No, have you Look at relatively speaking the difference in
Circumference between my wrist and my forearm I could see it stretching it out a little
It's just less of an issue All right, this guy's like yeah
You ever find that like when you have a long sleeve shirt you roll it up one time it never fits good again
Your forearms a lot bigger than your wrist. Yeah, but you're looking at my right ARM. Okay?
Yeah, but you would if you did it with both arms you'd experience it on both arms
Yeah, have you have I showed you this lately? It's kind of nuts
It's interesting how like actually unbalanced a lot of
Like sport focused athletes get
Cuz like you know If you play on one side that side's gonna get stronger just as what it is
Yeah, and you can like work out. Yeah, try to compensate or whatever, but like never gonna happen. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
Kind of funny Are we pre-streaming already? Oh cool. Good stuff
Okay, where's my thing here we go pop out chat
It's up chat
Wait, I don't even see us are we oh
Yeah, there we go Are we ready for this week's crisis? What was it last week power outage?
We got this right car drives through a wall this time
Could happen mighty car mods is here this week. So yeah, yeah
Do they do anything else with us or just that just that that's not enough for you. It's a lot of work. So yeah
What do you want what do you want from them or?
I want them to I swap your car
I
Know I Wonder what the teacher in this video would think about that
Wonder what all the children I killed in the Congo would think of that
Okay
What do you mean Luke's wearing it better I haven't even got my accessories on yet. There we go
Yeah
Okay, we're ready
With that fast Luke turns into Duke, I don't think so I almost wore my Duke nuke our Luke nuke from shirt today
Can't I can't wear any shirts other than just plain black shirts from now on
Because I only have two and they're the only shirts I can wear all the other shirts are sold out so I can't get more
Got to just gotta do laundry every two days Man wearing prescription lenses when you don't have a prescription is oh wait there. I thought you said they weren't prescription
I said their prescription. Oh Yeah, that sucks. You have to wear those the whole show. No, okay?
I'm just gonna wear it for the intro. They just they just wanted me to have like this look. Yeah
Yeah, I don't know what the hair really like works for it, but I don't know. Well, we'll make it work
You're a little too cool. The hair's a little too cool
No, I have water. I could flat really nicely died. I could flatten it though. Who did that for you? Yeah, some guy. I
Would never send any businesses with us. I'm not gonna
It's hard out there, man, I
Just nice one business
Um
Okay, we ready can be
Yeah, there's not a lot I was really hoping to be able to talk about
That thing that we can't talk about. Yeah, I have so much to say. Yeah, I know me too
That does that it does help we have like no time today. Yeah
Okay Pre-show meditation
All right, let's do it Oh, I guess I do it, right? Oh, I will do it now. Wait. Oh, yeah. No, that was from last week
I always leak to float playing the thing you can't talk about. Oh, we actually can't though. Oh, yeah, no, that would be super bad
Super disrespectful if you know what I mean
I'm just I'm throwing them what's it called red herring. Yeah. Yeah
You guys actually have no idea and the thing that I just said will make you know less than it will not help. Yeah
It will crater your chances of guessing
Another red herring I am intentionally making it impossible for you to have any idea what I'm talking about
Okay, I'm going to resume the select to be ready
You
What is up everyone welcome to the WAN Show where I have blood on my hands
What a criminal according to someone's I think high school teacher. I have the blood of people on my hands
And I am personally what is this?
Well, well, we'll talk about it. We'll get into it. Apparently I am like really really really bad though
And it's got a lot up votes on reddit with people kind of weighing in on on this teacher's take on
My peddling of tech tips on the internet and other news much actually more on topic news
Telecoms hate her. We're talking of course about Lena Khan
Dude click to cancel. Okay, so making it easier for people to cancel subscriptions
Trade groups representing the telecom industry not happy about it. We're gonna be talking about that
What else we got this week airlines embrace Starlink and it sounds like it's a lot better than what we've had in the past
But you know, we'll talk about that later. Also, Squarespace goes private
This might not make a lot of sense to be all that interesting, but remember they just bought Google domains. Oh
No
You
The show today is brought to you by jump cloud fallout 76 and
Flexi spot with our chair partner secret lab our laptop partner LG and our rap partner
D-brand why don't we jump right into our title topic today, which is of course that?
