1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Do you want me to use that as a background? Yeah. Alright. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Rolling. Questions? Alright Riley, so... 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,000 I didn't prepare for this at all. So Floatplane has some questions for you. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,000 I'm familiar with the site. Yes. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:17,760 Explain minimalism and the ID for noobs like us they say. 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,160 Are these like Floatplane exclusive questions like they asked them? 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:29,220 Explain minimalism. I think I explained it in my extreme upgrade video but I basically said minimalism is the 8 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:36,820 art of having as few things as physically possible except for some very big brightly 9 00:00:36,820 --> 00:00:40,060 colored things that are supposed to draw all your attention. 10 00:00:40,060 --> 00:00:43,780 Interesting. Yeah. Do you think you live by that? 11 00:00:43,780 --> 00:00:46,780 No. Right now? No. 12 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:50,940 I'm a fake minimalist. There are like real minimalists that have like one fork in their drawer and literally 13 00:00:50,940 --> 00:00:56,460 that's it or a spork maybe so they can combine the two utensils but no. 14 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:58,460 Those people are crazy. That's crazy. 15 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:05,140 I really like the minimalist TV where it's just kind of like a blank screen. 16 00:01:05,140 --> 00:01:09,380 I just look at it and imagine something. 17 00:01:09,380 --> 00:01:13,020 You don't need an actual program. You have a brain. 18 00:01:13,020 --> 00:01:16,020 Okay. Alright and... Especially Floatplane. 19 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:19,740 You guys are smart. One last question from Floatplane. 20 00:01:19,740 --> 00:01:23,380 I'm trying to flatter. I'm just going to talk. 21 00:01:23,380 --> 00:01:26,660 You can ask me more questions but I just kind of want to keep talking forever. Keep talking. 22 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:31,220 So, they want the story behind why they called you Keys at NCIX. 23 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:41,300 Keys. So, I felt, I didn't necessarily want a nickname, nothing against nicknames but it just wasn't 24 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:46,940 something I was prioritizing but when I came in Luke was known as Slick because he had 25 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:54,860 the mineral oil cooled PC, Edzel was called Diesel and so when we got hired as interns 26 00:01:54,900 --> 00:02:02,620 there was me, there was Chris and his name was Wheels and so we felt like we needed to 27 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:05,940 come up with nicknames too because of the other people I had nicknames so he was Wheels 28 00:02:05,940 --> 00:02:09,660 because he liked cars, Jack was just Jack. 29 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:13,500 He was like, that's enough of a nickname I guess. 30 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:21,620 And for me, I did Keys because I play piano so I was like and I kind of like the way 31 00:02:21,620 --> 00:02:26,140 it sounded. I don't know. Like Admiral Keys from Halo. 32 00:02:26,140 --> 00:02:30,860 So, you've never played Halo? I have played Halo and I know how Admiral Keys is. 33 00:02:30,860 --> 00:02:35,140 The way you reacted really made me second guess. No, I'm laughing because you went from a keyboard to Halo. 34 00:02:35,140 --> 00:02:41,220 Yeah, I don't know why he was called Keys. I think that was just his real name and he had an extra E in there. 35 00:02:41,220 --> 00:02:49,300 He may, maybe he did play piano. Halo 2, Halo 3 DLC, The Piano Diaries. 36 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:52,300 Alright, alright, alright. Thanks Riley, I'm going to leave you alone. 37 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:55,300 No more questions? No more questions. I want to hang out for a long time. 38 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,300 No. Archie, wait. Cut, cut. 39 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:02,980 Okay, so our Floatplane audience has some questions for you. 40 00:03:02,980 --> 00:03:07,700 Starting off with, have you ever been scared of hurting yourself in a deadly way during 41 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:16,260 one of your experiments? I usually like to think I know what I'm doing so I'm not scared but then mistakes happen 42 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:21,380 and then I get scared, right? It usually happens after, it's a hindsight thing, right? 43 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:24,660 So I'm not scared beforehand but I'm scared afterwards. Right. 44 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:29,660 Like I don't know if you watched the, what was it called, the Jacob's Ladder video with 45 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:33,740 a 2000 volts thingy that I dropped on myself and almost died there. 46 00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:36,740 Right. That was one of them, yeah. 47 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:42,340 Okay. Do you ever, do you ever play it up a bit more for the camera so using a higher voltage 48 00:03:42,340 --> 00:03:50,220 with lower current to get more sparks or? Yeah, I typically, you know, I try to script my videos and try to figure out everything 49 00:03:50,220 --> 00:03:57,540 that can go wrong so I can put it in my videos for comedic effect and for, you know, to show 50 00:03:57,540 --> 00:04:00,780 people what can go wrong in a project, right? 51 00:04:00,780 --> 00:04:05,340 I don't want to just do something nice and clean and people don't know what can go wrong 52 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:08,860 and repeat the same thing and get hurt in the process so I try to put everything in 53 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:15,620 my videos. So I try to script it and repeat the accidents and, you know, in a life on an electrical 54 00:04:15,620 --> 00:04:18,980 engineer we get hurt naturally. 55 00:04:18,980 --> 00:04:24,260 So sometimes I have to just repeat what I, like my experiences in a video and, but yeah, 56 00:04:24,260 --> 00:04:27,260 I try to script them but mistakes happen. 57 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:34,180 Mistakes happen. Do you think an important part of electrical and electronics education is to also show 58 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:39,900 people what not to do? Should that be something important in curriculum? 59 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:46,060 Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I mean, especially with high voltage electronics, low voltage stuff, like if you are making 60 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:52,660 a low voltage PCB, like a computer kind of stuff, it should be fine. 61 00:04:52,660 --> 00:04:58,260 But when you're dealing with power supplies and power lines and things of that sort, definitely, 62 00:04:58,260 --> 00:05:01,380 maybe I should have had more education on that line too. 63 00:05:01,380 --> 00:05:06,780 But I'm learning my experience and I'm alive so far so I'm happy. 64 00:05:06,780 --> 00:05:09,780 Okay. Last question for you. Yeah. 65 00:05:09,780 --> 00:05:19,020 What was your inspiration for starting a YouTube channel? Well, you know, like, I always, even before YouTube, I enjoyed editing videos for family. 66 00:05:19,020 --> 00:05:22,620 You know, I would do, like, film their vacations and stuff. 67 00:05:22,620 --> 00:05:25,900 My first love was electronics, right? 68 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:34,180 But then I also wanted to share my knowledge on the web. I created a website that I quickly got bored with, then I saw some of my friends made videos 69 00:05:34,180 --> 00:05:37,260 and put on YouTube. So that's a good way. 70 00:05:37,260 --> 00:05:42,140 And I remembered how I got hurt before, so let's hurt for a video. 71 00:05:42,140 --> 00:05:45,140 So that was my first video. Fair enough. 72 00:05:45,140 --> 00:05:52,220 Yeah. Do you enjoy your collabs with Linus? Yeah, it's good because for a change, I get to shock someone else, you know. 73 00:05:52,220 --> 00:05:56,380 That's good. You get to hurt someone else, right? Yeah, it's more fun, you know. 74 00:05:56,380 --> 00:06:01,780 So yeah, it's, yeah, and you know, he, he's content typically is different than mine, 75 00:06:01,780 --> 00:06:06,940 but sometimes we have this common idea that we can work together on and that's pretty 76 00:06:06,940 --> 00:06:09,940 fun. So yeah. Cool. 77 00:06:09,940 --> 00:06:12,940 Thank you so much. Yeah, you're welcome. We have some questions for you. 78 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:19,500 A Floatplane has some questions for you. How was it creating a completely different style of videos compared to everything else 79 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:25,860 in LMG? Did you ever get a pushback to keep a general style language, or was it encouraged to distance 80 00:06:25,860 --> 00:06:29,300 your content away from the rest of LMG? 81 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:35,620 So I've developed my style way before I started at LMG, and so I just did it. 82 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:39,700 And I was like, should I feel bad about this? Because it's so different. 83 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:43,140 He said anything, so I kept doing it, and that's how it's going. 84 00:06:43,140 --> 00:06:46,700 You did a great job, though. Thank you. Yeah. 85 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:49,980 Is that, is that, is that something you want to kind of keep going, like forward, or do 86 00:06:49,980 --> 00:06:56,100 you see that, like? Well, I'm always, no. I mean, I'm always trying to evolve how to do things and like, oh, okay, this, this 87 00:06:56,100 --> 00:07:01,980 platform is a certain way. And so like the audience connects us, you know, in a certain way, so always trying to 88 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:07,300 get better. And like, what's also fun is I like to collaborate, so hopefully, and I try to get other people 89 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:11,420 involved in terms of figuring out ideas or how to execute something. 