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all right my friends welcome to the wan
show some of you are friends that i only know through the occasional
little sort of snippets of insight i get into you and your lives through the twitch
chat and some of you are my friends who i um have met once in person
and i guess we dm'd on twitter a little bit so welcome to the show this is
wendell from level one text he is going to be co-hosting the show with me today
luke is attending a nintendo event and uh i think i'll leave it to him to
introduce himself and talk a little bit about who he is before we get started
howdy i'm i'm wendell i'm just another nerd it's fine you can check us out at
levelone.tech but uh
i don't really know what to tell you my background's computer science i like nerding out i've got some earl grey tea
and we're going to talk about the news and it's going to be awesome and i don't
know why that oh right i don't have this there we go all right there we go there
we go all right so i just posted a link to his youtube channel
in the twitch chat there so you guys are going to want to go check that out we're
going to have that linked under the youtube archive as well in the meantime i'm going to roll the intro which i
spent most of the time prior to the show being late today putting our entire
audio setup back together because and this was a very ill-advised move on my
part i took it all off and unplugged it
all about half an hour before the show was supposed to start because i was
actually making a video about wendell you you would love this thing uh
actually you know what here hold on a second let me uh let me see if i have my
uh oh oh i do have it can i just can i just throw this up here yeah it's sick
okay so i'm just gonna i'm just gonna full screen this
all the usb cameras check this thing
out that is a server cabinet
wait he can't see it no wendell can't see it he's he's on a different he's on
a different computer okay four post server rack that uh is amazing
and magical hold on well okay they can see it if you were watching the twitch
stream then you'd be able to see it can you see it now
uh is it the oh that's the one that looks like a uh yeah that's from uh i
star usa that's right yeah that's uh you know there's a law
firm i'm aware of a law firm that bought one of those because of an unfortunate
placement of a 24-port switch and they're like where they're the line came
in for like their fiber or whatever
the lawyer's offices and he's like this is this is uncalled for and that totally
is like a good solution for that yep i think it's a great solution if you're
looking to increase the sort of wife factor appeal of something like a um you
know a bunch of audio recording gear so so basically i was trying to find every
rack mount cool looking thing with lots of dials and switches on it and throw it
in there and i took pictures of where all the cables went because i have no
idea how to set up our compressor our preamp our headphone amp for monitoring
in our mixer i had no idea focusrite flew here to set it up for me
and uh so i but i i forgot
even taking a picture wasn't enough for me because i forgot
that i had taken a picture of the front where there was also some very important
stuff so i put all the back stuff back together like why isn't the morning room
working anyway
let's roll the intro which doesn't work and
sorry there's a bit of a delay on the line there i'm sorry i'm sorry i don't
know i was gonna say it doesn't matter you've got 465 people so it's fine
yeah all right we'll be right back we'll be right back intro time
yes i haven't fixed this file yet it has no audio
that has a picture of luke but luke's not on the show today because it's
wendell
okay yep i'd pause the thing okay Linus tech tips
and they have sponsors because
otherwise they would not be able to pay their bills which is cool i guess okay
and we're back
so i've got a few people asking me to turn wendell up a little bit i'm going to
turn you up a little bit see if that makes them happy although a lot of people are saying it's perfect 10 out of
10. so uh i'm going to go with that and selective taking selective feedback this
is the new way is it not taking the the things you want to hear and focusing on
those how is it down in america actually we don't get political on the show anymore
so you don't have to answer that
yes yes
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i'm glad you asked i'm just gonna drink some more of this
tea that's code for i don't know what's
going on help me fortunately this tea isn't from mexico or i'd be paying 20
more for it now
so much for nafta i mean
yep okay why don't we talk about something
that is a far less political and uh less
controversial subject that was you know a source of less strife for you in the
last little bit you got to explain why are you level one text now
well see there's much less drama right yeah we kind of we kind of started over
i you know i wasn't really sure it was a lot of fun i kind of like doing this you
know so i'm i've i've been a consultant for you know the better part of a decade
and um i do programming and this this
sort of thing was fun to show off stuff but we have this really amazing
community and so i didn't really want to abandon the community as it were because
there's a lot of people in the community that are like it pros or their students
that are like coming up and they're like i don't know if i want to study computer science or if i want to get into
networking or i want to do whatever and it's like well you know maybe we could take a sort
of different a different tack on this and do
some you know admittedly niche content niche stuff the the Linux content was
really popular i get to meet some really amazing guys um i got i get to meet eric
raymond and tron guy you know tron guy you've seen tron guy right
i actually am not familiar with tron guy
yeah he's i'm sorry if you google tron oh just oh the meme
okay yes yeah yeah so it turns out that guy
is an insanely brilliant um mainframe
expert and so i've met him and actually
got to talk to him about um system 390
and he works in the hercules emulator and uh he's just a fascinating brilliant
guy and so it's just level one is about that
kind of stuff it's about those kind of projects because you never know
you know who the celebrity meme person is going to be that actually works on a
you know like a mainframe emulator yes star wars kid he's he's a sound designer
