and sink we don't have to sink sink the
plan is never to sink the plan is to
float that's right all right welcome to the W show you guys sinking for the
editor we don't edit the W show why not
why not because the L show is already as great as it possibly could be it is the
greatest show and we've got a lot of great topics for you guys today so first
up twitch to relaunch curse
as social twitch desktop app so social
sounds very social to me it's a very interesting actual shift I I do have a
fair bit to discuss about that even though I have never once used curse and
very rarely used twitch MH I it would be
once a week but like other other than that um the first am4 ITX board
appears Facebook strikes makes a deal to live stream major league soccer matches
which of sorry excuse me football football football not uh not hand EG
it's not football yeah no it's not football really are you going to be that
guy that just has to go and be uh you know all American about it well when I
was a kid we called football the the game with the ball with the p the pig
skin on it you know Nintendo switch sales are
apparently absolutely crushion ating
everything and let's see W there was
another really cool one where is it scientists have stored a movie an
operating system and oh yeah an Amazon gift card in a single spec of DNA so
we'll have more on this at 11 so far we
have zero viewers apparently that must be an error I refuse to accept that we
could have zero viewers on the W show there are twitch Chatters so there are I
have 601 viewers all right rock on so 61
viewers can watch an intro that works oh oh oh and I no no I got this mute mute
mute everything is fine everything is awesome good stuff good stuff this is
going well going as
expected do you have music I believe
so I'm busy uh I'm on a new
laptop no no I got this i got this i got this don't worry I got this i got this
I'm trying to help I fix it I fix it now
I fix it not you fix it I fix I
fix I I got nothing for that
one my my space my space no no wait it's
in a square no it's a square my my space
is a square nope terrible terrible everything about it is
terrible all right I got to get logged into uh twitch here which is such an
ordeal the way that we have it set up because you know okay I can't give any
details because it has a lot to do with the way that we have our account secured
but let me put it this way it's not easy it is not easy to lock into our Twitch
account are we doing the first topic first is that um is that what's
happening yeah why don't we do the first topic first we got a lot of actually
really good topics for you guys today uh first up is going to
be ah yes to relaunch curse as social
twitch desk top app so this is the
original article here is from The Verge and as someone who hasn't due to having
children and whatnot um who hasn't had a ton of time for gaming in the last five
years wow yeah I know I know I'm
basically an old man at this point except that old people you get old
enough that you actually could have time for gaming again
30 no balls three kids I I have balls
they just just don't work # no balls in the chat please
um okay you know that the chat bot will ban them right if it that's the plan if
it turns into a Spam Fest yeah so anyone who listens to Nick ends up
banned um so okay so tell me then as
someone who may have actually looked at the curse app at some
point or another yeah what's up what is it why would anyone care cuz I it's been
installed as what I perceived as junk wear on my stuff to be honest with you
curse was like kind of after my time as
well which is really sad because now I'm an old person too um but yeah I think it
was mainly just like a chat app that had some type of integration with some games
um so it was steam but like not steam
yeah I think it was meant to be like a voice and text chat service essentially
I might be wrong um but that that was my
understanding so it's Discord but older and not
Discord I I think so so anyway the new I
mean twitch chat let us know let us know if we're wrong here because here's okay
so here's my problems right off the bat m is that there
are it's it's like an overflow there are
so many ways for gamers to communicate
with each other while they're gaming there's The Voice and text chat that's
built into the game there's the one that's built into your overlay through
whatever online platform you purchased your game through if you're a smart
person who purchases their games through an online platform so there's that then
there's centralized Services lots of people still use Skype but there's ones
like Discord for example then there's selfhosted Solutions like Mumble
ventrillo um I mean do we do we need do
we need one run by twitch um I don't think so and okay people in the chat are
saying no you're wrong curse is a mod platform for wow yeah like 10 years ago
curse was a big mod platform for wow what we're talking about is Curse Voice
which was what is being translated into twitch is twitch's desktop app here is
what my assumption is um so yes curse
used to be a mod platform for Wow uh as far as I know it hasn't been that mainly
in a number of years but yeah I I really don't understand
why this needs to be a thing like Discord is pretty much the easiest thing
to use that I've found um but there's
tons of self-hosted stuff there is you know even like going back to the old
days of Skype when Skype used to be used for gaming um I I I really don't
understand what the kind of like value that's being added here is
um and here's something that's really funny to me is is
like it feels like everyone else wants
to move things to mobile and move things to web apps MH and here it is a desktop
app now with that said as someone who does genuinely prefer having a desktop
app like Google Hangouts which by the way this is hilarious Google is
rebranding their yes their messaging
service again um so so yeah we'll talk more
about that later I would love it if that's one of my main
issues with Google Hangouts is that there isn't like a first-party Google
Hangouts desktop application and that it has to run in my browser in a Gmail tab
or or I can pop it out and I could like have it all over the place but it's very disorganized I would prefer if it was
just a desktop app I just don't really see why for gamers it is considered a
boon to have more crap uh running in the
background so the app's going to include Community servers screen sharing which
like why not just use a business platform if you're going to be screen sharing why would you need to screen
share when you're gaming voice and video messaging and
game content distribution so same thing
like you could get mods or whatever else on it I guess it's meant to give game
give streamers followers a place to connect but doesn't Discord already do
that and keep people okay so here finally we get to the meat and potatoes
of it and keep people on the site after game streams have ended with features
like communities twitch creative and twitch presents so as far as I can tell
they pretty much went like hey lots of streamers using Discord to manage their
communities why don't we just like phase
them out okay I mean I guess okay well now
the strategy is clear at least we've got that sorted out
yeah um so I guess that's that's that's
what it is yeah so the launch is on March 16th and existing curse users will
be upgrading to the new version just like that enjoy it's uh it's kind of a
it's kind of a funny thing like do you feel a little bit like a um do you feel
a little bit like a like a baseball player where you just kind of get we
getting traded you know like when when one company that you've you're kind of
you've got your loyalty to yeah does anyone still use Razer comms speaking of
uh do Razer com still a thing oh yeah or is it part of like synaps now no Razer
commoms is a thing razor coms look at this you can see you
can tell something's a thing when it doesn't just have like the the top the
top line here when it has like lots of other crap under it that's important
mind you some of this is Razer coms L scouter okay I don't know what that is
but mobile to desktop free in-game
overlay connecting Made Easy okay all right um I forget what the point I
forget what the point I was trying to make was I completely forget what the point I
was trying to make was
okay so twitch is getting this thing oh yeah yeah yeah yeah right we're like you
you sign up for a service or you give your like you create a profile with a
company and you give them personal information like your your phone number
your email your payment your payment details or whatever the case may be and
just like you know one day you're you're Jose cono and you're like you're