90 00:07:11,420 --> 00:07:17,380 Yeah. But it's basically, it's like, I'm doing it the best way I know how. 91 00:07:17,380 --> 00:07:23,900 Who would you say your key fan base is? Like, what kind of target audience do you think your content is aimed towards? 92 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:31,540 I try to be as broad as possible. So like, whoever is like the most like, or let me rephrase it. 93 00:07:31,540 --> 00:07:35,380 I try to get, make sure that my content would appeal to someone who wouldn't ordinarily 94 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:39,060 be interested in it. So that's really inspiring to me. 95 00:07:39,060 --> 00:07:42,140 That's a really interesting challenge of like, how can I make someone who had never, it's 96 00:07:42,140 --> 00:07:46,780 like, I don't know, computers be engaged and want to watch the video note that they might, 97 00:07:46,780 --> 00:07:54,460 that's probably not the people who are watching it. But that's always been like a drive for me, even before I started getting into the field. 98 00:07:54,460 --> 00:07:58,220 Yeah. Lot one last question for you. 99 00:07:58,220 --> 00:08:04,580 How are you keeping yourself true to use a focused Apple culture and away from FPS RGB 100 00:08:05,020 --> 00:08:08,300 I just don't care about it. 101 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,740 But like, it's like, I don't game really. 102 00:08:11,740 --> 00:08:17,460 I haven't like, I haven't been gaming. I, I managed to finally make a gaming PC from all the stuff I got at the Christmas parties 103 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:23,580 over the next couple of years. Um, but I, I, uh, but Apple, like you can't game on a Mac anyway. 104 00:08:23,580 --> 00:08:26,860 So it's like, it's not a priority. 105 00:08:26,860 --> 00:08:32,660 So what, you know, why bother dealing with that? And like, LTT does a great job covering that. 106 00:08:32,660 --> 00:08:38,820 So like, I don't need to do that. I can, I can bring a different, a different kind of thought process and perspective. 107 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:42,620 And so I just do that. Awesome. Thank you. 108 00:08:42,620 --> 00:08:46,100 There are a lot of questions about the style of content you guys create. 109 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:49,100 Uh, good content. Good content. 110 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:52,100 Good content. Good content. That's what that style is called. 111 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:55,100 Right. Right. Right. 112 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:58,100 Right. Um, how do you think, how do you think your style of content is like, has it changed a lot since you came onto the team? 113 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:03,340 No. I don't think so. But I think that's cause like, I joined the team because I liked the content that Jonathan 114 00:09:03,340 --> 00:09:08,580 was making. And so now it's kind of just making more of that, but with a second opinion and a second 115 00:09:08,580 --> 00:09:15,420 voice kind of thing. Right. Do you, do you often feel awkward or weird that like, you know, Mac Address has a very 116 00:09:15,420 --> 00:09:19,140 different style of content compared to the rest of LMG? No. 117 00:09:19,140 --> 00:09:22,260 Cause I feel like I couldn't make the rest of the content that LMG makes. 118 00:09:22,260 --> 00:09:26,900 Like what Mac Address does is very much the kind of content I want to be making. 119 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:29,900 So yeah. Hey Yvonne. How's it going? 120 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:33,540 Good. Crazy hectic, but it's good. 121 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:36,900 So Floatplane has some questions for you. Okay. 122 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:44,780 Um, starting off with, if you had to permanently replace Linus as the host of LTT videos, who 123 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:47,780 would you choose? And why? Oh. 124 00:09:47,780 --> 00:09:50,780 Okay. You mean from somebody on staff, right? 125 00:09:50,780 --> 00:09:55,340 I'm picking from somebody. Yeah. It could be, it could be, it could be from somebody on staff or some, some completely different. 126 00:09:55,340 --> 00:10:01,380 Another creator or anyone. Okay. So if I had to pick somebody on staff, I think I'd pick either Alex or James. 127 00:10:01,380 --> 00:10:05,340 Their hosting has come a long, long way and they've spent the most time with Linus. 128 00:10:05,340 --> 00:10:09,020 So I feel like they kind of understand how we do it, but then they add their own flair 129 00:10:09,020 --> 00:10:15,260 to it. Yeah. Um, if I had to pick another creator, oh that one, I don't know, I don't watch a lot 130 00:10:15,260 --> 00:10:18,700 of YouTube. So I'd have to like do some research and figure it out. 131 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:22,420 Wait, if I can pick a celebrity, then I'd pick Ryan Reynolds. 132 00:10:22,420 --> 00:10:27,300 Ryan Reynolds? What? Well, Canadian, hilarious. 133 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:30,300 That's it though. Like nothing else. No. 134 00:10:30,300 --> 00:10:33,300 I don't know if he knows anything about tech. I just love his personality. 135 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:40,660 Okay. So Linus has been, I guess, notorious for giving out lots of relationship advice on 136 00:10:40,660 --> 00:10:43,660 the intro. 137 00:10:43,660 --> 00:10:48,020 Apart from what he would usually say, what some relationship advice that you could, 138 00:10:48,020 --> 00:10:51,020 that you would give people in general. Okay. 139 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:56,780 I don't actually know all the times he's given out relationship advice, so you can correct me if I'm wrong, if this is like a duplicate. 140 00:10:56,780 --> 00:11:03,940 But I'd say communication is like super key. Just making sure you're open and honest with each other, because if you guys aren't talking, 141 00:11:03,940 --> 00:11:10,500 you're not on the same page about things. And I feel like that can lead to a lot of just either resentment or, you know, fights 142 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:13,500 and things like that. So just talk. Talk lots. 143 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:17,260 I think that's pretty much what Linus said too. He's on the same page. 144 00:11:17,260 --> 00:11:20,260 See? See? Exactly. 145 00:11:20,260 --> 00:11:27,660 Okay. Last question for you. Linus being popular for, you know, dropping things, were you ever afraid when you had 146 00:11:27,660 --> 00:11:30,940 your first kid that he would drop your kid? 147 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:35,380 No, not with my first kid, but the second kid, when the second kid came out and he was 148 00:11:35,380 --> 00:11:38,860 holding her, he was like, oh, it's been so long. I don't remember how to do this. 149 00:11:38,860 --> 00:11:42,060 And I was like, oh my gosh, what are you saying? Oh no. 150 00:11:42,060 --> 00:11:45,060 Yeah. Wait, why the second one though? I like it. 151 00:11:45,060 --> 00:11:49,300 I don't know. Maybe it's because once you've been through the first one, you realize how fragile they 152 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:53,980 are. And then because so long had passed, maybe he, I don't know, maybe he forgot or maybe 153 00:11:53,980 --> 00:11:57,580 it was just like lack of sleep. I don't know what it was, but yeah. 154 00:11:57,580 --> 00:12:01,740 But that being said, sometimes I worry about when they're older because he'll do crazy 155 00:12:01,740 --> 00:12:05,540 things. He'll like flip them over his head and like under and stuff and I'm just like, oh my 156 00:12:05,540 --> 00:12:08,540 gosh. Awesome. Cool. 157 00:12:08,540 --> 00:12:11,540 That's it. Thank you. Thanks. 158 00:12:11,540 --> 00:12:14,540 Hi, Jay. How are you finding the LTXX for stuff? Oh, it's great. 159 00:12:14,540 --> 00:12:18,900 This year is awesome. Every year it's a little bigger than the previous and last time we heard it was in 2019, but 160 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:23,060 this is amazing. I can't wait to see how the rest of the weekend turns out. 161 00:12:23,060 --> 00:12:28,580 So we have some questions from you from our flat plane audience. 162 00:12:28,580 --> 00:12:33,140 Signing off with, would you ever do a collab with Linus and what kind of video do you think 163 00:12:33,140 --> 00:12:39,820 that would be? Oh boy. I feel like it'd be fun to do like a testing PC myths video with Linus. 164 00:12:39,820 --> 00:12:43,140 I feel like there's a lot of opportunity for shenanigans and fun with that. 165 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:50,060 How is the astronomy going? As an astrophotographer, I think I'm one of the people who cracked up during some earlier 166 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:53,180 RT FM shows when you talked about getting a telescope. 167 00:12:53,180 --> 00:12:57,340 Yeah, it's like anything else, right? I didn't know how much I was going to enjoy it or like it. 168 00:12:57,340 --> 00:13:01,300 I got into it because my youngest kid who's only eight is obsessed with the stars and 169 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:08,500 the moons and the galaxies and stuff. So we got a really basic optics and then from there and I've got to motorize one that can 170 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:14,700 track and again, we just went to an observatory, you know, looking at giant telescopes and 171 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:22,580 stuff and I feel like it's like any other hobby. It's a rabbit hole that's just going to get deeper and deeper and yeah, an expensive one 172 00:13:22,580 --> 00:13:27,020 too. Anything that involves lens or optics, whether it be cameras, telescopes, microscopes, get 173 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:31,860 ready to pay. How long have you been into that now? 174 00:13:31,860 --> 00:13:37,740 This year for the most part because in Christmas of 2022 is when we got the first telescope, 175 00:13:37,740 --> 00:13:41,380 the basic telescope. So about seven months now and I'm learning a lot. 176 00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:48,340 Yeah. Awesome. I'm going to reference my podcast in a full plane. 