the W show is theoretically live so hoay
uh no I'm not sure thetically kind retically yeah frames encoded
389 that's a good thing which is good frames dropped Z but doesn't seem to
necessarily mean much on Twitch lately yeah we had some issues a little
while ago that yeah I've had issues on my private stream too lately like you
you can be sending everything perfectly but it'll be like oh well some server that you're not even going to is down so
you're screwed it's like what yeah what
I have three call outs for us now so the longer you're still doing things it'll
actually be more and more set up excellent thank you so if we if we start
when the show is supposed to end we'll be
ready all right so our online viewers oh
I'm getting a lot of happy birthday shout outs in the twitch chat thank you
very oh no longer his birthday make sure
you say belated hold on a second here I'm just going to
do a thing um let me see playback
devices open volume mixer there we go
and there it is mute that all right there we go so
apparently we can hear me fine okay cool all right so it is a very special W show
today it is the day after my birthday which is very nice of everyone to notice
it's not like any of my staff did I did
that's a complete lie and it's not on the calendar one it's on my calendar because
I manually put everyone's birthdays on my calendar cuz I will not remember them
if I don't even like my mom my brother
everyone everyone has a manual entry so I remembered because Google
remembered fantastic um and it's also
special because today is the day of the
lioness group Live meet up uh here at
our new headquarters we've got a lot of people braving braving the sun and the
fresh air to be here with us today it's
not an easy thing to do and I I totally I totally get it guys so huge thanks to
everyone who's here and a huge thanks as well to everyone who's tuning in over
the Internet because let's face it it's not always easy to hop on a plane like
some of our incredible viewers did I
actually had three people drop off with
me today some currency from their native
lands uh we had one gentleman from Germany uh we had someone from Argentina
and then I had someone from I oh oh crap
uh what is where is this one from that's the Argentina one that one's Norway yes
there's the one so johannas from Norway
and I'm going to butcher this Edith Ed
Edis Edith thank you
and then Sebastian who actually shares
his first name with my last name even the same spelling which is uh which is
unusual so we had an incredible turnout
today some people hailing from BC um who
drove up to you know eight plus hours we had a couple people show up at the same
time from Winnipeg how they managed to
time that I'm not not completely certain
so uh pretty pretty unbelievable there guys so we've got a bunch of great
topics for you today I think um I've got
call outs now yep the Ashley Madison hack has got some serious updates uh and
we'll get to that later on on the show also a research lab has accidentally
created a longer lasting battery how' they do that well the same way hey oh
here Silly Putty also an accident there you go I believe they were trying to
make some kind of better rubber or something Google project sunroof which
is Google's way to try to help every body get solar panels and also Popcorn
Time users are finally getting attacked by various companies oh that was a
matter of time all right let's roll that intro think it's going to work no
actually I know for a fact it isn't going to work oh what did I just do
preview hold on hold on I got this i got this i got this yeah who I thought you
said it wasn't going to work well it sort of worked worked a little bit it is
working though I want to go to the
auction you can go what if there's something cheap I don't like I miss out
there will be something cheap I think there's still like a Titan black or two
I actually did hear about that and there's like there's like only so many
people that still have cash so i' suspect they're taking it away for not a
whole lot of it well if you can take
like $2 I think I'm good other than that
I don't know so much I think we did multiples of five anyway okay so I think
you're you're wed you're wrecked all right all right so why don't we jump
right into our first topic of the day sure Google makes it own $200 wireless
router onhub so the original tic are you posting in the twitch chat sure okay you
got this so the original article here is from The Verge I'm just going to go
ahead and uh share that with you guys here I think I'm clicking news item
nothing is happening where is my where is my window screen
capture over this boom uh maybe just but well let's
just but I got I got this i got this
this show sometimes works today The Show Must Go On yes it's really not working
is anyways uh let's we go let's cover
Luke with it h Get Wrecked Luke yes uh
window delete there we go the on HUB is purely just a router not a speaker or a
few other things people thought it looks kind of similar to the E yeah it looks
like it could be like the echo home interactivity device yes but it's super
not doesn't work at all in Canada which we found out the hard way so here's Kind
of a Funny Story story for uh everyone here and I guess everyone who's watching
the show since everyone's kind of live at the moment um I went out of my way I
got myself a Us address to ship it to
and I bought the remote that goes with it I picked up an Amazon Echo it sat on
my table at home for like two weeks cuz I was like the way this has to be
reviewed is kind of different you have to make it part of your life you can't
just sit in front of it and go Echo tell
me about Le birs well it's material quality isn't really that great but I
don't know it could work in your computer because you're reviewing a lifestyle product so I was like Luke I
do not have time for this can you do the echo he goes yeah sure that sounds right
up my alley and I have a week's vacation and I was looking for something to work on from work anyway so how'd that go for
you uh it doesn't work in Canada it literally only works in the states so
what I would have to do to be able to get it to work is get a US registered
mobile device and then connect to it over Wi-Fi to actually set it up the
problem with that is I could I could like proxy out my router do whatever but
it has to persistently be like that so I'd have to like make my router think it
was in the states for like a month and that doesn't sound fun so nope and also
it wouldn't be a proper Fair review either because it's designed to work in
the states so even if parts of it did work it wouldn't be able to properly do
a lot of its functions so I wouldn't be able to properly say what the experience
was like so that's not going to happen so we gave up welcome to one of the many
stupid things that we we waste our money on and that never even turned into a
video because we thought hey maybe we can a lot of the time we pull this off
we'll take something that's not going to work and we'll just force it to work and
we'll and we'll make that stuff happen but a lot of the time it it just doesn't
work out here's some cool news though the onhub we are definitely going to be
able to do something with and in fact I believe we are going to be getting one of the earliest samples oh that's cool
yeah you didn't know that no I didn't even know we were getting it because not that long ago you said we weren't doing
routers anymore well the thing that a week the thing that I'm interested in
about this is a couple of things number one is why Google thinks they need a
router at all yeah what they believe they bring to the table other than
sitting between you and all of your possible internet traffic that they can
get whatever it is that they want to get out of that um hopefully they're
bringing some kind of a value proposition to the table so I want to
find out what it is yeah it doesn't
really seem extremely Apparent at first number two is I want to have a look at
the performance because the only thing that jumped into my mind that they might
think that they add to the table is Affordable performance and $200 is still
an expensive router but if they can handle full gigabit well yeah which is a
service they offer to their customers then maybe there's a value to it so I
definitely do want to check it out but I don't know how it also be interesting if
you got it at like a cheaper cost if you signed up for for their internet service
at the same time I also really want to see if they have some kind of crazy
Wi-Fi technology going on inside because as you guys may or may not know I'm not
a huge fan of anything but the best
Wi-Fi and the stuff we have here thank you for that uh the stuff we have here
is almost as good as it
gets this whole show is as good as it
gets but it's not the Enterprise version
so we've got some stuff from xclaim which is a daughter company of ruckus so
if we had Ruckus access points which their top ofth line goes for like a
th000 bucks a pop us really good like they're awesome but no we're not putting
like four of those in our office um if we had those we probably could have
handled everyone's Wi-Fi today but we're all on one midgrade unit today because
my data terminations are not done in this side of the building so I'm
