I gotta say, people are right, it really is nice to listen to Lexi talk about tech stuff. I understand very little, but it's easy to listen to. It also reminds me of how I myself can get into a topic and talk deeply of it (no, not deep as in smart, personally. I mean deep as in, let's say, diving under an iceberg). It's comforting to know I'm not the only one.
as someone working in IT for 20 years I can confirm. "percussive maintainance" is indeed a great solution to a great variety of problems if done by professionals. it mainly fixes the frustration of the it guy but sometimes also fixes the problem ...
Sometimes it fixes the problem of "The company won't buy a replacement for this piece of critically needed hardware because 'oh the one we have works' or something similarly obviously wrong, when to any professional the answer is 'no the F it doesn't work' ". AKA it can fix the problem of the bean counters having higher priority than IT, because if you break the old insufficient thing so it won't work but you can recover data from it (if needed), then they MUST buy a new thing to get it working, and hey guess what maybe this wouldn't have happened if you had budgeted funds for that upgrade IT has been mentioning in LITERALLY EVERY MEETING for the past 5 years. Angry? No, I'm not angry, what are you talking about? EDIT: Oh and since you're in the IT department, you can probably cause the server room cameras to have "unfortunately" lost the footage of the event. EDIT 2: This tactic is only to be deployed in cases where you have to deal with an obstructive and/or micromanaging person outside of IT that is trying to run IT without having a fucking clue what the job entails because "Oh I build my kid's computers" or something like that (enterprise stuff is totally different than that, ya nonce!). EDIT 3: Even better if you can figure out how to pin the incident on said obstructive or overly micromanaging person. And yes, this is probably how that one post in the vid with all the cut ethernet wires happened.
@@ProtoV33MK1 That sounds like the window motor for that door had managed to get a broken or otherwise bad connection between the commutator of the motor and the windings of the armature. That's an unusual failure, these days it's more likely that the gears in the mechanism will strip out or (in a different style of window motor assembly) the pulleys will have worn out or the cable will have jumped out of place. 20-30 years ago I'd tell you to go take that bad motor to the auto parts store, they might give you the address of one or more shops in town where you could get the motor re-built (that was before they sent all the parts re-manufacturing jobs to China). These days I'd tell you to search the internet to see which vehicles used that same window actuator, and from that you have a list of what vehicles you want to harvest parts from at the junkyard (Hundai Santa Fe is a pretty common vehicle, you should have plenty to choose from). Or you know, you could just get a brand new one on Rock Auto, that works pretty well most of the time but if your vehicle is old enough the only option will be aftermarket parts that might not fit or work quite as well as OEM parts made by the same people that made the vehicle in the first place.
There is no feeling better then pushing a component that is beyond repair and that you've had to deal with for an extended period of time into the territory of completely destroyed.
Good to know I was not the only one to think that electronics looked like little cities, especially the surface mount resistors, which looked like little cars
I'm studying to be an electrician and when we got to circuit boards it was also described in the handbook using a city as an analogy, apparently the comparison is more common than we think
this subreddit always reminds of how one time I smelled smoke from my pc, so I tuned it off and looked inside, apparently the dvd drive literally caught fire. Took it out, turned the pc back on and acted like nothing ever happened, 3 years later it's still going strong, with a large black mark as a reminder inside the case
As a software engineering student this hurts on more levels than I expected, especially those nightmares of server rooms as they're something I've had to deal with during my latest internship
I really love having Lexi reading this out with all their experience, making references all over the place. As someone studying Computer Science and Engineering I feel like I'm listening to my sensei who is sharing their wisdom and using words I'll probably have or want to know someday, but for now processing these words will be put on hold due to how fried my brain is from my last exams.
Lexi: "I'm genuinly to figure out what's going on here. It- it just looks like a really dirty compu- oh there's a second picture!" Also Lexi: *"OH GOD-"*
This is the first time I've heard Lexi get genuinely angry. She's so wholesome, but she can get really scary at the drop of a hat. Lexi barely ever swears. But when she does, you know she's at the very least annoyed.
Honestly, as someone who wants to go into IT support work, hearing Lexi explain stuff about this and exactly _why_ it's bad and shouldn't be done is really helpful. It's not just her rambling about tech stuff and how bad the situation is, it's her giving us knowledge we may not have otherwise known. I really do understand why they keep assigning her to read posts from tech subreddits, because the other narrators don't really have the personal background knowledge for it like Lexi does. So much of the time in these videos is spent with her explaining key information and being an educator, even if it isn't always her intention. I'm really grateful for it. 💚 - Nev
i understand absolutely none of the technological lingo and/or jargon but there’s just something so delightful about lexi explaining it so fluently omg
20:23 Yeah, no, you cannot take hard drives apart. They are absurdly delicate. The tiniest bump, the tiniest brush, or even a piece of dust landing on it, and the drive is f*cked.
temp folders usually get filled up like that because of viruses. the large amount of data in the temp folder is most likely because the computer is being used directly by hackers to commit more hacking or like in the old windows xp days just to screw up your hardware.
10:53 As a casual writer I can tell you that modern devices are EXTREMELY distracting. Even if you just have Word, or whatever the F*** everyone uses these days, open you want to look at other stuff (youtube, social media, etc.)
Just use Linux. No notifications unless you allow them, local users as opposed to having a Microsoft account forced on you, and office libre is free while Microsoft office is not
@@petelee2477 I think it's more about the ease of just opening a browser and going on TH-cam. If you're using something old enough, it's either painfully slow or impossible to go watch videos.
