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Ethan Word

@planedrop.bsky.social

Systems Engineer, Network Engineer, Aspiring Content Creator. youtube.com/wordtechreviews (tech) youtube.com/planedrop (gaming) medium.com/@planedrop

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Every company right now: "we laid people off because AI is so good, totally not because the economy is suffering and this is an excuse to make our stock go up"

Meanwhile, AWS has a 13 hour outage thanks to adopting AI.

WTF are we doing.

27.02.2026 00:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm so happy to see that MCP is being done right with #xcpng. Having it setup so it's an add-on and completely optional is the right way to do it, I don't really want my hosts being touched by AI anything lol.

27.02.2026 00:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Keychron Q1 Ultra Review: A Huge Disappointment
YouTube video by WordTech Keychron Q1 Ultra Review: A Huge Disappointment

New video is out, my review of the #Keychron #Q1Ultra keyboard.

youtu.be/YX0QyrVPNTQ

22.02.2026 02:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The low profile Keychron board is in, time to see if I like this or not. Been like 6 years since I used a low profile unit.

15.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This thing running #CoreELEC is literally the best media player you can get, absolutely impressed.

03.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I honestly can't decide if I want to use my clicky keyboard with OEM style caps or my tactile board with KSA keycaps lol. Too many great options.

03.02.2026 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At some point I am going to do a video about Blu-ray failure rates because it's actually insane how many are scratched by default out of the box to the point of being unreadable. Manufacturers really need to take more care.

03.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Keychron #Q1Ultra first impressions, I'm sorry, but this thing sucks. And that's a first for a Keychron keyboard for me. Out of the box these new POM Brown switches are mushy, too quiet, slow to respond, and have no tactility whatsoever.

01.02.2026 05:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ugoos AM6B+ flashed with CoreELEC is working exactly as intended and I can finally watch my 4k rips in native bit perfect quality.

31.01.2026 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today was yet another reminder to #selfhost all the things. So done with using cloud providers for anything.

23.01.2026 06:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So far my experience with Windows on ARM has been surprisingly good actually. Going to work on a dedicated video about it, but it's the most stable Windows experience I've had on a laptop.

19.01.2026 21:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah but for people like me that rip 4k DoVi content, it'll only playback without transcoding on a very very small handful of devices. I'd love to just completely prevent it from trying so if one of my users tries to playback the 4k on an unsupported device they just get an error.

19.01.2026 21:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It would be really cool if @jellyfin.org could make it so you can adjust transcode settings on a per Library basis. This way you could have a 4k library but tell the system to never transcode that library so you don't end up asking your GPU to transcode anything 4k by mistake.

19.01.2026 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
How to Backup TrueNAS SCALE to Backblaze B2
YouTube video by WordTech How to Backup TrueNAS SCALE to Backblaze B2

New video up youtu.be/H7f_Tcy4NoA

16.01.2026 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Why Linux on the desktop isn't ready (and why you should still use it)
YouTube video by WordTech Why Linux on the desktop isn't ready (and why you should still use it)

New video is up: youtu.be/H-PVJIzJTUc

12.01.2026 03:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love how the Windows Clipboard has been bugged for years now where it just doesn't copy things sometimes when you do a copy operation.

I'm sure all the AI coding Microsoft is using is helping with stability.

07.01.2026 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's all I want

06.01.2026 15:17 — 👍 2693    🔁 715    💬 12    📌 3

No one wants crap like this but they'll keep making it.

06.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ClicksKeyboard Communicator has been ordered.

04.01.2026 22:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ranked in Marvel Rivals is basically play time, not skill, and that's really sad.

It's just like how Apex Legends used to do it, you're matched against people with your skill level regardless of the rank you are in.

So constantly I fight Celestials while being in Diamond.

03.01.2026 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This has been in a 48 hour time frame mind you too.

03.01.2026 21:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have now been 1 match from ranking up to Grand Master in #MarvelRivals on 8 separate occasions, each time no matter how good the team I am with is, it's a super 1 sided match where we get destroyed.

Keep trying to say this doesn't have #eomm it absolutely does.

03.01.2026 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Marvel Rivals Ranked: Grandmaster Today? YouTube video by Ethan Word

Going live in a few minutes with Marvel Rivals ranked.

youtube.com/live/zTWizmx...

02.01.2026 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Marvel Rivals ranked system is the most broken and blatantly obvious EOMM system I've ever seen.

Every rank up match I have is absolutely horrible, I was on my GM rank up match and end up fighting a 4 stack of recent Celestial III.

01.01.2026 21:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#MarvelRivals ranked system is so absolutely EOMM and rigged it's actually insane. Blatantly lying to the public about not using EOMM is nuts, it's too consistently flawlessly engagement farming.

1 match before GM and it gives me literally the worst teamates I've ever had period.

01.01.2026 04:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is Reddit vibe coded at this point? It's the buggiest website I think I've ever used and gets worse constantly.

01.01.2026 01:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pro tip, if your short video starts with the Discord join noise I'm going to skip your video.

31.12.2025 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah I should have reference this actually. But yes, basically this but a high end unit like the X Elite or something like that.

The benefits of high end ARM and the benefits of right to repair would be great. I know RAM would not be socketed but still.

30.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Been using a Surface Laptop 7 with Snapdragon X Elite lately and I gotta say I am REALLY impressed so far.

But, I wish @frame.work would get ARM at some point, this device goes against all my principles of right to repair etc....

30.12.2025 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The amount Google Workspace advertises their own upgrade services within a paid service is absurd, multiple times a day I am shown "upgrade to AI ultra" and "upgrade to business plus" it's so insane.

30.12.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0