we're already live where it's already done thank you Colton i appreciate the
help it was great it was great we have awesome news this week i'm sure you guys
know of at least some of it there's been the crazy battlefield controversy going
on why do i give us a big battlefield the crazy battlefront controversy going
on with the like most downvoted comment of all time on reddit and all this other
stuff we're of course going to talk about that but there's also some other
crazy things new too like uh the firefox
hardware survey has some interesting nuggets of information for us so we're
going to analyze later on and face id hacked in the first week bam
suck it apple oh this is not good for anybody except the people who did it i
guess yeah and if you're watching last night tesla
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the second iteration of their roadster which is their original vehicle yeah
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or just enjoy your day in some other way um battlefront crazy stuff happening
there's a post on reddit we're going to show it here right now
the reddit post was talking about how it takes 40 hours to unlock a hero they
talk about a bunch of different stuff the post has been updated a few times actually been very well taken care of by
the hotter potato this has been nuts if
you've been on the internet this week almost at all even if you're not that
into gaming you have probably heard about this there's huge controversies
where countries like belgium are considering uh classifying different
games as gambling online gambling because of how loot boxes are being
handled because this post has gotten so
big that it has gotten two people that manage laws in countries which is pretty
crazy congressmen are being contacted about this like it's it's blown up to a
ludicrous degree which is good or bad depending on your stance probably bad um
let's start at the beginning yeah so the beginning is this post and
then what really blew it up is the developer responding which usually makes
things better it super did not i'm sure a lot of this is
uh same old same old from what you guys have heard so before we get into their
response why don't we outline what happened to begin with it's basically everyone getting super super duper mad
because the new star wars battlefront 2 game from ea
which is a flagship title that costs 80 bucks yes
also has heavily uh these pay to win game mechanics so
how that kind of works and i i played in the beta and i started to feel it as
well is a lot of games have loot boxes you've got overwatch where you get a
bunch of different skins or portraits or whatever shadow of war had some issues
here as well where it could really help you with your gameplay but i beat on the
hardest difficulty without using any of them that's not a brag a lot of people
did this it's not that difficult of a game
and it's not that big of a deal this is where it became a big problem
this is a multiplayer game and they directly give you extremely powerful
advantages against your enemy not just aesthetic skins and stuff like that like
overwatch no yeah like directly power you are better you do more damage
you regen more health you have more health you lock onto targets faster you
don't get locked onto as fast these types of things but surely you can
achieve those things from just playing the game and not spending money yes but
it takes a ludicrous amount of time how much time i don't know the exact hours
but i think someone calculated it as like over six months it's 40 hours to unlock
a hero but there's other stuff as well like the the hero that's definitely part
of it and you can't get vader without playing the game for 40 hours which is
ridiculous because most people aren't going to play the game for 40 hours single player or like just the game the
the game it's it's how it's balanced is not based on skill which is another
thing that's pissing people off if you do really really well in a round and you
kill a ton of people you're not going to get that many more credits than someone
who just played for the same amount of time that you did okay which is bugging
a lot of people which sounds like money making business practice yeah because
you have to pour a huge amount of time in like 40 hours to unlock something
like a hero the part that bugs me even more than the hero part the hero part is
just it hits that 40 hour number so it's easily digestible yeah okay um the cards
you get these different cards that you put on your character to give you different bonuses okay say you're
playing the spaceship combat mode i'm in a bomber you're in a tie fighter
i've spent a whole bunch of money on the game just money man tossing it all over
the place i have something that makes it so that i lock onto targets 200 percent
faster holy cow also my bombs do increase damage and i move faster you
don't have any cards you just started the game you just launched up you were
just fighting another bomber you're in a fighter you were able to get away from
them and get out you're like sick okay i got this new move i spin and list
slightly to the left and everything works out great you try to do the same thing against me i lock onto you 200
faster you can't get out of the way you're dead yeah okay that directly
strongly affected gameplay based on card advantages now to get to the top there's
different tiers of these cards as well to get to the top tier of cards you kind
of have to craft your way up the easiest way to get crafting
materials is loot boxes the easiest way to craft your tear up to the top card is
loot boxes people who spend money will be directly better
at online competitive modes because of this and it's lots of money
from if i remember correctly if you want to unlock everything like top tier of
every card and all the heroes it's like 2100 or something that's i'm saying that
off top of my head i don't remember exactly but is that like even a realistic thing that anyone would want
to do or realistically that's the thing yes
it absolutely is if you look into the game industry right now especially the
mobile side which are the guys that have been doing more of this kind of like
loot box pay-to-win mechanics it hasn't been in a lot of full-priced games
because that's ridiculous that's the whole controversy like do you
think people would be as mad if this game was free to play no pay to win i
don't think they'd be nearly because you already paid 80 bucks yeah
so what they're targeting is what's
called in the gaming industry is wales right it's small amounts of people i
i've heard people i know pewdiepie and his videos said 10
i doubt it's anywhere near that high i'm gonna go with one percent or lower of
players will spend a ludicrous amount of money these are the guys that'll play a
mobile game and just be like i'm going to spend thousands and
thousands and thousands of dollars to wreck all of you literally thousands
i spoke to when i was traveling i met some people from silicon valley who
worked in the industry and they said they had a very small percentage of users who had spent over a hundred
thousand dollars just on on that mobile app yep insane absolutely nuts and there
are definitely lots of people that will spend that twenty one hundred dollars to
on day one oh have a huge advantage on everyone else
that also makes it that you might put in cheats like is it really that fun to
have god mode it's not quite god mode but it is a
noticeable advantage and the biggest issue for me is it creates a concept in
the game where when someone kills you you can legitimately
say that it was because of something that wasn't skill yeah you can you can
lose be like overpowered that's imba he just spent more money on the game
that's why he won and you might not be wrong which is ridiculous
in lots of games where you're like oh that gun's just overpowered the response
from pretty much everyone else is gonna be like okay then use it yeah or like
find a way to counter it get good something like that in this game you could be like he just spent more money
what can i do and that's a legitimate stance and that
is ridiculous that shouldn't be able to be a legitimate stance but it has been made so by the developers and it's
ridiculous because of one of the statements that they said in this
official post which i'm going to jump back to here
which drives me absolutely insane it drove the entire internet insane and i'm
sure you've all heard this but where is it
and you really mean that this is like a record-breaking oh yeah record breaking
down it says right now negative 20.9 000
but it's way more than that i don't know what happened it must have been on a
