 Hello and welcome to the Linus Tech Tips or Linus Media Group whatever Q&A video. In this video I posted a thread on the forum and then posted on Twitter and did all that kind of stuff and had people ask random members of the team questions, grabbed questions from that list on the forum and then went around asking everybody what the, I don't know, the questions. I asked them the questions and they answered the questions. It's a relatively simple concept. This is a Q&A. Let's get started. The Cooler Master Master Case 5 lets you make your mid-tower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories. Click the link in the video description down below to learn more. Oh yeah, I definitely drive the pink Civic and I wouldn't say that I get more attention than I'd like. I mean I'm the kind of person who goes and puts my face all over the internet for two million people to watch me do embarrassing crap or yeah, driving around in a pink car is the least of my concerns. We would love to do more factory tours. It just really depends on what brands allow us to tour their factories. There's a lot that goes into the planning and the approval process and all that because not that many brands actually want to show off what goes on behind the scenes. If there's anything less than perfection from the QC side, that reflects poorly on them. So I'm talking to a few people right now, maybe expect to see something within the first half of next year. But yeah, we definitely want to do some more factory tours. Just hang on a minute here. So the RSI is a lot better. I've been using a Powerball lately. You can look it up. It's like a little gyroscope. It's very powerful. It gets spinning really fast. It exercises every single muscle in your forearm and I've been using that at least once a week. Also working out helps a lot. And also I changed my mouse to something that is more ergonomic. I can work. I can get back to work now. Well, I found it in Australia. That's where it originated and I've never been there. And then it made its way over here to Canada with the Australian people and I started to mimic it from those Aussie folks, those lovely chaps. But I don't know. I just used to live where there's lots of Aussie people at the ski hill. So I thought their accent was cool. So I tried doing it myself subconsciously. Pretty much any accent, I just subconsciously start talking like that in my own head if I'm around somebody long enough. Ah, so that was a great deal. The 8SSD Array back when I bought it would have been considered a smoking hot deal because I got the SSDs which were like a crazy blowout price with a promo on top of it and I bought it at my staff discount which was way lower than what we were selling them for. It doesn't happen very often. And I paid just under a dollar per gig for about a terabyte of SSD storage. And then on top of that I bought a RAID controller card for about five or six hundred dollars. So the whole thing came to about fifteen hundred or about a dollar and a half per gig for storage that was faster than anything that came out for like three to four years after that. We have received some negative feedback due to Linus's antics in the past but my response is always like if you sponsor this channel that's what you're going to get. And then I don't really hear much back and they usually keep sponsoring the channel. So I don't know. Yes I'm going to do more videos on the channel. I have a Mechanoid GK15 whatever coming up robot and I'm also going to do the FlyKly scooter sort of thing. It's got a powered electronic wheel in the back which is both of them are actually spoiler alert kind of disappointing. And then other robot videos I have planned for later as well. You know basically robots like robots. Whenever I have time dog. There's no plan just winging it every day. Keeping it fresh. Keeping it fun. Keeping it real. Those are the only things that we plan on doing at channel super fun. And doing your best every day reaching for the stars trying hard to do the best job that you can do at what you're doing. Basically that what else can you what else can you say. I don't want to give you some plan like you know you've got a five year plan it's actually really structured out. There's a whole graph and pie chart and pie graph and pie something. I don't know. I didn't even know I'd be doing this last year. What do you think I'm going to be doing next year. I don't know. I could be doing something crazy. So keep your eye out for some crazy stuff that go down. Taryn. Dog. Right now we use Windows Movie Maker. Obviously it's just it's the best because it comes with Windows. So that's very convenient. I think that was all I wanted to say about that. Do I find myself becoming exhausted from video editing. Not really. It's exhausting in a different way right because you're sitting down all day. Yes we can stand up and down with this up desks. Mostly I found myself sitting down and what I'll do is every time that I finish a video I will set it to render and then I'll go bother Brandon. I'll stand up and I'll walk around and that helps a lot. In fact I kind of want us to get a little bit of like light workout equipment so we can just like do some pull ups or something like halfway through the day. You know that'll keep you like it's less tiring to move your body. You can start to feel your muscles just degrade if you don't use them. Yeah I do have a personal YouTube channel. It's dumb. You won't like it. It's just about how Premiere is missing a lot of features and has a lot of bugs and I just complain endlessly about all of the problems with Premiere. Some people find it very enjoyable. There's also a tutorial. It's three and a half hours long if you want to watch that on that channel. You know check it out if you want a guess if you're into Premiere and who would be? The best settings for media encoder for uploading videos are the presets because they already exist it takes no effort. If we stopped doing sponsored content we would not be able to pay anyone so all of the channels would pretty much die. Honestly I think that's something that's always come pretty easily for me because for one thing I used to work for a retailer so every video I ever did was effectively sponsored like I got pay to