all right he is nice is welcome to show
hey nice shirt I like that shirt I actually actually like one of our my
favorite shirts that we have I like that one it's just wonderful out of ideas and
I feel like I feel like this is one of our shirts that you could just wear randomly and people might get like a
sensible chuckle out of it even if they don't know what the point is exactly
yeah and that is what Linus Tech tips is all about getting a little chuckle out
of it even if you have no idea what the point was welcome to the W
show we got a great show for you guys today actually I'm really not that sold
on today being a great show no um sometimes those are the best shows sure
um so there's like electric vehicle news which uh usually like ratings are just
like when we talk about that but but we you know we'll we'll talk about it
anyway uh Samsung more Note 7 news wow
and then that's it for main topics
then we go to Rapid Fire which is where we put topics that we're very unsure
about Logitech has a new remote for giving the best PowerPoint presentations
ever oh God and in other news surprise surprise
Time Warner cheated customers on internet speed noctu is releasing
attorney CPU coolers
for which like is good but like that was
it that was the show today thank you everybody and we will see you again next
week same bat Time same bat
channel oh oh oh uh
sure and I don't think there's any sound in the intro because I actually did get
Ed to fix it before the show today but I I just sat down and I did not um I did
not do the thing to be fair you were recording a very cool video yes I was uh
on a Friday afternoon when I'm supposed to be preparing for w show but uh you
know glass houses and stones and not throwing them because you were also
recording a very cool video yeah yeah I wasn't trashing on you I wasn't trashing
on you at all no no not at all I mean this is not a trash relationship no this
is a uh it's a seat relationship a seat that's reference that no one will get
unless they were in this office in this section of the office before the W show
went live yo that was a very inappro com
that you made
what very inappropriate comment totally inappropriate the worst the worst
comment my friends called me they were like it's the worst comment I've ever
heard the worst comment I've ever heard um all right I'm just firing up twitch
um so you know what since this news is
terrible um I am going to create my own
news and uh you are going to stall for
me for like 2 minutes while I grab the
most amazing news ever okay so I'll be right back yeah uh I guess I'll like
lightly talk about a topic because I'm not entirely sure what's going on even
uh electric cars and cheap solar could halt fossil fuel growth by
2020 uh cool honestly there's not a ton else
to say about that I have no idea where allius went it says by 2035 electric
vehicles could make up 35% of Road trans of the Road Transport Market over 66% by
2050 uh this is a report on the guardian
I don't think I can even show you this right now let me
see here we
go oh dear what is this okay no we're
going to switch back okay is this all
you're going to show or you going to take it out okay okay you got to I'm
just G to put it over here yeah you to
focus now that's fine okay so are we going to open it behind me no no no I'm
not going to open it I'm saving it I'm saving this moment so what does that
look I just you're going to show them a brown box yes okay it doesn't even have
look at this it doesn't even have a shipping label on it no shipping label
so was hand delivered unmarked
package this is for something okay first
of all these three boxes cuz this is one
of three okay will be the most expensive
unboxing I have ever done why does this
happen like every
month the most expensive unboxing I have ever done okay okay for
now because there's something more expensive coming see next month next
month next month okay
these are from Seagate oh I know what this is okay and
this is the official announcement so onow so next weekend I'm actually going
to be here wow um I'm going to be here at the office for both days on the
weekend I'm going to be working on uh a
couple of things so next weekend I'm going to be doing an updated look at our
server room the last time you guys saw our server room um well okay the most
recent time you guys saw our server room I was breaking into it by taking the air
vent off the door which by the way is not would not be a successful way to
break into our server room okay so you know I hate to bust your bubble but not
everything you see on TV is is the truth
okay um anyway I'm doing a server room update where we're going to clean it up
because everything in there has been running for almost two years now some of it um we're going to Cable manage it
something that I really should have done a very very long time it's bad it's like
abominable like you you have to you have to kind of Step you have to kind of Step
gingerly when you're around the back of the cabinet because if you step on the
button of a power bar or a power squid you could potentially knock out a bunch
of servers um so that's terrible um I'm
going to be doing some server consolidation with VMS so like our
surveillance server is going to be combined with um a nightly backup server
for all the machines in the office and combined with I've told you about this
before so I'm going to set up like
um might might be some combination but crash plan own cloud some kind of just
like free cloud backup solution for
everyone who works here um so so that's going to be one box um I'm moving the
network switches to the back I don't know why I didn't put the network
switches in the the back in the first place uh so I'm going to put those in
the back so that's going to help with cable management we're changing our Wi-Fi to the New Wave 2 AC ubiquity gear
so our Wi-Fi is going to be much faster that's good um we're putting acoustic
dampening material we're lining the entire inside of the room that's also
good with $3,000 worth of acoustic dampening stuff
what um so I got in touch with the guys
who actually these guys are they're pretty cool so this was um I talked to
Mike from Silent PC review back when we moved in here is this the denim stuff or
so this was the stuff that he recommended that we cover the entire
inside of the warehouse in and basically we eventually concluded that it was cost
prohibitive there was no like standardized way to mount it like we
wouldn't even be able to find a contractor who was going to put like
inall insulation in our Rafters because
it would block the sprinklers like there were a ton of problems we didn't do it
um but it's this uh it's this cotton fiber shredded insulation that has
wonderful heat uh thermal characteristics as well as not emitting
any um odors or chemicals which we definitely experienced with this
cellulose sprayon stuff in here but is gone now um and then the other thing
that's great about it is that its acoustic properties are unreal like just
outstanding both in terms of and there's there's two different ways that you can
