WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.359 I've watched plenty of videos of other people googling themselves, and it's 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:09.760 always super entertaining from the outside, but it never occurred to me how 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:15.920 stressful it would be to actually be the subject of one of these. Uh, without 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:20.199 further ado, let's jump right in. Is Lionus white or Asian? 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:29.359 I'm just going to put that one down. What is Lionus Tech Tips? 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:33.360 Is this Jeopardy? Are we playing Jeopardy right now? That's not a 00:00:31.119 --> 00:00:38.239 question. That's an answer. Why does Lionus hate Dbrand? 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:42.320 I don't. But it is absolutely hilarious that enough of you think I do. That 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:47.600 that's one of the autocompletes. Dbrand and I have curated kind of an faux 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:51.039 adversarial relationship throughout the many, many years that we've 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:55.760 collaborated. I think it's been over 10 years now of them sponsoring us and even 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:59.280 going so far as to work together on collaborative products like the Glow 00:00:57.680 --> 00:01:04.000 Circuit Skin that I have on my phone right now. I won't lie, there are times 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:07.520 when I think they do take things a little bit too far. Like sometimes the 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:14.240 stuff they put in their newsletters crosses the line into just downright 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:16.640 mean. But the truth is I can take it and 00:01:14.240 --> 00:01:21.600 I can dish it right back. You Dbrand, your products cost too much. There. You 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:26.560 like that? Yeah, you do. You'll sponsor me anyway. Who else are you going to go 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:29.200 to? When will Lionus segue to his 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:32.640 sponsor? Oh, I get it. Odo. They got everything you need to run your business 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:36.720 from invoicing to inventory, except they're less like a Swiss Army knife and 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:40.479 more like a sick custom workshop full of every full-size tool you could possibly 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:43.360 want. Maybe there's even a disco ball in there if you want to have dance parties. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:47.520 You know, I don't know if they actually have that. This is a metaphor. 00:01:45.759 --> 00:01:51.360 Okay, obviously this one wasn't real, but the rest of them are and were 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:55.520 compiled using a combination of Google autocomplete prompts along with search 00:01:53.360 --> 00:02:00.399 results for my name on Quora and on our forums to find out what exactly it is 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:04.960 that people want to know about me. That is a lot of questions and they didn't 00:02:02.479 --> 00:02:09.119 let me peek even a little bit. Let's see how many of them we can get through. Why 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:15.200 does Linus Sebastian drop so many graphics cards? Okay, I do think this 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:20.480 one's a little overblown. One of the most egregious instances of me dropping 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:26.239 something was actually a fake GPU. I was just trying to psych people out. That 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:27.680 GPU never worked. With that said, there 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:30.959 have definitely been times that I have dropped things. I am a little bit 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:35.040 inattentive. I'm a little bit of a butterfingers and I'm often in a hurry. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:39.440 That all combines to create a perfect storm where things do fall sometimes, 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:43.200 but in general, if I know something is really valuable and important, I can 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:46.319 hold on to it. You're also good at catching stuff. 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:50.959 Thank you. Well, I always say you drop enough things, you get pretty good at catching them. 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:56.959 What does Linus Tech Tips do for a living? Huh. Is this still a question? I 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.800 guess that actually makes sense. I have seen people discuss on some of the 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:04.400 videos where we show how many members there are of our team and stuff like 00:03:02.239 --> 00:03:07.920 that, you know, oh, what is their real job? Like, what is it that they actually 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:13.840 do? This is it. We make videos. Uh we work 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:18.000 with sponsors, we sell merchandise like on ltstore.com. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:23.440 We make money from Google AdSense. We have done very occasionally some just 00:03:20.640 --> 00:03:27.760 like paid contract production work, but it is not a significant component of our 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:33.200 business. We make tech videos. We educate and we entertain people. Is 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.560 Linus Sebastian the king of PC gaming? 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:40.159 This must have been asked by someone who's never seen me play a video game. 00:03:38.239 --> 00:03:44.959 If anything, I'm the king of demonstrating that better gear does not 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:51.920 make you a better gamer. That crown I will wear. Another one. What does Lionus 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.080 actually do? Okay, you know what? You're 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:58.560 not asking what my job is. You're asking what I do for my job. The biggest part 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:02.480 of it is working with the writing team. So, ideulating, figuring out, you know, 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:06.799 what the best videos that we can make are. That also involves some external 00:04:04.480 --> 00:04:12.239 communication whether it's with brands or people who have created super cool 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:17.440 outside projects. Then I work with them on sort of what the flow of that video 00:04:14.239 --> 00:04:20.479 will be. I review scripts and of course 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:22.880 I am a host. In my role as chief vision 00:04:20.479 --> 00:04:26.160 officer though I do still work with the executive team providing them the 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:29.840 guidance for you know how I feel the company should be run in hopes that they 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:34.560 will execute on it to the best of their abilities. And I also set sort of our 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:39.520 long-term roadmap for what we want to reinvest in. So over the last few years, 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:43.919 a big part of that has been in Labs testing, which has taken more time to 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:49.040 ramp up than obviously we would have liked, but in the long term, I believe 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.960 will safeguard our position as a trusted 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:57.199 source of information about technology. Lionus, Sebastian, kids. I have three 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:59.680 children, a boy and then two girls, and 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:03.040 they're teenage and then coming up on teenage and a little bit younger than 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:06.720 that. You might have noticed that I didn't say their names, and I didn't 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:11.919 even give their exact ages. That's because while obviously doing stuff with 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:17.360 my kids is great content, not to mention a lot of fun, we've always felt that 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:21.680 there's a fine line between working with your kids and exploiting your kids. and 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:26.240 we've always been a little uncomfortable with the idea of disclosing a bunch of 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:31.440 personal information about them before they're really old enough for informed 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:33.759 consent. So, my son is getting to the 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:37.360 age where I've actually asked him, "Hey, do you want your name out there? Do you 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:42.080 want to be featured more prominently in videos?" And he's kind of festering on 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:44.479 it right now. The daughters, though, I don't think they're old enough yet, so 00:05:43.280 --> 00:05:50.720 we haven't even really given them the option. really doesn't help that they're 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.840 ladies and uh the internet is not always 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:56.320 a great place for young women. 00:05:53.840 --> 00:06:00.800 Oh, here's a thick one. Can Linus TechTips code? 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:05.919 No. The closest I've ever gotten was that time that my stepdad bought me like 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:08.240 a C+ manual that was like this thick 00:06:05.919 --> 00:06:12.800 when I was 16. Never cracked it open, I'm afraid. Do 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:16.720 you think Lionus Sebastian would make a good Canadian prime minister? 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:22.880 No, I'm not tall. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:27.680 No, I'm actually serious. Like that's that's a thing, right? Like people sort 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:33.120 of imagine leaders as being like, you know, tall and stuff, right? And I'm 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:36.880 probably way too trusting. A big part of being the head of state of any 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:41.600 significant country or even the head of state of Canada is dealing with other 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:46.319 heads of states. And that's about as wretched a hive of scum and villain as I 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:51.360 think even Alec Guinness could imagine. Guess what? It's lime day. This week on 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.840 ltstore.com, we are squeezing the heck 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:59.039 out of our margins to bring you some really sweet deals. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:03.120 Today only, if you buy a deskpad, you can get a Razer Death Adder Essential 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:06.560 Mouse for free when you add both to cart. But that's not all. If you pick up 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:11.520 a magnetic cable management room solution, we're tossing in a free Elgato 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:16.240 Stream Deck Mark II. 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They're eating 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:05.520 us alive. We've got to have product videos. You go make product videos. I 00:08:03.919 --> 00:08:11.120 had no idea what I was doing. I mean, look at me. I'm like a deer in headlights. 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:16.000 And the rest is history. What is Lionus Sebastian's real name? I wish I'd been 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:20.479 smart enough to adopt a stage name on the subject of our competition, Tiger 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.800 Direct. Their host did have some background in performing arts and did 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:28.720 have the foresight to use a stage name rather than his real name. His real 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:32.800 name's out there now at this point, but at least he got to make the decision 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:36.320 about when to disclose it for me. I just I just didn't think that many people 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:41.039 would care about tech tips. I didn't think it would ever matter. My real name 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:44.240 is Lionus Gabriel Sebastian. I've actually thought about changing my legal 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:49.839 name as well, just to make it a little bit more difficult for people to 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:52.560 identity theft me. And maybe I have. 00:08:49.839 --> 00:08:57.519 How did Lionus Tech Tip start? The short version is I had pretty much 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:01.440 decided my time at NCX computers had come to an end. So I walked into the 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:06.240 president's office and I said, "Look, I think that my best marketable skill is 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:11.040 making videos. So we have two options here. One is I can go to a competitor 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:15.519 and I can make videos." Option number two is I can work out a deal with you 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:18.399 where I take this Lionus Tech Tips channel that I don't think you can 00:09:16.959 --> 00:09:22.160 really use anyway. I mean, it's got Lionus right in the name of it. At that 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:25.839 time, it was much harder to rename a channel. So, I'm going to take that with 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:30.640 me. And in return, I will sign a non-compete. I will continue to help you 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:35.279 build up your team around the NCIX TechTips brand, and I will grant you a 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:39.600 perpetual license to use any Linus TechTips content as rich video 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:45.360 merchandising on your website. In return, I expect to pay a sum of $1 for 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:49.519 the Linus Tech Tips channel. He took it and I'm really glad he did because 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:55.279 otherwise I could be working at Amazon now. I couldn't actually. I did apply 00:09:51.839 --> 00:09:57.680 there but they never responded to me. 00:09:55.279 --> 00:10:03.120 You missed out. Amazon is Lionus Tech Tips hacked. 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:05.040 Um, not currently that I know of. I 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:10.000 mean, my phone did buzz just now. Everything's fine. Cool. No, no, no, I'm 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:15.200 not. It's happened before, though. We've lost the channel a couple of times. Why 00:10:12.560 --> 00:10:19.600 does Linus Tech Tips use Crab Rave? It's a banger. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:24.399 Where did Linus Tech Tips used to work? My entire job history all the way back 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:29.600 to that summer when I worked as a camp counselor in Quebec, is on my LinkedIn 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:34.240 along with a really outdated picture of me. I have not updated that since I 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:37.519 started Atlantis Media Group, which was over 10 years ago. So, if my employer 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:44.399 was worried I'm looking for opportunities elsewhere, I think they can probably relax. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:46.079 How is Linus Tech Tips doing? Man, we're 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:50.880 really getting to the core of it. We're in a bit of a lull. Our peak for 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:55.519 viewership was kind of back in the co era when we had the benefit of 00:10:52.959 --> 00:11:01.760 affordable computers. That is until the big crypto run that drove GPU pricing up 00:10:58.640 --> 00:11:03.920 through the roof where it has stayed. 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:07.760 And people getting into, you know, remote work slash getting into gaming 00:11:06.079 --> 00:11:12.079 for the first time in their lives. Since then, a combination of factors have made 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:16.399 it hard for us to achieve the same highs that we did in the past. High prices for 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:20.800 our hobby, competition from other hobbies now that we can, you know, go 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:23.920 outside, a proliferation of niche channels that are focused on a 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.160 particular vertical and do an outstanding job of covering it. And I 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:31.839 would say another factor is increased competition on YouTube in general for 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:35.279 people's attention. There is so little room for error in the current YouTube 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:39.760 meta. Every video needs to be a banger or it just won't perform. Doesn't matter 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:44.000 how many subscribers you have. Lionus TechTip store. Did we just take anything 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:50.880 that autocomp completed from putting my name in it? Yes, Lionus TechTip store. 00:11:48.079 --> 00:11:55.760 What did Linus Tech Tip study? Hm. What did I study or what did I learn? 00:11:53.440 --> 00:12:01.760 Definitely studied some things. I took first year calculus for instance in 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:03.440 university twice. Failed both times. 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:07.839 That was when I realized the hard sciences was probably not the place for 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:12.399 me. So, I shifted and I did some psychology and some English literature 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:17.440 and I got really good grades while attending probably a solid quarter of my 00:12:15.040 --> 00:12:20.720 classes and I went, "Boy, if it's this easy to get good grades in these 00:12:19.040 --> 00:12:23.600 subjects, maybe the degree that I'm going to end 00:12:22.079 --> 00:12:27.680 up with is not going to be worth anything." So, I dropped out and went 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:32.800 back to the computer store, which ended up being a really good career move for me. Though, it is not one that I'm 00:12:30.959 --> 00:12:37.200 necessarily recommending. Stay in school, kids. Why doesn't Linus 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:44.079 Sebastian even use Linux? Lionus Sebastian uses Linux every day. My NAS 00:12:40.959 --> 00:12:46.240 at home runs Linux. True NAS scale. 00:12:44.079 --> 00:12:49.920 Absolutely love it. I also use Linux here at work where predominantly our 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:55.440 infrastructure runs on it. Is that not enough for you? As for why I don't use 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:57.120 it in my desktop, for me, compatibility 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:01.920 across any of the games that I could want to play is worth a little bit more 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:09.279 to me than some of the admittedly nice creature comforts of Linux. With that 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:11.760 said, Linux as a living room OS for me 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:15.839 has a lot of appeal. So once Steam OS makes its way onto just a quick and easy 00:13:13.680 --> 00:13:20.399 installer that I can chuck on any PC and then throw as like a Steam Machine 00:13:17.760 --> 00:13:25.399 console in my family room. I am so there. Where is Lionus wife from? 00:13:26.079 --> 00:13:33.120 I know where her parents are from. One's from Malaysia, one's from Brunai. I 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:37.120 believe she was actually born in Brunai and she moved here when she was very 00:13:35.040 --> 00:13:41.920 young, like 3 years old or something like that. So functionally speaking, 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:46.959 she's from Canada. Culturally, we call her CBC, Canadianborn Chinese, even 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:52.079 though she's not technically born here. Why didn't Linus Sebastian become a 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:54.639 billionaire after creating Linux? 00:13:52.079 --> 00:13:58.880 Common mistake. You're thinking of Linus Torvoltz. That'd be a fun collab, 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:03.519 wouldn't it? Like, let us know in the comments if you'd like to see us do 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:06.560 something with the OG tech Linus. Is 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:09.199 Lionus a robot? This can't be stuff 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:15.600 people are actually asking, is it? Why does Linus Tech Tips have so 00:14:12.560 --> 00:14:18.639 many employees? Well, this may surprise 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:21.040 you, but we do a ton of stuff. In any 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:26.079 given week, we're going to have 10 plus video shoots to sort out. We're probably 00:14:23.199 --> 00:14:29.519 going to have some kind of apparel or uh physical merchandise launch. We're going 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:32.800 to have to do all of the accounting for all of that. Move around all the 00:14:31.040 --> 00:14:38.320 physical items that need to be moved. Do product testing for the LT Labs website. 