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Today I'm building another kicker ramp, but thought it would be a fun challenge to

design it specifically for families.

It needs to be good for little shredders while also fun enough for big shredders.

We built another ramp kind of like this, but it was super heavy.

It also had a blunt edge on the back side, which was rollable but not ideal for beginners.

I did like how capable and fun that ramp was, and don't want to sacrifice that in making

this one good for families.

This ramp needs to be lighter, and easier to move around.

The transition should also continue along the top of the ramp, all the way to the back.

While fun is a priority, safety is as well.

I'm using relatively thin plywood, not only to save weight but for flexibility.

More on that later.

For the beams we'll use 2x3's, also to save weight.

Once everything is assembled it should still be pretty stout.

These other supplies are for safety and portability.

In the end, our total barely breaks $50.

First, we'll draw out the sides on the plywood.

The ramp will be 6 feet long and 1 foot high, with the first 4 feet taking up the launch

transition.

The rest will be a slope on a backside for stability, fun, and safety.

By tracing the sides like so, we'll have enough leftover wood for the surface.

I'm cutting these sides out with my cordless jigsaw, which is now one of my favorite tools.

In theory this is the only saw you need to build this ramp since you could cut the beams

with it.

I'm using a miter saw though, and cutting them 27" each.

I'm using normal drywall screws to secure the beams.

If this ramp were being stored outdoors, I'd use deck screws.

Now that the ramp is framed out, we're ready to attach the surface.

This part is kind of tricky.

Normally it's pretty easy to bend plywood on to a ramp surface, as it's thin and flexible.

The problem comes in here at the top—that's a pretty mean curve.

I've known about this trick for years, but have never actually tried it.

By keeping the surface wet and letting it bend slowly, I was able to conform it to the

ramp's shape in under an hour.

Soaking it beforehand might have been a better plan.

After sanding the edges, I set out to make the ramp safe and portable.

Safe is a term I use loosely while building ramps, but it would be nice to make the bottom

smooth for skateboard and scooter wheels.

For that I'm using a strip of steel sheet metal from the hardware store.

I'll need to switch to a different blade to cut this.

Finishing washers will ensure that no sharp screw heads protrude from the sheet metal.

For added visibility, I'm applying this reflective tape to the front and back of the

ramp.

I think it does more for style points than for actual safety.

It's an old trick to put casters on the side or back of a ramp, so it can be tilted

and transported.

I wanted something more stealth and fun to use.

With a shoelace, some eye hooks, and a handle, you can flip the wheels down and tilt the

ramp to roll it around.

To put it back down, just lift it up and let the wheels fall away.

Our ramp is finished, and the surface is nice and dry.

Before I demonstrate how fun this ramp is, I want to show you my new bike sent courtesy

of Box Components.

This is a cutting edge BMX Race bike.

Unlike the bikes you've seen me ride in other videos, this is designed for going fast.

It has lightweight parts, a super long chainstay, and many technologies that Box pioneered for

racing.

Later this fall we'll be seeing more of this bike, but first I need to get used to

how it feels.

What better way to do that then to test out my new ramp?

With a slope on both sides you can jump it, pump it, or roll it.

The metal piece plays nice with skateboard or even—scooter wheels.

If I test it with anything else I'll let you know.

As is the case with all the things we build here, I hope you can do a better job than

I did.

I left all the materials and measurements in the description, but encourage you to improvise

to meet the needs of your family.

If you have the space, making it 8 feel long would give you a mellower transition on the

back.

Using masonite on the top may also prevent splinters.

If you have any tips or other ideas, put them down below and share them with the family.

Make sure to tag me so I can see your ramps on Instagram.

Also be sure to watch my other ramp videos in the playlist at the end, and of course,

subscribe for more videos like these.

As always, thanks for riding with me today, and I'll see you next time.

For more infomation >> The Family Kicker Ramp - Building and Riding - Duration: 7:24.

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Building and testing a ≈$220 "Gaming" PC (CSGO, Rocket League, Doom and more) - Duration: 6:05.

Not long ago the people on the official LowSpecGamer discord decided to have a PC Build contest

where different people from the community competed to get the best value or cheapest

PC Build.

This gave me an idea, while I am not the best PC Builder out there there is just something

exhilarating about building a computer and giving it life.