paycheck to make the videos so really nothing has changed in that regard. I mean sure it's you know it's Squarespace now or whatever but it's all basically the same thing and then number two is that I follow the valve principle that they at least say if not necessarily following through on it all the time and that's that you can't lie or trying to see the internet because if you do they will catch you and they will never forget so I've always taken that very seriously. It's even if I was a dishonest person what would be the point of trying to keep that from people because they're just going to catch me and it's going to make it ten times worse when they do. I don't really have plans to be sponsored for CSGO right now but there might be something in the works in the near future. It's unlikely that there will be a video with me rapping in it again although I may sing again at some point I do have kind of an idea festering in my mind for a music video that I'd like to make at some point. Why you guys laugh? Stop staring at me. Every morning I come in and I transfer all those files to China. I need to send them all the scripts and retranscode some footage to them and then I start shoot set up green screen and lighting and shoot and edit fast as possible and I edit all of those. I get this question every day on Instagram, Twitter, Periscope. Yes I got a bad right after the vote and do I like the bad? Yes. Thank you for the vote. Well Define dropped. Okay yes I have but I've never damaged it because of the drop. I always caught it so I've never actually successfully dropped a camera. I held my personal camera my Blackmagic camera over a candle once to dry off water and it burnt a little bit of it so don't do that kids. I think that's a good thing like the entire camera market especially for DSLRs for video has kind of was stagnating for a little while and the mirrorless cameras give you the ability to do so many different things that you can't do with the DSLR and companies like Sony are actually pushing the camera industry forward unlike Canon who are I don't really know what they're doing but they're not really adding much to the current market. Wow tips for starting your own business. That's a great question. The answer is really different depending on a lot of different factors like I was at this talk that Gary Vaynerchuk was giving and some guys like can you help me save my business? I bought a small free to distribute magazine and we're struggling and Gary Vee is like I'm sorry to hear that man. You got to have a good business idea and then if you do then the advice that I can give is go all in because otherwise if you accept failure as a possibility then I think that leaves that's just an excuse to allow it to happen. I think keeping our opinion out of the sponsorship spots is really about maintaining an appropriate expectation with the sponsor I mean whether it's a Corsair or whether it's Intel or whoever else they understand that our editorial content is separate from our advertising content and it always will be and as long as they know that going in then when and if they complain hey you know the answer is well that was our opinion so T.S. and you can either continue to advertise with us and get access to our gigantic audience which by the way we wouldn't have if we didn't give our honest opinion about things or you cannot and that would be fine too and so far I think we're at like 95 plus percent sponsor retention so they've all decided that us being honest with our viewers is more important than you know us always sugarcoating everything. Hello Colton. Hey what's up? Question for you. Yeah what's the question? What do you do in your average day at work? I manage the company emails, I reach out to new clients and I manage old clients, I'm an account manager and I do a lot of other random crap too. How did I get two copyright strikes on the channel? That's a very good question. Pure stupidity I would say. Doing probably doing a bunch of them in a day. Yeah I just mixed I mixed one I mixed two of them up you know like one month span so luckily I still have my job. To get a job here what happened was Linus posted a video saying that he was looking for an assistant. I was currently in school and looking for a part-time job. He was looking for part-time hours so I was like hey this might actually legitimately work and I live relatively close to where I would be working. So I shot in a resume I was not the most qualified. He was looking mainly for someone to shoot and edit things. I had literally never filmed a video using any device in my entire life and I had never edited any video on any system in my entire life but just like kind of faked it by showing him still shot images that I had taken and then put my computer on my resume. My computer was mineral oil cooled fish tank you can probably find it in the video up here. Someone will put it up there. So he brought me in more just to like talk to the dude that made a mineral oil computer than a serious interview but then hours later the interview finally ended and I somehow got the job so here we are. I do not think that leaving school to work at this company from the start or whatever was a bad idea. I think it was a good idea. I do not think that it would have been a good idea for everyone in similar scenarios. We had a pretty good base to work on and it was still a huge gamble. Sometimes I do wish that I just stayed and actually got my degree being that far in and then not getting my degree was a little bit frustrating. I do kind of plan on maybe going back and finishing off an engineering degree at some point in time but yeah I do not think overall that it was a mistake. I do definitely think it was right to go with this company. I enjoy my job and it is going very well but yeah I would like to finish off a degree at some point. So my decision to pursue tech as a career really happened by accident. I mean I was really passionate about games and gaming so I started doing things like upgrading computers and then from there I just really liked it and in a very short period of time I went from being a gamer who tinkers with his computer to make his games run better to really being a computer tinkerer who ran games periodically even though I am not