okay here we go we are live this is uh
between two ferns uh the lioness tech tips edition i have laser james with me
here today and we're gonna talk about a whole bunch of different privacy news
including the whole facebook thing with mark the zuck zuckerberg um AMD navi GPU
being potentially amazing or not nothing to do with privacy no and other
non-privacy news yes there could be a new successor to the chromecast and
competitor to amazon firestick i'm actually stoked on this oh stoked okay
um and and mostly other privacy stuff but also the ftc says
warranty void stickers like warranty voided for move stickers are bs
which is awesome that makes me really happy but stay tuned to see that and
more on the WAN Show that is actually going to have an intro today we're doing
the intro oh no it wasn't ready Colton
oh spoiler alert
so the answer that question was no
and we're dead
okay
be quiet! which you already saw i think synergy 2 and
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the channel it works next time and go like that there we go
welcome to the wine show you might be able to tell we've had a little bit of change of scenery we're actually in
pretty close to the same area but i can't tell you why
things have obviously changed or for how long or if
they'll go back or when they'll go back or any of that detail so
speculate as you will that's i think that's i think all i can do so
good buddy let's go i've been good you've been away i haven't seen you and like i have been mostly awake i was like
i'm gonna be in office way more from now on i made it in one
day this week it was great wait you were in the city like in the country all week
yeah you've been back from pax like that whole time yeah oh oh yeah i thought i
was like yeah he's back from packs cool like what happened tell us about it no i
i got back on sunday pax was good um
i did there was really not a lot of hardware stuff there we used to so like
back when i first started working here um i asked lions my first time off
request ever was to go to pax okay and i was like just assume that i'm
gonna ask for this time off for the rest of my career working with you um and
then immediately the next year he was like
you're gonna work it just at pax and i was like okay well
that sounds like a pretty okay compromise so i started making videos at
pax about computer hardware now in retrospect
good compromise it was it was it was interesting it was a fun thing to do um
i really like pax so i've been to like 15 of them so working some of those was
probably okay but there used to be an abundance of new
interesting stuff at pounds usually peripherals we get a lot of keyboards we
get a lot of mice get a lot of headsets that kind of stuff but we'd sometimes
get cases and a few other things there's there was never like a graphics card or
something but there was always a lot of technology videos to make sure that
slowly started dwindling over the years the amount of potential technology
videos that pax slowly started reducing constantly over time but here's my
question yes so do you prefer to go as luke or as
luke from Linus media group i i can't
not go as luke from Linux media now yeah i guess but like on your third or fourth
time there when maybe people didn't know you were luke from Linus media group as well okay
so you were working there but you weren't like super famous
so the that would be yeah there was like one year in that gap um and that that
was pretty good it was funny because my dad always does this so okay
a little bit of backstory when i go to pax i was born for facts back in the old
days i was conceived at the Corsair
booth my dad's been to a millionaires yeah i know so my my dad brought me pax
as a like uh as a birthday present and he brought myself my best friend and so
we went from when i was like really young uh and the first year that any
amount of people knew me at all which was a very very small amount of people
because i think i had been in one wayne show that's it oh wow by the time i went
to this packs um that year my dad would like look around
for anyone that stared at me for too long and then would go like get them and
get them to come over
uh so yeah that was pretty cool but yeah no it's i still i really like meeting
people um i think the reason why i would have probably preferred the old one was
because i liked pax more back in the day but that's not actually
that doesn't have anything to do with yeah well that was my question ultimately was now that there's fewer
videos to make do you get to enjoy the show more and it's kind of like
the best of all worlds i would have if there was more stuff to check out the
show overall is just it's much bigger now and when you become
much bigger in terms of those types of shows it usually becomes a little bit more corporate a little bit more stale
there's more rules now like back in the day a booth would have
like a giveaway and everyone would swarm it and they'd like throw stuff out and
it was crazy no you're not allowed throwing things because probably someone
got hurt which has to ruin the fun and everything
um and like i don't know it just it became bigger became more corporate it's
not as like niche and nerdy anymore um it's still really cool it's a great
event i love going i hope ltx never suffers from that remember how much
stuff we threw last year we exactly almost got murked
it was like serious it was serious like looking at the size of your eyes biting
your finger like that like that was actually too bad
that was too far again yeah the case toss yeah we we are in closing at this
time that's and that's what i was actually going to say not to promote ltx
too much i don't even think we're supposed to on this show but i'm doing it anyways
it was amazing the first year we had it was so much fun and i think there were
some definite problems like the main stage was kind of under produced and
there was a couple others the sound was a big issue the music was an issue Linus
wore a took and that really bothered me
personally i love that that's like you're like the main stage
is an issue the sound is big issue Linus wore clothing that i didn't appreciate
i mostly saw him when he was on stage and every time he came out and he had a touch on i was like who's this like uh
opening hip-hop act like who's this guy and then it was latinus and i was like
what a chook isn't part of your like he's like never worn not part of your uniform
yeah i hear ya i hear you um yeah i don't know i'm really excited for the
next one it's gonna be bigger we're gonna have more booths the main stages will be better
i'm not gonna let them the enclosed uh case off is gonna be sweet because you
can do bank shots and try to damage it more by getting some kind of angle
that's not gonna be my strategy okay you know you're gonna try to go off the sidewall or the roof
i don't know hi or like roof sidewall ground you don't even have to i guess
it's a distance challenge not a damaging challenge because if it was just trying to break the case you could just go
completely laterally ready
break the whole booth in half like yes i'm sure there'll be some kind of troll
shots like that yeah probably anyways we should probably talk about
actual news um i think we already introduced a bunch of topics but we can
start with probably uh the most yeah
expected topic of the week uh is that we learned this week that zuckerberg drinks
water like this
