean install of the game. 

 

Double check first though that your screen resolution settings are matched to what you actually have.  The game defaulted mine to 4k even though I was using 1440 whenever it updated.  

Ok ill check that, could be a resolution issue now that you say it

1 hour ago, BiotechBen said:

Is this in Warzone/Cold War?

Ya whatever the newest one is.

So my friends son bought a prebuilt during the GPU shortage as it was the only way he could get a card at the time. I cant remember off the top of my head if it was ibuypower or CyberPC but its kind of irrelevant. Its got a 5900x and a 3080 as well as 32gb RAM in it running windows 10. Any game you throw at it is handled as you would expect a system with those specs to handle. The exception is COD. If he has it on low settings its playable in the 60-70 fps range but if he tries to go any higher on the graphical settings it drops to like 20 fps or less, sometimes just freezes up apparently. Any idea what the issue could be or what I should start with for T/S? Could this just be a broken driver that would be fixed using DDU and a fresh install? Would a driver affect only one game? Im kind of at a loss here on what could cause this

Ya I understand them wanting to wait and ship all at once, that makes total sense but if you do an order and the product is in stock when you ordered it should have been marked for you being that you already paid for it. It wasnt "lost in shipping" cause it would have been shipped in the same box as the screwdriver, thats the exact reason it wasnt sent individually in the first place. Which means it was lost in their warehouse, which means they should have known before the order was ever sent as I assume they check the invoice while they pack the box. And if they knew they should have contacted you BEFORE sending the screwdriver so you would have had the option of selecting a replacement product, and you certainly shouldnt have had to contact them after the fact to get this straightened out. To me this seems like a failure that passed through multiple hands and should never have happened. I have been a big defender of the store and their customer service but this scenario should have NEVER happened and played out this way.

Kinda depends on what you consider "best". Im partial to any episode that gets them worked up lol. So anytime Linus has to talk about teamviewer or the one a couple weeks ago where they threw away the swear button lol. Seriously though I dont think there is a correct answer to this, you just gotta find topics that you think will entertain you and go from there

On 1/7/2023 at 8:10 PM, Bitter said:

I've got the $1800 winter coat too (feels like about a $200 carhart), but it's getting to be time to get a bigger tool box again. Not sure this new guy has been on route long enough to have any good trade ins yet.

Fortunately I have enough space that for my current job I cant see ever needing a bigger box. I have a 73" wide with a work station as well as a side locker plus a 32" Roll cart. If I need more space than I need to reorganize because I am not a full on mechanic, I deal mostly in electronics and accessories on the vehicles, not the actual mechanical repair and maintenance. 

34 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I really hope nothing is being put into the spam folder. If some emails are, that needs to be addressed ASAP. They would literally be alienating their customers, and also be more likely to get involved in a lawsuit, since it makes them look unresponsive - although it's also possible that they could just be legitimately ignoring people's requests. 

The mentioned the spam folder thing being an issue on the WAN show although im not sure how big of an issue. And there is not going to be a lawsuit here, bad customer service isnt illegal and having a spam filter catch customer emails isnt illegal so Im not sure why you even brought up lawsuit. Not to mention in most cases you are dealing in international purchases which makes things tough and anyone with a brain in their head isnt going to participate in a class action if they ACTUALLY want restitution when talking about something like small retail goods. Power plant poisoning your neighborhood, sure go with a group lawsuit, dont like a screwdriver shipping taking 3 months, lawsuit is the furthest thing from a solution

Maybe try to email again then tweet at  @nicklmgto make sure it doesnt get picked up by the spam filter for some dumb reason?

On 1/6/2023 at 5:15 PM, Bitter said:

$500 hat

 

Thats would go well with my $18000 Jacket, it even came with a tool box

I cant say this has ever been a problem, I mean its a pretty intuitive driver and I got used to it very quick. Every time I pick it up I just try to spin the selector to the direction I want it to go, its just habit. I honestly do think this is a bit of a nitpick

On 12/23/2022 at 8:18 AM, Kereplaz said:

Is this really for the popup shop drivers only? I received mine yesterday and i can easily turn bit holders inside the orange section independently, which actually makes the ninja start thing absolutely redundant (because i can just offset the bit wheels so they do not align). Also the end cap is quite rickety and makes popping sounds when i move it.

