It's a skill to notice that something's far outside the "to be expected" when you've been into any technical field. Very admirable. I often lack that awareness...
Robin: gets subreddits that make him angry. Lexi: gets subreddits about tech and computer. As well as r/suddenly gay and r/accidental ally. Jack: gets whatever he wants to get.
I love when Lexi explains the tech stuff! It's so fun to actually know what's wrong in the pic instead of going 'yeah, that looks broken.' Also I get to learn things! Which is always fun.
Plug it into a power strip that's turned off. That way you'll be on the (relatively) safe end when you switch it on, and that damned printer will trouble you no more.
10:02 Do not feel bad for the tech explanations! I know that something is wrong here, but Lexi tells me exactly *how* bad something actually is. That's what I love so much about this subreddit videos.
I'm going to show this subreddit to my father. He Knows most about PCs in my family and has been an electrician for years. There barely has been a time where he didn't work in something tech related. I'm curious how he will react to all of this and I will likely learn a lot from him explaining what's going in the picture like Lexi does ^^ Thank you Lexi for explaining everything
@@loganroufs9705 I will but it'll take a few hours 'cause my dad's currently on a very late job and won't be back until like 2 a.m. where I'll be asleep 'cause I have work and won't be back myself until about 6 p.m. ._.
These videos are often educational for me as I’m currently taking classes to work in one of many tech fields and this teaches me certain things, especially when something doesn’t look obviously wrong and Lexi gives a great explanation
03:25 I think this is liquid damage, looks like moisture has gotten into the layers of the display and as its dried its left residue behind that puts little bumps in the different sheets that make up the display. Theres like, six or seven of them, diffusers, polarisers... its so easy to mess up a display.
If you are referring to the LCD, no. There are only like four layers; glass, pixel matrix, diffuser, light source. Also, that has NOTHING to do with water damage as you can't damage a few pixels of an LCD. Either the entire thing goes up or it doesn't. What we see there is a very slow pixel death. It is usually a result of impact or just poor construction of the pixel layer. That can't be liquid damage for another reason. That is an LCD, ie a LIQUID crystal display.
@@protoborg No, what you see there is moisture inside the panel. I used to do this as my job, I know water damage when I see it. YOU on the other hand I'm betting have never had to take a display apart, and cobble a working one together out of broken ones because a new replacement part is not available. I have, numerous times. And frankly, just put 'laptop screen water damage' into a search engine and look at the pictures. I think you'll find a lot of very similar looking screens. The damage isnt to the LCD, damage to that comes out as black splodges or dead lines.
I have an associate's degree in NIS and I have to say some of these boggle even my mind. Lexi, you are braver a woman than I could ever hope to be (brave, I mean). Such things would likely leave me curled up in a ball in the corner crying for the terrible treatment these computers have received. Good on you.
Absolutely love when Lexi explains tech stuff to the viewers, especially when I have the tech knowledge of a caveman. it's why she's my favorite narrator 😌
When Lexi goes into the really technical stuff I have no idea what she's talking about but I still love watching her narrate this sub because of how knowledgable she is and she goes on whole tangents about everything
I love Lexi videos I even more love videos where it's tech support stuff and she can really react and talk about it I even more love when she goes deep into explaining stuff and helps me understand *exactly* how messed up these things are. Keep it up!
I can't believe it took me this long to realize my favorite narrator had her own channel, but Lexi just got a new subscriber. Apologies for taking so long.
Lexi, every time you got disgusted by a post, I was right there with ya... Like, it hurts to see these tech-related Reddit posts, and I'm not even that versed in technical specs and stuff.
Lexi, I'm sorry we make you suffer by having to go through this gore and explain the process to us. That being said, I absolutely love this subreddit, and I want more, please.
