Thread for Linus Tech Tips Video Suggestions

[SinistralFern23]

Emulation or Linux with Anthony. It would be cool to get a best of the best emulation settings or some more Linux for the mainstream stuff.

[Guest]

[Oats-n-Hoes]

13 hours ago, PraxisOG said:

Now that LMG is doing car reviews, it would be really cool if they could review some car-adjacent tech like CommaAI's Comma 3. Its an aftermarket ADAS(advanced driver assistance system) that does really good driver monitoring, dashcam stuff, and with a wire harness it gives your car Autopilot-like functionality. The Comma 3 looks a bit like an android phone mixed with a dashcam and mounts to your car's windshield. CommaAI has a heavy focus on safety; all their hardware and software complies with the relevant regulations and their Openpilot software has driven 40 million real-world miles. The system is really good, two years ago Car and Driver reviewed all car brands' ADAS systems next to the last generation Comma 2 with an older version of Openpilot, and ranked it as being better than Tesla's Autopilot and Cadillac's Supercruise.  For video ideas maybe this could be part of a dive into the state of ADAS systems?

 

https://comma.ai/

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a30341053/self-driving-technology-comparison/

I just made an account to make this suggestion! It's like you read my mind. I'd love to see this video!

[Lomac]

On 8/8/2022 at 2:35 PM, Levi marsh said:

I was wondering how low could you make a systems input lag and I thought maybe LTT could do this and get their employees to react to the near instant internet, monitor, and mouse latency combined with other tricks like v-sync or Nvidia reflex or something like that.

I want to suggest the opposite of this.  Do something where you have to create the most lag possible without resorting to cheating (no coding a program designed to delay anything.)  Could even be a CSF video of a small LAN played by employees trying to win a FPS game while enduring extremely high lag.

[sportsfamily77]

It would be interesting if LTT could get a unit from EMP Shield Inc and install it at Linus' new place.

https://www.empshield.com/product/emp-shield-home-remote-led/

 

You could cover the how's and why's modern electronics are susceptible to these kinds electrical surges triggered by electro magnetic pulses and coronal mass ejections.

 

https://www.empshield.com/contact-us/

[LuxPlay11]

VPNs and Antiviruses are they needed?(video suggestion not question)

 

[ian from the UK]

Hi I live in the UK on a Narrowboat and  live totally off grid, solar plus diesel engine.

I recently watched your video on building a PC more efficient than a console and would love to see you do an updated version, obviously my options are limited internet through 4G phone signal and living off batteries would love to see if you could get the power below 100 watts playing new games.

[keppy]

Performance per Watt testing!

 

Since the new 40X0 series graphics cards will supposedly consume a stupid amount power;

electricity prices in most of Europe are very high right now because of one ignorant individual who holds too much power;

 

summer weather is nearing all time highs here in most of Europe;

 

will you do any Performance per Watt testing, to see if these new cards will actually be any better for the amount of electricity they'll be drawing, and the extra heat they'll be dumping into my room.

[777GE90]

I have some old parts I'm upgrading, like my i7 3770k.  I can't really get much by selling these parts, but makes me wonder, wouldn't it be cool to use them to build a NAS, rather than me fork out $500 for a specialised enclosure.

 

Can you do a video where you use old parts to make a NAS, I'd love to see how and what's involved.

[1smallblock1]

So I've been playing with Truenas. An intriguing question came to mind. With 1 and 2 TB SSD drives now selling on Amazon and Ebay for 50 to 100 dollars. And used 16 bay 2.5" servers like Dell R720 selling around 225 on eBay. Or maybe the Cisco 24 bay C240 style systems, selling around 199?

 

What about a 2 prong tech video. An inexpensive all flash NAS that us lowly tech nerd people, without sponsorships, could potentially save up and build for the first prong. Then using this server to test NAS usage performance on the most popular (reputable), cheapest (the 50 dollar Inland or Fanxain) and best mid-range (PNY or WD Blue) SSD drives.