177 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:52,460 We put out a full plane post asking them for, hey, this parade is coming down to you. 178 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:57,460 Yeah. I assisted some of the photos I took with the moon and what else. 179 00:13:57,460 --> 00:14:02,660 What has been the favorite part of you building your new studio? 180 00:14:02,660 --> 00:14:06,860 Getting to kind of create what I feel like is an efficient use of the space. 181 00:14:06,860 --> 00:14:10,220 You know, in the past working out of my own garage or bedrooms or whatever, you're stuck 182 00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:16,500 with like super limited space, right? But being able to finally be in a position where I could bring in contractors and build 183 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:21,660 out something that I feel like meets our needs is really the most exciting part. 184 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:27,940 I mean, I would love to have my own Labs one day, kind of like LTT has right now. 185 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:32,140 But yeah, I mean, like just the fact that it allows us to be able to expand what we 186 00:14:32,140 --> 00:14:35,740 can do and they're not working on top of each other. 187 00:14:35,740 --> 00:14:39,540 What's your, I guess, if you had to pick something, your favorite piece of equipment 188 00:14:39,580 --> 00:14:42,860 in your new studio? My favorite piece of equipment. 189 00:14:42,860 --> 00:14:48,060 Oh, wow. Geez, honestly, just any of the power tools. 190 00:14:48,060 --> 00:14:53,700 I mean, the saws, our drills are, I'm looking at getting a tabletop CNC right now so I can 191 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,980 start CNC, not just doing additive but extruding. 192 00:14:57,980 --> 00:15:02,020 I think that kind of, that's literally where my next step is right now is to start building 193 00:15:02,020 --> 00:15:05,500 tabletop machinery. Fair, fair, awesome. 194 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:13,060 Okay, last question for you. You've been known to build PCs for people like Quasmalon and Terry Crews. 195 00:15:13,060 --> 00:15:18,060 Is there another celebrity or someone who you'd really like to build a PC for? 196 00:15:18,060 --> 00:15:24,500 Lately, Jack Black. I didn't, I know he kind of got into PC stuff because of his kid, but I know he's recently 197 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:29,580 posted some photos of like his gaming setups and I'm like, hey, Jack, if you're watching, 198 00:15:29,580 --> 00:15:33,020 I mean, we're local, let's do it. 199 00:15:33,020 --> 00:15:37,740 How do these usually go? Do they, is it more common for them to reach out to you or do you like to kind of, you 200 00:15:37,740 --> 00:15:42,180 kind of approach people? I've never approached a celebrity, mostly because usually they have too many channels 201 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:46,420 to go through, where do you start? It's a lot easier for them to reach out to me. 202 00:15:46,420 --> 00:15:52,740 I mean, we've had some folks that have reached out over the last year or two. 203 00:15:52,740 --> 00:15:56,540 My schedule's been pretty hectic as people know builds tend to take me a while. 204 00:15:56,540 --> 00:16:00,180 Like the Tony Hawk thing, we ended up kind of putting that in the back burner because 205 00:16:00,180 --> 00:16:03,940 of some health reasons of mine, but now that we're caught up, I would like to do something 206 00:16:03,940 --> 00:16:06,940 like that again. Awesome. Cool, thank you. 207 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:10,140 All right. So we have Sarah here with us. How are you doing today? 208 00:16:10,140 --> 00:16:17,140 Hi Floplan. I'm doing good. There's a lot happening, very exciting. 209 00:16:17,140 --> 00:16:21,900 Don't really know where I belong, but I'm just running around doing my thing. 210 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:25,300 It's a pretty, it's a chaotic day. Yes. 211 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:28,300 Okay. Starting off simple. Do you enjoy working at LTT? 212 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:32,300 No. No, I'm joking. Of course I do. 213 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:39,740 I love my job. All the signage around the event is all done by me and that is the most incredible opportunity 214 00:16:39,740 --> 00:16:44,180 I have ever had. So even just that, of course it looks amazing. 215 00:16:44,180 --> 00:16:51,940 Looks amazing. Thank you. Getting into some of the more detailed questions, did dinosaurs lead you to become an artist 216 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:55,020 or did art lead you to become a fan of dinosaurs? 217 00:16:55,020 --> 00:16:59,620 Well, I've always been a fan of dinosaurs and always kind of been a fan of art. 218 00:16:59,620 --> 00:17:04,220 So I think the two just intertwined and now I just make dinosaur art? 219 00:17:04,220 --> 00:17:11,580 Valid, valid. Are you going to be designing a dinosaur pattern in more clothing, especially anything new 220 00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:16,460 for women? I really want to. Lots of people have been asking me this throughout the event. 221 00:17:16,460 --> 00:17:20,380 I just need to convince Linus, but I want to do a pin set. I want to do some t-shirts. 222 00:17:20,380 --> 00:17:25,140 I want to do a hoodie. Everything dinosaur. I think we can convince him, right? 223 00:17:25,140 --> 00:17:30,820 I think so too. Then will you stream again on Jurassicx.com? 224 00:17:30,820 --> 00:17:34,540 Well, so my Twitch is kind of like defunct now. 225 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:43,220 I just haven't touched it, but I really want to. I just got a little bit nervous and so it's hard to get into it, but I promised soon. 226 00:17:43,220 --> 00:17:46,740 What makes you nervous? I think it's just kind of overwhelming. 227 00:17:46,740 --> 00:17:51,300 I'm not seeing the people that I'm talking to, but also it's really cool that you kind 228 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:55,580 of have this community of people around you. I wish I could see them face to face. 229 00:17:55,580 --> 00:18:01,300 You've designed a lot of graphics for LTT, LMG in general. 230 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:06,380 Is there one you enjoyed the most in particular and are there any hidden Easter eggs in any 231 00:18:06,380 --> 00:18:12,220 of them? I wouldn't say there are any hidden Easter eggs per se, but there are a few t-shirts 232 00:18:12,220 --> 00:18:18,500 that have definitely made a difference to me. The Folding at Home was the first one because that was the moment that I realized that what 233 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:26,980 I'm doing was meant to be. And then just all of the random last minute t-shirt designs like thelttstore.com t-shirt 234 00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:31,980 loved that. The Gone Fishing livestream on Flow Play, and that was so much fun. 235 00:18:31,980 --> 00:18:35,660 And then just in general, anything dinosaur related, the dinosaur desk pad is probably 236 00:18:35,660 --> 00:18:39,100 one of my favorite designs ever. And then the whale design. 237 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:44,020 The whale design is iconic now, so that one is super cool to me. 238 00:18:44,020 --> 00:18:50,260 Have you noticed any major changes in the way you do design work ever since you've been 239 00:18:50,340 --> 00:18:54,900 working in LTT? I think I've just been doing a lot more variety. 240 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:59,460 Like before, I kind of stuck to a certain style, but now I'm not really locked into 241 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:04,140 anything, so I get the opportunity to try all of these different styles, and so I've 242 00:19:04,140 --> 00:19:08,420 taken that to experiment and see what else I could come up with. 243 00:19:08,420 --> 00:19:12,460 So I guess the GP Wasteland design would be one of those designs where I kind of didn't 244 00:19:12,460 --> 00:19:16,340 know what I was doing going into it, but I had so much fun doing it, and it seems like 245 00:19:16,340 --> 00:19:19,820 everybody else enjoys it. Awesome. 246 00:19:19,820 --> 00:19:26,420 And going back to how you've made all this signage for LTX today, apparently Linus said 247 00:19:26,420 --> 00:19:32,180 many years ago, just wait until you start seeing your designs at LTX, it's going to 248 00:19:32,180 --> 00:19:38,380 be awesome. So now that that's actually come true, how does that feel? 249 00:19:38,380 --> 00:19:43,020 It's incredibly overwhelming, but at the same time seeing people taking photos with 250 00:19:43,020 --> 00:19:47,060 the banners and everything has made it all worth it, because everybody else can kind of 251 00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:52,380 be immersed in the event because of the signage, and yeah, that makes me happy. 252 00:19:52,380 --> 00:19:55,380 Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. 253 00:19:55,380 --> 00:19:58,380 Hi, Wendell, how are you? Good, how are you? Good, thank you. 254 00:19:58,380 --> 00:20:01,740 How are you enjoying LTX Festival? It's amazing and overwhelming. 255 00:20:01,740 --> 00:20:05,220 My social battery goes negative, it turns out. It's pretty awesome. 