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Hello so I have followed LTT since they first became LTT. Like many people on here I love tech. I build and fix computers but also deal with making custom electronics, 3d printing and a ton of other techy stuff. I used to do youtube videos (38k subs) on some of it and hope to again soon. But my life kinda took a crash in the last few years starting with a really bad, emotionally abusive relationship, then losing the place me and my Elderly Dad lived at as the landlord lost all his properties and decided he needed to move into the place we were renting from him. And in the middle of it I suddenly went deaf in my right ear which later it was found out that I had a sizable, rare brain Tumor called an acoustic neuroma. It's a slow growing thankfully non cancerous tumor that grows on the hearing nerve/vestibular system (The organs in the ear that controls balance.) It is in close proximity to the Brain Stem and Facial nerve too. I had no idea I had this tumor for many years until one morning I woke up and suddenly the room was spinning, I couldn't control my eyes as they kept drifting off to the right side and it was like that my ear was stuffy and I couldn't hear out of it. It was the weirdest thing as I fell asleep just two hours before and was fine and then just suddenly deaf and not able to walk. The doctor I seen later when the condition didn't improve said it's likely the tumor just finally got big enough to cause blood flow to be cut off to my inner ear and basically caused a stroke. Suddenly, severely and irreversibly damaging that part of my ear. It is a long story that I would be happy to tell though here unprompted probably isn't the place. But I was slated to never hear out of that ear again because of that damage done and the size of the tumor already made (originally) surgery that didn't completely destroy my Cochlea (Hearing Nerve) impossible to do. That is significant as though I could never naturally hear again from the damage a cochlear implant (Via the cochlea) could allow me to hear via artificial electrical stimulation from a electrode inserted into he ear that bypassed all the damaged parts. So basically I was screwed... In what was a sorta absurd situation I got sick with an ear infection (In my good ear) right before my surgery and had to be hospitalized. At the hospital a doctor seen me about my ear and recommended my to Michigan Ear Institute for a follow up for the infection and about my tumor. He told me there was a new experimental surgery that they were doing there to remove my type of tumor and do a cochlear implant at the same time which amazingly meant that I could potentially hear again. Honestly it was hard to get my hopes up but I took a gamble. There was so many challenges that happened along the way including a belief that my tumor was too big and the damage too much for me to get an implant but Michigan Ear Institute made it happen. They were completely amazing and managed to not only completely remove the tumor with no damage to my facial nerve (The main complication which could leave half my face paralyzed) but also install the cochlear and have it end up working. Not only working but apparently I have been one of the best taking canidents they have had so far. Everything went pretty much the best it could in a horrible situation. Part a blessing if you believe in that thing based on the crazy circumstances that lead up top the surgery. And massive part for the amazing professionals in the medical field that were there for me. The surgery involved of course removing the tumor, a cochlear implant but also a Labyrinthectomy where they completely removed the Balance Layberenth (Vestibular System) in the affected ear which post surgery was quite a trip. Because of the lack of signaling to my brain from the removed organ it caused not only for my balance to get suddenly much worse again and loss of eye control after years of adjusting, but also a indescribable feeling like my body was split down the middle and was falling in two separate directions. That is something I'll tell you what... I had to do pysical therapy to be able to walk again and see right again but apparently that also went great as I was able to get out of the hospital in a couple days instead of a week or more that it usually takes. Again this was definitely in part of some awesome nurses at the hospital that were helping me walk and do therapy pretty much as much as I wanted. Things were looking up but the Cochlear couldn't be switched on for a couple of months so even with it installed I couldn't know if it would work at all which my surgeon was doubtful based on previous cases (But still did it on my request which is amazing.) The first 3 months were BAD. I had constant neck and back spasms post surgery that made it almost impossible to sleep. Walking was difficult, the headaches and migraines were unbearable. I would wake up constantly feeling like I was falling or flipping which is probably a big part of