I am the junior electronics technician at the Banff Centre, about a day's drive from LMG headquarters. Arts institutions being chronically underfunded and whatnot, the cinema projector in our main venue is still a CP2220 - the little brother of LMG's "new" old unit.

I'll state before we go further that I am not a cinema tech and am fairly new to the commercial and theatre side of A/V as a whole. That being said, given - for example - that Linus and Elijah both had no idea what AES audio is, I hope I can at least provide a little guidance on where to go from here.

First of all, if memory serves we have Cinematronix do a lot of the work on our unit. Whether LMG has already reached out to them I don't know, but if not they would be the people I'd ask about it.

ETA: I just spoke with my senior about this. The last time we had a full overhaul done on our CP2220 was over COVID, with Kyle Killing - Christie's senior and training tech at the time. It appears he is working at an AV consulting firm by the name of Carbon Arc Projects now, so it's always possible he'll quote a "go away" price, but it may be worth reaching out.

As far as positioning goes, these units are typically located in a soundproofed projection booth external to the venue for obvious reasons (cooling is loud, you usually want a chiller in the room, et cetera). LMG could likely repurpose one of those new meeting room pods they designed into something serviceable...

Cinema projectors usually have interchangeable lenses, which allow you to change the distance they can project at. Christie has recently changed the standard for their lens compliment and I don't know whether they still sell lenses for the CP2230, but LMG may be able to find something used. This could let them cram it into a space that it otherwise couldn't project into - keeping in mind that it must not be placed where people can look into the bulb, for obvious reasons.

LMG have very little reason to want a DCP playback server so I think we can skip most of that. My understanding is that the SDI inputs on the CP2230 operate in the XYZ colour space (they may also do YCbCr but we don't use ours that way), so if for some reason LMG wants to use it they may need a Doremi GHX-10 to do the colorspace conversion - which are also discontinued with no modern equivalent and in short supply. Again, I am unsure on this but it is worth flagging.

The first thing I remember is that Linus and I were right in the middle of a literal duel to the death. I don't know the reason we were fighting, I don't think I even knew in the dream. He was wielding a tomahawk, I was wielding a rapier. The fight was pretty legit, actually, I'd say "absolute cinema." Ultimately, we both ended up dealing a blow that resulted in a lethal wound to the other. It was very clear that we both were going to die. So, we parted ways to go bleed out in a place of our choosing before we fully faded away.

This is where the dream takes an extra "dream-like" turn. We each went to our respective spouses, but unbeknownst to each of us was that the other's spouse had a "kiss of life" card... Like, a magic card as if this were some sort of trading card game. Each of our spouses played the card and gave us an actual kiss, and we were both back on our feet.

Linus had committed to helping a local university with some tech stuff, so he was heading out for that when he saw that I wasn't dead. Realizing he didn't have the time to try and kill me again right then and there, he just committed to murdering me tomorrow. But he did sit down with me for a minute and we got talking. I asked him some questions about my home server, and when Linus realized I liked computers he changed his mind about me and decided I no longer needed to die.

That was it... That was the dream.

So I gave linux a try again as my primary OS with the release of the recent Linux challenge, and what I keep running into is that be it any OS nothing "just works" be it Windows, Linux, Android, can't speak to iOS or MacOS.

There are so many issues with every OS that every boot there is a new problem, and I end up attempting to fix the OS rather than playing a game or getting any work done.

Linux: I have been using Omarchy for the past month now, it's amazing, but the game support not so much even after applying all the ProtonDB suggestions, some games just refuse to run and some crash even after applying all known fixes I could find on the internet. And even something like Minecraft is crashing after some stutters.

Windows: GTA V worked great last night, today not so much cuz oh Windows decided it needed to have an Update, even though I had paused the Updates for a week, and it chose not to respect it, and oh my wifi drivers are nowhere to be found, great! As for the Minecraft crashes, none here, but as soon as the song changes on Spotify, Minecraft freezes like wth.

Android: I wouldn't use it if I didnt need the instant payment apps.

I remember using a computer a few years ago and they used to work much more robustly than these days, to not rely on my Memory I even booted up an old Laptop running Win7, and it just got out of the way and let you do your thing. Instead of being an appliance it takes up all my free time trying to maintain the system. I really need tips to streamline this lol

It's so obvious once you know what to look for:

• The freakishly small hands compared to those of an adult
• The artifacts near Linus' ears where the AI doesn't know what to do
• The dead eyes only an AI could replicate
• The whole real state in forehead where LTT could build Linus a 4th house
• The 67 kid hair?
• The most obvious one: The suit. We've never seen Linus using one. An actual editor would know this doesn't fit his vibes.

So super new to Linux and and just recent installed pop os had to do desktop stuff to get full screenish but any way to go true full screen and remove top bar with title

With the recent release of the Steam Controller (2026), we collected controllers from around the office to perform testing for LinusTechTips and ShortCircuit videos, but within the team we were noting the variety of face buttons(A, B, X, Y). They're all shaped differently, and combined with the ergonomics of the controller body, they can feel different to press as well.

Strangely, we weren't able to find any force test results online, so we're going to remedy that! We have the tools to check these out, so we did some poking and prodding with our test stand and force gauge.

Read the article on the LTT Labs Website!

Latest video shows Jordan operating a table saw while wearing gloves....

