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0:00 Linus Tok Tips Pt 2!
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1:48 DIY RGB?
2:38 Changing your monitor color
4:31 Vinyl wrapping your desk
5:25 How about vinyl wrapping your side panel?
8:00 Competitive Minecraft Mouse Mod
9:57 DIY Monitor Painting gone wrong
10:28 Sticker remover hack faceoff
12:30 Unfollow CarterPC? Y or N?
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15:54 Handwarmers...for gaming
16:45 l33t h@x0r mode (⌐■_■)
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21:13 NVIDIA Clean Install GPU Drivers

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@jameysummers1577 Жыл бұрын

Because of TikTok, I had a customer use a two-part JB Weld for thermal paste. That ruined a perfectly good Ryzen 9 3900x.

@OlivierCaron Жыл бұрын

It worked, it will never be too hot again

@Qardo Жыл бұрын

@@OlivierCaron Yeah. Plus, that CPU and Heat Sink will never be apart again.

@ArifKamaruzaman Жыл бұрын

@@OlivierCaron Haha. It probably will never get hot at all.

@TheNinja131 Жыл бұрын

Oh my...

@banko-xv4rt Жыл бұрын

how to delid your cpu guide?

@1ronsid3 Жыл бұрын

I worked at a company that "refurbished" old surface pros and we basically only used hand sanitiser

@AboveSomething Жыл бұрын

@@user-ui9ni4nf5z that's because nobody asked, because nobody cares..

@warpigs9069 Жыл бұрын

@@lummatravel reverse psychology :)

@imoffendedthatyouareoffended Жыл бұрын

@@warpigs9069 only works on kids.

@Megalomaniakaal Жыл бұрын

@@imoffendedthatyouareoffended Might not even work that well on them.

@maxmyzer9172 Жыл бұрын

i only ever use hand sanitizer in my personal use

@Usr04 Жыл бұрын

Love that he goes from joking to properly showing us how to safely use Spray paint. Caught me off guard but loved how he can transition from being goofy to serious in seconds !

@AstarionWifey 4 ай бұрын

“Paint fumes might be good for creativity” 😂

@Jackie89000 Жыл бұрын

For alot of games, you can also just rebind the left mouse button to the scroll wheel for very fast "clicking". I did this in Fallout 4 with a "Never-ending" double barrel shot gun as that gun fires as fast as you can click, and the Never-ending legendary effect means you dont ever have to reload. It was very fun.

@CraftyWitch1990 9 ай бұрын

Yep i did that for both Diablo 3 and Diablo 4 for force move. Because of the rapid "clicks" i can pick loot up easier too

@adamikos 4 ай бұрын

That gets u banned in mc tho

@apaulsenyt 2 ай бұрын

@adamikos nope not in 1.8.9 it’s allowed

@sid6645 Жыл бұрын

Yooo why does tik tok even exist? I dont get how they dodge the copyright hell they should be in.

@FeuchteGurke Жыл бұрын

China

@fabrizio4682 Жыл бұрын

-100,000 social credit points 😨

@Soutar3DG Жыл бұрын

It'll eventually get banned thankfully

@JoeyJoJoJr0 Жыл бұрын

Because it's a Chicom data mining operation

@jackall114 Жыл бұрын

"In the voice of trump": CHINA

@bgezal Жыл бұрын

So the molten monitor is now pink. I predict it will become LTT lore, like Mythbuster's Buster.

@willofthewind Жыл бұрын

Or the old lambo!

@ccricers Жыл бұрын

Just needs green stripes to match the old Lambo

@bgezal Жыл бұрын

@@ccricers Also his server rack.

@maxtrix1 Жыл бұрын

That answers why the paint job look like s****

@smeegle Жыл бұрын

or the shunt modded 3090

@stevenfox9695 Жыл бұрын

You can actually read NY Times articles by just refreshing the page and then halting the page load before it finishes loading. It looks like the check to add the "sign up" banner is one of the last things that happens, so if you cancel the page load fast enough you can just read the article.

@Suzumi-kun Жыл бұрын

if the entire page gets loaded before the popup surely there's extensions that just remove the popup (or you just disable it yourself in the html)

@stevenfox9695 Жыл бұрын

@@Suzumi-kun Sometimes you can disable it manually in the HTML, but some sites have gotten smart (but not that smart) and when the paywall pop-up loads, it truncates the page so even if you delete it, it's removed the text on the page beyond the first or second scroll.

@nicholascrow8133 11 ай бұрын

Or hitting stop or turning off wifi/data before the payment page usually works

@realchiknuggets Жыл бұрын

Something important to know about the last tip is that a clean driver installation also resets your NVIDIA Control Panel settings (and probably also your GeForce Experience settings, but I can't say for sure). I learned this the hard way because I followed this tip elsewhere for a different issue and didn't read what a clean install actually does.

@Ubersniperkrop Жыл бұрын

I once had a client at a business who was complaining about a keyboard not working. I told them to bring it over, plugged it in and it worked fine. Went over to their desk area and plugged it in and hey presto, it was working. They just hadn't plugged it in properly. Ten or so minutes of their work day, gone for that.

