technology vs cavemen brain
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The return of glorious tech queen Lexi. We have missed her.
Me too. All hail Lexi.
YEAHHH
all hail lexi!
ALL HAIL LEXI
all hail lexi
"you sneeze and this spaghetti furby will explode" i need lexi to supply descriptions for everything in my life.
Spaghetti Furby? I just thought OP was building a mini nuke in their home. I think even Deathclaws would be running in the opposite direction seeing that abomination. XD
yum spaghet furry
Definitely going to be horrified if there’s two variants of the furby in their the original version and the new modern version with the monitor eyes the only thing that would be horrifying is the thought that they might have added a interactive et furby adjacent toy is possibly also in there
12:54
Wait they where building a homemade furby?
Hi hello I narrated this not Jack (check description) thx 💞
yes emkay pls fix unlike that last post, at least it can be done
She wasn’t the snack that smiled back
Please fix EmKay. Queen Lexi deserves her credit in the description.
I think ultimate ears might be a brand? the charger has UE on it
I love you.
16:33 I work in IT for my local high school, and that photo was taken by me, the abomination that is that chromebook was made by one of my colleagues.
This needs to be further up in the comments
Hope they remembered to put a safety shield in front of it afterwards. That battery has a UKCA mark on it... 🔋🔥
@@dieseldragon6756 they didn’t, it’s still displayed there, now I have something new to google
Cool
3:00 - This is a Walmart Auto Center, and those stickers match up with other promotional fonting Walmart uses. I never worked in the Auto Center, but in my experience in the company, I'm willing to put money that a customer got mad that the price in the POS didn't match the sign, a manager told some underpaid employee to "fix the price on the sign", and nobody knew how. The manager for precisely that one department probably knows how, and probably wasn't present, and nobody else in the building knows. And, more importantly; once the stickers were in place, the "correct price was advertised" and nobody in management cared about the problem any more.
God, I hated Walmart.
"Do you have the key?"
Well there was also the W+ on a few of them
I'm glad I'm not the only one that recognized it was a Walmart Auto Center based on the font of the digital sign alone XD I didn't notice the Walmart+ logo until I went back to grab the timestamp to write a comment about it XD
It's cool to see Lexi doing tech support on Emkay.
Long live the tech queen! :D
Caveman brain says to whack technology with club.
*the voices only get louder*
Shaggy: But where's the caveman?
Nono too dangerous use your wet hand
Everyone talks about the Latias but I see you just as often, if not more
The Doom-themed music is rising…..
i completely lost it with "spaghetti furby". its been 5 minutes and counting and im still cry laughing
are you still laughing?
1:40 part of the gag is probably the 50(€)cent coin to stabilize the cpu-cooler.
I had to go back and pause the video. I didn't even catch that! Good eye 👁️🕳️👁️
You don't need to be legally blind to miss that, well-spotted!
Also, Lexi, if you read this: modern PCs don't have a north bridge and south bridge anymore, what used to be done by the north bridge is now done by the CPU, and the south bridge is just called the chipset.
Just noticed the coin lmao
14:14 they’re talking about the postal UPS. They whacked their electronics package really hard, aka “punt” as in played golf with it.
Lexi has risen
Thank you for not saying first
YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!
This account definitely bot liking their own comments.
And descriptions says jaymic...??
@@AIHumanEquality How do you know?
the flippy power plug isn't called ears, the speaker brand is UE (Ultimate Ears)
THANK YOU! I was going to say the same :)
Eh I'll call em ears anyway
Wild. I thought UE just made fancy custom IEMS.
Lexi's explanations are the most effective method of teaching ever. I'm by no means a tech guy and even I am engaged in the content
Same thing with me. I’m no tech expert, but even _I_ know not to let my tech get to this state of disrepair!
Absolutely! If Lexi taught a class about tech stuff, I would attend every single session!
That mess at 12:10 looks like a microcenter exploded and a computer formed in the rubble.
11:45, biblically accurate device
Be not crash
8:22 the screw heads are on the side of the Velcro. It would have to have been mounted upside down. Also the fan that came with the heatsink is missing. And there's no dust on any of it.This was someone having a giggle putting the Velcro on and taking the photo.
The CPU with bent pins, you use a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. Put the bent pin inside the tip of the mechanical pencil, then move the pencil to straighten it. Works a treat.
Definitely a gag photo.
10:20 The best method for straightening these old pin-style CPUs that my group of friends found in the yesteryears was with a credit card. It did actually work, but tolerences weren't as precise 30-20 years ago.
