Needfuldoer - Linus Tech Tips (original) (raw)

  1. If you do a build with this monstrosity, you've got to dust off the gold controller to go with it.
  2. It's not unheard of, especially for new TVs. The plastic is still offgassing, and those backlight LEDs get hot.
  3. Bingo. HP and Dell do this for their mass-market consumer and office desktops as a way to minimize manufacturing costs. I guarantee you the front panel connectors are also non-standard. Either use the whole machine as-is, or get yourself a couple Mini ITX motherboards. (Or better yet, a used workstation or server that has enough cores and memory to consolidate both roles into one.)
  4. A lot of the time, you don't even need to reset or reinstall Windows. Just create a new local user profile and migrate your documents to that.
  5. See if your local Walmart has the "Hyper Tough 77 Piece Precision Tool Kit" in stock. I keep one of these around at work just in case I need to get into a phone or something and my LTT Precision Screwdriver is still out in the car. Fit and finish isn't the best, but it's good enough (especially for the price). You should be able to tear down most modern laptops with just a #0 and a #00 Philips driver, so anything you find that includes those bits should get the job done.
  6. Wayback Machine has a few captures of the product page, but most of the pictures are of people wearing them. https://web.archive.org/web/20240716160403/https://www.lttstore.com/products/cargo-shorts
  7. What hardware are they working with now?
  8. What resolution are your games rendering at? If it's less than 4K native, there's upscaling involved.
  9. Personally I'm sick and tired of hearing nothing but "AI" this and "AI" that. Half the time it's just an algorithm that already existed, the other half it's generated slop. AI reviews. AI search results. AI art. AI text. AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI. Just... stop. I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst. And not everything has to be "an app". Lowe's, I'm on your website and I just want to know where the damn pocket screws are. Stop telling me to install the app. Stop showing me search results for SKUs that are only shipped. I'm standing in the store. Just tell me where the thing is. So I can buy it. And walk out the door with it. Maybe I should switch my avatar to Hank Hill...
  10. That machine is plenty for a NAS. The bulk of your storage should be mechanical hard drives in a redundant array. I'd still recommend getting one SSD for documents, especially if you plan on running Plex or Jellyfin. Store your media on the mechanical drive pool, but use the SSD for their thumbnails and metadata. Your client devices will feel a lot snappier if the server isn't pulling hundreds of tiny files off spinning drives.
  11. Not if you get a card that uses SFF-8087 or SFF-8643 breakout cables. They'll trunk four drives into one connector. I stuffed an old Antec Nine Hundred full of nine optical drives and connected them all to an LSI SAS card. Cable management was okay.
  12. [ Moved to New Builds and Planning] Integrated graphics are more than enough for what you want to do.
  13. Nah. Replace the PCIe SATA card with a PCIe SAS HBA (which can also handle SATA drives).
  14. [ Threads merged ] One thread per build, please.
  15. It's just another Ubuntu reskin, so it should be as stable as desktop Linux ever gets. All it is, is just GNOME that's been preconfigured to be a pretend Windows environment. Besides, it's not like countless Microsoft employees haven't contributed to Linux projects already. Even the kernel has their fingerprints all over it.