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topics. Good news show. This is going to be the best Good news show yet because

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everything's freaking awesome. >> The EU requires phone makers to fit

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readily removable batteries for from from next year. Uh but there may be a

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notable exception. >> We'll see what that is. Also, YouTube

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>> I knew. Wait. Oh, that one. I thought you were going to pick the other one. I

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thought you were going to pick the like local Gemini one >> because that was more proof that Luke

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was right. >> Oh, yeah. >> That one's crazy. That one's crazy.

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Okay, we're >> just AI topics people. Yeah, we'll talk about that.

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>> It's pretty cool though. >> Yes.

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headline topic, which is of course Oh, man. It wasn't even one of the ones we

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highlighted. There's so many good ones. >> Yeah, that's funny, isn't it?

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>> Framework CEO and absolute bro Narav

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Patel tweeted earlier this week that um

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>> is it? >> Hm. >> Oh, that top. Okay. >> Yeah, that topic. tweeted earlier this

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week that the Framework 13 Pro launch,

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investment disclosure, has been an overwhelming success. Nice. Batch 7,

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which is shipping in July, is sold out already.

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>> Wow. >> Yeah, people are really vibing with the better chassis, the new better

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touchscreen display that has just Did you watch the video? >> Yes, it looks great.

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>> Phenomenal. Phenomenal like direct sunlight

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performance. Do you guys just walk outside and test it? Was cool.

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>> I've never seen anything I have seen anything quite like it. I've seen those

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like retroreflective displays that are quite like it, but I've never seen one

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with a backlight that's quite like that. Very, very cool. Better battery life.

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Freaking Panther Lake. This thing is resonating with people. But that is not

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what I'm excited about right now. What I'm excited about right now is the fact

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that Narav posted that over 50% of their

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sales of the Framework 13 Pro are wait

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for it

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>> Ubuntu. >> Yeah. >> Not Windows.

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>> Yeah. >> Now we have talked extensively on the WAN Show about the year of the Linux

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desktop. We have even talked like like

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personally between you and me about a video that I was working on called the

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year of Windows humiliation. Yeah. Because even if it's not the year of the

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Linux desktop, >> I I think there's an argument to be made

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that it is the year of Windows humiliation. That video actually goes

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live sometime this weekend. And I had to go do a quick voice pickup when I saw

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this tweet and be like, >> I don't know, editor, put this

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somewhere, but like this is crazy.

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However, however, >> I hope it's just a screenshot of the tweet and you going and no no other

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context. I wish it was now. Sorry, keep going. Now, I completely wish it was.

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However, there is a bit of a catch. And

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Luke, do you want to be the one to give the bad news? >> Yeah. So, honestly, as as much as I

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would love this to be true, >> and you know, maybe it is. And you know,

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I I'm not saying it's not true. I do think that that many people are ordering

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Ubuntu configurations for these laptops and not Windows ones. I am not

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personally convinced that those people are going to keep Linux I'll say not

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even just Ubuntu but Linux on their laptops. I I suspect people are doing

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this so that they can not pay for Windows

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and then they can install Windows and then just through the command line tell

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it that it should totally just activate itself and then go on their merry way.

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Um dawning dawning the hat I possible. I

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don't think over 50% of framework sales

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are people who are going to long-term Linux. I think they should give it a

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shot because I've been doing that and it's actually been awesome.

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>> Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Think about this. Think about this. The last

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thing you just said was what? >> It's been awesome.

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>> Okay. Okay. Now, now think back to the second last thing you said.

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>> Don't worry. I'm not going to go >> shot. >> Yeah. Okay. Okay. >> The third last thing.

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>> No. No. We're not going to go any further than that. Then you wouldn't have a shot. You'd have no chance.

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Neither would I. Do you think that there could be a

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significant number of people who order this machine? Oh,

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>> and just get a taste and they're just like, huh?

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You know what? The water's warm.

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Why were all those penguins in it? >> You know what I'm saying?

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>> Aren't they usually in cold water? >> Yeah, >> right. Not always, it turns out.

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because then if you don't like the cold water that doesn't mean you can't join them.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Just join the penguins. >> So I I mean I look I'm obviously like

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literally have a vested interest in in frameworks success. What I do not have a

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vested interest in is Yes. Thank you for that Luke. Uh what I do not have a

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vested interest in is like Linux's success. I got no I got no dog in that

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fight. >> Yeah. It doesn't benefit us. >> No. But what it does do is it's it's

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it's freaking >> it does. >> It's freaking exciting and that benefits

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me >> cuz the more people that use Linux ideally the better it'll get and then

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that benefits me. >> Okay. Yes. But not in like a

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>> not in a monetary way was sort of was sort of my

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people might try it and like it. I haven't used Ubuntu in

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years. So, I have no idea, but um I I I

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do suspect some people might actually Yeah, let me let me poke around with

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this thing. I've heard some people talking about it and then might actually

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stick with it, which would be really cool. Um I also would say

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>> that I think a dramatically higher

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percentage of these are real or at least

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people who are going to install a different dro but not Windows um

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compared to even this time last year. I just thought of something else.

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>> I think it's been a massive jump. >> I just thought of something else. Okay,

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hear me out. If you're techy enough to

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install your own operating system, >> Mhm. >> What are the odds that you're also techy

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enough to be by storage drive and

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probably save a buck on the thing?

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>> You hear? You see where I'm going with this, right? Cuz this is people who

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selected a storage drive. >> This is this is the right. it would have to be because it comes with an operating

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system >> and selected a pre-installed operating system. But if you're the kind of person

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that really was just going to rip Ubuntu off of it, put Windows on, pirate

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Windows, like you you you have the knowhow that don't tell me you don't

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know how to open up of all things a framework laptop

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>> framework laptop >> and put an SSD in it. >> It's sort of the point.

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>> Don't even tell me that. I still don't

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fully believe the numbers, but that does, I think, up the percentage that it

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could be. >> I think we're going to get less than 100% of those Ubuntu people moving over

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to Windows. >> And it's just it's an exciting time to

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be interested in open- source software right now. It's an exciting time to be

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interested in alternatives to the the

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tech giants who Dude, did I tell talk to you already about the first time I fired

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my Windows laptop back up >> and it was like it it was like it didn't

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want me. >> It was like it didn't want me to come back.

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>> No. >> Did I have Did I not talk about this on W show? >> I don't think so. I put my Windows drive

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back in my uh PX13 uh that I've been

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using lately, my my Stricks Halo machine, and immediately it did it did

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the [ __ ] thing. Immediately it did the thing. It asked

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me, "Hey, it's been a while. Do you want

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Edge? Do you like One Drive? Have you

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ever thought about Xbox?

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off like I I I almost I was so The only

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reason it pushes you away. It like is literally repulsive.

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>> The only reason that I didn't swap the drives again are because this thing has

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like chassis intrusion detection that I can't figure out which one which screw

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is like the one that I have to tighten all the way to get it to even like turn

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back on. Like one of the screws like grounds a thing or something. Um, so I

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had already buttoned it completely back up and the the main reason that I had

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switched back over to Windows was because I wanted to try out that Logitech Super Strike mouse that I've

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been like supposed to try out for us to do the video

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>> not work on Linux. >> Uh, well the Logitech software I wanted

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to have the full suite of Logitech software if I'm evaluating a product.

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>> There is a a like third party standin Logitech software thing but yeah no that

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makes sense as a review. You should have the whole thing. >> Yeah, I should be I should be using it as the manufacturer intends.

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>> That makes sense. But if it wasn't for those two things, I I

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scouts honor. I would have put the other drive back in. I just it it was so

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offens It was offensive. It was like disrespectful.

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>> This is This is why I am I am using my

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computer right now >> and and move. I think the biggest thing

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for me is I feel like I've replaced the

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time that I spent on Windows being annoyed about that kind of stuff,

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learning more about my computer and doing cool things with my operating

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system, which is what I'd rather do. Anyways, I've had fun using an operating

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probably Windows 9. >> Okay. Yeah. Okay. Windows 9 was pretty

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cool. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And that's We're not memeing. We know there's no Windows 9. There was like a

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modded Windows 8.1 that had like the Croft stripped out of it and was like

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like super responsive that was nicknamed Windows 9.

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really awesome is every time I've ran

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into a problem, it is solvable.

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a major issue. Like I replaced a drive

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and cuz my both my hard drives

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just worst timing in the freaking world. Both my hard drives I could hear timing

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so far. Yeah. I could hear that something was kind of

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off. They were like making more noise than normal. So I did a smart check and

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they both came up with like a pretty significant amount of bad sectors. And I

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was like, well, I tried to think back to like how old are these drives? I thought

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they were mine. When I finally pulled one out to actually replace it, I saw an

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inventory sticker on it. And when I saw the inventory sticker, I was like, "Oh,

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yeah. These are from uh Geodude V1."

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>> Okay. So, these are old. >> So, there was the Geodude and then there was Geodude Revision and then there was

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Bulbasaur. >> I might have personally put that inventory sticker on is what you're

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saying. >> Maybe. Yeah. >> Like these are old drives. So, I was

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like, "Oh, okay." And I I I looked up like the upload date for Geodude V1 and

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I was like, "Okay, it might be about time." Uh, so it's it's fine that they

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that they died. It's a huge deal, but like it it sucks because of the pricing.

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Uh, but yeah, I'm replacing those drives. And when I when I replaced it,

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uh, my my computer didn't want to boot. It booted into emergency mode,

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>> but I was like, "Okay, I know the series of events that just happened. I could

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reverse this, but instead I'm going to pull my laptop out and just look up like

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what could this mean? And I there was a very simple explanation of what to do.

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expected this. That's fine. I'm looking into Oh, okay. What caused this? And

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>> Sorry, did you say CentOS? >> Why did I say CentOS? Cashachio OS.

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Cool. >> Um, yeah. No, definitely not. >> You're talking about like an old How did

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that jump into my head? >> Lab machine. >> That's really weird. Anyway, anyways, my

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bad. Um, yeah, I was just like, "Oh, okay. I have to go into FSAB and just

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add no fail to the drive." And then it just booted perfectly. And I was like,

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"Oh, that's kind of neat." Now I like And then I sat there looking up like,

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"What are all the different flags for drives?" And then I'm just like learning

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>> Coming back to the topic we're supposed to be discussing. um our discussion

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question for the framework announcement this week cuz they also had their

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oculink connection for the back of the framework 16.

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>> Yeah. >> Uh they also had their new keyboard which is a pretty exciting alternative

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to the K400. Um but our question is

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forget all the stuff that they just announced just now. If they were to make

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a net new product, what would you want

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them to make? Narav already talked about the potential. He talked about how

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they've looked at he didn't commit anything but he talked about how they've

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looked at printers. The printer one I see as a little less necessary. Brother

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that could help the world in regards to like those massive office printer

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me, >> especially if they're doing their own panels. >> Uh, well, okay. I don't think they would

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do their own panel for a TV. >> Sorry, I don't mean uh I more mean that

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they might have the expertise to like know things about TVs and make a good

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they built the internal expertise and more that they they were able to afford

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to get the glass cut in the shape they wanted. Okay, pretty much. Yeah, but

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even that is is a big it's a monetary investment. I doubt it was as much of a

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technical investment. >> Rest assured said monitor first. I actually don't agree.

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increation problem that TVs do. >> They're not forcing ads down your

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throat. >> I was chatting with Brad, who's the uh the ShortCircuit channel manager now,

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agreements that you're signing and like you finally get to the home screen and

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TV because at the end of the day, it's not like they're going to go and

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reinvent better quantum dots, you know? They're they're they're not going to

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we're talking about here. >> It's going to cost more. >> It'll cost more. But if it just got the

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out of your way, >> I'd pay I'd pay for it >> and looked like solid, like if it was a

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B+ in terms of the image quality and just when you turned it on, it did not

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take screenshots of the content you're watching and send it back to some server

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somewhere. it just opened up to whatever

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source input you sent to it and just worked. I think that had that would have

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an incredible value to people. I think it would

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>> on a variety of things, >> you know, I've talked a lot about how

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people seem to have just kind of given up on on like the whole privacy ad

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invasiveness thing and how I think just the the horse has has bolted from the

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from the barn at this point. Maybe I'm

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getting hope again. >> Oh yeah, me too.

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>> I think it's because the alternatives are becoming a lot more viable.

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I think self-hosting certain apps is like dramatically better than it's ever

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been. >> Mhm. >> Um I think I think having your own NAS

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>> Oh, yeah. >> And like it's there is still upkeep time and you still have to do things for it.

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never gave up. They just never cared enough because convenience always wins.

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is crossing that threshold where it's

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not convenient. >> Windows for me is less convenient than

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running Mint on my laptop. Windows gets in my way more, slows me down, and stops

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me from doing my job more than Mint does. So, like at this point in time,

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the convenient option is to run Linux.

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never once opened the command line. I don't know why I looked down here. Uh my

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lap my laptop's not with me right now, but um >> I'm sorry to hear that.

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>> Um I have never once opened the command line on Mint on my laptop. I've never

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done anything fancy. All the software I've ever installed is just from the

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package manager which is effectively an app store on your phone. Like I I've

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done nothing special with that laptop

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and it is perfect. >> Like this is not uh this is not a a

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weird or special thing and I'm just genuinely more productive on it because

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it doesn't pester me about stuff. >> All right, let's pick another category.

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>> Sure. What would

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then What would you want to see them jump

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into? >> Sir, you're doing ship storm right now.

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Thank you. >> Thank you for your survey. Dan, >> I have no idea what's going on.

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>> Cool. Good chat, >> Luke. Then, uh, I'll I'll settle for

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talking to Luke. Good plan.

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What a what an appropriate response.

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>> I already think I have one in mind for me, but do you want me to go first then

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or do you want to go first just in case it's you know the best one and you uh

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think of it before I do? >> No, I I before you ever mentioned I mean

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I'm certain you already had the thought. But before you ever mentioned it really

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the TV thing I had already thought TV has been very frustrating for me for a

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long time. Well, you've had to shop for one, unfortunately. Rip Luke's TV a

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couple times recently. >> Yeah. And but even like someone will ask

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me for a recommendation, I'm just like gh like I don't feel good about any of

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the recommendations. >> Like, well, Samsung has these really great looking, you know, QD OLEDs. Um,

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too bad Tyson OS. >> Yep. >> LG has some pretty good-look W OLEDs.

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turn into Crapsville. >> Yeah. So, just none of it feels good.

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might need some thinking. >> All right, I'm going to I'm going to go with mine. I'm going to see if this kind

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of like I'm going to see if this kind of vibes with people, but I would actually

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love to see framework get into SBC's

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like single board computers.

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never really the like >> the idea, you know, like the the kind of

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the Raspberry Pi contract. >> It wasn't the original sales pitch.

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>> The original sales pitch was these things are hyper affordable. They're

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bare bones. Um, and they've just kind of

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set and in terms of price. And there are still like very basic ones, but it has

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you know, supposed to be affordable has been not great. And some of the

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alternatives are not necessarily getting the TLC in terms of of of compatibility

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that the the name brand, you know, Raspberry Pies have. I would be I'd be

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very interested in something like a framework Pi if they were able to work

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with their manufacturing partners that they obviously have for things like the

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um like the the laptop, right? They obviously can can make a circuit board,

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right? Uh, I'd be I'd be interested to see if they could if they could make

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if they could somehow bring their like upgradeable repable ethos to single

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board computers. And I I I don't know, maybe maybe it's not realistic and maybe

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it'd be a stupid business for them to go into because who wants an ASP of like

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somewhere that I I feel like potentially they could make they could make a

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difference. >> Speaking of uh stupid business for them

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to go into. Yeah. Um, with the EU's

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thing, which I don't think we've talked about it yet, but it's one of the topics on this show, I believe. Sometimes the

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WAN shows really blur into each other for me, but um, is uh, phones. The EU is

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pushing replaceable battery phones. >> Mhm. >> Now could be the time.

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>> That's probably wise. >> And Fairphone already exists.

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for Framework to have a reason to come in and like compete with Fairphone, take

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that tiny tiny market share of people who care more about like the

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sustainability and and repairability aspect than they do about like, you

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know, a phone being a more cohesive,

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high performance product. And then cut that down the middle. It would it feels

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like it would be a disservice to both of them to to to wedge themselves in there

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unless they were really bringing up like a powerful value to it.

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>> At this point people aren't just buying I I know this isn't what you were

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saying. I'm not saying oh so you hate hot dogs. I'm just talking. Uh but I I

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think at this point people are just buying some people are just buying

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frameworks cuz they're cool. >> Oh dude, frameworks are trendy.

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>> Yeah, they're like just kind of sweet. Seeing how excited people are to have no

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investment in >> cheer for this company has been very cool. And you know what? Speaking of

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speaking of cool, >> how much better is Narav on camera than

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he used? >> He's he's a lot better. I I was I was

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like this is improved quite >> very noticeable.

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>> I saw a couple comments about it too. >> He's like he used to be just awkward and

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now he's like kind of cool awkward like trendy awkward. I I I'm I'm sure it

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helps doing our videos, but I suspect in general he's just been doing a lot more

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of those types. >> Yeah. And he's Well, he has to talk to people. He's a CEO. He has to motivate.

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He has to like give speeches and stuff, I assume. Right. >> Yeah. >> So, you just you you get practiced at

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public speaking. You don't really have a choice. But yeah, no, I thought uh I

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thought he did a great job in the video. >> Um why don't we do a great job of

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finding another awesome topic to talk about? There's so much this week.

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>> Yeah. Um this that was not shouted out.

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Maybe we should get through the ones we mentioned at the beginning. Um,

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Ashley Psych, I'm going to pull an audible and do the topic line I said

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that I should have brought up at the beginning. Uh, or that he expected I was

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going to bring up the >> Okay, let's do it. >> Gemini has escaped from the cloud. Uh,

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Sircale, I've never heard this verbally said, so I'm going to call it Sircale.

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Cloud on Wednesday that will allow them to offer the full Google Gemini model to

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be used completely offline on airgapped

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unfortunately Google certified hardware appliances built by Dell and featuring

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eight NVIDIA GPUs. So, this isn't >> Hold on. Can we get a Can we get a Luke

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Can I get one of those? >> This is >> Yeah, don't worry about it. >> This is probably the most like direct

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version of what I was talking about that has been announced so far cuz this is

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like an appliance that you buy that runs the the premium cloud only version of a

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model and locally for big businesses. This is that like, oh hey, there's going

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to be mainframes again type conversation that I had uh in in the past. I don't

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remember exactly how I worded it, but something like that. Um th this will

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back to the notes. This will allow sectors with serious privacy concerns,

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healthcare, government, defense, finance,

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etc., etc., etc., uh to avoid risking exposure of sensitive data on third

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party infrastructure. All the customers data, inputs, outputs, etc. It's it's

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secure because of this. uh updating your local Gemini will will require a private

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uh sorry a temporary private connection to Google servers or physically shipping

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your appliance to Google and being sent the new version. That's

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>> so this is for this is for big boys. >> Yeah.

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>> But while this isn't, you know, quite the way that I think, you know, Luke

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would want to do it if he was rolling his own infra. >> Yeah. Not at all. What it is is a clear

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acknowledgement that the cloud it didn't

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fail, but it wasn't the perfect solution

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for everyone that it was hailed as.

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>> Well, and like whether or not you believe the stuff with mythos and

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whatnot going on right now. Um, I think

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honestly the various wars more than anything else

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have been showing us that just a lot of software is just pretty vulnerable the

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stuff if people are willing to spend the time and often the money to work hard

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enough to poke at it. >> And the more connected it is,

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>> the more places there are to poke at it. >> Yeah. So, if it can just be not

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connected, then there you go. Um, yeah, Google IP is protected by confidential

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computing protection, whatever the heck that is. And Serale CEO Dave Driggers

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explained that the Gemini model resides entirely in volatile memory. As soon as

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the power is off, the model is gone. If the system detects any form of

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tampering, it shuts itself down to wipe the model.

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That's in a weird way. That's kind of cool.

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>> Yeah, >> that sucks for me. It's like Dr. Dofen Schmmer's made it.

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It just It has to have a self-destruct button no matter No matter how

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superfluous it is. >> That's That's wild. I I don't mean cool in like a like That's great.

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>> But it's cool technology. >> Yeah, exactly. >> You got to you got to respect it.

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>> Yeah. Um I I guess you know with the

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description of the types of places that might get one of these. And assuming the

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cost considering it features eight NVIDIA GPUs and all this other kind of

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stuff, um you got some backup power

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options. I think I think it's not a huge problem. Um JB leaves a note. It's not

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clear from the article, but I'm assuming model in this case might be um talking

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specifically about model weights. Otherwise, Google physically shipping you a new version doesn't make any

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sense. Yeah, I mean it literally did say or I

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was kind of wondering about that too, but it did say earlier like you would literally ship the unit back, didn't it?

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>> You could you could ship it back to get updates. >> You could ship the whole unit back.

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they might be serious about that. I'm not sure. Uh, but yeah, wild. Kind of

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cool. I I I understand that like you can

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if you pay out the freaking nose, you can get a lot better like performing uh

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models online right now. But self-hosting models is really cool. And

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there's some really crazy stuff. There's a there's a MacOSS specific thing. This

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00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:16,799
isn't in the notes, so I I'm not going to have details on it, but there's a macOS specific

429
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:20,320
model of some kind, uh, whatever. I don't know. I don't remember the name of

430
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:26,159
it, but it like basically lives on your cursor, your like mouse cursor. So, as

431
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:30,159
you're going around and doing things, it'll have like the context of what

432
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,880
you're looking at, and it runs locally, and it can try to help you with things.

433
00:30:31,679 --> 00:30:38,799
And somebody was talking about how they were learning how to use Da Vinci Resolve and as they were kind of poking

434
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:43,039
around it would just like I haven't used it and I don't have notes on this so

435
00:30:40,399 --> 00:30:47,360
whatever. Uh I saw that via XDA. Yeah, maybe I can find it. XDA cursor

436
00:30:46,159 --> 00:30:53,279
>> cursor peep. >> Cursor peep. >> Is that what it's called? I don't know. That's what Hamnetics said. I I haven't

437
00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:57,200
heard of this so I'm >> It sounds a little creepy,

438
00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:01,600
>> not going to lie, but it runs locally. >> Theoretically it runs locally.

439
00:30:59,919 --> 00:31:06,399
Of course people not No. So, that's not the name of it, man. I can't remember

440
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:10,640
the name of it. Um, yeah. Anyways, it sounded kind of neat.

441
00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:15,760
Uh, there's there's a and I and I'm fairly certain it it runs locally. Um,

442
00:31:14,159 --> 00:31:18,880
this >> Yeah,

443
00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:24,000
my Google Fu is still strong. >> It's a relatively small model

444
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:28,159
>> and it's running locally, but it's helpful theoretically. I mean, I haven't

445
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:32,559
used it. This is the vibe I got from looking through the article. >> Very cool. But there's there's like

446
00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:37,360
there's cool stuff you can do with with local hosting. And honestly, for a lot

447
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:41,039
of the use cases people have, you don't need the massive super powerful models.

448
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:45,440
You can just run some stuff locally and it can still be helpful.

449
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:52,320
>> In try it out. >> In other um sort of AI adjacent news, I

450
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:56,240
don't know if this counts as good news except that it means that I was right,

451
00:31:54,799 --> 00:32:02,320
which I never mind. >> It's good for you. Elon Musk confirmed

452
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:05,200
on Tesla's Q1 2026 earnings call what he

453
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:09,679
had hedged about on a previous earning call in January 2025. Um he has

454
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:16,640
confirmed now that every Tesla sold between 2019 and 2023 that had their

455
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:19,760
hardware 3 hardware cannot achieve

456
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,919
unsupervised full self-driving and never

457
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:26,880
will. This time there was no hedging. This is a quote. Hardware 3 simply does

458
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:32,240
not have the capability. This is not a quote. Owners would need

459
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:34,640
both a new computer and new cameras if

460
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:39,760
they were to upgrade to hardware 4. Uh, as recently, this is interesting. As

461
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:44,640
recently as October 2025, Tesla's own CFO was still telling investors, "We

462
00:32:42,159 --> 00:32:48,720
have not completely given up on hardware 3."

463
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:54,320
I'm going to go off notes for a little bit here. Um,

464
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,320
duh.

465
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:04,080
That was off notes. We just need to make sure. >> Do you remember me telling you?

466
00:33:02,559 --> 00:33:08,080
>> Nobody typed that. Do you remember me telling you a year ago that I got in

467
00:33:06,159 --> 00:33:12,480
that argument with that guy at at someone's birthday party where I was

468
00:33:09,919 --> 00:33:16,080
like, "Yeah, hey, I know you're like a finance bro or whatever and you're like

469
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:21,200
really good at being a finance bro, but don't you think at some point the

470
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,880
liability of selling millions of cars

471
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:27,600
based on that they have a feature that they like completely [ __ ] don't have

472
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:34,720
and will never ever have is going to be a problem that might affect the like

473
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:36,559
finance bro care out sphere of finance.

474
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:45,360
Uh I realize that everything I'm saying is very very complicated but like this

475
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:47,519
computer no dewy thing you say doy maybe

476
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:50,640
bad timy. Um

477
00:33:49,039 --> 00:33:54,720
>> what are they going to do about it? Do they say >> they haven't um we can hold on let me

478
00:33:53,519 --> 00:34:00,720
get back to the notes for a second here. The core problem is memory bandwidth. Hardware 3 has 1/8 of what hardware 4

479
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:04,559
offers. uh which Musk says makes it physically impossible to run the AI

480
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:09,040
models needed for true autonomy. Many of these owners paid up to $15,000

481
00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:16,079
for full self-driving based on the promise that it was just a software update away. Uh multiple class action

482
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:18,800
lawsuits have already been filed. Now, I

483
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:24,480
want to make something clear. I obviously seem a little, let's call it,

484
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:29,919
validated right now. That's not because I'm rooting against autonomous vehicles.

485
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:35,760
It's not because I'm even rooting against Tesla. It's because I like

486
00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:38,399
seeing liars get their comeuppants. And

487
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:44,480
he was obviously lying. Hardware 3, I remember talking

488
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:50,800
about this way back then. Hardware 3, even if it was years and years ahead of

489
00:34:47,839 --> 00:34:54,320
its competition, was a small chip compared to what other leaders in the

490
00:34:52,320 --> 00:35:02,800
space were building like NVIDIA at the time. And they were like, not close. It

491
00:34:57,839 --> 00:35:05,280
just obviously was not powerful enough.

492
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:10,240
Obviously. And there's no way that Tesla hasn't known this for years. Because if

493
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:15,520
it was good enough to do full self-driving, do you really think that

494
00:35:13,119 --> 00:35:19,119
they would go to all the work to make a new chip?

495
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:23,280
Why? That's not how the automotive industry works. when they have something

496
00:35:21,359 --> 00:35:28,720
that performs the function they want it to perform, they keep making the same

497
00:35:25,359 --> 00:35:30,400
one because that's way cheaper. Or they

498
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:35,440
do what like a console manufacturer might do where midlife they will move it

499
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:40,960
to a new process mode in order to take advantage of better power efficiency uh

500
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:42,079
and better um better uh uh thermal

501
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:48,079
management. >> They don't just build something that has

502
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:51,079
eight times the memory bandwidth for

503
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:51,079
fun.

504
00:35:51,839 --> 00:35:58,000
Um Musk says that Tesla will offer

505
00:35:55,440 --> 00:36:02,800
discounted tradeins towards hardware for cars or direct retrofits but admits the

506
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:07,200
volume is so massive that service centers can't handle it.

507
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:12,079
>> His solution is building microactories in major cities to run the upgrades like

508
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:15,760
production lines though no timeline, no

509
00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:17,680
cost and no concrete details were given.

510
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,800
Uh there's a Lionus note on this one. This is actually the second time he's

511
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:24,079
admitted that hardware 3 is not going to be able to do it. The last time was a

512
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:29,200
tweet though. Uh this time was in an earnings call where, you know, maybe it

513
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:37,040
matters, but probably doesn't. It's It's been very remarkable for me to watch how

514
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:40,240
many times obvious lies have been told

515
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:44,240
in context where like legally you're not

516
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:46,960
allowed to lie like that. Um and this

517
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:51,839
company just has not been called on it. And I just I find the whole thing very

518
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:57,440
very baffling. I often get asked, you know, why do you hate Elon? I don't hate

519
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:59,839
Elon, but I don't respect people who

520
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:04,079
don't respect me enough to look me in the eye and tell me the truth. If you

521
00:37:02,079 --> 00:37:10,160
can look me in the eye and lie to me over and over and over and over again,

522
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:14,400
why should I respect you in return? You're just a liar.

523
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:20,480
And to me, it's it's one of the worst things you can be to have no integrity

524
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:23,960
and to just to just brazenly lie. I

525
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,960
don't respect it.

526
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:32,320
Do you think there's any room for him

527
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:36,800
having hope that they could make it somehow

528
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:39,839
wildly more efficient and adapted or something? >> So, here's my thing.

529
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:43,920
>> Because why would he's going to have to announce it eventually. Why would he wait? He's I

530
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:48,800
>> What's the benefit in doing it now instead of a few years ago? >> Um the benefit of doing it now is

531
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,400
they've kind of pivoted to new shiny with Optimus, >> the robots and stuff.

532
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:59,280
>> Um >> like it's it's about it's about managing

533
00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:00,480
the mood as much as it is about even

534
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:06,000
more than it is about, you know, financial results or actual product development or or anything like that.

535
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:11,680
It's it's about it's about keeping people chill with the vibe. Um, so this

536
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:15,520
is this is right in the leadup to the SpaceX IPO, which is going to have him

537
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:20,400
in the news for for positive reasons again. So, a quiet uh yeah, that's not

538
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:25,040
going to work. But like we've got all these ideas for a plan. By the way, by

539
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,640
the way, SpaceX SpaceX SpaceX um it's

540
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:31,680
it's just it's part of the grift, right? It's part of the it's part of the game

541
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:36,560
>> to to just kind of keep things going. And you know, as for do I think that

542
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:40,160
there's a world where he really believed that it was one quarter away, well, I

543
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:48,720
would it would have to be one of two things. Either he's a liar or he's stupid.

544
00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:52,720
And I don't know. I'll let him pick which one he wants to be because there's

545
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:58,480
no way that someone with all the experience running tech companies that

546
00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:01,359
he has would have any way of thinking

547
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:06,240
possibly like when it's so obvious to a you know pathetic YouTuber like me.

548
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:11,280
There's no way that he didn't have people internally telling him, hey, this

549
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:15,599
isn't going to happen. Um so he's either a liar or he's an idiot. And so I don't

550
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:20,640
know. You guys can pick which one it is, but those are the only two options. If

551
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:24,960
he actually believed that it was coming next quarter, then he's a fool. And if

552
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:30,599
he didn't believe it, then he's clearly a liar. So those are those are our only

553
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,599
two choices here.

554
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,440
David needs to speak to me. Okay. Uh Luke, do you want to do you want to pick

555
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:42,280
a topic? >> Probably something I can grab. >> David apologizes in advance. He doesn't

556
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,280
mean it. Yeah.

557
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:50,320
>> Uh, what should we talk about? Uh, I'm

558
00:39:47,359 --> 00:39:57,040
going to steal this topic. Uh, ex Xbox drops Game Pass prices as Call of Duty

559
00:39:53,040 --> 00:40:00,400
officially exits services day one launch

560
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:02,320
uh, slate strategy. Now, this is a thing

561
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:08,960
where it doesn't mean That was really fast. Um, it does. Are you back? Good.

562
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:11,760
You're back for good. Yes. Okay, got it. Um,

563
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,520
>> I didn't even have f time to finish crunching that chip outside of the

564
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:21,839
microphone range. Um, no, I do actually have a quick update for you guys.

565
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:27,359
>> David needed to cut down the length of the Shiptorm call out in our upcoming

566
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:30,640
video that he was working on. So, in order to make up for it, it's going to

567
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:35,680
be a shorter one. I need you guys to buy more stuff from Shiptorm on WAN Show.

568
00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:40,640
Dan can handle it. >> Okay, carry on. Uh, so we were talking

569
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:44,480
about how Xbox uh drops its price as Call of Duty is exiting the day one

570
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:48,800
launch strategy thing. So, Xbox has officially dropped the price of Game

571
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:50,160
Pass Ultimate from $30 to $23 a month.

572
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:55,280
That's actually >> huge. What the heck?

573
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:59,839
Immediately with PC Game Pass also falling from 1650 to $14. Uh, but

574
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:05,599
there's a big catch. New Call of Duty titles will no longer be uh launched day

575
00:41:03,119 --> 00:41:10,079
one on the service. Uh, instead they'll show up about a year later.

576
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:13,839
>> That's kind of a yikes. >> During the following holiday season with

577
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:18,079
the COD release schedule, that basically means it's not on there.

578
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:22,160
>> You can play the single player, I guess. >> Or you can play like you can play COD

579
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:26,400
with your friends or you can play like poor poor people COD and be ostracized.

580
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:31,119
Like when you think about the social pressure of having like the one that

581
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:34,079
everyone's playing, that's basically that's basically the divide that they're

582
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:42,079
creating here. That's a really interesting line cuz like is it

583
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:44,400
so they're saying $7 less per user

584
00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:49,119
>> is worth it if people are still going to buy full fat COD outside of that.

