Another computer support request, from a third party website where I earn supplemental income answering computer and technology related questions. This time an individual was concerned with a pop up message that they received on their newly purchased Lenovo laptop computer. Here is their request quoted verbatim:
"I got a pop up from Lenovo Vantage that says: Lenovo recommends that you install these updates to optimize your computer. Please note, the following updates may require your system to reboot more than once. We recommend saving your work in preparation for system shutdown.BIOS Update 10 [64]. I wanted to find out if this was real, or a scam. Thanks for any help you can give me."
Lenovo Vantage is NOT malware, spyware, or a scam. This is actually software that Lenovo developed to keep their computers updated. The problem could be is that this software was formerly known as Lenovo Companion, Lenovo Settings, and Lenovo Account Portal.
This software was designed specifically for Microsoft Windows 10 operating system. Personally, I think it is ridiculous when technology companies try to re-brand or rename their software packages. Just keep it the fucking same name or else you will confuse your very own customers, just like in this instance.
Anyways, I was able to remotely connect into this computer and upgrade the computer Basic Input Output System. This individual had just purchased a new Lenovo Ideapad 320 laptop. Whenever performing a Basic Input Output System upgrade, you should make sure that your active current AC adapter is plugged in.
You do NOT want your laptop to power off during a basic input output system upgrade. This type of disaster could potentially cause your computer to never boot again, and that is no joke. Your computer will need to restart.
Your Basic Input Output System cannot get upgraded while your computer is in use. Basic input output system upgrades are much easier than say ten to twenty years ago. Depending on the hardware manufacturer, they are as simple as opening the maintenance software, in this case, Lenovo Vantage, and checking for updates.
This software will notify you that there is a Basic Input Output System update available. Select this update and then go ahead and proceed with the download. You will obviously need an Internet connection, in order to perform the update.
Once this basic input output system update is finished downloading, you will be prompted to install the update. You will be warned that you are about to upgrade the Basic Input Output System and to make certain you want to perform this action. Also, when I upgraded this computer Basic Input Output System, it warned me making certain I was installing a Basic Input Output System for a Lenovo ideapad 320-15IAP.
This Basic Input Output System was actually compatible with two of these laptops. The 320-14IAP and 320-15IAP. If in doubt do NOT perform a Basic Input Output system upgrade until you are certain you know the exact model of your computer.
I went into “System” in Microsoft Windows 10 “Settings”. Under “About”, I was able to verify that this individual had a 320-15IAP. Many times trying to install a Basic Input Output System upgrade for the wrong computer will result in error, but it is better to become cautious.
I went ahead and kicked off this Basic Input Output System update and then the Lenovo IdeaPad 320 restarted. The Basic Input Output System update was successful. In closing I requested this individual open Lenovo Vantage to verify if this Basic Input Output System update was successful and then check for any new updates.
The basic input output system successfully updated. Basic Input Output System upgrades will fail, often times due to the fact you are trying to perform this update on the wrong computer model.
Lenovo Vantage – BIOS Update Instructions Video Transcript
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SSTs our own day ecoan in a computer's
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comm ultra video para ti you my I might
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get erupted from the pale-skinned
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european savages in this building that
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drop on from the third floor or
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they slam doors on the first floor and
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yet guess who gets snitched on all I do
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all right now this video
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I'm not gonna get too angry because it
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really only deals with ignorance videos
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that anger me or problems that anger me
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are the mental at Americans
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Americans when it comes to technology
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they're idiots morons they're stupid
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they're mental midgets and to me there
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are no excuses because there's so many
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resources in America there's free
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resources you can go to your local
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library and there's all kinds of books
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that you can find that will teach you
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how to use a computer you can even buy
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software on from television although I
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don't watch television that's stupid
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television to me is stupid it's dumbed
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down it's idiotic is stupid you don't
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learn anything it's propaganda the
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government military bombard you with
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propaganda through the television it's
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just stupid but yes there's you can
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actually at least two decades there's a
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individual that sells software for like
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10 bucks or even 20 or whatever teaching
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you how to use a computer this video is
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not going to irritate me because it's
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just ignorant there's the difference
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between stupidity and ignorance
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ignorance can be quickly cured because
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it just means that you don't know
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whereas stupidity could be something
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problematic because you're lazy or you
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just I don't get it I don't understand
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the lack of just I I don't want to talk
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about it I just I don't want to discuss
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it alright so another request from a
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third-party website where I earn
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supplemental income answering compute
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and technology related questions and I'm
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not the only computer technician on the
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internet that admits that he has to deal
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with idiots and morons and stupid people
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and dumbasses on a daily basis that
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that's a there's a an average computer