Also i just discovered that the ninja start thing is stuck anyway, so cant use it at all...

Is this not the issue? Or is this a separate thing altogether? Im hesitating to write to support, because maybe it should be like that?

 

But I would be a little disappointed if such a crackly sound is expected on such a high end product.

Nope what you are describing is definitely not correct. You should definitely write support.

If thats the case that would certainly bug me too. I didnt buy a backpack so I havent seen how its packaged but it would be very surprising if they couldnt just toss the bits in a padded envelope and throw it inside the bag. Im not saying to ship them for free but to add on any more than about $5 seems unnecessary even if you bought one of each bit pack.

Just to put in perspective for me to get a bottle the shipping is $9.99 and I am about 1400 kms from Vancouver, so not that far. So for shipping to the middle of EU to only be double seems to me to be pretty reasonable. I think one of the problems is that there are minimums and you are ONLY ordering one bottle. Out of interest if you put 6 bottles in you cart how much is shipping? Might be worth it to see if you have any friends that want stuff and do a combined order and just split the shipping?

You can role the dice and wait till you are closer to the date, I think the general rule of thumb is about 60 days out is when you can get the best rates, but of course then you are playing the game of making sure you can still get a room

Vancouver is expensive, you are probably better off looking for an airBnB or similar a much further distance away and taking either an Uber or the skytrain to the convention area. Like a decade ago I went to Vancouver and stayed downtown and it was just a shade over $700 a night

On 8/16/2022 at 8:02 PM, oiaohm said:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003786974035.html

 

There is something else to consider should people be even go the dashcam route.    There are such things as 360 degree camera setups for cars.   Majority of these have loop recording.   Yes on all 4 cameras at once recording while you are driving.  No random fitting because the cameras are install once remove never.     Yes they cost to wire in and have calibrated by installer..   Take this one here it uses your HDMI in on your central console for it output.    So you have something that does the dashcam item that if person does not go looking for the 4 cameras does not appear be in the car.    Cameras are designed to be exposed to the elements.

 

Your most expensive dashcams that are really thief bate and some of them are  more expensive to buy new than 360 degree camera setups to buy and get installed.   Yes very expensive dashcams are very much putting up kick me signs you are not getting the quality of recording and you are putting up a break into me sign as if you have the money to waste on a highly expensive dashcam it likely that there will be other good things in there.

 

I would find it very interesting for the dashcams to be put head to head with the cheaper 360 degree camera setups.    The 360 degree camera setups are legal in more countries than dashcams.    Yes there are states in the USA and other countries that a dashcam is illegal because you could have effected vision of driver putting anything on the dash/windscreen.

 

360 camera setups prime job is to remove blind spots.  Secondary role is parking monitoring and video recording while driving.    Remember dashcam due to being at the drivers location does not remove the blind spot in front of car.

 

If some people are truthful with themselves the biggest to their car is themselves running into something because they cannot see it due to a blindspot than anything else.   This is not all people as it depends on where you live what the risk are.    Yes people spend money on dashcams to prevent insurance fraud interesting point 360 degree camera setup does that better because dashcams front and back of car only no side coverage in most cases.   Those doing insurance fraud stuff don't just target the front and back of car..

 

Of course the downside of wired it is that it comes part of the car.    It also comes a question should 360 degree camera setups come as stock from factory feature that all you should need to do is insert a storage device.

Ok so overlooking the fact that systems like that are terrible quality (im speaking from experience here as I have installed them before) they are excessively expensive if you get a qualified pro to install them, they often look bad, require non reversible modifications to be made to the vehicle and aren't reliable hardware. There are obviously better quality systems out there but then you are going even higher with the bill and the downside of non-reversible modifications remain. To put the cost in perspective the system you linked is about $200 shipped, install even on a lower end vehicle with an uncomplicated interior is still gonna be around 4 hours. Shop rate in my area of Canada is about $130 an hour so that brings the price up to $720 bucks to get a junk system. You can spend half of that and get a reliable brand name front and rear dashcam, it wont do your 360 parking but it will be reliable and wont leave holes in your review mirrors when you remove the 360 system when it inevitably fails