585
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:54,560
>> Yeah. This this gives us insight that we would not have any other way of getting

586
00:41:52,560 --> 00:42:03,200
>> how much of the like the cost of game pass is

587
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:04,560
just Call of Duty. Is that wild or what?

588
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:08,240
>> Well, at least what they think it is. Yeah. >> Yeah. At least at least what they're projecting. And it's not like they

589
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:10,800
haven't had a Call of Duty launch on Game Pass. So, it's >> Yeah, it's got some pretty good

590
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:15,359
information. >> I'm sure it's based on something. >> Mhm.

591
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:22,640
>> That's That's pretty crazy. >> And I I know uh the new Microsoft gaming

592
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:24,880
CEO, Xbox CEO uh person said like, "Oh,

593
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,240
Game Pass is too expensive." But I don't think this is just altruistic. I think

594
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:32,640
it's going to be a business move. Um, >> yeah, she she's actually been seemingly

595
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,359
doing some pretty based stuff so far. >> I like the moves she's at least saying

596
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:40,000
that she's making so far. >> Yeah, >> I know. I was I was pretty tentative on

597
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:44,400
her because she came from AI background. >> Um, but yeah, the statements I've seen

598
00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:47,760
so far are good. The like we are Xbox, we should drop the whole Microsoft

599
00:42:45,839 --> 00:42:50,560
gaming thing. Was dope. >> Did you see the new Xbox logo?

600
00:42:49,839 --> 00:42:54,240
>> No, >> dude. It's badass.

601
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:58,079
>> Yo, >> so the uh it's back. Yeah, the like this

602
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,960
thing is gone >> good >> and this is back.

603
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:06,000
>> That's so good. >> That's sick. So, I don't know.

604
00:43:03,359 --> 00:43:10,480
>> Keep making good moves and and maybe one singular thing out of Microsoft lately

605
00:43:07,839 --> 00:43:14,880
will be good. I'm I'm willing to be uh I'm willing to

606
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:20,640
be open-minded on that, you know. Uh but yeah, I mean game game pass price drop

607
00:43:17,119 --> 00:43:22,000
is is sweet. Um the the new logo looks

608
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,920
fantastic. Like the whole idea of really centralizing around Xbox instead of

609
00:43:23,839 --> 00:43:29,440
Microsoft gaming is is great. >> She made a statement. She made a

610
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:32,880
statement about like, you know, games being human crafted,

611
00:43:31,359 --> 00:43:36,800
>> which I thought was pretty pretty chill. >> Cool. Sweet. >> Yep. Did you finish all of this reading

612
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:44,480
through all of it? >> No. >> Oh, okay. Sorry. Carry on. >> Uh, this comes just days after the new

613
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:47,920
Microsoft CEO, Ash Chararma, uh, leaked

614
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:50,720
Asha, sorry, Asha Chararma leaked memo

615
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:55,280
called Game Pass too expensive. The price hike to $30 only happened in

616
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:59,440
October 2025, one month before Black Black Ops 7 launched. Okay, so it was

617
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:04,800
raised for that. So, I just lowered it back down. That's fine. Um, for context,

618
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:08,079
Bloomberg reports day one COD access

619
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:10,800
cost Microsoft over $300 million in loss

620
00:44:08,079 --> 00:44:17,359
sales last year with Black Ops 7 launch sales down over 60% in some uh markets.

621
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:21,200
Wild. Microsoft spent $69 billion dollars to buy Call of Duty, put it on

622
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:27,040
Game Pass, hiked the price to cover it, and is now pulling it back out. Was the

623
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:28,160
whole thing worth it? I mean, if they're

624
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:34,000
I mean, it could be. >> Dude, we're at the point now where like

625
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:36,000
the the the the billions of dollars for

626
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:41,200
company acquisitions have gotten just crazy. Like, remember when Twitch sold

627
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:46,079
for $1 billion and everyone went, "Whoa."

628
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:52,880
Okay, like for context, Twitch, while not a money maker,

629
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:54,400
is a strong brand with like strong

630
00:44:52,880 --> 00:45:02,560
recognizability for younger people with countless users.

631
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:05,359
like it's it's a it's a hyper powerful

632
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:09,440
social media video platform and it sold for a billion dollars and then it was

633
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:15,920
just like what what what was it like 10 years later or whatever else that

634
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:19,440
Twitter sold for 44 billion and you know

635
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:21,920
I I just it's it's Yeah. Are you talking

636
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:26,800
about this uh 1.75 trillion or whatever? Yeah. Okay. So, so SpaceX acquires

637
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:31,520
Cursor for60 billion.

638
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:35,760
>> They have they have the right to. They haven't actually done it yet, but Cursor

639
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:38,240
has been like, "You can buy us for $60 billion."

640
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:43,520
>> But are we just are we just reaching a point where these numbers are just kind

641
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:48,800
of pure silliness with absolutely no attachment whatsoever to business

642
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:51,040
reality or or is that or is that point well in the rearview mirror behind us?

643
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:56,079
Like I just >> I think it's I think it's behind us to be completely honest.

644
00:45:53,839 --> 00:46:00,960
>> Like I I I would sell Linus Media Group for for $60 billion or I'd sell the

645
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:04,560
right to acquire Linus Media Group for $60 billion. No problem. It's like

646
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:09,680
what's what's I bet I'm more profitable than them. >> It's just as legitimately on paper as

647
00:46:07,119 --> 00:46:11,280
the uh the the memory purchases from Sam Alman.

648
00:46:10,319 --> 00:46:17,359
>> Yeah, exactly. >> Amir in full chat said, "As a British Indian, I can confirm it's pronounced

649
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:22,880
more like Asha." >> Thank you. >> Sounds good. Um,

650
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:29,280
>> was it worth it? >> Wild. >> I mean, technically they did get more

651
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:33,520
than just Call of Duty. There was Candy Crush Saga,

652
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:39,480
>> World of Warcraft, >> whatever stuff Blizzard is pissing away.

653
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,480
Um,

654
00:46:39,839 --> 00:46:44,079
I've heard people are happy with the the new stuff.

655
00:46:43,359 --> 00:46:50,079
>> Oh, yeah. >> I I don't even remember what it's called. >> Latest candies. No, the WoW stuff.

656
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:54,640
>> Oh, really? >> Uh, midnight. Midnight.

657
00:46:52,240 --> 00:47:01,520
>> Okay. Well, that's cool. Yeah. Oh, okay. Ollie cool says, "Yeah, new WoW good."

658
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:03,920
>> Overwatch is apparently also like

659
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:06,880
I think since they just gave up on the whole two stuff,

660
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:11,520
>> it's been getting more traction again, which is interesting. >> Wow. Rob Phil says, "Starcraft tabletop

661
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:16,480
game coming." >> What? >> What?

662
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:22,560
>> Interesting. Please don't tell me it's just risk. >> You have my attention.

663
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:26,160
>> You know, game inspired tabletop games have been doing pretty well lately.

664
00:47:24,319 --> 00:47:29,160
Actually, >> starcraftm.com.

665
00:47:29,359 --> 00:47:34,720
Maybe the page will load. About our

666
00:47:33,119 --> 00:47:38,640
>> Oh, I'm on it. My page loaded. >> Nice. Okay. What am I What am I What am

667
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:47,040
I looking at here? What am I looking at? >> Tabletop miniatures game. So, is it Warhammer?

668
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:47,920
These are very concept arty. 60 to 120

669
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:56,240
minutes. >> It's Warhammer. >> Oh, okay. I mean, sure.

670
00:47:53,119 --> 00:47:57,280
>> Oh, it sure is Warhammer.

671
00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:00,880
>> Oh, >> okay. So, they're just chasing that

672
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:04,720
Warhammer money. >> Yeah, >> it's cheaper than Warhammer.

673
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,800
>> Apparently, them Warhammer gamers got them monies.

674
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:12,800
>> All right. >> My god. >> I mean, they don't call it Warhammer

675
00:48:09,359 --> 00:48:14,079
401k for a reason.

676
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:18,160
That's pretty good. I've never heard that before. >> I haven't either. That is pretty good.

677
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:21,760
>> That's good. That's good. Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Okay.

678
00:48:20,079 --> 00:48:25,280
>> Are you going to load a price, please? >> I don't think it's going to happen.

679
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:29,119
>> All right. Well, anyway, good luck with that, Blizzard.

680
00:48:26,319 --> 00:48:33,599
>> Yeah. Um, >> yeah, let's uh let let's do let's do a

681
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:38,480
thing. Let's >> All right.

682
00:48:35,359 --> 00:48:40,559
Uh where where do I find that?

683
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:44,880
Oh. Uh, I already I already kind of did that though. I mean, sure. Let's remind

684
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:50,000
the people that Shiptorm is live on ltstore.com.

685
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:55,520
We are fighting back against shipping costs that are out of control thanks to

686
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:58,400
rising fuel cost by giving you guys free

687
00:48:55,520 --> 00:49:03,200
shipping. If you're on the US store, any order over $150 qualifies for free

688
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:09,359
shipping. And if you're on the worldwide store, any order over $225 Canadian

689
00:49:07,359 --> 00:49:13,920
qualifies for free shipping. No code required. Just load up your cart and you

690
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:18,720
are good to go. The best part is if you are a Floatplane supporter plus, so

691
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:22,960
that's over at LMG.gg/flatlane, you'll get an even lower threshold. So

692
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:27,359
this is a perfect time to sign up for Floatplane. Uh, all you have to do is

693
00:49:25,119 --> 00:49:33,920
sign up for, I believe it's the $13 a month tier, and that will push your

694
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minimums down to $100 US or $175

695
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:39,119
Canadian on the global site. To help you reach these thresholds, we've got some

696
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:42,559
sweet deals for you. We have buy more, save more on blank TE's, uh, scribe

697
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:47,200
driver pen and pencils for just 20 bucks, free techack if you buy a

698
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:51,760
commuter or LT original backpack in the US, and it's running from April 24th to

699
00:49:49,839 --> 00:49:57,440
May 7th. So, don't wait for the storm to pass. Get in there now.

700
00:49:56,079 --> 00:50:02,960
Uh, what else am I supposed to be doing, Dan? >> Couple comms if you want.

701
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:07,119
>> Oh, right. Okay. Right. And if you if you send uh if you place your order now,

702
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:11,599
then it's a perfect time to uh send a comm a checkout message. We don't

703
00:50:09,599 --> 00:50:16,160
believe in sort of throwing money at your screen just, you know, in hopes

704
00:50:13,359 --> 00:50:20,640
that maybe your favorite streamer senpai will notice you. We think that it it's

705
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:24,880
great for us to be able to interact with you guys, but we also want you to get

706
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:28,800
quality merchandise in the mail. So, we created checkout messages, which are the

707
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,760
best way to interact with the WAN Show. All you got to do is head over to

708
00:50:30,079 --> 00:50:36,559
ltstore.com. Luke's on it.

709
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:40,720
Add uh some terrific quality merchandise to your cart. You went to ltlabs.com.

710
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:44,480
>> Shameless plug. Shameless plug. >> Nice. Nice. >> New site, by the way.

711
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:48,240
>> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The new site is live. Now is a great time to go just

712
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:53,040
like browse the site and check out all the cool stuff. The the team worked super hard on this.

713
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,839
>> Um, by the way, by the way, the multi-pocket leggings, dude. Smash.

714
00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,400
>> Oh yeah. >> Do you remember me talking about like, hey, we really need this to be a success

715
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:06,319
or like women's apparel might not be a thing, dude. But they're gone. >> Classic LT store fashion. Tried to get

716
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:10,720
some for for friends and family. They're gone.

717
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:13,440
>> So many sizes are sold out. So if you want to have a shot at them, now is a

718
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:21,079
great time to go check it out. Anyway, I don't know. for a scribe driver in the cart. So, all you got to do is throw

719
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:21,079
something in your cart and you will see

720
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:29,280
>> the checkout message interface. You can leave a message that'll go to producer

721
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:30,880
Dan who will reply to it or he will uh

722
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:37,040
just pop it up like that one that's up at the top right now or he will curate

723
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:39,359
it for me and Luke to respond to. By the

724
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:44,640
way, there's a new dashboard where you can see your checkout messages. How do

725
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:47,839
people access that? >> Uh where is it exactly?

726
00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:52,880
>> So just in case you missed the little, you know, the little popup like this. Um

727
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:56,800
>> I think it's at the bottom here. >> There's a spot somewhere.

728
00:51:54,240 --> 00:52:00,000
>> Yeah. So if we go to my screen, check out message portal right here.

729
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:03,440
>> Yeah. So if you're signed in, there you go.

730
00:52:02,079 --> 00:52:10,720
>> Nice. That is That is like the geekiest 1990s

731
00:52:07,839 --> 00:52:14,160
how many page visits my Geio City site has received thing that I have seen in

732
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:19,280
forever. I actually kind of like it. >> Oh yeah, >> that's pretty cool. That's very cool.

733
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:24,240
>> All right. Anyway, uh Dan, do you want to show us how it works by u curating a

734
00:52:22,079 --> 00:52:27,760
couple of checkout messages for us? Uh before hold on before you do that

735
00:52:25,839 --> 00:52:32,800
though, uh David Gochier's neighbor Joseph is apparently a huge LTT fan and

736
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,960
it's his birthday this week. Oh, >> happy birthday, Joseph.

737
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:39,359
>> Happy birthday, Joseph. >> David never asked for anything like that. So, when he was like, "Hey, it

738
00:52:38,319 --> 00:52:44,720
would mean a lot to me if you could shout out Joseph." I was like, "Yes, you

739
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:49,280
know, sure thing, sir." All right, Dan. Hit me.

740
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:52,559
Sure thing. Happy storm sale, DLL. Can you please tell the story of what

741
00:52:50,559 --> 00:52:59,359
happened to the Moto shirt? I was going to buy one as a gift for my employee.

742
00:52:54,960 --> 00:53:02,160
Only one. It's all that was deserving.

743
00:52:59,359 --> 00:53:09,920
>> No, I can't. Okay. Sorry. What What was the question?

744
00:53:04,319 --> 00:53:13,040
>> The Moto shirt is no longer on the site.

745
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:17,119
>> Oh, yeah. Up next,

746
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:19,200
>> I at some point I may or may not know

747
00:53:17,119 --> 00:53:22,359
what I may or may not be able to say about it,

748
00:53:23,119 --> 00:53:30,480
>> but it is not this day. How has the process for vetting sponsors

749
00:53:28,319 --> 00:53:34,319
evolved over time? any learnings you care to share?

750
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:38,559
>> Yeah, actually I mean I think in the very early days we didn't really have a

751
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:43,760
lot of choice. It was it was pretty much whoever was in my Rolodex from my time

752
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:46,559
at NCIX and you know was willing to go

753
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:49,760
to bat for me and and try to try to allocate some of the budget that at the

754
00:53:48,319 --> 00:53:55,440
time would have been predominantly allocated to like written media for this

755
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:58,720
like new fangled YouTube sponsorships

756
00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:01,599
thing. Um it it's it's it's still wild

757
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:09,680
to me how long the transition took and even now as has continued to take given

758
00:54:05,119 --> 00:54:12,079
how how data heavy uh video is and how

759
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:16,319
sort of like obviously more trustworthy those metrics are compared to more

760
00:54:13,839 --> 00:54:18,720
traditional mediums like magazines like I've talked about this on the land show

761
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:23,440
before but did you know that the way that magazines calculate how much you're

762
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:28,319
paying for ads assumes that that magazine gets read cover to cover like

763
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:31,920
like six times or something like that. Like at newspapers too, like they would

764
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:36,240
calculate that every newspaper passed through multiple people's hands and that

765
00:54:34,319 --> 00:54:40,559
every person who looked at it looked at every single ad like like it's like it

766
00:54:38,079 --> 00:54:46,880
was crazy. Uh whereas with video, we had, you know, the world's biggest

767
00:54:43,839 --> 00:54:50,079
advertising company with the most sort

768
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:52,079
of, as far as I could tell, trustworthy

769
00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:55,920
analytics saying, "Hey, you got this many views." and people just like they

770
00:54:54,400 --> 00:55:00,640
weren't into it. They weren't interested in it. So for a long time it was whoever

771
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:05,760
would go to bat for me and and would you know get us the support to to to sponsor

772
00:55:03,119 --> 00:55:11,119
the videos. And then from there there was a a big transition

773
00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:14,480
to uh like radio advertisers were moving

774
00:55:11,119 --> 00:55:17,200
into podcasting and then from podcasting

775
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:20,960
it's a pretty natural transition into like video podcasts and then from there

776
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:25,040
a lot of those folks like the Squarespaces of the world uh the like

777
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:31,599
Dollar Shave Clubs of the world made their way into into YouTube. Um, from

778
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:36,160
there that model proved so successful for companies like Dollar Shave Club

779
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:40,079
that uh in in growing their business that I think over time it just became

780
00:55:38,319 --> 00:55:46,079
sort of part of the playbook. And so nowadays um like I was I was at a

781
00:55:43,359 --> 00:55:51,440
conference recently for YouTubers and YouTube executives. It's it's over now

782
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:54,160
so I can I can disclose that it existed.

783
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:57,920
And uh one of the big things that that YouTube was talking about that other

784
00:55:55,599 --> 00:56:01,920
creators are talking about is like major major brand partnerships. You know, one

785
00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:06,480
talked about working with McDonald's um they showed this example of like a like

786
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:09,680
a collaboration between State Farm and like a more athletic oriented YouTuber

787
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:17,200
who tried to kick like a whole bunch of field goals or something like that. Um

788
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:20,000
so nowadays you have kind of

789
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:23,200
>> did a State Farm thing. So you got a ton of choice these days. And so back to

790
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:27,599
your question about vetting, I guess what I'll say is in the early days we

791
00:56:24,799 --> 00:56:30,720
didn't really have to because it was all brands that we like already were

792
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:36,079
intimately familiar with the product or the people and so we like we knew or

793
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:40,000
later on it was super established brands who if they had a bunch of really awful

794
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:43,119
skeletons in their closet they would uh it would have come up at some point in

795
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:48,400
the podcasting world which is like kind of a more sort of professional old

796
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:50,319
school media space. And then now that

797
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:54,799
your inbox at any given time, if you're a a midsized or up creator, is just

798
00:56:52,799 --> 00:56:58,480
going to be full of sponsorship opportunities.

799
00:56:56,319 --> 00:57:03,359
It's a it's a ton of work. So, I got to give a ton of credit to both our

800
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:07,119
business team and our uh our community.

801
00:57:03,359 --> 00:57:09,280
So, we actually uh I I think the team

802
00:57:07,119 --> 00:57:13,280
does a quite good job of just sort of doing background checks on sponsors that

803
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:17,280
we work with. And I also think our community does a really good job of of

804
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:21,280
highlighting things that arise with the brands that

805
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:26,559
we're working with that don't align with our values and with our expectations

806
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:31,040
which I think in turn elevates the perception of the brands that do meet

807
00:57:28,559 --> 00:57:36,000
the bar and that do work with you know Linus Media Group. So, um, you know, for

808
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:41,359
us, our our brand selection really comes down to that they operate with

809
00:57:37,839 --> 00:57:43,119
integrity. Um, that they take care of

810
00:57:41,359 --> 00:57:47,680
our viewers. Like, if one of our viewers comes to us and basically goes like,

811
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:50,480
"Yeah, this this brand screwed me over.

812
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:53,200
Like, I got scammed. Um, and I have receipts, you know, that's something

813
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:58,000
that we want to know." And we have feedback. We have a feedback forum for

814
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:59,680
that at least techtips.com on the forum.

815
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:04,079
Um, and that's that's a that's a huge part of it, just maintaining that that

816
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:08,960
accountability and that integrity all the way uh all the way up and down.

817
00:58:07,119 --> 00:58:13,839
>> This is super off topic, but you were talking about Dollar Shave Club and I I

818
00:58:10,799 --> 00:58:16,880
realized that I haven't heard about them

819
00:58:13,839 --> 00:58:19,680
in freaking forever. So, I just looked

820
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:24,799
it up and like they do still exist, but I was like genuinely somewhat surprised

821
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:29,119
by that. I find it really interesting certain companies

822
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:33,520
uh maybe even certain products I looked it up apparently uh Dollar Shave Club is

823
00:58:31,599 --> 00:58:40,079
under capital management now so like okay whatever. Um but certain companies

824
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:42,160
they just sort of stop eventually.

825
00:58:40,079 --> 00:58:45,920
I find this especially in like you know like >> well they run out of VC capital

826
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:49,359
>> snacks and certain like grocery stores. >> Yeah. Like just was like spending money

827
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:56,319
like there was no tomorrow and then suddenly there was no tomorrow. >> Yeah. But but even like even like uh I

828
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:59,520
>> Savage Jerky. Is that another example? >> No, I I'm I'm talking even big brand

829
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:04,240
stuff. >> Oh, sure. I mean, >> like even even if you're like under the

830
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:10,160
Coke umbrella or something. >> Oh my god. >> Madras not only still exist, but they

831
00:59:06,799 --> 00:59:12,880
have a Dave the Diver like

832
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:14,960
>> what what what is this? Is it like an energy powder thing? That's hilarious.

833
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:22,960
All right. >> Squid flavor. >> Sure. Sure. Why not? Um, but there will

834
00:59:20,799 --> 00:59:26,799
be like some think of some like snack that would have been advertised on TV

835
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:31,760
like crazy when we were kids and then you never hear about it on any form of

836
00:59:28,799 --> 00:59:33,680
advertisement ever in many years at the store.

837
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:40,240
>> I literally haven't seen Dunkaroo. >> There was Dunkaroo ads like every

838
00:59:36,559 --> 00:59:41,599
channel. Dunkaroos get as much frosting

839
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:47,040
as you. >> I'm sure they still exist.

840
00:59:44,559 --> 00:59:52,160
>> But like it's Yeah, they for sure. It's It's weird to me though that they'll

841
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:58,400
just they'll just stop at some point. They will just completely turn off the

842
00:59:55,280 --> 01:00:00,799
the advertising pipeline.

843
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:04,480
>> But this you can't call it a nostalgic snack

844
01:00:01,839 --> 01:00:08,480
>> and then shake the cookie like that. >> It was a foot.

845
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:12,319
>> Gh. >> Terrible. Literally literally inedible.

846
01:00:10,799 --> 01:00:16,640
>> I don't know if I had dunkaroos, but yeah, there was ads for them everywhere and then they just stopped. There's

847
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:19,599
there's a ton of things like that, too. When you walk through the grocery store,

848
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:24,640
it's like almost a weird if you go through like mostly the boxed goods

849
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:26,079
area, obviously. Um it's kind of a weird

850
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:31,920
experience of like, oh yeah, I remember ads for that thing like 20 years ago.

851
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:36,480
I've never heard of it ever since other than it just being on the shelf. Um,

852
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:40,960
it's it's just interesting to me like how these if it's Coke, I kind of

853
01:00:38,799 --> 01:00:46,720
understand cuz you probably have an R&D group that's for just like all of your

854
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:51,520
different product lines and you'll just release some stuff kind of whatever. But

855
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:54,880
if you're a relatively smaller company like

856
01:00:53,119 --> 01:00:58,559
what you just like fire everyone and stop, but you just keep making your

857
01:00:57,119 --> 01:01:01,359
product, I guess. >> I literally don't know. Apparently, there were lots of different shapes of

858
01:01:00,799 --> 01:01:05,599
dunk. >> Interesting. I'm I'm finding other shapes of donarus.

859
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:08,160
>> Coke also has murder squads to help. Yeah. I'm not endorsing them.

860
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:12,400
>> That's a whole separate thing. >> Yeah. To be clear, >> happened in a whole separate country.

861
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:17,440
Completely out of your jurisdiction. So, what are you going to do about it? >> Throw it out of court. It's a wild story

862
01:01:16,079 --> 01:01:23,520
if you want to go down a rabbit hole. >> Yeah, it really it really is. >> Um, okay.

863
01:01:21,119 --> 01:01:28,559
>> Oh, speaking of uh, you know, brands sort of doing things that are not always

864
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:31,200
totally predictable. Uh, or wait, are do you still owe us another com? Oh, no.

865
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:35,599
We're moving into topics now. I mean, we could do another one. I would probably prefer that. We have quite a few.

866
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:40,480
>> Okay. All right. Let's do one more. >> I am looking at possibly getting a new

867
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:44,559
handheld. I know Lionus has a large variety of them. I have the OG Steam

868
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:48,319
Deck. Is it worth it to upgrade to something different? Money is not in

869
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:52,319
consideration. >> Oh, I mean, yeah, sure. If money is not

870
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,960
in consideration, buy one of each. >> Okay. I know people don't hate it when

871
01:01:54,319 --> 01:02:00,480
they say that. >> People never really mean that money is

872
01:01:57,359 --> 01:02:02,720
not a consideration. Money is always a

873
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:06,880
consideration. You could literally be shopping for a private jet and money

874
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:11,440
would still be a consideration because there's there's degrees of copious

875
01:02:09,359 --> 01:02:17,280
amount of money. But okay, I'm going to I'm going to assume that what you meant

876
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:20,400
is that you could fit into your budget

877
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:24,240
any one handheld. And if that's the

878
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:26,480
case, I got to tell you that I haven't

879
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:34,640
yet seen my perfect Steam Deck upgrade.

880
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:37,119
There are handhelds that are bigger.

881
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:43,359
There are handhelds that are better. There are or faster rather. There are

882
01:02:39,839 --> 01:02:46,480
ones that are that have features that

883
01:02:43,359 --> 01:02:48,880
the Steam Deck doesn't have. Um, you

884
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:52,079
know, like if you wanted an OLED screen, you could get this one. Or if you wanted

885
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:56,160
>> Steam Deck OLED >> better compatibility. Uh, yeah, but they have a they have an original Steam Deck,

886
01:02:55,520 --> 01:03:02,559
though. >> Uh, if if you wanted more compatibility, there's ones that run Windows. If you

887
01:03:00,079 --> 01:03:06,400
wanted one with detachable like Joy-Con things that have like mice in them.

888
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:10,319
Lenovo has one that does that. Like there's you name a gimmick, somebody has

889
01:03:08,559 --> 01:03:15,200
it. If you want one that has like erggo grips, there's the Xbox Ally Series X

890
01:03:12,559 --> 01:03:23,359
Ally thing. um you know some something like that, right? But Valve keeps

891
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:24,880
saying, "Hey, we need like like next

892
01:03:23,359 --> 01:03:31,200
generation level hardware in order to rev the Steam

893
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:34,960
Deck in order to do a Steam Deck 2."

894
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:37,520
And Valve keeps holding off

895
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:42,160
and I I kind of it's hard for me to disagree with them.

896
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:46,960
Now, with that said, I do daily a more powerful handheld. I have an ROG Ally

897
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:51,920
that's actually my daily driver, which is crazy because I actually have an Xbox

898
01:03:49,119 --> 01:03:56,480
ROG Alli X, whatever it's called thing in my house that I don't use because,

899
01:03:54,079 --> 01:04:01,920
and this is going to be crazy sounding, when I'm playing handheld, I actually

900
01:03:58,799 --> 01:04:04,640
prefer the flat deck compared to the

901
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:09,839
like the like erggo grip thing. Or at least I don't prefer the grips enough to

902
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:12,880
be worth how much extra space it takes up in my backpack. Do you think it's uh

903
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:16,720
Okay, that's a pretty interesting argument. Do you think it's hand size?

904
01:04:14,799 --> 01:04:21,119
>> I think that's part of it, but I think it's also just like

905
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:25,920
>> that the erggo grip thing is like perfect for playing like this. And I

906
01:04:24,079 --> 01:04:31,039
don't always play like this. >> Okay. >> Sometimes I'm lying on my tummy,

907
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:34,640
sometimes I roll over onto my back and and the flat deck just works a little

908
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:38,880
better for me. So that ally that I upgraded on ShortCircuit with the JO

909
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:44,480
upgraded battery and then the new back on it. So, it's a little bit heavier. Is

910
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:46,480
is actually still my preferred handheld

911
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:50,079
out of out of all of them. Even though it's like an like an older it's an older

912
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:57,039
handheld, sir, but it checks out. You know, >> my f I I I never played it laying down

913
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:59,280
looking up. Um, but my my favorite for

914
01:04:57,039 --> 01:05:02,400
ergonomics handheld, if you can even call it that, was that the the Wii U

915
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:06,319
controller. >> Oh, yeah. >> I really liked >> Oh, yeah.

916
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:09,119
>> the the like feel. That's one of the reasons why I was like a little

917
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:13,920
frustrated with the Switch when it first came out was I was like,

918
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:16,240
I get it. The Wii U controller is really bulky cuz it was set up for a home

919
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:21,440
console, but >> the Switch like practically pocketable by comparison like

920
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:23,520
>> but it just it didn't feel like my my hands were very cramped on the original

921
01:05:23,039 --> 01:05:29,200
Switch. >> Yeah. >> I mean, my hands were cramped on the original Switch.

922
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:34,240
>> Okay. Okay. With that said, there is there is a handheld that uh you know it

923
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:38,000
is is next generation in terms of performance, but you would be spending

924
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:43,440
>> Yeah. >> Here, hold on. What is a Win Five go for

925
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:49,760
right now? Here it is. gpdstore.net. Okay, nine reviews. Okay, people

926
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:50,880
mostly are pretty into it. Okay, that's

927
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:55,839
good to know. This guy's a little disappointed, but still gave it three stars.

928
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:58,400
All right, what's a win five worth right now?

929
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:08,079
two grand. That's not even the top configuration. That is the base

930
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:09,440
configuration. One terabte of storage.

931
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:16,319
That's actually the one that's the most painful to me. Like, okay, I want two terabytes of exc Sorry, excuse me.

932
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:20,640
Another $400. >> Storage is so ridiculous right now.

933
01:06:17,839 --> 01:06:26,160
>> Um, that's rough. I want to go to a Ryzen Max 395. Oh. Oh, that'll be Sorry.

934
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:30,720
That'll be $2,800, sir. Also, oh, okay. You also get I mean, honest. Oh, wow.

935
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:36,799
Okay. Well, I would take I would certainly take the 64 gigs of RAM, 2 TB

936
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:40,319
storage, and the better CPU over the uh

937
01:06:36,799 --> 01:06:42,400
4 TB, 32, and then lower CPU because uh

938
01:06:40,319 --> 01:06:46,240
these ones, it's not just the CPU that's that's worse for this one. It's also the

939
01:06:43,839 --> 01:06:51,039
GPU. So, this is the more powerful GPU. So, yeah. Yeah, you're spending uh

940
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:55,760
$2,800 US >> for a handheld

941
01:06:52,319 --> 01:06:58,240
>> and and it's barely handheld, dude. It

942
01:06:55,760 --> 01:07:02,480
has like this like battery pack thing that weighs a flipping ton that clips

943
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:06,319
onto the back of it or how I usually ended up using it was with the weird

944
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:09,359
tether. Yeah, the te especially the tether. If you're like commuting on a

945
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:14,160
train or something with a lot of your time, which I suspect a lot of handheld

946
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:18,400
bros are >> commuting on trains or buses or

947
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:21,920
whatever, I could see that being fine to be honest. >> Yeah. So, here's the tether. It's

948
01:07:21,039 --> 01:07:26,559
>> Oh, >> it's pretty >> That's weirder than I expected to be.

949
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:29,839
>> Because it's just the battery. >> It looks like it was for like a platform

950
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:34,880
or something. Am I seeing that wrong in the picture? So, this is the clip

951
01:07:31,359 --> 01:07:37,119
interface here that sticks onto

952
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:40,480
the battery interface that is on the back of this battery and is on the back

953
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:43,920
of the machine and then it just like goes to an umbilical cord to the back of

954
01:07:42,079 --> 01:07:47,839
the thing. So, it can be like this or it can be like this. And so, yeah, is there

955
01:07:46,799 --> 01:07:52,480
something better than the Steam Deck? Like, yeah, there's lots of things that are better than the Steam Deck in some

956
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:58,720
way, but there is, in my opinion, nothing

957
01:07:55,760 --> 01:08:02,480
that is better than the Steam Deck in every way.

958
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:08,240
And that's that's tough. That makes it tough for me to recommend something. And

959
01:08:05,839 --> 01:08:12,480
it without like knowing you and knowing exactly what you're after. And I can see

960
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:18,960
why it makes it tough for Valve to go, "Okay, here's Steam Deck 2."

961
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:21,040
>> Yeah. and especially now amidst the apocalypse.

962
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:23,920
>> Yeah, I don't blame Valve for waiting at all. I think it makes sense. I think it makes sense.

963
01:08:22,719 --> 01:08:28,159
>> Um >> I think my time I I'm like I've already

964
01:08:26,719 --> 01:08:35,560
kind of convinced myself I'm going to buy a Steam Deck 2 when they get

965
01:08:30,319 --> 01:08:35,560
announced like right off the hop. Um

966
01:08:35,759 --> 01:08:42,080
>> I I feel like it's too late to get one now. Yet out of all of them, that's the

967
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:47,040
one that I want right now, if that makes sense. So I have I have my Switch 2. I'm

968
01:08:45,440 --> 01:08:50,480
just going to hang on to that. I was contemplating selling it, but no, I'm

969
01:08:48,480 --> 01:08:54,239
just going to hang on to that. And then uh when the when the Steam Deck 2

970
01:08:52,480 --> 01:09:00,319
finally comes out, I'm assuming it's going to be another like two years. Um

971
01:08:58,159 --> 01:09:02,319
hopefully not much more than that. >> I think two years sounds about right.