So I decided to contribute my own flame to this fire, and I built this budget PC

build that is around $220 or around $260 if you want to do something silly with it…

you will see what I am talking about in a minute.

And when you see this computer you might think it is a bit underpowered, but with a little

bit of LowSpec magic I will show you that you can get a lot of good moments out of a

machine like this.

Cool? Let's start.

Links to the build are in the description, but keep in mind I will be using the prices

I payed for these components new, in Europe and I have transformed the price from Euros

to dollars so if you look for these parts in the US, or better yet.. buy them used,

the price is likely going to be much lower.

First. For the hearth of our PC I will be using the AMD 5350, one of the cheapest quadcore

CPUs I could find clocked at 2.05 GHz and with an integrated Radeon HD 8400 / R3 series

GPU. Which cost me about 46 dollars.

This will be on the ASUS AM1M-A. A motherboard which has all the ports that we will need

and was quite the bargain at around 45 dollars.

For memory I will add a single stick of Kingston 4GB ram, valued at around 32 dollars.

Since we needed a hard drive I looked for literally the cheapest HDD in Amazon and ended

up with a 22 dollar 320 GB drive. It would take forever to boot up, update or install

anything but… it will do.

To power it all up I used something that I got for another project, a 500 watt iChoose

power supply. Although, if we wanted to take this build to under $200 this would be a good

place to start, since the whole build apparently uses less that 200 watts although… well,

you might want to do some research before buying a cheap power supply.

To wrap it up there is this very cheap NOBEL case that I originally intended to use but

we are building a really powerful gaming computer so why not use something more fitting.

This is the Nova TG a case aimed at giving a gaming feel for a more budget oriented price.

I have had this sitting on my desk for a while and I have been looking for a project worth

using it for.

You know, this could use some LED lights but... those are really expensive.

But a PC, no matter how good it looks, does not really matter if you can't game on it right?

So, what can the mighty AMD 5350 do?

Let's start with the obvious. Skyrim on the lowest settings and a resolution of 1152x648.

It does really well without any help. Not exactly 60 FPS but perfectly playable and enjoyable

and if you want start removing things to make it better I got videos for that buuut as I

said, it does fine as it is.

Although I do want to point out that this one one cool little CPU. I don't mean that

as an expression, even under load the temperature never exceed 30º. Low power usage and low

temperature, I am really impressed.

Right, but maybe you want something a bit more multiplayer, something to play with your

friends. I decided to try Rocket League. It required a bit of help from the internal resolution

scaler, to keep it over 30 FPS but once done the game performed very well for any type

of online match. I did had a couple of intense online matches with no problems whatsoever.

I am often asked to try CSGO on almost every machine I own and given its popularity I could

not ignore it for this computer.

And interestingly enough in the same resolution I was using for Skyrim and minimum settings

the game outperformed my expectations.

It is worth nothing that this, being an AMD gpu, even if it is integrated, it subject

to the LodAdj trick I showed on my AMD csgo video, meaning that by adding the right value

to register we can drop the quality of the textures much further that the game usually

allows. Interesting that this is possible on an integrated GPU nonetheless.

But those are all a tad old aren't them? What if we want to play something a bit more

modern.

Doom was my favorite action game of 2016, but its minimum requirements are obviously

way over what this machine can offer.

However, I have done a couple of videos on FPS boosting for Doom, and the newest one

has a command for reducing shadows that can be quite game changing. So I set the resolution

to 800x600, used all my tweaks and decided to see if it was possible.

So something that I also wanted to add is that Doom has this fantastic nightmare mode

for showing metrics. I have more numbers that I know what to do with. So now you have alike

a complete, full detail of everything that is happening on this computer while I am playing.

Here they come, so if you thought there was no way in hell you could, like, possibly get

close to playing doom in a machine like that, well... look at me now.

It is not perfect but it is definitively playable. And... that is it... Well... How about that?

So there you have, against all odds this budget computer can game.

Sure, there are tons of ways to improve this build, I am sure you will all be throwing

them at me in comments before the video is even over so I might as well ask you.

Let me know, how would you improve this computer?

Thank you for watching, and or for contributing in Patreon so I can continue doing videos.

See you on the next one!

For more infomation >> Building and testing a ≈$220 "Gaming" PC (CSGO, Rocket League, Doom and more) - Duration: 6:05.

