Exploring the Technology Connections Set (1 million subscribers special)
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I'm pinning this comments just so y'all know that in the US, it is spelled KALLAX so my pronunciation is less weird than it seems.
lol you didn't pin it
you are my favourite youtuber btw
I have two of these shelves that my record collect lives in. a 2x2 and a 2x4 so far.
It is spelled KALLAX in Sweden too. Your pronounciation was actually pretty decent, too!
Congrats on your 1mil! You've come so far!
"I'm unforgivably lazy, also I hung two TV's behind my set just for the hell of it."
Sometimes lazy people use way too much time on some specific niche thing, but are still too lazy to do some fast and simple basic action. At least that's how i am
Am lazy, can confirm.
I'll find a lazy person to do a job, because they're good at saving time
- Bill Gates (paraphrasing)
@@shookings my first programming professor said that a good programmer is "lazy and an opportunist." I guess if you're good at being lazy, being an opportunist is automatically part of that.
@@Randomii666 lazyness birth stubbornness, and EVERYTHING is worth when you're proving a point out of stubbornness
Using large TV's as backlights is the most bodge job thing ever, and I love it.
I honestly thought it was lights and coloured paper
I honestly had the thought of doing some sort of RGB lighting strips with controllers and stuff, but then I remembered that basic TVs are hilariously inexpensive and since this wouldn't require any real image fidelity, I just bought the cheapest TVs I could find in that size. It may actually have been slightly cheaper in the end, and in any case it's much more flexible!
Tom Scott approves of a good bodge job
@@TheMajorLeagueGinger The art of the bodge.
For real - I had always assumed those were custom LEDs which would have taken an eternity to do. Nope, just clever use of LED TVs. Love it!
The TVs as backdrop is incredibly clever. Until you revealed what they were, I had no clue.
I'm a little disappointed he doesn't use a VESA system of some sort to hold the TVs, vs those chains. I mean, he could probably make a whole video about the VESA display mounting standard, after all...
@@sireuchre I too was interested in why they're chains and not wall mounts. Maybe it's to allow the tv to better match the angle of the shelves and sit more flush?
@@Andyjpro He said he's very lazy. It may have just been easier. Lol. "Hey. I have some chains. Things hang from chains sometimes. A tv is a thing. A tv can hang from a chain. I don't have to drive to menards!"
@@sireuchre maybe didn't want to drill holes in his wall
Honestly I had no idea about the TV backdrops! Nice touch!
It would be this Geek Squad Agent's humble honor to professionally mount those TV's for you myself!
"I thought I was just too weird, that this channel idea wouldn't have enough wide appeal" You underestimate youtube rabbit holes. Your channel is peak "it's 2am, I'm not asleep yet, so I'm watching videos about dishwashers" material
literally watching this at 2 am right now
My goto answer whenever someone asks me what shows I watch: “I just watched a 20 minute video on the color brown.”
So true..
Maybe you aren't asleep at 2am BECAUSE you are watching TH-cam 🤣😉😇
@@shinyplaid Taste the brown
"Then we see the wee little GE TV that me got for free tee hee"
Someone give this man his gold star sticker already
A Goldstar sticker? Don't be mean, give him a whole little Goldstar TV.
Darn, he really built a replica of the green-screen background for a million subs
I find it quite funny that people think that background is a chromakey replacement. Getting a truly good looking chromakey is not quite as easy as people think. It is much easier to just have real, passive set pieces, and put all of your serious time, money, and efforts into good lighting.
@@sireuchre Maybe if your source footage is 1080p with poor lighting to being with, 4k and decent/good lighting make it pretty easy, especially with a hair style that has harder edges. You make it sound like all of his stuff plus the shelves and TVs in the back cost less than just painting the wall or getting a green/blue-screen...I can assure you they were not cheaper.
I prefer a real set but you're flat out lying saying it's difficult to get a key if you have ANY experience in photo/video work in the last few years. And good lighting is going to happen either way, one just requires a few boxes/studio lights and the other require the same plus all the extras...
