This video is pain - Intel $5,000 Extreme Tech Upgrade

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[DANK_AS_gay]

"It was Verbal Irony"

"Oh, I didn't pick up on that"

Neither did I lol.

 

I understand the separation of work and play, it is instrumental to my mental health. If I play games at school, or I do homework at home, my balance gets screwed up.

[Zodiark1593]

Taran had an even more jank pc than I do! 
 

Edit: Also, Ikea always gets you. Those Swedish Meatballs are there for a reason!

[Spud387]

That desk is so weak because Taran tried reusing the old legs. The Bekant table top is supposed to use the Bekant legs which has a cross support for strength. No wonder it flexed so much by using 4 individual legs

[Murasaki]

I too have sandpaper ass. And elbows aswell. I need a new chair (again)

[Velcade]

No rules about not wearing pajamas in your own house. 

[Zodiark1593]

9 minutes ago, Velcade said:

No rules about not wearing pajamas in your own house. 

LMG has a dress (thanks to Luke) code. Pretty simple. Wear actual pants. 

[JogerJ]

HOLY SHIT CONGRATULATIONS TARAN

Edit: 

Edited April 26, 2022 by JogerJ
added linus response

[notR1ke]

This video was so awkward some time.. and It makes it funnier and better. Teran is my favourite bcs I kinda relate to him.

[Middcore]

1 hour ago, Zodiark1593 said:

LMG has a dress (thanks to Luke) code. Pretty simple. Wear actual pants. 

 

I remember some twit huffing in to the forum a year two ago and complaining about how unprofessionally all the LTT employees dress and I was like, my dude, the founder of the company is famous for wearing socks and sandals. 

[NomBread]

 Telling your boss you do whatever you want

[swimtome]

1 hour ago, JogerJ said:

HOLY SHIT CONGRATULATIONS TARAN

The most important correction ever in a videos and its not in the video or at least pinned....

[swimtome]

Can we please do Taran every year?

 

(Also Taran knows he can make different Windows logins?  I'm sure he does but that works for me for decent work/life separation)

[Ultraforce]

I guess it wasn't done since he bought it outside of the extreme tech upgrade but kind of surprised the K95 RGB keyboard he uses wasn't listed. Also, for the NAS I'm guessing maybe as a privacy measure they didn't show what it was or anything other than the hard drives used for it? Since the way the sleds were set up, I'm guessing it's not a repurposed desktop?

The box looks a bit like a Synology DS920+ Which I think was also what some people in the comments mentioned as their assumption.

[MultiGamerClub]

That chair is so much worse than mine.. holy snap.

[sub68]

The SSD bucket.

I totally don't have one...

most of them are wiped but one houses a back up of one of my external drives.

[GuiltySpark_]

I've always had the suspicion but after watching that, I can tell you Taran and I would not get along. The thought process he has for things is out there at times.

[Needfuldoer]

3 hours ago, Ultraforce said:

I guess it wasn't done since he bought it outside of the extreme tech upgrade but kind of surprised the K95 RGB keyboard he uses wasn't listed. Also, for the NAS I'm guessing maybe as a privacy measure they didn't show what it was or anything other than the hard drives used for it? Since the way the sleds were set up, I'm guessing it's not a repurposed desktop?

The box looks a bit like a Synology DS920+ Which I think was also what some people in the comments mentioned as their assumption.

Yeah, I wish they spent a little more time with the NAS (especially after Linus specifically pointed it out). Granted there's not that much to getting a Synology up and running, but it really deserved some elaboration as to why it's better than a shoebox dollar store plastic basket full of random drives. That was an opportunity to convert some of the spacebar heating crowd.

[sub68]

4 hours ago, Ultraforce said:

but kind of surprised the K95 RGB keyboard he uses wasn't listed

because the version he uses is discontinued

[Ultraforce]

2 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Yeah, I wish they spent a little more time with the NAS (especially after Linus specifically pointed it out). Granted there's not that much to getting a Synology up and running, but it really deserved some elaboration as to why it's better than a shoebox dollar store plastic basket full of random drives. That was an opportunity to convert some of the spacebar heating crowd.

Definitely agree, I often wonder what have I maybe missed with the qnap NAS I have, and it's a lot less powerful then the Synology that he got.

[Arika]

I'm starting to wonder how many of these are "fake" for lack of a better word.

How is it that so many employees at a company like LMG, have such terrible computers at home? If anything given the nature of the content i would expect that people would be more invested in their personal setups.

[xnamkcor]

You don't have to stop when your desk becomes a dining room table. My desk is a folding dining room table from Costco.

[Ultraforce]

1 minute ago, Arika S said:

I'm starting to wonder how many of these are "fake" for lack of a better word.

How is it that so many employees at a company like LMG, have such terrible computers at home? If anything given the nature of the content i would expect that people would be more invested in their personal setups.

Which ones, I feel like Mark was the only one whose set up was so bad it was kind of surprising, but given everything he talked about I kind of guessed he didn't really do too much on the computer at home. There is a level where given that they were doing remote work you'd expect it to be better but Linus did talk about them connecting to their machines virtually in which case that would be less of a factor, and maybe Taran was one of the few editors who went to work during the worst parts of the pandemic given his internet.

[Lightwreather]

"Taran Murphy's Law"

 Anything that can go wrong will go wrong around a Murphy.

[NemesisPrime_691]

12 hours ago, swimtome said:

Can we please do Taran every year?

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