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But I just came from bringing my kids to live in Makati. Dinilako sila sa BGC for their weekend activity. And like it was pouring and I had to put one kid into the class and then I had to stay with the other kid while the other kid was waiting. So it was really like the rain. So bang galon na rain na ito. But sit back, relax. This is a very chill stream. Nothing really. What's up, Adrian? What's up, lazy cable manager? We didn't really announce this beforehand. Just a very chill stream. Talking about one, the wireless earphones that I use on a day. Actually, all of this tech that we're going to be talking about with, I do use on a daily basis. What's up, BA Prof. Sloth is from Mindanao. Kahit sa amin sa Mindanao, inoulan pa din kami kahit ang lahyun. Well, I guess it's supposed to be a superb bagyo. To be honest, I was a little dubious of the pagasa announcements na. Okay, it's going to be a big bagyo. But then the previous week, one day to Friday, pa minsan malakas yung ulan, pero di naman ganun ka lakas, at least dito sa Metro Manila. So I was like, well, you know, kind of overhyped bagyo. But it seems it's overstated welcome. Yung kala ko patapos na siya, pa alis na siya. And now it's still just dumping more water with us. But two of the three things that I'll be talking about today are waterproof or water-resistant. So I'll start first. None of this is sponsored. It's really the items that I use on a daily basis. But this first guy, the ROG SETRA, focus camera. ASUS did send us these guys for review like six, eight months ago. And we did put up a review. But I can honestly say I've been using them daily for the past since then because I wasn't actually big into ear pods before. I had no need for them. Saap, Mark Joey. Good afternoon to you, sir. So, yeah, I wasn't a big user of ear pods or even of earphones before. But as some of you know, I have a dog. So he's a really old husky, mga 13 years old na si Logan. You see him a couple of times in the videos. And because he's a husky, he needs a lot of exercise. You need to burn off that energy. And two, because medyo may edad na din ako just like my dog. I also need exercise. It's always good to keep the heart rate up. Actually, I could have talked about the Fitbit that I have taken to religiously wearing now. I guess we can talk about that in a little bit towards the end if there's still time. So, let's answer VA Prof if we can. Matanong ko lang kasi yung new PC ako sa newbies at PC Building. Kaibahan ng Windows Home, so Windows 10 Pro. We actually had a video about this to be honest. Like what the differences are. Not much. Like 10 Pro, if I remember correctly, has enhanced security. I don't know if they included BitLocker in 10 Pro, but not in Windows 10. I did have to do research on this for that video. But I was like maybe two years ago. But bottom line, not much. If it's just regular, hindi man enterprise level or even if it's enterprise level. Sorry. For the regular person, even for small businesses, Windows 10 Home is completely okay. That is perfectly fine. And if it's enterprise level, then your company should be paying for it. So you don't need to worry about it. If they want you to get 10 Pro, that's fine. But then tell them, kayo may gusto, kayo magbayad, di ba? So, essential, there aren't really a lot of differences to be honest. I'm trying to rack my brain now what they were. I think yun nga, mas may security features yung 10 Pro, but yun nga, not something that you would miss. And even, to be honest, I'm on 10 Pro kasi yung Windows Kiko rin galing sa sponsor natin, CDE Offer. And yun nga, I was like, well, you know, basically same price lang naman yung Win 10 Home siya Win 10 Pro. That's also what we install in the shop. So, I was like para uniform na, I'll just get 10 Pro. But I don't use BitLocker, Bit Defender, yung makolokon, na ganyan. I don't even have a password at my home computer because, why? It's like, you know, you're inviting trouble if you put password or pin code on like, your computer and your wife wants to get into your viber and she opens up your computer and she's like, why does this have a password? Are you hiding something? So, like, anyone, my wife or my 3-year-old daughter can come in and turn on my computer, it will boot up and they have access to all of my files because none of them are encrypted, none of them are password protected on my home computer. So, it's just like, yeah, I'm not that, I'm not bad paranoid about my home security. So, a long story being that I do have 10 Pro, I probably don't use any of the features that are exclusive to it but I just got it because the price is basically the same. So, short answer, not much if it does help you out-budget wise just go for Win 10 Home. So, I'll talk about the ROG setras first. The reason why I got into using ear pods like these guys, so these are basically like the Apple ear pods except that they're black and but they fit, they fit snugly into your ear so the usual Apple look except it's black. Oh no, don't cover on. So, yeah, they look, they look quite good naman. The reason I started using them is, you know, I have a husky, I need to walk him every day and I've been doing that religiously for years. Talagang rain or shine 95% of the time, late, morning, whatever, Logan will get his daily walk but it was only recently and just may, may just acto when I got these. I can't remember actually kung na-inspiro ko kasi I got these and I had to review them so I had to use them na, I got into listening to podcasts. Again, another thing I wasn't doing ago but I really got into it and so now I use these guys every day because ito gamit ko when I walk the dog and I'm listening to my, to the podcasts that I follow and I do have two other, so I have their ROG setras. I have two other headsets na galing naman from another, not even sponsored, they just kind of gave it to us and like, one is the urban alloy. Basically, this is really the best. I mean, I use them extensively every, the sound quality is great. Yung ginagawa ko I leave one set na hindi yung setras in the car because when I'm driving and I'm alone I also like to listen to my podcast to get my mind off the traffic. Mas, the way I think about it is the ROG setras when you hear the sound it's like you're listening to yourself think, you know how sometimes you have an internal monologue in your head, you can hear yourself think ganun kaklaro yung sound from the setras you know, they're your thoughts they're probably clear if there's one person in the world that they should be clear to it's you because they're your thoughts are being generated internally. But when I use the other brand the headsets you know, the urban alloy urban ear or something the sounds is a bit tinier panong tinier mas manipisha compared to the fullness of the ROG setras and I have gotten rained on a lot when I'm walking the dog I use the setras when I'm walking down so they are water resistant the sound quality is great it really makes you feel like yun nga, I'm listening to to voice not to audio but it really sounds like you're in the room or like the podcaster is talking to you that the voice is much fuller on the setra plus I really come to appreciate the main touch screen controls because it's just a side so if you want to so you just press the side and their controls built into each ear pod so the right ear pod is for pause and play the left ear pod is for noise reduction and ambient noise reduction and things like that there's game mode which I don't use because I don't know mobile gamer the thought yeah, these are the only ones that I've discovered that I've found that at least among the limited ear ear pods ear sets that I have that are touch control that you can interact with what content you're listening to through the touch control so it sounds like a small thing but you know you're walking you want to be hands free because I need my hands to hold onto the leash of the dog for whatever reason I need to press pause and then play again it's just like you're just tapping it so super useful and actually I felt I didn't give enough credit I did use them for the review but it's only really when I used them on a daily basis for several months I'm like wow, these guys are really pretty good so much so nung akala ko there was an episode akala ko na nasira na sila because they were in the rain because the left one wouldn't have sound anymore I thought they were broken but it turned out it was just a bluetooth connection thing and I just had to put the two pods together and then actually I hate bluetooth as a technology I find it super unintuitive how to fix something kung sira na yung bluetooth niya but anyway there was nothing wrong with set trust thank goodness I just had to kinda tried to get them to talk to each other again and then to my phone so it was when I thought na sira na siya that I really felt like oh man I'm gonna miss these guys like they were really they are useful I was super happy when I discovered okay pa pala sila so the ROG set trust through wireless my wife who is a heavy apple user and who does use her AirPods regularly and I did mention this in the review I forced her to use these guys instead the set trust instead of her AirPods and basically she was like the quality is the same I don't think there's any difference like I would use these also so I don't have that perspective because I don't use AirPods a very anti-apple but I wanted to get because they are premium range they also kind of look distinctive ROG you want to feel premium so I had to get somebody who has who has experience at AirPods and she uses them a lot for work and online meetings and things like that but she also was quite happy with the set trust alright let's do some chat before we move on to the next one oh yeah we can discuss these guys wait na if you're into gaming I would recommend adding a graphics card to any system kahit yung medyo entry level or mid-range system na naka naka APU so there's onboard graphics in the CPU if you're into gaming I would recommend a graphics card there are very decent APUs now like say the 5600G which can pull their own weight but nothing iba talaga when you have a dedicated graphics card doesn't even need to be fancy 5600 XT 3060 although those are kind of fancy 3050 1660 super basically if you're into gaming yes it's worth it to add a GPU but if it's just an office computer type you're using it to surf excel things like that no need no need for a graphics card yes I agree anybody who's outside I just came from the outside actually