okay I believe we're live welcome to the W show you got am I streaming on the
right one yes I hope so so I know I know
we are about as late as we've ever been and I did promise that the new streaming
equipment video capture equipment would
help significantly with that but there is also a reason why we haven't done our
official like the W show set was updated
video yet and that is because we haven't really done anything about our audio
situation yet we definitely need some
kind of piece of dedicated mixer
Hardware that will definitely happen at some point but basically in a nutshell I
was super loud Luke was super quiet he's
uh Skyping in from twitchcon right now the little like volume thing in the
corner you know the bling bling thing was crazy quiet the uh playing back
videos that we recorded from last week were crazy loud and then playing back
videos we were test recording just now was like normal and then apparently it's
all normal and we spend a bunch of time diagnosing something that wasn't a
problem other than that our system audio is infected by Gremlins on the streaming
computer which shouldn't surprise anybody are you surprised
Luke I'm not very surprised this so funny I look towards my webcam and your
picture but actually I should be looking over here hi Luke hello how's it going
you have a very nice hat you want to explain your hat oh um oh yes I was
working on my PlayStation 4 um my like my PlayStation 4 water
cooled project that is hardly my project at this point because Jake did most of
the work but um basically my intro
involves a rant about the PlayStation 4
Pro and how like if I had to upgrade my
PlayStation 4 and spend $400 every 3 years to get
better graphics well that's starting to sound an awful lot like being a PC Gamer isn't
it anyway the rant involves Doritos and Mountain Dew and this hat and anger so
it B it should be pretty good should be pretty good also I saw someone in the
twitch chat saying vinus you should be spending time with your baby instead of
being on a land show and I would love to
except that my baby is still safely
tucked away in Mama's uterus so um there will be no
spending time with that particular baby other than like kind of kind of poking
it through her stomach which doesn't really doesn't really appeal to her nor
does it really appeal to me I I got to confess I am not that into the whole
unborn babies thing like you know not
into the whole unborn or born babies thing yeah one step further I mean the
thing though is like people are like oh it's magic it's it's it's it's just as
magical as an iPhone and I'm just kind of like you know what it I cannot get
the scene from Alien out of my head can you can you tweet on a baby belly I
don't think so tweet on a baby belly
yeah okay oh sorry we're back to the iPhone comparison sure but like some
people get all like oh it's the magic of like they want to put their hands on and
like oh the baby's kicking and uh uh the other night I was like mostly asleep and
I had my ARM over my wife because we're adults and we're allowed to do that um
and the baby kicked so hard through her
stomach that I jolted awake flipped out
I'm like and I woke her up I am not a
fan not a fan of baby in the tunnel so smooth yeah so smooth so when um when
the baby's out will talk and the baby will not respond because they don't
speak English yet when they are born and are therefore not a lot of fun um
not that I'm saying people you have to speak English to be fun I'm just saying
being able to communicate at all is super helpful it's like you could just
say I'm hungry instead
of oh my God I got so limited sleep last
night um that because of one of those
situations I'm not going to add way too many details but for way too much time
because exactly what happened yeah just
reinforcing why I don't want one fair
enough man all right we should roll the intro speaking of uh things that I do
want an intro though yeah I do want an intro let's do
that
all right ladies and gentlemen so why
don't we get things started with our first big topic of the day the Galaxy
Note 7 this was originally posted by daring on the Forum the original article
here is from Tech time Tech time Tech times the tech times all right L is the
screen share oh look at that he's still
there that's right that's what I spent 45 minutes setting up
today at least that's my that's my story and I'm sticking to it so Galaxy Note 7
Replacements they might not explode but
they might overheat and drain the battery while charging Samsung just
cannot catch a break here can they I I
would assume because the uh losing charge while it's charging thing that it
was losing 1% of power every second first of all that seems a little insane
second of all he's probably not using a first-party charger not that that even
like matters that it should matter but he could be using like a05 amp charger
right something that's not made for charging notes still losing 1% of power
every second while charging that's still
like something's wrong although this was one user who was reporting this that's
that's I think he might be exaggerating a little bit because that's 100% to dead
in under two minutes so Samsung said this problem is completely unrelated to
batteries uh they haven't stated if the problem is present in units replaced in
other countries aside from South Korea so so far everyone who's encountered the
issue has been in South Korea and the good news is there are no reports of
devices Catching Fire at least yes so
that is a small victory a very small in
consequential
Victory um on in other news it really
doesn't get much better for Samsung here are you posting uh links in the chat by
the way or am I doing that okay so the next one here is from
hardware. do.org or money.cnn I'll I'll
go with Slash doot wow SL doot that's like a blast from the past right I
remember slash Dot from like 10 years ago apparently it still exists so
there's that ah Samsung may have a new problem on
their hands after the US warns Samsung
washing machine owners after explosion
reports there's a picture that goes along with it if you want to show that
uh oh yeah where is that post that picture in the
chat all right let me see if I can figure out that picture in the meantime
here H yes there we go so the the
scariest part of this one is this could affect units all the way from
2011 to 2016 so here's a picture of
uh you know what appears to be a bowed
out washing machine um it's unclear
right now I mean this is not the world's most gorgeous wall in the first place
