Hello Reddit,

To start with I ordered the Aorus Prime 5 PC from Gigabyte through a retailer called Very here in the UK. It cost me £2,700 as I used a 20% code as it’s my first order through the retailer which is what they do for every new account.

The box arrived noticeably lighter than it should be. As in you could pick up this box with two fingers when it’s meant to be 16kg and the box had a spec sheet visible saying it had a 5080 and 9800x3d. Even without the spec sheet the box said gaming computer and the specific model.

I reported this to Very and the team only to have a week of being told they were ‘looking into it’ and being told to wait. We ended up contacting the CEO who surprisingly replied himself and escalated it to his executive complaints team.

They spent 2 weeks investigating and providing no updates to us. Yesterday I called them out of frustration and demanding answers only to be told that I could get a refund once they prove we didn’t receive the computer. I was confused because in every email I sent I offered video calls of us opening the package and on the first day of reporting it asked if someone could come in person to verify. They declined.

Now we must wait until Monday for someone to inspect the box three weeks after it was delivered. Luckily it’s in the state we received it in still but the box was clearly cut open and retaped during delivery. If they suspect I did this then they could deny a refund. I do not have tons of money, I’m a uni student who’s been saving for a while and bought this to open on my 21st Birthday.

The situation has been handled poorly by everyone involved and I genuinely don’t know what to do.

Note: My Dad took in the parcel but assumed it was heavy as the guy offered to put it inside and only realised once he went to lift it. When he did the driver was already back in his van and leaving.

Also I forgot to mention but yes, I paid in full on a debit card. Maybe it was stupid but I didn’t expect all this to happen.

So I have a few questions:

What actually can I do?

If I can get a refund where should I buy from that could handle PC shipping better (without a box that says gaming computer with a spec sheet)?

Has anyone else had any similar experiences?

I know this might not be considered relevant but I want some help.

It's funny to hear him talk about his problems with technologies on WAN show and then Meta or Apple release a product that solves basically all of those, with the unfortunate conceit that you have your data harvested and contribute to the mountain of unrepairable e-waste.

Meta Raybans: I wanted to hate these so bad, and I tried so many alternatives, but they just work so much better than anything I've tried. I don't wear them in public any more but I love using them to listen to podcasts around the house and for taking pictures of my toddler.

Muse: I'm very unlikely to use this but my buddy who has less privacy concerns than me has it doing family organization, meal planning and budgeting and NGL it's pretty tempting.

Meta Quest 3: It's just so annoyingly good. I have this and a Steam Frame and it's really hard to justify paying almost double for a Steam Frame for, honestly, a worse experience in many ways.

iPhone Duo: Based on the pre-orders, I think this is finally going to be the "mainstream" folding phone. Remains to be seen how durable it is. I'm stuck in the Apple ecosystem because my wife will never swap and because I am the product manager at a software company with 97% iOS users.

We know Linus loves Airpods too

Hi everyone, I know there was a video covering this but one a few brands were left out or not available in South Africa.

I’m looking for basic out side cameras, I have a small home lab and willing to run network cables for poe if needed.

I don’t need any ai or crazy features. Just something to record and keep it for a month at a time. Ideally a setup and forget option. Something that is not cloud based would be recommended.

Otherwise some helpful things to keep in mind or to avoid is welcome.

I mainly either program sandbox factory games for steam, or play Minecraft Java, Phasmophobia, Satisfactory, R.E.P.O. Cities Skylines 1, Meccha Chamelon.

I also program robots with it, in case you couldn’t tell, I like blue.

Also yes I use SignalRGB, my second keyboard (left one) is a dedicated interface for Voicemod Tuna, and when I play audio only from my soundboard, all system lights automatically switch to audio vidualizer bars, other state is blue rain.

I want LED instead of a mixture of LCD and LED monitors, I like true black.

Honestly, in my opinion, I’d consider this jacket way more premium if it didn't have the fabric rib-knit cuffs around the wrists and waist.

Since fabric won't last nearly as long as real leather, having solid leather wrist parts that could be adjusted with a clip or snap button would elevate the quality. I’m not sure if a leather cuff design is cheaper or more expensive to manufacture, but having the knitted fabric makes those high wear areas feel a bit less ideal for a long-term Life / investment piece.

But heck, I’m still onboard for it, I’ll do my best to take care for it.

I was trying to hold out for a black Friday sale on other things and hope for free shipping to Australia lol, but the small size is low in stock when I purchased it.

I am generally curious if anyone else jacket has turned up yet and what they think of it.

Normal bits too long? Nothing 5 minutes with a grinder can’t fix. Will I probably get a proper replacement bit set? Yeah eventually, but this was free 99 and ready to go now.

I know this was tossed around a while back, and there was even a post about it a few months ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1vrldba/riding_on_the_ltt_isp_idea_this_video_on_getting/

Ironically, I've been in the game for a few months now.

I operate as a hobbyist (technically a small business, but I still think it's hobbyist lol) personally, I have co-location in a few data centers and run my own little "mini data center" in my basement in my free time, routing BGP between my sites over WG tunnels, etc. Nothing too fancy, I can't afford DIA haha.