and I was in BGC just a while ago the rain was not the rain was pouring hard then it stopped then it poured hard again I was lucky when I got home na medyo okay na siya performance wise what's better i312 gen or i7 10th gen like I'd have the best answer would be to look at the benchmarks but personally I would think it's still i7 10th gen for performance I mean and sorry like when I say by performance of course what else are we looking at right but another important point is price to performance so if you're talking about i7 10th gen at the original price versus i3 12th gen now you know it's maybe the performance gap isn't that great that price to performance mas magani i3 12th gen but I would bet money like I don't I don't memorize the numbers of the top of my head but I would bet money that pound for pound kung performance ng yung tiniting na i7 10th gen I'm looking down because I'm gonna have a snack I'm gonna have a cheese roll thank you to Antonio not sponsored from Tagaytay I wish you would sponsor us please send us cheese rolls but your cheese rolls are pretty good like I said chill stream I think this is the first time actually I'm eating on stream I'm sorry I'm being very rude talking to my mouse wolf performance wise I would bet money that the i7 10th gen is probably faster than an i3 12th gen I am glad you asked Paolo Varuna thank you I've been thinking we did have a podcast sorry we did have we did have a regular stream before I called it media diet where once a month I would talk about like the books the tv shows the movies the games and the podcast that I'm personally consuming so we kind of discontinued that not much interest in that but I always get excited when people ask me because I like geeking about the shows that I watch so the podcast actually the podcast that really hooked me was the initial thing that hooked me was Malcolm Gladwells he it's it's crikey it's Malcolm Gladwells like it's at the tip I can hear his appeal I basically went through the entire catalog and then I'm caught up now so I started from like episode zero and it started like five years ago or something so there were a lot of back episodes but Malcolm Gladwells something about history it's also like revolutions Malcolm Gladwells um yeah okay I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna call a I'm gonna call a mind blank and I'm just gonna look it up on my on the Google podcast app then I'm gonna kick myself for not remembering it Malcolm oh revisionist history okay so the main podcast that really I tried to get into podcast before but this is the first one that really is like it's really so good parang dami mo you don't even need to agree with him I mean he really comes off as a kind of contentious kind of guy very opinionated you don't need to agree with everything he says but he usually has interesting takes on things and I've learned a lot sociology history modern political thought parang ganyan it's a it's a really interesting podcast and I've actually read some of his books before but I they didn't make that much of an impression on me but revisionist history podcast so so good so that's my that was the one that reeled me in but now I am also listening to revolutions it's by an American historian and basically he chronicles famous revolutions so his first one was the Roman Revolution but that's on a different podcast that's not on the revolutions podcast the first one on his revolutions podcast was the British Revolution which is like roughly British Civil War when they basically kicked out the monarchy and they had Thomas Cromwell the protector of the realm and then after that was the American Revolution and then I just finished the French Revolution now so broong gulo I mean I've always been a fan of history so I do read a lot nonfiction and fiction so I would like to think I'm pretty well read about a bunch of topics and I was more than superficially familiar I would say with the French Revolution but after that podcast after listening to that particular season of that podcast damning so broong gulo pala no French Revolution and then it was so violent so bloody na I started having nightmares of not like not like Madam Gilitine but just like just like impressions of violence when I would wake up I was like I would feel chills because it really brought home the horrors of the French Revolution the terror the uncertainty the political merry-go-round because everybody was backstabbing everybody else and you had Robespierre and then you have Don Thon and then you had it's like you had Louis the 14th I think sorry no the 16th losing his head Marie Antoinette the Place de la Concorde I mean you know it's like really bloody stuff so the next one is the Haitian Revolution but before that I took a break from that podcast and now I just finished up the Economist podcast The Prince which is about Xi Jinping the Chinese president so it's kind of like trying to figure out you know what's the background of this guy why is he so authoritarian why is he such a dick I I'm free to say that over the internet that I don't agree I disagree with a lot of Xi Jinpings Xi Jinpings policies but you know in China you can't say that at all everything is censored if you're the minority you know police can just dadamput ka talaga so Filipinos are sort of on the other end where we complain a lot about our our internet na ang gulonong we complain a lot about our internet ang gulonong internet natin in netizens we complain a lot about our we complain a lot about the complainers re-nareklamo natin ang mga naging re-reklamo kasi daw wala ko yung ambag ano bang ginagawa niyo puro lang kayo protesta ng protesta but when you listen when you learn more about the society that you're not allowed to say any god damn thing at all it makes you appreciate more the freedoms that we have here so just on a random trivial thing gijinping apparently the g is pronounced like c so it's cijinping so it's an interesting history although I felt that the podcast was stretching a little yung bang parang trying to infer trying to get into his mind through biographical details which there aren't a lot of there were interesting tidbits but you know it's really hard to kind of figure out a guy just based on his biographical history but he does seem very obsessed with order it may be it it has a lot of things that if you're interested in the topic in the current ruler of China who might all plunge us into World War 3 because he's obsessed with Taiwan and reclaiming it like the last hold out from the CCP it's an interesting podcast although I think towards the end it kind of falters because they run out of interesting stuff to say since it's all you get them modern times and what can you really say is very opaque but you know and to be honest I might get into a little trouble but to be honest I found the narrator of the Prince podcast of the Economist who is a reporter for the Economist her accent is a little irritating the Australian is a little deep like so the way the way the vowels at the end are elongated I found it a little annoying but content-wise you know it was fine I did learn a lot from it I enjoyed it naman so those are the three those are the three that I that you know that I've listened to religiously although I do have dark net diaries on my to listen to hidden brain how I built this if books could kill reply all we fix space junk and 20,000 hertz so I have a bunch of other podcasts that I need to get a move on but I like to like with my TV like when I watch TV series gusto ko tapos na yung season and then itutuloy like I'm just gonna binge that I'm the same with podcasts like I pick one up then I'm gonna listen to all of them up to the entirety and then let like yung revisionist Sirini Gladwell I'm caught up so then I let the episodes build up again and I jump to another podcast but yung revolutions and dami pa niya the French one the his thing about the French Revolution then you get to Napoleon Bono part and like there's a very brief discussion of military tactics but you really have to parang galingin Napoleon to come up with certain tactics and yeah dami yung ano really really impressive all right so we can do that too hang on let me just take a drink softly ang magnaye I know right but you know you know tech di naman naman mga wala yun hardware stuff and computer hardware and I mean you just talking about that right but I do like I do like to talk about other things as well just you know to kind of refresh the palette a bit not get overly obsessed with just PC stuff again I'm sponsored but the chief roles from Antonio's and the Ense Madas pretty darn good all right so just for my later set up I just recently got this mouse it's the Steel series Aerox 5 wireless I actually have my previous mouse was a Logitech G602 or something also wireless my it's a non-negotiable for me I hate wires on my mouse I always feel like may conting tug dito sa tip and you know I just like wireless but the G602 served me for a super long time I wouldn't have replaced it except the the rubber on the mouse wheel finally na tatanggal na and I'm like okay maybe this is a sign I do have issues with the Aerox the battery life is not as good but it's lighter so I mean like if I did a proper review on the guy I would do have to admit na it's a trade off naman it's lighter but the battery life it uses a custom battery inside instead of the 2AA of G602 so by definition they chose lightness over battery life so it's a feature not a bug but I prefer battery life over lightness I actually I using this one now I've come to appreciate like more solid mice this one yes it's very light but sometimes when you click on it parang na-nud siya kontip pataas I don't know it's just the way I click things because I just got used to a heavier mouse objectively it's not a bad mouse it's just subjectively I've just gotten used to certain criteria which this mouse doesn't have so and then my keyboard I can't I'm lazy to point the camera down here and I can't lift it up because it is wired but it's a super old keyboard it's a DAS DAS keyboard not custom built I know a lot of people are into custom builds now I haven't gotten into that scene because I'm afraid na ako to fall down that rabbit hole so it's a very old DAS keyboard still going okay naman for me but some of the keys actually are already like I need to press them several times before mag-register yung click mag-register yung press so I am thinking of replacing this keyboard soon but one thing I do really like about the DAS keyboard is that there's a volume knob on the keyboard and that is super