@@sireuchre At this point it's a channel joke, one that 99% of the comments talking about how it's a good greenscreen effect are in on.
@RancidKippa And he says he's lazy.
@@sireuchre do they think that or are they making a joke?
The TV's are actually genius.
Well he could have just used a green screen behind the shelves....
@@RingingResonance then the plants would be affected as well. TV's was a good way to do it, and provides nice subtle backlighting
@@RingingResonance I would prefer it emitting lights
@@RingingResonance wouldn't be nearly as good of an effect
@@ritawant3189 imagine being this desperate
"I'm unforgivably lazy"
*routinely makes thirty minute, well-produced, in-depth videos about household tech*
"lazy" is how we survive. They only time many people think is when we have to. We use technology just so we can be lazy.
I thought exactly the same 😆
You gotta make sacrifices somewhere.
The real impressive part is that the background is real but he's entirely CGI. Hes actually wearing a green morph suit
he actually captain disilusion
Video brought to you by Andy Serkis
it's actually 3 little girls in a trenchcoat
Ahh, he's a vtuber
It clearly solves mystery of missing green traffic light
Nobody gonna say the obvious thing about the TV background? OK ...
"By the magic of buying two of them ..."
no
@@kevinnistor1954 yes
Well done good sir.
Excellent!
I never would have guessed that there were TVs back there, crazy.
I didn't guess it either, and now I'm stealing it.
I thought it was some sort of transparent plastic with white light panels in each seperate square. That'd actually be more complicated!
It was quite the twist.
The system for making that color backdrop is actually pretty legit! Good stuff!
What... do you watch this channel?
I know, right? I've been wondering for, like, ever.
This is the last place I thought I’d see you but actually thinking about your interests and what you make videos on.... yeah it makes sense 😂
So much effort put into a background set, and it looks great! Fits the channel perfectly.
@@thatpitter one thing Ive learned over the years is that you tend to find the most unexpected youtubers you know in the comment sections of channels you would never expect to see them
Ok but the TVs behind the shelves reveal is legit one of the best surprise twists I've ever seen.
Indeed! It such a genius idea!
I would have bet money on colored LED strips.
Thought there were coloured translucent persplex plastic with light bulbs behind them so that was a massive plot twist 😂
Seriously, I was floored by that.
It's blow my mind. it's so clever
"Something about dishwashers just really piqued your interest."
Your video on dishwashers has completely changed the way I do dishes.
Same here, and I don't even have a dishwasher.
I too changed the way I do dishes because of this channel. Thanks!
The dishwashers episode was one of the best!
It was a revelation
Seriously. I stopped by dishwashing pods and went out and bought liquid and my dishes and dishwasher have never been cleaner!
Other youtubers: face reveal!
This guy: *SHELVES REVEAL*
I never saw that one coming.
TV backlight reveal
It's all downhill from here. It's never the same once someone reveals their shelves.
Twitch streamers: FEET REVEAL
@@runed0s86 no no no, twitch streamers say meat reveal XD
"I thought I was just too weird..."
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
guble gable...
Can confirm. He's into the same weird niche things I am. He probably has a large audience of people on the spectrum happy he's going into detail about their special interest.
@@AhuizotlXiuh can confirm, am on the spectrum, have oddly niche interests.
@@daemonspudguy it's like a techy version of a redneck joke; if you watch technology connections, you might be autistic.
I read this right as he said this what the fuck he's God
I was losing interest in my Electrical Engineering graduation course back in 2018, really considering whether I should quit, but I found your channel back then and it was one of the things that reminded me why I chose that course in the first place: because I love to know how things works and how things are connected. This month I finished my graduation course and I'm always coming back here for more content.
Thank you for your quality/entertainment/educational videos and I hope to see more from you!
