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wow did we do a pre-show welcome to the WAN Show ah someone did a pre-show nice
yeah that's right i was working
i was working too i noticed that um
Colton actually officially changed the start time of the WAN Show on the
channel did he change it to five he changed it to five but then he told me
he changed it to five so it didn't work
well that's a fail yeah you can't tell us that you changed it to five we would
have like probably never noticed yep and we would have like we would have tried
really hard to hit four o'clock or four thirty
and then and then we would have actually hit five
but he told us he changed it to five so now we're screwed you can't make us
comfortable i think we should change it back to 430. yeah yeah
yeah and then and then change it back to five
at some time and don't tell us this week was freaking crazy you want to
talk about your thing that you went and did yeah it was it was actually really
awesome so um yesterday this was a totally last minute thing
like i didn't find out until uh so what was yesterday we've been
trying to plan it for a little while yeah no no it's been possibly happening
for like weeks yeah but then um so
thursday i went down for a tour of monolith productions so
they're best known probably for their work on matrix online oh okay yeah um
um i'm just kidding i mean i knew them from
that i actually made it probably like almost no one else does
i knew they did that i played really yeah you played the matrix online
almost no amount of time you know there's like a beta or something you
know there's like a fan server like there's a guy who
he like packet sniffed to figure out what the server was doing
yeah and like like it's super broken like it's it's like actually really
really broken and terrible like you basically can't do anything and i think
you have to enter text commands in order to do things
oh yeah like it's like really broken
and it's still up but he's been working on it like since
it went down back in whatever that would be like 2007 2009 i don't remember when
it went down what a hobby yeah what a hobby indeed um
but uh anyway sorry probably better known for fear uh condemned fear too um
and then more series definitely yeah yeah um uh so middle earth shadow of
mordor and middle earth shadow of war yeah are probably what they are better
known for developing um and those last two have been done since the warner
brothers acquisition so that's how they managed to get the rights to make
middle earth games yeah so uh so anyway i got to go down there
and check these guys out and i didn't find out that i was going to be going
until i think tuesday late tuesday night
and i left here early
early thursday morning so i actually had to get up at like
6 15 in the morning and then meet pella
at the office and then we had to leave the office by
about 7 30 7 45 that got us down there
for a little after 10 and then we shot all day so we actually
shot for because they have a lot of stuff at their studio half hour lunch so we shot
for like 10 hours or so and then we left
late at night we got some five guys on the way back nice
that was pretty sick can't go down to america without getting some five guys
is it cheaper than it is down there because two burgers and one medium fries was
almost 30 canadian dollars so there's a five guys
in north van and just
like it's i'm not going to say
but it's there you know whose house that's new oh wow
that's crazy yeah
i don't know if they're like anywhere else yeah it doesn't look like it oh cool okay well at any rate um i did
specifically say vancouver so we were shooting there for like 10 hours and man
that place is so cool like i don't want to give away everything it's amazing
it's great there but like oh dude there's one in siri oh wow okay
i'm totally gonna go at some point yeah um
but yeah i was like super amazing they were really really open which was
probably the coolest thing about it yeah like they you you there was one thing
they really wouldn't show us well they showed me actually they let me into the
server room but they wouldn't let us film it yeah i'm not surprised and they
were you know there was stuff that i wouldn't have even considered so the
server room is technically like warner brothers property oh and
yeah that makes sense yeah that makes a lot of sense and so they couldn't give
me details like how fast their internet connection is they couldn't tell me what
speed their internal networking is running at i just thought it was cool
that they do that on site but they did tell me that their internal networking
is way beyond 10 gig oh
wow well you think about what their like
animators are working on like the size of some of the assets that they must be
working with how responsive it needs to be they've got somewhere between 150 and
200 people according to glassdoor like yeah it would have to be pretty
banging infrastructure man that would have been pretty cool i totally
understand why and it was cool by the way yeah but we couldn't film it yeah um
but they did give us some cool stats so they told us they have about 800
terabytes of storage on site which um
man you should have seen you should have seen the guy stiffen when i said oh hey
that's almost as much as we have
because you know like how many hard drives you have is like yeah yeah the
the the eye two guys like dick measuring content there's the dick measuring
contest on the forum of like the who has
more storage basically there's a whole thread like the 100 terabyte club i
think i think so yeah yeah so that is uh that is that's funny
absolutely a thing like he i was uh did
you get to do any stuff in the mocap room i didn't get to actually do mocap
okay yeah but they were doing a shoot while we were there oh cool and their
mocap room is freaking oh it's awesome awesome it's
super and uh two of the guys that like i don't want to give away everything from
the video yeah i will talk a little bit about the mocap room so it's got 39
cameras um and these are high frame rate cameras
although they said they usually record at 60 FPS actually this i didn't put in
the video because there was there was so much i left so i had eight pages of notes
that to get down to what would typically be a script uh for us which is usually
about one and three quarter pages yeah um i had to i mean obviously i had to
cut i had to cut cut cut cut so uh this was really cool so those cameras they
have are fully capable of 120 FPS
capture um or even higher and what they
but what they do is they capture at 60 because they were saying that actually
you end up throwing out a lot of that data anyway
when you're giving the mocap data to the animators because it's for a video games
and we're giving it to animators so
if you need to create frames in between an action
you just do that yeah that makes sense like these are just