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user a high percentage of them are just
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I don't know what their problem is
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they're late to me they're lazy they
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don't want to learn that just the
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easiest tasks now Lenovo Vantage
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I hate when technology companies
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perpetrate this type of activity I hate
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it when they changed either they tried
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to rebrand their company or they tried
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to change the name of like software or
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computers that they've always been named
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like so this is like the third or fourth
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different name change for an alone
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lenovo when it comes to their support
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software when you buy a brand-new Lenovo
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computer whether it's a desktop or
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laptop it comes with original equipment
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manufacturing software it's maintenance
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software it excuse me it will provide
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provide updates that's all it is it's
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just maintenance software instead of
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Windows updates you have Lenovo updates
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well these clowns they're always
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changing the name which to me it's just
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it just drives me up a wall because it's
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bad enough the amount of ignorance and
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technology it's bad enough that you have
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all of these computer users that have no
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business using a computer because they
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don't know how to use a computer they
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don't even know what a web browser is
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they can't even remember their MAC
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password they can't even remember their
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Apple ID password they can't even
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remember their Windows password they
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can't even remember their Android
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password all day long on this third pray
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website Pat they can't even remember
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their email password
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and so what you're doing is you're just
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basically taking Terry you're taking
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tear gas and spraying it into an angry
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mob or you're taking you know flammable
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liquid and pouring it on an existing
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fire you know so you're exacerbating
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that problem by you confusing an average
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user because an average computer user a
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high percentage I would say over 50%
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with my experiences that's probably why
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I get angry and I admit I'm mentally ill
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because I have to deal with
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these goddamn clowns that in my opinion
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they should not be using a computer they
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have no business using a computer you
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know why because they don't even know
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how to properly use it because it's
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obvious to me that they have not
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educated themselves I told I said I
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wasn't gonna get worked up when you
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rename software then it's gonna confuse
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people they may have bought on the low
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of a laptop from you 10 years ago Oh
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back then and hey I mean look at how
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many different name changes where's it
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at now where's it at I know I included
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in my blog post Lenovo companion Lenovo
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settings Lenovo account portal so this
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is the fourth time that the
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mental midgets at Lenovo that I'm
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assuming the marketing department
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thought that they had a brilliant idea
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all let's rename the software on our
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computers that provide updates video
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graphics updates BIOS updates
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operating system updates for peripherals
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serial bus updates oh let's call it
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Lenovo Vantage well what the is a
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little Nova Vantage I don't know I've
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never heard of it oh it might be spyware
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it might be malware it might be junk
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where it might be like malwarebytes it
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might be crap we're like malwarebytes
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malwarebytes is crap we're by the way
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and I'm not the only one that knows that
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I was you have to do is read their
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reviews and and their third they're
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going down they deserve to go down there
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is an existing lawsuit that was react if
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I it from a French company is taking on
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malwarebytes because Mel were oh yeah
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malwarebytes they're corrupt criminal
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corporation they stole one of my YouTube
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videos I should take them to court but
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the problem is I'd have to did you have
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to have money capital you have to have a