oh i didn't know no no no no no i think he ended up getting bullied
and dropping out of school or something like that i'm not sure exactly what
happened there oh well that kind of sucks i guess yeah
no that's actually not very funny um
let's have been good yep okay
so are you going to are you going to touch on any of the i mean i'm sure
people would be would love to hear your side of the story the entire chat is
going like uh blah blah blah text indicate this text indicate that are you
gonna are you gonna talk about it no i don't think so
it's just it was fun while it lasted
uh this is a little bit different and it is what it is so
yeah having fun so far yeah so far it's actually been i was
actually kind of surprised by the community the the community was like you
should do this and you know don't go away and blah blah blah it was like okay
well i mean i guess that's fine uh and so that that worked out really
well i was really surprised by you know the support from the community
so far and just kind of trying this as an experiment and doing doing fun
interesting stuff but you know i don't this this whole like youtube e-celebrity
whatever i don't really like honestly i really don't fully get it like i just i
don't really i'm just nerding out and i guess the
audience is along for the ride so what you don't uh you you don't
you don't get uh you know why someone might think that
like jenna marbles is the most amazing person on earth or
i just i feel every time i make a video there's a little voice in the back of my
head that is like you self-important blowhard why are you doing this this
doesn't make any sense at all and it's just like well
i get i mean it's like i'm spreading the gospel of open source and and uh and
Linux and and you know knowledge is power and all that kind of stuff so i
guess it's all right yeah you guys i mean just from like a
purely sort of um you know self-important blowhard sort of uh
you know but really focused on being an e-celebrity sort of perspective you guys
are doing really well i mean for such a new channel 130 000
subscribers but more importantly than that the last four videos are averaging
about 30 000 views give or take
each or the last five or so which means that a quarter of your audience
is watching is interested yeah everything you put up
i mean for me people can look at it and they'll go oh yeah he's got like 3.6 million
subscribers but we're averaging like 500 600 000 views per video so that means
that like one seventh and i'm not that
great at mental math so hopefully that's pretty close but closer to a sixth or a
seventh so those are like really really impressive numbers
it's it's really kind of weird though because like some of the content is
really really esoteric like we did like the smb multi-channel video and i can't
i can't imagine that anybody would have just a casual interest in that but if
you're a system administrator or somebody that's like been through that banging your head against a wall there's
information in there that you just you can't get anywhere else because
uh nobody has bothered to ride it up and plus microsoft's changed it like 12
different times so uh you know but there's a it's really
dense technical information so i guess that's good and the Linux videos are
kind of like that but um the storage server video there's
not really a lot of technical content in that we the first version of that was
like an hour long and it had a lot of technical information but we sort of did
a funny skit in it i don't know if you saw it or not but you you there was a little picture of
you and on a picture and there was on the wall and some other you know tech
youtubers and yarn it was kind of funny but uh you have to watch it
when we're building our storage server and so it's a it's a it's based on a
fedora which is a distribution of Linux and it's using zfs and so there's about
a hundred hard drives and four rack mount chassis and an old
google server and so it's 172 terabytes and i had a blast not only building that
but also sort of documenting it on video at one point i rode the rack
it's on a wheeled rack and so at one point i rode the rack like a skateboard
around the office and there's a little a little bit of that in the video
but uh doing that kind of like i'm gonna i'm doing that stuff anyway whether or
not it's on camera and so now it's just like oh i can do it on camera and people
watch that and you know there's ad dollars for that okay sounds good i
could just buy more random crap so i mean the intention for you is never
to turn this into your full-time gig is it i don't think so
the the the interesting situation i mean maybe but the situation is that a lot of
the stuff that that we would be doing videos on
are things that i'm doing professionally or things that are connected to things
that i'm doing professionally and so like we're working on a video right now
on docker which is like a programming thing and if i weren't doing that
professionally i don't know that i would
know enough about it to do a video that's like this is how you get started
with docker this is how you're productive with this same thing with like zfs and the server it's like if i
wasn't doing it professionally i don't know that i would
sort of figure that out and i don't know the content would be
interesting i'm just throwing up your uh throwing up your video here on the on
the screen share so people can see you sitting next to what is that a 6u
uh it's two it's four for you cabinets and one to you server well that i think
oh you're probably not looking at the same uh frame of the video as me okay so
there you go there's this is a good view of it so there's the there's the two
four u's right there you guys and then there's the 2u right up there
um let's see if i can find your fun little
skit part where do you where do you ride the where do you ride the
rack because that sounds amazing
there's a gif of it somewhere that the people have already made so it's it's
probably it's there's it's probably in the description or something i don't know but it's uh
uh yeah it just ended up being kind of nuts
and it's not insanely fast it's only got one 10 gig interface right now i've got
to get a dual 10 gig adapter for it but it can move a
Gigabyte per second no problem and it's all spinning rust i do have one NVMe in
there for caching but but uh other than that it's all spinning
rust which is not bad so we are we are finally uh oh i ha i