these are just data points that the ARM follows along it's
interesting to have a model that's gonna just you know run it however many frames
per second it runs that uh i want to talk more about it but maybe we'll wait
until people have seen the video sure yeah there's a few more things i want to
talk about but i don't know like spoil spoil things that you very likely talked about i think that video is due out in
uh about a week and a half so it shouldn't be that long is it a signal i think
it'll be a simultaneous release on Floatplane and youtube so um
yeah so that was that was pretty cool that was kind of the highlight of my week and you mostly worked on Floatplane
stuff i guess this week yeah um i hired one guy who's working
uh mostly weekends maybe some nights he's hopefully gonna be working on the
payment processing because it's super bad right now oh man
so that's really awesome and there's another guy who's confirmed to join
later next month full time uh i'm not going to be giving much more
information about those guys because you know probationary periods and all that kind
of stuff but yeah that's exciting because we need some we need some help a
lot of stuff to do another really cool update for Floatplane and i'm not going
to give away who it is but uh because i don't know if this person have you
talked to him since then uh i wasn't even going to say this person's gender i
didn't want to give any hints whatsoever but uh there is maybe i assumed maybe
you assumed yeah
anyway i mean i don't know what we can assume is that this person
is human a human person you know and that's all
matters yeah um so we do have someone who will be
joining us as the very first third-party
creator on plane um we are going to there are so
many guests doing some pretty janky stuff
to make it happen um it hopefully won't seem janky yeah
hopefully both team janky but like there's some
they're like uh basically our cms so i don't know if you guys are familiar with
the term but it stands for content management system and it refers to like
the uploading tool that where you also create like your thumbnails and titles
and and you do like where you manage your content yeah internally we call it
marching because it's kind of like because i come from retail and so
it's not enough to just put a product on the shelf you have to merchandise it you
have to put all the little cool speeds and feeds you have to set a price you
have to arrange them nicely and that's the way that i see like a description
and tags and thumbnails so yeah so that's where you like merge your video
on that or okay so
in the last week and a half um
that's not entirely how it's happened because it's been kind of
been tooled on for a long time but now but what stage was it at a week and a
half ago not close to ready and then one guy specifically on my team i'm not
going to call it your name because i don't know a handle for you that isn't actually your name so
huh and i don't know if you're cool with that anyways but one guy specifically has been working on it like crazy um
what you guys used to know as cat boiler but is now aj jack's net um because he
changed his name well it's good he changed his name is highly inappropriate i i'm shortening
aj jack's net to just ajax i think i'm just gonna call ajax um but he's been
doing work on some of the infrastructure stuff too i know uh the australian guys
have had a little bit of a server upgrade so hopefully that goes a little
bit better in the future and there's some other stuff going on and he's prepping for
uh the new human entity that will be joining
Floatplane as well so yeah it's been a
group effort tps 1980 is upset that i speak like a valley girl
what and asks when i'm going to grow out of it
you know i don't think it's how do you speak like a valley girl like you know
like like you know like i
i sincerely doubt that i will ever grow out of it if you want the not like
like this then you're probably going to want the scripted lines which is which is most of
the uh most of the more professional written reviews but if you just want uh
me talking like i talked then it's going to be full-on valley girl valley girl
Linus from now until the end of time some said vancouver is basically like
valley girls you know
it's just basically like you know whatever like
you know it's funny because i only occasionally notice it when other
people do it because to me it's such a
natural part of my
manner of speaking that i i just don't
even notice it yeah i don't notice when someone doesn't do it i don't notice
when someone does do it i just
yeah yeah that's fair wow Linus is begging for likes
no get it yeah no
no i like the joke get it
i actually have nothing i have like nothing to say
um should we get into topics yeah why don't we get into wait we haven't even ruled the intro but we have to talk
about the topic no no no that i mean they're all right here they're committed to watching uh verizon mobile no it's
twirling oh
it kind of sounded like you said ea shits i mean i mean they kind of they do
yeah yeah everybody poops i mean they made
battlefront too so
everybody poop sleep including you
hey we have a new sponsor ninja coffee yeah 40 off that's that's consistent
yeah and synergy yeah
and we're back anyways topics we have
uh ryzen mobile announced that like not like mobile phones we'll get into you
are determined to do the the highlight topics thing i'm not going to let you
finish uh yeah shuts down the revive network also gtx 1070 ati wow so you're
going to go all asmr to try and get them to pay more attention to you and AMD's
making money whatever whatever you're saying i wonder
what this is is there two people talking at the same time is
that a thing you know what there's too much stuff if the thing exists there's a
subreddit somewhere that's interesting
i wonder if there's like a a yeah let's
let's just use the term subreddit for now sure i wonder if there's like a
subreddit dedicated to just like people talking about news
um oh probably but like not not like
2 asmr one cup i think that is slash r slash 2 smr no i'm kidding it's not
i mean someone's gotta make it now right yeah so
it would shock me if by the end of when show today
that subreddit did not exist it's a thing when there's sometimes a top
comment where it's like they link to a subreddit and people are like oh man i
wish that existed and then people go and actually make it a thing because they're
like someone someone wishes that it existed i can mod this i can be the mod
for this subreddit let's go i can be the mod for like a
two-person subreddit realistically that probably doesn't need moderation so much
speaking of websites that aren't made yet but should be oh no oh no
no oh you're gonna be kidding me oh wait hold on hold on i wonder if i just no no