@CreativityNull Жыл бұрын

Had a client once plug their keyboard into the Ethernet port on their iMac. I had them take a picture with their phone (that they were okay at using) of what it should look like when properly plugged in.

@Redmanticore Жыл бұрын

company should send everyone that uses too much desk help to computer 101 troubleshooting class as a punishment. actually, just send everyone to such a course, if it exists. class would be mainly about "what to do when printer isn't working, what to do when mouse isn't working" scenarios that they have to solve. and it would have surprising stuff too, like a friking glove jammed inside the printer. I've had that in real life at work

@melissa3920 Жыл бұрын

@@CreativityNull I have to admit (not I don't, but I will) that I have done that once. In my defense, I wasn't looking when I plugged it in, and figured it out right away.

@steve270472 Жыл бұрын

@@CreativityNull I wouldn't expect more from an iMac user really 🤔😂

@mareksicinski449 Жыл бұрын

could've been more

@Wooskii1 Жыл бұрын

I've been using hand sanitizer over alcohol on stickers and labels for years, just out of convenience, not knowing it's actually better than alcohol.

@Vash.Baldeus Жыл бұрын

now you know xD.

@Wooskii1 Жыл бұрын

@@justinvandermerwe7428 Is that stuff okay on plastic? Guess I can test it on something... I usually use acetone on metal- just got a car bumper dropped at my door with nothing but shipping labels and stickers slapped on it, acetone took it right off, ready to paint.

@keemoo_7 Жыл бұрын

@@justinvandermerwe7428 depends on the type of plastic. dome hard plastics melt from acetone and some soft ones dont just depends

@Wooskii1 Жыл бұрын

@@keemoo_7 Thanks, I'll try it out... I almost used it on a motorcycle's plastic fearing, trying to remove some sticky black road grime boogers- Probably shouldn't keep the acetone next to the mineral spirits and paint thinner, all in similar looking cans going forward lol. Now I think I'm gonna try it on a small spot on the inside. That road grime is nasty, and I can't get it to come off.

@svw1999 Жыл бұрын

@@Wooskii1 Please do some research about the plastics you use. You can easily find charts that detail the resistance of certain materials against most solvents. ABS, PBT, PE, PET and PC should all be avoided when using acetone when it's not the material you want to remove. And since those are very common plastics in anything tech related using acetone blindly can f.e. destroy the surface finish of you laptop or worse.

@Eemazz Ай бұрын

10:26 - the rubbing alcohol, lol. I had to explain to nurses why the "streak marks" on their screens weren't going away. They had been using alcohol prep pads and ruined the finish on the screens for about a dozen cart computers they use to chart int he patient rooms. Telling their manager what happened was fun. Also telling them that the warranty was void and that they'd be on the hook for new screens if they wanted them - customers always love that.

@ovrwrldkiler Жыл бұрын

About the drivers thing; A year or so back my friend that I usually game with was complaining about games running really slow, and his hardware was better than needed for some of these games, so I tried to help him figure out why. After testing a few things I looked at his drivers. When I realized that he just hadn't updated his drivers in 4 years, I was actually floored. He's usually pretty decent with computer stuff, so the fact that something basic like that wasn't something he realized he should be doing kinda blew my mind.

@studyfocus8197 Жыл бұрын

is there any software you suggest to automatically update all the drivers. i have a lenvo thinkpad windows 10

@kshimi Жыл бұрын

@@studyfocus8197 driver easy driver premium free trial©microsoft

@studyfocus8197 Жыл бұрын

@@kshimi does it require credit card ??

@EternalInteractive Жыл бұрын

@@studyfocus8197 no ofc why would u need that??

@AndyKPOV 9 ай бұрын

@@studyfocus8197not always. Windows updates delete my gpu all the time and I have to manually redownload once a week from AMD. Windows doesn't ask about graphics updates only security and windows updates. Sometimes framework. But unless you manually update your GPU it won't update it self. Only the the program does (i.e. amd/Nvidia's graphics controller)

@_Rabz Жыл бұрын

real gamers sit on their hands, we're a natural heater.

@MyAmazingUsername Жыл бұрын

Nah. Real gamers hold their PP which provides both heat and a source of human touch.

@_Rabz Жыл бұрын

@@MyAmazingUsername Honestly was gunna say all males are born with a natural heater... But wanted to keep it PG :P

@_Rabz Жыл бұрын

@es e Real gamers don't turn on the heat, they bring it.

@DeltaPlaysThings Жыл бұрын

oh my god this is fucking genius

@olutukko2681 Жыл бұрын

I for one just fucking sweat while gaming so no problem for me

@19smkl91 Жыл бұрын

Years ago when I was working in tech store (and Linus was reviewing pc cases on park benches) I was first surprised about people bringing phones that just had 0% of battery convinced that its broken, there were 1-5 of these everyday. So not that surprised anymore that people can't update their own pc drivers, heck some people even don't know how to turn off the computer without pulling the plug.

