Hi there.
Feeling cute, might delete later. It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
How you guys doing?
Happy Friday. You're so low and central right now.
I'm central. Sensual. Sensual. Yeah.
Always. Yeah. Whale Land coming up tomorrow.
Good hockey game today. In pretty good mood.
I actually thought I curbed my car right after the hockey game.
I hit my tire on the curb. I didn't know that at the time, but I pulled out of a parking spot and I didn't realize
I was so close to the curb. And Colton was in the car with me and I was like, oh no, I think I just curbed my car.
And so I stopped and I get out and he's like, did you, I'm like, no, but honestly, I'm
in like a pretty good mood right now. I think I'd probably have been mostly okay with it.
The game had just wrapped up.
We watched on the big LED wall.
It's big, maybe too big, especially for the quality of the CBC stream.
It's not good. Like Flo Plain CBC.
Have you watched Flo Plain videos on it? On CBC?
No, on the TV. Oh, no, I haven't, but I assure you, they would be better than what CBC is streaming
right now. Yeah. But it's hot ass.
Fun to check out. Like shockingly bad. Yeah.
It always is. It gets accentuated a bit when you show it on a screen that freaking big.
This is true. This is fair. Yeah.
What was up with the ads? Um, yeah, I saw more playing an ad and then it would play a different ad.
That's the American ads. So it'd start playing the American ad and then they would like insert Canadian ones.
So every once in a while. But then what was weird to me is cause I thought you're not allowed to advertise prescription
drugs up here. And I was totally seeing spots for like we go V and, uh, yeah, maybe the example ones
are the American ads though. I'm pretty sure I saw we go V ad in Canada though.
I think there was, I think the whole stream was like powered by one of those two.
Yeah. I think it was we go V. Sure.
I wonder like what the overall impact is. Like I don't live in America and I don't live like in a particularly fat Canadian city.
So I don't have a ton of exposure to like the obesity epidemic.
It's massive. Daily. It's double the percentage of all Americans are on it.
Really? That's what I last heard.
And like my understanding is they like lose a lot of weight on it, right?
Cause it's an, it's what it's an appetite suppressant basically, right? I don't remember.
Like you don't feel hungry or GLP want 12% of American adults are currently taking GLP
ones. So that's not one of the brands. It's like a category.
That's crazy. Whoa.
Nearly 12.
Whoa. All right. One in eight.
Hiobez says obesity, oh no, Crystal Fierre says obesity is a bullshit diagnosis.
Um, no.
What does that mean?
I don't know, but it's not correct.
Um, you can, I mean, you can argue all day about where the line is for it, sure, but
there is absolutely no sort of mystery that, and this is not medical advice to be very
clear. Whoa. There's no debate left about that.
Like being very, very overweight has very negative health implications.
That's not really like a conversation. Yeah.
The other guy said I lost 60 pounds with minimum to no change in activity level.
Really? Wow. That's nuts.
But wait, like what is it though?
Like is it, um, I don't know.
What does GLP-1 do?
Regulates blood sugar and appetite by stimulating insulin release, suppressing glucagon, delaying
stomach emptying, and increasing satiety.
Oh, delaying stomach emptying. That's an interesting one. So it like makes you able to eat less then?
I guess. Yeah, there's some. That would naturally reduce your appetite as well.
Right. Some lizard had saliva because it doesn't eat for like weeks or something, and they
made a different version of, was it glucagon?
Glucagon, um, which makes it last for much longer in the body.
Right. GLP-1 is glucagon like peptide 1.
Yeah, there's a bunch of different varieties of it. That's why there's like ozempic, which is one version, and there's a bunch of other
different ones. Yeah. There's a pill version coming out now or something like that, which is another different version.
Crystal says, it is when they use your BMI. Yeah.
BMI is bullshit. Yeah. No question.
Yeah. Like I think, I think my BMI is that I'm obese. Probably.
Hold on. BMI calculator. BMI is just, it's so outdated.
No, no one serious uses BMI at this point. You got a bunch of muscle in them legs.
BMI calculator for men, body mass index, diabetes, Canada.
Okay. Weight. Shoot.
I think I'm like 167 right now, 166, something like that.
Okay. Height, five, six.
BMI. Here we go, boys.
Calculate.
This is considered overweight. Yeah.
So you overweight bitch.
Yeah. Looks overweight to me.
All right. That's all elsewhere.
Just got a huge dumpy.
Just massive dumpy.
I do a whanty from a hard stool.
None of it went to the stomach. It's like this razor chair is only the back.
I'm sitting on the floor.
Oh man.
This is crazy. Emiker in Floatplane chat says I'm on Munjaro and it's a game changer.
I've lost 40 kilos.
Whoa. That is, that's like what?
85 pounds. Somewhere around there. In seven months.
Holy. That's like six dumps. That's crazy.
Wow. And my brother-in-law works for Pharma says the next gen of these drugs will be the same, plus no impact on muscle mass.
And apparently PS, BMI is still used by health professionals in the UK NHS.
That's sad. BMI has been outdated for so friggin long.
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
I'm still worried about side effect stuff.
Most measurements are now waste body fat or water displacement.
So it sounds like my pinch test is actually the scientifically accepted way to know if I can have a snack.
Actually, probably true. They have like little caliper things that measure with a pinch test.
Yeah, there's dexa scans and stuff like that as well, but yeah.
Ultimately, you can't fully tell unless you do an autopsy.
How much fat you have? Really? Yeah.
Can't they like, can't they like like zappity zap you and like figure out if there's fat stuff?
And do a thing called the dexa scan and do lots of other things and none of it is perfectly accurate unless they do an autopsy.
Really? Yeah. All right.
Is that covered by an MSP?
You can do it. Like usually what people do, if they like really want to try it, like if they, if they claim a percentage of people are going, no, you're lying.
And then they really want to try to back it up is they just do all of them.
But when they do all of them, they show that like they'll do a dexa scan and they'll do the caliper thing and they'll do the electra, whatever thing.
And then they just try to like maybe average it out or something, but they'll all be different.
Are there side effects from an autopsy?
Technically, no.
There's a lot of direct effects. Depends how well they put it back together, I guess.
Panda says, y'all have to say sincere thank you.
Didn't realize my card had expired and it canceled my subscription.
You didn't make me pay the new rate when I signed up again.
We got you. Got you, homie. We got you.
All right. Should we do this thing?
Feel like we should do this thing. By the way, I just want to make it like abundantly clear.
Nothing we just said is health advice. Luke and I are not doctors of medicine at least that I know of.
I mean,
I mean, I've got this. I'm a computer doctor.
You were temporarily a computer doctor.
I'm not proud to have passed the A plus exam,
but I am proud to have challenged it without studying at all.
Especially because so much of it is just like... There's some crap questions.
Random BS? Yeah.
How many LTX hoodies did you have left over or are more being produced?
Really good question. A lot and no more not being produced.
This is it. This is the last shot.
It's felt infinite.
I was planning on asking you on the show,
how many of these freaking things do we have? Luke, I have...
And then I read the note that this is the last run and I was like, okay.
I have felt the infiniteness more strongly than you have,
I assure you. We are still cleaning up inventory mistakes
from years ago sometimes.
The confusing thing to me is like, how many more of these sweaters did we have
than attendees to the event? Because we must have...
That math must be off.
We've ran so many versions of this. No, I think it's more that we did over order
because of minimum order quantities because it was specially dyed.
This is not an off the shelf garment. This is our fabric.
This is our dye pattern. And then the major issue
was that we did the first run of printing
for the LTX logo when it was crooked.
I believe what's under this cat patch
is a crooked LTX logo. So I think we ended up having to get more or something.
It was a whole thing. And I'm hazy on the details at this point.
It's also fun and cool and I'm not against it.
It's a cool hoodie. I think we could have just called it the error hoodie
and just sold it and it would have been fine. I didn't want LTX branding on something
that people didn't go to LTX to get.
You don't sell the concert t-shirt to people
who didn't go to the concert. It just doesn't work that way.
Because otherwise it devalues
the ones that people made the journey to go and get.
That's true. They're especially cool when you get them from there.
But we would never just put them in a dumpster.
So we had to find a third path.
Because that's what they would normally do with that is they would just ship it to Africa
or they would just destroy it, put ink all over it or whatever.
That's the standard clothing industry way.
All right.
We sold LTX, LTX merch to virtual visitors.
Yes, we did. But we're not going to do it now
because clearly that didn't happen.
Wait, did I say merch? You know what? I would make the argument this was merch.
And LTX hoodie would be merch. I'll allow it.
I don't think based on your arguments that makes any sense.
Why not? Because it's our standard garment.
So it's of the quality that we typically try to push.
Yeah, but I think it was more expensive. Was it?
Yeah, which is one of the characteristics to me of merch is it's more about having a souvenir or keepsake
or supporting an artist or brand than it is about purely quality of the garment.
Hockey on the video wall was questionable. Really big.
Did you watch it there again?
I watched about half of the women's game.
I watched, yeah, I watched this morning.
So I watched the quarter semis and I'm going to watch the finals for the men's
and then I watched the finals for women's. And sorry, winners were...
6'10". Be there or be square.
Definitely not swag, Anglis. So swag has become a word that means like concert merchandise,
but it's short for stuff we all get.
It's supposed to be free stuff, like promotional t-shirts and stuff.
So swag has just... It's one of those words like scam
that has completely lost its original meaning
and now just is a synonym for another word.
So we don't need that. What we need is a word that means what it actually meant.
This is going to be a good show.
Torpedo bench. Oh my God, swag was an acronym.
Yes. Luke, are you still super into swag at cons and expos?
I would be. Yeah, if there was any. There isn't any anymore.
Yeah, like where would you even go to get free stuff? No idea.
It's dead everywhere. I'm not bringing LTX back.
I don't know where you're going with this.
Good try though. I might want to save this for the show. Preempted so early.
I went to a con and it made me so pissed off
because of how much better LTX was ran.
Like it's not even sort of close.
It was insane. Yeah.
Like you could maybe sell event organization at this point.
Nope, that's the worst part of it. Yeah, but you could sell it and you don't have to do it
because you have employees.
Yeah, but those employees could do literally anything else.
They'd probably be happier.
People were so miserable about it.
Employee happiness does not make money line go up.
No, it really doesn't. But LTX doesn't make money line go up either.
Don't worry about that part.
Ignore that part. Yeah.
Don't worry about that.
Swag was used in Australia in the 1800s
and apparently meant sleeping bag. But do we all get one for free because...
That would be fine. That would be fine. Any thoughts on the Discord persona hack?
Wait, what? Did it already happen?
No, is that the older one? Two hours ago.
Hackers exposed Discord age verification system issue
after persona front-end code left wide open.
Two hours ago.
No, I don't have particular thoughts on that other than,
good job.
I wish I could shake your hand.
I really do. Fantastic work.
Oh, you're a legend. Actually, hold on.
I'm having second thoughts on the title for WAN Show. Should we lean into Xbox Boss?
Gone. Um...
Ooh.
I feel like it was hack to prove a point. Yeah.
For sure. Yeah.
Definitely. To be fair, a lot of things are.
But yeah, I think this one, definitely.
Xbox thing. What's the current one? The resolution thing?
Yeah. Gamers overwhelmingly prefer fake resolution.
Versus...
Xbox more like Xbox.
Phil Spencer, no longer Phil's...
Phil's for unemployment? Phil's for unemployment dance.
Savage.
Are we happy with this or no? With what?
The Phil Spencer thing. I feel like that's a topic for the show.
Yeah, probably. You know what? Let's just run with it.
Let's go for it. Let's do this thing. With resolution?
Yeah. All right. All right, let's do it.
Dan, I'm just going to get you to punch it. I don't think there's any reason for me to do it.
Okay.
By the way, when are we going to start simultaneously streaming on the other channel?
I do not know. Should we just do it?
Literally whenever you want. Whenever I'm told to do it. Should we just do it now?
He would just have to receive a streaming key from it. I mean, I could do that.
And then just put it in the... Well, he wouldn't, I guess.
We just have to put it in the panel. I can do that.
Or you could. I have access to that now.
And we decided we're going to do it on here? Sure.
We might want to like...
I mean, yeah.
What could go wrong? What could go wrong? I feel like it makes sense.
A lot of sense. But we might want to change the channel name at some point.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
We have a bunch of stuff. Okay.
Are we both filling in the same thing? Review and accept.
Terms and conditions for going live? Yeah.
Okay. We're both doing exactly the same thing. I'm not able to put it in.
So you're going to have to do that.
Nokia, other channel. Does this mean I'm working twice now? Well, you could copy-paste.
Just an idea. I wouldn't recommend redoing the whole thing.
You know, don't work harder.
What are your thoughts on the YouTube outage? And what can YouTube learn from the flow plane?
Nothing. For sure nothing.
I guarantee you, literally nothing at all.
And what are my thoughts on it? Dang.
That sucks. Yeah. I saw it.
There was like a thread on Reddit where they're like, Oh my God. I can't.
I can't believe what they're going to say is going to be crazy because of flow plane.
It's like we're not even in the same.
I don't even know if I'm a grain of sand on their beach.
You know, I think you could be a piece of like dog on their shoe.
I think it's too substantial. They'd care too much.
No, that doesn't work. You'd be upset about it.
It would be big and important enough to be upset about.
It was just, it's not true. Okay.
You could be, you could be a piece of dog on Mars.
There we go.
That works. Hmm.
Interesting. Actually, anyway, that's too interesting because then some rover is going to find
it and they're going to be like what? And then Google would care.
No, a rover would find it and go.
Come on. That's pretty fun.
I have to say the, the, the, the like physical animation of your face and the
sniffing noises was like way too good.
It was a, it was a making kids laugh hack that I picked up from someone at some
point, but this is going to sound a lot weirder, especially in the context of, you
know, Joe Biden smelling kids or whatever, you know, whatever that all was.
But like with my kids, if I like get all up in their business and I like go all
like, like, like dog sniff, they can't help it.
It'd be funny. They just, they lose it. Of course it would be funny.
It's so funny. If you have, if you have any kids in your life, your kids, your niece or nephew or
whatever that you like to kind of play around in rough house with, try the dog
sniffing trick, I guarantee you it gets a laugh and they're taken so off guard that
it's like, cause like in the air, if you, if you get in their neck, it like tickles
too, especially if you have like a beard.
So if I, like, if I get my youngest going with this, she's like, if I don't have
something in my ear, like I could probably suffer hearing damage, how loud she'll be
like laughing and screaming.
Glow says my partner does this to me, can confirm it works.
My kids would probably go to WTF dad, but they're teens.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's probably a little, well, it might work all the better.
What the heck?
Children's humor. I keep clicking it. Accept it.
It won't. I meant the, the, the audience has, has not really decided.
I'll get comments that people love my laugh and I'll get comments.
People hate my laugh and I'll get comments that people said I laugh too easily at things
I maintain. I just prefer to be a jovial person.
And if something's funny, I'll laugh at it. I don't see any sophistication.
I don't see any sophistication in, in not laughing at things that are funny.
So I just don't care. Celebrities who refuse to be photographed smiling drive me.
Yeah. It's like, you know, it's just lame.
Yeah. Like whatever dude. And the whole thing where models, what did you just say?
Did you say kill yourself? No.
I said get over yourself. Oh my God. Sick Luke is just.
Wow. See, it's funny. I'm going to laugh.
I'm going to laugh at that. My turn to save the company. I didn't even say it.
It sounded like you did. I don't think I'm the only one who got that.
Did you hear that? No. I heard.
I heard what you thought you said. Yeah. I think this is you.
All right. All right. Oh man.
Giggle maxing. Yeah. There you go.
To instead of saying. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Instead of saying be jovial, I'll cater to the young ins and say I giggle max.
All right. All right. I'm a little bit like your hope posting bro.
Hope posting. All right. It seems like it's pretty split.
Most people heard what you said, but some heard what I said, what I heard.
I think people heard what you heard because you said it. You think so?
Mm hmm. I think it was suggestion. Let's just say I heard what both of you wanted me to hear.
All right. Now that was a goodverage. All right.
Elliott JD says is the background to do with Chinese New Year?
No, no, it's Valentines Day. Okay.
Belated. I'm.
I'm good.
I'm sure. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly. Sounds good.
to do this thing. Is it black history month? I can never keep
track of all the months. There's a lot. What month is black history month? February. Yeah,
okay. There you go. Yeah, sure. That's what we were going for. Yeah, definitely.
I was like, I'm not ready yet. I don't even have my non-sponsor compliant laptop out of the frame.