literally out in the field playing and
it gets announced on the news that you've been you've been traded you've
been traded now you belong to someone else uhhuh and they can just sort of
acquire it they can Rebrand it they can change the features the entire Vision
can change and as a user you have no
influence here at all does it bother you that you can be a
twitch streamer so I mean we're okay because it's one thing as just a user
but let's say you've invested significant time whether it's U
developing a mod or whether it's building a following on a platform
perfect example of that was um oh that stupid platform that I never got into
Vine right vine where just like boom no now we're Twitter yep no Vines uh just
if you don't have Twitter followers if you're just a a pure Viner you're done you're dead um where twitch can just
kind of go oh yeah we're we're selling to Amazon then curse okay yeah we're selling to Twitch which is owned by
Amazon and it's just like it's almost like an exercise in just kind of
collecting users I mean yeah that's at
the end of the day that's kind of what it seems like right and that's you know the game that a lot of people nowadays
including us to agree you're playing is like how do you get more eyeballs you
know what I mean like the acquisition of twitch is all about okay how do we
integrate Amazon products into this thing that's already garnering you know
hundreds of thousands to millions of unique users per day and sell through
that um so yeah from a user perspective
it kind of feels you know it just feels crappy to
kind of go okay well here's this thing that maybe I really liked maybe I really
liked Cur voice maybe I really liked you know the way twitch was before Amazon
and now it changes but the you know there's always two
sides to the coin yeah okay fair enough
um what's with your obsession with Jose
Cano I like came in your office the other day and you were like looking up
like Jose cono steroid something okay
okay so the the the back okay backstory there you it's not here right now but I
was trying to I end up on these tangents sometimes when I'm writing no kidding so
no kidding so I was writing up my video on the LG gram
2017 and I wanted a way to describe the
change in the battery life okay so what
LG did was they increased the overall
weight of the unit by about 10% uhhuh of
which all of of it is pure battery just
like cramming in more battery so the
line in the video I wanted it to be it was like going to be like more roided up
than x and I was trying to figure out what could possibly be the most roided
up thing on earth and so I ended up doing a bunch of
sometimes just for one reference or one
line in a script cuz I think the the finished script ends up being something
like more wred up than uh late 90s
baseball or early 9s baseball or something early 90s MLB I think is what
I say um and in order to write that line
and make sure I get like the era right and make sure it's about as roided up as
anything can be I actually end hour and a half of research I end up down these
rabbit holes where I'm like okay so is it cono or Maguire you know who's the
who do we who who who royed the most wasn't Bon's part of that era too uh
well I think bonds never admitted it so and like I didn't want to because
remember too it's more than just me getting the era of the roiding right
it's making sure that it's confirmed and and that I'm not going to get sued for
liable um or like defamatory statements or whatever the I mean can you imagine
if that was the end of this story if like I busted my butt and built
this company and all these people came together and helped me run this company
and we were all like doing a great job and kicking ass steroids so YouTube
kicked you off not I'm like you don't get kicked off
YouTube for doing steroids no but but if I made a careless
comment about some baseball player who
may even have been on steroids and they
come after us they sue us they sue my pants off and I can't yeah you know get
my pants back on and twitch knocks me
off their platform for not having pants on that could happened did you see the
guy on the news this morning who likely wasn't wearing pants the thing where like he was on the he was interviewing
about Korea he's like a Korea expert his kids come into the room and he's just
he's sitting there at the table like this and just like looking back and then
like somebody comes in and wrangles the kids but he doesn't move an inch I'm like that dude is not wearing
pants the second I saw that I'm like that dude's only got brief on man holy
I mean holy crap sorry
oops this is the PG show okay I'm not
I'm not on the the live TV very often uh
the CIA listed blackberry's car software
as a possible Target so the original article here is from Bloomberg there's
there was a big thing with Wikileaks this week we're not going to get too far
into it but we thought this was pretty interesting just cuz Blackberry is one
of the few Canadian Tech firms that
remains and news news about black is
this just an ad news about Blackberry really couldn't get much worse than it's
uh than it's been over the last yeah well ever since Steve Jobs stood on
stage and went this is the thing that is going to absolutely crush the rest of
the smartphone market y um so in a
nutshell oh man like they're trying to Rebrand around security um but in a
nutshell on Tuesday Wikileaks released over 8,000 CIA documents some of which
detail cyber attacks on iOS and Android phones Samsung smart TVs oh the Samsung
Smart TV one was really creepy uh what
what was the detail of that details of that one again I can't remember top to
the effect of like it infects your TV with malware and puts it in like a fake
off mode so that even when it's off it's
still recording like everything essentially yeah there we go uh it's
called the the Weeping Angel tool um and so the CIA could listen in on Samsung
Smart TVs and it's like I don't know about you guys but I watch
all kinds of stuff on my TV
okay right you know you know what I'm saying I mean big screen TV right 4K I
mean what are we using Lord of the Rings not necessarily lord of the something
lord lord of the something I mean there's there's rings
out there let me tell you about Rings
okay wow wow well that got off the rails fast
uh I think I think there were a few of those in the weirdest purchases on
Amazon yeah I think there were a few of those anyway so blackberry's Automotive
software was specifically mentioned as a potential Mission area by the CIA
embedded devices Branch it's used by 60
million cars it's unclear at this time if the CIA moved forward with the
attacks but Blackberry basically said the only thing they can say we are not
currently aware of any attacks or exploits against Blackberry products or
services that's actually that's a very broad
statement yeah we are not aware of any attacks or exploits against Blackberry
products or Services a very very uh strong blanket statement yeah but
they're not currently aware so they definitely could be
um so they make uh specialized operating
systems for Industrial Products like this Q andx makes uh the wind turbines
anti-tank missiles and most importantly incar infotainment systems which by the
way are terrible we should do a video on like incar infotainment system done
right I was shopping for a Min van um
back about wow a year ago almost back about six six eight months ago something
like that yeah and I drove a used one that was from like 2005 or 2006 like it
really wait what year is it now 17 crap no it was newer than that sorry
it was like 2015 or 2016 or something like that you thought it was 2007 just
shut up okay
just anywh who um the one I was driving
was the Rees so rear Entertainment System version Oh yeah and so I crawled
back to look at it I'm like this is the worst TN panel I've ever seen are you
for real composite and S Video in I mean
that was all it had it wasn't even like it might not have been two or three
years old like it was right before a refresh or something like that and it
but it wasn't like 10 years old either and I was like this is stupid you got to
be able to do better than this so that was when I was kind of inspired I think we should do something around that at
some point I agree um I think um you
know the the counter to the to this uh you know the concern about they have all
these exploits blah blah blah blah blah blah blah that I've been hearing you
know people in the no making is okay well don't you want us to have access to
these that we know what people are capable of and so that we can spy on
potentially dangerous people but we all know like but aren't that that's that's
