and we're live ladies and gentlemen who
are we kidding we're live gentlemen
um and lady i don't know your mom might be watching
that's possible your mom's probably watching yeah yeah
uh we've got a great show for you guys today actually we've got a great show
for you guys today Jake did the WAN Show document so other than that it's a great
show so we're gonna go super tangent off the dock
we're just not even gonna use the doc because i'm all about demoralizing
the people who work here yeah that's what it's all about and
you know as much fun as it is to demoralize james it had kind of lost its
its shine yeah but we need a new person
every once in a while we want someone new to work on the WAN Show doc so that
we can crush their soul uh so today it's Jake um god actually oh oh oh this is
cool so topics today
we're going to probably kick it off with impressions of the samsung galaxy
s9 see that's actually an s8 but you'd
never know the difference yeah i was like
other than the deep brown skin um and like the very minor camera differences
on the back flippy the burger flipping robot started working at caliburger in
california we'll go through what a burger flipping robot means and how
effective it was the source for that article was master disaster so i'm
assuming that Jake wrote it himself um also there's uh newegg customers in
connecticut receiving tax bills because newegg didn't charge them sales tax
sorry Jake and uh modders were able to put
coffee-like cpus into skylake and kb lake motherboards uh to a well certain
degree of success which is actually kind of crazy so why don't we roll the intro
and we'll get on with the show where theoretically we'll talk about all those
things that we just talked about that we're going to talk about but actually
we're probably going to end up talking about something else we sometimes do it
we got that fresh food we got that
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hooray yeah baby all right so we're gonna kick things off with the
most important news this week Linus cat
tips the youtube channel um that has videos of my cat including
this fantastic one right here that i uploaded yesterday uh it's got my cat i
was trying to well you can probably figure out based on the tile tile back
wall there what i was trying to do so i was trying to do that right and um
you know the cat decided that he had already done that needed somewhere to
wipe his butt decided on my hair
um so this is the hundred thousand hundred thousand subscriber update for
Linus cat tip it's got 120 000 views
best performing video on this channel of all time
and the big news here though is that Linus cat tips the most
important channel at Linus media group has crossed
a hundred thousand subscribers i'm surprised you have a b minus meaning
meaning that well it's probably just because of the last couple of days right
okay where it went from 85 000 subscribers well okay we should go we
should probably go all the way back to here so this is when the ncix bankruptcy
auction vlog hit Floatplane okay yeah so we got you know
1500 or so subscribers like normally it actually does grow like let's look at
the full monthly statistics here social day is a great site for creeping on
youtube channels by the way you guys it's awesome you can like see how many
subs they get how many views they get this is bs don't trust it believe me um
like i mean any number that's like well somewhere between 77 cents and 12
dollars imagine you were able to pay for things like that yeah
imagine you walked into mcdonald's it's like yeah a super value menu it costs
anywhere between uh you know 69 cents and
18 bucks yeah like uh you don't know until you're checking out that's right
you know what hold on a second just gave him a bad
idea this is i should not have said anything micro transaction restaurants
loot box loot box the restaurant
oh it's actually brilliant so you don't
know so you take away all the like ugh i don't know what to pick off the menu
because you don't well no because it's wait yeah so you get what you pick like
one of three different tiers of loot box and so you might end up yeah so you get
the the five dollar loot box or it's like a single serving double serving or
like three-course meal loot box wow
and so i'd probably go so some people are gonna because like gaming themed
establishments are totally a thing for the most part bars i guess
yeah there's a lot of gaming bars okay but the gaming the loot box restaurant where
you go in and like sometimes you're going to get like a sort of like
adequate meal and then other times you're going to get like the freaking
you know diamond armor whatever crap is popular horse armor sure yeah yeah yeah
edition yeah yeah yeah and then people are going to get horse armor anymore
good reference though good reference though shut up i like you great um
but yeah and then sometimes it'll you'll spend like a considerable amount of meal
it'll literally just be like a day old mcdonald's
no i don't know about that but you gotta add some junk no you'd either
get okay you could get like an adequate meal
or you could get like like something really nice and it like comes with
actual like gamer loot like it could come with like an amiibo oh oh
right or like t-shirts because remember the thing about loot
boxes is that you're you already know you're kind of paying too much so no the
base meal is already decent
then you might get loot and so effectively the people who just get a
meal are subsidizing the people who get like something freaking out a little bit
more overall but there's a chance you're gonna get some cool games just like a loot box yeah i like that that's
probably way more reasonable than dale mcdonald's um there's a there's way more
reasonable there's a restaurant downtown vancouver there's two of them same name
one of them is more just a like very small hole in the wall place then the
other one's like a big establishment but they're both called stormcrow i think one of them is tavern and one of them is
something else anyways okay we're getting kind of crap done it's called a
kid's meal the loot is a toy whatever man no no this is for adults and they're
like probably different ideas yeah and you might get you don't get t-shirts and
kids meals he's just talking about amiibos and t-shirts this is like nicely
branded stuff not like some super right totally different yeah
uh but yeah stormcrow uh i believe you can
roll a d20 okay and depending on what the d20