I just want to say that lexi’s analogy of pipes vs water pressure and volts vs amps helped me finally get the difference. thanks lexi.
It's a pretty common comparison, I got taught that in school, there's even an anime shitpost about it. From what I know, voltage is usually constant while current is pulled as needed, if you short circuit the connections then it'll pull as many amps as the cable will allow until your breaker pops or the cable limits it, putting a load in between causes resistance which limits the current to a certain amount, so if your wall can supply 240V and you've got a device that needs 480 then it'll pull 2 amps since voltage (V) x current (A) = power (W)
@@IsM1ku honestly my high school physics teacher sucked ass so i’m really not surprised that the comparison is actually common knowledge
yay, lexi is back!!! i thought she had a falling out with slazo, im glad she came back.
5:40 i have a galaxy tab at work in this exact case. the top half of the case has a non adhesive screen protector. they left the screen protector on the screen protector. it's a nice case actually
As an I.T. student at college, I would give SO MUCH for Lexi to be one of our lecturers. The little explanations as she reviews this sub are so on point and understandable it's amazing.
18:25 We are taught how to fix the traces in multilayered boards in micro/miniature school, basically involves excavating each layer until you are down to the damaged layer and repairing it, covering it in epoxy to the height of the next layer and repairing that once dry, then epoxy again to the top layer and repairing that once dry. That board would certainly be written off as a non-economical repair and just be replaced. Unless it is an extremely expensive card with relatively simple inner trace damage, it probably won't be economic to repair it.
It's also nigh on impossible if you don't have access to the PCB layout files on anything but the lowest density boards in my experience.
1:50 - That actually looks like crappy plaster board, not masonry they have screwed into and its now hanging precariously judging by the angle of those screws. Meaning they dont have it secured to the joists so it will just be a matter of time before it comes crashing down.
"usually if you break something it stops working" is an amazing quote
3:12 and I IMMEDIATELY Recognize that electronic pricing board as belonging to my employer! if you think THAT is bad, the iPad based app we use out in the shop is EVEN WORSE. multiple issues ranging from configuration errors if the ipad is connected to the wrong Wi-Fi network (we have 3 different networks; the free Public Wifi, the associate only WiFi, and the Wifi for Company owned hardware), the app randomly closing completely and erasing any information you may have put in (although I suspect that's more an apple thing than the app itself), randomly disconnecting from the peripheral hardware like sticker printers, barcode scanners and wireless keyboards, and a VERY steep learning curve if you aren't tech savvy.
EDIT: Lexi explaining the Slideshow thing is EXACTLY what some other stores are doing to advertise add on services! (there's usually 2 boards and they just duplicate the exact same image onto both)
2:33 I can't believe Lexi just said "P.o.E. over Ethernet"
15:50 it looks like it’s reading the same data multiple times, that would explain the wild amount of storage it thinks it has.
11:00 Step-down converter in there (maybe a smart one with QC3.0 or something)
got fried and is outputting the full input voltage of what ever it is connected to (amplifier, powered seat control...)
I have no doubt that this USB port was delivering 5V at some point
If the switch in an step down converter fails short, you get the input voltage at the output. That is why you have something that is called a crowbar circuit for sensitive stuff at the output, that shorts it (like throwing a crowbar on the power rails) if the voltage goes outside of some limit
at 7:30 I think I woke up my entire flat block shouting WHAT
Ultimate ears is the name of the brand of speakers to which the adapter belongs not the prongs of the plug.
17:35
The example you show is at LEAST 6 layers of conductive traces. its more likely a 10-12 layer board with reference power planes (not shown) for impedance matching of high speed signals.
the most layers in a single PCB designed by my company was 32, along with flexible circuit sections.
Note that PCBs will normally have layercounts being a multiple of 2 (with the exception of single sided PCBs)
0:09 a GFCI with a test button is probably the second most fortunate place for that to happen actually, second only to a switched outlet. If it's functioning properly (I can't guarantee that so don't sue me please) you can push the test button to isolate it, yoink the pin preferably using an insulated tool to be double safe, and then reset it.
For the GFCI broken power plug tine post at the very start: Just hit the "TEST" button - it will disconnect the circuit and you can cut out your part as the middleman getting shocked.
No, USB-ports are allowed to go up to 48V now - but that is only after USB-PD negotiations. With no compatible device plugged in it is 5V.
