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everything's freaking awesome. >> The EU requires phone makers to fit
readily removable batteries for from from next year. Uh but there may be a
notable exception. >> We'll see what that is. Also, YouTube
opens up AI deep fake detection tool to all of Hollywood.
>> I knew. Wait. Oh, that one. I thought you were going to pick the other one. I
thought you were going to pick the like local Gemini one >> because that was more proof that Luke
was right. >> Oh, yeah. >> That one's crazy. That one's crazy.
Okay, we're >> just AI topics people. Yeah, we'll talk about that.
>> It's pretty cool though. >> Yes.
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partner Razer. All right, let's jump right into our
headline topic, which is of course Oh, man. It wasn't even one of the ones we
highlighted. There's so many good ones. >> Yeah, that's funny, isn't it?
>> Framework CEO and absolute bro Narav
Patel tweeted earlier this week that um
>> is it? >> Hm. >> Oh, that top. Okay. >> Yeah, that topic. tweeted earlier this
week that the Framework 13 Pro launch,
investment disclosure, has been an overwhelming success. Nice. Batch 7,
which is shipping in July, is sold out already.
>> Wow. >> Yeah, people are really vibing with the better chassis, the new better
touchscreen display that has just Did you watch the video? >> Yes, it looks great.
>> Phenomenal. Phenomenal like direct sunlight
performance. Do you guys just walk outside and test it? Was cool.
>> I've never seen anything I have seen anything quite like it. I've seen those
like retroreflective displays that are quite like it, but I've never seen one
with a backlight that's quite like that. Very, very cool. Better battery life.
Freaking Panther Lake. This thing is resonating with people. But that is not
what I'm excited about right now. What I'm excited about right now is the fact
that Narav posted that over 50% of their
sales of the Framework 13 Pro are wait
for it
>> Ubuntu. >> Yeah. >> Not Windows.
>> Yeah. >> Now we have talked extensively on the WAN Show about the year of the Linux
desktop. We have even talked like like
personally between you and me about a video that I was working on called the
year of Windows humiliation. Yeah. Because even if it's not the year of the
Linux desktop, >> I I think there's an argument to be made
that it is the year of Windows humiliation. That video actually goes
live sometime this weekend. And I had to go do a quick voice pickup when I saw
this tweet and be like, >> I don't know, editor, put this
somewhere, but like this is crazy.
However, however, >> I hope it's just a screenshot of the tweet and you going and no no other
context. I wish it was now. Sorry, keep going. Now, I completely wish it was.
However, there is a bit of a catch. And
Luke, do you want to be the one to give the bad news? >> Yeah. So, honestly, as as much as I
would love this to be true, >> and you know, maybe it is. And you know,
I I'm not saying it's not true. I do think that that many people are ordering
Ubuntu configurations for these laptops and not Windows ones. I am not
personally convinced that those people are going to keep Linux I'll say not
even just Ubuntu but Linux on their laptops. I I suspect people are doing
this so that they can not pay for Windows
and then they can install Windows and then just through the command line tell
it that it should totally just activate itself and then go on their merry way.
Um dawning dawning the hat I possible. I
don't think over 50% of framework sales
are people who are going to long-term Linux. I think they should give it a
shot because I've been doing that and it's actually been awesome.
>> Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Think about this. Think about this. The last
thing you just said was what? >> It's been awesome.
>> Okay. Okay. Now, now think back to the second last thing you said.
>> Don't worry. I'm not going to go >> shot. >> Yeah. Okay. Okay. >> The third last thing.
>> No. No. We're not going to go any further than that. Then you wouldn't have a shot. You'd have no chance.
Neither would I. Do you think that there could be a
significant number of people who order this machine? Oh,
>> and just get a taste and they're just like, huh?
You know what? The water's warm.
Why were all those penguins in it? >> You know what I'm saying?
>> Aren't they usually in cold water? >> Yeah, >> right. Not always, it turns out.
>> I know. Yeah, I know. I know. I'm >> Which is great. which is great to know
because then if you don't like the cold water that doesn't mean you can't join them.
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> Just join the penguins. >> So I I mean I look I'm obviously like
literally have a vested interest in in frameworks success. What I do not have a
vested interest in is Yes. Thank you for that Luke. Uh what I do not have a
vested interest in is like Linux's success. I got no I got no dog in that
fight. >> Yeah. It doesn't benefit us. >> No. But what it does do is it's it's
it's freaking >> it does. >> It's freaking exciting and that benefits
me >> cuz the more people that use Linux ideally the better it'll get and then
that benefits me. >> Okay. Yes. But not in like a
>> not in a monetary way was sort of was sort of my
>> No, I know. I know. That's why I said it didn't. Uh >> yeah, I honestly I I do suspect some
people might try it and like it. I haven't used Ubuntu in
uh I don't know genuinely like 15 20
years. So, I have no idea, but um I I I
do suspect some people might actually Yeah, let me let me poke around with
this thing. I've heard some people talking about it and then might actually
stick with it, which would be really cool. Um I also would say
>> that I think a dramatically higher
percentage of these are real or at least
people who are going to install a different dro but not Windows um
compared to even this time last year. I just thought of something else.
>> I think it's been a massive jump. >> I just thought of something else. Okay,
hear me out. If you're techy enough to
install your own operating system, >> Mhm. >> What are the odds that you're also techy
enough to be by storage drive and
probably save a buck on the thing?
>> You hear? You see where I'm going with this, right? Cuz this is people who
selected a storage drive. >> This is this is the right. it would have to be because it comes with an operating
system >> and selected a pre-installed operating system. But if you're the kind of person
that really was just going to rip Ubuntu off of it, put Windows on, pirate
Windows, like you you you have the knowhow that don't tell me you don't
know how to open up of all things a framework laptop
>> framework laptop >> and put an SSD in it. >> It's sort of the point.
>> Don't even tell me that. I still don't
fully believe the numbers, but that does, I think, up the percentage that it
could be. >> I think we're going to get less than 100% of those Ubuntu people moving over
to Windows. >> And it's just it's an exciting time to
be interested in open- source software right now. It's an exciting time to be
interested in alternatives to the the
tech giants who Dude, did I tell talk to you already about the first time I fired
my Windows laptop back up >> and it was like it it was like it didn't
want me. >> It was like it didn't want me to come back.
>> No. >> Did I have Did I not talk about this on W show? >> I don't think so. I put my Windows drive
back in my uh PX13 uh that I've been
using lately, my my Stricks Halo machine, and immediately it did it did
the [ __ ] thing. Immediately it did the thing. It asked
me, "Hey, it's been a while. Do you want
Edge? Do you like One Drive? Have you
ever thought about Xbox?
off like I I I almost I was so The only
reason it pushes you away. It like is literally repulsive.
>> The only reason that I didn't swap the drives again are because this thing has
like chassis intrusion detection that I can't figure out which one which screw
is like the one that I have to tighten all the way to get it to even like turn
back on. Like one of the screws like grounds a thing or something. Um, so I
had already buttoned it completely back up and the the main reason that I had
switched back over to Windows was because I wanted to try out that Logitech Super Strike mouse that I've
been like supposed to try out for us to do the video
>> not work on Linux. >> Uh, well the Logitech software I wanted
to have the full suite of Logitech software if I'm evaluating a product.
>> There is a a like third party standin Logitech software thing but yeah no that
makes sense as a review. You should have the whole thing. >> Yeah, I should be I should be using it as the manufacturer intends.
>> That makes sense. But if it wasn't for those two things, I I
scouts honor. I would have put the other drive back in. I just it it was so
offens It was offensive. It was like disrespectful.
>> This is This is why I am I am using my
computer right now >> and and move. I think the biggest thing
for me is I feel like I've replaced the
time that I spent on Windows being annoyed about that kind of stuff,
learning more about my computer and doing cool things with my operating
system, which is what I'd rather do. Anyways, I've had fun using an operating
system for the first time since
probably Windows 9. >> Okay. Yeah. Okay. Windows 9 was pretty
cool. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And that's We're not memeing. We know there's no Windows 9. There was like a
modded Windows 8.1 that had like the Croft stripped out of it and was like
like super responsive that was nicknamed Windows 9.
>> Yeah. And it's it you know it's not all perfect, but one thing that's been
really awesome is every time I've ran
into a problem, it is solvable.
Every time. And it for me has never been
a major issue. Like I replaced a drive
and cuz my both my hard drives
just worst timing in the freaking world. Both my hard drives I could hear timing
so far. Yeah. I could hear that something was kind of
off. They were like making more noise than normal. So I did a smart check and
they both came up with like a pretty significant amount of bad sectors. And I
was like, well, I tried to think back to like how old are these drives? I thought
they were mine. When I finally pulled one out to actually replace it, I saw an
inventory sticker on it. And when I saw the inventory sticker, I was like, "Oh,
yeah. These are from uh Geodude V1."
>> Okay. So, these are old. >> So, there was the Geodude and then there was Geodude Revision and then there was
Bulbasaur. >> I might have personally put that inventory sticker on is what you're
saying. >> Maybe. Yeah. >> Like these are old drives. So, I was
like, "Oh, okay." And I I I looked up like the upload date for Geodude V1 and
I was like, "Okay, it might be about time." Uh, so it's it's fine that they
that they died. It's a huge deal, but like it it sucks because of the pricing.
Uh, but yeah, I'm replacing those drives. And when I when I replaced it,
uh, my my computer didn't want to boot. It booted into emergency mode,
>> but I was like, "Okay, I know the series of events that just happened. I could
reverse this, but instead I'm going to pull my laptop out and just look up like
what could this mean? And I there was a very simple explanation of what to do.
It did require a little bit of command line stuff, but I'm running CentOS. I
expected this. That's fine. I'm looking into Oh, okay. What caused this? And
it's just certain drives can be set up in a way where
>> Sorry, did you say CentOS? >> Why did I say CentOS? Cashachio OS.
Cool. >> Um, yeah. No, definitely not. >> You're talking about like an old How did
that jump into my head? >> Lab machine. >> That's really weird. Anyway, anyways, my
bad. Um, yeah, I was just like, "Oh, okay. I have to go into FSAB and just
add no fail to the drive." And then it just booted perfectly. And I was like,
"Oh, that's kind of neat." Now I like And then I sat there looking up like,
"What are all the different flags for drives?" And then I'm just like learning
stuff as I go on. Um, it's cool.
>> Coming back to the topic we're supposed to be discussing. um our discussion
question for the framework announcement this week cuz they also had their
oculink connection for the back of the framework 16.
>> Yeah. >> Uh they also had their new keyboard which is a pretty exciting alternative
to the K400. Um but our question is
forget all the stuff that they just announced just now. If they were to make
a net new product, what would you want
them to make? Narav already talked about the potential. He talked about how
they've looked at he didn't commit anything but he talked about how they've
looked at printers. The printer one I see as a little less necessary. Brother
does exist. They tend to be kind of bros overall for the most part.
>> Printers are kind of fine >> there. They seem kind of fine and it
doesn't look like there's a lot of as far as I can tell like margin in the
printer business unless you're willing to fleece people on the ink.
>> Yeah. So, >> I'm sure there's things they could do
that could help the world in regards to like those massive office printer
things, but like I think focusing on consumer would be a good idea.
>> TVs is one that's really interesting to
me, >> especially if they're doing their own panels. >> Uh, well, okay. I don't think they would
do their own panel for a TV. >> Sorry, I don't mean uh I more mean that
they might have the expertise to like know things about TVs and make a good
TV. when they did their own panel for the laptop, I doubt it was as much that
they built the internal expertise and more that they they were able to afford
to get the glass cut in the shape they wanted. Okay, pretty much. Yeah, but
even that is is a big it's a monetary investment. I doubt it was as much of a
technical investment. >> Rest assured said monitor first. I actually don't agree.
>> Oh, strong disagree. Monitors. >> Monitors. So, the reason Oh, okay. I
should explain why >> monitor space is pretty good. Yeah,
monitors, they don't have the same
increation problem that TVs do. >> They're not forcing ads down your
throat. >> I was chatting with Brad, who's the uh the ShortCircuit channel manager now,
and um he was saying that they they did a video on the LG G something. I think
it was the G5 a little while ago. And like the first time setup process for it
was like painful. like all the
agreements that you're signing and like you finally get to the home screen and
it's just freaking it's wallto-wall. It's just covered in ads.
>> Yeah. >> If someone were to tell you, "Okay,
here's the framework TV. It's the same
TV because at the end of the day, it's not like they're going to go and
reinvent better quantum dots, you know? They're they're they're not going to
they're not going to suddenly have the R&D muscle of someone like a like a Sony
or a TCL or a Samsung. It's that's not that's not happening. That's not what
we're talking about here. >> It's going to cost more. >> It'll cost more. But if it just got the
out of your way, >> I'd pay I'd pay for it >> and looked like solid, like if it was a
B+ in terms of the image quality and just when you turned it on, it did not
take screenshots of the content you're watching and send it back to some server
somewhere. it just opened up to whatever
source input you sent to it and just worked. I think that had that would have
an incredible value to people. I think it would
>> I think we're reaching the breaking point. I I think you know how
>> on a variety of things, >> you know, I've talked a lot about how
people seem to have just kind of given up on on like the whole privacy ad
invasiveness thing and how I think just the the horse has has bolted from the
from the barn at this point. Maybe I'm
getting hope again. >> Oh yeah, me too.
>> Because I'm starting to see people mad again.
>> I think it's because the alternatives are becoming a lot more viable.
>> You think so? >> I think so. Personally,
I think self-hosting certain apps is like dramatically better than it's ever
been. >> Mhm. >> Um I think I think having your own NAS
for your family is as expensive as hardware is right now.
>> It's getting trendy, dude. >> It's It's in a geeky way.
>> It's getting trendy, but it's also getting trendy because it's pretty good.
>> Oh, yeah. >> And like it's there is still upkeep time and you still have to do things for it.
Um, but I think the upkeep and the things you have to do are kind of fun.
Now, >> [ __ ] makes a really good point. People
never gave up. They just never cared enough because convenience always wins.
But that's the thing is the the encraptification
is crossing that threshold where it's
not convenient. >> Windows for me is less convenient than
running Mint on my laptop. Windows gets in my way more, slows me down, and stops
me from doing my job more than Mint does. So, like at this point in time,
the convenient option is to run Linux.
And that's not even a Linux nerd. I have
never once opened the command line. I don't know why I looked down here. Uh my
lap my laptop's not with me right now, but um >> I'm sorry to hear that.
>> Um I have never once opened the command line on Mint on my laptop. I've never
done anything fancy. All the software I've ever installed is just from the
package manager which is effectively an app store on your phone. Like I I've
done nothing special with that laptop
and it is perfect. >> Like this is not uh this is not a a
weird or special thing and I'm just genuinely more productive on it because
it doesn't pester me about stuff. >> All right, let's pick another category.
>> Sure. What would
then What would you want to see them jump
into? >> Sir, you're doing ship storm right now.
What are you talking about? >> Oh, for
Thank you. >> Thank you for your survey. Dan, >> I have no idea what's going on.
>> Cool. Good chat, >> Luke. Then, uh, I'll I'll settle for
talking to Luke. Good plan.
What a what an appropriate response.
>> I already think I have one in mind for me, but do you want me to go first then
or do you want to go first just in case it's you know the best one and you uh
think of it before I do? >> No, I I before you ever mentioned I mean
I'm certain you already had the thought. But before you ever mentioned it really
the TV thing I had already thought TV has been very frustrating for me for a
long time. Well, you've had to shop for one, unfortunately. Rip Luke's TV a
couple times recently. >> Yeah. And but even like someone will ask
me for a recommendation, I'm just like gh like I don't feel good about any of
the recommendations. >> Like, well, Samsung has these really great looking, you know, QD OLEDs. Um,
too bad Tyson OS. >> Yep. >> LG has some pretty good-look W OLEDs.
Too bad WebOS has taken a sharp right
turn into Crapsville. >> Yeah. So, just none of it feels good.
So, definitely TVs. Outside of that, I
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
of like I'm going to see if this kind of vibes with people, but I would actually
love to see framework get into SBC's
like single board computers.
It's a it's a space where the the cost
has crept up on people in a way that was
never really the like >> the idea, you know, like the the kind of
the Raspberry Pi contract. >> It wasn't the original sales pitch.
>> The original sales pitch was these things are hyper affordable. They're
bare bones. Um, and they've just kind of
um they they've just kind of gotten bloated both in terms of the the feature
set and in terms of price. And there are still like very basic ones, but it has
felt like for some time that the availability of the ones that are like,
you know, supposed to be affordable has been not great. And some of the
alternatives are not necessarily getting the TLC in terms of of of compatibility
that the the name brand, you know, Raspberry Pies have. I would be I'd be
very interested in something like a framework Pi if they were able to work
with their manufacturing partners that they obviously have for things like the
um like the the laptop, right? They obviously can can make a circuit board,
right? Uh, I'd be I'd be interested to see if they could if they could make
if they could somehow bring their like upgradeable repable ethos to single
board computers. And I I I don't know, maybe maybe it's not realistic and maybe
it'd be a stupid business for them to go into because who wants an ASP of like
$15 or 20 bucks or whatever, but it's
somewhere that I I feel like potentially they could make they could make a
difference. >> Speaking of uh stupid business for them
to go into. Yeah. Um, with the EU's
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
WAN shows really blur into each other for me, but um, is uh, phones. The EU is
pushing replaceable battery phones. >> Mhm. >> Now could be the time.
>> Framework has said publicly that they'll never do it.
>> That's probably wise. >> And Fairphone already exists.
>> Yeah. And I think, you know, for me,
for Framework to have a reason to come in and like compete with Fairphone, take
that tiny tiny market share of people who care more about like the
sustainability and and repairability aspect than they do about like, you
know, a phone being a more cohesive,
high performance product. And then cut that down the middle. It would it feels
like it would be a disservice to both of them to to to wedge themselves in there
unless they were really bringing up like a powerful value to it.
>> At this point people aren't just buying I I know this isn't what you were
saying. I'm not saying oh so you hate hot dogs. I'm just talking. Uh but I I
think at this point people are just buying some people are just buying
frameworks cuz they're cool. >> Oh dude, frameworks are trendy.
>> Yeah, they're like just kind of sweet. Seeing how excited people are to have no
investment in >> cheer for this company has been very cool. And you know what? Speaking of
speaking of cool, >> how much better is Narav on camera than
he used? >> He's he's a lot better. I I was I was
like this is improved quite >> very noticeable.
>> I saw a couple comments about it too. >> He's like he used to be just awkward and
now he's like kind of cool awkward like trendy awkward. I I I'm I'm sure it
helps doing our videos, but I suspect in general he's just been doing a lot more
of those types. >> Yeah. And he's Well, he has to talk to people. He's a CEO. He has to motivate.
He has to like give speeches and stuff, I assume. Right. >> Yeah. >> So, you just you you get practiced at
public speaking. You don't really have a choice. But yeah, no, I thought uh I
thought he did a great job in the video. >> Um why don't we do a great job of
finding another awesome topic to talk about? There's so much this week.
>> Yeah. Um this that was not shouted out.
Maybe we should get through the ones we mentioned at the beginning. Um,
Ashley Psych, I'm going to pull an audible and do the topic line I said
that I should have brought up at the beginning. Uh, or that he expected I was
going to bring up the >> Okay, let's do it. >> Gemini has escaped from the cloud. Uh,
Sircale, I've never heard this verbally said, so I'm going to call it Sircale.
Uh, Seroscale Cloud Services announced an an expanded partnership with Google
Cloud on Wednesday that will allow them to offer the full Google Gemini model to
be used completely offline on airgapped
unfortunately Google certified hardware appliances built by Dell and featuring
eight NVIDIA GPUs. So, this isn't >> Hold on. Can we get a Can we get a Luke
[ __ ] called it? Yeah. Can I get one of those, Dan? Can I
Can I get one of those? >> This is >> Yeah, don't worry about it. >> This is probably the most like direct
version of what I was talking about that has been announced so far cuz this is
like an appliance that you buy that runs the the premium cloud only version of a
model and locally for big businesses. This is that like, oh hey, there's going
to be mainframes again type conversation that I had uh in in the past. I don't
remember exactly how I worded it, but something like that. Um th this will
back to the notes. This will allow sectors with serious privacy concerns,
healthcare, government, defense, finance,
etc., etc., etc., uh to avoid risking exposure of sensitive data on third
party infrastructure. All the customers data, inputs, outputs, etc. It's it's
secure because of this. uh updating your local Gemini will will require a private
uh sorry a temporary private connection to Google servers or physically shipping
your appliance to Google and being sent the new version. That's
>> so this is for this is for big boys. >> Yeah.
