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 toks
with tech tips and we are going to tell
you guys if they check out starting with
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below 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 Dillan Dylan 844 got it
there's a lot of dyons dad asked to go
to the thrift store and pick up these
old Direct TV DVRs this Tik Tok 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 $10 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 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
going to get you some gloves no I'm
fine I am very covered in metal shards
can I suggest a thing
good 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 and oh that's
a disappointment I don't even know what
a DB 35.2 is but I know 160 GB when I
see it that's not worth the $5 Dyan
promise 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 is 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 tabt of hard drives
for about
23 not the worst deal on Earth but Dylan
failed to mention a few things the tools
requ ired 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 nonideal
conditions and the odds of them actually
working are less than 100% in fact only
two of them spun up in 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 shucking external drives but these
emissions are going to cost dilate for
for a few points I give this Tech talk a
7 out of 10 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
Tik toks 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 gigabyt
of space from your PC and you'll be
surprised to find a lot of apps that are
taking 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 he
shows window 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 4
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 techsavvy showed us but then
didn't demonstrate how to use is much
more useful we're going to go to
nite.com select windat get your Nite and
we're going to install one of those
tools and show you guys how to use it
now that windat is installed all we need
to do is wait for the analysis to run
you have 18 1/2 gigs in your recycle bin
Alex when the analysis is it's 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 GB 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
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three we have no idea why these videos
are so big on Tik Tok 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
Tik Tok hacks that are about as hacking
as what I just did
was our first hack from DS has 3/4 of a
million likes and almost 100,000 shares
you go up to this top bar and you type
in p r
nt. 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 $3 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 sharex 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 yep 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 get this
one a nine that's it's just so
convenient I can share this with Ste
right now Steve just got back to me WTF
what the is this LOL joke or no I am
literally the worst friend I dropped
everything and immediately changed the
password and check pick out can I
upgrade that one to a 10 out of 10 yep
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 PL site
it's not hacking but I give it an 8 and
1 half out of 10 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 grade out that's what
hidden folders look like so me an
intellectual I'm going to go someone was
trying to hide this oh
my 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 and you're going to hit
remove so after you remove the page
hiide button all you got to do is hit
the refresh button boom there y'all go
man that is pathetic if that actually
works me reload the
page maybe at some point it was this
easy apparently it doesn't work anymore
I'm giving this a 1 out of 10 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
much was my gaming sound your voice is
so annoying first off with the PC when I
bought it it 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 the mic was free cuz it got sent
out to me I paid for my boom arm so the
total for my gaming setup was around
$2,560 by that logic wow you guys
wouldn't believe how affordably you can
get this set up I I paid 0 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 $10 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 dbrand
obviously the best part though is this
LT store Northern Lights dust pad only
$29.99 LTT store.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 cost you less than 0 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 VC 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 RG be lighting Andy uh 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
dcom 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 four 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
chose 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 6 and 1/2 it's a valid
Tech tip but there's a lot of details
missing yeah Hardware Savvy could have
mentioned that it's called dop 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 crl c contrl 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 N9 and a half out of
10 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 v is going to reset slash
fix your drivers for your graphics card
okay control Windows shift B okay n out
of 10 could be a useful Tech talk just
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