 What's up internet? Welcome to 2021 and grave yung 2020. Takot ka lumabas, may pandemic, may lockdowns, takot ka for the safety of your family, you're worried about your livelihood, andaming anxieties, ikangan ni Netflix death to 2020. But even if last year is one of the years that we'd all like to forget, looking back on it, I realized that there were some tech lessons I picked up. Thanks 2020, dahil sa yong nabulot ko yung mga tech lessons na to. Ang video na to ay handog ni CDKoffers.com. Maram kang mahanap na ibat-ibang uri ng software dito, may games, apps, activation codes, or Windows 10, check out our video on CDKoffers in the video description. Mabilis, mura, and siyempre legit dito. Madalilang mag-order, search for the software you need, add to cart, check out, dan ka sa payment options nila, wala pa isang minuto, finished. May legit working CDK ka na sa software na pinilimu. Gamitin ang aming promo code para makakuhapan ng extra 20% discount sa purchase mo. Kung naghanap ka ng mura, legit, and original software, check out CDKoffers.com. Number one is how to stream. Pre-pandemic, uso na yung streaming, it became even more so during the pandemic, but I never learned how until na sa bahay na ako. Pag tinanong na ako na ma-customers na sabat na ba to for streaming, can I play this game with this CPU and stream it at the same time? Do I need a separate computer para mag-streaming yung matipong ganon? Masasagot ko na sila based on experience. So we started with three streams in October. Pwede magtanong, live from the shop and in the industry. So they've been fun to do, pero may just stressful learning how to do everything, tapos palagay may technical issues kasi bulok na internet sa atin. But basically for streaming on the software end, you just need OBS or Open Broadcast Software. There are variants of OBS, but they all stem from the original OBS. But basically OBS is relatively easy to learn and there are a lot of tutorials online about it. Yung maganda dito sa OBS, you don't actually need a very fast computer. Sobrang lumahan ng computer ko, i5-4690K with DDR3 RAM, pero na stream ko pa rin yung FPS for a test stream. We've done multiple shows where maraming tao on screen. We have four people on screen for pwede magtanong. No problem naman with my OBS, with my old system. That's another thing. On the hardware side, actually streaming isn't that demanding. So you can stream a lot of games without worrying that you need a super high-end computer. So on the software end, OBS, on the hardware end, you don't really need super fast hardware. So first lesson I learned from 2020. The second also related to streaming is na di mo kailangan bumile ng webcam. As you guys know, sobrang koripot ko, ayo ko gumastos, yung cellphone ko, second hand, graphics cards ko, second hand. So I really tried to get value for money from my devices. And when we started streaming, ayoko bumile ng webcam kasi bakit? Andami yung cameras, namely yung camera sa cellphone. So there is software that allows you to use your phone as a webcam. The one I use is DroidCam for Android. Super okay yung DroidCam. Very easy to use. You don't really need to think about it. Tapos reliable siya. And if you have a decent phone, like yung sakin, actually sobrang lumalan ng phone ko. One plus 5T. Pero nga na pa rin nung camera niya and that shows on the streams. Usually in very good light, the stream is very clear. At night, kapag naka rely ka dun sa mga overhead lights, it's not as clear but still very worth it. Kainit yung webcams na mabili mo, hindi rin sila ganung kaganda in low level light. So actually your cellphone is probably the best bet and it's free. If you're using Apple, iOS, may, walang DroidCam pero I use something called IPVCam I think. And you see that when I do live from the shop where we have two cameras, one on my face and the other like at table level so you can see what kind of things I'm, you know, I'm opening, I'm showing to the camera. So we have a two cam set up for live from the shop. Yung ayoko lang sa IPVCam is that there's a watermark. I haven't been able to find any other software sa Apple na parang DroidCam na libre tapos walang watermark. So as usual, mas mahirap gamitan yung Apple. As some of you know, I'm also an Android person. We got a lot of new hardware in the shop that we could play around with. Thanks to ASUS, who lenses a lot of hardware, NGXT, Acerock. So bunch of people have lent us different things. Yung pangatlong na pulot ko from 2020 was that ang sayap alam mag-game na nakaheadset. And number one dito that we were able to play around with was the ASUS ROG Delta headset. Gata nung audio quality and it was really yung sobrang immersive regardless of what game you were in. That is speakers ako all the time. I even had a set up before where apat na speakers tapos yung dalawa sa likod. So I could have surround sound in front of me and behind me. Tapos tuwong tuwako noon when I was playing Rome Total War. If you've ever played that game, you can zoom in to your units and gata nung reproduction of sounds because you can hear the cavalry charging behind you. You can hear your men going principle and things like that and you can hear them rattling their shields. So at a good time, you know, going around the map and hearing the sounds from in front and behind. But in my current set up, it's a bit harder to do. I only have space for front speakers. So namiz ko talaga yung level of immersion that you can get from speakers behind and in front. But you can get that with a headset. So nung 2020 bumalik ako sa gaming using headsets and for TV watching, I actually use a Sineheiser wireless headset and I've used this also for my PC. So you don't need a gaming headset or even a headset from the usual PC brands. You can go with headsets from other brands if you want to try that out. It seems like a small thing, but to hear the level of detail, andami palang nawawala na detail, sound detail when you play with just speakers. And you pick that up when you use a headset. And it's also nice to shut out the world. I think that's something that we all looked for in 2020 na andaming bad news sa 2020, andaming nangyari sa labas. And you just wanted to cocoon yourself in your own world and headsets allow you to do that. Salamat