supposed to have one in each corner of the building sort of like it's more
complicated than that but I'm supposed to have at least two at the front here
that I was hoping people would be able to use and I only have one that's really
in range but um I want to see what
Google has managed to do in terms of of Wi-Fi so they're saying it's got 13
antennas inside um which would be used
for beam forming and narrowing in on where exactly the devices are and and
hopefully getting better signal out of it I mean most companies just do it so
poorly though that I've kind of given up on consumer grade Wi-Fi so if Google
can't turn me around on this then um
there's a few things that I actually really like from like a family it dude
perspective so if you're the IT guy for like your immediate family and like your
grandma and stuff because uh one of the
Google on apps that you can have on your phone allows you to set up people like a
friend to help you remotely so if your grandma is like my RoR isn't working I
don't have the internets you could remotely go in you don't have to go to
her house necessarily so like if if you should go visit your grandma but like if
you can't for whatever reason she needs to get on the internet you can fix it
first and then you can go hang out with her and the internet I think it's kind
of cool being able to remotely fix things easily hang out with the internet
yeah I guess that's basic you not hang out with the internet I hang out with
the internet all the time exactly yeah I never use Google Hangouts for it though
there's also really easy setup and whatnot so if you've got a buddy who's
looking for a router and doesn't really know Network stuff and lives super far
away from you you can suggest this to him maybe if it's good yeah we got to
find out if it's easy Everyone is always promising me this network attached
storage device is easy this router is easy I promise this time it's easy it's
never easy no and one thing that's confusing is they're like it's easier
than 1 2 3core lowercase c lower lower
case C capital F lowercase j lowercase p lowercase x what the hell is that that
doesn't sound easy at all that's right from the onhub page so we are we're
we're hoping we're hoping for that's a funny joke and Google's actually really
nailed it this time yeah all right they didn't have to hire a designer CU they
just copied the echo it looks exactly like the echo it
just has like a little divoted ring on the inside I mean in their in their in
their defense the echo basically just looks like that
um sorry no well it does look like that
dlink router but I was actually thinking of uh logitech's Ultimate Ears uh boom
ah yeah yeah yeah so yeah it's like well ours has less
mesh or something yeah that's totally
different this is ours it's Unique it's new it also has networking capability we
changed everything again it's a slightly different
cylinder okay moving on all right so uh
here's a bit of news out of Amazon Jeff bzo says that they will not tolerate
callus management practices so this article is from USA Today let's go ahead
and uh drop the oh look at somebody's sponsor
message something to do with weed whacking uh let's go ahead and drop the
the article so uh some of the more
memorable you can mow an entire lawn with a WeedWacker some of the more memorable
anecdotes um I know that it was done once
ever instead of weekly never mind
continue uh so here are so so basically the question the article asks is can I
continue to support Amazon with my money um and there are some anecdotes about
you know working conditions at Amazon woman who had just lost a child in
pregnancy was put on performance review for not giving her all to the company
apparently emails are sent out at all hours miss the midnight email you get a
text message a few minutes later asking why you haven't replied uh daily
performance reviews are apparently standard giving opportunities the opport
or giving employees the opportunity to chime in and tear down others
anonymously so you know some of these things are kind of you know not too not
too great so this was an expose done by the New York Times
um I mean there's some stuff here that's like quite frankly I send out email at
all times of night um in fact I have now
officially sent out an email at night after hours asking for a reply at night
after hours but it was for their benefit
it was so that I wouldn't fire
them I do a Hangouts at like 11:45
yesterday it was but it was for their benefit I actually gave the employees a
bit of an early crack at the garage sale items so I told them I needed to know
what they wanted before we did the garage sale today so and I do send
emails all times of night but I generally don't expect a reply until
until the morning um so Amazon's founder says he doesn't
recognize the company described um refers to shockingly callous management
practices and urges employees to contact HR or even him if any situation like
that has occurred he says even if it's rare or isolated our tolerance for such
a lack of empathy needs to be zero so at
the very least they're dealing with it internally I mean this is something that
is really good for me to hear because as many of our viewers know we do a shout
out to shop on Amazon at the end of almost all of our videos um and we are
like a major Amazon affiliate partner that's that's a that's a huge huge
that's been a huge helper for us over the last couple of years since we
started doing it um so for me to you
know find out that the company that I don't know if a lot of people know this
but if you're in a particularly charitable mood and you're buying something on Amazon you don't have to
use our affiliate code they've also got their um what's that program called uh
smile right yes smile yeah Amazon smile where they'll actually contribute it's a
smaller percentage then they give Affiliates I think you can do both can
you do both I think you can do smile dot cuz it's smile Dot and then the tag is
at the end oh I'm pretty sure you can do both at any rate you know if you guys
are looking for a way to contribute to a charity of your choice you can actually
pick your charity and use smile to donate I think it's one or one and a
half% or something like that of your purchase value so you know they seem
like pretty good guys it seemed like a
safe thing for us to call out all the time you hear this stuff about valve and
everybody y yeah I mean there was that big uh there was that big thing with
valve employees sort of you know blowing the lid off of you know you think it
isn't as flat of a structure as you think it is and it's just a boys club
and like all this kind of stuff like this this happens from every company it
might be true to a certain degree I'm sure a lot of it is true to a certain
degree but it's probably exaggerated when told in an
interview yeah I mean you always need to get both sides of any story
so okay uh Bitcoin could split in a
debate over the currency's future but not Dogecoin right yeah we got to get
hold on we got to get our buddy with the Dogecoin shirt pimping the Dogecoin come
on come on Dogecoin is United Doge coin
will never fail yes go up a little bit go up a
little bit yeah there you go there you go yeah
yeah uh so our article here is from the
BBC I love that shirt man it's great go
away it needs more doge meme on it though
um so there you go remember guys physical Bitcoin coins are not act
necessarily A Thing It's All Digital but some people did make them for laws and
you know people gathered them or something um so basically what's going
down is there's two sides to bitcoin so there's Bitcoin core the original
and wait hold on a second okay so
they're on the side of increasing wallet size Bitcoin XT which is a slight
variation is lightweight wallets so
bitcoin's Creator said in 10 it would be nice to keep the blockchain files small
as long as we can um the eventual solution will be to not care how big it
gets when I eventually implemented client only mode uh that won't matter
much anymore but in recent months it's become clear that a small group of
people have a radically different plan for Bitcoin and that's Bitcoin XT I mean
what if people couldn't run Bitcoin on their home computers anymore so some of the changes that they want are networks
of payment routing hubs or something
along those lines a sharp Ryzen fees they want to end support for mobile P2P
wallets and give up on unconfirmed
transactions so it's unknown if people would migrate I mean I think the whole
digital currency thing continues to be what it is
it's unproven until except for Dogecoin
proven except for Dogecoin in which we
all trust yes um the limit of the
current system will allegedly be reached by 2017 so we've still got a year plus
to figure out how this is all going to go down but uh you
know I guess the thing that I don't really see as any different really here
is it's yet another competing cryptocurrency yeah so there you go and
they're all failing and honestly Bitcoin hasn't really been doing that great
lately either so I mean it had to settle
down the Gold Rush couldn't go on forever but it I I kind of hoped that it would
ride long enough that people would actually
care like cuz there there's a problem with it's hard to spend in a lot of