@billybob4274 Жыл бұрын

Why pull the plug? There's a switch for convenience /s

@nidungr3496 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, I've had a phone that at 0% wouldn't charge other than from a wall socket. I would have thought it was broken if I didn't see it go to 0% just before.

@Shiznittlebizbampop1 Жыл бұрын

@@nidungr3496 So you couldn't charge it if it died in the car or something like that and if you tried to plug it into a car charger it wouldn't have worked? It only worked if you used the wall charger? Like even if the cable from the car is the same cable you use to charge your phone in the wall. Like just unpluging the wire from the USB from the charging brick and plug that into the USB car phone charger? Or was this one of those old-school car chargers that wasn't USB and the cable and I guess you'd call it the "Cars charging brick" were all one piece?- (I'm putting a lot of eggs in the- "This must have happened in a car/the wire they tried to use was their car charger to try to charge it, but it didn't work, but the wall charger at home did." basket lolol I mean idk if you had a portable power bank with you for your phone or not and tried that. I just know I don't normally do, so if I was out and my phone died, the only way for me to charge it/turn it back on, would be for me to put it in the car. But I know a lot of people do have and use those portable power banks around with them.

@crazypenguinguy Жыл бұрын

I once spent two hours on the phone navigating someone who used windows daily to the start button. I 100% believe this.

@RoshiGaming Жыл бұрын

I work in a school (K12) and I always joke about "what do these kids do with their phones when they die?" because the kids let their chromebooks completely die and then try to say they have no idea what is wrong with the device. but now I'm reconsidering things...

@alexross4792 Жыл бұрын

The way Alex is holding his MacBook at 21:50, I don't need this kind of anxiety in my life.

@oatmealtheecat8188 Жыл бұрын

19:30 in future, know that if you press the power button 5 times it will trigger SOS. Try to avoid doing that unless there is a real emergency

@Sarkli Жыл бұрын

Ive used Zoom for 3 years now and can tell you, yes people DO in fact need a dedicated mute button. Not a lot of them but definitely some.

@TheMightyZwom Жыл бұрын

But do you really think the people do dumb (or not well-behaved enough) to use a muting correctly would actually use a mute button as intended? I doubt it...

@Sarkli Жыл бұрын

@@TheMightyZwom I didnt specify what kind of people i was talking about. Thanks for putting words in my statement. Middle to late aged people (50-80 years old), whom ive been on Zoom with a lot, have issues with muting/unmuting themselves and not knowing if they are on mute or not etc. The interface, though simple for most of us, is still overwhelming for some. Like i said, some have learned but some definitely need a button.

@MyUsualComment Жыл бұрын

There is a dedicated mute button: the space bar.

@presidentirinavladimirovna7054 Жыл бұрын

I've got a dedicated mute on my Razer headset. It helps when you're gaming with open mic and need to easily mute/unmute for whatever reason mid-game

@being47 Жыл бұрын

@@Sarkli dedicated mute button will also confuse them , as with keyboard shortcut or anything you have to look on screen to make sure your are mute or not. so dedicated won't solve anything , because as you mention they don't understand they are on mute or not .

@jackbutler3402 Жыл бұрын

Loved Linus's face when Alex sarcastically says "income is high for some reason". The silent offence he took is gold. 20:37

@Sam-vf5uc Жыл бұрын

Everybody thinks they're middle class

@seniorbutttercup501 Жыл бұрын

I love ur name

@JolanXBL Жыл бұрын

18:13 To bypass signup walls on article sites, open the Inspector or developer window, find the css for the modal (that layer that darkens or blanks the screen) and set it's visibility to none. Then go up to the body tag and set overflow to scroll.

@jameswalker199 4 ай бұрын

Or disable JavaScript. Also, not only will all the adverts not load, but neither will the adblock detector! And if the website breaks because no JS, it probably wasn't worth visiting anyway

@ParodieHecker-mobile 4 ай бұрын

Sadly most of the pages got smarter.

@jamesrosewell9081 2 ай бұрын

I just deleted the popups

@gtctv7000 Жыл бұрын

19:08 didnt expect that linus, as the tech guy, didn't know the samsung menu lmao

@Danfunnyman1234 Жыл бұрын

It seems like everyone is doing "reacting to tiktok rage bait" videos, it's cool to see someone discussing the proper methods instead of just squealing at intentionally bad content

@swoop8047 Жыл бұрын

Baited, stooged and fanboid.

@Timbobjr Жыл бұрын

I really like the Donut Media series were they have mechanics react to TikTok advice, it's a good one to watch if you also enjoy cars (there's a surprising amount of overlap between people who love cars and people who love computers lol)

@cleverman383 Жыл бұрын

I love that LTT never does low effort content, they put a ton of effort into his work, including silly videos like this.

@football42241 Жыл бұрын

"Intentionally bad content" is a fantastic way to describe TikTok lol

@NightMotorcyclist Жыл бұрын

Except some of these "pros" like that privacy and security "expert" are getting REAL jobs from their BS. It needs to be mocked.

