Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions

[SystemsAdmin67]

Just a quick idea

 

Try to Generate Electricity from heat, using the heat of a computer.

[Ekst4zy]

One type of devices I did see reviewed pretty much anywhere are Breathalyzers. I think that would be a very interesting video!

[star_pilot475]

What about a video full of fun projects to do with a Raspberry Pi? 
Such as...
-using it to watch movies and tv

-emulating games

or do a sort of "Pimp my Pi" where you could try to build the most insane raspberry pi setup sort of thing???

[Pingal]

You guys should review the ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DT 15.6" FHD 120Hz Laptop GTX 1650 4GB Graphics (Ryzen 5-3550H/8GB RAM/1TB HDD + 256GB PCIe SSD/Windows 10/Stealth Black/2.20 Kg), FX505DT-AL202T
It goes for around 800 to 900 dollars (in India)

[Matheus Paulo]

hi, i would love to see a comparison between switches like the new steelseries keyboard, the new razer laser switch, logitech as well. Seems to me that being cherry from diferent colors or not cherry from diferent colors isn't enough anymore.

 

ty for the awesome videos, watching from Brazil.

[khazoona]

Hey, 

I'd like to see a proper in depth home networking setup for an average gamer on a budget. I know Linus recently installed a system in Coltons house but I didn't really learn that much.

 

I'm a bit of a techie, but i'm clueless on home networking. As far as i'm concerned I plug in my ISP's supplied router and go. 

 

TLDR: A video, maybe a techquickie even, on how to properly setup a decent home internet solution and what equipment to use.

[MaTi83]

Hi,

 

What I'd like to see is what you guys use to keep track of all the hardware you have got laying around.

Over the years I have collected too much hardware; and I sometimes manage to remember what is where and what is used for which system again..

Ofcourse there are many expensive enterprise solutions for asset management, but that might be a little bit overkill..

 

What I have been using for the past year or so is snipe-it (free version available, which works fine for me):

https://snipeitapp.com/

 

However, it is still way too extensive for what I need it for.. So I kinda misuse some of the functionalities, so I can do with it what I want.

 

Now, if I am already challenged by remembering where I have kept what, it must be even a bigger challenge for a whole team with even much more hardware..

Would be nice to see what you guys use (software), but also to learn all your procedures and processes you have implemented to make sure hardware does not get lost and is trackable when needed.

 

Every piece of hardware which I find has any value I raise as a CI in my system (oh man, gotta love my itil background), print a sticker for and I label my stuff..

Things like common cables like sata etc, I simply consider as consumables :)

[iKingRPG]

How about building the ultimate smart home on a budget? I think you should check out Home Assistant, it is an open source software you can run on any old computer, or a Raspberry Pi, and it is like a local version of IFTTT, but like on steroids... You can find a few videos of people showing off their setups. It is a smart home hub you can make and it will connect almost anything on your local network together and you can control them all from one dashboard, link it to Google Assistant or Alexa, and even write automations that are like 1000x more powerful than IFTTT. You can compare it to something like smartthings or phillips hue. There are integrations for all kinds of things, Google Hangouts, smart lightings, motion sensors, video doorbells, MyQ garages, security cameras, TVs, streaming sticks/boxes, smart speakers/displays, phones, netgear routers, playstation, other hubs (like philips hue hub, smartthings, apple homekit, and more), smart locks, rf controlled devices if running on something like a raspberry pi, and literally anything controlled by 433mhz rf or wifi. I could go on and on with automations... 

 

Examples of possible automations:

• When I leave my house, if motion sensors are trigggered, play siren.mp3 on full volume on speaker system, and all smart speakers, make all lights flash red, and send me a notification on my phone.
• When all my family members are away from the house, close all garages, lock all doors, and turn off all lights.
• When (button) is pressed, flash all lights rainbow colors, and play crab rave on the TV in living room
• When I play a movie, dim theater lights 1/4.
• When I turn off smart light switch C, turn off all lights and TVs in the house.

 

You can even do weird things:

• When I lock the door, give the dogs water, make all the lights yellow, play PewDiePie on the TV, and say "hahahahhahahahha" on Google home mini (via Google TTS)
• When Button A is pressed, unlock the doors, play music on Google Home, close the garages, and message mom "Hi" via Hangouts.

 

My point, is there are endless opportunities, useless or useful. I really think this would make an amazing video. It could also be something like "Smart Home systems are a rip off..."

I don't even care, but you already have shown enough devices in your videos to make a really cool Home Assistant setup.

 

Just please make a video about it, at least watch a video about it or read their forums, it is so fun to mess with. Hope you read this, bye.

Edit: I also wanted to add that even if you don't use automations that much, you can create dashboards to control all of your things (entities). Such as lights, appliances, media players etc. I recommend for most people to install the hass.io version on something like a raspberry pi or arduno.