measure the uh like the acoustic
canceling and blocking properties of a material there's the echo reduction so
there's like the scattering and then there's also the stopping like the
blocking from transmission and this is
excellent for both so we're going to line the entire inside of the room and
we're going to set up dust filtration on the backup intake and exhaust of the
room so that well just the intake take actually so that in the event that the
air conditioning system which has been added since the last update like it's
been overhauled um so the air conditioning system in the event that
that fails it won't completely suffocate in there and I'll have some time to go
and deal with it okay the last thing
that I'm doing is I'm making room for a
project that has been in the works with Seagate and 45 drives for months now
yeah for quite a while and and it has been in preparation for us to move to
shooting 8K so some of you probably noticed I'll just go grab
it especially on Floatplane it looks better about Floatplane
updates after actually um so some of you
may have noticed especially those of you who have watched the um desk PC finale
where we do a bunch of Glam footage shot on red uh we've actually got an epic W
with the helium sensor now so we are shooting our
videos at somewhere between 6 and 8K
depending on how Brandon wants to utilize the different sensor crops and
all that stuff okay so that's a big storage problem and I'm a packrat
digital pack rat physical packrat I'm a
packrat um the first step is admitting you have a problem the second step is
completely ignoring it I was just going to say and getting more storage so I'm
trying to figure out how to Archive this stuff at some kind of reasonable um
approximation of the original quality that's where this comes in we
have officially outgrown un raid for the
vault I'm actually going to be using unraid for that multi-purpose machine
with the uh with the Windows VMS for surveillance and and the crash plan
thing and all that stuff uh so that is actually going to be like a 100 terab
plus machine so there will be a lot of storage on there for uh for everyone
here which is going to be super cool but anyway we have outgrown that for the
vault and this box behind me is for
something that I'm calling my pet
project and pet is short for as some of
you are probably guessing in twitch chat right now oh my God
paby yes my friends the goal is to have
a single addressable volume Network
share okay with a petabyte of Total
Space so we're going to take all
170 or so 180 or so terabytes that are
on the current Vault we're going to migrate them over to this the whole
thing's going to be using a combination of probably Centos with ZFS and then
gluster FS running over top of it so that we can actually cuz I mean how do
you put a petabyte worth of drives in one box you don't so we're going to have
two 60 Drive storinator you're right it
just come coming soon two 60 drive stators that are going to be running as
a cluster and then possibly a solid state
cash what are you using for that um what
uh we're using SOS with ZFS and then we're using gluster FS over top so it's
come full circle The Forum used to be sent to us there you go so um this is uh
that and the other two boxes
is0 tbte seate Enterprise capacity
drives a hundred of them and then in order to in order to achieve the
addressable one pyte space I'm going to borrow some of the six and 8 terabytes
that they sent me before and I'm going to create a couple more gluster bricks
we can show that big number is there an estimated value uh yeah I believe it's
about 60 Grand worth of
drives this is why like sometimes I have a hard time coming up with video ideas
and I think it's because like my brain never goes to that space where it's like
yeah I'll just you know 80
grand like
just yep my personal rig which is coming
soon because it's done now um yeah you
should talk about it I I spent like uh $160 on amethyst crystals and I felt
like super bad I was like that's a lot of money for a mod ah there's cases that
are cheaper than this a lot of them a lot of really good cases literally the
case that I'm using is cheaper than this
oh anyways I guess I can talk about my now underwhelming project of my personal
rig well it's not underwhelming it looks compared to a pedy server well you know
okay we don't want to we don't want to fall into the seven Gamers one CPU trap
again okay technically it's two servers yeah okay okay look we're not going to
do that anymore I should totally call it one paby one server you should I should
totally do it I should have them silk screen on the front of the machines one
paby one server by calling it a drive because it
looks like a drive when you access
it one one paby
drive it's a network drive so I'm going to open up the
HDD oh man anyways personal rig uh snap
PCS On's already got it healing PC oh I
didn't push that that much in the video before the video John and I spent like
weeks talking about how the amethyst crystals were like going to heal us and
bring more positive energy into the benchmarking environment um and then we
yeah I decided not to push that way too much in the video just cuz I thought it
would get boring and there was so many crazy things that happened that I was
like I'm just going to focus on the crazy building
things uh should I say some of the stuff yeah sure go for for it I mean I mean
realistically like come on these are wow viewers these are the hardcores they're
going to watch it so and nothing you say
right now is going to wa take away the experience of the Brandon Glam b-roll at
the end that's fair yeah that is very fair there's b-roll of my crazy like
amethyst gem geode computer uh shot on a
red so that'll look pretty good the cooler that I used for it which was a
crow rig R1 ultimate
very much didn't fit it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't like a couple
millimeters like it was a huge amount of not fit he comes up to my office and
he's like do you think if I start ripping fins off with pliers and I'm
just like um uh I um I just found it I'm like uh I
don't I don't know if that is a uh he
told me not to do it and then while we were sitting there talking about
something else I just decided to do it anyways uh but spoiler alert I started
from the top just in time so he starts doing it just in time for me to be like
oh but if you did it this way yeah cuz I'm like whatever I'm going to
try it so I start ripping from the top and he's like yo if you just take them
off the bottom then you can keep it looking aesthetically nice at the top so
then I had to try to figure out how to like reattach it reattach to a heat sink
okay so you'll get to watch that Adventure yeah and that so this is like
like half an hour in I run into this problem 2 hours later this cooler that
doesn't miss that doesn't fit by like entire fin length then some heat pipe
Collision was happening too I get it to fit uh I'm going to leave out how I get
the heat pipes to fit yeah um if it fits Luke sits