256 00:20:05,220 --> 00:20:08,340 It's my first time doing this as well, so I kind of feel that. 257 00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:13,700 Well, you're doing a good job. Excellent. Okay, so I have some questions for you. 258 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:18,500 Well, I have one particular question for you from the Floatplane audience, and that's 259 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,860 how's OpenPlep going? It is going well. 260 00:20:21,860 --> 00:20:27,860 So the lawyers are working on setting up the organization, and we're hoping that we can 261 00:20:27,860 --> 00:20:32,100 be a nonprofit, because it's weird being a nonprofit as it turns out, but we're hoping 262 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:35,500 that we can be a nonprofit, but we're getting all of the stuff lined up to do that. 263 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:41,500 We've got a few manufacturers that are sort of excited about sharing the open connectivity, 264 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:47,500 sort of the smaller manufacturers, and they want to really provide the specifications, 265 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:52,180 and that sort of stuff. It's a physical specification, and so that's pretty cool, but we're hoping that we see 266 00:20:52,180 --> 00:20:58,260 more open software publishing stuff for like, this is the RGB protocol for this, or this 267 00:20:58,260 --> 00:21:02,380 is how this works for this, or this is how you work with the motherboard chipsets, and 268 00:21:02,380 --> 00:21:05,980 all of that will lead into like the motherboard control chipset software. 269 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:11,140 So hopefully you'll be able to get temperature sensors, and all of the special sauce on a 270 00:21:11,140 --> 00:21:14,740 particular motherboard, you'll be able to do all that, so it should be a lot of fun. 271 00:21:14,740 --> 00:21:21,140 Awesome. It's a slow process to get all that going, but I think it'll be good. 272 00:21:21,140 --> 00:21:27,780 Cool. How is it when Linus is constantly calling you and reaching out to you in the middle 273 00:21:27,780 --> 00:21:31,060 of one of his videos for tech support? It's fine. 274 00:21:31,060 --> 00:21:37,020 It's funny, we did, they needed to do 1v1 and CSGO, which is a LAN thing, so I set that 275 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:42,540 up here. Oh, okay, awesome. Yeah, it was on-site tech support. 276 00:21:42,540 --> 00:21:46,020 Even here, he didn't like, you know, just let you be. No, no, it's fine. 277 00:21:46,020 --> 00:21:49,540 It's good. I like feeling useful. Awesome. 278 00:21:49,540 --> 00:21:54,380 Do you think there's an opportunity for both of you to kind of share the screen into a 279 00:21:54,380 --> 00:22:00,700 collab at some point, and what kind of video do you think you guys would, you know, unclogging 280 00:22:00,700 --> 00:22:06,220 any kind of, you know, electronic clog that might exist is fine, it doesn't matter. 281 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:09,500 I mean, I'm down for whatever. Awesome. 282 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:12,500 Cool. Thank you so much, Randall. Thanks. 283 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:15,500 Take care. Hi, David. What's up? 284 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:19,700 I'm doing good. What made you want to do what you currently do at LTT right now, and do you have any ideal 285 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,300 passion projects? What made me do what I want to do? 286 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:29,740 Well, first I'd have to describe what I do, and that's waste the time every day, babies. 287 00:22:29,740 --> 00:22:33,420 Sit on the toilet, scroll Twitter, and what makes me do that? 288 00:22:33,420 --> 00:22:37,620 You know, just a passion for passionlessness. Oh, God. 289 00:22:37,740 --> 00:22:43,540 No, I went to film school because I love creativity and expression and art, and so I knew that 290 00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:49,220 I wanted to get into, you know, telling stories visually, and so long term I want to do more, 291 00:22:49,220 --> 00:22:53,460 you know, narrative driven content, but this was such a great opportunity and a great place 292 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:58,540 to work, and I just enjoy, you know, this middle period of my life where I'm waiting 293 00:22:58,540 --> 00:23:02,220 to step up. 294 00:23:02,220 --> 00:23:06,620 What qualifications would you say someone aspiring to be a photographer slash photographer 295 00:23:06,620 --> 00:23:12,100 needs, and do you have any tips for those that are just starting out? 296 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:15,220 There's a million different ways you can kind of get into it. 297 00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:21,300 The best tip I can give anyone is just start doing it. You can get a used camera for really cheap digital camera sensors, haven't gotten that 298 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:25,740 much better. So if you go a couple of generations back, get a cheap lens, get a cheap camera, just 299 00:23:25,740 --> 00:23:33,220 start doing it. Learn the software. Photoshop is half of being a good photographer, Premiere is half of being a good film maker, 300 00:23:33,220 --> 00:23:37,020 so learn the post-production side, and just start doing it. 301 00:23:37,020 --> 00:23:41,300 I paid for school, and if I could do it again, I would have just spent that money on making 302 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:48,420 projects. Agreed. How have you been enjoying RTX Expo so far, and is there something you're looking forward 303 00:23:48,420 --> 00:23:51,540 to? It's been pretty crazy. 304 00:23:51,540 --> 00:23:57,260 It's so much bigger than I expected. I was there at the 2019 one, and this feels like an entirely different thing. 305 00:23:57,260 --> 00:24:02,100 There's, you know, Fan Expo, which is like the Comic-Con in Vancouver, and this dwarfs 306 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:08,220 it. They look tiny, and this is huge, and so it's been quite a thrill just to see how big of 307 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:13,980 a company I'm a part of, and just so excited to meet so many people, and it's just like, 308 00:24:13,980 --> 00:24:22,500 it's a real thrill in that sense. What I'm looking forward to is 6pm on Sunday when it's all over and I can go home and sleep. 309 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:26,260 So we have Scotty here from Strange Parts. How's it going? How are you doing? 310 00:24:26,260 --> 00:24:29,460 Good. So our Floatplane audience, they have some questions for you. 311 00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:32,460 Sure. Yeah. So I'm going to fire away. 312 00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:37,940 What's the most frustrating electronics problem that you've come across, and how did you go 313 00:24:37,940 --> 00:24:43,020 about solving it? I don't know. It's a good question. 314 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:50,500 I've been working for the past six months on an iPhone modification that I'm not ready 315 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:57,220 to say what it is, but I will say that I've bought five new iPhones that are all in pieces 316 00:24:57,220 --> 00:25:08,820 on my workbench, and I'm completely stuck. And so I think the most frustrating thing for me is working on closed source electronics, 317 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:16,180 where I'm kind of hunting around in the dark, and I'm trying to figure out what little threads 318 00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:20,740 I can pull on to try and get enough information to figure out what to do next. 319 00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:23,900 And right now I'm kind of at a stopping point where I'm like, I don't even know what else 320 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:27,620 to try. I don't know how to debug this any further. 321 00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:31,860 I can't get into the software to see what's happening on the software side. 322 00:25:31,860 --> 00:25:37,820 I mean, I'm doing things like buying other phones and removing 01005s, which are the 323 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:47,820 smallest component on an iPhone. They're pretty much the smallest, solderable component that's available on the public market, 324 00:25:47,820 --> 00:25:56,460 and removing them and measuring them. And the problem is that they're so small that if you drop it or it shoots off your tweezers, 325 00:25:56,460 --> 00:26:05,060 it's just gone. But the problem is that these individual components are essentially worth $1,500 because they're 326 00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:10,860 the price of a new phone because I need to measure that individual exact part. 327 00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:15,380 So now I have built this whole enclosure around my microscope that's all made out of white 328 00:26:15,380 --> 00:26:21,260 plastic so that I can hopefully find it again if I drop it and enclose it so that it can't 329 00:26:21,260 --> 00:26:26,180 fall on the floor. Because once it falls on the floor, it's smaller than like, it's hard to even quantify how 330 00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:29,820 small it is because it's smaller than a poppy seed. 331 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:35,060 So it is so small that it is not clear. 332 00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:39,220 When I see a little speck of black dirt, it's unclear whether it's the component or a piece 333 00:26:39,220 --> 00:26:42,460 of dirt. I have to look at it under the microscope to see whether I've found what I'm looking 334 00:26:42,460 --> 00:26:45,900 for. So I don't know. That's my current frustration anyway. 335 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:52,460 Right. How do you stay motivated through little issues like this? 336 00:26:52,460 --> 00:26:56,100 I think just stubbornness, I don't know. 337 00:26:57,020 --> 00:27:03,380 I think the audience really is like a good motivation for continuing projects like this. 338 00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:06,860 I think if I was just doing it for my own satisfaction, I would have given up a long 339 00:27:06,860 --> 00:27:14,720 time ago. But I think knowing that people are excited about me doing something like this is a good 340 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,620 motivation to keep going. It's all for the people, right? 