Ah the old "run my FTP server from my old SFF Optiplex" route. By the by, you can basically get these old Optiplexes for free if you look hard enough. I got mine from a metrology lab I was cleaning out. Was about to hit the scrapyard and it still had data acquisition cards in it. Replaced them and put in a nVidia Quadro 400. Slapped FreeBSD in it and now I have a nice 32-bit hyperthreaded workstation.
Sure. You have a nice workstation...if you don't mind throughput slower than molasses in a heatwave. FYI, the term is network card, not data acquisition card.
0:52 Lexi I have a solution. Put a bridge rectfier and a capacitor to make it DC. And as an added benefit you get over 300V so you can use less amperage for equivalent power solving the issue with the too thin cables. It's a win win.
something that still scares me. about 5 years ago the power in part of our house went out (we have 2 circuts) so obviously we called a sparky. he eventually tracked it down to my room which used to be the living room. there was 2 cables that were so close together that they were burning each other and had completly burnt out. this was obviously a huge fire hazard which happens to be my worst fear. what is even worse is that those cables had not been touched in at least the past 20 years that we had lived here and we had bought the house off an elderly couple so o dont think they had been doing a loyt of work, everything was original in the house at that point so was from the 30s.
A friend of mine in America has a hell of a tale. Company he worked for in DC went bust in 2020. Boss moved to LA. On the PC in his office was documents from DoD - stuff about Homey Air Force Base and on going research into black projects.. He and his colleagues destroyed the hard drives and noped the hell out. They never looked at all the files, but he did say there was some shady shit. And why the boss had it.
0:21 Genius idea A touch screen with extra thick protective glass that can only detect a certain stylus on the device, so whenever you want to write something, turn your phone around, take out the stylus, scribble in what you need, and then go back to what you were doing!
MY favorite videos are Lexi torturing herself with software, hardware, and tech support gore. Best content with best commentator. Makes me want to share photos of my hard drive disc collection; I like the shiny.
the broom closet one. here is my technical term for it. "Supervisor, we need to talk about our users and this dinosaur. i want to upgrade it before they complain.........we just had a complaint." it once happened at work. i was talking about upgrading a "server" as i was about to say what i think.......we had 10 calls on the specific server. i was allowed to upgrade all of them with new parts... haven't had a call on them. As for the video...........that is one nicely smooth video that i don't have to fix [sorry had to make a tech support joke].
*Normally wakes up at 8, watches RSlash.. sees r/Techsupportgore.* Sacrifices must be made, even to my routine for Lexi demands such. BRING ON THE CRIMES TO TECH!
Lexi, about the power line adaptors, you could put one in each room of your house if you wanted. The signal it sends through the wires can be seen as like how Wi-Fi works, and each adaptor is an AP. Like you, I did not know you could stack them like the image in this video. The instructions I have read with the ones I use say they need direct access to the outlet and not to use something like a UPS or surge protector. I think the ones I bought double as a surge protector, so I have no clue how those are actually working.
that laptop screen 'upgrade' reminds me of the time I used a screwdriver, some soldering equipment, as well as some ingenuity to flip my school chromebook's screen backwards, like actually backwards. The whole thing, frame, all of it, just flipped. So closing it meant I could see the keyboard basically. It was fun, and "worked" too. Not exactly easy to use though.
2:11 No, it doesnt need to be centered. When you press the enter key, the screen will snap to the right side. Pressing any other key will slightly move the screen to the left. It also makes a nice 'ding' sound when you press enter.
1:10 - One time a camera died instantly at work when I plugged in its power adapter. I took the power adapter to test it and the connector shocked me. When I opened it up, there was no PCB, the mains leads were directly connected to the output cable. Judging by what happened at the end of my stay there, a couple of months later, it had been done most definitely by the last guy, no doubt about it. 5:38 - yeah, that's how most businesses are run here. Nothing new. 10:30 - a couple thousand dollars to run cable... wow! That's what you pay here to get your network done from scratch. For a building the size of a small factory.