>> But while this isn't, you know, quite the way that I think, you know, Luke
would want to do it if he was rolling his own infra. >> Yeah. Not at all. What it is is a clear
acknowledgement that the cloud it didn't
fail, but it wasn't the perfect solution
for everyone that it was hailed as.
>> Well, and like whether or not you believe the stuff with mythos and
whatnot going on right now. Um, I think
honestly the various wars more than anything else
have been showing us that just a lot of software is just pretty vulnerable the
stuff if people are willing to spend the time and often the money to work hard
enough to poke at it. >> And the more connected it is,
>> the more places there are to poke at it. >> Yeah. So, if it can just be not
connected, then there you go. Um, yeah, Google IP is protected by confidential
computing protection, whatever the heck that is. And Serale CEO Dave Driggers
explained that the Gemini model resides entirely in volatile memory. As soon as
the power is off, the model is gone. If the system detects any form of
tampering, it shuts itself down to wipe the model.
That's in a weird way. That's kind of cool.
>> Yeah, >> that sucks for me. It's like Dr. Dofen Schmmer's made it.
It just It has to have a self-destruct button no matter No matter how
superfluous it is. >> That's That's wild. I I don't mean cool in like a like That's great.
>> But it's cool technology. >> Yeah, exactly. >> You got to you got to respect it.
>> Yeah. Um I I guess you know with the
description of the types of places that might get one of these. And assuming the
cost considering it features eight NVIDIA GPUs and all this other kind of
stuff, um you got some backup power
options. I think I think it's not a huge problem. Um JB leaves a note. It's not
clear from the article, but I'm assuming model in this case might be um talking
specifically about model weights. Otherwise, Google physically shipping you a new version doesn't make any
sense. Yeah, I mean it literally did say or I
was kind of wondering about that too, but it did say earlier like you would literally ship the unit back, didn't it?
>> You could you could ship it back to get updates. >> You could ship the whole unit back.
>> That's crazy. So, like
they might be serious about that. I'm not sure. Uh, but yeah, wild. Kind of
cool. I I I understand that like you can
if you pay out the freaking nose, you can get a lot better like performing uh
models online right now. But self-hosting models is really cool. And
there's some really crazy stuff. There's a there's a MacOSS specific thing. This
isn't in the notes, so I I'm not going to have details on it, but there's a macOS specific
model of some kind, uh, whatever. I don't know. I don't remember the name of
it, but it like basically lives on your cursor, your like mouse cursor. So, as
you're going around and doing things, it'll have like the context of what
you're looking at, and it runs locally, and it can try to help you with things.
And somebody was talking about how they were learning how to use Da Vinci Resolve and as they were kind of poking
around it would just like I haven't used it and I don't have notes on this so
whatever. Uh I saw that via XDA. Yeah, maybe I can find it. XDA cursor
>> cursor peep. >> Cursor peep. >> Is that what it's called? I don't know. That's what Hamnetics said. I I haven't
heard of this so I'm >> It sounds a little creepy,
>> not going to lie, but it runs locally. >> Theoretically it runs locally.
Of course people not No. So, that's not the name of it, man. I can't remember
the name of it. Um, yeah. Anyways, it sounded kind of neat.
Uh, there's there's a and I and I'm fairly certain it it runs locally. Um,
this >> Yeah,
my Google Fu is still strong. >> It's a relatively small model
>> and it's running locally, but it's helpful theoretically. I mean, I haven't
used it. This is the vibe I got from looking through the article. >> Very cool. But there's there's like
there's cool stuff you can do with with local hosting. And honestly, for a lot
of the use cases people have, you don't need the massive super powerful models.
You can just run some stuff locally and it can still be helpful.
>> In try it out. >> In other um sort of AI adjacent news, I
don't know if this counts as good news except that it means that I was right,
which I never mind. >> It's good for you. Elon Musk confirmed
on Tesla's Q1 2026 earnings call what he
had hedged about on a previous earning call in January 2025. Um he has
confirmed now that every Tesla sold between 2019 and 2023 that had their
hardware 3 hardware cannot achieve
unsupervised full self-driving and never
will. This time there was no hedging. This is a quote. Hardware 3 simply does
not have the capability. This is not a quote. Owners would need
both a new computer and new cameras if
they were to upgrade to hardware 4. Uh, as recently, this is interesting. As
recently as October 2025, Tesla's own CFO was still telling investors, "We
have not completely given up on hardware 3."
I'm going to go off notes for a little bit here. Um,
duh.
That was off notes. We just need to make sure. >> Do you remember me telling you?
>> Nobody typed that. Do you remember me telling you a year ago that I got in
that argument with that guy at at someone's birthday party where I was
like, "Yeah, hey, I know you're like a finance bro or whatever and you're like
really good at being a finance bro, but don't you think at some point the
liability of selling millions of cars
based on that they have a feature that they like completely [ __ ] don't have
and will never ever have is going to be a problem that might affect the like
finance bro care out sphere of finance.
Uh I realize that everything I'm saying is very very complicated but like this
computer no dewy thing you say doy maybe
bad timy. Um
>> what are they going to do about it? Do they say >> they haven't um we can hold on let me
get back to the notes for a second here. The core problem is memory bandwidth. Hardware 3 has 1/8 of what hardware 4
offers. uh which Musk says makes it physically impossible to run the AI
models needed for true autonomy. Many of these owners paid up to $15,000
for full self-driving based on the promise that it was just a software update away. Uh multiple class action
lawsuits have already been filed. Now, I
want to make something clear. I obviously seem a little, let's call it,
validated right now. That's not because I'm rooting against autonomous vehicles.
It's not because I'm even rooting against Tesla. It's because I like
seeing liars get their comeuppants. And
he was obviously lying. Hardware 3, I remember talking
about this way back then. Hardware 3, even if it was years and years ahead of
its competition, was a small chip compared to what other leaders in the
space were building like NVIDIA at the time. And they were like, not close. It
just obviously was not powerful enough.
Obviously. And there's no way that Tesla hasn't known this for years. Because if
it was good enough to do full self-driving, do you really think that
they would go to all the work to make a new chip?
Why? That's not how the automotive industry works. when they have something
that performs the function they want it to perform, they keep making the same
one because that's way cheaper. Or they
do what like a console manufacturer might do where midlife they will move it
to a new process mode in order to take advantage of better power efficiency uh
and better um better uh uh thermal
management. >> They don't just build something that has
eight times the memory bandwidth for
fun.
Um Musk says that Tesla will offer
discounted tradeins towards hardware for cars or direct retrofits but admits the
volume is so massive that service centers can't handle it.
>> His solution is building microactories in major cities to run the upgrades like
production lines though no timeline, no
cost and no concrete details were given.
Uh there's a Lionus note on this one. This is actually the second time he's
admitted that hardware 3 is not going to be able to do it. The last time was a
tweet though. Uh this time was in an earnings call where, you know, maybe it
matters, but probably doesn't. It's It's been very remarkable for me to watch how
many times obvious lies have been told
in context where like legally you're not
allowed to lie like that. Um and this
company just has not been called on it. And I just I find the whole thing very
very baffling. I often get asked, you know, why do you hate Elon? I don't hate
Elon, but I don't respect people who
don't respect me enough to look me in the eye and tell me the truth. If you
can look me in the eye and lie to me over and over and over and over again,
why should I respect you in return? You're just a liar.
And to me, it's it's one of the worst things you can be to have no integrity
and to just to just brazenly lie. I
don't respect it.
Do you think there's any room for him
having hope that they could make it somehow
wildly more efficient and adapted or something? >> So, here's my thing.
>> Because why would he's going to have to announce it eventually. Why would he wait? He's I
>> What's the benefit in doing it now instead of a few years ago? >> Um the benefit of doing it now is
they've kind of pivoted to new shiny with Optimus, >> the robots and stuff.
>> Um >> like it's it's about it's about managing
the mood as much as it is about even
more than it is about, you know, financial results or actual product development or or anything like that.
It's it's about it's about keeping people chill with the vibe. Um, so this
is this is right in the leadup to the SpaceX IPO, which is going to have him
in the news for for positive reasons again. So, a quiet uh yeah, that's not
going to work. But like we've got all these ideas for a plan. By the way, by
the way, SpaceX SpaceX SpaceX um it's
it's just it's part of the grift, right? It's part of the it's part of the game
>> to to just kind of keep things going. And you know, as for do I think that
there's a world where he really believed that it was one quarter away, well, I
would it would have to be one of two things. Either he's a liar or he's stupid.
And I don't know. I'll let him pick which one he wants to be because there's
no way that someone with all the experience running tech companies that
he has would have any way of thinking
possibly like when it's so obvious to a you know pathetic YouTuber like me.
There's no way that he didn't have people internally telling him, hey, this
isn't going to happen. Um so he's either a liar or he's an idiot. And so I don't
know. You guys can pick which one it is, but those are the only two options. If
he actually believed that it was coming next quarter, then he's a fool. And if
he didn't believe it, then he's clearly a liar. So those are those are our only
two choices here.
David needs to speak to me. Okay. Uh Luke, do you want to do you want to pick
a topic? >> Probably something I can grab. >> David apologizes in advance. He doesn't
mean it. Yeah.
>> Uh, what should we talk about? Uh, I'm
going to steal this topic. Uh, ex Xbox drops Game Pass prices as Call of Duty
officially exits services day one launch
uh, slate strategy. Now, this is a thing
where it doesn't mean That was really fast. Um, it does. Are you back? Good.
You're back for good. Yes. Okay, got it. Um,
>> I didn't even have f time to finish crunching that chip outside of the
microphone range. Um, no, I do actually have a quick update for you guys.
>> David needed to cut down the length of the Shiptorm call out in our upcoming
video that he was working on. So, in order to make up for it, it's going to
be a shorter one. I need you guys to buy more stuff from Shiptorm on WAN Show.
Dan can handle it. >> Okay, carry on. Uh, so we were talking
about how Xbox uh drops its price as Call of Duty is exiting the day one
launch strategy thing. So, Xbox has officially dropped the price of Game
Pass Ultimate from $30 to $23 a month.
That's actually >> huge. What the heck?
Immediately with PC Game Pass also falling from 1650 to $14. Uh, but
there's a big catch. New Call of Duty titles will no longer be uh launched day
one on the service. Uh, instead they'll show up about a year later.
>> That's kind of a yikes. >> During the following holiday season with
the COD release schedule, that basically means it's not on there.
>> You can play the single player, I guess. >> Or you can play like you can play COD
with your friends or you can play like poor poor people COD and be ostracized.
Like when you think about the social pressure of having like the one that
everyone's playing, that's basically that's basically the divide that they're
creating here. That's a really interesting line cuz like is it
so they're saying $7 less per user
>> is worth it if people are still going to buy full fat COD outside of that.
>> Yeah. This this gives us insight that we would not have any other way of getting
>> how much of the like the cost of game pass is
just Call of Duty. Is that wild or what?
>> Well, at least what they think it is. Yeah. >> Yeah. At least at least what they're projecting. And it's not like they
haven't had a Call of Duty launch on Game Pass. So, it's >> Yeah, it's got some pretty good
information. >> I'm sure it's based on something. >> Mhm.
>> That's That's pretty crazy. >> And I I know uh the new Microsoft gaming
CEO, Xbox CEO uh person said like, "Oh,
Game Pass is too expensive." But I don't think this is just altruistic. I think
it's going to be a business move. Um, >> yeah, she she's actually been seemingly
doing some pretty based stuff so far. >> I like the moves she's at least saying
that she's making so far. >> Yeah, >> I know. I was I was pretty tentative on
her because she came from AI background. >> Um, but yeah, the statements I've seen
so far are good. The like we are Xbox, we should drop the whole Microsoft
gaming thing. Was dope. >> Did you see the new Xbox logo?
>> No, >> dude. It's badass.
>> Yo, >> so the uh it's back. Yeah, the like this
thing is gone >> good >> and this is back.
>> That's so good. >> That's sick. So, I don't know.
>> Keep making good moves and and maybe one singular thing out of Microsoft lately
will be good. I'm I'm willing to be uh I'm willing to
be open-minded on that, you know. Uh but yeah, I mean game game pass price drop
is is sweet. Um the the new logo looks
fantastic. Like the whole idea of really centralizing around Xbox instead of
Microsoft gaming is is great. >> She made a statement. She made a
statement about like, you know, games being human crafted,
>> which I thought was pretty pretty chill. >> Cool. Sweet. >> Yep. Did you finish all of this reading
through all of it? >> No. >> Oh, okay. Sorry. Carry on. >> Uh, this comes just days after the new
Microsoft CEO, Ash Chararma, uh, leaked
Asha, sorry, Asha Chararma leaked memo
called Game Pass too expensive. The price hike to $30 only happened in
October 2025, one month before Black Black Ops 7 launched. Okay, so it was
raised for that. So, I just lowered it back down. That's fine. Um, for context,
Bloomberg reports day one COD access
cost Microsoft over $300 million in loss
sales last year with Black Ops 7 launch sales down over 60% in some uh markets.
Wild. Microsoft spent $69 billion dollars to buy Call of Duty, put it on
Game Pass, hiked the price to cover it, and is now pulling it back out. Was the
whole thing worth it? I mean, if they're
I mean, it could be. >> Dude, we're at the point now where like
the the the the billions of dollars for
company acquisitions have gotten just crazy. Like, remember when Twitch sold
for $1 billion and everyone went, "Whoa."
Okay, like for context, Twitch, while not a money maker,
is a strong brand with like strong
recognizability for younger people with countless users.
like it's it's a it's a hyper powerful
social media video platform and it sold for a billion dollars and then it was
just like what what what was it like 10 years later or whatever else that
Twitter sold for 44 billion and you know
I I just it's it's Yeah. Are you talking
about this uh 1.75 trillion or whatever? Yeah. Okay. So, so SpaceX acquires
Cursor for60 billion.
>> They have they have the right to. They haven't actually done it yet, but Cursor
has been like, "You can buy us for $60 billion."
>> But are we just are we just reaching a point where these numbers are just kind
of pure silliness with absolutely no attachment whatsoever to business
reality or or is that or is that point well in the rearview mirror behind us?
Like I just >> I think it's I think it's behind us to be completely honest.
>> Like I I I would sell Linus Media Group for for $60 billion or I'd sell the
right to acquire Linus Media Group for $60 billion. No problem. It's like
what's what's I bet I'm more profitable than them. >> It's just as legitimately on paper as
the uh the the memory purchases from Sam Alman.
>> Yeah, exactly. >> Amir in full chat said, "As a British Indian, I can confirm it's pronounced
more like Asha." >> Thank you. >> Sounds good. Um,
>> was it worth it? >> Wild. >> I mean, technically they did get more
than just Call of Duty. There was Candy Crush Saga,
>> World of Warcraft, >> whatever stuff Blizzard is pissing away.
Um,
I've heard people are happy with the the new stuff.
>> Oh, yeah. >> I I don't even remember what it's called. >> Latest candies. No, the WoW stuff.
>> Oh, really? >> Uh, midnight. Midnight.
>> Okay. Well, that's cool. Yeah. Oh, okay. Ollie cool says, "Yeah, new WoW good."
>> Overwatch is apparently also like
I think since they just gave up on the whole two stuff,
>> it's been getting more traction again, which is interesting. >> Wow. Rob Phil says, "Starcraft tabletop
game coming." >> What? >> What?
>> Interesting. Please don't tell me it's just risk. >> You have my attention.
>> You know, game inspired tabletop games have been doing pretty well lately.
Actually, >> starcraftm.com.
Maybe the page will load. About our
>> Oh, I'm on it. My page loaded. >> Nice. Okay. What am I What am I What am
I looking at here? What am I looking at? >> Tabletop miniatures game. So, is it Warhammer?
These are very concept arty. 60 to 120
minutes. >> It's Warhammer. >> Oh, okay. I mean, sure.
>> Oh, it sure is Warhammer.
>> Oh, >> okay. So, they're just chasing that
Warhammer money. >> Yeah, >> it's cheaper than Warhammer.
>> Apparently, them Warhammer gamers got them monies.
>> All right. >> My god. >> I mean, they don't call it Warhammer
401k for a reason.
That's pretty good. I've never heard that before. >> I haven't either. That is pretty good.
>> That's good. That's good. Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Okay.
>> Are you going to load a price, please? >> I don't think it's going to happen.
>> All right. Well, anyway, good luck with that, Blizzard.
>> Yeah. Um, >> yeah, let's uh let let's do let's do a
thing. Let's >> All right.
Uh where where do I find that?
Oh. Uh, I already I already kind of did that though. I mean, sure. Let's remind
the people that Shiptorm is live on ltstore.com.
We are fighting back against shipping costs that are out of control thanks to
rising fuel cost by giving you guys free
shipping. If you're on the US store, any order over $150 qualifies for free
shipping. And if you're on the worldwide store, any order over $225 Canadian
qualifies for free shipping. No code required. Just load up your cart and you
are good to go. The best part is if you are a Floatplane supporter plus, so
that's over at LMG.gg/flatlane, you'll get an even lower threshold. So
this is a perfect time to sign up for Floatplane. Uh, all you have to do is
sign up for, I believe it's the $13 a month tier, and that will push your
minimums down to $100 US or $175
Canadian on the global site. To help you reach these thresholds, we've got some
sweet deals for you. We have buy more, save more on blank TE's, uh, scribe
driver pen and pencils for just 20 bucks, free techack if you buy a
commuter or LT original backpack in the US, and it's running from April 24th to
May 7th. So, don't wait for the storm to pass. Get in there now.
Uh, what else am I supposed to be doing, Dan? >> Couple comms if you want.
>> Oh, right. Okay. Right. And if you if you send uh if you place your order now,
then it's a perfect time to uh send a comm a checkout message. We don't
believe in sort of throwing money at your screen just, you know, in hopes
that maybe your favorite streamer senpai will notice you. We think that it it's
great for us to be able to interact with you guys, but we also want you to get
quality merchandise in the mail. So, we created checkout messages, which are the
best way to interact with the WAN Show. All you got to do is head over to
ltstore.com. Luke's on it.
Add uh some terrific quality merchandise to your cart. You went to ltlabs.com.
>> Shameless plug. Shameless plug. >> Nice. Nice. >> New site, by the way.
>> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The new site is live. Now is a great time to go just
like browse the site and check out all the cool stuff. The the team worked super hard on this.
>> Um, by the way, by the way, the multi-pocket leggings, dude. Smash.
>> Oh yeah. >> Do you remember me talking about like, hey, we really need this to be a success
or like women's apparel might not be a thing, dude. But they're gone. >> Classic LT store fashion. Tried to get
some for for friends and family. They're gone.
>> So many sizes are sold out. So if you want to have a shot at them, now is a
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
something in your cart and you will see
>> the checkout message interface. You can leave a message that'll go to producer
Dan who will reply to it or he will uh
just pop it up like that one that's up at the top right now or he will curate
it for me and Luke to respond to. By the
way, there's a new dashboard where you can see your checkout messages. How do
people access that? >> Uh where is it exactly?
>> So just in case you missed the little, you know, the little popup like this. Um
>> I think it's at the bottom here. >> There's a spot somewhere.
>> Yeah. So if we go to my screen, check out message portal right here.
>> Yeah. So if you're signed in, there you go.
>> Nice. That is That is like the geekiest 1990s
how many page visits my Geio City site has received thing that I have seen in
forever. I actually kind of like it. >> Oh yeah, >> that's pretty cool. That's very cool.