slope or auto-corrected curve whatever um but i saw it personally at over 600
000 and i'm sure it was higher than that at some point in time but
yeah um let's see here we'll continuously adjust our progression
mechanics to give players a sense of accomplishment as they all as they
explore all of battlefront 2. that is driven everyone nuts because the sense
of accomplishment isn't skill
it's not doing better at the game gives you more credits it's spending more time
on the game gives you more credits and you can just skip all of that and have a
sense of freaking accomplishment by paying a whole bunch of money into the
game and instantaneously being better than everyone removing other people's
sense of accomplishment by squishing on them with your cash because you bought
better freaking cards or heroes or whatever the question i have is when you
come into this as a noob who hasn't spent anything yet and you get absolutely demolished by someone who has
are you just going to put the game down and not play it anymore or are you going to be motivated to spend they're
obviously banking on the ladder but what are they going to spend what do you think is actually going to happen for
people i think it's going to be a little bit of both if if you have this is the
the frustrating situation you have right here if you have
a group of friends uh and some people are saying yeah i think it was a
slightly different quote i don't know if it was from a different post or this one has been edited or what but i think it
was slightly different anyways um if you have a group of friends that all
play games together you guys have been playing games together since high school
or something and two out of six of the
friends start playing battlefront all right you normally play a game all
together but these guys want to play battlefront they just bought it then
maybe one or two more guys buy battlefront because they were playing
the last two guys are gonna cave because four out of six have it anyways it's
very easy if a couple people in a group start playing a game that everyone will
eventually play because everyone just wants to play together and something new and shiny that's great now you're all
playing together but jim and larry
don't have as much time they spend more time at work they're
great gamers they're great in your crew you love having them there but they
don't have as much time so to make up for the time they're going to spend
money on the game even though they're great gamers
they're top and score charts and everything they could normally make up the time by getting more credits and
just doing better in the game and something like counter-strike it doesn't
matter at all because they don't care if they don't have the fancy skins they still get the
same freaking gun yeah something like overwatch it doesn't matter they don't
care if they don't look as cool they have the same heroes
everything's fine or even in destiny they just scale it
they just scale it and in destiny you there's loot boxes sort of bright
engrams but they just give you aesthetic items and it doesn't really matter these
are games where you can catch up through skill or catch up because there's
nothing to catch up on instead of oh i'm going to catch up by
spending money that is my mechanic to catch up directly i didn't realize there
was this time issue it's almost completely separate from the money issue
it's yeah well that's the big problem is
they kind of work together the money issue almost is like alleviates the time
issue but that's some sicko that's like
mechanic though yeah yeah so like the problem i have is because let's take a
look at my brother my brother works a lot and has crazy work hours because he
he drives truck for movie production companies so they work to crazy hours of
the night they work crazy long hours in general and you usually get on for a
specific show and they want to film that entire show right so for the duration of
that show you're working not so amount of hours if he wants to play a game like
this it's very likely that it would make
logical sense i'm not saying he's going to i'm not saying he's not going to but
it would make logical sense for him to buy some boxes so he can catch up to the
rest of us that would be able to play more if we were playing this game
that makes sense for him the problem is that the game is based around that yeah
and it is trying to push people to do that if gaming companies start making
money they'll try to find ways that make more money yeah so the time and money
thing are mutually reinforcing yeah yeah the thing about that question of like if
you are more likely to just stop playing versus more likely to spend money in
order to not get squashed you already have this sunk cost of 80 80
bucks that's a big issue too and like oh it's free you could walk away yeah oh if
i just spend 10 more bucks i'll have more fun but then it's gambling which is
another huge issue so you spend 10 more bucks and maybe you want to play the
heavy class in the ground war game instead of the space game or whatever
you want to play let's just go with the heavy class and you don't get any of the
cards that you want for the heavy class you already spent your 10 bucks it's gone you didn't get any of that because
of the cards number of loot boxes and the loot boxes are random
so it's gambling because maybe now you have to spend more you don't know i like
playing the bomber in the star fighting game thing i played in the beta
i only want cards for the bomber i play the bomber on both sides i play the tie
bomber and i play the a wing i if i don't get cards to the bomber i'm
just gonna want more loot boxes it's gambling
you can craft cards too yeah and you can craft someone just in the chat just said
you can craft cards too great people who spend money in the game
will be able to craft more cards because they'll have more materials from the
other cards and the more you play the game if i played that spaceship combat
game for enough time i would eventually want to branch out of just fighting with
the bomber ship it's not necessarily true for everyone or y-wing sorry it's
not necessarily true for a-wing's a little fast one sorry
it's not necessarily true for everybody but a lot of people including myself are
going to want to branch out then they'll want cards for other things then you're running out of crafting materials then
it costs 2100 to get all of the cards in the game because now you actually enjoy the game
because you spend 80 and it's the only game you bought this season maybe
it's just frustrating because now that it's here they're building the game
around it that's one thing that i actually defended shadow of war with
is when playing shadow of war it didn't feel like they had built the game around
the idea of the loot boxes the loot boxes gave you money they gave you some
followers but the entire game it's like smashed in your face that there's these
no not shadow four it's smashed in your face that there are these orcs all over
the place and you just need to press the one button and it actually ends the
combat faster if you want to recruit them so like it the game gives you these
orcs all the time so it's not that big of a deal i didn't mind it that much it
didn't feel like the game was designed around it battlefront absolutely
absolutely battlefront 2 feels like it was designed around the idea of the loot
boxes instead of the other way around which is bad this is very bad so we
haven't even got to the news portion which is the fact that after a brutal ama where they just made
everyone even more mad with their question dodging and brutal unsatisfactory answers
they made another determination which was for now they're just gonna turn off
all of it all the ability to purchase crystals in in game will now be uh
completely off it's offline and john told me that actually if you go to the
the interface where you go to buy these crystals instead of just removing the
button and not letting you go into that area
you can click the button and it brings you just like a random janky blank page
maybe people on the chat can confirm or deny this but that's i haven't seen that
i don't i don't have it uh someone in the chat said luke won't be streaming
battlefront 2. technically i will be streaming battlefront 2 i'll be
streaming battlefront 2 tomorrow it'll just be the original one
because i'm playing games throughout the years so i don't remember what year the
original battlefront 2 came out in but i'm playing it for that year so it's
going to be all pixelated and wonky and fun so and fun
there's no loot boxes it's great uh 2007 apparently what no
maybe it's not 2007.