"And I don't sleep" is the most horrifying thing I have ever heard Lexy say since I started watching EmKay. This is exactly why I love her. All the other narrators are cool and amazing, but Lexy just sometimes speaks with my heart more than others. :3
As a Hobbyist Writer, I can definitely say the reason Writer's have an older pc is actually a few reasons. First is usually the fact that they have no wifi adapter and are essentially free from distractions like Twitter or Facebook. The other reason is usually a bit of stubbornness and nostalgia.
I really do think the Emkay narrators should do a holiday D&D campaign; that way, Lexi will have a creative way to vent her frustration; I suggested 2 character templates for each of the 3 current narrators, my suggestions for Lexi were a Tabaxi Bard (because the Lexi Kitty would be a literal cat, and she is inspiring) and a Leonnin (anthro lion person, so huge cat) Cleric (Domain of Peace, because Lexi strikes me of the 3 narrators to be the peacekeeper, that doesn't mean she can't lay smackdown with a mace or war hammer when someone is doing something stupid); and if they can get Damien back in for the event, Damien can be the Dungeon Master.
@@NazukiraMiyasaki It would be nice to see an announcement of a Christmas or New Years' campaign by year's end, but an announcement for an EmKay D&D campaign any time next year would be nice. Also, if they can't get Damien to come back to play DM, then they could reach out to Blair of the iilluminaughtii channel and see if she's willing to play the role of DM.
My favorite hardward gore that I've seen is from the movie Summer Wars. It's that scene where they wonder why their very expensive server isn't working properly and find that the other people in the family have taken the ice from the room that they were using to cool it.
my dad used to work IT, whenever someone would come in with complaining about...i honestly don't remember but generally something happened cuz they were dumb, but they bricked their harddrive. my dad usually decided that he wasn't paid enough to try to recover the bs, so he would just get a new one and put it in, and tell the consumer that they killed their harddrive and to be more careful what happened to the drive afterwards? my siblings and I took them apart and used the parts to make UFO toys
I used to work in IT as well and in the first server room I worked on it had a giant sledgehammer that had a label saying "fuck it lets pay the IT workers more" made my day
that last post reminds me of a piece I read on the nature of eldritch horror a while back. The point was, an ant walking through some electronics would not understand what it was looking at. It wouldn't have the frame of reference to care. But give that ant a brief moment of understanding that the monoliths surrounding it are built to pass incomprehensible amounts of information using lightning itself as its vector, and then having that ant go mad with a brief glimpse at knowledge of concepts it could ever comprehend, THAT is eldritch horror
@@Kae-Lexi Learning IT is actually beneficial to the future. Like if you run into a problem you don't understand with your electronics, you don't have to pay anyone to identify the problem. You would just know.
2:56 A customer of mine bought a phone screen that was too small for their phone and asked me to melt it, stretch it and install it. After explaining that's not how touch screens work and him not believing me, I said I would pay him twice my hourly rate to watch him do it. He never took me up on the offer.
i like how emkay gives lexi the job of hardware/software/tech support gore subreddits due to the fact that lexi knows a lot about hardware/software/tech
As someone who wrote on a really old computer, I know why writers use really cold computers. It's a whole hell of a lot easier to focus on your writing when your computer is literally incapable of playing TH-cam videos.
Yep, that was a troll post. The one of me trying to extract data off a drive with my thumb smushing into it… yes it was me and it was a joke. Seriously though - worse than that actually happened with me. I was doing a residential job, and the woman said ‘oh while you’re here, could you see if you can get data off my daughter’s computer - her husband took the drive out for you’. Anyway, I did the original job, and asked ‘ok, so where is the hard drive?’. She said ‘It’s on the table where you’ve been working’. Really? I thought… where…? And she shouted over… it’s in the envelope. Oh. Oh, no! Oh yes… For - and I kid you not - in the envelope was a hard disk platter! The husband had carefully extract the HD, opened it up, ripped out the platter and thrown the rest away. I told her ‘if there ever was a chance, there’s none now’. She said her daughter will be most disappointed. I said there are companies that might be able to help, for a few thousand quid. Apparently it had her daughter’s wedding photos on, and when she heard the news she burst out crying. ROFL! It’s cheaper and easier to just remarry
I LOVE when Lexi gets to narrate the tech videos. She really seems like she’s in her element and she gets to explain tech things that we normally wouldn’t know about these posts.
@@undefinedmonoxide I'm sorry, but you're just objectively wrong. I'm going to stop responding here because there's no point in arguing with someone who refuses to compromise 🤷♂️
15:10 I used to be a PC repair tech once upon a 2003-5, and this reminded me of a weird case that came in. Their machine wouldnt boot, it was a win98se machine and they'd pooched it somehow, I forget how, but what I do remember is what was in the floppy drive. A nintendo gamecube magazine cover disc.
I've never laughed so hard when I saw the "Hard Reset" tool!?!?! One company I worked for starting in 2012 had a rat's nest of cables like the ones shown. My boss had just taken over as manager so he had us come in with him on this one weekend. He would pull the cables and tell one of us it went from this port to this port, and we'd jot it down. Once he had one patch panel cleared, another person would come back and start rerunning the cables, with the correct length, and actually use the cable routing paths above and below the patch panel. Took us all weekend to clean up, but he bought us food and let us listen to football games while we did it.
As a guy working in tech myself (technical support and developer support for a software company) hearing Lexi's rants is beautiful. As a guy working in tech myself, having to watch these clips makes me want to cry. Especially the "end user fucked something up royally beyond any reason or repairability and now expects you to fix it" (like the laptop, that was put into the oven) parts.
