Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions

[Skipple]

27 minutes ago, Denilson said:

My reaction is the same as that guy in that video: It's bonkers! And why isn't this not a thing? This should be more common!

 

I'm not sure if Linus or the LMG team has ever seen something like that. I bet it would make a good video! It has the Wow factor, the surprising unique piece of technology, and the history behind that company and behind that product, and the reasons why this isn't as commonplace as it should be.

I love Bringus Studios, and had the same exact reaction when I saw this follow-up video from him. Absolutely crazy shit I've never seen before. 

 

I'm not sure there's enough here for Linus to do a full video on, as it's more of a fun factoid, but it could certainly be worked into a larger piece if they did a deep drive into DP vs HDMI on a conceptual level. I found the conversation on the WAN Show a week ago to be quite interesting, and would love for those thoughts to be fully formulated in a full length piece.

[DaMelloOne]

How bout you guys do Cisco V. Unifi to see which networking solution is better! (Jake is definitely ubiquiti)

[Ciscotaku]

just saw this keyboard, would be perfect for keyboard review 

 

[DoublePlusUngood]

Givin the rise of the "Glitch in the Matrix" kinda videos on Youtube.  Which I actually enjoy sometimes for nothing but just entertaining and/or to trying to figure them out.

 

Wish you'd do a show though to educate people on camera phones and how they aren't just "tiny versions" of real camera's.  Looking through the lens alone of a camera that small would give us pictures like super mario bros.  They interpolate and can in fact *must* add information it doesn't have cuz it has to.  Very impressive actually we can get what we get but it's undoubedly behind way to much misinfo.  We need to base our opinions on facts alone as most of us know but if you don't know you would think "it's a camera therefore it reproduces what's in front of it" before any PS of course.  

 

Thanks and thanks for all the free entertainment over the years.  Take care.

[OliB150]

Currently looking for micro SD cards for partners Steam Deck. Looking around on the likes of Amazon or UK retailers websites and see different varieties of the same card, such as SanDisk "Gameplay" 1TB U3, V30, A2 for £108.99, then SanDIsk Extreme U3, V30, A2 for £104.99 and finally SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB U3, V30, A2 for £129 (though I saw another site selling this for up to £279!)

 

I think it would be useful to run through the different speed ratings and what each one means so it's easier to determine the right card for the right use case. OR whether all of these different names but within the same specs/speed ratings is nothing more than marketing jargon. Labs could even test the different ones to determine if it actually makes a difference.

 

UK Links to these products:

Gameplay: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CRHVJY88?starsLeft=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_10P322MPXJMTP25K0FAY

Extreme: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09X7MPX8L?starsLeft=1&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_3JEJEKWJBXKKN22K0CWN

Extreme Pro: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Extreme-microSDXC-Adapter-Performance/dp/B07RKL6PK9/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3APJD8CHS23X3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.66IqPDXYQ2p2WHkLFSGGJoRGrFTYskBCRgR3gGaagnhiH4jzF1DNMrb-bh3ycLCW5nWHJY0isTusP0YIvx8uTxrDpVXMm0HezOLChnnnQKrYkF2VQyB-9P_BKZZdiKOk8bxybKmLeb0Cm2SCev5H2izHnTzwFY8sf8gWw41Vpmm98hbWonh8M5cHLmGkJE7ws5yF04zdmZ7TJ7-F8LeRKFVgSyoJKANR4nRCNO1HToA.PHSb_J5eLUUGHg53tEqARhGQ0KycESdy6SnsgJywQbM&dib_tag=se&keywords=sandisk+extreme+pro+1tb&qid=1710700974&sprefix=sandisk+extreme+pro+1tb%2Caps%2C71&sr=8-5

Extreme Pro (high price): https://www.wexphotovideo.com/sandisk-1tb-extreme-pro-200mbs-uhs-i-v30-microsdxc-card-3057201/?_gl=1*117k2v*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjUwMjc4MzU5LjE3MTA3MDEyOTA.*_ga_ZLFTGTQQGN*MTcxMDcwMTI5MC4xLjEuMTcxMDcwMTI5My4wLjAuMA..*_ga_2G3XW55JWX*MTcxMDcwMTI5MC4xLjEuMTcxMDcwMTI5My4wLjAuMA..

[abooseca]

It would be an absolute nightmare and honestly probably just not possible because of scheduling but I think they could do a super cool colab with cdawgVA balling out his IRL streaming setup and also maybe coming up with some kind of cool system for ironmouse to have a physical presence in the streams. I would guess that there would be lots of opportunity for novel solutions to the connection challenges and battery and all that kind of stuff.

