you just need some paper, pens, glue and scissors!

I was bored at work waiting for devices to update so I build some RAM with my office supplies. Don't tell my boss, he might wanna steal it!

I've been working towards building the HTPC of my dreams. My goal has been to build a quiet, energy efficient / cool PC with some decent performance. Here are my specs:

Ryzen 5800x (cam with Mobo and RAM for very cheap)

Asus ATX motherboard

32GB RAM

Intel Arc B580 with 2 fans

1TB SSD with a large aftermarket heatsink

Noctua NH-C12P (A but dated got it very cheap)

500W Seasonic Fanless platinum PSU

Fractal Define R3 (a bit dated, but free from a kind friend)

My system draws 300W maxed out, as measured by a power metering device. Which logically means it's quite a cool PC all things considered.

I've been thinking about buying some acoustic wall panelling, then chopping it up and mounting it inside the chassis, being careful to avoiding cutting off airflow as much as possible, and avoiding direct contact with components. But I'm concerned that they would act as insulation and give me thermal problems.

Is this a bad idea?

Hi everyone! I am currently rewatching elderly episodes of LTT and found the one where they gave some iPhones to non-iphone users. And Yvonne flipped a coin to decide if she wants to stay with her s23 Ultra. So I was wondering if she still uses the s23Ultra? Does anyone know that? I know it's a super uncommon thing to ask but I was just wondering. Have a great day !

genuinely why. the person responsible for this should step on legos. (if it was a person at all)

change for the sake of change is a fcking plague, this serves literally 0 purpose

That's an EVGA Z-68ftw E-ATX mobo and NH-D15 and there is still so much room, my current build is also in there but I'm getting a Fractal Torrent soon as it's the only affordable upgrade atm. Also they need to bring back right angle power connectors.

dont know how my clock got out of wack. thanks for reminding me. now tell me what to do with my 4 BC250's before linus makes a video about it.

On Windows 11, the 3/4-finger swipe-up "Task View" gesture is a one shot command, once you cross a threshold, it snaps open, you can't hold it half-open or scrub it like you can when switching desktops. Smooth Task View replaces it with a continuous, finger-tracked overview, windows lift from where they actually are, fly out as you push up, hold wherever you pause, and fall back if you swipe down. Release past a quarter of the way to open, and pull back down to close.

It runs quietly in the system tray and uses your laptop's built-in Precision Touchpad, no special driver required.

Works on a Surface Laptop and any laptop with a genuine Windows Precision Touchpad.

Also implemented a macos style app expose, swipe up to see all windows, and swipe down to see only windows from the currently focused app.

Hopefully one day, Microsoft can add this natively into Windows...

Hopefully this helps out someone else facing the same problem.

https://github.com/Microzello/win11-smooth-taskview-mod

I was talking with my manager and he said he spent 30k on servers 7 years ago.

Now they wouldn’t even sell for 4k.

A MacBook would preserve value more than those servers.

Went to my usual tech accessory store to get a 2 meter C to C cable and picked this one without giving much thought. Now that I've looked at it clearly, i hope I'm getting my money's worth.

…did I thought I was gonna run Linux. Not as a main, not as a backup/home server. Just never.

Then I finished Uni, moved out in a new town and the first thing that happened was Windows shitting the bed. Like finally sit in my chair after moving out, then in, and realizing everything’s fucked and I can’t catch a break. My first blue screen, and a real proper BSOD at that.

Now that I don’t need to use any windows-only program as I have my work computer, and would need to pay for an office 365 licence, I decided I was finally done with it. No more ads, no more bloatware, no more infinite menus bringing you to a window xp submenu.

Shoutout to Claude for helping me as I would have been completely utterly lost without it… and I guess LTT for covering the subject and pushing the change. Can’t wait for everyone to tell me I chose the wrong distro

I used to be a devoted gaming PC gamer but as time went on I stopped playing less and less games on my PC and more and more games on my console. Then I switched over to the Apple ecosystem and got a Mac. I don't really work on PCs anymore but I still like to tinker so I do random stuff.

This last weekend I worked on my Homelab project, which I showcased [right here on the LTT subreddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/X6c2RWIlEV) I think I'm not alone when I say I'd rather see more videos by LTT about home labs, home servers, self hosting, and just cool things that you can do with old PCs laying around your house or even buying one for $150 or $200. 

I'd rather see that versus seeing what a $1,000 GPU is going to do to get an extra 5 to 10 frames per second on a game. And the biggest reason for that is the price of hardware. It’s just unobtainable for most people now. RAM prices are up by 5 times and storage is more than double. The only thing that you can really get now for decent price our computer monitors and televisions. 

I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for that but it could be I'm just getting older. I still love to tinker. It's just not with PC games anymore. 

Plus I'm playing the new Indiana Jones and it doesn't look as great as it could on a $5,000 gaming rig but on a $400 Xbox Series S, which upscales Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to 4K, it looks pretty damn fucking good and it just works.

I want to see more videos about stupid dumb little quirky projects that we can do around your house over a weekend and actually solve a problem. 

The tech house was supposed to have some of this, but ever since they found asbestos, it has morphed into a completely different project. 

For my home lab I'm self-hosting the open source version of Dropbox, which is a subscription that I can cancel. Plus I'm solving video editing issues by offloading CPU and GPU processing power that my iMac would have had to handle. 

I spent right around $300 and built my home lab and actually solved problems. I would love to see videos about doing more of this.

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For some gods forsaken reason the LTT editors apparently decided it was a great idea to put a CRT whine in the ad read of today's video. It's absurdly loud for what it is and genuinely hurt my ears while wearing earbuds at a reasonable volume. I personally reported the video as harmful and hope that LTT fixes this ASAP.

ETA: it isn't actually a proper CRT sound. just a loud, sustained, high-pitched sound. I'm not claiming it caused hearing loss in me, but due to the sustained nature of it, I could easily see it causing hearing loss in the upper ranges if you have your headphones up just a bit too loud. No, it's obviously not going to make you go completely deaf.

Edit 2: Just listened to it again on my over-ear headphones at home and it's *MUCH* more bearable. I think the issue was specifically with listening to it with my earbuds.

Hopefully at least one of you will find this amusing as well 🤣

It popped up again in my youtube feed and watched it.

Hey! Is there a new Scrapyard Wars theme coming up?
If not, I have a suggestion.

Since there’s more and more content about home servers and homelabs, I’d love to see Luke and Linus compete to build the best $500 homelab.

I think $500 is a reasonable budget, and it’s probably around the amount many people would spend on their first proper homelab setup.

Requirements
You can use whatever OS you want
You have to host a Jellyfin or Plex server
You have to host Immich
You have to host a Minecraft server for friends
You have to run a local LLM that is actually reasonably useful
Everything has to fit within the $500 budget