useful YouTube videos whatever videos you're listening to sometimes the audio peaks a lot and you're like I don't need it that loud and the dial is just super useful there are lots of things now that you can use to have the same effect like you can program your stream deck to also have media controls but I just got used to the DAS keyboard the volume dial and I just find that super useful this one is my headset and this is the Cooler Master MH670 and I do use it for gaming I do use it sometimes for streaming both for gaming streams and for and for these kind of toky-toky streams the last time just check out the last live from the shop which was a week ago you can see it on the YouTube channel I use this one so we really like actually the MH670 available actually from Hardware Sugar Rocky the programmer is one of our staff is also a musician and he swears by the clarity and fidelity of the Cooler Masters he likes it na wala masyadong so there's a lot of sometimes with headsets they do a lot of additional processing but this one according to Rocky the programmer because I'm not that picky to be honest about my audio as long as it's loud and as long as it's clear but according to Rocky the programmer the Cooler Master MH670 you get a cleaner sound there's less processing involved in it and audio quality like the mic is also pretty good you can don't take my word for it let me just check out the previous live from the shop podcast sorry livestream which I did I think it was like last week I was using the MH670 the range is excellent so sometimes like I'm listening to YouTube video I put them on and I have to go to the next room our kitchen to do something or even downstairs to the garage the range it'll still keep going and one thing I really like about it is that the dongle the thing that you plug into the computer so it has reception it can connect to the headset there's a little light there and then when it's connected the light goes from red to green and it seems like such a simple thing but it's super useful my desktop is here on the right side so that I know at a glance I just look at it and like okay I'm on the air and I know it's working we've tried a bunch of other headsets over the years but it seems like such a simple thing but it's really super useful when you can visually at a glance na okay gumaganda naman yung headset ko if you catch me at the shop a lot of people actually have I wouldn't say a lot right but it's not uncommon for people at the shop to do this pop by anytime I'm not actually in the shop maybe I'm there like once a week so parang it's I'm not in the shop every day but if I am there I'm more than happy to take pics with everyone and things like that I don't think you want my autograph though because my handwriting is truly horrendously terrible I was talking about like we sell the IMAH 670 at hardware sugar the cooler master headset I was talking about sorry I meant to also mention in the podcast that I listened to of course our podcast Tech Show but Friendly which dropped a very interesting episode yesterday it's on Spotify Google podcast Apple podcast you can you know usually it's we delve on tech news but the podcast yesterday had some tea so if you're into that you might be interested to check that out alright you know I'd have to research to be honest because I don't really clean my monitor a lot definitely use what I what I do for my laptop screen is the we have a lot of these small microfiber squares yung kasama ng mga eye glasses and I use that for clean camera lens my laptop lens my primary monitor is 48 inches so those small things might not be the best for that I know don't use glass cleaner I think maybe like very mild water like damp cloth would be okay enough but there are a whole bunch of YouTube videos online that show you how to do that I don't actually like my monitors I don't really care it's more my laptop especially because it's a touch screen so I get a lot my camera lens you don't want any debris there so for those I use the microfiber usually for my eye glasses I do you don't see me wear eye glasses in videos and things like that because I do use contact lenses but my type of contact lenses you need to take them off at the end of the day they're rigid gas permeable they're hard contact lenses you can't wear them for super extended periods so I do wear glasses maybe half of the time and so I I have glasses I use them daily and that's why we have these bunch of microfiber squares no thoughts because I have not tried it I really I really have no comment I could not say okay, I'll just do two more messages and then we'll do the talk about the next thing on the list my PC now is a Ryzen 7 3700X for the CPU and a 3080 for the GPU but you don't need super even for gaming streams you don't need super high end when we first started during the pandemic to live stream I was using an i5 for 690K tapos RX 480 pangata GPU ko noon eh so really like and you know like old old specs but you know I was able to stream Wolfenstein the newer Wolfenstein Shadow of the Colossus I think is the title way back when so you don't actually need a super high end PC for streaming for my camera now it's the ZV-E10 which I use to shoot my videos the Sony ZV-E10 which can link up to the computer using a USB cable but as I mentioned in a lot of my other videos you can just use your phone actually as a webcam you know the camera on the phone will double up a webcam using software and that's completely free you don't even need to get a dedicated camera I would not have a camera I mean like I wouldn't have bought a camera just to live stream I mean because I'm super creepy that's why I'm na do well purpose ko na siya like this camera it's mostly for videos and then when I need to stream I use it now also and for the mic this is the wave one of course here the camera sorry the microphone actually medyo matagal before I got a proper microphone for a lot of the time I was using ay mga headsets like like I use this extensively the mh670 for my streaming microphone yeah revisionist history thank you okay just this one then we'll do we'll start on the phone yes actually we we've hired a guy just very recently who can do pickups and drop-offs now so that is the service we provide now you pay us we'll come to your we'll come to your store we'll come to your store we'll come to your location we'll pick up your computer we'll bring it to the shop and then you can do cleaning and cable management and then we will drop off your PC again so super convenient you don't need to look for a career anymore plus wala ka ng anxiety kasi point to point hawak na ni hardware sugar hawak na nung staff namin there's a trust issues because obviously you know malala mo grab I mean you know there's strangers to them the shop doesn't know them but this guy this guy's really our employee we trust him with parts and also the the familiarity issue so our guy's already familiar with taking computer items and you know if it's a third party career medyo kinakaban ka pa minsan if they'll take care of the item believe me our guy knows how expensive some of the items we deal with are so again it's just that point to point hawak na ni hardware sugar so yes we do offer that service now the kind of pickup service and drop off service and then of course our usual cleaning and cable management alright no it's not that we actually got a real a real career not just me not just me moon lighting for same day deliveries and things like that but next item on the list is the my phone so for the longest time my phone was actually and I still have it actually so this is my daily driver phone for the longest time like years the 1 plus 5T I still miss it the problem was at the start of the year my daughter accidentally it slid off the counter because of my daughter and na cracked yung screen so I had to get a new phone but I have it now kasi pinerepair ko and I don't know why so I don't know why sapras I imagine I no points are guessing where you guys are now although the rain has kind of stopped sorry I have some cheese roll in my throat so actually I don't know why I didn't think about it earlier but I did end up preparing the 1 plus 5T because you can always use my mobile phone but in the meantime my wife was this was actually second hand when I bought it I'm big I'm really big about if you can find good second hand parts by second hand so this one my daily driver for years my cell phone was a 1 plus 5T second hand I mentioned that I have both my CPU and my GPU are second hand oh ano so yeah the 3700X came from a hardware sugar customer the 3080 also came from sasirane isang fan it wasn't spinning regularly anymore and so he returned it to the shop and we worked it out with him he just bought an MSI nagdag-dag nalang shop um we weren't sure how long it would take the supplier to repair this item the GPU so kinuha ako nalang sa shop but tapos di ko na ba nalik but but it is literally a reject so the customer brought it in and then he bought a new MSI 3080 and we were supposed to send this one back but kinuha we didn't know how long it would take and then somewhere along the line it just somehow ended up in my computer I really have no idea um I don't it doesn't it hasn't crashed on me for the games that I play fan noise I don't care I'm not very picky about fan noise I think it still spins actually maybe just something you know like hours of gaming parang ganyan but it was completely fine with me you know it's completely fine with me but in the meantime well you know I didn't have the 1 plus 5T my wife was kind enough to get me a Google Pixel 7 so I've always wanted a Google phone just because supposedly their cameras are better and I was kind of curious about the Google hardware so this is my daily phone now not second hand I am actually sad to report just on the form factor I miss the thinness the 1 plus 5T sorry let me hold it up the 1 plus 5T is thinner and flatter so it's longer this one which according to my brother is the now standard for cell phones it's like a chocolate bar it is fatter but more smooshed so and then you can actually see I take it back apparently it's just roughly around the same it's roughly around the same size as the 1 plus 5T but it's definitely fatter the 1 plus 5 I don't know it feels fatter it's hard to tell on camera but it's just it feels fatter to me after the 1 plus 5T so form factor wise I'm not a big fan of I don't use Apple Apple has long been like this na medyo mataba na phone ya you can see it's like a chunky kind of guy but things I do like about the Pixel 7 the display is