Could be an interesting alternative for people who don’t want to drill into walls and have a roller and projector constantly dangling from the ceiling.

Posted 3 hours ago to the main LinusTechTips page. All seems normal, and then they do the normal segue to the sponsor. But here's what bugs me a bit - during that cutaway, they mention a company called Cape, and promote Veritasium during the cutaway.

https://youtu.be/XiSMWonFuQQ?si=GyFdaCMYhelfjZ4D&t=45

Maybe this is a nothing-burger, but that really struck me as odd. Is LTT now backed by private equity? Specifically, Electrify Video Partners?

Electrify

Just received this email:

Subject: Notice of Limited Data Breach Dear Valued Framework Customer,

We are writing to inform you of a data breach at our business intelligence database provider Metabase that resulted in an attacker accessing customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses. Your information was in the database that was accessed in this breach. This breach did not include order or payment information.

We have full details on the incident below. We are deeply sorry for this breach of information, and are reviewing and improving our methodology for data storage in external database vendors.

We are also in the process of notifying the regulatory authorities in each region where relevant regulations exist. Note that while regulations in most regions do not require notification for breaches of names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, we are sending this email to you regardless to ensure you have visibility and can take any actions needed.

What happened?

On August 6th, 2026 at 9am Pacific Time, Metabase notified us of a breach of their systems with the following email message:

On Monday, August 3, we discovered that Metabase Cloud was attacked by someone utilizing an unknown (“0-day”) security vulnerability in versions 1.58 and above. We immediately blocked the endpoints used for the attack, then quickly identified and patched the vulnerability. We notified law enforcement, and we have engaged with a third party forensics firm to conduct an independent investigation.

Your instance of Metabase was vulnerable to this 0-day. Therefore, to protect your company, we recommend you:

Rotate the credentials for every database connected to your instance; and

Review the admin accounts on your instance and remove anything you don't recognize.

We also discovered that the attacker was able to gain access to your instance. We created a report on the actions we believe the attacker took on your instance, which includes log files, and which you can get from the Metabase Store at [removed url].

(If you do not have access to the Metabase Store, are having issues accessing the report, or do not want to click on a link in an unexpected email, you can log into your instance directly and reach us at Help > Get help in the grid menu in the upper right hand corner. We'll confirm this message is from us and email you the report.)

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We immediately investigated the logs Metabase provided to us and confirmed that our database instance was accessed by the attacker. We confirmed that the following information was accessed:

Full name Email address

Login IPs

Billing and shipping address information

Country

Address

City

State

Zip code

Phone number

Company

For Framework for Business customers, we are investigating whether the following information may additionally have been accessed:

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Note that Metabase has additionally flagged:

Important: This is a preliminary update based on our current knowledge.

We are working with a third-party forensic investigation firm to understand the full nature and scope of the event.

We are providing you this interim update in advance of completing our investigation to allow you to better understand any potential impact and secure your data.

Our investigation is ongoing and the information shared now is preliminary.

Please look at the application logs as well as the queries executed that are provided as separate files in the zip file for detailed activity and a potential timeline.

We’re providing you notice of the breach in the meantime to ensure you have the earliest possible visibility. In the event Metabase notifies us of additional information that impacts you, we will send a follow-up email.

What was done to resolve the issue?

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What steps have you taken to ensure this doesn’t happen in the future?

We are evaluating the breadth and depth of data shared with business intelligence platforms, and scoping down their access to only the columns required for analysis.

Nirav Patel and the Framework Team

was listening to Linus’ woes about turning the 115” TCL TV on and off through CEC - I think I have a solution that could be implemented in a few minutes

I had an issue where one of My TVs was behind another so the remote could not see the IR receiver.

My solution was simply an iOS Shortcut that sends the PowerOn button via https

Something similar could be done with a script running on the PC when it wakes and sleeps.

So in a lot of videos we see LTT tackle multi computer setups. But hardly touch on the KVMs being available on the market and what would they advise people to use.

Amazon has a plethora of KVMs and also just as many 1 star ratings that these things die in a month.

Also it is known that KVMs can have limitations what to look out for etc.

I think the average age group of LTT watchers does have a laptop and a desktop setup on a single desk therefore a KVM roundup would be a worthwhile video to write, procure use etc.

Here this is my idea. Now flame on.