different places like someone here was like why don't you accept Bitcoin I was like well cuz it would have taken a
little bit to set up because none of us have wallets except for me and you don't want them to give me money um I wish you
did but doesn't work like that at companies well it's all so complicated
because then that would be personal income to you which then you're respons
it be that hard but there's going be like people that use it then you guys
have tot it if you take a while tot it and it falls then it's worth less money
and then I mean it's one of those things we've meant to kind of do forever but
it's just easier to not I mean
honestly I I hash got wrecked by the
Bitcoin gold rush because back when I was working at ncx like I had access to
even though I didn't really like have my own building toor in and it wasn't like
all like mine sort of but I had access to all kinds of awesome gear like back
when Bitcoins were pretty easy to mine and it was just taking off and I
actually went and I set up a mining rig
and I was just like hey well I could set it up at the office and we'll make like
a tech tips about it and I'll just get my boss's permission so I literally
wouldn't have been paying for Hardware wouldn't have been paying for
electricity even and could have mined myself a whack ton of Bitcoins cuz I had
probably a dozen to two dozen graphics cards and test benches to match could
have just filled that crap up like before people started you know covering
walls in their garages with Bitcoin mining Rigs and uh I like I like got
like a bad stick of RAM in the test bench or something and like it something
something and I just got lazy and I was like ask it that would have been huge
cuz he's right it was it was right before the first big boom where it
jumped up to like what was it 250 bucks or something so they were still worth
almost nothing and Mining them you got a ton back then so he would have got like
I could have probably made tens and tens of thousands of dollars like actually so
I don't reject Bitcoin because I'm bitter
though but I am a little bitter it's just it's just not why I don't bother
with it I don't bother with it for the same reasons that I never bothered with
it I'm just clearly shortsighted it's
cool it's just yeah I think cryptocurrency will totally be a thing
at some point I just think it's not right now yeah I mean the good news is
that some more Forward Thinking companies are at least trying to adapt
their laws to account for it um others are just completely ignoring it we'll
see how that goes for them but
um yeah so let's move on to our next topic I guess oh poor poor twitch chat I
am ignoring them even more than usual
everyone's posting salt emojis it's cuz
you're oh me it makes a ton of sense yes
it does thanks for that twitch chat every single time I'm like you know I
haven't been paying enough attention to Twitch chat let's give twitch chat some
love they make me regret it every time
every
time all right so I'm just gonna post our I got this one oh I I did you do it
already it's sitting right there you were ready the one time I'm
ready research lab goof results in four
times longer lithium ion battery working
life so some scientists at singua University in Beijing and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston have been working on techniques
to extend the working life of lithium ion batteries now to be clear this
particular research is not to make your
phone last for you know 3 or 4 days this
particular technology is to make the battery last for enough recharge cycles
that you can keep it for longer than a couple of years so this is cool because basically
what happened is they were working on making the anodes of the battery more
durable because that's the part that decays the fastest um and that's why
after a few hundred charge you see a really sharp drop off and all of a
sudden you know it's 2:00 and you're at
you know 40% battery life that's why that happens oh and there's a train
rude so
rude thank you than I wonder what that sounds like twitch we can hear you
everything is good oh this was for you I was supposed
to throw it at you oh no this is mine
okay yay that was to yeah you armed us
both that's weird all right so basically a batch of
anodes was left under chemical treatment for several hours more than they should
have completely by accident and remember guys when you're doing lab work you're
often working with chemicals and like
engineering like pre reengineering
sample grade Hardware that is unbelievably expensive to produce I mean
you guys have no idea even something as simple and stupid as a computer case and
I don't mean computer cases are stupid I mean they're made of materials we
basically understand you got a plastic bezel you got your steel chassis you
fold it up pretty much right I mean
we're not talking we want the battery to last for four times longer we're going
to completely re-engineer new a new compound so the stuff they're working
with is expensive to to screw up a batch
could cost hundreds or maybe thousands
or even tens of thousands of dollars depending on what they're working on so
instead of throwing them away you know someone probably got a slap on the wrist
but they decided to test them and the results were great four times more
durable than the current best available
technology so they've been working on using aluminum in preference to graphite it
expands and contracts more so in effect these cells let me get this right they
can't just fold the metal fold the metal no no this is not a computer case okay I
just need to make sure they can just fold the metal to be very clear they
can't just injection mold the plastic and then fold the metal and then fold
the metal on the other side all right cool uh so
basically so by soaking it in sulfuric acid and titanium oxy sulfate which
replaces the aluminum oxide from the aluminum being exposed I don't know if
you guys know this aluminum rust is white and it oxidizes almost immediately
that's why most people don't even know that aluminum rusts if you polish it and
clear coat it you can actually make a very efficient mirror out of aluminum
very interesting stupid fact that no one cares about uh but the reason it always
looks like rubbish is because it oxidizes almost immediately just from
being exposed to open air uh so pretty much it's uh it has a much more
conductive titanium oxide coating effectively now which provided exactly
the desired results completely by
accident very very cool so epic awesome
stuff that guy instead of getting fired got a promotion hoay maybe you got fired and
then a promotion that' be awesome well you've been fired lots of times I'm sure
I've promoted you at some point Y now we have a pretty flat from firstand
experience that it's awesome it's awesome uh so LG's new Nexus 5 has
leaked I guess Google has heard our
cries about the Nexus 6 not being an
Nexus 5 or wait what what's the stupid thing called is it even called an Nexus
6 I don't know that that phone that I didn't care about that I reviewed yeah
it is an Nexus 6 right the one that was too big their numbers are just bad and
they should probably feel bad so it's fine they should just call it I don't
even I don't even know what they would call it because you anyway the point is
they heard us we don't all want a huge phone some of us have tiny hands some of
us
don't um to be fair though I don't even like phones that are that
huge I what is what is let me see like
my G3 which is not on me cuz it's charging is like borderline too large
not because I don't like the big screen but because most of the time I'm just typing on on anyways you mean Z3 and yes
Z3 sorry neither of us are you said g G3
which is a phone that you did have at one point and I don't anymore I have the
G2 yeah uh anyways and being able to type on it with one hand is helpful I
can do that with the Z3 but it's easier on a slightly smaller pH so there you go
a tweet from our our main man over at
MKBHD I mean can we really say he's at MKBHD he is on Twitter but do you really
do you really work at MKBHD isn't that
his thing now he's like he's one guy though does but yeah but doesn't he run
MKBHD isn't that actually his thing yeah so he so Marcus from MKBHD sure why not
the guy yeah Marcus uh so basically it looks like it's going to have a camera
bump it looks like it's going to say Nexus on the back I hope they removed
this not for sale printing that's really an eyesore you I like it you like it
because you know what my phone isn't for sale I don't want you to have my personal information I don't want you to
buy my phone I don't know if I put my phone down uh at like Starbucks I don't
want someone to be like yo can I buy it yeah but I don't think Googles are going
to be down with that because everything on your
phone it's ours good point all right all
right all maybe they don't want me to sell it because they want to keep
harvesting my maybe that's what's special about it just for Marquez he was
like it's the I'll review the new Nexus
5 but you can't have my data I want it
right on the phone not for
sale this is only mine speaking of not
for sale spots on our show are for
sale y if you're squar space yay build
the beautiful yes thank you that is
their slogan for the last time okay I have to make sure that every single