have figured out how i'm doing the archival storage actually
so it looks like we're gonna be using blaster fs
cool that's awesome that will be good i think so that's um right now
we've got all of the super fast stuff so the pure NVMe storage server that's
running Windows server native smb there's
a lot to be said for it um is it perfect no
but support for pure NVMe diy solutions
right now as far as i can tell is sort of
yeah not really exist not doesn't really
exist i mean if you want to go to ibm or something and you want to buy some hyper
fast you know 100 you know Gigabyte like you know super
flash storage doodad that plunks into a proprietary system sure go for it um
yeah you gotta be careful with those because they'll happily take your fifty
thousand dollars but it doesn't always live up to the hype i mean
uh it's just you gotta get one and play with it and don't be afraid to send it
back even though it costs you know five six figures but that's the thing is on
the very high end there's that on the very low end there's you're not buying
48 NVMe drives because you're trying to do it more cheaply than that so and
there's this there's this in between that super micro built this server that
i don't understand who the customer is for but i ended up with one and uh and
so Windows Windows server it is i guess for now anyway so we've got that for
high speed and then we're moving to uh gluster fs uh running on i forget some
Linux distro once again i'm having people who understand it better than i
do uh fly up here and set it up for me so uh brett from 45 drives is actually
coming up to set us up so we are actually aiming and i'm not sure if
we're going to get there yet because that moolah but we are aiming to do a
one petabyte storage machine the petabyte price nice
nice seagate just laid off a bunch of people though so i don't know what that means
for the hard drive industry spinning rust yeah well they laid off a bunch of
people we talked about this on the wine show last week actually so i don't think we can do it as a full topic but they
they laid off a bunch of people and they closed down like
significantly into double-digit percentages of their hard drive production capacity
at that time had they announced the 14 and 16 terabyte drives i had just
noticed that the last few days no i don't think so
yeah they just announced 14 and 16 terabyte capacity drives
but i can't get any information out of them on the throughput of the drives
because it seems like the capacity of the drives have been going up and up and
up and up but the throughput on the drives really hasn't improved all that
much and like our i mean you know our storage array is basically
uh surplus so it was retired i got lucky though because the power on hours on all
the drives are only about 18 months and the you like mechanical hard drives you
can set your watch by their design at least enterprise grade they're designed
to last five years anything beyond five years you are on borrowed time and and
that that comes from a decade of experience and uh
the the drives that we've got they're only two terabytes there's like 100 of
them but uh but the time to replicate them is really
really quick like those drives have a have a streaming performance or just you
know transfer rate of like 150 megabytes per second 100 450 at the
fastest part of the disc so re-imaging two terabytes not a big
deal re-imaging 14 terabytes at say 200
megabytes yeah 7210 maybe yeah i mean that's going to take like
days i mean not to mention you look at what western digital is doing for their
12 and 14 terabyte disks so their 12 is going to be a
standard um perpendicular magnetic recording but their 14 terabyte is only
going to be available in shingled
yeah the rewrites on that aren't going to be fun
i guess it's good for archives but yep which is about it which is exactly what
we plan to be using stuff like that for but um
yeah it's going to be uh it's gonna be a very interesting next next few years i mean uh look uh
walking around in seagate's booth at ces i don't know if you were were you down
at ces or no no no i skipped ces i'm hoping to make it to computex but uh you
know it's only 125 000 subs i've gotta i gotta spend a couple of years growing my
subscribers or whatever well we'll try to throw a few your day
wait today thanks appreciate it i'm learning the lingo learning the
vernacular as it were subs yeah
all right so um next topic of the day i don't know if you i don't know if you
looked at the video i'm sure you didn't because you would have already known the answer to this um we did a video
yesterday i think it was yesterday yeah yesterday called does a thousand dollar
Windows perform better
where we took a server version of Windows and basically you
know ran your typical desktop benchmarks
against good old-fashioned Windows 10
and the comments on this video are just
just poisonous um so so this guy says
wow the ignorance in this video is tremendous no one is actually paying the
server edition of Windows for performance they are paying that big
buck for its features uh i really thought that Linus would research first
before making these kinds of videos
so tell me something wendell you've known me for about four years now actually i think
you've known me for about four years do you think that i expected
the server version of Windows to perform dramatically different from the desktop
one yeah probably not do
you think there is a case to be made for making a video because perhaps somebody
else other than the host might not know
this yeah that that could come out i could
see that maybe i could see that as it relates to the
game mode the upcoming game mode for Windows honestly because if you look at
like um the host processes and the default loadout on like which services
are enabled and what server is doing and blah blah blah yeah especially
especially if you start with like core os and you just enable the desktop
experience and that's all you've got uh depending on what you're doing that
can actually be faster if you can do whatever you're doing without the
desktop experience then that would even be better but for
desktop workloads you're probably going to need the desktop experience you probably will um
and honestly the the most frustrating thing about this is that like the very
beginning of the video i even point out old forum threads from back in the vista
days of people asking does vista ultimate perform better