very good at them as an excuse to have a hot rodded computer. And I am really not sure exactly how it happened but part of it came from my passion for helping people with things. I was actually a member of the NCIX Tech Tips forum with like 6 or 7 thousand posts or something along those lines just to talk about any excuse to talk about computers. If it was someone wanting to pick a video card or someone wanting help reformatting their hard drive I was like yeah I can talk about computers if I type an answer to this question. So it just kind of snowballed from there. I got kind of good at it and here I am today. Squirtle is still alive and running. I actually have a lot of new parts for Squirtle. Not all the new parts for Squirtle that I want but quite a few of them. A big part of the reason why we haven't had an update on it is that well one the plan changed I am now actually going in a case not just going to be on a test bench. I have the case I have a lot of the other components but 2, 3 I don't know whatever. We've been plugged with videos for the holiday season. The holiday season like October, November, December are all our busiest months. So probably in the next couple months after CES we will maybe hopefully see another Squirtle update. There will be another Squirtle update. It's a little different having to share my office because I got very used to being alone over the like probably what was that year and a half that I worked alone but it's actually really nice having a close knit team and being able to work with John in the same room is actually really helpful. We bounce ideas off of each other. We work on things together. He helps me out. I like to think that I help him out. I like working with the team. I like the team floor aspect. I like the idea of new companies where a huge group of people work in one area. So I've got one. Working on it. And I'm hoping to have more people in the future. So here I have two major things I usually take care of. One of them is benching. Usually when I'm benching stuff I'll try to choose a number of tests based on what exactly I'm trying to find out. Sometimes I'll do synthetics or sometimes I'll do like a load test to test things like heat, power draw, that kind of thing. Recently I started doing stuff more inside of the caseloads. The other thing that I do a lot of obviously is riding. I'm the main rider for Fast As Possible. I also do some riding for LDP as well. Sometimes if I get a topic that I know a lot about I can just kind of go and it's really no problem. A couple different things with that. Sometimes I'll choose a topic based on oh this is a more technical thing. That is a little more straightforward because really you're just presenting the results but there is a little more to it than that. Have some sort of implication about what you're... Could we scratch this? This is bad. What I try to do is find a way to make the numbers meaningful, interpret it somehow, say does this make sense? I'm also the one who makes all the grass for the video so I try my best to come up with a good conclusion based on data. Besides that I do some general sort of tech support stuff around here. Nothing but yeah that's pretty much what I do here and I hope I answered your question. Thanks for checking out the forum. So the LCT forum today I would view it as kind of a little bit stagnant in the public eye. I'm going to say public eye specifically because this is the alpha forum and this is the currently viewable public forum. This has been being worked on by a little bit myself not much though largely Cat with a smiley face, Colonel Mortis and Blade of Grass and this will be being pushed out to the main site actually relatively soon if you're on YouTube maybe by the time you see this video. What we've been saying for a long time now is in the suggestions for features thread and all that kind of stuff like hold up we're waiting for the new forum this is it. This is the new forum so we will hopefully finally be implementing some really cool stuff that we've been wanting to for a really long time. For camera videos I hope I do a lot more. I want to have a bunch of ideas that I want to do and stuff I want to try. As for NAB I hope we go. I'm like 90% sure that we will but we'll see. The exact URLs of my YouTube and Twitch channels. Well Twitch is relatively easy. It's twitch.tv slash Luke underscore lafr. On there every Friday after the WAN show I do a game stream and usually on Sundays I like to do an editing stream where I edit some videos from my personal YouTube channel and on other random days I usually play games or edit videos or even 3D print things sometimes. My YouTube channel I just recently got a custom URL for so it's youtube.com slash c slash Luke lafraniere. On there right now I'm just kind of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what works so I've got an ice bucket challenge, a random joke video with my mom unboxing and reviewing a computer, myself getting stuck on a bridge and a vlog. I'm planning on trying to get to weekly content within the next few weeks here. Check it out. Nikki V originated. I was born in Queens, New York. You know it was a hard growing up. It was a struggle. You know I grew up a screw up. I got introduced to this **** and I censored that part. Blew up. You know it's just a combination of my life. Everything that's happened to me up to this point this is all, this is me alright. This is all me. This is all, this is real life. You know this ain't no act. I don't know. Nikki V is a combination of stuff I've consumed over the years for you to enjoy with your mother and your sister and your grandmother. Tell that I say hi. Crunchyroll is a site made by anime fans for anime fans. 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One thing that I want to make a note of is you guys can ask things if we do Q&As like this in the future that are like technical questions and stuff. Like if you want to ask Brandon how to film something specific you can ask him that. If you want to ask Taron how to do something weird with editing or Edzel how to do something weird with editing you can do that. So go ahead next time we do Q&As go ham. Ask whatever question you want. Anyways yeah I thought it was kind of fun. Thanks for watching.