person that ever watches the W show knows I should just say it as the
opening line now of the W show hey it's going to be a good show and I'll be like
build the beautiful so when Squarespace isn't even a sponsor you're just going
to go and do it
okay so Squarespace if you guys are
watching and I'm pretty sure you are our Squarespace contact legit watches the
show which I discovered when we had that phenomenally embarrassing situation
where Luke told me his mom's site was hosted on
Squarespace so we had the entire Wan
show audience hit it all at the same time it goes down and it's hosted on
like dog hosting or some stupid thing
and it's down and I'm like you have got I don't care whatever it is
it's some kind of animal that doesn't work hard enough
so God super unhappy and they they were watching and
I was like no you got to be kidding me so Squarespace if you're watching can
you get a new slogan maybe just for us so he can shut up with the build it
beautiful thing they should make it build it more beautiful but
the so I mean that is it in a nutshell
squares space build it beautiful they're all about people making beautiful
websites and putting them on the Internet with their tools and their
website hosting it comes in affordable plans all the way up to pretty darn
beefy plans you pick from one of their templates you can make a Blog you can
make a you know portfolio you can make oh I don't know an informational site
about you know your company like lism Medi group.com where all these people
found our address presumably to come and hang out with us at this live Meetup
also there was a link in the Forum which is not a Squarespace site because they
don't have a forum template but that's a whole other thing and the link wasn't broken you weren't signed in
Bam um so pretty much that's all there is to
it squarespace.com make an awesome website that runs great on your computer
your phone whatever else and if you use offer code lius on your first purchase
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guides for disassembling and reassembling and fixing phones and
tablets and computers and laptops which are technically computers and also
phones and tablets are technically computers too I mean anything that
computes is a computer my computer a a
what a moment so this is their all new
small business like toolbox thing so
it's got their screwdriver set which is
kind of like a if you've ever if you got the Protech toolkit which is also in
here and I'll show you guys that later then you'll probably have noticed that
you can stick a thing through the hole if you know what I mean and twist it
that way but sometimes you can't get enough torque so these ones Are all uh
are all rubber coated so they're a little bit better if you know you need a
little bit more torque action there let's go ahead and uh what else we got
in here they told me to familiarize myself with this kit before we started I
didn't so here we go um we have an antistatic wrist strap as well as a safe
anti-static mat that check this out so your wrist strap actually Clips right in
there so you got a safe workstation no
Tech tool kit is complete without a multimeter so you want to I mean we've
used this stuff we've used stuff like this for even the most mundane thing
like you don't have to be an electrical engineer to need a multimeter like uh
EVGA uh had a like a Kingpin graphics
card that we were overclocking and we were like are these voltage adjustments
even working are we even running the right BIOS for this some dude bought it
that graphics card someone bought it we sold it today nice all right so we were
able to use the multimeter to validate that we got the ln2 bio correctly and
that the voltage was actually adjusting so that's cool uh what the devil is this
it's called an eye opener I actually don't know I know you're supposed to heat it up I'm assuming it melts like
glue and yes so these are fantastic you
heat it up and then if you've got like an adhesive behind a some behind a
screen or whatever it gets hot enough to melt the adhesive and make it easier to
remove but not so hot that like you're pointing a heat gun at your device and
probably cooking it this the prot tech tool kit has every bit under the sun
your Tri Wings your security Torx is your your triangle bits you can take
apart pretty much anything with this puppy we've got the screen and lens
cleaner you that's hard to here take this ah yes I love this puppy it's
dangerous to go the magnetic project mat we've already shown this before cuz this
is the one that I used when I did the iMac disassembly cuz there were like
freaking 16 20 different types of screws in there so it comes with a pen with an
eraser you write what all the stuff you have have on you put the screws on and
it's magnetic what else is in here they have everything in here suction cups for
pulling screens off of heavy screens off of things without dropping them or like
slicing yourself open repair Manifesto
oh that's cute okay well that's more of a swag
item cleaning cloth other more rugged microfiber cleaning cloth like a a
textured one and a non-textured one a puff thing for sticking in your eye and
drying it out whenever you need your eyes to be dry because you too much or
for dusting things you know whatever cleaning brush as well as one
of their handy dandy you know slice the
adhesive that's between the thing that you can't get at more prying tools
extras for the ones that come in the Protech tool kit how many freaking
things are in here A bunch of opening picks they're kind of like guitar picks
but special for opening more pry tools more pry
tools more pry tools
ah they're plastic cards next time you don't want to ruin your debit card or
your gym membership prying something open they have special Prime cards for
that are we done seriously okay some
someone has to take this home today and iron on hand with a wrench repair person
badge first one to say Luke's last name
there you are get on up here you're a
certified repair man now or or woman you have long hair I couldn't tell no I'm
just kidding it's a beard hey hey ladies
can have a beard too and that's okay y y yeah I don't know I was reading some
article some actress was upset by Hollywood beauty standards Sheed wa her
mustache yeah and then I was I was I brought it up in some conversation like
no it's obviously not cuz there's a beard my mom was like I shave I was like
oh there you go makes sense today you learned yeah next up actually yeah I we
started recommending dollar sh sh Club as well it makes sense all right we got
Google's Project sunroof so do you want to cover this one I'm so excited by this
this is so cool okay so what Google's planning to do they're doing it in three
different cities right now I don't remember what ones so GG but there's not
Vancouver unfortunately only the stat yes they're only in the states the idea
is that they're using data from Google Maps to figure out basically uh what the
sun value is of your house I just came up with that word but basically um how
much of your roof will Sun for how long and how much power and money that will
save you if you get solar panels installed so that you can figure out
things like should you get solar panels installed it'll also help you figure out
how much that will cost um so it can
survey companies in your area and it can
actually recommend ones to you tell you how much it'll cost to install tell you
how long it's going to be until you've paid off your investment um tons of
stuff so basically the idea is taking a lot of the confusion out of getting
solar panels installed on your house and making it a lot easier in terms of
barrier of entry for people making it make a lot more sense so it does all the hardcore math for you and it solves all
the complicated problems which I think is great because solar panels are
cool if we get the strata to accept it I really want to put solar panels on our
roofe so but we had have to get the strata to yeah strata is going to have
to be down for it um I'm really not sure how that works we're new Str don't
really and we just did this so I don't know how many good books we're in right
now I have no idea how many emails
we we we took kind of an ask forgiveness not permission approach to the Meetup
today so for those of you who weren't here live who are watching we had
probably as many as probably about 300 people here at one point like it was
bananas you guys think more than 300 okay well we had a ton of people like we
had a lineup for the garage sale down the block we had a lineup for tours of
the office which we are going to continue to do after the show today that
was down to the lineup for the garage sale um so we have no idea how stoked
they are on us fortunately we've already got the stratus approval for my big
Linus Media Group sign that's going to be going on the front of the building I
picked up the permit for that on you a
permit for that yeah yesterday Strat I picked up the no we had we had a city
permit too oh my goodness yeah we had to get approval from the strata then we had to get a permit that could make sense
cuz it could fall off the building like Strat are so frustrating but like I mean
fortunately they wouldn't let us cover the Windows we need to cover the Windows
for like lighting they said that we have to get approval they didn't say no they