oh actually i think that was true i think that not vista ultimate but i
think that like server 08 actually did perform better than vista because vista
was just a huge steaming pile of trash
i ran vista for a long time maybe you just didn't have the horses
that's right that might be true i mean it's possible i mean i wasn't trying to
run vista on a on a netbook either though so that i mean that was painful
you remember that when they were shipping netbooks with vista
oh yeah i tried to use one once i was just like this is ridiculous
um so let's talk a little bit about Windows 10 game mode because i've actually got like i'm sure you have the
same video in the in the works so it's going to be the race to who can make it
first but Windows 10 game mode versus those
Windows 10 d bloatify scripts that you can run versus stock Windows 10 out of
the box how interesting of a video is that going to be
you know in the preliminary testing that we've done there's not like the the game
mode the the build we played with was the very first version that enabled game
mode and honestly i couldn't really tell that it did a whole lot other than it
disabled search indexer while you're while the game was running which
okay and uh there was something else that it did it
did something with the dvr the xbox live dvr sure and and that was and it's like
okay i mean sure the the blow script that we have mostly disables the
telemetry and all that crap so do any of these things fix the start
menu yet no you mean when the start menu just
randomly doesn't respond sometimes yeah yeah no isn't that baffling yeah it
really is i'll give you one better uh Windows 10 the the builds that we that
we use in the like for business stuff uh randomly after like three or four
days it's just stops being responsive you have to restart the whole machine
eventually explorer will crash for no apparent reason
really did you try turning it off and turning it back on again did that fix it that
does fix it oh good well i mean yeah i'm talking to the
level one text guy right so i got to throw these jokes in here
so in a nutshell oh for uh for those of you who aren't familiar
with game mode uh we've got an article here from rs technica that we got all of
our information from because we don't do any actual research but the idea behind
it is improved resource allocation gives a boost to frame rates and in a nutshell
um they're saying that when game mode is active the os will lean towards
allocating CPU and GPU resources to the game i don't know what else it would be
allocating GPU resources to but who knows for games that are CPU or GPU
bound um kevin gamel partner group program
manager for the xbox platform said that they were seeing frame rate improvements
of two to five percent i mean
the thing about frame rate improvements from two to five percent is that it's one of those things where it sounds kind
of good on paper but in practice a two percent frame rate improvement is what
at 60 FPS yeah not enough is that the difference
between like the hardware that you had now you're like really getting the most
out of it and uh a terrible gaming experience
i don't based on the testing that we've done i don't think we're gonna do a video on this but here's something that
you could try for for yours in task manager as a control
just right click on the game process and set it to an elevated priority not real
time not high just the the one that's above normal
and um i bet that will result in a two to five
percent performance increase hmm
just elevating the process i mean there's uh
that was one of the fixes from rockstar when gta 5 first came out
um for like middle of the road i5 systems they were like everything is
fine but sometimes it goes glitchy and weird literally the the thing from
rockstar was uh right click on the thing and set it to
above normal and people were like oh my god that fixed it
so and it might be the Windows is doing you know like the search index or
in the background or whatever the malware service is executable is the
one that keeps killing my like my my razor blade will be sitting on a
table like 10 feet away from me and it'll start
going i go over there i'm like what do you
mean 18 CPU usage there's nothing open
it's doing a background scan because that's what you need right yeah i need
that when i'm running on battery thank you thank you
um so anyway game mode in case you do care
about it will work for both traditional win 32 games and new universal Windows
platform games um the creators update will ship
with a periodically updated white list of known games for automatically
enabling game mode so that's cool i guess
whitelist for increasing the priority like i can do that with a powershell
script done
anyway back to back to making videos that we already know the answer to i
think probably i think this is one of my biggest
frustrations as a content creator because we actually did one quite a
while back um does water cooling
make your room cooler or something along those lines i can't remember exactly
what we called it yeah there it is does water cooling make your room cooler and
the one that drove me craziest on that one at least with the Windows versus
Windows server video people were like Linus you're an idiot because
of they got the right answer they they knew that like there shouldn't
be much of a difference with this one
half the comments are Linus you're an idiot you why would you think this and
the other half of the comments are Linus you're an idiot of course it makes your
room cooler how did you not know that
i'm sitting here going that is why i made the video
now i'm probably going to get some hate for saying this but uh yeah
you know you've got your computer and your computer is drawing you know 700
watts 800 watts or whatever uh that is that is functionally no
different than having a space heater that is dumping 700 or 800 watts of heat
into your room it's like oh the computer is like you you really want to get
pedantic you can be like oh the computer is doing the work and the amount of
energy that's going into doing work is not going to generate heat that is
negligible yeah that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard because it's
pretty obvious okay like when you have a heat sink on your CPU okay you touch the
heat sink it's very hot and when you have a water cooling
radiator water is inherently cold
somewhere else yeah no no no no no water the water is much cooler much cooler you