it's fine i'll do it it looks like it's done um hold on maybe i can go do the
thing no no no no no i can do it i can do it well it's been has been two weeks
since this i don't know because i was at twitchcon i don't know
so yeah it's been two weeks since the luke was wrong meme
started um so that's the sdi one
i have to say i'm a little disappointed in the creator yeah yeah there's been an insta there
there was a squarespace page made
and initially it was like oh wow this is actually pretty good especially considering the short amount of time
that was given for it to be created um and then there was a twitter maid the
guy the guy or girl or whatever i don't know has been tweeting uh there's been a
discord created there's been an instagram created but nothing has been
done with it really it's still the same there's even
the like still the same hold on there's yeah wrong and then coming coming soon
nothing's been done with it oh
but i do have fairies i still love this site though is this your channel
mod 24 Linus was wrong.com and yes it was one
no check out check out Linux as well when was i ever wrong you know just give it a
shot just give it give it a little give it a little look oh look at that picture
who knows
get notified you can join what does that even mean i don't know to be completely
honest no is there anything else going on on this webpage oh the joke was that
you were wrong about pokemon apparently i think there's
let's see oh
i didn't know there was a Linus was wrong.com yeah
yeah oh so i don't know what you're wrong about
because it neither of the websites have been like updated at all so there's no
like information or video clips or anything you know what i'm probably
wrong about they probably are just like you know what it is wrong to be so
perfect in every way wow
wow like it's wrong in the sense that it defies reality you know you go on like
metacritic and like pretend that you're a gamer okay you're
doing that on purpose now aren't you yeah
all right so our our first uh our first topic
wow we are 20 minutes into the show i haven't
even started talking about news um heck yeah well if you don't talk about any
news it can't be fake news wow or it's the fakest news of all time
one of the two news that isn't even news there's nothing new about it
um rise and mobile has been announced this
was posted by purina on the forum yeah and the original article here is from
my friend dr cutress over at anandtech i
have to say before we start i love these stats i love stats for AMD's new stuff
because it's been so long since they've released something else and they compare
themselves to themselves yeah so like it's 200
faster 128 GPU performance and the funniest
thing about it is that like the AMD
fanboys who have for all these years been saying
that AMD had competitive offerings
are just like oblivious to the fact that AMD themselves is acknowledging that
they have a product that is now competitive that is anywhere between 40
to 400 faster
than their previous best so hold on a second
you can't have it both ways yeah and to be clear Intel fanboys and NVIDIA
fanboys are no less intolerable oh no it's just it's all the same it's just
poor AMD fanboys have suffered
in a way that the other two groups have not they're not they're grizzled though
they've been through some stuff they have been through a level of denial
that i think would kill any other living being yeah so you could think of them
kind of like cockroaches or like those little i don't remember
what they're called it's like a denial nuclear holocaust yeah you're just like
no no you want me to die how about no no i
refuse yeah why because rising
but they didn't know it was going to be called bryson but they knew they were
going to rise again
i it's so funny because like even right in the name of the product
it's rising it's like AMD is painfully aware
of what's going on here yeah man oh
okay sorry what was the news again oh right okay so mobile ryzen 7 2700u with
vega 10 is a quad-core chip 2.2 base 3.7
gig turbo that is freaking awesome it would have been more impressive if Intel
hadn't also launched their u-series processors quite recently with quad-core
uh with uh with quad-core designs um but
at 15 watts man
zen is looking like it scales down really nicely to these lower power
envelopes um that's cool man see what else they've
got zen plus vega that's another thing too is vega might not look particularly
power efficient in the rx vega 56 and rx vega 64.
but what you know if you talk to industry people off the record what they'll say
is that well you know don't judge vega based on the
products that it's in vega is very efficient
if you actually scale down the voltage and a lot of what's like i know so it's
like it's overclocked basically yeah and pretty much every chip company for a
while now has been going really hardcore in the whole bring the temperatures down
make it more power efficient category but where it really matters for me is
mobile stuff mobile laptops mobile phones and if they're going to be really
efficient with those types of things then awesome are you actually looking at
these are so funny okay hold on hold on hold on
okay
anantech has those like ads from around the web ads now they're terrible and
these are some of the worst i have ever
seen oh check out that chiropractor trick
hold on hold on hold on from the web
canada market failure thousands of iphone 7s for only five dollars okay so
i'm gonna stop you right there that
is a plus and that is not a phone at all that is
airpods okay and this guy no i don't remember
him i don't remember anything i bet i can get i bet i could not gasp also this
is one of those ones where like when it's really small like it could look
kind of like two people doing stuff or whatever it does
when it's up big you're just like there's no way a chiropractor is like
yeah that's like not the simple trick that they want you to do look at this
granny rich diet means nothing to ungrateful children
she looks badass shopping site where you only pay if you win i think that's every
shopping site ever yeah you win when you buy the thing yeah and that's when you
pay yeah you pay when you win you win the prize is the thing you bought yeah i
think like maybe i'm missing something here anyway
um that's really glamorizing shopping but
yeah you win
you win you gave me a lot of stuff but i'm giving you hopefully an equivalence
back in terms of a product hooray
shopping um so anyway there's some pretty cool
designs coming with ryzen mobile hp has an nvx 360 coming with the 2500u uh it's
gonna have up to uh 512gb SSD or one terabyte hard drive 15.6 inch display up
to up to eight gigs of RAM what what is this product yeah really what why does
it wait what who delivers a product that only goes up to eight gigs of RAM
today and it's like slim and sexy it's an envy