phenomenal I mean ya the display it's hard to it's hard to appreciate the camera is not in focus but that's my wallpaper and then like there's a forest scene here and then the you know with cheap image quality screens and you know it's like a small screen the colors content to run together parang impressionist painting na yung the thing instead of like a very sharp and realistic photo but the the screen of the Pixel 7 reproduces that picture so so so well the screen is flat out amazing responsive et cetera I mean I mean it was the flagship last year so you do expect those kind of things but the I really appreciated this I really appreciate the screen of the Pixel 7 the visor I was scared before because this is actually naka protrude siya itong visor na to so when you put it down on the surface it's actually touching the surface and I was worried at my camera this houses the camera we get all dinged up like the lens and things like that we get all scratched up but I put it just like flat like any other cellphone and so far it hasn't gotten dinged up so that was an unfounded fear in my part the camera is also very good cameras and videos actually that's also why I decided on the Pixel 7 because in my line of work I mean you just need a quick snapshot of an item or video for a short or something like that so I figured it's best for me to invest in a camera in a phone that does have a good camera and the Pixel 7 did not let me down although as you guys know with cell phones a lot of it there's a lot of post processing now so you don't actually see the image or I mean you could get really philosophical and say there is no true image anymore it's just you know how the camera and the software in particular interprets the colors and things like that and the Pixel 7 does a good job but I did have one like one video where it's clearly seen it's my son in the park and then as I move the camera up and down to get better angles of my one year old running around it can't quite figure out should I paint paint the grass green or yellow and it really the tint of the entire video changes as I move the camera around and you can really tell that the software is having a hard time figuring out what's the best way to render this scene and so in a more traditional kind of camera where it just takes a picture set na yung how it will record that image or that video you wouldn't have that problem but since now everything is so fancy shmancy software interpreted it's not you have the hardware but more than the hardware it's how the software interprets and displays that image or that video then you have things like that which I did not experience before in my OnePlus 5T but again it's like apples and oranges because it's so bright and it didn't have that fancy software thing that the Google Pixel 7 cameras have it's a very responsive phone very snappy so when you're and it has this ability thanks to the tensor chips or something you can just you have a picture and then you remove let's say you remove people in the background it will automatically do that for you that was pretty impressive I thought that was a Google flexing its software capability so I thought that was really props to Google that was pretty good people reported in fact if you go to Hardware Conox review of the Pixel 7 the reviewer sorry I forget it wasn't Dimitri it was the other guy I can't quite remember his name now but he said you know I like this phone but sub Adrian on TV shout Cobra G Kale and Kiel I'll talk to that in a little bit I'll answer that in a little bit let me just finish this one last point about the Pixel 7 sorry about the phone one of the main gripes of the Hardware Conox review of the Pixel 7 was that he was like I really like this phone but it was just so unstable for me like I would get calls it would drop I wouldn't be able to use it as a phone nobody could hear me so in the end I just had to switch to another phone I didn't have any of those problems at all but I did get it well after the release date so andami na mga software updates and one of the plus says of using a Google phone one of the advantages is that you do get the software updates from Google immediately once they release them although to be honest I think that's kind of like an over hype feature like I don't really care about the updates as long as I could get security updates that's fine but again I'm not super paranoid also about security on my phone because I don't it's always with me and things like that and I don't install weird apps or things like that a lot of reviewers do mention oh it's a Google phone and one of the plus points is that you get the Google updates right away yeah okay nice to have but not like a super deal breaker for me either way but just on that thing that it was unusable definitely not for me again you guys been my daily driver but to be fair to the earlier reviewers maybe it was a software thing that has been ironed out and that's the advantage to not being an early adopter and you can easily apply that to the computer world like DDR5 AM5 the 40 series from NVIDIA it's kind of nice to just take a step back sometimes and yes I really want that brand new thing right man you want to jump on the hype train you want to show that you have a full flip Z4 whatever but waiting six months after is also can also be pretty good kind of shake out the people who were raving about it kasi bagong bago but then one month later pangit pa lang product over the long run or things like that oh one other thing of the Pixel 7 also when it came out there were reports the glass was cracking on the visor it wasn't a very sturdy build I would beg to differ I have dropped this phone multiple times like on accident not shot's fired in anger but just as a dad now and you have to carry your three year old and your one year old at the same time plus juggle drinks or whatever I mean it is ridiculous so my hands are usually occupied and I'm trying to grab my phone pa so I've dropped this my daughter has dropped this phone many times but it is quite sturdy actually like you know I wouldn't recommend smashing it against the wall on purpose but there were a few falls that I thought oh shit my new phone it's a goner but yeah it's held up pretty well build quality wise there were some reviews about that when it first came out but I have no complaints really about the sturdiness of the Pixel 7 that said the nothing phone 2 just came out and actually that's something that I like if I didn't if I hadn't just bought a new phone recently the nothing phone 2 looks pretty interesting for me all right let me just get a bite to eat and then I will go through some of the chat top dancers with waifus daka sumulan sa atin I mean I don't live in the same French Revolution it's completely like it's a bonkers drama lots of people get it I mean get killed it's a tragedy it's a farce it's all of those things I mean it's like I didn't appreciate just how nuts the French Revolution was until I listened to the Revolution's podcast I wish my mom is from Cebu although she grew up here my dad is from Armok so I feel that my roots are in the Visayas actually makasabot ko makasulti uggutay makasabot more than makasulti I have relatives in Cebu we used to go there all the time actually pre-pandemic so I would love to expand but the current plans are to expand a little bit more here in the metro and outside Metro Manila first in Luzon before going to Cebu but definitely God willing Nakanwood the business turns around we start making a profit because as long time viewers know the hardware sugar is still in the red but hopefully we can turn that around soon I mean science are good science are good hopefully then we can build up some capital expand a bit more I would definitely want Cebu branch high in sa Sugbu I mean you know where in Cebu would be the question it's been years I have driven around in Cebu but it has been a long time since I've been there I would need long term plans long term plans I don't rant short answer hotter than you think a lot of people kind of obsess too much about the temperatures especially like the Ryzen 5000 series they are meant to run hot also the 7000 series they are meant to run hot so you're hitting 95 degrees 100 I think is the throttle point but you're hitting 95 degrees and AMD will tell you no no yeah we really designed it to be that hot so hotter than you think it depends on your GPU and CPU but the general answer is hotter than you think these things are meant to run pretty hot on sustained loads I did not mention the name I only mentioned it was the 48 inches sup guys pro link pro 2000 SFCU it's 2000 VA 850 watts yeah I would say so we have this video where we took a bunch of pro link computer sorry pro link UPS and then we we intentionally stress them out ito yung I used my own setup here and I actually did the testing here at home so this is like unload and not unload but really it's very variable as that video shows so but in general yes that would probably be okay it will give you enough time to shut down for sure which is what you want from a UPS I'm okay with the wave one my brother Rafael uses another mic I can't quite remember what it is I think it's also the yeti actually the yeti is actually not that well regarded like if you look on the reviews online but it is kind of imprinted in like you know sikat siya although my brother is actually quite happy with the sound of his yeti so ako personally wala naman ako issue with the yeti it's just that the audio files kind of snub it they feel that it's a bit overhyped it's very mainstream and it's very pedestrian for the kind of quality that you get although one generous review I saw was na you know for what it is it's good but it doesn't deserve the kind of like thought na oh sobrang ganda nung quality nito nga yeti so parang steady lang siya parang ganoon I myself I'm not that particular although when I did have to get a mic I ended up getting an Elgato wave one which I'm quite happy with if you listen to the podcast that's what I use these streams that's what I use my gaming streams now so actually the mic has been super useful even for the videos because now I can do I can record proper voice over sorry I'm not chuckling at this one I'm laughing at the next exchange so I'll do that next one we had to give it back to ASOS that one was actually not given to us that will just lend to us for the review that was a nice looking GPU so I believe Russell is still in the shop and Kaiser gave a very unhelpful suggestion your boss will not bail you out will not come to get you yeah yeah smash the