touch the radiator no no
i mean that my friends is why when you have a laptop that's running really hot
and you take it into a room you can look right out the window and
bam temperature goes down global warming defeated
if that's one of the things did you guys do a video on um
alternative uh fluids for liquid cooling because that has come up a lot on our
forums and it's just like jesus the specific heat capacity of water is
really good it's hard to beat it no i haven't i mean that's one of those
things where we've shied away from some of the really really nerdy enthusiast
topics like that um it's something that i've been aware of for a long time i
don't know how long how long have you been in the water cooling scene you're more of a like an enterprise tech guy
i've never done a custom loop water cooler ever okay so
um i've been in the the custom water cooler scene since about 2006 or so and
back then the the popular one was an additive called water wetter that was an
automotive additive so people were putting that in their in their water
cooling loops and i think people were getting quite confused um in those days especially
because there was a lot of a lot more even a lot more misinformation
so people were putting water wetter in
on the advice of friends and water wetter was supposed to be was supposed
to it was advertised that it would help with cooling but i think one of its more
important characteristics was actually an anti-corrosive additive that was in
it so back then mixing metals uh brass copper aluminum even on the same piece
was a lot more common because people were actually pulling heater cores out
of um out of cars and using them as water cooling radiators
yeah so uh oh okay apparently water wetter is
used in uh motorcycles apparently that's that's what it's for i thought it was
automotive anyway the point is that it has always been true and it continues
to be true today um you know whether you're talking
fesser one or whether you're talking fluid xp or whatever the case may be
pretty much any fluid that you put in a water cooling loop other than mineral
oil which i would strongly recommend against because it'll destroy the hell
out of all of your gaskets and tubing so please don't do that unless you're
putting like mineral oil or what's it called floor inert that stuff from 3m
yeah yeah or floor nerd or something into your tubing whatever you use will
eventually become somewhat electrically conductive because that's just the way
it works all those cooler fluid xp is water-based um it just has some kind of
glycol of some sort in it and then it has something else in it i can't
remember but eventually it'll pick up enough metal ions that it will become
conductive and the other thing is that the more you
add to water the worse it will perform that's why if i'm actually building a
water-cooled system that i actually intend to run for more than a couple of
months as a showcase then all i run is
water with a couple drops of iodine or with a chunk of silver in it that's the
only thing you should use for the best performance yeah and that makes sense chemically i
mean you would want to use even like the metal ions that the water picks up the
water itself is going to conduct electricity because the water becomes ionized
so you would i mean you probably is there any mythology around using
distilled water or something like that because it seems like that would also help it be more chemically stable
yeah a lot of people a lot of people want to use distilled water in their
loops a lot of people say that's the best thing to use personally we don't
have particularly heavy tap water around here anyway so i've always
you know what's really funny okay okay we're getting we're oh we're digging up
the stories now so every time
in a video you've seen me pull out a jug of distilled water and pour it into a
water cooling loop i am just appeasing the distilled water fanboys that's
that's tap water i drank the distilled water
or i found a jug somewhere like it doesn't matter
it's fine i won't tell anybody if you don't yeah that's right
so um so yeah there's that
and twitch chat's freaking out twitch chat's freaking out yeah no i it
it doesn't make a difference um you know what i do have to jump into now
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oh okay so you throw a little ball and then you throw a big ball and then
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there you go so you got a little vertigo logo over there just takes one person to assemble the
chair i'm not actually quite sure how that's a selling point i've never had
enough difficulty assembling a chair that i needed someone to help me unless
it was from ikea and that has nothing to do with the difficulty of assembling the
chair and more to do with the documentation it glides very smoothly on
any surface the tall backrest is meant for the neck shoulders and lumbar
support and like the plus line which i was supposed to tell you about first
apparently but the plus line is the chair that luke normally sits in as you
can see there is no chair and there is no luke like the plus line you can
adjust the seat to fit your height it's got an adjustable armrest which is cushioned for the ARM as opposed to
cushion for your balls i suppose which is good because most people don't sit on
the armrest in order to prevent stress relieve muscle strain as well as any
other shoulder or wrist pain i don't know how the ARM rest affects wrist pain
but okay the knob under the seat can be set in order to match your weight so you
can rock and tilt with these and that actually does work quite well and the backrest can be changed from 80 degrees
to 150 degrees so you can check out their gaming chairs at
vertiger.com or at the link below which
says video description don't copy this copy below and paste that please thank
you Colton for putting that in there all right
so why don't we jump into some of our other topics here what else do we got
that's like interesting i don't even i don't even know this is like zoomed in it's the post ces
slow season it's been slow for us too on the news i know there's like nothing i
mean uh x verizon lawyer is now the
chair of the fcc okay so that's that's just that's terrible um
let's wait and see what evil things he does before we make fun of him okay sure
in the meantime there's a link to the rs technica article that uh that that's
from yeah okay oh man i
