Fun fact! Lexi reading tech-related subreddits is the _whole entire reason_ I'm subscribed to EmKay. Also I think I saw all these in their original separate video forms because this shit absolutely _fascinates_ me and Lexi is _Lexcellent._
@@yusufaltinbasakk2015 Oh, okay. Emkay's kinda dropped in quality since half of reddit bailed anyways... Thanks for letting me know she left, I've been out of the loop for a while. Is she okay?
I have had such bad anxiety for the last days and this is literally perfect. No drama, no stakes, just Lexi going "oh, look, broken" and me going "yep, glad that's not my phone". I love it.
2:27 NEVER apologize for the HUGE number of stories you have to tell Lexi... That is one of the BIG reasons we come here to watch your videos! As always, MORE PLEASE!!! 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I'm sorry to say this, but almost 90 minutes of Lexi doing r/Hardwaregore is like a dream come true, and this subreddit, along with r/Softwaregore and r/Techgore, is always some of Lexi's finest work, because she knows from whence she speaks.
@@oscarcacnio8418 His video about how the gaming PC he was building almost bankrupt him went viral and accidentally revived his entire channel that was on the brink of failure.
I'm the one who did the "Passive cooled i9" using the block of copper. yes, it did work. in fact, I had run a benchmarking program for about 3 minutes and the temps were fine. I had been given this glorious in my vocational school during my 2nd year and it was my teachers rig that I somehow got permission to experiment with. the copper block actually came from one of two industrial computers (one block for each) designed to simulate the human body for use in a medical class across the hall that had been moved and they didn't need them, and we ended up disassembling them. Thought that it was funny and decided to try cooling the CPU with it, then discovered it actually worked and ended up posting to reddit. I'm glad I did.
24:00 this reminds me of the time a fellow phycisist asked our accelerator lab to blast a high-energy electron beam straight into his old disk hard drive to destroy it. I was a beam operator, so I got to move the beam to make sure we got everything. I tried to write "fried" on it, but that thing's really damn hard to aim so it just looked like jagged squiggles. The hard drive was thoroughly wiped though, and it only took a week for it to not be dangerously radioactive anymore!
@dogeeroo Yes "she!?!?" ,she was born male but made decisions in her life that lead her to her being the person she is now. And I respect the hell out of her for it 🫡
Do you have Twilight Princess? If you do, did you finish the game? Is it a good/fun boss fight?? I got 2/3 of the way thru the game before the disc got destroyed by my Wii exploding...
(I know this might get lost, but from the new girl!) Hi Lexi - the array at 27:40 just ate my soul. For context - I have worked on computers since 1982, yes, I was 9. My first storage device was LITERALLY a cassette tape, and I have been doing storage and data protection ever since. It's quite scary. For the first 12 years of my career, I built networks and data centers. BUT... In October 2003, San Diego was hit with a huge firestorm that burned all the way to the beach. Except our office was in that path. SOOOOO, this was literally our DR plan. We didn't have true cabinet arrays yet, so we schlepped all disks, bays, and critical servers into regular contract bags and into the back of pickup trucks to protect our data. And yes, all tapes too. Uh, coming back from that was a nightmare, and got me started in full disaster recovery engineering. But just 6 months later, because they didn't pay the bills, we got hit with the Witty Worm virus, overwriting the first 8 sectors of every disk it could touch, taking out our whole data center FOR REAL. I spent three days on the phone with Veritas walking me through Solaris, an old DLT tape library, an i500, and our sanity. But we were open for business on Monday. DR Prep and Recovery has been my bag for 20 years and it has only grown more and more relevant. Also - I have anecdotal evidence that an IBM Shark Array will INDEED stop bullets, thanks to a compadre in India caught in that terror attack in 2010.
1:55 I don't see the problem with that... As you heat the solder, you also heat the claw, so as you're replacing the chip, you're simultaneously cooking lunch... WIN-WIN... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
This has honestly become my favourite Emkay subreddit. As someone who for the love of gods doesn't know as much about their computer and is too lazy to really get into it but takes random interest in a lot of things as long as they only mildly actually benefit me, this is perfect. Thank you Lexi.
Fun fact, since this video is already so pleasantly nerdy: if the number at 9:48 were correct, that would mean the signals would have to cross the CPU at a minimum of 831,000 times the speed of light.
4:04 Lexi: Any idea why my laptop isn't turning on? Sudden ad: Exam topics, Exam topics, EXAM TOPICS I just love when ads just place themselves in the most unfortunate points in a video
Using hard drive plates as coasters feels so familiar to me as someone who grew up with a computer geek dad who had a pc repair business. Before we had a computer shop, the business was done at home and there were a few hard drive plates lying around the house and many hard drive magnets. We used the magnets as regular fridge magnets and they do a GOOOOOOD job keeping things on the fridge ngl.
17:48 2000W hairdryer is normal for most of the world, that laptop is also a very common laptop from asus which is quite popular outside of America. So most the worl uses 230V or around there so 2000/230 is like 9 amps so pleanty of headroom also alot of places merge rooms and use a 20amp breaker for multiple outlets in multiple rooms so the chances of the 9amp tripping is next to none. Always scares me that a toaster in america draws as much current as a geyser over here would like thats terrifying.