man oh my goodness brutal um but yeah I
got the I got the CP Co to work you put that heat pipe back in there yeah I did
I did it was close but like you just you got to work it and then after a little
while of just like repeated like you you
just don't want to push too far cuz then you might rupture the heat pipes yeah e
that's true that's true that is true and once the heat pipes lose their inner
juice uh they're not effective anymore yeah that's actually did you know heat
pipes have like liquid in them yeah that
travels up and then like goes not necessarily liquid but they do have
fluid in them for sure CU technically liquid and gas are both
fluids we're trying to be very scientific on the show moving forward
yeah um so it got so healing crystals
yeah and then so I figured that out go that go that way for a little while and
then I have to figure out how to put all these freaking because in my mind I was
just like yeah it's a great case I'll make it look like a
geode it's not that simple there's a lot there's a lot to it one another visit to
Linus's Office later how would you how
would you glue rocks to the inside of a computer and I'm like well gee Luke I've
never really thought about that I've never had a desire to do that I also
emailed Rod yes and you know what's funny about this I emailed Rod like what
I'm going to guess off the top of my head was three months ago yeah and he
suggested exactly how it should have gone and I completely forgot and then
ended up figuring it out through trial and error and then doing exactly what he
had told me if I just listened to him from the start everything would have
been fine rod from bsods knows best man he saw part of a Channel Super Fun where
when I'm on the phone cuz they're trying to prank me I'm sitting beside it working on it and he was like I saw some
amethysts you're working on it that's really cool and then I'm like oh man but
he replied to that email thread I completely forgot about it and I'm like I wonder if he told me to do it the way
that I ended up doing it go up and he says exactly like word for word exactly
how where the LEDs should go even so it looks better
like all right moving on to some actual
news from this week that is not internal LMG news Samsung is committed to
whatever that says quality there we go we learned from
the Galaxy Note 7 issues and have made changes as a result like last time
like the first time that they learned from the Galaxy Note 7 issues and then made changes as a result there's also
something about topload washers there's a c details link here as well anyway the
point is Samsung's new and enhanced quality assurance measures are for
product safety you can watch a video about it Samsung's got that linked on
their site so the first we should do a factory tour they should show us their
new quality assurance measures that would be pretty cool and we should broadcast to the world I'd be totally
down I was trying to get LG to let come see their display manufacturing oh that
would have been really which would have been really cool but would love how to see that the thing about LG is that like
um as far like okay I I think that
industry is secretive to the point where like maybe not quite the uh I forget his
name the uh the the Soviet uh rocket scientist who couldn't even be given a
Nobel Prize because the Soviets kept his name a secret and he wasn't allowed to
have photographs taken of him like he only got he only got secret medals that
he wasn't allowed to wear or show anybody like Soviet Russia man um like I
don't think it's quite like that but I think it's to the point where they don't even really want people seeing like the
layout of the floor and like how many people work on that and whatever like
because there's a lot of I mean the Korean super Giants are like hyper
competitive um so I understand why they didn't let us do it so anyway the tldr
of the Samsung thing is the first battery issue was the negative Electro
tips touching each other in a curved way causing a negative charge to occur the
second battery issue was an abnormal weld spot in the middle left of the
battery that caused it to ShortCircuit so in their commitment to Quality
article they address why this won't happen again so
it's quality first which means improved processes throughout the company to make
sure quality and safety comes first as I wonder what was first before yeah like
not saying that um I'm not saying like this is a bad thing to say and I'm not
even suggesting that quality and safety first wasn't already the way that they
were designing products I'm just wondering
um I'm just so they're just like saying
like yes and I'm we'll do it better this time okay so there's an eighto battery
safety check now so an extensive battery check protocol to ensure the safety of
the battery which includes durability tests charge discharge tests visual
inspection tests ocv test tvoc I'm not
sure exactly what that is X-ray test accelerated usage test and disassembling
test okay they've got multi-layer safety
measures I love how the tvoc test literally just says additional testing
to ensure battery Integrity I'm going to look up what this
is let's so uh test validating test test validation of uh
cells tvoc testing and validation of
cells the O is capital well you know what I made it up on the spot tvoc is a
grouping of a wide range of organic chemical compounds to simplify reporting
when these are present in ambient air or emissions many substances such many
substances such as natural gas could be classified as volatile organic compounds
okay that's a completely different thing that has nothing to do with this total
V total volatile organic compound um
okay so it's a multi-layer safety measure so the idea is to improve safety
standards for their batteries from Hardware design to software protection
they also have a team of experts from Academia and from research centers to
objectively analyze the safety of their batteries called the bag or they're
calling it battery Advisory Group but I like the bag better okay the bag the
bag uh did you cover electric cars in cheap solar fossil fuel growth sort of
sort of but it it's very very uninteresting okay cool uh so let's move
on this is interesting so this was posted
by certain that's actually what it is by the way the tboc thing oh really yeah oh
okay well you win maybe maybe yeah I'm
not I'm not 100% certain so the original article here is from The Verge Apple has
filed a patent for some sort of
vaporizer so here's the diagram so
there's a lid okay um there's a vapor there's a
substance substance being vaporized or
sublimated there's a heater which is
here I guess and a plate you can patent this which is here there's a chamber
body and it should be noted that the chamber body you can tell from the little lines going this way are separate
from the lid okay so it's not sealed
okay so there you can patent this
uh what well hold on a second they
published a patent application okay that details A peculiar
vaporizer technology okay so
um I mean okay so some folks might maybe