7:43 - I work in a print shop in a retail store. This is why the employees put the paper in the $45k printer/copiers in self service and no you can't use your own paper because you can't be trusted. Had a guy trying to PRINT FRAUDULENT CHECKS and his paper kept jamming in the printer because it was well... not an approved paper. The toner thing also gives me some ptsd from a Yellow cartage exploding. Yellow is a finer particle compared to C M and K so we are still finding it 5 months later.
The hospital server room one made me recoil in horror. I'd fix that shit for free, just to know someone wouldn't die after an IT guy tripped over a CAT5 cable and disabled the network.
The issue is that there really is never a good time to shut down the servers for maintenance. I have been in situations where we couldn't access meds or charts because the system was down for maintenance.
16:40 this reminds me of a laptop we had at church, i volunteered to help with sound for awhile and there was a laptop we got to control all the lights with, like the second time we used it someone closed the laptop and the program crashed and deleted everything so they had to completly set up the lights again, now they just have a note taped to it saying "do not close!" also for that last one, my dad also works with computers and always had stuff like that around, me and my brother not realizing it could easily ruin it played with those as kids
As a writer, I can actually explain the bit at 10:55 about why writers like old PCs. When I'm writing, I want to be able to access the internet, if I need to look up something, but I also want to not be distracted by the internet with its TH-cams and Facebooks and TikToks, etc. Using an ancient PC like that lets me access Wikipedia and other text-based sites, while being *unable* to load most of the distracting, video-based websites. I myself have a 12-year-old laptop that I use like this.
It feels like a time capsule. Imagine in 2012 a random kid puts a piece of paper into the school's disc drive for a troll meme then 10 years later, during the times of trollge and Ohio, a kid wants to use a disc after it's become alnost obsolete and discovers a relic of the past.
12:50 - That's actually really common during network upgrades. The techs will just cut the cables instead of trying to unplug 100+ network cables. The cables are being replaced anyways so it doesn't matter.
Lexi actually defending some of the server cabling makes the rest of the video even funnier because the fact that she does get angry at some of the other ones paints just how bad they are
Same as everyone else, love hearing Lexi talking about stuff she's passionate about. I got so excited listening to her in the shittycarmods video when it became clear this was something she was invested in.
honestly getting into IT would be so worth it for this sub specifically. this sub is meant to induce pain, right? getting into it would make it MORE potent
So I do know that Google Chrome stores A LOT in the temp folder. Other than that, I can think of things like different passwords that were saved, cookies, as well as certain other applications like Steam, Origin, and even Netflix that store temp data as well. As for the video, gotta love Lexitalk. As a tech nerd myself, it's a joy to hear others talk about the same things and be loved for it.
I usually don't like hearing rants about things I have no clue about, but for some reason, Lexi's rants are almost therapeutic and relaxing to listen to
The thing about the Temp folder, that was actually a common issue in Windows 7. The Temp folder should automatically be emptied when Windows shuts down, but for some reason that didn't always happen. One of our customers had this issue. There were several employees that called frequently because their C-drives were full and it was always the Temp folder. Haven't seen that happen with any later Windows version tho, so it seems MS fixed it.
@@toast1167 The files I'm referring to and that usually caused this issue are located in the %Temp% directory (hit Windows+R and enter %temp%. This leads you to the Temp directory hidden in your User folder). Deleting those is perfectly safe. If any of them are still needed, Windows will tell you that they're in use.
10:54 Best guess is because modern computers are really distracting to work within as they will pester you with notifications for bullshit that does not matter.
3:42 You can actually lowkey troll everyone by doing this. By attatching some of the peeled off film to some glasses (mind the orientation), you'll be able to see it as normal but everyone else will think you're reacting to a blank white screen.
That unplugged cable one just reminds of the scream test for things that no one seems to know what the heck it does anymore. Just turn it off/unplug it and see who comes screaming!
21:13 it literally *is* ground. That's where the term comes from. The ground in a building's electrical network is all connected to a literal metal pole that is stuck into the ground somewhere.
About the “writers and super old computers” A manuscript, even for a book only uses 200-300Kb text files, so obviously we don’t need anything too high tech to achieve it. Besides people collect old DOS & Windows 9X machines as a hobby, like retro game collecting.
13:02 Generally this isnt a case of sabotage. when a server rack is being decommisioned and not replaced (ie: moving to cloud) for some companies its actually cheaper to cut the ethernet cables and sell as-is rather than have someone unplug the cables. no, really, this is apparantly a thing.
I also loved pretending PCBs were tiny cities and imagined little people running around them living their lives. And then I grew up to major cybersecurity in college. And they still look like cities to me.
Why is it always when im about to draw an EmKay video gets uploaded? Im not complaining, im actually happy because i get more stuff to listen to while i draw
9:35 Germany: hold my beer. We do have regions where you have no phone or internet when you are in a village. Also DialUp is still the only way for that regions to get internet.
@@cycrothelargeplanet No. Her name is now Narrator and always will be. The other EmKay narrators are also all named Narrator. Things have been set in motion that cannot be reversed. All hail the mighty Narrator.
Lexi ranting PC is an ASMR of itself. The giggles and comfort it brings is a power on its own.
haha thanks
Lmao
She's incredible she can literally always bring a smile to my face no matter how bad my day's going
@@LyricTheMusicFox SHEEE?!?!?!?!?!?
I know, i could listen to that one 10 hour vid from emkay that has a bunch of vids compiled, they all sound super chill.