20:24 Fun fact, most circuit breakers are designed to be idiot-resistant. They have a "trip-free" mechanism which means even if you hold them in the on position they will still trip when overloaded. To put the power back on you need to move the lever fully off and then on.
1:12:35 That specific model of TI calculator (and perhaps others, but the TI-30X IIS is the only TI scientific calculator I'm really familiar with) has a reset button on the back - you stick a paperclip in a little hole and push the button inside, and it clears the memory. The calculator shown is broken in a spot where that back reset button should still be present, as from pictures I've found online the button *seems* to be right around where the bottom of the silver area is on the front (no clue where *my* old scientific calculator is to check it myself, and I'm pretty sure my siblings have Casios for school). In short: You don't need the keys to reset the memory of that particular calculator as long as the reset button on the back is present, which it likely is in this case.
That photo of the DS reminded me of the time I took one of my old ASUS laptops apart to clean it, put it back together, and mixed up two of the screws. One of them came out of the top of the laptop but it still ran for another 3 years before it finally gave up. Good times. I also spilled beer all over that poor thing [hence needing to clean it] and replaced the ribbon cable/connector and it refused to die.
My (old)work had this server room with a bunch of messy cables, I was “paid” to re-wire it all, than once done, they bounced the check they wrote due to it was spelt just off by one letter, so I put my two weeks in and put a virus on the server which would fully wipe the server clean, making all the drives empty and useless too, once I left, still no regrets.
that image of swapping the arrow keys with WASD just reminded me of the weird in game labeling of the Interstate '76 games. for some reason, they wanted to use the numpad arrow keys to drive the cars, rather than the standard ones. so when i got into options to change it, they were specified as GREY arrow keys, when the numpad set are labeled as just arrow keys. took me like half an hour to figure that out
0:10 Most of my gamepads looked like that at the end of a pretty horrific and stubborn bout of clinical depression I had about a year ago. You would not believe the amount of rubbing alcohol it took to bring my collection back to life after about 18 months of neglect :S (I'm doing much better now, don't worry!)
I love this video, because normally woth these "best of" videos, it'll be a mixture of all the narrators. But here? It's just Lexi. And her reactions to the stupid stuff is alway hilarious😂
7:30 To answer your question, if it's inky, it's an LCD. If it's missing pixels, it's an LED. LCD is quite literally translated to Liquid Crystal Display, so if something breaks the seal between the "pixels", the contents will leak out, just like in these images. Without any crystals to produce the image, the end result is black.
The floppy disk one.... When I was in middle school I had my first ever computer homework. It was a paper on budgies. I had done so much research, I had written several pages, made it magnificent with wordart and pictures and I was so proud. I spent two weeks on that paper. I had just gotten a budgie and I was obsessed. We had to hand it in on a floppy disk. I have ADHD and forgot to bring it to school the day it was supposed to be handed in and the next day as well. I promised the teacher I had done it! I would bring it tomorrow, I promise! Mom decided that the easiest way to make me remember it was to stick it to the fridge so I would see it in the morning. I saw it, packed it and proudly presented it to my teacher. The absolute trauma from realizing that all that work was gone and innocent little me not having made any backups still echo in my head every time I save my current work in like five different places ^^;
1:06:41 Yeah. This horrifies me. That's why when I eventually moved from Iowa to Arizona, all my electronics (and gaming stuff) were packed into the car for a cross-country road trip while everything else went into a moving company's shipping container and delivered to my new address. The only thing that arrived damaged was one measly empty picture frame (found for a dollar at a local Davenport City Goodwill) that I had planned to use to hang up some Touhou Project artwork depicting Yukari Yakumo. But this... yeah... gotta take care of your TVs,/PC monitors especially today's TVs and monitors which can connect to the internet, your phone, gaming consoles, computer, neighbor's wi-fi, the Pentagon...
1:12 I did something similar back in the days, when I couldn’t afford a new battery for my Nokia 3310i, so I used a Li-Ion Battery from a RC-Car I had laying around… It looked like a bomb, but it had enough battery runtime to recharge it every 14 days or so… I continued to use it in this condition for additional 3 years, then I could afford a new mobile phone…
Lexi, I love you and the way you make this stuff so much less painful for those of us who are tech savvy. I think the wildest thing I have seen was Windows being used to power public devices. On two occasions I have seen a publicly accessible device that ran Windows and had failed. One was an exhibit in a science museum. It had suffered a BSoD and was waiting to be restarted. Now that wasn't so bad. It runs on a computer. The museum didn't want to waste money with a custom OS. I get it. Still kind of funny to see, at least to me. The other one was one of those full-panel touch screen soda machines. You know the kind; the entire front panel is a huge touchscreen display that replaces the glass. The damn thing had BSoD'd. That wasn't the truly funny part, though. The BSoD was SIDEWAYS! It was basically a 4 foot wide flatscreen monitor mounted in portrait mode! So the BSoD was impossible to read without turning your head 90 degrees to the side!
It is cheaper for manufacturers to cobble together already existing solutions. Did you seen Windows NT and XP in ATM machines and banking kiosks? I did. Even with dreaded IE6 in kiosk mode. It is particularly safe for customer data though, machines have no access from outside, doesn't store client data locally and aren't used through Internet directly. Bluescreens still happen though. In contrary nowadays you can notice various Linux kernel panic screens in info panels as well. In last year's Germany trip noticed Linux kernel panic screen in advertising panel installed in WC behind translucent urinary. Laughed like crazy.
someones phone I know of years ago had part of the glass over the digitizer missing and it was covered in random bits of hair because if you dont know, the digitizer under the screen had adhesive on it. dont know if they do nowadays but I told them they really needed a new phone.