972
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:07,600
>> Yeah, >> cuz by then we'll be like well into Steam Machine and Steam Frame life

973
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:13,120
cycle. So, they'll have had some time because realistically,

974
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:16,480
ain't no way that the Steam Machine,

975
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:19,120
Steam Frame team is not pivoting to

976
01:09:16,480 --> 01:09:23,520
Steam Deck 2 once they're done. So, give them a year to get everything kind of

977
01:09:22,239 --> 01:09:27,440
going with those. >> Yeah. >> And then there's no way that they don't

978
01:09:25,759 --> 01:09:32,000
get some resources for Steam Deck 2 and then make that happen. >> Oh, hi Josh posted, "Uh, do you play

979
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:37,759
games that are too much for Steam Deck? It might still be worth it." That is

980
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:40,480
a super interesting question that I've I've had some conversations with

981
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:44,400
actually some people in the Labs about of like >> that's a super fair point. If you want

982
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:47,040
to play Batro, >> if it's a Battro machine anyways,

983
01:09:46,719 --> 01:09:53,440
>> do it >> then who cares? What does it matter? >> Um it could be a fun video for for you

984
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:59,840
guys to make is like the Steam Deck however many years later. 95% No, not

985
01:09:56,320 --> 01:10:02,400
95, but like 85% of my hours on my Ally

986
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:04,239
or Steam Deck over the years are tape to tape.

987
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:10,239
>> I al I also Yeah, >> I could have played that on anything. >> Yeah. Another angle, and this was not my

988
01:10:08,159 --> 01:10:13,760
idea. I don't remember who said it, but um maybe it was even you. I I have

989
01:10:12,159 --> 01:10:19,120
genuinely no memory of who said this, but um

990
01:10:16,159 --> 01:10:25,360
somehow get like the original or close to the original version of Steam OS on

991
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:27,760
it and compare the performance then to

992
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:31,920
now. I don't know if we benchmarked it at the time.

993
01:10:29,199 --> 01:10:35,280
>> I don't really think so. Uh there'd be >> someone might have

994
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:40,159
>> there'd be so many variables. I think someone might have actually done this.

995
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:45,280
>> Oh, maybe. I don't know. Um, wasn't it NVIDIA only though? And like I think

996
01:10:43,199 --> 01:10:48,719
maybe you could like hack in Radeon support. I I I don't remember the

997
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:52,480
details well enough. I'd have to they they should >> for the Steam Deck.

998
01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:55,120
>> For the Steam No, no. I'm talking original Steam OS.

999
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:59,360
>> No, I'm not. >> Oh, you mean Steam OS 3, but like the

1000
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:02,159
first version of Steam OS 3? >> I meant Yeah, the first version for the

1001
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:08,239
Steam Deck. >> Got it. I thought you meant like >> I didn't say that. That's my bad. Sorry.

1002
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:10,239
the one from like 14 years ago no or 10

1003
01:11:08,239 --> 01:11:14,960
years ago. That would be a little I I more mean like what performance changes

1004
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:18,239
have hap like deep diving. >> What is it like to own a Steam Deck this

1005
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:21,679
many years in? I think would be kind of fun. So like how much performance gain

1006
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:26,000
have you had from updates or lack thereof? Who knows? Uh but I think it

1007
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:30,080
would be gain. Um how is your like hey let's look at like

1008
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:36,080
the the top 10 games that are compatible with Steam Deck in terms of players

1009
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:37,679
right now. How well is it performing um

1010
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:41,040
on the Steam Deck? Like, is this still a highly viable device for most people?

1011
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:46,000
Stuff like that. I think it'd be kind of fun, a little interesting. >> I I think it's a cool idea. We have so

1012
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:51,600
many video ideas on the doc. The >> issue is BIOS updates would be difficult to downgrade. Yeah, we'd have to try to

1013
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:54,159
find like an unboxed one or something. It wouldn't be an easy thing to do.

1014
01:11:53,840 --> 01:12:00,000
>> Yeah. >> Uh but it could be kind of fun. I feel like that's the kind of thing that

1015
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:03,280
Valve, if they weren't so flipping busy right now, might even be interested in

1016
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:07,360
helping us with. >> Like, hey, could you guys we just can we

1017
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:11,760
ship you a Steam Deck and can you please put it back in? Like, there's no way they don't have it somewhere.

1018
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:14,960
>> My my expectation is that there's actually been some pretty massive jumps

1019
01:12:13,440 --> 01:12:18,560
in performance looking at like the things that have happened gaming ever

1020
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:24,400
since the original launch. So, that could be like honestly a really good

1021
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:26,880
>> thing for them to have. Something that'd

1022
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:32,560
be a good thing for us to have is a more coherent strategy for how we're

1023
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:37,440
transitioning to the WAN Show channel.

1024
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:40,320
I think we may have to just

1025
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:44,000
pull the plug on streaming WN show to LTT because right now it's causing a lot

1026
01:12:42,159 --> 01:12:48,640
of confusion for people. we go live and we have a separate VOD on the Linus Tech

1027
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:52,880
Tips channel and on the WAN Show channel. And I got to say, I'm actually

1028
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:56,320
surprised and impressed with how much of the community has flipped over to Wan

1029
01:12:54,719 --> 01:13:00,480
Show channel. It's almost >> it's not quite 50/50, but it's like

1030
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:04,960
getting there a lot faster than I thought. So, W show Channel

1031
01:13:03,199 --> 01:13:08,719
>> 5 uh views. >> That's views. Okay.

1032
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:14,239
>> The live one is the far left one. >> Yep. Okay. >> Yeah. So, I think we we might just have

1033
01:13:11,679 --> 01:13:18,480
to like we might just have to do it sometime soon here. Um

1034
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:21,760
>> I didn't foresee this, but it totally

1035
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:24,960
makes sense. The second someone told me like, "Oh, there's there's two in my

1036
01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:29,040
feed. This sucks." I was like, "Oh, right." >> Yeah. I'm I'm really sorry. We we do

1037
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:33,920
need to co stream for a little while. But guys, uh if you are watching on

1038
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:38,880
Linus Tech Tips channel right now, please sooner rather than later, get

1039
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:42,159
subscribed over on the WAN Show. So go go go look for the channel. It used to

1040
01:13:40,239 --> 01:13:45,920
be the LMG clips channel. We rebranded it. Go subscribe over on the WAN Show.

1041
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:50,880
We got to get everybody moved over there sooner rather than later or you will not

1042
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:55,840
see WAN Show anymore. And the reason for it is it's a business reason. Uh Luke

1043
01:13:53,280 --> 01:14:00,080
and I are now 50% co-owners of the WAN Show, which means it's got to get off of

1044
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:05,280
the LT channel in order to secure its long-term future. Thank you, WAN Show,

1045
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:09,199
for your service. Um, all right. Let's jump right into our next topic here,

1046
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:12,520
which is >> Oh, lord.

1047
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:20,239
Should we do it? Let's talk about it.

1048
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:22,640
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

1049
01:14:20,239 --> 01:14:28,159
dual edition launch. If you were wondering how the chip performs, uh,

1050
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:31,199
it's virtually identical to a 9800 X3D

1051
01:14:28,159 --> 01:14:33,040
or 9950 X3D in gaming. It got a four to

1052
01:14:31,199 --> 01:14:37,199
5% improvement in productivity workloads, like kind of creator focused

1053
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:41,600
stuff. And in some science workloads, it did even better than that. But for most

1054
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:46,159
people, it doesn't really make sense unless you see it as maybe kind of like

1055
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:48,320
a like a budget workstation CPU for

1056
01:14:46,159 --> 01:14:52,960
folks who can't afford the a Threadripper um and also don't need the PCIe

1057
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:56,719
lanes and also don't need the, you know, insane memory bandwidth of Threadripper

1058
01:14:54,880 --> 01:15:02,320
and don't need the upgrade path to many many many more cores.

1059
01:14:59,920 --> 01:15:06,239
don't need, you know, registered dims. They just can use ECCU dims. There's a

1060
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:13,960
lot of compromises using it as a budget workstation. But there is an argument to

1061
01:15:07,679 --> 01:15:13,960
be made there. Of course, with such a um

1062
01:15:14,159 --> 01:15:24,000
sorry, excuse me, uh interesting launch. Naturally, the more um exciting

1063
01:15:21,679 --> 01:15:29,440
component of it in the community has been the discourse around AMD's sampling

1064
01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:33,360
strategy, which >> you can tell the CPU was not super

1065
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:41,040
interesting. >> Well, can you because some reviewers

1066
01:15:36,719 --> 01:15:42,480
felt that they were uh left out. You

1067
01:15:41,040 --> 01:15:46,440
know what? I'm just going to read the thing. Um,

1068
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:53,280
in our communications with AMD, we were told that they had limited units and

1069
01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:59,440
wanted to focus on developers before sending units to reviewers. That seems

1070
01:15:56,159 --> 01:16:00,960
to be that a message that did not quite

1071
01:15:59,440 --> 01:16:06,560
line up with their strategy because some very gaming focused channels like hardware unboxed were provided with

1072
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:11,120
samples. This confusion has led some to assume that AMD was preferentially

1073
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:14,960
seeding to friendly reviewers or even blacklisting certain publications. Uh

1074
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:21,679
Tech PowerUp noted that even retail partners had received instructions specifically to not provide any units to

1075
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:25,679
publications for review. Um sourcing review units from retailers is a pretty

1076
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:30,320
common practice and has at times been approved by AMD uh in the past. Igor's

1077
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:35,199
lab criticized how this sort of selective sampling hurts consumers because they don't have access to the

1078
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:41,840
broad amount of data they usually would to make an informed decision. Um, one of

1079
01:16:39,440 --> 01:16:46,320
our fellow channels in the industry released a video stating they believe

1080
01:16:43,199 --> 01:16:49,199
they've been blacklisted by AMD. Uh,

1081
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:55,120
this came from GN who said AMD excluded us not only from sampling but from

1082
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:56,719
information about the announcement. Um

1083
01:16:55,120 --> 01:17:03,199
they also noted that they have been moved to a third-party PR agency rather

1084
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:05,840
than communicating with AMD directly. So

1085
01:17:03,199 --> 01:17:09,360
as for our side uh we also are communicating with AMD through a third

1086
01:17:07,199 --> 01:17:12,960
party agency. The agency did get in touch uh and they did answer some

1087
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:18,960
technical questions before launch. They were not timely about it and they did

1088
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:21,760
not provide us with a chip. Um

1089
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:25,520
I have been I have in my notes how we got our chip. that apparently fell off

1090
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:30,960
the back of a truck just outside of Smash Champs, um our our affiliated

1091
01:17:28,480 --> 01:17:39,360
badminton club. So, that's really fortunate actually. Um and in summary,

1092
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:42,000
no, AMD did not blacklist anybody

1093
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:44,880
because we didn't get a chip. Basically, this comes down to their sampling

1094
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:50,000
strategy was different for >> sampling strategy was some reason >> weird.

1095
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:55,360
>> What it looks like to me is regional. So outside of the North America region,

1096
01:17:52,239 --> 01:17:57,040
YouTubers seem to have gotten samples

1097
01:17:55,360 --> 01:18:03,120
and then within the North America region, it looks like they went for more

1098
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:06,560
written media for reasons that are AMDs

1099
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:09,199
and AMDs alone. I have not seen any

1100
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:12,320
evidence that AMD is selectively seeding to publications that are more likely to

1101
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:20,000
be favorable. >> Big company problems to you. >> Oh, 100%. So, so one region's office had

1102
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:23,360
a strategy and it didn't necessarily match other regions.

1103
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:29,520
>> That's what it kind of looks like to me because obviously we are not blacklisted

1104
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:33,840
by AMD. I mean, we partner with AMD on a very

1105
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:35,679
>> regular basis. They literally buy $5,000

1106
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:40,159
tech upgrades for, you know, our employees homes. Like, we're we're in

1107
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:47,120
constant communication with AMD, but we were told, "Yeah, we're not we're not

1108
01:18:42,480 --> 01:18:50,080
seating this CPU to you." Um,

1109
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:54,800
so I don't know, man. There other than just, hey, big companies do big company

1110
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:59,840
things sometimes, I don't think there's there's too much to read into this one.

1111
01:18:57,199 --> 01:19:04,880
>> Seems like a weird move. I I'm not like crazy surprised just because I suspect

1112
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:12,400
they probably kind of knew how this news would go. Um, but in general, I would

1113
01:19:09,040 --> 01:19:16,640
still, you know, I would still like to

1114
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:18,560
see all of the CPUs go to CPU reviewers.

1115
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:22,080
>> Yes. And I mean, but it's all, it's never even been a thing.

1116
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:25,520
>> Like, think back to like how Intel has done their seating for a lot of their

1117
01:19:23,679 --> 01:19:29,199
like series launches where they sent like this chip and this chip and

1118
01:19:27,440 --> 01:19:32,800
sometimes it really seems like like self-owning. Like remember when they

1119
01:19:30,719 --> 01:19:35,920
launched Core Ultra on the desktop and they sent us like the the worst ones? I

1120
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:42,159
sure do. >> And we're just like, "Hey, do you want to sell these or not?" Because these

1121
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:44,640
ones are clearly the cool ones. And we literally can't put them on our

1122
01:19:43,199 --> 01:19:48,880
benchmark charts because y'all didn't seed them to us. >> That was super weird.

1123
01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:56,159
>> Like, man, I don't know, man. Big companies do big company like dumb stuff

1124
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:58,400
all the time. And um

1125
01:19:56,159 --> 01:20:04,640
maybe I'm just Maybe I'm just used to it.

1126
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:07,520
Maybe it it's this this does seem like

1127
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:09,360
I don't know. X3D specifically.

1128
01:20:08,480 --> 01:20:14,880
>> Yeah. >> Has like a very

1129
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:19,040
alluring pull to the to the tech enthusiast crowd. I feel like not

1130
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:23,840
including it to video or written reviewers

1131
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:26,719
is a little bit odd. And again, I understand that this chip is also a

1132
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:32,320
little bit odd. >> Yeah. >> So, like maybe it's fine, but just with

1133
01:20:29,679 --> 01:20:35,760
the naming it. Yeah. If I was AMD, I'll be honest with you, knowing what I know

1134
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:40,880
about this chip, I might have seated it to like >> I might have just done it.

1135
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:47,040
>> Wendle and Feronics and then just like not bothered outside of that. Yeah,

1136
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:51,440
>> cuz I because I I I might be I might be interested in the perspective of someone

1137
01:20:48,719 --> 01:20:55,520
who's, you know, more attuned to the to the the enterprise space and then

1138
01:20:53,600 --> 01:21:02,400
someone who's like hyper attuned to like the Linux and and like scientific space

1139
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:04,159
and then realistically, yeah, it's X3D

1140
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:07,120
and you're going to you're going to you're going to throw that in the

1141
01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:12,800
marketing because marketers got to market and they're going to want to sell it to gamers because that's how big

1142
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:17,280
company do things. But in terms of like caring about gaming outlets making a

1143
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:22,320
review of it, I'd probably have like zero zero cares.

1144
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:25,040
>> Yeah. I mean, based on the benchmarking

1145
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:28,159
that happened, it's like Yeah, I would probably agree with you if

1146
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:32,320
they knew what was going on there. >> Yeah. And I mean, obviously a company

1147
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:35,600
like AMD knows what their chip is before they release it, which actually I

1148
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:39,760
shouldn't even say. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you really do have brands tell

1149
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:44,000
you they're like, "Oh, hey, so do you love it?" and you're kind of like, "No,

1150
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:48,239
it's slow and expensive." And they're like, "What?"

1151
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:53,520
>> It's it's fascinating to me. That's just marketing

1152
01:21:51,199 --> 01:21:55,360
PR teams being disconnected from technical.

1153
01:21:54,639 --> 01:22:01,440
>> It's got to be >> that's usually the the understanding for me cuz like you remember the whole uh

1154
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:05,679
backplate thing. Was it gigabyte? I think it was gigabyte. >> Gigabyte with that GPU

1155
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:12,159
>> and the and the the board was like, "How could you?" And then the technical people were like, "Yeah, we knew." Yeah,

1156
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:15,120
>> we didn't tell them that. They just put that in the marketing.

1157
01:22:13,440 --> 01:22:17,040
>> Yeah. When they had like some kind of misleading marketing on their product

1158
01:22:16,639 --> 01:22:25,120
page. >> Yeah. They said their copper back plate cooled the GPU by 3°. And it turns out

1159
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:30,000
that just having no back plate also cooled it by 3°. It was just their old

1160
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:33,760
back plate warmed the card by 3° because

1161
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:36,960
it was so bad. Um, so it was it was

1162
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:39,760
Yeah. Anyways, whatever.

1163
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:46,639
>> You know what's not bad, though? LTT tools casually getting reviews on

1164
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:49,360
like PC Gamer. What the heck? This came out of nowhere for me.

1165
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:53,040
>> What? >> Right. >> PC Gamer. Do they have they reviewed any

1166
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:58,560
other tools? >> I don't know. LTD ratcheting screwdriver

1167
01:22:56,400 --> 01:23:03,920
and precision pro multi-bit screwdriver review. Serious tools by Jacob Ridley

1168
01:23:01,440 --> 01:23:07,520
published not on April 1st, but actually on April the 8th. So, this was pretty

1169
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:13,840
sweet. Yeah, this was a little while ago, but I just thought this was pretty

1170
01:23:10,159 --> 01:23:16,320
cool. And it actually included an

1171
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:21,199
anecdote about an experience. I don't remember meeting Jacob, but uh

1172
01:23:18,639 --> 01:23:28,800
apparently we've we've at least crossed paths at some point because um

1173
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:32,000
apparently this was this was his his

1174
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:34,159
expectation from me. I wasn't sure what

1175
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:38,320
to expect upon opening the YouTuber branded boxes. Having once upon a time

1176
01:23:36,480 --> 01:23:42,880
been at the same booth at a show as Lionus, as he was loudly disagreeing

1177
01:23:40,639 --> 01:23:46,480
with someone about quality control, I had a pretty good feeling about the

1178
01:23:44,480 --> 01:23:50,960
quality of the screwdrivers before they arrived. That was a good assumption,

1179
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:55,679
too, as now they're in front of me. They feel sturdy and well put together.

1180
01:23:53,280 --> 01:24:01,840
>> That's funny. That's pretty good. It was it's an interesting paragraph that

1181
01:23:57,920 --> 01:24:04,000
really highlights I think why sometimes

1182
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:08,800
we do take what feels like a disproportionate amount of flak

1183
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:11,120
sometimes when we make a mistake because

1184
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:15,120
>> that's what we do is we we point out things that are not good enough and when

1185
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:19,280
our job is to point out things that are not good enough for a living then people

1186
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:24,000
expect us to do the same bloody thing internally and it's uh it's funny

1187
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:27,920
because sometimes it would be easy to think about

1188
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:30,159
something like that and go, you know, oh, that's that's too much

1189
01:24:29,199 --> 01:24:34,719
pressure. I wouldn't want to work somewhere like that. But you know what's

1190
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:39,679
cool is I think our team actually embraces it

1191
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:45,280
in like a big way. Sorry, I'm not laughing at you. Um, yeah. No, I think

1192
01:24:42,239 --> 01:24:46,880
so. I think they do. Sometimes our

1193
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:49,840
product development timelines are also really long, but this is probably part

1194
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:57,600
of why. Yeah, >> at least part of why. >> Oh, dude. Dude,

1195
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:58,719
dude, there's a product coming.

1196
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:03,120
>> The battery bank. >> No. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah.

1197
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:07,360
>> Say you you put it in a video. You don't have to be >> I tried the prototype.

1198
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:09,120
>> I have no idea what he's talking about. >> Yeah, you do.

1199
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:12,159
>> I do. >> It's the one.

1200
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:21,440
>> Really? >> Come on, man. >> Really? >> I tried the prototype. It [ __ ] slaps,

1201
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:24,080
dude. It's crazy. >> Oh, that one.

1202
01:25:23,440 --> 01:25:27,600
>> Oh, yeah. >> You're that hyped about it, >> dude.

1203
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:32,800
>> Okay. >> It's nuts. >> Hell yeah. >> I want to quadruple the order. Like,

1204
01:25:31,199 --> 01:25:34,719
dude, that really, dude, >> I don't even know what the quantity was.

1205
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:39,520
I want >> That's really exciting for me. Just cuz I I I I feel like I can't spoil it, but

1206
01:25:38,639 --> 01:25:45,120
there's there's >> Oh, we can't say it. It's >> for the same reasons that he's really

1207
01:25:42,239 --> 01:25:48,560
excited. I'm really excited. >> Have Did you try it? Did you try it?

1208
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:52,080
>> No, I >> No, no. I'm talking to him. I I don't know what he thinks.

1209
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:58,000
>> No comment. >> No, but did you try it? >> I don't know if I have one or not.

1210
01:25:55,920 --> 01:26:01,360
>> No, you don't have one. You might be thinking of something else.

1211
01:25:59,440 --> 01:26:03,360
>> There's only one. So, nobody has one except someone

1212
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:06,880
>> then. No. >> Okay. Okay. No, don't worry. Forget forget about Dan. Forget about Dan.

1213
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:13,199
>> I have not. >> We'll never forget about Dan. We love Dan, but just >> in this context.

1214
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:14,000
>> In this Yeah. For for now. For now.

1215
01:26:13,199 --> 01:26:19,840
>> It's um >> Dude, >> I'm I'm very happy to hear that for a

1216
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:22,560
huge variety of reasons. Yeah. Yeah. >> And I'll leave it there.

1217
01:26:20,960 --> 01:26:25,360
>> Anyway, the point is we have a really passionate team and we and we kind of we

1218
01:26:24,239 --> 01:26:28,960
embrace those challenges. Anyway, >> the timeline for that is like

1219
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:34,560
>> it's tight. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be crazy. >> Yeah. >> Knock on wood. Knock on wood. Yeah.

1220
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:36,800
>> Um anyway, the PC gamer review. I I thought it was pretty fair. Um

1221
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:41,280
>> Cool. >> I think there were Yeah, I think there was like one thing that I I was like,

1222
01:26:40,080 --> 01:26:45,679
"Oh, I think you might have kind of overlooked that, but it was like super

1223
01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:48,400
super minor." Um and I thought they Yeah, I thought they did a pretty good

1224
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:53,840
job. They compared it to sort of, you know, obvious things like the iFixit

1225
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:56,000
Protect Toolkit. Um, anyway, thanks Jacob for taking the

1226
01:26:55,440 --> 01:27:00,639
time. >> Sweet. >> Appreciate you.

1227
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:04,159
>> Uh, what do we want to talk about next? We're supposed to do another topic.

1228
01:27:02,239 --> 01:27:07,520
>> It is not the cobbar hammer. And guys, that is a >> never happening.

1229
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:13,120
>> That is a never happening situation. >> Oh yeah, never happening.

1230
01:27:11,199 --> 01:27:19,760
Uh, every SKH Highix employee could

1231
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:24,080
I think that's a bold could, but could receive it might happen. Uh, could

1232
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:29,360
receive $477,000 bonuses this year.

1233
01:27:27,199 --> 01:27:34,000
Almost 900,000 next year. Apparently 35,000

1234
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:39,120
workers are set out to benefit from a share of

1235
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:41,520
169 billion in projected operating

1236
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:46,480
profit for the year. SK Hanx agreed last September to remove its previous bonus

1237
01:27:43,679 --> 01:27:50,639
caps. hilarious timing and allocate 10% of annual operating profit directly to

1238
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:58,080
employees as performance bonuses with analysts forecasting around 250 trillion

1239
01:27:54,560 --> 01:28:01,199
one or 169 billion I'm assuming US

1240
01:27:58,080 --> 01:28:03,920
dollars in operating profit for 2026.

1241
01:28:01,199 --> 01:28:10,800
That works out to roughly the previously mentioned 477,000 per employee across

1242
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:13,679
its 35,000 person workforce on top of

1243
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:18,320
the $95,000 in profit sharing already paid out in February. If profits keep

1244
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:23,960
climbing, bonuses could hit nearly $900,000 per person next year.

1245
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:31,120
The AI boom The AI boom is driving all this. Demand for HBM memory chips used

1246
01:28:29,199 --> 01:28:35,520
in AI accelerators has sent memory prices through record highs and SKHENX

1247
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:41,040
is the dominant supplier. The company's transparent bonus formula has become a

1248
01:28:38,480 --> 01:28:45,040
recruiting weapon against Samsung which is now facing its own crisis with over

1249
01:28:43,679 --> 01:28:49,280
so this is the thing that I thought we were originally talking about for some reason which I which is why I said

1250
01:28:47,679 --> 01:28:54,719
maybe. I guess the previous stuff is pretty locked in. The maybe stuff is is

1251
01:28:51,199 --> 01:28:58,320
is this. So sorry I I I had the wrong

1252
01:28:54,719 --> 01:29:01,040
reaction there. Samsung's union uh

1253
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:05,440
>> over 30,000 Samsung Union members are demanding a similar deal

1254
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:11,199
>> with a strike a strike date set for May 21st. That's

1255
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:16,719
crazy. A strike right now could seriously hurt earning potential. This

1256
01:29:14,239 --> 01:29:20,960
is this is very interesting to watch. Samsung's union is pushing for 15% of

1257
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:27,120
operating profit, pointing out that their bonuses currently amount to less

1258
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:29,120
than 30% of what uh comparable SKH

1259
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:33,040
workers receive. Samsung management countered with 10% which the union

1260
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:38,159
rejected. >> Dude, this is this is crazy to watch.

1261
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:40,080
This is like this is some peak tier nut

1262
01:29:38,159 --> 01:29:44,719
>> negotiating. Like remember when we were talking about everything that was going

1263
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:47,360
on with like SAG AFRA and and like and

1264
01:29:44,719 --> 01:29:50,960
in in Hollywood you know down south and I was talking about like kind of you

1265
01:29:49,040 --> 01:29:54,639
know bold strategy cotton let's see how it works out for them because they were

1266
01:29:52,560 --> 01:30:00,800
striking at a time when >> a lot of studios were actually pairing

1267
01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:03,280
back their productions and losing money on a lot of big tentpole projects and

1268
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:08,960
like >> this is the hard opposite of that scenario.

1269
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:15,120
>> This is the timing you want. Yeah, >> you're a specialized worker

1270
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:16,639
in something that is absolutely

1271
01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:24,080
banging. >> There is a place making record profits

1272
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:25,840
that could definitely hire you in uh

1273
01:30:24,080 --> 01:30:28,639
>> Yeah, they could could very easily definitely hire you and and I think they

1274
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:34,880
are. >> Yeah. No, they've been apparently taking

1275
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:37,120
advantage of this of this situation

1276
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:41,840
right now because from an SKH heck standpoint,

1277
01:30:38,159 --> 01:30:43,840
>> I can see why why not because you're

1278
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:49,040
going to allocate 10% of your annual operating profit. So what do you care as

1279
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:54,560
like at the management level? >> A couple of pops. >> No, I just mean what do you care at the

1280
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:57,760
management level if that 10% is allocated across another thousand

1281
01:30:56,159 --> 01:31:01,600
people? You don't you don't give a [ __ ] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, >> right. Because no one's going to be

1282
01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:05,840
complaining because as long as the profits go up, their next bonus check will be bigger anyway.

1283
01:31:04,159 --> 01:31:09,360
>> It's going to be so freaking monstrous. >> So if they said that if they spread it

1284
01:31:07,360 --> 01:31:14,960
across more people, they could basically just bleed Samsung dry.

1285
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:17,960
>> Yeah, that's wild. >> Wild.

1286
01:31:18,239 --> 01:31:25,040
It's this this is going to be this is

1287
01:31:21,679 --> 01:31:28,320
going to be an interesting one.

1288
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:30,320
>> Yeah. Um, and you know to to your point

1289
01:31:28,320 --> 01:31:34,800
that I think you were getting into again SKH Heinix has nothing to lose here

1290
01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:38,639
because if the bonus quantity is derived from operating profit then when the bust

1291
01:31:37,679 --> 01:31:42,639
inevitably happens >> on the other end of this it just autoscales down.

1292
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:45,920
>> It autoscales down >> because it's still 10% of annual

1293
01:31:44,239 --> 01:31:51,520
operating profit but if they're just not profiting as much then it just goes down. So like realistically

1294
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:55,920
the employees are winning super hard when the company's winning super hard and then when the company isn't super

1295
01:31:54,239 --> 01:31:59,360
winning super hard it'll just it'll automatically kind of correct itself.

1296
01:31:57,520 --> 01:32:02,800
You don't have to have rough conversations with people about how

1297
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:08,960
their wages are going to go down. It's just >> well we sold less RAM so

1298
01:32:06,239 --> 01:32:12,960
>> there you go. Dude it's it's crazy the kind of scale that these companies work

1299
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:19,600
on. Yeah. Like the fact that they allocate only 10% of their annual

1300
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:22,800
operating profit to to like performance

1301
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:27,040
bonuses. That's like that's crazy. Like

1302
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:28,880
ratio-wise, we are way above that for

1303
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:31,520
overall like how much we allocate of our operating profit to to compensation. And

1304
01:32:31,120 --> 01:32:37,280
yet >> this isn't to compensation though. No, it is. It's just performance bonuses.

1305
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:40,800
>> I know. Oh, but the performance bonuses are like the bulk of their comp now.

1306
01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:45,520
It's it like it's it's crazy. I was looking at the numbers. >> Oh yeah.

1307
01:32:42,560 --> 01:32:51,520
>> So like the fact that the fact that they have

1308
01:32:47,679 --> 01:32:53,040
>> relatively only that amount allocated to

1309
01:32:51,520 --> 01:32:55,679
employee compensation >> that's not true though. That's what I'm

1310
01:32:54,960 --> 01:33:03,520
saying. >> It's a little more basically is is what it amounts to. So like that and a little

1311
01:32:59,920 --> 01:33:08,560
more allocated and they're able to pay

1312
01:33:03,520 --> 01:33:12,960
out base salary plus $477,000

1313
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:14,800
per employee. Like the amount of money

1314
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:18,800
that memory manufacturing is making right now >> crazy

1315
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:23,600
>> is flipping insane. >> Yeah. Yeah.

1316
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:27,679
>> Flipping insane. >> And sorry that last number was slightly

1317
01:33:25,920 --> 01:33:34,840
wrong. It's actually over 500,000 because that 477,000 was on top of

1318
01:33:30,239 --> 01:33:34,840
95,000 already. Like

1319
01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:42,400
it's the these wafers, right? If you if

1320
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:46,159
you got the bad license to print money, Luke. >> Yeah. Imagine getting a like you're

1321
01:33:44,639 --> 01:33:50,600
you're just out of school and you get a job at one of these companies right now.

1322
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:57,520
>> That's it. I'm moving to Seoul. >> See you later.

1323
01:33:54,800 --> 01:34:02,639
>> Hey guys, I can do something. I swear. >> Yeah, I I I could I could I could do PR.

1324
01:34:00,480 --> 01:34:05,760
I could do PR for SKHEX. I could be I could be their video guy.

1325
01:34:04,480 --> 01:34:10,960
>> Uh oh, okay. Sure. >> Yeah. >> I don't know about PR.

1326
01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:15,440
>> Yeah. No, >> you could do media.

1327
01:34:13,199 --> 01:34:19,600
>> We could change our company. Hey. Hey, we could do what that shoe company did.

1328
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:23,280
We raise a bunch of money and we do uh we do uh Rod's idea, Linus Memory Group.

1329
01:34:22,719 --> 01:34:29,120
>> There you go. >> Yeah. >> There you go. >> We'll we'll build a fab. Just give me a small loan of a billion dollars and then

1330
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:32,480
we'll we'll we'll go we'll build a memory fab. We got this. >> Well, isn't their whole thing? They're

1331
01:34:31,199 --> 01:34:36,080
not even building the fab. They're just like acquiring the hardware for you. So,

1332
01:34:34,639 --> 01:34:38,239
if you're building a fab and you need a bunch of GPUs, they will like get it for

1333
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:43,199
you. >> The shoe company. >> Yeah, I think that was >> I think I think they're building I think

1334
01:34:41,679 --> 01:34:47,120
they want to build data centers and then like just lease access to them like

1335
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:50,719
everyone in the Have they Have they crashed yet? Is that over?

1336
01:34:49,040 --> 01:34:55,199
>> Who knows? >> Was it? >> Hold on. Birds.

1337
01:34:53,840 --> 01:35:00,920
>> Oh, yeah. >> Oh, yeah. Okay.

1338
01:34:56,880 --> 01:35:00,920
>> So, here was the thing. NO.

1339
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:06,560
>> SO, YEAH, they spiked to uh $17 and

1340
01:35:04,480 --> 01:35:12,000
they're all the way down to seven now. Um, that's going to keep going. That

1341
01:35:08,719 --> 01:35:13,440
this is not financial advice, but that's

1342
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:19,199
going to that's going to keep going in that direction in case anyone was wondering.

1343
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:23,440
>> So, there's like one stock that makes any amount of sense on the stock market.

1344
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:28,880
Yeah, I'm going for that's going to be the one that actually performs according

1345
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:32,080
to its its basic fundamentals. >> I believe you.

