Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

Shocking news, his nigger-rigged pool watercooling system leaked and ruined a PC and server motherboard!
wow ok he still hasn't learned his lesson about stupid janky water cooling setups, especially entire room ones.
Yeh he could make it work, run the the water through many tubes up and around the walls to cool the ambient air down while leaving the machines themselves air cooled like some data centers do but no i'm Linus 'how retarded can I be' Sebastion and I run my computers through water baths.
 
Yeh he could make it work, run the the water through many tubes up and around the walls to cool the ambient air down
Sure but that would need a large amount of space versus just using passive radiators made out of metal. Back in the ancient times when people wanted to DIY completly passive system they'd just use large rainwater barrels, with the sheer amount of water and surface area of the barrel making active heat exchange superfluous.
 
wow ok he still hasn't learned his lesson about stupid janky water cooling setups, especially entire room ones.
Yeh he could make it work, run the the water through many tubes up and around the walls to cool the ambient air down while leaving the machines themselves air cooled like some data centers do but no i'm Linus 'how retarded can I be' Sebastion and I run my computers through water baths.
Apparently they unplugged the pump when working on another video and they used shitty hard tube instead of EPDM so it deformed and came out of the fitting.

He claims the over temp protection didn't trigger, so odds are they disabled it in the bios. Its funny how both he and jayzfatcents don't seem to monitor liquid temperature at all. An aquaero would solve a lot of his issues.
 
Shocking news, his nigger-rigged pool watercooling system leaked and ruined a PC and server motherboard! Who could have seen that coming!
Amazing lol. Will have to watch this train wreck later. You know for someone who purports to hate e-waste, he is an extremely wasteful person.
 
For some reason they still leave the janky siliconed to hell manifold right where it can leak onto the entire rack.
Yep, I'm MATI

I cannot believe they mounted the damn things IN THE RACK! There's no reason to do that, move them out and mount them to the side.

And how the hell is it that his employees have yet to order the correct hardware for any plumbing job? And who thought the tubing under the pool would be clean? And how do you have a pool and also think that it would be impossible to filter a large volume of water at high flow, there's a filter right there!? And who the fuck designed this system, twice, without fail safes? He has no moisture sensors, flow meters, pressure sensors, cutoff solenoids/valves, or data visualization to monitor any of this project tied to thousands of dollars of equipment. Maybe you should have an alarm and a shutoff setup you fucking squeaky retard.

This scheme easily broke 20k, never mind the entire pool, and is put together worse than most capstone projects. In the end he has the gall to say how it would have been his dream setup as a kid. What child is thinking of temperature stability under load? My dream setup as a child was having one in the first place. The dickhead.
 
This scheme easily broke 20k, never mind the entire pool, and is put together worse than most capstone projects.
And it was frankly probably intentional. He's not here to show how to do it right, he's here to make content, so fucking up makes content. I doubt they planned for any particular failure scenario, rather that on the question of "what's the worst that can happen if we don't plan this out" the answer is "we get to film more videos about it". So they just wing it and see what happens. It either dies gloriously, or lives forever as the new lord of jank.
 
I think linus said something about preferring not to do it right and is just trying to make it entertaining. Surely you shouldn't joke around with your server if it does anything important. Must be nice living in a shitty apartment in the shitty part of town while working on your bosses house as he drops >$30K fucking around badly "watercooling" his server rack.
 
Yep, I'm MATI

I cannot believe they mounted the damn things IN THE RACK! There's no reason to do that, move them out and mount them to the side.

And how the hell is it that his employees have yet to order the correct hardware for any plumbing job? And who thought the tubing under the pool would be clean? And how do you have a pool and also think that it would be impossible to filter a large volume of water at high flow, there's a filter right there!? And who the fuck designed this system, twice, without fail safes? He has no moisture sensors, flow meters, pressure sensors, cutoff solenoids/valves, or data visualization to monitor any of this project tied to thousands of dollars of equipment. Maybe you should have an alarm and a shutoff setup you fucking squeaky retard.

This scheme easily broke 20k, never mind the entire pool, and is put together worse than most capstone projects. In the end he has the gall to say how it would have been his dream setup as a kid. What child is thinking of temperature stability under load? My dream setup as a child was having one in the first place. The dickhead.
The issue is as always that he dosen't have the right people for the job and instead of paying premium for a custom solution he tacks on his retard crew on to a finished product to jank it up. Remember that Linus hires inexperinced first year college drop outs to be engineers. So it's the blind leading the blind an automation/controls systems engineer could a robust system 2 days tops. A custom system for something like this wouldn't be very expensive since you don't need industrial grade stuff. A Siemens Logo, a couple of modules, cheapo sensors hook it up with scada with WinCC and presto you got a nifty system.
 