Just did my first pc troubleshoot, and I'm happy to see that despite taking an hour to find the CPU connector wasn't in all the way (I burnt the PSU, wanted to check if I killed everything) and with all these stories Lexi tells and all the strange posts, I don't feel like a moron
Well, it happen at beginning. My first hard drive with IDE/ATA interface installing in my job PC ended with a boom and smoke. ATA sockets had no plastic rim then. I inserted flat cable with skew by one pin and didn't noticed that. Controller chip now had huge hole in middle. Drive cost then (at 1992) was 4 my salaries. Luckily after 2 weeks found similar drive with good controller board and bad platters. Replaced the board and had my new drive working again without a fuss with my boss.
17:30 - The 2000W hair-dryer is probably in a 240V country. Our standard breakers in Australia are only 10A and a typical heater is 2400W. 28:55 - If they changed the keyboard mapping in the OS to actually respond to that layout, that'd be worthy of an award. 40:55 - Negative free space? I suspect integer overflow somewhere in the OS. I had a hard drive die on me and report 16 exabytes used on a 3 terabyte drive. 1:13:15 - Reminds me of The Bastard Operator From Hell's "etherkiller": a mains plug wired to a BNC connector for old-school coaxial ethernet.
56:01 to 56:09 Yes we replace the thermal paste when take off the heat sink, as it breaks the bond that the thermal paste makes between the CPU and heatsink. It's recommend to replace thermal paste an clean out heatsinks just like you would with a laptop fan. If you don't replace the thermal paste/clean out the heatsink then you can actually get overheating issues that end up unalive/cook the CPU and make it unusable and needing to be replaced.
I think the reason that the iPad screens die like that is because of the LCD screen. I'm thinking that the polarizing film broke and the liquid crystal is freaking out and prevents light from coming through correctly.
I wonder if we could have a double narrator video like for example Lexi and Damien And not take turns like they interact with each other in the video and react to stuff said by one another 🤔 maybe
Okay, this made me LoL aloud IRL more than once...mostly in remembered pain, or the reminder of how dangerous some end users can be. The one that has ruined my ribs for the moment is the 'LER' one at 32:41 abouts. Especially the truism below it where Rhiannon points out that almost any electronic component can be made to emit light ONCE. That resister, though, OMG. That's wild.
I used to work in a computer lab affiliated with a steel mill (part of their continuing education program) and there was an open lab where employees would bring in their computers and we would work through issues they had on them. I remember at one point, someone put a new hard drive into their computer and we transferred the data. I asked them if they wanted me to take the drive home to wipe all of the data on it to which they said, nah. I'll just take it and chuck it into the ladle. The "ladle" in a steel mill is big enough to fit a car in and is hot enough to where steel is liquid. Think ending of Terminator 2. Yeah, I think that will take care of destroying the data on that drive.
Noticed a tiny bit of confusion so I thought I'd share: There are a couple different kinds of CPU socket designs. First there are sockets that clamp down on an array of pins built in to a processor. Then there are sockets where the pins are on the motherboard, and you clamp a flat CPU down onto *that*. You can find one such motherboard at 1:04:44 (PAAAAIN), and a processor made for a similar socket at 1:06:09.
1:53 the crab claw is made mostly of chitin, a mineral very close in structure to a glass or calcium kind of stone? (not exactly true) but I would guess that it is pretty high resistance and would make flash arcs very unlikely. Unlike a metal forceps.
Just for nostalgia's sake: the dad who shot his daughter's laptop was "supposedly" tired of seeing her use it to message friends or spend time online (as one would outside of academic or professional responsibilities) and after warning her a few times, figured he'd make a little show out of good old-fashioned gun-based discipline... I remember the Comments section of said video being pretty much an even split between "school of hard knocks" types going "That'll learn her!" and geeks going "You absolute fucking moron. You could've just unplugged its battery and hidden the extension cord or stashed it away until her grades pick up!" Oh, and add in the obligatory non-American viewers wondering from which freaking planet the father and daughter BOTH happened to come from. If your father's this much of a stickler, you'll want to get resourceful about your online access...
i have never broken a screen on a phone before... i always have protective glass over it (takes me at most 2 days to break that thing but i will leave it on there for a couple of months anyway) you would not believe how often my phone dropped on tiles or concrete. still didn't break front or back even once
21:34 Fun fact: 105°C is the standart T-Junction temp. You can put it up to ehm 120°C if you like... maybe to set your house on fire? or try to soder with it? I have no idea y that option exist.
All the phone images is reminding me of the time my brother accidentally dropped his phone in our grandparents pasture When we found it it was completely shattered and deformed. We dont know if a cow stepped on it, a tractor ran over it, or both happened but it was no longer functional
i love how we are all about carpets sucking for dust but, i live in rural Indiana, the biggest source of dust is the corn field next to me. i cant even go for better ventilation because the dust is coming from the outside!