omelet exactly right exactly it has a kind of cultural kashay na parang oh, beats by Dre parang it's like sikat yung nga then Apple bought them so it can enlarge in the popular consciousness it's there and it's kind of associated with quality but then we kind of delve in a bit deeper the more audio snobs are like well you know di naman ganito gan yun okay, subpesto kapa okay, so this is the question so basically Kail and Kyle are asking how do you get distributors to do business with you a short answer yes I mean those are the basic permits naman sorry, I try not to rub my nose too much on stream but it's really itchy now they do just ask for basic requirements so if you're a corporation it's your SEC certificate of incorporation if you're a DTI sole proprietorship and your registration with DTI then LGU business permit and your COR BIR COR actually some well yeah most do but some don't actually anymore the BIR COR it's mostly yung DTI sole proprietorship if you're a sole proprietorship or corporation SEC certificate of registration if you're a corp and the LGU permit and then after you need to fill up their form which I find kind of annoying in the form they're going to ask you super basic things like who's the owner if you're a corporation once you're paid up capital which I think is kind of silly they're also going to ask for references so si na ba yung ibang mong distributors na you've done business with before and this is like a catch 22 right if you're a new shop starting you're like well I don't have any previous experience with other distributors because we're just new then they're going to ask for your bank account if they're super serious they're going to ask they're going to ask you okay we're going to ask your bank kung kung mas sa ba yung bank account mo kung maylaman ba yan kung legit ba kayo but if you tell them na no need for credit terms like every time I order I'm going to pay up front then there's no reason why they need to look at your bank account anymore so short answer yes papansinin ka nang mga tipong uber tech if you just have the basic requirements and if you fill up the form and that is how we started also when we started the shop we had no one we had no insiders in the PC retail industry in the Philippines we knew no one we had no contacts we had zero people we could go to so there's really a lot of cold calls cold emails like really looking up online sinamang distributors and also the ESGS we attended ESGS 2018 and it was just super lucky one of the big distributors was there and I myself personally was the one who went up to them and asked them for their contact details because hey we want to buy your stuff and they kind of looked at me weird to be honest because I seen naman ako the shop unknown name at the time still unknown name now or just one shop in Makati but they turned out to be a major supplier of us and we still do a lot of business with them up to now in fact yes siya pa rin kausap ko sa Viber when I order so yeah that's really that's really how it starts I mean just if you have a list of people you email them they're going to ask you for those permits and also to fill up their form which I find the form super hate filling up forms although I do have to point out hopefully the distributors are on the ball but may ebang distributors na parang PC shops din na hindi masyado I mean we've all had that experience mag-inquire ka sa shop das walang subagot sayo and that's the same with distributors I have one now I've emailed them like twice they're a distributor of PSU brand and no no acknowledgement or anything it's okay they're not mission critical naman to us I just wanted another option for that particular brand there is the one brand now that we're about to stock for the first time and that one I inquired initially with them through their web form walang sumagot I gave it like a week or two weeks and I emailed them and then yon okay na so they sent me the form I sent them our thing then I sent them the form and then okay na now we can buy that now we can buy that product yep so actually I just as a parang behind the scenes of the computer business yung experience mo as a customer with a PC shop is very similar to yung experience namin with the distributors and you know you think na it would be kind of different kasi iba naman yung we buy in bulk and we buy hundreds of thousands of pesos worth over time and things like that but no it's basically the same sometimes the distributors also don't quite know the products that they're selling sometimes the delivery to us is wrong and we've done that to customers honestly speaking sometimes we get it wrong they ordered the AK400 white and then we send out the AK400 black I mean yung tipong ganyan that also happens a lot with distributors sa Viber I order something through Viber and then they send me back ko hey sir ito available lahat kasi ito yung mga pre-shop and I say okay kasi I don't check it anymore pag dating sa shop mali pala yung na input nung supplier which and also my fault kasi inoke ko siya I signed off on it kasi you know who likes double checking I mean you know it's just expensive computer hardware you don't need to check that anymore so I had one I posted it about I posted this on our head scratchers Facebook a long time ago basically the supplier so I computed another thing that drives me up the wall with suppliers sometimes they don't give you total so they're just like so ito yung you're buying two CPUs two GPUs two cases and then per part but they don't give you the total so sometimes ikaw pa magtototal I'm like ay that's really you should give the total so one time I did the total and then so I send it to the supplier for example lang like okay ito eto x plus y plus z equals 50,000 and the supplier was like no sir x plus y plus z equals 55,000 and then so the numbers were very clear it was simple arithmetic and I kept trying to explain to her hindi nga siya 55,000 50,000 kasi x plus y plus z but you know how it is with people when they get it into their head yung ayon na mag-isip yung ginawan na nila yung trabaho nila and they're not they're not reading anymore they're not trying to understand what you're trying to tell them sober naka shut off na yung utak nila and I was so assaspirated na this is simple addition like a grade nina man grade 2 because medyo malaki yung numbers but you know like grade 7 x plus y plus z equals 50,000 again this is not the exact number but just as an example very clear to me x plus y plus z equals 50,000 but when she was computing x plus y plus z became 55,000 I'm like hindi nga kasi itong nga and they're like oh my god man it was like back and forth back and forth na why it was not why her number was correct until finally after I don't know how I don't know how many back and forth she's like oh okay now I get you okay yes now it's 50,000 but it's just like super frustrating na pakinggan mo naman ako listen to what I'm trying to say because I'm not okay here goes the rant Lee ang magnayin you know I'm not making this stuff up man I am trying to hear what you are trying to say but I understand what you're trying to say but it's wrong it's wrong it is wrong and it's wrong because and then papaliwanag ko but ayaw talaga makinig say oh my god man it's just simple arithmetic so the frustrations that you have with dealing with computer shops like as a consumer to a retail store a lot of that happens also on the retailer to dealer level and you know before I started a PC shop I did not know that but now five years later somebody asked in the somebody asked in the chat like how long we've been as a shop five years na we've been in business for five years five years later now I know that it's pretty much the same you get good suppliers like you have good shops sometimes there are honest mistakes and I do appreciate the customers I know you know who you are who really bear with us through our mistakes sometimes you get patient shops sometimes you get good suppliers na di ka pinapairapan for returns and things like that so it's really pretty much the same also it really depends on what you need it for to be honest we've mentioned before a lot of our earlier videos were just shot on cell phone because I didn't have a dedicated camera dedicated camera scared me because I had no experience in that space I did not know what to buy I did not know like the lenses and like you know what's a good body the tripods the lighting everything like that so I think it really depends on what you need but something like the Pixel 7 or the latest Samsung the latest iPhone that are that have good cameras you should really be pretty good already with that for a lot of the things that you need to be honest junya we only we when the channel really started picking up you know you kind of want to upgrade the production value the production quality so that's when we got a ZV-E10 actually I'm super happy with the ZV-E10 I still only know very basic stuff about cameras but like dance with waifus mentioned it looks a lot clearer now actually the body is the same it's still a ZV-E10 but I'm using a different lens and apparently there's a saying among camera enthusiasts you date the body so the actual camera but you married the glass the lens that you're using because the lens can dramatically change what you get from a camera this particular lens actually is old I bought it last year pa but for the shop so if you see footage from the shop that's mostly this lens but on my camera I was just using the prime lens sorry the stock lens that came with the camera but I've been trying to come up with better ways to shoot the videos and things like that so I thought I would experiment with this lens at first and to be honest since Jay left RIPJ nakonod I mean Jay was one of our tech staff he was also very good because I was with the cameras and the lighting and he would really set up the shots that we did in the shop and I do miss Jay he was really good at the cameras also a very good tech also very good with customers but he got pirated not by another shop but also kind of in the tech space so since Jay was not at the shop anymore I figured I might as well get this lens now and experiment with it here at home so it's actually the same body it's still the ZV-10 but yeah the lens is a lot different so it's more focused you get this nice bouquet bouka the kind of blurring out of the background and things like that it's also much clearer on the face wise much tighter shot so wala na I'm gonna have to the guys do use this particular lens in the shop so I'm gonna give it back and then I'll get a new