yeah okay no we don't we've been cutting back on on on the the
political sort of nature of the show ever since we got um sort of roasted for
talking about nothing but donald trump for an entire episode
of what is purportedly a tech show
oh the schadenfreude for my countrymen um all right oh vivaldi ceo calls on
microsoft to quote unquote do the right thing and stop aggressive edge pushing
so how excited do you get
when you're sitting there using Windows because i know using Windows gets all of
your juices going when you're sitting there using Windows
10 and you open up another browser and you
get a little little pop-up little pop-up from the taskbar it's all like hey did
you know that chrome is 22 percent faster than some arbitrary thing we
pulled out of our butt uh edge did you know that edges did i
say chrome okay yeah chrome's not faster than anything that was obviously a an
error it's it's been doing that i mean maybe
it's because i'm on the insider build on the Windows machines that i have to use
regularly i'm i'm not sure but it's been doing that for like six months but it's
not just chrome it's been doing it with a lot of things yeah uh even just like
the office pop-ups and it's like oh let's get microsoft office and let's do
a trial but the version of microsoft office that i have is for developers and
so it's like i've got microsoft office installed some dumb ass programmer
didn't take into account if you're running the developer version of office
yeah um so basically it's addressing and so so this is kind
of the quote so it addresses how microsoft's anti-competitive practices
create problems for the user so john tells a story about how a friend of his
had her pc upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 with the browser being
changed to edge um and again another quote instead of
building a better browser microsoft is forcing its product onto people in the
most unapologetic manner so i actually was planning to make a video about this
um i switched to edge
for edge has better battery life about two weeks because i was trying to
address the abominable battery life with chrome i'm a bit of a tab monster uh
this is something i'm attending regular meetings i'm working on it um i have a
sponsor um so i'm a bit of a tab addict and i
mean i was getting like a couple hours of battery on my laptop which is like
not very good so i was like okay i heard
from microsoft that edge has much better battery life i'm gonna try it
it's just such a piece of garbage
i mean just just fundamental stuff okay and i don't know if this will happen on
every machine but on my machine it definitely does if i click a link if i
click a link in an email in gmail in my
browser it manages to crash not only the tab
that spawns but also the tab with my gmail in it
maybe like 60 of the time like if i do a middle middle click
that's surprising i'm sitting here going this is this is ridiculous
how can anything be this unstable and there's all kinds of just rendering
issues um all kinds of crashing that i
mean i don't know what browser to use anymore what are you using
uh chromium chromium is a build of chrome with all the google stuff
stripped out yeah yeah and actually the canary build which is like the well
canary's the the like the developer build of chrome it's
like chrome plus one it's like the next version there's a there's a setting that
you can tweak in chrome so the non-active tabs don't get CPU and so
like any kind of like a background most of its advertiser's fault honestly yeah
uh because there's like all kinds of javascript stuff like that running in
the background of the tabs that's what's chewing up your battery because chrome was like yeah sure let's keep going
eight percent of the battery to this tab sure no problem yeah and uh animations
is also the thing a lot of like when you implement animations with javascript if
you don't use like request animation frame they'll just run continuously
right um and so nobody knows to use request animation frame
so it's bad but uh if you get the canary
version there's a tweak that you can enable and it may be it's i think it's gonna be in chrome 56 55 56 i think 55's
out now it's probably going to be in 56 um and when you enable that option you
should have reasonable battery life again from
super mega i have i too have a problem with a lot of tabs and so
uh yeah yeah it's okay you can join my support group if you ever move out to
the west coast this is great just one one person's
complaint about chrome really struck a chord with me
how is it even possible that they still do this
bullcrap where the first time you launch it the the address bar is here for some
reason why why
it's like nobody in the microsoft ux
team for edge has ever heard of muscle memory
ever i think that this ui might be designed for geriatrics
because i could see how this might be easy for old people
you know what's really funny though is there's actually been i i'm trying to
think of what the other thing that really
had me thinking about that recently was
uh i don't remember if it was like an iphone thing or an Android thing or a
Windows thing but i was going through this a little while ago where i kind of
it kind of dawned on me because i was sitting there thinking this product is a
piece of garbage how could anybody like this and i went wow
old people that's it
and it was it was such an epiphany for me um
all right so hp laptops caught fire or something i don't know it's a battery's
catching fire seems feels like it's not even news at this point
a certain it's entropy i mean you cram a lot of
energy in a small space it can't wait to catch on fire i mean that's
again back to physics no no physics is boring we don't talk
about that on this show no physics no politics you keep your physics in your politics and you go you
put it on level one text we can talk about it
well not the politics where we we killed politics on our forum because the mods
were like i'm tired and i want to go home and it's like okay we'll eliminate
politics as not related to tech and they're like they're peppy and happy
again it's really nice it's great uh so there's a bunch more details on
the nintendo dot co dot uk website about the switch so they've got like a whole
like diagram and everything game cards sold separately technical specifications
all of this good stuff that nintendo has been kind of keeping to themselves for
the most part up until this time actually don't know what luke is