Can confirm: Military-grade rugged laptops are great. Sure, you're probably dealing with Intel Integrated graphics, so your games will look like poo, but not worrying about "Oh god, I just spilled coffee on my laptop!" is such a relief. I mean, a used one's pretty cheap (I got my Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 Mk5 for about $700, which *seems* expensive until the first "Ooops, there goes my coffee" moment), if it's IP65 compliant, it'll handle _just_ about everything normal life will throw at it (Can't toss it in a bathtub, but there's something _oddly_ enjoyable about wiping off coffee with damp paper towels _while the system is still running_ and not worrying about it), and a lot of these old rugged laptops will take a 6 foot (1.8 meter) fall without much concern about "does it still work?" Seriously, best $700 I've spent. It's saved me $1400 in "new computers" courtesy of spilled drinks.
As a lad who left things not climate controlled in India, I can in fact confirm that the humidity and heat are able to cause brutal harm to things, such as a perfectly good set of cutters and tweezers, which was 5-10 years old already but not even a lick of rust or scratches on it, left in a room without an air conditioner, and then a few weeks later I come to find them almost completely rusted and seized up from the rust.
9:30 this is a NAS even if it's not real. Like, Network Attached Storage, yea. And we quite literally see storage, attached to the network. Checks out in my book lol
Please keep doing the explanations, you got me interested in computers and I'm trying to teach myself coding now! I wanna learn about computers too, like IT, but I don't know where to find free lessons on that
5:00 People made the Voyager 2 probe so well that it's still operational today, over 45 years later, without any service or repairs, in the radiation-blasted vacuum of outer space. In light of this it's just plain depressing how many devices today just give up after maybe two years.
My mum once had a computer we called "Slowy Chloe" that was in a very tight space with little air circulation. One day she had enough of the slow and asked me to fix it. I found over 4 gigs of crap on the computer and the equivalent amount of carpet inside the computer 😅 Slowy Chloe went from a fossilized dinosaur to a beast on a mission and mum become a far better computer mum
As a Tech in Florida, I can confirm, the salt water just destroys everything. The only thing worse, are the workstations at pool supply stores....The chlorine bonds with the excess moisture in the air and literally just melts the steel.
That 220v "PoE injector" is hilarious. Also, that's a ThinkPad ethernet dongle on the other end of it. I had one of these for my piece of crap ThinkPad L13 Yoga. So glad my T14 has built in ethernet again.
Great video and explanations Lexi ^^ About those poor dirty PC insides, I've seen FAR worse. The absolute worst so far was a PC that was used inside a wood workshop. The whole inside of the case, fans, coolers etc was covered in a thick layer of "baked" wood dust. Compressed air and a shop vac failed mostly at cleaning that stuff off... ^^;
that "lightbleed" screen on the X1 Carbon is impact damage, Screens are several thin layers compressed and sometimes laminate together and when you "pinch" them together you get a bright spot. when you pinch it so hard it creases or you damage the lamination you get a forever bright spot,
I've also had similar looking damage after intentionally soaking an LCD phone after removing the battery, in 91% isopropyl and water from the supermarket (My T-mobile HTC-G1 was on the ground and i saw it had very tiny ants crawling around, and it getting in where the screen slid open, thus the intentionality of dousing it in alcohol) The water soaked between the layers and speckled very similar to that thinkpad since it never dried out 100% from then on.
At one point my friend’s Wii U was shutting down randomly while playing it and after a while I got annoyed so I tried to figure out the problem and I saw that the exhaust vent was _COMPLETELY_ clogged by dust, to the point where the console was overheating and doing an emergency shutdown. So I blew the dust out of the exhaust and it worked again!
That "FTP" server is a Dell Optiplex business desktops from the early 2000s. That same design language was also used in the Dell Dimension consumer desktops. Also, you can have multiple PowerLine adapters on the same circuit, as long as they're all converged to the same electrical panel. Modern ones now have a sync button, so you could mix/match brands/models,whereas earlier generations didn't.