Lexi, I’ve made hand loads for my 5.56 and my 30-06, deliberately using a low power propellant (Trail Boss) that kept the rounds subsonic and quiet enough to punch through a full size hard drive with no hearing protection needed… Yes the rifles were single shot at that point as there wasn’t enough energy to cycle the action, but the bullet did punch completely through, a .22 LR high/hyper velocity should have no issue with putting “speed holes” in a drive.
Hey Lexi! The warshak looking thing on iPads is because the older models use LCDs, so the protective membrane being broken causes the liquid to spill out 😊
02:02 Actually... depending on where they were used, these drives still might not be "sufficiently destroyed". In the organisation I work for, security policy requires EOL hard disks to be degaussed AND physically destroyed by being put through a chipper!!
I use to work maintaing xerox copiers. Two worst situations are they tried to vacuum spilt toner with a vacuum cleaner that destroyed it (need a special vac) and finding bits of tomato on the drum. How?! Unsolved mysteries that one lol.
Fun fact! Lexi reading tech-related subreddits is the _whole entire reason_ I'm subscribed to EmKay.
Also I think I saw all these in their original separate video forms because this shit absolutely _fascinates_ me and Lexi is _Lexcellent._
Me too. I am only here for tech and software gore.
Lexi has a channel, and sometimes does her own Lexplaination content
Welp lexi is gone from here now soo
@@yusufaltinbasakk2015 Oh, okay. Emkay's kinda dropped in quality since half of reddit bailed anyways...
Thanks for letting me know she left, I've been out of the loop for a while. Is she okay?
@@theimaginatrix7625 yea he wanted to focus on his own channel
I have had such bad anxiety for the last days and this is literally perfect. No drama, no stakes, just Lexi going "oh, look, broken" and me going "yep, glad that's not my phone". I love it.
this could happen to you
2:27 NEVER apologize for the HUGE number of stories you have to tell Lexi...
That is one of the BIG reasons we come here to watch your videos!
As always, MORE PLEASE!!!
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I'm sorry to say this, but almost 90 minutes of Lexi doing r/Hardwaregore is like a dream come true, and this subreddit, along with r/Softwaregore and r/Techgore, is always some of Lexi's finest work, because she knows from whence she speaks.
@@SeedYumwhen is it not? /pos
its "he" not "she"
@@anderstermansen130She's trans. Biological man but identifies as a female.
you are mixing up gender and biological sex.@@anderstermansen130
@@anderstermansen130trans. Was a man.
1. The guy who photoshopped YanSim onto the screen of the burning computer was a genius
2. Caddicarus's streaming setup is indeed cursed
Caddicarus seems to be pretty cursed when it comes to Desktop Computers in general (based on one video that I now have limited memory of).
@@oscarcacnio8418 His video about how the gaming PC he was building almost bankrupt him went viral and accidentally revived his entire channel that was on the brink of failure.
It's YanSim, you sure it's photoshopped?
@@oscarcacnio8418 The "I'm Sorry" video?
I knew Caddicarus's cousin in middle school, he told me about Caddy and I discovered Caddicarus that very day
ah yes one hour listening to lexi in pain
It's a weird art, isn't it, hmm?
Yes
Fascinating
Best thing is listening to lexi
we love it ☺️
I'm the one who did the "Passive cooled i9" using the block of copper. yes, it did work. in fact, I had run a benchmarking program for about 3 minutes and the temps were fine. I had been given this glorious in my vocational school during my 2nd year and it was my teachers rig that I somehow got permission to experiment with. the copper block actually came from one of two industrial computers (one block for each) designed to simulate the human body for use in a medical class across the hall that had been moved and they didn't need them, and we ended up disassembling them. Thought that it was funny and decided to try cooling the CPU with it, then discovered it actually worked and ended up posting to reddit. I'm glad I did.
I mean in theory if you dimpled it, it may actually cool better ironically
That's dope
did it work as good as what should be there?
I need the timestamp as I want to see this
@@SMPandanic38:33
7:30 the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal display is being displaced, which is what is causing the black spots on broken apple devices.
24:00 this reminds me of the time a fellow phycisist asked our accelerator lab to blast a high-energy electron beam straight into his old disk hard drive to destroy it. I was a beam operator, so I got to move the beam to make sure we got everything. I tried to write "fried" on it, but that thing's really damn hard to aim so it just looked like jagged squiggles. The hard drive was thoroughly wiped though, and it only took a week for it to not be dangerously radioactive anymore!
32:38 Speaking of dangerously radioactive… although I suspect that’s not quite the type of radiation you are referring to. 😂
I normally avoid the "best of" or "all of" videos, but I just knew this was going to be all Lexi and had to come. Pure serotonin.
Oh my heart hurts for Lexi. She didn’t need all this pain 😢
She!?!?
@@GoofyGoober403 She is trans mtf.
@@GoofyGoober403shes trans
@dogeeroo Yes "she!?!?" ,she was born male but made decisions in her life that lead her to her being the person she is now. And I respect the hell out of her for it 🫡
@@Lyric-057your comment is kinda hard to understand but ik your message is meant to mean "she was born a male, but she's transgender now"
As a Wii u owner, the first image causes me both physical and mental damage.
*Respects Your Pain In Silence*
Same
AHHHHHHHHHH
Do you have Twilight Princess? If you do, did you finish the game? Is it a good/fun boss fight?? I got 2/3 of the way thru the game before the disc got destroyed by my Wii exploding...