this is you know wishful thinking for some people out there might go oh wow
the iape probably I would be very surprised
probably not uh but basically the plan
is for the apparatus to be able to regulate temperature to release heat
from a substance within a canister they
also want to be able to keep air out of the chamber with the substance being
vaporized so I mean ecigarette could be
a potential application um air fresher for a car is
one of the other suggestions in the dock though I'm not really sure about that um
no other information available I have no
idea I couldn't possibly imagine what would you do with a vaporizer if you
were Apple would you maybe put it in your stores so that Apple Stores would
have a particular scent okay huh maybe
it would be a more efficient way to have an apple scent yeah in your store yeah I
mean and it could be like a goodlook thing that makes the scent instead of
like a hidden scent thing that a lot of stores use yep they've done like a lot
of um oh that could even be a product the eye
smell I'm sure they call it something other than that yeah prob um it is being
like weed is being legalized in a lot of States oh I can't even I seriously doubt
it but it could be them no no no but it could be them patent trolling a little
bit here's an idea let's patent it if someone wants to use it they're going to
have to pay us maybe that's my that's as far as I'm
willing to reach in that direction I have a hard time I mean Apple's St
on pornography even in the early days of
the iPhone was like jobs basically didn't want boobs on his device but jobs
is pretty down with the drugs okay or
was that okay this is true but what I mean is like they take a fairly
conservative stance as a company and I
don't mean like like necessarily conservative in the sense that um you
know their CEO can't be out of the closet gay I just mean like
they don't have you know an an ey drink
you know like they even though you know wine culture in California is absolutely
a thing one of the preloaded things on your on your iPhone isn't I wine you
know like a a curated way to you know
buy wine with Apple pay online or whatever like they just they
could easily do any of these things but
but they don't they leave that to the third party app developers to come up
with like you know a smoking tracker or
whatever the case may be like whatever um so I just I I can't imagine
them doing it but I could be wrong I
don't know man that doesn't make a ton of sense um
okay so moving on to the most
interesting topic we have today the most more interesting than all those drives
um the Gart Summits data Summit what no
this is the Logitech uh oh okay I was making a joke I didn't even see the ad I
don't even see ads I don't I'm not aware that they exist I just it's like muscle
memory don't look don't look what ad was on your
page yeah go Daddy go
Daddy I had no idea I just I would have
gone like this and I would have gone this pertains to my interest of okay so
this is fancy and new okay so I actually got briefed on this earlier this week um
without asking my permission I love it when this happens like NVIDIA will do
this with graphics cards that they know that nobody cares about they'll send you
an email they're like the whatever 40 GS is in the mail
yeah here's your review's guide yeah and
you're just like yeah I uh really wasn't going to review this I
mean now I feel obligated because there's a graphics card in the mail it's
like it's not like I feel obligated because you've like paid me for my time in some
way I mean we're talking about you know an $80 graphics card like there is I thought you going to say we're talking
about NVIDIA no it's just it's like it's more like a social obligation like you
know you did a thing you involved me you made me feel like part of the pre-launch
experience maybe I should actually review it on time maybe anyway so they
pulled one of those on me the the what's it called the Logitech Spotlight was
already in the mail oh this is a spotlight oh yeah this is the spotlight
uh the Logitech Spotlight was already in the mail by the time I got my briefing
call on it you're going to use it now for what you're going to end up using it
in some weird video okay it's actually possible so logitech's whole thing is
like we're going to reimagine the presentation remote that needed to
happen Okay so tell me this let's talk
in like super corporate boring terms okay I don't do very well with that but
okay what are your pain points when it
comes to giving presentations you know pain points right
like that's like a like addressing a customer need that's what they're called
they're called pain points I don't really feel like I would have any major
ones no major pain points I I would feel like if if someone was telecommuting in
yeah I feel like the hardware and software to support that is extremely
subpar no no this is for in-person presentations yeah they mostly seem
fine oh okay so I don't have a t else to
say there I've given presentations too back when I was in school I had to like
present to yeah okay so the openings the opening slide of I'm sure they have
something amazing yeah of the deck that I was shown was like some percentage of
people Fear public speaking more than death which is like
obviously like a flawed study we've all heard it before you've heard that before
right which is ridiculous because I've never had a problem with that even
before this job if you ask well it's not even about whether you personally would
it's about the way that they must be collecting data for this yeah for this
study I mean you can't call that a study because there's two ways that you can
collect data about what someone would prefer to speak in front of a large
audience or to die you can ask them on the phone hey so um question
6B would you rather or you can hold a
gun to their head head and be like start talking or I'm going to blow your
freaking brains all over the they'll start much everyone will start talking
they'll start talk and even then I bet you it was a mass survey of a whole
bunch of questions and you had to rate it on a scale and then people went
public speaking that's a zero I hate doing that then it was like death and
they're like H I'm not afraid of anything I'm going to put a three
because I am satisfied with my life blah blah blah blah blah blah blah um it's
probably just weird emotional response stuff yeah so anyway so one of the
features it has is that in a minute you can get uh 3 hours of presentation
battery life so like okay if you were
stuck not I I think it's uh 3 hours is
it six hours it was like a lot it was like
actually uh it was actually pretty impressive like that's cool um whatever
in a minute you can get hours of presentation time so so that's kind of
neat so if like you would stress oh no my remote's not working how am I going
to give this presentation I'm doing like a TED talk or something I think Ted
would have you covered I think Ted would probably have a backup remote but look
we're trying to we're we're finding pain points okay yeah we're finding pain points I feel like Ted would have