@bhavikn28 Жыл бұрын

I love how Alex just brings out the whiteboard

@idontwalkslow Жыл бұрын

That's an engineer for you

@micropixel2907 Жыл бұрын

Um Michael Jordan is misspelled

@hedgehog3180 11 ай бұрын

17:24 that makes me so nostalgic because that's the kinda thing you'd see on meme sites back in the day, I'm glad to know that some things never change.

@senbonzakurakageyoshi662 Жыл бұрын

The last one is serious business! I worked for a repair shop and you'd be surprised of the number of people that come to repair their PC and telling you it's broken or smthng, but all you have to do is upgrading the system or flash Bios or updating the drivers or even uninstall/reinstall drivers, its 70% of the jobs sometimes

@BrianG61UK Жыл бұрын

A gamer has a gaming PC. They don't need anything else to warm their hands. All gaming PCs have warm air blowing out of them somewhere.

@marioprawirosudiro7301 Жыл бұрын

Well, yes, but that "somewhere" is not always the side that is convenient for you to access. Sometimes, they only blow warm air through the back side, which means you need to stand up, walk to the back of your setup, and then warm your hands. The correct way is, as discussed in another comment thread, is to simply sit on your hands. Or to have a hand warmer at hand... ... in the form of an always-filled hot cup of coffee. 😎👍

@ZackestTV Жыл бұрын

The only time my hands are cold in my hot room with my pc running is when I took my adderall.

@melissa3920 Жыл бұрын

I had a gamer complain about the cold temperature and the wind chill that made it even colder. I had to explain that the temperature outside the house was different than the temperature inside the house, and that the wind shouldn't be blowing inside if the windows and doors are closed. They still didn't get it.

@miojocomfarinha Жыл бұрын

every laptop owner has his hands pretty warm most of the time.

@kirainie3244 Жыл бұрын

is that only me the first thing comes to mind is putting them on balls

@blakehelton8507 Жыл бұрын

Having recently started a new job as a GeekSquad agent, can confirm, you would be VERY surprised the types of things the average consumer brings their devices to repair/tech support for. Talking like forgot their password, then it turns out they have 2FA hooked up to their landline (no texts) or something, and we've got to explain to them 10 different ways that we can't magically fix that.

@bersspon3256 Жыл бұрын

..how do you enable 2FA on a landline??? Doesn't it send a test text first so you can actually enable it???

@hammer911tube Жыл бұрын

@@bersspon3256 same question here

@marvinh3357 Жыл бұрын

@@bersspon3256 sometimes you could youse a „code over voicecall“ option

@JxC250 Жыл бұрын

Those battery bank hand warmers are actually so underrated. I've had a dif one for almost 5 years and it's a life saver when you're out in the cold. Cause cold ruins your lithium battery charge, having a warm and charged pocket to keep your phone good while you're skiing on the mountain is amazing.

@helltuRt Жыл бұрын

the 'why' and 'noooo' at 0:30 😂 i feel you bro

@ljjumble Жыл бұрын

Its the gelification of an evaporating solvent that gives it more time to penetrate. They purposefully do this in art restoration with various solvents to allow more working time and penetration on small areas so something harsher doesn't have to be used. Hand sanitizer will get just about anything off of a hard non permeable surface. It's also good for getting dried paint out of paint brushes. I use it for so many things around my house that when 2020 hit I had just under 2 liters of it already in the house.

@zebraloverbridget Жыл бұрын

It is also amazing for actually getting white boards cleaned to the point of being white again. Acetone can clean out the paint from brushes but probably ends up shortening the life span of any brushes made from artificial hair. I only use it on brushes that are ruined and I used on harsh paints like spray paint (for touch ups of minor scratches or nicks)

@gblargg Жыл бұрын

I use Goo Gone and it gets stickers off but leaves an awful-smelling oily residue that I then have to clean off with something else. Hand sanitizer will be tried next time.

@rana1561 Жыл бұрын

also a sanitizes the surface for you.

@dmmartindale Жыл бұрын

@@zebraloverbridget You can by spray bottles of white board cleaner. The one I have is mostly ethanol - the main ingredient of hand sanitizer.

@arnox4554 Жыл бұрын

But does it work on the legendarily bad paper GameStop stickers?

@HeyItsComet Жыл бұрын

The thing about these is, for example, a child would easily be able to do the first one with any art and craft kits that most children get for birthdays/Christmas. And I can only imagine a parents reaction to glue and glitter all over a VERY expensive work computer and an unknowing child thinking they did their parent a favour ;-;

@mollyismyhandle 9 ай бұрын

I have that rabbitgoo window film and it looks INCREDIBLE with the sun shining through it!