>> All right. Anyway, uh Dan, do you want to show us how it works by u curating a
couple of checkout messages for us? Uh before hold on before you do that
though, uh David Gochier's neighbor Joseph is apparently a huge LTT fan and
it's his birthday this week. Oh, >> happy birthday, Joseph.
>> Happy birthday, Joseph. >> David never asked for anything like that. So, when he was like, "Hey, it
would mean a lot to me if you could shout out Joseph." I was like, "Yes, you
know, sure thing, sir." All right, Dan. Hit me.
Sure thing. Happy storm sale, DLL. Can you please tell the story of what
happened to the Moto shirt? I was going to buy one as a gift for my employee.
Only one. It's all that was deserving.
>> No, I can't. Okay. Sorry. What What was the question?
>> The Moto shirt is no longer on the site.
>> Oh, yeah. Up next,
>> I at some point I may or may not know
what I may or may not be able to say about it,
>> but it is not this day. How has the process for vetting sponsors
evolved over time? any learnings you care to share?
>> Yeah, actually I mean I think in the very early days we didn't really have a
lot of choice. It was it was pretty much whoever was in my Rolodex from my time
at NCIX and you know was willing to go
to bat for me and and try to try to allocate some of the budget that at the
time would have been predominantly allocated to like written media for this
like new fangled YouTube sponsorships
thing. Um it it's it's it's still wild
to me how long the transition took and even now as has continued to take given
how how data heavy uh video is and how
sort of like obviously more trustworthy those metrics are compared to more
traditional mediums like magazines like I've talked about this on the land show
before but did you know that the way that magazines calculate how much you're
paying for ads assumes that that magazine gets read cover to cover like
like six times or something like that. Like at newspapers too, like they would
calculate that every newspaper passed through multiple people's hands and that
every person who looked at it looked at every single ad like like it's like it
was crazy. Uh whereas with video, we had, you know, the world's biggest
advertising company with the most sort
of, as far as I could tell, trustworthy
analytics saying, "Hey, you got this many views." and people just like they
weren't into it. They weren't interested in it. So for a long time it was whoever
would go to bat for me and and would you know get us the support to to to sponsor
the videos. And then from there there was a a big transition
to uh like radio advertisers were moving
into podcasting and then from podcasting
it's a pretty natural transition into like video podcasts and then from there
a lot of those folks like the Squarespaces of the world uh the like
Dollar Shave Clubs of the world made their way into into YouTube. Um, from
there that model proved so successful for companies like Dollar Shave Club
that uh in in growing their business that I think over time it just became
sort of part of the playbook. And so nowadays um like I was I was at a
conference recently for YouTubers and YouTube executives. It's it's over now
so I can I can disclose that it existed.
And uh one of the big things that that YouTube was talking about that other
creators are talking about is like major major brand partnerships. You know, one
talked about working with McDonald's um they showed this example of like a like
a collaboration between State Farm and like a more athletic oriented YouTuber
who tried to kick like a whole bunch of field goals or something like that. Um
so nowadays you have kind of
>> did a State Farm thing. So you got a ton of choice these days. And so back to
your question about vetting, I guess what I'll say is in the early days we
didn't really have to because it was all brands that we like already were
intimately familiar with the product or the people and so we like we knew or
later on it was super established brands who if they had a bunch of really awful
skeletons in their closet they would uh it would have come up at some point in
the podcasting world which is like kind of a more sort of professional old
school media space. And then now that
your inbox at any given time, if you're a a midsized or up creator, is just
going to be full of sponsorship opportunities.
It's a it's a ton of work. So, I got to give a ton of credit to both our
business team and our uh our community.
So, we actually uh I I think the team
does a quite good job of just sort of doing background checks on sponsors that
we work with. And I also think our community does a really good job of of
highlighting things that arise with the brands that
we're working with that don't align with our values and with our expectations
which I think in turn elevates the perception of the brands that do meet
the bar and that do work with you know Linus Media Group. So, um, you know, for
us, our our brand selection really comes down to that they operate with
integrity. Um, that they take care of
our viewers. Like, if one of our viewers comes to us and basically goes like,
"Yeah, this this brand screwed me over.
Like, I got scammed. Um, and I have receipts, you know, that's something
that we want to know." And we have feedback. We have a feedback forum for
that at least techtips.com on the forum.
Um, and that's that's a that's a huge part of it, just maintaining that that
accountability and that integrity all the way uh all the way up and down.
>> This is super off topic, but you were talking about Dollar Shave Club and I I
realized that I haven't heard about them
in freaking forever. So, I just looked
it up and like they do still exist, but I was like genuinely somewhat surprised
by that. I find it really interesting certain companies
uh maybe even certain products I looked it up apparently uh Dollar Shave Club is
under capital management now so like okay whatever. Um but certain companies
they just sort of stop eventually.
I find this especially in like you know like >> well they run out of VC capital
>> snacks and certain like grocery stores. >> Yeah. Like just was like spending money
like there was no tomorrow and then suddenly there was no tomorrow. >> Yeah. But but even like even like uh I
>> Savage Jerky. Is that another example? >> No, I I'm I'm talking even big brand
stuff. >> Oh, sure. I mean, >> like even even if you're like under the
Coke umbrella or something. >> Oh my god. >> Madras not only still exist, but they
have a Dave the Diver like
>> what what what is this? Is it like an energy powder thing? That's hilarious.
All right. >> Squid flavor. >> Sure. Sure. Why not? Um, but there will
be like some think of some like snack that would have been advertised on TV
like crazy when we were kids and then you never hear about it on any form of
advertisement ever in many years at the store.
>> I literally haven't seen Dunkaroo. >> There was Dunkaroo ads like every
channel. Dunkaroos get as much frosting
as you. >> I'm sure they still exist.
>> But like it's Yeah, they for sure. It's It's weird to me though that they'll
just they'll just stop at some point. They will just completely turn off the
the advertising pipeline.
>> But this you can't call it a nostalgic snack
>> and then shake the cookie like that. >> It was a foot.
>> Gh. >> Terrible. Literally literally inedible.
>> I don't know if I had dunkaroos, but yeah, there was ads for them everywhere and then they just stopped. There's
there's a ton of things like that, too. When you walk through the grocery store,
it's like almost a weird if you go through like mostly the boxed goods
area, obviously. Um it's kind of a weird
experience of like, oh yeah, I remember ads for that thing like 20 years ago.
I've never heard of it ever since other than it just being on the shelf. Um,
it's it's just interesting to me like how these if it's Coke, I kind of
understand cuz you probably have an R&D group that's for just like all of your
different product lines and you'll just release some stuff kind of whatever. But
if you're a relatively smaller company like
what you just like fire everyone and stop, but you just keep making your
product, I guess. >> I literally don't know. Apparently, there were lots of different shapes of
dunk. >> Interesting. I'm I'm finding other shapes of donarus.
>> Coke also has murder squads to help. Yeah. I'm not endorsing them.
>> That's a whole separate thing. >> Yeah. To be clear, >> happened in a whole separate country.
Completely out of your jurisdiction. So, what are you going to do about it? >> Throw it out of court. It's a wild story
if you want to go down a rabbit hole. >> Yeah, it really it really is. >> Um, okay.
>> Oh, speaking of uh, you know, brands sort of doing things that are not always
totally predictable. Uh, or wait, are do you still owe us another com? Oh, no.
We're moving into topics now. I mean, we could do another one. I would probably prefer that. We have quite a few.
>> Okay. All right. Let's do one more. >> I am looking at possibly getting a new
handheld. I know Lionus has a large variety of them. I have the OG Steam
Deck. Is it worth it to upgrade to something different? Money is not in
consideration. >> Oh, I mean, yeah, sure. If money is not
in consideration, buy one of each. >> Okay. I know people don't hate it when
they say that. >> People never really mean that money is
not a consideration. Money is always a
consideration. You could literally be shopping for a private jet and money
would still be a consideration because there's there's degrees of copious
amount of money. But okay, I'm going to I'm going to assume that what you meant
is that you could fit into your budget
any one handheld. And if that's the
case, I got to tell you that I haven't
yet seen my perfect Steam Deck upgrade.
There are handhelds that are bigger.
There are handhelds that are better. There are or faster rather. There are
ones that are that have features that
the Steam Deck doesn't have. Um, you
know, like if you wanted an OLED screen, you could get this one. Or if you wanted
>> Steam Deck OLED >> better compatibility. Uh, yeah, but they have a they have an original Steam Deck,
though. >> Uh, if if you wanted more compatibility, there's ones that run Windows. If you
wanted one with detachable like Joy-Con things that have like mice in them.
Lenovo has one that does that. Like there's you name a gimmick, somebody has
it. If you want one that has like erggo grips, there's the Xbox Ally Series X
Ally thing. um you know some something like that, right? But Valve keeps
saying, "Hey, we need like like next
generation level hardware in order to rev the Steam
Deck in order to do a Steam Deck 2."
And Valve keeps holding off
and I I kind of it's hard for me to disagree with them.
Now, with that said, I do daily a more powerful handheld. I have an ROG Ally
that's actually my daily driver, which is crazy because I actually have an Xbox
ROG Alli X, whatever it's called thing in my house that I don't use because,
and this is going to be crazy sounding, when I'm playing handheld, I actually
prefer the flat deck compared to the
like the like erggo grip thing. Or at least I don't prefer the grips enough to
be worth how much extra space it takes up in my backpack. Do you think it's uh
Okay, that's a pretty interesting argument. Do you think it's hand size?
>> I think that's part of it, but I think it's also just like
>> that the erggo grip thing is like perfect for playing like this. And I
don't always play like this. >> Okay. >> Sometimes I'm lying on my tummy,
sometimes I roll over onto my back and and the flat deck just works a little
better for me. So that ally that I upgraded on ShortCircuit with the JO
upgraded battery and then the new back on it. So, it's a little bit heavier. Is
is actually still my preferred handheld
out of out of all of them. Even though it's like an like an older it's an older
handheld, sir, but it checks out. You know, >> my f I I I never played it laying down
looking up. Um, but my my favorite for
ergonomics handheld, if you can even call it that, was that the the Wii U
controller. >> Oh, yeah. >> I really liked >> Oh, yeah.
>> the the like feel. That's one of the reasons why I was like a little
frustrated with the Switch when it first came out was I was like,
I get it. The Wii U controller is really bulky cuz it was set up for a home
console, but >> the Switch like practically pocketable by comparison like
>> but it just it didn't feel like my my hands were very cramped on the original
Switch. >> Yeah. >> I mean, my hands were cramped on the original Switch.
>> Okay. Okay. With that said, there is there is a handheld that uh you know it
is is next generation in terms of performance, but you would be spending
>> Yeah. >> Here, hold on. What is a Win Five go for
right now? Here it is. gpdstore.net. Okay, nine reviews. Okay, people
mostly are pretty into it. Okay, that's
good to know. This guy's a little disappointed, but still gave it three stars.
All right, what's a win five worth right now?
two grand. That's not even the top configuration. That is the base
configuration. One terabte of storage.
That's actually the one that's the most painful to me. Like, okay, I want two terabytes of exc Sorry, excuse me.
Another $400. >> Storage is so ridiculous right now.
>> Um, that's rough. I want to go to a Ryzen Max 395. Oh. Oh, that'll be Sorry.
That'll be $2,800, sir. Also, oh, okay. You also get I mean, honest. Oh, wow.
Okay. Well, I would take I would certainly take the 64 gigs of RAM, 2 TB
storage, and the better CPU over the uh
4 TB, 32, and then lower CPU because uh
these ones, it's not just the CPU that's that's worse for this one. It's also the
GPU. So, this is the more powerful GPU. So, yeah. Yeah, you're spending uh
$2,800 US >> for a handheld
>> and and it's barely handheld, dude. It
has like this like battery pack thing that weighs a flipping ton that clips
onto the back of it or how I usually ended up using it was with the weird
tether. Yeah, the te especially the tether. If you're like commuting on a
train or something with a lot of your time, which I suspect a lot of handheld
bros are >> commuting on trains or buses or
whatever, I could see that being fine to be honest. >> Yeah. So, here's the tether. It's
>> Oh, >> it's pretty >> That's weirder than I expected to be.
>> Because it's just the battery. >> It looks like it was for like a platform
or something. Am I seeing that wrong in the picture? So, this is the clip
interface here that sticks onto
the battery interface that is on the back of this battery and is on the back
of the machine and then it just like goes to an umbilical cord to the back of
the thing. So, it can be like this or it can be like this. And so, yeah, is there
something better than the Steam Deck? Like, yeah, there's lots of things that are better than the Steam Deck in some
way, but there is, in my opinion, nothing
that is better than the Steam Deck in every way.
And that's that's tough. That makes it tough for me to recommend something. And
it without like knowing you and knowing exactly what you're after. And I can see
why it makes it tough for Valve to go, "Okay, here's Steam Deck 2."
>> Yeah. and especially now amidst the apocalypse.
>> Yeah, I don't blame Valve for waiting at all. I think it makes sense. I think it makes sense.
>> Um >> I think my time I I'm like I've already
kind of convinced myself I'm going to buy a Steam Deck 2 when they get
announced like right off the hop. Um
>> I I feel like it's too late to get one now. Yet out of all of them, that's the
one that I want right now, if that makes sense. So I have I have my Switch 2. I'm
just going to hang on to that. I was contemplating selling it, but no, I'm
just going to hang on to that. And then uh when the when the Steam Deck 2
finally comes out, I'm assuming it's going to be another like two years. Um
hopefully not much more than that. >> I think two years sounds about right.
>> Yeah, >> cuz by then we'll be like well into Steam Machine and Steam Frame life
cycle. So, they'll have had some time because realistically,
ain't no way that the Steam Machine,
Steam Frame team is not pivoting to
Steam Deck 2 once they're done. So, give them a year to get everything kind of
going with those. >> Yeah. >> And then there's no way that they don't
get some resources for Steam Deck 2 and then make that happen. >> Oh, hi Josh posted, "Uh, do you play
games that are too much for Steam Deck? It might still be worth it." That is
a super interesting question that I've I've had some conversations with
actually some people in the Labs about of like >> that's a super fair point. If you want
to play Batro, >> if it's a Battro machine anyways,
>> do it >> then who cares? What does it matter? >> Um it could be a fun video for for you
guys to make is like the Steam Deck however many years later. 95% No, not
95, but like 85% of my hours on my Ally
or Steam Deck over the years are tape to tape.
>> I al I also Yeah, >> I could have played that on anything. >> Yeah. Another angle, and this was not my
idea. I don't remember who said it, but um maybe it was even you. I I have
genuinely no memory of who said this, but um
somehow get like the original or close to the original version of Steam OS on
it and compare the performance then to
now. I don't know if we benchmarked it at the time.
>> I don't really think so. Uh there'd be >> someone might have
>> there'd be so many variables. I think someone might have actually done this.
>> Oh, maybe. I don't know. Um, wasn't it NVIDIA only though? And like I think
maybe you could like hack in Radeon support. I I I don't remember the
details well enough. I'd have to they they should >> for the Steam Deck.
>> For the Steam No, no. I'm talking original Steam OS.
>> No, I'm not. >> Oh, you mean Steam OS 3, but like the
first version of Steam OS 3? >> I meant Yeah, the first version for the
Steam Deck. >> Got it. I thought you meant like >> I didn't say that. That's my bad. Sorry.
the one from like 14 years ago no or 10
years ago. That would be a little I I more mean like what performance changes
have hap like deep diving. >> What is it like to own a Steam Deck this
many years in? I think would be kind of fun. So like how much performance gain
have you had from updates or lack thereof? Who knows? Uh but I think it
would be gain. Um how is your like hey let's look at like
the the top 10 games that are compatible with Steam Deck in terms of players
right now. How well is it performing um
on the Steam Deck? Like, is this still a highly viable device for most people?
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
many video ideas on the doc. The >> issue is BIOS updates would be difficult to downgrade. Yeah, we'd have to try to
find like an unboxed one or something. It wouldn't be an easy thing to do.
>> Yeah. >> Uh but it could be kind of fun. I feel like that's the kind of thing that
Valve, if they weren't so flipping busy right now, might even be interested in
helping us with. >> Like, hey, could you guys we just can we
ship you a Steam Deck and can you please put it back in? Like, there's no way they don't have it somewhere.
>> My my expectation is that there's actually been some pretty massive jumps
in performance looking at like the things that have happened gaming ever
since the original launch. So, that could be like honestly a really good
>> thing for them to have. Something that'd
be a good thing for us to have is a more coherent strategy for how we're
transitioning to the WAN Show channel.
I think we may have to just
pull the plug on streaming WN show to LTT because right now it's causing a lot
of confusion for people. we go live and we have a separate VOD on the Linus Tech
Tips channel and on the WAN Show channel. And I got to say, I'm actually
surprised and impressed with how much of the community has flipped over to Wan
Show channel. It's almost >> it's not quite 50/50, but it's like
getting there a lot faster than I thought. So, W show Channel
>> 5 uh views. >> That's views. Okay.
>> The live one is the far left one. >> Yep. Okay. >> Yeah. So, I think we we might just have
to like we might just have to do it sometime soon here. Um
>> I didn't foresee this, but it totally
makes sense. The second someone told me like, "Oh, there's there's two in my
feed. This sucks." I was like, "Oh, right." >> Yeah. I'm I'm really sorry. We we do
need to co stream for a little while. But guys, uh if you are watching on
Linus Tech Tips channel right now, please sooner rather than later, get
subscribed over on the WAN Show. So go go go look for the channel. It used to
be the LMG clips channel. We rebranded it. Go subscribe over on the WAN Show.
We got to get everybody moved over there sooner rather than later or you will not
see WAN Show anymore. And the reason for it is it's a business reason. Uh Luke
and I are now 50% co-owners of the WAN Show, which means it's got to get off of
the LT channel in order to secure its long-term future. Thank you, WAN Show,
for your service. Um, all right. Let's jump right into our next topic here,
which is >> Oh, lord.
Should we do it? Let's talk about it.
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
dual edition launch. If you were wondering how the chip performs, uh,
it's virtually identical to a 9800 X3D
or 9950 X3D in gaming. It got a four to
5% improvement in productivity workloads, like kind of creator focused
stuff. And in some science workloads, it did even better than that. But for most
people, it doesn't really make sense unless you see it as maybe kind of like
a like a budget workstation CPU for
folks who can't afford the a Threadripper um and also don't need the PCIe
lanes and also don't need the, you know, insane memory bandwidth of Threadripper
and don't need the upgrade path to many many many more cores.
don't need, you know, registered dims. They just can use ECCU dims. There's a
lot of compromises using it as a budget workstation. But there is an argument to
be made there. Of course, with such a um
sorry, excuse me, uh interesting launch. Naturally, the more um exciting
component of it in the community has been the discourse around AMD's sampling
strategy, which >> you can tell the CPU was not super
interesting. >> Well, can you because some reviewers
felt that they were uh left out. You
know what? I'm just going to read the thing. Um,
in our communications with AMD, we were told that they had limited units and
wanted to focus on developers before sending units to reviewers. That seems
to be that a message that did not quite
line up with their strategy because some very gaming focused channels like hardware unboxed were provided with
samples. This confusion has led some to assume that AMD was preferentially
seeding to friendly reviewers or even blacklisting certain publications. Uh
Tech PowerUp noted that even retail partners had received instructions specifically to not provide any units to
publications for review. Um sourcing review units from retailers is a pretty
common practice and has at times been approved by AMD uh in the past. Igor's
lab criticized how this sort of selective sampling hurts consumers because they don't have access to the
broad amount of data they usually would to make an informed decision. Um, one of
our fellow channels in the industry released a video stating they believe
they've been blacklisted by AMD. Uh,
this came from GN who said AMD excluded us not only from sampling but from
information about the announcement. Um
they also noted that they have been moved to a third-party PR agency rather
than communicating with AMD directly. So
as for our side uh we also are communicating with AMD through a third
party agency. The agency did get in touch uh and they did answer some
technical questions before launch. They were not timely about it and they did
not provide us with a chip. Um
I have been I have in my notes how we got our chip. that apparently fell off
the back of a truck just outside of Smash Champs, um our our affiliated
badminton club. So, that's really fortunate actually. Um and in summary,
no, AMD did not blacklist anybody
because we didn't get a chip. Basically, this comes down to their sampling
strategy was different for >> sampling strategy was some reason >> weird.