like if that was really the objective they'd be closing the back doors yeah
yeah exactly and that's that's the thing where it's like yeah if you guys were
being totally honest that these would not be a thing anymore so okay let's
wrap up this topic and then I've actually got a a new one that I was
inspired by an email I just received to cover because it feels like it's
something that I really should have talked about a long time ago and I'm
going to I'm going to do it once and for all now so maybe I won't get these emails anymore um actually I guess
that's pretty much it so security research showed they could hack into a
Jeep taking control away from the driver on the highway Blackberry was quick to say it Tech wasn't involved in that
breach um but yeah anyway uh okay so I
just got an email um from someone asking
about like under licens doing a French version of the WAN Show and I get people
messaging me about this all the time uh you know we'd love to work with you to
create like a UK branch office of lonus
Media Group or we'd love to work with
you guys to create a Punjabi version of
your reviews or whatever the case may be
and the answer is no because the thing that is special
about lonus tech tips or the W show or
um what what do we do all day Techquickie or Channel Super Fun sleep is
not the idea of having a
podcast about what happened in the
technology world this week that's been done people tune in to the W show for
some inexplicable reason that goes
beyond that apparently um because
because if it were as simple as taking
the approximate format of the W show which quite frankly doesn't have much of
a format it's probably the least formatted show there is I mean basically
okay here's the format we have a list of topics we're going to maybe talk about
them a lot of the time we don't um that's that's the format no no I I I I'm
going to take you guys deep inside the bowels
up uh okay what are you talking about no
bowels is not necessarily the rectum like like like bowel where I was going
bowels of the earth is not like dirty can you get to the point okay so I'm
going to take you guys deep inside the bowels of the inner workings of Linus
Media Group and the inspiration for the
W show was some other Tech podcast that
I had never actually watched but I was vaguely aware of I was
like okay like this format people seem
to be watching it let's like kind of do
that but then I never actually watched it and I just kind of like was like okay
we'll just look at like we'll make it the forum's problem we'll just look at
the tech news subsection of the Forum and we'll incentivize people to post
Tech news there by calling out that they posted Tech news there on this show and
we'll create a positive feedback loop where effectively our show will get
written for us just by hosting a show
that was where the WAN Show came from I was like we don't have time we don't
have time to do seven video uploads per week if we set aside an hour and a half
on Fridays to good Lord to host to just sit
there then that content kind of makes itself that's the inspiration for the W
show and that's why the vibe of the W
show is that it's just like me and Luke
or me and someone else else or Luke and someone else or someone else and someone
else goofing around on a Friday afternoon talking about tech because
that's all it really was we needed to fill an upload slot and we had this
great resource that was our community sitting there discussing the tech that
they thought was most relevant and we figured hey let's take those two things
and let's put them together Boom the lcho was born it's like I don't know a
lot of the time people I think think we have like some master plan master plan
a
of the master plan's usually about 30%
plan and 170% execution that's right yeah just
just we have this vague idea it's like on a whiteboard that like someone like
that someone knocked over and then kind of rubbed across the carpet so you can't
okay here's step one and step two step three four five 6 TBD we're just going
to do it let's just go a lot of the time there isn't even a profit plan like w
show these days is actually one of our easiest spots to sell the sponsors is
that still correct I don't know I don't do that anymore like does anyone do that
anymore I don't think are we I don't know okay well anyway um we
we'll take that meeting offline
um anyway for at least some time the W
show was one of the it we had no idea
how we were going to make money on the we were just like you know what um TWiT
TV is a thing mhm all they do is
podcasts there must be a business model here so let's just create a podcast with
all those other factors that I that I told you guys and like surely someone
will want to get involved at some point maybe someone will watch it and if they
do then maybe sponsors will care oh that
was that was the master plan anyway getting back to your point about people
you were talking about regionalizing our ideas stuff it's about the people who
are in the video you know usually um it's not necessarily about the format of
the show or what's on the screen outside of the people who are in it the idea of
creating a video reviewing the iPhone 7
is not good I mean it's a good idea but
it's not a unique idea it's not going to like it's not going to make it so that
the French version of The W show or the Indian version of lonus tech tips or
whatever the case may be it's not going to make that successful if you want to
have a podcast and you want to have a
tech review YouTube channel or Daily
Motion Channel or whatever they're French um do it you shouldn't be
licensing our brand to do it that's not
going to make you successful that's like um so so this was this was actually a
great conversation that I had back when I was doing the house painting okay so
the guy who runs uh student Works painting in western Canada bought rights
to the name from the guy who runs it in
Eastern Canada and those two companies
have zero affiliation financially I I'm
pretty sure they don't even write each other Christmas cards in fact I don't
think the relationship is very good but then he has to pay money to the other
guy I don't think it's ongoing I think he bought it bought a license bought it
bought the license like outright bought the rights to the name so they could
they would carve up the the the territory that way and what he said was
that was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made because why no one in western
Canada had heard of student Works painting he might have he might as well
have called it ass Works painting I mean
probably not that but but the point is he could have called it pro- student
painting or student summer painting or
what whatever it doesn't matter wouldn't have had to pay a licensing fee the idea
is just as good and it's ultimately came down to him to hustle and build the
brand anyway regardless of that name MH
and in much the same way that nobody should license the idea of making
reaction videos from the Fine Brothers
nobody should license the idea of the wow from us so I'm not saying that like
you're stupid for wanting to have a French Tech podcast great idea I'm
saying that what's a bad idea is trying
to clone what we're doing because you should be out there trying to do your
thing finding what someone else is doing and copying it is not successful in fact
well it could be but I mean it won't necessarily lead to success in fact it
is my personal belief that one of the things that works about lonus Media
Group is the fact that when we try to copy something it's often without having
ever watched the original where we just take the idea and
then it's really mostly our own ideas like I think you know and and this is
sort of this is me kind of going off on even more of a tangent one of the things
that I think is really cool about the way that we make videos is that I don't
have any formal video production training at all everything that we've
done has been through trial and error and I think that you see not okay not
everything we have people here who are anyway to wrap it up my ideas are
usually trial and error why don't we say it that way to wrap it up you should be
doing your own thing don't you know try to follow in the footsteps of somebody
else of course you should take influence from others who inspire you and who make
you want to create and do what you do Be Inspired don't license yes Be Inspired
don't license and um just grind hard and
and you'll you'll make it happen so this is this is what like I just work hard
and bust your butt growth curve looks like you might not ever this is CES that
like doesn't count count so is this and so is oh no wait no this is computex so
so is this so is this the these spikes these are these are CES spikes um so