(USB-PD initially allowed 20V 5 A - so 100W. and in 2021 they added further modes up to 48V 5A for 240W. There is currently no mode supporting more than 5A).
Thanks, yea I knew about the 20V update but hadn’t checked in since then.
[Have-a-Go electricians' voice] A USB port will go up to what I want it to go up to! ⚡
_Camera pans past a UK mains plug with a suspiciously thin cable coming out of it, terminating in a female USB connector. Remember that our ring mains can potentially deliver 60A to any one outlet..._ 🔥
@@dieseldragon6756 Huh - the insulation likely would hold up to 240V, now it would be interesting how much current you could draw before the cable obliterates :D
@@ABaumstumpf I once¹ tried charging an iPhone using an official Apple „Lightning“ cable that was connected to a railway overhead line energised at 25kV. The cable did *not* hold up to what the name reasonably implied it would take... ⚡💥📲😉
(¹ - If you know how powerful 25kV electrics are, you'll know why I didn't try it twice! 🙃)
@@ABaumstumpf more than you would expected. Some of the proprietary charging protocol use 10A or even 11A transmission and the cable for those can easily transmit 8A of 220VAC. The bigger issue would be the pin pitch. I don't think usb-c port can transmit 220V safely as the pin pitch is so small.
7:06 I almost had this situation with Ryzen CPU, barely managed to get it off without breaking.
I love Lexi's narration, you can FEEL the emotions in her descriptions! Also, bit of tech knowledge boost.
7:20 that looks a lot like the CPU heat spreader was actually soldered or superglued to the heatsink.. no surprise it delidded instead of coming loose.
1:49
Yeeaaahhh, about that.
Those are Wood screws, not Masonry screws, and I'm not seeing any rawl-plugs, so those those screws are *definitely* gonna pull out of those holes at even the slightest amount of horizontal force.
The only thing I can think of that is less likely to stay in the wall would be just normal nails...
5:04
As someone who watches TronicsFix, I can say with absolute confidence;
This is liquid damage. Lots and lots of liquid damage.
That board is a *complete* write-off.
I wonder if the spaghetti furby is an art project kind of thing of "how bizarre that this still works" kind of thing. There's such a purposefulness to that chaos
3:20 omg my local library does that with their tvs and slideshows
11:25 USB now has the ability to do quite significantly over 5V, in fact the latest PD standard has added 28V, 36V and 48V standards to the USB standard. However, devices should *always* communicate to the charger that it wants a higher voltage than 5V. This is done by changing out resistors at the female socket. No USB port should *ever* output more than 5V unless specified otherwise. Also at 18:00 we now have motherboards with at least 8 layers (Asus ROG Strix and Dark Horse boards)
Hackaday did a series of articles about how to USB-C. You need resistors in the line for it to deliver power _at all_ (and for orientation detection), and to get more power out of it requires _digital negotiation_ (there's premade chips that speak USB-PD to do it for you, or you can bitbang if you're that determined), but then there's also the issue that host and device may both be capable of XYZ watts but _the cable_ might not be, etc etc...
20V has been delivered to some USB type-A ports by Lenovo since at least 2015. Thankfully the plug has a slightly weird shape so you can't send 20V into a normal USB 3.0 port. It still sucks that Lenovo only put 3 USB ports on a laptop where one of these ports is also used for charging.
The TV that showed oil change options is at a Wal-Mart TLE/ACC. When I worked there, it was part of the job to memorize all of the options.
2:05 as a member of an FRC robotics team, I approve of the zip tie. ZIP TIES ARE LIFE
16:45 about stupid vehicle inspections, “Hey guys, welcome to a new episode of @justrolledin …”
5:35 OMG THATS MY POST LOL
I was getting my physical at a plasma place. IDK why but it bugged me.
0:49 had that happen to me once. used a credit card to remove it because i cant just shut off the breaker at work. i dont have a key to the electrical closet lol
10:45 this multimeter is measuring AC voltage, having 30v between the case of a double insulated device is totally normal.
I myself have a usb charger that gives 80v AC between the shield and earth.
It's good to keep in mind the multimeter has a 10Mohm input resistance, so the current is just 3 micro amps.
9:00 My mouse comes with programmable options for F13 to F24, and I'd _love_ so much to use them in games so I don't have to keep using stupid existing keys that are all used elsewhere, but nothing I have recognises those keys, so I've effectively got like 3 bonus keys on my mouse that do nothing, and it's _frustrating._ More frustrating that most things recognise the _Forward and Back_ keys.