There's the super cheap 2TB (99 dollars) 

LEVEN JS600 SSD 1TB 3D NAND SATA III Internal Solid State Drive - 6 Gb/s, 2.5 inch /7mm (0.28") - up to 560MB/s - Retail 1 Pack https://a.co/d/6Jp4WnA

 

Maybe the 2nd prong test could be a durability and reliability test. Having it serve as a temporary working nas for probationary employees. Or have your editors use it as a working platform but make it replicate to your more reliable production device for sanity sake. 

 

 

[Rauten]

Hrm. What about a video checking the big HT/SMT vulnerabilities that have been discovered these past few years for both Intel and AMD?

For "shock value", you could test a CPU with no security patches // mitigation measures and the same CPU with all patches and measures applied, and see how much CB score is lost.

And then for a more "utility" angle, you could make a quick list of which patches and measures you'd deploy on a normal home computer and which ones on a server environment.

[Lucian Andries]

Hey, I've got a good idea for a video:

 

What if the internet removed all the DNS Servers? Would that affect the internet speed in any way?

[Lucian Andries]

On 8/11/2022 at 6:44 AM, sportsfamily77 said:

It would be interesting if LTT could get a unit from EMP Shield Inc and install it at Linus' new place.

https://www.empshield.com/product/emp-shield-home-remote-led/

 

You could cover the how's and why's modern electronics are susceptible to these kinds electrical surges triggered by electro magnetic pulses and coronal mass ejections.

 

https://www.empshield.com/contact-us/

That thing is a scam! The only EMP protection is a Faraday Cage. smh

[George Morgan]

Hi, Costco has a pc for $499 and it’s a r5 3600x and 1660 ti I would love to see a review on this pc “ASUS G10DK-WH563” I have looked all over YouTube but nobody has reviewed it

[alanwantstosleep]

im not quite sure if this was done already, but it'd be interesting to see which are the best budget smart tvs, compare them to each other and pick the best one out of all of them

[sportsfamily77]

7 hours ago, Lucian Andries said:

That thing is a scam! The only EMP protection is a Faraday Cage. smh

More interested in what kind of protection devices like this provide from solar storms, and to a lesser extent lightning to be honest. The name is a bit over the top and maybe misleading.

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't function to protect from over current events from stray power being induced into power lines, it's just a switch that disconnects your wiring from the grid. Lightning strikes are a fairly notorious problem where I'm from, not sure about where he's at, but I definitely wouldn't want my expensive electronics getting cooked in any event. 

[Guest]

I'm a bit daft so bear with me on this one....

 

Does AMD make black blacker than Nvidia does?

I have the AMD Ryzen 2400G using the integrated graphics and an HP IPS 1920 x 1080 display.

 

I had an NVidia RTX 3060 for 3 days and it drove me crazy (aside from it being unstable ish) that the black were just dark grey and not real black.

 

Can you compare if AMD makes blacker blacks than NVidia?

It could be possible that different brands process the colors differently enough to make different outputs.

IE:
Shaders are text files that are sent to the graphics card for the graphics card to compile during gameplay; this means that the same program is compiled different ways on different cards because the hardware is different enough with architecture that it's not so x86 like, y'know?

 

So

TL;DR

Do AMD and NVidia make different colours when drawing the same image?

Does AMD make blacker blacks?

[Kilrah]

8 minutes ago, fpo said:

I had an NVidia RTX 3060 for 3 days and it drove me crazy (aside from it being unstable ish) that the black were just dark grey and not real black.

Usually that's due to the setting about limited vs full HDMI dynamic range.

And then you can customize colors/contrast/brightness in both brands' control panels so at best you'd get a comparison of the defaults but that's all user-definable.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Usually that's due to the setting about limited vs full HDMI dynamic range.

And then you can customize colors/contrast/brightness in both brands' control panels so at best you'd get a comparison of the defaults but that's all user-definable.

I'd consider myself pretty technically aware, but I had no idea that was a thing...
Maybe that can be the resolution to the story of the video in how what if you do calibrate it and stuff which how complex is that?