someone else actually run we're finding pain points unless you doing a tedex the
independent ones then maybe you bring your own depending on the size some of
them are done in like basement and stuff okay so it can communicate via Bluetooth
or it has a dongle that slides into the bottom and also acts as like a handy
dandy little Loop if I were put a loop on would it a loop
that detach from the um so there's that
that's sort of one piece of feedback um it charges via
USBC um it uh so this is pretty cool it
you can adjust the volume by it end is USBC or the other end is USBC um it end
is USBC for charging inside and then it terminates in some other connection on
the other end USB a yeah okay good yeah yeah all good all good all fine um so
you can adjust the volume with like a touch pad thing or gestures or something
I think like that gestures yeah um here
we go so you can assign uh one of
several abilities to the top or bottom buttons you can fast forward you can
blank the screen you can scroll you can set it for a custom keystroke so some of
the Logitech G you know programmable
nonsense makes its way into it I thought this was pretty cool you can move a
cursor around and you can zoom in on your cursor
Point like with a little the spotlight yeah okay so you can have a little
Spotlight um and it feels really good in the hand it comes in matte colors and is
available exclusively on logitech.com and through the Apple Store for the
first month you said something about gestures yeah I think there's gestures
um maybe I'm wrong about that I don't see anything about gestures in this
article I don't know it's a presentation remote and it's like 130 bucks or
something like that um it feels really good in the hand though it's
metal so if you're like a baller business dude and you're like I want the
best presentation remote yes then you would buy one of these yeah
all right so that's cool I guess yeah oh
man this is kind of a been a painful week have you noticed how like every
like if you're on like a product I'm not going to be able to relate to a ton of
people right now but if you're on like a product conference call yeah and they're
trying to like explain things to you have you noticed like the quality is
often terrible
hm no and like I don't think that it's
the mics H I don't necessarily think it's the webcams but the webcams are
often terrible too and like the screen sharing software is often garbage I've
had pretty good experiences um yeah Logitech did the one through uh but
Logitech makes this stuff so they probably use their own really high-end things and they're probably great I'm
talking like when it's not companies that make presentation things ah yeah
well no no Logitech doesn't have their own um like their own like you're
talking like go-to meeting or like WebEx and all that kind of stuff yeah Logitech
was using one that I actually don't think I've used before it was pretty good my last couple go-to meetings have
been pretty good I've had a lot of WebEx ones that were just sort of terrible it
could be the like way it's set up or something connecting to them seems
really clunky too I don't know man you'd think this kind of stuff would be very
simple by now that's what yeah I remember seeing a demo at I think it
would like it was some developer conference or some kind of show and the
demo was like this it was this social
like video sharing application and the
idea was that it was kind of like chat rooms and you could have like dozens of
users all represented by like little tiny bubbles and you could like drag
your bubble did you see this too I I think I remember this yeah yeah and you could like drag your bubble from one
room into another and then you were all just kind of like sitting there chatting and you all just had your your bubbles
um and it was kind of like Skype but I
think the idea behind it was that you could share experiences through it as
well so you could all watch a movie together for example which is probably
why it never got off the ground because that has all kinds of like content
protection yeah um issues associated the
thing that drives me crazy is you you hear about these like remember we met
that dude I have to be super vague here and
he was the engineer who was making the crazy stuff
that he was we weren't allowed to talk about it and he wasn't allowed to talk
about it too much oh in the airport yes yes I was going to try to leave the
airport out just to even try to make it more V but that's as far as I'm going to
go there like they're making crazy stuff and some of this stuff already exists
I've been into conference rooms where I'm like wow the hardware you guys have
to broadcast the people that aren't in this room is amazing Y and then I get on
some of these calls and I'm just like it sounds like crap it looks like crap
what's going on this can't be the hardware that's in these rooms yeah I
mean you look at like the way that okay so like uh wireless access point beam
hav had a conference call with logisch yeah I can't wireless access point beam
forming um that's a thing so that's where you have an array of antennas that
pick up um pick up where the clients are
effectively and make sure that the signal strength is as good as it could
possibly be so I think like our Ruckus r710 has something like I don't remember
how many it is it's like 40 antennas or okay it's not that I don't remember how
many it is but it has lots lots of antennas and it uses this beam forming
in order to uh have better signal strength and this
type of beam forming also exists for audio so that's how something like um
noise cancellation on a pair of wireless headphones Works where it'll go okay
this one and this one are working together to pick up your voice and then
this Omni one over here is trying to find anything that's not your voice and
they'll be able to cancel out anything that isn't you algorithmically using
multiple microphones and so there is crazy stuff that exists wow but it's
either very very expensive or not even possible to buy unless you like call up
a Solutions engineer from one of these companies and go do you guys have
anything like this and they go yeah sure we'll have someone in the lab like hand
make it for you yeah um yeah I mean a
perfect example of something like that was Sony's laser projector that they
showed off a couple of years ago at C yes where that was kind of like this in
between it was in between having a skew
that goes was in a box with a part number that sits on a Shelf at Best Buy
and you having to like call Sony and have them build something custom because
they did create a skew but you had to like call them and special order it yeah
and they would hand make them one at a time in Japan and ship it to you so
there's this this gamut there or there's this
spectrum of like go to market strategies
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this is interesting I uh
what yeah because you're a total Scruff
today okay I explained this in the intro