>> What it looks like to me is regional. So outside of the North America region,
YouTubers seem to have gotten samples
and then within the North America region, it looks like they went for more
written media for reasons that are AMDs
and AMDs alone. I have not seen any
evidence that AMD is selectively seeding to publications that are more likely to
be favorable. >> Big company problems to you. >> Oh, 100%. So, so one region's office had
a strategy and it didn't necessarily match other regions.
>> That's what it kind of looks like to me because obviously we are not blacklisted
by AMD. I mean, we partner with AMD on a very
>> regular basis. They literally buy $5,000
tech upgrades for, you know, our employees homes. Like, we're we're in
constant communication with AMD, but we were told, "Yeah, we're not we're not
seating this CPU to you." Um,
so I don't know, man. There other than just, hey, big companies do big company
things sometimes, I don't think there's there's too much to read into this one.
>> Seems like a weird move. I I'm not like crazy surprised just because I suspect
they probably kind of knew how this news would go. Um, but in general, I would
still, you know, I would still like to
see all of the CPUs go to CPU reviewers.
>> Yes. And I mean, but it's all, it's never even been a thing.
>> Like, think back to like how Intel has done their seating for a lot of their
like series launches where they sent like this chip and this chip and
sometimes it really seems like like self-owning. Like remember when they
launched Core Ultra on the desktop and they sent us like the the worst ones? I
sure do. >> And we're just like, "Hey, do you want to sell these or not?" Because these
ones are clearly the cool ones. And we literally can't put them on our
benchmark charts because y'all didn't seed them to us. >> That was super weird.
>> Like, man, I don't know, man. Big companies do big company like dumb stuff
all the time. And um
maybe I'm just Maybe I'm just used to it.
Maybe it it's this this does seem like
I don't know. X3D specifically.
>> Yeah. >> Has like a very
alluring pull to the to the tech enthusiast crowd. I feel like not
including it to video or written reviewers
is a little bit odd. And again, I understand that this chip is also a
little bit odd. >> Yeah. >> So, like maybe it's fine, but just with
the naming it. Yeah. If I was AMD, I'll be honest with you, knowing what I know
about this chip, I might have seated it to like >> I might have just done it.
>> Wendle and Feronics and then just like not bothered outside of that. Yeah,
>> cuz I because I I I might be I might be interested in the perspective of someone
who's, you know, more attuned to the to the the enterprise space and then
someone who's like hyper attuned to like the Linux and and like scientific space
and then realistically, yeah, it's X3D
and you're going to you're going to you're going to throw that in the
marketing because marketers got to market and they're going to want to sell it to gamers because that's how big
company do things. But in terms of like caring about gaming outlets making a
review of it, I'd probably have like zero zero cares.
>> Yeah. I mean, based on the benchmarking
that happened, it's like Yeah, I would probably agree with you if
they knew what was going on there. >> Yeah. And I mean, obviously a company
like AMD knows what their chip is before they release it, which actually I
shouldn't even say. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you really do have brands tell
you they're like, "Oh, hey, so do you love it?" and you're kind of like, "No,
it's slow and expensive." And they're like, "What?"
>> It's it's fascinating to me. That's just marketing
PR teams being disconnected from technical.
>> It's got to be >> that's usually the the understanding for me cuz like you remember the whole uh
backplate thing. Was it gigabyte? I think it was gigabyte. >> Gigabyte with that GPU
>> and the and the the board was like, "How could you?" And then the technical people were like, "Yeah, we knew." Yeah,
>> we didn't tell them that. They just put that in the marketing.
>> Yeah. When they had like some kind of misleading marketing on their product
page. >> Yeah. They said their copper back plate cooled the GPU by 3°. And it turns out
that just having no back plate also cooled it by 3°. It was just their old
back plate warmed the card by 3° because
it was so bad. Um, so it was it was
Yeah. Anyways, whatever.
>> You know what's not bad, though? LTT tools casually getting reviews on
like PC Gamer. What the heck? This came out of nowhere for me.
>> What? >> Right. >> PC Gamer. Do they have they reviewed any
other tools? >> I don't know. LTD ratcheting screwdriver
and precision pro multi-bit screwdriver review. Serious tools by Jacob Ridley
published not on April 1st, but actually on April the 8th. So, this was pretty
sweet. Yeah, this was a little while ago, but I just thought this was pretty
cool. And it actually included an
anecdote about an experience. I don't remember meeting Jacob, but uh
apparently we've we've at least crossed paths at some point because um
apparently this was this was his his
expectation from me. I wasn't sure what
to expect upon opening the YouTuber branded boxes. Having once upon a time
been at the same booth at a show as Lionus, as he was loudly disagreeing
with someone about quality control, I had a pretty good feeling about the
quality of the screwdrivers before they arrived. That was a good assumption,
too, as now they're in front of me. They feel sturdy and well put together.
>> That's funny. That's pretty good. It was it's an interesting paragraph that
really highlights I think why sometimes
we do take what feels like a disproportionate amount of flak
sometimes when we make a mistake because
>> that's what we do is we we point out things that are not good enough and when
our job is to point out things that are not good enough for a living then people
expect us to do the same bloody thing internally and it's uh it's funny
because sometimes it would be easy to think about
something like that and go, you know, oh, that's that's too much
pressure. I wouldn't want to work somewhere like that. But you know what's
cool is I think our team actually embraces it
in like a big way. Sorry, I'm not laughing at you. Um, yeah. No, I think
so. I think they do. Sometimes our
product development timelines are also really long, but this is probably part
of why. Yeah, >> at least part of why. >> Oh, dude. Dude,
dude, there's a product coming.
>> The battery bank. >> No. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah.
>> Say you you put it in a video. You don't have to be >> I tried the prototype.
>> I have no idea what he's talking about. >> Yeah, you do.
>> I do. >> It's the one.
>> Really? >> Come on, man. >> Really? >> I tried the prototype. It [ __ ] slaps,
dude. It's crazy. >> Oh, that one.
>> Oh, yeah. >> You're that hyped about it, >> dude.
>> Okay. >> It's nuts. >> Hell yeah. >> I want to quadruple the order. Like,
dude, that really, dude, >> I don't even know what the quantity was.
I want >> That's really exciting for me. Just cuz I I I I feel like I can't spoil it, but
there's there's >> Oh, we can't say it. It's >> for the same reasons that he's really
excited. I'm really excited. >> Have Did you try it? Did you try it?
>> No, I >> No, no. I'm talking to him. I I don't know what he thinks.
>> No comment. >> No, but did you try it? >> I don't know if I have one or not.
>> No, you don't have one. You might be thinking of something else.
>> There's only one. So, nobody has one except someone
>> then. No. >> Okay. Okay. No, don't worry. Forget forget about Dan. Forget about Dan.
>> I have not. >> We'll never forget about Dan. We love Dan, but just >> in this context.
>> In this Yeah. For for now. For now.
>> It's um >> Dude, >> I'm I'm very happy to hear that for a
huge variety of reasons. Yeah. Yeah. >> And I'll leave it there.
>> Anyway, the point is we have a really passionate team and we and we kind of we
embrace those challenges. Anyway, >> the timeline for that is like
>> it's tight. >> Yeah. >> It's going to be crazy. >> Yeah. >> Knock on wood. Knock on wood. Yeah.
>> Um anyway, the PC gamer review. I I thought it was pretty fair. Um
>> Cool. >> I think there were Yeah, I think there was like one thing that I I was like,
"Oh, I think you might have kind of overlooked that, but it was like super
super minor." Um and I thought they Yeah, I thought they did a pretty good
job. They compared it to sort of, you know, obvious things like the iFixit
Protect Toolkit. Um, anyway, thanks Jacob for taking the
time. >> Sweet. >> Appreciate you.
>> Uh, what do we want to talk about next? We're supposed to do another topic.
>> It is not the cobbar hammer. And guys, that is a >> never happening.
>> That is a never happening situation. >> Oh yeah, never happening.
Uh, every SKH Highix employee could
I think that's a bold could, but could receive it might happen. Uh, could
receive $477,000 bonuses this year.
Almost 900,000 next year. Apparently 35,000
workers are set out to benefit from a share of
169 billion in projected operating
profit for the year. SK Hanx agreed last September to remove its previous bonus
caps. hilarious timing and allocate 10% of annual operating profit directly to
employees as performance bonuses with analysts forecasting around 250 trillion
one or 169 billion I'm assuming US
dollars in operating profit for 2026.
That works out to roughly the previously mentioned 477,000 per employee across
its 35,000 person workforce on top of
the $95,000 in profit sharing already paid out in February. If profits keep
climbing, bonuses could hit nearly $900,000 per person next year.
The AI boom The AI boom is driving all this. Demand for HBM memory chips used
in AI accelerators has sent memory prices through record highs and SKHENX
is the dominant supplier. The company's transparent bonus formula has become a
recruiting weapon against Samsung which is now facing its own crisis with over
so this is the thing that I thought we were originally talking about for some reason which I which is why I said
maybe. I guess the previous stuff is pretty locked in. The maybe stuff is is
is this. So sorry I I I had the wrong
reaction there. Samsung's union uh
>> over 30,000 Samsung Union members are demanding a similar deal
>> with a strike a strike date set for May 21st. That's
crazy. A strike right now could seriously hurt earning potential. This
is this is very interesting to watch. Samsung's union is pushing for 15% of
operating profit, pointing out that their bonuses currently amount to less
than 30% of what uh comparable SKH
workers receive. Samsung management countered with 10% which the union
rejected. >> Dude, this is this is crazy to watch.
This is like this is some peak tier nut
>> negotiating. Like remember when we were talking about everything that was going
on with like SAG AFRA and and like and
in in Hollywood you know down south and I was talking about like kind of you
know bold strategy cotton let's see how it works out for them because they were
striking at a time when >> a lot of studios were actually pairing
back their productions and losing money on a lot of big tentpole projects and
like >> this is the hard opposite of that scenario.
>> This is the timing you want. Yeah, >> you're a specialized worker
in something that is absolutely
banging. >> There is a place making record profits
that could definitely hire you in uh
>> Yeah, they could could very easily definitely hire you and and I think they
are. >> Yeah. No, they've been apparently taking
advantage of this of this situation
right now because from an SKH heck standpoint,
>> I can see why why not because you're
going to allocate 10% of your annual operating profit. So what do you care as
like at the management level? >> A couple of pops. >> No, I just mean what do you care at the
management level if that 10% is allocated across another thousand
people? You don't you don't give a [ __ ] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, >> right. Because no one's going to be
complaining because as long as the profits go up, their next bonus check will be bigger anyway.
>> It's going to be so freaking monstrous. >> So if they said that if they spread it
across more people, they could basically just bleed Samsung dry.
>> Yeah, that's wild. >> Wild.
It's this this is going to be this is
going to be an interesting one.
>> Yeah. Um, and you know to to your point
that I think you were getting into again SKH Heinix has nothing to lose here
because if the bonus quantity is derived from operating profit then when the bust
inevitably happens >> on the other end of this it just autoscales down.
>> It autoscales down >> because it's still 10% of annual
operating profit but if they're just not profiting as much then it just goes down. So like realistically
the employees are winning super hard when the company's winning super hard and then when the company isn't super
winning super hard it'll just it'll automatically kind of correct itself.
You don't have to have rough conversations with people about how
their wages are going to go down. It's just >> well we sold less RAM so
>> there you go. Dude it's it's crazy the kind of scale that these companies work
on. Yeah. Like the fact that they allocate only 10% of their annual
operating profit to to like performance
bonuses. That's like that's crazy. Like
ratio-wise, we are way above that for
overall like how much we allocate of our operating profit to to compensation. And
yet >> this isn't to compensation though. No, it is. It's just performance bonuses.
>> I know. Oh, but the performance bonuses are like the bulk of their comp now.
It's it like it's it's crazy. I was looking at the numbers. >> Oh yeah.
>> So like the fact that the fact that they have
>> relatively only that amount allocated to
employee compensation >> that's not true though. That's what I'm
saying. >> It's a little more basically is is what it amounts to. So like that and a little
more allocated and they're able to pay
out base salary plus $477,000
per employee. Like the amount of money
that memory manufacturing is making right now >> crazy
>> is flipping insane. >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Flipping insane. >> And sorry that last number was slightly
wrong. It's actually over 500,000 because that 477,000 was on top of
95,000 already. Like
it's the these wafers, right? If you if
you got the bad license to print money, Luke. >> Yeah. Imagine getting a like you're
you're just out of school and you get a job at one of these companies right now.
>> That's it. I'm moving to Seoul. >> See you later.
>> Hey guys, I can do something. I swear. >> Yeah, I I I could I could I could do PR.
I could do PR for SKHEX. I could be I could be their video guy.
>> Uh oh, okay. Sure. >> Yeah. >> I don't know about PR.
>> Yeah. No, >> you could do media.
>> We could change our company. Hey. Hey, we could do what that shoe company did.
We raise a bunch of money and we do uh we do uh Rod's idea, Linus Memory Group.
>> 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
we'll we'll we'll go we'll build a memory fab. We got this. >> Well, isn't their whole thing? They're
not even building the fab. They're just like acquiring the hardware for you. So,
if you're building a fab and you need a bunch of GPUs, they will like get it for
you. >> The shoe company. >> Yeah, I think that was >> I think I think they're building I think
they want to build data centers and then like just lease access to them like
everyone in the Have they Have they crashed yet? Is that over?
>> Who knows? >> Was it? >> Hold on. Birds.
>> Oh, yeah. >> Oh, yeah. Okay.
>> So, here was the thing. NO.
>> SO, YEAH, they spiked to uh $17 and
they're all the way down to seven now. Um, that's going to keep going. That
this is not financial advice, but that's
going to that's going to keep going in that direction in case anyone was wondering.
>> So, there's like one stock that makes any amount of sense on the stock market.
Yeah, I'm going for that's going to be the one that actually performs according
to its its basic fundamentals. >> I believe you.
>> Not financial advice. Not financial advice. >> Financial advice. Thank you very much,
>> Dan. Don't think I don't see what you type in chat.
>> What? Apart from a bull >> goes, Lionus is a bear confirmed.
>> Well, you're you're saying that it's going down. >> Yeah. Don't think I don't know what that
means, though. >> Just because I use a double undonder
doesn't mean that it's not true financially.
Not not financial advice. Not employment
advice either. Call your boss a bear.
>> You're too skinny.
>> Dude, I weigh now. >> God. >> No. I definitely don't have the hair,
>> but I I I like weigh a lot now. I'm 174
lbs now. >> Take creatine way more. >> Take more. I don't want to weigh more
than this. >> Way more. >> Way more. >> No. Oh, I don't want to way more than
this. >> Mass maxing Lionus. >> No, I don't. We don't need that.
>> Thighs as thick as anything. >> Yeah. >> Tree trunk.
>> Thighs bigger than her or not. >> Bigger than Taylor Swift.
>> No, I don't think of >> you want to win this or No, >> I don't. It's not a competition.
>> Honestly, I Twitter. It's not a competition. Twitter energy.
>> Lionus watermelon crushing tips. Yeah,
>> that should be next year's April Fools as you relaunch the only fans and it's
just videos of you crushing watermelons >> leggings for men.
>> Leggings that have like padded >> they're like 5 foot areas.
>> They they're like for normal people like they would not fit around the waist.
>> We'd have to create like a low friction space age material between the thighs so
that they don't wear out from all the like >> That's what Yeah. Yeah. All right, I'm
into it. Oh, I thought you meant padding. Just so that when you're crushing watermelons, like you know,
it's it doesn't hurt. You know, it wouldn't hurt. Oh, sorry. I Okay, we
were I understand what you're saying now. We were not talking about the same thing. >> Yeah. You know, on like elementary
school, you had those planners with the cover that went like when you ran your
nails over it. Put one of those on in the inside of each thigh so that when
you walk it's like >> Dude, that would be the like most ' 90s
parachute pants like put little 3Ds on them too. Just your
face going back and forth. That'd be great. >> Write that down. Write that down.
>> 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
it afterwards. >> All right. >> You should take it anyways. >> All right. All right. You should take
it. >> You'll do better at Babmon. >> Might also help your brain.
>> Not medical advice. >> What are you saying? >> Not medical advice. >> Yeah,
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All right, Luke, you want to pick one? >> Sure. Uh,
let's see here. >> Pick the rap. Pick the rap. >> Oh, yeah, sure. Uh, LTT rap. A month
ago, we posted a video about Tik Tok hacks, and one of the hacks was uh that
we looked at was from user rap tech 269
nice 4, uh, who made a rap about how to use, uh, utilman to, uh, log into a
locked Windows user account. Well, he's back and this time he has one about our
merch. >> Okay. I'm not gonna play the whole thing just because like I want you guys to
watch the whole thing. >> Y >> So, I'm only going to play a little bit
of it. Have you seen this? >> No, I haven't. >> Oh, but I'm giving them a view right now
anyways. >> Oh my god. Okay, here we go. You ready?
>> Yeah. See if this works. >> Yes. >> Tech PCs. You know what? I love the
style. Guilty of too much charisma. >> Hey, L said I got too much charisma on
site. So he sent me all the gear. Now we going to do it right.
Build another level. No stripping, no slipping. Every bit.
>> Is that amazing or what? It's up on YouTube shorts. Yeah, no keys posting it
in the chat. Like how?
Luke, do you think even with his help I could
ever be cool?
>> What? Dan, say it. >> Somebody posted something funny in chat
is >> sure they did. >> He might have enough aura that while you
were with him and with his help,
>> you might be able to pull it off. But I feel like once he's removed from the
scenario, you are yet again not cool. Even if he received your help,
>> so basically I'm received his help. >> With training, I could be posy grade
cool. >> I think so. >> Okay. >> I think so.
>> Well, that's fine. I'm just glad that he likes the product. And um I I am I I am
My life is richer for having watched this video earlier today.
You guys got You guys got to hear the rest of it. It It doesn't go downhill
from there. That's That's what I'll say. Uh go go go check it out. Raptech 2694.
>> Speaking of hopefully not going downhill, Apple names new chief
executive to replace Tim Cook. >> Apple has announced that Tim Cook will
step down as CEO on September 1st, 2026.
and John Turnis, the company's senior
vice president of hardware engineering since 2021, will be taking over. Cook
will move to executive chairman. The transition was unanimously approved by
the board and follows that uh what Apple describes as a long-term succession
plan. Uh Turnis has been at Apple since 2001, working under both Steve Jobs and
Cook. He's been the guy behind the hardware side of iPad, AirPods, and
recent iPhones. Uh, and has taken on an
increasingly visible role at Apple events in recent years. At 50, he's
roughly the same age Cook was when he took over in 2021 and roughly onetenth
of the age of an average world leader. Uh, under Cook's 15-year run, Apple went
from a $350 billion company to a $4 trillion one. Launched Apple Watch,
AirPods, Apple Silicon Vision Pro, and built out the services business. The
biggest challenge waiting for Turnis is widely seen as fixing Apple's struggling
AI strategy. Uh, which is lag behind competitors.
>> Interesting. >> I don't agree with that at all. Yeah,
>> they're going to be fine. I think they're actually probably doing like the
smartest move in the room, but we'll see how it goes. I I know a bunch of people
have been saying like, "Oh, oh, but if it like if if someone figures it out,
they're going to be so far behind." And it's like, >> I don't even think so. With with the
rate at which models are being open sourced and honestly Apple's hardware is
for running that >> that too. And the rate at which people
seem to be very happy to just jump companies constantly, like the the uh
the the relationship with AI companies and their employees is very very
tenuous. They're just kind of bouncing around all over the place. If Apple wants to turn it on, I think they
absolutely can right now. Um and I don't
think they will right now, and I don't think they should right now. I think
they are wisely waiting out this insane
storm of spending, keeping their insane amounts of cash that they have um
instead of just blowing it all and then when the timing is right, maybe they'll
step in or maybe they'll have a different solution. Who knows? Maybe they'll get paid money to to use someone
else's model as like an advertising thing. >> Kind of like when they lost the, you
know, search engine war or browser war or whatever. Like
>> Yeah. like maybe they'll find some way to make it work out in their favor
anyways. >> That does tend to be the Apple way. >> Yeah. >> Don't be first. Just be Apple.