341 00:27:18,620 --> 00:27:22,220 Yeah, it's for the fans, you know. Okay. 342 00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:30,420 Next question. What was the best moment for you both on and off camera for jet lag, the game? 343 00:27:30,420 --> 00:27:37,980 Yeah. So best moment on camera, I think, or the part that I enjoy and remember the most was 344 00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:42,180 having to walk sideways, hitting the mud tower and having to walk sideways. 345 00:27:42,180 --> 00:27:48,540 That unfortunately, a lot of that segment didn't make the final edit because both my 346 00:27:48,540 --> 00:27:56,260 microphone and Ben's microphone were having issues. And so there was a whole lot more drama to that. 347 00:27:56,260 --> 00:28:00,060 I saw him multiple times but couldn't tag him with the phone. 348 00:28:00,060 --> 00:28:07,020 I wasn't sure I got a clear shot of him. And so, yeah, that was, I think, the thing that's most memorable. 349 00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:11,820 Off camera, I don't know. I got to hang out with Ben and Adam both. 350 00:28:11,820 --> 00:28:15,900 I'd never met them before, so I got to hang out with them both before we shot the season 351 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,940 and afterwards in Tokyo and just ran around and did fun stuff. 352 00:28:18,940 --> 00:28:24,460 That was pretty fun. They're both awesome guys and pretty much the same on camera as they are off camera. 353 00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:27,940 So yeah, we had a good time. Awesome. 354 00:28:27,940 --> 00:28:33,540 Is jet lag the game as thrilling as it seems, like on video, especially with all the sitting 355 00:28:33,540 --> 00:28:36,580 around on trains, they are? Yes. 356 00:28:36,580 --> 00:28:42,100 So jet lag is as busy this season. 357 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:47,580 Other seasons I've heard are different. This season was nonstop from when we were shooting 12-hour days. 358 00:28:47,580 --> 00:28:51,580 We shot it in four. We shot the whole season in four and a half days. 359 00:28:51,580 --> 00:28:57,820 And I really only had a couple moments on one or two days where I could kind of sit and 360 00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:04,860 chill. We were, you know, you're constantly either, even when you're sitting on a train, you're 361 00:29:04,860 --> 00:29:08,620 constantly thinking about strategy, you're talking with your teammate, you're trying 362 00:29:08,620 --> 00:29:12,460 to make sure both of your phones and your microphones are all charged so you're juggling 363 00:29:12,460 --> 00:29:20,900 a lot of things. Yeah, it's definitely like nonstop go and you really sort of get into the game and like 364 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:25,740 Sam says, once the game starts, you're just in game mode and then four days later you're 365 00:29:25,740 --> 00:29:32,100 kind of like, what just happened? So yeah, I had an absolute blast with do it again in a heartbeat. 366 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:36,420 It was a super huge honor to be able to do it. 367 00:29:36,420 --> 00:29:39,420 Awesome. I have one last question for you. 368 00:29:39,420 --> 00:29:42,420 You've done your homework. 369 00:29:42,420 --> 00:29:47,100 The audience has done their homework. 370 00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:53,420 Having completed jet lag the game, would you nominate any fellow creators for future seasons? 371 00:29:53,420 --> 00:29:56,980 Yes. I mean, I'd love to see Linus do it. 372 00:29:56,980 --> 00:30:01,980 I think Linus and Sam would make for a very interesting and perhaps explosive pair that 373 00:30:01,980 --> 00:30:05,140 would be really fun to watch on camera. 374 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:09,140 Who else? I don't know. 375 00:30:10,140 --> 00:30:16,740 I can't think, and nobody else comes to mind, but I'm sure there are like five other people 376 00:30:16,740 --> 00:30:20,860 I'd love to see that I just haven't thought about the question enough. 377 00:30:20,860 --> 00:30:25,780 Trying to think of like, I think one of the things for me that I really like about jet 378 00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:35,100 lag is that they often have guests and Adam and Sam and Ben are all experienced travelers. 379 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:40,220 I think one of the things that's frustrating to me about shows like The Amazing Race, which 380 00:30:40,220 --> 00:30:44,220 I've been told was somewhat of an inspiration for jet lag, is that they have people who 381 00:30:44,220 --> 00:30:52,460 have never traveled outside the US before. I sort of feel like that doesn't make for very interesting gameplay, and it means that 382 00:30:52,460 --> 00:30:57,420 shows like The Amazing Race really have to be designed, what I would call, on rails. 383 00:30:57,420 --> 00:31:06,140 They never really let things unfold naturally because it's too dangerous from a story perspective 384 00:31:06,140 --> 00:31:10,660 that the game will just break. It's all kind of nudging a certain direction. 385 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:17,140 Exactly. Whereas I feel like jet lag, because of the nature of the people on the show, they're 386 00:31:17,140 --> 00:31:22,180 able to design pretty robust rule sets and then just kind of let things unfold. 387 00:31:22,180 --> 00:31:28,780 And so I'm trying to think of like, what other travel type creators do I know that would 388 00:31:28,780 --> 00:31:35,980 be really interesting? I mean, it would have been really interesting to see Jon from Only in Japan on there, but 389 00:31:35,980 --> 00:31:40,460 it would have been a very unfair advantage because Jon speaks fluent Japanese and has 390 00:31:40,460 --> 00:31:44,140 lived there for 20, 25 years. 391 00:31:44,140 --> 00:31:50,020 But yeah, someone like that, I'd love to see more folks who have done adventurous travel 392 00:31:50,020 --> 00:31:54,900 doing stuff on the show, just because I think it makes it interesting, but yeah, I don't 393 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:59,540 know. I'd have to think about that more. Fair, fair, awesome. 394 00:31:59,540 --> 00:32:03,500 Have you been enjoying the X-Files so far? Is there something you're looking forward to? 395 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,980 It's been great. I pretty much just did my meet and greet and I hadn't been hanging out with a few creators 396 00:32:07,980 --> 00:32:11,180 back here, but I'm looking forward to checking out the floor and wandering around and meeting 397 00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:14,180 more folks. Awesome. Thank you so much. 398 00:32:14,180 --> 00:32:17,180 Yeah, you're welcome. Hi, Emily. How are you doing today? 399 00:32:17,180 --> 00:32:23,700 Great. It's been great so far. It's not even, I guess, it's a little over halfway done, but it's been a lot better than 400 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:27,300 I would have thought. There's more people here than I would have thought. 401 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:31,820 I only thought we had a little more than 2019, but apparently there were a lot of last minute 402 00:32:31,820 --> 00:32:36,140 registrations and it's just packed here. 403 00:32:36,140 --> 00:32:39,500 I can't move. We're in the backstage area. 404 00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:42,900 I can't even move three feet away from anything. 405 00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:46,500 I'm just mobbed the whole time. It's mobbed the whole time. 406 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:49,700 Too popular. Yeah. I don't know. 407 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:55,900 You wouldn't think so. I haven't been in videos for a while, but maybe that's going to change. 408 00:32:55,900 --> 00:33:00,700 Speaking of which, when do you think you'll return to videos? 409 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:09,860 Do you intend to? I have been asked that a lot. I do intend to, and in fact, I shot a video yesterday with Linus. 410 00:33:09,860 --> 00:33:17,780 I co-hosted. Yeah. I'm going to be on camera again very shortly, and yeah. 411 00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:21,460 Then how LTX is going, maybe I'll just come back to regular camera duties. 412 00:33:21,460 --> 00:33:25,220 I don't know. It really depends. I'm trying, kind of using this to test the waters. 413 00:33:25,220 --> 00:33:28,220 Test the waters? Yeah. Awesome. 414 00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:33,100 I think a lot of people are looking forward to having you back on screen, especially the Floatplane. 415 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:39,060 I guess the last question I have for you from Floatplane is what distro of Linux are you 416 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:42,140 running at the moment, and why? Okay. 417 00:33:42,140 --> 00:33:52,420 I have, what was Manjaro, now is Arch, I just kind of morphed it into Arch on my desktop. 418 00:33:52,420 --> 00:34:01,940 On my laptop, I've got PopOS, and on my Steam Deck, I've got SteamOS, because obviously. 419 00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:04,940 What's your favorite if you had to pick one, and why? 420 00:34:04,940 --> 00:34:11,300 Honestly, Arch is really nice. I do like how polished Pop is. 421 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:16,060 There's a version of Arch that is coming out, or not a version of Arch, but a distro based 422 00:34:16,060 --> 00:34:22,180 on Arch. I don't remember what it's called now, but it basically sections everything off into 423 00:34:22,180 --> 00:34:29,580 almost like containers, so you can use Debian packages, RPMs, everything like that. 424 00:34:29,580 --> 00:34:35,500 Basically it's all just separate, so you don't have any weird compatibility issues with 425 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:42,500 different versions of files and all that kind of stuff. That sounds pretty cool, and also it's immutable, so you can't really mess it up. 426 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:47,540 All your changes are on an overlay, so yeah, that sounds pretty cool to me. 427 00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:50,540 Awesome. Cool. Thank you so much. 428 00:34:50,540 --> 00:34:53,540 You're welcome. Let's ask you some questions. Okay. 429 00:34:53,540 --> 00:34:57,940 Yeah. What's this about? The Floatplane audience has a few questions for you. 430 00:34:57,940 --> 00:35:02,980 The Floatplane audience, do they? Okay, Floatplane, what do you want? 431 00:35:02,980 --> 00:35:11,820 How is your freelance life going? How's everything been? Well, if you need video editing, call me. 432 00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:22,700 I was freelance before I was LMG, and I'm not a business person. 