results in you get a different i think it's a shot
okay i'm not sure and then if you get a 20 i don't remember something cool happens
people are complaining the camera's tilted and like to my eye it is
noticeably tilted okay is it just tilting over time no i
don't think so oh because didn't we check it before the
stream i'm hiring professional camera people anyway
does that seem better i don't know it's hard to tell without
me there and like part of it's like is this shelf on an angle yes it is yeah
like we're shooting at it from an angle yeah so
you know so people probably are just attributing that i think we're just
gonna that's noticeably better we're gonna roll with that okay cool you know
there's a little too much headroom Jake can you adjust the headroom down a little bit
maxum head you got this max you got this all right um what the heck were we
talking about it seemed important uh the boxes oh no
it was really important Linus cat tips okay right so um what happened oh right
yeah yeah what happened here was
next it hit youtube and this nothing
channel went from 85 000 to 160 000 subscribers
in three days so you doubled which is actually more like two days because it
was like the evening of the seventh and it is now not yet even the evening of
the ninth um and the reason did you watch the ncis
bankruptcy vlogs yeah so you saw the part where ultimately
okay i've got some people saying
that it was the wrong move
to give the guy well not give it to him i mean he bid for it like he won it in
the auction but to sort of let it go
do you think it was the wrong move i think what you maybe should have done because you
knew this what maybe not to the scale maybe you thought more scale i don't
know but you knew you would pass 100k yeah but i also knew that Linus cat tips
was going to end up with 100 000 subscribers eventually anyway yes all i
would have to do is do one shout out before i could have done it at any moment over the last three years yeah
just like that is accelerating it yeah you could have got it from him with the
idea that like hey i'll get you the cat tips one well
that's interesting or you could have used your contacts instead of using his
contacts to try to be like hey let's get him the freaking button you know i
didn't think of that at all i should have totally done that i should have totally been like look i want the ncix
tech tips one but tell you what you don't ultimately
no i should have just created like a troll like
extra one yes it should have been like yes yeah
and you should have named it almost identical to his channel with like a period or something yeah so that you
like can't really tell yeah just being like all right guys let's get this dude
because you got you got 80-something pounds yeah you could have made it i didn't think of
that at all why do i even ask you these things so now you need to make ncx
dot or like use a weird character for the eye or something and do it again
and then we need to get it again i gotta tell you the
okay so first of all all the people saying that like he didn't deserve it
because he's a top 10 channel or something or he probably bought his subscribers what are you talking about
like the guy uploaded a lot of videos i never even i didn't yeah no people are
like they're like mad that like a crappy top 10 channel
got the play button and i'm kind of sitting here going you guys
i mean i don't think we left the entire cut of all of my interaction with him in
the video but what happened was he won it
fair and square and i asked for it and he was like no
and then i explained that i was the one who started that channel and he was like
oh no problem man take it he seemed cool he was totally cool about it in a little
bit that i saw he seemed cool and so i had a couple minutes between
being on the auction floor and then going to the front where
we were going to pick it up to kind of think about and i went like
he was really cool about this what happened with him was he was with a
crappy mcn back when he crossed his 100 000 threshold so he's got his gold
button already but he was with a crappy mcn that for
whatever reason he got lost in the shuffle and he wasn't able to claim his
silver play button yeah so he just wanted one so that he could
rebrand it not because he didn't earn it but because he never got his that he did
earn and i was like you know what at the end of the day
i've got in my fantastic studio with my amazing
staff three silver play buttons on the wall
and not to mention the two gold play buttons
and he was so cool about it like if he wasn't really cool about it and he was
like you know yeah man you know i i think i should have it
but he wasn't like that at all if he wasn't cool about it i would have i would have wanted to fight harder for it
but he was just such a nice guy that i thought it was hard to yeah i thought it
was the right thing to do i understood your stance at the time but yeah i would
have tried to pull something like uh making a getting him to make
like a really similar channel name or that would have been a better move that
would have been the pro move but um i still have no regrets i still feel good
about how it went down um
and if nothing else we should now make like try to make a
channel that's like ncix but like change something very
minor it's hard was it ncx or insects called cixcom and a big ncix a small com
yeah yeah because i remember i actually it's funny i remember having an argument
internally about what we were going to call it because ncix wasn't available
for some reason okay and i got questioned like quite a few times
about why it wasn't ncix.com and i was like
because you can't have a period in the url and they were like
are you sure i'm like yeah
yeah you can't no people are like you should create a
Floatplane ncix plaque so honestly the one that i really want is
the gold one i'm gonna tell you something
the gold one is missing
did someone take it from the office kind of looks that way it wasn't me like
you're giving me that look no i actually had nothing to do with it so i'm just
i'm just rapidly speculating privately who it might have been so the rumor that
i heard was that um it was in the ceo's office
the last it was seen and now it's not
so i would and no riley doesn't have it i asked
riley he's a straight-up dude he would have told me yeah so he was the last one
left working on the ncix tech tips channel
and he says he doesn't have it and the