he's been working on this it's actually pretty good at this point
yeah yeah then you gotta do the smile meter thing
i can't do it i can't do that smoothly his smile is so granular the steps are
tiny
it's so good okay so i'm going to let me hold on i got to be Linus here for a
second which i'm not used to there we go uh facebook users aren't changing their
privacy settings despite uproar so this has been a pretty interesting wait a
second who posted that in the forum uh shorty 88 junior
good job always forget we do thank you very much i appreciate it um yeah so
people aren't really leaving people aren't changing their privacy settings
apparently people aren't even changing what type of things they share with the platform so there's this like giant
uproar well actually i think it kind of speaks
to the whole issue because if you watch any of the congress uh i don't even know
what you call that the inspection of
zuckerberg a lot of it was like um
he keeps defaulting to be like okay we do tell them everything our terms of
service is all here nobody reads it it's garbage we know that nobody reads it so
we also have these these little um dialog boxes that are the top your news
feed that tell you like hey in plain english
you can share this with the world or not they do all these things to make it
transparent what they're doing it's just no one cares though
no one cares i like by and large no one cares so i
think a surprisingly low amount of people actually care about their privacy
there is like and i bet you a a abnormally high percentage of the
audience here and i think an abnormally high percentage of tech people in
general because uh i think those people actually understand better what's
happening when they're putting their privacy out there um i i think the
average person sees it as like oh some mega corporation knows that i like uh
thong sandals yeah they've got nothing to hide maybe they'll sell me a few
thong sandals and they don't understand that like it's going further than that
and your data is being picked apart further than that and facebook is selling it to people that you don't
necessarily know well they don't sell the data well it
gets given away improperly yeah well it still does yeah
it really did before yeah so i don't know and like the fact that uh a myriad
of platforms get hacked every single year and people's data gets pulled out
of that not saying that happened to facebook but it happens to a huge amount
of people you can check out uh i think it's have i been pwned.com yeah yeah
that's not specifically facebook data no i'm i'm saying
i'm talking about privacy in general yeah i actually said specifically i don't think it's happened to facebook
like at all correct um but there has been huge companies that have had leaks
like that and and those leaks could could make your facebook vulnerable if
you're using the same password across lots of sites so what normally happens
is like linkedin got hacked so the dark webs has your password for linkedin that
gets bought by someone else who takes that password and tries it in a bunch of
other sites like your email your bank facebook and if you're the type of
person that has the same password everything you might be compromised on lots of
sites that never actually got hacked themselves
yeah um it's it's and like
what i was more getting to is just the idea that people don't understand how
their data can spread um and like not just on facebook i mean
in terms of using the internet as a whole non-tech people don't necessarily
understand how like putting their data in some place or
putting their credit card information in some place can result in it getting to
other places um but
it kind of leads into the regulation discussion here because there's there's
yes there's a lot of talk uh about regulating facebook and there's
kind of three different ways that that could go the first is what facebook
would probably like which is just to self-regulate
and that seems more and more basically everybody wants
it seems more and more that it's like maybe less likely
to me anyway because like to happen yeah okay yeah yeah
because there's this awesome article that's been written by zainab what's her
last name she's that security researcher i'm really bad with
especially last names so she's awesome she wrote this uh kind of article that
blew up about like 14 years of facebook's apology tour since the
beginning like a lot of people gave uh props to
zuckerberg for kind of taking ownership of what has happened at facebook and
apologizing for it not like deflecting or saying mistakes were made but the
same time he's been doing that for like a decade and a half so at some point
it's like stop stop letting him screw up so much
yeah so option one facebook self regulates
option two they regulate the entire industry
that would be really stifling to innovation yeah really if
you've ever worked at a company that was undergoing some kind of like
um you know we're going to implement compliance for hipaa which is like a a
health healthcare security thing
that stuff is intense and drains company resources more than you could ever
imagine unless you've actually gone through it yourself it's crazy and there's a ton of ton like that so if
there was something like that for the social media industry
you can basically guarantee yourself that there would be no new upstarts
like that's hard enough to to make a new social network is hard
enough given that network effects are such an important part of it like you need to have a bunch of users before
it's useful to people if you're going to have this other layer of compliance
you're basically solidifying facebook's position and all incumbents positions so
that's yeah i don't i don't think you're guaranteeing that there will be no
challenges um but
i haven't seen even without this i haven't seen very many successful
challenges to facebook at all anyways google plus completely failed um and
anyone that really tries just gets bought and consumed anyways well that's
what was funny when that one senator was like who's your biggest competitor it's
like you don't understand network economies because but by virtue of way
they the way they work there are no competitors it's like it's a win winner
take all such a situation where like everyone's on this platform therefore
everyone's using this platform you can't split them there could never
be half people here in half there yeah with com completely overlapping
functions it doesn't work that way option three for regulation would be um
if facebook itself just has a like dedicated third party or agency
that only regulates facebook like some kind of steward of the data um
to me that's like the most likely situation but this one too
enshrines facebook's current market position because
if it's the case that facebook has so much data about you and they regulate
such that that data can never leave facebook
then no one else has no upstarts have access to that data in the way that um
the developers on the facebook platform did in the past and that's how cambridge
analytica came to get the big data that leaked anyway
so if no one has access to that then they're just sitting on this gold mine
of data that no one can compete with so you're kind of in a pickle any either
way so i'm going to make a straw poll here
which is how should facebook be regulated or not um
you need four bro yeah it it self expands oh oh oh watch