1346
01:35:30,159 --> 01:35:35,520
>> Not financial advice. Not financial advice. >> Financial advice. Thank you very much,

1347
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:38,400
>> Dan. Don't think I don't see what you type in chat.

1348
01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:42,080
>> What? Apart from a bull >> goes, Lionus is a bear confirmed.

1349
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:45,760
>> Well, you're you're saying that it's going down. >> Yeah. Don't think I don't know what that

1350
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:49,120
means, though. >> Just because I use a double undonder

1351
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:54,800
doesn't mean that it's not true financially.

1352
01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:59,480
Not not financial advice. Not employment

1353
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:59,480
advice either. Call your boss a bear.

1354
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:04,360
>> You're too skinny.

1355
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:14,719
>> Dude, I weigh now. >> God. >> No. I definitely don't have the hair,

1356
01:36:10,639 --> 01:36:15,280
>> but I I I like weigh a lot now. I'm 174

1357
01:36:14,719 --> 01:36:18,639
lbs now. >> Take creatine way more. >> Take more. I don't want to weigh more

1358
01:36:18,239 --> 01:36:22,159
than this. >> Way more. >> Way more. >> No. Oh, I don't want to way more than

1359
01:36:21,440 --> 01:36:27,920
this. >> Mass maxing Lionus. >> No, I don't. We don't need that.

1360
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:32,239
>> Thighs as thick as anything. >> Yeah. >> Tree trunk.

1361
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:35,040
>> Thighs bigger than her or not. >> Bigger than Taylor Swift.

1362
01:36:33,679 --> 01:36:40,159
>> No, I don't think of >> you want to win this or No, >> I don't. It's not a competition.

1363
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:45,520
>> Honestly, I Twitter. It's not a competition. Twitter energy.

1364
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:47,360
>> Lionus watermelon crushing tips. Yeah,

1365
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:52,080
>> that should be next year's April Fools as you relaunch the only fans and it's

1366
01:36:49,440 --> 01:36:55,960
just videos of you crushing watermelons >> leggings for men.

1367
01:36:56,159 --> 01:37:03,199
>> Leggings that have like padded >> they're like 5 foot areas.

1368
01:37:00,320 --> 01:37:07,600
>> They they're like for normal people like they would not fit around the waist.

1369
01:37:05,679 --> 01:37:11,199
>> We'd have to create like a low friction space age material between the thighs so

1370
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:14,800
that they don't wear out from all the like >> That's what Yeah. Yeah. All right, I'm

1371
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:18,800
into it. Oh, I thought you meant padding. Just so that when you're crushing watermelons, like you know,

1372
01:37:17,440 --> 01:37:22,080
it's it doesn't hurt. You know, it wouldn't hurt. Oh, sorry. I Okay, we

1373
01:37:21,119 --> 01:37:26,960
were I understand what you're saying now. We were not talking about the same thing. >> Yeah. You know, on like elementary

1374
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:31,280
school, you had those planners with the cover that went like when you ran your

1375
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:35,199
nails over it. Put one of those on in the inside of each thigh so that when

1376
01:37:32,639 --> 01:37:40,000
you walk it's like >> Dude, that would be the like most ' 90s

1377
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:44,080
parachute pants like put little 3Ds on them too. Just your

1378
01:37:42,239 --> 01:37:47,119
face going back and forth. That'd be great. >> Write that down. Write that down.

1379
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:51,679
>> No, we're not writing any of this. >> You won't gain that much though. And then in in a lot of cases, you you lose

1380
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:54,000
it afterwards. >> All right. >> You should take it anyways. >> All right. All right. You should take

1381
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:58,320
it. >> You'll do better at Babmon. >> Might also help your brain.

1382
01:37:57,520 --> 01:38:03,080
>> Not medical advice. >> What are you saying? >> Not medical advice. >> Yeah,

1383
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:07,199
>> it's actually true. I don't. But I have read some papers, but I still don't

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All right, Luke, you want to pick one? >> Sure. Uh,

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01:40:24,719 --> 01:40:32,719
let's see here. >> Pick the rap. Pick the rap. >> Oh, yeah, sure. Uh, LTT rap. A month

1418
01:40:30,560 --> 01:40:39,920
ago, we posted a video about Tik Tok hacks, and one of the hacks was uh that

1419
01:40:35,679 --> 01:40:42,880
we looked at was from user rap tech 269

1420
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:49,360
nice 4, uh, who made a rap about how to use, uh, utilman to, uh, log into a

1421
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:52,080
locked Windows user account. Well, he's back and this time he has one about our

1422
01:40:51,679 --> 01:40:56,960
merch. >> Okay. I'm not gonna play the whole thing just because like I want you guys to

1423
01:40:55,920 --> 01:41:00,719
watch the whole thing. >> Y >> So, I'm only going to play a little bit

1424
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:04,719
of it. Have you seen this? >> No, I haven't. >> Oh, but I'm giving them a view right now

1425
01:41:04,159 --> 01:41:08,719
anyways. >> Oh my god. Okay, here we go. You ready?

1426
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:14,560
>> Yeah. See if this works. >> Yes. >> Tech PCs. You know what? I love the

1427
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:20,159
style. Guilty of too much charisma. >> Hey, L said I got too much charisma on

1428
01:41:17,679 --> 01:41:25,360
site. So he sent me all the gear. Now we going to do it right.

1429
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:29,159
Build another level. No stripping, no slipping. Every bit.

1430
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:44,639
>> Is that amazing or what? It's up on YouTube shorts. Yeah, no keys posting it

1431
01:41:40,560 --> 01:41:47,199
in the chat. Like how?

1432
01:41:44,639 --> 01:41:52,360
Luke, do you think even with his help I could

1433
01:41:48,960 --> 01:41:52,360
ever be cool?

1434
01:41:53,679 --> 01:41:58,000
>> What? Dan, say it. >> Somebody posted something funny in chat

1435
01:41:56,880 --> 01:42:05,840
is >> sure they did. >> He might have enough aura that while you

1436
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:07,760
were with him and with his help,

1437
01:42:05,840 --> 01:42:11,280
>> you might be able to pull it off. But I feel like once he's removed from the

1438
01:42:09,280 --> 01:42:14,480
scenario, you are yet again not cool. Even if he received your help,

1439
01:42:12,639 --> 01:42:17,119
>> so basically I'm received his help. >> With training, I could be posy grade

1440
01:42:16,719 --> 01:42:23,280
cool. >> I think so. >> Okay. >> I think so.

1441
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:31,520
>> Well, that's fine. I'm just glad that he likes the product. And um I I am I I am

1442
01:42:29,119 --> 01:42:37,119
My life is richer for having watched this video earlier today.

1443
01:42:35,440 --> 01:42:42,639
You guys got You guys got to hear the rest of it. It It doesn't go downhill

1444
01:42:40,159 --> 01:42:49,199
from there. That's That's what I'll say. Uh go go go check it out. Raptech 2694.

1445
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:53,679
>> Speaking of hopefully not going downhill, Apple names new chief

1446
01:42:51,119 --> 01:42:58,159
executive to replace Tim Cook. >> Apple has announced that Tim Cook will

1447
01:42:55,119 --> 01:43:01,199
step down as CEO on September 1st, 2026.

1448
01:42:58,159 --> 01:43:03,040
and John Turnis, the company's senior

1449
01:43:01,199 --> 01:43:08,639
vice president of hardware engineering since 2021, will be taking over. Cook

1450
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:13,600
will move to executive chairman. The transition was unanimously approved by

1451
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:19,040
the board and follows that uh what Apple describes as a long-term succession

1452
01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:24,880
plan. Uh Turnis has been at Apple since 2001, working under both Steve Jobs and

1453
01:43:22,480 --> 01:43:30,880
Cook. He's been the guy behind the hardware side of iPad, AirPods, and

1454
01:43:27,679 --> 01:43:33,360
recent iPhones. Uh, and has taken on an

1455
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:38,480
increasingly visible role at Apple events in recent years. At 50, he's

1456
01:43:36,239 --> 01:43:44,400
roughly the same age Cook was when he took over in 2021 and roughly onetenth

1457
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:49,920
of the age of an average world leader. Uh, under Cook's 15-year run, Apple went

1458
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:54,719
from a $350 billion company to a $4 trillion one. Launched Apple Watch,

1459
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:59,280
AirPods, Apple Silicon Vision Pro, and built out the services business. The

1460
01:43:57,040 --> 01:44:04,159
biggest challenge waiting for Turnis is widely seen as fixing Apple's struggling

1461
01:44:01,520 --> 01:44:08,480
AI strategy. Uh, which is lag behind competitors.

1462
01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:12,400
>> Interesting. >> I don't agree with that at all. Yeah,

1463
01:44:10,800 --> 01:44:17,199
>> they're going to be fine. I think they're actually probably doing like the

1464
01:44:14,639 --> 01:44:20,960
smartest move in the room, but we'll see how it goes. I I know a bunch of people

1465
01:44:19,199 --> 01:44:24,239
have been saying like, "Oh, oh, but if it like if if someone figures it out,

1466
01:44:22,719 --> 01:44:28,639
they're going to be so far behind." And it's like, >> I don't even think so. With with the

1467
01:44:26,960 --> 01:44:33,360
rate at which models are being open sourced and honestly Apple's hardware is

1468
01:44:32,159 --> 01:44:38,000
for running that >> that too. And the rate at which people

1469
01:44:35,840 --> 01:44:43,360
seem to be very happy to just jump companies constantly, like the the uh

1470
01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:46,639
the the relationship with AI companies and their employees is very very

1471
01:44:45,360 --> 01:44:54,400
tenuous. They're just kind of bouncing around all over the place. If Apple wants to turn it on, I think they

1472
01:44:50,719 --> 01:44:56,239
absolutely can right now. Um and I don't

1473
01:44:54,400 --> 01:45:00,880
think they will right now, and I don't think they should right now. I think

1474
01:44:57,679 --> 01:45:03,679
they are wisely waiting out this insane

1475
01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:09,040
storm of spending, keeping their insane amounts of cash that they have um

1476
01:45:06,480 --> 01:45:12,080
instead of just blowing it all and then when the timing is right, maybe they'll

1477
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:18,400
step in or maybe they'll have a different solution. Who knows? Maybe they'll get paid money to to use someone

1478
01:45:16,639 --> 01:45:22,639
else's model as like an advertising thing. >> Kind of like when they lost the, you

1479
01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:25,840
know, search engine war or browser war or whatever. Like

1480
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:27,840
>> Yeah. like maybe they'll find some way to make it work out in their favor

1481
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:35,600
anyways. >> That does tend to be the Apple way. >> Yeah. >> Don't be first. Just be Apple.

1482
01:45:33,119 --> 01:45:40,400
>> Yeah. So I It doesn't feel like an error to me. It also like it would feel like

1483
01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:44,719
an error if Google wasn't doing it. >> Yeah. >> But it does not feel like an error that

1484
01:45:43,520 --> 01:45:51,280
Apple isn't doing it. >> Yeah. I with that. >> Yeah. Um, we actually, um, this was one

1485
01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:55,920
of those ones where, you know, how we've talked about needing to be more agile as

1486
01:45:54,480 --> 01:46:01,360
a company in our in our video production. Uh, this is one that, um, I

1487
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:04,560
I sent, uh, this Okay, hold on. We're going to have to we're going to have to

1488
01:46:02,239 --> 01:46:09,360
back up a little bit. Um, >> over on Flow Plane, I was reading

1489
01:46:07,280 --> 01:46:13,760
through one of the reading through the comments on one of the exclusives that

1490
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:16,800
we did. So there's a video where uh we have this kind of series I guess now

1491
01:46:15,199 --> 01:46:22,800
because I've done it a couple times where I interview uh other executives or

1492
01:46:20,239 --> 01:46:27,199
other leaders here at the company and you know sort of have a business meeting

1493
01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:32,159
on camera just like Luke and I do on WAN Show every week for you guys but with

1494
01:46:29,199 --> 01:46:35,920
different people. And it was actually uh a commenter who was talking about how

1495
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:41,840
um >> oh I like this comment. I know what one you're talking about actually. You know,

1496
01:46:39,440 --> 01:46:47,280
James and I talked about being kind of a big ship these days and and that being a

1497
01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:54,480
real challenge for us because we've lost some of the agility that we had in the

1498
01:46:49,440 --> 01:46:56,239
past. And Biohazard 4524 says to keep

1499
01:46:54,480 --> 01:47:00,800
James' analogy of them being a big ship that turns slowly, um, what I think they

1500
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:04,960
would love is to be more like an aircraft carrier. Yes, the massive ship

1501
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:08,560
turns slowly, but you can launch fast craft and helicopters to go try that new

1502
01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:13,920
thing to be a platform to make quick things doable without going under. And I

1503
01:47:11,199 --> 01:47:17,199
actually immediately screenshotted this and posted this in the executive chat

1504
01:47:15,840 --> 01:47:22,159
and basically went, >> "This is what we need to do. We can't

1505
01:47:19,679 --> 01:47:26,719
stop being a bigger ship than YouTube channels that are literally one person

1506
01:47:24,159 --> 01:47:32,639
or two people or even five people. We were more agile when when we were, you

1507
01:47:30,480 --> 01:47:34,639
know, a dozen people. And that's just inherent. There's more

1508
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:40,960
>> makes sense. >> There's there's more people who need to know. Um there's more people who need to

1509
01:47:39,119 --> 01:47:45,600
who need to, you know, approve things. It's >> I have had some conversations recently

1510
01:47:43,520 --> 01:47:49,119
>> where we'll we'll talk about like, okay, we could do X, Y, or Z thing. And the

1511
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:54,080
response will be like, yeah, but then we're gonna have to do this and that and

1512
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:59,440
this and that and this and that. And I' I've been trying out a response of just

1513
01:47:55,840 --> 01:48:00,960
like what if we just didn't.

1514
01:47:59,440 --> 01:48:09,840
And it's it's kind of fun watching people's brain explode. >> And so, um, so basically I was like,

1515
01:48:05,440 --> 01:48:13,119
okay, but we have to find a way to be

1516
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:16,080
more agile to get things done quickly

1517
01:48:13,119 --> 01:48:20,239
and and circumvent the process when it's necessary. And uh this Tim Cook

1518
01:48:18,639 --> 01:48:26,560
retirement announcement is actually something that we we went aircraft

1519
01:48:22,560 --> 01:48:28,719
carrier mode on. So we we kept the ship

1520
01:48:26,560 --> 01:48:34,080
going in the direction that it's going and a small team of one of the

1521
01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:39,760
relatively new writers uh on the team. His name is Sean and he put together

1522
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:43,440
like sort of some key milestones from Cook's career and like kind of a draft

1523
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:48,960
of what a script might look like. And then I I sat on the plane on the way

1524
01:48:46,400 --> 01:48:53,040
back from the event earlier this week and I banged out a script. We shot it

1525
01:48:50,880 --> 01:48:56,320
the morning I got back in. It was edited today. It's I'm going to review it

1526
01:48:54,960 --> 01:49:03,199
tonight and it goes up I think this weekend. Um and so we're we need to

1527
01:48:59,600 --> 01:49:04,800
start doing a better job of that. And

1528
01:49:03,199 --> 01:49:10,800
the only way to start doing a better job of it is to start doing a better job of

1529
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:13,280
it. Just [ __ ] do it. And so we're um

1530
01:49:10,800 --> 01:49:16,239
we're putting it in action already. And uh just this was just such a great

1531
01:49:14,800 --> 01:49:22,719
example. I don't remember how we got on this topic even, but this was such a great example of the importance of

1532
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:27,040
community feedback in what we're doing and how dialed in. It's not just me

1533
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:32,880
who's who's reading this stuff and who's engaging with you guys. Um it's it's

1534
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:36,800
lots of people here at the company who just care and just want to make a better

1535
01:49:34,639 --> 01:49:40,719
product. Whether that product is a shirt or whether that product is a video or

1536
01:49:39,040 --> 01:49:44,239
whether it's a streaming platform or whether it's Hey, why don't we

1537
01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:48,400
transition into another topic here and let's have a look at some of the sick

1538
01:49:46,639 --> 01:49:50,560
content that's been posted on ltdabs.com.

1539
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:59,360
>> Yes, >> check this out, dude. >> Yeah, >> Nick and Steven working on some pretty

1540
01:49:55,760 --> 01:50:02,080
sick freaking content. This is I bought

1541
01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:06,400
this is such an interesting question that when Intel announced this I was

1542
01:50:04,239 --> 01:50:10,800
like oh yeah I wonder how much this helps. I wish someone would like look

1543
01:50:08,639 --> 01:50:14,320
into that. And then little did I know >> and you didn't ask us.

1544
01:50:12,159 --> 01:50:22,320
>> Little did I know somebody was doing it and that somebody was apparently me.

1545
01:50:17,679 --> 01:50:25,040
Thank you Labs team. Um, so the the long

1546
01:50:22,320 --> 01:50:32,400
and short of it is that Intel has some some tools that can that can help their

1547
01:50:28,239 --> 01:50:35,679
especially their new Core Ultra um 200

1548
01:50:32,400 --> 01:50:37,280
series processors perform apparently

1549
01:50:35,679 --> 01:50:42,800
quite a bit better. And so there's there's actually a few different optimizations. Intel Extreme Tuning

1550
01:50:40,159 --> 01:50:50,320
Utility, RXTU, Intel Application Optimizer, and then the new Intel binary

1551
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:53,440
optimization tool or IBOT. And pretty

1552
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:54,880
much you um go in here, you tweak all

1553
01:50:53,440 --> 01:51:00,400
your stuff, they show you like how to enable it, and then boom, here is the

1554
01:50:58,560 --> 01:51:06,000
improvement in performance that you can get with a 200 S series processor. So

1555
01:51:03,119 --> 01:51:11,040
these are the the newer ones um with boost off and with boost on. Uh what

1556
01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:15,760
exact chip did we use in the test bench? Uh test bench, where is it?

1557
01:51:14,639 --> 01:51:20,480
>> Yeah, I can't remember off the top of my head either. uh changes the PL1

1558
01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:23,679
profiles. Which chip is it? Okay. Well, this is something we might have uh

1559
01:51:22,239 --> 01:51:30,400
overlooked a little bit. Oh, no, no, no. Here it is. Here it is. So, with the 285K Oh, no. Sorry. This is uh not the

1560
01:51:27,119 --> 01:51:34,719
new Plus one. So, this is the older um

1561
01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:37,280
285K, which gets a pretty substantial

1562
01:51:34,719 --> 01:51:43,040
boost actually across a pretty wide variety of games. Anywhere from like 2

1563
01:51:39,679 --> 01:51:46,159
1/2% to over 4%.

1564
01:51:43,040 --> 01:51:47,760
And that's in 1% lows. So that's pretty

1565
01:51:46,159 --> 01:51:52,480
cool. And then with the new plus, the new 270K Plus, we actually got way less.

1566
01:51:51,360 --> 01:51:58,320
>> Yeah, >> that is pretty fascinating. So yeah,

1567
01:51:55,679 --> 01:52:03,440
guys, go check out that article. And and that's just one of the uh of the cool

1568
01:52:01,520 --> 01:52:06,719
things that went up this week. All right. Did this Did the CMF 2026 one go

1569
01:52:05,760 --> 01:52:10,400
up? Not this week. >> Is >> Oh, they must have just I must have just

1570
01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:13,360
come across it. No, no, that was that one was two weeks ago.

1571
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:16,800
>> Oh, I thought you were talking about the uh the phone brightness one. No, no, no.

1572
01:52:15,360 --> 01:52:20,880
That one we talked about last week, but this one this one uh slipped my notice.

1573
01:52:19,280 --> 01:52:24,320
So, this is talking about like color on Apple's new displays. Really, really,

1574
01:52:22,800 --> 01:52:27,440
really cool article as well. I didn't see it until this week. So, I'm I'm

1575
01:52:26,159 --> 01:52:32,480
getting to the point, man, where I just like and like like chilling and waiting

1576
01:52:30,639 --> 01:52:39,239
for LT Labs to release a new article and I'm like you're that you've been

1577
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:39,239
releasing them without

1578
01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:44,800
>> No one will ever go to the damn website by itself. That's >> No, they will. They will. Be optimistic,

1579
01:52:43,679 --> 01:52:49,119
Luke. Hey, hey, you got to have >> We still Okay, we still I have to I have

1580
01:52:47,679 --> 01:52:52,239
to point this out. You have to understand we still have people asking

1581
01:52:50,880 --> 01:52:59,840
us like, "When are you guys going to have an RSS feed?" It's It's right here.

1582
01:52:56,320 --> 01:53:02,400
It's It's right here. It's also It's

1583
01:52:59,840 --> 01:53:07,199
also It's also right here.

1584
01:53:04,960 --> 01:53:13,440
It's also just Hold on just in case. Just in case. Hold on. I got to go to

1585
01:53:08,960 --> 01:53:14,880
the bottom. It's It's also right here.

1586
01:53:13,440 --> 01:53:21,119
And if you click on here, it's everywhere. It's I we can't we can't put

1587
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:24,719
it in more play. We get people go out of

1588
01:53:21,119 --> 01:53:26,800
their way to email us asking when we're

1589
01:53:24,719 --> 01:53:30,880
going to have these things and they're

1590
01:53:29,599 --> 01:53:33,520
Please use them. >> Yeah. Yeah, use them. It's good. It's good stuff.

1591
01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:40,800
>> Come on. >> Heck yeah. Way to go, LTT Labs. Love to

1592
01:53:36,239 --> 01:53:44,880
see it. All right, what else we got? Oh,

1593
01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:46,400
this is cool. Uh I I actually

1594
01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:51,199
man I'm on the fence now because I knew you'd be excited about that whole

1595
01:53:47,920 --> 01:53:54,480
bringing bringing uh cutting edge models

1596
01:53:51,199 --> 01:53:57,920
on prem uh with like the Gemini hardware

1597
01:53:54,480 --> 01:53:59,040
appliance. Um but I can also see why you

1598
01:53:57,920 --> 01:54:04,560
picked this one for one of your headlines. YouTube is opening up its AI

1599
01:54:02,480 --> 01:54:08,800
powered likeness detection tool to all of Hollywood. Actors, musicians,

1600
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:13,280
athletes, and the talent agencies and management companies that represent them

1601
01:54:11,199 --> 01:54:19,520
will be able to use this tool that works kind of like content ID except for faces

1602
01:54:17,280 --> 01:54:23,280
scanning the platform for AI generated deep fakes of enrolled individuals and

1603
01:54:21,520 --> 01:54:28,880
then letting them review and request removal. It is free, optin, and works

1604
01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:32,320
even if the person doesn't have a YouTube channel. The tool's been in a

1605
01:54:30,880 --> 01:54:37,199
phased roll out since actually late 2024, starting with CAA clients and then

1606
01:54:35,360 --> 01:54:40,960
expanding to about 5,000 creators last fall, then to politicians and

1607
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:46,000
journalists in March. The entertainment industry is the biggest expansion yet

1608
01:54:42,719 --> 01:54:48,719
with CAA, UTA, WME, and uh untitled

1609
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:53,760
management already on board. YouTube says that enrollment data is only used

1610
01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:58,239
for detection and is not used to train Google's AI models. Flag videos are

1611
01:54:56,320 --> 01:55:02,880
reviewed individually and content that falls under parody, satire or commentary

1612
01:55:00,400 --> 01:55:06,400
may stay up. The expansion comes after sor after the Sora launch last fall

1613
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:09,679
flooded the internet with deep fakes of celebrities and dead public figures

1614
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:14,400
making the need for this kind of tool kind of hard to argue against.

1615
01:55:12,719 --> 01:55:16,800
>> It's cool that YouTube's doing it. That's that's sweet. And for free.

1616
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:23,440
That's awesome. >> YouTube is not perfect. I call them out

1617
01:55:20,159 --> 01:55:25,280
in public and in private on a pretty

1618
01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:33,280
regular basis. However, however, however,

1619
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:33,840
let's look at all the other large video

1620
01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:37,520
platforms. >> This is I I know I've said it on W show before, but this is what I keep going

1621
01:55:37,119 --> 01:55:44,000
back to. >> Tik Tok meta,

1622
01:55:40,560 --> 01:55:46,320
dude. Relatively speaking,

1623
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:53,040
>> they're awesome. They've >> for a company to be on top as well for

1624
01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:56,159
as long as not not only around but as

1625
01:55:53,040 --> 01:56:00,239
big and on top for as long as they have

1626
01:55:56,159 --> 01:56:03,440
been. I am very surprised they don't

1627
01:56:00,239 --> 01:56:07,840
seem way worse and way more corrupt than

1628
01:56:03,440 --> 01:56:10,719
they are. Think about how Think about

1629
01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:15,040
how often big tech changes the deal. Pray I don't

1630
01:56:13,599 --> 01:56:19,360
alter it any further. Yeah. >> And with users, with users, I think

1631
01:56:17,599 --> 01:56:24,239
there's there's a pretty strong argument to be made that they they have changed

1632
01:56:21,040 --> 01:56:27,040
the deal in pretty substantial ways.

1633
01:56:24,239 --> 01:56:31,119
>> Some of those changes, in my opinion, uh come with the reality of just not being

1634
01:56:28,800 --> 01:56:35,599
like VC funded anymore and needing to run a profitable business model. I can't

1635
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:41,360
I can't blame them for that. You got you got to eat. Um, but in terms of the way

1636
01:56:39,280 --> 01:56:45,199
that they've engaged with the creators on their platform, the ones who give it

1637
01:56:43,119 --> 01:56:51,360
the value, the way that they have consistently stuck with that profit

1638
01:56:47,920 --> 01:56:55,119
share model is nuts.

1639
01:56:51,360 --> 01:56:57,599
>> Yeah. literally even seeing even seeing

1640
01:56:55,119 --> 01:57:03,119
how the model works whether we're talking Vine whether we're talking Tik

1641
01:56:59,520 --> 01:57:06,000
Tok or Meta no matter who it is even

1642
01:57:03,119 --> 01:57:10,880
seeing that obvious playbook that has worked so well uh YouTube calls it they

1643
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:15,119
call it a flywheel right the flywheel spins creators create amazing content

1644
01:57:13,520 --> 01:57:18,480
which benefits YouTube which makes money which goes to creators who spend it on

1645
01:57:16,639 --> 01:57:23,599
content who make better content that flywheel that YouTube relies on to

1646
01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:29,920
continue elevating the level of content on it and attracting creators to it.

1647
01:57:27,199 --> 01:57:36,880
It's in public. It's plain for everyone to see and nobody else

1648
01:57:33,679 --> 01:57:39,760
can just they can't do it. They can't

1649
01:57:36,880 --> 01:57:45,760
take out their wallet and just share the revenue. kind of funny because by by by

1650
01:57:43,280 --> 01:57:49,679
many accounts it's like actually cheaper and easier than doing something like

1651
01:57:48,320 --> 01:57:54,719
Netflix where you have to make the content yourself. Uh but just no one

1652
01:57:52,080 --> 01:58:01,040
else will do it. But I I I I still maintain like YouTube is really cool

1653
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:05,599
considering what it could be and there's some stuff that sucks. I'm still salty

1654
01:58:02,960 --> 01:58:08,480
about the dislike button and and shorts have been very frustrating for me.

1655
01:58:07,040 --> 01:58:13,280
Although I do have an interesting update. I heard on the open source

1656
01:58:10,800 --> 01:58:19,760
creator Discord a few people got access to the app update and it does what we

1657
01:58:17,599 --> 01:58:25,520
were hoping it would do. When you set your shorts limit to 0 minutes, it

1658
01:58:22,159 --> 01:58:28,239
removes shorts entirely from your like

1659
01:58:25,520 --> 01:58:33,360
main page, but if you go to a creator, you can still find the shorts. And that

1660
01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:35,040
that is completely fine in my mind. Um,

1661
01:58:33,360 --> 01:58:40,719
I still don't like that if you do manually go find some shorts, uh, it's

1662
01:58:37,679 --> 01:58:44,000
incredibly easy to bypass your zero

1663
01:58:40,719 --> 01:58:45,840
minute limit. Um, but the fact that it

1664
01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:48,239
kind of removes it from there is cool. And no, >> I got it.

1665
01:58:47,040 --> 01:58:55,760
>> The Oh, nice. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Let's check it out. >> Uh, okay. So, I have it now. Short speed

1666
01:58:52,960 --> 01:58:58,480
limit 0 minutes. >> So, I'm going to Yeah, I'm going to

1667
01:58:57,760 --> 01:59:03,920
close the app. >> Yeah. And then I'm going to I'll I'll

1668
01:59:01,679 --> 01:59:06,400
log into uh I'll log into my account. Actually, no. I'll I'll stay on the LT

1669
01:59:05,599 --> 01:59:11,360
account. I guess >> I saw shorts. >> Okay. Shorts.

1670
01:59:09,360 --> 01:59:14,239
>> Yeah, I see shorts immediately. >> No, they're gone. >> They're they're gone.

1671
01:59:12,960 --> 01:59:19,040
>> Wait, scroll down. >> No, that's play play. Oh, wait. YouTube playables. Oh, for crying out loud. Can

1672
01:59:17,280 --> 01:59:22,040
I get rid of these? Not interested. Okay.

1673
01:59:25,040 --> 01:59:31,719
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No shorts. >> Holy bananas.

1674
01:59:28,080 --> 01:59:31,719
>> Sweet. Top news.

1675
01:59:33,119 --> 01:59:38,480
Holy bananas, dude.

1676
01:59:37,440 --> 01:59:44,400
That's crazy. >> No shorts. >> Also, this is a this is a quality

1677
01:59:41,520 --> 01:59:48,280
recommendation. >> You're going to get uh

1678
01:59:52,159 --> 01:59:57,280
>> How is that? How is that in my recommendations right now?

1679
01:59:55,840 --> 02:00:00,800
>> Fantastic. Um, >> those Yeah,

1680
01:59:59,119 --> 02:00:02,880
>> that's a that's a throwback. >> Was that the work account?

1681
02:00:02,320 --> 02:00:10,440
>> Uh, >> someone's looking up the the dash boot beer song.

1682
02:00:05,840 --> 02:00:10,440
>> Amazing. Amazing. vat9.com.

1683
02:00:10,560 --> 02:00:18,159
Uh, >> is VT9 still around? >> I have no idea.

1684
02:00:15,199 --> 02:00:20,719
Now I want to know. >> Yes.

1685
02:00:19,119 --> 02:00:26,480
>> All right, let's let's see what's on bat 19. Oh, okay. >> It feels like the same stuff, though.

1686
02:00:24,400 --> 02:00:30,639
This is literally like I I think they made the video about this 5B gummy bear

1687
02:00:29,360 --> 02:00:35,119
over 10 years ago. >> Yeah. Honestly, I saw the gummy bear and

1688
02:00:33,440 --> 02:00:40,480
then I saw the micromagnets and I was like nothing has changed,

1689
02:00:37,199 --> 02:00:41,280
>> dude. I mean, look,

1690
02:00:40,480 --> 02:00:48,080
>> why would you >> hold on a second? Hold on. Get Get out of here. Look listen listen, sir. I

1691
02:00:45,440 --> 02:00:55,880
ain't a mathematician, but let me tell you let me tell you this. Times

1692
02:00:52,080 --> 02:00:55,880
>> How much is it? $579.

1693
02:00:56,080 --> 02:01:03,440
>> 57. Woo! In gummy bears, dude. Let's go.

1694
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:04,719
>> $5.7 million of gummy. We're in the

1695
02:01:03,440 --> 02:01:09,679
wrong business, sir. >> You should be making gummy bears. Make some creatine gummy bears. Do it that

1696
02:01:09,040 --> 02:01:16,560
way. >> That is That is wild.

1697
02:01:14,719 --> 02:01:21,199
It's interesting that they they put like a like a purchase counter on it. Seems

1698
02:01:19,280 --> 02:01:26,159
like every product. It's not It's not just key ones.

1699
02:01:23,440 --> 02:01:33,760
Rubber chicken pen. That seems like dancing. Okay. Well, yeah, that's that's

1700
02:01:31,040 --> 02:01:38,800
definitely a site that still exists. The superersized playground ball with

1701
02:01:36,159 --> 02:01:42,480
unmatched durability. >> No discount on this one.

1702
02:01:40,800 --> 02:01:47,440
>> It can handle a little Oh, this is new. This is in their their new uh tab.

1703
02:01:45,920 --> 02:01:51,520
>> I see. >> Okay.

1704
02:01:49,520 --> 02:01:56,159
catching a ball with the world's largest glove.

1705
02:01:53,440 --> 02:02:00,000
All right, man. Internet, you have really you've really gotten to be a

1706
02:01:58,000 --> 02:02:06,480
thing, haven't you? >> Uh, let's go

1707
02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:07,599
talk about let's talk about who Dims

1708
02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:12,239
Him. >> Have you seen this? >> Yep. >> I'm not quite sure if this qualifies as

1709
02:02:10,719 --> 02:02:16,719
good news, but it's certainly >> it's news. >> Fascinating news.