[xreaperx22]

Linus should Debunk this!!!

 

hello all i found this oddly entertaining site about isp providers throttling your internet,and this device is supposed to stop that entirely,id like Linus to maybe do a video to debunk this thing outright lol here is the site:

 

https://wifiblastshop.com/tech/wifi.php?affId=DA2379F6&c1=us&c2=kwintent&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn9fjwLSe4wIVA2TBCh13AgKaEAEYASAAEgJbG_D_BwE

[MafieldsFI]

https://www.respawnbyrazer.com/ is it bogus? or not? LINUS! make a video plz <3 :P

[Guest]

On 7/5/2019 at 4:36 AM, iKingRPG said:

-snip-

If you were interested

 

[Guest]

19 hours ago, xreaperx22 said:

Linus should Debunk this!!!

 

hello all i found this oddly entertaining site about isp providers throttling your internet,and this device is supposed to stop that entirely,id like Linus to maybe do a video to debunk this thing outright lol here is the site:

 

https://wifiblastshop.com/tech/wifi.php?affId=DA2379F6&c1=us&c2=kwintent&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn9fjwLSe4wIVA2TBCh13AgKaEAEYASAAEgJbG_D_BwE

That's still an affiliate link. And it looks like a scam. And somehow, my ad blocker still didn't manage to block any of the ads on the site. 

[star_pilot475]

23 hours ago, MafieldsFI said:

https://www.respawnbyrazer.com/ is it bogus? or not? LINUS! make a video plz

*cough* g-fuel! *cough cough*

[audi0c0aster1]

Went back and watched some of the tech facility tours, and the recent shop unboxing video.  Got me thinking of seeing a tour or look at industrial automation tech -- PLCs, industrial robots, etc.

 

Just very different topic and rarely covered beyond industry sales pitches or training videos. 

[iKingRPG]

8 hours ago, hiitswilliam said:

If you were interested

 

IDK I just thought it would be cool if they did it, not the Verge... Most of the suggestions people put have been done by other people anyway.

[eric1830]

Build a computer only using this site https://www.hypedrop.com/en/boxes/view/build-a-pc-box

[Risky_Kangaroo]

Saw one of these for sale locally on craigslist, would love a review since the price tag is $1249 for a computer with a Celeron. 

http://www.telikin.com/telikin_elite_silver

[Jarodftlili]

I see Alex got a bunch of new metal working stuff. I console game instead of pc, because learning to use the keyboard to move is like learning to play the piano with my left hand.... It's hard, and I just don't want to. I am awesome with a mouse however... and playing shooters without a mouse sucks. So I would like Alex to build me a keyboard with a joystick or d-pad built in so that me and all the other gamers that grew up on console can enjoy the superior graphics and weapon control that pc gamers enjoy.... Thanks!

[Antistatic12]

Something I have wondered about for many years is how blocking up holes,vents, grills, mesh,etc in a PC case could have an effect on temps, airflow and dust build up.
Many cases have a rear 140mm or 120mm option. If you use a 120mm fan in the rear and tape up the parts the fan can't access does it make a difference, if at all?
Does blocking holes on the bottom of the case help airflow?, does it help stop dust from entering the case?

[tenfootgiant]

Similar to the $100,000 build, would be a really cool video to see a dual system setup with two 6 core gaming rigs off of one CPU.  If someone was upgrading a new system anyways, how getting a 3900x with maybe like an x470 Taichi or something similar with Dual 8x GPU capability might allow to run two systems off of one machine with the old GPU and any new GPU they might buy.  I wanted to do a  little write-up on this but even the new hardware I'm getting won't have Dual 8x support and getting an x570 board with dual 8x GPU support would be pretty costly.  That, and I'm backordered for as long as B&H says that I am.

 

I'm interested in seeing how having a really good 12 core machine that can also be split up into a double 6 core setup for friends to come over or for a S/O might justify having a 12 core machine for the versatility and what benefits or drawbacks might occur vs just building 2 machines.  Like having a dual monitor setup that can turn into two single monitors, using less space, and being able to just turn it into one really badass machine, maybe if it had an accessible design inside to just pop say an NVLINK bridge if you did happen to have two of the same cards.  Also, what the best config would be, maybe running off of each chiplet per machine or crossing them over. Thoughts?

[Jayh00]

Id love to see a comparison of the top tv's in the world in terms of stats like input lag, refresh rate (all the tv's with native 120hz panels that support resolutions of 1080p/1440p), response times and colour space go head to head with some of the best gaming monitors (maybe just the ones in the range of 100hz to 144hz).  With tv's like the high end QLEDs and the LG C9 having such impressive stats I'd like to see how they fair and maybe some predictions of the future. It seems to me that the gap between tv's and gaming monitors is closing fast and in a couple years may be too small to be noticeable. Maybe throw in a BFGD or 2 to the experiment as well.