it's like hp bought that brand like how many of you are even have been
around long enough to remember voodoo pc i do i remember okay like we had one
they bought that brand and then just had they gave rally to my family
a bunch of money for it
and then he just completely disappeared off the face of the earth no they made
him a vp for a bit and then like and then i think he did got rid of him
because i don't but i feel like that had something to do with i'm
assuming i have no idea no rumors
nothing this is just pure science i'm making assumptions too i'm assuming that it was based off of like a vesting
something or other oh right there was probably like a guarantee investing
shares to some degree so he had to they wanted him to come on as like advisory
for a little while yeah before he took off and that was probably part of that they just had no idea what to do with
that brand and now it's a laptop with eight gigs of RAM um
the ideapad 720s actually this is a weird one too uh up to a ryzen 7 2700u
run single channel memory which we already know is it doesn't say
how much it's not that optimal for ryzen um
up to a one terabyte SSD so that's a purely solid state option maybe acer is
going to get it right to eight gigs up to eight gigs up to 256 gig SSD this is a super value
product i mean maybe i'm missing something here but why are we
um okay this acer one wants to take
advantage of larger turbo modes
memory will be dual channel with even even ian although the system will only
support eight gigs yeah what's going on so it looks on paper
like ryzen mobile should be pretty competitive i mean at those base and
boost clocks this thing should perform pretty well
but you can usually configured before
benchmarking something you know how good something's going to be because you got
to understand like partners like an hp or adele or you know
like a game studio when you're talking about something like a
development kit for a console like they've got access to the hardware or
some approximate equations
quite some time yes it did they're so cool um
so usually you can tell how good they think something is
by the kinds of designs they're planning to integrate it into so this doesn't
give me a lot of confidence for ryzen mobile but um hey i'd love to be wrong
uh there's some good AMD news uh maybe we'll do that as our as our next topic
here before the uh hold on where's the
other AMD news yeah before we do our sponsor spot someone said it's an ultrabook most won't need 16 gig also it
uses more power it uses so what the razer blade stealth has shipped with 16
gigs of RAM for two generations now marginally more power and i think a
surprising amount of people actually do use that memory a lot of people are trying to watch i didn't see the
resolution of the screens but a lot of people are trying to watch like
fairly high-res netflix content which uses good memory a lot of people have
you won't be running 4k so there's that because right now that's limited to
Intel processors as far as i know yep
so get wrecked on that um yeah i mean
but yeah lots of youtube tabs in chrome and a netflix tab in chrome and facebook
and reddit is going to really slam your
memory pretty well this is while streaming like i'm not actually even doing anything right now and i've
already got six while streaming off a different pc yeah off a different pc so
this computer actually just has like actually like nothing going on well okay
to be fair to you so you have quite a few things up here but like the
teamviewer thing is not connected it's not doing anything yeah um one of those
things is notepad one of those things is paint yeah paint one of those things is
sharing share x which is not doing anything right it's also just telling me
there's an update which i don't want because it already does everything i need the skype one is not connected no
it's just kind of sitting there yeah it's not no it's not signed in even it's
not even okay i'm not even sending it because i don't have a sign in one of those filezilla don't open that one um
but like that's not connected to anything some seven zip tabs aren't
doing anything audacity okay i don't like carpet open there's a lot open but
none of them are doing anything yeah and i so i can easily like make myself
suffer with the gram oh my oh i'm so excited about the new gram but that's
the issue is these designs are competing with the new
gram so my new gram is coming i think sometime in the next couple weeks and
it's got a quad-core Intel processor 8th gen um and it's got 16 gigs of RAM
that's standard now so when you were competing with last gen
designs like this one that was fine that was your very last gen view when you
have to compete with new ones then it becomes a bit of a problem so i'm not
really not sure what they're trying to do here
um in other news AMD
is finally making money
what so this was originally this is way
cooler than it seems i know as like uh a consumer you might be like hey i don't
really care man but like no but it matters that's really important it matters a lot this is posted by doc swag
on the forum the original article here is actually from AMD's own site
and check this biz out what
on 1.64 billion dollars revenue so you compare
this to last quarter that is a really hefty uplift that looks like about 25
uplift over last quarter and uh
a little less than that over the same quarter the previous year
um operating income though is 126
million dollars gross profit with a net income so that's excuse me after
expenses of 71 million dollars now to be
clear this is still seven cents per share um so it's not like
you know all of a sudden AMD is going to be you
know throwing hookers and blow parties at their headquarters or whatever
but um hey
this is a really really good thing for the pc industry in
general so what a weird way to write that they beat expectations oh what's up
they just like negative is just brackets they don't
want to put the negative symbol no that's normal brackets yeah oh yeah
that's a it's an accounting thing i don't i don't know why that's odd but
sure but yeah so operating income was 126 million compared to an almost 300
million loss a year ago um and net income was 71 million
compared to a net loss of 406 million a year ago it's amazing they survived as
long as they did it really is they had to sell everything they sold their fabs
you know they sold their hq right yeah yeah like they don't actually own their
headquarter building anymore like they had to like like monopoly style man they had to
mortgage boardwalk and then somehow climb back which is like
really hard to do in monopoly
and in real life yeah um so average sale prices for gpus went
up significantly um yeah i don't know
that cryptocurrency really would have helped AMD sell the gpus for much higher
so i'm not really sure where that comes from but but vega has a higher asp than