I know you may never read this, but I felt I might tell you how much you can positively affect someone from hundreds of kilometers away in a different country. Hugs from Brazil =)
it's fucking deauxp bro and shout outs to Brazil for their Erva Mate which is a superior caffeine source that alleviates anxiety instead of produces it like american coffee.
Erva mate makes you want to live. Coffee just kind of stimulates you and fricks you up
No clue what the other comment is saying, but keep going, theres always more to learn about the world and I wish you well, my friendly internet stranger!
Edit: Congrats on getting your degree!
Cara, espetacular ouvir isso.
Eu me formei engenheiro Agrônomo e, após conhecer esse canal, resolvi ir para a área de automação agrícola. Fantástico cara.
Parabéns pela sua gestação, e sim, há mais BRs aqui!
Daniel, that was the best TH-cam comment I've read in a very, very long time. Congratulations, and best of luck to you in the future.
Wow this is so inspiring ! ❤️
I wish you success and I'm so happy these videos made you continue your classes. Follow your dreams 😉
Why was I actually shocked when you revealed the TV’s in the back
I actually gasped i was so surprised
I don't remember which but in some video he had Audacity in the background, that sorta gave it away for me, although I thought it was somehow done with a projector instead of TVs.
@@patemathic Yeah, same. Or I figured that he had those Samsung Video Wall panels slotted in the back of the shelf...
This channel proved that people do actually want to learn about even very dry subjects, as long as the person teaching them is interesting or "absurdly weird" as you say. Plus, many of us are absurdly weird as well. Congrats on 1M subscribers and I can't wait to see your 2M subscriber celebration.
As was succinctly said in 'The Craft', "We *are* the weirdos, Mister." 😁
I'm absurdly weird!!!!!
That's the thing! Some topics seam really dry at first, but this channel shows that many things are actually quite interesting or clever. You just need to present them with an honest passion for technology.
Meh I do find his humor great but I do also enjoy the subjects at hand and you're underestimating his skill of finding interesting aspects of otherwise common things to talk about.
Well, as Mr New Vegas said: less for outcasts, more for weirdos
You have the best background set! The TV background lighting idea is as simple as it is genius. I was expecting something way more complicated. You better be proud of it and of your channel!
When he pulled out the remote I was expecting him to pull out a couple dozen more remotes for LED bulbs or something lol but then I was like no... That's silly
yeah its so surprisingly simple the idea as it is genius
Yeah that was a super cool idea. The effect works really well
hehe i was all about to think of white plastic and led lamps around the sides -
I want the template to make some video for him to use on those TV's.
"...insufferably clever."
I mean, that's your channel in a nutshell.
@lh and unforgivably lazy
"I'm unforgivably lazy."
"Anyways here's my amazing backdrop that is absolutely saturated with meaningful and clever details just like all of the content I produce"
So well earned, man. I get excited every time I see you have a new video, wasn't expecting one with such a personal touch. How great :)
"I may finally do what I said I'd do long time ago and setup a video where these [the colored TV tiles] slowly change over time, I'm just, as I said, unforgivable lazy"
So often, people conflate "lazy" with being solution-oriented and inventive.
@@KateOwsley So often people conflate "lazy" with "having other priorities". As TheWeaver pointed out, Alec is clearly not lazy. But he's also clearly not had enough time to do the things his parents wanted because of needing to pursue his delightful interests that they called him this repeatedly.
I tried using the oscilloscope on the top of your shelf, and I can confirm that despite my best efforts, I was utterly unsuccessful in doing so.
Exactly. He is absolutely right that we can't use it.
That's because it's actually a green screen image.
If you get one of those oscilloscopes, usually there's a fuse that switches it between 240v and 120v, and you have to manually pull it out and move it to the correct orientation.
They came with 240v set by default so people didn't fry the thing when trying to use it in the rest of the world.