but it's it's unclear to me if this hole in it is a result of the washing machine
explosion um picture was documented by a Texas woman who claims it exploded
during use she's part of a class action lawsuit against the company
currently wow Samsung currently has
declined to comment on the litigation at all um which is not super surprising to
be completely honest with this type of a claim they would want to do
investigations before trying to claim anything so I'm not too surprised if
they haven't said anything yet uh but they have issued a statement that said
they're talking to us authorities about how to address safety problems um said
in the statement that in rare cases affected units may experience abnormal
vibrations that could pose a risk of personal injury or property damage when
washing bedding bulky or water resistant
items you know the like Fight Club thing
the like the like Fight Club thing I I I have no idea what you're talking about
but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to be talking about it investigating car accidents and
seeing if there's been enough of a certain type per car for it to be worth
doing like a recall or whatever yeah I wonder if like there's GNA be like Fight
Club 2 and like pretty early on in the intro it shows him and he's like I
investigate phone explosions and washing machine explosions to see if it's worth
doing a
recall oh someone's got a someone's got a parody it at least at some point so
awesome at some point it's bound to happen I mean all Samsung needs is one
more to reach that magic three number because one's a fluke two is sketchy and
three is a trend so I mean the problem
is that Samsung makes pretty much everything so all we need is for like a
a printer to explode although they or if you're from
Korea like anything oh that's right yeah
they make like everything there if I remember correctly there's like Samsung
toilets and like Samsung whatever the heck you want we almost put a Samsung
air conditioner on the roof of the building actually oh our air
conditioning for the server room just went in oh cool so there you go so
that's a thing is that loud now uh well
it'll be just as loud until such time as I do something about the uh the air
vents that in are in the door for the old ambient air cooling system okay but
uh at that at that time yes it could potentially be less
loud um sketchy there's a UK advertising
agency named Assa wow um that is
investigating hello games which is the no man Sky guys over false uh
advertising mainly things like having uh
screenshots and I believe videos yeah screenshots and videos that depict large
scale combat and ship flying behaviors that didn't actually make it into the
game and I think they could go a little bit farther than that those are probably
just their like cemented this is very easy to Target kind of stuff because
there was also a large amount of other claims that didn't end up being true at
all um so yeah I kind of have a feeling
that Halo games is going to lose this and I also have a feeling that the
entire internet will be okay with that this could have a huge impact on the way
that games marketing is done in the future I mean it is not unusual watch
dos uh it is not unusual to end up with
a situation where a game developer shows
off a trailer um or you know some kind
of a of a of a concept um and the finished game though
I can't really judge Star Citizen as they haven't finished the game yet um
and and the Finish game ends up not having those features or those uh or
those levels or or whatever the case may be and seeing in World of
Warcraft right um and while this one you
know looks pretty open and shut because it's fairly egregious that this you know
large scale combat that the screenshots and videos on the page depict is not in
the game
um I think it would be harder to go after a situation like Watch Dogs where
it is a graphical difference um because
while you and I and probably everyone in the audience can very easily see the
difference between the E3 demonstrations and we actually were delivered in the
end I think it's going to be harder to argue in court because I would assume
that the judge and jury wouldn't fully understand what's actually going on
whereas if you go look there were big ships and they would go pew pew and now
there isn't big ships that go pew pew I think that's a more straightforward case
I mean some of the some of the complaints about no man's sky are also
regarding misrepresentation of the graphical quality in the game right
which which is great but I think the main ones are the functionality things
and hopefully they'll also hit them with other things as
well so the complaints Target steam but
the ASA said that the ruling would apply to any other advertising for the game so
that could be uh YouTube videos and or the games listing on the PlayStation
Store this this could be very interesting I mean as it is game
developers keep things pretty Under Wraps while a title's in development but
this could drive them to be even more I mean could this potentially apply to
something like uh a demo shown at PS like if IID Play If I played um Wolf
Among Us okay is a game that it's one of the few games that I've ever demoed at
packs just because usually the lineup at
places like packs is such that I'm just kind of like you know what I can either
wait six months for the game to come out or I can wait six months in this
lineup and at the end of one of those six-month periods I will get a demo and
at the end of the one I will get the entire game so I think I think they'll
have a better time getting away with that because that could be I think you
could pretty easily put a sign somewhere on your
booth and say like game is subject to change or some crap like that but when
it's on your store Page yeah okay
wrecked for well that I oh go ahead is that the the screenshots and the videos
of the stuff that they are trying trying to
directly sell right then o how does that
apply to like Early Access stuff I don't know and and another complicated thing
here too is like so go going back to the to the PS game demos let's say for
example that the difference okay because we've seen this before in movies right
where the trailer will actually contain a scene that ended up getting cut right
yeah that's a thing but there's a difference between
a a cutscene oh no there's a difference
between a cut scene and completely
pulling uh core functionality out of the game so if you're going to go okay yeah
our game is gratuitous Space Battles and your trailer has the like a cut scene