I once had a neighbour hand me a laptop to fix an overheating problem similar to the one at 7:34. The motherboard was covered in nicotine stains and sticky dust, and it reeked of stale cigarettes. The fans were seized and didn't spin. Told him I'm not touching that.
2:58 I had a computer with maybe one spot like this once. It was just the one, and I think it eventually fixed itself, but this instantly reminded me of that..
You know it's a Lexi video when the subreddit is related to tech. I'm so sorry you're suffering, Lexi.
no literally bc i saw the notification and just knew that lexi would be narrating
I do what I must
Thankyou for your suffering Lexi
@@TheLexikitty 🙏
@@RafaelaVieira-f9k Same! Also hi Lexi :D
I like how lexi explains stuff about tech when it seems too weird or complicated, really gives us the viewers a better view of what is going on
50th like
It's a skill to notice that something's far outside the "to be expected" when you've been into any technical field. Very admirable. I often lack that awareness...
Lexi would be happy to see this
Learn something every
Lexi has beeg brian
Robin: gets subreddits that make him angry.
Lexi: gets subreddits about tech and computer. As well as r/suddenly gay and r/accidental ally.
Jack: gets whatever he wants to get.
r/mathjokes
Damien: 👀
@@GoingToAFuneral Damian loves every subreddit
what about the guest readers?
@@NotRealChatGPT they get whatever they want
I love when Lexi explains the tech stuff! It's so fun to actually know what's wrong in the pic instead of going 'yeah, that looks broken.' Also I get to learn things! Which is always fun.
Glad people don’t find them. Annoying!
“This is a Jesus plug” was surprisingly a very good way of explaining to us lay people that that plug would go boom 😂
Not boom exactly. More like you become a set of Christmas tree lights.
Plug it into a power strip that's turned off. That way you'll be on the (relatively) safe end when you switch it on, and that damned printer will trouble you no more.
Listening to lexi get angry is scary and hilarious we need more lexi nararations
yeah, she does a great job narrating
Lexi is slowly becoming my favorite narrator. Really enjoy her voice and hearing her rant about bad tech is nice
Lexi is amazing at narrating
It's a she?!?!
@@gukeoke6312 yes
@@gukeoke6312 transgender
10:02 Do not feel bad for the tech explanations! I know that something is wrong here, but Lexi tells me exactly *how* bad something actually is. That's what I love so much about this subreddit videos.
She has a similar series called Lexplanations on her main channel!
Poor Lexi!
The pure pain in her voice as she delves further and further into these nightmare machines, hiding her pain behind laughter and humor...
Her?
@@primpywasnttaken oooo. Does she have a face reveal?
@@anareaforakinglikeme3029 Look at the description for her youtube channel! Really interesting
??? Why?
@@anareaforakinglikeme3029 she has a channel, its in the description of this video
I'm going to show this subreddit to my father.
He Knows most about PCs in my family and has been an electrician for years. There barely has been a time where he didn't work in something tech related.
I'm curious how he will react to all of this and I will likely learn a lot from him explaining what's going in the picture like Lexi does ^^
Thank you Lexi for explaining everything
So tell us how it goes
@@loganroufs9705 I will but it'll take a few hours 'cause my dad's currently on a very late job and won't be back until like 2 a.m. where I'll be asleep 'cause I have work and won't be back myself until about 6 p.m. ._.
@@Nazhrya ok, il wait
I shall also wait
Also waiting
The background music change, when the camera appeared, was just *chef's kiss*. Well done Editors.
And never stop with the technical explanations Lexi!
You got it
@@TheLexikitty hello
the editors change the music every post.
These videos are often educational for me as I’m currently taking classes to work in one of many tech fields and this teaches me certain things, especially when something doesn’t look obviously wrong and Lexi gives a great explanation
03:25 I think this is liquid damage, looks like moisture has gotten into the layers of the display and as its dried its left residue behind that puts little bumps in the different sheets that make up the display. Theres like, six or seven of them, diffusers, polarisers... its so easy to mess up a display.