[Jerimiah40]

I think it would be cool to see a video (or maybe even a series of videos) focusing on CPU performance from a pro audio/recording perspective.  The popular consensus has always been that Intel is the only option for something like a large Pro Tools setup, but especially with the new Ryzen 3000 series it seems like a lot of formerly Intel-favouring workloads run just fine on AMD platforms. 

 

I'd love to see benchmarks and performance reviews of things like playback/scrubbing performance, simultaneous channel counts, input latency and number of plugin instances in  popular DAWs (Pro Tools, Reaper, Ableton) between mid-to-high end AMD and Intel CPUs would potentially be of interest to a lot of people.  I've never really seen the kind of detailed comparisons that LTT is known for done from an audio perspective.

[your_breakfast]

INTEGER SCALING

(to avoid distortions/blur when using monitors at non-native resolutions; damn important for retro games and 4K)

 

 

 

1. Intel Graphics announced that they will implement integer scaling: https://twitter.com/gfxlisa/status/1143163786783707136

2. The 3Dfx Voodoo emulator nGlide now supports integer scaling: http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2195

3. The crowdsourced "Spectrum" monitor is going to support integer scaling: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/c2vsw0/-/essz5hk/
4. Almost 2400 people signed a petition: https://www.change.org/p/nvidia-amd-nvidia-we-need-integer-scaling-via-graphics-driver
5. In the AMD feedback poll it's the leading option by far (was, until it was manipulated again): https://feedback.amd.com/se/5A1E27D211FADB79
6. 94 pages of discussions on nvidia's forums: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/844905/

LTT, when will you finally stop ignoring this elephant in the room???

[zweilinkehaende]

Topic: A double blind study if people can tell the difference between 1080p, 4k and 8k at different distances and pixel densities.

 

Motivation: 8k seems to become the new selling feature on the highest tier of TVs, even though many people claim that you shouldn't even be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4k at traditional TV sizes and viewing distances. The claimed reason is that the distance between pixels projected on the retina becomes smaller than the distance between photoreceptive cells. Example:

But human vision is not that simple (1 pixel --> 1 photoreceptive cell), it instead works by integrating the signals of many different photoreceptors, so while the image might not get measurably sharper, people might still be able to tell the difference because 8k seems more natural or something vague like that. (light from 2 pixels hits 3 photoreceptive cells for example and the difference in activation level is processed into the image in your mind, for example)

 

Testing this out would be a nice opportunity to show off cool tech in any case, could save people (or peoples less tech savy relatives) a lot of money (if you can't tell the difference), or be an opportunity for TV manufaturers (possible sponsors) to prove "the haters" wrong (if you can tell the difference). In the end you could lets the 8k TV "stretch it's legs" and turn on all the special features if you want to show other benefits of that class of TVs.

 

Setup: Three calibrated TVs of equal size, brightness, refresh rate, and contrast (alternatively 1 tv set at different resolutions, but that could lead to scaling problems, since the TVs built-in scaler will upscale the image, right?) with the same or concealed stands and bezels set up by group 1, group 2 is saying what resolution they think the TV is (no approaching the screen closer than the defined distance by groups 2 and 3 obviously) and group 3 is recording. Only group 1 knows which TV is which, but isn't directly involved in the experiment, thus making this a double-blind setup, so the results should hold up to scrutiny. 8k footage prescaled to the different native resolutions is played on the TVs.

 

Optional Bonus Points: vary the viewing distance (screen size is irrelevant since it just translates to different viewing distances.

 

Summary: This would be interesting for anyone in the market for a TV, or monitor (you already did a video on 4k monitors, so testing monitors too might not be worth the effort, since 8k is mostly a selling point on TVs anyway).

[MT_]

8K is interconnected with integer-ratio upscaling (integer scaling):

• The more the native display resolution is, the harder it is to achieve comfortable performance in games at it. The 4K resolution is fourfold higher than Full HD. The 8K (7680×4320) resolution is another 4 times higher.
• For displays with the 8K resolution, integer scaling will make it possible to use losslessly any of the typical resolutions: HD (1280×720, 6x), FHD (1920×1080, 4x), QHD (2560×1440, 3x), 4K (3840×2160, 2x).
• The higher the native resolution is, the fuller the screen may be used with integer scaling. For example, when scaling 320×240 to Full HD, 1/9 (11%) of the screen height is lost (filled with black) (1080/240 = 4,5), while on a 4K display, the ratio is exactly 9, so the image occupies the entire height of the screen. On displays with the 8K resolution, the same will apply to the 640×480 resolution.