Linus is personally Hurting children in the Congo
Linus has blood on his hands Children in actually Democratic Republic of the Congo. I think is the proper term, but sure whatever
Work for less than two dollars a day so he can sell you tech tips
It is a requirement if they don't work for two dollars a day or less
You're actually legally not allowed to give anyone tech tips
Don't let tech influencers sway you into gross consumerism
buy less tech and end the suffering in
Congo so according to the poster on reddit
Let's see if I can actually find anything from the OP here
Yeah, no, well anyway, there's there's a lot to kind of unpack here
You
Guys can probably hear that Short aside
Marty from mighty car mods and a bunch of
His friends are here this week working on a collab. We took ploof's car to a completely new level
So look forward to that video soon. That was probably the car like going somewhere and it's not close to us right now
It's got a cosmetic muffler is I believe the the the term for it cosmetic muffler anyway
the point is there's a lot to unpack here and
I'm gonna stun everyone including probably my co-host my producer and all of you watching by saying I don't fundamentally disagree
Okay, but hold on okay hold on so I've actually had this conversation
Internally before well, not this specific one, but in this case it was it was more along the lines of
Sort of discussing the impact of our business
Environmentally more more broadly, you know, we we create that that's not our product again. We create
Merch items, you know, we have things manufactured we sell them
We burn jet fuel shipping them around the world
We obviously as we burn jet fuel shipping ourselves across the world. Yeah. Yeah, we do and in cases where
Realistically we could have found out just as much about the product on a zoom call
Instead, you know, we we fly somewhere we eat food up in a mile in the air because you know that
Where you should eat food instead of eating it in your home and harvested sitting on your webcam
Somewhere else moved to an airport put in a plane and shipped somewhere else with you to eat
And so running running the business that we do
We oh man, we we build sets, right? These are these are structures that do not house anybody
Yeah, right we we buy technology and I think this is part of the point that's being made with this slide
We buy technology products that contain precious materials like cobalt and lithium
in some cases, you know very
Controversially obtained materials, right and don't even use them sometimes
We have a warehouse of devices that are sitting not being used
You know, you could easily look at our business and go, okay. Well, you guys have an enormous
Carbon footprint you guys have an enormous environmental impact
So I understand
Boy, I think that was across the front of the building. I think so. I think that was fairly close. I
Understand where this point is coming from and I actually think it comes from a pretty good place
We are a marketing company, right? We are a production company
And part of our job is to sell things, right?
Fundamentally, right? I mean, we're gonna we're gonna give you guys a pitch for our new tech bro vest
Later on in this very podcast
However, I do think that there are degrees to which you can mitigate some of the damage
And I do think that singling out me as you know, the tech influencer who has blood on his hands
Seems a little misguided given my history of promoting the three Rs of promoting right to repair of
of Principally standing behind
Those things that I promote when it comes to things like investments in framework who is
Legitimately doing real work Was not done on a framework laptop. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. It was done on a Chromebook
Yeah, probably just about the most disposable kind of laptop computer that you can purchase
Yeah, and so I think that's something that is maybe some nuance that is missing in this take is that
Realistically you are going to need clothes You are going to need a computer
If you want to, you know, not get arrested for being naked everywhere
And if you want to have a job, you know in the year 2024
Yeah a lot of modern life is done through computing and a big part of our job is to make sure that when you buy those clothes
They last for a really long time and when you buy that computer
It's one that actually suits your needs properly instead of being manufactured e-waste
There is so much more waste involved in buying something and then
It just being a piece of junk that should have never been manufactured in the first place supporting that industry instead of just
Supporting companies that build a high quality product that's made to last in the first place
Which is what we obviously strive to help people find
We don't nail everything. We are not perfect. We are in fact human it turns out
But what I would ask then to this teacher whatever grade whatever class this is on something English
Yeah, okay, this is an English class. I don't see how this is particularly on topic
But anyway, I think I know what's going on. It doesn't matter. The point is here's what I would ask
How would you do it?
What would your media company do then?
Right like in order for you to provide people advice or should they just should they not have a phone?
And if they do Have a phone which do you have a phone? How do you decide which one to buy?