[Ymirreza]

you guys should do an all razer setup

[Cacahuete Frito]

Hi!

 

I built a computer with a pSLC NVMe SSD a few months ago, and it is the best damn SSD I've used.

 

I started looking for an SLC drive, as I've seen 3 (external) SSDs die and many more flash drives, then I found out that they don't do them any more, but there exist pSLC drives, which are rated similarly to what you could expect out of SLC: 60k writes per cell.

 

The list is small, but there are quite a lot for what I expected.  Then I restricted myself to NVMe, which reduced the search even further.  There's a single pSLC NVMe drive that reaches 320GB:

 

<https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/solid-state-drives-ssds-hard-disk-drives-hdds/503?s=N4IgjCBcpgLAnFUBjKAzAhgGwM4FMAaEAeygG0QEAOAJgHY6Qi6A2AVhbDacvlqoDMIALpEADgBcoIAMoSATgEsAdgHMQAXyJhBSEKkiZchEuRACqYAXW5EEdWDSojxUyLIUr1W8GzpDofXRsfCJSSAoBFnh4AAZGURBJaTklNU0fGjMcHAATFxAWPUV89zgs1xTPdKIJAE8xPGlcnFQNDSA>

 

The drive is

 

<https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/atp-electronics-inc/AF320GSAJA-8BBIP/16537435>

 

I later saw that ATP has a 640GB drive of the same family:

 

<https://www.atpinc.com/products/industrial-ssds-nvme-m.2-wide-temperature>

(see the N700Pi)

 

although I haven't found the 640GB one in any store.

 

It would be interesting to raise awareness of the existence of these things, so maybe they become more available.  They're expensive, but I'm sure many people would want them anyway.  I'll be getting a bunch of the 320GB ones for a few builds I'll do soon.

 

Would you mind doing a video reviewing one of those?

 

Cheers!

 

[PawelPlesniak]

Following the recent watercooling maintenance video, what about one on block top repair? I have a waterblock on my EVGA 3090 FTW3, and after leaving it unattended for an extended period I came back and it was cracked to the point of the main o ring. I do not currently use it (as I'm afraid it'll leak and fry the board), EK doesn't have any new plexi tops, and I don't want to get a whole new block when the cold plate, terminal, and aesthetic LEDs still work (photos were taken after I noticed the cracks before turning it off until I can replace the top). I would be happy to send mine in for an attempt at repair if there are none more locally ;).

[RicoRicoRico]

Linus and Elijah go camping.

They could use that portable power supply thing.

They could have survival challenges/tasks like start a fire, get wifi signal, put up a tent.

The theme could be high tech gear for camping.

[MegaGigabytesSon]

Test a 40Gb file transfer from an Iodyne Pro Data(Thunderbolt SSD) to your main NAS using some sort of 100Gb NIC between on either a Mac or PC. The thing is 48TB in the form factor of a thiccccc laptop. 

But why you might ask? For content creators with near-set workflows, 100Gb+ internet is not always available or is just too expensive to move source videos around the globe. So sneaker-net from thunderbolt to shared storage is key. 

[Maxwell_Edison]

I'm a crazy nut for E-Paper/E-Ink.  I think it'd be cool to cover a wall in E-Ink tech.  But it's so expensive and weird.  But imagine it:  A non-emissive screen on all of your walls, so it emits no light, but allows you to color change.  You don't need walls animated so the downside of low FPS on E-Paper is not a problem - All you'd need is to make sure to have a somewhat colorful e-paper display and you have infinite wallpaper color changing..   Nobody does this tho

[DataDomain]

You have previously made a directional link across buildings and a lake. What about something.. farther?

I know "open, free and unrestricted digital radio transceiver. It enables anyone to send and receive any kind of data over both short and very long distances" is not a common thread in your videos, but if it is; a fun project, https://unsigned.io/rnode/ shows a cheaply made device which can do a lot of fun network-stuff, including several kilometers range in urban areas and over 100 km line of sight.

[pani_alex]

hi Alex ltt, have a video suggestion that could be interesting

 

solder some pipes to the heatsink heatpipes to make it hybrid and see if it is doable to make a quite gaming PC with a detachable wc, do the same to the GPU 

 

read the full topic to have some context

https://community.frame.work/t/i-have-a-cool-cooling-idea-for-the-framework-team/34607/28

[OhYou_]

9 hours ago, DataDomain said:

You have previously made a directional link across buildings and a lake. What about something.. farther?