this dude it self regulates wait oh oh i think i have to fill this one out maybe
and then hit enter uh not regulated self-regulated third
there we go nice congratulations
but like dedicated like they only regulate facebook
uh
i can't type on this keyboard for some reason probably because it's way over there it's just a really weird one you
know like it's this qwerty layout i don't know
i'm used to divorce i know it's been around since the 1870s but
whatever
okay so we have not regulated self-regulated third-party regulations
specifically for facebook and government-wide spanning regulations are
going to put a troll on sir no donkey balls
donkey come on nope last week it was donkey balls
we've been regulated internally self-regulated
okay so check that straw pull out hit us with the feedback i want to see what you
guys think um i kind of have my own opinion but ooh do
you have a while we wait for that let's fantasize
about some kind of future epic uh social
network startup that's all blockchain based where
every individual's data is completely owned by them is on a blockchain so that
the entire internet is modular so that you can switch from one social network
to another and bring your data with you and release to each social network
exactly what you want that would be the most beneficial to new
innovation because you could start up your own social network and people could
come to it and be like here's all the data and here's all the connections
here's all the people i know and suddenly you'd have like this really
thick market and strong network effects right away
someone said it's called steemit wow i don't like that platform but i is that
how that actually works i know that platform is blockchain based but is it
like what you're describing i don't think so i have no idea but what i have
heard is that all the current social like blockchain-based social media
projects are junk yeah i heard it on a podcast i don't
actually know i haven't tried it myself pied piper
i wouldn't put steam in my title sounds
like steaming pile you know it's like it's like s-t-e-e-m-i-t
or something like that i don't remember exactly how it works um i'm going to
check in on this straw poll actually let's see okay wow okay not a meaningful
split at all really oh donkey
second place oh okay that plays into what we were saying earlier where it's like honestly most people don't really
care um or even in our car but they just
don't know well that's fair
i should have had a like i don't know and then i don't care that should have
been that's donkey i guess the two together but yeah that's the problem is
that they're both together so right now oh right i'm not on the screen
right now we're looking at 25 for third party regulations specifically for
facebook i'm kind of surprised by that um
do tell i'm just kind of surprised by that because in that situation you're putting
a weight on facebook which i don't think anyone's going to care about but you're putting a
weight on facebook so that opens the door to more other platforms but then those
other platforms are probably going to have the same problem and then do you at that point once
they're big yeah take the regulations specifically for facebook and then push it on them
or like so do you just let people run rampant
with other people's data at the beginning and then go like
you shouldn't have done that but we didn't tell you not to so it's okay but
now you have to stop yeah it kind of sounds like you need to
have a hybrid approach where there are certain ground rules for everybody to begin with but there already is existing
laws plus you also have to consider uh users
choices right not like because this is happening let's just
there's a societal shift where people are prioritizing and caring more about
this kind of thing right so if a new upstart comes knocking on your door
asking you to become a user you're more likely to ask like well
what kind of data like what are you guys doing what do you want from me yeah so
in that climate then like maybe a light touch regulation is enough
i don't know and then uh people the the next highest category that wasn't donkey
was government-wide spanning regulation which i'm not super surprised was up
there not regulated i'm honestly pretty surprised that that even got 13 percent
um but then i guess there are well those are the people who know how to set the
permissions the way they actually want they're just like it's going fine just
read the tos yeah people who are going to actually
like manage it properly themselves um which unfortunately isn't everybody
which is i guess the problem i have with it because like my mom is not going to
understand what to do hi mom what she's listening she's probably watching but like i'm not
saying that she's sitting there nodding she's like yeah yeah like it's it's
my mom's actually surprisingly good with some things but she can also somehow
manage to send emails with her text messaging program without any of us
being able to figure out how for like months at a time um like it's it's
there's there's people that have a special touch with technology and
there's people that when they use it it falls apart magically um
and like as far as i can tell it has nothing to do with being her fault but
anyways i love you um
but like i don't know there's people that are super in the know in a platform
and there's people that aren't and it varies i took my socks off right
before the show but now i want them back on why my feet got cold oh my goodness
you're having cold feet about this regulation platform idea yeah
changed my mind uh if we could get like four more people to vote for donkey that
would be great because then it would be in first place and then we can just be done with this straw poll uh but i think
we're probably done with this topic in general meanwhile AMD nabi gpus yeah
rumor mill time let's uh let's get away from don't come through this way go away
please thank you uh
let's jump down to AMD navi navi is the
next generation of architecture from AMD gpus and it is a seven nanometer
architecture and the rumor these days is that it's not gonna
it's not gonna be the source of the next wave of enthusiast cards
it's not going to be the next vega
in fact it's going to be a what they call the mainstream uh lineup
which or mainstream tier which right now is the rx 580s those guys also thank you
ryujin 2013 on the forums
yeah so what they're saying is that when
these cards launch in 2019
they're gonna have a comparable performance to a gtx 1080
which came out in the end of may basically june 2016
but it'll cost about 250 bucks
which is nice well because buying a 1080 right now is
more than that msrp 250 bucks who knows what it'll actually cost fair
mining stuff is going down a lot because bitcoin's super down right now well it's
going up in the last day or two oh has it yes oh no it's coming back again yes
it's back baby back again
oh dear da nana and then with new cards that are high
performance for lower dollar value it might become more profitable
so we'll see but yeah msrp has not been a realistic thing for actually quite a
long time um especially on the AMD side we've seen
accidental artificial whatever uh uh
spawned from bitcoin inflation whatever you want on gpus for quite a long time
even well before it was identified as being a bitcoin mining problem uh we had
inflation and graphics card prices all the way from back to the launch of these
cards which was well before mining bitcoin was like super