um so thing to note about them turning off
this this uh game mechanic for the buying is
that they didn't remove it they've just turned it off and they say the ability
to purchase crystals in-game will become available at a later date once ea has
made changes to the game so it's funny because the internet seemed to lag here
a little bit it felt like if you if you pile everyone
which isn't fair it's not fair i understand if you pile everyone on the
internet into one little hive mind bubble they read the first part and then about
an hour or two later read the second part because the whole internet rejoiced
like we we we did it read it we we won they took microtransactions out
accomplished and then like starting
about half an hour to an hour later it started kind of bubbling up and then by
two hours later it had passed posts about the original
happiness that oh my goodness they're just putting the microtransactions back
in the game and they called it the weight whitening
yeah exactly yeah so like
it's it's frustrating because this is so transparent
they're trying to get this huge wave of people that are refunding the game like
me to
rebuy it play it long enough that now they're
invested maybe they have a group of friends that play or i don't know how
the great game guarantee works on origin i know that i played for zero hours so i
was or zero minutes zero seconds whatever so i was able to wait until
that expires i think so but i don't know if that matters i don't know how the
great game guarantee works but they're trying to they're going to wait until
people are kind of stuck in it or can't refund it or whatever and then they'll
put microtransactions back in they'll make their money off their whales and
they'll move on i'm sure that the micro transactions i'm sure it's going to be
they're going to adjust it so you don't have to do so much work
the disparity won't be so huge okay there was a huge issue there as well did
you hear about this so they reduced the cost of heroes
but then right reduces the amount of credits that you get that's right
so they basically just it was the same basically they did two different moves
that were both two-faced non-moves yeah
they were like hey we reduced the cost of heroes by the way
we also reduced the amount of credits you get don't worry about it right and then they're like hey we removed
microtransactions of the game by the way they're also coming back don't worry
about it so it was like a hero used to be a grand but you start with a hundred
bucks now a hero's only a hundred bucks but you start with 10 bucks
that's what you're saying it's ridiculous yeah essentially so i guess
this controversy just got so bad that they were actually afraid of losing
their launch day sales like that up front eighty dollars yeah that was going
to get so heavily eroded that they're like okay we can't sacrifice that
and i wonder at some point because like a lot of these moves are so
dense like a sense of accomplishment when
you're answering a spawn a a a post
which its title is it takes 40 hours to unlock a hero
and you can just buy it like that's so
obviously not the right way to respond to that i seriously wonder at some
degree if this isn't just any press is good press
because now every single gamer definitely knows about battlefront
every single mom and dad knows battlefront is around no this is too too
bad too bad too bad usually when companies take that strategy on they
only alienate people who weren't gonna get their product anyway
you know what i mean yeah someone in the chat um
onihikaje i think i probably butchered that name i'm sorry said disney ceo
literally called up the ea ceo and told them to remove the option to pay for
loot boxes because disney started getting craft for purchasing which is mechanics towards children i haven't
seen anything about that at all if agar did that i'd be pretty badass
or he's just like looking out for a bro he's like yo this is not going well for
us don't do it yeah i i don't know i haven't heard
anything about that um but it's
it is pretty brutal there are people who
have been posting examples of like the the disney star wars xd shows the
animated ones where it's like a show
about how gambling is bad based in the star
wars universe it's like a part of the star wars show i
think it's rebels and it's about how gambling is bad and then they have a
star wars game that has gambling in it and you can say as much as you want like
this isn't a kid's game kids are going to play it
like our generation we played i'm assuming you did as well
shooter games pretty early on grand theft auto was one of the ones that my
parents were like i played it a little bit like friends
houses and they knew and they didn't care but like okay like halo i was in
there pretty early on counter strike i was in there quite early on oh as anything goes and i grew up
big time and then like the thing is now it's our generation and a little bit
above that are starting to have well a fair bit above i guess that are starting
to have kids at these ages that where you're talking about where they might
watch something like disney xd you think our generation that grew up
with like shooter games is gonna care too much if someone plays battlefront
which is like pretty innocent for a shooter game oh yeah like can you
can you draw people up your lightsaber humans not just i think i think it goes
through them i don't think they split in half they just like fall over yeah
because like ever since i was eight i've wanted to be able to just totally
dismember people with charred remains yeah i'm not sure i could be wrong on
that so if you can't do that then like that's
that's vanilla but like i i don't know kids are
absolutely going to be playing this game it doesn't matter that it's esr b rated
whatever i don't even know what it is might be m i don't know what they are i
don't look at them there's no way what is what is the normal rating okay that
makes sense teen whatever kids are definitely gonna be playing it
and gambling's in it and like a gambling mechanic that makes
you better at the game isn't it and that's bad because kids always want to
be better there's always that kid in your school that was like my shoes make
me run faster now there's going to be some kid being like i have a better card for my ship
i'm better than you yeah that's i could see kids at school being like
you suck at battlefront because you're a scrub yeah yeah i bet they don't say
scrub anymore they should bring it back because it's
retro way up and it's uh pretty cool as far as i'm coming laser
james thinks you should bring scrub back yeah i know we've talked about this
topic for a long time but it is pretty important we can get out of it though
we're pretty we're pretty done aren't we yeah i guess i'll talk about like
the aftermath and kind of what to do and stuff so a lot of people have been
bringing this to local representatives because they're trying to get loot boxes
and games classified as gambling i do think personally that something needs to
happen um i'm a little bit worried about how far
seeing things in games as gambling could go because like randomized loot off of a
monster that you have to farm by spending more time in the game where a
game is subscription based might be seen as gambling slippery slope
uh so it depends where it ends but something needs to happen and loot boxes
are just horrible so maybe
contact your local authorities to some degree
well i can tell you the language that the belgium commission was using so yeah
the belgian gambling commission is investigating battlefront because of
loot boxes and what they said was
loot crates that you purchase without knowing what's inside can be considered
gambling because your ability to succeed in the game
is dependent on chance and therefore it's a game of chance and if it's a game
of chance so if that individual item
is purchased and it's a random chance that's that's a good way to define it
because i don't want to screw with like random chance that is inherently built
within games well i think that the the emphasis here that in my interpretation
anyway is that your success in the game really depends on it yeah see that
anyway this is probably not a conversation to bother have on WAN Show
but that's where like like if you get a legendary item in world of warcraft your
success in the game could be based around getting that it affects your
success for sure but like but it's not but it's not a loot crate and it's a
totally different style of system and blah blah blah blast pretty should be
pretty easy to divide between i don't think it's actually going to be a problem so
let's move on top topic yeah how about that face id
that iphone x yeah let's jump to that yeah
oh they did it so how did how did it happen
it's so awesome if you bring up the pictures of this mask there's actually a
youtube video you can play the youtube video just with the sound office i don't
have subtitles anyway uh yeah it's one of those what the heck
okay i'm gonna show security researchers in vietnam have
cracked apple's new face id using a composite mask consisting of a silicon