just said that we have to bring it up at a meeting okay the fact that you have to
bring it up on a meeting to put covers inside your own building is not the good
news is that we're occupying three of the eight units in this building which
gives us an awful lot of
votes that's helpful yeah that's pretty good oh that's we just got to make sure
we don't piss off literally everyone which we might have just done so um so
let's go ahead and uh his own yes awesome thank you so much I have been
talking so much today and those you
that's awesome I know this man sorry
keep going so it's finally happened an actual
fashion watch brand has gotten around to
doing a smartwatch fossil unveils it's Intel powered Android Wear watch flat
tire play into so let's uh so these are
just some these are just some not not actually Android wear these are typical
Fossil watches all right bippity boppity there it is
so um yeah it kind of looks like a Moto
360 it super looks like a Moto 360 yeah
well I said kind of because I'm a generous person I'm not yeah Moto 360 so
basically it's it's kind of shinier also it has like
beving and and hopefully the battery lasts longer I mean the thing about a
watch it's Android is that there's really not a whole lot you can do with
it with Android Weare yeah you can go square or you can go round cuz like
saying watch in general is not really f a lot you can do with the mechanical you
could have a rubber strap or like a leather one or like maybe it could come
with two straps W and you could change
them out W so I mean I get it it's not
really that different um so they also showed off some some other stuff a
fitness band a semi- smartwatch and then the fully fledged Smartwatch um I think
the technology has to has to continue to progress a little
bit I mean Samsung and LG are both showing off transparent OLED displays
that are capable of in the neighborhood of
50% plus or minus transparency I mean I
think that's when going to capture a lot of people when you can put a really thin
transparent display over top of what is otherwise a beautifully crafted
mechanical watch that's when you're going to get a lot of attention and I
know there's that one company that's done it that everyone always links us
when we say this every time and they're like not
good just they're just not you're not feeling charitable today no but it's
true I don't know like I'm feeling charitable because uh Google's sunroof
thing is fantastic I'm not feeling Charle because that watch is
trash it is though look it up everyone that buys one is like yeah this thing is
terrible I wish I didn't waste my money so I don't want to help other people
waste their money fair enough doesn't seem it's not really what we do no so
there you go um there is no word on the
hardware inside the Android Smartwatch from fossil the battery life pricing or
the release time frame one thing that I will say is if they don't have an always
on display it's getting a negative review from me
if it gets one at all it might just get a mention on W show hey screwed up yet
another one what if it's one of the transparent ones and the screen is off
unless you do a I'm okay with that I'm totally okay with that um I mean for me
the big thing is just I want to be able
to see and I know I made that awful joke in my Apple Watch review which ended up
even more Awkward because of Ed's editing on that that was just that was
pretty cringe right there but it is a perfectly valid point the time when I
realized that motion gestures were ridiculous was when I was laying on my
back and my son was playing a game with me like he was going for a daddy ride
and I was like oh I wonder what time it is and I was using the Apple watch and I
couldn't look up the time because you
have to be upright and do it like this like this repeat after me like this to
see the time no that's ridiculous it's that that motion
reminded me of that super old school uh Apple like 1984
commercial when they're walking through and they're all watching the screen and stuff they're becoming what they
hated so that's what I need to see and
uh that's pretty much all there is to it now I'd like to do something a little
bit special and I'm actually going to kick Luke off the show for a bit here
normally we do well not quite no no don't go anywhere okay okay uh well no
don't sit down either okay so normally when we want to get like
questions or comments from the audience we take to Twitter but the audience is
here so I would like for Luke to be my dman here and if anyone would like to
come and do a live Twitter Blitz and uh
well get get over here don't be shy don't put up your hand like some kind of
polite person what do you think this is Canada we have one candidate come here
sir yeah come on come on in come on in
so uh what what what do you got all right so lonus what was it like to
invent Linux what was it like to invent Linux well gee get out of here for one
thing and uh thank you for your question
I did not invent Linux common
misconception especially yeah you're you're wearing a tech Syndicate shirt
did he send you no um I wish so uh
common misconception especially on Reddit SLR slpc Master race where it's
like there's I I have my own tag and and
people are like like every time there's like one without votes it's like I came
here expecting the other lius I was
disappointed I'm sorry I can't be him I
just make YouTube videos uh anyone else
come on don't be shy guys make a line don't put up your hands so you moved
first all right what do you got live Twitter Blitz hello um lonus yes what
about your company I'm listening what about your company do you like the most
and what do you like the least all right thank you okay you can go um the thing I
like the most is working with a team of people that I
handpicked um it's really it it it is
the reason yeah let's just get the people s y thank you Luke it's it's
really different from working somewhere
where you know your new subordinate or your new peer or your new boss might be
selected by someone else and you know
I'm not saying that my years at NC were bad in any way I learned so much and I
am incredibly grateful to everyone from the president of the company up there
who by the end of my time at NC I
reported to directly I'm grateful to everyone from him down to you know the
guys in the warehouse that made sure that my orders got counted correctly and
labeled correctly and shipped to the customers on time like
it was such an amazing learning experience but lonus Media Group the
greatest thing about it is the people here um every one of them is handpicked
by me so I have no one to blame but
myself if it doesn't work out and we
have an incredible team here absolutely world class I mean I think the results
speak for themselves since lius Tech tips has gone Indie and is under the
banner of lonus Media Group our growth has gone like this so yeah that's what I
love about lonus Media Group I think the worst thing about it is the can I help
you cently they're great other than throwing things at me um I mean that's
another great thing about it we have a really great work Dynamic U you know
people I see a lot of I see a lot of comments like lonus is the worst boss
ever he's such a jerk he's such a troll you guys got to understand I get that
back from these guys this is the kind of company where you can legitimately shoot
your B with a Nerf gun in the head and
it's cool don't go get a gun right
now um the worst thing about it I think is probably the hours I thought that
compared to my job as a product manager it couldn't get any worse but it it is
worse I mean I a lot of people think YouTube's easy and you just like stand
in front of a camera for 10 minutes and then you just throw it up on the internet send it used to be easy I of
necessity that's why I did unboxings cuz they were easy um and I could just I
could I could do an unboxing in one take no problem a lot of the time not always
sometimes I broke things or whatever but but the point is is
that because we've tried to really amp
up what we're doing in every possible way every additional body that we add
here is all about increasing quality
making what we're doing more and better so um the hardest part is is how much
work it is all right what's your name my name is Daniel two years ago you guys
were working out of a house L Media Group just got started and now you're
here what do you see year two maybe three in the future wow it's a it's a
great question and go away
um that's a great question and it's one that unfortunately I don't have a
crystal ball that is amazing enough to answer because if you had asked me 2 and
a half years ago when we started this um when we were working out of the garage
at my house if you'd asked me where I saw lonus Media Group 2 and a half years
from now uh well actually no I I didn't even think about that I thought about
five years and five years when it was
just three of us it was me Luke and Ed and if you asked me five years I would
have said well I mean five maybe six people and like you know we'll do better
unboxings and we'll have like more channels we'll kind of do unboxings of
tech and then maybe we'll do like unboxings of like tools or cars or other
things like we'll have like the unboxing Network that would have been my vision