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legal team and from one in this wretched
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system of capitalism when one person
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tries to take on a group of people
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well they turn into savages and you know
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it gets ugly but malwarebytes is dealing
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with another company suing them so I'm
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not the only entity on this planet that
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hates malwarebytes
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here is quarter verbatim but the quotes
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got up so I don't know I don't
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give a I can quickly fix that I'm
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not perfect
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oh yeah I admit when I owe ya you
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you got all these politically correct
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and on YouTube well
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done well don't do this don't admit when
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you're wrong don't admit you made a
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mistake don't point out your flaws no
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you don't tell me what to do yeah
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look look it's the the quote I quoted it
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twice so I up well I can go back
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and fix that what's wrong with admitting
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when you make a mistake huh
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I got a pop-up from the Lenovo Vantage
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that says Lenovo recommends that you
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install these updates to optimize your
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computer please note the following
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updates may require your system to
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reboot more than once we recommend
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saving your work in preparation for
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system shutdown BIOS update 1064 I think
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I'm assuming that that refers to Windows
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10 and then 64-bit I could be wrong but
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that's the only logical numbers that
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that make sense
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unquote I wanted to find out if this was
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real or a scam thanks for any hope you
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can give me see this is a this is a
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Lenovo customer they just brought a bat
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brand-new Lenovo IdeaPad 320 brand-new
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right out of the box and they've noticed
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I think - twice they received a pop up
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now it could be ignorant they're not
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familiar with Windows 10 they're not
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familiar with Microsoft somebody just
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subscribed but I don't I just noticed
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that
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Kwami car just subscribe well they'll
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probably unsubscribe as soon as they
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hear my loud mouth or my adult language
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or the fact that I don't like certain
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religious groups or the fact that I
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talked about and criticized the United
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States government military as being
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liars and bla bla bla bla
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so that subscriber will probably
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disappear ha ha ha do I care no I do not
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care about subscribers if you're
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offended by that I don't give a I
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just need enough subscribers to
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YouTube has the dumbshit 4000 view hours
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per year and 1000 subscriber rule I
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bypassed that well not bypassed I've
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surpassed that
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so requirement a long time ago so I
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don't worry about it but I do keep that
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in the back of my head that YouTube
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could possibly move the goal posts again
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and instead of requiring 1000
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subscribers in order for you to monetize
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your videos and monetize your YouTube
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channel well that could change to 10,000
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and I would be and then I would I
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would be begging you I'm sorry I'm sorry
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too I'm sorry I yelled at you I'm sorry
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I made a mistake I'm not perfect please
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don't judge me please subscribe to my
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channel please I've been desperate need
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know you'll never hear from that even if
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YouTube changed I would just leave
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unless I felt I could catch up but
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that's a big number oh oh you got the
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YouTube Technology shells that they
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claim that well there one of them claims
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that you're not legit until you've
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received a hundred thousand subscribers
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I'm not making this up
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that's how snobby and it's narcissistic
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these are there's one huge
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YouTube I consider a michelle youtube
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technology shill that claims that if you
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do not have 100 thousand subscribers on
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youtube then you're not legit you're
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you're not in the game you're not you're
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not important enough well you know what
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you know what so don't worry about