trendy well the gtx yes yeah okay yeah
i thought when i first read that and i i read that they were aiming navi at at
this particular market segment i thought are they doing that like to satisfy
shareholders is it just more cost effective and they're gonna it's a bigger addressable market because
stop it max you're doing that thing you said you're gonna just get out of here
all right there's just more people who have the money to buy a cheaper but like still
good like well 250 is a really nice price point for a
graphics card around 300 bucks is fairly reasonable for a quite a large amount of
people for a graphics card yeah 250 bucks is pretty good still if if you can
like pcs aren't going to get here
realistically but if like at least not in the short term but 300 bucks in like
2013 was like the golden i remember there was articles about it
all over the place where like 300 for a relatively high ticket item was really
good for consumers because a lot of people could gather that much money in a
reasonable amount of saving time this should be uh comparatively cheaper
than because with inflation and everything with inflation and it's 250
yeah uh but it isn't the full component for a computer but it's a nice upgrade
it goes all over so it's a sound business it's a good product if they're just doing this strategically that would
make sense but then i learned that actually
history is repeating itself here because this is a new
what they call manufacturing node this is a seven nanometer uh
part the lithography that is they can't get the yields on all their
wafers uh at a at a rate
or a quantity that makes a lot of sense economically for them so
that was really convoluted let me just say what i actually have written down
from a manufacturing point of view it is not feasible to produce a large GPU like
a 1080 like a big one or a vega on a brand new cutting-edge process like
seven nanometer early in the nodes life cycle because it's just a new technology
and they haven't ironed out all the manufacturing kinks yet so once they do
it's conceivable that in the future maybe in 2021 that they could use the
seven nanometer lithography to make bigger cards
yeah makes sense the more you know
hooray it's it's i don't know this is good uh
for a lot of reasons AMD needs to keep doing well they're doing quite well right now uh one interesting observation
that i had at pax we were talking about pax earlier on in the show Intel did not
have a booth there that was weird Intel's had a booth at
pax like every pax as far as i know for the last five or six years uh and video
wasn't there that's not super surprising they used to be at every pax then they
started dwindling off but okay no Intel no NVIDIA ASUS booth was much smaller
than normal AMD had a fairly big booth that was poppin the whole event it was
full there was queues for all the different stuff they had they had vr
setups but there was vr setups multiple other places on the show that
didn't have a line but the line at AMD was full all the time it was an
interesting experience to see that the community has kind of opened up to AMD
as a whole if you look back into like 2014 they were actually the very much so
underdog that like the underground people were like yeah i'm gonna buy one
of these even though like you know maybe it doesn't make a ton of
sense i'm gonna get it anywhere my money is just a donation name yeah basically
but now it's actually a lot more logical to go for their stuff which is really
cool and it's it's really cool to see them coming back um it was
a pretty awesome moment to see their booth packed at pax yeah because
even at pax west which was i guess in
the very beginning of september 2017
um the AMD booth was not that packed so
you're saying now that this hasn't even been that long now that there's no competition
their booth is popping well it helped i guess um and like they
did a much better job with their booth which in a way
kind of sort of not really but kind of indirectly maybe there's a lot of
caveats there i keep drinking water not like zuckerberg he's gonna work continue
um oh he's got it he's got it
sorry i'll ignore it i don't know um it it kind of shows success in the company
they have the money to flaunt at an event spending way too much money on a
ridiculously small roi of having a booth as a shareholder that angers me
yeah yeah that makes sense it's if you look at the roi of a booth you're actually
not showing to that many people and it costs a ludicrous amount of money you're
probably gonna end up giving a whole bunch of product away uh you're probably gonna have to pay a bunch of staff like
it's a really expensive thing to do but it's it's to cater to your super
fans and the the roi is hard to describe but it it reaches um and
then it is branding's huge in this space and you're you're making yourself a
constant part of the conversation and you're trying to spread that roi beyond
just that event that's kind of the idea so i don't know it was really
interesting to see that i'm very happy about AMD's fairly recent success and i
hope they keep going and i hope this is part of it because if you can get 1080
performance off a 250 card that breaches people into a way higher
level of gaming yeah but this is three years after the fact though like a year
from now you're gonna have a 1080
yeah which is like and we'll have to see like if mining does crash super hard and
people start selling mining cards for dirt cheap then it might not matter because you
might be able to get 1080s for around that price anyways they would just might
be kind of sketchy um but you're just the most tired car yeah
or you might just got some games in me
you turn your computer off it just falls apart because it's like i've been running for so long the dust was holding
me together um or you might get 1080 tis for that price or whatever else right
who knows but if mining does stay up there and the price of this does inflate
that might still even be helpful who knows
she's just trolling you man she's trolling me there's a door that's open here for
people who don't know yeah max's loitering we like have to have the
contact because if i go to close the door oh i can't there's a sandbag in the
way but if i go to close the door it will it will block the camera well not entirely actually you just have to look
through like a fire rated window i would like to end the show that way actually
by closing the door yeah i'll crawl under there remove the sound back
okay okay i'm down wait wait till the end of the show that's going to be your
easter egg it's going to happen yeah so anyways there's a weird a bunch of
documentation showed up this is the next topic okay
a bunch of documentation showed up uh uh at a random
i mean to to our ears rise anyway people who
aren't in the know of these things a random seeming manufacturer in china has
the documentation that describes like specs out this new mysterious google
branded dongle which is like a 4k
Android tv dongle as you can see yeah
and some people might think this is boring because they're like yeah okay it's a
roku or it's an amazon yeah i was wondering why you care so i'll tell you
why i care so much i have a chromecast at home okay
and i also have a google home okay those things work together
they're attached to my tv which is a smart tv the smart tv has a remote
and i use that remote and that smart tv to use apps like youtube a lot