"I'm unforgivable lazy" says the guy with a great youtube channel. Thanks for all the great content
I'm gonna state the obvious: post the TV's templates and let the community have some fun with it
Yeah crowdsource that B
TBH I really like the way it is with one plain colour per shelf
@@GerardMenvussa I also really like that. I'm curious as to the best way to "co-opt" that for my own use. I wasn't expecting the TVs.
Patreon tier reward here we come
I can now imagine a quick half second scene where one of the squares show his face on a weird expression being a thing.
Now, if he had done this before he revealed the trick, it would be killer
“And in my fridge, I have soy milk, grapes, a 12 pack of Diet Coke, a pound of ground beef, and a fake Swedish plant!”
Along with soda, OJ, some purple stuff- ooh, Sunny Delight! 😅
@@ElectroDFW And another fake Swedish plant
@@ambrosenuk I never even thought the display was colored by TV’s. Very imaginative!
NGL, the ending of your comment made me chuckle.
Now I just realized why I enjoy this channel so much, it reminds me of that segment with Andy Rooney on 60 minutes. No jokes are explained, treating the audience as capable, smart individuals, all while explaining even the most basic stuff.
Congratulations on reaching 1 million, may ever more people discover this clever channel in the future.
Yes!! But not condescending to our generation.
As others have said, you deserve every bit of this. And you should know that, for many of us out there in the the world, your videos really do brighten our days. I know they do for me, so thank you.
First rule of quality content on the internet: The more weirder the most better.
Amén to that!
I think it's more better!
I can agree on that.
This comment are an most true.
"I'm unforgivably lazy!"
The man has dozens of more-in-depth technical vids than you'll find on any 'professional' TV/Web source. Scares me what he might achieve if he actually tried!
😜
He would take over the world, obviously.
I honestly believe that if he actually tried, he could cover a topic in so much depth that we would end up with a step by step instructional series on how to make the materials and device itself from scratch. As well as the best ways to market and sell such items and have fun while doing it.
@@zachfruin7684 James May should do a collaboration, covid permitting
@@zachfruin7684 how in depth would that be? Would he take us to the mines/oil fields and where else they got the raw material in order to make one functional desk top lamp? That would take a while indeed.
A lazy person will find a easier way of doing something then some one who isn't lazy
2 years later you’re approaching 2 million. You deserve it. The information, comedy, and snark make this channel as wonderful as it is
Really crazy when you think of it like this: 1 in 7000 people on this planet get a notification on their phone every time you post a video and think "i cant wait to learn about something I never carefully considered before and twenty minutes later have very strong opinions about it which I will share with anybody who locks eyes with me for more than a couple seconds"
1 in 7000 would be a billion
@@Neko_Void Do you think there are 7 trillion people on the planet?
@@tjbr50 : I guess maybe some people don't quite grasp how to move a decimal around?
That's some damn impressive CGI, almost looks like you're really moving the set items around
Augmented Reality
You were right the first time; it’s a skein of red yarn! A hank is a big loop of yarn that you twist into a rope-like twisty thing to keep it tangle-free. A skein is wrapped into a pill shape around a rod, which lets you pull the yarn from the center if you’re clever about it. This is similar to a cake, which is my personal favorite yarn storage structure. It’s like a skein, but it’s wound up into a flat cylinder (like a cake) and very stackable.
real! you tell em!
I'm in favour of never moving that "The Terminal" DVD. Knowing it's there is delightful.
Seconded.
Dang, that TV background set up is actually really cool, you have every right to be proud of that!
I am so offended for you that anyone thought your set was a green screen. Easily the best TH-camr set out there.
I mean, it’s pretty much an in-joke these days? I don’t think *many* people take it seriously (although among a million subscribers, there will naturally be some).
"which you can't see during the talking heads"
Oh, you can see it once in a lifetime, but it's same as it ever was
Lol Idk how many people will actually get this joke but it’s good!
But, where is that large automobile with the amber turn signals?
@@Rijam35 And you may say to yourself -"How did I get here?"