lens for the ZV-10 it's kind of painful kasi medyo mahal yung mga lenses but again yung nga you can see the difference in the quality and yung nga well medyo na sulit ko na rin yung stock lens I got a lot of footage out of that and the stock lens is still useful if you kind of like want a wider shot a clearer shot of everything so sulit na rin like I'll keep the stock lens but then get a different lens and then bring this back to the shop yes I hope you're still watching ang ako mga ginikanan mga bisaya ang ako mga ginikanan sa bu ang akong papataga ormok so yes I do have fun yung nga mo bisita mo mo bisita mo bisita ko a lot before the pandemic sa Sugbo so I do want to I do want to open up a shop there eventually but probably still in the works alright sorry just to jump to Ros yes yes Ros is going to test that the Pixel 7 is pretty tough I don't mind it to be honest I dropped my phone a lot also I don't mind it like if it's an accident and something like that happens I know guys sir I hear you I actually it's basically like the framework laptop philosophy now so you have this kind of scaffolding and then you can put different things in place and I think project ARA ARAba or ARA was a Google initiative di ba like that's what they were like it stem from Google itself I never got to try one actually I thought it was pretty useful although they did have like these weird things like you can have like a microscope and then you kind of snap on to the to the phone and things like that personal thoughts I thought it was an interesting idea from a business standpoint I was not sure it would make money so I am not surprised it was eventually cancelled pero sayang naman kasi I feel the mobile space has gotten a bit stagnant with people just looking at like screens mostly and things like that nobody really wants to kind of rock the boat anymore this has come to default standard and it's kind of boring the CEO of Nothing actually mentioned that in one of his more recent videos na he thinks Apple has because everybody just got used to this kind of black rectangle thing sorry and one last thing about the Pixel 7 so I'm gripping now the phone using the using the visor and actually it's a pretty good way to to consume content like if I want to watch video on it it gives me just enough purchase that I can grip it using the visor side so I've never seen any reviewer mention that before but yeah I mean like if you want to hold it far away from yourself and then grip it the visor is an unexpected that's an unexpected use for the visor it is the glass yep it's a lens alright let me just finish this and I will do the last laptop thing usual I hate PLDT for for home internet actually their internet is pretty good but the problem is the service like when something goes down and something will go down one year two year eventually something is going to catch up with you my lightning strike whatever and you need service you cannot get service and I think for me that is a cardinal sin for any kind of consumer facing business the product is good but consumer service is also part of the business so I hate PLDT if I swore one of the earliest videos we did for this channel is me explaining why I hate PLDT based on my own experience because I did have PLDT fiber here before I'm with Converge now so and you really I mean you know MVP has made a business practice of taking on these companies and making and streamlining them making them just good enough that they are able to very efficient at getting money from customers so again for PLDT the installation process mabilis yung actual product mabilis in fairness yung internet nila but the customer service is terrible again like Meralco when they took over Meralco the bills I mean you know are very regular now and you can pay them or ever fortunately the one recent instance I had with Meralco was a couple years ago because I had to apply for net metering in fairness mabait naman si engineer actually have to talk to the engineer with Meralco it's like a whole process but then at the end of the day they said okay na net metering ko but then like for 3 months wala kung credit because with net metering I have solar panels upstairs and again this is a video from the early days of hardware sugar and if I'm not consuming all of that power I can sell it back to the grid so actually my neighbors will consume the power and then Meralco pays me for generating electricity and then you know it's a long process hinintay ko pa yung digital meter nila everything but okay lang kasi at the time I wasn't exporting any energy because I was mining so obviously wala ng exporting of energy kasi gina-gami ko lahat but then you know 3 months but then they told me na okay now you're exporting energy tamang tama I had stopped mining around that time net metering is on and then I looked at my bill for 3 months and there was nothing so I had to go back and tell them that hey what's up and they're like oh sorry we forgot to tag something on your account or something and imagine I could have been doing that for years and if I hadn't checked on my bill na wala na wala pang credit for net metering wala na sayang lang pera ko so I think MVP is very good at making companies more efficient at fleecing or there's a nicer turbine business it's like making your customers more valuable because you're able to extract more value from them it's like they're mining you it's like you're a resource they're getting more value from you but actual customer service is terrible so if they buy any company that MVP is associated with I feel that that is their MO super fast to install get you on the train get you on the bandwagon and get you on the paying bandwagon but once you're there customer service terrible in fact I swore I would never use PLDT again unfortunately I had to go back on that yung internet sa shop is PLDT only because yung only available provider in the building is PLDT but maybe we should get ano FPLDT and I'm being very objective about this actually my wife has a smart phone smart is great internet wise I have globe internet on my phone the globe internet is sometimes slow sometimes won't pick up at all but the smart internet and again this is another video we did for the channel smart internet is very good we've never had she's never had to use their customer service so smart I mean I have no I am really super annoyed even now about PLDT I swore I would never use them again for the shop because the guys in the shop have been bugging me na mabagal yung internet I don't know why mabagal yung internet like what the hell are you guys running na bat ang mabagal yung internet I mean because think about it right ano ba din na download din yong yung mga drivers din mo nga naka lakay yung mga drivers so sorry I was looking at one of our slack conversations we had a custom monitor come in it's the odyssey so I told my staff to take a picture and then they took a picture beside some other boxes para lang you can tell in the picture gano ka lakay yung scale of this of this Samsung odyssey and it is a monster ay let's do one rundown through the chat and then I will just talk briefly about my laptop and then that's it that we'll call it a day Jay's 2 cents had a video about this very recently I agree with Jay I don't have hard data to support this but we always it's our default our default thing in the shop is to have the usual intake fans in the front and then everything else exhaust all exhaust case for me it feels weird yung nga I don't have the hard numbers I don't have the hard numbers to back up I'm saying Jay's 2 cents I think is one of his most recent videos where he talks about how he has data supporting that you know the intake and even if the intake is covered by an AIO radiator or water cooling radiator that's still better than making it all exhaust so I defer to him my own personal thoughts are nga it just feels I can believe that para it feels weird kung mas optimal yung all exhaust on the case fans and I know this came about because there was a pre-built from omega systems and so Jay commented on it he did a video on it but ganito yung setup nung fans and then they replied na we tested it at nyan yung pinaka optimal and Jay had another video where he was like na I don't think so I don't want to get into it but I would find it weird if the front is okay just to make it sound a bit more professional I cannot think of any case where an all exhaust configuration would be the most optimal sorry as I say that I look at my case and here here I don't know if you can see it so I don't want to move the camera anymore but I'll take a picture from my it's really it's really blurry ah there there okay there's no autofocus kasi so on this lens so if you notice my case is open air type so my ai so literally my case is actually all exhaust kasi yung fans ko lang naman yung ai o radiator fans so I mean yes in bunker situations like that where there is no air flow to speak of kasi hindi naman it's an open air case di naman na really the air is not channeled or funneled anywhere then okay may be then an all exhaust actually my case now is all exhaust come to think of it but you know in most cases I would find that weird I think for serious stuff for sure I mean the camera is really like a zv-810 has really boosted our production quality I myself also enjoy using it just for videos and seeing like how they look like but to be honest like the stuff I post for facebook and youtube like the daily post all of that are just usually with our camera phones so I think it's you know every tool for the case that you needed for gravey mahal ng mga lenses okay stop ochi no more money to burn we gotta ipon muna tayo na pera ipon muna for the burning stop yamato lexo I saw a previous there was something on chat na daily drinker I'm not a big drinker but what do I do like actually doon papa was pretty good to be honest for context when we hit 60k subscribers we were doing a special video then we asked several people hey do you want to be part of the video don't papa said yes so in that video I read real comments that I got on our youtube videos and you know they're the mean comments like why do you move your arms around and why don't you blink and what else some people have issues may iba na nagagalit pano ho magtagalog you can't win either way anyway so every time that I read the comment I would take a drink take a shot of the don papa and then I was doing that so live so as we were doing the video I get drunker and drunker but still very much in control of my faculties kasi lawyer, law student gotta handle your drink I don't