uh here we are 2 and a half years in we have either 10 or 11 people uh we're in
an actual studio um we don't do unboxings anymore
really and our new channels are things like Channel Super Fun where we're
pitting dildos against each other one
one against one it's a race to the Finish Line like I who can predict that
stuff my title to dildo engineer no too late truth is Stranger Than
Fiction sometimes and if you'd asked me when we moved into the the house Studio
I'd have told you that was easily going to last us 5 years we made it for two
and that place was bursting at the seams what's your name Andrew all right Andrew
what's your question how would you compare the the work style at the old
house office compared to your new office so uh thank you away and um I don't mean
go away you can stay close enough to hear the answer no Andrew come back no
no I mean no don't sit down right there's
fine um so the workflow is not yet
established here we're I'm going to have a video coming really soon about the way
that we're going to handle footage and transcoding it and people who went on
the tour with me might know a little bit about this
uh the workflow in terms of shooting is
going to be way tidier much much tidier
I I don't understand you just supposed to throw it or give it to someone else oh free
shirt I'm looking over here it's going over there oh am I doing more SW
shirt um so the main thing I expect in the new
workflow is organization because in the past we had one place where like
sometimes I was actually testing hardware and then I was filming like the
main video and then I'd have to get my crap out of there and Brandon had to
move his cameras in and shoot b-roll there was just no room for anything so
we're going to actually have things go from inventory with a real system for
tracking that to testing to shooting to
b-roll and then back to inventory I expect organization that's the biggest
difference awesome all right next
sup welcome to the W show thank you um
hi everybody my name is Maxwell um about a month and a half ago you guys got to
about 8,600 viewers and you're like oh my God we're almost over 9,000 and then
you guys said well this is going to be a great idea like how about we have a huge
surprise show when we get over 9,000 viewers and then you guys ended up
getting to like 10K a couple weeks ago and I didn't find out what the idea was
that I've been waiting for so what was the great idea for over 9,000 viewers on
a l show I don't know hey Luke did we
ever figure out what we were going to do for overnight he asked me this before we came in so I was wondering if you knew
no I don't remember we apparently said that I don't remember saying it at all
we apparently said that and I have no
that is
so maybe but do we have any
no are we totally forgot thank you for asking we can do it
though I think I might know but
but it might have been it okay I'll just I'll just tell
you it might have been like blonde spiky wigs like super saiyan yes I think that
might have been the idea but I'm not sure okay so sorry we failed you that's
all right all right who's next I think we didn't expect it to happen very
quickly no I really I don't know if I ever expected it to happen but wo's kind
of been like that like the first time we broke a thousand viewers I was like
whoa and now we're sitting at 8,900 for
a Twitter Blitz well sort of Twitter are you even on
Twitter barely bar there you go all right what's up um I was wondering which
of your employes you think works the hardest wow
me that's pretty good that's
all Brandon it's Brandon it's Brandon
it's Brandon could be Brandon could be
Brandon could be could be Luke could be Nick you know what everyone here works
really hard if they didn't they wouldn't last um period we had one guy who lasted
like two weeks and uh he fell asleep at
work once and stuff and so our culture
is one of work extremely hard play
extremely hard um but everyone here
Works incredibly hard who's next I hope I last two week it's a two
person oh so
oh so lonus no when's the next Meetup
happening wow great question
um so the last time I did a formal
Meetup I think was um he's mine get out get out get
out the last time I did a formal like an
actually formal Meetup I think was an NC
event where we had three projectors 3D
projectors running in NVIDIA surround powered by a couple of GTX
590s that was ba and I only probably had
like 30 people show up for that so I kind of gave up on
them uh oh Kingston hypx paintball was
sort of a Meetup but it it was also yeah the guys that were there were awesome it
was also a like a shoot and so the people that came had to like be in a
video and stuff so okay I had forgotten about that one because that day was a
freaking blur I was coordinating a Meetup like starring in the video and
coordinating the video shoot all in one day like it was bananas yeah yes I did
not intend for Sho to be a pun but I'm glad it happened did I do one at
PA 2013 oh okay that was like the photo
booth thing I wouldn't call that a formal meet up it was like yeah should
just get the W bus and go across Canada yeah we need to we totally need a w bus
as long as we don't accidentally put a g on the end then the
Wang yeah the Wang bus okay what do you got uh where do you see lest Tech tips
in five years where do I see okay great question go away um and let's get the
next one right in there let's get these going quick so lus Tech tips in five
years I don't even know about five years but I'll do two years okay um
so YouTube I have seen many YouTube
personalities uh com and go uh throughout my my like I've never really
done the explosive exponential growth thing but I've also never leveled off
it's always been like a slow and steady wins the race and I've I've seen a lot
of guys that I used to look up to and wonder how I could ever be as big as
them I've I've seen a lot of those guys
fall behind in terms of their their YouTube audience anyway um and I think
there are a lot of different reasons it's happened you know YouTube has
changed the audience has changed uh the
technology has changed everything is always changing and the old formula is
not going to work forever and that is
why even though it was a huge risk we
killed unboxings we stopped doing unboxings that was our bread and butter
it was the single most viewed and
therefore profitable thing that we did as a company and here I was I took this
enormous leap of faith I was like okay I'm tired of this that means the
audience must be tired of it if I'm tired of it so let's let's do it let's
kill it all we do now is reviews and projects and and showcases so so we
killed unboxings we switch to almost entirely reviews at that time we are
actually in the middle of yet another
reinvention right now um some of you might have noticed we are going to be
gradually we're still going to do reviews but we are GR gradually making
it not all about the reviews I see him I have a preview of the video right in
front of me we are we are gradually moving away from just reviews to more
projects and like crazy over-the-top you know showcases and
stuff and more of making Linus Tech tips
like this this is like the dream for me making Linus Tech tips a show about
technology rather than a technology
unboxing or view show so I don't want it
to live within the confines of this is
what we do I want us to just do whatever
it is and I want people to watch it and enjoy it and that is why I have expanded
our staff and grown the company the way
that I have because if it was still just me or just me and a camera person
something like scrapyard Wars is impossible because that takes a big crew
of people to make happen it takes an enormous amount of time stuff like new
office Vlog which kind of accidentally turned into kind of a reality show that
that everyone loved would have been impossible stuff like Luke wants to do
where we DIY solar panels on the roof of the office would be impossible if we
didn't have our own paid C camera crew
on staff in the office every day so you
know it's it's it's so cliche but I really want lonus Tech tips
to be a technology show the same way that Top Gear is a car show it's not a
car show it's just a show it's well not
anymore it's anything but but but what it was was an entertaining show with
great personalities and the cars were happy to be along for the ride so that's
what I want this to be and I think that the group that we've built here and the
the the workflow that we've built here will enable us to do that and that's what I want L Tech tips to be what can I
do for you lus why are there no fire PES in the new place there are no fire PES
because it was hard enough to get our safety inspection passed with a handrail
on that stupid staircase let alone a fire pole on the outside of it so uh
what's your favorite series that you've ever done my personal favorite great
question um wow my personal
favorite it's got to be scrapyard Wars um
it's a lot of fun to shoot um it's a lot
of fun to watch like even though cuz I'm in a lot of our videos duh uh but
scrapyard Wars is so fun for me to watch
because it's like it's like the Highlight Reel of that enormous amount
of time that I spent on it for me and I
get to enjoy the struggle and the Triumph that's going on opposite me that