>> Yeah. So I It doesn't feel like an error to me. It also like it would feel like
an error if Google wasn't doing it. >> Yeah. >> But it does not feel like an error that
Apple isn't doing it. >> Yeah. I with that. >> Yeah. Um, we actually, um, this was one
of those ones where, you know, how we've talked about needing to be more agile as
a company in our in our video production. Uh, this is one that, um, I
I sent, uh, this Okay, hold on. We're going to have to we're going to have to
back up a little bit. Um, >> over on Flow Plane, I was reading
through one of the reading through the comments on one of the exclusives that
we did. So there's a video where uh we have this kind of series I guess now
because I've done it a couple times where I interview uh other executives or
other leaders here at the company and you know sort of have a business meeting
on camera just like Luke and I do on WAN Show every week for you guys but with
different people. And it was actually uh a commenter who was talking about how
um >> oh I like this comment. I know what one you're talking about actually. You know,
James and I talked about being kind of a big ship these days and and that being a
real challenge for us because we've lost some of the agility that we had in the
past. And Biohazard 4524 says to keep
James' analogy of them being a big ship that turns slowly, um, what I think they
would love is to be more like an aircraft carrier. Yes, the massive ship
turns slowly, but you can launch fast craft and helicopters to go try that new
thing to be a platform to make quick things doable without going under. And I
actually immediately screenshotted this and posted this in the executive chat
and basically went, >> "This is what we need to do. We can't
stop being a bigger ship than YouTube channels that are literally one person
or two people or even five people. We were more agile when when we were, you
know, a dozen people. And that's just inherent. There's more
>> makes sense. >> There's there's more people who need to know. Um there's more people who need to
who need to, you know, approve things. It's >> I have had some conversations recently
>> where we'll we'll talk about like, okay, we could do X, Y, or Z thing. And the
response will be like, yeah, but then we're gonna have to do this and that and
this and that and this and that. And I' I've been trying out a response of just
like what if we just didn't.
And it's it's kind of fun watching people's brain explode. >> And so, um, so basically I was like,
okay, but we have to find a way to be
more agile to get things done quickly
and and circumvent the process when it's necessary. And uh this Tim Cook
retirement announcement is actually something that we we went aircraft
carrier mode on. So we we kept the ship
going in the direction that it's going and a small team of one of the
relatively new writers uh on the team. His name is Sean and he put together
like sort of some key milestones from Cook's career and like kind of a draft
of what a script might look like. And then I I sat on the plane on the way
back from the event earlier this week and I banged out a script. We shot it
the morning I got back in. It was edited today. It's I'm going to review it
tonight and it goes up I think this weekend. Um and so we're we need to
start doing a better job of that. And
the only way to start doing a better job of it is to start doing a better job of
it. Just [ __ ] do it. And so we're um
we're putting it in action already. And uh just this was just such a great
example. I don't remember how we got on this topic even, but this was such a great example of the importance of
community feedback in what we're doing and how dialed in. It's not just me
who's who's reading this stuff and who's engaging with you guys. Um it's it's
lots of people here at the company who just care and just want to make a better
product. Whether that product is a shirt or whether that product is a video or
whether it's a streaming platform or whether it's Hey, why don't we
transition into another topic here and let's have a look at some of the sick
content that's been posted on ltdabs.com.
>> Yes, >> check this out, dude. >> Yeah, >> Nick and Steven working on some pretty
sick freaking content. This is I bought
this is such an interesting question that when Intel announced this I was
like oh yeah I wonder how much this helps. I wish someone would like look
into that. And then little did I know >> and you didn't ask us.
>> Little did I know somebody was doing it and that somebody was apparently me.
Thank you Labs team. Um, so the the long
and short of it is that Intel has some some tools that can that can help their
especially their new Core Ultra um 200
series processors perform apparently
quite a bit better. And so there's there's actually a few different optimizations. Intel Extreme Tuning
Utility, RXTU, Intel Application Optimizer, and then the new Intel binary
optimization tool or IBOT. And pretty
much you um go in here, you tweak all
your stuff, they show you like how to enable it, and then boom, here is the
improvement in performance that you can get with a 200 S series processor. So
these are the the newer ones um with boost off and with boost on. Uh what
exact chip did we use in the test bench? Uh test bench, where is it?
>> Yeah, I can't remember off the top of my head either. uh changes the PL1
profiles. Which chip is it? Okay. Well, this is something we might have uh
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
new Plus one. So, this is the older um
285K, which gets a pretty substantial
boost actually across a pretty wide variety of games. Anywhere from like 2
1/2% to over 4%.
And that's in 1% lows. So that's pretty
cool. And then with the new plus, the new 270K Plus, we actually got way less.
>> Yeah, >> that is pretty fascinating. So yeah,
guys, go check out that article. And and that's just one of the uh of the cool
things that went up this week. All right. Did this Did the CMF 2026 one go
up? Not this week. >> Is >> Oh, they must have just I must have just
come across it. No, no, that was that one was two weeks ago.
>> Oh, I thought you were talking about the uh the phone brightness one. No, no, no.
That one we talked about last week, but this one this one uh slipped my notice.
So, this is talking about like color on Apple's new displays. Really, really,
really cool article as well. I didn't see it until this week. So, I'm I'm
getting to the point, man, where I just like and like like chilling and waiting
for LT Labs to release a new article and I'm like you're that you've been
releasing them without
>> No one will ever go to the damn website by itself. That's >> No, they will. They will. Be optimistic,
Luke. Hey, hey, you got to have >> We still Okay, we still I have to I have
to point this out. You have to understand we still have people asking
us like, "When are you guys going to have an RSS feed?" It's It's right here.
It's It's right here. It's also It's
also It's also right here.
It's also just Hold on just in case. Just in case. Hold on. I got to go to
the bottom. It's It's also right here.
And if you click on here, it's everywhere. It's I we can't we can't put
it in more play. We get people go out of
their way to email us asking when we're
going to have these things and they're
Please use them. >> Yeah. Yeah, use them. It's good. It's good stuff.
>> Come on. >> Heck yeah. Way to go, LTT Labs. Love to
see it. All right, what else we got? Oh,
this is cool. Uh I I actually
man I'm on the fence now because I knew you'd be excited about that whole
bringing bringing uh cutting edge models
on prem uh with like the Gemini hardware
appliance. Um but I can also see why you
picked this one for one of your headlines. YouTube is opening up its AI
powered likeness detection tool to all of Hollywood. Actors, musicians,
athletes, and the talent agencies and management companies that represent them
will be able to use this tool that works kind of like content ID except for faces
scanning the platform for AI generated deep fakes of enrolled individuals and
then letting them review and request removal. It is free, optin, and works
even if the person doesn't have a YouTube channel. The tool's been in a
phased roll out since actually late 2024, starting with CAA clients and then
expanding to about 5,000 creators last fall, then to politicians and
journalists in March. The entertainment industry is the biggest expansion yet
with CAA, UTA, WME, and uh untitled
management already on board. YouTube says that enrollment data is only used
for detection and is not used to train Google's AI models. Flag videos are
reviewed individually and content that falls under parody, satire or commentary
may stay up. The expansion comes after sor after the Sora launch last fall
flooded the internet with deep fakes of celebrities and dead public figures
making the need for this kind of tool kind of hard to argue against.
>> It's cool that YouTube's doing it. That's that's sweet. And for free.
That's awesome. >> YouTube is not perfect. I call them out
in public and in private on a pretty
regular basis. However, however, however,
let's look at all the other large video
platforms. >> This is I I know I've said it on W show before, but this is what I keep going
back to. >> Tik Tok meta,
dude. Relatively speaking,
>> they're awesome. They've >> for a company to be on top as well for
as long as not not only around but as
big and on top for as long as they have
been. I am very surprised they don't
seem way worse and way more corrupt than
they are. Think about how Think about
how often big tech changes the deal. Pray I don't
alter it any further. Yeah. >> And with users, with users, I think
there's there's a pretty strong argument to be made that they they have changed
the deal in pretty substantial ways.
>> Some of those changes, in my opinion, uh come with the reality of just not being
like VC funded anymore and needing to run a profitable business model. I can't
I can't blame them for that. You got you got to eat. Um, but in terms of the way
that they've engaged with the creators on their platform, the ones who give it
the value, the way that they have consistently stuck with that profit
share model is nuts.
>> Yeah. literally even seeing even seeing
how the model works whether we're talking Vine whether we're talking Tik
Tok or Meta no matter who it is even
seeing that obvious playbook that has worked so well uh YouTube calls it they
call it a flywheel right the flywheel spins creators create amazing content
which benefits YouTube which makes money which goes to creators who spend it on
content who make better content that flywheel that YouTube relies on to
continue elevating the level of content on it and attracting creators to it.
It's in public. It's plain for everyone to see and nobody else
can just they can't do it. They can't
take out their wallet and just share the revenue. kind of funny because by by by
many accounts it's like actually cheaper and easier than doing something like
Netflix where you have to make the content yourself. Uh but just no one
else will do it. But I I I I still maintain like YouTube is really cool
considering what it could be and there's some stuff that sucks. I'm still salty
about the dislike button and and shorts have been very frustrating for me.
Although I do have an interesting update. I heard on the open source
creator Discord a few people got access to the app update and it does what we
were hoping it would do. When you set your shorts limit to 0 minutes, it
removes shorts entirely from your like
main page, but if you go to a creator, you can still find the shorts. And that
that is completely fine in my mind. Um,
I still don't like that if you do manually go find some shorts, uh, it's
incredibly easy to bypass your zero
minute limit. Um, but the fact that it
kind of removes it from there is cool. And no, >> I got it.
>> The Oh, nice. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Let's check it out. >> Uh, okay. So, I have it now. Short speed
limit 0 minutes. >> So, I'm going to Yeah, I'm going to
close the app. >> Yeah. And then I'm going to I'll I'll
log into uh I'll log into my account. Actually, no. I'll I'll stay on the LT
account. I guess >> I saw shorts. >> Okay. Shorts.
>> Yeah, I see shorts immediately. >> No, they're gone. >> They're they're gone.
>> Wait, scroll down. >> No, that's play play. Oh, wait. YouTube playables. Oh, for crying out loud. Can
I get rid of these? Not interested. Okay.
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No shorts. >> Holy bananas.
>> Sweet. Top news.
Holy bananas, dude.
That's crazy. >> No shorts. >> Also, this is a this is a quality
recommendation. >> You're going to get uh
>> How is that? How is that in my recommendations right now?
>> Fantastic. Um, >> those Yeah,
>> that's a that's a throwback. >> Was that the work account?
>> Uh, >> someone's looking up the the dash boot beer song.
>> Amazing. Amazing. vat9.com.
Uh, >> is VT9 still around? >> I have no idea.
Now I want to know. >> Yes.
>> All right, let's let's see what's on bat 19. Oh, okay. >> It feels like the same stuff, though.
This is literally like I I think they made the video about this 5B gummy bear
over 10 years ago. >> Yeah. Honestly, I saw the gummy bear and
then I saw the micromagnets and I was like nothing has changed,
>> dude. I mean, look,
>> why would you >> hold on a second? Hold on. Get Get out of here. Look listen listen, sir. I
ain't a mathematician, but let me tell you let me tell you this. Times
>> How much is it? $579.
>> 57. Woo! In gummy bears, dude. Let's go.
>> $5.7 million of gummy. We're in the
wrong business, sir. >> You should be making gummy bears. Make some creatine gummy bears. Do it that
way. >> That is That is wild.
It's interesting that they they put like a like a purchase counter on it. Seems
like every product. It's not It's not just key ones.
Rubber chicken pen. That seems like dancing. Okay. Well, yeah, that's that's
definitely a site that still exists. The superersized playground ball with
unmatched durability. >> No discount on this one.
>> It can handle a little Oh, this is new. This is in their their new uh tab.
>> I see. >> Okay.
catching a ball with the world's largest glove.
All right, man. Internet, you have really you've really gotten to be a
thing, haven't you? >> Uh, let's go
talk about let's talk about who Dims
Him. >> Have you seen this? >> Yep. >> I'm not quite sure if this qualifies as
good news, but it's certainly >> it's news. >> Fascinating news.
>> It might be good for like I don't know. No, I don't think it's I I I don't
>> I think it could be. >> I think it's just dumb. >> Super cost effective computers where you
just need something. >> I guess >> you need a RAM stick in the computer so
it can turn on. >> Intel, ASRock, and Team Group have
unveiled who DIM half unbuffered DIM, a
new DDR5 spec that uses one 32-bit sub
channel rather than the usual two. Um,
fewer memory chips per stick means that it can be cheaper to produce as long as
you don't need the extra capacity anyway. Uh, with that said, early
benchmarks confirm the trade-off is pretty brutal. You get a little over 50%
as much bandwidth across the board, which makes sense because if you had, uh, a single 32-bit sub channel instead
of two 32-bit sub channels, then you would have half as many 32-bit sub
channels. Um then in order to get the
performance that you might expect from DDR5, you would actually need two HUD
dims in dual channel and that would be the same as like one conventional uh
DDR5 stick. The whole thing exists because of the DDR5 shortage that has
been driving prices through the roof. It's aimed at entry-le desktops and
office machines that don't need peak memory performance. But hear me out,
DDR4 for those. Okay, that doesn't help office machines. and like, oh man, it
just feels like a lot of manufactured e-waste. Um,
one interesting thing though is that you can apparently start with a HUDM today
and then add a regular DDR5 stick for an
asymmetric setup. So, we've seen asymmetric memory before. I remember
back um AMD socket A. So, this will be
this will be a a deep cut. Did I use it right?
>> Socket A. Yes. >> Had three sticks. had three memory
sticks. And the way that it worked was even though it did support dual channel,
you had two or three memory sticks, three slots. So you would install two
sticks in dual channel and then you could install a third memory stick in
the last slot that would operate in single channel mode. And the idea behind
it was that you'd use the dual channel memory that was running in dual channel
faster speed until you had too much in memory and then it would overflow into
the single channel one that was slower. Um, NVIDIA also famously pulled this a
similar move on the um, GTX 970 which
had 3 and a half gigs of RAM at full speed and then it had the other half a
gig of RAM at a lower speed due to the way that the uh, memory bus was
configured. Um,
it wasn't that big of a deal in either of those cases. It worked pretty good, but
>> I don't think this will be a huge deal either. I still think hudims are maybe
just like not maybe amazing. Um >> I don't think they're cool. Maybe it'll
help again office computer situations,
but
yeah. Neat.
>> Hopefully they're relatively cheaper enough that it'll be helpful.
>> The thing I actually found most interesting about it was how uh they
apparently tested it. So, um, let's see.
Let me see if I can find a picture. Uh, Tom's Hardware doesn't have a picture of
it. So, let me have a look. Maybe, uh, Tech PowerUp also has an article.
Do they have a picture? Show me the picture. I don't know. I saw a picture
of how they tested it somewhere. And basically, they just took a regular not
who and put some Capton tape or some like packing tape over the contacts for
like the other 32-bit sub channel. I was like, "Oh, yeah. Okay. I guess that
would work as long as long as you have bio support for just activating the one
side. I was like, "Oh, okay. I would have never thought of it. What if I just
taped over half of the half of the the fingers on my memory stick before I put
it in?" Yeah. No, I wouldn't I I I would not I would not think of that. It
wouldn't occur to me. Um,
no, we'll do that after. The EU
is starting February 2027
going to require batteries and portable devices to be, and this is a quote,
readily removable and replaceable. Huzzah. And this is key, that has to be
by end users using commercially available tools. No proprietary screws,
no heat guns, no solvents. Replaceable batteries must also stay available for
at least 5 years after a product leaves the market.
>> This is super interesting. This is super cool. But there is a notable exception.
Devices that manage to hit IP67
waterproofing and that can maintain 80%
of their battery capacity after a thousand full charge cycles are exempt.
Apple already meets this threshold on every iPhone since the 15, and most
flagship Android phones likely do as well. Meaning that the phones that many
enthusiasts actually care about um may
not be impacted by this. And many of the
phones that people may not find to be worthwhile to bother repairing because
of the costs involved in, you know, upgrading or repairing a device um
may be the only ones that are actually impacted. Some outlets though are
reporting that this could still push manufacturers toward easier battery
access across the board since budget and mid-range devices that don't hit the
exemption thresholds would need to comply. But the regulation may end up
changing very little about how flagship phones are built.
Our discussion question is, if every flagship phone qualifies for the
exemption, does this regulation actually change anything or did the EU just write
a right to repair rule with a loophole big enough to drive a phone through it?
um given that not everybody buys flagship phones, which seems to be kind
of a a carrier subsidy sort of market um
assumption that everybody just like has a flagship phone. It just might be a few
years old or it might be a current one. Um no, I I think this could actually
make a substantial difference because those those more uh valueoriented
mid-range phones where either they didn't pay for the IP certification or
they um are not built for it. could end up being
built in a way that makes the batteries easier to replace, which is never a bad
thing. I do worry a little bit that again, the devices most impacted by this
might be the ones that also aren't getting software updates after that
time. >> Yeah. >> And therefore might have security concerns around using them, but I
consider this still progress. Um,
>> I was going to say steps >> and phones are just a small part of the
portable electronics picture. Like I got
I man I got super offended by my stupid old toothbrush that had a battery that
was clearly intentionally designed to be impossible to replace. Not impossible
but very difficult. I was just like this
is offensive because the only reason that this doesn't work anymore is
because you made sure it wouldn't. It sucked and I resolved never to buy a
toothbrush from that company again. I wonder how it how did they do that? Um,
basically just like the way that to when when it was closed up, the way that it
closes kind of like break it >> latches and things like conceal the
access cover and and I can understand a
little bit of that it might have been done like kind of maybe for water
resistance like it used a like a magnetic charger so it was like quite
sealed up but I I think they it seemed
intentional and when I looked up a guide it seemed even more intentional. I did
not like that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Very upset. Yeah, I think it was Oral B. Fire Panda
Sasquatch says, "Uh, yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure it was Oral B. So, I will
never buy an OralB toothbrush again unless they fix their fix their biz."
Um, so yeah, I could see this making a much
bigger difference in spaces like other personal electronic devices, maybe not
as much in in phones. >> Speaking about fixing their biz, I don't
know if this is positive, may maybe it is. Uh Nintendo is getting tariff
refunds apparently. Uh but their customers should probably get those
considering they raised their prices. Two US gamers have filed a class action
lawsuit against Nintendo arguing that the company is about to double dip on
tariff costs. When Trump's tariffs hit last year, Nintendo raised prices on
Switch consoles, Switch 2 accessories, and controllers by $5 to $50 across the
board, explicitly citing tariffs as the reason. CEO uh Shantaro Furukawa uh told
investors in May 2025 that tariffs would be incorporated into the price. After
the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional in February, Nintendo
sued the US government to get its tariff payments back. And the government is now
processing roughly $166
billion in refunds to over three Oh,
this isn't just a Nintendo. Okay. well to over 330,000 importers. The
plaintiffs argue that since Nintendo already already passed the tariff costs
on to customers through price hikes, getting a government refund on top of
that means Nintendo collects the same money twice. Nintendo isn't the only
company facing this. FedEx, UPS, Costco,
and eyeglass importer Esler Lotica have all been hit with similar lawsuits.
FedEx actually promised to pass refunds back to customers and got sued anyways.