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Wonder why he's so incompetent.
 
The issue is as always that he dosen't have the right people for the job and instead of paying premium for a custom solution he tacks on his retard crew on to a finished product to jank it up. Remember that Linus hires inexperinced first year college drop outs to be engineers. So it's the blind leading the blind an automation/controls systems engineer could a robust system 2 days tops. A custom system for something like this wouldn't be very expensive since you don't need industrial grade stuff. A Siemens Logo, a couple of modules, cheapo sensors hook it up with scada with WinCC and presto you got a nifty system.
My personal animosity on working with Siemens software aside, I whole heartily agree. One doesn't even have to go all the way to industrial hardware. Linus has to have hired someone who can program a Raspberry Pi or even an Arduino. Just DIN mount them, and walk through how to handle multiple analogue inputs and a web server. Throw the code up on github so tweens can gawk at it. Hell, run the pump on a VFD to save energy when temps are low rather than blasting it full speed at all times. Would be some good TECH TIPS to save energy on your project while making it more reliable and adding real time feedback and alarming.

The cost would be a few points on the total project cost and actually show something interesting about tech and how accessible it is. Someone watching this would come away thinking fucking tubes are complicated and they shouldn't bother because this dunce can't foresee basic fucking problems. That might be what pisses me off so much about this, these sorts of DIY project videos should at some level be inspirational to the viewer to try something for themselves. Not come off like three grown men can't run pipes without destroying $1000s of hardware.
 
Also wtf with the power surges. He's going to cause an electrical fire.
I wonder if he even has a smoke detector down there.

I'm still baffled as to how the switch blew up. Water must've gotten way further than they first thought. RIP thousands of dollars of Ubiquiti equipment, lucky they're a big sponsor and will just send him another one.

Crazy part is, he justifies this by standing in the game room and saying "Listen how quiet it is!". Like dude, it's in your basement, and you're rich enough to afford some insulating material. It could be air cooled with 40mm fans going at 18K RPM and still be dead quiet in the house.

It's all theater anyway, the moment the cameras turn off, Linus grabs some old Razer laptops from work and hands them to the kids. His setup is such a janky mess that it'd be literally unusable. Somehow the clicks and ad revenue makes potentially flooding the basement or burning the house down worth it, but I think the risk is managed by simply not using it when the cameras aren't rolling.
 
My personal animosity on working with Siemens software aside, I whole heartily agree. One doesn't even have to go all the way to industrial hardware. Linus has to have hired someone who can program a Raspberry Pi or even an Arduino. Just DIN mount them, and walk through how to handle multiple analogue inputs and a web server. Throw the code up on github so tweens can gawk at it. Hell, run the pump on a VFD to save energy when temps are low rather than blasting it full speed at all times. Would be some good TECH TIPS to save energy on your project while making it more reliable and adding real time feedback and alarming.

The cost would be a few points on the total project cost and actually show something interesting about tech and how accessible it is. Someone watching this would come away thinking fucking tubes are complicated and they shouldn't bother because this dunce can't foresee basic fucking problems. That might be what pisses me off so much about this, these sorts of DIY project videos should at some level be inspirational to the viewer to try something for themselves. Not come off like three grown men can't run pipes without destroying $1000s of hardware.
Lol im the other way around anything that isn't TIA portal gives me a headache. The Germans didn't win the war but the conquered Europe in other ways.

I suggested a logo (other evil corporate brands are available) for a couple of reasons:
1) It's tried and tested, cheap and quick: Logos have been used for years for both home and industrial applications yet only costs about 200 dollars. You can't beat that even with a homemade solution cause the time they would spend programing and making functions work. While a logo project you could crank out in two hours.
2) Accessibility: It's easy to program as it has some form of basterdized version of FBD. Which is the lego form of programing (and the krauts preferred way of doing things) and is easy enough to understand that even the LTTards can't fuck it up as its very visual. While with the Arduino you at least have to kind of know what you are doing as you copy and paste other peoples code.
3) The ready made functions. Clocks and schedulers, PI and PID controllers built in baby!
 
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I'm still baffled as to how the switch blew up
The USB thing blew a 25A fuse when they said it was rated at 10, then immediately blew another fuse and they just glossed over it. Something is wrong with the power.


Now his PC has a leaking radiator. The pressure from that pump probably blew it out. Still not using a liquid temp sensor.
Just build a normal fucking PC at this point.
The PSU in his PC is also fried, more evidence he has an electrical problem.

Why is he insisting on using hard tube instead of EPDM?
 
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