RIP exploding wii…
36:24 my neighbor who worked in storage once described it as flying a 747 at cruising speed 4 inches from the runway with the gear up
(I know this might get lost, but from the new girl!) Hi Lexi - the array at 27:40 just ate my soul. For context - I have worked on computers since 1982, yes, I was 9. My first storage device was LITERALLY a cassette tape, and I have been doing storage and data protection ever since. It's quite scary. For the first 12 years of my career, I built networks and data centers. BUT... In October 2003, San Diego was hit with a huge firestorm that burned all the way to the beach. Except our office was in that path. SOOOOO, this was literally our DR plan. We didn't have true cabinet arrays yet, so we schlepped all disks, bays, and critical servers into regular contract bags and into the back of pickup trucks to protect our data. And yes, all tapes too. Uh, coming back from that was a nightmare, and got me started in full disaster recovery engineering. But just 6 months later, because they didn't pay the bills, we got hit with the Witty Worm virus, overwriting the first 8 sectors of every disk it could touch, taking out our whole data center FOR REAL. I spent three days on the phone with Veritas walking me through Solaris, an old DLT tape library, an i500, and our sanity. But we were open for business on Monday. DR Prep and Recovery has been my bag for 20 years and it has only grown more and more relevant. Also - I have anecdotal evidence that an IBM Shark Array will INDEED stop bullets, thanks to a compadre in India caught in that terror attack in 2010.
1:55 I don't see the problem with that...
As you heat the solder, you also heat the claw, so as you're replacing the chip, you're simultaneously cooking lunch...
WIN-WIN...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
I love Lexi, she's my favorite narrator :)
Same she so awesome and funny
@@Lyric-057yeah, I love her vibe
even if she’s yelling, her voice is honestly relaxing :)
i usually listen to her vids here to fall asleep, her voice is amazing 🫶🏻
@@pawchiima yeah
Her? Thought they were a dude
55:00 I love Lexi's voice when she sees "spicy pillows". It's the perfect mix of fear and going insane.
You mean you love his voice
@@schnitzelhannes6431 If you use information on Instagram or Twitter, it's "she/her".
NO. READ MY 2 OTHER REPLIES TO YOU ON THIS SAME VIDEO.@@schnitzelhannes6431
@@schnitzelhannes6431 Nope, they mean her voice
@@JackoHeartz it is clearly a guy talking here, it couldn't sound more masculine
13:32 damn, ayano is such a yandere that she made the PC spontaneously combust
me when a character spots me through a wall: 13:32
An hour of lexi screaming and making unintelligible noises? Bet! She's perfect for this sub
Its a he, why do you call him She
@@schnitzelhannes6431 Because that's what she goes by? She's trans
@@schnitzelhannes6431 she is trans get over it
@@schnitzelhannes6431she calls herself she, you have no rights to say that she's a man
@@ZaynIsLameish yes i have the right to call him he because his fantasy doesn't change biological facts
This has honestly become my favourite Emkay subreddit. As someone who for the love of gods doesn't know as much about their computer and is too lazy to really get into it but takes random interest in a lot of things as long as they only mildly actually benefit me, this is perfect. Thank you Lexi.
Fun fact, since this video is already so pleasantly nerdy: if the number at 9:48 were correct, that would mean the signals would have to cross the CPU at a minimum of 831,000 times the speed of light.
4:04
Lexi: Any idea why my laptop isn't turning on?
Sudden ad: Exam topics, Exam topics, EXAM TOPICS
I just love when ads just place themselves in the most unfortunate points in a video
Using hard drive plates as coasters feels so familiar to me as someone who grew up with a computer geek dad who had a pc repair business. Before we had a computer shop, the business was done at home and there were a few hard drive plates lying around the house and many hard drive magnets. We used the magnets as regular fridge magnets and they do a GOOOOOOD job keeping things on the fridge ngl.
17:48 2000W hairdryer is normal for most of the world, that laptop is also a very common laptop from asus which is quite popular outside of America. So most the worl uses 230V or around there so 2000/230 is like 9 amps so pleanty of headroom also alot of places merge rooms and use a 20amp breaker for multiple outlets in multiple rooms so the chances of the 9amp tripping is next to none. Always scares me that a toaster in america draws as much current as a geyser over here would like thats terrifying.
20:24 Fun fact, most circuit breakers are designed to be idiot-resistant. They have a "trip-free" mechanism which means even if you hold them in the on position they will still trip when overloaded. To put the power back on you need to move the lever fully off and then on.
1:12:35 That specific model of TI calculator (and perhaps others, but the TI-30X IIS is the only TI scientific calculator I'm really familiar with) has a reset button on the back - you stick a paperclip in a little hole and push the button inside, and it clears the memory. The calculator shown is broken in a spot where that back reset button should still be present, as from pictures I've found online the button *seems* to be right around where the bottom of the silver area is on the front (no clue where *my* old scientific calculator is to check it myself, and I'm pretty sure my siblings have Casios for school).
In short: You don't need the keys to reset the memory of that particular calculator as long as the reset button on the back is present, which it likely is in this case.
..wrong timestamp?
5:28 Those are speed holes. Makes the laptop run faster.
Alternatively, nearly one and a half hour of Lexi goodness. Thanks EmKay!
Ive learned more about computers from lexi in the last six months than i have in three separate computer science classes from school
Nugget is the best kindergartener!