All right. All right. Let's do this thing. Let's do this thing. Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Hit it.
Hit it. Welcome to the web show. It's the year of the horse, baby, and we got a great show for you guys
today. There's big changes at Xbox after nearly 40 years. Phil Spencer is out at Microsoft. So
we'll be talking about that. We'll also be talking about how gamers apparently overwhelmingly prefer
DLSS over FSR and in some cases over native. Could that be right? What else we got today?
If you didn't like GPUs being up, if you didn't like RAM being up, well, you're not going to like
hard drives being up. Hard drive capacity for Western Digital is sold out for 2026. That's
more sold out than Linus from Linus Tech Tips. Got them. I don't know. Oh, come on. Come on.
There's no way Colton's team has everything sold out through the end of 2028. I wouldn't be surprised
if they're close. There's no way. Don't make me call them. And speaking. No, I don't have a
transition for this. Google suddenly carries about IP theft. What an applies to them, I guess.
And no one else.
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Speaking of removals. Yeah. Big changes at Xbox. Yeah. After nearly 40 years with Microsoft,
including 12 years leading the company's gaming efforts, Xbox chief Phil Spencer is retiring.
Now, before we go any further, Luke, I think, asked the big question on all of our minds before
the show started, and I wasn't sure what to say. I don't remember how I phrase it, but like, what
do we think about this? Is this good? Is this bad? Are we mad? Are we mad? I mean, 12 years at Xbox
oversaw a lot of Xbox, a lot of really good. And a lot of really bad. A lot of really, really,
really not good. Unfortunately, mostly really bad. Well, especially if we factor in like the
recency bias of it. Yeah. Things haven't been. That's the thing that I'm struggling with. Yeah.
Things haven't been good lately. But. What Halo game came out 12 years ago. But give me a second
here. Give me a second here because as much as things have been kind of bad for the last little
while, things might get worse. So let's get through the rest of the, you know, the notes here.
CEO Sacha Nadella announced to the departure in a memo to all staff earlier today, thanking Phil
for his extraordinary leadership and partnership. Phil Spencer will remain in an advisory role
through the summer to support the transition. And Spencer's time at Microsoft saw him working on
everything from in Carta. Now that's a name I've not heard in a while. Remember the Encyclopedia on
CD-ROM and MS works in the early years to the two and a half billion dollar purchase of Mojang
Studios in 2014, which seemed crazy at the time, but ended up being like the smartest thing maybe
ever. And their 75 billion dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023. Xbox president
Sarah Bond is also leaving the software giant to begin a new chapter, according to Spencer.
Asha Sharma, current president of the core AI product, will be taking over as CEO of
Microsoft Gaming. Look on your face. You look like you smell a turd. You look like somebody
smeared dog s*** on your microphone and you just caught a whiff of it. It's just
Sharma left a marketing role at Microsoft in 2013, returning in 2024 and away from Microsoft spent
time as Meta's VP of product and engineering and later as Instacart's COO. The Verge notes that
Sharma is not a gamer like Phil Spencer, but does have consumer experience that should help with
leading such a large division of Microsoft. Okay, the memo. Okay, just calm down, calm down.
I'm reading the internal memo. In an internal memo, let me, let me read the memo. You don't read so good.
That is rude. In a 10 journal M no, Sharma, sorry, I'm trying to do it like you.
Oh my God. In an internal memo, Sharma stated, we will celebrate our roots with a renewed
commitment to Xbox, starting with console, which has shaped who we are. I assume the console.
It connects us to the players and fans who invest in Xbox and to the developers who build
ambitious experiences for it. Microsoft's video game revenue dropped by about 10%
year to year in the December quarter compared to a 17% increase company wide,
but it doesn't appear that Sharma will be pushing for a short-term fix stating,
as monetization and AI evolve and influence this future, we will not chase short-term efficiency
or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop games are and always will be art crafted by humans
and created with the most innovative technology provided by us.
Matt booty, previously head of Microsoft's gaming studios has been promoted to executive
vice president and chief content officer under Sharma. So
huge AI background. I always liked that Phil Spencer was legitimately a gamer.
Yeah, I thought it was good. While I did think there was a lot of missteps,
the naming of the consoles was actually so insanely bad that I think it genuinely
significantly negatively impacted sales. And the brand, it just makes you look like
incompetent dunderheads. Yeah. And like we knew this from Wii U when like a massive percentage
of people thought it was just like some add-on thing for the Wii and didn't realize it was
a new console, like you actually need to name things properly. And they just didn't forever,
which was crazy. The wildest part is whether it's within the same vertical or even sometimes
within the same company, when it's so clear by the overwhelming incredible success of simply
named products that are easy to understand their positioning within the product stack, see
PlayStation one, two, three, four, five simple iPhone. Okay, there's been a little bit of confusion
in there, but generally speaking, for the most part, they've stayed true. Yeah, we got the
three GS in there and we got the X 10, whatever you want to call that. There's been the odd weird
one. They would deviate a little bit here or there, but they'd come back. But in general,
we come back to higher number, more better, easy to understand. And then you'll have Microsoft
with just the most bass-acquards naming scheme that I think probably exists in technology.
And then even Apple themselves, where you have this completely indecipherable iPad naming scheme,
for instance, where we start getting into AJ 129 model year. Just put a number on it,
my God, just put a number on it, please. Just tell me what generation of product this is.
And yeah, sorry, I hijacked your point. So there's been missteps right now.
There's been a considerable amount of missteps, but at the same time,
it would be really reassuring when like you'd hear that story of people that were like trying
to camp him and fall out 76. And he'd just like fight back. It was like, okay.
I could kind of feel like he's one of us. Yeah. A little bit. And it did feel like
while there were missteps, he was probably trying to steer in the right direction.
I think maybe. I mean, there's been some big. There's been some really big missteps.
Really big missteps. I mean, I don't think Game Pass is ultimately turning into what we were sold.
We were sold an incredible value. And I think what we're getting is you'll own nothing and be happy.
Can I make a really weird take here? I mean, I don't think Microsoft intended Game Pass to be what
it is now. I think they wanted it to stay cheaper. I think they wanted it to do a lot of things.
And I think user behavior wasn't exactly what they expected. I think developer behavior wasn't
exactly what they expected. And I think their franchises didn't do what they expected.
That's fair. I think they thought. See Starfield. Starfield.
Like I looked into what game released the year Phil Spencer took over.
It was Master Chief Collection. So it's like, okay, that's not really fair.
Terrible, horrible, legendarily bad launch. But same year he joined. I don't know.
The next one was Halo 5 Guardians. I played that here. I don't know if you remember that.
But I had to do a controller review of like the first elite controller, I think.
Oh, okay. Yeah. So I went to Willow and I rented it and then used some Xbox we had here. And I played it
up in the conference room upstairs over like a weekend just to like play the heck out of the
controller. And I remember finishing that campaign and just being like, oh,
as like a massive fan of the first three games.
Halo died because Bungie left, not Phil Spencer, IMO. Sure.
If you look back at the history of what happened there,
they hired people that didn't like Halo intentionally.
Yeah, it's kind of like, I mean, and I hate to beat this dead horse, but it's kind of like
what happened to Star Wars. It's almost exactly like what happened to Star Wars,
because Star Wars did the same thing. They intentionally hired people that did not like
the franchise. They did that because they're like, we're trying to make something different.
That doesn't, you can make something different while hiring people that like the franchise.
Here's my worry here. So I mean, Phil Spencer's legacy is absolutely complicated.
Very complicated. He oversaw incredible innovation. I mean, like let's not overlook some of the
really cool stuff that Microsoft did. They were at the cutting edge when it came to accessible
technology for gaming. Like genuinely really amazing controllers. I mean, I cannot sing
Microsoft's praises loud enough for what they did to make gaming more accessible for people with
physical disabilities and other challenges. And they really pushed the envelope in a way that
couldn't possibly have paid off in money. Maybe it was, you know, the cynic in me goes, well,
maybe they only did it because, you know, they were hoping for the positive press around the
brand or whatever. But I don't actually think so because it seemed like a genuine earnest effort
to make gaming for everyone. And I just, I thought that was so incredibly cool.
So based. I don't want to take anything away.
And that cost a lot of money. Oh, real money, actual real money.
Yeah. But then there's no question that they just couldn't. It's like they had a multiple
franchises. They closed studios that made amazing games.
It's like the it's like the it's like the driver was using one of their controllers with drift.
And they just couldn't aim anywhere but down at their own feet sometimes, you know, like you just,
they couldn't stop themselves from owning themselves. I'm genuinely not confident that I could get the Xbox models in the right order right now.
Really? I'm not 100% confident that I could.
I mean, that's not that's not that hard. You've got Xbox.
Yeah. Xbox 360. Yeah. Xbox one.
Okay. Okay. And then what? Xbox one X.
Is that true? And Xbox one S. Okay. Yeah. And then is it serious?
And then you've got Xbox series S and series S.
Yeah. Okay. I think, did I get them all?
I think I got them all. I would have forgotten Xbox one, but I mean, if I saw the names, I think I would have gotten
that in order if that was correct. Yeah. Like it's comically stupid, but I mean,
anyway, sorry, back to your point. As complicated as his legacy is for exactly the same reason that, you know, I don't love
non-Star Wars people being in charge of Star Wars. Yeah. And I don't love non-silicon people being in charge of Intel.
Yeah. I don't love non-gaming people being in charge of gaming.
And I'm not saying there's no chance. I'm just concerned.
Well, it's extremely concerning. I do really appreciate that one line.
We're not going to fill it with AI slot. Coming from the AI side of things, they needed to say that.
Okay. They probably got some PR thing that was like, hey, you need to say this.
But hear me out. In that same sentence, right in that same sentence.
As monetization and AI evolve and influence this future. No, no, no, no, hold on.
This, no, no, just this sentence. Games aren't always will be art crafted by humans.
Okay. Doing really good here.
And created with the most innovative technology provided by us.
What innovative technology?
Okay. Hear me out.
You know, I've noticed a problem.
I like watching a bunch of YouTube and I that one's for the millennials.
Yeah. Yeah. That was pretty good. I like watching a bunch of YouTube and I've noticed that especially a lot of history videos.
Yeah. Have started a lot of AI slop showing up.
AI generated picture slideshows with an AI voice.
And I'll notice like a few minutes in. I'll be like, hmm, there's not really breaks between sentences and like
I'm starting to get a little sus because the voices are pretty good when they're really tuned in.
And I'll scroll down into the comments and you try to search. Like did anyone else kind of pick this up and you control F for AI
and you get 10 trillion responses because it's like part of different words and stuff.
It's, I feel like it's convenient that it's just AI.
I ended up on Tech Talk, Tech Talk Tech for the first time in several years
because we're doing another trying Tech Talk hacks. Like you saw it?
Like I saw Tech Talks. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like is that what you're saying? Of what? What? Are you saying that you appeared on there or you looked at it?
No, no, I was looking at it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was, I was, we were doing another reacting to, to Tech Talk Tech hacks.
And so Adam curated a bunch of like
shockingly large popular creators, shockingly popular pieces of content
that are just either AI slop with like tens of thousands of hearts.
But like bad, like wrong advice that you should never follow or people who seem to be just
as an agent, as a human agent for their AI puppet master,
regurgitating AI garbage that is stuff that no one should do.
And like I can't believe how much of it goes to your point unchallenged or is not easy to tell
that it's fake and that it's just garbage. An interesting thing too is there was a thread on the, on the Reddit.
Yeah. Where somebody was like, is this true?
I think you got to say the subreddit. Otherwise you're at risk of sounding like you consulted the Google.
Sure. Yeah, sorry. I don't, I don't read it that often.
The subreddit, I only go to ours and it's not even ours and that's confusing and blah,
blah, blah, whatever. Old man yells at cloud. Nice. But I went to the subreddit and there was a thread of somebody who saw some article that was like,
I don't remember, I'm going to misquote it, but like HP Abandoned's Windows or something like that.
And they're like, is this true? And it was like, or it was a video or something?
I don't remember what it was. But it was like very clearly AI generated junk.
It was not true. And the comments like roasted him for it.
And I feel like we're falling. He's doing the right thing. I feel like we're falling back into shaming people for falling for scams.
No, he did the right thing to ask.
Yeah. This is the worst memory recollection of all time.
Oh, you have, you ain't seen nothing. This man can, this man.
Tell me what happened then. Tell me what happened, huh?
We should get it. Doesn't remember.
No, I'm good. I don't, don't touch. I like this one. I like this one. I like doesn't know.
But yeah, no, we need to, we need to support each other rather than attack each other for
seeking truth in a sea of AI slop.
So let's all, let's all form an alliance.
We'll make a pact that that's how we're going to respond to people asking about AI with kindness
and with compassion.
Okay. Cool. Good chat. Why don't we jump into another topic?
We, are we done with this one? The conclusion is basically just.
I have no idea. We'll see how it goes, but I don't have it. Honestly, there's no, okay.
Okay. No, you know what? We're not done because to me, the frustrating part of bringing in a non gamer is not that I
think there's, it's a guarantee that they'll do a bad job. Yeah.
I'm not a fashionista, but I think that I have done a good job of trusting the team at
Creator Warehouse to do a good job of that part of it, while also providing the financial
backing and creating an environment that gives them the resources to, to create quality products.
See, I'm more focused on like, how long does it last? Can I throw it in the tumble dryer?
You know, these things that I know matter to our customers and then their job is make
sure it like looks cool and is, is not going to, you know, it looks professional at the
office and, and addresses the little details that I would overlook because that's my background.
But Phil being a gamer theoretically helps him understand what our customers want.
You being dialed in with the audience helps you understand what our customers want.
Yeah. I don't know that she is dialed, maybe she is, I have no idea, but her not being a gamer
makes me question if she's dialed into that audience.
So I'm not saying, I'm not saying that they're going to screw it up.
I'm just saying, would it have been that hard to find a leader who was a gamer?
It doesn't feel like it. Like everyone games now, would it have been that hard?
To me, it's the main reason why I cringed when it said like, oh, she came from an AI
area in Microsoft. Is that just seems to be the path now?
Like if you're a corporate jockey in Microsoft, you're just getting yourself into some form
of AI something because that seems to be the path to everywhere right now, which doesn't seem good.
And you know, maybe this is a pattern recognizing when there is no pattern, but
I mean, it seems kind of like a pattern. Seems likely.
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Does anyone hear that sound?
What is, what is going on? What is happening?
What is happening right now? Something's happening. I was just handed a thing.
This is a Thoram box. This is, this is extremely confusing to me right now.
I see DMS is here.
What do you think is happening right now? I think you're getting married.
You were such an observant person.
I'm so proud of you. Are you getting married to me? I mean, I wasn't worth thinking about that.
Okay. This has never happened on windshield before.
Nobody told me I'm so underdressed.
Where do I go? What do I do? If you guys just scoot your chairs back a bit.
You guys are going back. Okay.
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Here. Trying to mix some space. A little bit of shuffling.
Beautiful.
Yeah, surprise, you're a legal witness.
Yes, for words. All right. All right. Welcome, everybody, to the marriage today.
I see it's quite a bit of a surprise.
Oh, exciting. But we're gathered at this place to witness the formal joining in the legal state of matrimony
of this couple, according to order and custom prevailing and under the authority given and
provided by me by the province.
I charge with you both in the presence of these witnesses that if either of you do not
knew or sorry, do know of any legal impediment to this marriage,
you do now reveal the same. So let DMS repeat after me.
I solemnly declare. I solemnly declare. That I do not know.
That I do not know. Of any lawful impediment. Of any lawful impediment.
Why I. Why I. DMS. DMS.
May not be joined. May not be joined. In matrimony.
In matrimony. To mochi. To mochi.
Let mochi repeat after me. I solemnly declare.
I solemnly declare. That I do not know. That I do not know.
Of any lawful impediment. Of any lawful impediment.
Why I. Why I. Mochi. Mochi. May not be joined in matrimony.
May not be joined in matrimony. To DMS. To DMS.
All right. The I do's. Do you DMS.
Take mochi to be your lawfully wedded wife.
To undertake and to afford.
The love of your person. The comfort of your companionship. And the patience of your understanding.
Oh I very much do. Do you mochi.
Take DMS. To be your lawfully wedded husband.
To undertake to afford the love of the person. The comfort of your companionship.
The patience of your understanding. Hell yes.
Now you.
Want to join hands.
Repeat after me.
DMS. I call on those present. I call on those present.
To witness that I. To witness that I. DMS. DMS.
