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  • Razer Kiyo V2 Pro

    first cited September 2026positive about it

    “Let's go with a couple of the more practical pieces for our setup. the Wolverine Pro 8K PC and the Kio V2 webcam.”
    View source at 16:58from September 2026

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  • Razer Nommo V2 Pro

    first cited September 2026mixed views on it

    “Meet the Razer Nommo V2 Pros. There aren't too many companies that are making desktop gaming speakers these days, but Razer is one of them.”
    View source at 9:55from September 2026
  • Corsair SP2500

    first cited September 2026positive about it

    “Yeah, it's got nothing on my like old Corsair SP2500s, but your options are pretty limited.”
    View source at 12:11from September 2026

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  • Gemini

    cited in 3 videospositive about it

    “I've been having a lot more luck with Gemini lately than I have with ChatGPT, but OpenAI's chatbot is still the market leader in terms of use and it's the same one we used last time, making it a more apples-to-apples comparison, which isn't to say that the experience will be exactly the same.”
    View source at 4:21from August 2026+ 2 more sources
  • ChatGPT

    has reservations

    “And we're going to upgrade our ChatGPT subscription to give it anything resembling a shot at succeeding at this cuz it's pretty clear that the free tier is massively in shitified at this point.”
    View source at 9:57from August 2026
  • Hermes

    first cited October 2026

    “My Hermes setup at home for instance refused to use my super user password even when I explicitly told it to.”
    View source at 5:46from October 2026

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  • Floatplane

    cited in 15 videos

    “I don't even think all of this is going to fit in the YouTube cut, okay? lmg.gg/floatplane. We'll see you there for all the crazy shenanigans that ended up on the cutting room floor.”
    View source at 15:23from August 2026+ 14 more sources

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  • Valve Steam Machine

    $1,999.99cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

    “Obviously, the lighter resource usage is a huge plus in my personal experience using Linux as my daily driver for the last actually, it's been almost a month now with the Steam Machine has been pretty great.”
    View source at 11:57from August 2026+ 1 more source
  • Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE

    $34.90cited in 2 videosmixed views on it

    “Open the Peerless Assassin box. Peerless Assassin, solid pick, by the way. Good job, Jibbedy.”
    View source at 12:38from August 2026+ 1 more source
  • AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

    $199.00cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

    “Our 9600X offers most of the performance of a 9800, but at half the price and gives us an upgrade path later, which Intel's Core Ultra 200 plus series won't even though they are pretty competitively priced these days.”
    View source at 10:58from August 2026+ 1 more source
  • AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

    $899.00cited in 2 videosspeaks highly of it

    “So, we split the difference, going with the Ryzen 9 9950 X3D2. It has very fast cores, all equipped with AMD's legendary 3D vcache, and it's got 16 of them, making it well equipped for every game today and tomorrow.”
    View source at 1:45from September 2026+ 1 more source

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  • Infinite Cables active cables
    “And it turns out we can using active cables. These ones are from Infinite Cables, who, as you guys know, have infinite cables.”
    View source at 5:24from July 2026
  • Razer Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC

    first cited September 2026positive about it

    “And that's where the Wolverine Pro 8K PC comes in. It offers up TMR sticks, Hall effect triggers, a ton of programmable buttons, both up by the shoulders as well as rear paddles, adjustable triggers, so you can turn them into hair triggers as well as like our keyboard and mouse, 8,000 hertz polling with the giant included dongle.”
    View source at 17:39from September 2026
  • Framework Expansion Modules (Expansion Cards)

    speaks highly of it

    “As someone with particular needs when it comes to IO, the inclusion of a headphone jack and the ability to move my USB-A over to the left for a corded mouse or hack a high-speed networking module into my thin and light is a huge selling point and Framework's module system is better than ever.”
    View source at 2:54from July 2026
  • Razer Monitor Stand Chroma

    first cited September 2026mixed views on it

    “But, of course, I could do so much more effectively with the Razer monitor stand chroma.”
    View source at 15:09from September 2026

Storage4

  • WD_Black SN8100 2TB NVMe SSD

    $480.00cited in 2 videosmixed views on it

    “Continuing our theme of things that cost more than we'd like, we chose the SanDisk WD Black SN8100 SSD. It's PCI Express Gen 5, fast, comes with its own DRAM cache, fast, and installs like this.”
    View source at 3:07from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • Google Drive

    cited in 2 videos

    “So our Google Drive storage scales with how many people we have on the account and we have like over 100 people.”
    View source at 7:59from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • Silicon Power 1TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD

    $169.97cited in 2 videosmixed views on it

    “The SSD is fine, though. A DRAM cache would have been nice, but hey, at least it supports host memory buffer over its speedy PCIe Gen 4 interface, and that allows it to use system RAM rather than its onboard memory to help ease the fact that it doesn't have an onboard cache.”
    View source at 12:02from August 2026+ 1 more source
  • Patriot P300 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD

    mixed views on it

    “Now, for our storage drive, we chose the Patriot P300 NVME. It is nothing special. It has no DRAM cache. It's PCIe Gen 3, but for under 150 bucks, we were able to get a terabyte of storage.”
    View source at 3:28from July 2026

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  • Logitech Powerplay

    speaks highly of it

    “And it's why I have one of these at every one of my setups. Not the LT desk pad, the thing under it, the Logitech Power Play.”
    View source at 8:57from August 2026

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