So I think there's particular bits of uh, people say the website links to your store. I've I've typed in a bunch of times
I've never had to go to this store, but um, I think it's a
Someone saying is it a media literacy thing? I think it might be that I think it might be a
display of like a potential form of like propaganda or something. I don't think it's necessarily actually legit
But uh, so something I've been thinking about though is like I immediately pointed out when this was first linked to me
And I thought it might have been real. Um, I immediately pointed out scraphead wars
Because like we started that super early on in the history of the company realistically in in regards to like series that we have
um and
Let's see That does work
Um We started it super super early on in the in the history of our company
um And its whole idea was showing that you don't have to buy new computer components
You can reuse someone else's that they're trying to get rid of right that was like not gonna lie
I may have just been post bamboozled. Oh, yeah
You guys were not gonna tell me
May have misspelled it and somebody else bought the domain and made it link there
That makes way more sense because I I saw this on reddit before it was in the topics. No, okay
Let's get you guys up to date. So the uh, the url in the slide redirects to lttstore.com
Which would seem to suggest that it's a shit post But I saw this when it first showed up on reddit and the op was replying to people know this guy's actually for real
Oh, okay, and yeah, it's a typo. It's it's a completely different site. It's supposed to be like friends of the congo.org
Yeah, yeah, so no no no no. This is real. It's really okay
Yeah, I thought it was just supposed to because like no there was it seems like it should be
Just like a because teachers did stuff like that when I was in school
They would try to like rattle you up on something and then get you make an argument about it or whatever else
Yeah, no, it actually does not seem to it does not actually seem to be wow. That's fantastic. Yeah
So we we have specific series scrapyard wars where we show that you know, you don't have to buy new tech to get
Your foot in the door and we're going to attack you can even get really high-performance good stuff by buying used things
We have compensator which shows not only do you you know not have to buy new tech
But also just buying the most expensive stuff is pretty stupid kind of actually just stupid doesn't have a benefit
Yeah, we call it a compensator, right? We're we're we're making fun of it
Spending that kind of money just for just for show just to have the most expensive thing
The values on our channel have always been
About finding bang for the buck finding a good value recently you you started just repairing broken things
Yeah, that's showing showing how like effective and valuable that is however
I'm going to again play devil's advocate is counters against my own channel. Yeah, why did we make a video on the
115 inch tv that again I invested heavily in in fuel to be transported all the way from china
So that I could you know install in my house creating a you know shrine to
media Consumption like it's a whatever right my point is just that
People can be influenced in a lot of different ways and even if I say at the end of the video
Yeah, this isn't a great value and it's not something that I would recommend for most people
um, it Aspirationally people might watch that and go like oh, but I'd like to I'd like to have something like that
Right, so so I think you could make an argument that that I do
participate in sort of Maybe not glorifying but but certainly making consumption seem you know attractive or attainable or desirable
Hmm I
Don't know I think being interested in technology is not inherently like a sin
And I think seeing the bounds of it Is is entertaining and interesting and you could you could see this massive tv like I see that tv and I don't want it
Like you're not telling people you should want this you should go buy this you're actually showing
How complicated and annoying it was to get And things like that. I think sometimes it comes down to the messaging
Um, you're not actively recommending that people buy it. No, I'm not but like
I don't know it's I definitely see how if you're a fitness influencer sure
You are automatically going to
Be you know communicating the positives of buying stuff
Are you though? Yeah, what if what if you're a fitness influencer who focuses entirely on calisthenics?
Darn it. I thought of what that as you were going into it. Fucking god
Destroyed yeah, people like stay flexi are pretty good for that kind of stuff. Yeah, you could if you're if you're a
I don't know. Okay. Jim. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on because work out equipment is expensive
It's really heavy. No, you're gonna have to give me something other than fitness You gotta find a different vertical turn find a different vertical automotive. I mean we can hear it outside
I think automotive is actually an even easier argue to make for just the
Unnecessariness of of that entire of that entire space personal transportation
But what if you talk about done a lot of damage to the world if you talk about things like repairing
What if you talk about things like don't have a car and take a bike or the bus?
Then then I think you could I think you could make a pretty easy argument there that you should be doing your part to
Improve the viability of that rather than just accepting things the way that they are
What about the people that are in situations where they they cannot do anything other than have a vehicle realistically there is no
Safe alternative find me a channel that has only ever done that then
I don't think that's out there. Yeah the the ethical the ethical personal transportation ownership channel
There is no ethical consumption under in my opinion effectively any
human system so just is what it is
People are to make up for their own make up for themselves. What is okay and what isn't okay?