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subscribe but who cares about
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subscribers mad why do you want to
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become popular so just because you have
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300,000 subscribers or a hit or 800,000
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subscribers you feel that now all of a
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sudden you're important or now you're
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legitimate you weren't legitimate when
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you only had a thousand subscribers you
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were not legitimate when you had 50,000
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it's only until you surpass a certain
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number now your legitimate now you're a
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game-changer I don't give a about
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that dumb you know why because I've
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received over 2.6 million
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use now you know how many subscribers I
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have I don't even know the exact count
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I know it's over 2600 that's all I know
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but you know how many views I've
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received over 2.6 million and actually
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that number is closer to two million
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seven hundred thousand because
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Malwarebytes stole one of my videos so I
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lost views for that and then there was a
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I received another another video taken
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down and now the video had like thirty
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thousand so I think about fifty thousand
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views are not don't show up now when it
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comes to a BIOS Cup grades I got to move
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along I've got lunch I've got I want to
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get I've got an avocado I've got some
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out of acardo's I've gotta eat when I
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went to the store they were on sale two
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for one
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and I quickly real I was like my eyes
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were like I love avocados oh I know it
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has a lot of fat but your brain needs
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fat see I'm a vegan I'm a I don't like
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labels but yeah if you were to call me a
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vegan I don't take offense to it I know
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some vegans now don't like being labeled
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vegans or they don't like to label
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themselves a vegan I like it because
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well it's just a word it's abstract just
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it has a definition I do not consume
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animal products although I'm not perfect
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if somebody believe it or not within the
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last year I've eaten cooked food and
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I've also eaten animal food some people
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if they offer me free food if they
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offered to buy me lunch and I can't get
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around it I had one one of my customers
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believe it or not he went to breakfast
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and then I and then I'm available on the
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weekends and he had he he went to like
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glue peeps or something like that and
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had breakfast I used to eat that crap I
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don't eat it anymore
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but he had a whole breakfast that I
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don't know if he ordered it for somebody
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that didn't show up I don't know he
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had a spare entire breakfast and he put
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it and he took it home with him and then
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when he picked up the computer he
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offered it to me and I accept that as a
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gift and yes I will eat it because I
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don't when it comes to food I hate
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saying food go to waste it's just
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but these Americans are pigs and slobs
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and they waste everything well they're
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their stuff well look they walk around
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they walk around like this well have you
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you you need to study nutrition animal
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meat sits in your colon up to two years
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so anyways I don't want to digress too
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much but see I'm already bored with this
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video I'm already tired I might just end
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it now and that's it click click on the
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link on the description box below
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that'll take you to my blog post on my
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website net Kabir's I'll come where you
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could read all about how to upgrade and
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in update your BIOS on Lenovo with
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Lenovo Vantage adios alright so when it
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comes to performing a BIOS update even
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now you know we're approaching two
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decades into the 2000s I take BIOS
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updates very seriously because there's
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always a possibility that they will
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up and your computer won't boot now back
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in the day 20 years ago even 10 years
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ago but especially two decades ago in
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the early 90s when the personal computer
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was exploding and after IBM IBM patented
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I could be wrong about that but I think
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IBM holds the patent on the personal