Take. Take. Mochi. Mochi. To be my lawfully wedded wife.
To be my lawfully wedded wife. To have unto hold. To have unto hold.
From this day forward. From this day forward. In whatever circumstances.
In whatever circumstances. Or experience. Or experience. Life may hold for us.
Life may hold for us. And mochi. Repeat after me.
I call on those present. I call on those present. To witness that I.
To witness that I. Mochi. Mochi. Take DMS.
Take DMS. To be my lawfully wedded husband. To be my lawfully wedded husband.
To have unto hold. To have unto hold. From this day forward. From this day forward.
In whatever circumstances. In whatever circumstances. experience or experience life may hold for us life may hold for us great in as
much of you have made this declaration of vows concerning one another let's get
the ring shall be the very important rings
all right so when you just switch because that one's you know whoop all good
let DMS place the ring on the third finger of Mochi's left hand repeat after
me with this ring with this ring as a token and pledge as a token and pledge
of the vows and covenant as the vows and covenant of my word of my word I call
upon those present I call upon those present to witness that I to witness
that I DMS do take thee do take thee Mochi Mochi to be my lawfully wedded wife
to be my lawfully wedded wife all right let's do that Mochi place the ring on the
third finger of DMS left hand with this ring with this ring as a token and pledge
as a token and pledge of the vow and covenant of the vow and covenant of my
word of my word I call upon those present I call upon those present to
witness that I to witness that I Mochi Mochi do take thee do take thee DMS
to be my lawfully wedded husband to be my lawfully wedded husband
I'd like to just look at one another and repeat both of you at the same time in
receiving this ring in receiving this ring I promise and give I promise and give
to you to you the truth the truth the unfaithfulness and faithfulness of my life
and marriage of my life and marriage now for as much as DMS and Mochi have
consented in legal wedlock have declared your solemn intentions in the
company before these witnesses and in my presence have exchanged these rings as a
pleasure of your vows and each other now upon the authority vested to me by the
province I pronounce you as dueling buried you may kiss your bride
congratulations
well we just met but congratulations
congratulations dude thank you
wow thank you congrats
hand to the witnesses thank you
you're welcome we'll get out of your hair and let you resume the show
alright congrats you guys
alright I'm gonna squeeze around yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah sure sure sure okay here let me get the chair out of the way
alright Sammy way to go
and we'll get mad at me okay here I'll go
here I won't block this sorry guys
alright three one two
thank you fantastic alright congrats
congratulations
hi
well that's the thing that's never happened before
does that mean we're all invited to the reception I think that means you're all witnesses
wow
just so we're clear
like that was very real well that was a hundred percent real
yeah yeah legally blinding yeah we both just fully attended a wedding
yeah that was a real wedding and so did Dan and so did all of you
yeah everybody here yeah first on wancho
that um
there has got to be a story here it was so hard to not laugh the whole time
because I looked over at you
I could watch your brain as every step progressed
you'd just be like really and then I saw at one point in time
you were like wait this is really long for like a bit
and then you're like wait does that mean it's real and then like some step happened
I saw your face just go like no way
I was watching this like
all this computation happen and then Linus' head
and that was that was so entertaining the whole time
wow that's so cool I um
very very honored
I wish I had dressed up a little bit but nobody told me
that was the whole that was the whole point okay
I was supposed to have a dress shirt under my jacket but then I left it buttoned
on the hanger and I and I only had the ad spot to try to get it on
so I was like trying to unbutton it the whole time ran out of time just through the jacket
so this is my undershirt all I saw I saw Sammy come in
I saw Luke start changing his clothes and I was reading about husband and wife
Caleb and Steph and whatever and I thought maybe there was like a funny thing
that Luke was gonna do that involved him being dressed up then I saw Dan
for the main camera and I was like okay
what are we doing I had so many cues to hit in like
five seconds did you not notice it was it you on the boom Mike Dan or was someone else back there
that was uh that was Jordan that was sorry Jordan
block yeah nice solid
did you not notice anything about me I mean I noticed you changing
oh you're like wearing fancy shoes even I have cologne on
yeah I would never in a thousand years notice something like that I thought you would have actually because I'd never wear it
no okay I thought I was gonna give it away the whole time
in the pre-show you did your hair
so that was something but you occasionally do that sometimes I do that yeah
I didn't think the hair was gonna get it every once in a while it happens the beard
less often especially not at the same time that should have been a clue
sometimes he'll clean up the beard sometimes he'll clean up the hair very rarely on the same week
yeah I was trying to hide like color matched
a bunch of things the jacket was hanging there the whole time
oh are they still here I think
they're busy yeah and I didn't
didn't get them anything what the heck
oh man
I can't believe that just happened
I thought this was Chinese New Year that's good
was that the scam I don't think so
because when is Chinese New Year it's soon right
I think it was this week hold on
oh yeah it was three days ago it's right now
perfect it's totally Chinese New Year
right now blah blah blah Tuesday February 17th
2026 and that's the beginning of the year of the Fire Horse
which lasts until February 5th 2027
celebrations including Lantern Festival typically run for 16 days ending on March 3rd
2026 so I was like this totally checked out I just didn't
understand so this is why you guys are memeing earlier because I was all
like you said something to Sammy
about how like yeah didn't you set it up and I was like yo he's
Korean what the heck anyway
um so does that
I actually didn't know it was Chinese New Year I just assumed that we just had these
I know the red and white was intentional but the rest of it like I don't know
well I thought the red was because it's Chinese New Year like that's the thing
that's probably both yeah um
I think that's very funny so did Thorom sponsor the wedding yeah
yes that's cool yeah that's why it's a cool takeover
your business team did a good job
because there's actually been like a bunch people in the loop on this for like a while
what
Terry nose I think probably like the whole business team knows
not everybody at the company yeah uh Chewie says this may
actually be the most genuine that Linus has been pranked on camera every prank
on me on camera was genuine so it's just whether um
you know it came across in the in the edit or not is basically what it
comes down to like when Dennis was living in my house multiple times I did
not know um I would never fake a prank
that is that should be a crime
that you should go to youtube jail for faking a prank
except it's like most pranks yeah that's not okay uh
alright so he's still there I couldn't find him
uh alright if you guys want to do another topic I'll go have a look
listen I will never deny getting teary-eyed at a wedding
it's uh it's a very emotional time
and I cannot help but be happy for super cool people
starting a life together that's it's it's exciting
and it's happy and uh anyone who thinks men shouldn't cry at
weddings can go f*** themselves that's my hot take for today
I can or should say but I'm I'm very happy for them
I think it's their story we'll let them tell the story in the way that they
deem best yeah once they have figured out
um you know whatever it is that you know
they're doing for for right now that is not in the public eye
no that's not stop it no
no no I know immediately smile that looked at me because I realized
I just meant whatever they whatever they
they can talk publicly about their personal lives
when they're good and ready that's what I'm trying to say stop it
yeah sure man that's why they left so fast
they're just really excited to go talk about their the rest of their personal lives
anyway exclusive
I mean it wouldn't violate any rules with the platform technically no all
why do you have to think they'd have to make it artistic no
no why are we talking the payment processors
oh that's right yeah so that's that's why lore
for some people that's why for a long time adult
content creators on patreon would do cosplay that's why that was so
popular for a really long time was because it was considered art if they could
put it under the cosplay category oh there is there's things I have things for
you yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna come and see you guys okay yeah
congrats dude yeah
yeah no kidding definitely a surprise
here let me know what's right okay they're off they're off doing stuff over there
while they're doing that why don't I talk through the cat patch hoodie
or something or what should I do did we do the gamers
dlss topic yet we did not did we do anything yet
okay why don't I do like a couple rapid fire things while they while they chit chat
um steam deck is getting pretty hard
to get right now valve has added a note to the steam deck page
saying that the handheld will be intermittently available in some regions
due to memory and storage shortages
I knew that memory shortages were already having a significant
impact on pricing and I knew that storage shortages were coming
but I didn't know how hard the storage shortages were gonna hit
and how suddenly they were gonna hit yeah we're working on a thousand
dollar build video and ploof
ploof did something that
made me very upset that
I worked with him and tried to resolve and couldn't resolve
he used a SATA SSD
in a build I think that's the first time we've recommended
a SATA SSD for any reason that
in five years maybe because
there's no reason why it should be cheaper even because
part that costs more is the NAND flash but just I guess because
the demand is a little lower and the stock is lagging
the increases in price or whatever right now SATA SSDs are
anywhere from like 15 to like $35 cheaper than NAND
that too I absolutely see it making sense
and for gaming it doesn't really matter so
our thousand dollar build that's coming soon is gonna use a SATA SSD
and to be clear when I say that it made me upset
I don't mean like ploof made me upset he did something
made me upset because we shouldn't be in that position and yet
here we are crazy yeah for a boot drive
yes scrappy DP for a boot drive and I looked at the config with him
and I was like you nailed everything else
and we've got a budget that's the reality in a perfect world
would I love to spend another $35 and I've talked about this before
that's a slippery slope logic that takes your thousand dollar computer and makes it $1,200
if you spend another $30 on every single component
you're not adhering to a budget when does that stop and real people have
budgets and that's just the way it is so we have to act
like we have a fixed budget so that's what we're gonna do it's still not quite $1,000
it's like $1,012 or something like that but $1,012
is $1,000 $1,040?
yeah not really that's $1,050
that's not $1,000 I think if it was over
$1,015 it starts to feel a little weird
oh yeah I think $1,015 is probably the line
I think you could get away with $1,018 you get away with it but it starts to feel weird
I think $1,012 is like an automatic when you hit $1,020
it's like come on man because that's like
a real bill like a $20 bill
is like I'm not gonna put that in my pocket
that one goes in my wallet like $5 bill
that could be in my pocket I might even put that in with the change drawer
$10 bill we're getting sketchy $20
right in the wallet no question no question
yeah this is lunch
for sure is this financial device? no not financial
$5 goes in the car, $20 goes in the wallet I mean yeah sure maybe in the 90s
$5 does nothing for the car now
no I think they mean like oh I thought like to fill your gas tank
no no no I read that comment for one
but for two I think they mean like in the like yeah I get it in the change pouch
yeah no I thought like I remember when money was tight my dad putting
$5 in the gas tank and I was like dude that was in like
1993 not so much anymore
yeah sure on a motorcycle chewy but that's not what we're talking about
our discussion question for this is do you think the steam
machine and or the frame could be delayed beyond
Valve's current target of the first half of the year I heard the steam machine was
so it was supposed to be early in the first half of the year
but they never actually promised anything other than first half of the year
and yeah I do think that's possible if they can't even get enough stock
to make steam deck right now like how are they supposed to launch a new
product because you're kind of damned if you do and you're damned if you don't
if you delay it people are going to be upset because you delayed it but if you launch
it and there's no stock and it's a whole scalping situation
where let's say the launch price is $999 and they're going
for $2,500 on ebay because you know at the beginning they will
because to someone for whom money is no object there is nothing
exactly like the steam machine
tell me something that completely fulfills the function of the steam machine go
I'll wait not that I'm aware of you could
do it you could make it yourself sure you're going to go get
an IR receiver and you're going to go get like some relay system
that's going to turn on your TV and your PC and everything all at the same time
you're going to go you're going to make your own steam controller
with the touch pads with controller yeah what's
what was buddy's name we did that collab with recently he I mean he made his own
steam controller alike with touch pads he made his own touch pads is the controller
tied to the con yeah I guess the launch of that probably is
are you going to are you going to work out a way to remotely power on and power off
all of the stuff from the controller like there's a bunch of work that
valve did on the integration side of things that is completely
separate from just how many FPS does it get
and sure you could you could just roll an Xbox or a PlayStation instead
but then you don't have steam you don't have
no offense Microsoft and Sony but you don't have good pricing on games
so to me no there is absolutely nothing
that is what the steam machine is it's it's completely unique
in the market and I think that regardless of the performance there are people who are not going to
be playing the most demanding games that just plain fucking want one
and just have more money than sense and I just like whatever it doesn't matter or I just shouldn't even say more
money than sense they might just have more money than they care about
they're just like forget it I don't care I will just buy it I mean I've bought
stuff that's a bad value before the work that I'm doing on my motorbike
it's a terrible value I could have bought a brand new motorbike and instead I'm going to be
riding around on a 2003 with a paint job that's insane
it is objectively it's crazy
but I love the look of it I have a lot of memories on that bike it's my first
bike it's still enough for me it's 650cc it's really comfortable
and I did the paint job myself which I think is super cool so I'll be like
ripping around on my own paint job Tommy B
Tommy B who did that theme control is super cool so
sucks alright you want to talk about next should we
do the other big headline topic yeah let's do it let's do it
you guys might not like to hear this okay but I need you for one moment
to just here just
just grab that and just
what that chill pill
just take it and calm down go ahead
gamers overwhelm we'll get into it we'll get into it
but to listen to the title gamers overwhelmingly prefer DLSS over FSR
in a three way blind test over six games
German tech publication computer bases readers overwhelmingly found DLSS
4.5 upscaling to have the best picture quality
over FSR or native rendering and that last one that's the bomb shell
the native rendering is the the games used for this test
was ANNA 117 ARC Raiders
Cyberpunk 2077 Horizon Forbidden West
Satisfactory and The Last of Us Part 2 now that is also another huge bomb shell
these are not just like ashes of the benchmark or even cyberpunk
games that are just overwhelmingly optimized
or because they're the traditional showcase games
and these are showcasing games beautiful games pretty much across the board
other than maybe Satisfactory um
but these are real games that people are playing this is not
like contrived yeah and all those real games are ran at 4k resolution
with upscaling set to quality videos were played
to were played to readers in NVIDIA's iCat player
showing game clips rendered in DLSS 4.5
FSR and natively side by side this is the
it's a video it is but if anything
to me that is a disadvantage
to DLSS it could be because DLSS
when you're actually using it remember we're talking DLSS upscaling
not DLSS Framegen
so there's no latency drawback of DLSS upscaling if anything
the latency will be better because you will be running at more FPS
because you're rendering at a lower resolution then upscaling
it through machine learning
it's just a weird note it is
respondents could indicate whether they preferred or answer equivalent
so they could be like yeah they're all the same DLSS won in every
game with an overall result of 48% of votes
from a pool of 6,747
native rendering was also preferred over FSR in
every game with 24% of the overall vote to FSR's
15 that doesn't uh
so 15% of people preferred FSR or 15% of votes
were for FSR 24% of votes were for
native and 48%
12.8% of the responses were equivalent between the three categories
so just done care one out of eight gamers was like whatever
whatever dude responses weren't ranked, respondents only voted
on what they thought was the best video now if these were
closer if it was like
20 30
25 I'm looking at it going like okay well you've
obviously got a bunch of normies who literally can't tell the difference
and then a bunch of other normies who literally can't tell that FSR doesn't look
as good as native I'd be ready to be pretty dismissive of it
but the sheer volume of voting
and the overwhelming preference
for DLSS is kind of
f***ing right now like
seriously there is a lot of variables that hold
it was a video that was played all that kind of stuff but
are you surprised by the results no
yeah that's the spicy part of this I was waiting for
is we can nitpick how the like you know how the thing
was done we can nitpick the science and I'm sure there's lots
to be done there as there is with everything ever
but I'm not particularly surprised by the result
have you tried it yet is your gaming machine up and running
you're on 4000 series right so you can run it
I think you have a 4080 you should try it
like immediately are you
afraid to like it
a little bit I was too
but not because of like external perceptions like it's kind of like the first
time that you you know try it with it no
how no I don't think at all
my thing is that I'm worried about I guess you knew you'd like that
yeah my thing that I'm worried about is
what this will do to multiple industries
which industries hit me
gaming and hardware hardware it's already happened
like NVIDIA set this course
years ago not just when they launched the 20 series
they set this course when they started developing
the 20 series so this is like 8 years ago or like