So basically the person who made this slide did it on a laptop that has a
Fat battery in it that probably has a bunch of cobalt in it
Yeah, could have done it on something that didn't involve batteries. They could have done it on an overhead projector
But they didn't do that So I think in short they almost certainly have a phone. I understand where the teacher is coming from. I understand the argument
um, I understand that
You're almost making the so you hate society. Why do you participate in it?
Why do you participate in an argument? Which is no, no, no, no
I'm saying that this type of argument doesn't really hold a lot of water for me when that's the case if there are you know
There are channels out there. There are influencers out there that are very much pushy for consumerism. That is a thing
I don't think we necessarily are I think we have certain content that
Can maybe push the line a little bit. Sure. I think stuff spend five grand on your room
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that can maybe push the line a little bit. I don't think it always does though
Yeah in fairness to us. I mean that's more driven by that individual. Yeah, because they pick
Exactly what they want other than making sure there's one product from the the series sponsor, which is AMD right now
Yeah, so like But I think we also
Balance it out quite well by like, you know when a phone comes out
We're not like, oh my god by the new phone. It's amazing We're like, you know, if you have last generation's phone
This is probably not worthy of an upgrade because phones aren't moving that fast right now and you're probably fine
And we we you know, I mean look at look at the most two recent CPU reviews
No, you're probably fine
You a gamer? All right, put your wallet away. You can sit this one out. Yeah
Uh, yeah, I don't know like I don't I don't think that we just push
consume consume consume I yeah, okay. So tell me this one of the things that this made me think of was um
Taylor Swift
Yeah, so Taylor Taylor gets a lot of s***
For her private jet use jet travel. Okay. Yeah. Yeah
and I think that there is I personally I I
I don't fly private. Um, I don't even fly first class. I mean really come on look at the size of my legs
Do I need more leg room? Not really. Um, so you know, I I kind of look at private air travel and I'm like, um
Yeah, it doesn't seem great. You know the the the sheer amount of fuel consumption
Also, like in in in Taylor's defense. Can you imagine?
Taylor sitting on a normal plane the
Attacks genuine attacks that she would probably be subject to
Insane, she would probably have to buy like the 10 seat radius around her for her security guard
So hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. She's just gonna get chirped at the whole time
What do you mean? We're not on a first name basis Gallifrey and she just only has a first name. This is swift share
Okay, Madonna Taylor. She's earned it. Okay. The point is that so so so
One of the arguments that I see often so so I have my own thoughts on private travel
I don't feel it's necessary for me in any kind of security way and and I'm not I'm not super
keen on it. I don't think it's great for the world. Um
However, one of the arguments that I see made very often about her is oh my god
Look at all the private jet travel she's doing and the many tons of co2
That she creates compared to the average person
So we're recruiting the swifties to help us against this teacher. No, no, no, that's not that's not my point
my point is That's always something that has bothered me because I have an alternate perspective on that
If you think about what someone like Taylor Swift is doing in her private jet, what is she doing? Where is she going?
Usually Concert like yeah on tour places to have concerts you can actually there's like a tracker that shows like, you know
Everywhere she flew and and there's obviously some stuff that's a little unnecessary
Like did she have to go from overseas to every one of travis kelsie's, you know games last playoffs or whatever
I don't know. Maybe not, you know, maybe maybe she could have watched it on tv. I don't know
I bet you would have if you could maybe that was an option I
Yeah, and that's that's the thing to think about for yourself But that's a separate conversation the point is in general where she going
She's probably going on tour and there's a lot of kind of if you look at the the travel patterns
There's a lot of kind of like going back and forth to places
Probably for you know rehearsal this and transport the bandmates and equipment, you know, whatever else it is
it does a lot of like ferrying things around And it's wild to me that you can just drag private planes, but anyways
And so all of that co2 kind of gets attributed to taylor swift and it's like look at this number
Look at the average person, but here's an argument
What about the people who attended the concert?
Do they own a share of those emissions?
They're paying for her to go there. They're they're financially asking her to do that. Why the f*** is she there?