00:14:35.839 --> 00:14:42.320 There's just a lot of jobs to do here. Don't forget about Floatplane. I mean, 00:14:40.079 --> 00:14:47.920 we have Sammy who's basically dedicated to creating exclusive content for our 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:49.279 Floatplane supporters. lg.gg/flatlane. 00:14:47.920 --> 00:14:53.360 You guys can check that out. There's just a lot to do. All right, let's grab 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:58.079 one from the bottom. What does Linus Tech Tips use to benchmark? Ooh, that's 00:14:55.760 --> 00:15:01.920 a good question. Over the last few years, we've been working on a software 00:14:59.760 --> 00:15:08.000 that we call Markbench, which is pretty much a fancy automation tool for 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:13.680 benchmarking games and other pieces of software. Because the truth is, you 00:15:10.160 --> 00:15:15.839 cannot use just one piece of software in 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:20.959 order to determine the performance of one component or system relative to 00:15:17.839 --> 00:15:23.440 another. In theory, there are suites 00:15:20.959 --> 00:15:28.480 that can help to give you some idea. Something like a Geekbench or um Future 00:15:26.079 --> 00:15:33.199 Marks products, but in practice, what we found is that the very best way to test 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:38.160 things is to use realworld workloads. I'm talking actual games that run in 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:44.480 actual engines that people use to play video games and actual applications like 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:46.480 the Adobe Creative Suite or Blender that 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:50.720 real professionals are using to create their work. If you can quantify how a 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:55.199 system performs in those real applications, then there is no need for 00:15:53.199 --> 00:16:00.480 synthetic benchmarks. At least that's our belief. Where is Linus Tech Tips 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:02.399 located? I used to say Vancouver just 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:06.959 cuz internationally people are more likely to know where that is, but I've 00:16:04.160 --> 00:16:10.399 lived in Siri so long and Siri has gotten a lot better than its old 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:16.160 reputation used to be. But I think now I'm ready to say it. Siri, BC. Does 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:21.839 Linus detectives have a boss? This one's a little complicated. Yes, as the chief 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:28.399 vision officer, I do report to our chief executive officer, Taran Tong, who I 00:16:24.560 --> 00:16:31.519 hired as our primary shareholder. So, I 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:33.519 report to him and he reports to me. The 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:37.279 relationship has to be then highly collaborative and there has to be a lot 00:16:35.199 --> 00:16:42.720 of trust there in order for us to together guide the company forward. But 00:16:39.839 --> 00:16:47.199 in terms of the dayto-day, yes, if he tells me to do something, I am supposed 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:51.440 to do it. There's also a lot of bottom up bossing that tends to happen because 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:55.360 I am notoriously scattered and disorganized and I kind of rely on my 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:58.560 team to yell at me and tell me where I'm supposed to be and what I'm supposed to 00:16:56.560 --> 00:17:03.199 do. Right, Reys? Yeah. 00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:05.520 Lina, Sebastian, age. I am 38 years 00:17:03.199 --> 00:17:10.319 young. And that's how you know you're old, the second you start saying years 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:13.919 young. Why does Linus Tech have so many sponsors? 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:19.280 It becomes kind of this perpetual emotion machine, right? You start making 00:17:16.959 --> 00:17:23.760 more videos and then you need more team members and then you need more income 00:17:21.600 --> 00:17:28.240 and then the sponsors expect you to like make more videos to attach their sponsor 00:17:25.520 --> 00:17:33.360 messages to and it becomes this this cycle. Another big factor for me is 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:40.080 diversification. We don't want to be beholden to any one particular sponsor 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:42.400 or even five or 10 sponsors. Having a 00:17:40.080 --> 00:17:47.280 diverse stable of sponsors that we can rely on to work with is a huge part of 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:51.840 maintaining our ongoing independence. What are some of Lennis Sebastian's 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:57.679 hobbies? Work, raising kids, 00:17:54.080 --> 00:18:00.480 um my wife. I do make a little bit of 00:17:57.679 --> 00:18:03.919 time for gaming. more over the last couple of years. I would say I've got a 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:08.160 couple hundred hours, for example, in this rog light hockey game called Tape 00:18:05.919 --> 00:18:11.840 to Tape. Absolutely love it. Team over there is super small, but they're 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:15.120 killing it. Um I'm I've been painting my motorcycle for the last couple of years. 