9 years ago or something that's really fast
for this level of impact it is
8 or 9 years for this level of impact is wild like
it's actually very wild look at almost any other comparative industry
however it's also like damn near clairvoyant
when it comes to seeing where
the where the winds are blowing within the tech industry
and getting it this right when it was in such
early stages of development at that time when the hardware didn't exist
when the software tools didn't exist when it hadn't been
embraced by game developers you gotta give them credit
they nailed it and now everyone else
is playing catch up whether you like fake frames whether you don't like fake frames
AMD and Intel are all in on upscaling
and frame gen now the warden is kind of
getting to my point how are you fellas gonna pivot when consumer computing
is completely gone in 5 years um this is kind of
what I'm talking about is like the and it's not even just the work
right we can actually do a lot of different things oh yeah
where's a lot of the revenue coming from these days
that stuff so like you know that's of course
that's a little bit of it but I'm worried about the hobby I've had for literally my entire
the memories that I have of my entire life is being
interested in this hobby from before I was interested in this hobby
I don't remember anything like it's been forever
and then there's what this will continue to do
the gaming industry um gaming industry is in a really weird
spot right now and I think this doesn't necessarily help so hear me out
we've had this conversation before but it always felt kind of like
eh sci-fi
and maybe someday and blah blah blah and it always seemed kind of easy to dismiss
but I feel like it's time to have it again
if someone say Microsoft
built a gaming experience that simply wasn't possible
with many clients all over the world
connecting to a central server to exchange game data
if they built a gaming experience that could only
run on the big iron and that you remote into
and it beams frames to you like a like I know we've had
massively multiplayer worlds right but I'm talking
like a massively multiplayer world where it's just it's just not even possible
to run it on the client side anymore could you be convinced
in this in this hypothetical you know universe scale
game where everything is physics based
and everything's persistent man what happened to physics NVIDIA games
anyways that's a different topic but but let's say
that by having enormous banks of
AI servers and crap they could model and simulate
the world in a way that just wasn't possible to render locally
I mean the more interesting part to me is the anti-cheating that comes with that
yeah could you be convinced to cloud
game to play that like let's say it was a game
that had a moment like Arc Raiders is having right now
would you just be like let's go
would you be sad like tell me walk me through it
so far I've resisted I haven't joined any of the subscription things I haven't joined
oh because you know it'd be a subscription oh yeah because you're running on their hardware
at that point yeah I'd like have to be so I yeah I haven't joined
Xbox game pass or the Ubisoft service or EA's thing
or anything like that even when it like probably made
sense and I'd be like okay there's some new shooter coming out maybe it
doesn't even have a single player or I don't really care about the single player for this one and
you know I know my friends are only gonna play it for like two weeks so like whatever
really every single time if I'm gonna play that game I've bought it
I have not joined the subscription services I don't know at a certain point
when there is no longer an option which is the reality you're describing
yeah I don't know necessarily what I do there
I think there's definitely a lot of interesting aspects the anti-cheat is very
interesting would you still be able to cheat absolutely but the level
of cheating would decrease and at least at the beginning
the barrier of entry would increase like
using machine vision to read a screen
and literally a robot ARM to move a mouse and operate a keyboard
oh you can still digitally send inputs there's nothing I just mean
that's sort of the the ridiculous
lengths to which we could go and people have gone
to make something that is completely undetectable by software
but you can still read a screen and then snap to a head
like you said still detectable by things etc yeah
so we'll never be able to completely eliminate people who are determined
not to play the video games that they pay for but I think it would make it so that it's not like one
per freaking lobby like some games are right now yeah
so that is kind of exciting but
I don't think I'm romanticizing this I think I'm always going to have a computer
there's like it's kind of funny
during the reno I spent the longest period of time in my life since I touched
a desktop without touching a desktop because at work I had a laptop
and I would take that laptop home to I mean most of the time
continue working but also like if I play games or whatever anything I did on a computer
was on a laptop for a while and then I got my desktop back
and it like shouldn't matter when you're connected to a dock
like it does and I don't know why it does they're just not that fast I don't know like
what it is I like I daily a laptop right now for work I don't have a work desktop
right now and I haven't for like six months and there's just
there's just something about it like I went to be in a big box on a desk and I don't
know why no they're just there just I don't know they just
even that stuff just feel like they work better even always would talk to me about
this like and I kept telling her it was her imagination because it doesn't make any sense but she'd
be like yeah no laptops wear out they just like don't work yeah good after a while I'm like
that doesn't make any sense because but it anecdotally it's
like it just kind of seems to it just kind of seems to happen whether it's the way that these mobile
chips have a tendency to to be very bursty in their performance or whatever
it is like they just ah man I don't get it I don't get it
right now it's an elite book X
yeah an elite book X G1 A it's a Strix Halo so it's
it's like a four thousand dollar laptop that I would never buy
because there's like things about it that are like like broken
level of stupid like it has by default this the screen ships at 40
Hertz I know right you can turn it up to
60 what is it an engineering laptop or something or like what
like an engineering sample you know why would it have a Strix Halo in a 40
Hertz screen is it I it's a it's a work it's considered like a workstation
because it can be configured with up to 128 gigs of RAM like Strix Halo
you know tends to do I was trying to figure out like what
what configuration ever would someone buy that thing in when it's 40 Hertz and then I was
like okay maybe it's just for CAD or something and maybe they don't care I'm not sure maybe they do care
I feel like if I was an engineer I'd be kind of annoyed that my screen's running at
40 Hertz it can do 60 it can do 60 but it's like super dim like it's
not like you compare this to like a like a top top-end
MacBook right now and you're like not good
not good but man that Strix Halo but yeah
I feel like I'm always going to have a desktop and if I'm the dude
running a desktop off I can only keep it alive
through second-hand hardware because literally no one makes this stuff anymore I feel like
I'm going to be that guy and does that mean I'm just aging
poorly or whatever maybe maybe when I'm 70
and I'm still keeping my desktop alive I will be seen as aging
poorly yeah but I don't think I care I like my spot
I like having a desktop
I like how it works
and if that's the equivalent of having a Windows 98 machine now
I think that's still fine because I think having a Windows 98 machine now is pretty cool
yeah I don't think it's going to go away go away because you're not
going to be the only millennial left in 30 years from now so
I won't be 70 30 years from now well I will
right there buddy
yeah like I don't I don't I'm just saying like and I'm giving a theoretical scenario
right and there's and there's happens or not and I think that especially
with how diverse the game development industry is
even now and I think will become I mean that's something you've talked about a fair bit
this this splintering off that's happening right now from the big studios
you're going to have a lot of people who in much the same way that
game developers are spreading up who are nostalgic for the rich single player
like pixel art RPG experiences of their youth
or whatever it is right and are are trying to make that but better and more modern
I think you're going to have people making games that are designed to be played
from the client side there's always the indie space yeah but and
and by and always yeah sure always is a huge word
very loaded maybe it won't always but in our lifetimes I don't
see the desktop completely going away it might take on a different form
the the kind that we use now might not make
sense anymore we're already seeing soldered memory make its way to
the desktop not because it's being crammed down our throats but because it runs
faster like the fact that framework went that route
was pretty mind blowing to me and the first thing I told them was like hey
huh like this is not that modular
and they're like look AMD
literally like worked with us on this you cannot build
Strix Halo with with memory modules and maintain the
performance and it's not that it needs it for the CPU it needs it for the GPU
and the and and the GPU is becoming integrated the way they
are in a really weird way that happened we went from that
conversation right where Intel started talking about you know the
igpu on the CPU becoming like very powerful and an important part
and AMD with their fusion way back in the day and the CPU
and the GPU becoming integrated and we all went yeah but igpu's are so crap
they're so bad I feel like it just kind of
everyone was talking about it and it like definitely wasn't going to happen
and then there was a period of kind of quiet and then it just happened
happened he's a really how fine is the soldering
on soldered RAM that's not that bad
bga RAM can be upgraded a lot of the time
the issue around both that and then comes down to like like firmware
handling the firmware but no one is going
to build a mother board that is designed to have
the RAM desoldered and resoldered on to it willy nilly and so
because of that you're never going to get friendly firmware
even from companies that do have the best intentions and you can make there are
boards that allow bga chips to just be like like like bolted
on to them but they're for engineering it's not practical the interface is way too
expensive and bulky just trying to think like is it possible that's
the return of like repair shops basically oh yeah
100% it might not even be upgrading but it might be replacing
fixing stuff like that 100%
right the other thing I was going to say is I think Strix Halo is just
the beginning too because one of the things that was
most exciting to me about Panther Lake was not
and this is why I think our Panther Lake coverage back at CES was so
different from everyone else's because I was
moderately excited to see Intel return to competition in terms of battery life
put out a really good IGPU okay no I was more than moderately
excited for the IGPU moderately excited for the performance
gains and they moved some caches around and all that kind of stuff that they tend to do
as they make a new chip but what I was really excited about was
the modularity of the underlying
platform like they've got all of this stuff that they were
talking about for years like Foveros is like
working it's in shipping silicon
right now we can just like
take out and they talked about using third party vendor
IP so the idea like
holy crap of getting something like the SOC
on the Nintendo switch right with like an NVIDIA GPU
but like an x86 CPU and then like some custom
you know AI Tom Fulery over here and
whatever they want over there and having like a like a mega chip
on something like a framework desktop like a really compact desktop form
factor that's that's exciting
that's cool and if they're able to do that
not on a monolithic die right but through packaging
then the yields might actually not suck
and the performance benefit of having it all tightly integrated
might be worth the cost maybe here's a
here's an interesting comment from uh
fartmuncher69 420 uh
in floodplain chat fartmuncher69
underscore 420 says enthusiasts will change to running servers
inside their house instead of desktops in my opinion this is
really interesting comment because we've talked about that before first of all we have
second of all in my opinion
if you look at like tech media what is the only
thing that like really feels like it's growing right now building like local AI
crap homebrew yeah or home lab yeah
I don't know why I said homebrew but yeah like and doing things like that and that's
a big part of the reason why I think it's growing but also people are looking at like
oh man like I mean I've been mulling over this this this particular thought
in my head for a while now it's it's this like you know I'm not
trying to be a I'm not trying to be a gray man I'm not trying to a gray man is that a thing
gray man yeah where you like blend in with the crowd and like you're you're you're
you can't like you're you're all tactical but people can't tell
I'm not trying to do that I'm not trying to like hide from them the government whatever
but there's also like
you know I don't take a picture of my junk every time I go to the washroom and send it to you
so why should I share all my private things with Google and everybody
else right so like there's people that are like alright there's a certain level
of invasion of my privacy that is just like dang dude maybe back off a little bit
so I think people are trying to split off from certain major services
not out of again like paranoia oh my god
I need to be ultra tactical but it's just like whoa like this is actually
too much I should probably own a little bit more of my data dude I think these two
things are happening at the same time we did an AMD ultimate tech upgrade
I guess we shot it a couple of weeks ago for Nate one of our
guys at Creator Warehouse did I talk about this last week I don't think so
okay so so we shot an AMD ultimate tech upgrade and one of the
things that he wanted was a NAS which is like
yeah sure that's a thing that comes up on these AMD ultimate tech upgrades
but the difference is that Nate doesn't really do
any video editing doesn't really
want a Plex server he doesn't do the stuff
that we typically think of people wanting NASs for
and this was really cool and very exciting
investment disclosure in esh tech
but they have gotten to the point where what he was after
was quite literally a matter of like
maybe 10 clicks to get image setup
on his remember hexOS is based on TrueNAS
so the underlying the underlying system
is TrueNAS, ZFS good stuff
and he was able to get it setup pretty dashboard, get image
installed and syncing from his phone in like I kid you not
about 10 minutes with no trial and error
and no BS and that was what he wanted it for
he had a kid recently and he just doesn't want
to upload to a cloud service because there's a freaking
limit yeah like it's
really not it's not edgy
like you hear these stories oh man this is gonna make conspiracy theorists like
so
I'm not gonna say the word for it but yeah I guess
but it's not why are they feeling like that
it's not fear of the unknown, it's knowledge did they see someone who's pro-consumer
jesus christ jesus can't help you
where we're going brother it's not fear of the unknown, it's knowledge of what's happening
widely this is an old story
but you hear about the Tesla stuff where they were like sharing videos
from inside of people's cars for fun on their slack like this
is happening we have accepted that even if a company
is like morally perfect
well they're gonna get hacked anyways like it's if your data is
is just publicly out there
people are gonna get it people you don't want to have it will have it eventually
and realistically most people
probably not that important yeah but
but it kinda doesn't matter maybe I still don't want someone seeing it
maybe that just sucks yeah maybe that's actually an irrelevant part of this conversation
and maybe we could just not because I know that gets brought up too
and it's just like dude whatever that doesn't mean I want
yeah I don't know just
owning your own stuff I think is shifting from
paranoid people and hyper enthusiast land to normies
this is actually just kinda normal now dude I think that
as cool as it was investing in framework
and as many good business decisions as I've made for LMG
and mistakes the investment
in eshtec and the timing for hexOS
is gonna end up seeming like clairvoyant
when they get their product out of
pre-release and like dude the timing
like I think they're aiming for sorry I'm gonna jump in while you find that
dark guy said AI being on your junk for AI porn
see this is part of my problem though is like you hear stuff like that
and it's like okay maybe I think he's probably joking but I've
heard more recently that apparently one of the ways that they prey on women
is they look for when you delete a bunch of selfies
because it shows like a low self-esteem moment and then they'll target you
with ads for like makeup and cosmetic surgeries and stuff like that
seriously and it's just like maybe I'm just
gonna host my own photos and you can actually just f*** off
I just don't actually want you involved with this at all
so there's a certain level where it's like you're doing stuff with this information
that is just not okay and like
you know self-esteem issues in men and women are a problem
but I think it's pretty well known that like negative emotions
and negative thoughts and self-esteem issues like that are much more heavily
present on with
women and it's just like I don't know get out of here
so if I can help solve that by like hosting it myself yeah okay maybe I'm gonna do that
now because I'm tired of this stuff and I think a lot of other people are tired of this too
I think Instagram was doing that too yeah I don't I don't necessarily know
so here it is Q1 of 2026
by March 31st 2026 we will have 1.0
of HexOS which will include the local UI
that people were rightly upset wasn't
initially planned for the launch
Q1 of this year yeah and like that's
that's awesome and if you don't want to go that route there's tons of other routes as well
yes lots of other options what I love about this one
is the philosophy of making and secure and robust
simple but if you decide you're going down this route
regardless you can go that route and skip the steps
or there's a massive extremely vibrant community around doing it for free as well
yes level 1 forums is really good for it
there's stuff on I mean there's stuff on the line of executives forum lots
there's stuff on reddit everywhere there's tons of YouTube creators there's tons of people all over the place
that would be more than happy to help you with all of these things
the discord age verification thing people are posting about that as well like this is yeah
this is just another example of like this to me is very
clearly within the law
mass data harvesting and it's just
everywhere now and it's just too much
just tired of it
I think I don't have much more to say I think having your own
NAS is going to go from a thing that weird pirates do
to a thing that just is like a normal thing that people
should do if they care about the privacy at all
I wouldn't be surprised maybe I'm being too in our own bubble
about this but I wouldn't be surprised if in a certain amount of time
it's like weird if you don't have some form of your own owned
large storage I mean
it's going to get hard with what was it?