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computer in there in the you know late
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80s but especially the early 90s early
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to mid 90s you had the explosion with PC
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come with computers everybody could
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afford a computer well not everybody not
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not everybody can it can afford a
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computer now and it deals with European
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supremacy but I don't want to digress
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about that but back then you know you
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had the internet you had the World Wide
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Web computers became more and more
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affordable compared compared to now they
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were very expensive but even I could
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afford
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but I made myself before you know what I
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did this is a true fact
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I took my loan I took out a student loan
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and I used most of it
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well that that allotment of it I used
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that allotment of it which technically
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you're not supposed to do I used it all
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for a computer I bought a brand-new
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Tower
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I bought a brand-new printer and a
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brand-new monitor it came with a
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keyboard and a mouse and an operating
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system and all that and guess what two
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decades later it was only about $2,000
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or whatever it was but even back then
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that was a lot of money and I think it
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you know what I'm saying two decades
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later by me using that money I'm able to
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you know take care of myself my point is
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it was an excellent return on investment
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it was a really it was a better return
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on investment because actually I dropped
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out of college and bought college that's
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a waste of time all right I digress so
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BIOS upgrades back in the day were very
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risky because you had to know what you
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were doing you had to download they used
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to refer to it as flashing because you
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would flash the BIOS bios's are basic
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the basic input/output system is
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basically read-only memory but there's a
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portion of it that can be flashed and
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that's what they used to refer to it you
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had to download it onto a floppy disk
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now sometimes you could download the
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program that would create the floppy
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disk but if not you had to know how to
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create a bootable floppy disk then you
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had to copy the the file the config file
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onto the disk and then you had to boot
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off the floppy disk and then you had to
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start and then the BIOS flash updating
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program would start and you would have
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to tell the program either the exact
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name of the config file or the file path
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and then it would flash the BIOS that
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took a lot longer and there were risks
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they were a lot it was a lot riskier
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there was a couple of computers I think
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I well it just the BIOS will fail
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you know you know it just if it fails
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you're but
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back then there was ways around it you
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what you would have to do is you would
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have to download the original bios or an
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older one and then try to flash it again
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and then sometimes the BIOS updates they
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were buggy or they just didn't work or
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they failed and if you couldn't fix it
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you had a bricked computer which did
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occur nowadays two decades later it does
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I do see on this third pair website I do
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see people where they try to flash the
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BIOS and then all of a sudden the
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computer isn't Boonton correctly or
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something goes wrong whereas if you
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follow directions and you know what
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you're doing it's a lot less riskier
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it's a lot easier most times all you do
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is like like Lenovo Vantage Lenovo
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Vantage will automatically update your
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BIOS for you well what you you can
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control you can set Lenovo Vantage to
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automatic updates I don't recommend that
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because even these Original Equipment
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Manufacturer software's like Lenovo
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Vantage Dell has a tool HP has a tool
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they all have their tools where they
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will check for updates and two for your
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computer well they're not perfect so but
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nowadays it's much easier the software