and then it has like a h two like Legions of ships blasting each other and
you know some some cinematic is gone from the completed game versus like you
can only fly two on two uh
that those are very different things so in something like a px demo if they were
to say okay yeah our game is like a top down you know uh platformer and then
someone sees that that is marketing so if someone sees that tries that game and
it turns out to be a racing like a mobile racing game or something like
that then it I guess it it becomes a gray area and a question of just how
misleading it was what happens too if that
communication comes through game
journalists like say say someone goes to
a show and it's not an interview and
they play the game and they describe their experience that everything that
they described in their experience that could be seen as a form
of marketing and then if that's not actually how it ends up
going hard to say because unless they pay the games journalists and the games
journalists opinions are their own then that's not officially right okay yeah
but what if it's still kind of an interesting
area because if you're going like this
game has battles in it that have 400 ships versus 400 ships yep that's stated
as a fact yep that's not like this game
has battles with a lot of ships and then the game journalist version of a lot is
four I don't know that's true I mean
this manifests I really want to see how this plays out another thing I want to see how it plays out is Twitch news
twitch announces twitch Prime I think
we've already seen how this played out actually there is an insane amount of
Subs randomly on the lonus tech channel
oh and like this whole stream I've been watching twitch chat and every once in a
while you'll see like has just subscribed with twitch Prime uh so what
twitch Prime is to kind of help people out a little bit is Amazon Prime now has
a component under it called twitch Prime that doesn't cost any amount more money
you get it when you have Amazon Prime it gives you one subscribe per month to a
channel I believe you can like move it around but you only have one so you'd be
able to switch it once a month I believe you get some extra prizes I think there
they said uh swag in Hearthstone and smite although I'm not sure what that
swag exactly is um I think they were talking about getting certain games on
launch and then discounts on physical copies of games from Amazon now I
checked that out and literally every single game that I was able to find that
was discounted because of being a Prime member was discounted by three to 10
cents wow all right rock on hopefully
that I love it but I could no no no no no luk I
could get it shipped for free
yeah there you go you also get a badge which is like a little blue crown you
can see a bunch of people in the chat right now have little blue crowns I
guess the YouTube VOD won't be able to see that but I just described it so oh
well hold on hold on I got this i got this i got this i got this line is the screen there blue crowns blue crowns
okay there gigantic blue crowns enjoy so
let me give me one second oh come on now
do the thing oh I'm trying to pick up like the
official list of um perks just to make
sure I didn't miss anything
but I think that's basically it it's it's going to be interesting
because this is part of the Amazon takeover right yeah so they're giving
everyone that already had a Prime account a free subscribe which is giving
Partners more money we've already seen with this channel like last week there
was almost no subscribers this week there is a large number of subscribers I
just there's literally two people just did it in chat right now I don't know a
check um sorry it's in your like partner
panel and stuff so if you go to your um
I think it's your dashboard and then you go to partnership I'm the world's worst
twitch streamer I legitimately have no idea how the site
Works let's see if I can figure it out for you it's like okay no no go ahead go
ahead keep explaining how we have more twitch subscribers and how that's good or something anyways it's it's exploded
for us and I'm sure while the change in growth might
not be as big for other people because our we might have more people watching
here that don't normally watch Twitch
because we're not average content that is on Twitch and this is like we're way
above average and um we basically just got
subscriptions as well so people didn't necessarily know that you could even subscribe to us so we're in like kind of
a special spot but everyone's going to see growth and a lot of the growth could
even be like some dude's girlfriend has an Amazon
Prime account and he's like hey mind if I link my twitch so I can get a free sub
or dude's mom or girls mom links her
Amazon account to the kids twitch so they can get a free sub I'm still
confused as to how the whole Amazon Prime thing is not just an enormous cash
sync as far as I can tell it is um like
I I okay okay so let's let's let's like break it down right from you know top to
bottom Amazon will pay me to tell you
about prime if you sign up yeah then
they will give you free shipping on everything which as far as I can tell if
you buy like because okay because the benefit of prime initially was supposed
to be that it encouraged repeat shopping right because you wouldn't have to think
about shipping costs when you were shopping on Amazon okay so if you buy
like one thing a month there goes the
entire Prime membership for the month probably unless it's something very
small okay so there's that plus there's video streaming so Amazon Prime costs
more than a Netflix account unless your Netflix is uh 4K I think then I think
they're pretty similar I can't remember how much prime costs to be perfectly honest with you but anyway so they they
have Amazon Prime video so there's all
the licensing costs associated with something like a Netflix service maybe
not all of them actually had don't I have two prime accounts I have one
Canada and one us I have never looked at Amazon Prime video maybe I should do
that um anyway so there's a licensing cost associated with that there's the
cloud storage they give you you can store an unlimited number of photos
using prime so so so far what what is what is Prime cost again $79.99 for the
year Canadian it's $79 flat sorry and
that's a 13mon membership okay so it's
probably about 59 bucks American okay so it's 11 bucks a month apparently
on amazon.com okay okay 11 bucks a month so
out of $11 a month so far we have spent
all of it times lots and then at the end