If you are referring to the LCD, no. There are only like four layers; glass, pixel matrix, diffuser, light source. Also, that has NOTHING to do with water damage as you can't damage a few pixels of an LCD. Either the entire thing goes up or it doesn't. What we see there is a very slow pixel death. It is usually a result of impact or just poor construction of the pixel layer. That can't be liquid damage for another reason. That is an LCD, ie a LIQUID crystal display.
@@protoborg No, what you see there is moisture inside the panel. I used to do this as my job, I know water damage when I see it. YOU on the other hand I'm betting have never had to take a display apart, and cobble a working one together out of broken ones because a new replacement part is not available. I have, numerous times. And frankly, just put 'laptop screen water damage' into a search engine and look at the pictures. I think you'll find a lot of very similar looking screens.
The damage isnt to the LCD, damage to that comes out as black splodges or dead lines.
My bet was moss.
Yep that absolutely is water damage. Same thing happened to my phone when it decided to swim in the sink a bit.
Seeing Lexi do these tech threads make me excited to enter the industry as another lady in tech (I’m currently studying for my bachelor’s!)
I have an associate's degree in NIS and I have to say some of these boggle even my mind. Lexi, you are braver a woman than I could ever hope to be (brave, I mean). Such things would likely leave me curled up in a ball in the corner crying for the terrible treatment these computers have received. Good on you.
Lexi should know that bonfires don't save. They only heal and set a checkpoint, the game autosaves every thing you do
Absolutely love when Lexi explains tech stuff to the viewers, especially when I have the tech knowledge of a caveman. it's why she's my favorite narrator 😌
"this is a jesus cable you will see jesus when you plug it in" the best and funniets thing ive ever heard.
i am also a woman in stem and ive learned a LOT from watching these videos and listening to lexi talk about stuff! thanks friend!
came for the tech gore, stayed for Lexi explaining exactly how and why stuff is broken. this is probably why she's my favourite narrator
When Lexi goes into the really technical stuff I have no idea what she's talking about but I still love watching her narrate this sub because of how knowledgable she is and she goes on whole tangents about everything
I love Lexi videos
I even more love videos where it's tech support stuff and she can really react and talk about it
I even more love when she goes deep into explaining stuff and helps me understand *exactly* how messed up these things are. Keep it up!
as soon as i saw the subreddit i knew lexi would be narrating! i love her humour and commentary!!
230 volts of electricity through the ethernet connection = magic smoke
If you're lucky.
Hubby once found half a wine glass in Mom's tower. How the large curved piece of glass was able to slip in the vent still confounds us to this day.
I can't believe it took me this long to realize my favorite narrator had her own channel, but Lexi just got a new subscriber. Apologies for taking so long.
Lexi, every time you got disgusted by a post, I was right there with ya... Like, it hurts to see these tech-related Reddit posts, and I'm not even that versed in technical specs and stuff.
Even if 90% of the time I have no idea what's happening in these videos, they're oddly (dis)satisfying to watch and more comforting to hear explained.
Lexi, I'm sorry we make you suffer by having to go through this gore and explain the process to us. That being said, I absolutely love this subreddit, and I want more, please.
EmKay’s videos help me put on my contact lenses for some reason.
Ah the old "run my FTP server from my old SFF Optiplex" route. By the by, you can basically get these old Optiplexes for free if you look hard enough. I got mine from a metrology lab I was cleaning out. Was about to hit the scrapyard and it still had data acquisition cards in it. Replaced them and put in a nVidia Quadro 400. Slapped FreeBSD in it and now I have a nice 32-bit hyperthreaded workstation.
i like your funky words magic man
Sure. You have a nice workstation...if you don't mind throughput slower than molasses in a heatwave. FYI, the term is network card, not data acquisition card.