the problem is that google home
and casting by voice is incompatible with my remote when i
cast if i'm like google play the latest
Linus tech tips video on the tv and it plays it
i can't then grab my remote and hit next video and start scrolling around and
stuff like that because my smart tvs
youtube app is a different app than the app that gets used when i cast things by
voice i basically have two youtube apps on my tv
with this you're going to be able to do that just like when you have a amazon fire tv
stick they actually the microphone the excuse me the remote is a microphone
you can talk into it this remote is the same deal it has a
dedicated google assistant button on it so this is the remote he's talking about
by the way and presumably i'm going to be able to say
googstar play this video on i don't want to hotword people i know i was going to
say you guys got to appreciate that he didn't include the first word yes when
he he's paying attention play the latest video i'll be able to watch that video
and then i'll be able to just use my remote
and then back and forth and that is gonna be sick
that's huge for me hey google play the hipster song with the whistling
i had to i'm sorry continue hey you don't want to leave
those alexa play the hipster song with the whistling people out is that going
to work though because i think that's a fairly specific
keyword for google play no that that or sorry the key phrase oh
the hipster song with the whistling because they put that in an ad
and i tried a whole bunch of other descriptions for songs that i thought were pretty good
it didn't work at all oh did you try the one the russian guy that goes
does that work yes we've done it even on land show before oh that's awesome yeah
yeah okay it's awesome okay sweet that's cool i'm surprised that works actually
that's a great song you know the song i'm talking about it's called like
seventh element by vedas get out
i think that's that was my choose that's what i wanted so people in chat are
saying that it's like basically a shield tv
but in a small compact dongle but i think it does a little bit
less and plus the price point those things
are over 200 bucks oh yeah so this is probably gonna be way cheaper the shield
will also be able to like cast games to your tv which is like
you're you're you're in a little bit different of a of a range there the shield also has a
voice controllable remote and the easiest way to think about it is
going to be there are already Android tv boxes it's just going to be that with
google assistant integration and voice remote
people in chat
i'm guessing that the price point will be like what 120 130 bucks is that how
much a fire tv stick is let me search the american internets
yeah where these things exist oh my
god
while you do that fire truck no they know it from last
tech tips
what did you guys think about the fire pole video good god it's thirty dollars
fire tv stick with alexa voice from 30 bucks that's really cheap even the 4k
one is only 50. a 4k chromecast is like 70 usd
isn't it i don't know hold on let me google some more
do it do it
you can get a chromecast on amazon now can't you wasn't that the whole thing that they argued about before
can you do it now though because i know they're arguing about it but i don't know if it's like already an option oh
that got pretty settled it auto filled i don't see it i see a shield they sell
NVIDIA shields for 200. it comes with a gamepad though yeah
because you can play Android games on it some of them i guess
yeah i'm totally going to sell my chromecast and get one of these donald if it comes out they're probably going
to announce it at i o i o is in a month it's in may google i o
it's going to be sweet can you work on this heck yeah yeah okay i thought so so
while you're looking that up i'm gonna do a little Floatplane moment 70 bucks
i was right i have to 70 okay okay so it is a little bit more expensive uh
Floatplane has awesome stuff on it kyle from bitwit currently has cool cooler is
cool what happens if we if we remove the fans it's a be quiet! cooler that should
be a pretty interesting video also he has a 32x9 gaming setup that he wants to
show off in a different video Linus tech tips has a wearable coast
house a merged keyboard and mouse
it is a cause i like it that was by accident but i'm
kind of down with it uh it's so can you tell me a tiny amount but what this
thing actually is so it's these rings that you wear on your fingers yeah if
you lay your hand on a table okay it's a mouse
if you don't and you just put your wrist on the edge of a table and you tap on a
table it's a keyboard and it can know based on like if you
stretch your finger or whatever it's not
uh spatial it's not like a is over here and p is over here okay you actually
have to learn a bunch of gestures like it's his own language
like that's a that's n oh that's r
yeah okay i learned it all can you type properly that way i can
type how fast uh i can survive
like probably dial up like i could describe it as okay okay that's cool
though i don't know it's sweet i like it a lot and it's good at what it's doing
like it's it doesn't register i'm not gonna give away the video no yeah don't
go any further perfect uh there's also uh the continuation of the apple fiasco
with the imac pro um
buying a video card without getting screwed and some other cool stuff like
the history of the motherboard i haven't seen that video i'm going to watch that
video because i grew up with these super janky
weird motherboard setups and i grew up with like my dad's computer where
basically to build the computer you had to have a whole bunch of add-in cards
because the motherboard was so bare and it didn't have like like you didn't have
onboard nick okay he didn't have on-board lan for Ethernet connection so
he had to have a nic card in order to have connections i remember when we
bought our first uh computer my like i remember being in the shop when we were
buying it and it was like for hours and
we like bought a sound card yeah like that's just totally integrated didn't
have audio on board probably yeah so like that i'm 100 certain that that is
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there we go i think we've completed our ritual we didn't get to watch that but i
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first purchase back to the show boom the beginning of the end of passwords yes so
there could be a future soon where you very
very seldom enter a password
which would be dope because passwords suck
so what happened is there's this there's this new security standard called
web often like authentication yeah
that's so stupid it's weird thanks guys i thought it was a typo at first like i
was like oh it appears more than once oh you didn't account for people saying
this out loud but okay um web often has won near final approval
from the world wide web consortium which is the governing body for these kinds of
standards so what this is is
on your phone you're unlocking your phone with face id or with your
fingerprint all the time right but you don't do that when you go to
facebook.com or basically any other website all recipes for them you enter
in just a password um setting up a face
a biometric um a password on all different websites
would take a long time you'd have to not only would they have to implement that
that technology but then you'd have to like do your all those different finger