of all that they're going okay you can subscribe to a twitch Channel for free
which is five bucks and we will give some of that money to the twitch Channel
sorry so once again oh oh oh Luke had a
bad burrito bad burrito he's running to the bathroom folks oh that's the uh
someone's already in there oh no he there's been a negotiation there's been
a negotiation he has been negotiated back back to his chair um he's do you
need ice someone need ice um he's gonna
go to the bathroom on his chair no no I'm good I'm good could you hear me the
whole time yeah oh okay she could too oh
okay well that's awkward he's taking a drink people that don't know I am at
twitchcon um um what I was doing here has changed a fair amount but so I'm
streaming from a hotel room and that was
someone else's room service who ended up at my room somehow yeah so the plan
actually this is great because it TI brings us right into our sponsor spots
for the day the plan was for Luke to be streaming from the Razer Booth yeah
check out the Razer broadcasting Suite below and the talking points for Razer
there's actually a bunch of stuff that they're showing off that's well that
they were going to be showing off in their booth at twitchcon when they
arranged to sponsor us to be down there covering twitchcon and streaming from
their Booth uh so the Stargazer the tiny webcam that Clips onto your laptop or
Monitor and does everything a green screen setup does for background removal
and more so it actually features inels real Sense Technology so that's the uh
the depth sensing whole camera thing so it can cut out things that are far away
as opposed to things that are a different color which is pretty darn
cool as well as the siren Pro the mic that any streamer should look at first
XLR input helps aspiring streamers take their audio to a professional level
you're using that right I am actually using the siren Pro right now the thing that I like about the siren Pro actually
is not necessarily that see I'm not using the XLR though I probably will at
some point probably should at some point
the thing I like about it is it's one of the few mics I found that just kind of
works out of the box like you just set the thing and then it doesn't peek which
is nice that's really all I ask for that's all I'm asking for it doesn't
seem that complicated but we've tried like six different mics on the L
show um yeah and then they're also featuring
The ripsaw the world's first usb3 capture card I actually don't know that
it is the world's first usb3 capture card know why you said that I said the
exact same thing because of the thing that I'm using right now um and it's
we're wrong oh are we the Ripa came out first by like a few months oh it was
close how about that then yeah okay no
delay when recording and it comes out with just about every cable you need for
PC and console streaming out of the box so shows you what I know and you can
check these products out at the link in the video description which will be
there when you are watching this on YouTube or another possibility and I'm
going to go ahead and paste all these links into twitch chat for you guys or
another possibility for those links would be to see them on the twitch VOD
and twitch now has the capability this is the last part sort of big part of the
uh the whole upgrade announcement thing that they've been doing twitch now has the capability for
you to just upload vods straight up so
you don't actually have to stream to Twitch in order to have your video
appear on Twitch and this is a weird reversal for
them isn't it first they don't want you to leave your Twitch vods on Twitch now
they want you to just upload videos to Twitch yeah they've totally change
although that probably came with like Amazon just being like
servers because yes that's what Amazon that's what Jeff bezo sounds like we're
gonna have him on the show he's gonna sound just like that we're g be like hi
Jeff welcome to the show he's gonna be like Amazon we have servers and we're gonna
be like wow that's great Jeff thanks for uh thanks for
coming two things that the fire phone wasn't very good but it wasn't my
fault two things that's interesting about this to me is one I think the
amount of people spamming pre-recorded
question mark is going to be way too insane on our stream I know and two my
like main problem with my stream is just ban the word my consistency because I go
on like work trips and stuff yeah so I could legitimately pre-record them and
then just have them play
what one interesting thing is if they're
just going to show up in your past broadcasts when you upad a VOD or if it
will like if you could like schedule one to play on your
channel through twitch I don't know how any of this works yet because just shows
up in your past broadcast I don't think
it's going to be super successful because that's unless they
change like how people look at things on
Twitch because right now going to someone's past broadcast is very manual
yeah and it's tedious and they're usually not titled correctly because
twitch streamers are irresponsible and yeah it's just
horrible so if if they could have it so that like you upload it it goes into
your past uh past broadcast and then there's like a settings thing somewhere
you can be like play this file at this
time and that could be kind of interesting for people that legitimately
just replay stuff like there's certain gaming tournament channels that will
replay their tournaments while various tournaments aren't live so
you can go watch them at different time frames and yes it is pre-recorded but
it's kind of like going and watching TV yeah it's kind of like watching like a
match replay like you would on sorry TV
yes Co and would make it so that those
guys don't have to have computers that are just set up constantly just playing
like video files and streaming video files all day so that could be kind of
cool but I have no idea if it's going to work that way I'm sorry oh go ahead I
said I have no idea if it's going to work that way I just hope it does I'm
sorry for contributing nothing to that last exchange and just repeating what
you
said I felt bad no worries I've got some serious
conspiracy theory nonsense going on here we've got people saying that you are
pre-recorded and that I am not and that I am actually live and that we are just
be extremely impressive on yeah that
would be amazing if that's even true like I would just
give it to you at that point yeah right
oh uh knock to a 21 is saying we should ask nerd Fusion about playlists I
actually I I should probably talk to uh to seus over there and see what he