@P4ncake_. Жыл бұрын

1:42 "AAH IT'S EVERYWHERE" - Mark Rober's Glitterbomb moment

@wonkothesane13 Жыл бұрын

It's really easy for an established KZfaqr to dunk on TikTokers for being ridiculous, but something I appreciate about this video (and LTT in general) is that you went out of your way to shout out TikTokers who are actually giving good advice, potentially sending traffic their way

@TheRokkis Жыл бұрын

The problem with TikTok, and YT too, is the content farming. They just pull shit out of their hat to make as many videos as possible for views to get ad revenue. Usually the hacks just don't work, but more than often they actually destroy your equipment and way too often they are dangerous to the point you could get injured or even killed. Both platforms are plagued by that shit. It's not tech related that much, but channel "How to Cook That" by Ann Reardon regularly goes over some "life hacks" made by content farmers and explains the science why they won't work, and she does show articles about people who have been permanently injured because they followed the faked videos of these content farmers. The worst part is that KZfaq or TikTok couldn't care less as long as they get their share of the money. Though not so much of that in these LTT examples, except that one weird video where the audio didn't even match the video at all. That was probably AI generated random crap or just randomly thrown together by some content farmer, which is why I kinda wanted to bring this up. And that glitter thing was pretty obvious content farming.

@Kakerate2 Жыл бұрын

@@TheRokkis omg thank you for this rabbit hole. It's such a niche topic that I didnt even think such a page existed, but I remember reading about a case where this happened involving a microwave, i think they were making rice or something lmfao

@kaelybmcfarland4523 Жыл бұрын

Hand sanitizers are made out of multiple things such as he said. The most notable for why it worked better than Isopropyl Alcohol is because they often have sodium content. Allowing for a finer cleaner scrub.

@FuzzelderFlummie Жыл бұрын

I use orange oil, works like a charm.

@oscarcacnio8418 Жыл бұрын

Wait. Sodium? I would have expected something like 70% isopropanol would be better because more time before it evaporates. Was not expecting one half of table salt to actually help.

@typha Жыл бұрын

Or you could just use Goo Gone

@Blacktronics Жыл бұрын

I'm kinda disappointed they didn't try plain old water on the stickers, 99.9% iso is not going to work on water soluble glue. 50% iso generally better as a general solvent because it is slightly more polar.

@trevorduran90 Жыл бұрын

Hand sanitizer uses a different type of alcohol than isopropyl

@Corpsecrank Жыл бұрын

Linus being a curious noob in the hidden menu is the best part of this whole thing for sure.

@skywolfx76 5 ай бұрын

"cause don't do that" is my new favourite quote

@beseakos Жыл бұрын

I remember a repair shop could not diagnose the cause of my instability when I was younger. Years down the road I could. This guy in the last tiktok killed it. Driver and bios updates and default settings for diagnosing is the first thing you do.

@agenticex Жыл бұрын

Totally agreed, update drivers and default settings. 90% of Other common issues are fixed by Checking cables and connecters. And check installation and seating of ram, cpu, and gpu.

@undeadmage Жыл бұрын

I think you needed to go to a therapist not a repair shop for that kind of problems mate.

@beseakos Жыл бұрын

@@undeadmage that joke was uncalled for but damn I laughed hard

@amoloch Жыл бұрын

@@beseakos the way your comment its written it really seems like your talking about mental problems

@beseakos Жыл бұрын

@@amoloch yeah, reading it back later it really does lmao

@jm-alan Жыл бұрын

The thing is that a lot of these are intentionally fake "hacks" literally for the purpose of getting younger children to semi-permanently or often permanently damage expensive things around the house, as a "prank"

@kira_y Жыл бұрын

Can't wait for the second course. I'm going to be using my modern times PC like a.. like a cutting-edge tech person soon.

@De4dSp0t Жыл бұрын

I've used the hand sanitizer to take of goo. Honestly thought that wasn't a "trick" It just stays on the surface so you can scrub it more and the gel helps suspend the goo in the sanitizer vs just smudging it on the surface.

@prettycow1553 Жыл бұрын

watching linus learn drag clicking is peak comedy

@sparkyispog Жыл бұрын

yea lmao

@aurniox Жыл бұрын

he only got 11 cps with a roccat 💀

@scott420 Жыл бұрын

@@aurniox yup 💀

@anselowo Жыл бұрын

as a bedwars/boxing main i find watching him try to be the funniest thing ever

@nando03012009 Жыл бұрын

Wtf is drag clicking??.

@asuchemist3371 Жыл бұрын

1:48 “The glue will protect it I think!”

@uninspirational14 9 ай бұрын

Yeah lol I bet he just died when she said that 😂

@clockwork204 9 ай бұрын

"IT'S NOT BETTER! What's in you?!" That made my day. :D

@Ty-ri7dy 9 ай бұрын

My old go-to for cleaning screens in the days of the 22'' Trinitron BEHEMOTH was rubbing alcohol. We also used it to clean the windows on movie projector booths. Better and cheaper than windex.

@manuel8123 Жыл бұрын

So about the hand Sanitizer one, It happened to me once that I got a big drop of fast dry super glue (the transparent one that is used to glue plastics) and I started to panic, by the time I got to the bathroom to wash my hand it was already dry, I try scrubbing my hand really hard and it didn't work, so in a last ditch effort I used Hand Sanitizer, and I removed it without trouble, apparently many glues dissolve on Hand Sanitizers

@georgesperelakis6631 Жыл бұрын

Best way is to have it under warm water for about 2 minutes,

@mlenstra Жыл бұрын

Just use some acetone based nail polish remover. Readily dissolves CA glue.

