Gaming on a Scientific Data Computer

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[lenn.]

Hey! CAT Technician here. On our machines we use Trimble earthworks to set GPS points for guidance systems on Dozers, Excavators etc…

[NiCoTHX]

disabling the steam overlay AND the avatars animations in the chat/profile section is a HUGE boost on a machine like that.

[Shadowluis]

The "let me give you some background" *fade into white for 1 second* and it cutting back to you going "I have no idea" was such a good bit and its at the start of the video. Sets up how good this video will be.

[themonkwhoburnedhimself]

That "haan" when the installation went from 1 to 0 was golden. Love you Bringus, keep doing you.

[catthing]

You know its rough when the 3ds ran Half-life better.

[TheRokkis]

I've used computer made by Trimble.

So the thing is I'm forestry engineer and at one point "rugged tablets" were a thing in forestry business in Finland, might still be, dunno, don't work on the field anymore. We got to use couple of different ones in school tho. Basically they all were underpowered, very expensive tablets that wouldn't die even if you threw it into the river after losing your mind with how shitty they were. The idea was that "we need a tablet that can handle rain, dropping it on the rocky surfaces and so on. There weren't that many to choose from, so manufacturers apparently realized that they can use shitty hardware and wrap it into enough plastic that it survives almost everything and sell it with 5-10 times the price you'd actually pay for such lackluster hardware.

Not sure is forestry companies still use those "manly" tablets, because most of the time they were really slow, almost unusable and just generally bad. Older people couldn't use tablets anyway and younger workers knew how shitty they were, because they actually used computer in school, home and so on.

Worst part was that they were supposed to be used in remote areas middle of forest but in reality those things couldn't catch internet even middle of the city, so most of the time they were offline and off GPS and you just had to hope, that when you get back to the internet the data was still there (plot twist: we made backups with pen and paper for a reason, but that's on the software side and not tablet's fault. But that also meant that tablet was even more useless).

[Nox_Ludicro]

Oh hey, a Trimble! I used to do some IT work for a small engineering firm, and their land survey department had a lot of Trimble equipment. I hated having to work with them. They're literally only made to manage GPS location points stored in .csv text files, so there's no need for performance of any kind. This is a fancier one than I've seen, having a full-blown OS. Most I've seen run some version of Windows CE. The model you have isn't familiar to me, but the fact that is was so hard to open was likely due to the fact that they're built to be used outdoors in the field while surveying property lines and elevations and such. That would also explain why the spec's are so low, as theses devices are usually entirely passively cooled, without a single fan or vent, since it's meant to be weatherproof/waterproof to some degree, as well as drop resistant (so mechanical drives are a no-no). That's also likely why the I/O connections were all on a separate piece from the rest of the thing, so that water or dirt can get into a USB port without getting into the main device.

[SodaMazing]

9:43 As someone who's first computer was a crappy Gateway notebook, this part hit me the hardest.

[Sajingu]

There's something about people messing around with older tech (or weaker hardware) to get it to do things that it was never meant to do just amazing.

[sakelaine]

Those old Atom processors had multithreading on a single core, so they'd show up as dual core but they definitely were not. That entire Trimble is basically a ruggedized netbook.

[Alien_Bob]

I'm gonna name my first kid Trimble Yuma in honor of this thing

[Bolt_BDA]

This man is the alternative universe dankpods

[gorfelbt]

He really just stole a science computer to play half life.

This is the stuff I watch. And I love it.

[uncraftbar]

i like the READ THIS NOW file on the desktop and how after the update there was a second one named THIS ONE TOO just to get fully ignored by bringus haha

[ImDannn]

This is the calmest amount of computerised chaos I have ever seen in my life and I’m all for it

[Mvingarg]

Love the use of the windows 7 log in noise from censoring.

[coderchris]

Now you need to gather scientific data on a gaming computer

[Samdaman]

I'm so, so happy this showed up in my recommended. What a stupid concept. Your channel is incredible. Please do more of this.

[TsarBlin]

Why did I think this was a Dankpods video

[nyanpasu]

I think the reason the keyboard driver takes time to install, and anew for every different port you plug the same device into, is because Windows is trying to locate a driver from online when it has a perfectly good driver available to use. I think I ended up turning off online driver searches on Windows 7.