was it WD who said all of their hold on
hard drive you know what let's jump right into this topic then
hard drive capacity for western digital is sold out
for 2026 WD's CEO revealed
during the company earnings call that they're pretty much sold out of HDD production
capacity for all of this calendar year with firm purchase orders from their
top seven customers WD has also signed long term
agreements LTA's with two customers that extend into
2027 and one into 2028
this demand is driven driven almost entirely by AI
data centers cloud revenue now accounts for
89% of WD's total revenue
while consumer revenue has shrunk to just
5% let's take a moment
and wrap our brains around that
and obviously it doesn't quite work like this but at the western
digital factory okay as the drives
are rolling along the conveyor and dropping into the bucket at the
end of the conveyor those drives they're all done now
one out of 20 is destined for a consumer
what 19
out of those 20 so for every hard drive
you see in a consumer system shipping today
19 more are going elsewhere
with 18 of them headed to the data center
to the cloud
hard drive prices have already surged nearly 50%
in the last 5 months according to Tom's hardware following a similar pattern
to RAM and NAND which are also in shortage
because of the current AI build out yeah I forget this out
unintentionally I was trying to help someone configure a build and the
performance like was not
very important so I actually recommended
the core most important thing was hard drive so I recommend
to get a hard drive we check the use market because of course and I was like
oh everything's really high
I feel like these are just like people expecting too much value because like the use market
around here is I know what I got is not yeah the use market around here is not
always super vibrant for everything so it's like okay let's
jump on stores because I've seen literally during scrap yard wars yeah where it's
actually cheaper to just buy a new drive sometimes which is whack yeah like that has
happened it's a thing um so like okay let's just jump on the stores and I was like what is
going like why are the hard drive so expensive and then I started diving into things and I was like
oh no it's coming again isn't it I found three WD greens
two terabytes each from um
just to give you some idea of how old they are they have archived footage from
when we were at the Langley house on them they were the old cold storage
drives yeah so each of them only has I think
around a few dozen power on and off cycles and like
a couple hundred power on hours
I bet those are worth close today
to what they were worth then which is so
messed up completely wackadoodle
Dan chime up say it
yeah sure I didn't want to interrupt no but yeah my uh
my ass is they're nearing their five year kind of scary age
and I have five 15 terabytes in there
I'm gonna be poor how much is that gonna run you right now
oh my god Luke please check Luke I'm working on it I have
a WD green is worth 80 bucks
for a two terabyte that's nuts okay so no they're not as bad
as they would have been like 12 years ago or whatever but that's
too much to be paying for a two terabyte drive you said 15 terabytes Dan
Seagate Barracuda is what I have in there right now or Exos
something like that oh god they might be the same Exos we're like kind of cheap for a bit
okay okay in fairness four terabyte drives are around
the same price here's one from Seagate for 90 bucks but he needs
15s no no I know I'm just talking about those stupid greens
is this a phase where you would expect to upgrade are you looking for 20s
if there's 20s I didn't do the math recently because power on ours
weren't getting too crazy but like I got to think
about it I was looking at SSDs and
remortgaging my left kidney yeah that's uh
so yeah 18s for like a red pro nas drive
is 400 dollars that's probably cheaper than it used to be
I'm seeing I'm seeing four to four to seven hundred
dollars depending on the models yeah that sounds about the same
but I'm also not seeing 15s the sweet spot seems to be a little higher than
15 right now the 20 the 20 terabyte is 420 nice
um okay so I'm fine sick you're fine
oh really you're buying 15 I mean that's still
that's still too grand and this is us dollars sir okay that's
because I remember paying about 400 bucks a drive
five years ago yeah sorry Canadian I'm seeing on the Canadian site
I'm seeing iron wolf pro 20 terabytes for 600 bucks
okay that's not that far off he's getting 30 percent more capacity
for about 30 percent more it's not better
it's not like it used to be the price was always the same
where the price would always go down per Gigabyte
but we talked about this it keeps coming back to that bloody video I made
where I was like YouTube premium should cost more money or whatever
what was the premise of that but basically I was like hey look
you gotta understand Moore's law is dead the law of
storage being cheaper is dead this platform costs more and more
and more and more to maintain people use it something's gotta give
well it looks like I'm not as homeless as I thought it was gonna be
just a little bit John McGee 1996 asks is this gonna get worse
or is there any indication of balancing out type of situation hold on just give me
one second
you can't see it but this is
just gonna polish my ball here the gaze into it
consult the orb we're going full gaze here
I don't know
I thought you were gonna give some whole impassioned speech about
trying to tell the future and stuff and then I don't know
that was good and the thing is
like obviously I was kicking myself for not just stockpiling
a bunch of DRAM but I've been in this industry for so long
do you know how many times I've heard DRAMs going up
it's going up and like what for a month or two it'll trend up
for a little bit maybe for a quarter or two but it always
it always comes back down because at the end of the day it's
people who they earn their money
working on all the forecasting for all this crap years in advance
that mostly have done a pretty good job over the years of predicting
where demand and supply is going to go and making sure that they're striking
a balance between maintaining the profitability of their fabs and also
not over supplying or not under supplying the market
making sure that they can supply all their big customers including direct to
consumers and I don't think there's a precedent
for them f***ing it up this badly nobody saw this boom
coming and there is no quick fix there's no like oh well let's
just I'm trying to think of a game where you
were built yeah ANO there's no ANO just plopping down
a new fab and then you just run a little road to it and now the supply chain
is fixed it just doesn't work like that so
I don't know because the bubble could pop and if the bubble
pops all these purchase orders
just be sitting there they as far as
I can tell they they like what are you what are you going to do like what's that
what's that famous saying if you owe the the bank
a thousand dollars you have a problem if you if you owe the bank
if you if you have a loan from the bank for twenty thousand dollars that's a you
problem if you have a loan from the bank for twenty billion dollars that's the banks
problem yeah and so that quote something along those lines and in the same way
like if if this whole thing just
crashes there's literally going to be no one to
you know fulfill this one trillion dollar RAM order
or you know whatever whatever magic on on paper money
has been exchanged in advance or whatever commitments have been made so
if anything there will be a huge crash in the
pricing of this stuff and it'll be it'll be a free RAM for
all but when that will happen
I have no way of knowing if any I like from my point of view and I'm just I'm not a
finance guy right like I'm I'm a tech nuts and bolts
guy from my point of view we should have all figured
out that this is not going to result in the kind of
the kind of revenue generation that would justify the investment
that's going into it ages ago
we should already be there so I'm just sitting here going well
can I stay solvent longer than the market
can stay irrational
the answer is no
yeah Dan check your email full planchats cooking
are they finding them deals
or I think I might actually just need four which is kind of nice
sick get shocked
mega cool asks hey question
are tariffs responsible for this consumer hardware shortage at all or is it really just
because of stupid AI tariffs aren't helping
yeah but it's a shortage globally
yes so like tariffs are not helping
I can tell you that much but the shortage is
a much more macro problem that is not to do with
a tantrum that a particular world leader is having at a particular
moment does this affect you guys as a channel absolutely
in like so many ways constantly and every day
this hobby has never been more difficult to get into
ah no I actually wouldn't say that ring true it's
even more frustrating to participate in yes I'll say
that yeah it was definitely a lot more difficult to get into in the
like much more further past in the 80 days yeah like where would you find
resources to to learn to I mean there was laptops that were $3,000
in like the early 90s you go way back to like the hobbyist days
yeah and I mean never mind even from a pricing standpoint
but it sucks right now you can still buy a sick game I mean I told you we've got that
gaming PC video coming you can still buy a sick gaming PC for $1,000 we went
to David and I this video is coming out really soon I talked about this one we went to
Costco and we brought a we bought a great computer for like 1250
US or something like that very capable little gaming machine
am 5 like like modern platform gaming
machine with the was a 9600 I think it was the
I think it was the XT 9600 XT perfectly
excellent gaming card I played some expedition 33 on it and I was like yep this is a gaming PC
and and that's really great it's really amazing that you can
you can get into it like that but it's also really
frustrating that we had it so good for so long
and it's been it feels like it's been torn
out of our fingers and the reason the reason
is the hard part like if if Moore's law was just dead
and everyone was doing their earnest best to overcome
it and the answer was fake frames I think everyone
would go okay sure
but not everyone but I yeah not everyone but you I think
you get what I mean yeah yeah but if the reason that this stuff is not affordable
and the reason that we're going the direction that we're going is because
you know I don't know if you Sam Altman needs more RAM
then I think that's a lot harder to swallow it's a lot harder to be passionate about
to get excited about I also think
that I mean if if companies like WD
are having 5% of their revenue be consumer
and you see more patterns like what micron did happening where these
where these
traditionally known in the western market brands
that's all I'll say it start kind of exiting
I'm not saying western digital is exiting but micron did for reasons that western digital
is experiencing so it wouldn't be unreasonable to see other brands
do a similar thing I think
maybe in a really weird way one of the saviors of the desktop
PC market might be
China because
there is a consumer market yeah definitely so like if certain
brands are just going well all the monies in
data center well that's not true
it's just there's a crazy amount of money in data center so like
I don't know somebody's going to step in
and there's a lot of very hungry Chinese companies trying to
get into computer components so like I think it was
hardware unboxed that made a video on
one of the Chinese DRAM companies
hardware unboxed
CM rcx rather hold on
cxmt xmt
ymtc I think one of them did a
yeah 32 gig king bank
kfrw ddr5 6000 cl36
soreblade cxmt review hardware unboxed
and it was like fine I guess
that could help but
I don't think they have a ton of capacity at least not right now
not right now not right now I'm not talking about right now
but that's the thing about China is how long
did it take them to build hospitals during covid like days or something
um China builds hospital
in 10 days that was nuts
that is nuts that is nuts
and this is a different type of scaling and a different type of building and all that kind of stuff
but like if there's opportunity there somebody's going to chase it
and if the traditional brands are going data center it doesn't mean consumers
are out of the market right like it's we're still here there's still a big market
we're still hungry we're interested in things there's still billions of dollars to be made
selling to consumers and I think consumers are probably less
able than data center is
if data center uses something and it works oh dude that's where you have all those quotes
of like nobody was fired for buying IBM yeah dude AMD has been
well okay it's not as cut and dried as AMD has been better than Intel
in server for years but they've been a very compelling
option compared to Intel for years and years now
and how slowly that market share shifts compared to consumers
who just seem to be able to are willing to pivot a lot faster
it's less relationship and contract forecasting driven it's more like
I go and I see what's what's good right now
it's like recommended by my enthusiast buddy I want more FPS you know
like it's a very different decision making process SuperWisk says
how long until NVIDIA just gives up on GeForce I
don't think they will and my reason for that is largely
geopolitical really
I think they are much more geopolitical than
a lot of the other brands I think I think in my opinion
NVIDIA is extremely invested in Taiwan's
market dominance and wants to
hold themselves there but why do they need gaming for that
because I think they would take anything they can
and if they can take data center and gaming
and anything else I think they'll grab it and hold on to it
I think they will continue to make gaming GPUs but for a different
reason I think that for many years the gaming
R&D fueled the data center products
and now we're seeing that kind of flip around
where the data center R&D on things like machine learning
is fueling advancements on the gaming side
but I I think it's less about
geopolitics and I think it's less about
Taiwan and for me I think it's more about tradition
I think there's at least as long as NVIDIA's leadership remains
as it is I think there's a lot of ego
and a lot of pride and I don't necessarily even mean those
negative ways I think that
GeForce dominates gaming is a point of personal pride
and part of the origin story of NVIDIA
this is definitely part if not the majority of it
if anyone were to challenge NVIDIA in what has been traditionally
for the longest period their stomping ground
I think NVIDIA sees the gaming market as
basically their birthright at this point and fuck anyone who tries
to take it from them I think they would cut open
their money bags and bleed it rather than lose their dominant market
sharing gaming quite frankly because we've seen them do it when AMD was competitive
they were willing to do anything sometimes it wasn't even just
to sell more GeForce it was to just fuck over anyone
who tries to dare sell a graphics card and I don't even necessarily
again I don't even necessarily mean that in like a negative way
I mean that in a highly competitive way
they've done stuff that I would describe as anti-competitive
but what I'm talking about right now is the competitive spirit of NVIDIA
and sometimes that competitive spirit can lead them to do things that are anti-competitive
but it's not what I'm talking about right now it also feels like
yeah I mean I think this is fair we have more of that than a lot of companies
NVIDIA feels very raw raw
oh yeah I mean I think Jensen takes it personally when like he loses market share
yeah and that kind of passion
is important from a leader it's probably not a small part
of NVIDIA's ongoing success I mean pointed a company
that has executed so consistently
for like 20 plus years NVIDIA founded it was like 1990
people also like notoriously don't quit and like they have this
internal culture of like
reeducation and internal classes that you can take and stuff because they
feel yeah it's all very interesting
I don't want to glaze NVIDIA too much when they do a lot of things I don't like
but yeah I mean you can't deny that they're winners
yeah
speaking of winners you can be a winner
by um
learning about check out messages or calm
sorry it took me a second to remember what they're called now
the way to interact with the mark of a great name the way to interact with the when
show is of course not through super chats
not through twitch bits but through check out messages
I believe that when you throw money at your screen you should get something
in return and in our case
it's high quality merchandise from lttstore.com and the product we're launching
this week is kind of a funny story
do you want to bring up the page on the site this is called the schrodinger's cat patch hoodie
shout out to Matthew on the fashion team for coming up with the name because
it's kind of genius um there may
or there may not be an LTX logo under the cat
patch you can't see it which means it's in a state
of superposition until someone does something to test that theory
which we would strongly advise against because it would mean that your cat patch is no longer on
your hoodie if you've been around since the LTX
days you will recognize the tie-dye base of this particular
hoodie this is officially the last of those finally
we're done and for anyone newer it's our 100% french
terry cotton hoodie soft breathable structured and now featuring
this schrodinger's cat patch on top you can find it live
now at LMG.gg slash cat patch
hoodie so the reason for these is that our first
batch of LTX 23 hoodies had the LTX
logo crooked it was aligned to and you know what
seriously our printer has done so many perfect prints
for us over the years that I don't even I don't even blame him
because it was aligned to something but then something
about the way the garment fit meant that when you wore it it was like
angled it was angled off the relative to the floor
and so we had to reprint all
of the hoodies for the show like I think it was like three or five days before something
like that I can't remember the exact timeline but we had to reprint the hoodies and then
we spent years trying to figure out what the heck
to do with those hoodies no the logo was not sewn on it was
silk screened so the cat patch being sewn on is new it's an
upgrade look at this quality cat patch I think this was Lisa's handiwork
isn't it adorable anyway
it took us until now to figure out what to do with them so this is your last chance
to get the tie-dye hoodie and it has a cute little cat patch on it and Luke
showed you guys how to find it on the site and next he's going to
show you guys how to send a merge message all you he won't he won't do that
I'm sorry he will not do that oh crap he will show you how to send a
com a checkout message bloody hell
okay all you got to do is add anything to your cart
say for example the off-site laptop bag in a
small size cool neat view cart and there it is the checkout
message interface that will go to producer Dan who will
put it up on stream or he will respond to
it or he will curate it for me and
Luke to respond to Dan should we show them a couple checkout messages
and show them how it works yeah I've got a couple here let's have a look
hey DLL question for Linus do you guys have a product list from
oldest to newest would be useful for my project
we are launching a new version of the site I believe
in Q2 I think that's the current roadmap and then
once that's done we're going to be working on a product archive
and once that's done we're going to be working on a way to allow
people to kind of vote maybe once a quarter or a couple times a year
on the top products they'd like to see us bring back
because I know it's been an ongoing problem with LTT Store that we're always
moving forward never
restocking things that are gone and I think that's something that would
be a way for us to kind of meet in the middle because we can't carry every product that we
ever made that's not really realistic but we can bring back some
if there's enough demand for them Luke Nukem
that's a the shirt
that one's not coming back you should have gotten one when you had
the chance I wear mine actually quite regularly on weekends
so like not every product will be available to vote on then
like your super special ones it would be there but that's never going to win
it's not going to get enough votes we did not
we saw the sales numbers we did not sell many of those
hey Luke, Linus and Dan Adelaide, Australia
what do you think of the new Pokemon fire red leaf green
release for Switch and Switch 2 news that dropped in the last 24
errs did they seriously not put a space
between two different words fred
so this is the Colton edition
that's just a good joke and leaf green
yeah what are they? are they games?