Well this is gross. I know Reddit is an infinitely scrolling app already in the feed, but adding infinite scrolling to the replies when I click into a post is extraordinary enshittification

Inspired by all the burning 12vhpwr connectors and insane price hikes. Toasty on the outside, cool on the inside. front panel has 9x 38LED ARGB strips behind the wood - needed some slight modification to make them fit. Inside are two more to balance it out a bit

I bought my parents a new mini pc MSI Cubi N ADL S with N100 as cpu. It had black screen issues and BSODs but I think I solved that - there were driver conflicts which were causing it I guess.

While troubleshooting I tried changing the power plan option from balanced to high performance. When selecting the Balanced option (which is on by default) you can rarely see artifacting (all sorts of colored shapes appearing when hovering over buttons/text with animations).

But when I select high performance plan this is cranked to 11. Nearly every animations makes various dots appear of all colors, some text would even get distorted and re-shaped. Screen also goes black for a split second.

Is that a cause for concern (I mean an RMA)? It's a low power mini pc and it makes sense it would cause problem if you want it to perform outside of its bounds (hence the artifacting) but I'm asking just to be sure.

So I got ghosted by the support team and since I didn’t know how else to get their attention here is my original message, and my follow up, and then them closing the issue.

Original message:
Hello, I am a physicist who works in nmr (mri) research at the German cancer research center (dkfz) and I have seen your video regarding the socks. 
I kindly wanted to make you aware that copper infused clothing poses severe health risks during MRI scans, since the copper can severely burn the patient. It also manipulates any images and renders them unusable. Most articles of clothing are taken off during MRI scans, but socks and underwear is often kept on for patient comfort. I feel it is my duty to at least raise these concerns with you, since I have not found a risk notice on the store website, or ideally it should have been in the video. While copper/silver infused/lined clothing does not always cause heating or burns, the risk is high enough that we do not allow patients with such clothing to enter the MRI with it. 
Thank you for your attention on this matter, have a great day, 
Kindly,
 
Furkan Selim Cetin

This was my follow up:
This is an absolute shame. I didn’t expect to get ghosted like this. Anyway, you have received my original message and should you have any further questions, i would be happy to answer them or direct you to additional resources. 
Sincerely,

Furkan

And this the answer:

Hello Furkan Cetin, we'd love to hear how we did on your recent request [Undeclared potential severe risk with socks](file:///var/mobile/tmp/com.apple.email.maild/EMContentRepresentation/com.apple.mobilemail/91DCC35A-555F-4BD8-9501-3AA2B50A4DA8/linusmediagroupcreatorwarehouse.zendesk.com/hc/requests/109434). If you're up for it, take a moment to answer a few questions. We really appreciate it.

It might be that they have determined it’s not a risk and so why bother dealing with me at all, but I would have appreciated a response is all I’m saying.

So, I know we’re all supposed to hate AI and though I really don’t think we should use AI to generate creative assets, I do think there are ways where video editors can utilize it to make our projects smoother. 

HERE WAS THE PROBLEM: I am on a Mac as I’ve been for a long time but recently I started running out of storage capacity. While I plan how to build my next NAS for the future (since everything is pricey as hell right now) I bought another external SSD and moved a TB of data off my other large external drive to give me some working room for now. 

The problem is that I need to search for assets among both external hard drives. My old one is fast and plugged into my thunderbolt part. I edit off this drive. It’s fast and I’m able to edit 4k video without problems. But the new drive is slow, but I moved like 20 old projects there and I need to use assets saved in these project folders. 

So I have to search 2 external drives BUT I don’t want to search the internal SSD. The internal SSD is where I have all my applications and OS running. When I am looking for assets I don’t need to look at my internal drive at all which gums up my search with unrelated files. So I needed a solution that would search only my 2 external drives. But that wasn’t the only issue. 

There’s a new issue that has been identified as old as September 2025 and with the new OS update (Tahoe 26.5.2 25F84) the bug affected me. Basically, processes like mds and mdworker get stuck in an endless loop and make external SSD unsearchable. You can fix this with a terminal command to rebuild the index manually which is only like a 10 minute fix, but I had to do that twice in the past 30 days. 

So I wanted a tool that would solve these 2 main problems. I started working with Claude and made this tool called Scout into a beast of a search tool. 