1710
02:02:14,000 --> 02:02:19,760
>> It might be good for like I don't know. No, I don't think it's I I I don't

1711
02:02:18,800 --> 02:02:24,159
>> I think it could be. >> I think it's just dumb. >> Super cost effective computers where you

1712
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:29,920
just need something. >> I guess >> you need a RAM stick in the computer so

1713
02:02:27,440 --> 02:02:36,400
it can turn on. >> Intel, ASRock, and Team Group have

1714
02:02:32,239 --> 02:02:39,760
unveiled who DIM half unbuffered DIM, a

1715
02:02:36,400 --> 02:02:42,880
new DDR5 spec that uses one 32-bit sub

1716
02:02:39,760 --> 02:02:45,360
channel rather than the usual two. Um,

1717
02:02:42,880 --> 02:02:50,800
fewer memory chips per stick means that it can be cheaper to produce as long as

1718
02:02:48,239 --> 02:02:55,760
you don't need the extra capacity anyway. Uh, with that said, early

1719
02:02:53,440 --> 02:02:59,760
benchmarks confirm the trade-off is pretty brutal. You get a little over 50%

1720
02:02:58,400 --> 02:03:05,199
as much bandwidth across the board, which makes sense because if you had, uh, a single 32-bit sub channel instead

1721
02:03:03,280 --> 02:03:11,040
of two 32-bit sub channels, then you would have half as many 32-bit sub

1722
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:12,800
channels. Um then in order to get the

1723
02:03:11,040 --> 02:03:18,080
performance that you might expect from DDR5, you would actually need two HUD

1724
02:03:16,080 --> 02:03:23,599
dims in dual channel and that would be the same as like one conventional uh

1725
02:03:20,800 --> 02:03:27,679
DDR5 stick. The whole thing exists because of the DDR5 shortage that has

1726
02:03:26,239 --> 02:03:31,119
been driving prices through the roof. It's aimed at entry-le desktops and

1727
02:03:29,280 --> 02:03:35,520
office machines that don't need peak memory performance. But hear me out,

1728
02:03:33,119 --> 02:03:39,360
DDR4 for those. Okay, that doesn't help office machines. and like, oh man, it

1729
02:03:37,760 --> 02:03:43,760
just feels like a lot of manufactured e-waste. Um,

1730
02:03:41,920 --> 02:03:49,280
one interesting thing though is that you can apparently start with a HUDM today

1731
02:03:46,159 --> 02:03:51,840
and then add a regular DDR5 stick for an

1732
02:03:49,280 --> 02:03:59,360
asymmetric setup. So, we've seen asymmetric memory before. I remember

1733
02:03:55,040 --> 02:04:01,440
back um AMD socket A. So, this will be

1734
02:03:59,360 --> 02:04:03,679
this will be a a deep cut. Did I use it right?

1735
02:04:02,560 --> 02:04:09,440
>> Socket A. Yes. >> Had three sticks. had three memory

1736
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:12,960
sticks. And the way that it worked was even though it did support dual channel,

1737
02:04:11,440 --> 02:04:16,800
you had two or three memory sticks, three slots. So you would install two

1738
02:04:15,040 --> 02:04:21,360
sticks in dual channel and then you could install a third memory stick in

1739
02:04:19,760 --> 02:04:25,280
the last slot that would operate in single channel mode. And the idea behind

1740
02:04:23,119 --> 02:04:29,840
it was that you'd use the dual channel memory that was running in dual channel

1741
02:04:27,119 --> 02:04:33,440
faster speed until you had too much in memory and then it would overflow into

1742
02:04:31,119 --> 02:04:41,679
the single channel one that was slower. Um, NVIDIA also famously pulled this a

1743
02:04:37,040 --> 02:04:43,840
similar move on the um, GTX 970 which

1744
02:04:41,679 --> 02:04:47,760
had 3 and a half gigs of RAM at full speed and then it had the other half a

1745
02:04:45,440 --> 02:04:51,920
gig of RAM at a lower speed due to the way that the uh, memory bus was

1746
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:54,920
configured. Um,

1747
02:04:55,199 --> 02:04:59,599
it wasn't that big of a deal in either of those cases. It worked pretty good, but

1748
02:04:58,239 --> 02:05:04,719
>> I don't think this will be a huge deal either. I still think hudims are maybe

1749
02:05:01,840 --> 02:05:10,239
just like not maybe amazing. Um >> I don't think they're cool. Maybe it'll

1750
02:05:07,199 --> 02:05:13,239
help again office computer situations,

1751
02:05:10,239 --> 02:05:13,239
but

1752
02:05:13,360 --> 02:05:18,440
yeah. Neat.

1753
02:05:18,639 --> 02:05:23,520
>> Hopefully they're relatively cheaper enough that it'll be helpful.

1754
02:05:22,080 --> 02:05:30,000
>> The thing I actually found most interesting about it was how uh they

1755
02:05:26,320 --> 02:05:32,960
apparently tested it. So, um, let's see.

1756
02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:36,880
Let me see if I can find a picture. Uh, Tom's Hardware doesn't have a picture of

1757
02:05:34,639 --> 02:05:41,440
it. So, let me have a look. Maybe, uh, Tech PowerUp also has an article.

1758
02:05:39,840 --> 02:05:44,400
Do they have a picture? Show me the picture. I don't know. I saw a picture

1759
02:05:43,040 --> 02:05:49,599
of how they tested it somewhere. And basically, they just took a regular not

1760
02:05:46,639 --> 02:05:56,080
who and put some Capton tape or some like packing tape over the contacts for

1761
02:05:54,080 --> 02:06:00,400
like the other 32-bit sub channel. I was like, "Oh, yeah. Okay. I guess that

1762
02:05:57,679 --> 02:06:05,679
would work as long as long as you have bio support for just activating the one

1763
02:06:03,360 --> 02:06:10,400
side. I was like, "Oh, okay. I would have never thought of it. What if I just

1764
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:15,599
taped over half of the half of the the fingers on my memory stick before I put

1765
02:06:12,960 --> 02:06:21,040
it in?" Yeah. No, I wouldn't I I I would not I would not think of that. It

1766
02:06:17,360 --> 02:06:24,080
wouldn't occur to me. Um,

1767
02:06:21,040 --> 02:06:27,360
no, we'll do that after. The EU

1768
02:06:24,080 --> 02:06:29,360
is starting February 2027

1769
02:06:27,360 --> 02:06:33,920
going to require batteries and portable devices to be, and this is a quote,

1770
02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:39,360
readily removable and replaceable. Huzzah. And this is key, that has to be

1771
02:06:37,599 --> 02:06:44,400
by end users using commercially available tools. No proprietary screws,

1772
02:06:41,440 --> 02:06:49,360
no heat guns, no solvents. Replaceable batteries must also stay available for

1773
02:06:46,639 --> 02:06:52,480
at least 5 years after a product leaves the market.

1774
02:06:50,480 --> 02:06:57,760
>> This is super interesting. This is super cool. But there is a notable exception.

1775
02:06:54,719 --> 02:07:01,040
Devices that manage to hit IP67

1776
02:06:57,760 --> 02:07:02,560
waterproofing and that can maintain 80%

1777
02:07:01,040 --> 02:07:07,440
of their battery capacity after a thousand full charge cycles are exempt.

1778
02:07:05,679 --> 02:07:11,520
Apple already meets this threshold on every iPhone since the 15, and most

1779
02:07:09,440 --> 02:07:17,840
flagship Android phones likely do as well. Meaning that the phones that many

1780
02:07:14,079 --> 02:07:21,040
enthusiasts actually care about um may

1781
02:07:17,840 --> 02:07:23,280
not be impacted by this. And many of the

1782
02:07:21,040 --> 02:07:27,280
phones that people may not find to be worthwhile to bother repairing because

1783
02:07:25,360 --> 02:07:33,360
of the costs involved in, you know, upgrading or repairing a device um

1784
02:07:31,119 --> 02:07:36,800
may be the only ones that are actually impacted. Some outlets though are

1785
02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:40,159
reporting that this could still push manufacturers toward easier battery

1786
02:07:38,480 --> 02:07:44,400
access across the board since budget and mid-range devices that don't hit the

1787
02:07:42,159 --> 02:07:50,159
exemption thresholds would need to comply. But the regulation may end up

1788
02:07:47,679 --> 02:07:54,880
changing very little about how flagship phones are built.

1789
02:07:53,040 --> 02:07:58,960
Our discussion question is, if every flagship phone qualifies for the

1790
02:07:56,320 --> 02:08:02,800
exemption, does this regulation actually change anything or did the EU just write

1791
02:08:01,119 --> 02:08:09,040
a right to repair rule with a loophole big enough to drive a phone through it?

1792
02:08:06,320 --> 02:08:14,320
um given that not everybody buys flagship phones, which seems to be kind

1793
02:08:10,800 --> 02:08:16,480
of a a carrier subsidy sort of market um

1794
02:08:14,320 --> 02:08:20,159
assumption that everybody just like has a flagship phone. It just might be a few

1795
02:08:18,239 --> 02:08:24,719
years old or it might be a current one. Um no, I I think this could actually

1796
02:08:22,480 --> 02:08:29,119
make a substantial difference because those those more uh valueoriented

1797
02:08:27,599 --> 02:08:34,320
mid-range phones where either they didn't pay for the IP certification or

1798
02:08:32,079 --> 02:08:38,079
they um are not built for it. could end up being

1799
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:42,560
built in a way that makes the batteries easier to replace, which is never a bad

1800
02:08:40,560 --> 02:08:46,639
thing. I do worry a little bit that again, the devices most impacted by this

1801
02:08:45,440 --> 02:08:49,119
might be the ones that also aren't getting software updates after that

1802
02:08:48,560 --> 02:08:58,159
time. >> Yeah. >> And therefore might have security concerns around using them, but I

1803
02:08:55,119 --> 02:08:59,520
consider this still progress. Um,

1804
02:08:58,159 --> 02:09:05,199
>> I was going to say steps >> and phones are just a small part of the

1805
02:09:02,159 --> 02:09:07,679
portable electronics picture. Like I got

1806
02:09:05,199 --> 02:09:13,599
I man I got super offended by my stupid old toothbrush that had a battery that

1807
02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:18,480
was clearly intentionally designed to be impossible to replace. Not impossible

1808
02:09:15,360 --> 02:09:21,119
but very difficult. I was just like this

1809
02:09:18,480 --> 02:09:24,480
is offensive because the only reason that this doesn't work anymore is

1810
02:09:22,480 --> 02:09:27,199
because you made sure it wouldn't. It sucked and I resolved never to buy a

1811
02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:33,119
toothbrush from that company again. I wonder how it how did they do that? Um,

1812
02:09:30,159 --> 02:09:36,960
basically just like the way that to when when it was closed up, the way that it

1813
02:09:35,199 --> 02:09:42,159
closes kind of like break it >> latches and things like conceal the

1814
02:09:38,960 --> 02:09:43,360
access cover and and I can understand a

1815
02:09:42,159 --> 02:09:47,360
little bit of that it might have been done like kind of maybe for water

1816
02:09:45,440 --> 02:09:52,719
resistance like it used a like a magnetic charger so it was like quite

1817
02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:54,480
sealed up but I I think they it seemed

1818
02:09:52,719 --> 02:09:56,800
intentional and when I looked up a guide it seemed even more intentional. I did

1819
02:09:56,159 --> 02:10:02,880
not like that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Very upset. Yeah, I think it was Oral B. Fire Panda

1820
02:10:01,199 --> 02:10:06,320
Sasquatch says, "Uh, yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure it was Oral B. So, I will

1821
02:10:04,239 --> 02:10:11,599
never buy an OralB toothbrush again unless they fix their fix their biz."

1822
02:10:09,840 --> 02:10:16,159
Um, so yeah, I could see this making a much

1823
02:10:13,440 --> 02:10:20,239
bigger difference in spaces like other personal electronic devices, maybe not

1824
02:10:18,000 --> 02:10:25,040
as much in in phones. >> Speaking about fixing their biz, I don't

1825
02:10:22,079 --> 02:10:30,000
know if this is positive, may maybe it is. Uh Nintendo is getting tariff

1826
02:10:27,040 --> 02:10:33,280
refunds apparently. Uh but their customers should probably get those

1827
02:10:31,840 --> 02:10:37,440
considering they raised their prices. Two US gamers have filed a class action

1828
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:42,480
lawsuit against Nintendo arguing that the company is about to double dip on

1829
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:46,719
tariff costs. When Trump's tariffs hit last year, Nintendo raised prices on

1830
02:10:44,400 --> 02:10:52,560
Switch consoles, Switch 2 accessories, and controllers by $5 to $50 across the

1831
02:10:50,079 --> 02:10:59,520
board, explicitly citing tariffs as the reason. CEO uh Shantaro Furukawa uh told

1832
02:10:56,880 --> 02:11:03,920
investors in May 2025 that tariffs would be incorporated into the price. After

1833
02:11:01,920 --> 02:11:08,639
the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional in February, Nintendo

1834
02:11:06,639 --> 02:11:14,480
sued the US government to get its tariff payments back. And the government is now

1835
02:11:10,719 --> 02:11:18,880
processing roughly $166

1836
02:11:14,480 --> 02:11:21,199
billion in refunds to over three Oh,

1837
02:11:18,880 --> 02:11:26,560
this isn't just a Nintendo. Okay. well to over 330,000 importers. The

1838
02:11:24,320 --> 02:11:30,320
plaintiffs argue that since Nintendo already already passed the tariff costs

1839
02:11:28,480 --> 02:11:34,239
on to customers through price hikes, getting a government refund on top of

1840
02:11:32,239 --> 02:11:39,679
that means Nintendo collects the same money twice. Nintendo isn't the only

1841
02:11:36,560 --> 02:11:42,639
company facing this. FedEx, UPS, Costco,

1842
02:11:39,679 --> 02:11:47,360
and eyeglass importer Esler Lotica have all been hit with similar lawsuits.

1843
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:51,520
FedEx actually promised to pass refunds back to customers and got sued anyways.

1844
02:11:50,480 --> 02:11:55,520
>> Go America. >> Hilarious. When asked back in March

1845
02:11:53,679 --> 02:11:59,679
whether it planned to share refunds with customers, Nintendo said they uh

1846
02:11:57,679 --> 02:12:04,880
Nintendo would only say, "We have nothing else to share on this topic,"

1847
02:12:01,520 --> 02:12:06,480
which is akin to saying nothing. Uh

1848
02:12:04,880 --> 02:12:09,840
discussion question. Nintendo passed the tariff cost to customers and is now

1849
02:12:08,239 --> 02:12:13,280
collecting a refund from the government. Should companies that raise prices be

1850
02:12:11,280 --> 02:12:17,199
required to pass refunds back? All right. Alon

1851
02:12:15,280 --> 02:12:22,639
asks, "Linus, if you get a tariff refund for ltstore.com sales, would you return

1852
02:12:20,000 --> 02:12:26,079
them to customers?" So,

1853
02:12:23,119 --> 02:12:31,520
>> did you raise prices for tariff stuff? >> For us, it was not black and white. We

1854
02:12:28,400 --> 02:12:35,040
did not simply increase our prices and

1855
02:12:31,520 --> 02:12:36,239
then adjust our new retail price

1856
02:12:35,040 --> 02:12:43,440
according to our new cost >> or walk to Mordor. >> Or walk to Mordor. you said one does not

1857
02:12:41,040 --> 02:12:50,480
one does not simply um and what I suspect is that for a lot

1858
02:12:47,679 --> 02:12:56,800
of other companies it probably wasn't that black and white either. So let me

1859
02:12:53,119 --> 02:12:59,679
let me explain you know what we did when

1860
02:12:56,800 --> 02:13:05,199
um a certain someone had a little fit about whatever and decided to go to

1861
02:13:03,119 --> 02:13:10,960
trade war with the whole world for some reason. Um

1862
02:13:07,520 --> 02:13:14,239
basically we went to our suppliers and

1863
02:13:10,960 --> 02:13:16,960
we said hey you know it could

1864
02:13:14,239 --> 02:13:23,440
significantly impact our volumes through you if you are not able to do anything

1865
02:13:19,920 --> 02:13:26,880
to help us help our customers weather

1866
02:13:23,440 --> 02:13:30,000
this storm. So some of it was absorbed

1867
02:13:26,880 --> 02:13:33,040
by our by the manufacturer and supplier

1868
02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:35,840
partners that we engage with uh both

1869
02:13:33,040 --> 02:13:42,239
onshore and overseas. All right. Some of it was absorbed by

1870
02:13:39,679 --> 02:13:44,000
our customers. We did raise prices on some items.

1871
02:13:43,280 --> 02:13:51,520
>> Okay. >> However, some of it was also absorbed by

1872
02:13:47,920 --> 02:13:52,960
us in multiple forms. So, for some

1873
02:13:51,520 --> 02:13:58,079
things, for example, you might have noticed that t-shirts are substantially

1874
02:13:55,199 --> 02:14:04,079
more expensive on LT store US compared to LTT Store global. That is not because

1875
02:14:02,079 --> 02:14:11,119
we are making more money on the US store. Uh back when this whole thing

1876
02:14:06,960 --> 02:14:14,239
first happened, uh I made the call for

1877
02:14:11,119 --> 02:14:17,280
us to in spite of the extremely high

1878
02:14:14,239 --> 02:14:18,400
tariffs on those t-shirts, basically eat

1879
02:14:17,280 --> 02:14:25,760
the margin on them. >> Yeah, cuz I I think that's the last I heard of it. We, as far as I know,

1880
02:14:22,639 --> 02:14:28,880
unless anything has changed, um, our

1881
02:14:25,760 --> 02:14:32,400
pricing for t-shirts on ltstore.com is

1882
02:14:28,880 --> 02:14:35,679
higher, but it is only higher

1883
02:14:32,400 --> 02:14:37,360
reflective of our increased costs. If,

1884
02:14:35,679 --> 02:14:43,280
uh, if I recall correctly, we are either not making money or barely making money

1885
02:14:39,920 --> 02:14:46,639
on t-shirts on the US site. Um, ever

1886
02:14:43,280 --> 02:14:48,480
since this whole thing went down, also

1887
02:14:46,639 --> 02:14:52,159
there were other costs that were incurred by us that were not directly

1888
02:14:50,800 --> 02:14:58,400
related to >> that's one I was going to bring up. >> Product cost. Uh, we spent an

1889
02:14:56,400 --> 02:15:06,480
inordinate, no, I'm not going to say spent. We wasted aing inordinate amount

1890
02:15:03,199 --> 02:15:09,199
of time and money dealing with [ __ ] that

1891
02:15:06,480 --> 02:15:14,880
was completely unnecessary. Uh, none of this had to be done. We literally had to

1892
02:15:11,119 --> 02:15:17,360
roll out a US warehouse in order to

1893
02:15:14,880 --> 02:15:20,000
soften the blow of these price increases, these import taxes

1894
02:15:19,360 --> 02:15:25,679
>> and store >> for our American customers. We had to

1895
02:15:22,400 --> 02:15:27,199
develop a split store that has a now a

1896
02:15:25,679 --> 02:15:33,520
global store and a US store. >> That also created more friction which

1897
02:15:29,520 --> 02:15:35,840
reduced sales. Um it also uh like

1898
02:15:33,520 --> 02:15:41,199
increasing your price because of tariffs will reduce your sales as well. there

1899
02:15:38,400 --> 02:15:44,880
was an impact on our sales volumes. So we took an impact to our profits. We

1900
02:15:43,040 --> 02:15:52,000
took an impact to our sales volumes. We took an impact to our overhead.

1901
02:15:48,159 --> 02:15:55,199
None of which is directly

1902
02:15:52,000 --> 02:15:57,920
um actually one only one of which is

1903
02:15:55,199 --> 02:16:01,760
easily sort of directly measurable. The rest of them it's hard to say exactly

1904
02:15:59,599 --> 02:16:04,480
how much of it was born by us versus borne by someone else.

1905
02:16:02,800 --> 02:16:08,800
>> That being said, I'd love to see consumer relief as well. Um,

1906
02:16:06,960 --> 02:16:11,679
>> yeah. And and I think we did we talk about this on WAN Show or what I was

1907
02:16:10,159 --> 02:16:16,159
saying is that there's it's very multifaceted in how this impacted

1908
02:16:14,400 --> 02:16:19,520
sellers, but I don't know if we did or not. >> Did we talk about this on WAN Show or

1909
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off WAN Show? Cuz I think I did talk to you about how how it Yeah, it does seem

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kind of up that at the end of the day, you know,

1911
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>> just businesses are getting helped >> always rolls down a hill, right? And so

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the end user the end user I mean I talked about this and it's it's so weird

1913
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because the math is just math right math math is math and so at the end of the

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day if there's an increase in price somewhere in the supply chain at some

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02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:53,840
point the customer will pay for it because that's the only way that someone

1916
02:16:52,639 --> 02:17:00,479
has to pay for it and it's always going to be the customer. Um and it's it sucks

1917
02:16:58,399 --> 02:17:06,479
that ultimately the customer you know bore a lot of these costs but

1918
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and then right and then it's not the customer who is I mean I don't even see

1919
02:17:08,800 --> 02:17:15,040
how you would administer a program. >> I've been trying to think about that I >> where every customer would go back and

1920
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and what how what would they claim against? >> I don't think you could do it

1921
02:17:16,319 --> 02:17:24,880
accurately. I think you'd have to do it for like I think you'd have to ignore

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02:17:22,160 --> 02:17:29,920
H I think my way would be below a certain income threshold

1923
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you just get like a certain amount of tax break or something

1924
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have to do it below a certain income threshold. >> Yeah. I mean it's based on like direct

1925
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consumption. So how would you do that? >> Impossible to measure.

1926
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>> Yeah cuz >> I think it would just have to be the same amount for everybody.

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>> Yeah. It's it's it's definitely very >> technically impossible to measure, but

1928
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like oh my god.

1929
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>> Yeah. >> So, in summary, I haven't seen how much

1930
02:17:56,240 --> 02:18:03,359
we're owed yet. Actually, I think that um I think that Tony said that sometime

1931
02:18:00,800 --> 02:18:06,559
either last week or early this week, he'd have measure. There you go.

1932
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>> He'd have a rough idea. I'm actually I'm going to I'm going to ping him now.

1933
02:18:08,800 --> 02:18:16,080
Um, any idea on what we are owed for

1934
02:18:13,439 --> 02:18:21,280
tariff stuff? Uh, yeah. Let me see if I can I'll see if I can find that out.

1935
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But, um, what I suspect is that it's

1936
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nowhere near what we spent reworking

1937
02:18:26,160 --> 02:18:34,240
like our company. >> There's no way because it's deal with this crap. >> It's Yeah, it's it's not measuring the

1938
02:18:31,519 --> 02:18:39,439
um the intangible stuff. all the insane meetings, the the massive amount of

1939
02:18:37,840 --> 02:18:44,319
opportunity cost, >> like the time that people like me and

1940
02:18:41,359 --> 02:18:49,519
Taran and other senior leaders at the company spent talking about this instead

1941
02:18:47,359 --> 02:18:53,840
of how do we make more videos or make more products or

1942
02:18:51,359 --> 02:18:57,519
>> um serve our serve our audience and serve our customers in ways that are

1943
02:18:55,840 --> 02:19:03,359
positive and constructive instead of just undoing completely unnecessary

1944
02:19:00,639 --> 02:19:07,439
negative impacts. is it it would be pretty tough for us to measure after the

1945
02:19:04,880 --> 02:19:13,760
fact to be honest with you. And so yeah, the bottom line is I really don't um

1946
02:19:11,359 --> 02:19:19,120
mannetic said the tariff income balances out to

1947
02:19:15,519 --> 02:19:21,280
about 450 US per resident.

1948
02:19:19,120 --> 02:19:24,800
>> 450. Was it that much? >> That's wild.

1949
02:19:22,240 --> 02:19:28,880
>> That's That's insane. I mean, yeah. I mean, it makes sense cuz

1950
02:19:26,399 --> 02:19:36,639
it was on so many imports. >> Yeah. Um, man, what a the you know,

1951
02:19:35,200 --> 02:19:43,679
this is going to this is going to come across like crazy,

1952
02:19:39,359 --> 02:19:46,639
but a small part of me actually wishes

1953
02:19:43,679 --> 02:19:51,120
that at least, you know, they had stayed in effect then.

1954
02:19:49,520 --> 02:19:58,240
At least then the whole thing would have been for something.

1955
02:19:52,640 --> 02:20:00,399
>> Oh, yeah. cuz now it's for nothing.

1956
02:19:58,240 --> 02:20:05,040
Basically, a whole bunch of global companies had their time wasted. A whole

1957
02:20:03,200 --> 02:20:10,960
bunch of consumers had their money wasted. And there's no extra money to

1958
02:20:08,240 --> 02:20:14,080
put theoretically into public services. There it's just the whole thing is just

1959
02:20:12,720 --> 02:20:18,720
and and now there's the additional overhead of having to administer this program and refunds.

1960
02:20:16,720 --> 02:20:24,560
>> Ultimately, what ended up happening >> for nothing. The US government made life

1961
02:20:22,479 --> 02:20:27,760
super hell for a lot of companies and is now going to have to pay them a ton of

1962
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money. >> I think there's interest in >> from consumers. >> I think there's interest.

1963
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>> And consumers are going to get hyper hosed cuz they're not going to get

1964
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jacked.

1965
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>> Like >> so government just shoveled money towards companies which is effectively

1966
02:20:40,960 --> 02:20:47,280
just shoveling money towards rich people. >> Yeah. But shoveled money towards

1967
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companies after after costing them a bunch of money. >> Yeah. So, not even like not even just

1968
02:20:49,920 --> 02:20:56,479
giving a hand out to the rich. You're like, "Hey, do a bunch of unnecessary

1969
02:20:54,640 --> 02:20:58,960
work and have a bunch of unnecessary expense." >> Yeah.

1970
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>> And then >> we'll pay you back with interest later.

1971
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Thanks. You're still going to be at a loss on this, but thanks.

1972
02:21:04,160 --> 02:21:10,160
>> I'm at a loss. >> Yeah. >> Um, hey, but we've got some good news

1973
02:21:07,760 --> 02:21:14,720
because it's good news. Wow. Apple has fixed a flaw that allowed the

1974
02:21:12,240 --> 02:21:18,640
FBI to access historical push notifications. >> Yeah, that news sucked. I didn't like

1975
02:21:16,479 --> 02:21:20,960
that. Oh, I'm sorry. >> I'm happy we're back to good news.

1976
02:21:20,080 --> 02:21:26,399
>> Which one? >> I don't know. >> Oh, the Nintendo getting tariff refunds. I mean, it's good news for Nintendo.

1977
02:21:25,280 --> 02:21:33,600
>> Yeah, technically. >> Um, in Apple's update notes for 26.4.2,

1978
02:21:30,800 --> 02:21:38,560
it includes a logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction

1979
02:21:36,319 --> 02:21:43,520
to resol to resolve an issue where notifications marked for deletion could

1980
02:21:40,800 --> 02:21:47,680
be unexpectedly retained on the device. Before the fix, cleared or deleted

1981
02:21:45,520 --> 02:21:52,399
notifications were sometimes stored in a notification database which had been

1982
02:21:49,680 --> 02:21:56,800
recoverable using forensic extraction tools. I believe it was Signal who

1983
02:21:54,800 --> 02:22:01,200
flagged this. And our discussion question is good job Apple because

1984
02:21:58,800 --> 02:22:05,600
apparently they got it taken care of relatively

1985
02:22:03,200 --> 02:22:09,200
uh quickly. So I think that's pretty cool. That's Apple putting their money

1986
02:22:07,840 --> 02:22:12,800
where their mouth is, putting their development efforts and towards

1987
02:22:11,520 --> 02:22:20,960
something that really benefits the privacy of their users. And I'm always going to support that.

1988
02:22:17,359 --> 02:22:23,359
Oh, I might have accidentally

1989
02:22:20,960 --> 02:22:29,200
uh minimized a couple of just like uh impromptu topics. I still have one of

1990
02:22:26,560 --> 02:22:33,680
them here. Um this is this is pretty good news.

1991
02:22:32,080 --> 02:22:38,399
>> Yeah. If there if there's another one, uh Hexos has gone v 1.0. Oh, nice.

1992
02:22:36,399 --> 02:22:41,600
>> Yeah. The remember the whole controversy when they first announced around uh

1993
02:22:40,160 --> 02:22:44,880
local dashboard access? >> Yeah. >> It is now live,

1994
02:22:43,840 --> 02:22:52,000
>> which is good. >> Which is good and should have always been a thing. But hey, look, uh John,

1995
02:22:48,560 --> 02:22:54,000
their CEO, is is one of the nicest, most

1996
02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:57,040
humble people that I've ever met. You know, when the community told him, "Hey,

1997
02:22:55,680 --> 02:23:01,920
you're wrong about this. Even though there are, you know, you've got all your technical reasons why it made sense to

1998
02:23:00,000 --> 02:23:06,560
do it the way you did it. This is really important to us. You're wrong." He said,

1999
02:23:03,760 --> 02:23:12,560
"Okay." by the time we go 1.0, we'll have it. He made the commitment. It's

2000
02:23:09,280 --> 02:23:13,840
done. Great. And you gota, you don't

2001
02:23:12,560 --> 02:23:19,120
have to, you know, you don't have to like the thought process. You don't have to like how long something takes, but

2002
02:23:17,120 --> 02:23:24,479
you got to you got to respect the follow through. So, uh, Hexos, for those of you

2003
02:23:21,760 --> 02:23:31,359
who are not familiar, is the NAS software that I invested in a while ago.

2004
02:23:27,040 --> 02:23:35,160
And, um, man, I was at Creator Summit

2005
02:23:31,359 --> 02:23:35,160
and, um,

2006
02:23:35,680 --> 02:23:41,120
three creators spontaneously came up to

2007
02:23:38,880 --> 02:23:46,319
me asking me about like what would be the ideal thing for keeping their data

2008
02:23:43,280 --> 02:23:48,479
safe, like 321. Um, one of them even

2009
02:23:46,319 --> 02:23:52,080
described the concept of buddy backup to me.

2010
02:23:49,840 --> 02:23:55,280
and asked if if there was something on the market that existed like that. And I

2011
02:23:53,920 --> 02:24:00,240
was like, >> it's coming. Buddy backup's not implemented yet. The local dashboard is

2012
02:23:58,800 --> 02:24:04,319
there, but buddy backup is still coming soon. Uh, and the idea behind it is that

2013
02:24:02,319 --> 02:24:07,520
Luke could I could give Luke a couple hard drives for him to put in his NAS.

2014
02:24:06,080 --> 02:24:12,080
He gives me a couple hard drives for me to put in my NAS, and then we're just

2015
02:24:09,359 --> 02:24:16,399
buddies and we just use a secure tunnel to store encrypted versions of essential

2016
02:24:14,240 --> 02:24:20,800
data on each other's NAS. We don't pay any subscription fee to any cloud

2017
02:24:18,160 --> 02:24:26,880
provider. It's just buddies backing up buddies. And I'm like, I'm so excited.

2018
02:24:24,800 --> 02:24:30,080
Just things Windows definitely could have solved.

2019
02:24:27,920 --> 02:24:34,319
>> I know. Okay. Why are you bringing things

2020
02:24:31,520 --> 02:24:36,000
negative now? You're sad about Windows. I get it.

2021
02:24:35,359 --> 02:24:41,600
>> You know what? >> Sorry. My bad. >> You know what? I get it. >> The last topic just threw me off, man.

2022
02:24:40,160 --> 02:24:44,720
>> No, no, no. We're not going to let the vibe be wrecked. Hey, that was the other

2023
02:24:43,439 --> 02:24:48,479
one. I remember what the other thing I wanted to talk about was. Okay, we're going to get into After Dark real quick

2024
02:24:47,120 --> 02:24:53,920
here. Oh, wait. No, we're going to get our sponsors done first, but then I have something really important I want to

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All right, shoot. I forgot what it was.

2055
02:26:54,880 --> 02:27:01,920
Balls, right, good news, Wan. Should we just continue it?

2056
02:27:00,240 --> 02:27:06,560
>> Uh, yeah. >> Oh, okay. Well, that was a shorter

2057
02:27:03,600 --> 02:27:10,560
conversation than I expected. I when we were leading up to it and even maybe

2058
02:27:08,479 --> 02:27:16,319
after the first one a little bit, >> I I saw rumblings saw rumblings in the

2059
02:27:14,000 --> 02:27:19,840
chats and in the in the forums and Reddits and >> never watch again

2060
02:27:17,680 --> 02:27:24,960
>> out there in the comments. Um, you know, oh, I expect more, you know, 360°ree

2061
02:27:23,439 --> 02:27:29,120
coverage and and you know what, that's totally fair. That's totally fair.

2062
02:27:26,479 --> 02:27:33,840
>> I I think we can compromise it a little bit. I think particularly important

2063
02:27:31,439 --> 02:27:37,200
negative topics can be included. >> But in general,

2064
02:27:34,720 --> 02:27:42,560
>> I think we should aim for general positivity. I um I think with the state

2065
02:27:40,640 --> 02:27:48,960
of the world right now, I think to a certain degree it is our duty to

2066
02:27:45,680 --> 02:27:51,920
>> He said duty

2067
02:27:48,960 --> 02:28:00,720
>> to and and I think this is true for like a lot of uh creators to try to,

2068
02:27:57,600 --> 02:28:03,040
you know, do the song and dance be a

2069
02:28:00,720 --> 02:28:05,920
place that doesn't have to be as dark as where a lot of other places are right

2070
02:28:04,640 --> 02:28:09,920
now. >> Sorry, what did you say?