@todanielharrow Жыл бұрын

I love how Alex was like oh wow lmao people taking their PC into a repair shop just for them to update some drivers, when, having worked in a PC repair shop, I can 100% confirm that it’s a painfully accurate depiction of what being a PC tech repair guy is like 😂

@MariaIsabel_Fufuria Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! That “rainbow vinyl hack” and pink washitape/vinyl are stuff I did on my pink “cougar conquer”-like case. It’s not for everyone, but I LOVE my PC and monitors (one of the monitors is borrowed from the studio I work for so I can’t paint it). Some of these are hard to watch, even for a crafty person like myself. Hahaha😂

@mxs9994 7 ай бұрын

About wrapping the side panel window: A friend of mine used the rest of the chameleon tint foil he had left from wrapping his car window and used it on his pc side panel window. It looks fire and I would have never gotten the idea to do this. Amazing

@JesseArt Жыл бұрын

10:28 As a postal clerk who at times has to remove VERY sticky labels that accidentally get stuck to my work area, I can say that hand sanitizer does work quite well in a pinch at removing sticky paper and residue. After 2020, it's just become something that's readily available, so many are finding other uses for it.

@WaLApA117 Жыл бұрын

That chihuahua has been in Samsung phones' testing mode for as long as I've had Samsung Android phones, dating back to the Galaxy Y I had in 2012. Have some fond memories with that phone (some I still have screencaps of, test mode chihuahua included).

@dutifulbarrel9084 Жыл бұрын

It doesnt work on my phone sadly

@Dwivil Жыл бұрын

@@dutifulbarrel9084 some carriers will disable that diagnostic menu, but if you are carrier unlocked, then you can get it.

@sejmroz7355 Жыл бұрын

@@Dwivil what menu is it unther i can't find it.

@graphicsgod Жыл бұрын

I got a diagnostic menu, no Chihuahua though.. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@BlessedDog Жыл бұрын

It's iconic

@dedicategrinder88 Жыл бұрын

8:19 ngl didn’t expect Linus to react or see a drag clicking TikTok, as someone who likes Minecraft and still cant drag click this was useful lol

@wayne_Hard Жыл бұрын

6:13 „good luck” - That’s it? That’s all you guys have given me? 😂😂😂

@Dero88 Жыл бұрын

That hand sanetizer trick ive actually used at work sometimes when my ordinary cleaning stuff is empty, or a couple of stairs down in the car... Working with Ventilation in mostly apartments, so it often alot of grease and fat that a bit of hand sanetizer actually doing a pretty good job of removing without very much residue.

@mr.botond945 Жыл бұрын

Me and my mates discovered the *#0*# trick on a samsung phone way back in elementary school in the early 2010's and it felt like we reached the peak of hacking.

@DanAndHoe Жыл бұрын

"Samsung phone back in elementary school in the early 2010s" Dang, that made me feel old as shit. 😅

@mr.botond945 Жыл бұрын

@@DanAndHoe It was back when one kid in the class had a Samsung Galaxy S2 and it was like the coolest thing ever. Hard hitting nostalgia lol

@Woogoo336 Жыл бұрын

Doesn't work on a note phone it seems.

@magich8ball Жыл бұрын

@@Woogoo336 doesn't work on a Razr 5g either

@davidlogsdon7767 Жыл бұрын

@@magich8ball Some carriers block access to diagnostic codes in the phone firmware.

@elishateegardin Жыл бұрын

So glad you showed how to paint the monitor!!

@toms9651 Жыл бұрын

Fun anektodal story from Windows 95 days when hardly anyone knew much about computers there were companies that had customersupports answering and helping people with their PC "problems". Like CD disc readers for example, what they were or did. I heard a story from a person i knew that worked at such customerservice, someone called and complained that the coffey cup holder (CD tray) was broken. That person actually used CD tray for his coffeycup and found it convinient that the "coffey cup holder" had a automatic button that ejected the "Coffeycup tray" from the computer. Eventough i myself was new to PC's laughed kindly to that. Cause i knew what CD reader player was and had bought my first computer a 486 computer with integrated monitor and "coffeycup holder".

@nathanq7310 Жыл бұрын

My father got some of those hand warmer/power bank things, and to me they seems like they decided to turn their product overheating into a feature

@Newtination Жыл бұрын

20:39 Linus is like "Hey? I pay you enough!"

@TheDinis553 Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't have caught it that's too funny

@Metaldad87 Жыл бұрын

I caught the face he was making like dude I kinow how much I pay you 😂😂😂😂

@freepartytunes 9 ай бұрын

Re the alcohol gel part, we use deodorant in the uk to the same end, also works amazingly for chewing gum stuck in carpet. Literally spray a fair amount it freezes whatever you’re spraying and with stickers or sharpie/pen on say a playstation 2 or something it will either freeze and unstick the adhesive or somehow lift the pen marks.