I'm completely oblivious to the whole time so it's a lot of fun for me to
watch what would you have done if Darren
died Darren who's Darren specifically I know
a lot of oh Darren the 3D printer well
Darren did die fortunately Luke resurrected
him so uh we're changing his name to Lazarus lafrenier and uh wait no Darren
we're changing to Lazarus Luke's name we're changing to something hopefully
unoffensive so
let's just move on from that that question what can I do for you nice
shirt thanks uh in the little time that
you get to have now they can see your shirt in the little free time that you
get to have what is your favorite thing to do um I have very little time for
anything in the little time that I have my kids are the light of my life so yep
my kids are awesome that's uh that's what I do when I'm not
here and sometimes I eat
how are you today I am fantastic thank you for asking um my question is about
ant venom actually really what were your thoughts on when he said he was going to
come and then his flight being cancelled I was super bummed out because ant venom
is like such an amazing lonus Tech tips
fan I don't know if you guys know ant Venom's got like two million bazillion
subscribers on YouTube big deal he was
gonna show up and I was like wow that would be super cool to have like other
huge content creators show up at our Fan event as like a huge bonus for the
people here and just for me to shoot the breeze with because I living in
Vancouver there's not a lot of huge YouTubers here and huge streamers here
it's it's it's a pretty desolate place there are a couple but like if I want
to yeah if I want to like hang out with
guys that are that are absolutely huge and guys that are like totally in my
head space ant venom is one of the few that exists out there and what I mean by
totally in my head is it's funny because
Gamers and like it technophiles they're
kind of like they're like the VIN diagram right like there's the overlap
but a lot of the time the guys building the Beast gaming rigs are not actually
hardcore Gamers like me and the guys
that are the hardcore gamers are not that techsavvy they just buy a pre-built
machine in a send right so an Venom
actually took our whole room water cooling concept amped it up a notch and
has his gaming machine on a separate floor of his house with his Radiator in
the basement but he did it up right he took everything we learned every mistake
we made and he published a video on his gaming Centric channel of his Recreation
of whole room water cooling which works
it actually gets the heat out of the room successfully because he didn't use
a huge array of copper tubing to do it he's just got a a nice short run right
through the floor he used a plastic Reservoir a lesson that we learned about
anti-corrosive additives and how they don't always work so his video is badass
I was hoping for him to be here and hang out on the W show but hey the effort
totally counts and a we're sorry you couldn't be here all right you're up oh
so how scary was it to take a chance and start your own business doing what you do it was mortifying um I mean this is
something I'm I'm not sure if I've talked about before but lus Media Group
almost completely ran out of money uh 4
months in so I don't know if you guys are super business savvy but the way
that it works is even if you have a sponsor like Intel or whoever especially
a big sponsor they don't expect to
prepay for things so they expect to
reach an agreement sign a contract like
okay we're going to have you mention our product in the first 30 seconds of your
video 10 times in the month of you know
February and then once you've executed the contract they expect what's called
net terms so that is they pay after
completion that gives them time to process it in accounting and get you
know the necessary signatures and all that stuff and I get it but it means
that even though lonus Media Group was working hard to obtain sponsors and and
all that stuff all without selling out I
mean that's the thing is sellout is a word that gets thrown around a lot but
it has a meaning that people don't understand sellout doesn't mean you make
money we make money but sellout means
making money by compromising your values so we have never taken money from Blue
to review this microphone that will not happen we can take money from Blue to
put their microphone in front of our camera while we host the W show that is
sponsorship that is is a product placement that is completely separate we
will give a bad review to a sponsor if
they submit a product to us for a review we have to keep our content which has no
value to our viewers and therefore no value to a future sponsor I mean even if
I was a terrible person I can't sell out
on a product review because I have to be smart enough to know that if my audience
can be 10 years from now my audience could be 10 times the size then I should
be able to get 10 times the sponsors but my audience isn't going to grow if I
give you people bad advice about technology and tell you the wrong thing
even if I was a terrible money money is the only important thing to me person I
still wouldn't do it so we had to even
though we ran out and we got sponsors you know it's harder if you're not
willing to sell out because you have to be like look this guarantees you no
special treatment nothing you get nothing other than the ad iing spot that
we promise that's what you get that's it so we did it anyway it was hard work but
we did it but I still had to wait anywhere from 30 to 120 days for my
first paychecks aside from things like YouTube
which roll in monthly but but isn't as much as you'd think and I and I and I
took a risk um Luke and Ed both took a
risk too they dropped out of their programs in school because I promised
that I would get the money to pay them and support them and we'd make a real
company out of this thing so they both went for it and I went for it and in
April of the first year of lus Media Group we almost completely ran out of
money like out like done like we were down to
double digits in the account I didn't have another payroll and then the check
started arriving so it was down to the
wire for us it was terrifying the good news about what we were doing
is at least I had a lot of Industry connections and that's another I
mentioned this earlier on the show but I'll always be thankful for my time at
NC for all the things I learned and I should have mentioned this all the
amazing people I met many of whom like
uh you know I really hope I don't miss anyone here but uh guys like Rick from
Corsair that was Corsair was our first
the first ones that ever wrote lonus Media Group Incorporated a check was
Corsair um and and those guys those guys
very special relationship that doesn't mean I won't give them a negative review or whatever um guys like uh fractal
design were on board very early on Josh from fractal huge buddies you it doesn't
mean I won't rip on their products if they suck um so those those early those
early guys really helped us pull through what can I do for you what are you
planning to print with your 3D printer that's actually practical okay the first
practical thing you'll see printed is a shroud for our new router that is going
to handle our new gigabit internet connection and it needs a cooling shroud
because I built using standard components in a oneu case and we
couldn't find a way to cool the CPU very well without that shroud which
we hope works but we don't know yet hi there hi nice sunglasses we're
sunglasses buddies well thank you uh is there anything you regret about getting
your own company with lonus Media Group and going out on your own rather than
through n um wow good question is there anything I
regret I mean this ties really closely into the what do I like what do I not
like question I mean I wish I didn't
have to work so hard but like the fact that I get to I get to roll into my like
parking spot that says Linus Media Group employees only and then I get to go
inside and like hang out with Luke and Ed and Brandon and ter and Nick and
other Nick and Colton and I'm going to
forget someone crap John yes thank you
who else am I missing I'm sure I Dennis and Dennis I think I got everyone I mean
it's amazing it's like the best job ever
like you will not I will sometimes post
pictures in the middle of the night of like me still working on something at
3:00 a.m. I'm not looking for your pity
I'm just saying this is what I'm up to because I have the best job on Earth
it's awesome so yeah well I have the best job on Earth I
don't speak for Ed it may not be the best paying he has a pretty cool job
what's up all right I got a serious question this okay all right um so about
a year ago you uh had a guest host on doto uh doto from on data yeah yeah and
uh I was wondering if there's anyone else like that that was like a huge a source of inspiration like you know what
um actually that's a great that's a great question because this Sunday I am
going down to chill with one of my main
Inspirations when I was starting up on YouTube uh Chris pillo also known as
Locker Nome is going to be hosting an event called vlogger Fair uh this
weekend in Seattle so I will be on a
panel down there on Sunday so I'll be doing two meetups within like 3 days
which is kind of amazing um so I'll be down there just on the Sunday