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will download it and then you know it'll
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man it'll install it and then it'll warn
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you and then it'll tell you you know you
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have to restart the computer the
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computer restarts now technically a BIOS
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cannot be upgraded while the operating
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system is running the BIOS can you
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because get it you know the basic
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input/output system so it has to restart
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and I think it gets installed in in
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memory instead of like off a floppy and
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that virtual memory and then it's very
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quick it's a lot quicker back in the day
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20 years ago you'd be so they're calm
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well you have to realize that the
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architecture was slower but even off a
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floppy you know the files weren't that
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big is floppy was limited to one point
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four four megabytes so about a you know
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so but no it would it would take a long
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it would just sit there oh my god and
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then you knew the risks oh yeah oh yeah
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if any technician tells you that
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20 years ago that BIOS updates were
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flawless and perfect and you didn't have
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to worry they're lying there's a lot of
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liars on YouTube and there's a lot of
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liars on the technology channels
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pathological liars - I'm not saying I'm
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perfect but I don't care if I tell you
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the truth I don't care if I tell you
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that Microsoft Windows individuals on
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Google search every day 10,000 to
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100,000 times Windows Start menu is not
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working why are there 10,000 to 100,000
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searches every month for the term
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Windows 10 Start menu is not working see
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BIOS update am I gonna go through you
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know I'm not gonna tell you that you
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know I can't demonstrate it but Lenovo
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Vantage
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okay so Lenovo Vantage is the brilliant
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buffoons the brilliant mental midgets
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I'm assuming in the sales and marketing
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department at levanta novo for the
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fourth time now they decided to
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change their maintenance software the
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name well you just confused your
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users and this is proof this person
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thought that it was malware they didn't
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know what the that was they
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received a couple of popups from some
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software called Vantage I don't even
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know if it said did it say the Lenovo
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let's see oh well but there was a clue
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Lenovo Vantage but you know you never
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know
22:37
oh yeah there oh yeah there's malware
22:39
out there and spyware that they will
22:42
falsify and they will claim that the
22:44
software is from an existing technology
22:48
company yes but there was a clue there
22:50
if it was me I would have figured it out
22:52
but I'm a computer technician and I know
22:54
better than that but I would have been
22:56
too confused to because this is
22:58
something new
22:59
Lenovo Vantage has it hasn't been around
23:01
it was it was designed specifically
23:04
succinctly exclusively for Microsoft
23:07
Windows 10 I don't think it runs on
23:09
Windows 7
23:09
I don't think you can download it and
23:11
install it on Windows 7 you can download
23:13
it and install it from the Microsoft
23:17
Store but it will only work on Windows
23:19
10 and it is built-in if you buy a
23:23
brand-new Lenovo it will have the
23:25
software already installed and loaded
23:27
and you'll start getting notifications
23:29
but they had never heard of the software
23:32
I mean I never heard I don't think I've
23:34
ever heard of it again you know I don't
23:36
have time to sit there and Oh Dell just
23:38
renamed their maintenance after
23:40
well okay you know hewlett-packard
23:43
renamed their maintenance software
23:46
well Macintosh The Time Machine backups
23:48
are no longer well goddamn I turned into
23:51
no that Apple renamed The Time Machine
23:52
backups to going back in time goddamn it
23:55
Aaron keep up with the Joneses Aaron
23:57
goddammit you're not much of a
23:58
technician are you Aaron god dammit
24:02
here's a warning if you do decide to
24:04
become a vegan you need to become aware
24:06
that you may if you do things right when
24:09
you get your transcendence of
24:10
consciousness you're gonna have more
24:11
energy than you may have ever had but
24:13
you need to you know you need to deal
24:15
with that but another warning about
24:18
veganism is you have to eat more if well
24:22
it depends on I don't eat the I don't I
24:24
you I eat some cooked food but primarily
24:26
I prefer raw food raw fruits and
24:29
vegetables well when you decide to eat
24:34
mostly if not all you know raw fruits
24:38
and vegetables fruits and vegetables are
24:41
are densely water they're water-based
24:44
it's a water-based food
24:47
I mean grapes celery cucumbers tomatoes
24:52
they have a lot of water so you need to
24:56
become aware that you have to eat more
24:57
the I would say 3 anywhere from 3 to 5
25:01
times more because it's very water dense
25:05
you know I'm saying so in order for you
25:07
to get enough calories you still want it
25:11
you still need calories if you want if
25:13
you need 2,000 calories and you start
25:15
eating just raw fruits and vegetables
25:17
you're gonna have to start consuming
25:19
three to five times more than then
25:21
maybe another person because you know
25:23
foods like rice and beans and you know
25:28
oh it's grains meat that crap was not
25:31
all crap but that kind of that kind of
25:34
food is is let it doesn't nearly have as
25:37
much water it's protein based carb based
25:40
it's you know whereas fruits and
25:44
vegetables is is dense with water which
25:48
which is good which that water is good
25:50
for you but it lacks you know carbs and
25:55
fats and proteins and sugars because
25:58
it's water based
26:00
although the why the what I don't want
26:01
to digress about what I've studied about
26:03
