Gaming on a Scientific Data Computer

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

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.

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

steamdeck at home

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.

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

Fun fact: Trimble are the current owners of the CAD software SketchUp.

He really just stole a science computer to play half life. This is the stuff I watch. And I love it.

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.

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

This man is the alternative universe dankpods

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

The thing looks like that Tablet that Tails uses in some of the 3D Sonic games.

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

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

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.

Why did I think this was a Dankpods video

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.

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