7:14 That ain’t thermal paste, that’s thermal _glue!_
I love to watch her videos because of how technical she makes it. I learn a lot and would like more
13:50 It looks like there's a cockroach in the upper right, but I'm not sure how that could be causing the problem.
9:58 alot of times you "dont need" alot of pins on a cpu there was a cpu my boss used for the longest time and around 50% of all the pins were just gone and i honestly dont know why and i looked into it and yea the majority of them are not required for function
9:23 my ASUS laptop has a key shortcut (and it’s labeled on the keyboard) to turn off the secondary functions for the f keys so f5 does only f5 things, for example
I use it a lot while playing Minecraft
12:15 thats a bomb idc what you say thats a bomb
Test your GFCI outlets every now and then. Getting a plug stuck in them is a perfect opportunity. The test works by literally causing what they're meant to detect, so they disable the outlet in response, allowing you to pull out whatever stuck.
For the first one with the GFCI if you just press test it should trip it and make it safe to pull out. What is generally best to always disable it from the breaker as well.
0:15 option 1: stick a wire in earth (the round one on the bottom) and touch it to the broken plug. Option 2: Press test. The outlet is de energized and you can remove the broken plug then press reset. Option 3: Turn off the circuit breaker Option 3B: short the top outlet's live to neutral (top 2) with the same wire from option 1, throwing the breaker Option 4: pull the plug out wearing rubber shoes and you CANNOT touch anything other than the piece while doing so.
Option 2 should be the only option needed assuming it's working properly
4-layer PCBs are.... kinda entry-level stuff? It gets crazy when you get to old mainframe hardware and you see 16 layer ceramic-PCBs that have giant metal slab on both side and are oil-cooled cause they burn like 3kW. Mainframes were kinda insane and crazy fast: 40 years ago you could see them using over 100kW and doing over 1Gflops.
"I don't do acid, I just listen to a lot of psytrance."
Never have I related to something so hard.
Seeing the thumbnail, I got excited that this may be a Lexi narration... And my hopes were realized!
Long live the fabulous tech queen of EmKay! :D
Edit: the description references our favourite snack instead of Lexi - pls fix to give this gal recognition :3
In an ideal society, Lexi is the only narrator
:3
As a computer person (who showed their Neocitites website in a school computing lesson) I went absolute bullsh*t when my sister (who is 8) nearly downloaded Roblox from SOFTTONIC, BLOODY SOFTTONIC.
we need a single computer person in every family.
10:05 Had this happen to me, spent a whole 5 hours with a magnifying glass and a tiny screw driver. Popped it into the board and it worked just fine, as long no pins are broke off you should be good. My advice would be go row by row about 3 - 4 times over and hope for the best. The cpu was a Ryzen 5 1600x.
I’ve missed Lexi!
I also started working as a Target Mobile tech semi recently, and about a month ago I encountered by first bulging lithium ion battery!
"Spaghetti furby" is now my new favorite expression
1:01
That is a robot uploaded it's content to servers. Disguised as a bird's nest.
4k streams don't work because it is hogging all the bandwidth.
10:35 this could be one of those designs where one side is 120v ac and the other side is 115v dc using a voltage divider so it looks like 5v in most cases but if the voltage coming from the wall is out of spec or too dirty or something it ends up putting out too much voltage (and can also kill you if you ground yourself)
10:04 I've fixed CPUs in this shape and maybe even slightly worse. If none of them are broken it is probably fine. I've done customers so many favors when I worked at Micro Center and repaired many CPUs that looked kind of like this. I got so good at it colleagues would leave shop Ryzen CPUs to me so I could fix them on my off time and we could keep using them as test CPUs. Yes I tested them after this and yes each one worked perfectly and passed all tests. I also happened to be the most extensive tester and would run computers on the likes of Prime95 (+graphics tests like furmark to simulate extremely intense workloads) for 24+ hours depending on how much doubt I had on the integrity of the hardware.
It probably saved numerous customers $300+ depending on their choice of CPU over my 3 years there. It's not that bad.
0:10 Just press the Test button, remove the prong, press the Reset button and you are set.
Want to drive some screws into a masonry wall ? Simple : Drill holes about 3 to 4 times the diameter of the screws. Hammer in some wood dowels that fit as tight as possible. Drive the screws into the wood. The screws will cause the dowels to expand, making their removal impossible.
5:25 Looks like some electrolytic capacitor failed and spilled their electrolyte all over the circuit board, frying it in the process.