thinks um hanging out with him probably
tomorrow and Sunday so I'll I'll I'm sure we'll talk about that cool tell him
I think he's nice sure we'll do or that
I'd hate him it doesn't really matter gave to myself sorry an what an gave me
maker Fair tickets wow my like plan to hang out at
twitchcon is maybe changing a little
bit all right this was originally posted on the Forum by Master disaster and I
think that pretty much says it right there the BBC reports I got this post in
the in the chat here the BBC reports that
Blackberry will stop designing its own
phones how long ago did we say they should do
this uh how long ago did everyone say
they should do this I mean we weren't the only ones for the last few years
saying that's fair why don't you just be a software company why don't you just do
an Android Branch or something and
become a a a security software specialist so it looks like they are
finally going that route I have
apparently lost the tab um but in a
nutshell U so John Chen their CEO said
that he would know by September whether the hardware business would become
profitable for Blackberry um it is now September and
apparently it did not so they are Outsourcing Hardware development to
Partners uh Chen has stated that further devices even ones with the iconic
physical keyboard would go on sale um I
always wanted to make sure that we keep having iconic devices he said we just
need to find a way to be more efficient and be able to make money I think we
found the model so the company sold 400,000 smartphones in its second
quarter Which is less than the previous 3 months
um yeah there dumb you didn't find the
model stop selling
phones I mean like it's a step in the Direction but they need to just get off
the platform and just start making only software oh man I
don't understand how they keep doing this I was looking uh I was actually
reading a couple other articles about this that aren't the linked ones here and that the notes apparently weren't
pulled from but uh basically they've already got a couple of Hardware
Partners they've worked with I believe it was uh
foxcon and I want to say uh shoot it was
some other it was some other Chinese phone maker can't remember exactly but
um oh o TCL I think is the TCL is the
other one so here we go uh this one
right here so the first touchcreen only Android device the dtec 50 that was
released in July 2016 so to reduce cost this was based on a phone manufactured
by TCL so the idea is they're going to leverage those Partnerships uh they're
going to kind of blackberry brand
existing Hardware which quite frankly I don't think is inherently the worst
thing ever and then they're going to be putting their own uh their own kind of
spin on Android in order to I guess make it more secure or
whatever this is something I can't really figure out why Google hasn't
tackled like why do we need Samsung's knock in order to yeah optimize Android
for better security I uh well okay whatever okay I guess
that's a conversation for another day but there you go would would you consider
okay here Luke you were the last one to
review a BlackBerry device on our channel the Z10 I think it
was and it was a while ago but yeah okay
so your takeaway from that if I recall correctly feel free to kind of jump in
and interrupt me here but your takeaway from that if I recall was basically
there were some things about it that were really good including text messaging um it was responsive was like
pretty smooth to use but not having apps
is basically the end of the world yes okay now there were even even back then
there were ways to like ghetto side load Android apps but it was not great but it
was not great in fact it was super dumb so would you consider a Blackberry phone
if they have a mostly stock Android looking skin and other than that it's
just a pH phone and with Blackberry
security optimizations it dep like my
most important m right now for phones personally are
water resistance levels and battery life
um which is like why the iPhone 7 looked
kind of cool and then all a sudden it was like no headphone jack and I was
like all right probably not going to do that um so it would have to depend on
how well they did in those categories right one thing that I really really did
like was the Blackberry hub
um so for like an efficiency standpoint it might actually win the Blackberry Hub
was a wonderful system I liked it a lot more than just like standard
notifications because you just see everything in one category made it very
efficient to skim through things it's like uh Google inbox or whatever that
was called that we all got kind of excited for for a little while and then the entire world forgot about
um but like better and for
everything instead of just your email which was super cool but like I'll wait
and see till they come out if they have good water resistance and good battery I
would legitimately consider it yeah I actually on the subject of the iPhone 7
I was talking to one of my badminton buddies who got an iPhone 7 and I was
like so how's it uh not having a headphone jack there and he's just like
oh I actually haven't really noticed I only use my jbirds and I was just like
wow okay I'm officially no longer mainstream I'm officially like an old
fuddy duddy for actually car in around
wired earphones at all times I say
though like their wireless ear pods look
incredibly stupid and I'm not even like
I'm not really a fashioned dude or whatever but they just look so dumb um
there are wireless headphone solutions that don't look incredibly stupid but
theirs are brutal and considering uh Apple often gets described as like a
technology jewelry company where like what you're buying is a fash
style te yeah that's kind of brutal
because they're ugly as Sin so I don't
know uh if people start adopting
thirdparty headphone options I that are Bluetooth I see it being a little bit
more popular but regardless of the power
of Apple to make something trendy I think those headphones are just
fundamentally ugly and I don't think they're going to be able to get over that we'll see I mean we will see but
yeah I don't you know white white wires on your on your earphones that like that
look grungy and yellow in two weeks became a status symbol so that's
true there you go I don't know man but at least they looked cool at the
start oh oh ouch okay I don't know for
me a phone like I I'll either have to buy a charging and headphone adapter if
I were to want to use the iPhone 7 or I would be just unable use it because I so