nose literally paper cut out 2d eyes
mounted on a plastic frame that they 3d printed
okay that that's this is no good this is not it well
there's like a one like a two minute video about what i'm doing yeah this is
51 minutes i was like maybe i can find the i think it's linked from the forum
thread okay give me a sec so the caveat here is like even though
this mask only took 50 bucks to make they did have to actually scan the the
victim's face with like a face scanner
so that's kind of integral to it but other than that the eyes were actually just
printed out paper and it's a simple silicon nose
silicone nose getting a scan of someone's face is going to be
not that easy what did they have to scan it with they used a handheld um like dedicated
scanner but they say that in their depth scanner yeah in the future you might be
able to use one of those just like cell phone ones yeah or even just construct
the image with with um images like just use images to
make them off yeah okay because if you could be like sitting across the table at dinner
with someone and oh i'm just on
and inadvertently get someone's you have to go around them though right
yeah so not that far because they just have
the white meshing on on most of the sides
he just used that thing to unlock like if you look at it the size of the
thing you might show the front at some point here but
there's a there's a couple things about this
number one is it's hilarious because at launch apple said that it worked with
professional mask makers and makeup artists in hollywood to make sure that
uh masks couldn't be used to hack face id
and these like random dudes have already done it with something that doesn't look
all that professional well that's the other thing is
especially the eyes it's literally just printed out in like his
face a picture of his face they cut out the eyes from that picture and put it
onto this like mannequin head that's wild and the reason that's especially
interesting is because people thought from the patents that apple took
out that eye movement factored in to face id
but this would suggest otherwise and if i movement doesn't factor into face id
then that means that you can use potentially someone who is unconscious
knocked out or even dead to unlock a phone which is pretty scary even
even the uh the touch what do they call that touch id ah yeah
even they're super creative even touch id which apple claims is like an order
of magnitude less secure yeah face id
even that one you have it sends like the heat of your thumb so if you'd been dead
for more than like a couple hours or a day
they couldn't unlock your phone you could body yeah you can do that slightly
artificially by like external heating and all this other junk but like it's
it's not that easy it's a lot harder than just like
done you know what i mean like it's yeah it's there's always going to be a way to
get through some form of security nothing is 100 secure but like
it's kind of sad this has already been done and it's kind of it's interesting
because cameras on stuff like phones are constantly getting better and
they're constantly starting to implement things like depth scanning and all this other stuff so we're going to get closer
and closer progressively to breaking through this being easier and
easier the security on this gets worse over time unless they're actively
improving it and it doesn't improve it does improve
itself as you use it or more and more yeah like i've heard of people um being
locked out when they put their glasses on and it had when they did the initial
scan they weren't wearing glasses or their hair wasn't in their face so then it locks you out you enter your code and
when you enter your code it's like oh the the model that we just took like us
glasses on we're going to add that to the model now so that's that's just expanding the
model but it's not necessarily making it more secure like see like the having
hair in your face and stuff is just annoying i don't i don't want to deal
with it because it gets in your eyes well no
good call good call but like like with touch id if i just like with mine it's
not touch id but i have a fingerprint sensor on the back it doesn't matter what situation i'm in i could be
completely covered in mud if i just like wipe my finger off real quick and go
burp i get in my phone yeah well you still got the passcode and that but like
it's just i don't know but it's pretty sick that like i can't even remember the
last time you use it that's still an action that you're taking right you're deciding
granted that it's muscle memory that you do automatically after a while yeah you're still taking an action to unlock
your phone whereas apple is is pursuing
a time when you just kind of go like do not no you don't even do that you're
just like look at like by the time you look at your phone it's unlocked that's
sick so they're like trying to get there i guess they should be aspiring to that
that's because that's optimal use case as long as it's secure it's not there
yet though evidently it's slower than touch id
which is frustrating fingerprint is pretty insecure though
yeah it has a lot of issues too it's like 1 in 50 000 or something like that
yeah it's like i don't know
a bunch of problems with their methodologies here so the story is absurdly short-sighted
is there though because some people were saying that it's possible that when they
registered their face they like had their face obscured or
something like that or tried to make their face kind of more like the mask so
that they were more similar yeah but they and there hasn't been there's no
way to verify that but the researchers did say that they made four other masks
that didn't work and once those ones failed they
re-registered re-registered their face on the face id and that after
registering their face they didn't do any passcode entries to
update it that's what they say
yeah i don't know i if if nothing else
all i really want this to stand for is
to reinforce that anything can be broken into
um no one should ever consider anything absolutely secure
this might be better i don't necessarily think it's easier um when i go to i
always use my phone when it's in my hand i never go like i'm gonna look at it what's on the table um so Linus does
that we talked about this once and he was like he hated that the fingerprint things were on the back because he often
wants to like just unlock it when it's on the table yeah he's told me that i
don't i don't i just heard a lot of boo hoo hoo
doesn't apply to me either so like it and it's become a natural part of
picking up the phone to unlock it by the time you get to it yeah so the
speed thing doesn't help for me personally and face id is slower ed's
over there mad because he's an apple user and he just doesn't know what it's like to have that fingerprint reader on
the back do you have a 10 gravy baby
do you have a 10 no you wish
he says probably the pinnacle of film technology i don't think anyone's going
to make anything better after this even apple
yeah maybe this is the end maybe it is the end
i don't know if you guys can hear that but um just in case any of you missed it
that was sarcasm um it's a fantastic tool but yeah i i i don't know i
i just don't like it for a lot of reasons personally but if you do like it
that's great run with it do whatever you want personal preferences are awesome
just do know that nothing is completely secure we should also mention that the
fact that you can like scan someone's face and then make a mask and unlock
their phone that's like espionage level packing yeah like this it's more likely
they're just gonna like run by you and grab it or grab it and
then choke hold you and make your face look at it and then run away or or steal
your phone and go hey is this your phone and then you look at it yeah it is and then
thanks
that would actually work way too well that's pretty good eh
if a guy with a bella clava comes up to you and says is this your phone your phone go
run it over
so everyone's gonna have to carry around masks so that if they have to chase
someone who steals their phone they can put the solution to this is more masks
yes yeah take those laws away that we can't wear masks everyone has to wear a mask
so that when they go to unlock their phone they just go huh and then put it
back down yeah it just occurred to me that there's going to be people in the middle east who like want to use face
unlock did they
do they just not use face unlock do they just only use it at home use a passport
class code public yeah never thought of that
yeah moving on anyways last night i got to
watch this awesome live stream oh of ellen musk
it can't be elon ellen what ellen musk degeneres
they had a child together and they hyphenated the last name
that like that hurt physically
oh i need a moment anyways okay so no i
know it's elon yeah they finally unveiled the semi
truck yes which i think is pretty ba the question on everyone's
mind is uh when and where are you to be
able to make these things given that you're struggling so hard to produce the