433 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:26,180 I don't like having to make business decisions. 434 00:35:26,180 --> 00:35:29,700 It was always nice having Linus making all the business decisions for me, and I was 435 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:34,100 like, okay, I just want to make videos, but just tell what I want. 436 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,780 Long story short, I had a lot of work at the beginning, like more work than I could 437 00:35:37,780 --> 00:35:41,740 handle, and I was turning stuff down, and now I don't have as much work. 438 00:35:41,740 --> 00:35:47,540 I have almost no work, so it's like, ugh, I got to get back into the center. 439 00:35:47,540 --> 00:35:54,180 Now I know where that is, so I'm taking on clients again. 440 00:35:54,180 --> 00:35:59,020 Balancing it all is very tricky, plus figuring out how much of my stuff I want to do. 441 00:35:59,020 --> 00:36:02,820 But then also, I need clients that I have stuff to talk about, like, oh, here's how 442 00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:09,300 I edited this thing, right? So it's tough, but I don't regret it. 443 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:14,700 I guess has there been, if you could think of one thing that you're allowed to share, 444 00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:18,780 has there been anything very, very exciting that you've had the chance to work on since 445 00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:25,980 leaving LMG? Not yet, no. Not anything very exciting. 446 00:36:25,980 --> 00:36:29,180 I wish there was. There is not. 447 00:36:29,180 --> 00:36:33,180 Oh, I'm such a boring person. Hey, maybe it's coming up soon. 448 00:36:33,180 --> 00:36:39,900 We'll see. I mean, there's stuff that I've been wanting to make for like eight years that I'm just 449 00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:45,380 now starting to get around to, but it's going to probably be another eight years until that 450 00:36:45,380 --> 00:36:48,380 stuff comes out. Fair enough. Cool. 451 00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:51,380 Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Hi, Luke. 452 00:36:51,380 --> 00:36:54,380 How are you doing? Good. Good, how are you? 453 00:36:54,380 --> 00:36:58,380 Good, thanks. How has everything been today so far? I saw there was a massive queue of people lining up to meet you. 454 00:36:58,380 --> 00:37:01,460 I was in the whale land hanging out with my dad and people like that. 455 00:37:01,460 --> 00:37:04,980 Then I left. I made it about six steps out and then I just had a line. 456 00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:08,380 I didn't have anything scheduled this morning, so I was like, yeah, whatever. I'll just do this. 457 00:37:08,380 --> 00:37:12,940 It was fine. I saw you. It was just in the middle of like nowhere and a natural queue had just begun to. 458 00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:15,940 Yeah, yeah. That happened last year too. It's fine. 459 00:37:15,940 --> 00:37:19,540 I don't mind. All righty. So I have some questions for you from Flow Plane. 460 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:22,540 Okay. Yeah. Cool. 461 00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:26,420 Did you always have the development background or have you built that over your time at Flow Plane? 462 00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:33,220 I've honestly, for being an actual developer myself, I've probably lost it more over my 463 00:37:33,220 --> 00:37:38,580 time at Flow Plane because in high school I did a lot of development stuff and in university 464 00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:43,940 I was taking it as my degree and then I dropped out in order to join this, stopped development 465 00:37:43,940 --> 00:37:47,580 until I needed to do Flow Plane, did a little bit at the very beginning of Flow Plane and 466 00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:56,340 then turned more into a managerial role, taskmaster, scrum master type of thing from there. 467 00:37:57,260 --> 00:38:03,220 I've never really looked back. None of my code still lives on anything to do with Flow Plane and that is good. 468 00:38:03,220 --> 00:38:08,260 That's how we want that to be. Yeah. Do you miss being able to work on projects like that at all? 469 00:38:08,260 --> 00:38:14,220 A little bit, to be honest. Every once in a while I'll still do some like little hacky thing at home just for fun, just 470 00:38:14,220 --> 00:38:20,220 to make sure that I haven't like completely lost it but I like what I do. 471 00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:25,060 It's kind of fun and being in the role that I'm in, I get to see more projects that I 472 00:38:25,060 --> 00:38:29,500 have something to do with hit production because I'm a part of like kind of everything. 473 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:35,460 So I like that. Will we be seeing Flow Plane make an Apple TV, Google TV app? 474 00:38:35,460 --> 00:38:40,340 I know the iOS app has been a nightmare to develop but I'd love to see a TV app so I 475 00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:44,340 can watch without needing to cast our airplane. Yeah, it's a good question. 476 00:38:44,340 --> 00:38:51,220 We do want to do that. My problem right now is the person on site that does app development also does front 477 00:38:51,220 --> 00:38:55,540 end development and it's only one person. They do all of the apps and all of the front end. 478 00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:59,140 So I'm currently trying to hire two front end developers. 479 00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:02,180 Taren will not be one of them because he doesn't do that. 480 00:39:02,180 --> 00:39:05,780 I would. You want to join Flow Plane, Taren? 481 00:39:05,780 --> 00:39:09,540 You want to join Flow Plane as a developer? You want to do software development out of nowhere? 482 00:39:09,540 --> 00:39:13,700 I see IBM developer on your shirt. Yeah, and I'm an IBM developer so no, I'm working for IBM. 483 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:20,100 Oh, okay, okay, that works, that works. Yeah, so no, hiring two front end developers, if we get those people on staff maybe we'll 484 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:23,940 be able to do more things. The problem right now is bandwidth not willingness. 485 00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:32,380 Okay, I guess I brought a question for you. Having worked as part of LMG for this long, do you think, would you say you still get 486 00:39:32,380 --> 00:39:38,180 to enjoy tech in your first little time? 487 00:39:38,180 --> 00:39:47,620 Okay, so I'm going to say no, but not because of LMG. 488 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:52,340 So I'm going to curve ball it a little bit. I don't think LMG has actually dampened it in any way at all. 489 00:39:52,340 --> 00:39:58,940 If anything, it's helped me stay interested. The problem that I've had is that things have gotten too easy over time. 490 00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:05,620 So when I was growing up with computers, building a computer was more of a skill than I would 491 00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:11,260 say it is now. And I think you're finding a lot of the expression that people have back in the day was giving 492 00:40:11,260 --> 00:40:15,980 their computer working at all and the crazy mods that they had to do to get it to the 493 00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:20,200 point that it's at and how they would maintain it by replacing capacitors, these old liquid 494 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:26,700 capacitors that would leak and all this kind of stuff. And nowadays, most of the expression is how you set up your lighting and things like that, 495 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:30,060 which is that's fine. It's just not, I'm not as into that. 496 00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:33,780 So the things in tech that are interesting to me are usually the things that are not 497 00:40:33,780 --> 00:40:39,060 very mature yet. So the really janky starts of AI has been really interesting to me. 498 00:40:39,060 --> 00:40:42,940 A lot of the VR stuff has been really interesting to me because it's not matured yet. 499 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:46,780 It's the same way like phones are the most boring thing to me in the world because every 500 00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:51,300 time a new phone comes out, it's like, oh yeah, it's like 6% faster than the previous one 501 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:54,780 and nothing else changed. It's like, okay, sure, I don't care. 502 00:40:54,780 --> 00:40:58,860 So I don't know. I enjoy the chaos and it's not chaotic enough right now. 503 00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:02,620 So that's not LMG's fault. That's just the industry. It is the industry. 504 00:41:02,620 --> 00:41:05,780 I think most people are in the same pace as that. 505 00:41:05,780 --> 00:41:10,300 Have you or any of your team ever tried to make a game? 506 00:41:10,860 --> 00:41:18,300 Yeah, we've actually, we've released two, I think, technically. 