That photo of the DS reminded me of the time I took one of my old ASUS laptops apart to clean it, put it back together, and mixed up two of the screws. One of them came out of the top of the laptop but it still ran for another 3 years before it finally gave up. Good times. I also spilled beer all over that poor thing [hence needing to clean it] and replaced the ribbon cable/connector and it refused to die.
My (old)work had this server room with a bunch of messy cables, I was “paid” to re-wire it all, than once done, they bounced the check they wrote due to it was spelt just off by one letter, so I put my two weeks in and put a virus on the server which would fully wipe the server clean, making all the drives empty and useless too, once I left, still no regrets.
0:05 musty crusty gamepad 🥲🥲🥲🥲
a smokers lungs
@funnyplushvidios2691 Yep Just Like Mom Used To Make
Wait THAT WAS MY Wii U PAD
I miss my wii
The sound board you show in this video is a cake which is actually really cool. It took me a moment to realize why the bottom said Happy Birthday
Lexi is the best narrator.
Edit: That model plane at 30:30 is a Fokker Dr. I, you may recognize this as the Red Baron's plane!
yes, agreed
That is a Fokker.
It FOKKS
that image of swapping the arrow keys with WASD just reminded me of the weird in game labeling of the Interstate '76 games. for some reason, they wanted to use the numpad arrow keys to drive the cars, rather than the standard ones. so when i got into options to change it, they were specified as GREY arrow keys, when the numpad set are labeled as just arrow keys. took me like half an hour to figure that out
0:10 Most of my gamepads looked like that at the end of a pretty horrific and stubborn bout of clinical depression I had about a year ago. You would not believe the amount of rubbing alcohol it took to bring my collection back to life after about 18 months of neglect :S (I'm doing much better now, don't worry!)
I love this video, because normally woth these "best of" videos, it'll be a mixture of all the narrators. But here? It's just Lexi. And her reactions to the stupid stuff is alway hilarious😂
0:40 Love that it voided its own warranty. 😂
4:19 i mean, i have an a10s for 5+ years and the screen is still intact, only the screen protector has a few cracks that are only seen from an angle
7:30 To answer your question, if it's inky, it's an LCD. If it's missing pixels, it's an LED. LCD is quite literally translated to Liquid Crystal Display, so if something breaks the seal between the "pixels", the contents will leak out, just like in these images. Without any crystals to produce the image, the end result is black.
1:21:09 "the train to blast protection IV will come in XIV minutes"
The floppy disk one....
When I was in middle school I had my first ever computer homework. It was a paper on budgies. I had done so much research, I had written several pages, made it magnificent with wordart and pictures and I was so proud. I spent two weeks on that paper. I had just gotten a budgie and I was obsessed. We had to hand it in on a floppy disk. I have ADHD and forgot to bring it to school the day it was supposed to be handed in and the next day as well. I promised the teacher I had done it! I would bring it tomorrow, I promise!
Mom decided that the easiest way to make me remember it was to stick it to the fridge so I would see it in the morning. I saw it, packed it and proudly presented it to my teacher.
The absolute trauma from realizing that all that work was gone and innocent little me not having made any backups still echo in my head every time I save my current work in like five different places ^^;
3:49 POV: Chuck Norris types an angry email
1:06:41 Yeah. This horrifies me. That's why when I eventually moved from Iowa to Arizona, all my electronics (and gaming stuff) were packed into the car for a cross-country road trip while everything else went into a moving company's shipping container and delivered to my new address. The only thing that arrived damaged was one measly empty picture frame (found for a dollar at a local Davenport City Goodwill) that I had planned to use to hang up some Touhou Project artwork depicting Yukari Yakumo.
But this... yeah... gotta take care of your TVs,/PC monitors especially today's TVs and monitors which can connect to the internet, your phone, gaming consoles, computer, neighbor's wi-fi, the Pentagon...
1:04:05 they drew a phallic shape by bending the pins
the funny thing is those at 1:13 is also style of connectors used in some military field data equipment.
POV: your hardware does yoga
2:48
1:12 I did something similar back in the days, when I couldn’t afford a new battery for my Nokia 3310i, so I used a Li-Ion Battery from a RC-Car I had laying around… It looked like a bomb, but it had enough battery runtime to recharge it every 14 days or so…
I continued to use it in this condition for additional 3 years, then I could afford a new mobile phone…
Lexi, I love you and the way you make this stuff so much less painful for those of us who are tech savvy.
I think the wildest thing I have seen was Windows being used to power public devices. On two occasions I have seen a publicly accessible device that ran Windows and had failed. One was an exhibit in a science museum. It had suffered a BSoD and was waiting to be restarted. Now that wasn't so bad. It runs on a computer. The museum didn't want to waste money with a custom OS. I get it. Still kind of funny to see, at least to me. The other one was one of those full-panel touch screen soda machines. You know the kind; the entire front panel is a huge touchscreen display that replaces the glass. The damn thing had BSoD'd. That wasn't the truly funny part, though. The BSoD was SIDEWAYS! It was basically a 4 foot wide flatscreen monitor mounted in portrait mode! So the BSoD was impossible to read without turning your head 90 degrees to the side!