model 3 for the next like two years
and you're spending a billion dollars per quarter
on doing that you can't just build another gigafactory apparently they're
going to start shipping or not shipping they're going to start producing the
semi truck in 2019 and the new roadster
which is going to be the fastest car fastest production car by acceleration
in the world uh that's 20 20. yeah so things could happen before 2020 and
change that claim but as of right now it
theoretically is which is really cool there's a lot of
really awesome things about the truck but there are concerns like you just
said how are you gonna make this uh i do know their their production lines are
constantly increasing so
maybe a theory somewhere says that they'll be able to actually make them
properly by 2019 maybe one will be made in 2019. are they making two more giga
factories as well they're they're constantly expanding um so i i can't
claim to know what is
gonna happen in terms of their production line um semi truck itself is
pretty dope though did you check it out it looks cool it looks pretty cool and
it i've been saying for quite a long time that semi trucks and trucks in general are
gonna be super important for tesla because trucks things that need huge
amounts of torque are going to benefit from electric engines a ton now there
are some issues uh coming from the trucking industry like my my grandfather
uh his job actually for like basically ever was financing semi trucks for
people and companies that want to get into trucking so a super important detail is cost per
kilometer or cost per mile and they talked about that in the stream
that was a direct callout for companies and financial institutions that finance
these semi trucks because they're extremely expensive that was a direct
hey look at us it's going to be easier to get loans because you can throw this
number which is one of the most important numbers when you're buying a
truck that is it is cheaper per kilometer you can also throw in numbers
like the truck is guaranteed for whatever amount of distance if you have
a breakdown it's some ridiculous number
if oh yeah yeah what was that if you have a big oh yeah what happened was it
it's got four separate independent engines and two of them can break down
and you can still go like 400 miles or something like that
yeah it's it's not in this document okay by the way speaking of price they
did not mention an absolute price at all they only mentioned price per mile which
they put at 20 percent cheaper again it was only relative 20 cheaper than uh
a comparable diesel truck it includes the cost of the
they're not just talking about the truck they're talking about like the entire thing like buying it and insurance and
operating it and maintenance so
maintenance is going to be a big reason why that number is lower yeah yeah just
gonna put that out there right now another huge issue only goes 500 miles
on one charge uh the only there is probably not properly placed someone in
chat said only most trucking routes are able to be there and back within that
time and truckers are man mandated to
take breaks that is a huge deal in
i know north america i don't know outside of that
you have to take breaks and that is within the amount of distance that
you would be able to reasonably travel within one of your brakes easily your
brake has to be half an hour during the brake it can charge for 500 miles of
further dis or 400 400 miles of further distance during that break and you'll be
able to keep going that's not really a major point as long
as they actually have the i think they're called super charging stations i
think actually he dropped mega charge mega charger yeah mega charger sounds
like it's gonna be like a separate kind of network i'm thinking of it kind of
the same way you drive by a card lock gas station
oh yeah yeah yeah that's for semis yeah it's gonna have to be like that i
wouldn't be surprised if it was kind of its own thing so a typical diesel truck
can go a thousand miles on a full tank do you know how long it takes to fill up
that tank when you're sitting up i i think he said 15 minutes no no i'm
talking like a like a normal diesel truck oh it'll take a while to fill that puppy up
be nice i assume it would take a little while it's going to take longer to charge this truck but one of his points
was that you don't have to stand there the whole time i guess um it is definitely going to take longer
to charge it but i don't think there's going to be a bunch of truck drivers
leaning against their truck while it sips electricity or gulps i guess
electricity from it from the network uh we also talked about a guaranteed price
for for semi-trucks uh at seven cents
per what unit would that be kilowatt i don't
remember exactly what they used is that also kilowatt
uh that's not in the document either but he did okay he had a guaranteed price
which is a big deal also also a big deal in terms of getting uh financial support
for trucks one big question that i haven't i'm sure okay i haven't seen
anyone ask it but i am absolutely certain someone has so
and i haven't looked so that's kind of an issue that i haven't looked for it
but a big problem is going to be weight they didn't talk about it on the stream
there's a lot of weighing stations for trucks because roads can only support uh
a certain amount of weight and the batteries are going to weigh a lot i did
see this yeah i think i think naked it's it is going to be heavier than
yeah than a naked normal diesel i think that's
going to be a big issue there's weighing stations like all over the place
they did not address that did you see the cockpit design
yeah so it's 500 miles with 32.2 tons of cargo so at max capacity is that the
heaviest class he a lot of the stats he gave out were
for the heaviest class of truck like the speed and the uh the range and
everything so the lack of engine might compensate for
that yeah but like if you look at the model s
it's actually a pretty heavy car because the battery and all that other
stuff you have to do more than look at it you probably have to try to lift it
apparently way stations are for trailer load and balance not total load oh
okay we have some really we just got everyone all kinds in there now someone
said way stations over total weight who knows i just it wasn't addressed in the
stream and it made me worry a little bit but this will be huge another big thing
that they brought up was convoy mode this isn't the first time we've seen
convoy mode um i've been in a car that was doing convoy mode before uh i've
been in a convoy
but essentially the cost per miler per
kilometer goes down drastically when you have these trucks in convoy mode i
believe i don't think he went over it in exhaustive detail but i believe because
they talk to each other and they can run really closely together drafting very
efficiently okay so i didn't i didn't hear this from the stream last night but
it was in the article i read today okay they said that in convo the reason
convoy mode is so much cheaper in fact
musk said it was cheaper than rail yes it was because but he didn't show the
rail number you only need a driver in the front truck
okay yes that's a thing is that they well they
even showed it in the animation there was a person in the front truck there's no people in there okay once following
it that was a very important note that's crazy
but is that so did they bake in the cost of the driver definitely they must have
otherwise that doesn't matter so but i mean in the in the initial
tesla semi versus diesel semi comparison
oh it cost the driver no no i don't think so because in the second number
when he said in convoy mode he was comparing those against the other ones
not against train and he said it was like 80 cents or something
i would think that at that comparison i mean like it's a company they're gonna
make their numbers look as good as they can i would assume that they'd be like
yeah but it's like you know two-thirds cheaper because there's only
one driver involved and that is that is a realistic
consideration if you're well yeah um
mostly i think i i wonder how they're going to accomplish this because convoy
mode makes sense for highways which is what they showed it on
it's the second thing you get to us exactly you're not gonna be you're not gonna be able to convoy for the entire
trip yeah you're gonna have to turn off what do you do for the rest of the
drivers well they are getting their enhanced auto i i miss this maybe twitch chat
knows what's going on enhanced autopilot's there definitely all of them
yeah and uh if this is like one to two years out
maybe it'll be even better by then then elon did not
did not avoid talking about autopilot he brought it up directly in the stream
he said that they would have all their most modern
yeah that's true but he didn't say that he may not have what they're saying
doesn't address our question of whether or not he said that about convoy mode oh
elon did say that they're all gonna get enhanced autopilot for sure yeah
well in in the video there isn't drivers in the in the trucks behind the first