taps on every different finger for every website and that'd be really annoying
so what this is is it's an API
an application programming interface that all the different websites
will will hook into and then you only have to
set up your biometric passwords once and then the whole web
can rely on them which is going to be be a name yes so
for hackers all you really need to do is break one system yeah and then you get
all of them yes sick
i might be wrong but this is how i think it works because the i had to do some
some digging beyond uh just what was found on the forum the forum post by the
way was posted by matthew valencia thank you very much thank you matt
you sound italian what valencia that's spanish sounding to
me i'm really bad at that so you're probably totally right it
could be really hard it could be either uh yeah i don't know it sounds like it
could be cool it sounds like it could be a single point of failure it just
depends on i guess how they exactly
implement it you can require something
like a yubikey which i think is actually pretty cool
so if they if they add power to the user in terms of like oh
i'm okay with fairly weak authentication and you want
to go that route that's fine i don't care if someone doesn't really care
about their accounts that's okay if you have one password for everything and you
think that's okay that's fine um as long
as it's in your control to amplify that
and have more security if you want to go to like
having two factors still like a yubikey and something else that could be pretty
cool um well you kind of already have a single point of failure like if someone
were to get my phone which they would unlock with fingerprint
or if they were to get my laptop and unlock with a password then i have all
those autocompletes set up so they kind of have everything anyway see but then
that's that's uh an in your control thing yes mine doesn't
if someone got my phone yeah yeah they have access to
not very much i would have access to my email which is pretty bad
um and i guess they would have but they they don't have access to like my
password trove and nothing autocompletes but they would have my email so they
could probably reset most things um but like yeah i don't know but even if
even if you're the kind of person who like doesn't care about things um
wouldn't those like how are they gonna get a hold of your
of your biometric information isn't that just hashed isn't it totally
yeah but okay so the there's there's different types of of
hacking so you could find a vulnerability in the
system that no longer requires you to use those sure yeah okay right there's
like things yeah it's and and someone will probably find one of those okay uh
whether it ends up on zero day and gets solved or whether it gets sold or what
happens with it who knows and having
one central system if it's open source uh and you have a whole bunch of huge
companies working on making sure that it stays secure could be really awesome and
could like really lock things down um one thing that's awesome about this is
if you're not even that savvy or serious about your privacy
um you're more protected with this because you can't be phished with this
because your password is like a secret that you know and
just because no one else knows it doesn't mean that they can't get it just
by asking you what it is which is what phishing is
my wife actually got an sms recently that was like your your telco
has given you a refund or your isp is giving you a refund of 114.61
click through you click through and it's got tiles for each of the common banks
in canada totally branded looks totally professional looks awesome and you just
you click on that and it's like you enter your banking credentials and then boom they have everything if she didn't
explicitly know like uh this isp never texts me they never text
me and they have no reason to give me a refund but like how tempting is that like oh
free money free money yeah anything's possible sms
people get fished all the time so you can't get fish with this
you still totally could because if it would just be done in a different way
because you would have to have it capture your authentication i guess
so because you're saying this is a general API for everyone right so they
would be so you would go to the phishing site and it would be like scan your fingerprint
and you'd be like click when you have to when you get like it on
Android or iOS when you get a a permission prompt that was like share
your fingerprint with this website and you'd be like that's weird i already did
that and then even if you did say yes to that they'd scan your fingerprint it would
just be once which may not be enough to like totally get super dangerous may not be enough i
don't know it still might work its potential you could also algorithm it
out to like angle it slightly to try to make it slightly different um and
honestly i would honestly think most people would go like oh yeah go away
to any prompt that's like do you want to share this with the website could be um
it's it's still possible there's there's phishing attempts that succeed that are
super garbage all the time uh and
there's actually some people who intentionally make things like fishing
uh attempts that are really bad
because they don't want to get savvy people ah
so they actually weed out savvy people by making it
fairly obviously fake so if someone does fall for it they can probably get way
more from them that's because they're really gullible yeah there's there's oh that's amazing
the the world of of people trying to
benefit off of other people uh is vast and well-educated that actually is a
pretty good segue into another thing that happened which is this ransomware
that asks yeah pubg get this ransomware it's like your data
is encrypted the only way to get it back is to play this video game
like we're not affiliated just play it because it's awesome or if
you don't want to do that just enter the password that's actually written right
here on the screen so it's just like just like a joke
i don't know maybe someone just wanted to play it maybe it's a viral marketing
campaign it's obviously like bad and stuff viral
it's a viral it's a virus
i like that i didn't pick up on that right away first um it's it's obviously like bad
and stuff but i think it's hilarious i i think this is very funny um just play
pub g for one hour and apparently you don't even have to if you just launch
the game at all it just that's what happens yeah when you launch when you launch it and the or restore code is and
you can just type that in i think it's i think it's funny um
it's it's i mean i'm not condoning it it's not a good thing all that kind of
stuff but i just i think it's hilarious i was like kind of hoping it was going
to happen to me just because i'd be like well i guess i gotta play
pubg right honey
luke it's date night ignore that code
i have to say that i have to save the pictures although all the family pictures are all
super important yes family pictures
my family videos
my family vr videos yes of course
so apparently warranty sticker stickers that say if you remove the sticker
you're going to your buoyancy is ward
you know what i'm talking about this was posted by steve uh grabowski on the
forum and the previous topic was posted by
no one hey grabowski thanks for the topic yes
warranty void if removed that sticker apparently is and illegal so
the ftc is cracking down they've sent