learning at the event that he's at right now but uh how excited are you about the
switch not at all oh okay well that was quick
uh care to clarify why so i really like like so i grew up i had
a nintendo the original nintendo i had like the original original one and a
super nintendo and i really like them i really love the titles zelda you know super mario bros all that
i really really like that nintendo has screwed the pooch
so much with community and like understanding the community and
understanding who their consumer is that i just don't care anymore and it's
really sad to say that like i hate to be like that because i you know like the
the nes mini like the nes classic whatever the the new one is that they
came out the rest of the emulator and it's probably some version of Linux and whatever uh
60 bucks i might buy that but i have a real hard time supporting nintendo just
because of the way like the let's plays and like the aggressive
quote-unquote protection of the ip it's just it's like
so i don't know yeah i um i i i share i share your
frustration um i really think i i really don't
i mean how do how do i put this like i've run into situations a number of
times in the past where i've kind of gone you know what i'm sure i'll be fine
to do x so we oh okay here's a perfect example
so we use a few frames from an from an episode of south park in a video that
will be coming up very soon so i actually purchased a child tracker like
a gps tr child tracker so uh south park did an episode about 15
years ago where all the kids get equipped with this like headgear with
satellite dishes and stuff going around because all the parents are concerned
they'll get they'll get kidnapped and so every once in a while i will do
something like that and i'll kind of go because i i nod to the episode i go you
know it's amazing how often south park calls it 15 years ago they did this
episode and we use a couple a couple frames from it and here we are all this
time ahead and here i am reviewing a child tracker the child tracker 9000 or
whatever um so every once in a while i will do something like that where i'll
go they get nothing but benefit from this technically i am on the wrong side
of the law i understand that i i have i have broken their copy right
here but i haven't given away any of the real
meaning of the content it's not like you had the experience of watching the
episode from the chunk that i used it illustrated my point incredibly well and
they got nothing but praise and positive encouraging support
for the wonderful program they've been producing for so long out of this few
seconds of footage realistically i consider myself protected by
the the human being factor someone
somewhere would have to decide that it is worth the na the bad will that
they're going to generate to sue me over this
and i consider that a reasonable protection in a lot of cases
nintendo breaks that that kind of that covenant
constantly constantly where there's nothing in
there's nothing in this for me other than being like a nintendo fan or like
you know spreading the nintendo gospel and you get nothing but negative
publicity out of going after me for this but they just do it anyway
did you see what uh jim sterling what he figured out to combat nintendo it's
amazing no i didn't so he was doing a
review of something nintendo and he used some he used a clip that he knew would be
flagged by nintendo of america just like one or two seconds and he used another
clip that nintendo japan would flag and because both of them have claimed his
video neither one of them get any revenue
i haven't seen the video but i actually did hear about that that is fantastic
that's how it's done with the master troll
um let's see what else we got here oh this
is pretty good microsoft hololens the microsoft admits that sales figures are
in the thousands but that's all they need
says the headset's commercial leads so the original article here is from the
enquirer.net man i remember when that site used to be like the go-to for all
of the dirt you know 5000 doesn't sound like many
but if those are developers and like hardcore users that actually could be a
big deal i mean assuming that let's say i mean i
wouldn't be dropping what is it two thousand pounds or four thousand pounds
depending on the dev only version or the enterprise model i wouldn't be dropping
that kind of money on it if i wasn't either a developer looking to build an
application that i expect others to use or
a high-end big business user who's looking to develop something for
internal use so there will be applications for it based on those kinds
of sales numbers i mean i'm not as um i'm not as what is it bear or bearish
bearing bearing a bull on the
no bullish is good so i'm bullish i'm not bear bull or bear market
i don't know the opposite of bullish i'm sorry i'm i'm looking like an idiot to
twitch chat but i'm sure they already thought that anyway um
all right ooh
this is exciting so the original article here is from endgadget.com let's go
ahead pull that up here the first ultra hd blu-ray pc drive ships next month
only there's a catch and i'm sure i'm going to get some ranting from you on
this you must have a kaby lake processor and
Windows 10 to play your uhd 4k HDR
movies off the disk
so just like netflix 4k streaming we are
looking at hardware drm built into your
Intel CPU in order to play back the content what do you think go go away
go wendell well so okay before we talk about the drm part of it
there is actually a legit technical reason for that and the the legit
technical reason is that kb lake has hardware acceleration not found on any
other CPU that will hardware accelerate
the decoding of this content because if you've got a low end kb like sku like a
like a portable device an i3 something like that it's not going
to perform well it's it's going to get hot and it's going to run the battery down so like if you've got you know a
surface pro 4 and well surface pro 5 because kb like
if well no yeah if you've got a surface pro 4 with a skylake CPU and you wanted
to watch high def content uh the battery's going to be dead in an hour
and it's going to be about 80 degrees c um and so okay i could see
i could see some legitimacy in that this is an internal drive
and so forth and a quarter inch drive yeah yeah so this is this is a little
bit more about drm but how crazy is it that we've gotten to a a a point where
the content manufacturers literally don't trust the computer and so like the