one okay i didn't notice that so yeah that's good
yeah it's it's it's gonna be interesting um
does it have air brakes i oh it has the uh he did talk about
braking a bit because it's never after it has the regenerative braking so
i was actually at a tesla dealership the other day and i was asking if with the
regenerative braking can you can you coast just as well as you can because
for me when i'm driving i actually coast quite a bit yeah
and he told me as a person who's never driven a tesla he said actually you
can't really coast where the crap when the regenerative breaks on it slows you
down like pretty fast yeah um but the upside of that is you like barely ever
have you use your brain um which is what he said here he didn't
say anything about about uh air brakes
would that even work i don't i don't have a very good
understanding of how semi trucks work
but i don't think it would work anyways what about that roadster though
the roadster yeah i guess we can move on at the end of the whole semi truck thing
it was kind of like a one more thing moment yeah and they popped open the
hatch and a new tesla roadster
drove out of the back of the trailer that the semi truck was towing can do
0-60 in 1.9 seconds it can do zero to
100 and i believe 4.9 i don't see that
on here i didn't see that but i actually i do have a list of um
linked a wikipedia of the fastest zero second speeds and i was like oh i wonder
if they like killed some records from other like super expensive cars um well
they kind of just beat their own record yeah yeah yeah just awesome uh it it can go
620 miles or a thousand kilometers on a
single charge he was happy because they broke the thousand kilometer ceiling
which is pretty cool and it seats four productions yeah it's a two plus two
production starts in 2020 the first 1000
cars will cost 250 grand each paid in full up front
with later cars starting at 200 grand so presumably the the first thousand
they're they're going to sell they're going to be the true ones yeah yeah which makes a lot of sense
uh i love this quote elon said
uh his stuttering is removed from this quote
come on come on he said the point of doing this
is just to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars driving a gasoline sports
car is gonna feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche
that's wicked that was pretty funny um we'll just take the voice crack out
of when people quote yours um
harsh okay i deserve some harshness i love you on i was yeah i was just kidding he
speaks that way because he uses particular language he's very careful
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different models of their zbox mini pcs
one of them is the pi225 it is a desktop performance and
mobile flexibility crammed into a pc the size of a 2.5 inch SSD it is tiny this
thing is absolutely miniature really cool there's a computer in this box in
that one yes that is not the tiny one that i'm talking about that's more like gaming
focus vr ready sticker gaming ready
vr ready computer in this box yes sir yes laser
jams ladies and james i i'm gonna say laser james my bad
ladies and james there is a computer in this box um it has a whole bunch of great
features which is absolutely fantastic moving on we have the mi-553 great for
multi-purpose utility kind of setups and then we have the z-box i believe it's
this one yes en 1070k dash u how is it
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and smaller oh owned get it together console owned
there's a core i5 7 7 500 t it has an NVIDIA gtx 1060 or gtx
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it's great uh the zbox giveaway is that
a little bit of a funky link uh oh i didn't click on the right thing
here we go the zbox giveaway is a little bit of a funky link which i will
try to post in the twitch chat right now
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that'll be a lot easier to grab there um
oh my god let me see if i can just get into the twitch chat here
there's all sorts of stuff in here tons of things it's even smaller than the box
that's in it's like a computer i would hope
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razer blade 4k review i don't think that's on youtube yet and that has
probably one of the best skits in a video we've like ever done oh is that
the uh yeah the one the with me when i'm in this coat
no that was a phone i don't think it's not all right
are you ready we got lots of good skits i'm not in it
oh yeah can't be the best kid no
the best skit would have us both yeah yeah
i love how every once in a while my the words just come out
everyone knows all right firefox that topic might as well move on to it yeah
you should open up the source number two because we can check it out on the
screen and there's lots to see i need to find it
here we go got it the firefox hardware survey which uses telemetry supplied by
the browser to assess what hardware participants are using has revealed some
surprising statistics related to GPU market share
yeah so we can not see right here because this is in the way but i'm just
going to move us turns out more people maybe
for graphics we've got AMD at 15 percent
we've got Intel at 65 so that's the built-in graphics on your CPU that
they're talking about integrated graphics NVIDIA 14 that's one percent
behind AMD what the heck what a surprise i mean this isn't just
people in the world this is firefox users yeah who filled
out the survey oh wait did anyone actively fill this
out is it just firefox hardware report i think you have you have to like opt in
to supply your data or whatever right so it's possible there's a selection
bias where AMD people are just the type of people who opt into this stuff
doesn't seem likely to me i don't think that's necessarily what's going on i
have i have i have i have a main theory for this
firefox right now is the like this is the ethical choice
of browsers this is the underdog browser
this is the browser that not the mainstream uses oh and those are the
same people you can rebel and buy this browser or use this browser i see
it's similar arguments to don't use the big mainstream scary guy thing that a
lot of the AMD guys are making and i think it might make sense that there are
more of them on this platform regardless even if that is true this is still super
cool definitely this is good people for some
reason are comparing this to uses or stats that we had from steam's
hardware survey tpcs is coming in with the sassy luke where have you been
this has been the case with firefox for years
so yeah apparently that might actually be more true of a statement than i mean so
he's backing up your theory yeah i guess indirectly he doesn't know
yeah no one no one actually knows yes that's true yeah i don't think
anyone actually really knows but i wouldn't be surprised if that is at
least part of it for some reason people are saying that this is like super at
odds with the steam hardware survey the latest iteration of which came out in
october yeah where the GPU market share for NVIDIA was over
80 and AMD was only 10 and Intel integrated graphics is only like seven
and a half it's pretty obvious why these numbers are so vastly different yeah
selection bias being you're someone who has steam installed so you're a gamer so
you're less likely to have integrated graphics and if you're gonna have a
gaming type of GPU it's
likely gonna be NVIDIA surprise surprise most people on the internet don't have a
gaming pc i'm probably using laptops even that
just don't have any form of uh dedicated
graphics and it's all integrated on chips and you can't even add one or
they're using older like best buy pcs
that were just like home pcs that don't have graphics cards even though it's
like obviously a weird comparison to make i can see why
it's being made because those steam hardware stats get excited a lot
particularly in displays like the fact that uh
only four percent of steam players have 4k monitors like that stack gets thrown
around all the time when people are talking about how prevalent 4k monitors really are yeah
so okay it's steam stats are popular but yeah
they just really don't have any relevance here yeah it doesn't matter
for this specific use case and there's a lot of
cheaper laptops i don't know if necessarily right now but at least when i worked in retail that sold with AMD
graphics so it was i actually probably sold more
laptops at that point in time that had AMD graphics because it was more
affordable um so more people were buying them from my store um
oh i didn't own the store but the store that i worked at can we can we see that
page again yeah it had more than just gpus on there yeah that was an
interesting part too so it has quite a few different things it even has
operating system which i find fascinating Windows 7 was at 46 percent
which is wow absolutely pretty crazy Windows 10 is only fine that gives
credence to your theory then this is a certain like the certain type of person
you use uses fire people that in Windows we resisted upgrading to Windows 10.
that's crazy i love Windows 7.