really I'm not really a scotch guy as you get older some of my friends are really into scotch whiskey but I really like cocktails like you go to a good bar they have good cocktails like you mix and stuff I like tasting the flavor I'm not a wine snob by any means but certainly like a good I can appreciate a good wine you're talking like the grand crew or as a french called the grand crew sometimes you put the this is the way they that's a certain designation that they put on certain wines because that meant it was a good year so not every year is a grand crew not every locality gets a grand crew every year and then there are stages of the cruise like there's a premiere crew I think the grand crew is pretty up there but like a good wine it doesn't need to be a grand crew but that you can kind of enjoy like yeah I'm done with that but I'm not like a super big drinker except like sometimes my kids really drive me up the wall and at the end of the day I just need a stiff drink I can I'll admit to that pano kayo nag denavigate or draw the line like minsan barat belittle the services I don't know if you want to be taking advice from me because what I do is all customers we treat the same whether you complain or not we literally treat you the same way and that's okay with like 98% of the people out there is that's good for them because we really do try to treat our customers the way we would treat our friends it's always how I put it so you know when your friend wants a computer build and you suggest something ayaw mo na malugi sila gusto mo na makukahan nila yung best performance on their budget and that's what we try to do with every customer but you know if you have a friend na medyo makulit, medyo paminsan nakakakasar na kasi ang demanding then as a friend you can also clap back and say chill out, relax you're gonna get your computer but we gotta finish this guy first we're not afraid of telling the customer hey man you gotta relax and we're following the queue and these guys came first or yes you just bought a computer from us yes it just broke down don't throw a hissy fit because things really break down we've had customers na actually we have one customer na celebrity like he's married to a celebrity he himself is also a celebrity this was the first time he did business with us and like a week later his effing graphics card broke so I'm like oh god damn it I mean of course you want everybody to be happy you didn't want him to get a bad impression because you know he could refer people like that but he was super chill about it super relaxed, he just brought it in none of this like hey god damn it you know who I am but al bumili sa shop mo sabi ninyo bagong bago to bakit ganito ganyan and you do get customers like that na one na something happens and they didn't expect it and they're like hey what the hell and B you do get problems like that something might happen but this customer was super chill we really appreciated it but even like as a shop you don't need to be a celebrity we've done it for a lot of people we will lend you stuff like come back in it might not be the same like 3070 ang GPU mo pinahiram natin 2060 lower end but definitely you can still use your computer actually that's really my advice in a nutshell on that customers like your friends so much so that I myself I tell the staff don't call the customer sir or mam although they don't follow me nobody follows me but sorry I just chuckled because I was thinking if Russ is watching this if you're watching this on the VOD Russ you know this that nobody in the shop follows what I say but I really tell the staff don't call the customer sir or mam because that's not how you call your friends it's always very laid back it's like stop what can we do for you parang ganyan that's how I am with my friends when they ask me like take advice and what they should get I'm like I think this is the best because I get it to ganyan but by the same token you flip the switch I also feel comfortable enough with my friends to say na hey man relax although I'm actually quite glad that I guess I've chosen my friends well na you know stop being a jerk and you know let us finish this but because I am friends with that person I would feel comfortable enough telling them that if I felt that their behavior was out of line and then at the end of the day you can kind of like have a head scratchers where you're like what the hell I remember this one customer he turned out to be okay naman but he just got very aggravated from us may problema sa ram like the ram broke right away or something like that and then he was like I was kind of suggesting to him over chat a solution and he's like parang ginawa mo na chapsui yung computer ko di ba bago to parang ganyan I'm like first of all all custom builds are chapsui okay I mean you really get a bunch of parts there and yeah you mix and match together and second of all it kind of sucks that your PC broke but the fact that you have to send it back to us we ask that of all our customers kind of sucks that it's hard for you but I mean that's the way the cookie rolls if you buy from us something breaks the bare minimum that we require of everybody whether you're in tauitawi and we do have customers in Mindanao who have sent stuff back is that you bring it in so computer space you get a lot of that like medyo may pag-entitled thank you JW I know the staff never listens to me I tell them you know don't call everybody mom I mean bago sila yung bastosin like ay di mag naman ganyan but hey are you doing welcome what can we do for you I never call anybody I haven't called any customer maybe po if they're older and that's just a general sign of respect I'm not saying be bastos especially for Filipinos it's very important to us to show deference to older people although sometimes you know the older people sometimes sila talagin pinakamakulit oh gods anywhere alright we gotta sab ang hello I gotta do this one last so my last daily driver I'm actually my kids a lot more now because one is one year old and one is three years old so especially for the three year old I usually am the one who brings her to school so I bring her to school and I basically wait there and it's a lot of dead time for me and it's really hard to do business with just a cell phone like I'm chatting through Slack I'm checking prices I'm checking kung may pumasok na na payment I'm doing the accounting so many things so I finally decided after years I haven't had a dedicated laptop for years to buy my own laptop and this is the it's gotta be near my face for the focus this is the Asus S14 Flip OLED because I cannot go back anymore to screens that are not OLED my primary monitor nawili ako when I usually I'm very candid with these reviews I'm not a kind of reviewer na parang pasnutis-nuti na oh I've seen so many things I've seen better parang ganyan but the Asus OLEDs are like god damn I would I was not looking for a monitor but after they let me try it out I really had to get it and the screen has not disappointed me but the thing with this one is that it's the flip version aside from opening it up all the way so this is how you normally would know this is also a touch screen and you can flip it all the way also so you can do it like a tent so if you're watching there's a tent there please don't do a linus and drop this this is still new so if you're watching content or you can flip it all the way like a tablet the screen also flips over so my last laptop actually was a Lenovo Yoga one of the ones who pioneered this kind of flip thing and I really enjoyed the flip function if you look at laptop reviewers a lot of them think it's a gimmick the touch screen plus the flip but I beg to disagree and actually I would be doing a review of this guy for me I find the flip very useful and the performance of this guy is everything that I needed it to be no burn in yet Kaiser although I'm very super OC for the ROG for the PG48UQ initially sorry so just a very short digression on my care regime for the PG48UQ before when I would leave because I leave my computer on the whole day but let's say I have to step out I need to cook or whatever I need to play with my kids I don't turn off my computer because I want all my windows to be back where I got them when I get back before I would turn off the monitor but I'm like oh is that really the best thing to do because turning it on and off multiple times baka may masira pa jyan so it cuts out because there's no nothing attached to the HDMI so it's like a black screen but I don't need to turn it off so I thought that was a pretty clever hack to get a black screen to get no display but not having to turn off the monitor also the other thing if I turn off because of the monitor naisisira ngayong configurations ng windows ko because windows thinks na wala ni monitor na yon so everything else gets scattered among my three other monitors so that's also another reason why I came up with the HDMI shifting to HDMI input hack so yes I am super happy not sponsored, I didn't get to try this out before I bought it I got this at regular price so this is like an up and up like legit purchase but I'm super happy with the S14 Flip OLED everything I needed to do it does well basically it's like banking writing, working and things like that you go a lot faster when you have an actual keyboard a larger screen compared to just the cell phone so the S14 Flip OLED great I love watching videos on it also so now at the end of the day my three year old and I do and I guess you can argue that this is bad parenting but I think it's actually pretty responsible parenting beside my daughter she's watching on her iPad and I'm watching on the laptop why is it responsible parenting because I can still see what she's watching or what she's playing it's part of her daily routine so like 30 minutes before she goes to bed and things like that so there is set screen time it's just kind of something that we do together both watching different things although recently we've taken to watching Monsters Inc together on the laptop so yeah it's something that we can do she knows how to turn my laptop off I taught her how to use the iPad like how to turn it off she knows how to enter the pin code for the iPad so I'm not super paranoid about screen time and tech time for kids because I also read to her you balance it out you get a lot of people who are super paranoid about that I think just relax you actually that's my philosophy to things in general just relax because I do read to her I do try to read to her a lot as well so it's not just screen time like not to