din sa 2020 na bumalik ako sa gaming o na high refresh rate monitor. I've talked about this before in some other videos na datin, di mo na niniwala sa high refresh rates. Parang iniisip ko marketing hype lang yan. You know, 144 hertz, 166 hertz. But because of the lockdown, and I've explained this in a past video, ninyakao ko yung isang monitor. Actually itong monitor sa likod ko na pinahiram ni ASUS. Ninyakao ko to from the inuiko. Kasi wala na magagamit sa shop, di ba? Sayang lang naman. So tinakasan ko yung lockdown one time tumakbaho dito sa shop, kinuha ko to inuiko. An sayap pala maglaro on high refresh rates monitors. Yes, okay. I mean the gamers in the audience are like, well, of course. Parang given na yun. But my experience before with high refresh rate monitors wasn't that particularly impressive. But with the ASUS monitor, I really saw the light kung bagam. Like wow, parang ibang iba to. ASUS has lent me another monitor, the 27 inches. And I'm using it now as my primary monitor, tas ang ganda. Ganda pala maglaro in 1440p. Ganda pala maglaro in high refresh rates. So 2020 has brought back to me the sense of gano ba kahalaga na magaday yung monitor mo? And napabayaan ko to, parang nasanay lang ako sa mga 24 inches na in, you know, parang, say, oh, pwede na, 24 inches, 1080p, 60 or so hertz. But thanks to 2020 na may panahon ako para mag-gaming and sa mga companies na nagpahiram sa amin ng hardware, I can't go back. And so itong primary monitor ko na ASUS, when it comes time na kilang ko ibalik sa kanila, I might need, I will get. Sinasabi ko na, I will get another monitor na at least 27 inches na kaya mag 2K and kaya ng mga 144 hertz because I can't go back. And the last thing I picked up from 2020 is that manjo maliit lang pala talaga yung power consumption ng computers. Yung kwento nito, because I was stuck at home, I wanted to stream our video files or yung mga video files na nakuha ko from before, like TV shows, movies and things like that, I wanted to stream them to my TV. And so I used Plex for this and madali lang yung setup yung Plex para siya Netflix for your own video files, libre siya. Pero yung thing doon, the PC needs to be on 24 hours. Hasel kasi kung nakaon siya, pero akit ka na sa kwarto mo, manunod ka 11pm, wow, nasara na pala yung computer. Bababaka pa kung nasa yung computer, iod mo ulit. Hasel. So I decided to leave a computer on 24-7, yun yung media server ko. It's an old computer. Nakalimutan ko na anong specs talaga niya, pero Black Edition atasya na CPU, I'd have to check or something like that. It's actually has a 1000W PSU, I mean it's ridiculously overpowered to be a media server, pero it was an old PC I had on hand, so basically fully depreciated na yan, libre na siya. Di ko na kailang bumilin ang iba pang components. So I turned that into a media server on 24-7 and na pagsip ako, how much money am I burning? How much electricity is this guy consuming? How did I measure the power consumption? My friend Marvin, you know him from Pede Magtanong, na subukan na niya yung Lasco Eco plug. So this is cheap you can get it off Lazada, I think for like 325 pesos and it's Wi-Fi enabled so you plug the Lasco into the outlet and then plug whatever it is you want to be measured, you set up the Wi-Fi connections and then you can now check on your phone ane yung consumption of power of that particular appliance so you configure the Wi-Fi settings and from there you can see in real time on your phone how much power that appliance generating so ito, ito yung consumption ko in real time that's 0.75 kW for the entire day and then I don't know if you can see the other text like amperes and kilowatts and things like that so yung media server ko in 24 hours it consumed only 2 to 2.3 kW per 24 hours so in one day 2 to 2.3 kW. Magano yung yung 1 kW from Meralco right now is around 4 pesos and 10 cents. So mga less than 9 pesos yung dagdag sa electric bill ko per day because of the media server so 9, let's say it is 9 pesos that's rounded up to 9 pesos times 30 days that's an additional 270 pesos I'm spending kasi hindi ko na pinapatay yung media server na kaon yung 24-7 and so it really depends on your budget kung that's something you want to save on or if that's something na ya, sige, pwede na kasi sobrang hassle ng mga mga ba ion, mga ba ulit para a shut down and things like that. It's 9 pesos a day you could be saving but at the same time it's 9 pesos that you can spend so make things less frustrating, make things more convenient for you. Pero natuwa talaga ako sa lasco eco plug, parang it's a really good buy linipat ko siya from the media server, now it's tracking my main rig so I want to see how much power it consumes on load when I'm playing FPS and things like that to get a better idea of how different computers use different amounts of power. Pero overall nagulit ako na ganung kababa yung consumption ng media server but upo dito na perspective, ulaan masyadong ginagawa si media server, yes nakaon siya hindi naka sleep yung computer, hindi naka hibernate pero it's really only running or it's really only performing when I'm asking it to serve up a video file which isn't all the time so I'll be monking around with the settings to see if we can get that power consumption even lower pero hindi ko yun na masubukan kung di ako na stock sa bahay and gusto ko na may video on demand para sa mga video files ko so I fell down that rabbit hole thanks to the lockdowns of 2020. So terrible year but still some lessons to be learned I hope everyone is safe and continues to be so in 2021 kontin kapit na lang, hopefully the vaccines around the corner, things will go back to normal slowly pero but you know I'm a glass half full kind of guy so I like to be optimistic and so I tried to look back on 2020 and see ano ba mga napulot ko and you know actually there were some interesting stuff I hope to learn more in 2021 and I hope you join me thanks for watching and thank you to you guys who have joined our YouTube membership there are some cool perks to joining such as getting advanced notice of incoming items and being able to reserve based on the items that are coming in. Shout out to our top fans Asher Gape Animamundi Mark Palanya Christian Espinoza Ruben Ocha and Deep Raishon Thanks and stay safe