what you're really looking at here is just slow and steady wins the race have
new ideas try new things iterate on them see what works see what doesn't keep
what works throw away what doesn't by the way you're fired all right later I
didn't realize this was a motivational speaking podcast I thought this was about technology well the W that's the
thing is the W show is about whatever the W show is about that's and that's
part of what makes the W show special as well am I actually fired like I would
love to go play breath of the Wild next week instead of coming to work no you're
not fired you had your time off you spent it at Disneyland you could have
been playing breath of the wild that is not my problem that's true do you have
you played much breath of the wild how is it uh it's excellent it's like my
favorite game in years literally um so
I'm down yeah it's excellent It's like probably one of the best uh open World
Games I've ever played like hands down so like climbing a mountain in that game
is fun really to me at least like there's like
challenge in exploring the scenery cool
which is like something that I haven't experienced in a game before and of
course there are problems with it and some of it gets repetitive and blah blah blah blah blah but it is the most fun
I've had in a video game in years so I
might have to play it then yeah I don't even have a Wii U you can borrow mine
after okay sold yeah done sold uh next
topic thank you physical media heck yeah actually do we need new sponsors uh oh I
don't know maybe I don't know what time it is because this is set to the wrong time 40 minutes in 40 minutes in okay
yeah sure why don't we do uh speaking of the W show being uh being a good draw
for sponsors Colton is does the w show still sell well yeah yeah yeah okay cool
good job people like people like the W show people like the W show sponsors like the W show okay people like the W
show people like the W show it's easy to
sell why uh why is this why am I not able to open up a new freaking window
here you doing wow I'm I said frecking frecking is not a swear word said fre
you know what eat eat a dick that
wow good thing we have the new audio set up so hopefully that didn't hopefully
you didn't just destroy everybody's ears
um yeah some people consider dick a swear word well it is no it's a dirty
dirty word it is not a dirty dirty word you just have to shower once in a while
get the cheese off and on that note wait there's
there's food down there the
uh I wouldn't tell you to eat it if there wasn't any
food I'm done and we killed Nick Nick's
done Nick's done um
oh yeah I mean it's it's a terrible show
you you don't want to have this show you don't want to be the one responsible for
this show really want be talking about dick cheese yeah oh my God this is a
tech show okay can you keep things respectable please oh yeah me uhhuh
totally okay Tech topic Tech topic then we'll do sponsors I don't want the
sponsors to accidentally tune in too early tune dick and realize realize what
that's what they're paying for okay so cladin posted on the Forum
um is this the yeah okay what has been a oh by the way huge shout out to cladin
for being a Floatplane
pilot after sponsors we should tell people what's on FL yeah we should
definitely do that um so as I was looking on YouTube about riseing
overclock and blippity bloy overclock sleep bug etc etc uh basically the
summary of all of this is that um and
we've done a fair bit of Investigation we're working on our own overclocking
guide but when the high Precision event
timer is off if your machine goes to
sleep then wakes up your benchmarks will
appear to have higher scores okay so
this is actually because the system timer is running slow so Windows is
clock and anything that uses
timing is actually slowed by a fair margin so benchmarks which measure
compute time will score higher so I
believe these notes are from Anthony hold on one second hey Anthony those
cine bench scores those are your scores right okay cool thanks man okay so we
got 1750 in cinebench pre-sleep put the
machine to sleep woke it back up over
2,000 so there seems to be a fair bit of
confusion out there right now around ryzen performance because if people are
reporting benchmark scores based on some
of the tips and tricks out there that involve turning off H pet and going to
sleep and waking those benchmarks are
not actually representative of Real Performance to be clear ryzen does
perform very well but what this seems to
IND to us and actually hold on I'm just going to hey
Anthony uh our scores on the Crosshair
did not change after we uh disabled H
pet as long as we didn't go to sleep
right got it okay so our review was done
with hpet on because we didn't receive
the reviewer guidance that H might be bugged on the Crosshair on would be
correct right correct scores on means that our scores while maybe not quite
optimal are at least not affected by the timer button not affected by the bug
that makes them appear artificially inflated okay so there you go
um yeah so the window sleep bug makes
AMD ryzen overclock High and gives better Benchmark results so it
requires further investigation which is why our OC guide is coming out probably
next week or the week after and not this
week so like as a relative Layman like
what would cause something like that do we have any
idea basically the the Scuttle
butt is that AMD could have delayed the
launch of ryzen and squashed some of the
these types of bugs um these bugs don't
appear to affect like you know they
don't appear to cause risk of user data loss or anything devastating like that
but that there are some definite early
adopter um quirks quirks and Oddities
that could have been fairly easily dealt with if they had put it off a little bit
longer okay so that is sort of the
that's our takeaway and you know why I I
know the question's coming because it's a question that I ask and we debate it
internally and and it's a fair question um why not report on this in the ryzen
launch review and the reason for that is because we can say with a very high
degree of confidence that smart people
like AMD and ASUS are going to get their
heads together they're going to get feedback from early adopter users who
again it is my personal belief know or
should know what they're getting themselves into buying a brand new CPU
on a brand new chipset running a brand new memory controller brand new PCIe
controller brand new freaking everything it is my belief that AMD and ASUS will
solve little weird bugs in short order
that review covering the performance of the ryzen 1800 x has to sit there for
the next decade if all goes according to plan and I'm not going to spend you know
20% of my video the the precious little
time that I have to talk to you guys talking about some weird crap we ran
into that by the time you buy one by the time it gets put in a box and gets
transported on a truck to your house and you plug it in is going to be irrelevant
so that's why we tend not to overdo it on that stuff and the concern is
obviously there with you know what if this is causing people to
make purchasing decisions based on you know inflated benchmarks numbers etc etc
etc um which our numbers are not inflated Y which our numbers are not
inflated and the other concern is causing people to avoid purchasing
something that is legitimately very good
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graphics card in these These Days especially for thin and lights usually
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the weight we care about things like that so if the only change is that we
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focused on that rather than and I'll make some comments on the kbl lake
upgrade but there's not much to say it's still a great laptop I still love it um
but now with an external GPU um quick spoiler are they uh certifying any
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proprietary interface oh right yes yep instead of Thunderbolt but what I also
do want to do this time around is I want to look closer at whether the razor core
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speaking of things that you should do you should care about the variety of AMD
motherboards coming out so there it is I
believe uh that's biostar with their uh racing brand um yeah biostar racing
brand yeah I know it's very racy it's like edgy but like the old
word for it I understand so here it is
first am4 motherboard pictured over on video cards.net uh there's a few things
that we can tell about it just from looking at it uh number one is that it
appears to run off of only a four pin connector so it is my expectation that