It is cheaper for manufacturers to cobble together already existing solutions. Did you seen Windows NT and XP in ATM machines and banking kiosks? I did. Even with dreaded IE6 in kiosk mode. It is particularly safe for customer data though, machines have no access from outside, doesn't store client data locally and aren't used through Internet directly. Bluescreens still happen though. In contrary nowadays you can notice various Linux kernel panic screens in info panels as well. In last year's Germany trip noticed Linux kernel panic screen in advertising panel installed in WC behind translucent urinary. Laughed like crazy.
someones phone I know of years ago had part of the glass over the digitizer missing and it was covered in random bits of hair because if you dont know, the digitizer under the screen had adhesive on it. dont know if they do nowadays but I told them they really needed a new phone.
Just did my first pc troubleshoot, and I'm happy to see that despite taking an hour to find the CPU connector wasn't in all the way (I burnt the PSU, wanted to check if I killed everything) and with all these stories Lexi tells and all the strange posts, I don't feel like a moron
Well, it happen at beginning. My first hard drive with IDE/ATA interface installing in my job PC ended with a boom and smoke. ATA sockets had no plastic rim then. I inserted flat cable with skew by one pin and didn't noticed that. Controller chip now had huge hole in middle. Drive cost then (at 1992) was 4 my salaries. Luckily after 2 weeks found similar drive with good controller board and bad platters. Replaced the board and had my new drive working again without a fuss with my boss.
17:30 - The 2000W hair-dryer is probably in a 240V country. Our standard breakers in Australia are only 10A and a typical heater is 2400W.
28:55 - If they changed the keyboard mapping in the OS to actually respond to that layout, that'd be worthy of an award.
40:55 - Negative free space? I suspect integer overflow somewhere in the OS. I had a hard drive die on me and report 16 exabytes used on a 3 terabyte drive.
1:13:15 - Reminds me of The Bastard Operator From Hell's "etherkiller": a mains plug wired to a BNC connector for old-school coaxial ethernet.
A.k.a, nearly a hour and a half of shock and broken lexi noises
56:01 to 56:09 Yes we replace the thermal paste when take off the heat sink, as it breaks the bond that the thermal paste makes between the CPU and heatsink. It's recommend to replace thermal paste an clean out heatsinks just like you would with a laptop fan. If you don't replace the thermal paste/clean out the heatsink then you can actually get overheating issues that end up unalive/cook the CPU and make it unusable and needing to be replaced.
I think the reason that the iPad screens die like that is because of the LCD screen. I'm thinking that the polarizing film broke and the liquid crystal is freaking out and prevents light from coming through correctly.
1:13:28 LIGHTNING CABLE. i love this iamge, it makes laugh so hard every time it shows up
I wonder if we could have a double narrator video like for example Lexi and Damien And not take turns like they interact with each other in the video and react to stuff said by one another 🤔 maybe
good idea!
double narrator videos are always fun, that's why i love kalbus
I was gonna say something like “so emkalbus?” But someone basically already did
@jackwastakenx2 Thanks I just got another channel to watch 😁
Okay, this made me LoL aloud IRL more than once...mostly in remembered pain, or the reminder of how dangerous some end users can be. The one that has ruined my ribs for the moment is the 'LER' one at 32:41 abouts. Especially the truism below it where Rhiannon points out that almost any electronic component can be made to emit light ONCE. That resister, though, OMG. That's wild.
I used to work in a computer lab affiliated with a steel mill (part of their continuing education program) and there was an open lab where employees would bring in their computers and we would work through issues they had on them. I remember at one point, someone put a new hard drive into their computer and we transferred the data. I asked them if they wanted me to take the drive home to wipe all of the data on it to which they said, nah. I'll just take it and chuck it into the ladle. The "ladle" in a steel mill is big enough to fit a car in and is hot enough to where steel is liquid. Think ending of Terminator 2. Yeah, I think that will take care of destroying the data on that drive.
Noticed a tiny bit of confusion so I thought I'd share: There are a couple different kinds of CPU socket designs. First there are sockets that clamp down on an array of pins built in to a processor. Then there are sockets where the pins are on the motherboard, and you clamp a flat CPU down onto *that*. You can find one such motherboard at 1:04:44 (PAAAAIN), and a processor made for a similar socket at 1:06:09.
4:08 Because someone was like...
*CHOMP!!!*
8:15 im 15 and even i know that that doesnt work like that and it makes my brain HURT
1:53 the crab claw is made mostly of chitin, a mineral very close in structure to a glass or calcium kind of stone? (not exactly true) but I would guess that it is pretty high resistance and would make flash arcs very unlikely. Unlike a metal forceps.
Chitin is analog of cellulose tho.
@@voidseeker4394 it wont spark
itll burn :D
32:08 “LEXIIIAAAHH IT IS A BOTTLE OF CHEESE” new favourite Lexi quote
3:55 someone didnt know what they were doing and just yolo'd the soldering, i think
@41:22 I have always wanted to do this, and you reaction made me laugh a bit too hard 🤣
Just for nostalgia's sake: the dad who shot his daughter's laptop was "supposedly" tired of seeing her use it to message friends or spend time online (as one would outside of academic or professional responsibilities) and after warning her a few times, figured he'd make a little show out of good old-fashioned gun-based discipline...
I remember the Comments section of said video being pretty much an even split between "school of hard knocks" types going "That'll learn her!" and geeks going "You absolute fucking moron. You could've just unplugged its battery and hidden the extension cord or stashed it away until her grades pick up!" Oh, and add in the obligatory non-American viewers wondering from which freaking planet the father and daughter BOTH happened to come from.