507 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:21,660 So Linus Tech Tips Store, a little bit of history, Linus Tech Tips Store for a certain 508 00:41:21,660 --> 00:41:27,780 period of time sold graphics cards. This was during the graphics card shortage and the way that we sold the graphics cards 509 00:41:27,780 --> 00:41:32,340 to try to make it so they didn't get scalped as much was through a game called Linus Jump, 510 00:41:32,340 --> 00:41:36,340 which we made in-house where it was a vertical jumping game. 511 00:41:36,340 --> 00:41:39,820 And if you got to the top, there's a big glowing GPU and if you jumped into it, you had the 512 00:41:39,820 --> 00:41:47,140 ability to purchase a GPU. So technically, we have actually published a game, just very temporarily. 513 00:41:47,140 --> 00:41:50,940 And yeah, I don't necessarily think we're going to make anything more than that. 514 00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:55,540 There's some development going on right now for a game that you can play on the 404 page 515 00:41:55,540 --> 00:41:59,940 on LTT Store. It might be little fun things like that, but nothing major, I suspect. 516 00:41:59,940 --> 00:42:05,020 Okay, so let's assume you were going to build a game, okay? 517 00:42:05,020 --> 00:42:08,500 Your team was going to go full in on building a game. 518 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:15,260 If you had to pick three key features that you love from other games, what would they 519 00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:18,500 be and why would you include? 520 00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:26,900 Okay, okay. One of them would be full loot and what I mean by that is if you defeat something, because 521 00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:31,180 my game is definitely going to include to the death combat, just saying, but if you defeat 522 00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:34,780 something and there is something on them, you should be able to get it. 523 00:42:34,780 --> 00:42:41,620 So it's always frustrating to me when you like beat an enemy in a game and they have a chess plate and you go to loot it and it's like metal scraps. 524 00:42:41,620 --> 00:42:45,100 It's like, what? No, it's right there. He has a sword. 525 00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:49,380 Let me take the sword. Like, I like that type of stuff. I know some people say it makes the economy hard. 526 00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:52,380 Just figure it out. Other people have figured it out. You can do it. 527 00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:56,900 The other one would be non-linear gameplay with a main quest, but one that is technically 528 00:42:56,900 --> 00:43:02,460 unimportant and that it doesn't drag you back towards in a Bethesda style way. 529 00:43:02,460 --> 00:43:07,260 So that you really, it's more about immersing yourself in the world. 530 00:43:07,260 --> 00:43:12,060 It's carving your character out the way that you want entirely, not game-driven, but if 531 00:43:12,060 --> 00:43:15,780 you want to dive into game-driven things, they are there. 532 00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:22,940 The last one, something that I really like, I don't know if this can be counted as a feature, 533 00:43:22,940 --> 00:43:30,700 but I'll go for it anyways. In God of War, the original God of War remake, not Ragnarok, but the one right before that, 534 00:43:30,820 --> 00:43:34,540 because I haven't played Ragnarok, I'm sure it's good there too, but the thok is what I'm 535 00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:40,420 going to call it, the thok of the axe. So like when it hits something, the impact, the sound of it, the haptic feedback in the 536 00:43:40,420 --> 00:43:43,780 controller, all that kind of stuff was just amazing. It felt really good. 537 00:43:43,780 --> 00:43:50,340 So any form of combat, I would want it to be like sensory level satisfying as well. 538 00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:54,900 So like a shield bash should feel like heavy and meaty and like daggers should feel light 539 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:58,820 and it should actually feel that way through the controls, through the animations, through 540 00:43:58,860 --> 00:44:02,180 the haptic feedback, through the audio, everything. Yeah. 541 00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:05,180 Awesome. Cool. Thank you so much, Luke. 542 00:44:05,180 --> 00:44:08,180 Yeah. Bye. Okay. 543 00:44:08,180 --> 00:44:11,180 Hi. How's it going? Hi, Brandon. 544 00:44:11,180 --> 00:44:14,180 How are you doing? Good. How are you? 545 00:44:14,180 --> 00:44:17,180 I'm good. Thanks. So Floatplane has some questions for you. 546 00:44:17,180 --> 00:44:20,180 Okay. What was the deciding factor for you leaving LMG? My son. 547 00:44:20,180 --> 00:44:25,020 I feel like I wanted as much time daily to like watch him grow up, and so like he made 548 00:44:25,020 --> 00:44:30,740 it pretty easy. It's a year and a half now. It's been a crazy, crazy year and a half. 549 00:44:30,740 --> 00:44:33,740 I'm very tired. That's part of it. 550 00:44:33,740 --> 00:44:38,020 Awesome. I know you've been making videos on your own channel now, right? 551 00:44:38,020 --> 00:44:43,540 Yes. How's that going? And how's, I guess, the day-to-day being very different for you compared to LMG? 552 00:44:43,540 --> 00:44:48,940 It definitely makes me miss those parts of LMG because I only ever did the shooting side. 553 00:44:48,940 --> 00:44:54,540 I mean, I used to edit at the beginning in early days, but yeah, doing everything, everything 554 00:44:54,540 --> 00:45:04,300 yourself from like writing, shooting, editing, thumbnail, business, accounting, being a YouTuber 555 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:07,300 is no joke. It's hard. It's hard. 556 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:10,300 It's hard. But you're doing a great job. Thank you. 557 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:13,620 What are you looking forward to the most today? I just want to see you guys. 558 00:45:13,620 --> 00:45:17,620 I'm here for you guys. I want to say hi. Oliver's behind the camera. 559 00:45:17,620 --> 00:45:21,020 Hi, Floatplane. I miss you. I don't actually get to go on Floatplane anymore. 560 00:45:21,020 --> 00:45:24,020 I don't have an account. Wow. 561 00:45:24,020 --> 00:45:27,020 I don't have an account. What the hell? Cool, cool, cool. 562 00:45:27,020 --> 00:45:30,020 Awesome. Thanks so much. No worries. 563 00:45:30,020 --> 00:45:37,020 Okay, Adam and Shay, we have a question from Floatplane for you guys. Do you think you would ever be in another LTT video because they really enjoyed the banter 564 00:45:37,020 --> 00:45:41,540 between you guys? That is an excellent question. 565 00:45:41,540 --> 00:45:44,540 Adam, would you? I've been trying. I've been trying. 566 00:45:44,540 --> 00:45:47,780 If you complain louder if you want more, Shay. 567 00:45:47,780 --> 00:45:51,780 I don't know much tech stuff, but I do think it'd be entertaining for me to see what my 568 00:45:51,780 --> 00:45:54,780 take is on tech things. I don't know. If that's a perspective. 569 00:45:54,780 --> 00:45:58,060 I have a fun time though. Yeah. 570 00:45:58,060 --> 00:46:01,060 I can't promise it, but she'll be back. I can't promise it, but she'll be back. 571 00:46:01,060 --> 00:46:04,620 I don't know what kind of video I'd be in even. Secret Chopper maybe? 572 00:46:04,620 --> 00:46:07,620 That'd be a fun one. I'll do you for Secret Chopper. What's it? 573 00:46:07,620 --> 00:46:13,020 Basically, we would get you to try and buy a computer from a company and it has to be 574 00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:16,020 someone that can't be us. Yeah. I'll also be like, oh yeah, we'll send you something. 575 00:46:16,020 --> 00:46:21,340 We'll treat you nicely. Whereas if you're just like a normie, just kidding, she's not a normie. 576 00:46:21,380 --> 00:46:26,660 She's everything. She's exceptional. I am a fake fan though who didn't know what Secret Chopper is. 577 00:46:26,660 --> 00:46:29,660 I'm learning. I'm catching up. It's good. 578 00:46:29,660 --> 00:46:32,660 How's your LTX been so far? It's been a lot of fun. 579 00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:37,620 It's crazy busy out here. There's so many people down there, but it's a blast. 580 00:46:37,620 --> 00:46:41,420 It really great vibes, really great community. Really happy to be here. 581 00:46:41,420 --> 00:46:47,700 How about you, Shay? It's been really cool to see real people instead of just the numbers and comments. 582 00:46:47,700 --> 00:46:51,740 And I'm like, oh, these are like real cool, interesting people and it's crazy to have 583 00:46:51,740 --> 00:46:55,620 everyone in one room. It's awesome. I'm having a great time. 584 00:46:55,620 --> 00:46:58,620 LTX? And it doesn't even smell bad yet. Not yet. 585 00:46:58,620 --> 00:47:01,780 It smells great here so far. Wait until day two of the Whale Land. 586 00:47:01,780 --> 00:47:06,820 Yeah, I am a little bit stuffed up. So yeah, tomorrow this area might be stinky, but. 587 00:47:06,820 --> 00:47:10,940 All right. Well, thank you guys. Hopefully, you enjoy the rest of the event. 588 00:47:10,940 --> 00:47:13,940 Yeah. See you around, Artie. Thank you. 589 00:47:13,940 --> 00:47:19,220 Thank you. All right. What's your LTX experience been so far? 590 00:47:19,220 --> 00:47:24,780 Everybody's been super nice. This is so awesome to see that it's such a tight community event. 591 00:47:24,780 --> 00:47:31,340 Everybody seems to know everybody here to some extent. And it's much more personal compared to have hacks, which was other trade shows I've been 592 00:47:31,340 --> 00:47:35,020 to several times in the past. So, no, this is super awesome. 593 00:47:35,020 --> 00:47:40,060 The team did a great job. I can't believe you guys pulled this off. I wasn't sure what to expect to be honest. 594 00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:43,340 And this has been, you know, amazing achievement. 595 00:47:43,340 --> 00:47:50,420 You see LTX expanding in the future? Yes, we'll make Colton do it. 596 00:47:50,420 --> 00:47:53,420 Jake Tyvey. Yeah, okay. It's fine. 597 00:47:53,420 --> 00:47:56,420 Busiest man at LTX. How's it going? How's it going? 598 00:47:56,420 --> 00:48:04,220 Have you seen Colton? He works here? Well, I mean, like, you know, we bring him back sometimes, contract. 599 00:48:04,220 --> 00:48:09,500 Just got him to do some hard labor. That's all it is. Anyways, how's your LTX been? 600 00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:12,780 Well, it's been great. It's been so awesome. 