people would be um encouraged to run like a 1,700 or less on here like 65
watt chip although there's no reason that you couldn't get away with an 1800
x you just probably wouldn't be doing a ton of overclocking uh there's not much
in the way of vrm cooling here um so this looks like not like a a balls
to the wall like an Rog competitor but more like kind of a mainstream decent
board uh you got four SATA ports right
there no m.2 that I can see that's a
little discouraging unless it's on the back which I have seen in the past so
don't quote me on that USB 3 PCI E6 DNX
two RAM slots looking pretty good I mean to be fair they don't have much room on
that board to begin with they may have just been prioritizing like okay we're
hitting this certain budget Target we don't expect that people in this range
are going to be buying m.2 cards yet yeah you know what though this is
something I really wish that AMD had done differently with am4 is this socket
yeah so two things number one is AMD has
now done this
uh three times okay so they had their
original socket 940 okay then they had socket 754 so
those used a particular mounting system so it was a single screw on either side
and then it came out to like a plastic clip bracket thing like this and the
problem with that was that third party coolers only had two anchor points and
that was kind of crappy then they fixed it with uh crap I think 939 also still
had this so I think it was am am2 was
what the first one was called anyway they fixed it they put four posts but
like they still Mount their own stock coolers with this stupid thing so I kind
of went okay fine you I realize why you changed it this time I get it fine this
time all they did was move the Hool slightly so all they've done for no
apparent reason is kill backwards
compatibility with old am3 am2 am2 plus
coolers MH and they've still got all this bulky plastic crap all over the
socket like if they had gone and they had kind of like gone okay mounting
holes here like done something LGA 2011 style where it's just got threaded holes
in around the socket that would have been super cool um I really don't like
the way they did this cuz it takes up a lot of space it moved the mounting holes
and all of this as far as I can tell was done for no reason other than to
decrease compatibility with older coolers so that cooler manufacturers can
sell you a new am4 bracket or cooler like that's the that's the the tinf foil
hat guy in me kind of going I I really can't think of another reason they would
have done that not that tin foil um go back to it for a sec someone says lineus
on the back look next to audio you can see screw
holes
um yeah I can see screw holes wow would
never miss a screw hole uh next to audio yeah not
necessarily so I I do see these but uh
those okay and those look like m.2
mounts but they wouldn't actually go all the way through necessarily like that's
not what they would look like on this side I don't know what that is
um yeah so I didn't want to I didn't want to say definitively that that's
what that is if I wasn't there's a lot of people saying there is m.2 on this one so maybe it's on the back cool so
maybe it is yeah uh that's boring is
this interesting Facebook streaming major league soccer matches does anyone
care about this I mean people in the rest of the world apparently James does
people in like in here's the thing in Canada if you played soccer as a kid
like 95% of your games were rained or snowed out so like that's why no one
cares about it here
a okay so Facebook scores a deal to live
stream major league soccer match that and I'm pretty sure nobody cares about
MLS I think John does well yeah but JN
cares about every sporting league on earth like you could hey John do you
watch professional Cricket no would you no he says no okay
okay so okay so no Cricket all right never mind I take it back but but like
okay okay an a sport that's interesting
to Americans though I guarantee you he
follows not only like the the top League
like the national league but he follows like college and like the to be fair
sometimes even high school a lot of the college stuff that he follows is because
he went to Duke that's true he follows his college specifically and I think
that's much of a a much more significant thing in the states yeah oh yeah I hear
that's like super not a thing like I like I think UBC has a hockey team show
Thunderbirds Thunder
called yay let's do the do the Thunderbird
wave no no that's not no you got to you got to do the wave you got to do your I
was doing the Thunder this was the Thunderbird wave I'm not fully in frame
I don't know but I'm a bird that doesn't look like a Thunderbird that looks like
a freaking uh Nancy bird it's not a
car um Carin so Facebook has secured the
rights to stream at least 22 live Major League Soccer regular season matches in
English in 2017 and to enhance the video content with various interactive
elements like Facebook specific commentators interactive Graphics fan
Q&A and polling features um basically
the reason that the headline is like the nail in the TV coffin is that the money
in advertising is going to online
platforms uh online companies like Facebook and Google and the like and
it's gotten to the point where they're getting very close to being capable of
buying the rights to things like
broadcasting yeah live sports I don't think you guys talked about this last
week but YouTube TV um they have I think
40 40 channels that would include stuff
like live sports and um just broadcast
television and they've bought up the rights to this stuff and people are
saying that yeah TV is in massive trouble because of this because not only
do they have 40 channels it's only $35 a month compared to a cable subscription
which up here I think averages between $80 and $100 a month something like that
I wouldn't know I've never paid for one I have a bundle that's like really
discounted but um yeah I think a standard like decent cable package is
between $60 and $100 yeah so um
basically the point is and I I I see
Facebook as a I see what Facebook's doing as a bigger threat than what
YouTube's doing where as far as I can tell Facebook's uh approach here seems
to be give the content for free like
spend the buckets and buckets of cash
that you make by advertising to your user base something you're already doing
through other media uh through through other methods
anyway get keep people on the site drive
up more interaction by having this content basically eating the cost of the
content to get more data from you whereas I think YouTube is sort of in
between that where they're trying to get a more traditional subscription
fee from you with that said I don't think that it's impossible that Facebook
would try and get you to pay for a subscription at some point in the future
either Twitter Twitter did a similar thing uh I think this was just last year
um with the national football League the NFL um where they're doing some of the
games um and I believe it's a similar thing I don't I don't think that you
have to pay I haven't tried it um but I don't think you have to pay I think they're just eating the cost on
that oh my gosh Pizza Hut smart shoes
the original article here is from slashgear let's go ahead and bring that
up they do look amazing by the way I
would I would wear these like one of the stranger wearables um entirely
advertisement focused Pizza Hut smart
shoes um the shoes are high tops they refer to
them as pie tops only 64 pairs are being made all of the pairs will be giving to
the media and influ and individuals considered to be influencers can we can
we get some can we get one I want one we actually have a piece of content planned
soon called wearables that aren't crap um although I don't necessar okay I
don't want to Bridges with Pizza Hut as a potential future
sponsor but if I had to eat pizza it
would not be your first choice it would not be my first choice it wouldn't be my
second choice it would not be my third
choice to be fair we have some really good pizza joints around it wouldn't be
my chain choice to be fair we have some really
good pizza joints and Pano's a thing so Pano's a thing yeah so anyway we need to
get Panago as a sponsor yeah good luck well they're like aren't they like only
Western Canada really is that right yeah I assumed they were I think they're like
just BC in Alberta oh yeah yeah yeah
like we had a buddy who moved out here for school interesting ate Panago all
the time loved it moved back to Ontario and now he's like dude I wish I had
Panago yeah like it's it's still chain Pizza like it's not um what's that
really good local one uh Jims oh Jim's