@@OliversElevators this joke needs to stop making sense
11:11 "The wee little GE TV that me got for free TEE HEE"
Thank you Alec, Very cool!
He's a genius
I didn't get the reference. Could you explain please. I mean I know it was from the video but my question is; what was the video refering to?
@@leonardodavila506 im unsure if its a reference, but it is clever alliteration
Imagine going through all this trouble to cover your green screen secret
Yeah, pretty good 3D renders.
The ensure maximum realism, the set was constructed as a full-sized filming model.
A bit like Stanley Kubrick insisting on filming the Moon landing on location.
The TV's behind the shelf is an extremely clever idea, I always thought it was RGB LED backlit acrylic
Well deserved on the 1 mil! This show is great!
Bravo! Now on to 2 million! 👍
Where talking banana?
@@iwantsexseemyvideo7149oh shit the bots arrived...
Make sure to report the shit out of them boys!
@@simpleinverso8628 Sure did, bud.
The TVs as backlights is brilliant. Infinite versatility. Maybe you could use them to hide some easter eggs. Or maybe have all the colors slowly shift to brown (dark orange) over the course of a full episode and see if anyone notices.
He mentioned cycling the colours in the video. However, I think this would be hell to try and edit the resulting video.
@@NigelGentry Edit? I thought he was doing these in a seamless one-take. Illusion shattered. I always wondered why he made so many mistakes near the end of his video, but just figured he was getting tuckered out :P
@@gamersincepong In a video I watched the other day (I can't remember which one), he actually says that he's recorded some dialogue, but then he realised that he needed to clarify something first. So, the previously recorded bit will be shown afterwards!
you deserve every ounce of this success and more. thanks for being such a terrific person. :-)
my wife and i have a theme of pears and i cannot tell you how happy that little white pear has made me over the years. 🍐
Oh, hey Deev.
Hey Dev, cool to see you here, love your content as much as Technology Connections :) Cheers
Is that deviant! Love your channel too
@@JaxMerrick hiya!
Yeah, I never miss a video here. 😁
@@keksimus__maximus my content is nowhere near as polished or engaging as Alec's, but I thank you for enjoying, just the same. 😁
I love the fact that you took your time to do subtitles. Not that I really use it all the time, but when there's something I need to look up and don't know how to spell it, it's really helpful.
He often has fun extra tidbits in the subtitles. I highly recommend watching his videos with them on!
Point of order: skeins, hanks, balls and cakes are *forms* of yarn, not sizes/quantities. You have a big skein of red yarn. You could unravel it and wind it into a big hank of red yarn if you were so inclined.
Are they winding machine dependent, and are some styles easier to use when feeding knit machines ?
@@highpath4776 Knitting machines usually use coned yarn. Hanks are big loops which are convenient for washing and dyeing the yarn, and also are not under tension which makes them supposedly better for long-term storage than a ball, skein, or cone.
hhmm... I thought I had pretty good English language skills but I sure as heck had zero clue about yarn lingo, and don't think I'll actually learn that no matter how many times I read it
@@Kalvinjj Hehe every field has jargon, whether it's textiles or tech! I wouldn't expect people to know it if they're not in that community
@@joyuna anything that put yarn under tension during storage makes the yarn stretch, so once its worked up it the finished object has a good chance of shrinking as the yarn goes back to its relaxed state
4:55 “A rather PHALLIC sand castle” 🤣 my thoughts exactly hahahahaha
I like the background because it reminds me of the “I spy” books I used to look at in elementary school.
I knew it was triggering my nostalgia response, but I couldn't place it.
Up Next: "How To Dust Shelves With Lots and Lots Of Knickknacks"
Swiffer
Canned air is actually enough. As long as the stuff is on a shelf with small openings like that, there isn't much dust anywhere but on the very top, which is best cleaned with a swiffer or vacuum
This actually occurred to me as well.
Milwaukee leaf blower FTW
The TV's behind the self is such an elegant little trick, love it!