you know raw fruits and
26:04
vegetables but once you climb that
26:08
ladder and once you've figured out that
26:10
you're getting enough calories you are
26:12
going to just you know be compared to
26:16
other people and you know it's a you'll
26:20
just alright so you have to become aware
26:22
that I do not consume caffeine except
26:26
for green tea I don't drink coffee and
26:29
I'm wired a lot of times I have to
26:32
control I have to I have to amp myself
26:35
down I gotta control myself you know I'm
26:38
saying so it's not like I'm stimulants
26:43
are bad for you Coffee is a waste you
26:45
don't now coffee does have some
26:47
healthful benefits like cancer patients
26:51
can use coffee and enemas to try to you
26:55
know rid themselves of cancer there is
26:58
some benefits with cancer i cancer what
27:01
the am i saying man there yeah
27:03
there is some benefits with cancer see I
27:05
just made a major articulated blunder do
27:09
I care no there is some benefits to
27:13
coffee but overall the pros and the cons
27:17
there's too many cons you don't I don't
27:20
like stimulants anymore you to me to if
27:24
in my opinion if you have to consume
27:27
coffee to get enough energy in your day
27:29
to make videos or to have enough energy
27:33
to become you know vibrant on your
27:37
videos there's something else wrong with
27:39
you man
27:40
because I don't need to consume any
27:44
caffeine and if now fruit juices help
27:47
but when I consume enough fruits and
27:48
vegetables I've got plenty of energy
27:52
trust me alright so basically with
27:57
Lenovo Vantage when you first open it it
28:01
may ask you a couple of questions I
28:03
closed it it'll ask you some personal
28:06
preferences oh I didn't want to deal
28:08
with it so I closed it I open it again
28:10
the next time I open it now this was on
28:12
a brand new computer it didn't ask me
28:14
for those preferences it'll open up and
28:17
then it'll check for updates there's an
28:20
automatic feature you can disable it you
28:21
can either leave the Lenovo Vantage
28:23
automatic updates enabled or you can
28:25
turn it off it'll check for updates on
28:28
this computer there was only one update
28:30
and it was a BIOS update I clicked on it
28:32
it downloaded and then it asked me now
28:35
it will warn you this is another caveat
28:37
even nowadays I would take BIOS upgrades
28:41
serious because they are lethal now you
28:45
know Windows 10 updates are lethal and
28:49
malwarebytes updates are lethal
28:51
malwarebytes updates will cause your
28:53
computer not to boot or to crash or to
28:55
freeze up or whatever you know I'm
28:58
saying a BIOS update can cause your
29:00
computer to never boot again the post
29:02
will the you know the BIOS post the test
29:07
the self-test it can cause the computer
29:11
never to boot
29:12
again and and sometimes those are
29:15
permanent damages you may never be able
29:18
to fix that by us again even even now so
29:22
BIOS updates are not perfect I would
29:24
take it very serious
29:26
if you have a laptop always plug in the
29:30
AC adapter you do not ever want the
29:33
computer to turn off during a BIOS
29:35
update never you never want that to
29:39
occur because chances are it was halfway
29:42
in between it was it was partially
29:45
flashing the BIOS and if it gets stuck
29:48
it most it chances are if you won't be
29:53
able to fix it and you just have a brick
29:55
you just bricked your computer so if you
29:59
have a laptop plug in your AC adapter
30:02
you do not want to perform a BIOS update
30:05
off the battery just in case you know
30:09
I'm saying I wouldn't take the risk
30:11
that's one thing you need to know your
30:15
computer has to restart because the BIOS
30:17
cannot be flashed while an operating
30:19
system is running and a file system is
30:22
mounted now they're much quicker than
30:24
back in the day they're really quick I
30:26
was some surprised I was like back in
30:29
the day you'd sit there and you were
30:31
like kind of a little you know you know
30:33
just cautious and and then you're and
30:36
then once the BIOS did finish up then
30:37
you're like haha now when I worked in
30:41
corporate America which I never will do
30:42
again and I worked for the federal
30:44
government which I will never do again
30:47
thankfully I wasn't dumb enough to join
30:49
the military
30:50
let's see Henry Kissinger is quoted as
30:53
saying military men are dumb stupid
30:56
animals used for foreign policy I
30:57
digress back to this video my
31:01
experiences in corporate America and the
31:04
government America we were never tasked
31:07
with flashing bios's updated biases
31:10
except unless there was a known bug that
31:14
the IT department decided to rectify
31:17
other than that we never flashed bios's
31:21
never not ten years ago not 20 years ago
31:25
so I don't know what the information
31:29
technology departments decide now in
31:31
corporate America government America
31:33
quite frankly I don't give a but we
31:36
were not tasked with that
31:43
anything else about a BIOS update that's
31:46
it now then this individual
31:49
I had them now I remotely connected into
31:52
their computer and oh a warning
31:56
now most BIOS is from my experience if
32:00
you try to install the wrong BIOS on the
32:02
wrong computer it will error out but I
32:05
wouldn't risk it because nothing is
32:08
perfect you know what I'm saying I know
32:09
the pale-skinned Europeans claim that
32:11
their system is perfect but they're full
32:13
of that's part of their European
32:15
supremacy they want you to think that
32:17
it's acceptable to murder 95% of the
32:20
indigenous off of a continent and then
32:22
replace their system with some dumb
32:24
you know what I'm saying and of course
32:26
they're gonna use propaganda and of
32:27
course they're gonna lie to you and make
32:29
you think that what you know society now
32:31
is perfect when no it is far from
32:34
perfect there are major problems on this
32:37
continent
32:42
this upgrade warned me it said are you
32:46
sure you want to update your BIOS for in
32:49
it and it gave me the model now this
32:51
BIOS update supported both what was it I
32:55
3 - it was 320 I 8th you're here it is
33:01
this BIOS update supported 321 41 4 i 8p
33:08
+ 3 2015 I 8 P those were specific
33:12
lenovo model numbers so make sure if in
33:16
doubt don't perform a BIOS update if
33:18
you're in doubt don't do it until you
33:21
make sure that you've got the right
33:23
computer now with this was a brand-new
33:26
computer all's I did was go into Windows
33:28
10 settings and then I went into system
33:30
or another quick way is let's see I can
33:34
demonstrate probably really quick
33:36
another way is to just do this
33:39
right-click the Windows 10 Start menu
33:42
button that is there are 10,000 to
33:45
100,000 searches per month for the
33:48
search term of Windows 10 Start menu
33:51
button does not
33:52
work now why is that so right-click it
33:55
and then choose system and on this
33:57
Lenovo IdeaPad 320 it told me the exact
34:00
model and so I verified it another way
34:03
you can verify it is if you have the
34:06
serial number you can look it up at
34:07
lenovo's website or if on the box here
34:10
is a gold well you may think this is a
34:12
funny gold tip you know Oh Aaron we know
34:16
that you're a lunatic vegan and
34:18
you're a tree hugger you love nature you
34:20
despise the pale skinned Europeans that
34:23
have destroyed the planet and are at war
34:26
constantly and blah blah blah we are
34:28
sick and tired of your goddamn
34:30
urn well here's a gold tip if you buy a
34:33
brand-new computer save everything save
34:36
the box you know why because my
34:38
experiences as a boy as a computer
34:40
technician where many times my job was
34:44
to unbox computers or clean up the boxes
34:46
or break down the boxes or inventory the
34:48
boxes or scan the serial codes the cert
34:51
you know blah blah blah scan the
34:53
barcodes and inventory blah blah a lot
34:56
of times the computer model number is is
35:00
on a sticker on the outside of the box
35:03
or sometimes you'll get a little booklet
35:07
a little a little QuickStart guide or a
35:12
little manual and the your model will be
35:14
in that manual or even the serial number
35:17
might be in that manual the computer
35:19
model number in a serial number is very
35:21
valuable as a technician because I can
35:25
look up the specifications I can look up
35:27
