excited we have great topics this week uh HDMI 2.1 is here
that's actually really cool every single time a display cable gets updated i'm
just excited it's a good thing because like it's gonna be like more resolutions
yeah and faster colors and faster yeah
fret refresh rates it's good everything just gets better also
china's using dji drones to spy on the
us rumor allegedly allegedly well um
allegedly yep yeah uh ea sports ufc threes
egregious implementation of microtransactions it's so bad we'll be
talking about that and finally our former employer
ncix.com bankrupt
okay do you think i can roll the intro and adjust the tilt of the camera
at the same time you got three okay two
one go
he's off he's going around the table he's grabbed the lever twisting the knob
oh the knob's broken off he's having some issues he might have to go get a wrench
the intro is still going oh he's trying to turn the camera
anyways trying to use oh i have to sit up oh i have to do an
ad thing though okay dragging the ad into place thank
you savage jerky
thank you spectrum
thank you marcil marsai marsai french
for someone with a french name you don't have the words very well no i don't
and i would know oh oh oh my oh my ah
speaking of frenching really well though HDMI 2.1
yeah sure uh so this was posted by silver
silver oh do you mind if i have the uh uh right i was tested this was posted by
silverdrocci on the forum and the original article
here is from engadget.com let's go ahead and pull
that baby up boom HDMI 2.1 is here with support for
10k and dynamic HDR support and it is
backwards compatible with previous HDMI specifications that 10k by the way
pretty weird 10k so so 10k it looks like
is gonna be more like wide 8k yeah except that that still
makes it 10k yes because
the way that we define resolutions because average
you know joe cons okay nothing against people named joe okay let's just average jeff
consumer yeah can't handle two numbers
okay so that's why resolutions are just something k now has to be a maximum of
three characters or else you've lost them that's right four that's probably
pushing it that's why swear words usually cap at four you can't go beyond
there
okay
it's kind of a thing how interesting
um so okay here hold on back to this back to this chart that we're looking at over on
engadget here so this is this is interesting because back in the day we had full hd
and that was everyone we didn't really know that as full hd outside of like you
know like the yeah i mean 1920 by 1080 i think we
called it 1080p back then and then full hd
was no no we didn't know it is full hd but that was kind of like used
some people even said 1080p full hd yeah because we we called it full hd because
of all the bs marketing that went on around 170 which was called hd hd okay
this is like no this is like a real hd the full hd it's complete and then 4k
was like okay it's i get the four so
it's like four times this and it's also about 4 000 pixels wide
but then okay so this 5k this is interesting
we've got about 5000 pixels wide which makes sense that's consistent with the
4k naming oh something a lot of people don't know is that there was actually a
2k standard yeah so it's uh 20
48 by 1080 if i recall correctly but that was only a dci cinema standard that
wasn't actually a consumer standard and then everything got really confused with
4k because this resolution 3840 by 2160 is technically uhd ultra hd it is not 4k
4k should be 4096 by 2160 because it
would be 4 times 2k but then we weren't sure if we were
using consumer nomenclature or if we were using a professional nomenclature
and then the 5k thing i don't know i don't know what the hell that is because
that's like widescreen 4k that's not 5k
because 5k the only 5k devices that exist are the apple display
on the imac and lg's 5k display that's
also for max and then 8k is 4 times 4k
but actually this is four times uhd which is four times full hd so the
decays never meant anything in the first place and also
7680 is like dangerously not that close
to 8 000 at this point and then 10k is now apparently four times 5k
at a different aspect ratio than 8k 4k full hd
you know what no that was probably horrible sorry
sorry i'm sorry sorry but i i have to
express my frustration two numbers
is not that hard we've been doing it since you know 640
by 480. it was good enough for me it's good
enough for the next generation i hate this i hate everything about it except
that with new HDMI we can run higher resolution and i actually am excited to
see ultrawide tvs the fact that these standards are making it into the HDMI
specification means you're gonna see tvs like this anytime
you don't see a clip there's one that's really high on reddit right now anytime
you see a clip of horizon zero dawn that's an ultra wide it's like
that's probably how that game's supposed to be played tvs apparently 480p was first gen hd
what was that yeah uh hdcrts oh they
could be i think they could be like 480 progressive or something or something
something i can't remember the hd term has been
it's been bastardized yeah there's a swear word that's not four letters yes
someone in the twitch chat informed me of that yeah i said usually i mean we
could have thought of a couple i'm sure i think i said usually because there are
some compound swear words that are definitely more than four letters
um so anyway there's a bunch of other cool stuff 48
gigabit per second that's pretty sick 4k at 120 hertz that's actually a lot more
important to me than 10k yes uh 8k at 60
hertz that's pretty sweet i guess personally i'm really not that sold on
above 4k at this point for yeah but that 4k at
120 is like that's pretty sweet i mean
8k 60 hertz would be great for like a gigantic projector i guess
um dynamic HDR variable refresh rate oh
yes thank you finally oh man when
i'm surprised that sony and microsoft haven't been pushing harder for variable
refresh rate because it would mask so
many of the FPS dips in a good way in a good way yeah like
actually like mask puts a potentially negative term i guess that's true yeah
but it is masking but like it would it would it would look
a lot better uh auto low latency mode so that's cool uh contextual anti-aliasing
removing jaggies without noticeable blur that sounds like if they get it right