@@protoborg nope, data acquisition. It was used for vibration table testing.
bruh
I’m honestly surprised and confused as to how some of these pieces of tech still work!!
9:13 "is no longer werk" Lexikitty, 2023.
I love Lexi losing her marbles over tech gore, favorite emkay reader
0:52 Lexi I have a solution. Put a bridge rectfier and a capacitor to make it DC. And as an added benefit you get over 300V so you can use less amperage for equivalent power solving the issue with the too thin cables. It's a win win.
That ripple current would still be nasty without a solid (and bulky) LC filter
And this is why I have a moving box JUST for my laptop and I pack it full of padding to keep it from shifting in the box
something that still scares me. about 5 years ago the power in part of our house went out (we have 2 circuts) so obviously we called a sparky. he eventually tracked it down to my room which used to be the living room. there was 2 cables that were so close together that they were burning each other and had completly burnt out. this was obviously a huge fire hazard which happens to be my worst fear. what is even worse is that those cables had not been touched in at least the past 20 years that we had lived here and we had bought the house off an elderly couple so o dont think they had been doing a loyt of work, everything was original in the house at that point so was from the 30s.
A friend of mine in America has a hell of a tale.
Company he worked for in DC went bust in 2020. Boss moved to LA.
On the PC in his office was documents from DoD - stuff about Homey Air Force Base and on going research into black projects.. He and his colleagues destroyed the hard drives and noped the hell out.
They never looked at all the files, but he did say there was some shady shit. And why the boss had it.
You'd make a great teacher Lexi, you explain things good.
Love hearing you talk about stuff!
Lexi is my favorite narrator, I love listening to her explain what happened in the photos.
My heart crys everytime a thinkpad gets killed
That's no "Jesus Plug", that's the greatest creation of the BOFH, the "EtherKiller" 😂
0:21 Genius idea
A touch screen with extra thick protective glass that can only detect a certain stylus on the device, so whenever you want to write something, turn your phone around, take out the stylus, scribble in what you need, and then go back to what you were doing!
MY favorite videos are Lexi torturing herself with software, hardware, and tech support gore. Best content with best commentator. Makes me want to share photos of my hard drive disc collection; I like the shiny.
the broom closet one. here is my technical term for it. "Supervisor, we need to talk about our users and this dinosaur. i want to upgrade it before they complain.........we just had a complaint." it once happened at work. i was talking about upgrading a "server" as i was about to say what i think.......we had 10 calls on the specific server. i was allowed to upgrade all of them with new parts... haven't had a call on them.
As for the video...........that is one nicely smooth video that i don't have to fix [sorry had to make a tech support joke].
I needed this. Someone explaining things to me that I already know makes me feel smart.
From Lexi's reactions to these, and her liking Lenovos, I decided to get myself a Lenovo Ideapad for my new laptop! So far, so good!
2:12. This makes the extra keyboard for my laptop look like something normal.
0:26 He accidentally unlocked magical powers and somehow bended his 2900$ PC. There's no other explanation to this
Trigger warning - viewing this video may is known to have caused PTSD in Tech Support workers.
*Normally wakes up at 8, watches RSlash.. sees r/Techsupportgore.*
Sacrifices must be made, even to my routine for Lexi demands such. BRING ON THE CRIMES TO TECH!
As a computer tech - sooooo many of these had me cringing, crying, hollering, and dying inside.... over and over.
0:34 my dad has the same computer, he slipped and fell outside and dropped it
Lexi, about the power line adaptors, you could put one in each room of your house if you wanted. The signal it sends through the wires can be seen as like how Wi-Fi works, and each adaptor is an AP. Like you, I did not know you could stack them like the image in this video. The instructions I have read with the ones I use say they need direct access to the outlet and not to use something like a UPS or surge protector. I think the ones I bought double as a surge protector, so I have no clue how those are actually working.