She wouldn't be there If nobody asked her to be there and paid good money for her to be there. Yeah normies. It's your fault. No, I'm just
Yeah, you're the reason seen that says wanting things. So is taylor responsible for all the people who travel to see her in concert?
Exactly. Yes. Am I responsible for all the people who buy some phone or some laptop?
Of course not. What?
What do you mean? So let's go me and taylor, you know, we're
We're we're of a kind, you know You guys are close. We're not actually responsible for the bullshit that people do because they I don't know
think we're cool A lot more of them think she's cool, but I I was I was just trying to find a link
I was just trying to find a link. I have one thing in common with taylor swift now your last name starts with s
That's two Dang
We're getting there Now you just need to release a country album. Uh, yeah, maybe not
You don't you don't want to listen to that
She thinks my processor's sexy What what are you even reading my tractor sexy my tractor the song. I don't know. I don't know the song. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Maybe a christmas album. Good. You have released an album. That's true. You're both singer songwriters
Twinsies Oh, man. Yeah, next time you see her you're just gonna be like what up twin
Man, I think we talked about this on land show before but do you remember when the news broke that she was a billionaire?
And everyone was like, oh my god, taylor's a billionaire and I was like surprised and I was sitting here going like
Has been for a while like
Based on what I know about my own situation and based on the fact that I I am this
And Taylor Swift is this
Yeah, we're both blonde
We're getting there. Oh man, this is turning into a whole topic. What do I have in common with taylor's
How many degrees of separation as long as in taylor? Yeah, probably like one or two. We both got kind of big thighs
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying we both got him. I don't even know that
Have you seen the bodysuit she wears in the aris tour? No
You can tell how big her thighs are. I have not seen the aris tour. Yeah, like what?
Caught him, dude
Linus is my ring, dude, okay, so what?
What I'm supposed I'm supposed to not notice it looks pretty normal
Yeah, she's got thighs
She's tall though, uh, yeah
Okay, let's move on topic number two. What do you want to talk about next?
You got nothing I have to log back in so I got nothing
Lena con Sure, let's talk about someone who is sexy on the inside here because dude Lena con
Absolutely based Lena con is based. I do I do agree. Lena con is based. Just just don't talk about her thighs
That's probably not appropriate I think we're killing dad
Anyways, Lena con is based trade groups representing the telecom industry are suing to stop the fdc's recently announced click to cancel rule
Which we all want, uh, which would require all subscription services to provide a means of cancelling that is at least as easy as sign up
The complaint argues that the decision is a form of regulatory
regulatory overreach that is arbitrary
Capricious and an abuse of discretion in other american regulatory news
AT&T and t-mobile have come out against a proposed FCC rule that would
That would require carriers to unlock phones 60 days after activation. That sounds amazing
So they can be switched to another carrier. That's this is see we're promoting that because it's good for reuse
According to t-mobile which locks prepaid phone phones for a year customers would be harmed
By no longer having access to
Free or heavily subsidized handsets
Okay, uh, AT&T which locks phones for six months says that the move would create upward pressure on handset prices. So here
Mr. High School teacher Let me explain to you our position on this matter and how it's actually
Good for consumption We support this because heavily subsidized technology products encourage
gratuitous consumption Your old phone probably works and if the new phone cost more and by more I don't mean more
I mean if it cost the amount it actually cost if you were actually
Not being expected to do the complex admittedly complicated math of how much is my monthly payment
Versus how much is my down payment on the device in the first place? How much am I paying for it overall, right?
If you actually saw the sticker price of that phone
You would be more likely to keep your old one for longer and run on a longer upgrade cycle. Okay
We are supportive of this
Because it would expose the true cost of a new handset to the consumer
And probably reduce the overall sales of new mobile devices
That is a good Thing and yeah, if you rely on heavily subsidized phones then
That's a that's a downer, but you can get used ones But here's the thing if you rely on heavily subsidized phones
You're still paying for them in the monthly you're paying for them in the monthly
So what this will force is it will force the carriers to give you the real cost of the device
And then it will force them to compete on the cost of the monthly service
Which will ultimately drive your total cost of ownership
Down this is a good good good good good thing. Yeah, and because I don't actually give two shits if you buy more phones
I really don't I will of course support this
Let's go back to that first point though Trade groups representing the telecom industry are suing to stop the recently announced click to cancel. So guys
This is something that if I know there's kind of a big election going on in our with our southern neighbors
What what is that in like good lord like 16 days or something like that?