it'll be great and if they don't then it won't um and sub one millisecond leg although
that'll be up to the tv makers in terms of how they want to implement that and
how little lag there actually is because they are constantly dinking around with
the signal trying to
do whatever it is that they're trying to certainly wish they wouldn't do
um yeah every time that i even think about maybe looking into a tv which i
don't i haven't i've never technically bought a tv um so
i mean like if someone asks me or whatever else um
i end up just being like i wish i could just buy a ginormous monitor
because i don't even exist now yeah like can you get like
60-inch 65-inch monitors no i think the biggest is that's what i'm talking about
g has a 42 because like not only do i not want this
stuff that's on the tv right so i don't want extra smart tv but like the tuner
it makes it worse it's not like oh that's not a benefit it's like no i
really really wish that wasn't there i would pay the same price just please
take it off it's so annoying
i've got people asking me what's up with the ijustine thing um so
i went down there hooked her up with a sick 150 terabyte
storage server in pink and white yeah absolutely did
you see the picture yeah it's sweet it looks really clean it's
super cool and then while i was down there i actually impromptu shot a studio
tour of her place because i actually didn't take a camera this is kind of a
funny story so uh the original plan was for me to take a camera person down and
i was gonna stay down for like two or three days and i was gonna hang out with uh jay's tu san si and do um
because he's actually working i don't wanna say what he's working on because his might still be top secret but it's a
really cool build um it's like sort of a collab except i don't need to be there
so i don't need to be there for that anymore so we shortened my trip and then
the other reason that i was going to take a shooter was that i was probably going to do some kind of video for our
channel with justine um and then i was like you know what forget it i just need
to do a short trip because i've been traveling so much lately and you know
what i don't know if we're gonna have time in one day to do the video for her
channel and one for mine don't worry about it she already came up
and she did a a guest appearance for us
another thing that's never coming out one thing that it'll come out even i'm kidding i'm kidding um
forget it i'm not gonna shoot a video and then what's funny is Yvonne booked a
room with two beds just in case i like changed my mind at
the last second and took a shooter but i didn't
but then i got to justine's place and i was like this place is amazing this
place is unbelievable
and so what i did was i actually borrowed her shooter
and then just got the clips off the sd card back here and it's actually being edited
right now nice you are gonna be blown away and this is coming from the
same person who just did a dead mouse studio tour her place
is unbelievable it's incredible really cool cool yeah i'm stoked
one spoiler
yes she probably has literally
50 xbox one controllers literally what
literally okay one more spoiler yeah
literally every amiibo literally
like properly using that term every single one literally
what the heck literally actually literally
oh my god that's so many amiibos she is
a way bigger nerd than i give her credit for there's a few i haven't been able to
get i'm not collecting that many to be very clear i have like four so
something that i've wanted that i can't get yeah so her place was super cool and
i was really excited to uh that's pretty cool yeah the entire chat is just like
literally literally literally um
i found something that i thought okay you know what forget it that's we'll get
to it in the video okay um what were we talking about we
were technically on HDMI but i think we passed on oh yeah i think we're in
between things and we're maybe doing dji should we do floatplay oh
let's do dji first yeah dji
wow so this was posted by wm groom ak on
the forum and actually we're going with our forum
for the source of this article here because apparently this was a really
epic post oh no no end gadget is the original source here let's pull that up
uh if it ever goes it'll go
it'll go it'll go
i'm gonna post it in the twitch chat come on baby you got this
there we go all right
homeland security claims
that dji drones are spying
for china and it released a memo detailing what it
believes to be dji's main targets
wow that is like some pretty serious
business accusation going on so this is a memo from the los angeles office of
the immigration and customs enforcement bureau alleging that the data captured from dji
drone customers in the u.s is being provided to the chinese government
and the memo originally in august says that and there's a quote with moderate
confidence the chinese-based company dji science and technology is providing u.s
critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the chinese
government the information is based on open source reporting and a reliable
source within the unmanned aerial systems industry with first and second
hand access so they conclude and this is more quotes
that it assesses with high confidence the critical infrastructure and law
enforcement entities using dji systems are collecting sensitive intelligence
that the chinese government could use to conduct physical or cyber attacks
against the united states and its population yeah so dji appears to be
targeting users with the ability to disrupt critical infrastructure railroads utilities companies that
provide drinking water weapon storage facilities
dji's statement though to be clear this is all alleged
dji statement says that the memo was based on clearly false and misleading
claims um
shortly after however dji released a local data mode which allows users to
cut off drones from all internet activity which they probably should what does my
drone need to do on the internet no clue especially in terms of reporting like
camera and telemetry data yeah especially when i'm recording or like
other than when i'm performing a firmware update yeah
um or i could that should only be down i could see it reporting something like if
i'm flying in a no-fly zone like that kind of stuff's coming but again that
shouldn't be going to a foreign government that's for sure that should