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Knowledge Base - Building a Package Using Snapshots in Jamf Composer - Duration: 3:07.

Hey, this is CJ with Jamf Support, and today we'll walk through creating packages with

Jamf Composer.

With Jamf Composer, administrators can create application packages for deployment with Jamf

Pro.

We'll just need a machine running Composer, and then we're ready to start.

The most common method of creating deployable packages with Composer is to create a snapshot.

First, open Composer on your machine, and then click "New."

Composer will ask which method we'd like to use to create a package.

The most common method is to create a "Normal Snapshot."

With this method, Composer will index the drive of your machine, after which we can

perform an installation of the application we'd like to deploy.

Composer will then take a closing snapshot to determine which files on the drive have

been added, and collect them for deployment.

Another common option is to create a "New & Modified" snapshot, which will collect

both newly-added and modified files, which can be useful for installation that touch

already-installed files, such as system .plists.

For this video, we'll choose "Normal Snapshot."

Then click next.

Here, we can input a name for our package.

This name will be reflected in the filename of our finished package.

Composer will then take a snapshot of our drive.

This can take several minutes.

When finished, Composer will prompt us to perform our installation.

Composer can actually be closed at this point if our installation requires us to restart

the machine.

Once our application is installed, we can open it and make any configuration changes

we wish — most configurations will write to files in the filesystem and be captured

by Composer for deployment.

Then, we can head back to Composer and choose "Create Package Source" to capture a closing

snapshot and identify which files to include in our final package.

Once our closing snapshot is complete, we'll be presented with a list of files identified

by Composer for inclusion in the final package.

Depending on what else was happening on your machine during the installation, we may find

that Composer has included files un-related to our installation — it's good practice

to run only a single installation at a time when building packages with Composer.

If we identify any files that don't belong in our final package, we can remove them here.

Finally, we can choose to build our package by choosing either "Build as DMG" or "Build

as PKG" at the top of the screen.

Composer will ask us where we'd like to save the file, and then build our final package.

Thanks for watching!

If you found this video helpful, go ahead and hit the like button below, and be sure

to subscribe to our channel for more helpful tutorials.

More information on this topic can be found on Jamf Nation, or in our product documentation,

which is linked in the description below.

For all other questions, reach out to Jamf Support using the Support Portal on Jamf Nation.

For more infomation >> Knowledge Base - Building a Package Using Snapshots in Jamf Composer - Duration: 3:07.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Announces $20 Million Grant to Battle Climate Change and 'Build a Brighter Future' - Duration: 2:36.

Leonardo DiCaprio Announces $20 Million Grant to Battle Climate Change and 'Build a Brighter Future'

Leonardo DiCaprio is shelling out big to help combat climate change.

The Revenant star announced his foundation will be donating a $20 million grant to help combat climate change Tuesday evening during a speech at Yale University.

He also reserved some harsh words for President Donald Trump and his administration's position on global warming.

"We are proud to support the work of over 100 organizations at home and abroad," the actor said.

"These grantees are active on the ground, protecting our oceans, forests and endangered species for future generations – and tackling the urgent, existential challenges of climate change."

"There exist today many proven technologies in renewable energy, clean transportation, and sustainable agriculture, that we can begin to build a brighter future for all of us," DiCaprio added.

"Our challenge is to find new ways to power our lives, employ millions of people and turn every individual into an advocate for clean air and drinkable water.

We must demand that politicians accept climate science and make bold commitments before it is too late."

DiCaprio recalled meeting with "then-President elect Trump" before the election, to present him with a plan to tackle climate change.

The President has since announced that he plans to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, weakening efforts to combat global warming.

"I still believe that the United States has the potential to lead the world on this issue," DiCaprio said.

"We can only hope that the President begins to see it too, before it is too late."

The generous donation came at the end of the two-day climate change conference moderated by former U.S. Secretary of State and Yale alumnus John Kerry.

Kerry returned to his alma mater earlier this year to oversee the Kerry Initiative, which he described as "an interdisciplinary program that will tackle pressing global challenges through teaching, research, and international dialogue."

The conference this week included five sessions on topics ranging from the future of energy, the role of the private sector, local and international efforts and activism, according to a statement from the university.

DiCaprio wrapped up the event at 5 p.m., discussing citizen engagement and activism before making his donation on behalf of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which has made more than $80 million in grants to environmental causes since 2008.