I know "open, free and unrestricted digital radio transceiver. It enables anyone to send and receive any kind of data over both short and very long distances" is not a common thread in your videos, but if it is; a fun project, https://unsigned.io/rnode/ shows a cheaply made device which can do a lot of fun network-stuff, including several kilometers range in urban areas and over 100 km line of sight.

I've done 30km links before and it's outside their ability.
past a few km, 5.8ghz needs massive separation from the earth and the antenna. like 15-20 meters of tower. unlicensed 60ghz is infeasible at this distance and 11ghz licensed may do it but why would LTT bother licensing a link for one video.
The gear you linked at that distance would probably be operating in the 433 range which ok sure it will do it at like 120kb/s but the LTT way is waahhh we want gigabit speed at physically impossible lengths

[Do everything later]

I think it's time for another "How does LMG make money" video, given that LMG has expanded so much since the last one.

 

I'd also want (Floatplane Exclusive?) video(s) detailing how videos on each channel are made, kind of like this video but less staged, or this video but with the voiceover being less boring. Are LMG clips made with the help of fanmade timestamps? How much AI is involved in the production process? Those are some small things I wanna know. Also some people actually think the WAN Show writers write what Linus and Luke would do on the show and they are just following a script...

[OhYou_]

I think LTT should buy a fiber laser welder to use for building custom projects but mainly to burn stuff and make a video about it
come on they are only 10k US

you know you want a 1,5kw continuous wave laser

[MrHaydenJr]

you done a few mini pc's how about a mini GPU, this thing looks neat...
RTX A500 over usb-c
https://www.adlinktech.com/en/pocket-ai-with-nvidia-rtx-a500-egpu

[Kleen13]

I'm getting used RTX 2060 for free(it's supposed to work but I'm 50/50) and will be building myself a Windows FrankenBox with parts from Craigslist and FB Marketplace with $300 budget.   Something like this would be a fun vid.  I'm in Maple Ridge, wanna come play?

[deskunkworks]

Hello, 

So I am not sure if this is the right forum or not, and I am somewhat dubious about posting this publicly.  However, despite being a long-time viewer of LTT: I have never submitted a story before... and well this is kind of a big one.  It also is one that is going to require a fair amount of verification on your part (for legal reasons) and that is presently somewhat incomplete. (It is to a point where you can start verifying things while I finish writing since that will take a while.  Or in some cases, I can just supply you with info/sources to fill in some of the gaps.) Further, you will probably want to break it apart, because it is fairly lengthy, but long story short Russia has been using its gaming sector to drive military-related development for about a 20-year period and is presently using this to violate both Canadian and U.S. national security.

As for specific claims, I submit the following. (I don't have all of this filled in and formatted as of the moment.):

1. Gaijin and War Thunder have been experiencing leaks because they have been incentivizing players to submit military-related data. (C1)
2. Eagle Dynamics helped develop military hardware with the help of Western accomplices, The Fighter Collection, for the UAE. (C3)
3. Eagle Dynamics and their Western counterparts have ties to the Russian intelligence apparatus. (C3)
4. This approach started wholesale after 2004-2006 when Eagle Dynamics was able to be accepted as a supplier to the U.S. military. (C4, C2-C3 are background establishing other players) 
5. In response to this success 1C coordinated multiple gaming companies to flood the simulator market all at once, most likely intentionally, which is why Russian game companies are the primary ones making combat flight simulators anymore. (C6)
6. Involved companies include Gaijin, 1C, and Eagle Dynamics. (There are more, but those are the main ones I focused on.) (C6)
7. C7 incomplete. (Letting you know so you don't waste your time reading something with little point to it)
8. Also included is Wargaming which has also taken funds from the Russian government and was used to help drive military recruitment. (C8, incomplete)
9. C9-C10 incomplete.
10. In at least one case a gaming company used "fleeing" Russia as a cover for seemingly clandestine purposes, and Gaijin is involved. (C11, incomplete)
11. Eagle Dynamics is being used to help advance military hardware development in areas like pilot training. (C13)
12. Eagle Dynamics Studio has been involved in designing and creating software for UAVs like the Kronshstadt Orion (C14)
13. EDS has been directly working with Sukhoi and potentially Ilyushkin on projects as well as most likely working on dirigible designs for the Artic region. (C15)
14. C16 covers procurement for the US and other allied militaries but is incomplete at the current time.

To support these I am supplying the following which is around 140 pages long.  I understand that is a lot to take in and process, and so I wanted to give you an upfront list of the content included to make it easier to evaluate hopefully. Most of this investigation has involved forensic accounting and a lot of paperwork digging. Sources are mainly directly from the state and interviews, with very little in the way of me relying on the speculation of others. I also have tried to include plenty of relationship maps, charts, and related visual material to make everything hopefully easier to understand, which is in part why the document is so long.