If you if you guys have any way maybe once the dust settles a little bit of making your voice heard to your local representative
um Click to cancel is outstanding and should be supported at every level of government by every citizen
There is literally No one who should be who should be supportive of dark patterns and and complicated
Like like going in person to cancel gym memberships and stuff like that like dude
So and basically what click to cancel means is whatever method you use to sign up
You can use the same method to cancel it But there's there's like gyms for example that are known for allowing you to sign up online
Give all your payment details and then if you want to cancel you have to like go in person and do it
So they intentionally put these obstacles in the way to make it more difficult for you to cancel
The gyms specifically want that because a lot of people feel shame about canceling a gym membership in person
um and a lot of especially like corporate
Large multi-location franchise gyms have gyms all over the place
So if you try to use excuses like oh, I'm I'm moving or whatever let us be like
Oh, yeah, that's no problem. We'll just transfer your membership to like the the local gym in that area
So they they try to do a lot of things to make sure that you feel shame in cancelling your gym membership
Which is which is icky gross. Oh apparently I got the election day wrong. Is it not the 11th?
Sorry, it's the fifth. Oh my goodness. It's 10 days away. All right, so yeah get out there and do your thing
My american friends this this is now watch this drive. Sorry
This is uh, this if I remember correctly this year has like one of the highest concentrations of worldwide elections like ever
Kind of crazy. Yeah, I think bc broke records recently Um and and turnout to people are turning out. Yeah
Bc had a weird one because like conservatives haven't been in power in bc
If I remember correctly in like close to a hundred years or something Yeah, but our conservative party is a little complicated changed. So yeah, who would actually who it actually is is like
Yeah, well our liberate our oh my god. Did you see christie clark?
F**k volunteered herself to run the federal liberals like I could do it
Nobody wants you to do that get out of here literally nobody. I will actually march me too. I would I would do it
I would as well like imagine Imagine okay, we have we have justin trudeau
Very imperfect leader Imagine being like, you know, it'd be better
Corruption queen
Are you kidding me? Oh man Oh, oh man. Yeah. Yeah, actually actually worse
And I know I know for for a lot of the people who only see like international headlines or like
Nonsense that their uncle posts on facebook or whatever. You probably can't imagine anything worse than justin trudeau. Yeah, he's not
He's super imperfect. I'll put it that way
There's levels of self-dealing and corruption
He is only but an acolyte
You know that you know that meme like I'll do it again. I feel like she's like
But on a national scale Dude the the art thought I did a lot with a province
What about the country? I should see if I can um, I should see if I can find the article because
It's so Bad
Uh, here we go. Hold on. Was this uh, was this ctv news article as he as justin trudeau faces growing pressure
um Oh, yeah, oh, this this is amazing. Okay. This article is so bad
Clark served as bc premier between blah blah blah blah blah blah
um Who appear Clark who appears on a weekly as a weekly panelist on ctv's power play. Oh couldn't help noticing that that's um
The publication i'm reading Also released a separate statement on x and called for unity within the party to fight conservative leader
Her comments come ahead of a highly anticipated gaukus meeting. I'm above the blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah, okay Emerged etc. Etc. Oh wait, no, is this not the right one? Yeah? What are we looking for?
Hold on. Oh, no, I was looking for one that like basically was uh
It basically talked about what she's been up to since she retired, and no, this isn't the one.
Nope, nope, nope, I take it back. CTV, you're doing good.
Go ahead and do a quick merge message or something there.
Yeah, sure, I've got a couple for you here already.
With the, oh, no, hold on, you gotta explain what it is and do your updates.
No, Lou can do it. All right. If you go to lttstore.com,
if you add something to your cart, like potentially a tech bro vest
that we will talk about a little bit later, you go and view the cart in the cart,
you'll be able to see this merge message's box. If you check the box saying I would like my purchase
to appear as a merge message on the LTT stream,
it's called Stream Not When show because it's for the various streams that we do.
You can go in here and leave a message for the show,
at which point it will be curated by Dan
to either be responded to by Dan as you'll probably see down here as a response to this one,
or if you say super bad things that aren't allowed to show up on stream
because you included bad words, we'll yeet it, or it'll be curated by Dan for Linus or myself to answer.