No homo btw
19:01 "I'm coming for you and I don't sleep" was the bone chilling threat i've ever heard
Lexi is gold
I've said this before, and I'll say it again:
I love it when Lexi narrates tech-related subreddits.
Yep, she knows so much about this stuff so it’s perfect
also very enjoyable to hear another person who actually knows their stuff instead of lets say idk robin
sorry robin
I saw what subreddit was being covered and thought to myself "Please be Lexi please be Lexi please be Lexi" as I clicked. :)
Lexi the Lexechnician
LEXI IS THE BEST!
I'm a geek with a degree of my geekery... and the gremlin adhd urge to paint things with nail polish is still alive and well with me.
Take them apart and spray paint them. It's really easy and looks good
I want to paint EVERYTHING
@@ICANTCHOOSEARI same
as a pc tech..... go ahead.. paint it whatever you want... Just dont paint anything on the inside lol
@@harleyme3163 You shouldn't have told me this now I will paint everything
I gotta say, people are right, it really is nice to listen to Lexi talk about tech stuff. I understand very little, but it's easy to listen to. It also reminds me of how I myself can get into a topic and talk deeply of it (no, not deep as in smart, personally. I mean deep as in, let's say, diving under an iceberg). It's comforting to know I'm not the only one.
hearing her get into all the technobabble stuff makes me smile
I love to listen to lexi rant about tech stuff
@@fromashesreborn. I thought that said technoblade and I was so confused 😭
@@slam.p bro me too
@@slam.p y e s
as someone working in IT for 20 years I can confirm. "percussive maintainance" is indeed a great solution to a great variety of problems if done by professionals. it mainly fixes the frustration of the it guy but sometimes also fixes the problem ...
It is especially effective as a solution when the problem is a coworker keeps messing with the wires :)
Oh? Server?
Solution: h a m m e r .
Sometimes it fixes the problem of "The company won't buy a replacement for this piece of critically needed hardware because 'oh the one we have works' or something similarly obviously wrong, when to any professional the answer is 'no the F it doesn't work' ".
AKA it can fix the problem of the bean counters having higher priority than IT, because if you break the old insufficient thing so it won't work but you can recover data from it (if needed), then they MUST buy a new thing to get it working, and hey guess what maybe this wouldn't have happened if you had budgeted funds for that upgrade IT has been mentioning in LITERALLY EVERY MEETING for the past 5 years.
Angry? No, I'm not angry, what are you talking about?
EDIT: Oh and since you're in the IT department, you can probably cause the server room cameras to have "unfortunately" lost the footage of the event.
EDIT 2: This tactic is only to be deployed in cases where you have to deal with an obstructive and/or micromanaging person outside of IT that is trying to run IT without having a fucking clue what the job entails because "Oh I build my kid's computers" or something like that (enterprise stuff is totally different than that, ya nonce!).
EDIT 3: Even better if you can figure out how to pin the incident on said obstructive or overly micromanaging person.
And yes, this is probably how that one post in the vid with all the cut ethernet wires happened.
@@ProtoV33MK1 That sounds like the window motor for that door had managed to get a broken or otherwise bad connection between the commutator of the motor and the windings of the armature. That's an unusual failure, these days it's more likely that the gears in the mechanism will strip out or (in a different style of window motor assembly) the pulleys will have worn out or the cable will have jumped out of place.
20-30 years ago I'd tell you to go take that bad motor to the auto parts store, they might give you the address of one or more shops in town where you could get the motor re-built (that was before they sent all the parts re-manufacturing jobs to China).
These days I'd tell you to search the internet to see which vehicles used that same window actuator, and from that you have a list of what vehicles you want to harvest parts from at the junkyard (Hundai Santa Fe is a pretty common vehicle, you should have plenty to choose from). Or you know, you could just get a brand new one on Rock Auto, that works pretty well most of the time but if your vehicle is old enough the only option will be aftermarket parts that might not fit or work quite as well as OEM parts made by the same people that made the vehicle in the first place.
There is no feeling better then pushing a component that is beyond repair and that you've had to deal with for an extended period of time into the territory of completely destroyed.
Good to know I was not the only one to think that electronics looked like little cities, especially the surface mount resistors, which looked like little cars
I'm studying to be an electrician and when we got to circuit boards it was also described in the handbook using a city as an analogy, apparently the comparison is more common than we think
We all share the same braincell.
Bjork reference?
@@paddington1670 I doubt it. What is Bjork?
As a kid I called resistors "the bees" because they have these stripes and they are often yellow
this subreddit always reminds of how one time I smelled smoke from my pc, so I tuned it off and looked inside, apparently the dvd drive literally caught fire. Took it out, turned the pc back on and acted like nothing ever happened, 3 years later it's still going strong, with a large black mark as a reminder inside the case
"Congratulations! You have just made fire!"
took burning a disc too literally
Lexi was the PERFECT hostess for videos from this subreddit. She understands how much these images hurt.
No, you're the perfect hostess.
Any plans for this weekend? 😏
No you're the perfect hostess
Got any twinkies you wanna share? 😏🙄
@@youtubestudiosucks978 DAMN, THAT WAS SMOOTH!
Host*
Isn't the person doing the voice over a dude?
As a software engineering student this hurts on more levels than I expected, especially those nightmares of server rooms as they're something I've had to deal with during my latest internship
SAM? oh god I know what there will be if he meets these idiots who chased these images. (BLOODSHED)
sam sam saaamm i didnt know your an software eng.