CPU and the dvd or the the drive are
going to have this secret private conversation that we're not allowed to
know what it is even though it's our own hardware uh in order to be able to
decode the hardware and decode the thing and send it on that just seems a little
you know anti-consumer to me this just seems like the
the this just basically seems like the
content companies finally won the battle i mean it's it is no great secret
i i think i mean okay this is maybe this is my personal opinion but i think
piracy is ultimately what led to Windows being the dominant platform i think that
pirated pirated content of all sorts the fact
that you had this one box that could play all the music obtain all
the music play and obtain all the movies play and and obtain all the games for
free where it was like you could justify at a time when a computer wasn't
necessary for your job or anything you
wanted to do you could justify this multi thousand dollar expense because it
saved you so much money on all the music and movies and games you weren't gonna
buy um i believe very strongly that that's a
huge part of why microsoft and Intel had
their success and it looks like they have finally given in and gone okay
we're turning our back on on the on the piracy and we're kind of going okay
we're going to hardware drm this be utch
um so there there you have it then uh that
that's pretty much it i imagine at some point
someone will find some way to
to pull defeat it oh yeah to defeat it but um it looks like this might be a bit
more difficult than it has been in the past at the very least well i you know
the technical i'm honestly not really worried about how difficult it is
technically but the political climate and the whole like
you know legal climate of that is really really nuts i mean it's like uh
manslaughter uh you broke the copy protection on a movie uh it's kind of
the same things in terms of jail sentence and you know what you might be
facing and stuff like that i mean how crazy is that it's nuts yeah
i mean i don't know i don't know if we've got time for it but anecdotally
you know i i'll confess i'm a consumer
and i picked up all of the episodes of star trek the next generation on dvd the remastered ones
from 35 millimeter bought them all and i transcoded them uh
uh to my media server and i will tell you that
i would not enjoy the content at all if
i had not transcoded it to the media server i've got all the content i've got all the special features i got
everything but it's like i want to watch season four episode two click and i'm
watching it it is a two second operation if i if i had to deal with the
of the disc i would be ready to slip my wrist after two minutes and i still
wouldn't be the episode are you a plex guy yeah well i've got
plex but i've also been experimenting because plex has done some weird stuff
and i'm experimenting with uh my sort of own home cooked web thing but yes i love
plex so we're gonna do some videos on plex cody has gotten to the point where
it it will basically run as a full-fledged media server as well and
you don't really need the stuff with play you don't need the subscription or the account or anything
with plex either that you would need with plex so yeah plex threw a free subscription at me so
i'm just using it i didn't make any videos about it or anything but like i
was like okay sometimes flex is is awesome but i don't
know five bucks a month it's like i've already
yeah i mean i'm just frustrated because this means that all of the content even
some of that i've bought at 4k HDR
i am not gonna get to enjoy in 4k the
good news is that all of those discs came with a regular blu-ray so i will
watch that in the meantime i suppose
well i've really really enjoyed the crispiness of star trek the next generation the the remastered stuff they
really did a nice job with that i should watch it i actually haven't
watched star trek the next generation since they were airing new episodes like
as a kid sitting on the couch with my dad so that would probably be worthwhile
it's just as magical i mean it's like they really they've done a really nice
and it came from 35 millimeters so they rated the effects but
um you know they they haven't it was not like star wars they they kept everything
exactly the way that i haven't watched all of them from beginning to end but i've watched some of my favorite
episodes um as i've had time and i've been really really happy with it i'm really happy
with the media server do you still spend about 60 percent of the time following
the episode and 40 wondering how patrick stewart still looks the same
yeah he's kind of ageless you know it's really
all right well on that note our admiration our mutual admiration for
patrick stewart gets to be the end of the show i think because i have a
badminton class that i have to be at in 42 minutes and it's about a 45 minute
drive so uh thank you very much for joining me on
the show guys you can find wendell over at youtube.com
level1tx i'm going to have that link to do you guys not have a vanity url yet
i think it's just level 1.tech
oh no there it is youtube.com c
level 1 tech so i'm going to drop that in the twitch chat i'm going to have that in the video description don't miss
don't miss their content because they actually take this whole like pf sense
Linux you need enterprisey security
stuff seriously whereas i'm just like a chimp with a hammer oh wait wait on the
last on last week's show didn't you say that you hired a veteran i.t guy or
something yeah but he's not quite like what you guys are doing either but he's
a lot better than me but yes we have we have three guys
joining us soon i think that you know just looking at your growth over the
last couple of years i think that that will you'll be fine it'll you'll be fine i'll
survive i'll just keep making ugly keyboards that's that's my that's my i
think second fastest to a million view video ever
is i put gold keycaps on a keyboard
i mean people are upset with me about like clickbait titles and
i'm like yeah i share you're upset i don't want that to be my best performing
video of all time well you've got the uh you started the
trend with that i think with the datamancer keyboard it's that modded
model m keyboard that keyboard is nice
it's really cool isn't it
all right well take care and we will uh we'll talk soon okay
see ya all right and thank you for having me oh yeah my pleasure of course