are they the same game again? capture wild Pokemon and recapture
the nostalgic feel of the Game Boy Advance system when the Pokemon fire red
version and leaf green version games return for the first time in over 20 years
on the Nintendo Switch also playable on Switch 2 just in time for Pokemon day
there's a lot to unpack here in these Nintendo Switch versions
of the 2004 remakes of the first
Pokemon games, red and Pokemon green so this is
sorry, these are halfway to Skyrim right now
for your toaster these are remakes of
remakes it's a $20 GBA game and every language
is a unique listing on the eShop
you really do have to catch them all emulators win again I guess
there's like no way this is not one of the most easily emulated games ever
I don't know man I've never done it but I have to imagine it's like
brain dead easy Pokemon blue master race that's all I have to say about that
never cared about red or green sorry
there's another Pokemon comment here somewhere green wasn't like
you're talking about the previous era oh I'm talking about like original
game boy yeah yeah yeah yeah wasn't wasn't green like not a
North American thing I thought it was like Japan only or something maybe all I know
is Pokemon weird rumor is the only Pokemon game I ever played
and from every conversation that I've had with a Pokemon fan about it those were
a choice they were like yep you had the experience yep good job
and I played it on a Game Boy color emulator so I like
got to see it in color I think or was it
I don't know it doesn't really matter you don't even need my nostalgia glasses say it was in color
sure it might not have been you're right green was Japan only yeah okay
cool so for us it was it was just it was just red and blue
and then yellow came out and that was like weird and
yeah growling says real chads played yellow but like yellow
wasn't out yet so I was just to OG for yellow so that's why I said it was
weird red and blue were first whatever whatever
I still have my cartridge of blue nice solid blue homies yeah
I got to follow a Pokemon question for you both
seriously I think yeah I mean might as well have two everybody seems to
be care about Pokemon today yeah what's the one do you like Pokemon I think you like Pokemon yeah
okay hi Wancho question for Luke what is your favorite
Pokemon are you looking forward to the any potential announcements for the series 30th
anniversary no I'm not looking forward to
any I know that might suck but like
I don't tend to like the mainline games anymore
I actually don't even like the game that I play
I think Pokemon go is just like objectively a pretty bad game
other than the fact that it tends to usually
incentivize going outside and there's so few things
that do that on your phone and I think that is super super cool
gamifying going outside is fantastic while you finish this up I got to go use water gun
sounds good but the
concepts around how
the PVP works I think are terrible I think the rating system
is in a lot of ways really bad I think the max battle system
is terrible I think how they deal with catching especially
things that you technically paid money for in some way is horrible
I think their event management is just trash
like in so many ways it's a terrible terrible game
that sucks it's one of the reasons why when people are like oh you have to have
remote rating because of like people who are
immobilized it's like okay I would highly recommend
playing anything else because it's a terrible game I guess I'm
supposed to look over here sorry if you're stuck at home
there's like near infinite other things you could play that are just
better like ah you don't need to spend
money an extra amount of money to be able to play from your couch
to be able to play a bad game from your couch
the only good thing about pokemon go is that it gets you outside
and it gets you moving so if you can't do one or either of those things
just play a better game I would highly recommend
playing just a definitely better game
that's my main stance there the mainline pokemon games I bought
whatever it's called scarlet or something oh man
because I bought it I've been kind of like forced
myself to play when I play on my switch it's starting
to get better the beginning was really really slow and
it's starting to get a little bit better but still it's like
I don't know it it is different it's an open world game
in a more real way than the original pokemon was
I don't think they're that great hot take I love
zea I haven't played those ones
I haven't played a ton of them I don't have really great takes on it but anyways in terms of
announcements I'm not particularly excited I think people in the
indie scene that are making semi ripoff things
are doing a much better job with the pokemon IP than pokemon is
I think that game poke mmo or whatever that was a long time ago
where you could play in your browser and it was like an mmo of
fire red or something and you could see all these trainers around
on the map I'm wondering if full plane chat is going to
correct me on the name but there was a pixel art game of pokemon
that was an mmo that I believe was in your browser
and it was that was like super cool and really fun and really hype and then pokemon killed it
pow world was like a really interesting take on pokemon that was actually
really fun multiplayer in the same world
wow how has that not really been a thing
having your pokemon be able to like work with you to build things like super cool
I think an actually official one for pokemon would have been way better
and not having the guns and stuff I think have actually would have legitimately been
better I think pow world needed to do stuff like that in order to
not infringe too much so hooray that was definitely the right choice
but I would prefer to just play a first party one that was actually well made but none of them exist
but yeah people are saying poke mmo yeah apparently that
let me see if I can find it poke mmo
if there's still more oh they have a website still
what the heck are they still alive wild
I thought they got like banned off of the everything
but yeah like these these experiences made by others
have been
better so no I'm not particularly interested about announcements
favorite pokemon Kadabra my reason for that was
I never traded back in the day when I had my my pokemon blue
I think I like we didn't have a link cable or something I don't remember
but never really traded and I
remember above misty's gym you cross the bridge
you go to the left and then you come back down there's this patch of grass
and if you go up and up and up and up and up and down up and down up and down up and down
my brother told me you could catch an Abra in there so I would go do that and I would finally catch an Abra
and then if you do the the old brutal exp trip
where you have to send the Abra out first and then swap out to something that can tank it
and you eventually get a Kadabra that Kadabra will just hard carry you for like the entire game
Kadabra is sick in those old games
I found a lot of the pokemon that you either needed to trade to evolve
or that you had to get in weird ways were some of my favorite ones
like Gyarados giving that magic harp from the guy who thinks he's scamming you
and then you turn into a magic harp, fantastic pokemon Kadabra
Machoke
Graveler Why do you keep going for like mid tier evolutions of these?
I was just explaining cause I think we didn't have a link cable or something
so we couldn't trade to those ones required a trade to evolve
it was the only way to do it You could get him a champ
No I don't think so
I'm pretty sure I thought you had to trade it
By the way weren't you going to ask me if it was very effective? Was it very effective?
Super effective even
Am I wrong that they were trade only? Trade only
Really? I must just remember fighting them or something
In fairness to me this was like 25 years ago You would have fought them
I think there's a gym leader that has them or something But yeah
Machoke you needed to trade in order to get him a champ
but then it would just give him a champ to the other person you could trade it back but like I don't know
Kadabra in order to get Alecazam you had to trade
in order to get Golem Those are the
three that I really remember Yeah
The other really cool one Oh yeah Gengar
That's why Haunter is my favorite one out of that chain Is because
to get Gengar you had to trade So I really liked Haunter
That's why my one laptop was called Haunter and not Gengar Because Haunter is my favorite one because I was never able to trade up
And Haunter is also incredibly powerful in those games
Because Ghost is just like immune to a ton of attacks Which is crazy
It wasn't a particularly balanced game
No not at all It was more about selling toys
Yeah Yeah
Yeah Kadabra has always been my favorite one He's my hard carry
Yeah Sammy's favorite Pokemon is Gengar Which is pretty sick
It's so common for people to be like Charizard or whatever
Pikachu Yeah Pikachu, Eevee, whatever
Alright What's your favorite Pokemon?
When did the Eevee obsession show up? Because
Is it? Does Eevee feature really prominently in
modern shows or something? I don't know but I know they pushed it a lot more
There's a ton more Eevee evolutions now Oh dude
I got this Pokemon find and seek
book for my kids I don't know some relative gave it to us
It was all like Eevee Who cares about Eevee? I thought it's all
Pikachu and like Charmander and Charizard and whatnot
There's also like communities that form behind different Eevees
Tumblr says Crystal Well Tumblr I think was largely because Sylveon
is a lot of people in the trans community because Sylveon has the trans colors
have bannered behind Sylveon But then similarly
there's like other Pokemon For
for reasons people like Vaporeon
There's other stuff going on
Yeah, but Eevee got more popular like way later on
I would need to be reminded original sprites let's go
I need to be reminded of all the original Pokemon before I could pick a favorite
I also really like Pidgeotto, Pidgeot
I was about to say I Loki loved my Pidgeot
They're actually awesome Like late game Pidgeot is actually pretty
pretty solid I actually kind of loved my
Raticate I like that. I don't like Raticate
but I like that you like Raticate. I think that's cool Um
The Niddo's are pretty sweet Kadabra
Let's go I was a huge fan of Geodude
Did not love this Catching early Geodudes? Yeah, me neither
Didn't care about that Geodude is
sick when you first recruit him Yeah, exactly. Like he just will one hit
basically anything just hits so hard. It will take so little
damage from so many things Okay, I love horses
so therefore I immediately love Punita, but I just didn't really need it
because by the time you get this I think you have like a
pretty solid. Is that even in blue? I thought I thought we had
Growlith. Maybe not. I don't remember which one. Don't remember which one.
There's some Pokemon that aren't you have to trade for them. I think you can
maybe you might fight a trainer or something that has You definitely do. There's the gamblers that
have them. There's the old guys. They like their pony dis. Um
That's why Man, there's more
than I remember there being. There's a Rihorn Enchoyer in chat. That's based
That's a based favorite Pokemon.
These fighting guys are pretty cool, but I never really bothered with them
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
I just really liked the design for this one. I don't know if I don't think I ever had one.
They're cool.
Man, I wish they did more with Ditto over the years and you'd have to be like
you'd have to have a heart of stone to not love it. Yeah, very
true. Yeah, you know what if I had to
I really dislike a lot of the modern systems. Um
I've often talked about how a lot of the
modern Pokemon systems just make it feel like Digimon to me.
I don't even know what Digimon is. Mega Mode EX
I don't like it. Um, but
but I do think Gigantamax Norlax is awesome.
The fact that he just he's just still sleeping on the road and just stuff grew
on him. Hilarious.
But then they do stuff that's like you might actually like this.
Gigantamax Meowth is just he's just like
buildings tall.
It's all very power rangersy to me. I think that was probably
my first exposure to like
Japanese style fighting media
where the fight has
three stages every time you fight the putties
and then you fight the boss and then
you both level up and you fight again and all of the foreplay was
completely unnecessary. Yeah, that's totally yeah. Now there's Megas
and all this other junk it gets a little ridiculous
and like, okay, I know anytime anytime you make it compare like you look at
new Pokemon and you're like why is there keys
why is a set of keys a Pokemon and people go yeah well you can look at
Gen 1 and there's like some silly garbage
as well. Is there though? Poragon.
What's Poragon? He's he's
yeah. Sorry, what's it called? Poragon.
I don't know what you're talking about. I don't think that's Gen 1. Yeah, he is.
How do I spell it? P-O-R-Y-G-O-N
100% Gen 1. Oh this. What is this? This is my point. He's just like
he's a duck. He's just like some shapes. No, he's a duck.
He's a racist duck. What are some other silly Gen 1 Pokemon?
There aren't really that many. I mean I think my thing is like for the most part it was
like this is a mouse except it's electric. Hooray.
Yeah. I mean yeah Machoke is just like a jacked guy.
There's a jacked like kind of well okay. Mr.
It's just a creepy guy. Kind of a frog.
Yeah. And like the gas one is like so that we
could have like a gaseous thing obviously.
I have no problem with ghastly personally.
I thought it was kind of like random. Magnemite is just magnets.
What's the one that's like? Magneton is just a lot of magnets.
Yeah. But I think like I am very cool
with things like Onyx. It's a bunch of rocks in a row.
Neat. Geodude. It's a single rock. It has arms for some reason.
I don't care. Neat. I like stuff like that. I don't like
this is a space demon. Like I
don't want that. I'm just glad we're all passionate about it.
I'm glad people have things to be excited about. Like what is that?
Why is that a Pokemon? I think it's a
Lobster
Lobster, Eagle
Scorpion. Does that as a Gen 1 only
or does that feel like it belongs in Pokemon? No. Yeah, exactly.
That's my problem with some of the new stuff. And I will always be a Gen 1
only or because I'm sorry but I just cannot be arsed to collect them
all more than 151 things. So many more.
How many Pokemon are there total? They just don't exist to me. There's 151 Pokemon.
You're welcome. So for the delusional people
that think there's more than 151 there's apparently 1,025.
That's crazy. It makes no sense. That is crazy. There's 121.
151. No, you know what? Forget it.
There's 121. Great shopping. 30 of them off. Anything I had to trade for doesn't count.
Oh, man.
Okay. How many people did we just bother? 152. Missignal. I like that.
I like that. No, the glitch doesn't count. I like that. Glitch, please.
My delusion is that there's 152.
Alrighty then. What's next?
First. We had a wedding. We fought about Pokemon.
First, Apple adopts RCS. Now it tests
end-to-end encryption. In the latest iOS 26.4 beta
build, Apple explains that it is now rolling out testing end-to-end encryption
in RCS messaging on iPhone. Currently not shipping on certain devices and carriers
but the big news about this was that it is only testing
the RCS encryption between iPhones. Not between androids.
They're not saying that they will never support it on Android but
while other people are super negative about this saying, well, isn't the point
of RCS end-to-end encryption so that you can have encryption when you're texting
with an Android acquaintance. I personally am choosing to believe
that this will this is just the start
and they will roll into an encryption to Android
friends at some point and so that's why I cared to talk about it.
I'm in good faith believing that Apple is going to continue to do
the right thing and continue to move RCS forward.
Speaking of good things that I'm super excited about
Android finally
after all these years finally f***ing did it.
Whoa, really? Finally. Android, not like Samsung or something?
Apparently. I don't care about running a Pixel
but what I do care about is I want a Sony.
I want an Xperia.
I expect it won't have it yet. It's probably going to take a little bit
but when that propagates I am like
I don't care about running a Pixel but what I do care about
is I want a Sony. I want an Xperia.
First in line. I'm going to import an Xperia from Japan
and I'm so ready. I'm so excited.
They're so good. Yes, I know Samsung had this for so many years
but what if I wanted something other than Samsung?
OnePlus also supports it. I believe nothing supports it. There are vendors that support it
but Google themselves hasn't supported it and
Samsung, excuse me, Samsung and Sony to my knowledge
just kind of sticks as close to stock Android
as possible and has not supported it
so I am super, super excited. I'm on 16 right now and it's not here
so if it's 17 then I'll be getting it soon and I'll let you know
and then you can buy one too. Yeah, there was commenters on the reddit
that were saying it specifically Android 17 and I still haven't
wiped my old one for you to play with Luke. That's okay.
Yovo Azido asks, remind me, which side is the right side-Linus?
You can always tell because
the left hand makes an L so this is the right
but if you meant correct side the answer is that there is no correct side
which is why we need a choice depending on whether you're left or right-handed
depending on whether you prefer the task switching button
being closer when you're holding it in your right hand or being closer when you're holding it in your left hand
that is completely personal preference and there should never have been any reason
that you should have had to choose. This is good.
This is a win for user choice.
All right. What else we got?
Let's see here.
What is this? You want more good news? Why Charge when you can use Why Charge?
Yeah. A company that has been pioneering wireless charging
has announced their second batch for their wireless power kit.
So I did a ShortCircuit on this thing a little while ago
and the difference and the reason I wanted to highlight it again
is that it's way cheaper now. It was like a commercial
only solution not that long ago and now they have support
for the Schlage encode which is, from my understanding
a much more popular smart lock. So you just
take out the battery cover, put on the receiver module boom!
You never, ever charge your smart lock again.
You don't put a battery in, you don't have it just randomly die
at an inopportune time and you have to use a key it just has power forever.
I've been using my commercial one with the Alfred smart lock at my house
it just is always charged and will always be charged forever.
It's super cool. We first covered these guys at Computex
like 10 years ago and it took them five ever
to whether it was funding or partnerships or a development
to get this technology rolling and it's finally
happening. So they just seem like cool people who are
finally catching a break and I just wanted to highlight that. Good stuff.
Oh! This one's less fun.
The registry from Save the Life
a pet microchip company became inaccessible
when the company went out of business in January 2024. For those
unfamiliar, pet microchips are simple RFID chips that produce
a unique string of numbers when scanned. Databases like Save the Life
link that identifier to pet information that vets can access.
There was apparently very little notice of the shutdown
leaving many pets unknowingly unidentifiable to vets
and shelters. Since Inadi Animal Care says it's found
65 dogs with useless chips only about half of their owners
were found. Pets registered to Save the Life should re-register their
chips number with another microchip company which is usually free. This whole
thing raised a whole bunch of questions for me. Namely, what was
the f***ing point of putting a microchip in my pets?
I've microchipped every one of my pets that I've ever had
thinking that the idea was that they scanned it
and the information was just there, readable and plain text
which I don't actually mind if somebody has my cat because I want it back.
I thought it was too. So this was insane
to me. I kind of understand like the privacy
potentially of like an animal is roadkill and you go and you scan the microchip
and what you get. You get a girl's phone number that way. Like come on, man.
Like I, if it's an alternative to a collar
or a tattoo probably
plain text would have been fine what was the point of this?
Yikes. So frustrating.
I hate that on like multiple levels. Like I had
hope, you know that when I, when
the Bengal cats escaped that someone would find them
and they would eventually even if someone stole them, they would eventually make
their way to a vet, eventually get scanned and I would eventually be contacted
but this whole ecosystem is just more stupid and fragmented
than I could have realized. I guess I could have looked it up
I could have found this out but I mean
nowadays we tattoo and microchip our animals and we don't
let them outside under any circumstances so it hasn't been as much of a problem.
The Bengals were also just escape artists they just really wanted to get out.
Rumble was able to jump up and hang off of the door handle to open the door.
Just like, really? And when you we had little kids and we had people like coming in
and out and then yeah, anyway that's, that's history at this
point and it's a lot easier now all of our cats
that we have right now started their lives outdoors
and they are like fucking stoked to be inside
none of them try to get out we accidentally, one of the kids left the door open
for half an hour, like a few weekends ago and
we were like, ah, panic, cat check everyone find all the cats
no one went anywhere near it
especially the boys, brownie and noodle are
like, they lived outside until
they were old enough that I was
worried that they would be difficult to socialize
Didn't the vet even have a concern about that? I thought there was something
No, our vet was pretty chill about it No, that was to do with
whether they had feline HIV and we had to
Yeah, we had to isolate them from the other cats for quite a while
before we could be sure that they didn't have a dormant infection that could get the other
cats or whatever but yeah, they were
outdoor cats for quite a while and we caught them with a live trap
and brought them in and tried to socialize them
I shouldn't say tried with brownie especially, very much socialized
noodle is still a little bit skitterish he was a wild
thing at some point and those guys especially
are just like nope, they hunted
they hunted for their food when they were just little boys and they are not
into it
Did they go particularly away from it?