This channel is the modern equivalent of "The Way Things Work" book I got as a gift back around 1990. Solid descriptions backed by mammoth humor. I'm pretty sure I read it all the way through at least 20 times growing up.
I still have the books some were in my parents house (in Spanish). Love it as a child, that funny Mamout/elephants
I grew up with the interactive PC version of it! I went through it several times every month back then!
I could not have said it better myself
I did. And now I'm an engineer.
Ooh, I think I have a print of that book somewhere!
Huh. I've wondered how you did the "TV background" thing before. Very clever. A year and a half ago, when I rebuilt my set, you were an inspiration for it.
Chromecasting the desktops of two computers to massive 55 inch TVs chained to the ceiling is the kinda bizarre background solution only you would actually do
But it's just so good
And yet the beauty of it is proven simply by the fact that it is so completely seamless and unnoticeable if You're not thinking about it.. I was completely blown away when it was revealed they weren't just some coloured panels hiding at the back of each cubby, but I've never been observant enough to notice a major change in the background at all
Interesting tech dissected with the correct amount of snark. Just up my alley, please keep taking my Patreon money =)
I'm not in the situation to contribute, so know I appreciate it immensely that you do, for whatever it's worth
The backdrop and recording date "plot twists" stunned me more than any twist in any television show has for years now
your channel is the new age "how its made" series
I love how the fancy new 3d printer is crap and broken, but then there's like, these lovely functional old radios.
I guess it happens like the old saying goes: "They don't do things the way they used to"
The most important question is yet to be answered: Where did you get that jacket from?
he must be a teacher or a professor or-- he might have gotten it from one. HEY! did you kill a professor to get this?!?? :(
Why, same place he gets everything - Menard's
I think he explained the jacket in an episode when he first started wearing it. Alas the details didn't stick in my head. I just remember him saying "You all seem to like it so I'll keep wearing it."
Given where half the items on the shelf came from, I'll bet $5 that he got the jacket from a thrift shop somewhere.
@@dracoslayer16 I think he said that on an episode somewhere.
The TVs are a genius idea. The illusion is great, i throught they were led panels.
11:11 As a non-native english speaker, I almost had a stroke
"Then we see the wee little GE TV that me got for free teehee" as a spanish speaker I got several brain damage
@@SpikerDragon95 same
@@SpikerDragon95 for free
@@CadillacDriver yeah, thanks mate
A “hank” doesn’t refer to the size. It refers to the way it is wound and stored. A hank is a giant loop twisted upon itself to look like a braid. A “skein” is really just an umbrella term for a single amount of yarn. That skein is a center pull ball, but more like a tube than the “cakes” smaller hand winders make.
Thought I'd check before commenting to see if someone mentioned this! However I'm just thrilled to see yarn represented. :)
As someone who has worked in an arts and crafts store for damn near seventeen years, I did NOT know this. Of course, I worked specifically with custom picture frames, so there's that. Thanks for the info.
I have heard those terms before having worked in a Textile factory years ago, some of their yarn Panda and Cleckheaton I am sure is or was sold around the world.
OMG! he said hank and my ears perked up. I wanted to see if anyone else had caught it before I attacked! nice comment!
@@jaxstookey8628 Hanks to me were those things Mum purchased from the factory, and were sort of in a bun and we had to support it with out stretched hands as she wound it to a ball. Later on she got this table top winder. They made the hanks in a section called The Reeling in the factory.
genuinely had a jaw-drop moment when you revealed the way the colored cubbies work.