my earphones I wear them while I sleep um I always listen to music or podcasts
or shows while I'm sleeping because it uh it helps me it helps me fall asleep
like it used to take me sometimes an hour two hours to fall asleep at night I had horrible insomnia uh to the point
where I was like taking sleeping pills sometimes just because I'd be like I
really need to be awake in the morning so I will take this sleeping pill now
because otherwise I will not sleep um
and this completely fixed it for me uh
the best one is I'll I'll watch a show like I'll listen to cuz I'm not watching
it but I'll listen to a TV show like
episode that I've heard 20 times and
that's like it's boring and it puts me to sleep it's great so um yeah problem
solved all I have to do is wear earphones when I sleep but I can't charge my phone and listen to these at
the same time if it doesn't have a headphone jack so there you go
everyone's giving me advice in twitch chat I'm not asking for advice I have
fixed the problem he's been doing this for years
and it works very well for him I think he's it's great anywhere from like five
to 18 minutes just get medical tape and tape over your ears so that the
headphones can Bluetooth in and they won't fall out while you sleep it's it's
no man no man you're doing it wrong brilliant you got to get on that medical
tape game wow the entire twitch chat is
just like oh Francisco Ela is officially
fired from watching the show I listen to this show because it's
boring that's a little sad but it's also kind of funny so are we I mean okay this
this Demands a straw pole oh God this
Demands a straw pole okay are we your
sleep
aid how do how do you feel knowing that you might uh
help people fall asleep at night I mean I guess that's a useful public service
but like come on are We your comfy
pillow that is really not what I was going for here so far 100% of the vote
okay there we go there we go it's getting a little better oh oh oh oh come
on come
on what
54% yes God guys fight the 54% okay vote
Yes Luke come on yes what's wrong with
you hey the ways I help you sleep we don't talk about on this
show we only allude to them right yeah
and I can't do it from here buddy well I mean I mean
tell oh oh we've got over a thousand
votes I mean that is like that's significant enough that uh
it could be considered the definition of
significant I'm sad now okay well at least this answers a question that you
and I have posed to each other a handful
of times why do people watch the WAN
show and now we know y because they're
tired Y and it's time to go to bed that
makes sense so maybe like our time zoning thing was wrong we should
actually be going for nighttime instead of like
midday I had no way of knowing bro yeah
I had no way of knowing okay now we know
all right hard drives are on the ropes
maybe okay there we go no conspiracy theory that's why we're late every
time because we're trying to be later you're waiting for the W show you start
kind of dozing off a little bit on you're like okay good you press the
button and then you just fade off that's right everything's fine drift to sleep
everything's good and then you never wake up unless you feel
refreshed yeah yeah okay so this was
posted by it's me on the Forum ssds are steadily displacing hard
drives in more applications but
NVMe this is interesting uh this is from Tom's Hardware NVMe shaping up to be the
dark horse that may put the venerable
hard dis drive to rest so this is based
on Samsung predicting a collision course
for SSD pricing and hard drive
pricing D actually think that will mean hard
drives will be done
because well in the Enterprise sure
sorry in like Enterprise like cloud storage sure yeah at the home they'll
probably die off quite a bit faster but like being able to put critical stuff on
a hard drive that you can recover if it
fails kind of nice storing things on a variety of different mediums is a good
thing I don't know I don't know I see hard drives becoming okay so so here's
the things to look at so number
one have we reach the limit of what
people actually need to store like yes people take lots of photos and they take
lots of videos on their phones and that's one of the things that hard drive
makers have loved talking about at conferences or at or in presentations uh
conference calls where they'll kind of be like yeah the data storage needs of
the world is going like this but the reality of it is that cloud storage
pricing is such that if people wanted to
store their data somewhere where they theoretically you know don't have to
worry about it getting lost or or being vulnerable to a failed device um cloud
storage for the amount that most people have like a couple terabytes is pretty
reasonable yeah yeah so have we gotten
have we reached that threshold where ssds are starting to hit that one to two
terabyte capacity where they hold pretty much everything you could need unless
you have a gigantic steam library and you don't have you have dial up internet
so you need to preload everything so that you'd never have to download or
whatever so we're talking edge cases where most people can hold everything
they could need on their phone or their computer or backed up in the cloud
especially looking at the way that okay Google for example gives you unlimited
photo storage through photos if you allow them to compress the image yeah
what else do people store you stream all your music sorry go ahead go ahead I'm
done this ties in to to when did I bring this up like last week I was like when
are when are people not going to have SATA cables
anymore yeah yep so like this might I
still think that's a little ways out but this might kind of advance that up even
a little bit more it's going to be really interesting seeing computers that
don't need space to put
drives yep interesting yep and then I
think at that point everything is either backed up in the cloud or you have
you'll have the enthusiasts who are the guys like me that have an UNR Bo in
their clet or because they want to be a to trans code video on the Fly and they
want to be able to do this they want to store uncompressed uncompressed Blu-ray
rips on on a network machine so that they can play it back you know on any
screen in the house like there's going to be enthusiasts and I think for guys
like that like the hard drive is by no means dead for me not even close yeah
but I'm also at the point where one of
the videos that I have coming soon is the the most cost effective 100 terabyte
server and what I learned when I was working on that video is that with