From one tech-loving Lexi to another, I feel your pain.
that laptop screen 'upgrade' reminds me of the time I used a screwdriver, some soldering equipment, as well as some ingenuity to flip my school chromebook's screen backwards, like actually backwards. The whole thing, frame, all of it, just flipped. So closing it meant I could see the keyboard basically. It was fun, and "worked" too. Not exactly easy to use though.
I like the tech explanations. I think it makes it even funnier when Lexi shudders and explains why it's so awful
as a tech person 90% of the photos are making my braincells leave my body
Lexi is by far my favorite narrator out of all of them at EmKay love the explanation it helps us viewers very much.
I love these videos for two reasons I get well narrated funny memes and I learn about tech at the same time.
4:04 bro tried to make his pc faster by adding an afterburner
That must have been painful going through that especially since you can tell Lexie is good with electronics
Lexi narrates tech subredduts the best
edit: i love the thecnical expenations
The fungus skipped humans and went straight to zombifying the tech
Man, lexi is just the best narrator
Robin
Tobin
Yobin
Goblin
she is just superior
Whenever Lexi narrates, you know it’s gonna be a Lexi video
well, this is technically the truth. Time to forward you to Reddit, I guess
r/technicallythetruth
And you know the ducks gonna be here
@@TheDuckOfAllDucks YOOO ITS A DUCK!!!
@@TheDuckOfAllDucks quackquacl
You can just hear Lexi decaying as she does this subreddit.
Why would the O5 council follow EmKay's channel?
@@protoborg i can get bored too, you know
0:56 plug this in and say bye bye to your ipad. Lol
2:11 No, it doesnt need to be centered. When you press the enter key, the screen will snap to the right side. Pressing any other key will slightly move the screen to the left. It also makes a nice 'ding' sound when you press enter.
"whole thing just broke off. it is done, is no longer work" broke me
Lexi we ALWAYS appreciate the technical explanations
I love the technical explanations
1:10 - One time a camera died instantly at work when I plugged in its power adapter. I took the power adapter to test it and the connector shocked me. When I opened it up, there was no PCB, the mains leads were directly connected to the output cable.
Judging by what happened at the end of my stay there, a couple of months later, it had been done most definitely by the last guy, no doubt about it.
5:38 - yeah, that's how most businesses are run here. Nothing new.
10:30 - a couple thousand dollars to run cable... wow! That's what you pay here to get your network done from scratch. For a building the size of a small factory.
Can confirm: Military-grade rugged laptops are great.
Sure, you're probably dealing with Intel Integrated graphics, so your games will look like poo, but not worrying about "Oh god, I just spilled coffee on my laptop!" is such a relief.
I mean, a used one's pretty cheap (I got my Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 Mk5 for about $700, which *seems* expensive until the first "Ooops, there goes my coffee" moment), if it's IP65 compliant, it'll handle _just_ about everything normal life will throw at it (Can't toss it in a bathtub, but there's something _oddly_ enjoyable about wiping off coffee with damp paper towels _while the system is still running_ and not worrying about it), and a lot of these old rugged laptops will take a 6 foot (1.8 meter) fall without much concern about "does it still work?"
Seriously, best $700 I've spent. It's saved me $1400 in "new computers" courtesy of spilled drinks.
Can all tech support gore be narrated by Lexi?
It'll be.
As a lad who left things not climate controlled in India, I can in fact confirm that the humidity and heat are able to cause brutal harm to things, such as a perfectly good set of cutters and tweezers, which was 5-10 years old already but not even a lick of rust or scratches on it, left in a room without an air conditioner, and then a few weeks later I come to find them almost completely rusted and seized up from the rust.
9:30 this is a NAS even if it's not real. Like, Network Attached Storage, yea. And we quite literally see storage, attached to the network. Checks out in my book lol
Please keep doing the explanations, you got me interested in computers and I'm trying to teach myself coding now! I wanna learn about computers too, like IT, but I don't know where to find free lessons on that
my man EmKay is a cyberdeck enjoyer, mad respect!