If your father's this much of a stickler, you'll want to get resourceful about your online access...
8:01
Isn’t that the liquid crystal leaking out into the other layers of the screen? (LCD)
I’m not a tech expert and I feel Lexi’s pain with these LOL
i have never broken a screen on a phone before...
i always have protective glass over it (takes me at most 2 days to break that thing but i will leave it on there for a couple of months anyway) you would not believe how often my phone dropped on tiles or concrete. still didn't break front or back even once
21:34 Fun fact: 105°C is the standart T-Junction temp. You can put it up to ehm 120°C if you like... maybe to set your house on fire? or try to soder with it? I have no idea y that option exist.
4:32 that is foil tape typically used for ductwork
All the phone images is reminding me of the time my brother accidentally dropped his phone in our grandparents pasture
When we found it it was completely shattered and deformed. We dont know if a cow stepped on it, a tractor ran over it, or both happened but it was no longer functional
I love how Emkay gives the subreddits that hurts the narrators most
with every post you can just hear lexi slowly dying inside
Shoutout to whoever also owns a Wii U in 2023. Such an underappreciated console. Still have mine set up and occasionally go back and play it.
1:21:20 bro really hit his controllers on the walls while dodging lava monkeys and raging at the same wime
Wow!
i love how we are all about carpets sucking for dust but, i live in rural Indiana, the biggest source of dust is the corn field next to me. i cant even go for better ventilation because the dust is coming from the outside!
6:42, NINE FANS!!!!!!! WHAT WERE YOU DOING ON THAT THING!?!?!?!?!?!
7:46 when Somebody that has too much fun with the shopping carts🛒🛒🛒
I laughed on the picture of the PC literally on fire
>be me
>see emkay video
>"the best of r/hardwaregore"
>click it
>click chapters
>literally all lexi
>yeeeeeeesssssss
>day made.
Hm. An hour, twenty two minutes, and twenty five seconds of Lexi in agony. That sounds promising.
an hour of lexi? what good deeds have we done to deserve this?
I like how they chose Lexi because she works in IT
HE works in IT, this is clearly a guy speaking
@@schnitzelhannes6431 she’s trans
@@schnitzelhannes6431 Trans chick actually.
@@ieasy12 so a man in disguise
@@schnitzelhannes6431 that sounds badass but you're wrong
As an 18 y/o straight out of high school joined a big company and do a bit of help desk.. the beginning is so far extremely relatable it’s scary
"Any electronic component can emit light, *once*"
17:58 or around that mark the line "a very enthusiastic sneeze" made me smile
Oh gods, poor Lexi- But my Wii looked worse when it exploded and shattered my Twilight Princess disc >:(
EVERYWHERE I GO THERES PEOPLE WITH GENSHIN PFPS
as a genshin fan i approv
@@sebqstivn thank you- I don't have diona so I changed it to Heizou because I have him-- I need diona 😭
@@maxxsaidhi i want diona too 😭
@@maxxsaidhi also whats your uid and which server i wanna be friends lmao
OH HI I SAW YOU IN THE COMMENT SECTION OF ANOTHER VIDEO
6:00 no lexi, that is bare silica, the solder mask is gone
Lexi, I’ve made hand loads for my 5.56 and my 30-06, deliberately using a low power propellant (Trail Boss) that kept the rounds subsonic and quiet enough to punch through a full size hard drive with no hearing protection needed…
Yes the rifles were single shot at that point as there wasn’t enough energy to cycle the action, but the bullet did punch completely through, a .22 LR high/hyper velocity should have no issue with putting “speed holes” in a drive.
i think my fav9rite parts 9f the lexi panic attack n9ises are when she g9es like "she lies vigorusly" its just s9 funny t9 me and idk why 😭
WHY DID YOU SWAP YOUR Os WITH 9s BRU
AND WHY IS IT INCONSISTENT WITH THE QUOTE
ALSO YOU MISSPELLED VIGOROUSLY
@@nameless...................... w9mp w9mp
34:13 I think that's.... Roblox??? The icons look like it and seems to say roblox in the top left corner
Yea, that's the roblox player. You can see the avatar in the middle.
Hey Lexi! The warshak looking thing on iPads is because the older models use LCDs, so the protective membrane being broken causes the liquid to spill out 😊
hearing lexi always makes me happy :)
Yeah he is a really funny guy
@@schnitzelhannes6431 get a life
@@monika.alt197 Whats wrong with you stop this hatespeech
@@schnitzelhannes6431*she* is very funny. I love *her*
@@schnitzelhannes6431 well look who's talking, bigot
02:02 Actually... depending on where they were used, these drives still might not be "sufficiently destroyed". In the organisation I work for, security policy requires EOL hard disks to be degaussed AND physically destroyed by being put through a chipper!!
3:14 are you taking about the Samsung Galaxy S8/S9 in the image?
33:57 WHERE US THE LAPTOP got me
i legit died XD
You can just TELL that with every post she dies inside a bit more-
I use to work maintaing xerox copiers. Two worst situations are they tried to vacuum spilt toner with a vacuum cleaner that destroyed it (need a special vac) and finding bits of tomato on the drum. How?! Unsolved mysteries that one lol.