letters to six major companies they haven't said who these companies are but
they're rigged yeah and they're in the sectors of
their car manufacturers of cars they are
did i even write it down video yeah here we go automobiles cellular devices and
video game systems uh makers like i'm pretty sure they're
big companies like so yeah yeah so
they've sent warning letters to these companies writing that statements that
consumers must use specified parts or service providers
to keep their warranties is actually illegal and it has been
since 1975. and we've kind of always sort of known
this to be completely honest okay okay um but it's been so ah okay
maybe i shouldn't say we have but like a lot of people have been on this side and
kind of known this for a long time but that being said because there hasn't
been a big public statement that's super easy to point out like this there's you
can point at like really old laws and whatever but most companies just act on
the idea that it that it is enforceable so we'll make it
a nightmare to actually get your stuff repaired to the point where it's not worth it uh i
think even if even if the case was that like
you know i'm gonna take the sticker off and there's nothing the company can do
and they're gonna have to uh honor the warranty anyway
just the fact that they have a sticker on there and are deterring a large part
of the population even that is getting cracked down on right which is good
because that sticker like you're right deters a huge percentage of population
basically almost everyone and then uh even if it doesn't like i love breaking
those stickers uh if i did want a warranty repair for something that i
broke the sticker on uh it would be a nightmare and probably not worth my time
and it would probably never end up happening and to get it fixed i'd probably have to take them to court
which is not going to be worth it so this being enacted is awesome i love it
it's great this is good one quote that i like here is from thomas b paul acting
director of the ftt ftc's bureau of consumer protection he said proficient
provisions that tie warranty coverage to the use of particular products or
services harm both consumers who pay more for them as well as the small
businesses who offer competing products and services
you know like if there's a say a mac store that's not max certified but the
people that are yeah they know how to fix them
those people should be able to start businesses and fix up these computers yeah
i completely agree they're right to repair you know let's not waste as much
stuff sounds good to me homebod
homepod no i mean like that's dude no i know let's do it i'm down
uh this is this is interesting apple hasn't what's the
last thing that apple released that was a new product
um airpods okay yeah no you got me immediately well
that goes out the window um i was thinking like they're they're watched it
hasn't done very well their homepod now hasn't done very well but you're right
airpods have done great but they're okay they are well headphones the watch
game's steamed has
everyone knows it's the best smart watch out there i mean it's not safe okay but do people care about yeah exactly do
people care about smart watches no no the category is is still yeah pretty
niche so here's the story with the home pods
um when it was when the pre-orders went out
that weekend the the sales of like the pre-orders
there for the home pod accounted for 73 of all smart speaker sales that weekend
and for the first month i believe it was ten percent
of the market basically the market share of homepod
relative to other smart speakers like the amazon echo and google home is abysmal
and shrinking had a depressing rate
if at first it looked like the homepod might be a hit pre-orders were strong in the last week of january it grabbed
about a third of the us smart smart speaker market in unit sales but by the
time homepod arrived in stores sales were tanking during the first 10 weeks
they had 10 of the smart speaker market
but three weeks after launch sales slipped to about four percent
that it didn't help that they missed the entire holiday season and that when they
did ship they were missing two critical uh features that they're gonna have to
wait for apple airplay two uh before they have which is gonna be like july or
something all that not withstanding uh the end
result here is that apple has actually slashed the quantity that they're
ordering from their suppliers now from 500 000 units to 200 000 units
and the people who are working like anecdotally i guess the yeah employees
at apple stores are saying that like yeah we sell like 10 of these a day like
they're not really flying off the shelf which is interesting because at
quite a few stores 10 a day would be pretty good so i don't know what yeah
who said that because if that was at pacific center like in vancouver it's
like damn yeah they sell like 10 iphones a day yeah yeah yeah exactly but
yeah and like yeah there's a little apple section of
the local best pie and like if they sold 10 home hots a day they'd
so it really like i don't know if they have 10 customers a day at that apple
thing they're stoked so like it depends on the scale um
of where you're dealing with but essentially they're not selling very
well so there's a rumor here i believe it's just a rumor
i mean it's definitely just a rumor i just don't know how how like
authoritative that rumor is but yeah people are saying that apple could be
considering making a smaller homepod
i guess it would be cheaper because i mean it's a pretty competitive
market yeah this isn't a bluetooth speaker but
bluetooth speakers are totally uh totally commodity by now and the thing
with smart speakers is apple's the only one that's not decoupled from their own
proprietary device like you can get sonos to have or you will be soon
someone else to have google assistant in them yeah you can get
someone to have alexa in them there's some devices that have amazon
alexa as well as google assistant in them oh i actually didn't know uh sonos
is going to be like that soon and i believe there's a company that
i think it's called the wand and it's on its way here that does that how cool is
that to address alexa and then address i said it to dress her and then address
google home like for whatever you want like that's awesome anyway um here's a
few reasons why i don't think it's true that apple is making a smaller homepod
and maybe i'll be wrong but i don't think it makes very much sense because
when you make a speaker that's cheaper like if you think about the echo and the
echo dot everything with the google home and the google home mini the thing that
makes it cheaper and smaller is that they've compromised on sound quality
like the google home mini doesn't have the speakers that the bigger one does
but with the homepod that's the only thing that the homepod does well is the
sound quality so if they got rid of the sound quality all you'd have left is all
the reasons why homepod isn't doing well you'd have a crappy assistant that
doesn't do that much stuff yeah so why would you buy that you
wouldn't so it doesn't make any sense
i i think if they are doing that
uh i think it would speak to the like post
steve jobs apple and like i don't know if they are doing
that and if they're not i think that would make more sense so i'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening but