be going to one that has jurisdiction over the area that i am flying it should
be like when you have to would you have to register your drone or something now
right so that should be like when you register your drone they like get a key or
something yup um
wow pretty brutal so now the ice memo did
focus on the drones used by companies and institutions not the drones flown by
hobbyists so i don't know if you necessarily have to stop you know
hovering your drone in the bedroom to film yourself making a sex tape or
whatever um i wouldn't recommend that either either
way yeah blades yeah you know blades and
penises um not a good combination unless you don't
want to have kids anymore like me but there's better ways to do that yeah yeah
oh speaking of which i know you wanted to
talk about stuff that's on Floatplane it's hilarious
okay it's actually so funny i can't even one of taran's scenes in
this is so golden they're like you know that
yeah oh my god okay so oh my goodness stuff that's on Floatplane right now um
you guys join join the club it's cool all the cool kids are there uh we've got
case made of radiators literally coming out it's out literally
a case made of radiators literally look at it literally case made of
radiators okay um achieving the ultimate 4k experience
the first ever NVIDIA sponsored
Linus tech tips video of all time literally i hope i hope top comment on
this thread i haven't looked yet isn't video shows we'll see though i hope so
too yeah there's no way it won't be uh taran hosted a video recently on the
elgato stream deck i have so many problems with that thing
i've watched this video yet but we'll see um let's see what else we got here we got
some exclusive stuff we toured the server room that was pretty cool well
where's the Channel Super Fun one uh oh it's coming it's coming uh oh that's
already up on youtube oh there it is uh triton 700 super powerful super thin
gaming laptop very cool and there it is cruel pregnancy prank
gone wrong it's amazing how many people are giving us crap about that gone wrong
in the title i would hope
it's fairly obvious that that like
naming scheme is is played out at this point and that
anyone doing it now and people are still really doing it almost 2018 exactly
anyone doing it now is clearly just being ironic it's tongue-in-cheek it's
just it's silly we all know it's dumb gone sexual gone
wrong i don't think we've done a prank in a while yeah so it's kind of a show back to like
when youtube used to be pranked to prank to basically yeah like i just i
there were a couple people who seemed legit upset about it no no it's just it's it's a joke it's just a it's just a
joke bro it's just a joke it's just a joke bro it's just a joke um that was
the worst in all seriousness this wasn't a very funny joke
it was hilarious as an external person
so there are nothing to do it is a it is a two-prank video yeah so should i
should i you know i'll say what the first one is because that one's right at
the beginning okay okay so the first prank is when
Yvonne got pregnant with our third um she and i got together and we were
talking about how guys are not that observant like women can
tell that each other are pregnant like basically immediately i don't know how
they do it it's like they can smell it on each other or something you called me
on the phone yeah oh okay well i'll keep doing this
uh so women can tell right away and i was like no there's no way guys would notice like that's why we never ask like
we never bring it up because we can't tell the difference between
like eight months pregnant and fat and you
don't want to run that risk because you're like there's no way to win right
and she was like no they'll be able to tell i was like they will not be able to tell and they certainly won't say
anything and so she and i kind of made a little bet i was like they won't be able
to tell even if and and they'll think that it's
me being mean if i'm like constantly going after you about how you're getting
fat there's they won't be able to tell they'll just be like Linus is an ass
they will not figure out that you're actually pregnant and you have to
consider that while he's being an ass to
his wife who's also an employee of the company that we all work at he's also
everyone's boss yup yup it's a really
weird dynamic and this is great i would ask people like do you think do
you think Yvonne's getting fat meanwhile she has actually gained 15 pounds
because she is pregnant they'd be like oh no
anyway there's actually a part two to the prank that is
not funny at all but um no it's actually hilarious it's a good
video go go sign up for Floatplane having having the second part's not
funny though having nothing to do with it it is
hilarious but like there are certain points in
time where i was like oh this is oh so this is getting bad there you go
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just wanna drop that out there all right speaking of top tier quality why don't
we talk about sc2 mitch's post on the forum
uh the original article here is from astute gaming
a site that i've never heard of but neither but sure one there you go
and uh the headline here oh the headline oh
ea sports ufc 3 the single most
egregious implementation of microtransactions to
date so bad whoa have you read any about this at all
you know this is this is not my deal i'm not a
ufc guy i'm not an ea sports guy and i rarely even have time for gaming and i
definitely don't pay for microtransactions so i tend to pretty much ignore them wherever they exist so
it offends me probably less than other people because this is a game i was
never going to play from a company whose game i was never going to put it i should still offend you okay hit me
reasons why i should still offend you no no no no no no no run run through what it is okay run through what it is right
off the top every single technique ability fighter stat roll all of it is
in quad is entirely acquired and upgraded
through a loot box system
okay oh where's the question you can't
actually like buy a fighter pressing the square button apparently we're going for
playstation here pressing a square button to throw a punch at an opponent
the simplest and most obvious mechanic in an mma game will do more damage if
players have paid money