Are people leaving colour range on the table with their cards?

[Lucian Andries]

14 hours ago, sportsfamily77 said:

More interested in what kind of protection devices like this provide from solar storms, and to a lesser extent lightning to be honest. The name is a bit over the top and maybe misleading.

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't function to protect from over current events from stray power being induced into power lines, it's just a switch that disconnects your wiring from the grid. Lightning strikes are a fairly notorious problem where I'm from, not sure about where he's at, but I definitely wouldn't want my expensive electronics getting cooked in any event. 

It doesn't protect you in any way! That small toy is just marketing crap. There are no HOME protections against Solar Storms and EMPs. And even if it exists, it'd be as huge as a truck and cost $1 million... If you are that scared and paranoid, build yourself an underground bunker. smh

As for lightning protection, the best one is a lightning rod that is grounded.

 

But seriously, you can google this stuff and learn about it! But not from toy manufacturers, learn from science websites.

[Caelanjmacmaster]

Just watched the faze change cooling, thinking all that effort to remove air then I remembered back to the first LTT vid I watched, the oil cooled PC. Just wondering if you replaced the air with oil and made the oil sub 0 (not by much mineral oil freezes at -4) this cooling the mother board, CPU and GPU.

[mytime34]

I know you guys have done videos in the past of all SSD and NVME NAS setups with freenas and Truenas.

 

I am suggesting a comparison of storage medium arrays. SSD (Consumer grade), SAS SSD 6G and 12G(Enterprise grade from ebay) and NVME (your go to Kioxia drives).

Something such as the 45 drives storinator enclosure, Netapp 16 or 24 drive enclosure, HP, Supermicro, etc.

 

Due to the prices of SSD and "used" enterprise SAS SSD drives, home setups are much more attainable, by us normal folks.

 

Truenas setups:

12-16 drive SSD array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds)

12-16 drive 6G SAS SSD array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds, cabling setup, 6G HBA)

12-16 drive 12G SSD array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds, cabling setup, 12G HBA)

12-16 drive NVME array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds)

 

Unraid setups:

12-16 drive SSD array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds)

12-16 drive 6G SAS SSD array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds, cabling setup)

12-16 drive 12G SSD array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds, cabling setup)

12-16 drive NVME array (recommended raidz levels, ram recommendations, 10Gb network transfer speeds)

[Skiiwee29]

@mytime34 I have merged your thread into the LTT Video suggestion thread. 

[NickolasSchreiber]

I think one of the issues that keeps lacking in support, especially due to the flippin' confusing cable standards is how to support multiple monitors (3 plus, easily)

 

I game on a triple screen setup, but admittedly only use one screen for the game, so something easily doable. But then you throw in a drawing tablet or a VR headset and other than "BUY ANOTHER GRAPHICS CARD", options are lacking.

 

Multi-Stream Transport seems to be a dead technology that is either rarely supported by monitors or only in the sense of low refresh monitors for business purposes.

MST or docking station hubs often split the bandwidth which is fine, but they themselves don't support high refresh rates and even then they're often clunky bricks that require extra juice.

Last I knew monitors get rather persnickity if you mix refresh rates, especially with ones lined up in an expanded desktop format.

And to boot, most graphics cards now adays have 3 DisplayPort and 1 HDMI, which makes doing 3 high refresh or resolution monitors with a occulus/index/insert wired vr, a pain in the ***.

 

Maybe we're not there yet. Maybe standards are so scuffed that we CAN'T be there yet... or maybe the need is considered so niche that "buy another graphics card" is the only direct solution... but maybe someone with more insight and reach can guide us. You've done multimonitor setups before, maybe an expanded video covering the breadth of the topic and not specific cases like 3 "4k monitors" or a "wall of monitors with extreme budget solutions" might be worth covering?

 

Sorry for the rant, but maybe you can guide us.

[NickHuz]

Can you please review the best budget laptop options for students or maybe tablet  - who are applying to Colleges & Universities? Like the best in terms of quality = money, ( not for graphics or design major ).

Thx