(BLOODSHED)
this was pain to record.
Lexi!! Funny you only have 7 likes.
Was it thought to record due to… tech support gore?
lul
To hear you say this 3:47, it was worth it 💚
this was pain to watch.
I'm an IT guy, this hurts my fucking soul
I really love having Lexi reading this out with all their experience, making references all over the place. As someone studying Computer Science and Engineering I feel like I'm listening to my sensei who is sharing their wisdom and using words I'll probably have or want to know someday, but for now processing these words will be put on hold due to how fried my brain is from my last exams.
Lexi: "I'm genuinly to figure out what's going on here. It- it just looks like a really dirty compu- oh there's a second picture!"
Also Lexi: *"OH GOD-"*
My jaw fucking DROPPED at that💀💀💀💀
@@amog8202 WTF ARE THOSE, its like tiny baby cryptid roaches or some shit, abandon this multiverse please PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF-
13:09
Kill it with fire
Was that a pile of massive dead cockroaches? I couldn't tell what it was.
This is the first time I've heard Lexi get genuinely angry. She's so wholesome, but she can get really scary at the drop of a hat. Lexi barely ever swears. But when she does, you know she's at the very least annoyed.
no way in hell that is a woman
@@sovb Ever heard of being transgender?
@@sovb fun fact women do not always have the same voice :3
@@sovb
number one: she is trans
number two: she decided not to take voice changing hormones due to her doing voice over stuff iirc
@@Rebirth._ yikes
Honestly, as someone who wants to go into IT support work, hearing Lexi explain stuff about this and exactly _why_ it's bad and shouldn't be done is really helpful. It's not just her rambling about tech stuff and how bad the situation is, it's her giving us knowledge we may not have otherwise known. I really do understand why they keep assigning her to read posts from tech subreddits, because the other narrators don't really have the personal background knowledge for it like Lexi does. So much of the time in these videos is spent with her explaining key information and being an educator, even if it isn't always her intention. I'm really grateful for it. 💚
- Nev
i understand absolutely none of the technological lingo and/or jargon but there’s just something so delightful about lexi explaining it so fluently omg
As someone that loves electronics and worried they might start a fire if something bad happens to them this video gives me pain
Just lay your head on this spicy pillow.
Im a computer engineering student, guess how i feel
Same
I actually have really bad anxiety about that
I think I had a panic attack or something once because of it
Just turn your electronics off during storms. My Monitor and PS5 were fried while gaming during a storm with a surge protector
lexi getting progressively more horrified and enraged is... my favorite. i feel bad saying so, but i love when she rages over mistreated electronics.
Same
New viewer: why does everyone like Lexi so much?
Everyone: Lexi = wholesome
Lexi's the culmination of what nerds actually act like, and it's beautiful!
@@damienearl8302 that is a fact
a dude turning into a girl isn't wholesome.
@@ironbonk11 Eh?
Anyways, Lexi's a woman, so I don't think that applies regardless-
@@ironbonk11 most likeable person in ohio💀
20:23 Yeah, no, you cannot take hard drives apart. They are absurdly delicate. The tiniest bump, the tiniest brush, or even a piece of dust landing on it, and the drive is f*cked.
the narrator being knowledgeable about subjects in the video makes it so nice and interesting to watch honestly
aside from the iphone thing. "what is the S" like....
temp folders usually get filled up like that because of viruses. the large amount of data in the temp folder is most likely because the computer is being used directly by hackers to commit more hacking or like in the old windows xp days just to screw up your hardware.
or just turning off the pc without closing the webbrowser first, having all temp browser data, img and etc stuck , and never deleted
Also by Windows Updates and other software online updates. Plus there are some crazy bussiness software which spam into temp folder like crazy.
I love videos where Lexi shows her knowledge in technology. Her narrations are always a treat.
You mean his
Edit: I was wrong, though I don't know how I was supposed to know this from the video.
@@colefoster9280 Found the transphobe
@@colefoster9280nah man, i'm pretty sure she's a girl
@@colefoster9280 Nope. Her. And she, and hers, and female, and girl. 100% she's a she
@@FurryQueenYT found the reality denier
16:48 someone definitely closed the lid of that server laptop.
10:53 As a casual writer I can tell you that modern devices are EXTREMELY distracting. Even if you just have Word, or whatever the F*** everyone uses these days, open you want to look at other stuff (youtube, social media, etc.)
The same reason why ppeople are moving back to typewriters
@Word Salad yea not much distraction and better for your eyes.
Just use Linux. No notifications unless you allow them, local users as opposed to having a Microsoft account forced on you, and office libre is free while Microsoft office is not
@@petelee2477 I think it's more about the ease of just opening a browser and going on TH-cam. If you're using something old enough, it's either painfully slow or impossible to go watch videos.
@@sourestcake oh I thought it was more about cortana and notifications
"And I don't sleep" is the most horrifying thing I have ever heard Lexy say since I started watching EmKay. This is exactly why I love her. All the other narrators are cool and amazing, but Lexy just sometimes speaks with my heart more than others. :3
As a Hobbyist Writer, I can definitely say the reason Writer's have an older pc is actually a few reasons. First is usually the fact that they have no wifi adapter and are essentially free from distractions like Twitter or Facebook. The other reason is usually a bit of stubbornness and nostalgia.