From the door? No, but they do they're like, not interested
I meant when it was left open or it's like some of the other ones
the two newer ones they were
just like little they were born in like a shed
so they've never really had to hunt for anything because the family found them and fed them
and took care of them and everything so they'll like
they'll sniff the outside and they'll be like kind of interested in it
or had the concern of being hunted no, they've never had to deal with that
Corey is the name of full paint chat said, my cat is terrified of the concept of
an outside existing it's a lot easier to take care of them that way
Hey, do you want to talk about Zillow? Yeah
Zillow launches a wow themed microsite as a marketing
as a marketing stunt I saw this in my Google news and went
and then kept scrolling because I was like there's no way that's actually real
The experience coincides with wow introducing player housing for the first time
tied to the upcoming midnight expansion the microsite features both player created
homes and blizzard built homes some with 3D tours
in a move that can only be described as savagely realistic
I can't interface with this You can't actually buy the houses
but users can hilariously
claim a free in-game Zillow inspired door mat
The listings are written in character with fictional Zillow real estate agents
Given the current affordability and housing crisis, does this seem tone deaf
on the part of Zillow and blizzard? Is it just fun? It's definitely just fun
I don't care about it at all but I'm sure it's fun
for someone but I don't think they're being
tone deaf dude People are buying houses
It's just not most people
And like, no I don't think they're just going to give you an entire house
in the game for free So a door mat is a collectible item
that's still neat as a free thing part of just a fun random promotional campaign
I think just don't think about it too much
The site's responsive again for me now Oh dang it
Stopped working again. What the heck Okay, well whatever that's kind of what it looks like
Good enough The site's working fine for me, that's weird
Oh here, I'll go to Luke's laptop There you go
Rugged rustic It's funny because the photos
and the videos that I'm seeing for these are actually a lot better
than most of the photos and videos that I see from realtors of actual homes
It's kind of funny and kind of sad Where's the HDR?
Yeah really Bektar Don Hamar
That's actually awesome
Wow, this is so much There's a floor plan
We are destroying most realtor posted homes
Oh my goodness Anything that lacks a floor plan is so
annoying to me Alright, meet the owner
That's not very normal
Neat, fun Oh speaking of neat and fun
We should talk about what's neat and fun on Flo Plain
Yes FB announcement, please read all the way through
before going off topic What?
I don't think we Let's specifically go on off topic
That wasn't the problem last time The problem last time was that they put
information that you needed at the beginning at the end
This week's theme is How many resources can Sammy steal
from the company before being fired? Hmm
We got a deep look inside what a week at LMG looks like
with some LTT leaks Sammy vlogged his entire week
showcasing things like how production shoots are scheduled
the behind the scenes on set our camera setups
we call it when we do packaging
so title, thumbnail, that kind of thing It also includes a ton of insider info
including leaking an entire month of LTT content
in the first minute
So that's this video Oh wow, people are loving this video
Alright Well, I'm glad that it was for something
We also have a refreshed meet the team
with Mr. David Pancratz, the technical production assistant
Sammy made Pancratz fix his PC in this video because if it's for content
you're allowed to make not IT fix your things
Okay That's good to know
as well I think he means his personal computer
What? Sammy
I think that's what he means Yeah, that is not a workstation that we
Yeah Provided to our employees
It doesn't look like he just fixed it It looks like he upgraded it
Oh yeah, that's the case from inventory Right
Okay Where are the lines here?
Oh, I see, it's signed out to lost We also took in viewer questions
which we're looking for more questions
featuring our new writer, Sean Frey We took in viewer questions
which we're looking for more I have no idea what he's talking about
And we're looking for more Sure, finally we also have
an early LTT video that went up a few days ago showcasing the Fluke
II915 and you would have known this if you were a Floatplane subscriber
Keep an eye out for more early releases like this one which will release
right now Oh, we're releasing
the Costco video That's not David's best thumbnail
I guess it's too late now Cool
Linus and David, buy a PC from Costco to answer one question
Is it the answer to rising PC prices or is it bait?
I'm going to take the A out there Alright, save
Boop
Fill your weekend with fun content Also, we'll have a behind the scenes of
TMS's wedding sometime next week Seriously?
Alright Sammy is like the embodiment of
anything for the content Seriously
Good stuff. Want to pick a topic? Do we talk about DLSS again?
There's two DLSS topics It sounds similar
DLSS is too good now We've talked about this before
Two Clicks Phillip Posted a video seeing how far they could
push DLSS while still having a Oh, I've seen this for sure
A quick recap for those who don't know
DLSS, really? We're going into that DLSS or Deep Learning Super Sampling
is NVIDIA's Okay, yeah
NVIDIA's image generation algorithm that allows gamers to render their games at lower resolutions
which are then upscaled to a more stable resolution while maintaining
high frame rates The YouTuber tested Kingdom Come
Deliverance 2 at 20% render for 4K
meaning 764x430 all the way down to 1%
scale or 38x22 just
38x22 Pixels
That's it. And it's impressive how well DLSS works now
and we have a maybe a short thing, but you should go watch the video
This is mind blowing The fact that that
you can kind of, you could totally play that is nuts
You could Not well
But you could Here is 136x76
So this is what, like 3% or something?
Or no, because it's probably not linear because that's actually a much larger, it's like 3%
in each dimension But you guys should definitely check out this video
It's got like half a million views because it's awesome
When did this come out? Because I feel like I saw this a bit ago. Yeah, here you go
So this is showing the difference between
This is 3 weeks old. Yeah
So this is original versus the upscaled one
It's genuinely pretty fascinating How it can take that
and turn it into that
This and turn it into this
Genuinely incredible Like there's a lot going on
over here where I would have a hard time telling if this is a
like my human eyes, if this is a path leading off this way or if it's a shadow of this tree
or like what the crap this is supposed to be. How it managed to resolve
any additional detail in the grass over here
Mind blowing
The way it kind of reconstructed the shadows and the lighting
and the bark here based on this Again
Mind blowing Pretty impressive. That was it
Just wanted to highlight that. Go watch 2kliksphilip's video. Super cool video
I knew I was like man I thought this was from a bit ago but yeah, 3 weeks ago. Yep
I watched that a while ago. Yeah, we never kind of talked about it so guys go
go check it out Really really really cool
Through the link in the chat. So did Dan Nice. Bookmarked that for later
Cause you're not done watching my show. Good call, I wouldn't have thought to put that in the doc but that was
awesome There's been a new world record set
for the tiniest QR code This source this time is Tom's Hardware
This is kind of incredible You want to do the story? Sure
With a pixel size of 49 nanometers
the smaller than a bacteria QR codes were created as a
collaboration between Vienna University of Technology and data storage company
Cerobi The codes are less than
half the size of the previous record and require an electron microscope
to read. The achievement will enable greater densities
in Cerabytes Yeah, Cerabyte makes more sense
I've heard of Cerabyte before Cerabytes ceramic storage
which they claim could enable very long term storage with capacities
up to 100 petabytes by 2030. And no, I actually
didn't dyslexia that there's just a typo Discussion question, how much storage do you
really need at home, you know, for all those Linux isos
Well There's been a lot of
very musically focused Linux distros
recently How big is that even though?
Not 100 petabytes. Yeah, like the Spotify rip was
I thought it was about a petabyte Yeah
100 petabytes I mean, recalling this
data is extremely challenging. This is meant for like, my understanding is like
a very long term resilient storage, like mass amounts
of storage. And for that we need
a lot but only if we care to preserve
everything that's being created right now, but so much of it is
so much of it, I don't I don't want. Wonder if we don't
really need to archive it? Oh, really? I thought it was a petabyte
300 terabytes
That sounds right to me. I had in my brain 30 terabytes and then I was like, yeah
it can't be enough, but I thought there was a 3 in it
Anyway, I thought this was cool That's all
No notes for this one Well, they put a few notes. Unreal Engine
Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004. Okay, who's responsible
for calling it Unreal Engine Tournament? You know what? It doesn't matter
we're not going to name and shame. The point is it was not called that. It was called
Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament 2004
is now available for free thanks to community collaboration
U.T. 2004, one of the greatest shooters of all time
just received its first public patch in over 20 years. This was
made possible by Old Unreal, a community support project dedicated to keeping
early Epic titles alive. This patch includes support for Windows, Linux,
and macOS along with various quality of life updates. Epic has given
permission for them to host the original files, so they have an easy
to use installer available Super cool
shout out Epic love to see it
that's all I have to say about that Yeah, I found it just
for people wondering it's definitely 300 terabytes I found some very early articles
that seem to just be kind of making out part of the story that said a petabyte, but it was
confirmed for sure a lot of times that it's 300 terabytes
All right meta wants to
oh yeah meta wants to make your grandma
immortal a patent granted late in December outlines
the use of an LLM to simulate a person's social media activity
when the user takes a long break or is deceased
the document states that the impact on the users is
much more severe and permanent if that user is deceased
and can never return to the platform
No s*** your new AI Nana could like
comment and respond to DMs from beyond the grave
potentially even joining audio and video calls
meta says the technology would be great for influencers who want to take
a break from social media without giving up income
get rid of it Dan thank you
one of the crazy things is I saw this in my google news feed
probably 10 minutes after seeing somebody
on facebook go to marketplace
there's somebody on facebook who's definitely passed away that you know
worked here and that was like
a sad moment to see them I'm pretty happy that I didn't have
a new message from them
I have some relatives that are getting pretty close
to the end and the last thing
that I want is fake
real conversations with them I'm instead taking
time now to talk to them while I still can
and that's what we should do if possible
and if it's not possible this is not the answer
cool hey but in other news
the netherlands defense secretary said on a podcast
that the f-35 like the warplane
can be jailbroken just like an iphone
implying that european forces could maintain the aircraft software
without us and lockheed martin support
currently the f-35 software has managed through lockheed martin's autonomic
logistics information system which is updates to the fleet every year or two
european countries own the physical planes but the u.s. controls the software
and update pipeline israel is currently the only country
that has negotiated a deal with lockheed martin allowing it to run its own software
on the f-35 fleet the comments came amid broader european fears
that the u.s. could remotely disable f-35 fleets
oh boy, gonna butcher this keem schramshofer
head of comms at german defense contractor hensult previously said
the idea of a remote kill switch was more than just a rumor
i gotta say the main reason that i flagged this
for the WAN Show was that while i realized that this was a problem
on a telephone and i realized
that it was a problem on a tractor i did not realize
that this was a problem on a military jet
for how much you pay for them you've gotta be f**king kidding me that you can't
oh i thought you meant the remote kill switch oh yeah, that too
that's insane how did we
all, even at that level accept
that this is okay can you make an f-35?
no there are alternatives
not a ton and they would all have probably a similar problem that's insane
i mean yes and no i bet if everyone got together
and basically just said no we will literally not buy any
if you don't deal with this how long do you think lockheed would hold out
i feel like they just try to hide it ugh
i mean that's a very military thing to do
in other german news, acer and ASUS have been blocked from selling PCs in germany
they could also just say no have fun being
not superior right
another angle they could take a german court has granted nokia
an injunction against the two firms selling desktops and laptops
stock that's already in the country can still be sold nokia claims acer ASUS
and tv maker heisense are infringing on three patents related to the
high efficiency video codec HEVC aka H265
heisense decided to enter a licensing agreement with nokia in january
but acer and ASUS continue to fight the allegations in court
HEVC is considered a standard essential patent due to its widespread use
which means special rules apply to ensure the technology is broadly available
while the patent holder is still fairly compensated and that's it
that's why HEVC never really took off because of stuff like this
which blows in other news google suddenly cares about ip theft
this is hilarious yeah
where we at where is that one top
yeah i think we've kind of talked about this one before i don't know how old this is
but google is accusing commercially motivated actors
of trying to clone the proprietary logic behind gemini ai
in other news the entire world is accusing google of slurping up
proprietary yeah yeah google says
distillation attacks have agents querying gemini up to 100,000 times
to try to extract the underlying model
this is hilarious this is also a thing that has been happening for a long time
and has happened to other people as well most notably open ai
model distillation ah hey okay model distillation attacks aren't a new thing
in early 2025 open ai suggested that chinese
startup deep seek had distilled open ai's models to create their own
cheaper more efficient model which as far as i understand it goes is like effectively confirmed
but i don't actually know that um where's the
um nice yeah where's the line how much does your company
need to be worth to ignore the law um i just think this is hilarious
because ip theft matters
immediately when it's their ip theft and it doesn't matter that what
underpins it was is ip theft on a scale
that i don't think the world has ever seen before yeah
yeah crazy last topic
harmful chemicals may be in your headphones
an EU environmental advocacy group called talks free life for all
released a study that tested 81 pairs of headphones
and supposedly found hazardous substances in all of them
the substances included known endocrine disruptors um which led to some
highly sensationalized pieces suggesting that speakers would be better
for your health compared to headphones if you are trying to avoid
cancer the study actually does seem to have some validity
to it but it mainly aimed to address companies that
circumvent regulations with equally bad alternatives since these chemicals are handled on a substance
by substance basis not to mention that these chemicals are only an issue from
cumulative long term exposure across many kinds of plastics
products like apple airpods pro 2s and sony w h 1000 xm 5s were rated
safe the real problems were knockoffs from marketplaces like
temu that's not surprising
but it's also like dang the ones that are safe
are really expensive um also
uh reilly sent me another kind of summary
of this that i had sort of expected to be in the summary that was
in the uh the wandshow doc um
but basically he was kind of saying that
a lot of this is sort of extrapolating
what may be a concern so commenters have connected
the headlines of that they might be using alternative chemicals that are less regulated
and um that some of these chemicals
still need to be like studied and turned it into connected
these dots and um gone like oh no all headphones are poisonous
and then meanwhile the other side has gone completely other side
of the pendulum swing and gone that's such an overreaction that it must be completely
safe and there is no problem but as usual the truth
probably lies somewhere in the middle
mm-hmm Dan i think it's time for after dark i've got one more
uh chat really wants me to talk about this one or us really
we've really kind of two more i guess youtube went down people wanted our comments
on this oh that's bad i think we're both like dang
whoops they should not do that
yeah it was for me it was really interesting for
for some people to see how compartmentalized certain systems are because people were like
oh like with direct links i can still play videos but like the home page is down
blah blah blah blah blah and it's like yeah it's fascinating um but anyways
moving on from that uh there's also this we talked about a little bit in the pre
show hackers exposed discord age verification system issue after persona
front end code was left a wide open uh we don't have topic notes on this but
uh this this is i think what i said in the
pre show was like whoever did this i want to shake your hand um
great work congratulations you made your point and that's
such a good point to make and such important timing
that you nailed it so fast this is why this is a problem
way to go thank you um
but yeah this just goes to show
that we need them to not collect data like this
because it's just gonna go out there um
yeah and again just like we were talking last week
try some alternatives have have a like fun random day with your friends where you're like
let's play three different games and each time let's try a different voice chat
service just for fun um
and and see how it goes and even if you end up having both or something
like that at least start legitimizing alternatives
one of the biggest issues when you have markets like the voice chat market
is there is only one thing that matters right now and that sucks
if we can even make it so that there's two that is such a massive gain
if there's if we start legitimizing make it normalize that there's other ones
that people use then discourse market show will fall quickly
and that's a good idea the whole 3d printed guns thing
is continuing to evolve california bill would restrict
3d printer sales to state approved models to prevent printing gun parts
joins washington and new york on legal offensive yeah that's not gonna work
so first of all it won't work second of all rough
because now there's now there's all this insider collusion of companies
bribing people to be on the approved list and there's already an incredible
amount of corruption in every single government everywhere so that's definitely going to happen
i'm not even calling it america it's just the world
if this was in canada the same thing would be a problem
especially bc hey
hey
yeah after dark? yes
after dark button
button button there we go
alright up first hey lld and future me
always watch vod on saturday mornings what's the
scariest thing about starting your own business and how did you deal with that fear
the scariest thing is not having money to eat and to pay the people
who work for you and
your mortgage and how did you deal with that fear
work harder so that
that doesn't happen
i mean it's just it's a tale as old as time right
there are advantages to entrepreneurship and there are advantages
to employment hitching your cart to a horse that
has been walking for a long time
and seems to have a lot of road out ahead of it offers
security while entrepreneurship can offer incredible opportunity
but i forget what percentage of business it is that fail in the first
five years but it's a lot so it's not a
guarantee and it's not right for everyone but it was right for
me and i'm glad it worked out the way that it did
oh i accidentally just archived the site no i didn't nope that was me nice
hi Linus and luke my grade school kids love