last time he saw it was in the ceo's office
so oh you know what in other crazy important news
that Jake did not put in the document wow um
you did a great job there's been a lot of speculation
that we will be acquiring the ncix tech
tips channel and i can put that to rest once and for
all we are not acquiring the ncix tech tips channel r.i.p and peace yep um
not for lack of effort but disappointed it will not be possible
um and so yeah uh honestly i'm i'm
pretty disappointed i i had a um
i actually had a pretty rotten day that day i had a bunch of things go wrong and
i i had the call that sort of was the nail in the coffin that i will
not be getting it um it is my belief
that whoever is taking control of it is
going to basically um
burn it to the ground and piss on the ashes according to the plan that they
have described to me um which is really disappointing because
i put a lot of work into that i mean that's where i
that's where i cut my teeth as a youtuber that's where you cut your teeth as a youtuber it's kind of sad that
we're not getting it i was pretty excited when we were talking about it so i i i had felt very strongly that
we should be allowed to buy it but it's a little more complicated than that
legally and it's just not going to be possible
so i mean yeah you know i might as well be upfront with you guys the only way we
were going to get it was if we bought ncix
which might seem like a great idea on paper
i was trying to be diplomatic
sorry
so um
it would include the domain the sophisticated inventory management
and back-end software oh yes yes definitely sophisticated yes
the very not cobbled together back-end management system oh yes uh the
trademarks the copyrights uh the intellectual property including their
fantastic mobile app
uh basically the the untarnished brand oh oh
absolutely nobody's wondering where their shipments are the fantastic relationships that um
that that brand will inspire with potential suppliers owing people money
and then never giving it to them is a really great way to establish trust now
um i mean to be no you wouldn't acquire the debt so this
is this is interesting so the way that it works
with the bankruptcy proceedings is that these assets are being liquidated
by the bankruptcy trustee so the funds are not actually going to
the original owner the funds are going to the creditors
meaning that even if let's say ncix owed
you oh i don't know six million dollars hypothetical number
um no no not me someone else but it's not
hypothetical it's real um let's say ncis would do six million
dollars and let's say at the auction that we attended and through the sale of
the uh the domain and the intellectual property and all that that they managed
to raise i don't know let's use a realistic
number two million dollars
your six million which is only one-fifth of the total debt this is all this is
all leaked out there um of your six million you would get
one fifteenth of that whatever that works out to like 300k
oh i thought they had to go banks first
so right assuming it all went out equally yeah um so so some people are
going to have more robust contracts yeah that will entitle them to being paid
first a lot of the time as far as i know and i
could be totally wrong here but i think that usually results in so the new
owners fair and square own the the domain the
the the server infrastructure whatever it is that they've paid the trustee for
and there's no debt associated with it but
life is rarely that simple and if i was oh i don't know let's say Corsair who
has owned a million dollars did i say owned or
owed that's kind of the same thing yeah
um it's a Corsair who's owned a million bucks
do i engage with this brand again
would you even if it was under new management i'd be salty and like the
thing is if i was a hardware company um i would look at this going like okay
last time you guys didn't make it you're going into the exact same market with
the exact same inventory stuff with the exact same buildings the exact same
website with less storefronts with probably
dramatically harmed seo dramatically
harmed seo because everything's going to be about you being bankrupt site traffic
a huge amount of customers that never receive shipments of possibly our
products and then got upset with us potentially because of that like i i
wouldn't really want to touch it like i'd be i'd be like this corpse is in the
ground especially why am i trying to perform cpr like and especially if you're a GPU
company yeah if you're a company shipping gpus you can sell them immediately to anyone
why would you and here's the thing ncix has been
effectively out of business for so long
that you know it doesn't take a long time for a gap to be filled canada
computers came in and opened up stores in ncis old locations yeah memory
express um i don't know if you know this but
i don't know if anyone knows this hold on uh
one second
okay good so yeah this is this is a thing
that is definitely very public that's memory express's website it's everywhere
so it's like literally everywhere um
but memex is going to be opening up a new store
uh i know that i have we're going to be there to their langley i'm gonna be
there like three or four times since ncx closed in langley and
how how hurt are you that you have to go
somewhere slightly different uh it's ever so slightly more difficult to get
to but it's also sort of on the way to work
so the parking's a little annoying
so yeah so that's the thing is they've been out of the game for three months what
incentive is there for anyone to go back because you don't
okay maybe mx's website looks like 1998. did you ever go to ncix's
canada computers isn't much better yeah yeah um
yeah i mean at least okay i'm gonna have to double check this
but at least to my knowledge memory express doesn't hide the per location
inventory the way that ncix started doing over the last few years like was
that or was that not an incredible so annoying frustrating experience
where it wouldn't actually show you what was in stock yeah no it's right here
like it's just like okay here's how many in this region are in
each store online stores different individuals and actually this
i don't know how 1998 this is no this is this is not 1998.
like it's like 2008. okay hold on a second uh way back machine and ciax oh
okay hold on hold on hold on let's just let's just let's just uh
let let's let's have a look let's let's actually go okay we can't go to 1998.