2071
02:28:08,319 --> 02:28:13,359
I'm like super tired. I woke up at 3:00 in the morning. So, >> okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that that

2072
02:28:12,000 --> 02:28:17,520
was not coherent, but I I understand what you're saying. >> Was it actually not? It seemed fine to

2073
02:28:15,280 --> 02:28:20,399
me. Be a place that is not as dark as everyone else. >> You say something about other creators,

2074
02:28:19,280 --> 02:28:24,479
are they? Cuz I don't >> No, I'm saying it's it's the job OF US COLLECTIVELY.

2075
02:28:23,040 --> 02:28:27,120
>> OH, OKAY. Now I understand. >> Not necessarily genuinely everyone, but

2076
02:28:26,720 --> 02:28:32,800
like >> Okay, cool. That makes more sense. >> Okay. According to Tim, it was perfectly

2077
02:28:30,800 --> 02:28:37,359
coherent. It must be me. Sorry. I've been traveling a lot. also did. Yeah,

2078
02:28:35,040 --> 02:28:41,280
I'm genuinely wicked tired, so like >> Okay,

2079
02:28:39,359 --> 02:28:45,200
>> it makes sense to me if it was not super coherent. >> Luke said, "Let's get pizza." Yeah,

2080
02:28:43,120 --> 02:28:50,800
nice. Um, >> yeah. I I'm just I'm just I'm just after

2081
02:28:48,399 --> 02:28:56,240
the first couple, I started to see the the rumblings go away and the rumblings

2082
02:28:53,680 --> 02:28:58,319
started to go the other way and I felt the same way.

2083
02:28:56,800 --> 02:29:03,359
>> Also, dude, like we would finish Wanchcho and I'd like feel all right.

2084
02:29:01,120 --> 02:29:06,880
And a lot of the W shows over the last like while before we were doing this.

2085
02:29:05,439 --> 02:29:12,000
I'd finish W show and I'd just be kind of down. >> Yeah. Like not I was more than down

2086
02:29:10,479 --> 02:29:16,880
sometimes. I was like done. >> Yeah. >> You know. >> Yeah.

2087
02:29:13,680 --> 02:29:18,960
>> Like I even I even have a a character

2088
02:29:16,880 --> 02:29:21,840
for like when I can't anymore, you know? And that's like that's not a state you

2089
02:29:20,640 --> 02:29:28,000
want to reach every Friday. >> Hasn't been kicked off in a while. And I I think a big part too is like I think

2090
02:29:25,520 --> 02:29:31,040
this is universally true for all of us. We're all getting the negative news.

2091
02:29:30,160 --> 02:29:34,800
Yeah. >> I don't think they also need it here.

2092
02:29:33,680 --> 02:29:38,720
>> Yeah. >> Like I And again, if it is particularly

2093
02:29:37,920 --> 02:29:43,359
important, >> Yeah. >> or a particularly big deal for whatever

2094
02:29:41,040 --> 02:29:45,520
reason, sure, we can include it. >> But if it's like a Okay, you have to

2095
02:29:45,120 --> 02:29:50,960
pick one. >> If Lena Khan passed away, we would have to cover that. That would be bad news.

2096
02:29:49,760 --> 02:29:56,319
>> That would be bad news. That would be cataclysmic bad news. >> Yeah. Uh but if if you're trying to

2097
02:29:54,960 --> 02:30:00,399
compare like which one of these two topics should we include and they're

2098
02:29:58,560 --> 02:30:04,720
pretty similar in importance level but one of them is good news and one of them

2099
02:30:01,840 --> 02:30:08,560
is bad news, ditch the bad news one. >> Yeah. How about this? How about how

2100
02:30:07,680 --> 02:30:12,399
about >> if it's an important security thing or

2101
02:30:10,720 --> 02:30:18,000
something? We can still flag it. >> I'm going to say 90% ratio.

2102
02:30:16,160 --> 02:30:22,319
>> Yeah, I think that's reasonable to be honest. >> So you can pick. So we'll tell the like

2103
02:30:20,399 --> 02:30:24,720
the news team which and actually I'm usually the one who goes through and

2104
02:30:23,520 --> 02:30:29,200
picks the topics for the show but whatever. So but basically when you

2105
02:30:26,800 --> 02:30:33,439
bring the menu if you're bringing 20 topics only two to three of them

2106
02:30:32,800 --> 02:30:38,399
>> should be >> should be should be negative topics. So pick the ones that are important.

2107
02:30:36,560 --> 02:30:41,680
>> Stay the path set. Exactly. Algorithms make sure you get the bad news. And I

2108
02:30:40,240 --> 02:30:45,040
think that's kind of an interesting way of approaching it is we should try to be

2109
02:30:43,359 --> 02:30:50,479
the opposite. >> Yeah. And I'm so here for it. be a

2110
02:30:47,760 --> 02:30:56,160
positivity skewed algorithm of news. >> We've been live for

2111
02:30:53,359 --> 02:31:01,600
almost 3 hours now and if I compare how I feel right now,

2112
02:30:59,280 --> 02:31:05,439
like how how how just tired and drained I feel right now cuz it's a little bit

2113
02:31:03,359 --> 02:31:09,840
like we've been, you know, we've been on for for 3 hours, right? It's a long

2114
02:31:07,680 --> 02:31:13,760
time. Um like I don't I don't actually envy like game streamers who are live

2115
02:31:11,600 --> 02:31:16,640
for like 10 hours a day. Like some of them like 12 hours a day. Those guys are

2116
02:31:15,200 --> 02:31:22,240
crazy. It's it's it's it can be draining. Um other than being awake for

2117
02:31:20,000 --> 02:31:26,399
so long at this point, I don't feel the like

2118
02:31:23,760 --> 02:31:32,640
social exhaustion I often feel from Wancho because it is such a like

2119
02:31:31,200 --> 02:31:36,560
>> Yeah. I don't feel like that. >> That topic was heavy and gross. Time to

2120
02:31:34,560 --> 02:31:39,520
go into the next heavy and gross topic. >> Yeah. Ready to feel down again.

2121
02:31:38,720 --> 02:31:45,359
>> Yeah. Exactly. >> And is look, it's not like we don't know these things. We literally like have to

2122
02:31:43,280 --> 02:31:49,200
review them in order to, you know, get the topics together for the show. And

2123
02:31:46,640 --> 02:31:53,359
it's not like it's not like I didn't notice Google that your news feed

2124
02:31:51,359 --> 02:31:56,160
scrolls infinitely now and never says you're done. Okay. Well, unless you're

2125
02:31:54,800 --> 02:31:59,600
having like an issue with, you know, loading on your data or whatever, right?

2126
02:31:58,000 --> 02:32:04,960
Like I like I'm getting it all and I know you guys are getting it all.

2127
02:32:02,880 --> 02:32:08,880
>> I I want to move forward with Good News Wow. Maybe

2128
02:32:06,640 --> 02:32:15,920
>> maybe that's just it. Maybe the L show channel is is an oasis of of positivity

2129
02:32:12,640 --> 02:32:19,439
and optimism about technology amidst

2130
02:32:15,920 --> 02:32:22,640
just a sea of of diarrhea about

2131
02:32:19,439 --> 02:32:22,960
technology, you know.

2132
02:32:22,640 --> 02:32:28,000
>> Yeah, >> let's do it. >> Yeah. >> And now let's do some uh check out

2133
02:32:26,640 --> 02:32:31,120
messages. Dan, what do you >> I also I also think there there was a I

2134
02:32:30,080 --> 02:32:34,960
don't know if I addressed this on the show or not, but there was one of the

2135
02:32:33,200 --> 02:32:38,560
first Good News W shows. Someone pointed out that we like got off topic for a

2136
02:32:36,720 --> 02:32:41,680
second. We got really negative about something. I don't even remember what it

2137
02:32:39,760 --> 02:32:49,200
was. And we got kind of like called out for it on Reddit and I agree with them

2138
02:32:47,280 --> 02:32:53,680
cuz whatever it was we were talking about, I don't remember what it was, but

2139
02:32:50,319 --> 02:32:56,000
it just wasn't very important.

2140
02:32:53,680 --> 02:33:00,479
It didn't matter. And we still talked about it on a good

2141
02:32:57,920 --> 02:33:03,720
news show and I was like, you know, that was unnecessary.

2142
02:33:03,920 --> 02:33:08,319
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Cool. If it's necessary, let's talk

2143
02:33:06,960 --> 02:33:15,000
about it. If it's not, let's keep it positive. I think that's cool.

2144
02:33:12,000 --> 02:33:15,000
>> Yeah.

2145
02:33:15,120 --> 02:33:18,760
>> Let's do it. >> Yeah.

2146
02:33:20,080 --> 02:33:26,399
Okay. Yeah, we've got quite a few today.

2147
02:33:23,760 --> 02:33:30,080
Luke, every site wants me to make a pass key these days. How is it possible that

2148
02:33:28,479 --> 02:33:35,920
pass key is more secure than a strong password? I have 2FA and still get asked

2149
02:33:32,640 --> 02:33:38,240
to make a pass key for those sites.

2150
02:33:35,920 --> 02:33:41,359
I wish I could answer this for you better. I honestly haven't done enough

2151
02:33:39,760 --> 02:33:47,040
research on pass keys because they're so infrequently available.

2152
02:33:43,600 --> 02:33:48,160
>> I feel like the pass key utopia that we

2153
02:33:47,040 --> 02:33:53,120
were promised >> it failed. >> Did not happen. And I'm I'm

2154
02:33:51,200 --> 02:33:56,399
>> Well, you can't say it failed. >> Well, it didn't happen. I didn't say it

2155
02:33:54,720 --> 02:34:02,160
failed. I said I said it hasn't happened. And this hybrid of like

2156
02:33:59,359 --> 02:34:08,080
sometimes using a password and sometimes a password and sometimes a 2FA token or

2157
02:34:05,840 --> 02:34:13,920
a notification on my phone is actually just worse than any one of those things.

2158
02:34:10,640 --> 02:34:17,600
And I I I I it is starting to get like

2159
02:34:13,920 --> 02:34:19,840
almost like like a like a like a like a

2160
02:34:17,600 --> 02:34:23,040
triggering thing when I need to log into something. Like I tried to I had to get

2161
02:34:21,120 --> 02:34:26,319
into the Labs building today and I'd been logged out of UniFi

2162
02:34:24,640 --> 02:34:29,439
>> and I was just like >> dude you got to get a fob.

2163
02:34:28,399 --> 02:34:34,160
>> It's the way to go. >> Well, see I carry the actual like master

2164
02:34:32,000 --> 02:34:37,600
key to the building. So it was only because I was going in the side door

2165
02:34:35,359 --> 02:34:42,720
that it mattered. So it's like whatever. >> Uh Sty 2002 said pass key is basically

2166
02:34:41,120 --> 02:34:46,080
asymmetric encryption. It's something you have takes the knowledge and

2167
02:34:44,560 --> 02:34:50,880
fishability completely out of the equation. This is where this is why I

2168
02:34:48,960 --> 02:34:55,200
haven't even bothered to look into it because no, it doesn't in my opinion.

2169
02:34:53,920 --> 02:34:58,800
>> And then why do I even need it? Because my phone is already a thing I have which

2170
02:34:57,200 --> 02:35:03,280
I already just biometrically authenticated for. So your pass key is

2171
02:35:00,960 --> 02:35:08,399
already redundant. Like I just >> The reason why I'm saying no, it doesn't

2172
02:35:05,280 --> 02:35:10,960
is because

2173
02:35:08,399 --> 02:35:15,680
most services that I know of that have pass keys

2174
02:35:13,359 --> 02:35:18,160
>> also allow you to just have like, oh, we'll we'll just text your phone, bro.

2175
02:35:17,840 --> 02:35:23,840
>> Yeah, >> you you want another option for signing? Yeah, we can just text your phone, dude.

2176
02:35:22,160 --> 02:35:27,760
>> Do you remember that time remember that time I showed you how many

2177
02:35:25,200 --> 02:35:30,640
authentication methods I had on one of my accounts

2178
02:35:28,800 --> 02:35:34,399
>> for Google or something? Yeah, it was like terrifying because they half of

2179
02:35:32,880 --> 02:35:38,800
them didn't even like work anymore, but they were they had just all been set up at some point.

2180
02:35:36,960 --> 02:35:42,720
>> Yeah. And then and then Sty said that's the implementation. It's horribly

2181
02:35:40,240 --> 02:35:45,600
implemented like horribly worst ever. Blah blah blah. And yeah, no, I totally

2182
02:35:44,160 --> 02:35:53,840
agree. I wasn't saying saying technically what you said was wrong. What I'm saying is that right now as

2183
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:57,280
they are, they're kind of irrelevant in

2184
02:35:53,840 --> 02:35:59,280
my experience. Uh, I have autofill

2185
02:35:57,280 --> 02:36:04,560
already, so they don't really make it so that I log in any faster. They It's also

2186
02:36:02,240 --> 02:36:09,439
not doing biometric stuff like you're talking about. So, it doesn't really

2187
02:36:05,760 --> 02:36:12,399
skip a step on mobile either.

2188
02:36:09,439 --> 02:36:16,080
So, it just like I don't know. And then you can just bypass it by using a

2189
02:36:14,479 --> 02:36:21,680
different method. And you can say like, oh well, you know, I won't do that. But

2190
02:36:18,560 --> 02:36:23,280
for us, personal security is like a

2191
02:36:21,680 --> 02:36:29,600
little bit less important than org security. Um, and any user can just be

2192
02:36:27,680 --> 02:36:36,960
like, "Well, I'm going to include being able to text my phone." So,

2193
02:36:33,120 --> 02:36:41,080
uh, yeah, Basis can require biometric

2194
02:36:36,960 --> 02:36:41,080
authentication. It's the site's choice.

2195
02:36:41,520 --> 02:36:47,200
This is like almost my whole point that

2196
02:36:44,880 --> 02:36:52,080
they don't they're not doing that. The they are also allowing you to in many

2197
02:36:50,319 --> 02:36:57,040
actually like high important account situations bypass it entirely by texting

2198
02:36:55,280 --> 02:37:02,399
your phone which is like the worst possible thing. It's it's the the the

2199
02:36:59,920 --> 02:37:09,439
problem is like the the tech can be as cool as the tech wants. If it's not used

2200
02:37:06,399 --> 02:37:13,760
fully and

2201
02:37:09,439 --> 02:37:15,760
uniquely then it just doesn't matter cuz

2202
02:37:13,760 --> 02:37:23,640
it can it can be as secure as you want. If you're still receiving text messages,

2203
02:37:19,840 --> 02:37:23,640
it's all out the window.

2204
02:37:24,319 --> 02:37:30,479
There we go.

2205
02:37:27,600 --> 02:37:35,600
Hey la, can you talk about an event where the

2206
02:37:32,240 --> 02:37:38,160
outcome still boggles you?

2207
02:37:35,600 --> 02:37:43,439
Sure. Actually, I was thinking about this just earlier this week because of

2208
02:37:40,160 --> 02:37:48,399
the whole supposed um blacklisting of

2209
02:37:43,439 --> 02:37:50,399
certain YouTube media by AMD. Um like I

2210
02:37:48,399 --> 02:37:55,680
I basically I was I was kind of asked to give an example of a time when a brand,

2211
02:37:53,840 --> 02:38:00,560
you know, had a seating strategy that didn't really make any sense to me. And

2212
02:37:58,240 --> 02:38:06,319
there's one kind of favorite story that I have and it was a it was a large

2213
02:38:04,080 --> 02:38:12,720
multinational display manufacturer who had like the

2214
02:38:10,160 --> 02:38:18,240
hottest display on the market like this like it was so cool. It's like this like

2215
02:38:15,200 --> 02:38:19,840
giant curved like freaking amazing.

2216
02:38:18,240 --> 02:38:26,080
Nobody else would have had the stones to make something like this. and we reached

2217
02:38:23,200 --> 02:38:29,359
out to them trying to get uh trying to get a sample, trying to get a review

2218
02:38:27,439 --> 02:38:33,680
unit early because we were like very excited about it and wanted to make a

2219
02:38:30,880 --> 02:38:37,200
video and pretty much just like wanted to game on it and talk about how

2220
02:38:34,960 --> 02:38:42,800
freaking huge and immersive and cool it was and they turned us down and we were

2221
02:38:40,880 --> 02:38:46,960
pretty bummed, right? Because obviously we like to make videos about cool tech

2222
02:38:44,720 --> 02:38:52,000
that people want to see and that that gets us views. It gets, you know, you

2223
02:38:49,600 --> 02:38:55,280
guys informed on this cool new product and it gets eyeballs on the product for

2224
02:38:53,600 --> 02:38:59,520
the brand. It's, you know, stacking W's. I love stacking W's. And this seemed

2225
02:38:56,880 --> 02:39:04,560
like an obvious W stacker. And they were like, nah. And I was like, okay, well,

2226
02:39:02,560 --> 02:39:08,800
that's a bummer. Fast forward, I kid you not, I think it

2227
02:39:07,040 --> 02:39:12,800
was one week later, it might have been two weeks later. It was like almost

2228
02:39:10,960 --> 02:39:20,319
immediately in our business leads inbox

2229
02:39:16,240 --> 02:39:22,800
an offer from that same company to do

2230
02:39:20,319 --> 02:39:29,359
the exact video that we pitched editorially. This time from an agency.

2231
02:39:26,000 --> 02:39:32,399
So this is like classic right hand has

2232
02:39:29,359 --> 02:39:35,200
no idea what the left hand is doing.

2233
02:39:32,399 --> 02:39:40,399
an offer to do that same video on that same monitor for I kid you not, it was

2234
02:39:37,280 --> 02:39:43,120
like tens of thousands of dollars for a

2235
02:39:40,399 --> 02:39:50,080
video that I wanted to do for free and was told nah.

2236
02:39:46,560 --> 02:39:52,880
That is an event where the outcome still

2237
02:39:50,080 --> 02:39:57,760
boggles me. Hi, can I do something for you for free? No, but what you can do is

2238
02:39:55,760 --> 02:40:00,720
do it for tens of thousands of dollars. >> Just got to wait a little while, I

2239
02:39:59,040 --> 02:40:07,359
guess. >> Bizarre. I will never understand it. Um,

2240
02:40:05,120 --> 02:40:10,359
Gilpur says, "Did you take the money?" Yeah,

2241
02:40:10,960 --> 02:40:16,960
of course. I would have I wanted to do the video anyway. I just I I did at the

2242
02:40:16,240 --> 02:40:20,479
time. I don't even >> Did you tell them when you got there? >> Uh,

2243
02:40:19,520 --> 02:40:25,040
>> that would have been funny. >> No, no, they they shipped it here. >> So, there there was no one there was no

2244
02:40:23,600 --> 02:40:30,479
one to tell. It was just like >> I don't know how big this screen was. >> Yeah, dude. No, I was Dude, it was

2245
02:40:28,000 --> 02:40:34,080
hilarious. It's It was just so funny. I was like, "This is the stupidest thing

2246
02:40:31,439 --> 02:40:39,960
I've ever seen." And and what's crazy is is it is it's not even um like we've

2247
02:40:36,960 --> 02:40:39,960
seen

2248
02:40:41,840 --> 02:40:50,160
brands are just made up of people

2249
02:40:46,800 --> 02:40:53,479
and people sometimes got up really early

2250
02:40:50,160 --> 02:40:53,479
that day,

2251
02:40:53,600 --> 02:40:59,040
you know? Yeah.

2252
02:40:57,680 --> 02:41:03,000
Uh, do you have something where the outcome still boggles you?

2253
02:41:07,439 --> 02:41:13,600
>> Some Yeah, not really that I want to go into details of some of the contracts

2254
02:41:12,000 --> 02:41:18,800
for services and stuff. Uh,

2255
02:41:16,000 --> 02:41:23,439
>> he is uh like the best negotiator ever. By the way, if you want like a contract

2256
02:41:20,880 --> 02:41:25,359
negotiating like just a bulldog, you know,

2257
02:41:24,720 --> 02:41:29,640
>> some >> contact Luke Leier, Inc.

2258
02:41:30,640 --> 02:41:35,680
>> I don't know. >> And your strategy is so simple. You just say no. Is that right?

2259
02:41:34,960 --> 02:41:41,600
>> For the most part. >> No, that doesn't work for me. >> There was also one where they had two

2260
02:41:38,080 --> 02:41:42,800
different associates trying to do sales

2261
02:41:41,600 --> 02:41:47,439
with me at the same time. >> Snag that commission. And I ended up uh

2262
02:41:45,280 --> 02:41:49,359
doing basically the like walk across the street to the other car dealership

2263
02:41:48,720 --> 02:41:53,280
thing, >> but to the same company with their

2264
02:41:51,840 --> 02:41:57,760
different associates. >> So the one would say like, "Oh, well, I

2265
02:41:55,359 --> 02:42:03,280
can give you this deal." And I'd go to the other guy and be like, "Well, I'm

2266
02:42:00,240 --> 02:42:05,439
getting like this other deal from this

2267
02:42:03,280 --> 02:42:10,160
other sales associate." And then both like work each other down, which was

2268
02:42:07,600 --> 02:42:17,319
just incredible. Uh, there's been some pretty wild stuff, but um, oh man, I

2269
02:42:13,680 --> 02:42:17,319
just had one in mind.

2270
02:42:17,680 --> 02:42:22,240
Crap. I'll try to keep thinking about if it

2271
02:42:20,800 --> 02:42:25,600
comes to me. I maybe I'll maybe I'll chime up

2272
02:42:24,000 --> 02:42:31,600
>> more then. All right. Yeah, hit me down. >> Yeah. >> Hey, LLDD. I recently went from working

2273
02:42:28,720 --> 02:42:37,680
in my given field to working for a pretty big media company in my industry

2274
02:42:34,560 --> 02:42:40,000
and I'm suddenly on camera making

2275
02:42:37,680 --> 02:42:45,120
technical videos. Any tips for a newbie? >> I actually have lots of tips for you.

2276
02:42:42,960 --> 02:42:49,040
Um here you need to get a subscription to float

2277
02:42:46,880 --> 02:42:50,720
plane. You need to dig into the Floatplane exclusives.

2278
02:42:50,240 --> 02:42:56,479
>> Nice. >> And um I mean where is it? What's it

2279
02:42:54,560 --> 02:43:02,560
called? Definitely not that. >> Sometimes you have to use quotes.

2280
02:42:59,840 --> 02:43:09,600
>> The searches can find it here. Extras. Lionus teaches his son how to be a host.

2281
02:43:05,520 --> 02:43:12,720
>> Um, this one's pretty good. And then

2282
02:43:09,600 --> 02:43:15,760
there's also a behind the scenes of me

2283
02:43:12,720 --> 02:43:19,120
coaching a couple of our guests from

2284
02:43:15,760 --> 02:43:22,800
Intel. Here it is. Lionus host tips.

2285
02:43:19,120 --> 02:43:25,520
Intel A770 GPU extras. Uh both of those

2286
02:43:22,800 --> 02:43:32,240
two are a substantial amount of my experience as a host in

2287
02:43:28,800 --> 02:43:35,120
video form training other hosts. So uh

2288
02:43:32,240 --> 02:43:41,680
head on over there. Hey Luke, as a user of Catchy OS, have

2289
02:43:38,399 --> 02:43:43,279
you had a chance to ex Cashy OS, have

2290
02:43:41,680 --> 02:43:50,000
you had a chance to explore the recent GPU patches for low RAM cards or even

2291
02:43:46,479 --> 02:43:52,080
the AMD GPU HDMI 2.0 VRR changes they

2292
02:43:50,000 --> 02:43:59,760
include? Any thoughts? >> No, I was I was spoiled and was given a

2293
02:43:56,160 --> 02:44:02,080
4080 Noctua, so I I don't have a low RAM

2294
02:43:59,760 --> 02:44:04,560
card situation. >> Where'd that come from?

2295
02:44:03,760 --> 02:44:08,319
>> You >> Oh, yeah. Right.

2296
02:44:07,600 --> 02:44:12,720
>> Yeah. What do you think? >> I I forgot it was a Noctua edition. >> Yeah. It's It's hard to You can't really

2297
02:44:12,240 --> 02:44:16,720
tell. >> That's sick. You're welcome. >> Yeah. It's covered in moss. Uh

2298
02:44:16,000 --> 02:44:21,439
>> Right. Right. >> But yeah, it's not super applicable to me. >> I was like, damn, a Noctua edition. No,

2299
02:44:20,080 --> 02:44:25,200
what that could we couldn't that wouldn't have been us. We we would have

2300
02:44:23,359 --> 02:44:28,000
gone with like a like a duel or something, you know, like

2301
02:44:27,040 --> 02:44:32,720
>> No edition. Come on. >> I don't necessarily know why you guys did that. >> No, I'm not I'm not

2302
02:44:31,120 --> 02:44:35,840
>> not made a Noctua fans here, you know. >> At least I'm pretty sure it's a knock to edition.

2303
02:44:34,319 --> 02:44:41,840
>> Yeah, it might be. I think it is. I I'll check. I'll check. Could have just painted it brown.

2304
02:44:39,680 --> 02:44:47,600
>> Uh yeah. So, I it's not super applicable to me. I did do the like relatively big

2305
02:44:45,040 --> 02:44:52,319
recent Cashy update. I haven't had a chance to really like play with it much

2306
02:44:50,479 --> 02:45:00,160
other than just knowing that my system is totally fine. Um,

2307
02:44:56,720 --> 02:45:02,319
yeah. Yeah, seems good. I was I was

2308
02:45:00,160 --> 02:45:05,439
excited to see those updates, but I they're just not like super applicable

2309
02:45:04,080 --> 02:45:13,840
to me right now, which is great. >> I love that this chapter is called Luke's Confidence Lowers.

2310
02:45:10,399 --> 02:45:16,800
Um, oh, hello. Okay, what are we what

2311
02:45:13,840 --> 02:45:20,160
are we looking at here? motherboard. Mhm. Mhm. Oh, GPU time. Here we go. It's

2312
02:45:19,439 --> 02:45:24,800
So, it is. >> Yeah. >> Yep. That's a knock to a fan if I've ever seen one.

2313
02:45:22,800 --> 02:45:30,720
>> And you can't see any of that anymore cuz it's all mossed.

2314
02:45:28,160 --> 02:45:35,600
>> Running my first marathon on Sunday. And the WAN Show has gotten me through all

2315
02:45:32,640 --> 02:45:37,120
my long runs. Wow. Hoping for a 4hour show.

2316
02:45:36,640 --> 02:45:43,120
>> Nice. >> Would you ever run a marathon? And what is your biggest physical accomplishment?

2317
02:45:42,880 --> 02:45:46,720
I >> think my knees would explode. Mine too.

2318
02:45:45,920 --> 02:45:53,040
Um >> I think we're not made for that. >> I I think not. Uh yeah, marathon. That's

2319
02:45:51,120 --> 02:45:58,479
very cool though. That's so cool. And like like massive massive respect.

2320
02:45:56,800 --> 02:46:02,560
>> If you could do the whole thing on soft surfaces somehow.

2321
02:46:01,040 --> 02:46:08,880
>> That'd be pretty sweet. >> Tape carpet to your shoes.

2322
02:46:05,840 --> 02:46:11,760
>> Yeah. Not really.

2323
02:46:08,880 --> 02:46:13,520
>> How long was the foam run 2025? Foam run.

2324
02:46:12,880 --> 02:46:20,640
>> Okay. That was >> Oh, this like spray stuff. >> Yeah, that was 5K. I I did this with

2325
02:46:17,200 --> 02:46:23,120
Ivonne because my son wanted to do it

2326
02:46:20,640 --> 02:46:30,479
and then she agreed to do it with him and then he caught sick and had to bail.

2327
02:46:27,040 --> 02:46:32,640
So, we had two tickets. So, after me

2328
02:46:30,479 --> 02:46:36,000
saying, "No, I have zero interest in this."

2329
02:46:34,240 --> 02:46:40,399
um I ended up being the one who had to do it. Anyway, so how long how long's a

2330
02:46:37,840 --> 02:46:47,120
marathon? How many kilometers marathon? So I did that and it was a standard

2331
02:46:44,080 --> 02:46:50,479
marathon is 42.195

2332
02:46:47,120 --> 02:46:53,439
km. So could I do the foam fest eight

2333
02:46:50,479 --> 02:46:58,319
times? The answer is >> no. Probably never.

2334
02:46:56,720 --> 02:47:03,600
>> I think it's very cool though. >> Greatest physical feat for me um is

2335
02:47:01,359 --> 02:47:07,439
probably just like a cool like shot on the badminton court. I have kind of a

2336
02:47:05,200 --> 02:47:15,439
signature move where if my opponent plays a uh uh plays a forehand side like

2337
02:47:11,680 --> 02:47:18,479
really tight net or drop shot uh I get I

2338
02:47:15,439 --> 02:47:20,800
I just I I I love to dive and so I'll

2339
02:47:18,479 --> 02:47:25,439
get like full body extension in the air and I will sometimes I've actually done

2340
02:47:22,640 --> 02:47:29,200
it before catch it just below the court and manage to pop it back up and I've

2341
02:47:27,680 --> 02:47:33,840
actually net rolled it a couple times back over and every time it's like like

2342
02:47:31,680 --> 02:47:38,160
people go people go nuts. Uh, so it would be like some some shot I made in

2343
02:47:35,840 --> 02:47:44,800
badminton sometime in terms of I had not had a lot of physical accomplishments

2344
02:47:39,920 --> 02:47:47,359
like more of a pale techie guy. I I am

2345
02:47:44,800 --> 02:47:53,279
these days. I All of mine will be very old. I I think one of my one of my

2346
02:47:49,600 --> 02:47:56,319
favorite ones to think back on is um

2347
02:47:53,279 --> 02:47:59,200
playing football. Left defensive end. I

2348
02:47:56,319 --> 02:48:05,120
I got a sack but was able to punch the the ball out and the right defensive end

2349
02:48:03,120 --> 02:48:09,840
uh recovered the fumble and scored a goal. So, we got a we got a defensive

2350
02:48:07,840 --> 02:48:13,680
touchdown which was sick. Uh there's another time where there was a field

2351
02:48:11,279 --> 02:48:17,760
goal being shot and I jumped up and and actually blocked it but didn't realize

2352
02:48:15,840 --> 02:48:21,680
that that doesn't stop the play. So, my dad was screaming at me but I was still

2353
02:48:19,439 --> 02:48:26,680
I was still proud and my arm hurt but that's I still got it. Um,

2354
02:48:27,200 --> 02:48:31,040
>> Conrad from Flowplane says, "I can bench press my wife."

2355
02:48:30,319 --> 02:48:37,439
>> Sick. >> Nice. >> Sick. >> Nice.

2356
02:48:35,040 --> 02:48:43,439
>> White wife lifting is is based. >> Oh, no. Xfin 724 in Floatplane chat

2357
02:48:41,680 --> 02:48:46,560
says, "I was so bad at volleyball in high school gym class that when I

2358
02:48:44,800 --> 02:48:49,560
finally hit one over the net, both teams clapped."

2359
02:48:49,600 --> 02:48:55,680
Mortifying. >> That's pretty epic. Amazing.

2360
02:48:55,120 --> 02:48:59,760
>> Uh yeah, >> my favorite my favorite like memory is

2361
02:48:58,160 --> 02:49:04,319
probably there's a there's a video clip of me hitting some dude in hockey and

2362
02:49:01,520 --> 02:49:08,399
then my GRANDPA GOES, "LET'S GO, LUKER." And it's you can hear him cheering on

2363
02:49:05,920 --> 02:49:12,080
the clip and it's fantastic. >> Cphilus says, "I can bench press two of

2364
02:49:10,399 --> 02:49:15,680
my wives. >> How many do you have?"

2365
02:49:14,000 --> 02:49:20,720
>> Okay, carry on. All right, Dan. >> He did pluralize wives.

2366
02:49:18,479 --> 02:49:24,880
>> What's up, boys? Are there any plans to make regular cargo shorts? Not the

2367
02:49:22,560 --> 02:49:30,640
zip-off pants. Thanks. >> Um, probably, but I don't have a

2368
02:49:26,960 --> 02:49:33,120
timeline on that. Sorry.

2369
02:49:30,640 --> 02:49:37,520
When. Lon, I noticed that you've been talking about

2370
02:49:34,800 --> 02:49:42,399
your RC cars lately. If you were to make content for the dozens of us RC nerds

2371
02:49:40,319 --> 02:49:48,399
out there, what would it be? Reviews, weird, and crazy builds? Track days?

2372
02:49:44,880 --> 02:49:50,319
Definitely not track days. I suck.

2373
02:49:48,399 --> 02:49:54,160
Uh, if I was going to do anything, it would be just like casual hangout

2374
02:49:52,080 --> 02:49:58,399
streams, like put a camera up in the corner of like my my little workshop

2375
02:49:56,240 --> 02:50:02,880
corner at home and while I, you know, fill shock fluid or whatever it is,

2376
02:50:01,040 --> 02:50:06,720
>> like an Adam the Savage kind of thing. >> Um, >> just hang out with me in my shop.

2377
02:50:04,960 --> 02:50:12,479
>> Yeah, just like throw the chat up and just kind of chill.