I have been researching Eagle Dynamics, 1C, Gaijin, and other game developers and their role in connection with the Russian government for about the last year. I was hoping that this is something that you might consider covering given it is gaming-related and I know you have to have a number of simulator fans on your staff that will most likely be familiar with the companies involved.   That said, this might be outside the scope of my consideration given your relative background.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oSQ9W4_0UwKMvURWCs80AIQJ59OB6ph0X98QKu2vo60/edit?usp=sharing

If you would please review and consider, I would be appreciative. Thanks in advance.

SJ

P.S. Most of this is U.S.-specific, but I have verified and checked that Eagle Dynamics Studio is a supplier for the Canadian government as well. ED MISSION SYSTEMS SA (Register number: CH-217.0.131.690-6) is headed by a former Liftec SA employee (they get mentioned frequently in my report and are associated with the Russian oil industry) Patricia Dozio-Golaz.  Presumably they are being used for Canada because she parles Francais. They are assumed to operate like most of EDS' other sub-entities, where any work they might do gets run through Russia either through the Moscow Aviation Institute,  Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Professor N.E. Zhukovsky Aero Hydrodynamic Institute[TsAGI], or one of the other arms of the Russia's Military-Sciences apparatus.
https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities/contract-history/w2604-22jp10/001/stn-000


 

 

[Do everything later]

1 hour ago, deskunkworks said:

Hello, 

So I am not sure if this is the right forum or not, and I am somewhat dubious about posting this publicly.  However, despite being a long-time viewer of LTT: I have never submitted a story before... and well this is kind of a big one.  It also is one that is going to require a fair amount of verification on your part (for legal reasons) and that is presently somewhat incomplete. (It is to a point where you can start verifying things while I finish writing since that will take a while.  Or in some cases, I can just supply you with info/sources to fill in some of the gaps.) Further, you will probably want to break it apart, because it is fairly lengthy, but long story short Russia has been using its gaming sector to drive military-related development for about a 20-year period and is presently using this to violate both Canadian and U.S. national security.

As for specific claims, I submit the following. (I don't have all of this filled in and formatted as of the moment.):

1. Gaijin and War Thunder have been experiencing leaks because they have been incentivizing players to submit military-related data. (C1)
2. Eagle Dynamics helped develop military hardware with the help of Western accomplices, The Fighter Collection, for the UAE. (C3)
3. Eagle Dynamics and their Western counterparts have ties to the Russian intelligence apparatus. (C3)
4. This approach started wholesale after 2004-2006 when Eagle Dynamics was able to be accepted as a supplier to the U.S. military. (C4, C2-C3 are background establishing other players) 
5. In response to this success 1C coordinated multiple gaming companies to flood the simulator market all at once, most likely intentionally, which is why Russian game companies are the primary ones making combat flight simulators anymore. (C6)
6. Involved companies include Gaijin, 1C, and Eagle Dynamics. (There are more, but those are the main ones I focused on.) (C6)
7. C7 incomplete. (Letting you know so you don't waste your time reading something with little point to it)
8. Also included is Wargaming which has also taken funds from the Russian government and was used to help drive military recruitment. (C8, incomplete)
9. C9-C10 incomplete.
10. In at least one case a gaming company used "fleeing" Russia as a cover for seemingly clandestine purposes, and Gaijin is involved. (C11, incomplete)
11. Eagle Dynamics is being used to help advance military hardware development in areas like pilot training. (C13)
12. Eagle Dynamics Studio has been involved in designing and creating software for UAVs like the Kronshstadt Orion (C14)
13. EDS has been directly working with Sukhoi and potentially Ilyushkin on projects as well as most likely working on dirigible designs for the Artic region. (C15)
14. C16 covers procurement for the US and other allied militaries but is incomplete at the current time.

To support these I am supplying the following which is around 140 pages long.  I understand that is a lot to take in and process, and so I wanted to give you an upfront list of the content included to make it easier to evaluate hopefully. Most of this investigation has involved forensic accounting and a lot of paperwork digging. Sources are mainly directly from the state and interviews, with very little in the way of me relying on the speculation of others. I also have tried to include plenty of relationship maps, charts, and related visual material to make everything hopefully easier to understand, which is in part why the document is so long.