5:00 People made the Voyager 2 probe so well that it's still operational today, over 45 years later, without any service or repairs, in the radiation-blasted vacuum of outer space. In light of this it's just plain depressing how many devices today just give up after maybe two years.
My mum once had a computer we called "Slowy Chloe" that was in a very tight space with little air circulation.
One day she had enough of the slow and asked me to fix it. I found over 4 gigs of crap on the computer and the equivalent amount of carpet inside the computer 😅
Slowy Chloe went from a fossilized dinosaur to a beast on a mission and mum become a far better computer mum
😂 the fact that my name is Chloe and my parents always said that my spirit animal is a sloth just made this 10 times better for me
As a Tech in Florida, I can confirm, the salt water just destroys everything. The only thing worse, are the workstations at pool supply stores....The chlorine bonds with the excess moisture in the air and literally just melts the steel.
That 1060 refuses to die. and I can bet it'll gain intelligence before it's last breath
"This is a Jesus cable"
That is a surprisingly good explanation
4:10 i see picturs like this kind of often, and just had the relization. what mentle midget goes"ooh fire beter get a picture of it"?
That 220v "PoE injector" is hilarious. Also, that's a ThinkPad ethernet dongle on the other end of it. I had one of these for my piece of crap ThinkPad L13 Yoga. So glad my T14 has built in ethernet again.
3:14 I had no idea there was a name for this. Both of my ancient monitors have this issue.
Great video and explanations Lexi ^^
About those poor dirty PC insides, I've seen FAR worse. The absolute worst so far was a PC that was used inside a wood workshop. The whole inside of the case, fans, coolers etc was covered in a thick layer of "baked" wood dust. Compressed air and a shop vac failed mostly at cleaning that stuff off... ^^;
Lexi is why i LOVE this sub reddit
Thank you for the technical explanations behind this cursed images.
that "lightbleed" screen on the X1 Carbon is impact damage, Screens are several thin layers compressed and sometimes laminate together and when you "pinch" them together you get a bright spot. when you pinch it so hard it creases or you damage the lamination you get a forever bright spot,
I've also had similar looking damage after intentionally soaking an LCD phone after removing the battery, in 91% isopropyl and water from the supermarket (My T-mobile HTC-G1 was on the ground and i saw it had very tiny ants crawling around, and it getting in where the screen slid open, thus the intentionality of dousing it in alcohol) The water soaked between the layers and speckled very similar to that thinkpad since it never dried out 100% from then on.
Ok the high *fiber* diet thing was too good
At one point my friend’s Wii U was shutting down randomly while playing it and after a while I got annoyed so I tried to figure out the problem and I saw that the exhaust vent was _COMPLETELY_ clogged by dust, to the point where the console was overheating and doing an emergency shutdown. So I blew the dust out of the exhaust and it worked again!
0:54 also known as a 220v usb killer.
That "FTP" server is a Dell Optiplex business desktops from the early 2000s. That same design language was also used in the Dell Dimension consumer desktops.
Also, you can have multiple PowerLine adapters on the same circuit, as long as they're all converged to the same electrical panel. Modern ones now have a sync button, so you could mix/match brands/models,whereas earlier generations didn't.
I once had a neighbour hand me a laptop to fix an overheating problem similar to the one at 7:34. The motherboard was covered in nicotine stains and sticky dust, and it reeked of stale cigarettes. The fans were seized and didn't spin. Told him I'm not touching that.
3:05 This is not light bleed, this is the laptop staring too long at an eldritch being in the vast starry universe.
As an electrical engineer working on power grid infrastructure, that mains PoE cable will haunt my nightmares.
2:58 I had a computer with maybe one spot like this once. It was just the one, and I think it eventually fixed itself, but this instantly reminded me of that..
8:40
Jesus...
That computer is freaking Rasputin.
Burned, battered, bruised... flooded.
And still kicking after all that punishment.
Lol