Congrats! As a yarn store owner though, it's just a ball, sorry. A skein/hank of yarn is about how it's wound, not its yardage. 🙂
I need to stop being surprised at the vocational variety of my patrons, but honestly yarn store owner wasn't on my short list! When I looked this up on everyone's favorite reliable source of knowledge, it seemed that a skein is formally 1/6 of a hank, and that the hank is a unit of measurement moreso than a style of winding. Though admittedly it was unclear
@@TechnologyConnections No worries! It's a pretty common terminology mixup, even amongst some of our experienced customers! My range of paid skills runs from electrician to yarn store owner to small town politician, but my hobbies are much more into tinkering and fixing (or sometimes not). I can certainly appreciate a well crafted TH-cam video. Keep up the awesome work!
Edit: Of course, the more I poke around online, the more mixed up the terminology appears. Oi. 🙄
@@TechnologyConnections Never use Wikipedia as your only source.
DUDE, I was just chilling in my room, then the snake showed up and I realize I HAVE THAT STATUE. Of course mine has the original paint. The back/hood is copper with a silver bottom/chest if anyone was curious.
I wish a channel like this was around on PBS decades ago. I've always been fascinated by how electronics work and had to wait until my thirties for quality content such as yours to explain it.
The problem is with anything like this on main stream TV, is it too specialised and gets pushed to bad times until it dies. Thank's to TH-cam we can indulge to our heart's content.
i never identified it before, but you're right, this channel SCREAMS 1998 PBS. in the best way
@@cmmartti Thanks! I'll have to check those out
The set is real, you're entirely 3D generated and DeepFaked, we know.
Of course, Captain Disillusion is a master in that
I still can’t believe the set has been a green screen this whole time 🤯
captain disillusion really went the extra mile with this one
Only in Mr. Regular's Falcon auction video.
He's also a really good actor, nails the way he interacts with the CGI'd images...
Did we not watch the same video, or did you mean to say “has not been”?
@@Oncampus2k This comment is a joke. I'm not going to be one of those annoying people who whoooosh outside of Reddit
It makes me happy that you're functionally using some of the sections for storing stuff, and just how clean it all looks.
If it were me, I'd have labels on each of the cupboards and drawers outlining what's in them which, while useful, would ruin the aesthetic.
Dude no matter how weird you are or how niche your content is you’ll be able to find success on the internet. The reason you found success is because of the love and effort that you put into your videos, you make content that you’re genuinely interested in and want to share, and that shows through in every video
Say what you want but the biggest plot twist in history has got to be the backlighting of this guy's shelves.
Congrats! I’m totally stealing that TV idea!
It's actually a really good idea
I wonder if it'd be cheaper to set them up as dual monitors for a cheap laptop and just change the background that way, rather than use two computers and two Chromecasts. It might also be easier.
I'll have to find out when I have a bigger place and _definitely_ do this myself.
But dont you dare stealing the fake swedish grass idea
@@nthgth it'd be cheaper to just use a raspberry pi and remote into it, the pi 4 has 2 display outputs and it should be plenty for displaying images.
The dishwasher video will be forever etched into my mind as the 'Great Dishwasher Revelation of 2020' so thank you for that. Turns out dishwashers are pretty good at washing dishes and don't need to be coddled! Congrats on the million, you deserve it.
it's not dishwashers. It's the hauntingly uplifting smooth jazz at the end of every video. Congratulations!
You've made me a somewhat less dumb homeowner. You're the best.
Exactly! Ever since I bought my house I’ve learned so many neat little things from this channel that applies to my daily life! 😁
I'm really impressed with that studio ground set! I always thought it was kind of cool, but I had no idea so much effort was put into it. Great job, and congrats on your success!! 🎉🎉🎉🏆
I never realized how big this channel got. I've been here since a few thousand subs but never looked at the number for some reason. Amazing to see how it took off.
Wow, I can't believe he went through the hassle of animating every single piece of this green screen just to mess with us.
Your “absurd weirdness” is your greatest strength! We LOVE your videos, your sense of humour, your adorable well meaning tongue in cheek snark, and your intelligence and honesty.
You deserve every millimetre of your success. Thank YOU, for entertaining and educating us!