2:37
Judging by the footprints someone got blasted with ink
I like to image that it’s a cartoon and the person just disintegrated by an explosion
I really do think the Emkay narrators should do a holiday D&D campaign; that way, Lexi will have a creative way to vent her frustration; I suggested 2 character templates for each of the 3 current narrators, my suggestions for Lexi were a Tabaxi Bard (because the Lexi Kitty would be a literal cat, and she is inspiring) and a Leonnin (anthro lion person, so huge cat) Cleric (Domain of Peace, because Lexi strikes me of the 3 narrators to be the peacekeeper, that doesn't mean she can't lay smackdown with a mace or war hammer when someone is doing something stupid); and if they can get Damien back in for the event, Damien can be the Dungeon Master.
This is genius. I'd pay to see that, no questions asked.
I vote for leonnin cleric bc Lexi and hammer is already canon as per this video
@@NazukiraMiyasaki It would be nice to see an announcement of a Christmas or New Years' campaign by year's end, but an announcement for an EmKay D&D campaign any time next year would be nice. Also, if they can't get Damien to come back to play DM, then they could reach out to Blair of the iilluminaughtii channel and see if she's willing to play the role of DM.
My favorite hardward gore that I've seen is from the movie Summer Wars. It's that scene where they wonder why their very expensive server isn't working properly and find that the other people in the family have taken the ice from the room that they were using to cool it.
BASED MOVIE
And all those fans!
To keep Grandma's body cool in the summer heat, I remember!
my dad used to work IT, whenever someone would come in with complaining about...i honestly don't remember but generally something happened cuz they were dumb, but they bricked their harddrive.
my dad usually decided that he wasn't paid enough to try to recover the bs, so he would just get a new one and put it in, and tell the consumer that they killed their harddrive and to be more careful
what happened to the drive afterwards? my siblings and I took them apart and used the parts to make UFO toys
I used to work in IT as well and in the first server room I worked on it had a giant sledgehammer that had a label saying "fuck it lets pay the IT workers more" made my day
that last post reminds me of a piece I read on the nature of eldritch horror a while back. The point was, an ant walking through some electronics would not understand what it was looking at. It wouldn't have the frame of reference to care. But give that ant a brief moment of understanding that the monoliths surrounding it are built to pass incomprehensible amounts of information using lightning itself as its vector, and then having that ant go mad with a brief glimpse at knowledge of concepts it could ever comprehend, THAT is eldritch horror
As someone currently in college to do IT, I like listening to Lexi talk tech and horror stories. She'd be nice to work with/for, I think.
You're in college to do it? Geez, think about learning, will ya
@@Kae-Lexi thats a bit rude
@@Kae-Lexi Learning IT is actually beneficial to the future. Like if you run into a problem you don't understand with your electronics, you don't have to pay anyone to identify the problem. You would just know.
@@lolzu I don't think you got the joke I was making-
@@Kae-Lexi Tone indicators are a thing, and they are very helpful! /gen
2:56 A customer of mine bought a phone screen that was too small for their phone and asked me to melt it, stretch it and install it. After explaining that's not how touch screens work and him not believing me, I said I would pay him twice my hourly rate to watch him do it. He never took me up on the offer.
Love when Lexi narrates especially IT stuff. She's a hoot and her laugh is contagious
16:31 That’s a MacBook. Being closed sets it into sleep mode. When it sleeps, the whole server will go down.
That's what I thought 😂
You need more of this. Watching you rant while armed with knowledge is a luxury we all desire
i like how emkay gives lexi the job of hardware/software/tech support gore subreddits due to the fact that lexi knows a lot about hardware/software/tech
As someone who wrote on a really old computer, I know why writers use really cold computers. It's a whole hell of a lot easier to focus on your writing when your computer is literally incapable of playing TH-cam videos.
Yep, that was a troll post. The one of me trying to extract data off a drive with my thumb smushing into it… yes it was me and it was a joke. Seriously though - worse than that actually happened with me. I was doing a residential job, and the woman said ‘oh while you’re here, could you see if you can get data off my daughter’s computer - her husband took the drive out for you’. Anyway, I did the original job, and asked ‘ok, so where is the hard drive?’. She said ‘It’s on the table where you’ve been working’. Really? I thought… where…? And she shouted over… it’s in the envelope. Oh. Oh, no! Oh yes… For - and I kid you not - in the envelope was a hard disk platter! The husband had carefully extract the HD, opened it up, ripped out the platter and thrown the rest away. I told her ‘if there ever was a chance, there’s none now’. She said her daughter will be most disappointed. I said there are companies that might be able to help, for a few thousand quid. Apparently it had her daughter’s wedding photos on, and when she heard the news she burst out crying. ROFL! It’s cheaper and easier to just remarry
We once took a (broken) DDR2 RAM module, cut it so that it fit into a DDR3 slot and then asked on the internet why it does not work.
They clearly should have just left the hard drive alone.
@@wernerderchamp good gods lmao
It's not funny, but okay
@@carlycarmine3858 k
Who doesn’t understand most of what Lexi says but still love her explaining everything like we understand haha
Ok I’m prepared
(Gets shield)
Dear argumentors
*Try Me*
@@gwstuff4174 haha
guilty
@@gwstuff4174
Preparing Gayser Beams
It’s a woman?
I LOVE when Lexi gets to narrate the tech videos. She really seems like she’s in her element and she gets to explain tech things that we normally wouldn’t know about these posts.
0:14 I'm gonna train horn. |:(
She? You mean he?
@@undefinedmonoxide no
@@auriiete Yes.
@@undefinedmonoxide I'm sorry, but you're just objectively wrong. I'm going to stop responding here because there's no point in arguing with someone who refuses to compromise 🤷♂️
At about 18:40 I was like "That's a ThinkPad, you bastard" and then Lexi said the same thing. Same brain-cell.