in an online pvp game it will do more
damage if players have paid money
so good microtransactions are also the
only means of acquiring perks and boosts
perks are powerful abilities that can be equipped for a small number of fights
before expiring and boosts are temporary enhancements that offer endurance boosts
and durability bonuses meaning you can fight longer you can take less damage
and you can hit harder which is literally the entire game
boom so good
so basically ea is saying that ufc
gamer fans
are just
endless like like money teats that they can suck
on pretty much does that sound like about what ea
apparently thinks so yeah they're their audience here and you know what the
interesting thing is when we when we rolled out the coupon digging shirt
that was because of ubisoft i know
but they've like taken turns well yeah because ea was like always crap like the
keep on digging was only relevant because ubisoft's crap-ness was like
kind of a new thing like ea i mean when was the last time
oh no because i remember like at that time we did actually have some positive
ea deadlines yeah so they've switched and like like
ubisoft is not doing everything right right now
yeah there's some extremely valid complaints to be made about certain
games of theirs like for honor uh but they also launched uh the south park
game south park game was very fun it's quite a long game lots of content in it
i haven't heard many people complaining about that all the negative reviews that i've seen
on steam because there's quite a few of them are people going why the heck do i
need uplay that's not a new problem that's a consistent that's been around
dumb problems it is a dumb problem but it has existed for a long time i should
play it did that just come out fairly recently there's nothing like
sticker truth right it's extremely similar to good truth oh cool it's like
basically the same game okay yeah it's just a different story yeah i'll just go
play like like the overworld is essentially identical well yeah i mean
so yeah but like even town in colorado what do you want yeah you want to make a
new town in colorado and you can't redo the art style because it's south park so
like it's it's like the same thing and you do the same thing where you go from
like house to house which i don't know there's only so many houses
yeah yeah but like it is a very good game it's
funny yeah okay they said it has a completely different
combat system uh i don't even remember the previous one but yeah it's not it's
not like super next level or anything sure i
would recommend playing it on as hard of the difficulties yeah yeah sticker truth
is pretty easy yeah um okay cool but like it's it's
what do we even say about this there's like nothing to say you can't defend it
no you like you can't even play devil's advocate and be like oh well you know
maybe if no not at all and like this is this this
ties in with there's battlefront issues going on right now
while that's going on they somehow thought it was okay
to throw a beta keys for this game with this already implemented and this being
the style they take the micro transactions out of battlefront 2 and
then what just assume that everyone's going to be super okay with ufc like oh
different target audience they're not even going to bring it up i don't think
that's going to be a thing what is my hold on oh man yes mom oh boy hey hi i
wanted to say goodbye to you because i'll be gone for three weeks
okay and i can't get a hold of you at any other time than when you're actually
doing the show so answer your phone
you haven't called me any other time sorry okay where uh where are you going
mom you just got loki owned i did i did
um i'm going to vernon i sent you on over facebook pictures of my bullet
wounds what
i sent you pictures of the bullet wound so you can tell me if you think they're any good i'm practicing doing my bullet
wounds for the war movie i'm going to be working on you got to preface that a
little bit i told you you sent them 16 minutes ago
okay this is not fair i will i'm going to be working on a war
movie yes i did i did okay okay so i
i wanted your opinion on my bullet wounds uh okay sorry one moment okay
well in the meantime um um
i'm gonna i'm gonna go i'm gonna they look pretty good mom
they do they look pretty good all right i will let you go but at least i got a
chance to say goodbye to you before i left bye i hope you have a good trip
okay bye me too bye Linus thank you for having a friday
show so i can talk to my son once in a while yeah no problem
thanks
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oh what is this
this has happened a handful of times
and people always like people always go tinfoil hat on this kind of stuff when
it happens but uh have you did you watch our video about this
the the answer once but no i didn't interesting okay so this has happened a
handful of times where we with no
no intention of actually ever working together we've done a review of a
product in this case it was the m cable from marsai
a product that claims to improve the
image quality of a device that it's attached to
i didn't see this video okay so many songs going off please explain it's over
a hundred dollars okay it's 150 bucks okay for an m cable yep
and what they claim well you can see what they claim i'm reserving judgment
because they only take sponsors pixel and graphics rejuvenation
advanced contextual anti-aliasing contrast and detail enhancement lag free
real-time processing and an automatic
movie mode they claim
and it works so inside the cable see how there's a
usb connection yes i did see that it is actually a powered signal processor and
i saw on the t on the tv end of the cable is like huge yep so so it actually
works particularly well for certain applications uh one of which is anime so
i think you're holding the cinema edition does a great job of like low
resolution anime collections you got a bunch of like 480p anime
it cleans up a lot of the lines a lot of banding that 2006 warcraft video i got
uh no that so there's a limit to the tech um so we went uh oh oh we hooked it
up with like original unreal oh yeah it
looked really good um
ah the m cable cinema is actually apparently also great for streaming
content that isn't something that we tested extensively in ours but we did
