K9Thefirst1

I wanna see them do a Resorator video. Retro Tech, Custom Made for modern hardware, I do not care. I want to see them take a stab at that thing!

I am trying to see if there are third party smart phone chargers that can monitor battery charge and actively try and prevent overcharging. Closest thing I can find in the wild is an Anker car charger that claims to have built in circuitry meant to help with that by monitoring the battery's charge, At least that's how I read the packaging. But that's one thing, great for long drives in the car if accurate, but I am looking for something to help maintain that "80% maximum" Linus talks about for prolonging battery life, or if nothing else at least stop at 99.x% or something. A quick Google shows something called Chargie that sounds like it is exactly what I am looking for, but it requires an app to be installed and basically sounds likely to be a scam or some other snake oil gimmick. Has anyone heard of such a gadget? Or has Linus and the team done anything on this sort of solution? And if not, how does one get attention on this sort of question?

Can you do a video on why the BTX formfactor got killed? It was meant to replace the ATX family, and the orientation of the RAM slots had been changed to maximize airflow. On paper, it should have been the logical next step in improving performance. I had asked this question in a thread here, and the best response was due to CPU power management rendered it obsolete. But that still doesn't seem reason enough to just yeet it into the dust bin, especially given how CPUs are guaranteed to always become hotter and hotter.

I'm an IT student at a trade school (and I am graduating just as the pandemic stabs the economy, FML), and one thing has made me curious ever since we covered motherboard form factors. Specifically, how the form factor that was supposed to replace the venerable ATX family of form factors, BTX, was killed almost as soon as it was released. So I was wondering why that is. I grant you, the extent of my knowledge of the form factor is that the RAM slots were oriented to be parallel with the Expansion slots, and so they wouldn't be in the way of the airflow over the CPU and its cooler. And that's it. As far as I know, there wasn't - or shouldn't - be any other differences between the two standards. So I guess that's my real question: Why hasn't ATX adopted the one major physical difference between the two form factors, especially for the Enthusiast (and perhaps Research) market where cooling is so vital to performance that some are even willing to de-lid their CPUs in order to mod the chip for maximum cooling. ...Is there a place we can make requests for Tech Quickie episodes?