Lexi threatening lives is wonderful. But I think Lexi gets this subrebbit because she is the only one that knows what is going on in tech.
I'm a young grasshopper when it comes to tech, and Lexi's passion is kinda infectious
15:10 I used to be a PC repair tech once upon a 2003-5, and this reminded me of a weird case that came in. Their machine wouldnt boot, it was a win98se machine and they'd pooched it somehow, I forget how, but what I do remember is what was in the floppy drive. A nintendo gamecube magazine cover disc.
I've never laughed so hard when I saw the "Hard Reset" tool!?!?!
One company I worked for starting in 2012 had a rat's nest of cables like the ones shown. My boss had just taken over as manager so he had us come in with him on this one weekend. He would pull the cables and tell one of us it went from this port to this port, and we'd jot it down. Once he had one patch panel cleared, another person would come back and start rerunning the cables, with the correct length, and actually use the cable routing paths above and below the patch panel. Took us all weekend to clean up, but he bought us food and let us listen to football games while we did it.
Lexi ranting about computer troubles and dealing with idiots is a great way to relax in front of my own PC.
As a guy working in tech myself (technical support and developer support for a software company) hearing Lexi's rants is beautiful.
As a guy working in tech myself, having to watch these clips makes me want to cry. Especially the "end user fucked something up royally beyond any reason or repairability and now expects you to fix it" (like the laptop, that was put into the oven) parts.
as soon as i saw the title, i knew it HAD to be a lexi video
IT'S TECH STUFF, AND SOFTWARE/HARDWARE GORE COMBINED
IT'S LITERALLY MADE FOR HER
I actually made a playlist of the videos where she narrates SoftwareGore and HardwareGore! This video is a fine addition to the collection.
@@starlight_maven you did? *checks your channel* YOU DID
@@MxShadow8 I did indeed! I wanted to have the Lexi-narrated tech subreddit videos all in one place, and that was an easy solution!
hes a girl?!??!?
@@alexhu5117 yep!
7:43 - I work in a print shop in a retail store. This is why the employees put the paper in the $45k printer/copiers in self service and no you can't use your own paper because you can't be trusted. Had a guy trying to PRINT FRAUDULENT CHECKS and his paper kept jamming in the printer because it was well... not an approved paper. The toner thing also gives me some ptsd from a Yellow cartage exploding. Yellow is a finer particle compared to C M and K so we are still finding it 5 months later.
9:30 "There are areas where DSL is all you can get" and "DSL is unfortunately still relevant"... Cries in german
The hospital server room one made me recoil in horror. I'd fix that shit for free, just to know someone wouldn't die after an IT guy tripped over a CAT5 cable and disabled the network.
The issue is that there really is never a good time to shut down the servers for maintenance. I have been in situations where we couldn't access meds or charts because the system was down for maintenance.
16:40 this reminds me of a laptop we had at church, i volunteered to help with sound for awhile and there was a laptop we got to control all the lights with, like the second time we used it someone closed the laptop and the program crashed and deleted everything so they had to completly set up the lights again, now they just have a note taped to it saying "do not close!"
also for that last one, my dad also works with computers and always had stuff like that around, me and my brother not realizing it could easily ruin it played with those as kids
As a writer, I can actually explain the bit at 10:55 about why writers like old PCs. When I'm writing, I want to be able to access the internet, if I need to look up something, but I also want to not be distracted by the internet with its TH-cams and Facebooks and TikToks, etc. Using an ancient PC like that lets me access Wikipedia and other text-based sites, while being *unable* to load most of the distracting, video-based websites. I myself have a 12-year-old laptop that I use like this.
The troll face really put a smile on my face for the throwback. This is totally something my friend would have done.
It feels like a time capsule. Imagine in 2012 a random kid puts a piece of paper into the school's disc drive for a troll meme then 10 years later, during the times of trollge and Ohio, a kid wants to use a disc after it's become alnost obsolete and discovers a relic of the past.
13:15 I guess you could say that that computer _(snaps fingers)_ had a lot of _bugs_
I mean the term "computer bug" comes from an incudent when a moth was trapped in a big computer system. This though, this is horrific.
8:20 The 6S (and I assume others, I've just only seen the 6S) actually does only say S.
It's just the iPhone 6S, but yeah, I 2nd this
I third this
"it's a ThinkPad too you bastard" got me dying 🤣🤣 18:39
12:50 - That's actually really common during network upgrades. The techs will just cut the cables instead of trying to unplug 100+ network cables. The cables are being replaced anyways so it doesn't matter.
me not knowing lexi had a wife and now realising theres entirely unknown levels of wholesome i can aspire to:
I know, right? Every time she mentions her wife, it's just the cutest thing!
So shes gay now? bruh
@@leafy126.5 I mean...yea-
@@damienearl8302 he*
@@captain_rex_yt4490 Well, that isn't how she identifies, so that isn't exactly right...though I'd understand if you didn't know
0:45
oop
there's no Lexi anymore
only Spamton
19:10 Better than MSI deciding that 57 unreplaceable melted plastic tabs were ideal for keyboard stability.
The fact that someone put a ThinkPad in the oven and it looks fine apart from the keys is just more evidence of their indestructability
As a tech support i can feel the suffering just by looking at that server room.
Lexi actually defending some of the server cabling makes the rest of the video even funnier because the fact that she does get angry at some of the other ones paints just how bad they are
Same as everyone else, love hearing Lexi talking about stuff she's passionate about. I got so excited listening to her in the shittycarmods video when it became clear this was something she was invested in.