take a look at a lot of down-sampled content and it managed to do a really
good job you guys can't see it because it's way too small but up in this corner
and i'm sure if you go to their website um which is probably on
green marsai inc.com it shows that there's
like a processor and stuff going on within the cable sub one millisecond leg
we did not notice any discernible leg even in like
uh you know crt optimized games like super mario world um it's pretty awesome
and it's even supports frame rates up to 1080p 120 so you can legitimately game
on the gaming edition here and uh yeah you guys you guys should probably check
it out the the best use cases we found for it were older
consoles but not too old so you don't want something like a nest but something
like an n64 playstation playstation
makes sense actually yeah you can clean up the quality of it a fair bit because
to be fair a nest is already pretty clean old anime yeah um streamed
video i'm oh sorry oh oh that's where i got confused by streams
i don't necessarily mean live streaming although it would help with that but any
kind of internet video where it's like pretty good but a little bit of tidy up
would probably not be a bad idea it's great for that guess what vr
lots of people are using it for vr because the displays are low resolution
and it cleans up the image a little bit yeah um and apparently the results are
fantastic though i actually haven't tried that personally yet it's interesting how like a type of
content is specifically better that actually makes sense so check them out
at marsai inc.com this is one of those situations where we intended to do a
useless tech over a hundred ended up spending Anthony spent an
entire week because we knew we couldn't come out and say this thing is really
great unless we absolutely proved it like if we were going to come
out and say it's it's junk that would be easy because we've done that before we
made a video on the 1 000 like silver HDMI cable based on that
their claims were bs which they obviously were yeah and that's easy
that's like cheap easy content so we were intending to do more cheap easy
content and instead and you got i screwed paid someone for an entire week
to make a video but then they turned around and now they're sponsoring the lan show so i guess that worked out okay
um all right last sponsor they're back
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there you go this is like the world's most convincing that's
that's my con oh it's out of the frame convincing i think this is an
NVIDIA ammo box why don't we have it showing the top secret
it's the wrong way around because it's a secret you dunk
oh no i don't i don't know i don't know it's just so much cooler all right all
right i'll put the top secret there's the NVIDIA crowbar too
yeah that's that's hidden there's a lot of secret cool things around that was
the uh that was the container that anyone who reviewed the uh gtx 590 yeah
yeah got the card in and it was such a terrible shipping container my first one
was broken because they just put like packing peanuts and like an anti-static bag in
there and it's just a metal container there's no like there's no shock absorption
so my card was totally broken so we're in the chat wow cgi has come a long way
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i ate an entire pack of the maple maybe we both said we were like going to do it
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microsoft is bringing tabs to every Windows 10 app the spice flip that
around on me nona hexa was this posted this on the forum
microsoft is planning to add tabs like the ones in your web browser
to apps and Windows 10 allowing you to group apps together
they're calling this feature sets so say you're working on a word document
you need to research data on the web or grab notes from powerpoint you can
create sets or tabs of these tasks in a
single window honestly i think this is actually pretty
sick yeah that sounds great i really like this because often times
i'll have a few different things that are for one thing
honestly my preferred method is just to have more monitor space so i can have it
all open at the same time you're gonna have Windows 7 anyway that's so 8.1
are you running 8.1 okay yeah yeah okay i'm excited i wish this wasn't
news because i wish this was a thing ages ago but i'm not going to be down on
them for like doing something good so it would also be really cool if like on the
taskbar at the bottom
you could have your set icon down there so you could like click on it and then
it would bring up the multiple things instead of having it all in one because
oftentimes i want to copy between them and read one thing while i'm typing one
thing and having it all in a set actually isn't very conducive to that but
it'll still be really nice and helpful except not for me so oh well although
8.1 is getting painful because i think it's like less than 10 of people are
using it so like compatibility for my platform is
like really not great
so file explorer even notepad and they'll eventually be
extending to app that have custom title bars like photoshop um and they're
aiming to let iphone and Android users start sets and then resume them on a pc
or vice versa oh i'm getting my spicy hiccups
all right um
this is pretty bad this was posted by hey yo on the forum
websites use your CPU to mine cryptocurrency
even when you close your browser that's new well
yeah like we've heard of we talked about the pirate bay yep and another one i
don't remember who it was but another one
but this is new it's it's always it's always been kind of a
short-term thing because it's only lasted um
while you were on that page yeah luckily for these websites a lot of people just
leave things open in tabs wow look at this so they've got a pop under
that's opening up another tab
that is running this in the background so you see once they close it the CPU
usage goes away
wow you can still close it so one researcher recently documented 2
500 sites actively running crypto mining code in visitors browsers
that's a lot of sites actually yeah
that's pretty brutal i wonder what
these sites are though so basically in a nutshell um
so the one that they're focused on is mining monero so this is like
i don't know i think everyone should be offended by this like some people might