2378
02:50:09,359 --> 02:50:14,800
>> Howdy, Mumu, Slick, and Dan de Man out

2379
02:50:12,479 --> 02:50:17,840
of the recent AMD. >> Mumu.

2380
02:50:15,840 --> 02:50:20,399
>> Oh, my old email address. Mumu the cow. Oh, right. Okay. The one you used

2381
02:50:19,680 --> 02:50:25,840
professionally. >> That's a deep cut. >> There you go. I'm using it right.

2382
02:50:22,880 --> 02:50:28,240
>> He's learning the slang. >> Very pog.

2383
02:50:26,560 --> 02:50:32,800
>> How do you do, fellow kids? >> Out of the recent AMD tech upgrades,

2384
02:50:30,880 --> 02:50:34,880
have there been any purchases that someone made that surprised you?

2385
02:50:34,399 --> 02:50:41,520
>> Yes. >> Something you didn't expect that they would be interested in?

2386
02:50:38,319 --> 02:50:44,479
>> All of the like unnecessarily expensive

2387
02:50:41,520 --> 02:50:51,040
collectible stuff just boggles my mind. And like

2388
02:50:46,960 --> 02:50:55,520
I know that there is like a subset of

2389
02:50:51,040 --> 02:50:57,760
the viewers that feel like I'm being

2390
02:50:55,520 --> 02:51:03,279
like I'm putting on a performance or I'm being disingenuous when I like lose my

2391
02:51:00,960 --> 02:51:09,120
mind over somebody spending like, you know, $500 on a Lego minifigure or

2392
02:51:05,680 --> 02:51:11,520
something like that. I promise you

2393
02:51:09,120 --> 02:51:16,720
>> that it is not performative in the slightest. If there was no camera

2394
02:51:13,760 --> 02:51:22,240
pointed at me, I would do the exact same thing. I promise you that no matter how

2395
02:51:19,760 --> 02:51:28,800
much money I had, no matter how many jets I could buy, I would never spend

2396
02:51:25,840 --> 02:51:30,880
$500 on a Lego minifigure. >> Ever.

2397
02:51:29,359 --> 02:51:34,560
>> You've spent some money on some collectible Xbox controllers. At least

2398
02:51:32,640 --> 02:51:40,960
one. Two. At least. >> This is true. So, okay. Okay. You know

2399
02:51:37,040 --> 02:51:43,040
what? I have uh the one no the the one

2400
02:51:40,960 --> 02:51:47,359
expensive one that I have is that one that the developers got.

2401
02:51:44,960 --> 02:51:49,920
>> You also have a gold one. It's only kind of a technicality, but

2402
02:51:48,720 --> 02:51:56,560
>> that one's that one. >> So the one I'm really talking about is the developer one.

2403
02:51:52,160 --> 02:51:59,359
>> Yeah, the developer one. Um,

2404
02:51:56,560 --> 02:52:04,240
it I I use it though, >> which I which I know is like crazy for

2405
02:52:02,319 --> 02:52:07,760
something that's like a one of like >> very few, but I like have spent hours

2406
02:52:06,880 --> 02:52:13,040
gaming on it. >> That's sweet. >> So to me there and and look, everyone

2407
02:52:10,960 --> 02:52:18,240
draws their own line, right? Like slightly before their own behavior.

2408
02:52:14,960 --> 02:52:21,840
That's that's human nature, baby.

2409
02:52:18,240 --> 02:52:25,040
But to me, the fact that I game on it

2410
02:52:21,840 --> 02:52:28,000
means that to me, it's a controller.

2411
02:52:25,040 --> 02:52:32,479
>> It's not a shelf piece. >> Ah, okay.

2412
02:52:29,359 --> 02:52:36,080
>> There are exceptions. I purchased a copy

2413
02:52:32,479 --> 02:52:38,319
of Final Fantasy 6 for Super Nintendo

2414
02:52:36,080 --> 02:52:43,120
that I never intended to put into a slot. But again, for me, that was more

2415
02:52:41,279 --> 02:52:47,120
about restoring >> Yeah. a thing that I owned that I lost

2416
02:52:45,279 --> 02:52:53,120
at a time in my life when I lost a lot of things moving between my families.

2417
02:52:49,600 --> 02:52:55,439
Um, I also purchased a copy of Final

2418
02:52:53,120 --> 02:53:01,600
Fantasy Tactics that I never intended to put into a PlayStation 1, but that one

2419
02:52:58,560 --> 02:53:03,600
was more about I have played this game

2420
02:53:01,600 --> 02:53:10,880
cover to cover three times and I have never purchased

2421
02:53:06,319 --> 02:53:14,000
it. Not good. So, I own a copy of the

2422
02:53:10,880 --> 02:53:16,479
original and I paid for Chronicles. I

2423
02:53:14,000 --> 02:53:20,800
consider my sins washed clean at that point. So, like

2424
02:53:17,760 --> 02:53:22,720
>> like I I mean I definitely I definitely

2425
02:53:20,800 --> 02:53:27,920
buy stuff that's unnecessary sometimes. Okay. Like here here's a perfect

2426
02:53:24,000 --> 02:53:30,240
example. Uh Evan and Caitlyn

2427
02:53:27,920 --> 02:53:34,479
Evan and Caitlyn make this really cool knife. Uh or like they partnered with a

2428
02:53:32,880 --> 02:53:39,120
local where where is it? Uh, where do you find

2429
02:53:37,600 --> 02:53:42,560
their where do you find their Oh, here here. shop evanaitlyn.com. They have

2430
02:53:41,279 --> 02:53:48,720
this they have this really cool box cutter. This thing is so cool. It's also

2431
02:53:45,120 --> 02:53:52,560
$120 Canadian for a box cutter, which is

2432
02:53:48,720 --> 02:53:54,160
like madness, but it's replaceable. You

2433
02:53:52,560 --> 02:53:58,800
can put a new utility blade in it whenever you want. And it is like one of

2434
02:53:56,319 --> 02:54:04,720
the most satisfying fidgets that I have ever encountered in my life. Oh,

2435
02:54:00,800 --> 02:54:08,160
actually, I have it. Um,

2436
02:54:04,720 --> 02:54:09,600
but again, I use it. So, I don't know if

2437
02:54:08,160 --> 02:54:13,279
you can if you can think of something that's like a dumb thing that like I

2438
02:54:11,200 --> 02:54:17,439
don't even use, then I'm open to it. >> I guess I have my my katana. People

2439
02:54:15,600 --> 02:54:19,680
always comment on that on my mantle. That was impulsive. I was young.

2440
02:54:19,120 --> 02:54:24,880
>> We've used it. >> Oh, and we have used it actually. That's true.

2441
02:54:22,319 --> 02:54:29,680
>> And I and I specifically wanted one that was an actual sword that was not purely

2442
02:54:27,600 --> 02:54:32,640
decorative. I think it's 2/3 tang. So, like you could like you could do some

2443
02:54:31,359 --> 02:54:38,560
stuff with it if you really wanted to. And it's sharp. >> Yeah.

2444
02:54:36,240 --> 02:54:42,040
>> Here it is. This thing is This thing is like so cool.

2445
02:54:44,560 --> 02:54:51,520
It's just It's Oh, dude. It's so satisfying. Hey. Oh, speaking of cool

2446
02:54:49,680 --> 02:54:56,000
knives, I didn't pay for this one because he's a bro. >> Yeah. You got to give him the sound. You

2447
02:54:55,120 --> 02:55:02,640
have to give him the sound, >> dude. I got the Hacksmith blade. I ran

2448
02:55:00,240 --> 02:55:08,160
into him at Creator Summit. He's he's my Canadian bro. He brought one for me. Um,

2449
02:55:06,319 --> 02:55:13,439
so it's like a it's a multi-function knife. If you guys somehow managed to

2450
02:55:10,720 --> 02:55:18,000
not see the Kickstarter for this thing. Uh, it has a built-in uh it has like

2451
02:55:16,080 --> 02:55:23,120
little built-in uh screwdriver bit storage here. So, you slide these out

2452
02:55:20,080 --> 02:55:25,040
and then they just uh go into the tip.

2453
02:55:23,120 --> 02:55:28,240
They're magnetic. You can also put it in this way if there's like a tight space

2454
02:55:26,800 --> 02:55:34,000
you're trying to reach into and you want to do that. Uh there's tweezers built

2455
02:55:30,720 --> 02:55:36,560
into them. Um

2456
02:55:34,000 --> 02:55:41,760
there's a level. There you go. There's a little uh there's a little uh ruler on

2457
02:55:39,279 --> 02:55:46,319
it. Uh the clip is adjustable so you can put it on either side, whichever kind of

2458
02:55:43,600 --> 02:55:50,160
works better for you. And oh man, what else is Oh yeah, bottle opener. It has

2459
02:55:48,319 --> 02:55:54,880
whatever this like pokey spiky thing is. I actually don't don't remember what

2460
02:55:51,439 --> 02:55:56,160
that one does. Sorry. Um, uh, maybe. I

2461
02:55:54,880 --> 02:56:02,720
don't know. So, probably does something. I mean, knowing knowing James, it definitely does something. But this

2462
02:55:59,840 --> 02:56:08,120
Okay, hold on. I'm just gonna just just check this out. It has these like Okay,

2463
02:56:05,040 --> 02:56:08,120
hold on.

2464
02:56:09,920 --> 02:56:13,760
Just >> doesn't quite capture it. >> Yeah, it doesn't quite capture it, but

2465
02:56:13,040 --> 02:56:17,479
it's >> way better in person.

2466
02:56:18,240 --> 02:56:23,920
>> Yeah, it will.

2467
02:56:30,479 --> 02:56:39,920
It is so flipping satisfying, man. And I

2468
02:56:37,120 --> 02:56:45,680
don't think that I have ever encountered a folding knife that check it. Check it

2469
02:56:42,720 --> 02:56:48,960
out. Like, feel the feel the um feel how little slop, how little play there is in

2470
02:56:47,120 --> 02:56:54,800
the blade. I don't think I've ever encountered a

2471
02:56:50,560 --> 02:56:55,760
folding knife that feels as much like a

2472
02:56:54,800 --> 02:57:02,640
fixed knife. >> I I mean I have, but it's really good.

2473
02:57:01,359 --> 02:57:06,880
>> I think I might have loosened it a little already.

2474
02:57:04,720 --> 02:57:12,399
I've just dude, ever since he hand it to me, I've just been like I was I was on

2475
02:57:09,359 --> 02:57:14,080
set today and I forgot like how sharp

2476
02:57:12,399 --> 02:57:18,000
this thing is and I was just like playing and there was some uh there was

2477
02:57:16,240 --> 02:57:21,279
some you know that like closed cell like like really squishy like dense foam.

2478
02:57:20,960 --> 02:57:27,840
>> Sure. >> I I just was like, you know, I I'll like stab it into it.

2479
02:57:25,920 --> 02:57:32,080
I went probably about this deep on the blade

2480
02:57:29,840 --> 02:57:38,800
through. So like about probably this far, right? cuz it was at like a corner

2481
02:57:35,520 --> 02:57:41,359
and it just passed right through it.

2482
02:57:38,800 --> 02:57:44,880
Even though the blade is so uh Whoops. Uh even though the blade is so Oh my

2483
02:57:43,840 --> 02:57:53,520
gosh. What are you doing? There we go. I'm doing something. Even though it's so thick, right? It's so sharp out of the

2484
02:57:50,800 --> 02:57:58,960
box that it just was like and I'm like oo cuz I was like flipping

2485
02:57:55,760 --> 02:57:59,760
it to myself like make the sound effect

2486
02:57:58,960 --> 02:58:03,760
right then. >> That was amazing. >> Solid. So, I'm pretty sure I heard Dan

2487
02:58:02,560 --> 02:58:08,479
do it, too. >> Anyway, um, did he give you the torque

2488
02:58:06,720 --> 02:58:11,600
flag? Just tighten up. Yes, Roman, he did give me the torque flag. It comes

2489
02:58:09,760 --> 02:58:16,479
with a little thing to, uh, properly torque this screw to make sure that you

2490
02:58:13,040 --> 02:58:21,680
get exactly the right feel on it.

2491
02:58:16,479 --> 02:58:23,439
So, yeah, super super impressed. Um,

2492
02:58:21,680 --> 02:58:27,279
way to go, James. Now you just got to manufacture them all. In case you're

2493
02:58:24,960 --> 02:58:32,000
wondering why I have one before all the customers have gotten one, uh, this one

2494
02:58:29,600 --> 02:58:37,200
had some kind of issue with it that was cosmetic and didn't matter and it's like

2495
02:58:34,479 --> 02:58:41,279
not worth it to disassemble it and fix it and reassemble it compared to just

2496
02:58:39,200 --> 02:58:44,080
making another one. So, he had a few of those at Creator Summit. So, mine's not

2497
02:58:43,279 --> 02:58:48,479
a perfect one. >> I finally realized why I didn't have the

2498
02:58:47,200 --> 02:58:53,760
Kickstarter for it. >> Did you miss it classically? No, I I was

2499
02:58:51,120 --> 02:58:56,399
going to buy it for for

2500
02:58:54,319 --> 02:59:00,880
>> myself, my brother, and my dad as like a Christmas gift, and then I logged into

2501
02:58:59,040 --> 02:59:06,080
Kickstarter and got flashbacks of the coal bar and was like, I'll just wait

2502
02:59:03,439 --> 02:59:07,200
until they're like ready to ship, purchasable.

2503
02:59:06,880 --> 02:59:12,880
>> Got it. >> And then I'll just get them then. >> Yeah. Yeah. You might have ended up cursing him if you had bought one for

2504
02:59:10,880 --> 02:59:16,399
your dad for Christmas. We know what happened the last time. probably better

2505
02:59:13,920 --> 02:59:21,439
for everyone that I just did it cuz I was trying to remember like I definitely

2506
02:59:17,920 --> 02:59:23,279
wanted to get one. Um

2507
02:59:21,439 --> 02:59:27,040
and I Yeah, I'm fairly certain that's what happened.

2508
02:59:25,520 --> 02:59:31,520
But yeah, they're they're pretty wicked cool.

2509
02:59:28,720 --> 02:59:36,240
Yeah, got to use this Linus coin somehow. Thank you for fueling my tech

2510
02:59:33,760 --> 02:59:38,000
skills from virus downloading noob to self-hosting noob.

2511
02:59:37,600 --> 02:59:46,240
>> Nice. >> What was the first application that you self-hosted? How long ago was it?

2512
02:59:43,680 --> 02:59:49,520
Oh. Uh,

2513
02:59:47,840 --> 02:59:55,279
>> games or applications? Counterstrike. >> Mumble.

2514
02:59:51,600 --> 02:59:57,359
>> Counterstrike. Yeah, Counter-Strike.

2515
02:59:55,279 --> 03:00:00,920
>> Yeah, Mumble's Mumble's kind of goated. >> I don't think

2516
03:00:01,439 --> 03:00:07,920
would that count. I set up uh slightly slightly later I

2517
03:00:06,160 --> 03:00:12,000
set up an FTP server that I could access from offsite just because it was more

2518
03:00:09,520 --> 03:00:15,359
convenient than um carrying around files. I'd say those are those are my

2519
03:00:14,319 --> 03:00:22,120
two like earliest ones. >> I hosted a lot of game stuff before I did FTP server, but I did do that at

2520
03:00:18,960 --> 03:00:22,120
some point.

2521
03:00:22,160 --> 03:00:29,439
>> Hi, LLD. Question for Luke. Do you think that open source software can find a way

2522
03:00:26,800 --> 03:00:33,760
to self-fund without relying on exclusive donations?

2523
03:00:30,720 --> 03:00:35,680
>> Correction. Uh, I did a bunch of

2524
03:00:33,760 --> 03:00:38,880
research, but I think no, my friend actually ended up hosting the Mumble.

2525
03:00:36,880 --> 03:00:41,680
So, the an FTP server for myself was my first one. I don't want to leave that

2526
03:00:40,080 --> 03:00:44,880
out there if it's not quite right. Sorry. Carry on.

2527
03:00:43,279 --> 03:00:48,240
>> Question was, do you think open source software can self-fund without

2528
03:00:46,640 --> 03:00:51,680
exclusively relying on donations? >> Yeah, totally. Corporate sponsors and

2529
03:00:50,399 --> 03:00:55,040
corporate service. >> This was a question for me. Oh,

2530
03:00:53,439 --> 03:00:59,359
>> although that's exactly what I was saying. So, so you're fine. Uh,

2531
03:00:57,920 --> 03:01:02,640
>> well, you were the one who asked it, so I just naturally answered it. I was

2532
03:01:01,359 --> 03:01:08,720
echoing. I just had to say it again. Yeah. No, it's fine. I was just razing you. Uh yeah, basically that though I

2533
03:01:06,960 --> 03:01:14,720
think the main way to do it is through support effectively. Um

2534
03:01:12,240 --> 03:01:17,520
technically Mozilla, yeah, kind of that's a bit of a one-off where you're

2535
03:01:16,160 --> 03:01:24,080
going to get crazy amounts of money from Google, but um

2536
03:01:20,800 --> 03:01:27,840
yeah, usually the like the standard path

2537
03:01:24,080 --> 03:01:30,479
is is uh

2538
03:01:27,840 --> 03:01:34,960
>> is is support. So you release it out there. Hopefully it's useful for someone

2539
03:01:32,479 --> 03:01:41,840
and hopefully those people want uh either like a custom fork or just uh

2540
03:01:38,479 --> 03:01:45,200
more general uh support contract uh free

2541
03:01:41,840 --> 03:01:47,439
tier paid tier stuff. Yeah. Um generally

2542
03:01:45,200 --> 03:01:54,080
I think the normal play is to make that more focused to enterprise customers.

2543
03:01:50,960 --> 03:01:56,720
Um, there are

2544
03:01:54,080 --> 03:02:00,560
ones that are just everybody basically, but but normally I I see that being

2545
03:01:59,359 --> 03:02:04,160
enterprise customers. >> I I told Hacksmith Luke asked if he can

2546
03:02:02,640 --> 03:02:06,399
have one too. Got any more of the scrapped ones? He says, "Haha, I'll

2547
03:02:05,680 --> 03:02:12,240
see." Nice. >> That's pretty non-committal. >> I mean, if not, I'm buying them. So,

2548
03:02:09,200 --> 03:02:14,720
doesn't really matter. Um, EJC said,

2549
03:02:12,240 --> 03:02:20,960
"Speaking of that Mozilla thing, are you using something different now?" Um,

2550
03:02:19,439 --> 03:02:26,160
I'm trying to think across all devices. I was using Zen for a bit which is like

2551
03:02:23,439 --> 03:02:29,920
a Mozilla fork and I was enjoying it. I'm not currently using it right now

2552
03:02:27,760 --> 03:02:34,240
because I think I tried to like Pac-Man install it and it didn't immediately

2553
03:02:31,680 --> 03:02:38,720
work so I just kept using Firefox. I I didn't like look into it. But uh I might

2554
03:02:37,439 --> 03:02:45,040
eventually try to get it back on my desktop again. I liked Zen. the Zen had

2555
03:02:41,760 --> 03:02:47,600
like all your tabs are vertical and on

2556
03:02:45,040 --> 03:02:54,160
the left side instead of across the top. And I liked that because I generally use

2557
03:02:50,399 --> 03:02:57,760
Chrome for work or a Chromium browser

2558
03:02:54,160 --> 03:02:59,120
for work. Um, and Firefox for personal.

2559
03:02:57,760 --> 03:03:06,080
And one of the reasons why I do that is just keep separation. And using Zen with

2560
03:03:02,960 --> 03:03:08,720
the vertical tabs made it like super

2561
03:03:06,080 --> 03:03:12,000
obvious which browser I was in. because sometimes

2562
03:03:10,319 --> 03:03:17,120
uh when they're too similar and my current setup for Firefox and my current

2563
03:03:14,399 --> 03:03:20,880
setup for Chromium on my desktop, I get caught sometimes cuz they're kind of too

2564
03:03:18,800 --> 03:03:24,319
similar and I'll load a YouTube video in my like work browser

2565
03:03:22,720 --> 03:03:28,880
>> and then oh >> terrible >> time to watch 10 million years of ads.

2566
03:03:27,279 --> 03:03:34,560
So then I have to bring it over to my personal one. Um and that's like pretty

2567
03:03:31,279 --> 03:03:38,160
annoying. But yeah, Luke Meta, Mint,

2568
03:03:34,560 --> 03:03:38,960
Cinnamon, and Zen. I mean,

2569
03:03:38,160 --> 03:03:44,000
yeah, man. >> Uh, Noki asks, "Hey, did you not do the Floatplane announcements?" Uh, we

2570
03:03:42,479 --> 03:03:48,720
didn't, but we also kind of accidentally did cuz apparently the one I was supposed to highlight this week was

2571
03:03:47,040 --> 03:03:52,880
Lionus interviews the LTT head of writing about LMG content. U, so the

2572
03:03:51,040 --> 03:03:57,120
only thing I have to change is that he asked me to show the timestamps, uh,

2573
03:03:54,960 --> 03:04:03,680
showing what we what we talked through. So, um, techjet, firet truck, uh, what

2574
03:04:00,880 --> 03:04:07,120
we use the jet for, tech house, uh, first upgrade for the tech house, when

2575
03:04:05,439 --> 03:04:12,880
we're ready to sell, investing in support, uh, Riley, um, elephants in the

2576
03:04:10,640 --> 03:04:17,200
room, family vlog, departures of notable talent, uh, talking through nostalgia

2577
03:04:15,040 --> 03:04:22,560
isn't a viable strategy, uh, Mr. Carney's line from uh from his speech

2578
03:04:19,600 --> 03:04:26,399
recently becoming more agile. Uh how do we avoid being full corporate future of

2579
03:04:24,479 --> 03:04:32,240
LMG? What about the other channels? And how do we 10x our media side? How are we

2580
03:04:28,640 --> 03:04:34,560
10xing CW? So that's the uh that's the

2581
03:04:32,240 --> 03:04:38,160
topics. And Sammy asked if you guys uh leave a comment on that video if you

2582
03:04:36,240 --> 03:04:43,600
want to give a suggestion for other leaders at the company that you would

2583
03:04:40,399 --> 03:04:46,800
like to see. We've already done Taran um

2584
03:04:43,600 --> 03:04:49,120
James obviously and Luke to an extent.

2585
03:04:46,800 --> 03:04:51,760
Um, which he might not remember. Sammy predicted that. Oh, yeah. That's that's

2586
03:04:51,200 --> 03:04:55,600
the one. >> Well, >> so Sammy says, "Luke,

2587
03:04:54,720 --> 03:04:59,680
>> it's not really the same." >> Luke will probably go, "What video?" And

2588
03:04:58,399 --> 03:05:04,399
then you're like, "Bam." And he'll be like, "Oh." And then he'll be like, "I

2589
03:05:02,080 --> 03:05:09,120
was so out of it during this shoot." >> I Okay. The The reason why I reacted

2590
03:05:07,359 --> 03:05:11,840
that way is cuz you interviewed James on this one. You didn't interview Nick,

2591
03:05:11,279 --> 03:05:18,640
Lucas, and >> No, someone did. Uh, watch the exclusives either on YouTube members or

2592
03:05:15,600 --> 03:05:19,680
at a lower price at LMG.gg/fp1.

2593
03:05:18,640 --> 03:05:25,359
>> By the way, there's a bunch of people trying to tell me how to install Zen. That wasn't my point.

2594
03:05:23,439 --> 03:05:27,920
>> I can I can figure it out. I actually for the Linux, man.

2595
03:05:27,040 --> 03:05:32,319
>> I have super >> You think he needs to install Zen?

2596
03:05:31,760 --> 03:05:39,279
>> Yeah, >> he dodged the hard R incident.

2597
03:05:36,000 --> 03:05:41,520
>> He has full Zen.

2598
03:05:39,279 --> 03:05:49,120
>> That's my pre-installed Zen. No, I I've been actually very specific. I I'm okay

2599
03:05:44,399 --> 03:05:50,880
with friends giving me input or advice.

2600
03:05:49,120 --> 03:05:57,680
Um, but I'm I've been hard ignoring any

2601
03:05:54,560 --> 03:06:00,479
comments I see because that seems unfair

2602
03:05:57,680 --> 03:06:05,600
in regards to the Linux challenge. >> So, like I've got a buddy that I've

2603
03:06:01,920 --> 03:06:07,359
known since I was like 15

2604
03:06:05,600 --> 03:06:11,680
who is like a Linux head and will talk to me about Linux stuff sometimes. I'm

2605
03:06:08,800 --> 03:06:13,439
like, "Okay, name a secret. Can I guess? >> I don't think you know this person.

2606
03:06:12,880 --> 03:06:16,560
>> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. Um, you can guess, but I don't

2607
03:06:15,920 --> 03:06:21,520
think you do. >> Okay. >> Um, so like I I'll talk to them about

2608
03:06:19,279 --> 03:06:27,279
it, but like I I'm not going to go out of my way to seek unfair potential input

2609
03:06:25,680 --> 03:06:32,960
and just like let me figure it out, dude. >> Yeah,

2610
03:06:30,479 --> 03:06:35,920
>> it's part of the fun. >> Yep.

2611
03:06:33,680 --> 03:06:40,399
>> Hey, LLD, you guys have talked about how you liked visiting Taiwan. I will be

2612
03:06:38,560 --> 03:06:45,279
visiting later this year. Is there a place you visited several times or would

2613
03:06:42,399 --> 03:06:51,840
like to visit because it's so great? I just play badminton.

2614
03:06:48,319 --> 03:06:54,880
So, I just I work all day and then I

2615
03:06:51,840 --> 03:06:55,680
shuttle [ __ ] all night and then I sleep.

2616
03:06:54,880 --> 03:07:02,479
>> He sure does. >> Sometimes I go out for late night noodles. I like spicy noodles.

2617
03:07:00,640 --> 03:07:05,120
>> Yeah. Uh, >> sometimes I call Luke and I'm like,

2618
03:07:04,000 --> 03:07:10,399
"Hey, >> it's really late, but I need spicy

2619
03:07:07,359 --> 03:07:12,560
noodles." Luke's like,

2620
03:07:10,399 --> 03:07:17,439
"Yeah, I'm down." >> Almost every time. Not technically all,

2621
03:07:14,640 --> 03:07:21,120
but almost every time. Uh, there's a fun restaurant, if I'm assuming you're

2622
03:07:19,279 --> 03:07:24,319
talking mostly in Taipei. There's a fun restaurant called Pay My Tuition. I went

2623
03:07:23,040 --> 03:07:29,840
there because I thought their name was funny and then I actually really liked their food and their vibe was really

2624
03:07:27,359 --> 03:07:36,160
awesome. Uh, the highest rated Indian food restaurant I've ever seen in the

2625
03:07:31,680 --> 03:07:38,960
entire world is in Taipei. It has 8,248

2626
03:07:36,160 --> 03:07:41,439
reviews and is 5.0 stars on Google Maps. >> Wow.

2627
03:07:39,359 --> 03:07:47,120
>> Which is wild. Uh, Wendell showed me this place. I'm going to butcher the

2628
03:07:43,760 --> 03:07:48,479
pronunciation. Oi, Oay Punjabi Ethnic

2629
03:07:47,120 --> 03:07:50,960
Indian Restaurant. >> Mhm. >> Uh, good food.

2630
03:07:50,240 --> 03:07:58,080
>> Nice. >> Um, 2J Cafe is like one of the vibiest

2631
03:07:55,279 --> 03:08:03,120
places I've ever been in my life. Um, Dawn Park is a cool place to go.

2632
03:08:01,200 --> 03:08:07,040
Most of my things that I have flagged in Taipei are restaurants because I'm

2633
03:08:04,800 --> 03:08:10,640
usually trying to go there with people. Um, but the coolest individual thing

2634
03:08:09,279 --> 03:08:15,680
I've done in Taiwan, if you want to somehow get yourself out there, um, I

2635
03:08:13,200 --> 03:08:17,840
don't know how to say this, so I don't know how to help you find it.

2636
03:08:16,960 --> 03:08:24,800
>> Nice. Solid, >> but it's just called 11. It's at 605

2637
03:08:20,880 --> 03:08:26,960
Taiwan Chi County, Alishan Township.

2638
03:08:24,800 --> 03:08:32,880
Good luck. Have fun. It's uh you stay up there for 24 hours

2639
03:08:29,359 --> 03:08:36,240
and uh you live on a native reservation

2640
03:08:32,880 --> 03:08:39,200
in the mountains and you pick tea and

2641
03:08:36,240 --> 03:08:42,640
you chop down bamboo and use a section of the bamboo to make rice and then you

2642
03:08:40,800 --> 03:08:48,359
incorporate the rice into making mochi and your dinner and all these other

2643
03:08:44,160 --> 03:08:48,359
kinds of things and it's fun. It's good.

2644
03:08:49,279 --> 03:08:54,399
Hey. Hey. How has the issues at the tech

2645
03:08:52,479 --> 03:08:59,200
house been going? Any big projects coming soon? Apparently, we're going on

2646
03:08:56,720 --> 03:09:03,760
Tuesday with an excavator and we're just going to go ham on the backyard because

2647
03:09:01,760 --> 03:09:07,760
there's like a stop work thing while we apply for some permit stuff, but it

2648
03:09:06,000 --> 03:09:13,279
doesn't apply to the outside. >> Okay. >> So, we're just uh Jordan's organizing it

2649
03:09:10,640 --> 03:09:17,359
and there's a signup sheet with like what tools you have and can bring.

2650
03:09:15,600 --> 03:09:21,760
>> He seems reasonable enough. I'm sure he called before he's digging.

2651
03:09:18,640 --> 03:09:24,160
>> Uh yes, yes, yes. BC1 call was informed.

2652
03:09:21,760 --> 03:09:27,600
So, we're So, we're just going for it, apparently. Uh, the thumbnail will

2653
03:09:25,840 --> 03:09:32,319
involve me in an excavator. I'll see you there.

2654
03:09:29,359 --> 03:09:37,200
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good luck, everyone.

2655
03:09:35,120 --> 03:09:43,200
How do you suggest I deal with a vendor whose entire software seems vibe coded

2656
03:09:40,399 --> 03:09:47,840
and doesn't do good QA work? It's hard being between admin, who wrote the

2657
03:09:45,200 --> 03:09:51,840
contract without teeth, and supporting poor software.

2658
03:09:49,680 --> 03:09:58,560
>> I think you're boned. Yeah, get out of there. Uh, >> they can't. Admin signed up for it, so

2659
03:09:56,319 --> 03:10:02,640
they're just stuck with it. >> We've never experienced that.

2660
03:10:00,560 --> 03:10:06,800
>> Really? Why? What did I What did I sign up for? >> This wasn't you.

2661
03:10:04,160 --> 03:10:12,319
>> What did Oh. Oh, okay.

2662
03:10:09,600 --> 03:10:17,279
>> I I seek people's input on decisions when I know that I'm over my head,

2663
03:10:15,279 --> 03:10:20,880
>> especially when signing a contract. I don't sign contracts lightly.

2664
03:10:19,359 --> 03:10:24,800
>> Yeah. Um, >> I've learned

2665
03:10:23,680 --> 03:10:30,800
I think >> I don't know. Seek see Oh, man. Seek it

2666
03:10:27,439 --> 03:10:33,359
out if you can. Um, there is very often

2667
03:10:30,800 --> 03:10:37,279
early termination >> stuff, but it might be better to deal

2668
03:10:35,520 --> 03:10:42,760
with an early termination fee than to deal with something that's just completely unusable. Um,

2669
03:10:43,279 --> 03:10:49,840
yeah. >> Cool. get in contact with someone who might be able to make some change and

2670
03:10:47,359 --> 03:10:53,279
and raise some stink. Flag all the ways that they've just been really really

2671
03:10:51,120 --> 03:10:57,920
terrible basically and be like, "Yeah, we can't work with you guys. Let us out

2672
03:10:55,279 --> 03:11:03,040
and see what happens." Hey, DLL, I loved the recent video about

2673
03:11:01,040 --> 03:11:07,200
comparing the MacBook Neo with other Windows laptops. But is that video

2674
03:11:05,359 --> 03:11:11,359
intended to be the full review of the Neo?

2675
03:11:08,800 --> 03:11:14,720
>> No. Um, the Neo launched while I was away for a fairly extended period of

2676
03:11:13,439 --> 03:11:20,000
time. So, they did a ShortCircuit while I was gone. And then the question was, okay, well, like what kind of MacBook

2677
03:11:18,560 --> 03:11:24,479
Neo content can we do that would be additive. And so, I died it for actually

2678
03:11:22,720 --> 03:11:29,200
a few weeks now, now that I think about it, it's been out for a while. Um, and

2679
03:11:26,399 --> 03:11:32,880
basically from when I got back to like a couple days ago, I've been dailying the

2680
03:11:30,800 --> 03:11:37,600
Neo. I really like it overall. I definitely ran into some some weird

2681
03:11:34,319 --> 03:11:41,279
issues, but overall really liked it. And

2682
03:11:37,600 --> 03:11:42,880
um one of the ideas was MacBook Neo

2683
03:11:41,279 --> 03:11:47,120
30-day challenge. But honestly, it wasn't even enough of like a challenge

2684
03:11:44,319 --> 03:11:51,279
for me to have that much to say. And so it ended up getting rolled into

2685
03:11:49,600 --> 03:11:56,640
one of the other ideas we had, which is comparing the Neo to other similarly

2686
03:11:53,200 --> 03:11:58,560
priced Windows machines. And um so what

2687
03:11:56,640 --> 03:12:03,600
I ended up doing was just using some of the insight that I gained dailying the

2688
03:12:00,479 --> 03:12:05,279
Neo to make a better comparison video

2689
03:12:03,600 --> 03:12:08,000
that was just more informed by my own personal experiences. So, I think I

2690
03:12:07,040 --> 03:12:12,479
don't know if you're going to get a full review of the Neo on Linus Tech Tips.