gaming and learning about pc parts thanks to astro bot but
Windows feels complex versus console slash tablet slash
chromebooks any tips for teaching them a quote unquote real
operating system
you said they love learning just maybe try to make it fun yeah and i mean
realistically my i was kind of blown away
by some of the stuff that my son was doing so that he could mod minecraft
and stuff they just have to they have to have a reason to
learn it otherwise they're not going to bother Windows is not that complicated these days
if you are sufficiently motivated to do it and kids
brains are so malleable i was see do you see the do you see that
kid that like destroyed the sub three second solve on a
three by three rubik's cube recently kids like seven or something
i don't i don't know how old he is seven-year-olds with chess or rubik's
cubes are terrifying yeah hold on what's this kids name
teodor zad zad
zadster 2.76 seconds
2.76 seconds that's absurd
seven years ago
this was a question will there ever be a sub three
sub three i could see as the very edge of possibility
with an absurd solve well
2.76 like obliterated
obliterated the record
yeah when you're getting down into that such a small amount of total
time that's an insane amount of time to chop off
blah blah blah blah blah this isn't it is it yeah there we go
it would have to be like at an event so he gets 15 seconds to look at it
i
is that wild or wild like
wow i'm not a moron
but you'll never do that i will never do
that no matter how hard i tried no matter how long i worked at it doesn't matter
yep age ago which was like a six-sided
cnc machine attached to a rubik's cube and it did it in like one second
it's like twice as fast as a computer controlled robot
mind blowing katoa says i can solve in five minutes
yeah exactly it's crappy dp you'll also never kickflip 100%
so give your kids credit don't baby them they can figure it out
they just have to be sufficiently motivated give them a project
it's like people say learn programming by making a calculator no
find a problem do something more interesting yeah my gang
thinking about automate something around your house yeah thinking about age
verification who do you think would be able to reliably figure out
and implement safe age verification maybe steam
maybe def con well that's the whole point is that you can't
it's not gonna happen and we need to stop
like chasing this weird dragon
i'd uh the only solution
is for someone who already is tracking all of this
like the government except i don't trust them to keep it safe
so well that's what i'm saying though no i'm agreeing with you
yeah no except i don't trust them to keep it safe
any more than i would even less i'd say than i would trust a corporate entity
so since we can't do it safely we need to just
not do it it's like asking like
and what's it all for like who could figure out how to reliably make it so that i
can enjoy my crystal meth how about we just
don't crystal meth yeah it's
the thing is like it's going to be circumvented anyways
obviously okay this is pretty funny
mcbane says leisure suit larry solved that 35 years ago do you know what
the age check was for leisure suit larry just ask you questions that
only older people would know the answer to it wouldn't work in the age of
google and like chat gpt or whatever but
here here here here here here um maybe you have to like
um
control plain and simple there's yeah i mean we've been controlling
data collection but my my thing is like
if you try to think of it positively what is what is the gain and the gain effectively
doesn't exist because it's it's so la la land it's like okay we can keep the kids
from okay doing these bad things like yeah if they care they're gonna go
around it like it's you have you
let's play a game
tiptoe through the tulips was recorded by
it plays ukulele
very tall very high i wouldn't be able to play this game i'm looking at
some other questions i would not be able to play this game i mean you would know
probably this one yeah a kid
probably wouldn't care at that time do you know what a neighbor jacket is
no where's the beef where's the beef
okay i wouldn't have got that
tiny tim i'm upset about myself
uh does a pair of queens beat three deuces
i don't think so
three twos yeah
uh i assume this is poker yes in oh in blackjack
yes in blackjack good gravy
three pair of two pair this is multiple choice
oh you just have to type what jokers do you have type them in yeah
is my banana still there or not
have i upgraded my my card which is non-alcoholic
see perrier like this was their solution to age
verification which is pretty based actually that's so cool that's so smart
the result of watergate was
back when scandals actually had consequences
oh yeah any kid these days would just say nothing
sorry there was a little too real we paid them more money for some reason
moving on the result of watergate was someone made a watergate coin
in fts oh my god
this is a real world that we live in hi dll would you rather
lose five percent of your personal data at a at random
every year no buck backups are allowed or have one hundred percent
of your data perfectly preserved forever but completely unencrypted and publicly
accessible five percent gone see ya
he's trying to calculate how much of it's leaked anyways
a hundred percent of your data when you say data you got here help me help me
out a little bit are we talking digital files i kind of took this as like
your nas at home that's how i took it okay but do i have a chance
to scrub it first oh it's not like today
it's like if you want to store stuff in the future so i could go through
and i could like remove any pictures of my passport that i took at some point to like send
so you could book a flight but they would have to be deleted you couldn't have them anywhere else
yeah i think you could never store them ever either
i don't think you could take a picture of it i'd accept that
going forward i would just have to have like perfect digital hygiene
but that would mean you could never take a picture under any circumstance of your of your passport
that's how i'm interpreting i could message it to someone
because it's it's the picture is only for convenience
my convenience not the recipient too so like honestly it would
make me more considerate i think that's not in the spirit of the question
it just says personal data i interpreted it as like things i would
store on a nas but i think yeah you're maybe going a bit too far taking
a photo is is personal data it would be saved on your phone and then
it would be publicly accessible yeah so then i wouldn't take that picture anymore is what i'm saying
like i could send them text but i wouldn't count that as like that i wouldn't store that
on a nas so does that count because i interpreted it as
stored on a nas and that's what i'm even remotely considering if we're talking
every message that i ever send to anyone ever forever that is personal
data then okay so which one is it i
have leaned more to wire it to the nas side i think that that was maybe a little more easily
conceptualizable otherwise everything else is just like oh well i
just let's just not use the internet you have like your
taxes and stuff i mean i don't
think i keep that on my nas i don't do my taxes so that's gonna say does
your is your wife yeah but that's not my personal data then
like i don't have it so i'm just losing 5%
but you might be able to do the hundo what are you doing
i think it was on the nas i would
man that's just personal data i don't think you can be like just only
the things i put on my nas okay they said personal data then it's got to be the 5% and i'll just
take five of every picture and hope that
for me it's all about just mathematically game it just by a ton of extra hard
yes that's what i would do there's like
well no because i think 40 million pictures of one parking spot
i don't know that's your nas if you think about
don't look at my camera roll either
i think maybe more in the spirit of like 5% of like
you know if you had 40 million of the same picture you would lose that picture
yeah probably it's all hash so if it's the same picture disagree
i would no i would take i would just like you would gamble with it i'd hit my shutter five times
every time so they're all slightly different man i print photos
i think that would actually be a huge part of my
my countermeasures against this is i would actually print photos
yeah just go back interesting because for me anything else is like
replaceable but photos are not i think i'm gonna do the 100%
you're gonna do the 100% and just put it all out there because it's stuff that
i would not want to lose like there's a lot of stuff that i cloud replicate nightly
you know it's kind of my my super slide data
you can't pirate anything anymore ever again not that you do
well you can you'll just people just know yeah so then you can't why not
because you get sued to oblivion oh come on not in canada there's no
obfuscation though i think you still would i'll just i don't license and zip bonds
it'll be fine you can't be sued for pirating anything in canada
that doesn't seem right and no i really don't think so
someone not a lawyer but like i this would be like an insane haven
online piracy is a criminal offense in canada
yeah but what's the consequence for it like that someone would have to actually pursue it
and is that for downloading or is that for sharing
i'm trying to look through it i think i think just leaching
you can't really i get like
hit too hard for in 2022 22.4
percent of canadians access pirate services that sounds about right let's
go all right
with all the tech prices do you think
apparently thousands of canadians every year are the targets of legal action based on
piracy yeah but is that for redistribution
that's my understanding it doesn't seem too specific
anyway sorry keep going with all of the tech
prices do you think optane or ready boost might make a return
not optane because Intel and uh what's the nuts
micron completely divorced over that whole thing
optane was so cool but the concept of an
SSD cash i was actually thinking about that earlier as we were talking about our
drive and storage prices it works really well it does
it's it's kind of a a very underrated
solution to a problem that became not a problem but is becoming
a problem again which is kind of neat because i thought it was a fun solution as well
i use it on my nest it's fun it's cool it's interesting
nifty it's neat i tried to buy an optane drive because Linus
was talking them up so much uh and they were like 250 bucks
for a teeny tiny one when i was looking
and then really yeah i think it was like right near the end or something
and yeah i just got like 128 gig
SSD for like a dollar at that time
back in my day you can still get the 16 gig ones for like 10 bucks
20 with delivery yeah i wasn't looking at any of it because i'm stupid
alright here's 10
of the 16 gig ones for $53 stuff like this is always confusing to me
because i really don't think a lot
obviously people bought them right um
but like they were never popular that i was aware of
so like they clearly produced them at a
volume that like people have this many of them you know
like what who was buying these where where did
they where did they come from where did they go server offloading i think but like
16 gig for what
what who put these in anything what are we even talking about here no idea
yeah right wild anyway
where do you see the line between a company's agency and the need
to act upon the whims of a consumer base i.e.
why pressure apple to support air pods on Android if it's not the vision
for the product because they're bluetooth headphones that benefit
from the industry-wide standard that is bluetooth
and in my mind a
basic part of a product is providing ongoing support
which apple clearly agrees with given that they actually do a phenomenal
job generally speaking of providing ongoing software and firmware support for their
products and i bought it that's why
i bought it it's mine
you have an obligation to warranty it and support it and the fact
that i didn't buy another one of your products is just
utter arrogance
as for what their vision of the experience is
that's nice but my vision of the experience
is that when you provide a firmware update i have a f***ing
way to apply it without buying another one of your products because i already
f***ing bought one it's pretty simple to me
and the fact that anyone will put apples dong
so far down their throat to defend something like that
is mind blowing
they don't know you they don't know your name
they don't care about you you're pretending bad behavior
if google did the same thing or samsung did the same thing
i would think it was ridiculous if you buy the product
you are the customer and you should be supported
full stop thank you for coming
to my ted talk i'm thinking about
switching to steam os on my main pc but i have
different monitors or just wing it with the three I have now
wing it wing it save that money son yeah
does it not support mismatch monitors or something I think they just want their bezels to match
and like everything be even in the bases look the same don't worry about it
yeah don't worry about it hey LLD thinking of building a 10 gigabit nas
if I am running ZFs Z2 in true nas
would I benefit from buying SAS drives with HPA
the exos X24 SAS drives are almost the same price with current pricing
I wouldn't get SAS drives just because then you're limited to using SAS HPAs forever
and for a home user the benefit of SAS is just not going to materialize
I would I would go SATA assuming that the cost is equal
the only way that I would go SAS as a home user is that is if for some reason
there was like a lot like like not like a large quantity like like like an auction lot
like like a bunch of SAS drives and they were an amazing deal like way cheaper
so much cheaper that I could buy a SAS HPA and the backup
and that would be all my storage that I needed because
I don't see that happening right now yeah that's not going to happen right now
but that would be the only way that you would get me to go SAS
if I was just buying new drives I would go SATA for sure every time
this is like
if you don't know why you need SAS you don't need it
so someone was talking early I don't remember why I had this thought
but somebody was talking earlier about like oh yeah like buying buying new stuff right now sucks but like the use markets always there
and the use market sucks right now yeah it does
use market is terrible right now great crystal still talking about the the Apple firmware update thing
she goes if you pay for an escort you shouldn't be the one doing the deep-throating basically
you are the customer
assert your rights well it kind of depends I guess
I mean if you're into it I'm not going to yuck your yum or whatever
some people might be into that with Apple
there are people that are into financial
yeah yeah financial abuse kink like what
no that's a thing what yeah what
yeah that's not like financial
no it is what yeah it's a thing shut up yeah people might be that way with Apple
yeah look at chat that's okay
finn dumb oh I thought you said them dumb no no no no no no
you can have both I think usually it is usually
pay pig
it involves a power dynamic where the sub
would need to willingly relinquishes financial control
often without any sexual contact
sometimes through online platforms
the sub
will often be insulted
using terms like tribute or draining
this is wild
so maybe people like that about Apple
Avon Fox's line is how are you so online and yet often so not why would I go looking for this
how how could I possibly come across I didn't go looking for this
he's already got a wife does all his taxes and handles all his money
you're gonna say are you sure to me you think I have all people would be into
something like that are you kidding me
here's all my money that you won't spend
I don't mean when looking for it to engage in it far away from me
I could see I could see you finding your way through a Wikipedia
wormhole of like weird kinks or something I could see it yeah sure
if you're looking at like a if you you know those like political spectrum grids
yeah if there's like my interests and this
we're like oh a hundred percent opposite
a hundred percent this is so bizarre to me like I could
like I think I don't get it I think I've had a pretty clear stance that
like sex work is work and I'm not like
as long as everyone's adult and consenting and whatever I think
you know sex acts I'm this is being paid to go shopping
whatever is also work whatever works
for your relationship keep the stuff okay whatever works for your relationship
you know what I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I'm not gonna judge
I keep my nose out of your business you keep your nose out of mine everything's good
everything's chill but this is f***ed up I'm gonna try to not yuck your yum
but I'm definitely gonna go hmm yeah okay let's
yeah like like I could I narrow my eyes
enough to express my I narrowness for this one
what are you doing like it's like it's like if you're gonna
if you're going to if you're gonna hire a sex worker
like it's right in the name in it yeah you're missing part
you might as well at least get laid
but then it would be a glucose guardian situation
what the hell's a glucose guardian gender neutral term for sugar daddy
shut up no
it's current it's current year
is that real did you just come up with that no no I did not
oh my god
it's current year you're gonna be gender neutral come on it's fine
oh man ohhh
then baby's gotta you know have love too
hmm I mean
I'm gonna turn into a Minecraft villager
hmm hmm
alright I actually had a follow
up question about sastras sure yeah baby just get us
out of here I have a I have like
a bucket of sass interposers at home is that also
something that could be experimented with
this is you personally yeah me personally because I bought one of those facebook
servers I think or something like that so I got like what the hell
was it called I can't remember um those are those
they're port multipliers right it's something like that it
it kind of converts seida drives into sass drives and vice versa
oh it might only be one direction it might just be seida
two sass oh yeah that makes sense so that
again that would only be if you have sass HBAs or like a sass
um j-bot or something but but if they were
seida two sass drives would that be something to consider if you wanted to like
flirt with the idea of sass drives I just wouldn't flirt with sass drives
I just I don't I don't care about them for home
nas use what what now
ha ha ha ha ha no
hustle and full plane chas this is the stream dms's kids will see when they
watch when they see their parents wedding they won't watch the whole thing it'll be
fine we're talking about glucose guardians and fiddledove
ha ha ha ha hey it's after dark
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha
oh no I'm sorry
this is also the first inaugural stream on LMG clips
yeah I forgot about that we never even mentioned that
we're we're migrating the WAN Show to the LMG clips channel over the next
little while so we're going to be simultaneously streaming on both channels
for some amount of time and then eventually
it's going to go LMG clips exclusive as we migrate it
off of the main LTT channel
I've been hanging out with them they're super chill oh yeah there's like
350 people watching over there yeah they're really cool yeah so you're
going to want to get in the habit of watching over on LMG clips sometime over
the next little bit yes LMG clips will be
rebranded Kevin says oh please no what difference would that
make now you're watching on Floatplane Kevin it's not going to
this is for YouTube crying out loud yeah um yeah sorry
just to clarify this only affects YouTube viewers yes yes Floatplane
forever relax everyone um okay well my brain hurts
um final merge message
sure calm
damn it thanks for that
are you going to read it Dan I was just letting a beat play out there
thank you greetings all is there any update on the light switches
in Linus's is at home did they get all of the kinks
uh-huh worked out yet um
the new ones are here I haven't installed them yet I will
but there's just a lot of stuff going on yes this is an adequate media thing David easy
we need to we need to get the show off of
an LMG owned channel and migrate a channel that's
like kind of worthless right now to um adequate media
merge message you mean pay pig post
send me your pps I don't think it can be because
you get the product yeah if if you bought it
and for some reason Linus got it then I think that would make sense
what if we just send them nothing yeah can they just can they just
like buy me screwdrivers is that like what do I have to do
I think nothing in this scenario you sure
I think you can do whatever you want I don't know though what if I want to do
really weird stuff with it then I think you probably
get more people we'll see you next week same bad time same bad channel
bye
you