their previous flagship polaris and well
they're not getting the cut from the average sale price the GPU is going up
but it does mean that stores are like please give us more yep which is a good
position to be in so high volume um and this quarter was especially
strong in enterprise embedded and semi-custom so that would be uh stuff
like oh i don't know maybe the upcoming xbox one x yeah
very cool and this is weird like i actually this our last point in the
notes here was one that i went and i looked up for myself um without actually
knowing that it was already in the notes but AMD's
they beat their earnings um guidance
and then their stock dipped
that's different yeah
like why are you mad that earning money
i have no idea yeah meanwhile like you know bitcoin has gone
up by whatever yeah you you have some bitcoin
i have some bitcoin yeah all right well
yeah for you i i expect it like i don't know
there there's there's the one side of things where it's like bitcoin is
like the the internet video to tv
and like blah blah blah like this is this is gonna like completely rule the
world like all this like super hardcore crowd and then there's people that are like uh
nope yeah so like until i can buy a grand
slam breakfast at denny's with bitcoin
once it gets to that point that will be insane yeah and then it's like because
it it has staying power in very weird ways right now but it also has some big
issues like that fork it's potentially like
it's it's intense it's a scary thing because it's a hobbyist thing right now
like yeah normal people can't be running around dealing with oh
like you know oh you know my currency
my currency is uh you know this this is gonna this is gonna like
fork and then instead of fifty dollars i'm gonna have 25 dollars and 25 doll
hairs yeah one thing one thing that's and then and then one of them might go
up and one of them might go down so i have to like make i have to be following
the news i have to make a bet on which one i think is gonna be the one that
goes up but then there's also there's also huge benefits that are happening
for it where like uh smartphones now carrying your standard credit card and
being able to tap to pay yes is naturally extremely easy and already
happening for bitcoin right
so like the the normal financial institutions going like hey we want to
modernize and do this thing already works for bitcoin so it's not weird for
consumers to switch to that so like there's i don't know it's a very weird space it's really fun to follow that's
why i have some and to be clear i don't have some bitcoin as in like a few whole
bitcoin i have like some not
well now that they're worth like almost 6 000 us dollars who knows that could be
a lot of money yeah i just yeah like i don't have a huge amount in it i just
have a little bit i'm uh i'm basically like playing with
it i'm doing it for fun right yeah i'm mostly doing it for fun i've made money
which is great but like not but you also have to like you have to think of it
right now as gambling pretty much that's pretty much what it is i
basically see it as spending money on a really expensive hobby yeah yeah and if
you do it for so so look i don't personally gamble
at all yeah i don't need it i have never put a quarter in a slot machine i have
never walked up to a life jack tape two quarters in a slot okay because they
were american quarters i didn't know what to do with them so i don't gamble
and i did it illegally because i was under age that doesn't mean that you can't gamble
responsibly if you if it's fun for you
to get the rush of playing the game and you go look the experience of
being in the casino and having people around who are also gambling there is
someone that works here yeah that gambles in a very healthy manner yeah
and is that that has a 500 value to me
and if i lose it all then i got my 500 worth and if i win something then i'll
celebrate and i'll go buy a nice dinner you can gamble responsibly and as long
as you approach bitcoin in that manner i think that you can not totally screw
yourself okay here's my 500 and i'm gonna make a hobby out of
following the news and now i've got some skin in the game so it's kind of like
it's kind of like betting with your friends on a sports game yeah and like
one thing that you can do is like oh you see it do something trendy
and you're like okay i can cash out here for a certain amount of time because i
i believe that it's going to go up a little or it's it's going to maybe go
down for a second then i'll buy it and then i'll buy a little bit more with the money that i cashed out with and then
it'll go back up so now i just like increased my own investment off my own
investment so you can do fun things like that so you're not even putting more
money in it just takes a little bit more work and there's like transaction costs
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there just put Linus tech tips in the how did you hear about us section
next up we've got synergy
so do you have the supremely first world problem of having too many computers oh
no and too many keyboards and mice plugged into them oh wow i mean it's
legitimately a problem like a lot of people have very good reasons for having
multiple computers yeah maybe you prefer to do your development in a Linux
environment or an os 10 environment but you want a game on your Windows computer
well synergy lets you use just one keyboard and mouse across all those
devices it is cross-platform you just whoop drag your mouse onto the other
screen you just set it all up within the software they've got just like this grid
you set up where all your screens are and you can even do more than just
switch which one you're using you can drag and drop files between the
computers you can share the clipboard between the computers you can set up
hotkeys and much more the basic option
does not include encryption while the pro one includes encryption for the data
being passed between the computers so you can use our link in the video
description to save 50 on synergy and sorry go ahead someone said dual boot
bro wow not the point the point is that you
can use both of them at the same time yeah they can both be on if you want to
check out a retro video um look up
what would it be called luke's mineral oil pc um oh
yeah i'm pretty sure does that i don't know that word it's called oh a slick
oil cooled pc yeah just drop it in the chat if you check that out i have two
keyboards two mice two monitors two pcs because i have everything split up and
if i had realized this was a thing back then that would have been really helpful
yeah and i mean another perfect example is if you have something like a render
box yeah a render box like my main one that i tell people is if you have a
laptop that you use for work yep you can take it home dock it when you get home