Sure, let's see. Is that normally what he says? Something like that. I think he's a little worse at it, but okay.
I'm listening. Oh crap, he's still here.
Let's see, with the mention of the chair partner,
the laptop partner and D brand and PIA during After Dark,
the number of ads in WAN Show technically doubled. Do you have an internal limit or policy
on how much is too much?
I think we need four times as much.
I don't think we technically do. I think over the course of a show that often goes for like four hours,
I think a very small amount of mentions at the beginning of the show,
and then three not very long mentions in the middle of the show
is really not a big deal personally.
I agree with this merch message too many sponsor,
someone said in a full-point chat. It when people consider the merch messages section
at the end of the show to be a sponsor section,
then I can understand that. I also have heard some people's comments
about the banner at the bottom being too busy,
and I think I can sometimes maybe agree,
but these types of things take tuning. We'll figure it out.
Yeah, yeah, I'd say so. What else I got?
Maybe there's something here for Luke. I think I remember one.
All right, one moment. I know I've got one here for Luke.
Hey, WAN, my favorite flavor of DLL pickles.
Question for Luke. I've got it.
Never mind you, Luke, you get nothing. Yeah, okay, this is crazy.
Okay, here we go, here we go. So cbc.ca.
Clark's political history. Clark has been taking French lessons for several months
according to a source close to her. That's not a political history.
That's pandering nonsense. The former premier has already made two trips
to the Sejet de Jean-Claire in Quebec
and plans to return them the coming months to improve her French skills. Okay, that's just the same thing that you just said.
Okay, here we go. She has launched a TikTok account in the last month.
What, are you gonna get to this at some point?
That's good, I want my, you know. Or is this just gonna be puffery?
A word that we all learned recently. Okay, let's continue. I want my prime minister to have a TikTok account.
If they don't, I'm not voting for it. In the most recent post, she encouraged British Columbians to vote.
Okay, where are we gonna get to the history? Every politician on the planet has done that.
Ah, yes, during her six years as premier,
she built a reputation as an environmentally conscious, fiscally prudent liberate.
How do you champion the mining and oil industries while being environmentally conscious?
Okay, sure. She resigned in 2017.
She resigned nothing. She got booted the fuck out.
It was a historical defeat. Historical.
Sorry, let's continue. She resigned in 2017 when her minority government
was defeated by an NDP confidence motion. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What happened was we the people sent you
fucking packing is what happened. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
The new Democrats then took over the province with the support of the Green Party.
Her departure from politics left the BC Liberal Party in disarray.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Again, her leadership left the party in disarray
unable to win an election. That's what actually happened.
To the point where it died. Yes.
It's gone. In April, 2023, it officially rebranded
and became BC United until it dissolved altogether
on the eve of the most recent election campaign. They weren't a part of this election.
Oh, man. Okay, anyway, during the Conservative leadership mission
for the Nationalist, okay.
She's a regular federal politics commentator on several English language television and radio networks
including CTV, CBC and Global. She also works as a guest speaker across Canada.
That right there is all you need to know
about how someone's career ended in politics.
You went from leading one of the major regions of a country
to being a guest speaker on like
ancient legacy media nonsense.
She has a TikTok. Good, yeah. Which she just launched.
Please. Anyway. So, yeah.
Cool. Rich message. By the way, I'm gonna take these off. They were kind of for my look with the tech bro vest
but their prescription and my eyes are tired now. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. All right. Hit me, Dan. I've got a new baby and cargo pockets have come in clutch.
Excited to try the pants. At what age did you let your kids start using screens?
And also thoughts on all the smart baby devices out there?
I let them start pretty young because I like to sleep in.
We were a lot more controlling about what kind of content they watched in the early days.
Now we've relaxed things a little bit. So they allocate screen time.
They're older now though. Yes. But I just mean from the first to the third.
I'm just clarifying, yeah. We just were like, we can't.
Yeah. But we allocate screen time based on time they spend
doing other things. So if they practice piano for 20 minutes
then they can earn 20 minutes of screen time. Question for you. Yes.
Do you ever worry about having things like screen time
be a reward vector? Creating kind of an unnatural sort of desire for it
and almost making it more addictive. When they no longer have the parental rules
and they move out then, you know, do you ever worry about that?