let's go to 1999 okay let's go to 1999 my friends
here we go may the 8th 1999 one snapshot
hold on uh oh no this this was like
wow it archived a broken page that's
that's interesting that's okay 2000 looks more promising here we go
okay that looks that looks more promising
what what you doing what you doing way back machine wayback
machine is the only way to access ncix now can you believe that isn't that
crazy well if it if it does well like if it does yeah
okay three snapshots come on man you know you can tell this show doesn't
have a producer because stuff like this wouldn't have there we
go okay
so that wait what no this is modern this yeah
this is 20 these are like brand new trucks this is 2018 february
okay well whatever okay well still i mean we can still look at what ncix's
looked like at the jump on there click somewhere on there on here yeah
let's just go like here
man way back is slow
okay so this is 2004
this would have been like wow this would have been like the prime
time of me shopping there as an actual customer
remember celestica yeah remember soul tech i definitely
remember soltech
remember AMD oh wait they made it they
made it they're back baby barely what else we got oh cz remember
ocz memory i think i owned one of these dang but no
okay maybe not 10 500 bucks with that vga video bga
suckers okay i think i owned one of those but like years ago all right
anyway i forget what we were even talking about um
right i wouldn't buy ncix
unless the price was basically what i would have paid for the youtube plaque
now tell me this i have had more than one person pitch me
internally that if we were to buy the ncix brand so
what first one thing do you think suppliers would take the ncix brand
seriously if it was me running it
actually yeah and if we were to buy it
should we become a system integrator
i wonder what twitch chat thinks of this i think you'd have to do it really well
well the idea would be that like i wouldn't i wouldn't want to go crazy
like my perfect system builder would probably be closer to puget than to like
main gear i expected that i i by really well i didn't mean like hard light water
cooling i meant like very low amounts of issues
yes like robustness would have to be like way up there which puget yeah
they've got that they'd test after their testing which is pretty crazy um but
like just because of the public-facingness of this
attachment company you'd have to yeah you'd have to be
quite careful yeah it would it would it would be it would be one of those things
where you know every customer service issue has the potential to go viral
you know like and and and my biggest issue actually is just that
there's the potential for people to perceive our hardware choices in the
ncix pc division as being influenced
or or influencing the media side of it
so i think there's a reason that nobody's ever really crossed
those lines except me
yeah i was already doing this and it's hilarious because you see so many people
hearkening for the good old days when Linus wasn't biased because he worked at
a computer store that was trying to sell you stuff
and i'm kind of sitting here going oh man like
like it's not it's not biased but you could certainly find an ulterior motive
in there if you dug deep enough lcix
no minus computer inc inc extreme x
x factor um
yeah so i don't know man um i'm i'm hoping to hear back
today about just sort of like the update but my my name's out of the hat i'm i'm
not going to be able to i'm not going to be able to get my hands on the channel i
had really hoped too the chat is chanting lcix lcix yes
lordy looks like it does look like licks
our computers don't just suck they lick
hard that might go okay that might go okay go back to like mid 90s advertising
like just our branding just being completely ridiculous yeah yeah well i
mean okay as far as i can tell the only way system integrators make any money is
through mdf programs with brands like Intel and NVIDIA
NVIDIA probably i don't think Intel would give us any money to talk about
how our computers lick hard yeah that might be a little bit of
a problem Intel's a little on the conservative side when it comes to brand
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how are you doing over there buddy i'm all right i'm okay oh ltx
you're going to be at ltx right yeah okay cool yeah ltx is going to be back
this summer it's just super stoked
it was really fun last time and we're cranking it up we're cranking it like
way up to 11. yeah we're gonna be in a much bigger venue i'm gonna go ahead and
throw the link in the twitch chat here guys check it out well i'll be at ltx if
i don't uh die right now yeah um so we're gonna be at the richmond
olympic oval it's gonna be huge it's a meet up slash tech convention
the idea is to keep the focus on experiences so we want you guys to get
hands-on with cool tech through fun games and tutorials and there's going to
be a larger focus on pc gaming this year tickets start at 35 canadian rubles and
you can check them out at ltxexpo.com
hopefully we'll see uh we'll see a lot of people there like last year it
actually went surprisingly well for first attempt like that's actual that's
an actual picture from last year yeah we framed it really cleverly so you can't
see all the empty chairs up here but like that was fine because we never
intended to have people up there yeah no one wants to sit in the stands yep
they want to rush the stands try to touch your hands
like some screaming nature fans yeah yeah yeah spaghetti yeah spaghetti fans
um milk fans this one's good milk pants
milk the fans uh full plain
i will get to that later i got to do my thing should i do that later or now oh
yes oh right flow plane news okay why don't you talk Floatplane news
while i show off the site that totally works most of the time full of videos
that people well the vast majority of the time actually yeah so check this out
so just just recently this this uh got
working so you can click up here got working
magically magically um yeah so you can click up here and you
can see all the videos in order from all the channels you subscribe to like bit
wit ultra and Linus tech tips who are currently the only creators on the
platform um credit card payments
work yeah paypal is still pending some stuff with
um our payment processor braintree
um but we are hoping to be able to accept both through the platform we have
had no actual issues with credit card payments yet really
no actual issues there's a lot of placeholders and stuff
still like load of them this image is like not that great um
but i can show you guys the videos that are up there we've got an int uh an
Intel we've got as fast as possible on Intel's CPU letters you know like x k
u t y all those letters that come at the end of the name
max builds her first pc together with me
much hilarity ensues are you like getting her to do most of it oh yeah
nice oh yeah she does the vast majority of it i barely touch it nice um we've
got a Floatplane exclusive testing the NVIDIA shield from the ncix auction
this case is unbelievable
like actually amazing
it's like this building that was going towards good job yeah it didn't do what
it did last week yeah no i know it's scanning is still slightly slower well
no i think it was actually our connection here that would make sense um
because uh johnny came in earlier this week and kind of reset everything
updated all the firmware and i haven't been having buffering issues on Floatplane or youtube this weekend okay
cool yeah so this is a gorgeous video it's it's
worth a watch let's go ahead and go back usually i'd