not to like oh this is my parenting style but even before she was born like she was still inside her mom's tummy I was already reading I read Harry Potter to her I read Watership Down if you haven't read that I do Watership Down I'm a lit major I'm a reader all my life so I really enjoy reading my parents did the same thing to me my mom when I wasn't even born yet she would also read to me they would read to me when I was born when I got older so that's something I still do with my kids now so the whole tech thing I don't really mind it if she has a lot a lot, too little, whatever screen time and I wouldn't do that if the screen were pangit but the screen is so nice so I can watch the episodes that I usually watch before we would be separated because I would have to come down here to watch it on my big screen because my monitor is better than the big screen TV we have it's better resolution, it's 4K, it's OLED so this is actually the best screen in Dallas my primary monitor bumping up to 4K but now I can do it in bed beside my daughter because the screen is really great I have the flip function and the touch function it can even I edit the podcast on this like the audio, it can do that also you can do rough edits even with our timeline we do a 2K timeline in the binge here but I don't blame it because it's not editing I was able to try an ASUS pro art laptop na pang editing sobrang ganda parang it seemed even smoother than me editing on my desktop for some reason but I didn't buy this laptop with the intention that it should do that editing so I don't fault it for that daily driver usually with me every week when I bring my kid to school super super happy with it I see a fellow reader Watership Down is beautiful I read it very late in life it's commonly associated as a kiddie book but I read it maybe I was like 20 or something pero ang ganda, ganda nung Watership Down it's about rabbits in rural England and I know I'm into sci-fi that wouldn't usually get me amped up and excited but the thematically and the adventure itself it's pretty long actually for a children's book but yes it's also why I wanted to revisit it when I read it to my daughter because I found it such a it's a beautiful book ay punyeta oh shoot okay there we go I was so scared that my mouse died because it ran out of battery and then the USB cable that I usually plug in because you can use it as a wired connection it's connected to the camera now so I would have been dead in the water but fortunately it just was on sleep no you're not required Pesto so you don't need to you don't need to do net metering actually you can just set up solar panels and then you don't need to tell Meralco although I don't know actually if you're technically required just to tell them because they although the fear kasi is you're still generating power even when a brown out during the day and if there are linemen people working on the electric lines outside that's a live wire it could be a live wire because you are generating power may coryentin ang gagaling sayo but my system auto shuts down but now I'm trying to remember if that's a function from Meralco or it's my own function from the inverter I think it's my own function from the inverter but short answer no you're not required to sell to Meralco actually there's a whole bunch thing there let's say it's like one kilowatt Meralco charges you let's say five pesos per kilowatt hour they'll only sell they'll only give you credit lower than that let's say it's let's say it's five pesos per kilowatt hour just as an example when you produce a kilowatt hour and you sell it to them they're not going to give you five pesos they're going to give you something like four pesos and 75 cents because there's some ek ek about like generation transmission or something but as in, in a argue nila na you're only due the generation charge not the transmission charge or something but when I charge you the customer then you need to pay the full five pesos and then yeah so kinda annoyed also with Meralco I am sad to hear this I have actually not done any reviews I've not looked on any reviews on Starlink in the city or specifically in Manila I know ako si Dougie sorry, ako si Dougie did get a Starlink recently but I haven't seen the video actually I have no plans of getting it but I just wanted it like as a backup kung nainis na ako sa lahat na mga Philippine ISPs the screens on the new MacBooks do look pretty good but I don't really follow that scene but like when I stumble into an Apple store against my will, I'm like okay matyong baka na naman and in fairness, yung Apple naman like their phones and stuff makatari naman yung screens so I can believe it alright, a bit of i5 3500 for sticks I'm unable to run all four dims but they work stable yeah sorry, I mean I don't may mga weird stuff talaga na ganyan check your mobile if they are part of the QVL the qualified vendor list if they are then you have a good chance of returning the motherboard because basically it's not functioning the way it's advertised that it should function yes, we talked about this earlier um you can rewind but basically we recommend the MH670 coobicoolermaster which is boost by shocking coincidence also available we also sell it at hardware sugar I don't want to do a hard sell on it but I did talk about earlier in the stream why I like this headset and I can honestly say I've used it a lot it's pretty good you know, I forget I think it's the 5500H so not that great specs wise not that great although I did upgrade the RAM I did add RAM to it and it's just really super responsive like it does what I needed to do if for gaming like say you can get a 10,000 pesos or so monitor that does 1080p so that's a resolution at around 144hz actually we have one in the shop asus kasi has one now it's kind of like the best quality oh 9,900 atins it's a 1080p monitor 24 inches 144hz 9,900 144hz is very decent for gaming this is an IPS panel so if you're trying to go for like the brand names yun around 10,000 we do have a video where we explored the cheapest gaming monitors that you can get on the Zada kung okay ba sila they were around like 6,000, 7,000 spoiler alert, they were actually quite decent but yun ya very ify yung brand so you know kind of like shooting in the dark a little but the three that we tried we tried the three cheapest that we could find na gaming monitor talaga so yun 24 inches at least 144hz IPS no maybe they were VA panels actually or maybe they didn't say what they were I can't quite remember kaisara sa recommendation the AOC24G2 AOC at that price point a lot of people do recommend them we don't carry them lang kasi so I'm not quite familiar and also I can't comment on the quality because we saw a bunch of asus monitors no issues naman but yun 50k you can probably pump out decent 20 1080p gaming so somewhere around that price range would be for a monitor although to be honest if you can spend a bit extra I would spend a bit extra 27 inches for a monitor 27 inches versus 24 inches makes a big difference in terms of just usability and the way the games can bring you in more it makes more of an impact with a larger screen for me 27 inches IPS 144hz and I want to say 2k but then that would really drag up the price and you know for a 50k pc sige wag na lang but you know the minimum would be 24 inches 144hz VA panel the more top end would be 27 inches 1080p IPS panel sige wag na lang yung 2k ah there we go Werner mentioned that the another AOC monitor 27 inches 12,000 I don't know to be honest you know some of these certifications are important but some of them are also just like getting branding on something that because the cables themselves already have version numbers that's the one that's more important because based on the version number you know how much data can be sent through those cables and if they're a larger pipe then you can get better colors and fidelity on the monitor so I don't know to be honest I don't know if that's nice to have or it's just like marketing or something so I do not know maybe we should do a video on that and I'm not being specious a lot of these a lot of the videos that we do is just really because like I don't know and let's research and let's make a video about that alright guys I'm hitting the 1 hour 50 mark this was a bit longer than I expected but I did enjoy this kind of just random sit down slightly so there was a topic to talk about meander along it did last lang longer than I thought I gotta get dinner ready so thank you so much for joining me on this rainy day stream have a good Saturday night have a good weekend please do check out the podcast from yesterday I think very interesting topic very important also for people who watch tech youtubers and if you're a content creator as well and tomorrow if Ren makes the thumbnail which he hasn't yet our last video for the month will air and the topic of the video is the one question that I can't answer we get asked a lot of tech questions but this is the one question hindi ko talaga masagot coming to your screen tomorrow thanks I'll just do one last from Jake Sarmiento plan to build a PC that be for work and gaming what bundle of mobile and CPU and GPU can you recommend for Ryzen 5 get a Ryzen 5, 5600X very easy recommendation easy go-to recommendation pair that with a 3060 if you can and you're good to go that's really a very competent gaming rig and it will tear through your work 16GB of RAM 32GB if you want to save some money get a MATX board like the B550M MSI Pro VDH Wi-Fi this is actually an interesting for the MATX mobos our go-to before was the DS3H from Gigabyte but they nerfed like got really bad and damin mga versions na they removed the RGB headers and just the quality of the board so actually it was Russ at the shop who impressed on me that the B550M Pro VDH is better value for money so that's what we recommend now for AM4 MATX mobos that's what we carry in the shop MATX cases are usually cheaper so yeah that's it you don't even need like you can go with a stock cooler for the 5600X you can get a decent cooler like the AK400 so it doesn't need to be like the super high-end air coolers the Arctic coolers are really good also and again very affordable so yeah if budget is a little if budget is a little of a concern you can go Ryzen 5 5500 still get the 3060 there yes there will be some bottleneck but don't worry about it you can still employ the majority of your GPU for gaming performance and that will really be worth it for gaming so around there abouts I would say alright thank you so much for watching have a good night guys