>> Go America. >> Hilarious. When asked back in March
whether it planned to share refunds with customers, Nintendo said they uh
Nintendo would only say, "We have nothing else to share on this topic,"
which is akin to saying nothing. Uh
discussion question. Nintendo passed the tariff cost to customers and is now
collecting a refund from the government. Should companies that raise prices be
required to pass refunds back? All right. Alon
asks, "Linus, if you get a tariff refund for ltstore.com sales, would you return
them to customers?" So,
>> did you raise prices for tariff stuff? >> For us, it was not black and white. We
did not simply increase our prices and
then adjust our new retail price
according to our new cost >> or walk to Mordor. >> Or walk to Mordor. you said one does not
one does not simply um and what I suspect is that for a lot
of other companies it probably wasn't that black and white either. So let me
let me explain you know what we did when
um a certain someone had a little fit about whatever and decided to go to
trade war with the whole world for some reason. Um
basically we went to our suppliers and
we said hey you know it could
significantly impact our volumes through you if you are not able to do anything
to help us help our customers weather
this storm. So some of it was absorbed
by our by the manufacturer and supplier
partners that we engage with uh both
onshore and overseas. All right. Some of it was absorbed by
our customers. We did raise prices on some items.
>> Okay. >> However, some of it was also absorbed by
us in multiple forms. So, for some
things, for example, you might have noticed that t-shirts are substantially
more expensive on LT store US compared to LTT Store global. That is not because
we are making more money on the US store. Uh back when this whole thing
first happened, uh I made the call for
us to in spite of the extremely high
tariffs on those t-shirts, basically eat
the margin on them. >> Yeah, cuz I I think that's the last I heard of it. We, as far as I know,
unless anything has changed, um, our
pricing for t-shirts on ltstore.com is
higher, but it is only higher
reflective of our increased costs. If,
uh, if I recall correctly, we are either not making money or barely making money
on t-shirts on the US site. Um, ever
since this whole thing went down, also
there were other costs that were incurred by us that were not directly
related to >> that's one I was going to bring up. >> Product cost. Uh, we spent an
inordinate, no, I'm not going to say spent. We wasted aing inordinate amount
of time and money dealing with [ __ ] that
was completely unnecessary. Uh, none of this had to be done. We literally had to
roll out a US warehouse in order to
soften the blow of these price increases, these import taxes
>> and store >> for our American customers. We had to
develop a split store that has a now a
global store and a US store. >> That also created more friction which
reduced sales. Um it also uh like
increasing your price because of tariffs will reduce your sales as well. there
was an impact on our sales volumes. So we took an impact to our profits. We
took an impact to our sales volumes. We took an impact to our overhead.
None of which is directly
um actually one only one of which is
easily sort of directly measurable. The rest of them it's hard to say exactly
how much of it was born by us versus borne by someone else.
>> That being said, I'd love to see consumer relief as well. Um,
>> yeah. And and I think we did we talk about this on WAN Show or what I was
saying is that there's it's very multifaceted in how this impacted
sellers, but I don't know if we did or not. >> Did we talk about this on WAN Show or
off WAN Show? Cuz I think I did talk to you about how how it Yeah, it does seem
kind of up that at the end of the day, you know,
>> just businesses are getting helped >> always rolls down a hill, right? And so
the end user the end user I mean I talked about this and it's it's so weird
because the math is just math right math math is math and so at the end of the
day if there's an increase in price somewhere in the supply chain at some
point the customer will pay for it because that's the only way that someone
has to pay for it and it's always going to be the customer. Um and it's it sucks
that ultimately the customer you know bore a lot of these costs but
and then right and then it's not the customer who is I mean I don't even see
how you would administer a program. >> I've been trying to think about that I >> where every customer would go back and
and what how what would they claim against? >> I don't think you could do it
accurately. I think you'd have to do it for like I think you'd have to ignore
H I think my way would be below a certain income threshold
you just get like a certain amount of tax break or something
have to do it below a certain income threshold. >> Yeah. I mean it's based on like direct
consumption. So how would you do that? >> Impossible to measure.
>> Yeah cuz >> I think it would just have to be the same amount for everybody.
>> Yeah. It's it's it's definitely very >> technically impossible to measure, but
like oh my god.
>> Yeah. >> So, in summary, I haven't seen how much
we're owed yet. Actually, I think that um I think that Tony said that sometime
either last week or early this week, he'd have measure. There you go.
>> He'd have a rough idea. I'm actually I'm going to I'm going to ping him now.
Um, any idea on what we are owed for
tariff stuff? Uh, yeah. Let me see if I can I'll see if I can find that out.
But, um, what I suspect is that it's
nowhere near what we spent reworking
like our company. >> There's no way because it's deal with this crap. >> It's Yeah, it's it's not measuring the
um the intangible stuff. all the insane meetings, the the massive amount of
opportunity cost, >> like the time that people like me and
Taran and other senior leaders at the company spent talking about this instead
of how do we make more videos or make more products or
>> um serve our serve our audience and serve our customers in ways that are
positive and constructive instead of just undoing completely unnecessary
negative impacts. is it it would be pretty tough for us to measure after the
fact to be honest with you. And so yeah, the bottom line is I really don't um
mannetic said the tariff income balances out to
about 450 US per resident.
>> 450. Was it that much? >> That's wild.
>> That's That's insane. I mean, yeah. I mean, it makes sense cuz
it was on so many imports. >> Yeah. Um, man, what a the you know,
this is going to this is going to come across like crazy,
but a small part of me actually wishes
that at least, you know, they had stayed in effect then.
At least then the whole thing would have been for something.
>> Oh, yeah. cuz now it's for nothing.
Basically, a whole bunch of global companies had their time wasted. A whole
bunch of consumers had their money wasted. And there's no extra money to
put theoretically into public services. There it's just the whole thing is just
and and now there's the additional overhead of having to administer this program and refunds.
>> Ultimately, what ended up happening >> for nothing. The US government made life
super hell for a lot of companies and is now going to have to pay them a ton of
money. >> I think there's interest in >> from consumers. >> I think there's interest.
>> And consumers are going to get hyper hosed cuz they're not going to get
jacked.
>> Like >> so government just shoveled money towards companies which is effectively
just shoveling money towards rich people. >> Yeah. But shoveled money towards
companies after after costing them a bunch of money. >> Yeah. So, not even like not even just
giving a hand out to the rich. You're like, "Hey, do a bunch of unnecessary
work and have a bunch of unnecessary expense." >> Yeah.
>> And then >> we'll pay you back with interest later.
Thanks. You're still going to be at a loss on this, but thanks.
>> I'm at a loss. >> Yeah. >> Um, hey, but we've got some good news
because it's good news. Wow. Apple has fixed a flaw that allowed the
FBI to access historical push notifications. >> Yeah, that news sucked. I didn't like
that. Oh, I'm sorry. >> I'm happy we're back to good news.
>> Which one? >> I don't know. >> Oh, the Nintendo getting tariff refunds. I mean, it's good news for Nintendo.
>> Yeah, technically. >> Um, in Apple's update notes for 26.4.2,
it includes a logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction
to resol to resolve an issue where notifications marked for deletion could
be unexpectedly retained on the device. Before the fix, cleared or deleted
notifications were sometimes stored in a notification database which had been
recoverable using forensic extraction tools. I believe it was Signal who
flagged this. And our discussion question is good job Apple because
apparently they got it taken care of relatively
uh quickly. So I think that's pretty cool. That's Apple putting their money
where their mouth is, putting their development efforts and towards
something that really benefits the privacy of their users. And I'm always going to support that.
Oh, I might have accidentally
uh minimized a couple of just like uh impromptu topics. I still have one of
them here. Um this is this is pretty good news.
>> Yeah. If there if there's another one, uh Hexos has gone v 1.0. Oh, nice.
>> Yeah. The remember the whole controversy when they first announced around uh
local dashboard access? >> Yeah. >> It is now live,
>> which is good. >> Which is good and should have always been a thing. But hey, look, uh John,
their CEO, is is one of the nicest, most
humble people that I've ever met. You know, when the community told him, "Hey,
you're wrong about this. Even though there are, you know, you've got all your technical reasons why it made sense to
do it the way you did it. This is really important to us. You're wrong." He said,
"Okay." by the time we go 1.0, we'll have it. He made the commitment. It's
done. Great. And you gota, you don't
have to, you know, you don't have to like the thought process. You don't have to like how long something takes, but
you got to you got to respect the follow through. So, uh, Hexos, for those of you
who are not familiar, is the NAS software that I invested in a while ago.
And, um, man, I was at Creator Summit
and, um,
three creators spontaneously came up to
me asking me about like what would be the ideal thing for keeping their data
safe, like 321. Um, one of them even
described the concept of buddy backup to me.
and asked if if there was something on the market that existed like that. And I
was like, >> it's coming. Buddy backup's not implemented yet. The local dashboard is
there, but buddy backup is still coming soon. Uh, and the idea behind it is that
Luke could I could give Luke a couple hard drives for him to put in his NAS.
He gives me a couple hard drives for me to put in my NAS, and then we're just
buddies and we just use a secure tunnel to store encrypted versions of essential
data on each other's NAS. We don't pay any subscription fee to any cloud
provider. It's just buddies backing up buddies. And I'm like, I'm so excited.
Just things Windows definitely could have solved.
>> I know. Okay. Why are you bringing things
negative now? You're sad about Windows. I get it.
>> You know what? >> Sorry. My bad. >> You know what? I get it. >> The last topic just threw me off, man.
>> No, no, no. We're not going to let the vibe be wrecked. Hey, that was the other
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All right, shoot. I forgot what it was.
Balls, right, good news, Wan. Should we just continue it?
>> Uh, yeah. >> Oh, okay. Well, that was a shorter
conversation than I expected. I when we were leading up to it and even maybe
after the first one a little bit, >> I I saw rumblings saw rumblings in the
chats and in the in the forums and Reddits and >> never watch again
>> out there in the comments. Um, you know, oh, I expect more, you know, 360°ree
coverage and and you know what, that's totally fair. That's totally fair.
>> I I think we can compromise it a little bit. I think particularly important
negative topics can be included. >> But in general,
>> I think we should aim for general positivity. I um I think with the state
of the world right now, I think to a certain degree it is our duty to
>> He said duty
>> to and and I think this is true for like a lot of uh creators to try to,
you know, do the song and dance be a
place that doesn't have to be as dark as where a lot of other places are right
now. >> Sorry, what did you say?
I'm like super tired. I woke up at 3:00 in the morning. So, >> okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that that
was not coherent, but I I understand what you're saying. >> Was it actually not? It seemed fine to
me. Be a place that is not as dark as everyone else. >> You say something about other creators,
are they? Cuz I don't >> No, I'm saying it's it's the job OF US COLLECTIVELY.
>> OH, OKAY. Now I understand. >> Not necessarily genuinely everyone, but
like >> Okay, cool. That makes more sense. >> Okay. According to Tim, it was perfectly
coherent. It must be me. Sorry. I've been traveling a lot. also did. Yeah,
I'm genuinely wicked tired, so like >> Okay,
>> it makes sense to me if it was not super coherent. >> Luke said, "Let's get pizza." Yeah,
nice. Um, >> yeah. I I'm just I'm just I'm just after
the first couple, I started to see the the rumblings go away and the rumblings
started to go the other way and I felt the same way.
>> Also, dude, like we would finish Wanchcho and I'd like feel all right.
And a lot of the W shows over the last like while before we were doing this.
I'd finish W show and I'd just be kind of down. >> Yeah. Like not I was more than down
sometimes. I was like done. >> Yeah. >> You know. >> Yeah.
>> Like I even I even have a a character
for like when I can't anymore, you know? And that's like that's not a state you
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
this is universally true for all of us. We're all getting the negative news.
Yeah. >> I don't think they also need it here.
>> Yeah. >> Like I And again, if it is particularly
important, >> Yeah. >> or a particularly big deal for whatever
reason, sure, we can include it. >> But if it's like a Okay, you have to
pick one. >> If Lena Khan passed away, we would have to cover that. That would be bad news.
>> That would be bad news. That would be cataclysmic bad news. >> Yeah. Uh but if if you're trying to
compare like which one of these two topics should we include and they're
pretty similar in importance level but one of them is good news and one of them
is bad news, ditch the bad news one. >> Yeah. How about this? How about how
about >> if it's an important security thing or
something? We can still flag it. >> I'm going to say 90% ratio.
>> Yeah, I think that's reasonable to be honest. >> So you can pick. So we'll tell the like
the news team which and actually I'm usually the one who goes through and
picks the topics for the show but whatever. So but basically when you
bring the menu if you're bringing 20 topics only two to three of them
>> should be >> should be should be negative topics. So pick the ones that are important.
>> Stay the path set. Exactly. Algorithms make sure you get the bad news. And I
think that's kind of an interesting way of approaching it is we should try to be
the opposite. >> Yeah. And I'm so here for it. be a
positivity skewed algorithm of news. >> We've been live for
almost 3 hours now and if I compare how I feel right now,
like how how how just tired and drained I feel right now cuz it's a little bit
like we've been, you know, we've been on for for 3 hours, right? It's a long
time. Um like I don't I don't actually envy like game streamers who are live
for like 10 hours a day. Like some of them like 12 hours a day. Those guys are
crazy. It's it's it's it can be draining. Um other than being awake for
so long at this point, I don't feel the like
social exhaustion I often feel from Wancho because it is such a like
>> Yeah. I don't feel like that. >> That topic was heavy and gross. Time to
go into the next heavy and gross topic. >> Yeah. Ready to feel down again.
>> Yeah. Exactly. >> And is look, it's not like we don't know these things. We literally like have to
review them in order to, you know, get the topics together for the show. And
it's not like it's not like I didn't notice Google that your news feed
scrolls infinitely now and never says you're done. Okay. Well, unless you're
having like an issue with, you know, loading on your data or whatever, right?
Like I like I'm getting it all and I know you guys are getting it all.
>> I I want to move forward with Good News Wow. Maybe
>> maybe that's just it. Maybe the L show channel is is an oasis of of positivity
and optimism about technology amidst
just a sea of of diarrhea about
technology, you know.
>> Yeah, >> let's do it. >> Yeah. >> And now let's do some uh check out
messages. Dan, what do you >> I also I also think there there was a I
don't know if I addressed this on the show or not, but there was one of the
first Good News W shows. Someone pointed out that we like got off topic for a
second. We got really negative about something. I don't even remember what it
was. And we got kind of like called out for it on Reddit and I agree with them
cuz whatever it was we were talking about, I don't remember what it was, but
it just wasn't very important.
It didn't matter. And we still talked about it on a good
news show and I was like, you know, that was unnecessary.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Cool. If it's necessary, let's talk
about it. If it's not, let's keep it positive. I think that's cool.
>> Yeah.
>> Let's do it. >> Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, we've got quite a few today.
Luke, every site wants me to make a pass key these days. How is it possible that
pass key is more secure than a strong password? I have 2FA and still get asked
to make a pass key for those sites.
I wish I could answer this for you better. I honestly haven't done enough
research on pass keys because they're so infrequently available.
>> I feel like the pass key utopia that we
were promised >> it failed. >> Did not happen. And I'm I'm
>> Well, you can't say it failed. >> Well, it didn't happen. I didn't say it
failed. I said I said it hasn't happened. And this hybrid of like
sometimes using a password and sometimes a password and sometimes a 2FA token or
a notification on my phone is actually just worse than any one of those things.
And I I I I it is starting to get like
almost like like a like a like a like a
triggering thing when I need to log into something. Like I tried to I had to get
into the Labs building today and I'd been logged out of UniFi
>> and I was just like >> dude you got to get a fob.
>> It's the way to go. >> Well, see I carry the actual like master
key to the building. So it was only because I was going in the side door
that it mattered. So it's like whatever. >> Uh Sty 2002 said pass key is basically
asymmetric encryption. It's something you have takes the knowledge and
fishability completely out of the equation. This is where this is why I
haven't even bothered to look into it because no, it doesn't in my opinion.
>> And then why do I even need it? Because my phone is already a thing I have which
I already just biometrically authenticated for. So your pass key is
already redundant. Like I just >> The reason why I'm saying no, it doesn't
is because
most services that I know of that have pass keys
>> also allow you to just have like, oh, we'll we'll just text your phone, bro.
>> Yeah, >> you you want another option for signing? Yeah, we can just text your phone, dude.
>> Do you remember that time remember that time I showed you how many
authentication methods I had on one of my accounts
>> for Google or something? Yeah, it was like terrifying because they half of
them didn't even like work anymore, but they were they had just all been set up at some point.
>> Yeah. And then and then Sty said that's the implementation. It's horribly
implemented like horribly worst ever. Blah blah blah. And yeah, no, I totally
agree. I wasn't saying saying technically what you said was wrong. What I'm saying is that right now as
they are, they're kind of irrelevant in
my experience. Uh, I have autofill
already, so they don't really make it so that I log in any faster. They It's also
not doing biometric stuff like you're talking about. So, it doesn't really
skip a step on mobile either.
So, it just like I don't know. And then you can just bypass it by using a
different method. And you can say like, oh well, you know, I won't do that. But
for us, personal security is like a
little bit less important than org security. Um, and any user can just be
like, "Well, I'm going to include being able to text my phone." So,
uh, yeah, Basis can require biometric
authentication. It's the site's choice.
This is like almost my whole point that
they don't they're not doing that. The they are also allowing you to in many
actually like high important account situations bypass it entirely by texting
your phone which is like the worst possible thing. It's it's the the the
problem is like the the tech can be as cool as the tech wants. If it's not used
fully and
uniquely then it just doesn't matter cuz
it can it can be as secure as you want. If you're still receiving text messages,
it's all out the window.
There we go.
Hey la, can you talk about an event where the
outcome still boggles you?
Sure. Actually, I was thinking about this just earlier this week because of
the whole supposed um blacklisting of
certain YouTube media by AMD. Um like I
I basically I was I was kind of asked to give an example of a time when a brand,
you know, had a seating strategy that didn't really make any sense to me. And
there's one kind of favorite story that I have and it was a it was a large
multinational display manufacturer who had like the
hottest display on the market like this like it was so cool. It's like this like
giant curved like freaking amazing.
Nobody else would have had the stones to make something like this. and we reached
out to them trying to get uh trying to get a sample, trying to get a review
unit early because we were like very excited about it and wanted to make a
video and pretty much just like wanted to game on it and talk about how
freaking huge and immersive and cool it was and they turned us down and we were
pretty bummed, right? Because obviously we like to make videos about cool tech
that people want to see and that that gets us views. It gets, you know, you
guys informed on this cool new product and it gets eyeballs on the product for
the brand. It's, you know, stacking W's. I love stacking W's. And this seemed
like an obvious W stacker. And they were like, nah. And I was like, okay, well,
that's a bummer. Fast forward, I kid you not, I think it
was one week later, it might have been two weeks later. It was like almost
immediately in our business leads inbox
an offer from that same company to do
the exact video that we pitched editorially. This time from an agency.
So this is like classic right hand has
no idea what the left hand is doing.
an offer to do that same video on that same monitor for I kid you not, it was
like tens of thousands of dollars for a
video that I wanted to do for free and was told nah.
That is an event where the outcome still
boggles me. Hi, can I do something for you for free? No, but what you can do is
do it for tens of thousands of dollars. >> Just got to wait a little while, I
guess. >> Bizarre. I will never understand it. Um,
Gilpur says, "Did you take the money?" Yeah,
of course. I would have I wanted to do the video anyway. I just I I did at the
time. I don't even >> Did you tell them when you got there? >> Uh,
>> that would have been funny. >> No, no, they they shipped it here. >> So, there there was no one there was no
one to tell. It was just like >> I don't know how big this screen was. >> Yeah, dude. No, I was Dude, it was
hilarious. It's It was just so funny. I was like, "This is the stupidest thing
I've ever seen." And and what's crazy is is it is it's not even um like we've
seen
brands are just made up of people
and people sometimes got up really early
that day,
you know? Yeah.
Uh, do you have something where the outcome still boggles you?
>> Some Yeah, not really that I want to go into details of some of the contracts
for services and stuff. Uh,
>> he is uh like the best negotiator ever. By the way, if you want like a contract
negotiating like just a bulldog, you know,
>> some >> contact Luke Leier, Inc.
>> I don't know. >> And your strategy is so simple. You just say no. Is that right?