Pizza is so good yeah it's so good it's not Jim's Pizza of which there are like
there's like two there's two locations in Langley and they're both in Lang
so go go screw yourself if you
want and I'm not talking langle Virginia okay oh dang sorry langly British sorry
CIA we know you're listening that's that's funny you made
up for the not funny thing you did earlier CU that was very funny uh so uh
the shoes themselves don't do the ordering but rather connect with a
special py Toops app to place a predesignated order um and and you just
press a button whether you can accidentally order a pizza if you cross your ankles remains to be
seen great okay so this was originally
posted on the Forum by cloaked and uh this is ridiculous yeah
so Google is um oh man this is just this
is just terrible so the original article here is from Android police Google
officially splits Hangouts into meet and
chat new apps what new apps meet and
chat why why oh
why wow this seems awful yeah it really
does so it's literally just Hangouts video and hangouts test text chat except
now you need two
apps like holy
actual crap and this is this is great so
uh clo actually did a wonderful job of this News Post doing a good job of
putting quotes from the original article a really good link to the original
article and uh his or her own uh
feedback as well as going and searching out this tweet from
um so hero Harrison Hopkins sent a
message to Justin ubertini Justin Uberti
sorry uh hold on where is it there we go here we go so uh principal engineer
Google technical lead for duo coad for
Alo so basically the guy in charge so you want us to use four apps
to talk to people Alo Doo Google Messenger phone the point stands
all-in-one apps are not the
what so you think have you ever used
Justin have you ever used an Android
device have you ever experienced your pocket being on fire
because some Android app is
sucking battery for no apparent reason in the background do you have any idea
how hard I try to install fewer things
on my Android device in particular because I am so tired of being like my
phone's running really hot what do I have to force close
today no more apps is not the future at
all if it doesn't fit on a single home screen it is not going on my phone we
actually use Hangouts predominantly here
at work as our internal messaging chat
the reason for it is that it actually does work it's easy pretty great it's
crossplatform it's a single thing that works across Mac um Peace PC Android iOS
everything if you message someone on at if you message someone who works here on
Hangouts the odds of them seeing it in a timely manner is pretty
good why could you how could you
possibly think that instead of just
having a button for a voice call a
button for a video call and a text box
for a text message how could you possibly think that opening up a
different app is a better
idea so Hangouts meet okay is video conferencing with the
goal of making online meetings as painless as possible fired up meetings
can be started simply by sharing a link no fiddling around with logins plugins
or native applications up to 30 particip
so basically you can have a direct a
dedicated dial in number if you're a g Enterprise customer which we aren't
because they introduced G Enterprise after we bought our subscription service
like oh yeah g Enterprise it's like ever so slightly different and better uh cost
twice as much so screw that screw that screw Hangouts meet this is stupid
because there's nothing here that Hangouts meet does that Hangouts doesn't
already do just fine or that couldn't easily have been added you can already
send someone link to a Hangouts and they can join Hangouts chat is apparently
going to be more like Slack for Microsoft teams than previous Hangouts
supports multiple virtual rooms for each topic threaded conversations integration
with other G Suite services in a filterable search so it's going to be
yet another thing that because Google can't make up their freaking mind and
stay behind a communication application
yet another thing that's garbage you know what else is
garbage the Google SMS app that comes
built into Android you know why it's garbage because when you switch to
another Android device it doesn't sync that's garbage I thought the whole
point of Google was backing up all your crap you know what else is stupid the
fact that when you back up an Android phone and restore another one it doesn't
back up your home screen shortcuts that to me is just fundamental stuff that for
some reason Google can't clue in that people need you know else just garbage
while it shut up what's that called you
were tell you were explaining this to me the other day the guy in the rap song
that's just like yeah hype man okay get out of here hype man tell
okay you know what else is garbage go the contacts app I'm even moving my
hands like this the contacts app you
can't have multiple people for a single contact how am I supposed to enter my
grandma and grandpa who by the way do not have individual cell phones how am I
supposed to enter my grandma and grandpa as a contact okay
tell them okay well I'm angry now you know
what's kind of funny actually I'm kind of over it I kind of got it out of my system you know what kind of funny this
is like showing a very big difference between Google and Amazon to the Giants
in the US right now where Google is trying to separate everything and
segment everything and Amazon through twitch is trying to integrate everything
into one vertical I think I think
integration is the way forward I agree
but it's just that's really interesting to see these two different approach is in like an overall vision for how the
future of technology is going um but you
know that's just my opinion I've always wanted a rant Channel people were like
this should be a video like I would I would love to have a rant channel it's
just it's something that doesn't make sense for Linus media group's current
direction um currently currently we'll see uh Nintendo switch sales are
apparently absolutely crushing it and
Gadget says the switch is the fastest selling console in Nintendo history with
Zelda being the bestelling launch title the company's ever seen which is sort of
taken for granted given that they didn't ship it with a game and it's the only
game for the console so if it's going to be the fastest selling console it's
going to have to be the bestselling launch title well I wonder if they're
factoring in Wii U breath of the wild sales oh actually I'm not sure um
beating out Mario 64 though so bestselling Standalone launch title wow
that's fantastic you know I've never I have tried multiple times to get into
Mario 64 never managed to do it really yeah oh it a great game just never
managed to do it great game I should try again at some point I own it on Virtual
Console on my Wii so I just need to like go play it you should get a get little
man involved yeah well no I'm okay once
once you graduate him to the 64 first game first game I'm going to play with
him is going to be Final Fantasy 6 my favorite game of all time okay um and
you know what he's getting really close kid can read so like yeah so he that
doesn't mean he can understand the weird winding path of a Final Fantasy game no
but six is a lot I don't even understand the weird Final Fantasy game it's less
weird okay it's it's not entirely not weird it's just it's a lot less weird
all right um way to be in the shot come
on see she's not Pastor probation yet
which means Technically she's not supposed to be on camera well I mean she
did drop the very famously dropped the uh oh yeah oh
hey Max actually yeah can I wor you for a sec come come on over here for for a
sec come on have a seat come on in have a seat have a seat um come on in so
we've had some of our viewers accusing us of the um faking of Faking or staging
the drop the drop of the rise and test bench you're right behind the microphone
by the way yeah on purpose um so max can you tell me did you stage that for
comedic effect what what what what was was the objective when you uh dropped
the uh the the the test bench there I
don't know why I would stage anything for comedic effect um like that I think
the scream of Despair was comedy enough
no y okay this has been so
fun all right thanks Max Thanks Max bye
okay so the way it went down was against the advice of Brandon and
Max I propped up the test bench like that knowing did that yeah I propped it
up knowing that I would be standing right next to it to catch it the
doorbell rang Tyler wasn't in the
warehouse and I was like oh I'll I'll grab the door Max Max can you keep an
eye on that she's like yeah I'll watch it so she's standing there like this and
she kind of goes it's not moving at all