the neck and back issues as I was always tense... It was again as I said... BAD... Then shortly after surgery another tragedy happened which is my dog Ceaser, my best friend of almost 16 years went from being fine to passing away in less than 24 hours. He was very important for my already poor mental health and that just really set my on an even worse road. I already wasn't able to sleep more than a couple to a few hours a night (Not an exaggeration) from the headaches, back and neck spasms, balance issues and such... But I also developed some type of panic disorder where I would wake up constantly in night soaked in sweat, breathing hard. Apparently people around me said I would sometimes scream or yell myself awake. I don't know what the dreams were but it made my already terrible sleep worse and made the issues with the pain take on a whole new level. And everything feed into itself. Night anxiety bleed into day, and eventually I couldn't even manage to watch videos, play games or do anything really without a constant dreadful feeling of being on the edge of a breakdown or Anxiety or Panic attack. Not to get too far of track though. At this point I have been doing much better. I started on an anxiety medication which also is used to treat chronic nerve pain and amazingly after years of pain my head and neck are doing amazingly better and though I am groggy a lot the medication has seemed to of gotten my anxiety and panic attacks mainly under control. Everything that happened in the last couple years is pretty much why I stopped youtube, I just need to try and manage myself right now. Which brings up why I wanted to ask you about the Cochlear thing and if you are interested in talking about it/Making a video on it. I, before I quite Youtube, really REALLY wanted to make series of videos on my cochlear implant, what it is like hearing with it. How it progresses with time. Answer FAQs on it and such for people wanting to get one themselves. Hopefully to alleviate fears for some, and answer questions for others. Along with help spread awareness of options like my surgery... Because if not for my complete chance run in with that doctor in that hospital I would of went with a different surgery and been deaf the rest of my life... There was no fixing the damage done had I gone a different route. Maybe some other people can be spared that too. And because of my unique position of being able to hear okay in one ear and have a cochlear in the next and also being able to do sound editing I can make approximations no one else can of what the cochlear implant sounds like to me. One of which I made and will attach below of what it sounded like when it was FIRST turned on. After getting used to it longer though it is much more natural sounding now because of the brain basically decoding the electrical signals... It's weird but your brain is hearing naturally in one ear and a different language in the other which it then autonomously converts over to making sense... I would like to make the updated sound file soon and like I said show people what it may sound like. Additionally I was made curious by your recent videos on the sound blocker whether it would affect cochlear patients which would of course be horrible. And interested in the CT scanner for the External unit which may be cool and not something you could normally do. I also have these cool Xray images that show the internal cochlear implant (What is under my skin) and also my twisted vertebrae... Anyways, sorry for the rant. I tend to always overwrite or talk when I mean to be short. Hopefully that doesn't take away from what the message I am hoping to spread. I appreciate you all reading whether from LTT or just people on the forum. Thank you. I will try and answer any questions anyone has on Cochlears too if you all like :) Stereo_Cochlear_What_it_sounds_like.mp3
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I was doing some benchmarking in unigine heaven while testing undervolting and noticed if I focus on a different application on my second monitor my gpu usage and heaven fps go up. EX: focused on heaven I sit around 165fps and 45% gpu usage. focused on explorer or opera my heaven gets 300-450 fps and my gpu usage goes to around 75%. I would expect gpu usage to go up if I went to another window but not for my fps to increase. Is it just because my gpu has to work harder so some goes to heaven or something else EDIT: isn't exclusive to heaven, also occurs in furmark so I maybe I have vsync on somewhere? I might just be missing something, just confused and curious Thanks
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Went out for drinks and food last night, had less than most, but more than enough. Hadn't drank in 3 months so I got wasted. Now I am 35, depressed and thank god for uber. I started with 2 brothers and somehow I collected the entire family last night. My older bro booked us skydiving and I said yes for 1pm. If I die msg my mom and she will give u my paper clip collection and 3 used rags.