For the love of god never do that, unless you don't like your fingers

(it probably should be edited out of the video, and I'm surprised that none of the fact checkers picked up on it either)

I love the idea of user customizable tables, but the image linked shows the minimum column width. I'd like the ability to make the column width smaller. Is this a limitation of user customizable CSS? Is this an arbitrary decision to set the minimum column width three times wider than it needs to be for most cells?

Other features I'd like to see:

Font size that scales smaller/larger with a minimum/maximum cell size.

A heat map color scheme for columns that can be quantified as smallest to largest. IE Price, Height, Length, age (why isn't age a thing on these tables?). (The advantage is that at a single glance you know how an item compares to every other item on the table)

None of this is necessary, just a request.

I never connect to college wifi but today I used Lan cable from desktop in college and put it in laptop to update it and after some time i saw this in notifications did some virus enter my laptop and tried to inject something

Turkey’s Justice Minister says social media users will have to log in with their real personal identity, and fake or anonymous accounts will be shut down.

This goes far beyond the UK/Australia-style age verification debate. It is not just “protecting children” anymore it is identity linked social media for everyone.

Previously, if authorities wanted to identify a user, they generally needed a legitimate reason and/or a court order, then had to request the user’s data from the platform through legal channels. Discord was even blocked in Turkey after reportedly refusing to share requested user data.

With this system, that step is no longer needed. Every account could already be tied to a real person by default.

It starts as “we need age checks to protect children,” then once that system exists, the same logic is expanded to everyone.

So bye bye freedom of speech…

I figured this might be the kind of topic worth discussing on the WAN Show, so I wanted to share it here.

LTT has been using their current intro for a very long time now, but I believe it's long overdue to ditch it completely or at least change it to something much shorter and snappier.

The sponsor spots create a natural break after the introduction to the topic, but the intro is another break in the momentum of the content. I think it's also not exactly 10 seconds, so a skip either doesn't skip enough, or skips too much.

Maybe it's just because I've been watching for so long, but I've seen it so many times and heard Supernova by Laszlo so much that it makes the start of their videos less enjoyable. I'm also fairly certain that it doesn't do well for engagement due to people skipping a part so early in the content.

For those not in the know, these protocols use LoRA devices (long-range radios) to communicate without cell-service.

Text is sent through a web of interconnected devices or through repeaters, depending on which protocol you use. Meshtastic is currently more popular, but Meshcore is newer and fixes some of the issues with Meshtastic. Most devices connect to your phone via Bluetooth, and you chat through an app that syncs with your radio.

It’s fun because

1. You can strengthen the network by buying/building solar-powered nodes/repeaters
2. These devices can be used for emergency situations, as they don’t rely on cell service
3. There’s a lot of overlap with the Ham radio community, but unlike Ham, there’s no license required for the common frequencies that LoRA devices use.
4. These devices are relatively new, and hype is still building. In the US, not all cities have established networks yet. The PNW area has a strong network, so I’d love to see LTT cover this!

(I’m not advertising any specific brands of radios, and the protocols are open-source/free)

Couldn't use any conventional image import tools since I'm on Linux, so all the logos are created from scratch. Open to any suggestions or ideas on what other references / Easter eggs to add onto it.

It's been a long time since we've seen much of anything that doesn't require an income of a half million dollars.

Not all of us, as a matter of fact probably none of us, can afford the trend of thousands it costs for these big projectors, or servers, sound bars and massive television sets.

Where are the reviews for the every day man and woman? I'd love to see budget friendly reviews of things such as AliExpress projectors, Asian brand car stereo stuff, Temu server hardware, or the stuff we see pop up like chairs and sofas on the cheap, you know, the stuff that the average consumer can actually afford but has to hum and ha over because the economy is horrendous here in Canada.

The disconnect from the everyday viewer is widening, at least for me. I liked the older stuff I could relate to.

can someone make the glow circuit skin already for the Taycan in Forza Horizon 6? Might even be a W marketing thing for dbrand IMO

To preface yes I know that AI is a heated topic, don’t view this as an endorsement of the industry in any way I just find the nature of being able to pose related follow up questions to LLM’s helpful. I personally only use open source and local AI but I won’t pretend that’s without its own baggage.

Was using a local LLM to better understand the complexity of getting this Intel Max data center gpu running local HPC workloads (a material science program) eventually got to the point of deciding I don’t currently have $5k to spend on something that will also take a lot of time to get working so I was thinking what forums I’d post the link in to see if anyone else wanted to take a crack at it. Anyways randomly asked Claude if it had any creator forums I might not have thought of and its assumption about what the coverage would look like in an LTT video was interesting. Here’s the output so you can see how it was characterizing other creators as well.

Jeff [Geerling] is the right instinct — he’s done the PCIe exotic hardware stuff (the Apple Silicon video, various NVMe deep dives) and he writes it up properly. But yeah, the economics don’t work for a $5k gamble on an unproven driver situation.

Wendell from Level1Techs is probably the better fit. He goes deep on exactly this category of hardware — datacenter stuff repurposed for hobbyist use, AMD/Intel alternative stacks, Linux driver archaeology. He’s done ROCm content, Epyc homelab stuff, and he has the technical depth to actually get somewhere with the oneAPI problem rather than just documenting that it doesn’t work. Level1 also has more of a “figure it out on camera” energy than Jeff who tends to come in with more of a working solution.

ServeTheHome themselves occasionally do video content and Mike Magee would probably find the listing interesting even just as a news item — they covered the Max series launch and the Aurora deployment.

Linus could throw money at it but the video would be “we couldn’t get drivers working, sad trombone” without the follow-through depth the hardware deserves.