>> For the most part. >> No, that doesn't work for me. >> There was also one where they had two
different associates trying to do sales
with me at the same time. >> Snag that commission. And I ended up uh
doing basically the like walk across the street to the other car dealership
thing, >> but to the same company with their
different associates. >> So the one would say like, "Oh, well, I
can give you this deal." And I'd go to the other guy and be like, "Well, I'm
getting like this other deal from this
other sales associate." And then both like work each other down, which was
just incredible. Uh, there's been some pretty wild stuff, but um, oh man, I
just had one in mind.
Crap. I'll try to keep thinking about if it
comes to me. I maybe I'll maybe I'll chime up
>> more then. All right. Yeah, hit me down. >> Yeah. >> Hey, LLDD. I recently went from working
in my given field to working for a pretty big media company in my industry
and I'm suddenly on camera making
technical videos. Any tips for a newbie? >> I actually have lots of tips for you.
Um here you need to get a subscription to float
plane. You need to dig into the Floatplane exclusives.
>> Nice. >> And um I mean where is it? What's it
called? Definitely not that. >> Sometimes you have to use quotes.
>> The searches can find it here. Extras. Lionus teaches his son how to be a host.
>> Um, this one's pretty good. And then
there's also a behind the scenes of me
coaching a couple of our guests from
Intel. Here it is. Lionus host tips.
Intel A770 GPU extras. Uh both of those
two are a substantial amount of my experience as a host in
video form training other hosts. So uh
head on over there. Hey Luke, as a user of Catchy OS, have
you had a chance to ex Cashy OS, have
you had a chance to explore the recent GPU patches for low RAM cards or even
the AMD GPU HDMI 2.0 VRR changes they
include? Any thoughts? >> No, I was I was spoiled and was given a
4080 Noctua, so I I don't have a low RAM
card situation. >> Where'd that come from?
>> You >> Oh, yeah. Right.
>> Yeah. What do you think? >> I I forgot it was a Noctua edition. >> Yeah. It's It's hard to You can't really
tell. >> That's sick. You're welcome. >> Yeah. It's covered in moss. Uh
>> Right. Right. >> But yeah, it's not super applicable to me. >> I was like, damn, a Noctua edition. No,
what that could we couldn't that wouldn't have been us. We we would have
gone with like a like a duel or something, you know, like
>> No edition. Come on. >> I don't necessarily know why you guys did that. >> No, I'm not I'm not
>> not made a Noctua fans here, you know. >> At least I'm pretty sure it's a knock to edition.
>> Yeah, it might be. I think it is. I I'll check. I'll check. Could have just painted it brown.
>> Uh yeah. So, I it's not super applicable to me. I did do the like relatively big
recent Cashy update. I haven't had a chance to really like play with it much
other than just knowing that my system is totally fine. Um,
yeah. Yeah, seems good. I was I was
excited to see those updates, but I they're just not like super applicable
to me right now, which is great. >> I love that this chapter is called Luke's Confidence Lowers.
Um, oh, hello. Okay, what are we what
are we looking at here? motherboard. Mhm. Mhm. Oh, GPU time. Here we go. It's
So, it is. >> Yeah. >> Yep. That's a knock to a fan if I've ever seen one.
>> And you can't see any of that anymore cuz it's all mossed.
>> Running my first marathon on Sunday. And the WAN Show has gotten me through all
my long runs. Wow. Hoping for a 4hour show.
>> Nice. >> Would you ever run a marathon? And what is your biggest physical accomplishment?
I >> think my knees would explode. Mine too.
Um >> I think we're not made for that. >> I I think not. Uh yeah, marathon. That's
very cool though. That's so cool. And like like massive massive respect.
>> If you could do the whole thing on soft surfaces somehow.
>> That'd be pretty sweet. >> Tape carpet to your shoes.
>> Yeah. Not really.
>> How long was the foam run 2025? Foam run.
>> Okay. That was >> Oh, this like spray stuff. >> Yeah, that was 5K. I I did this with
Ivonne because my son wanted to do it
and then she agreed to do it with him and then he caught sick and had to bail.
So, we had two tickets. So, after me
saying, "No, I have zero interest in this."
um I ended up being the one who had to do it. Anyway, so how long how long's a
marathon? How many kilometers marathon? So I did that and it was a standard
marathon is 42.195
km. So could I do the foam fest eight
times? The answer is >> no. Probably never.
>> I think it's very cool though. >> Greatest physical feat for me um is
probably just like a cool like shot on the badminton court. I have kind of a
signature move where if my opponent plays a uh uh plays a forehand side like
really tight net or drop shot uh I get I
I just I I I love to dive and so I'll
get like full body extension in the air and I will sometimes I've actually done
it before catch it just below the court and manage to pop it back up and I've
actually net rolled it a couple times back over and every time it's like like
people go people go nuts. Uh, so it would be like some some shot I made in
badminton sometime in terms of I had not had a lot of physical accomplishments
like more of a pale techie guy. I I am
these days. I All of mine will be very old. I I think one of my one of my
favorite ones to think back on is um
playing football. Left defensive end. I
I got a sack but was able to punch the the ball out and the right defensive end
uh recovered the fumble and scored a goal. So, we got a we got a defensive
touchdown which was sick. Uh there's another time where there was a field
goal being shot and I jumped up and and actually blocked it but didn't realize
that that doesn't stop the play. So, my dad was screaming at me but I was still
I was still proud and my arm hurt but that's I still got it. Um,
>> Conrad from Flowplane says, "I can bench press my wife."
>> Sick. >> Nice. >> Sick. >> Nice.
>> White wife lifting is is based. >> Oh, no. Xfin 724 in Floatplane chat
says, "I was so bad at volleyball in high school gym class that when I
finally hit one over the net, both teams clapped."
Mortifying. >> That's pretty epic. Amazing.
>> Uh yeah, >> my favorite my favorite like memory is
probably there's a there's a video clip of me hitting some dude in hockey and
then my GRANDPA GOES, "LET'S GO, LUKER." And it's you can hear him cheering on
the clip and it's fantastic. >> Cphilus says, "I can bench press two of
my wives. >> How many do you have?"
>> Okay, carry on. All right, Dan. >> He did pluralize wives.
>> What's up, boys? Are there any plans to make regular cargo shorts? Not the
zip-off pants. Thanks. >> Um, probably, but I don't have a
timeline on that. Sorry.
When. Lon, I noticed that you've been talking about
your RC cars lately. If you were to make content for the dozens of us RC nerds
out there, what would it be? Reviews, weird, and crazy builds? Track days?
Definitely not track days. I suck.
Uh, if I was going to do anything, it would be just like casual hangout
streams, like put a camera up in the corner of like my my little workshop
corner at home and while I, you know, fill shock fluid or whatever it is,
>> like an Adam the Savage kind of thing. >> Um, >> just hang out with me in my shop.
>> Yeah, just like throw the chat up and just kind of chill.
>> Howdy, Mumu, Slick, and Dan de Man out
of the recent AMD. >> Mumu.
>> Oh, my old email address. Mumu the cow. Oh, right. Okay. The one you used
professionally. >> That's a deep cut. >> There you go. I'm using it right.
>> He's learning the slang. >> Very pog.
>> How do you do, fellow kids? >> Out of the recent AMD tech upgrades,
have there been any purchases that someone made that surprised you?
>> Yes. >> Something you didn't expect that they would be interested in?
>> All of the like unnecessarily expensive
collectible stuff just boggles my mind. And like
I know that there is like a subset of
the viewers that feel like I'm being
like I'm putting on a performance or I'm being disingenuous when I like lose my
mind over somebody spending like, you know, $500 on a Lego minifigure or
something like that. I promise you
>> that it is not performative in the slightest. If there was no camera
pointed at me, I would do the exact same thing. I promise you that no matter how
much money I had, no matter how many jets I could buy, I would never spend
$500 on a Lego minifigure. >> Ever.
>> You've spent some money on some collectible Xbox controllers. At least
one. Two. At least. >> This is true. So, okay. Okay. You know
what? I have uh the one no the the one
expensive one that I have is that one that the developers got.
>> You also have a gold one. It's only kind of a technicality, but
>> that one's that one. >> So the one I'm really talking about is the developer one.
>> Yeah, the developer one. Um,
it I I use it though, >> which I which I know is like crazy for
something that's like a one of like >> very few, but I like have spent hours
gaming on it. >> That's sweet. >> So to me there and and look, everyone
draws their own line, right? Like slightly before their own behavior.
That's that's human nature, baby.
But to me, the fact that I game on it
means that to me, it's a controller.
>> It's not a shelf piece. >> Ah, okay.
>> There are exceptions. I purchased a copy
of Final Fantasy 6 for Super Nintendo
that I never intended to put into a slot. But again, for me, that was more
about restoring >> Yeah. a thing that I owned that I lost
at a time in my life when I lost a lot of things moving between my families.
Um, I also purchased a copy of Final
Fantasy Tactics that I never intended to put into a PlayStation 1, but that one
was more about I have played this game
cover to cover three times and I have never purchased
it. Not good. So, I own a copy of the
original and I paid for Chronicles. I
consider my sins washed clean at that point. So, like
>> like I I mean I definitely I definitely
buy stuff that's unnecessary sometimes. Okay. Like here here's a perfect
example. Uh Evan and Caitlyn
Evan and Caitlyn make this really cool knife. Uh or like they partnered with a
local where where is it? Uh, where do you find
their where do you find their Oh, here here. shop evanaitlyn.com. They have
this they have this really cool box cutter. This thing is so cool. It's also
$120 Canadian for a box cutter, which is
like madness, but it's replaceable. You
can put a new utility blade in it whenever you want. And it is like one of
the most satisfying fidgets that I have ever encountered in my life. Oh,
actually, I have it. Um,
but again, I use it. So, I don't know if
you can if you can think of something that's like a dumb thing that like I
don't even use, then I'm open to it. >> I guess I have my my katana. People
always comment on that on my mantle. That was impulsive. I was young.
>> We've used it. >> Oh, and we have used it actually. That's true.
>> And I and I specifically wanted one that was an actual sword that was not purely
decorative. I think it's 2/3 tang. So, like you could like you could do some
stuff with it if you really wanted to. And it's sharp. >> Yeah.
>> Here it is. This thing is This thing is like so cool.
It's just It's Oh, dude. It's so satisfying. Hey. Oh, speaking of cool
knives, I didn't pay for this one because he's a bro. >> Yeah. You got to give him the sound. You
have to give him the sound, >> dude. I got the Hacksmith blade. I ran
into him at Creator Summit. He's he's my Canadian bro. He brought one for me. Um,
so it's like a it's a multi-function knife. If you guys somehow managed to
not see the Kickstarter for this thing. Uh, it has a built-in uh it has like
little built-in uh screwdriver bit storage here. So, you slide these out
and then they just uh go into the tip.
They're magnetic. You can also put it in this way if there's like a tight space
you're trying to reach into and you want to do that. Uh there's tweezers built
into them. Um
there's a level. There you go. There's a little uh there's a little uh ruler on
it. Uh the clip is adjustable so you can put it on either side, whichever kind of
works better for you. And oh man, what else is Oh yeah, bottle opener. It has
whatever this like pokey spiky thing is. I actually don't don't remember what
that one does. Sorry. Um, uh, maybe. I
don't know. So, probably does something. I mean, knowing knowing James, it definitely does something. But this
Okay, hold on. I'm just gonna just just check this out. It has these like Okay,
hold on.
Just >> doesn't quite capture it. >> Yeah, it doesn't quite capture it, but
it's >> way better in person.
>> Yeah, it will.
It is so flipping satisfying, man. And I
don't think that I have ever encountered a folding knife that check it. Check it
out. Like, feel the feel the um feel how little slop, how little play there is in
the blade. I don't think I've ever encountered a
folding knife that feels as much like a
fixed knife. >> I I mean I have, but it's really good.
>> I think I might have loosened it a little already.
I've just dude, ever since he hand it to me, I've just been like I was I was on
set today and I forgot like how sharp
this thing is and I was just like playing and there was some uh there was
some you know that like closed cell like like really squishy like dense foam.
>> Sure. >> I I just was like, you know, I I'll like stab it into it.
I went probably about this deep on the blade
through. So like about probably this far, right? cuz it was at like a corner
and it just passed right through it.
Even though the blade is so uh Whoops. Uh even though the blade is so Oh my
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
box that it just was like and I'm like oo cuz I was like flipping
it to myself like make the sound effect
right then. >> That was amazing. >> Solid. So, I'm pretty sure I heard Dan
do it, too. >> Anyway, um, did he give you the torque
flag? Just tighten up. Yes, Roman, he did give me the torque flag. It comes
with a little thing to, uh, properly torque this screw to make sure that you
get exactly the right feel on it.
So, yeah, super super impressed. Um,
way to go, James. Now you just got to manufacture them all. In case you're
wondering why I have one before all the customers have gotten one, uh, this one
had some kind of issue with it that was cosmetic and didn't matter and it's like
not worth it to disassemble it and fix it and reassemble it compared to just
making another one. So, he had a few of those at Creator Summit. So, mine's not
a perfect one. >> I finally realized why I didn't have the
Kickstarter for it. >> Did you miss it classically? No, I I was
going to buy it for for
>> myself, my brother, and my dad as like a Christmas gift, and then I logged into
Kickstarter and got flashbacks of the coal bar and was like, I'll just wait
until they're like ready to ship, purchasable.
>> 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
your dad for Christmas. We know what happened the last time. probably better
for everyone that I just did it cuz I was trying to remember like I definitely
wanted to get one. Um
and I Yeah, I'm fairly certain that's what happened.
But yeah, they're they're pretty wicked cool.
Yeah, got to use this Linus coin somehow. Thank you for fueling my tech
skills from virus downloading noob to self-hosting noob.
>> Nice. >> What was the first application that you self-hosted? How long ago was it?
Oh. Uh,
>> games or applications? Counterstrike. >> Mumble.
>> Counterstrike. Yeah, Counter-Strike.
>> Yeah, Mumble's Mumble's kind of goated. >> I don't think
would that count. I set up uh slightly slightly later I
set up an FTP server that I could access from offsite just because it was more
convenient than um carrying around files. I'd say those are those are my
two like earliest ones. >> I hosted a lot of game stuff before I did FTP server, but I did do that at
some point.
>> Hi, LLD. Question for Luke. Do you think that open source software can find a way
to self-fund without relying on exclusive donations?
>> Correction. Uh, I did a bunch of
research, but I think no, my friend actually ended up hosting the Mumble.
So, the an FTP server for myself was my first one. I don't want to leave that
out there if it's not quite right. Sorry. Carry on.
>> Question was, do you think open source software can self-fund without
exclusively relying on donations? >> Yeah, totally. Corporate sponsors and
corporate service. >> This was a question for me. Oh,
>> although that's exactly what I was saying. So, so you're fine. Uh,
>> well, you were the one who asked it, so I just naturally answered it. I was
echoing. I just had to say it again. Yeah. No, it's fine. I was just razing you. Uh yeah, basically that though I
think the main way to do it is through support effectively. Um
technically Mozilla, yeah, kind of that's a bit of a one-off where you're
going to get crazy amounts of money from Google, but um
yeah, usually the like the standard path
is is uh
>> is is support. So you release it out there. Hopefully it's useful for someone
and hopefully those people want uh either like a custom fork or just uh
more general uh support contract uh free
tier paid tier stuff. Yeah. Um generally
I think the normal play is to make that more focused to enterprise customers.
Um, there are
ones that are just everybody basically, but but normally I I see that being
enterprise customers. >> I I told Hacksmith Luke asked if he can
have one too. Got any more of the scrapped ones? He says, "Haha, I'll
see." Nice. >> That's pretty non-committal. >> I mean, if not, I'm buying them. So,
doesn't really matter. Um, EJC said,
"Speaking of that Mozilla thing, are you using something different now?" Um,
I'm trying to think across all devices. I was using Zen for a bit which is like
a Mozilla fork and I was enjoying it. I'm not currently using it right now
because I think I tried to like Pac-Man install it and it didn't immediately
work so I just kept using Firefox. I I didn't like look into it. But uh I might
eventually try to get it back on my desktop again. I liked Zen. the Zen had
like all your tabs are vertical and on
the left side instead of across the top. And I liked that because I generally use
Chrome for work or a Chromium browser
for work. Um, and Firefox for personal.
And one of the reasons why I do that is just keep separation. And using Zen with
the vertical tabs made it like super
obvious which browser I was in. because sometimes
uh when they're too similar and my current setup for Firefox and my current
setup for Chromium on my desktop, I get caught sometimes cuz they're kind of too
similar and I'll load a YouTube video in my like work browser
>> and then oh >> terrible >> time to watch 10 million years of ads.
So then I have to bring it over to my personal one. Um and that's like pretty
annoying. But yeah, Luke Meta, Mint,
Cinnamon, and Zen. I mean,
yeah, man. >> Uh, Noki asks, "Hey, did you not do the Floatplane announcements?" Uh, we
didn't, but we also kind of accidentally did cuz apparently the one I was supposed to highlight this week was
Lionus interviews the LTT head of writing about LMG content. U, so the
only thing I have to change is that he asked me to show the timestamps, uh,
showing what we what we talked through. So, um, techjet, firet truck, uh, what
we use the jet for, tech house, uh, first upgrade for the tech house, when
we're ready to sell, investing in support, uh, Riley, um, elephants in the
room, family vlog, departures of notable talent, uh, talking through nostalgia
isn't a viable strategy, uh, Mr. Carney's line from uh from his speech
recently becoming more agile. Uh how do we avoid being full corporate future of
LMG? What about the other channels? And how do we 10x our media side? How are we
10xing CW? So that's the uh that's the
topics. And Sammy asked if you guys uh leave a comment on that video if you
want to give a suggestion for other leaders at the company that you would
like to see. We've already done Taran um
James obviously and Luke to an extent.
Um, which he might not remember. Sammy predicted that. Oh, yeah. That's that's
the one. >> Well, >> so Sammy says, "Luke,
>> it's not really the same." >> Luke will probably go, "What video?" And
then you're like, "Bam." And he'll be like, "Oh." And then he'll be like, "I
was so out of it during this shoot." >> I Okay. The The reason why I reacted
that way is cuz you interviewed James on this one. You didn't interview Nick,
Lucas, and >> No, someone did. Uh, watch the exclusives either on YouTube members or
at a lower price at LMG.gg/fp1.
>> By the way, there's a bunch of people trying to tell me how to install Zen. That wasn't my point.
>> I can I can figure it out. I actually for the Linux, man.
>> I have super >> You think he needs to install Zen?
>> Yeah, >> he dodged the hard R incident.
>> He has full Zen.
>> That's my pre-installed Zen. No, I I've been actually very specific. I I'm okay
with friends giving me input or advice.
Um, but I'm I've been hard ignoring any
comments I see because that seems unfair
in regards to the Linux challenge. >> So, like I've got a buddy that I've
known since I was like 15
who is like a Linux head and will talk to me about Linux stuff sometimes. I'm
like, "Okay, name a secret. Can I guess? >> I don't think you know this person.
>> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. Um, you can guess, but I don't
think you do. >> Okay. >> Um, so like I I'll talk to them about
it, but like I I'm not going to go out of my way to seek unfair potential input
and just like let me figure it out, dude. >> Yeah,
>> it's part of the fun. >> Yep.
>> Hey, LLD, you guys have talked about how you liked visiting Taiwan. I will be
visiting later this year. Is there a place you visited several times or would
like to visit because it's so great? I just play badminton.
So, I just I work all day and then I
shuttle [ __ ] all night and then I sleep.
>> He sure does. >> Sometimes I go out for late night noodles. I like spicy noodles.
>> Yeah. Uh, >> sometimes I call Luke and I'm like,
"Hey, >> it's really late, but I need spicy
noodles." Luke's like,
"Yeah, I'm down." >> Almost every time. Not technically all,
but almost every time. Uh, there's a fun restaurant, if I'm assuming you're
talking mostly in Taipei. There's a fun restaurant called Pay My Tuition. I went
there because I thought their name was funny and then I actually really liked their food and their vibe was really
awesome. Uh, the highest rated Indian food restaurant I've ever seen in the
entire world is in Taipei. It has 8,248
reviews and is 5.0 stars on Google Maps. >> Wow.