i stayed on Windows 7 for a long time but the only reason why i moved off of
it was because of the constant super aggressive annoying pressure from
Windows 10 so i moved to a Windows 8.1 embedded copy so you goofy
i'm still on 98 and sick nice yeah solitaire all day that's pretty legit
that's pretty cool all day after that we've got one percent of users on
Windows xp guys come on
the update what are you doing
oh those are just working eight percent of people on Windows 8.1 represent
that's me you think there's a sliver for vista in there
macOS five percent other six percent there's your there's your vista
yeah there's a few people on vista speaking of firefox users these these
people are gonna be pretty pumped because firefox quantum is out now have
you used this yet i have used it i'm actually loving it really yeah i was
thinking about taking it for a spin it's good
yeah i've i've so i've seen people
having issues i have not personally had
any issues okay i know there's some things where people
like certain specific add-ons that aren't quite on quantum yet uh some
people don't like how certain parts of the browser aren't
customizable but let's talk about the core value
proposition of this browser according to mozilla firefox quantum is
over twice as fast as the firefox from just six months ago
built on a completely overhauled core engine and boasting a stylish new design
dub photon ui which streamlines a number of elements included in previous
releases so i'm not gonna lie
this marketing kicked a lot of people off and for
reasons that i understand do they show it here
somewhere they showed like two times faster and then they show a comparison
of firefox quantum versus the most recent version of chrome
so people don't realize that they were talking about a previous version of
firefox uh okay
because they show two times faster in big bold text
and then directly beside it a comparison of quantum versus chrome right when
they're meaning two times faster than the previous version their own product
they do say quantum is faster to load a number of popular websites
than chrome is yeah uh including wikipedia bing no one cares
tumblr and shutterstock no one cares
firefox uses around 30 less memory than
chrome edge and safari on Windows
so there's there's some things going on here one thing that i did appreciate is
that in their own testing in their own video showing load time comparisons
between quantum and chrome um
it shows quantum winning quite often not by two
times and someone in the chat says in fairness in the comparison video it
shows fairly equivalent speeds if i remember correctly quantum wins
usually and i'm sure they cherry picked sites to a certain degree um but i know
at least one point in time the chrome browser did beat the quantum in their
own video and they included it in their own video that's cool i thought that was pretty cool so it was a weird like
we're going to show ourselves losing and at the same time we're going to do
super misleading marketing it was like
what uh so like if anyone actually watched the video at all they would have
known something was up but yeah it's been a delight to use it so far i think
it looks great um it's run great for me
Floatplane runs on it beautifully just want to put that out
there lioness tech tapes writer Anthony young chimed in virtually saying firefox users
may also be more likely to be running apus
yeah so if we want to jump back slightly to that topic
this was six minutes ago that he sent me that
we can look at the processor section which is shown to you guys good Intel is
at 88 AMD is at 12
i don't know what the steam hardware survey for that is but i wouldn't be surprised if on the steam hardware
server until was even higher you think
yeah there were so many years where AMD wasn't putting out a new yeah right yeah
so i don't know but i wouldn't be surprised but it's it's not like AMD is
crushing the processor side of things back to the quantum thing i
i was like i should actually just check this out because i used to use firefox
like forever until chrome came out in 2008 i just wanted to check it out and i
liked the design i haven't used firefox since i was like i should go back to my
roots here but then i had the thought well it'll be like two weeks until
chrome is better again they'll make a new they'll just make a new version it'll be better i like using firefox and
it is very fast it's it's fast to the point
where when using the previous they said six months ago two times faster six months
ago it was notably slower um
and now it's not notably slower it's fast enough that
i click on a site and it just loads but here's something that made me reconsider
i saw a quote from i'm not sure if it was a ceo but
someone at mozilla who is like my biggest fear is that people just
won't try it i just want people to try it
and i read that and i was kind of talking about heart strings bit i was like you know what man
for you i'll try it i didn't yet
but wow i think i want to i'm gonna check it out i don't know if people
remember but in a lot of my older videos i used to wear i have a couple
two different shirts one of them just has the firefox logo on it and another one says
i am protecting the world's largest resource
and on the back it talks about firefox
i kind of support them a little bit um i even have a little firefox plushy thing
because i used to be like when i actually programmed things i used
to be a big fan of um firefox and
i stopped using it because it was directly interfering with my day-to-day
work because firefox was crashing so often or
was slow and all these other issues and
i excitedly but
with a lot of fear installed quantum because i was like i really don't want
this to fail me again they are making a lot of strong claims i'm gonna give it a
shot and i gave it a strong shot i installed all my different add-ons i
customized it made it look exactly the way i wanted it to and now and then dove
deeply in i have it on my work computer i have it on my home computer now you're fully entangled it's on my phone
it's great you get it it's been awesome anybody get that joke it was a quantum
joke oh that is good that is good
speaking of i really hope that in the near future these companies stop using q
or quantum in their branding because there's going to come a point where there are actual products with actual
quantum capabilities and we need to be able to differentiate that yes
that is actually i know what i mean i immediately thought about that when i
saw the name i was like is it actually oh did they yeah we're getting on the cusp
in what way well i was actually i thought it might be like some super
wacko experimental thing that they were working on and then i was like oh it's
just their new browser what that actually was a little bit confusing so
yeah i hear you on that one but
yeah i don't know i think it's cool having a browser that actually
isn't made by a company that aggressively profits off of harvesting
every single thing that you do in your entire life
that's weird you know like i i don't know kind of down with
the firefox a little bit ah so we've been doing this for long enough but you
want to do a couple more i mean i'm down we have been doing this
long enough what do you want to do ah there's so many exciting ones okay
there's some rapid-fire ones okay apple home pod the big speaker it's kind of a
smart speaker from apple delayed missing out on the holiday
season this brings joy to my heart actually um
i'm actually kind of a anti-fanboy with apple i do respect
apple and i think a lot of products are pretty objectively sick
like they're sweet but on the other hand sometimes i like a little win i like
when because it's not that i don't like apples
it's like a satisf satisfying stab
yeah i i don't like apple fanboys so i'm like a counterforce to that um
so stop they're getting out of here you're talking about the ad not me right
yes okay great so
full disclosure homepod is not
is a small part of of apple's revenue it's in the other services or in the
other section why do you hate apple so much i don't hate apple i hate apple
fanboys apple's pretty dope do you hate
Android fanboys i hate all fanboys okay
i like objective people okay but so you want apple to hurt because you dislike
the people that like apple no i don't want apple to hurt i want apple fanboys
to hurt ah so you're hoping this doesn't
really hurt their bottom line it won't but you're also like
you don't get your thing for christmas yeah it won't hurt their bottom line because this is one of their other
products um and they get like the majority of their revenue from the iphones and their services so that's
going to be minuscule anyway but it actually could hurt them in the future
because right now these smart home smart
speakers and and home implementations are really starting to
gain traction especially since google home mini is out now there's a bazillion
different types of amazon echoes um i think they're going to be a pretty
significant gift this holiday season and i got one for apple to miss that it's
going to be that hurts and it's it's hitting mainstream and i'm saying my grandfather
and my mom have one and that's not like that's not