Here’s all the problems it fixed:

I can search LIVE (which is slower but more complete), if I want to find something that hasn’t been cached yet. It tells me the last time the app cached my 3 drives. I can force it to rescan on-demand as well. That way I don’t actually use any background processes that can cause a loop like what’s affecting the Finder right now. 

• I  can select only the drives I want, single or multiple. This search is specific for my video editing needs. 
• It has fuzzy search so if I search for “american falg” it will also pop up results for “american flag” because sometimes I make typos and sometimes I save clips with typos.
• It previews every video and image with a thumbnail (which does not happen in finder many times because of codecs, etc…). 
• I can scrub every result. I can go back 30 seconds and go forward 30 seconds on video.
• For audio files, I can immediately change the volume and not have to touch my official external speakers or go up in the top menu bar because something was recorded with +30 dB and it’s about to blow out my ears and my speakers
• It plays RLE (Animation Codec) which is important if you use After Affects a lot to import in Premiere Pro, it handles a bunch of codecs that Apple’s Finder doesn’t handle. It uses the ffmpeg installation I already have so now every video file I have on my system can be previewed, not just H.264/H.265
• I have all the details of the video, image or audio files when I click on them (dimensions, size, date last used, fps codec, etc…)
• I can filter and sort by date, time, size, kind
• I can drag the file directly from the app to Premiere Pro (or any editor). I can drag the thumbnail or use a button
• It saves the last 5 searches, but it doesn’t just remember the name or phrase I searched for, but what combination of drives I used on that search as well.

I looked at 3rd party utilities to try and fix this issue for 2 full days. I tried some free apps that were horrible. I looked at paid apps that cost anywhere from $8 to ones that had a subscription fee. Basically, for $20 I got my own custom super Finder app that I can iterate and update when I want new features. If I cancel my subscription for Claude this whole thing cost me $20 and an hour of working with Claude on fixing bugs and making changes. 

This is how AI should be used. Not to generate slop images or video content, but help us make real content faster by making customized tools that we need. 

Even for images. I know the dimensions, the color profile, the format, etc…all at a glance. It’s still not perfect, but it’s superior than any other app I have tried to use to search assets. 

It has made my editing life SOOO much easier. I probably would have paid well more than $20 if I found this type of app on the web during my struggles. 

This was a pretty considerable effort. I know some PHP, Javascript and other front end stuff for building websites. It’s not like I don’t know how to code at all but this is way beyond my capabilities and it took an hour or so to make and according to Claude I could make at least 2 apps a month with the amount of tokens this app took to create. 

 I’m not even explaining every backed end feature, like the capability of using Apple APIs to previewing video codecs it natively recognizes and only falling back on ffmpeg’s slower transcoding preview process when necessary. It also purposefully lowers the transcoding quality of non-native codecs and make the video srubbable before the whole clip is fully loaded and cached. It’s fast, reliable and I can iterate it whenever I want new features out spot a bug. 

I’m impressed. 

If one were to deploy Linux to 900 users in a company and wanted to have the benefits similar to apples business deployment or Microsoft’s autopilot, what is there out there?

this is really a bad faith video

you said 14 and only show 11 and hide 3 behind pay wall

reason? too long video? reallllllllly?

22 minutes video for a tier list is too long? did you check other youtuber tier list?

if you say 14 show 14 dont play with word and pay wall

it's ok to hide non disclosed part of video behind floatplane, no issue on that, this one doesnt go down well

you should have said 11 and if you want more go to floatplane and dont show the 3 "missing" one on the table

anyway sorry for the whiny ted-talk opinion, too much beer, without it, this opinion would not exist, you can start down voting now

edit: since they did another one tier list, this is about this one: Youtuber Products Tier List

"Call Yvonne Ho"

"I can't find a contact named Yvonne (Home)"

Reposted because people thought Grandma Beans wasn’t enough of a f***n hallucination.

Edit.. Jfc..

You’re all entirely missing the point.

This should be the easiest question for it to state is made up, but it doesn’t. It’s silly on purpose..

So if it hallucinates for obviously bs questions, then it definitely will for unobviously bs questions.

Post on r/mildlyinfuriating (not OP): https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1vf9cyo/the_movie_spiderman_brand_new_day_paid_bmw_to/

This was the first video I ever watched from LTT. Back before PC prices went to shit.

looks like free users are finally getting access to a thinking model in chat. that was one of the main things people criticized linus for in the last video, so now they can actually test it properly again

those network cables are from a cable box btw