i pride myself on high quality tech tips
but those take like 10 15 minutes you
guys don't have time for that could they
be distilled into more like 10 or 15
seconds to find out we took some of the
best tech talks that is to say tick
tocks with tech tips and we are going to
tell you guys if they check out starting
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one of the most fun things for me about
this is i haven't actually seen any of
these tech talks and our first one is
from dylan dylan 844 got it there's a
lot of dylan's asked to go to the thrift
store and pick up these old directv dvrs
this tick tock suggests that a great way
to get a cheap hard drive is to go to
the thrift store and buy one of these
old dvrs for as little as five or we
paid ten dollars then strip it down to
extract the nummy hard drive dylan
suggests that you can find drives that
are as large as one or even two
terabytes inside these units which would
be one heck of a value and we can
actually already see in this one that
dylan might be on to something one thing
dylan glossed over in his very concise
guide though is that those are security
screws
okay just hold on there for a second
that's not very safe you can hold that a
bit better
oh yeah not bad
oh yeah you want some gloves i'm gonna
get you some gloves
i am very covered in metal shards can i
suggest
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now it's time to find out what i got
for my 30 starting with the gray one
that definitely has a hard drive inside
wow
that is a dusty disgusting machine and
sure enough sata hard drive got some hot
glue on the connectors to make sure that
they don't come out i've seen that trick
before and oh
that's a disappointment i don't even
know what a db 35.2
is but i know 160 gigabytes when i see
it that's not worth the five dollars
dylan promised let alone the 10 that i
paid this is like those videos where you
just open up pokemon card packs or
kinder surprises except
nerdier and way grosser
there we go
hey
500 gigs this time i mean i actually
don't know that i would pay 10 for a 500
gig drive but that's a lot better than
paying 10 for 160 gig drive am i right
now for door number three
500 gigs what is a pipeline hard drive
man these oem only models that i've
never heard of very very strange still
this is at least worth extracting so we
got to go ahead and take out two
standard phillips head screws right here
and here then do a little bit of
negotiating because the other side is
actually held down by these little bent
metal tabs and a one
it's probably great for the hard drive
oh no that's probably fine honestly
actually the way they
validate these things it's like crazy a
few more screws to remove the hard drive
from its sled then we pop this guy off a
voila completely standard 500 gig drive
all in all we salvaged 1.16 terabytes of
hard drives for about 23 us dollars not
the worst deal on earth but dylan failed
to mention a few things the tools
required to actually extract the drives
the precautions that should be taken
when working with equipment that has
exposed power supply circuitry like
these dvrs the incredibly important step
of checking the model number of the unit
so that you can find out how much hard
drive space it has before you buy it and
of course the minor detail that these
hard drives have been in use for often
times a very long time under non-ideal
conditions and the odds of them actually
working are less than 100 in fact only
two of them spun up and were detected by
our system and only one of them a 500
gig model managed to pass a short drive
self test so overall a lot more creative
than shocking external drives but these
emissions are going to cost dylan 84 for
a few points i give this tech talk a
seven out of ten but if
adding sketchy hard drives to your
system isn't the best idea what can you
do if your drive is full well one idea
is to just free up space on your
existing machine we watched countless
tick tocks and this one by hardware
savvy is definitely the best but also
the most infuriating because he almost
got it right
how to instantly free up gigabytes of
space from your pc and you'll be
surprised to find a lot of apps that
have taken up a lot of space that you
haven't used in a long time like this
one here this is all fine in the next
video i'm going to show you a tool
that's going to allow you to free up
tens of gigabytes of data that you never
thought existed on your hard drive it
shows windows stat briefly no video
about it ever comes out
okay uninstalling unused programs and
cleaning up temporary files are both a
good start but the truth is that four
gigs isn't even enough to install many
game patches these days let alone the
entire game and that's where the type of
tool that tech savvy showed us but then
didn't demonstrate how to use is much
more useful we're gonna go to ninite.com
select winderstat
get your ninite and we're gonna install
one of those tools and show you guys how
to use it now that winder stat is
installed all we need to do is wait for
the analysis to run you have 18 and a
half gigs in your recycle bin alex
when the analysis is done you get this
great visualization that shows your
entire drive as a mosaic of little
squares and rectangles then if you
select a particular folder you can
actually see an outline of every one of
the individual files inside that folder
and that's what's really great about a
tool like this is instead of only
targeting temporary files that the
operating system itself created and
knows are temporary it can target files
that you created temporarily and then
totally forgot about overall we were
able to free up almost 30 gigabytes of
unneeded data so i give this tech talk a
10 out of 10 for the idea the
implementation where he doesn't actually
make the video he promised drags it down
to about a three
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we have no idea why these videos are so
big on tick tock this is not hacking
it's the easiest cheapest content ever
but for whatever reason it racks up
millions of likes so there fine we tried
it but that wasn't really the point of
this segment the point of this segment
is to try out some of the top tick-tock
hacks that
are about as hacking as what i just did
was
our first hack from dreas has three
quarters of a million likes and almost a
hundred thousand shares you go up to
this top bar and you type in p r n t dot
s c forward slash any two letters and
any four numbers and you press enter and
it will give you a screenshot from
somebody's phone okay so we're just
going to an image uploading service
typing in random characters and hoping
to creep someone's pictures yeah so i
did this for about 20 minutes there are
a couple that we can't show but those
were just stuff like full gpa breakdowns
english proficiency tests and
someone's onboarding for a job in india
as a mechanical engineer where they were
making three dollars an hour also lots