like me forcing it on them be like use this to support your son or grandson
this is like i got one from my grandpa i believe he got one from my mom
and they both like actively use it all the time well everyone has everyone has
everything these days like what are you gonna get someone for christmas with so this is totally a thing yeah except the
homepod won't be and notably
google's answer to the homepod which is the google home max
looks very similar has similar sound like speaker
focusing capabilities it will be on sale this
holiday season oh
and this is just so bad uh for apple because even though siri is the oldest
virtual assistant it's assistant it is quite clearly the worst and they just
need any opportunity it's worse than cortana
hmm are you only classifying the two i was honest no i was thinking of bixby as
well bixby's actually pretty dope really uh
it's probably as a general assistant it's probably on the level of siri but it has these extra
capabilities that we use in our showcase video that um you
let you navigate through apps like open this app and go to settings and then
change this setting go to my home screen swipe right you can't even do that with
the assistant yet and i can't wait until you can because it's super sweet to be
able to do that um cortana i don't know i've actually seen
videos on youtube of people using cortana to do these like kick-ass things
in excel which i would i'd love to
to program macros by voice like using cortana i just like have can't be
bothered because it seems like such a upfront cost
but anyway apple needs any opportunity they can get to try to catch up in this
space and they're just not getting it
and eventually i think it's going to be the end i don't think i've ever heard anyone say anything positive about
cortana although that excel thing does sound cool but i haven't had it work in
any form in any other way so there's that um or bixby i haven't personally
used bixby but that dedicated button is rough
uh well i mean i didn't say it's perfect i'm just saying like like sirius is
pretty weak yes yeah uh watching Linus
try to use siri to call someone while we
were driving for lunch was hilarious oh no it just it just couldn't
it just couldn't do it like it was actually hilariously bad
well the google assistant's not perfect either i'm actually no i'm disappointed
you know what bixby can do that assistant uh doesn't seem to be able to do is chain commands like on bixby i can
say um siri can't do that because google assistant can google my my google home
even though i can say the command and say turn on my tv and i
can tell it to play a certain video on youtube i can't say turn on the tv and play the
latest vsauce video on youtube it'll say i don't know how to do that but if i say
uh there was one i did yesterday where because we can't do that either
well but bixby can change commands it can do things like um
go to instagram and post my third
latest photo with the caption blah blah
okay is that one long command yeah you can
say go to the settings and open and go to display settings and change the
screen timeout to 10 minutes yeah okay which is cool
but there was a command i issued yesterday to my google assistant that i
it was two commands and i put them this way and it said i don't know how to do
that and then i rephrased it the same commands in a different order and then
it did it like i wonder if that's part of it because i use uh google assistant
for everything and i i play specific songs
with it within like it has to open an app and then find the specific song and
whatnot all the time which is two different steps um uh well
open music and play whatever that's actually one because you can't say
open google play music yeah i believe you can i know that i can't say hey open youtube
on google home i can't say open youtube on the tv i have to say open youtube and
play Linus tech tips on the tv yeah but then i don't personally this is what we
should probably move on but i don't personally think that's a huge point because bigsby isn't in a home device is
it uh not that i know of yeah so i don't know i don't know um anyways
uh amazon echo is coming to canada alliance will be so stoked we can
finally start reviewing them and stuff yes do you know that story no we got an
echo oh he tried when i tried dude i
tried on the fire tv i brought it home on a weekend and stuff and i was like
the interface like this is worked yeah i was on i did tech support calls and all
this junk and it's like yeah you're just not supposed to be using that yeah
because like yeah and you can like with mine it was like you can't use it at all
i wouldn't even allow itself to set up so i like vpn to my router so when it
connected to the wi-fi i thought it was in america and i was like okay cool okay
and then yeah yeah oh hi hi Linus says hi they're
going to be all salty that you're not here now they're salty well they're going well
now they know that i'm on the lan show even though you're in the building
what does it mean lions is quitting video um someone on
the chat said Linus is fired he's just gonna drive his multiple tesla roadsters
from now on that he drives around in his tesla semi truck
um what were we talking about
we're talking about amazon right yeah so so we got one for review i
had to vp of my router to even to freaking make the thing work at all and
then it couldn't do almost anything because i mean canada and it doesn't
know any of the stuff for up here and i was just like oh okay and then we sent
it to a person i'm not gonna say who who is in
america to do a review on it and like write the the the notes for the review
for us and then we never heard from them again and now it's gone um
well it's here now and apparently it's gonna speak canadian english with a canadian english
accent
so eastern then no i don't
i it's gonna say a boot like i don't know what's the difference
what's it gonna say yeah i'll open that a it's gonna say sorry instead of sorry
sorry all right it's not going to say like i don't know
what that is weird i guess someone someone in the chat said zed
that makes sense yeah yeah yeah it's mostly it's mostly that we pronounce o's
like o's and they pronounce o it's like a is a lot like i'm sorry and uh what's
another one i've been noticing sorry yeah yeah but anyway uh it won't speak
french yet i don't care
neither do i because i don't speak french people in the apparently 20 of
our population does yeah yeah well
like as their main language it'll be coming from more than i bet you more
than 25 percent of our population can speak french i bet you 20 20 percent of
our population speaks french as their main language no it's less than that actually really i
didn't put it in the in the notes but i read it earlier but uh this isn't actually the first
country i thought we would be maybe the second country that echo was in but
we're not they went to india a month ago and japan last week and presumably it's
not english in india and japan yeah so get on it french
come on there's gonna be some deals too the echo is gonna be
99.99 canadian pesos instead of a regular 130. the echo dot is going to be
50 bucks instead of 70 and the echo plus is going to be 170 instead of 200.
daria b that's what it's going to say you issued a command it's going to
execute the command and say dare you be there bye if you like if you if you tell
it like i'm gonna go hike mount everest it'll be like good luck big shoots
i've never even heard that one really okay um
anyways why is over
yeah that's it bye if you want to see a cool charity
stream tune in tomorrow i'll probably start at noon
um are you going to be laser looking no try it i will try it but i'm not going
to do it man it's crazy how much it changes
everything everything's super blue yeah that's cool hey yeah
we should actually submit this rant show to an editor so when you put these on at
the very end it like does a crazy effect just it's super interesting for the
people that made it to the end now all these people are saying laser luke anyways come by check out the charity
stream if you want it's going to be awesome i don't know what the heck Jake is trying to say but it's fine i think
he called me an a-hole he's irrelevant uh oh
it's okay oh that's the most harsh thing an influencer could say to you well i
was dropping a reference back to the idubbbz ricegum kind of deal i don't
know what that is i'm going home wow anyways bye thanks
for watching bye-bye charity stream twitch.tv slash luke underscore lafr
show up donate money to kids or just watch actually do it it's gonna be lots
of cool games retro stuff yeah boom
it works where'd you write on that napkin that
you crumbled up
ah we're not announcing on this show
looks at you and makes you puke apparently i'm also supposed to say
discord dot gg slash LTT
yeah it hasn't ended yet we're just doing the
thank you to ifixit and thank you to mack weldon and thank you to zotac
so yeah i guess check out that discord we actually have an official discord now
so check it out if you link your forum account you get access right away
if you don't i think you have to wait 24 hours or something so link your form
account heck yeah sounds good and use it use the laser jmote
is that a thing yeah