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hello, my wife just got her new case today, i put the pc all together and when i plugged it in the fans spun and the lights worked- BUT with my back turned, and my excited wife drooling at the pretty colors, she started tapping away at the remote that controls the RGB fans and now they dont work- WHAT DO I DO??????? ive tried every small trick i can think of to fix this. are the fans shorted out? or would it just be the small board used to power the fans that shorted out? we need proper airflow for the pc, stock cooler, PSU and GPU fans run but no effort from the case and no response from the remote either.
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Hi everyone, I recently built a new pc in a micro atx case (Corsair Crystal Series 280x) and my mom strongly wants to let Fedex take care of the packaging and shipping of it as I'm about to go across the country for college. The issue is that I have a gut feeling that if I do this my computer is going to arrive terribly broken. Any thoughts or experience regarding something like this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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This is a little unique. I am attempting to upgrade my old laptop to make it faster. I want to know will upgrading RAM speed improve my laptop performance? NOTE: It has an Intel i7-8550U (4 core), 16GB RAM (one stick, one unoccupied) @ 2400 MHz. BTW: I use this PC with a monitor and I multitask. I will have a lot of programs and tabs open at once.
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So I have been looking around for a new mobo. And I thinking about buying the MSI B550 TOMAHAWK. But all I can find is MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK. What does the “MAG” stand for.
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Hey guys I was wondering if there was a official cat tips thread or forum on the site. I didn't find one but I might have missed it. I recently got a cat and I think it would be nice to have a place on the site for the community to gather and enjoy the cats
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Why does utorrent access favorites folder everytime i add a new torrent. I have turned on controlled folder access settings in windows defender so it blocks the action. Is this application running abstract code behind the scene, cause i don't understand the purpose of accessing my favorites folder for adding in a new torrent. Does anyone else had it, i tried to search google but find nothing relevant.
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Hi, this is my first post, I recently bought an Acer ED320QR 32' Curved monitor. I know I know...crap monitor but it was black Friday and I needed an upgrade. I am now regretting that decision because the smearing and ghosting on this monitor is awful. I'm looking for help getting recommendations on a different monitor. Any help or feedback is appreciated!
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Recently I have been noticing that there is something off about my system. Things such as much lower performance in gaming than I would expect and general tasks in windows taking far too long to respond. For example I opened the file browser yesterday and actually had to wait for it to launch. Within the past year it has had a brand new SSD that received a fresh copy of Windows 11 Pro. I have checked every conceivable driver update, did some googling for answers, and closely monitored system telemetry through Hardware Monitor (CPUID). I haven't been able to figure anything out. This issue has made me wish that there is a software that could help me narrow down the possible issue. But we all know that there are a million "pc health checkers" that are either malware completely or include malware or malicious intent. So I figured the best thing to do would be to reach out to the community and see if anyone else has found a solution. Below are the PC specs: Ryzen 5800x (AIO water cooled) Asus 3070 OC MSI MPG B-550 32 GB of Corsair DDR4 @ 3200 MHz 2 TB 980 EVO PRO (no manual overclocking or mining has been done on this system)
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Hello, people of the LTT forum, I was thinking that why don't PCs use endothermic reactions for cooling PC components? If you don't know already, an endothermic reaction is a reaction between two elements forming a compound, this reaction makes a negative temperature change by using the energy of the surrounding environment for the reaction between the two elements. This quite obviously makes the environment cooler. Now, in theory, if we made the surrounding environment say a CPU for example we could cool the CPU with the reduced temperature from the endothermic reaction. The problem with this is that we couldn't use a traditional, copper-block water cooling design. This is because the elements and the compounds produced from the reaction would react with the copper block. For instance, if we used an ammonium nitrate solution it would create copper nitrate which would corrode the block itself. We could use a nickel block but in a production and manufacturing sense, it would be expensive. My Proposition is, is it economically viable to make a cooling solution of this kind or does it already exist?
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Hey Guys Need Some advice about WaterCooling PC so Im going to upgrade my Pc by June changing from intel to AMD Ryzen,So Whats the Best Budget Watercooling kit in the market,i want the Sillicone tubing so it would make me easier
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About a month ago my cortana search bar would no longer open when click and the windows button takes a long time to open up the applications menu. Ive tried several of the known fixes, but to no avail. One peculiar thing i notice is when I open windows start menu, a screen flashes above for a split second and then the menu comes up, but is too fast to see. Any explanation for this or fixes would be greatly appreciated.