and oh shoot I left the camera on I'll go turn off the camera before she even
made it to the camera which is why the camera was still rolling before she even
made it to the camera it started to fall so that's why you saw her like dashing
over there trying to trying to get it that's how it went down it was not the
intent although what I will say is that mostly uh everything survived the Titan
XP is fine which is great the RAM's fine the only thing that Chip's fine our 1800
x is fine the only things that died are the cooler which got super bent um and
hey actually hey Max where's that cooler do you
know okay we should Instagram
it Anthony if you know where that cooler is can you bring it over here yeah so
the cooler died and our Crosshair 6 died so the board died is the does the board
have physical damage oh yeah oh yeah it was like can you can you bring the board
no I bent it back already oh oh oh never mind yeah so it was like it was like
bent it was like bowed cuz it cuz it fell down directly onto the cooler and
got like 50 million views yeah probably but like I don't think about that yeah
yeah here can I I don't think about that stuff likeu not in the moment that's
like there was one video recently where you were like wait this one's fine oh no
this oh oh never mind that's not fine
nothing is fine um has this already like reconciled removed from inventory marked
Dead all that stuff I believe so but I'm going to GL okay so that's like in that
there there was a video recently where you were like you can tell when there's a problem and then when there's a
problem and that was a problem so see it
looks kind of okay from here you got a couple bent fins and then you turn it to
the side oops oh no so that's that's the
angle that the so those heat pipes are
bent AF and I it kills me to uh damage a
knock to a cooler cuz it's like the bee's knees but yeah it's dead it's dead
it's dead fan survived so there's that um were they LTT fans no no it was just
a normal brown one then who cares um
what else we got here oh yeah Microsoft is launching an Xbox subscription gaming
service this is different from the other Xbox subscription gaming service so this
is like playing games online as okay so
this is streaming games online okay it is getting really hard to
describe online gaming Services yes because you stream a game that is being
being played on a server far away being processed on a server far away yeah like
why don't we have a word for that um I don't well we do it's called game
streaming but unfortunately that could mean almost anything yeah but like game
streaming is the same like is perceived the same
as streaming a game yes so like why don't we have like a separate word for
it we could call call G on demand we should coin a term yeah on demand gaming
no that's stupid well that's what it's called though we should call it bur
blogin no that's stupid no no that's stupid and not funny so you're now what
you're you're minus one dude I don't even you were you were you had pulled
even and now you're minus one what happened to you man you used to be cool
no I didn't that's accurate coming this spring to the Xbox One the Xbox game
pass will give console owners access to over 100 Xbox One and backwards
compatible games for $9.99 a month yeah cloud gaming thank you twitch chat it is
part of the cloud um what if it's not so initial supported titles include Halo 5
guard did anyone care about Halo 5 Guardians NBA 2 people cared about Halo
5 cuz it was supposed to be like the return of Halo to PC but then the PC
version is total garbage soulcaliber 2
Soulcalibur 2 I played that when I was like 12 huh how old is that game yeah
when did Soulcalibur 2 come out wow Soulcalibur 6 was one of the
auto completes on uh whoa it is the sequel to Soul Caliber
which was released in '98 20 it came out no no hold on hold on the game was
released on the Namco system 246 arcade
board before being ported to the PlayStation 2 Gamecube and Xbox in
2003 wow they're really uh really really bringing their a game there dare that a
game there great game Library yes um so
Partners providing at least some support include take two Warner Brothers Capcom
Bandai and Microsoft Studios if Microsoft Studios wasn't providing
support then EA is apparently hold out because they offer access to their XBox
One titles through a $30 Pere subscription called EA access sweet
GameStop shares apparently fell 7.8% on the announcement can I mean can who
still invests in GameStop why is GameStop still a thing okay so the point
of investing is that you expect growth
so even if you still believe that GameStop has like games to rent to
people or sell to people or whatever surely you couldn't be expecting it to
grow that business well that's why it
fell was that there was less demand yeah but like who still has their money in
GameStop anyone who's watching right now take your investment dollars out of
GameStop dude we don't we we do not certify this investment advice as advice
by a financial advisor please consult your financial adviser before making any
financial decisions and determinations consult your financial adviser before
ripping all of your money out of your game GameStop GameStop stock portfolio
and investing it in almost anything else you know what I'm going to go buy
GameStop stock and then when they come out with like the next big thing the
next big GameStop thing I'm just going to roll up in my Lamborghini and laugh
at you in this ply little office that we've got going no I'm just kidding
that's that's you know yeah good luck with that thanks man scientists
scientists are so cool they have stored a movie scientists are cool an operating
system and an Amazon gift card in a
single spec of DNA so the original article here is from sciencealert.com
there you have it the highest density
data storage device ever
created I mean number one bear in mind of course that this doesn't necessarily
mean anything I mean you could store a movie at like a super low bit rate and
the computer OS could be anything but this is DNA I know it's still cool DNA
it stored stuff in DNA before I just mean saying like but like okay saying a
hard drive can hold a billion movies doesn't tell you anything about the
quality that it's stored like you have to say it's Blu-ray quality or you have
to say you know whatever else yes I understand what you're saying anyway um
this DNA encoding method approaches the theoretical maximum for information
stored per nucleotide they were able to recover the stored files with zero zero
errors and their strategy is capable of recording 215 petabytes of data on a
single gr of DNA no I was I was reading
there was uh the day that this research was announced there was an AMA with like
the um the lead scientist the lead researcher whatever lead cool guy that's
what we're going to go with essentially the lead dope guy um and dope AF lit guy
there were a a bunch of questions about you know doesn't storing on DNA make it
you know subject to Environmental factors and wouldn't it be difficult to
store and apparently there are you know
relatively lowcost Solutions and even stuff like gigantic server rooms could
be relatively easily converted this is
you know uh 10 years out long time away
and this is all just stuff that I read on the AMA um but server rooms could be
relatively easily uh transformed into
areas that could store this stuff safely with a halflife of like 4,000
years which is like way longer than any other physical
medium we've uh we've come across so far
so that I think is the really exciting part is that this could be like an
incredible long-term storage
aspect sorry I moved on to the zombie proof 3D printed mobile house um so the
researcher spent s Grand to synthesize the DNA and another 2,000 to sequence it
so so yeah costs need to come down a fair bit but uh very cool zombie house
yeah um so the original article here is from Tech crunch passive Dom is a zombie
proof autonomous 3D printed mobile
house um apparently it's very efficient
compared to Brick it could be made off grid in a cold climate with some
upgrades uh so without like a complex and expensive engineered heating
solution the frame is made of 3D printed carbon fiber and fiberglass the entire
house is recyclable H it's 36 M and
costs €60,000 to pre-order they have a special
zombie apocalypse package that includes armored glazing an alarm system extra
toilet paper storage and a
Bible that's uh so while this all could be nonsense it seems they actually have
a real model built already and all the technology is somewhat feasible so uh
there you have it there's that
wow interesting um yeah I guess that's
pretty much it for me Chad is telling us that we should