@thecoon3193 4 ай бұрын

NGL, def used the dir/s in my IT support role to finesse users into rebooting. Remote in, run dir/s, user sees a buncha stuff in a CLI rapidly changing and thinks it must be doing something. Once its done "OK now that that's done, we need to reboot your machine real quick and you should be all set"

@dshadow01 Жыл бұрын

hands down the best part of the video is when alex says google has him in the high income category "FOR SOME REASON" and then linus has a slight delay of information processing before realizing what he just heard lmao

@darkumineru1681 Жыл бұрын

19:40 its really a lifesaver for seeing what can be wrong when the phone (a friend i have works with repair and he said this was the best thing to use to repair)

@xchaser69 Жыл бұрын

make more of these Linus. this is good

@cbiser12 Жыл бұрын

I have that vinyl on my bathroom window lmao it does actually look pretty good on that white rainbow build though!

@SmartassX1 Жыл бұрын

7:05 - For when you want to show off your RGB, but you're ashamed of what parts you have.

@Relaxitsonlyacomment Жыл бұрын

@17:32 😂😂 that’s how I always imagined hackers would sound like when they are in the zone

@tomcanty8856 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always guys!

@piecingtogethergamingpcs 7 ай бұрын

That hand sanitizer hack, that's a really good hack for for removing glue and also gunk off fans too, you can get unsented handsanitizer that has no aloe in it. put is on a rag and clean the fan blades and stuff just melts right off folks.

@dukeofgnar6646 Жыл бұрын

WD-40 is another way to remove sticker residue, depending on the material. They used to make WD-40 pens that were great for it

@the1mce544 Жыл бұрын

Plus a magic eraser with it. Works everytime

@darkriku12 10 ай бұрын

I've used hand sanitizer as a facilities painter for spilled paint before. Offices and schools are abundant in it and it's amazing for a quick cleanup job on tough cleans

@SkaMateria 10 ай бұрын

On the other end, for all the great uses for WD-40, it shouldn't be used in locks/keyholes or squeky hinges. It's a temporary fix that will inevitably make your situation worse. Once the WD-40 dries it leaves a residue making your lock/keyhole worse and the squeaking will return. Use a dry lubricant like graphite.

@TheDeathmail Жыл бұрын

I love how for some of the bad TikTok, you also gave good TikTok alternatives... The main issue with TikTok is that it's a lot easier to gain views... the videos are so short and easy to go through that it's a lot easier to watch the bad videos... On KZfaq, you don't just scroll through videos, you search for them and then the algorithm recommends them to you... so even if you like the bad videos, you'd be stuck in that community and the people who don't like them will probably never see them...

@dacueba-games 3 ай бұрын

The dog thing on Samsung is amazing. I love it so much.

@anonymouschicken20 9 ай бұрын

As someone who has incredibly cold hands during the Winter...my laptop's always-on-fire fans have done the trick for all those 10 years. You could say I'm quite a fan.

@InformatrIIcks Жыл бұрын

I love the "dir /s" thing 'cause i was definetly doing this when i was 13 on the school computers 😂 (For some reason cmd was not disabled. That was good fun) (For even more fun : open notepad, type : Color a :1 Dir /s Goto 1 Save as a .bat file, run it. It just loops forever. I used to even add prompt asking if i want to proceed with the hacking which was pretty fun and somehow convinced people that O was hacking something 😂)

@Vash.Baldeus Жыл бұрын

should've added a TROLOLOLO or something xD

@Lizlodude Жыл бұрын

Had a fun time at a A/V site where the machine was having issues and needed to restart, their tech guy's like yeah we disabled the restart button so you can't restart it Me: win R, cmd, shutdown /r *restarts* Mmkay carry on. One of the benefits of Windows having like 17 ways to shut down lol. Have fun finding them all to disable. Anytime you open the command line everyone thinks you're hacking XD

@Vash.Baldeus Жыл бұрын

@@Lizlodude exactly, there are far too many things to try disable.

@tiobetio9501 Жыл бұрын

I actually learned that you can easily change the color with that color command, pretty neat.

@8koi245 Жыл бұрын

I did some funny things... crashed a couple of computers whit a cmd command I found hehe

@hi_tech_reptiles Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've used hand sanitizer in a pinch at work to remove sticker goop and permanent marker. The consistency seems to help keep the liquid against the material.

@jsl6155 Жыл бұрын

And it doesn’t evaporate as fast as alcohol, although acetone will remove sticker goop faster but if the finish on what surface you’re applying it has weak bonds, don’t use it or test in an area that’s not visible.

@Clavichordist Жыл бұрын

Yup it works pretty well, I used to do the same.

@Brianhall1174 Жыл бұрын

WD40 works the best for sticky residue. Found that out when removing stickers from Ikea glsss cabinets

@altersami9660 Жыл бұрын

It just use oil (like olive or vegetable oil) to remove the goop, then use Isopropanol to remove the oil. Alternatively, the goof off spray works wonders.

