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I was wondering if, and if so how, LMG/LTT contributes to charity? I'm aware of...: That the auctions at LTX was for charity. Folding@Home is for charity. ...however, both of these was money/computer resources coming from their fans, not themselves. LMG was allegedly offered to be purchased and valued at a 9 figure number. Also, Linus has enough money to go around and build tennis centers for people, both LMG as a company and Linus as a person has a lot of money. Controversial opinion that might trigger a lot of people: I personally believe we as humans should try to leave the earth a better place than we found it, and no matter if you make $1000 USD or $10000 USD per month, I strongly believe that donating at least $1 USD per month to charity is a million times better than donating nothing. I'm a student with basically no money or income at all at the moment, but I still make sure to donate $5 USD per month to a local cat shelter, since that's a charity that personally feels important to me. Being open about which charities you donate to is not about boasting or bragging, it's about normalizing it and making it the norm.

Hi there, so it been few years I ve watched an video that I remember thatas talked about, but forgot the video. It is about business, so got that there are websites where you can post like fundme post, and for what you want people to help you. For example, I have business where I need 5k$ to pay for making an mobile app. And people would donate to help me achive it. If someone know, write down. And explain how it works. TY

Recently I decided to help some underprivileged kids that didn't have access to computers. I am donating 3 2012 MacBook Pro's to kids in my community and am looking to upgrade them before I send them out. I was wondering if between the RAM and replacing the HDD with an SSD which would be the better upgrade? HDD --> SSD 4GB RAM --> 8GB RAM Let me know. Thanks for everyone's help!

Hey everyone! I'm reaching out to see if anyone has any spare ssd's, hard drives or other server gear they are willing to donate to Red Mountain Makers (<LINK REMOVED>) or if you have any leads on some parts that would be awesome! Thanks and stay healthy!

Hi, Since the situation with the covid has been longer in many countries than initially planed and the income of many families has been heavily affected. I was thinking if there is a way to make a PC work as next: an operating system that allows two screens, two keyboards and two mice connected to a single PC so 2 children (or a parent at work and a child at school) would work at the same time on same PC. Is there a way to also use a second port for audio output so two children of different ages would attend different online classrooms using each a headset?

Can anyone donate me hardware components. I can't take it anymore with my Athlon X2 4200 2.20 Ghz and 3GB RAM with no GPU. And it's really hard for me to earn money because I'm a student.

Do any one have any old dell optiplex or old laptops that they dont use ,is it possible if i can aquire it .I am preparing my leap to senior high and here in my country its hard if you dont have any hardware.please if anyone have anything can i have it for free...

So im working on this website for my missionary team and we want to set up a donation system. (for now we use paypal) We have a couple of different areas that we serve in and we have gotten many donations from people. The problem I keep running into though, is we need to set up a donation system in which the person donating can click a button for a specific ministry and his/her donation would go already preassigned for that ministry. I have been searching for a donation platform that can do this but I have not found any so far..... any suggestions?

I just launch my personal website and I am a Youtuber. So What I am doing is I am asking for a small $0.5 only for source code. So is it ok? Because I have to apply for Adsense too. Will google approved for AdSense if they found that I am asking for a donation in a website. This is what I have written https://www.thapatechnical.com/2018/07/online-quiz-system-project-in-php-and.html "I need your Help" "Honestly, I have no idea how much to ask you for, but if you Donate minimum 30rs using PAYTM to support me, It's really gonna help me a lot." Payment options is PAYTM NUMBER: xxxxxxxx Once I get payment notification I will mail you the Source Code on your email id or You can WhatsApp me regarding same. Contact us at: xxxxxx@gmail.com WhatsApp: xxxxxxx