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Vote & Post Yer comments down ye belooooo....
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My computer has a dual channel up to 8gb of ddr3 ram. Is that 8 gb of ram for each channel or for both channels? If it's for both channels, I have (2x4gb) ram sticks do I put one in each channel or do I put both in one channel
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Hey all, In the market for a new router as my current one just isn't doing it with signal strength. My d/l is technically maxed at 60mbps, but I always get 6-8mbps more then what charter says I get.(Hardwired) Usage will consist of a lot of downloading, multiple PCs/Consoles gaming, also might be streaming in the midst of that. Also want something that won't be laggy when on the gui. I was looking at the Archer C2600, its on newegg for $110, or netgear R6400. I understand alot of these routers are used for higher d/l then what I have, But I want something that gives good signal strength and won't be laggy on the gui. Anyone have any suggestions on whats hot right now for about 100ish dollars. Can go upwards to $150 Max. Thanks!!
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What music did Linus use in this video "Hack any Windows machine in 2 min" The intro where Linus was a Ninja hacker .. I really need the music . Please Help The Description did not specify which song it was soo ..
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Hi guys so recently i got my hands on a bunch of computer parts and i built a desktop out of it, i need to know what would be the aprox price of it. Specs: Intel i7 - 920 (i overclocked it to 4.0Ghz no problem) Intel 160 GB 3/Gbs SSD P6T Deluxe v2 motherboard Ati Radeon HD 5870 1GB ( i got my hands on 3 of those but put in only one due to lack of PCI-E cables on the PSU) Corsair 600w PSU 8GB Kingston Ram Cooler Master Force 500 Case Windows 10 Pro Legit copy This computer was even able to run GTA V on lowest setting at 1080p with 60 fps. Other games like CS:GO and stuff run on ultra above 160 fps. So there is the rig. I got my hands on 2 E5 1620 Cpus 2 spare HD5870´s left so i am gonna muster up something with those in the mean time.
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So, after a while and upon deeper inspection (leaving my past thread aside) I've finally decided to focus on an IPS monitor. The thing is, as of right now I'm stuck between these 2 options: ASUS MX259H 25'' ($260) ASUS VX239H 23'' ($165) I've been trying to inspect these models as close as I can, but to no avail, I can't find out which one of them is possibly the better value since both of them have very similiar specs (aside from screen size). Of course, the price difference is not really a problem either. For now, I'm only trying to find out which one of these could pose a better price/performance value ratio, performance and overall quality.
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I am coming to the end of my build with the budget of $1300 and I am reconsidering these parts Which would be better for my needs? I Mainly use my desktop for the following. 95% Gaming. PUBG Rocket League CS: GO ARMA 3 Fallout 4 Rust Six Seige Call Of Duty GTA 4 And Many More Similar Games. 5% Productivity Very Minimal Photoshop Video Editing And would like to get into youtube production. My components are. CPU – CPU Cooler – Motherboard – RAM - Storage – SSD – Graphics Card - Case – NZXT - S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply - EVGA - 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply Operating System – Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Thanks For the help in advance.
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Dose anyone know where ltx 2018 is going to be and when it is??
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Hi guys, am new here. Had a question lingering around my head for ages, never got to finding an answer. Could anyone guide me on what happens when i (press power button twice or more / press and hold power button) to power on my pc. Does it affect anything (system / bios)? Sorry if it sounds stupid to you guys, but im suffering from OCD and this has been bugging me for awhile now.
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So my girl friend is getting into pc gaming she plays minecraft mostly but i want her to be able to play some modern titlesto I just got her 7 days to die. What old work station should i buy cheap like a old dell or hp to buy for her . My plan is to find one cheap and place a GTX 1050 in one and let her play . Thanks