@liamfunk7275 2 ай бұрын

i literally was warming up my hands with the air coming out of my top fans as you said that and i'm scared now.😳

@lyalldawson7080 Жыл бұрын

I've used hand sanitiser to take stickers off computers since early 2020 (when hand sanitiser became ubiquitous) and it works brilliantly. I hate cable ties and only use velcro ties.

@MatrixRay19 Жыл бұрын

Nooo, you can't just tell that table is vinyl, that table was my "look at it, I want that when have a good work and my own home", now it's just vinyl.

@theninjascientist689 Жыл бұрын

Now it's a table you can have now 😏😏

@philRacoindie Жыл бұрын

That vinyl wrapped side panel actually looked incredible

@sp00n Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wonder when the first companies start making these instead of just darkened tempered glass.

@Law2120 Жыл бұрын

This video is insanely entertaining. Good job

@HarpaxA Жыл бұрын

@12:00 I always use eucalyptus oil to clean stickers. Works everytime. With higher than 90% Alcohol, it often destroy the paint.

@thisispotatos9957 Жыл бұрын

I like how Linus is like "wow that is a terrible way to do that" and then shows a video where they cooled a PC with propane and melted the back of a monitor.

@shApYT Жыл бұрын

Unlike KZfaq, if TikTok started deleting old videos on their site, nothing of value would be lost.

@freedtmg16 7 ай бұрын

I love that some them were actually good tips! Not what I expected.

@Thegaijinpenguin21 Жыл бұрын

That vinyl wrap looks amazing

@mrlizard6529 Жыл бұрын

At the beginning of the pandemic when isopropyl became pretty much impossible to find we had to use hand sanitizer at our shop, I was surprised at how well it worked.

@NomTheDom 10 ай бұрын

@@blockedrex it really wasn't

@daexion Жыл бұрын

Some of the videos on tik-tok are over-laying the audio from someone else's video on-top of video footage from another source. I've noticed the same audio being played over a variety of unrelated video footage across multiple channels. These types of videos are infesting YT shorts now.

@0Rookie0 Жыл бұрын

If i get what you are saying, that's the literal reason it was made. To use other's sounds and create your own version of a good idea. That's why the dance "trends" are so synonymous to tik-tok.

@drippingout6154 Жыл бұрын

unrelated but 0 volume or mute right?

@zacktheslayer6564 Жыл бұрын

@@0Rookie0 yeah except it's just abused by overlaying the audio of someone else's content while a fucin gta5 board is played

@The23rdGamer Жыл бұрын

It's incredibly low effort content and it's so frustrating that it exists. :/

@jaredp6588 Жыл бұрын

Lighter fluid also works excellent for removing sticker residue

@readreadthedeadredguy4932 Жыл бұрын

there is a chrome extension that is called behind that overlay, it can work on that site as the page is behind the sign in overlay

@bloodyknife6681 Жыл бұрын

14:43 third option: hire him

@chrones56 Жыл бұрын

I worked at Staples for a little over 18 months. We'd have people come into EasyTech all the time to have us just update their stuff. Cost them around $30 to do it if they didn't have a protection plan for it (which typically costs $200 by itself for 2 yrs).

@jeremiahobrien8162 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been holding on to my phone for a couple years and wanted to wait another year. But this one is definitely tempting me to get a new one

@TBirdtub 7 күн бұрын

if you want to remove adhesive residue from stickers, for example, use cooking oil! this has always worked well for me!

@genotabby Жыл бұрын

I think a great application for the vinyl wrap is that when a tempered glass accidentally shatters, there will be less fragments over the place since it will be held by the wrap

@martinarcand1 Жыл бұрын

19:04 pure joy hahaha

@isaaco89 Жыл бұрын

I’ve used hand sanitizer at work, even to extract a Macbook battery, and it works super when not having alcohol 🤣

@jb888888888 Жыл бұрын

Back when I volunteered at my local Free Geek we used Goo Gone to remove stickers, then used alcohol to clean off the Goo Gone.

@Bioshot-me9gq Жыл бұрын

2:13 bro 😭 looks like linus got a lill too exited near the keyboard

@thekarnagerage Жыл бұрын

dbrand at 6:37 - "That's the part where we are right about you."

@makedaevilmage 9 ай бұрын

12:00 i tried alcohol to clean my laptop one time ... and it also removed some of the paint from the plastic housing. now it's a dull red instead of shiny red.

@juhojohansson1716 Жыл бұрын

The thing about hand sanitizers might be not so much alcohol at all, but the fact that some glue actually dissolves in oils... 8-bitguy is known to use WD-40 to remove stickers (often intact to be reused)... And I think I have seen others use similar methods for removing stickers and glue residue, in the vintage computer restoration. I once removed stickers from a glass jar, soaked it in water for ages, tried all the usual kitchen tricks, and try as I might, it would have taken forever to simply scrub it off... Then I just happened to try some olive oil, and there just happened to be one bottle out of date and a bit oil left, just sitting there waiting to be disposed of... So there was nothing to lose, and it actually worked. Now it did leave the glass a bit oily, but that is nothing one could not get rid of with a bit of soap.