seates archive drives which sit at
around three cents a Gigabyte or something like that like just obscenely
low cost with an archive drive I can
saturate a typical gigabit home network
already so you could do 100 terabytes
for I kind of want to pull up my spreadsheet now so I don't give you guys
the wrong number but that video is coming soon but AR uh seates archive
drives are 247 rated drives they run at 5900 RPM um and you can buy a 100
terabytes of hard drive
for cost per gig is uh 2.9 cents and 100
terabytes for $3,000
okay I think from an Enthusiast standpoint all that number needs to do
is fall down to another or another third
and I think 100 terab is reasonably all that most people could
need and there will always be the exceptions the people that want to back
up the internet or whatever the case may
the only Channel where you'll hear someone say I genuinely think a 100
terabytes is all that anyone's probably going to be
needing and obviously you know 50 years
from now that might not be the case but you look at the trends we are not on the
same path that we were before of you
know going from uh 480i being an acceptable you know video
standard to you know now we're at 4K explosion in data in data
requirements in order to get to a point where the quality is acceptable and now
the trend is towards dedicated Hardware
to handle video compression and video
decoding uh so where the the hardware in the devices is so much more powerful
that we don't have to have these obscene
bit rates in order to get decent image quality um and so I'm just kind of
looking at it going yeah everything could be compressed on the Fly
everything could be uh everything could be uh could be decoded and could be
converted on the Fly and I think that is like a ton of
storage I think it's just huge
yep I have yet to determine if I think 4K Blu-ray is worth is worth it I
actually all my 4K Blu-rays and my Xbox One S are here though so I'm going to be
trying it out very soon stay is that what those those Blu-rays that you just
ordered are HDR stuff yes because HDR
does genuinely look really good is that a conversation though but that's a
different conversation I think because HDR can also be handled again it's not
like going from 480i to 1080p HDR can be
added without necessarily okay so so we
doubled the capacity of a Blu-ray disc going from Blu-ray to 4K Blu-ray we
managed to quadruple the resolution and add HDR so we added a bunch more
contrast and color information and quadrupled the resolution we doubled the data so we're not on that same
trajectory anymore that's kind of the point I'm trying to make is I think that
we're using processing power which continues to increase and is pretty darn
impressive these days even in tiny little devices to compensate for
what we normally would have just added more storage for and that's been partly
out of necessity because storage hasn't really continued to scale in the same way that it has and I think that's why
Samsung is making this bold prediction where they're kind of going
okay SSD upgrades this is actually amazing 40 million ssds they're saying
SSD upgrade sometime in 2012 it looks
like overtook CPU upgrades as the most
common upgrade that people make to a computer that makes sense and they're
also saying that the SSD doesn't have to reach exactly the same pricing as a hard
drive gig for Gig it just has to reach a point where and we're there now where
256 gigs for an SSD is about the same as
a one tab hard drive so that entry level capacity versus that entry level
capacity they're saying it just has to be good enough and 512 gigs for me is
that sweet spot where I don't really feel like I need an additional storage
Drive anymore I can still have like
the two or three big games that I'm playing right now and I can still have
all the data that I need as long as I have a Nas and I think everyone should
have a NZ anyway yeah I don't I still don't personally feel like that's enough
in my desktop are you a one terabyte guy
I'm a four you're a four terabyte what the heck do you have on your computer
that takes up four terabytes and I have a 16 tab N I know
about your NZ it's that's an important part of my original question too mine is
slightly specially use case though because it's all the games because I hear you it doesn't take that long to
download them because isn't that bad but I don't want to sit and download games
while I'm streaming okay so i' like be able to
have everything available I think you should just go Icey then because your
Nas would support an Icey Target would it I I don't know that it's
pretty slow that Nas is not that fast all right
fair enough it's good at holding things for a long time it's not really doing
much else you know what's funny um I don't normally notice when gaming off of
a hard drive because generally speaking game developers are good at masking
those loading times I mean maybe part of it is uh that it's a heck of a lot
better than an optical disc and so many games are designed for optical media
still um but when I do run into trouble so so
my uh my home theater PC the one in my living room actually just has a small
boot SSD like it's actually kind of an older config like 128 gig boot SSD so I
pretty much can't put more than one AAA game on it if I want to have anything
else on it um another thing that I'm gonna I'm gonna sorry I'm gonna bring
this up the amount of people that are not only um like not not necessarily
that it's their job but the amount of people that are even just doing it as a
hobby yada y y Twitch streaming YouTube
all that kind of stuff people that are just doing Do It For Fun the amount of
people that are trying to get into it the amount of people that are successful at it is huge to the point where a lot
of people that I talk to in my day-to-day when I tell them what I do go
like oh yeah I've been kind of like trying that out or I tried that out at
one point in time storing footage is a
nightmare Computing stuff is a nightmare and like twitch streamers I know a not
that insignificant number of them that actually archive all of their footage
right which is kind of crazy I still I still think that's a niche case but um I
don't remember streaming archive yeah but like there's a lot of people that
dab dabbling in things like YouTube right now right yep that's true that's
true I still think hard drives will hold on but I think it's going to be instead
of the the thing that everyone buys for every single computer ever it's an
accessory purchase yeah yeah so either an accessory purchase for a little