2691
03:12:10,080 --> 03:12:17,200
Uh, I think that was probably it. In terms of additional context that I

2692
03:12:14,319 --> 03:12:21,040
would, you know, add at this time. Not much. Uh, if you're really reliant on,

2693
03:12:19,279 --> 03:12:24,800
you know, a high-speed external dock, I would say the Neo can be a bit of a

2694
03:12:22,319 --> 03:12:29,600
downer, but other than that, I just really liked it. I if I was buying one

2695
03:12:27,120 --> 03:12:35,120
again, I'd spring for the Touch ID model just cuz like going back to Windows

2696
03:12:32,399 --> 03:12:41,279
Hello and going back to a MacBook with Touch ID is just plain better

2697
03:12:38,960 --> 03:12:45,200
and you also get more storage. But really, I when I think it's going to be

2698
03:12:42,560 --> 03:12:50,479
killer is like Neo2. I want the 12 gigs of RAM that supposedly will be supported

2699
03:12:47,200 --> 03:12:52,080
with like an A19 Pro and uh just a

2700
03:12:50,479 --> 03:12:55,359
little bit more speed. It's going to be like

2701
03:12:53,600 --> 03:13:00,160
Neo2 is going to be if Apple can keep the price the sameish, it's just going

2702
03:12:57,760 --> 03:13:05,120
to slay. It's just going to be no competition left to fight.

2703
03:13:02,800 --> 03:13:08,080
>> Neo is eating Valve's lunch right now. Gaming is growing. I'm so confused by

2704
03:13:07,680 --> 03:13:11,479
that. >> No, it's not.

2705
03:13:11,760 --> 03:13:15,279
>> What? What? What? >> Don't worry about it. That's not a

2706
03:13:14,960 --> 03:13:18,720
thing. >> What? What? >> No.

2707
03:13:18,000 --> 03:13:22,880
>> What? >> No. >> Huh? >> No. What?

2708
03:13:21,520 --> 03:13:26,720
>> No. >> All right, Dan. What's next? >> What?

2709
03:13:24,880 --> 03:13:31,920
>> I'm going to need a couple couple weeks to get over that. Um, will we ever see

2710
03:13:29,520 --> 03:13:37,120
the return of techtrivia answered in the form of a question? Missed that show.

2711
03:13:34,640 --> 03:13:43,120
Also, why does LTLS.com have more GPU data on it? For example,

2712
03:13:39,439 --> 03:13:45,279
there's a review of the 9060 but no data

2713
03:13:43,120 --> 03:13:50,160
or why doesn't they're asking. Uh, that's something they're working on.

2714
03:13:46,399 --> 03:13:51,840
They're working on getting all the GPUs

2715
03:13:50,160 --> 03:13:56,000
on the site, but it, you know, just takes time. Um, and especially when

2716
03:13:53,840 --> 03:13:59,840
there's no video demand for that data, then it has to fit in with the articles

2717
03:13:58,000 --> 03:14:04,319
and videos and short circuits and everything that they're supporting behind the scenes. As for Tech Trivia

2718
03:14:02,880 --> 03:14:10,880
answered in the form of a question, never. Uh, I felt so bad for everyone

2719
03:14:08,960 --> 03:14:16,800
who participated in that, all the creators. The questions were so hard

2720
03:14:14,960 --> 03:14:22,560
because I was intended to be a participant. I never got to review them.

2721
03:14:19,120 --> 03:14:25,279
And I was just basically, if you go back

2722
03:14:22,560 --> 03:14:30,960
and watch it through this lens, you can see me desperately

2723
03:14:27,600 --> 03:14:32,640
trying to make it not seem like horrible

2724
03:14:30,960 --> 03:14:38,880
that nobody knows the answer to anything. And like because the questions

2725
03:14:36,000 --> 03:14:43,920
were so hard and I didn't actually know that normally

2726
03:14:41,359 --> 03:14:46,640
um like on Jeopardy you're supposed to like they're primed on what the

2727
03:14:45,359 --> 03:14:50,479
questions will be about. It's not random. >> Oh, they know like the topics.

2728
03:14:48,800 --> 03:14:53,120
>> Yeah. So they can like study ahead of time and stuff. >> Interesting.

2729
03:14:51,840 --> 03:14:57,760
>> Cuz like Yeah. Otherwise, why would anyone know the exact year of that stupid thing? Of course, that makes

2730
03:14:55,920 --> 03:15:01,920
sense now in retrospect, but I didn't know that when we were setting up this

2731
03:14:59,760 --> 03:15:08,000
thing. And apparently neither did any of our >> coordinators for this project. So like

2732
03:15:06,080 --> 03:15:10,960
>> I mean there's some people that we worked with on that that I don't think

2733
03:15:09,359 --> 03:15:14,960
ever worked with us again. >> And like I was too embarrassed to ask

2734
03:15:12,880 --> 03:15:19,520
even people that are like I would say you know relatively like friends. Um

2735
03:15:17,840 --> 03:15:24,880
like I just didn't even ask them for a long time because it was just like kind

2736
03:15:21,279 --> 03:15:27,200
of embarrassing across the board. Um

2737
03:15:24,880 --> 03:15:31,359
yeah it was that was that did not go well.

2738
03:15:29,120 --> 03:15:36,560
the the second half of the Oh. >> Oh, sorry.

2739
03:15:33,279 --> 03:15:37,680
>> Uh, it was about uh GPUs on the Labs

2740
03:15:36,560 --> 03:15:41,760
website. >> Um,

2741
03:15:39,840 --> 03:15:45,439
sure. I mean, I'm just going to talk generally about GPUs on the lab's

2742
03:15:43,120 --> 03:15:52,000
website, so it's probably okay. Um, the lab's website is is interesting. Uh,

2743
03:15:49,359 --> 03:15:55,920
people will read the articles. Lucas will post them on Reddit and then people

2744
03:15:54,239 --> 03:16:00,319
will see them there and then come read the articles and that's all that's all

2745
03:15:57,520 --> 03:16:07,279
cool and stuff. Um, nobody looks at the the product pages.

2746
03:16:04,399 --> 03:16:09,760
Um, the the product pages get we've we've tried a bunch of different things

2747
03:16:08,560 --> 03:16:15,920
to make them interesting, but realistically I think just like print

2748
03:16:12,880 --> 03:16:17,600
reviews these days like hey I wonder if

2749
03:16:15,920 --> 03:16:22,800
there's a reason why all the written review sites are dying. Uh, who knows?

2750
03:16:20,319 --> 03:16:27,200
Uh, I think we we, you know, might have found out. So, we're we're figuring out

2751
03:16:25,359 --> 03:16:32,239
what we actually want to do with this stuff. The articles have been doing

2752
03:16:28,560 --> 03:16:34,880
well, like I said. Um, and we we think

2753
03:16:32,239 --> 03:16:40,560
there's a future in tools, like the the whole versus mode thing, um, where you

2754
03:16:37,840 --> 03:16:45,520
can like look at two different products uh, side by side and and see the

2755
03:16:42,640 --> 03:16:51,359
comparison. Um, this is a a particularly cool part of

2756
03:16:48,160 --> 03:16:53,120
it. Um, being able to I guess we don't

2757
03:16:51,359 --> 03:16:58,479
have the size data for one of them, but uh being able to look at them side by

2758
03:16:54,479 --> 03:17:00,479
side. Um, GPUs in particular is

2759
03:16:58,479 --> 03:17:06,479
something that we weren't uploading for a while uh for long boring reasons. Um,

2760
03:17:04,720 --> 03:17:13,680
and as some people have noticed, we have started again uh putting some GPUs up

2761
03:17:09,600 --> 03:17:19,680
there, but like uh keeping the product

2762
03:17:13,680 --> 03:17:22,880
reviews populated on the site is not a

2763
03:17:19,680 --> 03:17:26,160
highlevel high priority goal for the lab

2764
03:17:22,880 --> 03:17:32,160
because I think just in 2026

2765
03:17:26,160 --> 03:17:34,479
that's not uh a like lowhanging fruit or

2766
03:17:32,160 --> 03:17:38,160
a particularly valuable fruit for pretty much anyone. We are seeing again

2767
03:17:36,720 --> 03:17:43,279
traction with the articles. So, we've been pursuing that more. Um, that's

2768
03:17:41,439 --> 03:17:47,520
that's been kind of fun and and and interesting for us, more fun and

2769
03:17:45,120 --> 03:17:53,520
interesting than just farting out more um like just stream of consciousness

2770
03:17:50,319 --> 03:17:55,279
product reviews. Um, and also you guys

2771
03:17:53,520 --> 03:18:01,359
are resonating with it more as well. So, we're kind of reacting to

2772
03:17:58,800 --> 03:18:05,439
honestly what what you guys want. We do think some of this is because of search

2773
03:18:03,279 --> 03:18:09,120
engine stuff with AI, but yeah, >> apparently no, you do not get

2774
03:18:07,200 --> 03:18:14,359
information of any sort ahead of time on Jeopardy. So, I was misinformed.

2775
03:18:10,960 --> 03:18:14,359
>> Oh, all right.

2776
03:18:17,359 --> 03:18:23,359
>> Stealing your thunder. >> There's some people saying like, is this

2777
03:18:20,880 --> 03:18:27,439
a uh I lost it, but somebody somebody

2778
03:18:25,439 --> 03:18:31,040
basically mentioned, is it Yeah. Is it a discovery problem? Um,

2779
03:18:29,520 --> 03:18:34,239
>> well, we happened to start publishing written articles right around the same

2780
03:18:32,560 --> 03:18:38,720
time that written started getting killed by AI.

2781
03:18:36,239 --> 03:18:44,399
>> Yeah. Uh, they also said wire cutters profitable. Yeah. Wire cutters. Like

2782
03:18:41,200 --> 03:18:47,120
when I go to their front page, um, we

2783
03:18:44,399 --> 03:18:51,200
took hundreds of walks to find five dog leashes we love.

2784
03:18:49,439 --> 03:18:55,840
>> Get that affiliate revenue from that mainstream content.

2785
03:18:53,279 --> 03:19:02,319
>> Yeah, that's it's not it's not power supplies. Um, and also

2786
03:19:00,479 --> 03:19:05,040
this isn't even a profit play. The lab's website doesn't have any ads on it. I

2787
03:19:03,920 --> 03:19:11,600
don't know. I don't know if like so many of you run ad blocker that you never realized, but but like there there is

2788
03:19:09,439 --> 03:19:17,279
this is non ad blocker. There's no ads on the lab site anywhere. It's no part

2789
03:19:14,720 --> 03:19:23,359
of this is a is a profit play. We we made a there's there's information out

2790
03:19:19,520 --> 03:19:26,319
there and through usage statistics, we

2791
03:19:23,359 --> 03:19:33,040
kind of figured out that people uh don't really want to read text reviews in

2792
03:19:29,600 --> 03:19:36,080
2026. So that's okay. Uh we also figured

2793
03:19:33,040 --> 03:19:37,520
out that people are fairly interested in

2794
03:19:36,080 --> 03:19:44,160
like the the articles we've been writing. So great. Uh it's just fairly

2795
03:19:40,479 --> 03:19:47,840
natural like reacting to what people

2796
03:19:44,160 --> 03:19:51,040
want. That's it. Cool.

2797
03:19:47,840 --> 03:19:53,200
To Lionus, also an adult with braces.

2798
03:19:51,040 --> 03:19:58,000
Nice. I'm happy with how straight my teeth are progressing, but I'm bummed

2799
03:19:55,040 --> 03:20:04,319
about the things I no longer eat for fear of breaking a bracket. Are there

2800
03:20:00,560 --> 03:20:08,160
foods you now avoid? Nope. I was always

2801
03:20:04,319 --> 03:20:10,239
a completely non-compliant client. I

2802
03:20:08,160 --> 03:20:16,800
would eat popcorn. I' I've chewed chewing gum with these because I'm

2803
03:20:12,160 --> 03:20:19,840
crazy. Uh I eat apples. I um for me the

2804
03:20:16,800 --> 03:20:21,840
only real obstacle is like pain because

2805
03:20:19,840 --> 03:20:27,520
these brackets sit super proud. These stupid ceramic braces that I hate. Um

2806
03:20:24,720 --> 03:20:31,920
but in terms of like going easy, man, I'll eat corn on the cob. It just it's

2807
03:20:29,840 --> 03:20:36,960
it's like creamed corn at that point cuz you're just you're kind of mashing it

2808
03:20:33,120 --> 03:20:39,120
from both sides, you know?

2809
03:20:36,960 --> 03:20:45,200
Double chew. Hey LLD, I am the head of engineering at

2810
03:20:42,399 --> 03:20:48,239
a drone show company that did a 1000 drone show for the YouTube creator

2811
03:20:46,720 --> 03:20:52,720
conference last week. Are you >> heard you were there and wanted to know

2812
03:20:49,920 --> 03:21:00,560
your thoughts here? Why have my thoughts when you can have my video that I

2813
03:20:54,720 --> 03:21:04,080
recorded of it? Um here. Where is it?

2814
03:21:00,560 --> 03:21:05,359
I think I think this will do. Oh yeah.

2815
03:21:04,080 --> 03:21:11,040
Here we go, bud. Here. I'll send this over to you. Okay. Done. >> Uh sure. Cool. In the meantime, let's do

2816
03:21:09,359 --> 03:21:15,600
another one while we wait for file downloads and such.

2817
03:21:13,760 --> 03:21:18,960
Hi, Lionus and Luke. What's your favorite board game to play on a game

2818
03:21:17,120 --> 03:21:23,279
night? You should check out the Pac-Man board game corridor. Such a great such a

2819
03:21:21,760 --> 03:21:27,680
great time. Anyway, thanks for the free shipping. >> Fun.

2820
03:21:25,520 --> 03:21:28,800
>> And it's not close. >> Sorry, board game.

2821
03:21:28,560 --> 03:21:36,800
>> Yep. >> They have a board game. >> Yeah. >> Oh, cool. >> It's so good, actually.

2822
03:21:33,439 --> 03:21:39,120
8.7 on board game geek which is unbiased

2823
03:21:36,800 --> 03:21:43,920
take because he you know would normally hate anything slay the spire.

2824
03:21:40,720 --> 03:21:46,560
>> Oh it definitely definitely uh one one

2825
03:21:43,920 --> 03:21:51,120
to four players. It's co-op. It's really good. Um it it gets each player

2826
03:21:49,279 --> 03:21:56,160
involved. Um that's cool. >> I'm not surprised it's it's pretty

2827
03:21:52,720 --> 03:21:57,920
highly rated. Um, everyone that I know

2828
03:21:56,160 --> 03:22:02,640
that has played it, including people that have never played the video game,

2829
03:22:01,040 --> 03:22:06,080
including people that don't even like video games, every single person has

2830
03:22:04,720 --> 03:22:09,520
liked it. >> That's cool.

2831
03:22:07,840 --> 03:22:16,800
>> Uh, I play whatever my kids like. They've been really into Munchkin lately. Um, it's pretty basic, you know,

2832
03:22:13,760 --> 03:22:19,439
as far as like being into cool board

2833
03:22:16,800 --> 03:22:24,560
games go, but uh, yeah, they they enjoy the heck out of it. Um, uh, we like, uh,

2834
03:22:22,720 --> 03:22:28,680
we like Clank as a family as well. That one's fun. Um,

2835
03:22:28,960 --> 03:22:34,080
cards. The thing that, uh, that I get the most

2836
03:22:32,399 --> 03:22:37,680
requests for from my kids is Let's Play Hearts. Um, I got them into it a little

2837
03:22:36,239 --> 03:22:44,640
while ago, and it's it's such a good game. It's, uh, just that the things can

2838
03:22:42,800 --> 03:22:49,720
get heated sometimes around the Queen of Spades, though. People who play will

2839
03:22:46,720 --> 03:22:49,720
know.

2840
03:22:50,000 --> 03:22:55,600
ready for that video if you guys are. >> Yeah, you can throw up the video. >> Let's see. What do I do? I think it's go

2841
03:22:55,200 --> 03:23:00,640
now. >> Recorded horizontally because I'm not an animal

2842
03:22:59,200 --> 03:23:06,239
and I don't have audio on. >> That's fine. That's good. >> What is this?

2843
03:23:03,120 --> 03:23:08,960
>> Uh, it's a drone show.

2844
03:23:06,239 --> 03:23:11,680
You may want to Oh, is there a way to >> play it back faster?

2845
03:23:10,399 --> 03:23:19,200
>> I can I can take it through. >> Oh, okay. Uh, so yeah, this was cool.

2846
03:23:15,760 --> 03:23:22,000
I was amazed at how stable they were.

2847
03:23:19,200 --> 03:23:26,239
Look how flipping stable these are.

2848
03:23:24,479 --> 03:23:31,359
>> Yeah, >> pretty cool. So, yeah, they did uh they

2849
03:23:29,200 --> 03:23:34,960
did a drone show and it basically probably the coolest one was the globe,

2850
03:23:33,120 --> 03:23:38,560
but I don't think I caught that one. Here they are reconfiguring. They did a

2851
03:23:36,399 --> 03:23:41,920
nanat. This one's pretty cool. Maybe let it play for a second.

2852
03:23:39,439 --> 03:23:43,920
>> Yeah, it it just looks really bad. >> Yeah, when you don't let it play.

2853
03:23:43,359 --> 03:23:48,800
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Uh it I I had never seen one

2854
03:23:46,479 --> 03:23:55,520
before. This was my first time. Uh it was it was cooler than I expected

2855
03:23:53,600 --> 03:24:00,399
and I really liked the way that they kind of

2856
03:23:58,239 --> 03:24:05,439
had you watch the transitions between the different things, but you would have

2857
03:24:03,279 --> 03:24:08,560
like you'd have to be clairvoyant to, you know, realize exactly what they were

2858
03:24:07,040 --> 03:24:11,200
going to be going for on the next one. Yeah, it was uh it was very cool. They

2859
03:24:10,080 --> 03:24:17,359
had a they had a couple different things. They had someone um on one of

2860
03:24:14,239 --> 03:24:18,960
those like like with a a jet thing on

2861
03:24:17,359 --> 03:24:22,720
their hands and then one on their back like in a like a jet suit. So he kind of

2862
03:24:21,040 --> 03:24:27,520
flew around a little bit and then they had sky divers that um

2863
03:24:26,160 --> 03:24:30,880
dropped out of a plane. They had like sparklers behind them as they like came

2864
03:24:29,359 --> 03:24:36,160
down through the sky and then they deployed their parachutes and then they like ripped like right over our heads

2865
03:24:34,399 --> 03:24:40,160
and landed in the field there. So it was Yeah, it was a pretty it was a pretty cool show.

2866
03:24:37,840 --> 03:24:44,399
>> Wow. Hey Elinus, time to finally use my gift

2867
03:24:42,160 --> 03:24:51,760
cards. They also brought out Oprah. What? >> To do a talk. Yeah. I mean, she's the OG

2868
03:24:48,000 --> 03:24:54,800
content creator. Think about it.

2869
03:24:51,760 --> 03:24:57,200
She started just in like local news and

2870
03:24:54,800 --> 03:25:01,439
made her built her built her empire into her own show, her own network, and she

2871
03:24:59,840 --> 03:25:06,800
recently joined YouTube. So, it's pretty on topic. >> So, we have Oprah to blame for shorts.

2872
03:25:05,359 --> 03:25:09,920
>> I would say I would say >> that domino meme. I would say not so

2873
03:25:09,120 --> 03:25:15,840
much. >> Sounds like it to me. >> Oh, Oprah goes on TV. Dominoes fall

2874
03:25:13,359 --> 03:25:19,359
down. Now we are talking about disabling shorts with a timer.

2875
03:25:17,680 --> 03:25:23,760
>> Are you looking up Oprah's channel? Yes, >> I did. Yeah. >> Yeah.

2876
03:25:21,760 --> 03:25:27,040
>> Did you mog Oprah? You have more subscribers than Oprah.

2877
03:25:25,200 --> 03:25:34,000
>> Well, yeah, for now. >> Plus ratio.

2878
03:25:30,640 --> 03:25:36,640
>> Her view counts are all over the place.

2879
03:25:34,000 --> 03:25:43,760
>> Wow. Oh, yeah. You got 1 million. >> 5,000. 1 million 2.8,000

2880
03:25:40,000 --> 03:25:46,640
>> 2.3 million.

2881
03:25:43,760 --> 03:25:50,080
>> Yeah. Like all over the place. I' I don't think I've ever seen a channel

2882
03:25:47,920 --> 03:25:53,920
with a spread like that. And not like to be clear, I've seen channels that have

2883
03:25:51,920 --> 03:25:57,840
one video with 5 million views and like a bunch with 500 views, like where they

2884
03:25:55,600 --> 03:26:04,720
had like one viral hit. But the fact that she goes between like functionally

2885
03:26:01,600 --> 03:26:05,840
zero views and millions of views from

2886
03:26:04,720 --> 03:26:10,160
one upload to the next. >> I was thinking like, okay, did this did

2887
03:26:08,000 --> 03:26:12,880
go gentle or whatever did they like buy a bunch of views on that? But then this

2888
03:26:12,319 --> 03:26:19,920
one >> Yep. >> 2.5 for there. >> Yep. It's just all over the place, man.

2889
03:26:18,319 --> 03:26:26,080
>> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. This is This doesn't

2890
03:26:23,520 --> 03:26:30,239
matter, but Oh, it's just a little bit weird that it's always the third video

2891
03:26:27,920 --> 03:26:34,800
in >> Oh,

2892
03:26:32,640 --> 03:26:37,920
okay. Okay. Not always. >> Oh, no. Once it broke off.

2893
03:26:36,720 --> 03:26:41,040
>> Yep. Okay. >> But it has like the same cadence for

2894
03:26:39,760 --> 03:26:46,800
when it'll just pop off. >> Just pops once in a while.

2895
03:26:44,000 --> 03:26:53,120
>> But it's like roughly every four videos they go from

2896
03:26:48,880 --> 03:26:56,640
single digit thousands. It's clips.

2897
03:26:53,120 --> 03:26:59,359
Oh, is it interesting?

2898
03:26:56,640 --> 03:27:06,000
So, the mainline. Yeah, the main It's the long videos. Okay. So,

2899
03:27:03,359 --> 03:27:11,200
yeah, 46 minutes and it gets 2.3 million views and then these little cuts of that

2900
03:27:08,720 --> 03:27:15,840
video get only a few views. >> So, this is LMG clips, but Oprah

2901
03:27:14,399 --> 03:27:20,239
>> basically. God, >> it's just not super obvious without

2902
03:27:17,920 --> 03:27:23,920
looking at the length or the view count which one is the primary video. So, this

2903
03:27:21,920 --> 03:27:28,080
one's an hour, 2.5 million views. >> Do you think it's set up as a podcast

2904
03:27:25,520 --> 03:27:30,800
and they're not actually listening to YouTube? Maybe

2905
03:27:29,040 --> 03:27:35,600
>> they're listening to the podcast. >> Maybe. >> I don't know cuz our W show playlist on

2906
03:27:33,760 --> 03:27:39,040
the LT channel is a podcast, >> but there's a separate podcast tab.

2907
03:27:37,359 --> 03:27:45,439
Would that have podcasts in So, go to the Oprah podcast, 74 episodes, and

2908
03:27:42,080 --> 03:27:47,279
those should be the same videos because

2909
03:27:45,439 --> 03:27:50,239
a podcast is just a type of playlist.

2910
03:27:49,200 --> 03:27:54,000
>> Yeah, they totally are. >> So, this is going out to RSS feeds.

2911
03:27:52,640 --> 03:28:00,760
>> So, heard podcast is >> Her podcast is very popular. Got it.

2912
03:27:57,200 --> 03:28:00,760
>> That makes sense.

2913
03:28:01,439 --> 03:28:06,560
>> Oh, okay. >> Sorry to hear that, Wy Giraffe.

2914
03:28:05,040 --> 03:28:12,880
They have to go be social instead of hanging and watching my >> disgusting. Sorry. Sorry. Just gonna

2915
03:28:10,080 --> 03:28:17,359
>> Sorry for your loss. >> Don't come back. Okay. Hey, L. It's time

2916
03:28:15,439 --> 03:28:20,800
to finally use my gift cards. Is there something that you know your team could

2917
03:28:19,279 --> 03:28:28,080
improve, but it's never going to be profitable or marketable for it being

2918
03:28:23,439 --> 03:28:30,319
just too niche or too specialized?

2919
03:28:28,080 --> 03:28:36,000
>> Um, I don't know. Our posture.

2920
03:28:32,800 --> 03:28:39,520
I think I think they meant like products

2921
03:28:36,000 --> 03:28:40,160
>> like Oh, oh, like the CW team.

2922
03:28:39,520 --> 03:28:46,880
>> Yeah. >> Uh oh. >> So, so a chair then.

2923
03:28:43,840 --> 03:28:48,880
>> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. Sandals.

2924
03:28:46,880 --> 03:28:56,399
>> I think that we could improve the desk pads and um and no one would care. You

2925
03:28:54,160 --> 03:29:00,080
can ever so slightly because it stretches in one direction but not the

2926
03:28:58,160 --> 03:29:03,279
other direction. you can ever so slightly detect if you like kind of

2927
03:29:01,600 --> 03:29:08,319
press hard and move a thing that it's like a little bit oval tracking, like a

2928
03:29:05,279 --> 03:29:10,160
little bit. Um, and literally after all

2929
03:29:08,319 --> 03:29:15,279
these years of us selling hundreds of thousands of desk pads, no one's ever

2930
03:29:11,760 --> 03:29:17,760
noticed or cared. Um, so yeah, we could

2931
03:29:15,279 --> 03:29:20,720
do it and no one will care. So we we had we had talked about in the early days,

2932
03:29:19,359 --> 03:29:28,080
>> you're going to get complaints now. >> Yeah, whatever. Get >> I knew the whole time I knew something

2933
03:29:23,600 --> 03:29:30,160
was off. Uh, DOUG. YEP. YEP. YEP.

2934
03:29:28,080 --> 03:29:35,760
IN the early days of Kyle being here, we had talked about doing like a pro cloth

2935
03:29:31,760 --> 03:29:38,640
desk pad that uh was uh either the same

2936
03:29:35,760 --> 03:29:45,600
stretch in both axis or no stretch and just kind of never got to it.

2937
03:29:42,239 --> 03:29:48,080
>> Lus, how is the team liking the the new

2938
03:29:45,600 --> 03:29:54,160
Ubiquiti EV chargers? I just got a Toyota BZ and am in the market for

2939
03:29:51,600 --> 03:29:57,520
getting level two chargers. I mean the I think the team likes any charger they

2940
03:29:55,920 --> 03:30:03,520
get to use at the office because they don't pay for it.

2941
03:29:59,920 --> 03:30:06,960
They seem fine so far.

2942
03:30:03,520 --> 03:30:10,560
Is there any new screen tech to replace

2943
03:30:06,960 --> 03:30:14,479
OLED? If not, what options exist for

2944
03:30:10,560 --> 03:30:16,720
iPhone 11 users? Me sensitive to PWM

2945
03:30:14,479 --> 03:30:21,120
flicker who prefer Apple's ecosystem. iPhone 17 is a no-go. OLED causes

2946
03:30:19,439 --> 03:30:25,040
headaches/nausea. Wow, that's uh that's rough, dude,

2947
03:30:23,120 --> 03:30:30,600
because on mobile everything's going OLED. >> I have heard of this.

2948
03:30:27,600 --> 03:30:30,600
>> Um

2949
03:30:30,800 --> 03:30:38,000
yikes. Like micro LED. I know Apple was putting a bunch of investment into that

2950
03:30:35,520 --> 03:30:43,160
supposedly maybe for the Apple Watch at some point. >> Have you seen these? Um,

2951
03:30:44,800 --> 03:30:51,600
I have seen things that do that not from

2952
03:30:48,319 --> 03:30:53,279
that company like like a like a like a

2953
03:30:51,600 --> 03:30:58,880
no, you know. >> Yeah, >> I have seen displays

2954
03:30:56,239 --> 03:31:02,560
>> super modern being shown just to developers right now. I wasn't sure if

2955
03:31:00,960 --> 03:31:05,520
you'd seen or heard of it. >> Um, yeah, it's definitely a thing from

2956
03:31:04,160 --> 03:31:10,479
other brands. I haven't seen theirs though. >> Okay. Okay. Um,

2957
03:31:09,120 --> 03:31:12,880
>> the reason why I asked you in that way was I didn't know if it was public or not.

2958
03:31:12,239 --> 03:31:18,399
>> Yeah, I'm not sure. >> Yeah. So, >> man, and even microledd, like I wonder

2959
03:31:16,080 --> 03:31:24,080
if you'd have the same kind of PWM control flicker. I I feel for you, man.

2960
03:31:22,319 --> 03:31:29,680
>> I I'm sorry. I wish I had an answer for you.

2961
03:31:25,840 --> 03:31:31,520
The last one I have today, Edge DLL, the

2962
03:31:29,680 --> 03:31:35,279
hoodies I got the past few years have really come in handy during my first

2963
03:31:33,040 --> 03:31:39,080
winter here in northern Sweden. I think it's pronounced hey

2964
03:31:39,920 --> 03:31:47,520
>> nice. >> Any new designs coming with the same

2965
03:31:44,800 --> 03:31:50,319
hoodie as the circuit tree one? I love that.

2966
03:31:49,680 --> 03:31:56,319
>> Oh, >> yeah. The funny one that was a tree that was a circuit. The circuit tree. Um

2967
03:31:55,120 --> 03:32:00,000
>> I thought they just didn't know how to spell it and they meant the framework one.

2968
03:31:58,960 --> 03:32:05,600
>> No. Yeah, not that one. >> But but I got you. >> Just because they're foreign.

2969
03:32:03,279 --> 03:32:10,399
>> Yeah. So cancelled

2970
03:32:08,479 --> 03:32:15,760
>> just because they spelled hey wrong. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah.

2971
03:32:13,359 --> 03:32:22,479
>> Isn't this one just our blank? >> I think so. Pretty sure.

2972
03:32:17,359 --> 03:32:25,600
>> Yeah. I'm I'm pretty sure that um

2973
03:32:22,479 --> 03:32:27,840
any colored blank hoodie should be this

2974
03:32:25,600 --> 03:32:31,040
one. It's funny that that's the one you like

2975
03:32:29,279 --> 03:32:37,720
so much because I' I'd say it's one of the less unique ones that we have. Uh

2976
03:32:34,000 --> 03:32:37,720
oh. Is our site down?

2977
03:32:40,160 --> 03:32:48,239
>> Oh, okay. >> We've been having some minor Wi-Fi issues. >> Oh, brilliant. Okay, Tops.

2978
03:32:46,720 --> 03:32:53,439
So, man, I'm afraid to say something wrong.

2979
03:32:50,479 --> 03:32:59,200
Message support just in case, but I'm pretty sure this is literally it. This

2980
03:32:56,720 --> 03:33:03,359
is the circuitry hoodie but without the circuitry.

2981
03:33:01,040 --> 03:33:09,600
Um, so it's just our our blank hoodie for 60 CAD. And I believe the same one

2982
03:33:07,520 --> 03:33:15,920
should be obtainable. Oh yeah, I guess we just never did any other prints on

2983
03:33:11,920 --> 03:33:17,359
it. So yeah, pick up the blank hoodie.

2984
03:33:15,920 --> 03:33:22,560
Neat. Good chat. >> That's all I got. >> That's all you got? Well, that means

2985
03:33:20,319 --> 03:33:26,239
that's all I got. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad

2986
03:33:24,160 --> 03:33:29,840
channel. If you are bored and looking for something to do, hey, you can always

2987
03:33:27,600 --> 03:33:35,600
go shopping on ltstore.com where we are running our shiptorm sale event. Orders

2988
03:33:32,960 --> 03:33:39,680
over $150 uh on the US and oh wait, oh

2989
03:33:38,000 --> 03:33:44,000
interesting. On the global site, the threshold is lower for Canada. I did not

2990
03:33:42,160 --> 03:33:47,680
know that. Okay. Well, whatever. Whatever site you're on and wherever you

2991
03:33:45,680 --> 03:33:50,800
live past a certain threshold, you can get free shipping on your entire order.

2992
03:33:49,279 --> 03:33:56,399
And if you sign up for Floatplane, LMG.gg/flatplane, GG/flatplane.

2993
03:33:53,359 --> 03:33:57,920
The thresholds go down even more after

2994
03:33:56,399 --> 03:34:01,520
you link your account. So, it's a great time to sign up for Floatplane for early

2995
03:33:59,840 --> 03:34:06,680
access content, blah blah, etc., etc. See you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.