Hi all … So I've been thinking about getting a new GPU for my desktop PC for some time now. I have the ASRock Z97 Extreme6 mobo, i7-4790K CPU, currently using iGPU, Corsair AX760 PSU, 32GB RAM, etc. (PCPartPicker link - desktop.) My maximum budget is about $410-420. This would get me, for example, a custom GTX 1070, with allowance for CA sales tax. I could either get maybe a slightly OC'd one with free shipping, or a standard one while paying a few bucks for shipping. Specifically, a custom GTX 1070 for $379.99 plus CA Sales Tax (7.5% when I order from NewEgg) of $28.50 would make a total of $408.49. I'm not sure if I should… Spend all of it on the GPU - for example a GTX 1070 or RX 490X when/if it's released Spend some on the GPU and some on video editing software - for example an RX 470 or 480 or GTX 1060/Ti when/if they're released, plus a copy of either Pinnacle Studio 18 Plus, CyberLink PowerDVD 16 Ultra, Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X9, Adobe Premiere Elements 14, Sony Movie Studio 13 Suite, or similar software. Wait a few extra months to buy both, and for now use the money that I would have spent to instead make a donation in honor of a singer who was recently killed (Christina Grimmie). (I have made a poll with those options.) I'll be doing some gaming on the GPU now and then, but I especially want something that'll help me do video editing a lot faster. Of course I'll want to see reviews on the RX 480, 470 and 460, so I'm for sure waiting until July. One thing that concerns me about the RX 480 is that it supposedly has the same TDP as the GTX 1070, with somewhat less performance. Therefore, although the performance per dollar might be better on the 480, the performance per watt would seem to be significantly worse, if the rumors I've heard hold true. I live in an area where, while the base electricity rates are reasonably cheap, it's really easy to go into the 2nd or even 3rd tier pricing, where the prices jack sky high. (My dad has said my PC, which is not OC'd and doesn't currently have a GPU, is the second-highest electricity user in the household - possibly exceeding all the lights combined, if I remember right.) For games, I generally don't spend $40-$50 on AAA titles. I generally only buy games for around $10 or so, occasionally up to $15 or in rare cases $25 on sale. Also I don't buy games all that often, either. I think not counting FarmVille, which I won't discuss here, I've probably spent all of $100-150 on games in the last 7 or 8 years or so. I currently have a Dell U2414H 1080p 60Hz monitor. I hope to get a 4K monitor sometime in the future, hopefully when the good quality ones come down to around $200-250 or so. (Currently I think they're closer to $600-800 for the better ones.) I'm hoping to upgrade the monitor in 2017 or 2018, and I hope to keep the GPU another couple years after that if I get a ~$400 one. (If I got a $200 GPU, I might replace it a bit sooner.) As for video editing … I have been recording 4K 100Mbps footage now and then on my Panasonic FZ1000 camera. I had been using AviDemux on my desktop PC (which has the aforementioned i7 and iGPU), and it's like VERY sluggish trying to play. (For example it might be like 1/2 to 1/3 speed or so.) Also that software lacks a lot of capabilities that I would really like, one huge one being multi-scene edits, split screen, etc. Avidemux is dreadfully slow, too - I tried transcoding a 15-minute 4K video to 1080p on my laptop (which has an i3-6100 with 8GB RAM and a GTX 970M) and it took THREE HOURS!! Is it possible that Avidemux didn't take any advantage of the GPU at all? (PCPartPicker link - laptop.) At minimum, I'd like it to be as fast as real time, or faster if possible. I was mostly thinking of trying some other free software, like Shotcut, OpenShot, DaVinci Resolve (by Black Magic Design), Blender, Lightworks. (If I used free software, then I'd buy a ~$380+tax GPU, if I bought one.) Alternatively, would it be better to spend like $100-200 or so on software, like Premiere or Vegas or something? Would those have the capabilities, CUDA support, etc, that the free software may not have? (I'm guessing the aforementioned 3 hours to encode 15 minutes in AviDemux is because it doesn't support CUDA, right?) At most, I'd spend half the budget on the software, or the same amount on the GPU as on the software, whichever is less. Meaning, if I got an RX 480, I'd spend $200 on the card and $200 on software. If the RX 460 is $100 and I bought that, then I'd consider spending another $100 on software. My current main audio editing software is Audacity, and for photo editing I use GIMP. The third option came up as a possibility a few days ago, after a singer I greatly admired, Christina Grimmie, was murdered last weekend at a meet and greet in Orlando, FL. (I've met her once before, about 5 years ago in San Diego. I know I will see her again in Heaven someday. ♥) A GoFundMe account has been set up for her family, as well as a scholarship fund for performing arts in her name at a school. If I go the donation route, then ALL of the budget would go for that. I don't want to, for example, buy an 8GB RX 480 and Premiere Elements (which I guess would be around $320-350), then use the remaining $80-50 to donate. Also, how would you suggest deciding whether to donate to one fund or the other? I could also split it in half too, I suppose - $205 each. (I was thinking of rounding it to $410 total.) One factor influencing my preference to donate all, and not part, is derived from the account of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 in the Bible. They sold something, but only donated part of the money, intending to be deceptive with it. I realize God won't strike me dead for only donating part of the money (if I do donate at all), and there seems to be something in verse 4 that implies that if A & S had been honest, it would have been fine to donate only part of the proceeds. Also, if I choose to donate as just mentioned instead of buying a GPU and software, would there be any of the aforementioned free programs I should use for video editing on either my laptop or desktop for a while? (I'd be willing to waive the real-time processing requirement, but I do want it to be considerably faster than AviDemux if possible.) If I went with a cheaper GPU and cheap (or free) software, I would be willing to consider donating part of the budget, but my minimum would be about $200 or so. I was thinking of buying the GPU within the next month or so, like when prices on the aftermarket ones stabilize after release. But, if I donate, I'd wait until later in the year to buy the GPU, maybe sometime in fall, like Black Friday. I'd be willing to wait another month or so to decide on the GPU, but if I was to make a donation, I'd want to decide on that fairly soon - if possible, at least a week or so before the RX 480 NDA is lifted. What would you all suggest? (My mind is a bit fogged right now. If I think of anything else, I'll edit or reply later. I feel like there's something missing or unclear.)