external drive yeah or when you're ready to move to the big time I think it I
think Nas I think Nas moves in y um so
this is interesting this is one of the challenges for hard drive is that
there's roughly a $40 price floor hard drives have never been under you know
like $39.99 not unless it's a lost leader or
something along those lines whereas and this is something that Samsung's saying
ssds can scale well below $4 in much
smaller quantities cuz the hard drive no matter what no matter how cheaply you
can can make them you still need a casing Motors heads other you need the
the actual platters themselves so the platters and the complexity of the
motors and how many heads you need and how many platters are in it all that
increases in cost as you scale up but you can only go down to one platter yeah
and that costs how much it costs there's pretty much nothing we can do about it
and it's not really going to get any better um so Samsung also figures that
ssds have displaced hard drives in 40% of new notebooks and they predicted
reach 55% in 2018 and I totally get it and I personally definitely prefer ssds
uh back to my story I don't mind gaming off of a hard drive in general and I
forget a lot of the time that my media PC has a 2 tab hard drive to go along
with that small SSD but the other day I was trying to install a game by copying
the files over the network while trying to play a game and I loaded my game it's
like Lego Batman or something like not the world's most amending game and the
game sat there at the loading screen the entire time that those files were
copying and then as soon as they were done Boom game loaded just like yeah
that's brutal that's terrible I I like I
can't even basically comprehend using
like a hard drive based computer as my daily driver now any anytime I use
someone's that set up that way I'm like man you can make your life so much
better with a little bit of an upgrade here and then I point them to my like
hard drive SSD configuration video thing
like there even if you buy like a really small one like a 128 gig or something
you can still live and it'll still be far better and 128 gig ssds are like
pretty cheap these days all right so techrax has convinced
people the video has 10.3 million views and apparently I just opened it in
another browser window and I'm trying to no this I mean it's iPhone 7 so it can't
that old um so 10 days ago techrax has
convinced people to add headphone Jacks
to their iPhone 7S I haven't actually talked to him about this yet but I think
it's pretty funny um as with every
iPhone hoax every time this happens and it's
like make your iPhone waterproof with these easy steps hit it with a hammer
you like just just terrible terrible
ideas um tightening the handset in the metal
Vice the screen starts to flicker he promises his viewers this is normal uh
he just drills a hole kind of randomly he doesn't even pretend like he's not
even pulling a um a oh shoot my yeah
there Theo Joe he's not even pulling a Theo Joe here where he's like trying to
look like there's some kind of Science and methodology behind it he just pulls
out a drill drills a hole in the bottom goes boom there now it works I'm amazed
he was able to get far enough into the iPhone that he was able to insert a 3
and half mm Jack while it was still working you know what I noticed which I
thought was kind of hilarious was like okay there's the screen flickering when it's in the vice thing but he addresses
that when he plugs his headphones in it's still playing audio over the
speakers I know what
guys
yeah don't I also wonder at the same
time like if people are just saying they did it to get attention yeah and then
that multiplies of views on the video because everyone likes laughing at
stupid people right yeah that seems
pretty possible uh speaking of things that are
possible I would have never imagined this to be possible Tinder for sperm
donors swipe right for a sperm
donor the London sperm bank is now taking orders for customized dads in the
UK they released a Tinder esque mobile app that lets women filter potential
sperm donors based on traits like ethnicity occupation personality type ey
color and more that's cool the search results are labeled with numbers like
donor 10002 instead of
names so without getting into too many
details about my family history what I
will say oh wow is that sperm donors can
lie and some of them might fill out their form saying that they are oh I
don't know say for example a doctor and might turn out to be a milk truck
driver so I don't know what steps they're going through to prevent um
fraud in this case but um anyway the app
also gives women the option to create wishlist alerts for POS surrogate
fathers if they already know what they want and aren't interested in browsing
it will notify them when they're preferred characteristics become available the selected sample will be
sent to the fertility specialist where the woman is undergoing treatment once a
approximately $122,000 payment is made through the app and
uh there you go uh some critics say this is great
this is from the qz.com article say that there's a difference between narrowing
down food delivery options by Cuisines and choosing sperm donors by eye
color um
the abundance of choice and narrowness of selection categor as they save could
exacerbate the eugenic tendencies that already exist at traditional sperm
banks wow so uh yeah there you go it's
legal what I would hope that it would do
is when you swipe right say so you're
like accepting it then like sends you a more detailed
profile I don't know appar apparently the all the donors in the app have to be
approved by the British andrology Society uh the British fertilization
society and the human fertilization and embryology authority to ensure they
don't have any infections or genetic conditions so at least there's that
going for them how do you define a genetic condition um I don't know like
could stupidity be a genetic condition
because me if it runs in your family line all right so thanks for tuning in
to the L this week guys we will see you again next week same bat Time same bat
Channel I probably won't be here um so
Luke you'll probably be on Wow upload Duty do you know how to do
it uh yes no I think what I'll do is I will
screen record me doing the entire thing tonight cool and then I will think that
to you way safer if you just do that I'm just going to do that I'll put it in the
wow folder on the server sorry we we'll take this conversation offline thanks
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