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On 12/2/2017 at 2:10 AM, hey_yo_ said:

What are optical answer sheets? How do they work and why does it need #2 pencils only? 

It's actually pretty funny. #2 isn't a standard at all. It just means that the pencil is a normal writing pencil, and each manufacturer gets to decide what that means. So the test makers basically just mean that you shouldn't use any kind of funky art pencil and should just use a normal pencil.

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How social media works. This should be a good(hot) subject.

Keep up the good work LMG!

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@jmart604 @LinusTech Here's a topic I think TQ needs to cover not only because LTT has a large European following but the scope is very important and worth discussing: General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR as fast as possible. It will now take effect for member countries for the EU in May 25th, 2018. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf

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What Motherboard connectors are important and maybe a little explanation of others (RGB header, USB 3.0, etc)

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On 1/13/2018 at 10:40 AM, FireController1847 said:

What is Discord as fast as possible :P

Discord is Slack.

Maybe mention that it is a slack ripo.. that it is based on Slack.

When the PC is acting up haunted,

who ya gonna call?
"Monotone voice" : A local computer store.

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Why are films filmed at 24/25fps and look buttery smooth yet a game at the same fps will look choppy as anything

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I'd like to know why it is so damn hard to get a POTS telephone line as opposed to a VOIP line.  You would not believe the hoops I had to jump through to get one of these.

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Where can I provide feedback on a TechQuickie?  The signal blocker / Faraday cage episode attempts to explain why/how a Faraday cage works and it provides an incorrect interpretation of the physics.  The video provides an example of how opposite charges cancel the field as a static field is applied across the cage. This is correct, but a traveling radio wave is not the same thing as a static electric field therefore the phenomenology is different.  This video presents it as one and the same.  It's not a huge deal, but I do think @LinusTech does care about accuracy in these videos.

Also, the metal sheath on cables is not there solely to provide shielding, in high frequency applications it is there because together with the center conductor it acts like a waveguide structure.  Without it higher frequency signals would not propagate efficiently whatsoever.

If any of the staff read this, please feel free to contact me for more info.  This is something I do professionally and electromagnetics is a territory that can be easily misinterpreted relying solely on a Google search or by reading a Wikipedia entry.

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7 hours ago, Mattson said:

I'd like to know why it is so damn hard to get a POTS telephone line as opposed to a VOIP line.  You would not believe the hoops I had to jump through to get one of these.

Who still uses landlines nowadays, i only have one because my ISP wouldn't sell me internet WITHOUT one

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3 hours ago, Tcrumpen said:

Who still uses landlines nowadays, i only have one because my ISP wouldn't sell me internet WITHOUT one

They are needed for home security systems and people with Life Alert and similar products.  I needed one because I work from home and it is necessary to do my job.

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1 minute ago, Mattson said:

They are needed for home security systems and people with Life Alert and similar products.  I needed one because I work from home and it is necessary to do my job.

Home security i get, but working from home? can you not get a business mobile?

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On 1/13/2018 at 9:40 AM, FireController1847 said:

What is Discord as fast as possible :P

It's a VOIP voice/chat service

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47 minutes ago, Tcrumpen said:

can you not get a business mobile?

No.

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Was checking around amazon and saw the GTX 1050 TI (The "budget" Card) is not selling for almost $500. Maybw make a video talking about miners killing the lower end of the market

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what is Tech Re-marketing?

Judge a product on its own merits AND the company that made it.

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The letters for Intel CPUs:

 

K, H, Q, M, C, T, S, ect.

ORANGE SCREEN WINDOWS 10 VALUE OVER TIME - PC VS MAC

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My suggestion for a Tech Quickie video:

How important is chipset cooling?

 

Usually the chipset is passively cooled on desktop computers, but I've seen some laptops and even the new iMac Pro without any cooling at all.

I think that's kind of weird and somewhat confusing why you wouldn't cool the chipset.

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I don't know if this is a solid thing yet but with all the talk of imac pro's and how they're amazing at video editing, I would love to see a cloud video production tech quickie / fast as possible video.  One that talks about price efficiency of cloud production (I hope) maybe?

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Hi, maybe this comment belongs to another section, but I just saw the other day a video pitting slr cameras vs smartphones... well kind of... the thing is a friend watching at my side, he's not very tech-savvy, got the impression that the phones are getting there, and in some cases that the phone gave better results than the camera... I was like... wtf? are you even paying attention to the video? man! but well, maybe you were just to soft with the smartphones

I would like you to make a video stressing how that's not the case, I say... rack focus, high speed shoots, hand held shooting in the dark, against a sunset... a 24-105 mm zoom swipe; shoots in a sport game, or a smartphone trying to emulate the effect of a 50mm 1.4 close up in a face of a girl and its frizzy glinting hair... or one of you with a wig :P

 

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I think it would be cool to see a video about how different LAN connections work, and their drawback and advantages. Like RJ45 VS InfinaBand VS. Whatever else. It'd be neat to know WHY they work better. 

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Since this came up in a thread recently.

 

VDI vs Desktop virtualization. (datacenter vs local)

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