Hello nice LinusTechTips member! I recently started exploring the forum after watching Linus for a long time, and wow have you guys surprised me. The kindness and willingness to help here in unparalleled in all of my time on the internet. I truly am amazed at how many people will take time out of their day to help me with my annoying tech problems/questions. This time, I ask the LTT community for help in a different way. My best friend has recently been accepted into the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages, an elite program for college-bound students. He may be able to go to Mexico this summer and get fully immersed in the language. I say may because due to unforeseen circumstances, he lost much of his funds for the trip. He has worked at a community library for over a year, but due to his own and his families expenses, and a few emergencies as well, he could only save $1000 of the $5000 he earned working at the library. He would be ecstatic if the LTT community came through for him. Every bit counts, donate at his gofundme page here http://www.gofundme.com/m5nn20. Thanks a lot!

Hi Guys I'm not sure if this has been posted. I myself do not know this gamer, I do not follow MLG as USA timezone does not allow me to stay up that late. But Back to topic, one of the first MLG pros for Gear of War simply know as Danny Reitz or "Phobos" in the gaming world was shot and killed while trying to sell his unwanted PS4 to a couple who showed interest on Craiglist. a Gofundme account has been setup to help his family. I'd like to ask the LinusTechTips Army to help out and show everyone despite our, platforms, differences, debates, country, continent planet or universe we live in, united we stand support each other we do. I'm a gamer from South Africa, even if this pro gamer did not effect me directly or indirectly, no one deserves what happened to him. Here is a Youtube video posted by one of this fellow teamate, and friend