the warranty I can reorder parts bla bla
35:30
bla so that can be very valuable to save
35:33
the box and plus if you have the
35:35
original box if you move you can that
35:39
box now you may not know this but a lot
35:42
of the boxes that when you go to Best
35:45
Buy or you go to Micro Center or even
35:49
when you order a computer online and it
35:52
gets shipped to you and the computer
35:56
might come with two boxes or it might be
35:57
just one box believe it or not to save
36:01
money a lot of the original equipment
36:04
manufacturers they will ship out
36:06
the same box that you get the computer
36:09
at a retail store they will ship the
36:11
computer in those same boxes it's not
36:13
like they put now sometimes they put a
36:15
one box inside of a box but a lot of
36:18
times they don't and I know from
36:19
experiences because I bought refurbished
36:22
computers directly from Dell Dell has
36:25
I'm not I'm not given Dell free
36:27
advertising I'm just in context Dell has
36:30
a store a refurbished store the prices
36:33
are kind of high but I've bought some
36:35
computers from them and they're there
36:37
they're very nice there are very few
36:39
scratches the operating systems are
36:41
already loaded very well taken care of
36:43
anyways they ship me that computer in in
36:47
the original box it was not a box within
36:52
a box and you know what it only had it
36:55
only had like star it didn't I have a
36:57
bunch of peanuts it didn't have a bunch
36:58
of paper or a bunch of bubble wrap no it
37:02
had I don't want to digress too much it
37:05
only had one item to keep the computer
37:08
from moving other than that it was a box
37:11
that you would get the computer if you
37:13
worked at a corporation or if you bought
37:15
it from Best Buy I'm not making that
37:17
up so you can also most likely ship
37:21
that computer in the same box if you
37:23
keep it or you can when you move you
37:25
just put the laptop in that box yes
37:31
knowing ignorance is bliss until you die
37:34
from a vaccination ignorant is bliss
37:36
until you try to perform a BIOS update
37:38
and then you're like oh so you know so
37:41
even now I would definitely definitely
37:43
not risk it I would make sure that
37:46
you're installing the same BIOS update
37:49
for the the correct model number of
37:51
computer this BIOS update you could
37:54
install it on two different models and I
37:56
double checked so you know what I'm
37:59
saying and then that was it I'd I made
38:02
sure that the computer model number
38:04
matched and I kicked off the update and
38:07
then the computer restarted and then I
38:09
had the customer going to Lenovo Vantage
38:13
and double check to make sure the BIOS
38:15
successfully upgraded and she's well I
38:18
don't know they
38:19
said yes and then then I then they
38:25
checked for updates there were no more
38:27
Lenovo updates and that was it so you
38:30
know ignorant but they learned and
38:31
there's nothing see this video didn't
38:33
piss me off because it was just ignorant
38:35
one definition of ignorance is you just
38:37
don't know I don't mind that when no
38:39
when people you know in technology I
38:42
don't expect them to know everything no
38:44
no no no no no no I've never said that
38:46
an average American or an aunt way I
38:48
don't like most Americans that's a bad
38:49
example hahaha I've never said that an
38:52
average human should know it everything
38:54
that I know because they do something
38:56
else they wash vehicles for a living or
38:59
their stockbrokers or their Bitcoin or
39:03
they they're a they're a boy
39:05
or a girl and they sit in a
39:07
cubicle all day or they're a developer
39:10
or they're a construction worker or
39:11
they're a mechanic or whatever they're
39:13
busy doing other stuff no no I don't
39:16
have a problem no that doesn't bother me
39:18
what bothers me is that in my opinion an
39:20
average user they're lazy they don't
39:23
want to go to the bookstore or
39:25
go to the library there are countless
39:28
computer books at your local library
39:31
most libraries are online now you can
39:35
look cut up you can search Oh how to use
39:37
a computer don't don't be ashamed don't
39:40
be afraid do you know one of the eye I
39:43
think I only bought two computer books
39:45
early on and then I'm self-taught I
39:48
bought I think I bought like a dummies
39:50
guide to computers or yeah or idiots
39:54
back then and they're still part I don't
39:56
like those terms anymore I think that's
39:58
derogatory
39:59
I don't like terms like nerd or geek
40:01
know that nonononono see in my opinion
40:05
there's a propaganda campaign especially
40:07
in America to dumb down Society the
40:09
derma fication Society they want you to
40:12
become an idiot and a and stupid
40:15
in an imbecile and a mental
40:17
whereas I'm like no that doesn't make
40:19
logical sense don't be ashamed who cares
40:22
what other people think about you could
40:24
go off to the library and look for those
40:26
dummies books or idiots books or how to
40:29
use a computer that's how I learned I
40:32
didn't know when I
40:33
use that loan money to purchase my very
40:35
first computer
40:36
the only other experiences with
40:38
computers were college the cloud had
40:43
brand new IBM well not know about brand
40:45
new but they had Pentium IBM computers
40:48
very expensive and I had a lot of lab
40:50
experience I took a business course in
40:53
high school I guess what there were only
40:56
two males in that course and then the
40:59
other one left at at the beginning of
41:02
that business class I would say there
41:03
was a handful of males guys about five
41:06
of us well eventually there we were down
41:08
to two and then about halfway through
41:12
that course I was the last guy in that
41:15
class I'm not making this up
41:16
there were about twenty to thirty
41:18
females and then me
41:20
the only other male in that room was the
41:23
teacher that was it
41:25
it was a business class we learned how
41:27
to type we it was a second-level typing
41:31
it was a it wasn't first level typing
41:34
where you never learn how to type on a
41:36
typewriter
41:36
it was like a second level type where
41:39
you learn more advanced and you learn
41:41
how to type faster then we learn how to
41:44
use computers and that all that was
41:47
extremely valuable and I also learned
41:49
how I got more experiences typing on a
41:52
keyboard and I don't I can type by by
41:56
touch I don't need to know I I don't
41:59
need and and I don't do this you know
42:03
you know chicken scratch no no I can
42:06
type by touch knots not chicken scratch
42:11
just like this and I can type I'm not
42:13
bragging but I can type over 50 words
42:16
per minute I've I've tested myself I've
42:20
had to try to get some jobs and some
42:22
supplemental income and sometimes like a
42:26
virtual assistant or a work from home
42:28
assistant and they'll make you take a
42:30
typing exam and they'll tell you the
42:32
score and I scored in the 50s so with
42:37
some mistakes but you can't make too
42:39
many mistakes well that's a you know
42:41
metaphor and you
42:43
for the system which is very ironic but
42:45
I digress back to this anything else
42:50
about the the Lenovo Vantage no it's
42:52
clear-cut its new that's a big problem I
42:55
hate it I don't think that's productive
42:57
you're just gonna confuse the users why
43:00
oh yeah this is the fourth time
43:03
that you've named this goddamn software
43:04
why you know but that's whatever
43:14
whatever good luck
43:17
see I didn't get as an accept did I at
43:19
the beginning I did but no no I don't
43:22
mind making videos like this because
43:23
they didn't know and that that was very
43:25
you know I would if you don't know
43:28
something if you've never heard of even
43:30
their customers aren't gonna know until
43:31
they buy a new Lenovo oh whoa what the
43:34
is this up or they'll be like this
43:36
well where the is Lenovo
43:38
connections well where the is
43:40
what's the name of the other crap
43:42
it's been a while since I've owned the
43:44
Lenovo so and then you know what a lot
43:47
of times I remove that crap software but
43:51
that's just me oh well where the is
43:56
Lenovo companion well where the is
43:58
Lenovo settings I want to upgrade my new
44:00
brand-new Lenovo well goddamnit where
44:02
the is no level account portal whoo
44:04
god damn I'm getting shafted here adios
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