not think it's that big of a deal but this is using your electricity and your
CPU resources so like your investment to just make money from this site
cranking your CPU and it's potentially making your CPU run really hot which can
potentially reduce its lifespan especially if you're on a mobile device
and speaking of a mobile device if you're on something that's battery
powered this is going to destroy your
battery life if it's a technique that's being used on any sites that you visit
regularly
right now the technique works on the latest version of chrome running on the
latest versions of Windows 7 and Windows 10. at the moment no indication that
it's being used on other browsers or operating systems so your incompatibility state of the day
that's hilarious freaking brilliant
it's the apple approach you know we are secure because no one's making viruses
for us you know what's interesting is that that's not in the dock have you
heard about that uh yeah i did see that hilarious you know what's interesting is
our render server like the one that does our final export before we upload yeah
almost never errors out on a render in fact i'm
not aware of it ever having done it Windows 8.1
it's the uh embedded version the Windows yeah
all right dude messaged me today it's it's like the third a few days ago it's like the
third year anniversary of the like Windows 9 thing
oh really cool yeah so this is sort of a big deal um
if you're into like that sort of thing but
our formal emp or our former employer oh
yeah uh has
here we go where is this this is kind of crazy
yeah so here hold on i'm gonna bring this up
search civil by party name
so netlink computer inc um
oh wait hold on so here's some here so here you can i
actually didn't even know you can do this of course that makes sense so you can search for uh lawsuits or like you
can search for court cases by party name it's a net link computer inc uh small
claims small claims small claims small claims uh four times over the uh
over the last uh you know since 2011 and boom
net link computer inc bora group inc
the netlink computer inc supreme
bankruptcy december 1 2017. so this
just went down uh my formal my former
employer is i mean is this still up
oh uh uh
no i think it's still loading uh
no no i'm pretty sure it's still loading uh
oh oh yeah there we go the site's still up i really don't know
that i would necessarily recommend
um apparently shopping there though getting your stuff after you buy it has
been a little bit of an issue recently for a while yeah yep um
so i yeah i i haven't done any i haven't done any
uh pre like sort of research here but uh
i'm heading over to the i'm heading over to the forum
uh okay
restructuring okay
important service announcement
uh we figured it's time to write a formal post about the restructuring wow
i'm pretty sure this threat has been pruned because i know that there were
other things in here before
huh
all right
um ncix supreme bankruptcy confirmed
okay what is supreme is there sub-supreme bankruptcy i have no idea it
sounds crazy like
what but um wow yeah i've had a lot of people
no buyer two box i did not cause this
um no i mean that okay i don't know i don't
know well how much should i talk about right now
scale of one to ten like a six or six okay like not not that
high so i left um partly because i saw a great opportunity
in uh content creation online
and partly because i had some significant we're
getting closer to a three fundamental disagreements with senior management um
okay particularly the owner over
what exactly we needed to do in terms of our
direction as a company i also left
this was a significant part of the reason for my departure i also left
because the people that i had been mentored by
there um the people that i had really felt like
i learned a lot from were departing
um and they sometimes for very good reasons i'm not
going to defend the conduct and
job performance of at least one of them
but some of them were forced out by extraordinarily
in my opinion extraordinary poor
management decisions and that ultimately led me to believe
that i could do it better
so i had an opportunity
and i thought i could do it better and i
thought that my company made my way
would be something that would make me happier to get up in the morning and go
to um it's made me happier well i'm glad to
hear that uh i know you're having a moment i just wanted to add some comedy yeah thank you
and that was ultimately why i left i
didn't agree with the strategy i thought uh and this was something that
i pitched about six and a half years ago
i thought the direction for us to go and i mean by us i mean i was at ncix i was
one of the top product management people there i might have been a category
manager at that point can't remember um anyway i was basically at or near the
highest rank that you could really have in the company there before
um and i don't wanna you know the odds of anyone that this
might apply to ever watching this stream are pretty low
but my opinion of some of the people that were hired in senior positions
couldn't possibly be any lower so you know that was
that was there were some bad decisions there as well
um anyway where was i where was i going with this right so the direction that i
had wanted to go was um to try to get
acquired and the way to try and get acquired is
to have some kind of a value that somebody else would want
and it wasn't going to be the website
let's be honest um it wasn't going to be the logistics
system and you know i can't say too much about what ncix had
because you know i don't want to i don't want to be disrespectful of their
privacy as a company but i will tell you that
it wasn't you know robot arms and
you know robot eyes and automated conveyor belts
like what state-of-the-art warehouses were doing even back then
it was not that so it wasn't going to be the warehousing system
it wasn't going to be the inventory management system i can tell you that
much it wasn't going to be the um the super
talented team and there were talented people on it obviously like i was part
of it i think i was pretty talented there were definitely talented people on
it but i don't know that that was visible enough externally um and i think
that you would end up with um a lot of in order to acquire a team you'd have