>> Which is wild. Uh, Wendell showed me this place. I'm going to butcher the
pronunciation. Oi, Oay Punjabi Ethnic
Indian Restaurant. >> Mhm. >> Uh, good food.
>> Nice. >> Um, 2J Cafe is like one of the vibiest
places I've ever been in my life. Um, Dawn Park is a cool place to go.
Most of my things that I have flagged in Taipei are restaurants because I'm
usually trying to go there with people. Um, but the coolest individual thing
I've done in Taiwan, if you want to somehow get yourself out there, um, I
don't know how to say this, so I don't know how to help you find it.
>> Nice. Solid, >> but it's just called 11. It's at 605
Taiwan Chi County, Alishan Township.
Good luck. Have fun. It's uh you stay up there for 24 hours
and uh you live on a native reservation
in the mountains and you pick tea and
you chop down bamboo and use a section of the bamboo to make rice and then you
incorporate the rice into making mochi and your dinner and all these other
kinds of things and it's fun. It's good.
Hey. Hey. How has the issues at the tech
house been going? Any big projects coming soon? Apparently, we're going on
Tuesday with an excavator and we're just going to go ham on the backyard because
there's like a stop work thing while we apply for some permit stuff, but it
doesn't apply to the outside. >> Okay. >> So, we're just uh Jordan's organizing it
and there's a signup sheet with like what tools you have and can bring.
>> He seems reasonable enough. I'm sure he called before he's digging.
>> Uh yes, yes, yes. BC1 call was informed.
So, we're So, we're just going for it, apparently. Uh, the thumbnail will
involve me in an excavator. I'll see you there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good luck, everyone.
How do you suggest I deal with a vendor whose entire software seems vibe coded
and doesn't do good QA work? It's hard being between admin, who wrote the
contract without teeth, and supporting poor software.
>> I think you're boned. Yeah, get out of there. Uh, >> they can't. Admin signed up for it, so
they're just stuck with it. >> We've never experienced that.
>> Really? Why? What did I What did I sign up for? >> This wasn't you.
>> What did Oh. Oh, okay.
>> I I seek people's input on decisions when I know that I'm over my head,
>> especially when signing a contract. I don't sign contracts lightly.
>> Yeah. Um, >> I've learned
I think >> I don't know. Seek see Oh, man. Seek it
out if you can. Um, there is very often
early termination >> stuff, but it might be better to deal
with an early termination fee than to deal with something that's just completely unusable. Um,
yeah. >> Cool. get in contact with someone who might be able to make some change and
and raise some stink. Flag all the ways that they've just been really really
terrible basically and be like, "Yeah, we can't work with you guys. Let us out
and see what happens." Hey, DLL, I loved the recent video about
comparing the MacBook Neo with other Windows laptops. But is that video
intended to be the full review of the Neo?
>> No. Um, the Neo launched while I was away for a fairly extended period of
time. So, they did a ShortCircuit while I was gone. And then the question was, okay, well, like what kind of MacBook
Neo content can we do that would be additive. And so, I died it for actually
a few weeks now, now that I think about it, it's been out for a while. Um, and
basically from when I got back to like a couple days ago, I've been dailying the
Neo. I really like it overall. I definitely ran into some some weird
issues, but overall really liked it. And
um one of the ideas was MacBook Neo
30-day challenge. But honestly, it wasn't even enough of like a challenge
for me to have that much to say. And so it ended up getting rolled into
one of the other ideas we had, which is comparing the Neo to other similarly
priced Windows machines. And um so what
I ended up doing was just using some of the insight that I gained dailying the
Neo to make a better comparison video
that was just more informed by my own personal experiences. So, I think I
don't know if you're going to get a full review of the Neo on Linus Tech Tips.
Uh, I think that was probably it. In terms of additional context that I
would, you know, add at this time. Not much. Uh, if you're really reliant on,
you know, a high-speed external dock, I would say the Neo can be a bit of a
downer, but other than that, I just really liked it. I if I was buying one
again, I'd spring for the Touch ID model just cuz like going back to Windows
Hello and going back to a MacBook with Touch ID is just plain better
and you also get more storage. But really, I when I think it's going to be
killer is like Neo2. I want the 12 gigs of RAM that supposedly will be supported
with like an A19 Pro and uh just a
little bit more speed. It's going to be like
Neo2 is going to be if Apple can keep the price the sameish, it's just going
to slay. It's just going to be no competition left to fight.
>> Neo is eating Valve's lunch right now. Gaming is growing. I'm so confused by
that. >> No, it's not.
>> What? What? What? >> Don't worry about it. That's not a
thing. >> What? What? >> No.
>> What? >> No. >> Huh? >> No. What?
>> No. >> All right, Dan. What's next? >> What?
>> I'm going to need a couple couple weeks to get over that. Um, will we ever see
the return of techtrivia answered in the form of a question? Missed that show.
Also, why does LTLS.com have more GPU data on it? For example,
there's a review of the 9060 but no data
or why doesn't they're asking. Uh, that's something they're working on.
They're working on getting all the GPUs
on the site, but it, you know, just takes time. Um, and especially when
there's no video demand for that data, then it has to fit in with the articles
and videos and short circuits and everything that they're supporting behind the scenes. As for Tech Trivia
answered in the form of a question, never. Uh, I felt so bad for everyone
who participated in that, all the creators. The questions were so hard
because I was intended to be a participant. I never got to review them.
And I was just basically, if you go back
and watch it through this lens, you can see me desperately
trying to make it not seem like horrible
that nobody knows the answer to anything. And like because the questions
were so hard and I didn't actually know that normally
um like on Jeopardy you're supposed to like they're primed on what the
questions will be about. It's not random. >> Oh, they know like the topics.
>> Yeah. So they can like study ahead of time and stuff. >> Interesting.
>> Cuz like Yeah. Otherwise, why would anyone know the exact year of that stupid thing? Of course, that makes
sense now in retrospect, but I didn't know that when we were setting up this
thing. And apparently neither did any of our >> coordinators for this project. So like
>> I mean there's some people that we worked with on that that I don't think
ever worked with us again. >> And like I was too embarrassed to ask
even people that are like I would say you know relatively like friends. Um
like I just didn't even ask them for a long time because it was just like kind
of embarrassing across the board. Um
yeah it was that was that did not go well.
the the second half of the Oh. >> Oh, sorry.
>> Uh, it was about uh GPUs on the Labs
website. >> Um,
sure. I mean, I'm just going to talk generally about GPUs on the lab's
website, so it's probably okay. Um, the lab's website is is interesting. Uh,
people will read the articles. Lucas will post them on Reddit and then people
will see them there and then come read the articles and that's all that's all
cool and stuff. Um, nobody looks at the the product pages.
Um, the the product pages get we've we've tried a bunch of different things
to make them interesting, but realistically I think just like print
reviews these days like hey I wonder if
there's a reason why all the written review sites are dying. Uh, who knows?
Uh, I think we we, you know, might have found out. So, we're we're figuring out
what we actually want to do with this stuff. The articles have been doing
well, like I said. Um, and we we think
there's a future in tools, like the the whole versus mode thing, um, where you
can like look at two different products uh, side by side and and see the
comparison. Um, this is a a particularly cool part of
it. Um, being able to I guess we don't
have the size data for one of them, but uh being able to look at them side by
side. Um, GPUs in particular is
something that we weren't uploading for a while uh for long boring reasons. Um,
and as some people have noticed, we have started again uh putting some GPUs up
there, but like uh keeping the product
reviews populated on the site is not a
highlevel high priority goal for the lab
because I think just in 2026
that's not uh a like lowhanging fruit or
a particularly valuable fruit for pretty much anyone. We are seeing again
traction with the articles. So, we've been pursuing that more. Um, that's
that's been kind of fun and and and interesting for us, more fun and
interesting than just farting out more um like just stream of consciousness
product reviews. Um, and also you guys
are resonating with it more as well. So, we're kind of reacting to
honestly what what you guys want. We do think some of this is because of search
engine stuff with AI, but yeah, >> apparently no, you do not get
information of any sort ahead of time on Jeopardy. So, I was misinformed.
>> Oh, all right.
>> Stealing your thunder. >> There's some people saying like, is this
a uh I lost it, but somebody somebody
basically mentioned, is it Yeah. Is it a discovery problem? Um,
>> well, we happened to start publishing written articles right around the same
time that written started getting killed by AI.
>> Yeah. Uh, they also said wire cutters profitable. Yeah. Wire cutters. Like
when I go to their front page, um, we
took hundreds of walks to find five dog leashes we love.
>> Get that affiliate revenue from that mainstream content.
>> Yeah, that's it's not it's not power supplies. Um, and also
this isn't even a profit play. The lab's website doesn't have any ads on it. I
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
this is non ad blocker. There's no ads on the lab site anywhere. It's no part
of this is a is a profit play. We we made a there's there's information out
there and through usage statistics, we
kind of figured out that people uh don't really want to read text reviews in
2026. So that's okay. Uh we also figured
out that people are fairly interested in
like the the articles we've been writing. So great. Uh it's just fairly
natural like reacting to what people
want. That's it. Cool.
To Lionus, also an adult with braces.
Nice. I'm happy with how straight my teeth are progressing, but I'm bummed
about the things I no longer eat for fear of breaking a bracket. Are there
foods you now avoid? Nope. I was always
a completely non-compliant client. I
would eat popcorn. I' I've chewed chewing gum with these because I'm
crazy. Uh I eat apples. I um for me the
only real obstacle is like pain because
these brackets sit super proud. These stupid ceramic braces that I hate. Um
but in terms of like going easy, man, I'll eat corn on the cob. It just it's
it's like creamed corn at that point cuz you're just you're kind of mashing it
from both sides, you know?
Double chew. Hey LLD, I am the head of engineering at
a drone show company that did a 1000 drone show for the YouTube creator
conference last week. Are you >> heard you were there and wanted to know
your thoughts here? Why have my thoughts when you can have my video that I
recorded of it? Um here. Where is it?
I think I think this will do. Oh yeah.
Here we go, bud. Here. I'll send this over to you. Okay. Done. >> Uh sure. Cool. In the meantime, let's do
another one while we wait for file downloads and such.
Hi, Lionus and Luke. What's your favorite board game to play on a game
night? You should check out the Pac-Man board game corridor. Such a great such a
great time. Anyway, thanks for the free shipping. >> Fun.
>> And it's not close. >> Sorry, board game.
>> Yep. >> They have a board game. >> Yeah. >> Oh, cool. >> It's so good, actually.
8.7 on board game geek which is unbiased
take because he you know would normally hate anything slay the spire.
>> Oh it definitely definitely uh one one
to four players. It's co-op. It's really good. Um it it gets each player
involved. Um that's cool. >> I'm not surprised it's it's pretty
highly rated. Um, everyone that I know
that has played it, including people that have never played the video game,
including people that don't even like video games, every single person has
liked it. >> That's cool.
>> Uh, I play whatever my kids like. They've been really into Munchkin lately. Um, it's pretty basic, you know,
as far as like being into cool board
games go, but uh, yeah, they they enjoy the heck out of it. Um, uh, we like, uh,
we like Clank as a family as well. That one's fun. Um,
cards. The thing that, uh, that I get the most
requests for from my kids is Let's Play Hearts. Um, I got them into it a little
while ago, and it's it's such a good game. It's, uh, just that the things can
get heated sometimes around the Queen of Spades, though. People who play will
know.
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
now. >> Recorded horizontally because I'm not an animal
and I don't have audio on. >> That's fine. That's good. >> What is this?
>> Uh, it's a drone show.
You may want to Oh, is there a way to >> play it back faster?
>> I can I can take it through. >> Oh, okay. Uh, so yeah, this was cool.
I was amazed at how stable they were.
Look how flipping stable these are.
>> Yeah, >> pretty cool. So, yeah, they did uh they
did a drone show and it basically probably the coolest one was the globe,
but I don't think I caught that one. Here they are reconfiguring. They did a
nanat. This one's pretty cool. Maybe let it play for a second.
>> Yeah, it it just looks really bad. >> Yeah, when you don't let it play.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Uh it I I had never seen one
before. This was my first time. Uh it was it was cooler than I expected
and I really liked the way that they kind of
had you watch the transitions between the different things, but you would have
like you'd have to be clairvoyant to, you know, realize exactly what they were
going to be going for on the next one. Yeah, it was uh it was very cool. They
had a they had a couple different things. They had someone um on one of
those like like with a a jet thing on
their hands and then one on their back like in a like a jet suit. So he kind of
flew around a little bit and then they had sky divers that um
dropped out of a plane. They had like sparklers behind them as they like came
down through the sky and then they deployed their parachutes and then they like ripped like right over our heads
and landed in the field there. So it was Yeah, it was a pretty it was a pretty cool show.
>> Wow. Hey Elinus, time to finally use my gift
cards. They also brought out Oprah. What? >> To do a talk. Yeah. I mean, she's the OG
content creator. Think about it.
She started just in like local news and
made her built her built her empire into her own show, her own network, and she
recently joined YouTube. So, it's pretty on topic. >> So, we have Oprah to blame for shorts.
>> I would say I would say >> that domino meme. I would say not so
much. >> Sounds like it to me. >> Oh, Oprah goes on TV. Dominoes fall
down. Now we are talking about disabling shorts with a timer.
>> Are you looking up Oprah's channel? Yes, >> I did. Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Did you mog Oprah? You have more subscribers than Oprah.
>> Well, yeah, for now. >> Plus ratio.
>> Her view counts are all over the place.
>> Wow. Oh, yeah. You got 1 million. >> 5,000. 1 million 2.8,000
>> 2.3 million.
>> Yeah. Like all over the place. I' I don't think I've ever seen a channel
with a spread like that. And not like to be clear, I've seen channels that have
one video with 5 million views and like a bunch with 500 views, like where they
had like one viral hit. But the fact that she goes between like functionally
zero views and millions of views from
one upload to the next. >> I was thinking like, okay, did this did
go gentle or whatever did they like buy a bunch of views on that? But then this
one >> Yep. >> 2.5 for there. >> Yep. It's just all over the place, man.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. This is This doesn't
matter, but Oh, it's just a little bit weird that it's always the third video
in >> Oh,
okay. Okay. Not always. >> Oh, no. Once it broke off.
>> Yep. Okay. >> But it has like the same cadence for
when it'll just pop off. >> Just pops once in a while.
>> But it's like roughly every four videos they go from
single digit thousands. It's clips.
Oh, is it interesting?
So, the mainline. Yeah, the main It's the long videos. Okay. So,
yeah, 46 minutes and it gets 2.3 million views and then these little cuts of that
video get only a few views. >> So, this is LMG clips, but Oprah
>> basically. God, >> it's just not super obvious without
looking at the length or the view count which one is the primary video. So, this
one's an hour, 2.5 million views. >> Do you think it's set up as a podcast
and they're not actually listening to YouTube? Maybe
>> they're listening to the podcast. >> Maybe. >> I don't know cuz our W show playlist on
the LT channel is a podcast, >> but there's a separate podcast tab.
Would that have podcasts in So, go to the Oprah podcast, 74 episodes, and
those should be the same videos because
a podcast is just a type of playlist.
>> Yeah, they totally are. >> So, this is going out to RSS feeds.
>> So, heard podcast is >> Her podcast is very popular. Got it.
>> That makes sense.
>> Oh, okay. >> Sorry to hear that, Wy Giraffe.
They have to go be social instead of hanging and watching my >> disgusting. Sorry. Sorry. Just gonna
>> Sorry for your loss. >> Don't come back. Okay. Hey, L. It's time
to finally use my gift cards. Is there something that you know your team could
improve, but it's never going to be profitable or marketable for it being
just too niche or too specialized?
>> Um, I don't know. Our posture.
I think I think they meant like products
>> like Oh, oh, like the CW team.
>> Yeah. >> Uh oh. >> So, so a chair then.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. Sandals.
>> I think that we could improve the desk pads and um and no one would care. You
can ever so slightly because it stretches in one direction but not the
other direction. you can ever so slightly detect if you like kind of
press hard and move a thing that it's like a little bit oval tracking, like a
little bit. Um, and literally after all
these years of us selling hundreds of thousands of desk pads, no one's ever
noticed or cared. Um, so yeah, we could
do it and no one will care. So we we had we had talked about in the early days,
>> you're going to get complaints now. >> Yeah, whatever. Get >> I knew the whole time I knew something
was off. Uh, DOUG. YEP. YEP. YEP.
IN the early days of Kyle being here, we had talked about doing like a pro cloth
desk pad that uh was uh either the same
stretch in both axis or no stretch and just kind of never got to it.
>> Lus, how is the team liking the the new
Ubiquiti EV chargers? I just got a Toyota BZ and am in the market for
getting level two chargers. I mean the I think the team likes any charger they
get to use at the office because they don't pay for it.
They seem fine so far.
Is there any new screen tech to replace
OLED? If not, what options exist for
iPhone 11 users? Me sensitive to PWM
flicker who prefer Apple's ecosystem. iPhone 17 is a no-go. OLED causes
headaches/nausea. Wow, that's uh that's rough, dude,
because on mobile everything's going OLED. >> I have heard of this.
>> Um
yikes. Like micro LED. I know Apple was putting a bunch of investment into that
supposedly maybe for the Apple Watch at some point. >> Have you seen these? Um,
I have seen things that do that not from
that company like like a like a like a
no, you know. >> Yeah, >> I have seen displays
>> super modern being shown just to developers right now. I wasn't sure if
you'd seen or heard of it. >> Um, yeah, it's definitely a thing from
other brands. I haven't seen theirs though. >> Okay. Okay. Um,
>> the reason why I asked you in that way was I didn't know if it was public or not.
>> Yeah, I'm not sure. >> Yeah. So, >> man, and even microledd, like I wonder
if you'd have the same kind of PWM control flicker. I I feel for you, man.
>> I I'm sorry. I wish I had an answer for you.
The last one I have today, Edge DLL, the
hoodies I got the past few years have really come in handy during my first
winter here in northern Sweden. I think it's pronounced hey
>> nice. >> Any new designs coming with the same
hoodie as the circuit tree one? I love that.
>> Oh, >> yeah. The funny one that was a tree that was a circuit. The circuit tree. Um
>> I thought they just didn't know how to spell it and they meant the framework one.
>> No. Yeah, not that one. >> But but I got you. >> Just because they're foreign.
>> Yeah. So cancelled
>> just because they spelled hey wrong. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Isn't this one just our blank? >> I think so. Pretty sure.
>> Yeah. I'm I'm pretty sure that um
any colored blank hoodie should be this
one. It's funny that that's the one you like
so much because I' I'd say it's one of the less unique ones that we have. Uh
oh. Is our site down?
>> Oh, okay. >> We've been having some minor Wi-Fi issues. >> Oh, brilliant. Okay, Tops.
So, man, I'm afraid to say something wrong.
Message support just in case, but I'm pretty sure this is literally it. This
is the circuitry hoodie but without the circuitry.
Um, so it's just our our blank hoodie for 60 CAD. And I believe the same one
should be obtainable. Oh yeah, I guess we just never did any other prints on
it. So yeah, pick up the blank hoodie.
Neat. Good chat. >> That's all I got. >> That's all you got? Well, that means
that's all I got. We will see you again next week. Same bad time, same bad
channel. If you are bored and looking for something to do, hey, you can always
go shopping on ltstore.com where we are running our shiptorm sale event. Orders
over $150 uh on the US and oh wait, oh
interesting. On the global site, the threshold is lower for Canada. I did not
know that. Okay. Well, whatever. Whatever site you're on and wherever you
live past a certain threshold, you can get free shipping on your entire order.
And if you sign up for Floatplane, LMG.gg/flatplane, GG/flatplane.
The thresholds go down even more after
you link your account. So, it's a great time to sign up for Floatplane for early
access content, blah blah, etc., etc. See you again next week. Same bad time, same bad channel. Bye.