601 00:48:12,780 --> 00:48:21,260 I have, I left here at 2am last night and I got here at 7, or I left maybe at 1.30. 602 00:48:21,260 --> 00:48:25,780 I think I slept from 2 to 7. That's not so bad, right? 603 00:48:25,780 --> 00:48:29,660 And then when we got here, we're setting everything up and then I walked outside of 604 00:48:29,660 --> 00:48:33,480 the LAN area to like, oh, there's somebody there, can I get a picture sign thing? 605 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:37,420 So I stood there for three and a half hours signing and taking pictures. 606 00:48:37,420 --> 00:48:43,740 And then I actually had a meet and greet that I forgot about. So I did like a little five minute live stream thing with Jeff Kearling for charity. 607 00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:48,660 And then I went to meet and greet and signed things for another hour. 608 00:48:48,660 --> 00:48:52,020 And then I hid for the rest of the day in Whaleland. 609 00:48:52,020 --> 00:48:55,540 How's the Whaleland been going? It's been great. Nothing has broken. 610 00:48:55,540 --> 00:48:58,540 Astonishingly, nothing has broken. It has been actually flawless. 611 00:48:58,540 --> 00:49:02,100 I mean, there was a couple like little like game server things, but I mean like networking 612 00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:05,380 wise, mint. Wait, so you're being legitimate? 613 00:49:05,380 --> 00:49:08,660 I mean, yeah, like seriously, nothing has broken, aside from some game server things 614 00:49:08,660 --> 00:49:12,220 like I said. That was a game server thing. 615 00:49:12,220 --> 00:49:16,860 Not my department. Interesting. Get ready for day two. 616 00:49:16,860 --> 00:49:20,820 Oh, God, this is not the end of it. Right. Yes. 617 00:49:20,820 --> 00:49:23,820 I'm stoked. I'm just very tired. All right, guys. 618 00:49:23,820 --> 00:49:26,820 So I'm here with Lewis Rusman. How are you doing? Pleasure to meet you. 619 00:49:26,820 --> 00:49:29,820 Nice to meet you. Have you been enjoying RTX Xperia? Yeah, it's been fun. 620 00:49:29,820 --> 00:49:40,060 So we have some questions for you from Floatplane. So EOS trying to force the idea of like replaceable batteries and that for mobile phones. 621 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:45,380 How do you think this will impact, I guess, mobile phone design, such as, you know, water 622 00:49:45,380 --> 00:49:50,500 resistance and all that? And where do you see the future of phones like going towards? 623 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:53,980 I mean, you have phones that were liquid resistant for a really long time, even when they did 624 00:49:53,980 --> 00:49:57,860 have user removal batteries. And there are some companies nowadays that still even do create phones that are liquid 625 00:49:57,860 --> 00:50:02,460 resistant with user removal batteries. They're just not popular because they're not primarily smartphone companies. 626 00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:06,180 So they make they're making devices that are rugged for construction, for sewage workers 627 00:50:06,180 --> 00:50:12,700 and so on and so forth. So they're running the last generation of Android. But the most part is they are able to make something that is liquid resistant with the 628 00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:15,700 user removal battery. And people did this for a very, very long period of time. 629 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:19,140 You can use gaskets. You can use like screws that have those. 630 00:50:19,140 --> 00:50:23,020 The word is escaping me because I skipped lunch today, but the little rubber, the grommets around the screws. 631 00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:29,740 There's a lot of ways to do that. I think it will result in phones being 0.00000001 microns thicker. 632 00:50:29,740 --> 00:50:34,180 And if that happens, the world is going to end and every single tech influencer is going 633 00:50:34,180 --> 00:50:38,700 to spend all their effing time focusing on the fact that this phone was this thick and 634 00:50:38,700 --> 00:50:41,820 next generations was this thick, so you shouldn't buy it. 635 00:50:41,820 --> 00:50:46,260 I think that this entire concept of like the phone has to be super hyper thin so that it 636 00:50:46,260 --> 00:50:50,060 breaks easy so that it's difficult to repair and it's so miserable to use in general that 637 00:50:50,060 --> 00:50:56,260 you wind up putting in a thick case anyway is ridiculous. And I think a lot of that's been driven by fashion conscious influencers, not even the 638 00:50:56,260 --> 00:50:59,500 actual general main public. Like nobody, I don't think people care about that. 639 00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:04,620 Your phone already fits in your pocket. It's fine. And most of the reason that a phone doesn't fit in your pocket is not because it's thick, 640 00:51:04,620 --> 00:51:08,860 because they tried to make it liquid resistant. It's because they tried to make a phone eight or nine inches large to the point where you 641 00:51:08,860 --> 00:51:13,900 need to have Shaquille on his hands to be able to use with one hand anyway. So I personally don't care about the push to removal batteries. 642 00:51:13,900 --> 00:51:17,700 I think it's a great thing and I want to see more of it. Awesome. 643 00:51:18,340 --> 00:51:24,340 On that note, I guess what are your thoughts about use push towards every mobile device 644 00:51:24,340 --> 00:51:30,620 or every device having USB-C ports as opposed to any other proprietary plug? 645 00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:35,620 That kind of scares me. I like the idea. I like when they try to legislate an idea, make things more repairable. 646 00:51:35,620 --> 00:51:40,260 You figure out how. I don't like as much when they say you need to use this port because at the end of the 647 00:51:40,260 --> 00:51:44,980 day if you look at at least American politicians like my nightmare scenario is Mitch McConnell, 648 00:51:44,980 --> 00:51:49,260 AOC, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and Trump arguing over what port you should use in a 649 00:51:49,260 --> 00:51:52,700 device. And I'm not looking at the current situation where they made a good choice, you know, use 650 00:51:52,700 --> 00:51:56,580 USB-C. I'm thinking down the road for like five, 10, 15, 30 years. 651 00:51:56,580 --> 00:52:00,060 For now, I think it's a good thing because like enlightening, it had its place, you 652 00:52:00,060 --> 00:52:03,980 know, the idea that you could plug it in either way, unlike micro USB. 653 00:52:03,980 --> 00:52:10,540 Whoever designed micro USB is an absolute sadist. I mean, the idea that you have a plug that has teeth in it that will rip out the port 654 00:52:10,540 --> 00:52:14,900 if you plug it in the wrong way. I mean, talking about as a repair person, there's a lot of money to be made off the 655 00:52:14,900 --> 00:52:19,540 fact that somebody came up with micro USB. That sadist made repair shops around the country a lot of money. 656 00:52:19,540 --> 00:52:22,940 You know, lightning had its point at the time. Let's make something you could plug in either way. 657 00:52:22,940 --> 00:52:28,380 That's easy. That's small. But like that day is done at least five years ago, at least. 658 00:52:28,380 --> 00:52:34,220 Yeah, absolutely. I guess to wrap things up, what are you most excited about in the I guess the next five 659 00:52:34,220 --> 00:52:40,980 years in terms of technology? What I'm excited about in the next five years is I'm honestly not as excited about technological 660 00:52:40,980 --> 00:52:45,300 advancement. I think for the most part, like I have phones stop being exciting to me maybe six or seven 661 00:52:45,300 --> 00:52:49,820 years ago. Most new computers, honestly, stop being exciting to me six or eight years ago. 662 00:52:49,820 --> 00:52:55,900 The tech just kind of seems to have plateaued. What I'm excited about is companies like Framework coming out and then coming up with ways to 663 00:52:55,900 --> 00:53:00,500 take this tech. And they're not innovating by trying to make it faster, slim or any of that, but by making 664 00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:05,180 it respect your freedom more. So more companies coming out that actually respect your freedom as the companies that 665 00:53:05,180 --> 00:53:11,900 don't respect your freedom kind of stop innovating is what I find cool. The next innovation, I hope, is going to be more freedom-loving technology. 666 00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:18,380 I think that's what we all want, right? Having something repairable means we get to have devices for much longer than we currently 667 00:53:18,380 --> 00:53:23,180 do. These days, if our battery dies, we go and get a new phone, but that never used to be 668 00:53:23,180 --> 00:53:27,620 the case back in the day, right? Yeah, a lot of things that are normal today were not normal five years ago. 669 00:53:27,620 --> 00:53:32,220 A lot of what was normal five years ago was considered insane 15 or 30 years ago. 670 00:53:32,220 --> 00:53:35,580 I don't like the slow creep towards it being completely normal. 671 00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:39,660 Even on a MacBook nowadays, they don't have a sleep sensor anymore for when it closes. 672 00:53:39,660 --> 00:53:43,140 They have something called an angle sensor, and it's done for security. 673 00:53:43,140 --> 00:53:46,740 So what security, what is your threat vector? 674 00:53:46,740 --> 00:53:50,140 By making it more difficult for an average person to fix their sleep sensor when they 675 00:53:50,140 --> 00:53:57,780 get liquid on it, what are you protecting against? Why do I need a special calibration tool is that the computer goes to sleep. 676 00:53:57,780 --> 00:54:01,500 It doesn't make sense, especially because the way that it defaults, it doesn't default. 677 00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:06,700 It's always asleep if it does the wrong sensor. The defaults too, it's always on, which is technically the insecure way to default it 678 00:54:06,700 --> 00:54:09,700 to. Okay, thank you so much, Louis. It's a pleasure meeting you. 679 00:54:09,700 --> 00:54:11,060 Thank you for having me at this place. Very nice.