and hanging out with Chris and hope he's going to be super busy so hopefully I
get some of his time uh but there's going to be some other guys there I think Barnacles and Jay's two cents are
showing up uh they're both they're both based in that area
um yeah no Chris was a huge inspiration for me because he was like pardon my
French he was like the [ __ ] when it came to Tech on YouTube when I was first
getting started no one no one could touch that guy and I didn't really
follow the phone guys like your John ringers and your soldier knows best and
uh like I didn't really follow that stuff so when it came to like computer tech it
was him so um yeah I've learned a lot
from from Chris over the years we've we've hung out a few times whether it's
at an airport on our way back from that AMD Hawaii event or whatever else and uh
yeah he's a huge inspiration for me hi do you see lonus Media Group opening up
more YouTube channels in the future yes let's play uh no let's plays probably I
think it's a very crowded space um I think there's a lot of let's players out
there that a great job thank you
um but and if anything I think I would
be surprised if it's Tech related I think between Linus Tech tips and Tech
quickie we can handle you know your shows and your reviews and we can handle
your rapid fire information basically like repository of facts about crap to
do with tech um and I think Channel Super Fun has been a really uh amazing
in terms of the growth that we've experienced and be um really fun for us
to make and so I think our next project
which may be sooner rather than later uh because Channel Super Fun is as big now
as Techquickie was when we started super fun so it may be sooner rather
than later but I think I'd be surprised if it's Tech related at all maybe sketch
comedy I think we've got a lot of really great characters here um you know maybe
something to do with toys which is what Channel Super Fun was supposed to be and
completely ended up not becoming at all
um is anyone else coming in for live Twitter
Blitz okay Luke come on back onto the show what's your favorite
color mine's red you don't even you made
that up on the spot uh okay this is a little known fact
because I'm always on about pink my favorite color is actually green
so there you go um should we do a oh we got to do the
Ashley Madison topic so more details uh
on the Ashley Madison hack so those of you who aren't familiar
ashleymadison.com is an is like a cheating site for married people and
they uh they were threatened they said
look we hacked into you we got all your user data including credit card
information and they were you can hack into me anytime although I'd prefer if
you didn't hack gentle this time please yes okay um we learned the first time
around that's not how you do that you gotta work into it so the hack is not
only real it's worse than we thought the
details are everywhere they basically said look if you don't pull down your
site we're going to leak all the data which included credit card information
now to be clear if you want to check on your significant other or whatever the
fact that they have an account is actually not meaningful I have an Ashley
Madison account as soon as we started reporting on the Ashley Madison thing
someone signed my email address up for
an Ashley Madison account I've heard I have one but I haven't seen the thing I
started getting newsletters I was like do people not do email verification
apparently not so that's a cool thing because it means that there aren't
necessarily 30 million cheats out there because anyone even someone who has no
idea they have an account can apparently have an account but they also leaked
credit card information so if you want to actually use the site
you need aedit card so if your credit card number in there you Ed the site yes
so it's taking a lot longer than we originally expected to find all the
people that were actually um using the
website but it is starting to happen like basically person by person it's
being leaked um like the the first tip off was when like B Obama at whatever.
goov was registered I was like that's not a thing no at all no that's like was
a lot of that so yeah he's in there for the same reason that my personal Hotmail
account which uh was leaked like three
years ago and I never touch except for certain things um like my Ashley Madison
account um so that account I logged into it at
some point and realized I had I think it was either 30 or 60 it was some multiple
of three thousand like daily Bible verse
newsletters sitting in it and I was like you got to be kidding me
so someone I think there are sites that email account oh I've had that
email daily emails yeah no not daily but
60,000 emails from the ones coming in Daily yeah yeah total and hot mails
filter can only like do so many at a
time so when I'd search for keywords and it's not as good as Gmail's filter like
like it's not as granular in terms of what you can block so I could only block
by like specific email address so if it's like info@ lighthous media that's
different from news at lighthous media which is different from admin at Life
House media and then it takes like 10 minutes to go through all you know
thousand of them because it can only do a page at a time like no I just want to
get rid of them allall it's like there couldn't be like why did you even need
to use that email um oh I use it as like my password recovery for certain things
cuz actually to dig through find something
Hotmail has pretty sick um twostep yeah
so my Hotmail account this is an interesting behind the- scenes story my
hot mail account was what saved my all
of my other accounts when my YouTube
channel Got Hijacked a few years ago so
they didn't get my hot mail account and
that the notifications that I was getting as they were trying to get in
was what alerted me to the need to change all my other passwords so they
went for the hot mail account early and got locked out of everything else so
that's why I like my hot mail account yeah yeah also there's a few like people
who only know how to reach me there I've had it for like 15 years so it's one of
those things and that's a tip is to link your emails to a certain degree y it's
actually a really good idea um so basically there's 10 gigs of Ashley
Madison info out there it's pretty easy to find uh and they dumped another 20
gigs onto the dark web in addition to the earlier 10 gigs for a total of
30 um yeah so one of my favorite
statistics um with there's thousands of fake female profiles and about 90 to 95%
of the actual users are male yeah we
suck yeah wow we're bad at things yeah
and we should probably feel bad for being bad at things
yep all right so what else did we tease
because I think we're already it's already almost 6:30 popcorn time getting
attacked yes so if you use popcorn time
um and you wanted another reason why you
probably shouldn't movie studio sues
individual Popcorn Time users for infringement so for those of you who
aren't familiar with popcorn time I've tried it it's really really good like
it's the Netflix of piracy you basically basically just stream from Torrance and
I was like wow this works really really
well subtitles are all like a drop down
I was like all that crap that like when
you're watching a Blu-ray like it blows me away how crappy the Blu-ray
experience still is why can't they fix
this why do I have to sit through two minutes of blah blah blah don't copy
this why do I have to go back to the menu every time why do I have to all
these things just shut up they do really
suck it's very very annoying when the experience is worse for people that are
paying for it okay here's a million dooll idea for the movie studios why do
I have to come up with this crap the first Blu-ray okay in the however many
discs set should have fewer episodes of
the show on it and it should have a lower quality compressed version of the
entire season so that I don't have to change my freaking Blu-ray
when I want to watch a different episode cuz I don't give a crap I'm watching
Family Guy Do I need more pixels
no million dooll idea why do I have to
come up with it peeking sorry sorry sorry headphone users all the peeking so
it just it blows me away how much better the piracy experience is but the thing
that people need to understand about popcorn time is even if you're a
Shameless pirate you should not use it
because you don't know what you're seeding anything you watch sits and
seeds in the background until you reboot your computer at least that's how it
used to work I I actually haven't looked into it since probably still how it
works so Popcorn Time users you could be
getting it pretty good if you use Popcorn Time a lot restart your computer
very infrequently because it could mean a lot of different Studios Netflix and
chill what are you doing I'm talking to Twitch chat oh a lot of different and
chill Studios could be coming after you and you don't even realize that you've
shared so many different movies cuz that's the thing is downloading is one
thing Distributing is a whole other
thing so is that it for wo I think so
all right my back hurts from like this weird I'm sorry about that no the
Afterparty is in person yo so uh thanks
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