hope i'd be over it by now it's still going not an act
uh this one went up on youtube today
this one went up already this is as fast as possible you can't really tell
because the thumbnail is footage from the LTT video anyway don't worry about
it gaming on the imac pro how bad can it be you can update these
no i know you can i just haven't done anything um
super ultra wide monitor dank or dumb i think we all know the answer
actually i think everyone the funny thing about that is it's very polarizing
i think everybody knows their own answer and it's not the same answer as other
people it's just drastic i've had people talk to me about how that is the most
amazing thing of all time me too and they can't believe nobody ever thought
of that like it's crazy um so sorry what was your news uh i'm uh
flow planes hiring oh are we yeah
i lightly mentioned it to you earlier uh looking for someone paying attention
with like node angular sales waterline
kind of experience in that realm um
yeah hit me up i don't have a specific like link for you to go to right now you can
tweet me there will be a link you have a specific budget in mind and we can talk
about it offline i do actually but yeah all right so this will bring the team up
to how many then that'll be five six five well okay it depends on how you
six went to me seven with you eight with
name is public yeah no let's let's not count me and Yvonne then
are we counting we're counting you yeah yeah okay so it would be six six
it's crazy how many people thought that we were just going to be
like doing this with one person and luke when you were first time
okay yes but yeah that that was never the plan though yeah and well that
initial call video we were we already had one person
so we were going up from there but yeah uh we're doing we're doing pretty well
right now we're pushing forward right now though we're we're
in a situation where we're doing a lot of reacting
so i want to increase the team size a little bit so we can push forward
because we're reacting to some bugs we're fixing some things we're doing some user suggestions and stuff but i
want to keep pushing forward with the main line stuff yeah we've got a really
good roadmap we just need to make sure we don't fall into that trap where
we've got a great road map that we never end up working and we we do
keep feature creeping basically everything feature creeps and our stuff is feature creeping as well but um
yeah cool oh yeah being from
canada or being from the states with
a related degree is quite important because i want to move you here
yeah so remote work no remote work for
three months yes
while you're on probation cool when's your off probation no come here
get on a plane yeah um all right why don't we talk about
some actual news that's in the actual dock this was posted by master disaster on
the forum and the original article here is from
techcrunch flippy the robot hamburger chef goes to
work so this is one year after announcing a partnership with kalaburger
and miso robotics's resident chef graduated to graduated hamburger
university and started flipping burgers in an actual restaurant
so this is an ai enabled burger flipping robot ARM thing it uses
thermal imaging and image recognition to tell which burgers need flipping it can
handle 12 burgers at a time and it's not 100 independent the worker
has to bring in patties and take the cooked ones away
apply cheese assemble sandwiches actually it doesn't sound that that i
think it's not that great but the idea
was that for your sixty thousand dollars per flippy yeah each yeah
and your uh 20 annual recurring maintenance
fee so 12 grand a year you would get more functionality down
the road like the ability to chop deep fry grill or add seasoning and cheese to
patties what drives me nuts is how can it not refill the patty selection
like what like even even if even if workers had to
bring like stacks of paddies separated by paper whatever whatever i don't know
and just like put it into a thing yeah you'd think they'd have a burger hopper
yeah you know yeah so it was designed to make up for the cost with decreased wait
times better consistency decreased food waste and then obviously eventually
reduction in staff but wait
there's more the original article from bbc.com
burger flipping robot taken offline after
one day on the job yes the burger flipping robot lasted exactly as long as
that stoner guy that i hired when i was
running my painting business oh i thought you meant
all right one day no this guy was hilarious so was the
other one that i'm talking about but yes this one was more hilarious okay get this okay
so one of the most time-consuming aspects
of painting is ladder movements okay go
getting up and down the ladder moving the ladder over
getting your bucket and your paint back together and getting up okay
that's one of the things that takes the most amount of time so when i see someone
instead of putting so instead of putting the ladder close to the wall
and using your whole wingspan both hands when i see someone putting a ladder
four feet away from the wall leaning in like this
painting with one hand like pushing themselves back out onto
the ladder and like i was just
this is one of those like i don't know the proper name for it but like
you're not leading the ladder against no it's just a step stool yeah he was just
leaning himself against the house for like actually my crew chief wanted to
kind of try and make it work she was really she's a good person i'm horribly
bad at uh painting and that sounds really dumb but
i just actually and like we were desperate like this was back in
no 2006 six yeah probably around 2006 2000
yeah it was probably 2006. when like the economy was really good
the 2008 crash hadn't really happened yet like it was this was a time this was a
period of time where getting walking into a subway
you might only hope to have your burger made correctly because
people were like desperate they were hiring just like anyone no matter how
qualified they were for anything and it was really hard to find people
but i was just like no we can't do this so so right flippy
flippy was supposed to be able to cook two thousand burgers a day
but after one day flippy was taken offline to be upgraded to work faster
left with a little sign saying he'd be cooking soon
the employees that worked with him are also being trained to help flippy work
faster um it's likely that this is due to the
increased volume at the store due to the news of flippy being deployed
news 2000 a day sounds like a lot but when you break it down
it's really actually not that much it's not that crazy
um and you see in the video like his flipping thing is very
like it's slow the weird thing about it is like
you know what about what's that robot called the four-legged one that you can
like kick and it doesn't fall over yeah i don't know but it's boston dynamics
yeah like that thing's been around for six years this does not seem very
sophisticated or good why does it cost sixty thousand dollars
i'm not this there's i'm sure they're not mass making them that's why
this one's nuts this is crazy this is new yeah
oh wow boston dynamics has a new robot that's like kind of news right
it's sure it's been news for a while we're kind of late it yeah from like you
can open a door and you can like screw with it while it
tries to open the door and it'll correct and it'll brace and it does all these other kinds why is it lagging
there we go so it'll like bring that ARM thingy out i don't know where the ARM
actually comes from oh there's the one with the ARM right
this one has to let the other one through the door