00:18:13.679 --> 00:18:21.760 The only reason it's taken so long is because it was my first time and I made a lot of mistakes. Oh, badminton, right? 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:26.000 I forgot about that. It's Look, look, I'm under a lot of pressure here, okay? 00:18:23.360 --> 00:18:31.360 I'm an avid badminton player to the point where I actually started up my own 00:18:28.080 --> 00:18:33.039 badminton gym. Is Lionus Sebastian a 00:18:31.360 --> 00:18:36.720 psychopath? Okay, I'm going back to the phone here 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:41.360 for a second. I forget. Oh, psychopathy test. Seeing someone cry has little 00:18:39.520 --> 00:18:46.000 effect on me other than maybe irritating me. Good lord. How does Linus Tech Tips 00:18:44.320 --> 00:18:50.240 make money? We actually did a video on this. We have a whole video that 00:18:47.919 --> 00:18:55.679 outlines all the different ways we make money. Those are them. Does Linus 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:59.880 TechTips have a degree? I don't know. We'd need a thermometer, wouldn't we? 00:19:00.320 --> 00:19:07.120 No. I was a really good student in high school. Um, so I have like my grade 12 00:19:05.360 --> 00:19:11.120 of like basically everything, even though it was elective to pursue like 00:19:09.120 --> 00:19:16.640 all the different sciences and stuff. Um, but post high school, I was not a 00:19:15.120 --> 00:19:21.919 very good student. I got really distracted by a girl. She managed to 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:27.679 finish her degree somehow, but she's just plain smarter than me, I 00:19:23.760 --> 00:19:30.400 think. Did Lionus, Sebastian, and Eminem 00:19:27.679 --> 00:19:33.919 ever meet? No. 00:19:31.919 --> 00:19:39.039 No. I don't know where we ever would have crossed paths. Though, I will say 00:19:36.080 --> 00:19:45.679 some problematic behavior aside, kind of a fan. Marshall, if you need a gaming PC 00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:48.799 or whatever, I would be happy to come out and deal with that for you. We on a 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:52.880 firstname basis, me and Eminem. You think that's gonna work? I It could 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:58.320 work. How do you wash Linus Tech Tips mouse pads? Oh, okay. I think the 00:19:55.679 --> 00:20:04.000 official advice is to use a damp cloth, like a microfiber style cloth, and then 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:07.840 just like um kind of wipe them down. I 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:09.520 personally have had success with, 00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:13.520 but I'm not supposed to recommend that because it is not the official care 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:19.120 instructions. Does Lionus own Lionus Tech Tips? Yes. After we acquired it 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:23.120 from NCIX, the computer store that I used to work at, Ivonne and I took 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:27.280 control as the sole shareholders and directors of Linus Media Group 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:32.000 Incorporated, which owns Linus Tech Tips, ShortCircuit, all our various 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:36.640 channels, as well as Flowplane. Linus, Sebastian, Jimmy Fallon. Hey, that would 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:41.440 be fun. Do you think they do you think they'd want to like collab again? 00:20:39.120 --> 00:20:45.280 That was really fun. it. I I know, you know, I get a million views every day or 00:20:43.280 --> 00:20:49.919 whatever, but for some reason, the the glamour of traditional media was just it 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:54.799 hits a little bit different. I had people from all different parts of my 00:20:52.240 --> 00:21:00.960 life reaching out to me being like Jimmy Phone and uh and and even for me, like, 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:05.120 dude, that moment before they announced my name and I like walk across the 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:09.200 stage, it's like practically hyperventilating. You 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:12.960 could tell how stressed I was at the beginning. And I'm totally comfortable 00:21:11.360 --> 00:21:19.440 in front of a camera. I'm even comfortable in front of a live audience at this point with like the uh expose 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:25.919 and stuff that we've done, but that hit different. It's just it's glamorous, you 00:21:22.080 --> 00:21:27.600 know? Wasn't ready for it. 00:21:25.919 --> 00:21:32.559 There's one last special one that they didn't put in the fishbowl apparently. 00:21:29.919 --> 00:21:38.200 What is the greatest tech tip ever told by Lionus Sebastian of Lionus Tech Tips? 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:46.240 Have you ever tried turning it off and turning it back on? 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