Hello all. I just ordered a gtx 780 and received a promo code for Daylight. I am not interested in the horror genre at all, still being 13, and would like to know how to get in contact with Linus to donate my code to LMG for a giveaway. I would prefer to use email, but if an employee could receive it directly on the forum, that would be great also. As previously mentioned, I am but a child and have no money, but would like to make a contribution to Linus and the gang in the only current way possible. I hope you will accept it Linus!!!! (:

Hello fellow LTT'lers, In germany there are some big discussions about organ donations and i'd like to hear your thoughts and opinions about it too. I don't know how it is in the US or wherever you come from, but here you can get an "organ donation pass", which is a piece of paper you sign and it says like "I want to donate organs in case i die". You put that in your wallet and when you die people find that and you automatically donate your stuff. So basically the situation is: You die and have perfectly functioning organs, what do you want people to do with them? My opinion: If i die, i don't need any of my organs but they might help someone else (maybe even a young kid with all it's life lying before him) to live again. So doctors can just have anything of me they want when they know for certain that i won't make it to the living again by any chance. Greetings and have a nice day!

Hi guys, Patreon is a website for content creators to have a venue to make their content profitable in some way, except that it is not technically profit as you do not pay for the content. Essentially, the way it works it as such: You make an account. Enter your details (information for paying the pledge such as CC information) along with whatever you want to add to your profile. You find an artist you like who does something you are interested in such as making videos to teach you a foreign language, creating music, drawing pictures/paintings, making comic books, or reviewing movies and such. Then you pledge to donate $X per piece of content they produce (a video, a song, a painting, a comic, a review, etc). At the end of the month, however many pieces of content they have made decides how much you pledge (you can create a hard cap on the total you give per month) and it is charged to you. You can offer to pledge anywhere from $0.25 per piece of content to whatever crazy amount you decide. Say they produce 5 [insert content]. Then you would be charged $1.25 at the end of the month and it would be given to them as a donation type thing. You receive the content regardless, so it is not exactly a subscription service. It is more like a hybrid between donations and subscription. This is a donation platform to enable you to directly give to content creators rather than having to go through other means such as simply watching their videos on Youtube. The idea is that you pledging money will make them more motivated and give them more time to create the content you want. You can cancel your pledge any time, so if you feel they are not creating what you want, you can do so. A friend of mine over at his website recently made it known to me and I thought it was pretty cool, so I wanted to share it with the forum. Thanks, Vitalius

Hey all, I kind of hope this has already been mentioned previously, but maybe my twist or something will help inspire someone else to think of something better. It would be cool to see LTT be run exclusively through donations, but I can imagine this being extremely tricky, but it might be possible to pay for events Like CES, GamesCon etc if donations were accepted throughout the year in bitcoin (or other cryptocoin) with the coins remaining in a secure wallet until required when they might be worth more than was originally donated. The image left in my head after the thought jumped in was to have the cryptocoin donations be almost their own section of the site where we can see the total number of coins donated, the current value of the total coins donated (in a few major fiat currencies), currently available coins (total # subtracted by # exchanged coins) and currently available funds (again, in various currencies). There would be a few graphs showing the the number and value of the coins since it started, when the coins were exchanged and why (with links to threads giving some information about what the donations paid for and perhaps links to videos where the product's used or displayed). Given the ease with which it's possible to donate using crypto-currencies and the possibility of a very small donation not being eaten up by card and bank charges, I think donations in this way would be far more lucrative than usual. As the price of these coins are expected to increase, atleast until a successor takes over, a £5 donation today could well be a £50 donation by the time CES 2015 rolls around and the less LTT has to rely on sponsorship and advertising, the less comments we have to read about how "they're paid to say that". This may just be a pipe dream, but the donors know full well that if the perceived value of the donated coin plummets then their donation was worthless and LTT didn't "have" that money anyway, so noone should be making any complaints. There would also be significantly less work for the LTT crew to set this up than the traditional donation problems. Would also help drive awareness of cryptocoins, for better or for worse. Thanks for reading. I don't know how flawed my idea is, so I open it up for critique to my peers.