11:12 "Then we see the wee little GE TV that me got for free teehee" as a spanish speaker I got several brain damage
I'm sure you meant "severe," but "several brain damage" is freaking hilarious 😂
Yours is one of the channels I discovered very early (I think you had just passed like 200k) and was delighted by your delivery. The fact that you are so very self aware of your weirdness is why it works.
I come here when I want videos that are interesting and zero politics.
Thanks for the great content!
No, thank YOU for making Technology Connections possible.
I’ve loved watching you and this channel over the years now. Congratulations!
The soft, calm styling of your videos is what draws me in. Along with unique items that you have shown and their in-depth and well explained backgrounds. Always enjoyable to watch
Shout-out to the one patreon that changed their name to "Technology Connections is my Spirit Animal"! And thank you Alec for making this year so much more tolerable and entertaining. TC is one of the few channels where i look forward to every single video. Now, to a great 2021 and beyond ^^
I spotted that too! Runner-up for "best patreon name I could spot" was "ab" but with actual arrows.
"now we get to the top shelves, up here we have-"
Me: "records!!"
"- my laserdisk collection."
Me: "oh, i forgot about laserdiscs..."
I thought the same thing 😂
Same, especially since we still have several display boxes full of records in a room xD
Same
Everyone forgot about laserdiscs :(
@@Case_ I know right. And they’re awesome! I just got a laserdisc player last week.
I've always wondered how the individual cubbies had different colored lighting.
I just assumed color lighting. Couldn't believe it was a giant tv
@@poochyenarulez right?! Such an inventive design choice. I thought perhaps it might have just been colored backing to the shelves and white lights just illuminated them but you could see the color shining on objects in the cubbies so I figured it must have been some type of colored lighting or LED strip. But using actual TVs?! The possibilities for backgrounds are endless.
Love the set. Very nostalgic, from a simpler and more stress-free time. I half-expected it to be a rented studio somewhere professional, like a university. The colored TV squares are a nice touch.
I can't believe those backgrounds are TVs!!!
and all this time they could've been moving smh
I have to say the TVs for background is really clever, I thought it was gels and lights.
The TVs behind the shelf’s is a really cool idea!!
@@crispindry2815 Sorry English teacher, I used the wonderful invention called Siri 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣
You're the best kind of weird, and I love your set, even with the displays turned off. I'm proud to have been one of your 1st million subscribers.
"I'm unforgivably lazy"
literally puts a fucking TV behind the shelves instead of getting individual lights.
well earned.
He didn't literally put a fucking TV behind the shelves.
He literally put TWO fucking TVs behind the shelves.
That's a lazy and fascinating thing to obtain multiple colors in 1 go and change them very fast.
Awesome
Well, I forgive him, so now he has to try harder to be unforgivable.
"I'm unforgivably lazy." - It's 1300 here in the UK... I'm watching this from my bed... I think I'm in the right place.
I know time zones exist but are they really doing a 700 year time difference?
@@tobinatort800 Give it another 300 years and they will finally get out of bed and set sail for the USA.
@@tobinatort800 he's probably in Wales.
"Normal people are just people you don't know that well" :)
I love that haha
Congratulations! Your particular brand of weirdness is entertaining and inviting, and you can tell the amount of care that goes into every single video. Thanks for making wonderful content, I can't wait to see where we go in the future!
lovely voice + witty remarks + random knowledge = why we all came and stay here.
congrats on the million milestone Mr. Connections.
Bloody love using TVs as the background like that.
0:20 Missed a second chance of making a joke that the set was actually fake by "accidentally" bumping into a greenscreen :(
Ya did it my lad! As a fellow weirdo making his way doing the thing he was oddly fascinated by (in my case programming and electronics) I am so happy to see someone with similar interests (I've always been fascinated by how things work) be so successful, no less by appealing to a wide audience. It make me feel just that bit less of weirdo myself. Also, I really appreciate that you don't redact your contribution level on Patreon. Thanks for the transparency. You deserve every penny of it.