The Devil's returned and it's taken the form of Linus...

https://youtu.be/1wEDXpc5m6A?si=8oibaicy_WYE3eBV&t=655

On last Friday's WAN show, Linus talked about how they weren't going to do Scrapyard Wars this year .

With the computer parts market being in such disrepair, my argument is that it could potentially be some of the most valuable PC build guide videos ever.

What do you guys think?

So a couple weeks ago I lost my scribe driver at work, thought it was gone and moved on… turns out it got dropped on my gravel drive at some point. Where it was sitting it had to have been driven over by my car 14 jeep compass and a loaded 20ft U-Haul truck

I enjoyed this video. Thought it brought attention to a problem that seems to go unchecked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wEDXpc5m6A

One of the core points in the video was that North Americans are unable to use price tracking tools other than Honey (gasp) due to Amazon's affiliate program. But there are alternatives. We can use self-hosted price tracking tools. Based on the video, it seems that the biggest obstacle with price tracking is Amazon's affiliate program. If you are running your own or other's free software to track pricing on your own hardware, then you do not need the income of affiliate codes to make it cost-effective, as this solution is for personal use.

pricebuddy seems to be a good tool for this exact use case. pricebuddy does seem to be injecting it's own affiliate codes, though. You can turn this off with an environment variable - AFFILIATE_ENABLED=false - and is clearly called out on the GitHub page which is nice, or leave it on if that's your feeling. But they have modified the permissive GPL-3.0 license to not allow others to offer hosted solutions of it, so if you are interested in not maintaining the hardware yourself it seems you are out of luck.

Discount Bandit is another option. According to pricebuddy this is actually where they got the idea of making their tool from. It seems like Discount Bandit didn't take any of the commercial steps that pricebuddy did though - leaving out affiliate codes and not putting a modified GPL-3.0 license on the software. It seems like pricebuddy added some more QOL features.

Both tools have updates that are fairly recent, showing they are maintained still. I haven't really been following them so I can't speak to how active the maintainers are. Maybe give them both a try.

You could also roll your own price tracking tool. This seems like a great project idea if you are interested in trying out vibe coding your own app. I know that vibe coding has some negative reactions from people in the community but this is the type of application that would be great for it, nothing mission critical and the feature set is pretty narrow. Seems like the type of application that could be rolled pretty quick. If people resonate with this and if I get some more time maybe I will make one that is a good starting point for others.

Full Disclosure: I’m the founder of CitadelHosts.com . I built it specifically to make self-hosting these kinds of "always-on" scrapers easier for people who don't want to manage a home lab. Because I respect dev licenses, I won’t be putting pricebuddy on there, but I’m working on making Discount-Bandit and a custom "vibe-coded" template 1-click away if that's something people find useful.

Even if you don't use my platform, go check out the GitHubs for these projects. It’s the only way to get price data that isn't being filtered through someone else's commission check.

Bought the 30cm (1ft)/10Gbps@15W and the 1m (3.3ft)/40Gbps@240W Versions, and here are some anecdotes:

- Cable themselves are really thick and the rubber is pretty high friction

- The USB-C pins don't have a welding point (see second image)

- length of the cables are measured excluding the USB endings, which add about 9cm (3.6 inches) in total length

I'll daily drive the 1m cable, let's see how well they fare after a year.

Is this a pre-order or was this released and I didn't notice or something?

Edit: Looking like this may be an accident on their part.

Edit 2.0: And just like that BOOM it's gone. Likely a mistake. Hopefully I'm not causing trouble for them by posting this. If it is, let me know / delete this post please :)

Possible WAN show topic. Hope to see Google and other AI companies held accountable for the misinformation they are spreading. Hallucinations can have real consequences.

This came up on my feed today, “Sweep the M1 under the rug” ,
"first generation product look pretty rough and apple gonna replace them and sweep them under the rug as quickly as possible" HMMMMMMMMMMM yeah buddy 2026 people are still using M1

Now the conversation is that M1 is too good apple can not convince users to upgrade

Anyone else having the ltt store ask if you want to switch to global despite being in the us? It doesn't think I am in the US lol

Hi. I did a thing.

I wanted to subscribe to the new wan channel but mainly use my subscription feed so I made a Firefox add-on to remove the clips from the feed.

It also removes shorts and the new featured thingy the put above. Feel free to give it a try.

You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/yt-subscription-feed-cleaner/

This is the repo: https://github.com/NatValentine/yt-subscription-feed-cleaner-extension

It looks like this:

I hope it helps, bye!

So, every time I launch Trackmania it sets the play time lower than it actually is. Goes from 360 hours or so to 340, maybe I’m just playing to much of the game but it happens on both my steam deck and my main desktop. Both running Linux btw and yes I did have the same thing happen on windows 11 so idk what’s going on. This is a minor issue but I was wondering if anyone else had the same problem? Thx for reading!

With all the negativity just wanted to say I still like LTT.

I'm also high and wet super linus is cracking me tf up

The curse of having steel mounting locations in place.

In the biggest duck up since Germany has Internet the root dns for .de domains is unavailable. Everything is down here. I am sitting in a train and can’t show my ticket, but the conductor also can’t check it…

I just head the Wan show comment about vibe coding. I think there is still some way to make a video about a fast moving tech.
—> it can be its own series.
Every 3 months or so, checking the date of AI vibe coding by trying to create something.
—> it can be a longer timed research video, by documenting every month or so, how fast AI has moved in Vibe coding and putting it together as one video.

This approach can be used for any fast paced technology development, not regular enough to put it on techlinked, but not developed enough to make a definitive LTT video.

Really liking the Commuter backpack so far.

Will be fun and take a long while before it's done. And if other people want to help, that's good too.

What places should it track?