and then go back and forth between two because you can drag and drop files across them everything it's wonderful
and the docking process is as simple as putting it down next to your computer
yeah and maybe plugging in power if you don't want it to yeah but that has nothing to
do with that nothing to do with the keyboard and mouse yeah so pretty cool
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speaking of things that are awesome this was posted by fushi on the forum
ea has shut down the revive network
that's actually not awesome at all no no actually this is kind of trash
so you know how the gaming community went through this
whole thing where dedicated servers
started disappearing you know dedicated server software that came with the game
that you could run and set up your own private server that other people could
join those started disappearing in favor of the publisher
actually running their own servers that everybody would connect to
and the argument for this was that oh we are simplifying the process and we are
increasing the general quality of service for gamers um and we are
creating a more consistent experience with consistent rules and map rotations
and blah blah blah blah blah whatever the matchmaking is a big argument that's
being made for it yeah um
but the problem that a lot of the advocates for private servers brought up
was that well hold on a second like realistically
you know ea is not going to want to run
um you know okay what would be an example
of uh
okay so let's say battlefield 2. sure ea is not going to run a want to run
battlefield 2 servers when there's like you know maybe a few hundred people left
playing the game yeah so this is a thing that you're gonna pay
for you're gonna buy this game and then at some point in the future like an mmo
it's just gonna expire because it's not worthwhile for ea to keep running this
stuff and keep maintaining it and you're just not gonna be able to
play multiplayer anymore so specifically they're looking at battlefield 2
battlefield 21 42 and battlefield heroes i really liked battlefield 2. so
one of the big problems was that gamespot used to run uh some of these
multiplayer experiences and when games by disappeared in 2014
revive the revive network sort of rose from the ashes as an
unlicensed and unauthorized way of
making these games playable online free of charge
so ea had originally planned to make the older games playable at the time but
reversed the decision as a result of significant technical hurdles which
basically i think made the revive guys think that
they were pretty much good to go but they just posted the following statement
we will get right to the point electronic arts legal team has contacted
us and nicely asked us to stop distributing and using their intellectual property
as die hard fans of the franchise we will respect these stipulations
and they've been doing this for three and a half years now so they've invested
not an insignificant amount of their time and effort into making these gaming
experiences still available um you know
i wonder if uh fa forever is still around
so that's another perfect example of um
of a community driven project to to bring multiplayer back to a game that
had been abandoned it looks like these guys are still up so this is for supreme
commander ford this is a little funky experience of fa forever is actually
very good by the way i played for a little bit i've been trying to figure
out this pretty much the whole time it says we must ask that you stop throwing
down ammo crates this is apparently a quote
seems a little informal but it's apparently a quote we must ask that you
stop throwing down ammo crates in other more legal stylized terms please stop
distributing copies of our game clients and using our trademarks logos and
artwork on your sites it actually has nothing to do with
running the forums and this is pointed out somewhere else in a comment which
made me realize that i'm not the only person that noticed this
revive doesn't seem to be reacting that way so i'm wondering if there was more
in the statement from ea because that's a very short statement yeah so maybe we
didn't get the whole thing but basically all they're saying is don't make it so
you can download our clients i'm sure people can find another way around that
yeah um and
don't use our artwork and logos but like i'm sure you can find
ways around that although it might be a little bit of an issue
um where's the where's the thing
trademark that might be a bit of an issue because saying battlefield 2 on
the site might be a problem yeah
well yeah it is a bigger statement overall yeah it's not that much bigger
though actually uh yeah there's not much else more here
that doesn't go this way um yeah so honestly
this is one of those like crappy legal things where at the end of the day
totally get why they have to do this okay uh hold on a second kid ultra 13
i i should just ban you from the chat let the old online games die and buy new
ones what's wrong with that hopefully you're just trolling i
sincerely hope you're just trolling but yeah i don't know no it's probably
it's probably fine no one could be that stupid so
it should be okay okay yeah well we'll just leave it probably trolling and i
can respect trolling more than i can respect thinking that
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so that sucks a lot um yeah i like i totally get why it's happening
and they're like actually right today but they're only
right today because they were wrong years ago
and they wasted it yeah they didn't provide
server software for people to set up their own private servers and instead of
doing it this way they could have found some legal way to sanction these kind of
things yeah well well what they would have to do is they would have to release
the server software but yeah because it contains all this matchmaking crap and
all this other stuff that a traditional game server wouldn't have it probably
contains a lot of ip that they are actually still using today and then yeah
proprietary that's fair so they actually like can't do anything now they have to
protect the trademark otherwise they risk not being able to
defend it in the future and
they can't release the server code
so but like there's got to be another way
again they don't specify that they can't run the servers
right they don't want the trademark being used they want the logos being used they don't want them to distribute
copies of the game you can stop distributing copies of the game people can figure that out on their
own no distributing oh okay description no distributing copies of our game
clients yeah so they can stop doing that okay people can find a way to get a copy of
the game so let's let's if they're going as far as finding this site i'm sure
they'll find a way to download a like non-cracked version of battlefield 2.