instead of doing like tape storage for long term we should uh do DNA storage
yeah we'll just like get right on that we'll just yeah build out like a a DNA
research lab and you know the next unit over no problem we got this 100% down
all right that would be some videos right there um well that's I guess how
how's your week been lus how's my week been yeah surprisingly tiring actually
this is um we've only just recently so
you're only just now seeing on the channel a lot of people seem to think
that I that I don't write videos for the lonus tech tips Channel um and that
people just write everything for me MH 90 plus so Techquickie aside which
John's been writing pretty much since he started so lineus Tech tips wise 90
plus% of what what I hosted until like
two weeks ago was written by me and like I remember talking about when we uh when
we hired Tyler and he was uh helping me out with a couple scripts here and there
when I said that we had a new guy that was helping with the scripts um people
someone posted a comment on a video slightly after that saying like wow that
was a really great decision to hire the new guys the today's video was like way
better written than usual like I wrote
it anyway the last couple weeks have been crazy because our three new guys
started and you're starting to see now on the YouTube channel a huge uh shift
in things being completely written by Me versus me sitting in more of like an
Editor in Chief role so most of my time now is taken up by meetings sitting down
looking at products figuring out the angles that we're going to tackle them
from um reviewing notes reviewing
finished scripts reviewing like the guidance for the editors reviewing the
final video so I more like a like a managing
editor than like uh like a writer these
days what's really cool is it has allowed us to do some really amazing
pieces of content in a time period that
previously wouldn't have been possible um like the uh the Windows 9 analysis
some people didn't like that it had kind of a click baity title and thumbnail um
but if they sort of remove their their
Prejudice remove their bias from from
this situation a little bit and look at that video objectively what was it it
was about a version of Windows that Microsoft doesn't want you to know about
it actually was it was about taking a Microsoft OS that is not commercially
available modding the crap out of it to take out all the te Telemetry and
monitoring and background processes that you don't care about and get a more
stable smoother operating Windows that's what it was about
and it was a massive amount of work huge
massive amount of work it took like a week of benchmarking to set up all four
of the different OS environments that we were testing on identical Hardware to
run a huge Suite of benchmarks to really analyze their performance and to do all
the work that was involved in taking the guidelines from Windows 9 and creating a
more palatable version of Windows 10 and then creating a blog post so that you
guys can replicate this on your own making taking Windows 9 which is not
actually possible to buy unless you have like a special education uh license or
something like that and making it applicable to our viewers Great Piece of
content objectively and took a ton of
time and was a lot of work that wouldn't have been possible without the writing
staff same thing for stuff like our ryzen coverage it would not have been as
good GTX 1080 TI it would not have been possible to test so many games on Intel
and on ryzen something that very few other public did and so a lot of those things are
coming through there's some Growing Pains uh there's a video coming now that
I'm not that happy about the cohesiveness of like the overall flow of
the way the b-roll cuts in and stuff like that but basically what's happened
in the last two weeks is my job has changed in a big way and I'm adapting to
that I have only fully written two videos aside from the ryz and launch
coverage which obviously I did because I was the only one there uh in the last
two weeks which previously would have been 8 to 10 that's crazy crazy yeah so
it's bananas you're not you're not working any less that's for sure no if
anything it's actually been more work it's it's been kind of crazy um like you
hire a bunch of people expecting that to reduce your workload but you actually
just end up doing more things and different things um with all of that
said I do not plan to entirely leave behind writing I like tinkering with
stuff I like being in the trenches and so I will absolutely continue to be
involved um I'm writing the DJI mavic review that upcoming um I mean doesn't
help that no one else here can fly a drone I was going to say there's specific stuff like that where only you
can do it yeah um I'm I'm writing the Alienware 13
so I'll be taking on I think especially stuff that I find particularly
interesting and I think that that's another really cool thing about the
three people that we have on board is they're all really different so I think you're going to see a different and a
new level of passion that goes into the the projects that people are working on
because nobody has to do everything so
that's going to be really cool yeah um I guess that all that leaves is
our shout out for Flo plane Club so Flo plane Club Flo plane Club is where you
can get a mostly good experience
watching yeah okay it's in Alpha it's
Alpha well it's in a very early stage
can't really say Alpha Beta whatever it's in a very early stage very early
stage so right now the way it works is we're using it as an early access player
for LT Channel superf fun and Tech quick videos over on the lus tech tips Forum
the plan is to Move It Off The Forum at some point in the future but we're not
going to promise a timeline for that and uh basically the way you sign up is you
go over to the store you go to the Floatplane club
which I am not going to screen share because I have no idea what's in my
other browser going to open up Twitch here boom there we go going to paste
that over there there you go that's where you can join the Floatplane Club
is Twitch chat even working yeah there you go the LT bot was just taking a
second to kick in and you'll have a week's worth of videos that you won't
find on YouTube so it should be about 10 videos that you haven't seen so these uh
this week there were a lot of releases so that content goes to both platforms
immediately you mean simultaneous releases like time product releases oh
yeah yeah yeah okay so like 1080 1080 TI is already there uh but there and the
Intel extreme rig challenge but what actually happened s is that whatever was
released on Floatplane before doesn't go to YouTube yet on that day it gets
pushed forward by another week so what's already there is the ASUS
g701 uh we've got a Techquickie on why do electronics get hot uh we've got o
viewers Choice episode two is over there so where we take the most popular items
you guys are buying on Amazon will they be the same will they be different some
of them are the same some of them are different we've got the Del XPS 27 audio
file grade aiio computer uh what else
have we got over there
every AMD video card tested yeah that's
actually a pretty cool video uh LTT EVGA
Sol that one's on YouTube already yeah yeah so there's oh yeah server room
update Vlog episode three out of three the finale that's on there a great great
thumbnail great thumbnail y that one would have been on YouTube by now but
it's been pushed by some of these simultaneous releases anyway and it's
coming to YouTube very soon is it coming very soon
very sick should we do a sneak peek what do you mean should we should should we
do a live demo of Floatplane Club working oh gosh so oh yeah there's so
the the bit rate um is higher for playback for our 1080p so 1080p looks
better on Floatplane also you can download I have to be in Luke's shoes
this time and hope that it works we're going we're going full on we're going
1080p man just give it a sec oh oh like
I said it mostly works
okay what's up what do you want oh wow
that was quick oh rut R way to go lonus
doing a live demo well whatever it usually work it
works like most of the time that's why we're saying very early stages it works
Mo most of the time um okay so I think that's pretty
much it thanks for tuning in to the W show we will see you guys again next week same bat time
same bat Channel
bye-bye same same bat Time same bat Chan Batman it's from Batman from the
70s yeah but like it for me it's kind of a
joke cuz I it's like kind of like same bad time same bad late and it's a bad
channel so yeah that's sort of that's sort of the
point surprisingly people will actually
get the
Batman