of my personal rig video it has taken so long to get my personal rig video done
that I decided on the first day that I started working on it actually that I
wasn't going to shave or get a haircut until I was done and then it ended up being like a really
long time you don't even look like you don't even look like playoff beard you
just look like kind of unced it's really bad so like it's it's it goes pretty far
down which is rough I get this stupid bald patch thingy here which is rough
well it's not actually bald someone mentioned before that it might have like something wrong it's some weird disease
thing no there's hair there it's just thinner um and then like all of this
like if if I flare it out oh that that
legitimately goes to like here on my hand that's awful it's yeah okay so
don't don't look like Luke what I was going to add is every single time that
we do a Dollar Shave Club ad I haven't
shaved in an extended period of time and I don't know why that keeps happening
they're going to cut us off hopefully not at some point see but the thing is
when they're not doing advertisements for us I am clean shaven so it's kind of
like them being like hey wow you should fix this okay so
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it like just incredible amounts of money Dollar Shave Club saves you Hassle and
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leave the house without actually leaving the house so they've got a special offer
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include their Commerce module you can make changes anytime you want through
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an Apple news format to your Squarespace blog module that'll work too um you can
I'm trying to convince them to change their their slogan to it just works to
it just works Squarespace it just works I think that's uh isn't that like
Apple's old slogan I don't think they can do that is yeah isn't that like
apple it just works I think so it just
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that out in the meantime um in the meantime Square space is all about
taking the hassle out of having your own website whether you're you know running
a little league team in your town or whether you have a restaurant or whether
you resell Squarespace service that is
something that people totally do is they just set people up with Squarespace
sites they make them look really beautiful them for them and then they
hand over the keys and they go boom here's your website it's awesome it only
cost you a few bucks a month to maintain hi
Shane friend Shane literally does
that or has done that I guess well you
end up with a good website and from from a person who's designing websites
perspective there's no like hassle after the fact soone like okay this is a legit
story I might screw up one or two small parts of it but like the the general
framing of the story is legit buddy Shane person comes after them has spent
tons of money on a web designer wasn't going well he's like here here give me
your give me your credit card D D D D D get some on Squarespace which one do you
like that one click D D D D D fill in your stuff D D D D D okay you're done
that's all you needed everything's fine they spent like a lot of money on a web
designer and then they were way more happy with their this is like an actual
I'm leaving some details out cuz I don't know the exact amount of money right I
don't know how long they were struggling with it I don't there's like a it's a much more interesting story when you
know all the details but like that did happen something along those lines did
happen yeah dog all right so on to the
rest of the news we actually do have a lot more topics than I thought I wonder
if Colton's been adding since we started streaming there's like pages and Pages
now uh Time Warner apparently cheated customers on internet speed says the New
York attorney general I'm assuming that's what AG stands for so the
original article here is from the Press herald.com subscribers to the company's
Premium plan received internet speed as much as 70% slower than guaranteed in
their ads the lawsuit says now I think
it's been a long time since an ISP has
actually guaranteed to speed in their
ads um everyone in Canada just says up to so that they don't end up getting Su
over this stuff but um so Charter
acquired time order cable last year for 59 billion 55 billion I didn't realize
they renamed it Spectrum um the suit was
filed on Wednesday following a 16-month probe that included reviewing internal
corporate Communications and hundreds of thousands of subscriber speed tests the
investigation found that Spectrum Time Warner subscribers were getting
dramatically short changed on both speed and
reliability uh Justin vck a spokesman I
don't know how to pronounce that last name for Charter said the company is disappointed with the decision to sue
because it was based on service promises advertised before the company acquired
Time Warner Cable okay well so so
then man up yeah okay Noctua releases
three CPU coolers spe specifically for AMD ryzen this is a really
good really good sign for reasons that
might not be immediately apparent so they've got the NHL 12 so first of all
this tells us something about ryzen and that is that there will be SKS available
that will be power and thermally efficient enough to use oh whoops to use
a low profile cooler like this sorry and
hockey sticks what about hockey sticks
NHL oh thank you for that I tried we
didn't make it there I yeah I I I you
know what I'll take the blame for that one I appreciate it it's okay but I
appreciate it I mean if it was 2012 and you'd been like NHL
12 it would have been any wouldn't have gotten any better actually been terrible
okay um so anyway so it tells us that they also have a high performance cooler
they have a special edition NF uh
nhd15 so this is the se4 this is really cool because it tells
us that the scuttlebutt within the industry a lot of which doesn't make its
way into the media because of ndas but it tells us that the Scuttle butt within
the industry is that AMD is going to have a processor that is high
performance enough to justify putting a
$100 cooler on top of it right so we're
not getting like a $149.99 we priced it that way because
that's all it competes with should
breaking down like the potential expectations of the results of these
coolers H it would be a very speculative
video I don't know man I would be interested um so here's a look at ITW
the other thing this tells us okay the fact that there are three coolers tells
us that Noctua is expecting high enough
sales volume of am4 processors again
industry scuttlebutt here high enough sales volumes that one cooler company
can have three dedicated SKS for just
this platform something that they haven't done for a long time for AMD
processors so this is like indirectly
great news um there have also been some
Ryzen leaks um apparently they are not in the
dock uh ryzen leak Linus Tech tips but I
was reading about it on the Forum earlier this week uh the ryzen CPU