15:40 That «Unknown» is because those drives are not formatted, or formatted using a format that the OS can't recognize.
18:27 it is broken, but if you are lucky it is not a vital part, like a usb port or a fan controller
Now I want to see her as a tech-priest fiddling with a laptop
14:45 Definitely a troll. The unpopulated protoboard stuck to a ribbon cable gives it away
The worst part is that very first thing has happened to me even down to the same side of the plug being stuck in the wall lol
"i just listen to alot of phytrance" phytrance is a fire genre, and as a DJ ive been wanting to do a phy-trance/phy-techno mix for forever, such a amazing genre.
Considering I'm learning how to repair power recliners, I found the chair at 11:05 fascinating.
Upon further investigation, 3:24 is at a WALMART!! As someone who works there, they absolutely would have just put a thumbdrive in a TV. Granted, they would be told to remove the labels off the TV by market because it doesn't follow their rules.
@11:45 looks like some doomsday device to ward off IT-Experts
13:36 well as an electrician that work with the IT team from time to time I notice WHERE IS THE WINDOW ON THE DOOR
9:17 i have the opposite problem, f1, f2, and f3 dont work as volume, i have no clue what they open
ultimate ears as in the brand... 0:02
I love these types of Emkay videos.
It's like learning a new language, this 'tech thing'...
Some people are simply incapable of the mental gymnastics.
That's OK...most of my professional career has been spent fixing the things y'all are so good at breaking.
Neaderthal lives among us still!
The spaghetti furby resembles the magic transfer machine from "The Magicians" which is cool because that thing was also a violent explosion waiting to happen if even one wire was out of place.
The only lady I trust for my tech voiceovers.
7:10 thats normal thermal paste these days. comes standard with your new cpu. there is mixed in some sort of glue/cement idea that makes the connection permanent after 2 days.
thats not thermal paste then thats thermal glue
thermal paste withe glue like properties. as i have seen quite the difference between thermal glue and paste like that. usually the glue comes off way way easier then paste for some reeason@@thecondiffs
Thank you Lexi for informing me that not every state has vehicle inspections!
7:57 I don’t know if anyone noticed, but is it the top of the CPU cooler look at the screws to me that looks like the top.
Why TF is the cpu on the top?
I'm not seeing anything weird in the server box from 13:00 either. Looking at the plugs below it's European and it's a dedicated plug extension part so that's cool, normally I see just extension cords stuffed in to the box. Other than that, the server actually has a door, so that's an improvement. I'm not sure how'd they fit an AC in that tiny space so maybe that's a problem? The server have overheated? Don't know.
8:00 nah, you go squiggle it back and fourth from one corner to the other, like a toaster strudel
On the positive side, the way they say "Houston, we have a dud" sounds like they GOT the motherboard that way and didn't want to have to go thru the RMA process, but... If you see damage like that right when you open the box, DO NOT TOUCH IT, Take a picture, put that picture on 2 USB thumb drives, and send both the motherboard and one of the thumb drives back when you RMA it. Therefore irrevocably proving YOU DID NOT DO THAT.
The reason you make two copies is so that YOU still possess a copy of the image that can be sent to them AGAIN if they don't get it.
If you need to, you can literally fax it to them (somehow faxes carry more legal weight than emails, don't ask me why that is, but that's how it is).
Or print it out on nice photo paper, and send it to them in the mail.
Because these days nobody has good customer service anymore. EVERYONE WANTS TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND BLAME YOU WHEN IT'S THEIR FAULT.
Half the time I'd say you're better off getting some legal consulting for how best to pin the tail on that particular donkey (and I use that specific euphamism because c'mon now, the companies are being asses about it).
That velcro on the cpu is making me scream internally, god it hurts to watch
I was holding my breath when I clicked on the video to see if The Great Lexi Kittie was back then cheered when I heard her voice! So happy to hear you back!
13:56 think its a joke on the post man kicking it. UPS the delivery company
5:20
its worse than you think
its a 'type' of water
.... thick water.....
0:09 this is indeed a ground cault fircuit interrupter
WHAT THE LEXI?! raaahh i missed ur narrations so glad to have u back!! :3
15:13 Molex to Sata? Crispy.
15:12 - I'm sure replacing sata port would help
18:20 - yes, it is literally broken
0:02 i've actually had that happen once. thank god i used insulated pliers.
The pigeon at 1:09 is a carrier pigeon for the emails of course
8:04: the proper way to apply it is the same way to butter bread