old apple with steve jobs not old old apple without him or older apple with
him i mean like the the like third one uh not the fourth one that we're
currently in um they would have demanded
no this is the right way to do it if they make something they would have been
like no this is what people should have and people will learn that we're right
eventually or whatever and everything that they would
make would make tons of money and make sense and even if it didn't sell a huge
amount the first time they made it they would just make another one which is a
linear improvement as well from there i think you can categorize that by arrows
and attribute to steve jobs but i think a lot of it is more attributed to just
the maturation of the that particular market category and now
there's lots of different iphones because the smartphone market is just
way more mature in terms of speakers though like their their market strategy
now is like we're a hardware company whose principal product the smartphone
is under attack at all sides and being commoditized so what we're going to do
instead because we can't get more iphone customers is we're just going to get
more money from our existing customers through all these
kind of uh ancillary products like airpods and the homepod so
we're going to make a speaker that's really good and we're going to get another 350 from each of our existing
customers that's wicked i don't think they're going to compromise on that i
don't think they're going to say you know what instead of getting 350
from our customers we're going to get 150 with this like weak ass homepod yeah
because then who's going to get the expensive one it makes a lot more sense to me for them
to spend their resources on making the home pod that already exists more
attractive why don't they just make it you know focus on the ecosystem
focus on the the uh integration with more smart home stuff makes siri better
make siri better if you can at this point yeah and that's gonna affect all
your other products as well i think focusing on the ecosystem for them is
is what they're gonna do it's that's consistent with their strategy that they're using today i think this rumor
is bunk i think the first person to make a
very personalized assistant is gonna start winning me over pretty fast
when it's like actual conversational oh yeah that would when it's scarlet
like sup like you mean from is that is that
that's heard her yeah yeah okay have you seen uh why him
uh why him yeah yeah with that it's a james franco movie no i haven't yeah
yeah there's a uh there's a virtual assistant in that movie that's totally
totally colloquial like it fights with you and stuff yeah perfect yeah
like i i'm careful no seriously though like i
i want it to be like you're late
wake up yeah yeah then when i'm like no i want to get up
and like because it gets used to the fact that i have a hard time waking up so it becomes a little bit more
aggressive so it tries to get me up like i i want one that learns who i am i
would honestly mostly prefer that it was local and
didn't have to call back to outside servers and would just use my own stuff
so if someone makes one of those i'll spend exorbitant amounts of money
and i'll make that work if it's like good uh but they won't so that's okay um
but yeah well that'll happen eventually
come on scotty i mean if we're talking like super long term but yeah what do
you mean this isn't this is 10 years 10 years until you have a local one
that's actually as good as the other ones i'm talking yeah i'm talking like okay
conversational will definitely happen yeah and i'm but knowing about you and
dealing with you the only data they need for that is data
from you so why wouldn't that be local
because they want all of it though i got confused for a second but it's
because they want all of that data so they can train the rest of their
their devices and stuff and so they can
take things from it for the most point
but yeah because they want that data ooh there's another like just get let's get
one more in here okay uh speaking of google basically
there's some leaks of where the heck did i put this
there's a new gmail coming in the next couple weeks and it has some cool new features
yeah someone data mining is profitable basically yeah this looks awesome uh not only does
it aesthetically looks kind of cool or more Android
but it has this new feature of like confidential
email so there's like a little lock icon you can hit and when you hit that
lock icon your email gets all these new properties such as
the recipient can no longer forward that email they can't download it they can't
print it obviously they can take a screenshot because you can take a screenshot or
even if you somehow block that because of their native os they could just take
another thing and take a picture yeah sure sure for sure you'll never get past
that um it disables copy and paste
and it lets you make it explode so you can make the email itself expire after
like a week or a month or a year or multiple years and when that happens
so there are other services that have these kind of
properties already the notably is protonmail
if a proton mail user sends an email
or a message to another proton mail user and it's exploding message when it
explodes it just disappears from both of our boxes it's like just gone the way it
works or is probably gonna work with the new google one is
if you're the recipient you're gonna get an email looks like a normal email
you're gonna open that email and it's gonna have a link to the confidential
email so when it expires i think it's just that link that expires and the
email like line item will still be in your inbox when you click that link you're
gonna have to enter your google credentials again which is pretty sweet because then if
someone stole your laptop and just had access to your email because you left it
open they still wouldn't have access to that that confidential email and you can also
stipulate that they need to enter like a two-factor thing like a sms
when when they get that email too
just increases security someone steals your device and figures out your pattern
or your code or whatever and can get into it like we were talking earlier
like my passwords would still be locked but emails auto login so if all my
emails had this thing or all the important ones had this thing
uh that would add a lot of security and you can make it so that the expiration
date like you're saying it explodes you can make so the expiration date is like multiple years
so if it's something that that person's gonna have to go back to it multiple
times yeah well you could make it so that the expiration date is like way way
down the line uh it also says etc so i
could see a potential situation where it just doesn't ever explode but it has all
the other security features like you have to go through that link you have to re-log in yeah all that kind of stuff so
you can do it you could do it for just high security emails in general which is
really cool um it doesn't just have to be stuff that is gonna delete if you're
an accountant you could tell your clients like hey
send me your your stuff just make it explode in seven
years because you i don't need it legally after that time and i don't want
to be holding your data in my storage sure yeah i mean it wouldn't be theirs anyway
but yeah whatever i think that would be cool it's friday night
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