ended up with a lot of dead weight um and i don't even necessarily mean in
terms of people like the locations that we had leased i think at one point there
were three locations in richmond
um which is a small city just to give you
guys some idea of why that wouldn't be a good idea
um so so so my concept for what we could
build having seen uh the partnership between NVIDIA with
the shield and eb games in the states where i think the shield was initially
only available to preview it at eb games
in the states and i was like why would they make it exclusive to them and i
could be remembering some little detail of this wrong maybe it was a nintendo system i don't know whatever the point
is the reason that they partnered with them was that they still had at that
time anyway 4 500 locations which has a value
another thing that i thought could have a value would be a distribution system
slash business model that combatted one
of the biggest difficulties of doing business in canada which is extremely
high shipping cost it deters customers from shopping online
and it enables brick and mortar to continue to
be competitive here because shipping a case across the country from newag is
like seven dollars shipping a case across this country from ncix could be
as much as 30 40 60 depending on how remote you are so
you know it was a constant refrain from customers shipping kills the deal you'd
hear it all the time so the concept that i pitched was like
an ncix light these would be extremely small stores um
like maybe 600 to 800 square feet really
small stores with really small storefronts that were effectively kind
of ordering kiosks and the idea was that you'd have technical services so you
could walk into small communities like kamloops and displace the mom and pop
shops with a trusted brand believe it or not at the time we were a trusted brand
you could displace those mom and pop shops as a trusted brand you could
probably cover your lease and your employee overhead
with the services business that you're doing then you would stock like two skus tops
of every category so that if someone walked in
they could build like something basically the computer at any given time
which is pretty easy to define it's really easy to do so right now you would
stock assuming that you there is inventory you would stock the 8400
for Intel and you would stock the uh the
ryzen 5 1600 or something along those
lines and then you'd have like a motherboard for each of them you'd have
an eight gig stick and a 16 gig stick and like obviously multiples of each of
these but the idea is that if someone just like wanted like the computer right
now like the bang for the buck sweet one that everyone wants you could just walk
in and buy it or we would build a system
and it wouldn't be a complicated system but we would have a network of trucks
that would crisscross the country constantly between the two locations
that we had in the west and in the east so that the model would be you can shop
online and you can ship to your house or we'd have these little tiny low overhead
locations scattered across the country and you could get free pick up at any
location and this was well before
amazon started doing pick up someone in the chat whoa ncx actually sounds really
cool this was an idea never happened that he was pitching i pitched this this
is what i wanted to do instead of these monolithic
high overhead extraordinarily expensive retail stores
um in order to you know i the writing was on the wall like seven
years ago amazon was going to kill us all like the people who were paying
attention knew this already so the idea was to build this
infrastructure so that when amazon decided to hit the switch and you can
see now they're running around acquiring people that have infrastructure that
they like like whole foods the idea was that when they came in they could buy us
um and that never happened
if i'd had the resources i think that could have been the way for me to never
have to work again like if i could have built my like i
even to go back like if i was the one who had the resources that i have today
even that might have been a model that i would have pursued i really believed in
it i thought that it was a great opportunity it's not worth it now
oh no you'd never make it now no but um
i should buy ncix and do that i couldn't afford ncix
not because i i couldn't afford um like
what ncix's net value is right now but i couldn't afford ncix's overhead the the
the monthly expenses um even with all the layoffs that they've done there's
still a lot of employees there's still a lot of buildings there's still a lot of
inventory um so
when we didn't do that and when we continued marching down the
obviously no longer viable big box
retail path i figured out that i had to get out so
ultimately the reason that i ended up leaving ncix and taking this guy with me
and ed with me thanks for coming along bro um
yeah that i was thinking that five year thing it's actually like seven or
something or eight or something yeah it's kind of ridiculous so um
anyway sorry i forget where i was going with that um right so so what happened
when i left was i had decided to leave and the reason that i was able to take
the Linus tech tips channel and so to be clear i take no pleasure whatsoever
in ncix's demise you know and i've seen a lot of horror
stories online but however they've treated other people um
everyone there all the way up to steve the owner and mary his wife they have
always treated me with the utmost kindness and respect um
i have not had personal bad experiences
with anyone there from from hr to my colleagues to
um i shouldn't say everyone there were some there were some some poor just
hiring decisions made but at the very highest level the at least
the people that i consider to be at the highest level
um you know i i take no pleasure from this i learned a lot there like i am
everything i understand about business what to do right
what to do wrong um it was ultimately
from them i i didn't go to school for business management i don't have an mba
i don't i don't actually have any formal education everything i learned was
school of hard knocks and ncix was a stupendous proving ground for me
um so you know
i take no pleasure in this but um
uh where was i going with this but uh how you got the channel right how