these guys are trippy like this is scary stuff this is like
straight out of portal ring
and then he like braces the door on his leg gets the ARM around the door
and then pulls it open let's the other one through
and then i think what we're going to see after this is when they try to interfere
because boston dynamics is all about that oh no okay is the this one testing
robustness yeah yeah no that's fine i mean that's like
anyway the point i was trying to make is like i don't really understand why
flippy there's crazy robots out there this feels
like a really advanced like
project that someone on youtube made
i don't know i'm sure it's more complicated than that
i'm sure the thermal sensing stuff is actually quite complicated right
like the like the robot vision that they've programmed into this is probably
pretty cool and there's probably some pretty like
uh some pretty onerous sort of safety health and safety certifications that
they've probably had to go through that sounds expensive yeah
all right yeah well at any rate um why don't we move on
to the next topic so oh you're right so humans um your
jobs are not safe except for now they are
because flippy is not that great but someone will make a good flippy this is
pretty crazy so this was posted by master disaster
on the forum but uh and the original post the original article is is this
like from our forum looks like one of the users of our forum
blanked out their personal information and said basically dear taxpayer
newegg has provided the department of revenue services records of your online
purchases they put a dash in online because apparently they still live in 2000 super
old yeah during taxable years 2014 2015
and 2016 according to these records you made purchases in at least one of these
years but were not charged connecticut sales tax therefore you owe tax on the
items tax interest penalty penalty total
amount due 103 dollars and 10 cents now
this is based on only spending about a thousand bucks so anyone who was a heavy
buyer or like maybe was the the coordination point for group
buys for their friends for example or like regularly bought systems and built
them for other people if they didn't go and pour through the
connecticut tax code to determine that newegg should have been paying them tax
or should have been submitting charging them tax and then submitting it
to the state of connecticut they could be on the hook for thousands and thousands of dollars american online
tax law is basically
as far as i know actually the worst out of anyone it's
pretty broken and like the average person
i don't think the average person should be blamed for not being aware of this
stuff like on the one hand yes officially according to tax laws here in
canada too you should pay tax even if you weren't charged tax on the
transaction for example if i were to um
buy something on craigslist or if i was sorry if i were to sell
something on craigslist i'm supposed to pay income tax
on the uh the money that i made
and if i was to sell something on craigslist i am supposed to i think over
a certain amount so if i was doing it regularly i'm supposed to collect
provincial and general sales tax and submit it to the appropriate governing
bodies on behalf of the buyer
but like going all the way back to 2014 to 2016
and then just sending letters to everyone
wow no subpoena or warrant was involved the
drs just sent you a letter they complied which
i mean yeah
do would they have a legal justification to not yeah i mean i guess that's
people's personal information right like that's pretty bs yeah
um
yeah so name address yeah so okay so apparently the drs submitted the names
and addresses and asked newegg for the amount so okay i can see newegg supplying that
but i don't know man like this is one of those things where
this is not the consumer's fault nh massacre said i'm screwed i spent
over 13k on new egg are you from connecticut i think you have to i think
this only applies to people this only applies to connecticut for now
but this is a can of worms yeah
because even here in canada the way that the taxation has worked for online
purchases has been a little bit complicated at times
and as far as i know nothing was ever done retroactively and as far as i know
when the laws changed back in 2008 2009
some somewhere around there when they introduced harm introduced harmonized sales tax
the onus was on the retailer to deal with it yeah and we were the ones who
were in trouble and that seems a lot more fair to me
than putting it on you know individual
you know joe average in connecticut i completely agree
i um crap was i going to say
right so a lot of tax law was made before it was reasonable to buy something
in one area when you are in another area and then when that started becoming more
popular it was mostly like calling in
to order stuff and that was such low volume that you know that cared and even
once you started buying things on the internet most people were pretty skeptical about buying things on the
internet and there wasn't a lot of that going on and then amazon blows up
and all these other sites blow up and now a lot of people are doing
a pretty hefty portion possibly most of their shopping on the
internet now it's a big deal because i mean remember it's not like we're in a
situation where the individual states are just like flush with cash yeah so if
they can find a way to get you know anywhere between a
couple of percent and a couple more than that percent of every transaction that
takes place online for items coming into their state i mean think about it
those items don't get to the door without a truck driving on a road that
theoretically the state maintains like
someone said uh luke used tax covers out
of state purchases i'm assuming they mean u.s tax not really um
this is use that
no he said use exactly
either way it doesn't no not in all cases um and there's really weird
situations where like uh for for if
you're talking about digital stuff if if if the company you're buying something
from has a server in your state
that's nexus so they have a like location there which changes how it all
work it's a very it's very complicated and it varies depending on whether it's
a digital goods or service or a physical item yeah
and like it varies per state per county
in some places like it's it's actually u.s tax is extremely complicated
all right speaking of things that are extremely complicated my feelings about
this uh latest bit of news there is still correcting about use tax it
doesn't matter there's other things that apply sorry that i got that part wrong there
is still other stuff that applies
mcafee acquires vpn company which i actually didn't realize was canadian was
uh tunnelbear
terms of the deals have not been disclosed um
mcafee says it plans to integrate tunnelbear's technologies into their own
vpn products that i've never heard of until now safeconnect
a apparently tunnelbear will also continue
to work on its own products under its own brand according to the report
tunnelbear is a profitable company so presumably mcafee paid a pretty penny
for it uh just a little bit of history mcafee was acquired by Intel in 2011
mcafee whatever um Intel rebranded it to Intel security
and then it was later split into a new company with the old
mcafee mcafee whatever name in partnership with private equity firm
tpg so this is their second acquisition since becoming a separate company again
and um
so here's where we're at on this as you guys probably know uh tunnelbear
is a um
a pretty has been a longtime supporter right of the show
yeah um
so we've reached out to them for comment i don't think we've heard back yet i'm