lineup possibly leaked so we'll just pull up the no we won't uh okay so we
will go like this thanks for saving that
okay and check this out so this was
originally posted over on wccf Tech so
take it with whatever your opinion of wccf tech is but this um so Source
ker.com ker has been known for leaking a
lot of stuff in the past actually
apparently we're going to get like a a a radon style R prefix then we're getting
these completely indecipherable model names apparently why
R um well with the graphics cards it was
oh no yeah I hate it too um so it looks
like we're going to get a Core 16 thread anywhere from 3 to 3.6 GHz with the
intention of competing against the 7700k to 6900k now this is a little confusing
to me because if they're showing off 6900k competitors which are according to
this chart expected to be at the top end that are running without AMD's clock
speed boosting technology running how is it that an 8 core 16 thread at only 600
MHz less would be competitive with a
7700 because these two perform very similarly in nonheavy threaded workloads
and this gets creamed by this in heavily
multi-threaded workloads so this is going to be very interesting in a in a
while or so I I don't know when ryzen's coming yeah have you seen that dude who
bends a pin every day or whatever on what he has an older AMD processor do
not remember which one it is I guess it literally has to be older because there
aren't any other ones right now um and he bends a pin on it I think every
single day that they don't announce the release date of rizing well that'll give
him like three years worth of pins to bend well no like he started I think
since CES so like going just this CES yeah
okay yeah that still gives him like three years of pins to bend so I think I
think he'll make it he's through like a row and a half or something of pins nice
speaking of bending pins would you guys like to see I'm not going to do straw
pull just hit me up in twitch chat would you guys like to see a guide on
repairing LGA you're really good at it so I would like
to see that guide because Luke brought me a socket that got I thought I was
screwed that got wrecked as far as I could tell when looking at it it was
pretty much a done deal I thought one of
there's a few areas where you can see damage and I thought one of them in
particular I literally thought the pin was missing so I was
like and when that's fix that when that's the case you're done yeah but I
actually have a dead LGA 2011 3 board um
it's really unfortunate it's a WS board
which is like so it's like a $600 board I got in touch with a Seuss it would
cost me like $350 to repair the socket
and I'm just like yeah I and it's still a used board
with like a used socket solded onto it now like I I don't maybe a new socket
but like it I don't know it sketched me
out but but I could I could sacrifice
what's left of it because you know what it actually kind of still works except that some okay but yeah I think for this
video to carry weight it has to be a motherboard that will work when you're
done you have to go from like look everything's in it doesn't turn on
properly take it out look how terrible it is fix boot it back up this works
okay okay I don't know if I'm like I don't know if everyone agrees with me
but I feel like that adds a lot more weight to I wish we had done it on that
board then because there were pins in the socket I don't know if you guys have
looked that closely at them but basically they stick up kind of like
this they're they're kind of flat and then they go up and then they come out
and then there's like a pad on the end there's like it's more joints than my finger has but basically
um I can't believe you just did that you're on camera
too anyway it sticks up like this these
were bent all the way over so I had to
bend them all the way back like this um it was pretty
impressive I was like he's fixed a lot
of crazy sockets before it's working though it is working it is completely
working so maybe next time we have a and we have a bent socket we'll uh we'll
tackle it because the bent pin repair video that I did back on NC Tech tips
was also done under similar circumstances I was trying to get a
video done and the the the the PIN
well broke off eventually yeah um have you watched that video no okay so the
pin was bent and in trying to B back I broke it off that CPU is still running
in my parents desktop still running anyway um so that video we filmed it as
an impromptu thing in the middle of a completely separate video that just
happened to need that I needed that processor for it and the reason that I
had to repair it rather than go into the warehouse and grab another one is we
were filming after hours and I couldn't go get another one I had no choice I had
to fix it so maybe next time maybe next time we'll uh we'll do that cool I don't
even remember what the news item that we were talking about was um oh there there
is more risen news this week though aside from the lineup being revealed um
and that lineup looks very promising the fact that AMD because there's a lot of
cost associated with bringing a skew to Market even just stupid stuff like
packaging and marketing and expecting distributors retailers to stock all this
stuff they have to be expecting sales volume if they're going to have like
what looked like 15 to 20 SKS at launch
um more good news AMD expected to provide Windows 7 drivers for their
upcoming ryzen CPUs and you might think oh well yeah of course but remember a
lot of the Windows 7 support for Modern
Hardware comes from it having
already like supported Windows 7 before
um like graphics cards stuff like that
yeah sure but there's no real guarantee once it's on Microsoft's like end of
support road map there's no real guarantee that you're going to get
proper support because rym will probably work on Vista
2 but they might not guarantee it so
official support means that they're
going to support it and they're going to make sure that there are no bugs even though it might work on other stuff so
that's a very important distinction and more good news about AMD ryzen we should
just call this the good news about ryzen show you know how with steam you can
stream games over a
network yeah there's like if you have it installed on another computer El there's
the stream button right what if you did it over the same computer using
unraid um that could be done I can't think of a good reason to do it though
not wanting to use
Windows oh like not wanting to use Windows for your actual desktop
experience so could you pass through much of well you wouldn't even
need to pass through as much resources because Linux is just lighter yeah so if
you had like a 10 Core Extreme Edition or something and you passed through like
four of your cores or you could even do six of your cores to your desktop
experience and you used four of them for a Windows gaming VM and you streamed off
of that yes that that could actually work quite
well I kind of want to do that Windows 10 is really
annoying like oh man I sort of hate it