i got the channel so so ultimately um i was able right right right so i'm
i'm very grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to to
build up this channel and then ultimately take it with me because the deal was
uh look i'm leaving because i disagree
with some of the stuff we're doing and you my boss is gone who i loved um
and that sucks and so i'm out
so you can either let me walk away to
another retailer and i mean you know i didn't have four million
subscribers and a team of you know 19 people that's like a world-class video
production team like i hadn't built any of this yet yeah we were pretty far from
it yeah we were a long way away from this but for me personally anyway
my stock was high enough that i could have walked into literally any
electronics entity and gone like this and i would have had
a job so i wasn't concerned about getting a job
what i was concerned about was building a team and building something and making
sure that luke and ed who were both out of work if i walked out of there and
didn't manage to take them with me making sure that they stayed employed so
the deal was look i'm leaving
but if we can work out a deal where i take the Linus tech tips youtube channel
the trademark and any associated assets
which now that this is going on i'm really happy we did buy the book with a
lawyer um i'll get to that more later but if i
take all that stuff with me i'll sign a non-compete for
i believe it was two years but it ended up getting extended to three and for
pennies on the dollar i'll come back and i'll continue to support the ncix tech
tips channel so that you don't have to replace me immediately also i'll give
you as much notice for my departure as you need so i had originally planned on
giving somewhere between a month and six weeks notice i ended up giving about
five months notice um although
in fairness i phoned in about the last three weeks of it but then i had trained
my replacements for pretty much everything i didn't really know what to do when it was five months like um yeah
like i tried okay i tried so the fact that we um the fact that we acquired
those assets legally is really important because if someone if the um like the
bankruptcy lawyers if whoever ncix's creditors are were to find that it had
an asset that was worth a significant amount of money and let me tell you
Linus tech tips is worth a significant amount of money both
as a brand and as a youtube channel at this point um although you know no i'm
not going to say no thanks to ncix but most of that development has been done
in the five years since we left but if it was found that that asset wasn't
transferred tidally then it could also be found that
ncix still had some claim to make against it and then their creditors
would as well so steve i trusted to never do anything
untoward with me um
but creditors creditors all bets are off i really didn't you
know i didn't think it would come to this i take no pleasure in it but um
that's what happened and uh yeah for some context there we
broke off at what 240 000 subscribers something like that yeah we're now at
4.8 million yep there's kind of been a lot of work done yep we've been we've
been going pretty hard on it so yeah
so uh elena's tech tips documentary no
no that probably won't happen we actually tried to do it behind this like a behind the blow type uh thing here and
it was a total disaster we brought in a third-party film crew they like shot a
bunch of stuff then they submitted a rough cut that was
awful totally unusable uh and then we tried to edit it together ourselves but
by then our team was like 60 bigger so like different yeah
like a third of our staff wasn't in the video and yeah it just didn't make sense
um yeah
all right so uh what else do we have for topics
yeah that was wow that was kind of a freaking downer of a topic man it also
took a long i'm surprised people are still watching
sheesh let's find something exciting it's pretty interesting yeah i guess so
it's like learning that before coke came out it was green i'm like i'm like down
let's just find like something like one cool topic to do and then wow these are
all terrible um
oh tinder tinder tests using ai to suggest who to super like
uh they're testing a new feature called super likable that intermittently
presents a card on your screen and offers you a bonus super light that can
be sent to one of four people presented to presented on the card
the original super like was designed as a way to signal your interest in a potential match was stronger than others
but users have a limited number per day wow how many of those could you possibly
need per day wow i'm not i mean like i'm sort of pre online dating so i don't
really get i wonder if you're in like a social hub sheesh like somewhere like
like deep like la or san fran if you just like go through a few
hundred people and you're just like there's many more
you know what i mean i don't know because i don't feel like it's like that
up here huh i don't know
okay well um i'm bored of that already because this is way better yep there's
officially mario cereal yeah so i like super need some okay this also isn't the
first time that nintendo has tried to do cereal
i thought it was kind of interesting because right now they're huge because the switch is like wildly wildly
successful but at a previous time of them being huge they also tried to roll
out cereal and this one is not just
uh cereal the box itself is essentially
an amiibo you tap the box on your switch and you
get stuff in game wow it unlocks gold coins and hearts in
super mario odyssey hit shelves mid-month okay i'm down for that all right well
that's pretty much it thank you oh lol max root access issue
oh if you if you have a mac and you're watching the show you should maybe look it up on
your own it's not in here um
but i'm pretty sure if someone literally just attempts to
sign in as username root with no password they just
have all the stuff all right yeah i'm not entirely sure on
all the details it's not in the dock but if you have a mac
look into it because it's a big deal so thanks for watching guys we'll see you again next week same bat time same bat
channel wow down there no don't be down
apparently it's patched so just update yeah there you go
what an issue crazy
this wasn't that short of an episode