2:30 the corruption is spreading.
15:56 Yep. Lexi is now one of my favorite narrators on this channel. That kind of plane knowledge is amazing.
I love Lexi's voice. Her voice is so smoothing. For some reason.
ikr
@@balu600 lexi is trans, mtf. she uses she/her pronouns, and she is an absolutely amazing woman.
@@balu600 Lexi is a trans female
@@balu600 Lexi is a trans woman
@@balu600 She's trans :]
As someone who's getting into IT this is starting to hurt a lot more than it used to
honestly getting into IT would be so worth it for this sub specifically. this sub is meant to induce pain, right? getting into it would make it MORE potent
i don’t know shit about technology but hearing lexi talk abt things she’s passionate about always makes my day :)
I sneezed 5 times in a row and as soon as I finished I just heard a random "bless you" from Lexi. Appreciate it
3:48
Lexi turned into Soldier from tf2
So I do know that Google Chrome stores A LOT in the temp folder. Other than that, I can think of things like different passwords that were saved, cookies, as well as certain other applications like Steam, Origin, and even Netflix that store temp data as well. As for the video, gotta love Lexitalk. As a tech nerd myself, it's a joy to hear others talk about the same things and be loved for it.
Shouldn't stuff in the temp folder be deleted? It's only supposed to be in there for a little bit, right?
1:29 they are called honeycomb mice so they are lighter and don’t make your hand sweaty
I usually don't like hearing rants about things I have no clue about, but for some reason, Lexi's rants are almost therapeutic and relaxing to listen to
1:58 Forbidden spaghetti
NOO I WAS GONNA SAY THAT
7:52 Ah, Molten Freddy, we meet again!
Ah ha,you have heard of Fnaf 6
WELL HELLO AGAIN HAHAHA
ARE YOU READY FOR ROUND TWOOOO
-Molten Freddy
It's the blob what ya even talking about
The thing about the Temp folder, that was actually a common issue in Windows 7. The Temp folder should automatically be emptied when Windows shuts down, but for some reason that didn't always happen. One of our customers had this issue. There were several employees that called frequently because their C-drives were full and it was always the Temp folder. Haven't seen that happen with any later Windows version tho, so it seems MS fixed it.
so in windows 10 is it safe to completely clear all the temp files?
@@toast1167 The files I'm referring to and that usually caused this issue are located in the %Temp% directory (hit Windows+R and enter %temp%. This leads you to the Temp directory hidden in your User folder). Deleting those is perfectly safe. If any of them are still needed, Windows will tell you that they're in use.
10:54 Best guess is because modern computers are really distracting to work within as they will pester you with notifications for bullshit that does not matter.
I just absolutely love not only the learning but also just listening to Lexi talk about computer stuff. I can listen to this for hours.
Hearing Lexi laugh at the troll prank made my morning. Honestly, listening to Lexi in general is nice.
Lexi!! I love her narration so much. She always makes videos 10x more fun and interesting to listen to ^^
BTW if you are gonna comment that it’s a he , lexi is trans so yeah , that’s it
@@theVERYrealriot who?
@Aterm [GD] i didn't
@Aterm [GD] not everyone
he.
3:42 You can actually lowkey troll everyone by doing this. By attatching some of the peeled off film to some glasses (mind the orientation), you'll be able to see it as normal but everyone else will think you're reacting to a blank white screen.
18:35 *Sniffle* thank you thinkpad 😭
Lexi's absolutely PERFECT for these kinds of subreddits!
That unplugged cable one just reminds of the scream test for things that no one seems to know what the heck it does anymore. Just turn it off/unplug it and see who comes screaming!
13:20 Ok, this is where I stop. I'm a PC builder, and this picture has scarred me till death.
21:13 it literally *is* ground. That's where the term comes from. The ground in a building's electrical network is all connected to a literal metal pole that is stuck into the ground somewhere.
0:04
it's the cursed caramel
Roasted marshmallow.
*forbidden
About the “writers and super old computers” A manuscript, even for a book only uses 200-300Kb text files, so obviously we don’t need anything too high tech to achieve it. Besides people collect old DOS & Windows 9X machines as a hobby, like retro game collecting.
13:02
Generally this isnt a case of sabotage. when a server rack is being decommisioned and not replaced (ie: moving to cloud) for some companies its actually cheaper to cut the ethernet cables and sell as-is rather than have someone unplug the cables. no, really, this is apparantly a thing.
I also loved pretending PCBs were tiny cities and imagined little people running around them living their lives. And then I grew up to major cybersecurity in college. And they still look like cities to me.
Why is it always when im about to draw an EmKay video gets uploaded? Im not complaining, im actually happy because i get more stuff to listen to while i draw
3:33 That reminds me the Candy Cane lmao 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
9:35 Germany: hold my beer. We do have regions where you have no phone or internet when you are in a village. Also DialUp is still the only way for that regions to get internet.
Glad I don’t live in Germany,sorry bout that btw
17:01 based on the ceiling, this might be yet another school
I love hearing genuine suffering in narrator's voice
She is lexi
@@cycrothelargeplanet No. Her name is now Narrator and always will be. The other EmKay narrators are also all named Narrator. Things have been set in motion that cannot be reversed. All hail the mighty Narrator.
@@maxtes252 his*
@@captain_rex_yt4490 Lexi is trans you bladeless ceiling fan.
@@Mockingjaybirb that means nothing he’s still a guy