actually not not sure if we've heard back yet but we would we would love to uh we
would love to hear from our community
what they think of this news
so one key change is now that tunnelbear is owned by an american interest they
will have to comply with some american laws as far as i know
i mean so that's one difference that there might be to the service yeah and
their sort of way of operating i'm going to
chime in slightly here
canada has a lot of crazy privacy laws too um the us privacy laws are more well
documented but if you want to have some fun google
spy palace it'll bring up some canadian stuff
interesting articles
so yeah
and five eyes so that was some interesting news um in other interesting
news this was posted by cenari on the forum the original article is from
overclock.net modders
have apparently gotten coffee lake working on 100 and 200 series chipsets
so far the core i3 8100 has been tested working completely on a 100 series board
well apparently multiple 100 series boards
and what else do we have here so little hill contributed in adding the coffee
lake CPU micro code and suggestions of using correct me version to boot the CPU
root user 123 fixed igpu by extracting coffee lake igpu v BIOS on the latest
gop driver from sonix and updating the vbios and gp driver
wow contributing to sankey contributed in
booting six core CPU on MSI z270 motherboard and giving lots of
assistance in solving problems lsw contributed in testing and writing
guides nav ax solved the issue with the PCIe 16x not
working in CPU voltage readout fixes when using coffee lake cpus
very very
nice ebay GPU ads you got going on there
because of higher power limits this is a quote here i would not suggest this mod
with i5 and i7 k series cpus
so this comes back to
i'm not talking to you siri go away
uh so this comes back to the speculation that took place when Intel said they
would not be supporting coffee lake on 100 and 200 series but i'm going to go
through Jake's notes here first as a courtesy
um oh actually that was the first thing in
his notes good job Jake so here is what they said
it might have worked for the most part but it didn't work well enough or
reliably enough for Intel to allow
this compatibility to make it to the market so they software and BIOS locked
off the compatibility most of this was due to coffee lake's
different power setup it was not necessarily that the board
didn't have enough power delivery but the board's power delivery just is
distributed over more pins to better support coffee lake six core chips like
the 8700k so wccf tech reported that ground pins
went from 377 to 391 and power pins went
from 128 to 146. something a lot of people don't know is that on
particularly a brand new CPU like i found a really good i forget why
i was looking at this but um i7 920
pin map um cool
this blog re-engine blog check this out
i forget why i was looking at this but this is a map
uh posted on reengine.org
where this guy or gal
mapped out what all of the different pins are and
then color coded them so you can see here all this green stuff is memory
controller um all this blue stuff is qpi data all the
gray stuff so like 70 80 of what's in here a bunch of this
in here here uh probably a good 50 of
what's in here all that grey stuff is reserved pins and those reserved pins
might be for different skus that have more hardware in them for example uh
this is a bloomfield and so it was architecturally very similar to the
contemporary xeons so those xeons would have had an additional qpi link that
would have taken up uh probably let's go back here uh probably all the gray ones
here yeah that would have been the other qpi link for the other CPU that would
have been needed but there's still all this other stuff and a lot of the time
those reserved pins are just in case Intel decides to do like uh a new CPU
with oh i don't know maybe more course for example
they can use those for something so this is just an example of them
utilizing reserved pins in order to add
more power so going back to our notes here
the modders say that the pin out doesn't matter because they're just left
disconnected because those pins are reserved on kb lake except for two which
you can just cover with tape so the extra pins offer about eight
percent greater impedance so theoretically lower power chips like the
i380 100 are fine but you may have issues with
overclockable higher core count or higher tdb chips there's a screenshot
here of an 8700k working so you can check this out on a
presumably MSI board but
no actual evidence of it running correctly or stably
so there you go it's exactly
what i don't know if Intel ever publicly said that was it but that's what we
understood it's exactly what we knew it
was it's not that it
can't work it's that it can't work well enough so
unless you try super super hard and use an i3
8100 which is probably not worth the
work so that's where we're at on that
what else we got here all right you want to talk about the fortnite thing there's not a lot to say
here but i think it's kind of interesting pubg has been rocking for a long time and a lot of people in the
community including myself are pretty unsatisfied with how they've been kind
of doing a lot of stuff tell for the uninitiated why uh their servers are
super garbage they're down times that they choose for maintenance even when
they schedule it ahead of time is in like prime time for north america which
is pretty rough and they do all the servers there's a huge amount of uh
hacking and that's not being dealt with to a satisfactory level including hacks
uh like something called esp which is like uh do you remember the pokemon go
cheating stuff where people would get like a website and it would show where
all the pokemon are you can get that except for pubg
so it shows you where everyone in the map is and you can get it running on an
external computer so you don't even need to have it on your computer so there's no way to
detect it because you can just vp on the other device they'd have no idea it's
going to your network right so they even if they did find a way to track it
somehow which i don't think they could then you could just vpn and there's no way for them to check it anyways because
basically it has like fundamental flaws it's a huge there's a lot of issues um
there's there's things that piss a lot of people off uh
and it yeah they they took all this money that they
got for having a successful game and instead of when what a lot of people
think needed to happen is throwing all of that towards development of the main
game they developed like a mobile game and then uh they did this huge push to
get it onto xbox and like all this kind of stuff instead
of developing the core thing they had a version 1.0 released
which was as far as i can tell a giant publicity stunt because it was garbage
there was still huge amounts of issues in the game uh like it's it's
it's been really frustrating you drop in you have to parachute in i
know you haven't really played i don't know how much you know about it uh you have to parachute in and you sometimes
you have to stand there for a little while and wait for things to actually spawn like loot sometimes it's there who
knows it might not work you try to parachute into the ground uh might not
let you to the parachute then when it does it might just kill you or do a
whole bunch of damage because it's like oh you fell it's like
wouldn't have fallen if the game worked thanks uh there's huge rubber banding
issues for a huge amount of time there's massive performance issues there's still
some performance issues but not as much as there was before