um i'd still have a battlefield 2 key
somewhere yeah
never actually played that i'm sure there are websites on the internet where you can find the like iso file for an
uncracked battlefield 2. in other news
the NVIDIA gtx 1070 ti
looks to be taking the fight thank you rs technica to rx vega 56 at 450 bucks
specs of this thing actually look pretty good 2432 cuda cores eight gigs of gddr5
so it's the cheaper gddr5 not gddr5x
256 gigabytes a second memory bandwidth okay cool and it is yes overclockable so
you will see custom designs coming from partners like ASUS
uh so yeah the the rumor MSI i'm happy
we very clearly pointed out as being a rumor of these being not overclockable
was not true yeah that was made very clear in the press
release uh there's some funky stuff going on
though from source ryan ryan ryan schroed sorry here's our
source he told us that fire from pc perspective sorry man yeah ryan shrout
uh there's some funky stuff going on apparently partners are not allowed to
bin their gpus um but off the record
some board partners assure that they will be banning gpus so
that's going to be interesting the other rumor is that partner cards will not be
overclocked out of the box yeah so it'll be up to the end user to overclock it so
what this looks like to me is NVIDIA
making if all this is true is NVIDIA making an effort to avoid cannibalizing
1080 i guess because this this card spends being able
to overclock above it like this thing's got 500 more cuda
cores than the gtx 1070 this is a much much fatter GPU they're drastically
different it's thick you know thick that's what the kids say right t-h-i-c-c
yeah do they spell it or is it just implied
thick no they say thick but if you're typing it out like through a text
message or something it's t-h-i-c-c okay why
i don't know too old okay uh so this was posted by hawk on the
forum the original article is from tweak town Intel has announced their next-gen
optane SSD the 900p
and i'm going to pee myself because this thing is
the biggest deal to happen to ssds since
like the x25m potentially i haven't actually tested it
myself i haven't actually used one but right now the u.2 form factor so this
guy right here is available at 280 gigs i like you not too and the add-in card
yeah Intel has not abandoned it apparently no one else is supporting it
but Intel's like yep nope we're doing this um because i guess it lets them
reuse their server designs and the ports aren't going away on high-end boards
they're still there and it it pulls it off the board yep m.2 and PCIe they're
fixed on the board being able to have way more stuff pulling off the board is
also good and this adding card is available at 280 and 480 gig capacity
points it looks good boy it looks pretty good
like it doesn't have the really sick skull which yeah i've always been into
that the digitized skull was super cool the skull trail skull but like it it
looks sharp i like the i like the black but like hopefully the back of it isn't all like
scratched up like that one SSD yeah oh my god
nothing looks so good you know how much debate there would be
at a company as corporate as Intel about using something like this on their
branding because like you got to remember too like north american culture
yeah skulls and flames it's cool whereas
like i'm pretty sure that in at least some parts of asia
it's this is like putting a big bad omen on your on your
product yeah it's like looks basically
cool though and it's weird because i don't even generally like skulls
like remember remember when we were not not i wouldn't say growing up but like
teens there was all the like people had there was a clothing with skulls on it
was like totally in fashion you know what i think i was a little older than
you probably yeah but not by a time because like like late teens early we
had bum equipment and no fear yeah
no i had that too
but remember no fear is that still around i don't think so i there's a
picture of me wearing a no fear like mesh shirt that's terrible um it's you
remember those but like slightly see-through and it was only slightly
see-through from like here up because like those were awful don't show the
nipple but gotta have that see-through it was awesome man
oh man no way no fear is still around
sort of actually i don't know if that's stylized the same
i miss i so i used to have a no fear hat it was black
and it had the eyes on the uh
uh just above the snap no i don't have my no for your hat anymore i loved my no
for your hat when did you had the eyes here and then it was no fear on the back
when did you stop having that oh no i have my stupid gecko hat that's probably
the one you're thinking no no i know that happened when did you stop having that before i met you oh weird oh yeah a
long time ago wow i've seen a picture or something
yeah there's not much no fear not much no fear was huge but at one point in
time like probably i'm gonna guess i was in like grade 10.