Just thought it would be cool if LTT did a video highlighting their journey so I could compare.

I was suckered in by a group of my friends personally. Hanging out on Discord late at night talking about our labs, and someone brought up they route their own traffic and I was like "hey, I should do that, that sounds fun!" and started looking into doing what I do now.

(Let me tell you, none of figuring out any of that was fun lol)

I had a crazy experience learning about co-location, transit, peering, the costs associated, how to get my equipment into a data center and hooked up (lots of hours forming a business, learning business finance, negotiating contracts, and researching laws) and just building everything out.

I've personally rented VPS's and baremetal servers in the past, so I was familiar with the concept of running a "server in the cloud" but this felt like an opportunity to jump from someone else's equipment to my equipment and pick up some new skills.

After forming / establishing my own business, I registered an account with ARIN, acquired an ASN, and requested a LIR v4 + v6 block. I got the v6 block pretty quickly, and got waitlisted for the v4 block.

After that, I span up a BGP-router on a friend's infra that he has in a DC, provided he had transit already I was essentially a downstream-peer from him and funneled in/out my traffic over Wireguard for a while.

I got co-location in town for a fair price a bit later, and migrated everything over to that to get better latency and more "dedicated space" for me since I was sharing on my previous setup. I personally like to dub it "my hardware, my rules" in a sense haha.

After that, I got my v4 block, and really hammered down on "what" I want to do with it. Mostly static allocations to my site(s) (home, parent's place, two DC sites) and started building.

Currently on "my slice of the internet" I've been working on standing up DNS (dual-stack, IPv4 + IPv6) and a few websites I used to host on leased IPs that I thought would look prettier on my prefixes. I'm currently considering what I want to do next, I'm thinking SIP/VOIP, but I'm unsure.

I've always been into self-hosting, so I thought of this as "the next step" from that, literally forming my own routes and learning how the internet works. It's been a wild ride, and I'm looking forward to what comes next.

I'm sure LTT / FP is looking to do something more oriented towards transit of traffic pertaining to Floatplane and video streaming. (Likely won't be cheap based on the conversations I've had with Cogent and the other transit providers lol.) I wound up personally getting a deal with my co-location service since I don't generate a whole lot of traffic.

Regardless, I just thought I'd ask how that's going, and share my own experience. I love what I do, and while I may not use it in my day-job (I do more localized deployments, think jr. sysadmin/technician work) I still find it awesome to play around with!

https://wanshow.bingo/

See you next week!

Same bat time, same bat channel!

Am I crazy, or are more and more LTT videos becoming members-only?

More or less a year ago, Linus himself was talking about how “Members-Only Videos Are a HUGE Problem on YouTube” saying, “Effective now, we're gonna begin the process of turning off members-only videos.”

He also said that if you wanted to support the channel, you always had the option to subscribe to Floatplane.

But lately, I've been getting the feeling that there's a new members-only video on the LTT channel almost every week or even more often.

Just looking at the latest videos uploaded to the LTT channel (not even checking rest of the channels) marked as uploaded less than a month ago, there are 17 public videos and 9 members-only videos (so total 26 videos).

I don't know if I'm missing something, but in less than a month, more than a third of the videos were members-only.

I get that they want people to subscribe to and support the channel, but that was THEIR reasoning for getting rid of members-only videos in the first place, and THEY were the ones who said that members-only videos are just bad.
Just kinda sad...

today i had a vendor come to my apartment to install something. he brought his own screwdriver but ended up dropping a bit and couldn't find it

my Retro LTT Screwdriver was sitting on the counter so he asked if he could borrow it to finish the installation. of course i let him and he finished the job quickly

when he was getting ready to leave, he asked where i got it from because he "really like the ratchet on this one"

and before i could think or process what was happening, i heard myself say "oh, you can get that from ltt store dot com!"

i felt like a sleeper agent or something idk. all the constant ad reads have altered my brain

On the WAN show Linus and Luke talk about NOT using PDF as the file format for the resume. This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Am I the only one who always uses PDF for sending resumes and actually prefers it?

What file format do employers actually prefer?

Here is the timestamp where they talk about it.
Here is the timestamp where Linus says to submit a Word or Google Doc link.

A new bill proposed by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) aims to establish new regulations that would ensure that “buying a video game would give the consumer ownership of the game rather than a license to play it,”

Could this start the ball rolling?

LTT Labs received a couple laptops with the new NVIDIA N1X(RTX Spark) processors, but what is actually interesting is Microsoft's new Magnetic Connect port on the Surface Laptop Ultra.

We CT scanned it, took some pictures, and tested the compatibility - read the full article and see the details here.

Hello everyone. I'm looking for an article about the TrueSpec cables based on remembering their truespec cables opensauce video. The robot guys talked about how USB high speed leaks emissions on 2.4GHz spectrum (I actually found the paper from the USB Standard) and how the WiFi was stable through all their tests, and I want to find any sort of article/paper that talks about it. Any help is appreciated. TIA