tell me how you really feel about it meanwhile and i'm not as into the
gameplay because i don't like the building aspects and stuff but fortnight
right released their battle royale mode after pubg
running on the same engine because they made it um and it's it's a
uh what a lot of people classify a better overall experience i'm not as into the
gameplay because i don't like the building aspects you have to like actively build walls and do all this
weird stuff and some of the fights are just ridiculous to watch
because you just watch people like rapidly build walls and stairs and stuff
like super super super super super fast and then like do one shot okay it's over
because you like somehow got an angle on them while they were rapidly building
this thing too i just yeah i'm not super into the gameplay but i'm kind of happy
that it's beating out pubg because i want them to smarten the heck up because
i would rather play that game it's just really frustrating sometimes
anyways i don't know how much the twitch chat actually agrees with me we should do a poll
what do you like more pubg or all right um fortnite
i'm on it cause i i like playing pub g more but i
get very angry when like i'll rubber band
around a wall or i'll be like clearly behind something and die and it's not
the other the other dude isn't hacking or anything it's just huge latency
issues the the tick rate on the servers is garbage i don't remember what it is
now but it was like 11 to 17 before really like it's it's really bad why
this is something you know maybe you can explain this to me from a technical standpoint
why run a crappy tick rate when everyone
knows what would be better um okay so in like october
they were saying 17 hertz tick rate
really yeah how can you even play a competitive game like that yeah
like there's issues with the game and the yeah a lot of it's just ignored
more people are voting for fortnite right now it's really close to be fair
wow these votes are coming in really fast and a lot of people like compared
to most pools we run yeah this is crazy
but then you think about it we're streaming on twitch most of the time we're not doing gaming
polls that's fair yeah yeah so it's close which i'm not
surprised by right but fortnite is edging out pubg which
shouldn't be surprising exactly and i i prefer the gameplay style of pubg and
all this kind of stuff there's just so many frustrating things
anyways wish i had time to play games
i legitimately do
so in other news
game over for uh drones that's bad
a drone crashed in arizona national forest starting a wildfire
200 acres 200 acres that burned 300 acres
over 300 acres with 30 firefighters able to
contain it within the day that's how much it burned in a day
and it's unclear what kind of drone it was but it caught fire when it crashed
setting fire to a grassland area called kendrick park
the pilot was identified and charged with starting a forest fire
lawmakers are pushing to criminalize drone flying in wildfire areas
so basically you're not going to be able to fly a drone near a person near an
animal near a vehicle near a wildfire area
which is like what isn't yeah um
a spokesperson for the forest said it is legal to fly a drone in the forest as
long as it doesn't take off in a wilderness area and as long as there are no nearby wildfires
so i don't know how you're going to turn this into a criminal charge against the
guy um or wait no okay yeah you can yeah okay
so i get is it negligence i guess so
because i think i feel like you'd have to have
precautions along the route so if nothing else you'd have to have
like people out along the route because i bet you film crews would still
be able to get away with it
interesting because they could have like crew around
just in case the drone fell
you know so
here's another good one goodbye drones goodbye porn
um rhode island
is proposing a bill requiring internet service providers to
block sexual content and not necessarily for the reason you might
think because you would probably go it's probably a think of the children
but what they really want is to get 20
dollars from you one time it's a one-time fee
twenty dollars from you to be able to
access pornography which will give money to the state to
help fund the operation of the council on human trafficking
you have to send in a request in writing
that you want it disabled you have to present your id to verify
that you're older than 18 and you have to acknowledge
receiving written warning regarding the danger associated with deactivating the
filter
wow yeah
so that's interesting with current wording it seems like the
filters for illegal things like child porn would also be deactivated if you
paid the fee what
how does that help the problem that they're okay
completely regardless of the moral issues of blocking anything on the
internet to any degree whatever whatever whatever completely ignore all that kind of stuff for now just look at the stance
they're trying to make and the results that they're setting up
they don't line up that's that's completely what i'm confused about right
now so what
but they would have a registry of all the people who are un unlocked yeah
unzipped which is just
but that's just awkward and like it sounds like you have to maybe do it in
person because that's be in writing you have to acknowledge that you've seen this form saying that you're a bad
person essentially and you have to present your id it says present id not
like my understanding is that human
trafficking and effectively slavery is actually a huge problem in the porn
industry i don't do a ton of research on it
but like apparently people can end up like not so
much in north america i don't think but people can end up signing contracts
without fully understanding them that basically turn them into sex slaves that
sounds less likely in north america yeah um
and so i can understand the need to um
sort of investigate where this internet porn is coming from
the impact it's having and if there are illegal activities going on
that are driving it but i don't think that um
like an internet censorship bill makes a ton of sense as the way to
go about that it seems sort of like a broader um
once again another topic that i'm really just not sure what to say about
i just don't understand like is this the worst thought out thing ever
like that that's the only thing that's the only conclusion i'm really coming to
like if regardless of your stance on it whether you're for it or against it
their approach is super confusing okay so we've got people correcting me saying
that bringing people into the into north america to act as slaves is still pretty
common yeah it's it's a little bit different though so in north america the
way that typically this is my understanding the way that the human trafficking game typically works is that
you're relying on their very poor language skills and the fact that they
don't understand the ability to the laws of the country in order to get
themselves out of it but that's not really what i was talking about i was
talking about situations where actually through legal contracts
um you're creating situations where um people are effectively being sexually
assaulted at work every day but they're contractually obligated to continue to
do it um so
yeah okay
so thanks for watching guys um this has been an interesting lan show we will see
you again next week same bat time same bad channel bye
some messed up man stuff man
yeah i think they're just like
i don't know what are you gonna do ask
i heard i heard that that was one of the
white house's top priorities stopping the sexual harassment