of invoices and some bitcoin wallets all
of which are not things you should be
putting on here
okay so what's happening here is people
are using more advanced screen capture
software than what's included with their
computer snipping tool which comes with
windows will allow you to drag a window
and then save that file but it only
saves it locally some of these other
programs like share x for example have
features that allow you to automatically
upload the image to an image sharing
service and then they will actually take
that url automatically copy it to your
clipboard and then allow you to paste it
and share it with someone else it's very
convenient when the images you're
capturing aren't confidential or private
but this goes to show you how easily
people could stumble across them whether
by accident or in this case on purpose
do you want the best one that i found
not porn is it i'd be enjoying a glass
of wine sitting back in a black leather
armchair watching a fireplace while the
walls of the room i'm in are covered in
screaming and wailing faces
yeah definitely a way to kill an hour if
you have nothing else to do and unlike
any of our other hacks you are actually
accessing compromised information
someone didn't intend to share with you
i'm giving it a 10. time for our next
hack everyone knows about inspect
element yup it allows you to edit the
contents of a web page but if you go to
console and write document.design mode
equals on you can edit just about
anything on the page by typing normally
still not a hack
but if you're into doctoring screenshots
and causing mayhem within your social
circle i could see this one coming in
handy i give this one a nine that's it's
just so convenient i can share this with
steve right now
steve just got back to me wtf what the
is this lol a joke or no i am
literally the worst friend i dropped
everything and immediately changed the
password to kick out
can i upgrade that one to a 10 out of
10. yup
time for our next hack this one's my
favorite
oh god okay i see where this is going
time to hide this homework folder
customize change icon
pick an icon no one could ever look for
yep
hidden forever hiding in plain sight
it's not hacking but i give it an eight
and a half out of ten
really well the thing about hiding a
folder is that
if whoever's looking for it knows how to
show hidden folders they will be able to
find that one so you can see it's as
simple as changing my file explorer
settings to show hidden folders and boom
now msn network shows up and you can see
it's kind of grayed out that's what
hidden folders look like so me an
intellectual i'm gonna go someone was
trying to hide this oh my god
a better way to hide it is to just leave
it in plain sight then and encrypt it so
now our original msn network boom is
empty and this new folder can only be
accessed by me now that's a money shot
how to view any private instagram post
so what you're first going to do is
you're going to right click hit inspect
oh good we're back to inspect element
click that you're going to hit remove so
after you remove the page hide button
all you got to do is hit the refresh
button boom there y'all go man that is
pathetic if that actually works you
reload the page
um maybe at some point it was this easy
apparently it doesn't work anymore i'm
giving this a one out of ten why does it
have 23 000 likes
one really popular type of tech talk is
people showing off their epic gaming
rigs and talking about just how
affordably they can be obtained which
was my gaming set oh god your voice is
so annoying
first off with the pc when i bought it i
was around 1 100 however i made a few
upgrades so far so i think that price
goes up to around 1 300. you think you
think i think the entire keyboard was
around 350 dollars you think the mic was
free because it got sent out to me i
paid for my boom arm so the total for my
gaming setup was around 2560
by that logic well you guys wouldn't
believe how affordably you can get this
set up i paid zero dollars ek sent this
over to us so that we could put it in
videos and have like a sick gaming rig
and uh wow these two plants we got from
ikea for a total of i think it was ten
dollars i got these lightsabers maybe
these were 20 bucks each at the disney
store who's counting anyway uh these
gold coins these were sent by dbrand
you d brand
obviously the best part though is this
ltt store northern lights dustpad only
29.99 lttstore.com
samsung sent us this monitor they
actually sponsored the video we made
about it so
net this cost negative dollars so in
total this gaming setup costs you less
than zero dollars enjoy hope it was
helpful freaking idiot
watch what happens
when i turn on my epic gaming battle
station
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okay
rigging vlc to open a video file when
you turn on your computer not exactly a
hack but i can see why the kids would be
into this unfortunately what they didn't
show you is how to do it step one is
you'll need someone to control your rgb
lighting andy uh do you want to come out
from behind the table
yeah we had an ipad to do that but the
app was being complicated so andy
pressed the button anyway the point is
all you got to do is go on
spiceworks.com and there's this great
topic called windows 10 play a video
upon login before loading the desktop
it's a bit of doing it will take a while
but
the point is if you really want to do
that you can follow this guide or maybe
there's a better one i don't know i
don't care it doesn't matter i give this
one a 4 out of 10. it's definitely cool
but they don't show you how to do it at
all what else we got here oh good
hardware savvy is back here's how to
make your computer faster in 10 seconds
restart your computer when you enter
your bios find your ram's xmp profile
click on it and choose it oh man okay
there's a few things here one yes okay
xmp can be a way to get a little bit
more speed out of your computer but in
many cases the xmp rated speed of your
ram will not actually run stably with
your motherboard and the integrated
memory controller on your cpu i give
this tech tip a six and a half it's a
valid tech tip but there's a lot of
details missing
yeah hardware savvy could have mentioned
that it's called docp on amd systems
that's that's useful that's good to know
oh my god
shut up
okay so it shows you how to add multiple
things to the windows clipboard all
right that's pretty handy let's try it
ctrl c
ctrl c just make sure that you don't
enable this feature on a shared computer
if for whatever reason you are copying
things that you wouldn't want anyone
else to see
good tech talk nine and a half out of
ten i like it our final tech talk from
the savage 1013 has 59 000 hearts and
2 000 shares push the fn windows and
shift key with feed he's going to reset
fix your drivers for your graphics card
okay control windows shift
b
okay
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