skulls were like totally a thing right just like black fabric with white skulls
on it was totally thing and i was always like that's so stupid it looks you're not edgy it looks dumb i don't know what
you're doing you're not edgy like it just wasn't that's the ultimate burn
you you know what you're not you're you're trying which automatically means
you're basically it doesn't work yeah but like that looks the skull trail
skull though has always looked sick because they found like a classy way to
put a skull on something which i don't know i thought it was
really cool all right
last topic for today we gotta talk about this posted by blue
chinchilla eating dorito on the forum original article here is actually from
the vancouver sun amazon wants to let the delivery person
unlock your front door and go inside your home to um
the service is called how can you call this a service it's called amazon key
and incorporates a smart lock give amazon a key to your house because
who knows what
what people are gonna do it man people are absolutely gonna do it
because like honestly this is one of those things where
you're basically just you're trying to get amazon drivers to get to get
naruto well applicants to become amazon delivery
drivers and like if they were anywhere near like i'm afraid to be giving them
ideas because by and large as far as i can tell most thieves aren't that brilliant but like
if they have a brain on their shoulders at all
then what they would do is they would find the squeaky cleanest
one who is the driver
and he just cases
what yep i've heard it before too people are
absolutely going to do this someone internally is apparently planning to sign up for this yeah and exactly what
you're saying the driver is going to case the house yeah if there's anything
valuable in there yeah figure out where the security cameras are what type of
alarm system they're using what their camera setup is everything and then
leave and then someone else and then create a list because they're going to be going
around to like many many houses every day so they would
just get back in their car pull up the little google sheet on their phone be
like a or b or c the date they were there like the last
date anyone from amazon was there to make it a little bit harder to put two
and two together and then like six months down the road
you're gonna get hit and they'll know exactly what you have and exactly where
it is so they'll be in out gone and have all your most valuable things
get freaking out this is like actually the stupidest thing of all you know it's
great too you know what's gonna happen and because hold on hold that thought yeah because
there's another big problem too they don't even need to see where your stuff
is it doesn't matter they know what you have they know what they don't even need
to know that they just need to know what kind of stuff you have yeah
because if you're the kind of person who just like because they're not going to be able to
just like wander around in your house because i'm sure the smart lock if they have again if they have a brain on their
shoulders well a camera turns on when they enter yes exactly okay cool so i
hadn't actually read that far into it but i would certainly hope that there's a camera yeah they see you they're not
wandering around in your house but you have recordings of every time they've
been but if they stand in the front hallway and they see you know nothing but like a
you know dirty old dog bed and like some you know
soiled newspapers and you literally ordered like a case of craft dinner then
then you're you're a c you know or you're a d not worth hitting but if
you're ordering like baller stuff from amazon and you got like a nice home
you got to be stupid if you think that you're not getting hit
you know what i'm really excited for yeah amazon key enabled apartment
buildings
okay i can kind of being convenient for apartments when they well when they
build the structure yeah they set up key enabled doors and
key enabled cameras for every single suite
i would be less concerned in an apartment far less yeah so that
i'm i'm actually a lot more okay with it i would be less concerned too not
entirely off the hook but i'll be less concerned yeah because especially if
your apartment has modern features like needing a fob in order to access a given
floor as long as you've got a camera on the
person that's there the whole time that they're there
then yeah it's far less of an issue and i was
kind of thinking it would be cool if you had a double door refrigerator
so you could come up to like the side of your house and then put groceries in the back of your refrigerator yep so i can
see there being stuff that it that this kind of idea would be cool for i have no
interest in randoms coming into my home though
um someone in chat amazon shed sure
yeah yeah so i'd be super down i'd put one of these smart locks on like you
know a dumpster in my you know driveway yeah um
okay fine so there are ways that the tech can be used but
the idea of just letting someone go into my house and so
there are positive security things about not leaving a package outside
but i don't think that they were overcoming that
by having someone go into your house yeah so that's that's where i'm at
um so there are brands already signed on to enter dwellings via amazon key
including merry maids and the animal caregiver rover.com
man you know i just this you know what this feels like
this feels like to me like i'm getting left behind the same way i did when
online dating became a thing because to me i was like oh apparently uh jeff bezos
became the richest man in the world today as their stock price surged 13
to a record high um and he owns 81 million shares so he's
now worth 90 billion dollars there you go um so i feel like i'm being left
behind in kind of the same way that i was when online dating became a thing because to me like i haven't dated since
online dating didn't have a stigma right around it
yeah um like back when i was in high school meeting yeah it doesn't anymore
no yeah it's no big no big deal which is like weird late show hosts are talking
about like you know swiping left and swiping right like it's
super casual and like celebrities are legitimately on it yeah um
but when i was in high school it was like
oh my god they met online
ew to go 100 valley girl for you guys um
yeah and it was good you did good for me
i'm looking at this as kind of the same thing
like i'm instead but instead of meeting someone
random at a
you know away from my home and my my stuff and like my privacy location
i am like like a restaurant or something
i am bringing randoms into my house now when i
hire a a babysitter or
a gardening service or whatever
i or usually uh Yvonne yeah that's fair
interviews them yeah in the same way that if you think about it you would
traditionally meet a dating partner by
an interview process like an in person of sorts yeah handshake no look but but
you get what i mean it is though to a certain degree yeah but we're moving away from that to like
sort of um you know finding your finding your maid or your or your dating partner
by you know flipping through the available options and kind of going oh yeah that one's got good reviews on
you know made swipe maidswipe.com lordy i'm sure it's
probably a thing
oh interesting how much it
cost it can't be available
because you know that's just going to turn into a fetish site like immediately
it's available what not even expensive
madeswipe.com it's only 15 bucks canadian dollars
no way holy maidswipe.com
whoever buys that don't just buy it and sit on it buy it
and make a killing because that is legitimately you get a business like
that going you get signed up with amazon key there is a model here and you
actually just clone the tinder interface well you could make like an uber-like
service for maids yep using maidswipe you could swipe through and they could
have different rates and different specialties they could be like nearby or
not nearby they come they clean up different services that they offer like
maybe this one will do your laundry that domain will like straight up not be
there for very long that's not a bad idea hazy
hit it up you need to hire development team to start developing all the ideas
that i've told you like pop swipe
it's also maids wipe i mean some of them might offer
that service i don't know yeah um
yeah anyway so uh thank you for watching the lan
show and we will see you guys again next week goodbye same bat time same bat
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