there was even a post on pcmr today I think it hit the top where the guy has
like all notification settings and all advertisement and everything turned off
everywhere and Cortana even though disabled comes in the corner it's like
hey have you figured out your Super Bowl snacks yet like pissed off I actually
really hate using that operating system and I would love to use Windows 7 but
then we have topics like this where it's like Oh yay new hardware supports it
instead of like of course new hardware supports it so here's an interesting
little tidbit um I found a Windows 8.1
um unused license key in the office today and I had a thought you know how
we're having a lot of issues with stability with Adobe Media
incoder I am going to try putting one of our render machines on Windows 8.1 and
see what happens my brother swears by it um he uses 8.1 and suggests it to
everybody it has a lot of the optimizations uh like SMB multi- Channel
optimizations things like the much better task manager and file transfer
stuff all of that stuff um doesn't have direct X12
support who cares but I want to try it out because
one of the writer applicants like it's okay to be fair with the who cares like
it's really stupid that it doesn't have that support but it's not better yet at
least so don't worry about it it's fine so one of the writer applicants uh
worked on a video that we probably won't end up releasing just because I wasn't
there to oversee the testing methodology we paid him for the work anyway but like
so he benchmarked Windows Vista
78.1 and 10 to determine is there truly
an operating system that performs better and Windows 8.1 came on top yeah like
consistently yeah so I I'm going to try
it out and I'm going to see how it goes like yes the start menu is garbage but
you can replace it y classic start classic start yeah sh can't remember
it's start yeah it's been a while yeah um Firefox OS speaking of operating
systems is dead uh Milla kills off the
open source Internet of Things project with 50 layoffs and the original article
is from ZDNet there's not really a whole lot to add other than that we have
shifted our internal Focus or our internal approach to The Internet of
Things opportunity to step back from a focus on launching and scaling commercial products to one focused on
research and advanced development Okay
so basically it's not there yet so we'll like hire a team later yeah
um yeah the Nintendo online service will cost less than $30 a year apparently
that's very reasonable but unlike PlayStation Network PSN and like other
things your monthly like random little game that you get uh you don't get to
keep it so you essentially get like a random
game for a month and then it's
gone okay so you lose like a lot of the
benefit and save half the money so if you didn't care at all about the games
that you would get included I'm not going to say for free included with the
other services um then this is better because
it's cheaper but then I think a lot of the value proposition of this is going
to be figured out when they actually roll it out because they're new to the
kind of party right and their online
services have been AB absolute trash yeah so now that they're charging for it
they better step their game up and I love how they just shut them down like I
really liked playing Mario Kart DS and they're just
like peace it's gone and there's no you
know Community replacement option just yep that thing that you enjoyed about
that thing you bought maybe you should have played it more when it was still available bro um okay well we'll see how
that goes for them yeah there's going to be a lot of let's see how that goes for them there's a lot of speculation that
if switch isn't like a resounding success Nintendo is not going to do
another living room console um just move to but then this is
hard to even Define as a living room console there's been a lot of talk about
that it's it's basically a hybrid and like honestly wow using it in handheld
mode is amazing and like handheld mode and tabletop mode were the main
interesting things honestly when I was using the like TV mode experience it was
good but it was just good the handheld mode was awesome it
felt like the best version of a DS just because the screen is huge and like if
you take the controllers off it's actually pretty easy to pack somewhere
um certain games like if you get Zelda certain editions of Zelda like the
special editions and stuff come with a sleeve so you can take your switch with
you like they're very much approaching it from a mobile standard uh the
original article here is from RS Technica posted by murazaki or something
like that on the Forum in NVIDIA to stop people from reselling promotional game
codes by tying the codes to Hardware so
to be clear uh the game is not tied to that video card
forever so if you were to change your video card down the road you still get
to keep it but Redeeming the game permanently adds the game to the
appropriate third party service and they have confirmed that GeForce experience
will check that the user has installed a qualifying graphics card but again the
game will not be permanently linked to the hardware get it I'm not thrilled
about it because I personally would often use like bundled games as offset
the cost of your card yeah um like when
I already owned it it's just kind of a bummer if I already bought it
um so yeah that sucks uh we've talked
about that already LG's 5K monitor this
was originally posted by Good Bites is not cooperating well with routers and LG
is recommending keeping your monitor at least 7t away from your router
apparently once the router oh they don't have a picture of it happening or
anything but apparently once the router gets too close it causes interference
with the display and causes it to uh not
work properly so it can flicker disconnect or freeze the computer due to
electromagnetic interference LG has acknowledged the
problem um but they don't have anything
speciic specific that they're saying about what they plan to do to address
it I think that's pretty much it for today yep that's it you want to talk
about the 58 gab HD texture pack for Fallout 4 really quick sure the okay so
basically what I just said 58 Gigabyte HD texture pack for Fallout 4 that's
crazy uh your PC will need to meet or exceed the recommended specs to run this
pack the recommended specs that they're talking about is Windows 7 8 or 10 and
Intel Core i750 8 20K or better a GTX
1080 8 gig or better and 8 gigs of RAM
or better that looks incredible though yeah
with your new personal rig you'll be able to chew through that and maybe stream it Wicked all right so thanks for
tuning in to the W show guys we will see you again next week same bat Time same
bad Channel yay
oh right the outro well the intro but like with no yeah there's no audio I
could try and find the audio one um I don't know where Ed put it is
someone else bring in a foam roller is this for filming I have no idea I just
don't question things anymore intro is there something that he
modified today nope I have no idea okay and