I have been researching Eagle Dynamics, 1C, Gaijin, and other game developers and their role in connection with the Russian government for about the last year. I was hoping that this is something that you might consider covering given it is gaming-related and I know you have to have a number of simulator fans on your staff that will most likely be familiar with the companies involved.   That said, this might be outside the scope of my consideration given your relative background.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oSQ9W4_0UwKMvURWCs80AIQJ59OB6ph0X98QKu2vo60/edit?usp=sharing

If you would please review and consider, I would be appreciative. Thanks in advance.

SJ

P.S. Most of this is U.S.-specific, but I have verified and checked that Eagle Dynamics Studio is a supplier for the Canadian government as well. ED MISSION SYSTEMS SA (Register number: CH-217.0.131.690-6) is headed by a former Liftec SA employee (they get mentioned frequently in my report) Patricia Dozio-Golaz.  Presumably they are being used for Canada because she parles Francais. They are assumed to operate like most of EDS' other sub-entities, where any work they might do gets run through Russia either through the Moscow Aviation Institute,  Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Professor N.E. Zhukovsky Aero Hydrodynamic Institute[TsAGI], or one of the other arms of the Russia's Military-Sciences apparatus.
https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities/contract-history/w2604-22jp10/001/stn-000


 

 

I believe this actually belongs to the sponsor complaint thread.

 

And speaking of sponsors, I would also like to see a video about how different types of sponsorship (sponsor spots, fully sponsored videos, or just manufacturers sending hardware) work, from negotiating, to writing, to filming, to determining when or which channel should the sponsor spot be, what researches do the business team do to choose their sponsors, what say the sponsor does or does not have, etc.

Edited March 20 by Do everything later
added 1 more thing to cover

[deskunkworks]

17 minutes ago, Do everything later said:

I believe this actually belongs to the sponsor complaint thread.

 

And speaking of sponsors, I would also like to see a video about how different types of sponsorship (sponsor spots, fully sponsored videos, or just manufacturers sending hardware) work, from negotiating, to writing, to filming, to determining when or which channel should the sponsor spot be, what researches do the business team do to choose their sponsors, etc.

Yeah, I wasn't sure because it is not publicly known information. It seems like the kind of thing that should be known, though. It is just hard to find a group that covers all the necessary areas to publish. I also wonder how much advertising money plays a role. I approached PC Gamer with it, and the person I dealt with was nice but didn't think there was a story, which sort of left me scratching my head. But good call, may need to repost it there.

[thrasher_565]

hmm i watch the clip is 25mps enough and got an video idea. i dont no how you would do it but you could build a fast pc and slower pc and see what the speed is like installing a os on an old system vs a new one is it faster. can also show say load time in games. also said about how fast you enet is i dont no if you can limit it? and see how fast is enough?

 

dont no just an idea

 

hard part is to get an appals to appals pc to compare say ddr3 vs 4 and so on. but for like slow hdd vs fast hdd vs slow ssd vs fast ssd vs m.2 vs nvme kinda deal? could also test the os too to see if new os are faster (i no your forced in to using it) but alot of people say there old system is snapper...

[joshr120]

Got inspired to post on here after seeing some similar DIY things in the recent Handy Tech Under $100 video.

 

OpenDeck is a project originally designed to be a open-source alternative to the stream deck. It has physical buttons and can have up to 18 customisable macros with the relevant ones automatically shown depending on what application is active on the PC.

   

 

Project GitHub: https://github.com/joshr120/open-deck

[WizBiz]

With the release of the MSI MPG 321URX video the topic of these OLED monitor burn in warranties are brought up. I would like to see someone investigate what those warranties actually entail in the real world. The biggest worry for OLED monitors is the burn in and with these monitors being so expensive, I think it's the last thing that is stopping people like me from getting one. With the monitory warranties matching those of IPS or VA, I hope that OLED are now okay to buy.

Ideally there would be a sample of a few big competitors and have the monitors given to people around the office and track their life span over a year. Then see if there are signs of burn in, and if there are, if the companies would replace them with the symptoms that developed. Since there isn't a lot of gaming done at the office, maybe having sample gameplay of popular games play in off hours could help fill that aspect of the monitor.

I would wager that each company would have a metric for when it's burnt in enough to justify replacement. And would be interested in seeing how forgiving to the customer each company is.

I acknowledge that it's not cheap to buy and run these monitors in bulk for a year. It's why I think with BC power and LTT size, there really isn't anyone that can do this.

Alternatively, I would wager that some people around the office have been using these monitors for a while and doing a round up of them and their burn in status would be appreciated. (Also maybe sending the worst off for a warranty RMA might be enlightening). Likely cheaper and could gauge interest of these OLED monitors longevity.