So that's Yvonne's worries about that more than I do
because she was a TV on all the time household.
The TV was like the fireplace in their household. It was just always on.
It was the light and sound that was just in the living room
that people kind of gathered around. And she had and has no problem like sitting
and doing homework in front of the TV while a show is on.
And meanwhile, my family was the polar opposite. Screens could not even be turned on until after dinnertime.
And even then the time allocation to them
was tightly controlled. And in both cases, households that have gone her way
and households that have gone my way, I've seen kids come out of those same households both ways.
So, I don't know, it might just kind of be what it is.
Some people have a very addictive personality. Some people don't.
I think generally philosophically,
I am in favor of building good habits.
And building the habit of doing something productive
with your time rather than, you know, vegetating at every possible opportunity.
I feel like it makes sense. I was just wondering, like, yeah, like had it been thought about. But something that Yvonne and I have talked about
and actually have done, I think a couple of times is having like structure holidays.
So you just, you have, okay, we're off this week.
And, you know, it's, we're on vacation
and you can have as much screen time as you want. You could stare at your computer, your phone,
your laptop, whatever the TV, we don't care.
Get it out of your system for a bit. And then, you know, when we're back to school next week,
it's back to the, so, I don't know, there's.
All right, Artie, I was a screen on kid and now I'm chronically online.
There you go. Yeah. But I mean, he made a career out of it.
He's got 100,000 subscribers on his channel. Oh, really?
Yeah, you didn't know that? No. Yeah, Artie has a channel. That's pretty sick.
What was I gonna say? I think the incredibly hyper-addictive nature
of things like TikTok is a little bit different of an arena than the TV was being on.
Oh, they're not allowed on TikTok. Okay, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, Facebook.
YouTube Shorts, the one watched too much YouTube
for a bit, not Shorts. He was mostly into like Minecraft let's plays
and stuff like that, yeah. But we've talked to him about that recently.
We've kind of cut down on that.
So some of those hyper-addictive doom-scrolly ones,
we basically are like, no. Yeah.
But yeah, at some point they're gonna have to figure it out, you're right.
It's weird, it's, that's the,
when talking about kids right now, there's like, I mean, there's all those conversations
around Cocomelon and how just like brain-destroying Cocomelon is.
Is Cocomelon bad? I don't even know Cocomelon really. As far as my understanding goes,
Cocomelon is specifically designed to
just crank screen time.
And it's like actually very brain-roddy for kids. Oh, interesting.
I don't know much about it. My kids, I think, missed the Cocomelon window.
I don't want to say too much stuff because I'm not, I don't have a kid's. I'm not super well read up on this,
but yeah, people are saying Bluey's good. As far as my understanding goes,
Bluey's pretty good. There's that teacher, that former teacher. Yeah, yeah, she's supposed to be really good.
Miss Rachel or whatever, she's supposed to be really good. Cocomelon, apparently there's like
measured decreases in like development
from Hoji and Cocomelon, yeah. Oh, wow, okay. It's really bad, yeah.
But again, I don't, don't take my word on that. I'm not super well read up on this.
I just, I've- Dude, I came across- It's an interesting topic to me.
I came across another like family vlog channel recently
that's like exploding. They're doing like 300, 400 million views a month
or something like that. And it's pretty much all shorts of these two little girls
like acting out skits, like, you know,
there's one where she rides a scooter in the house and like pretends to fall over
and it's like, don't ride scooters in the house. And it's supposed to be like a good lesson or whatever,
but I'm just, I'm just looking at it going like, okay, how much are these kids getting paid?
Like family vlogging is actually a terrible, terrible thing.
It needs to go away like immediately, like legislatively.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I just make my kids only watch LTT.
Sure. Oh boy. Oh man. Okay.
Oh, we have some announcements. Well, let's do some announcements, shall we?
LTTstore.com secret shopper is now live.
Whoa, right now on Floatplane.
Hold on. The general audience will get it next week, but let's watch a bit of the intro.
I love this thumbnail. That is pretty great.
Yeah. Did you know that they make them with just the glasses and the mustache?
That's my real nose. See, look, I guarantee you can't tell the difference.
Oh my God. Me wearing a fake big nose really does feel unnecessary,
though. Is that working? I can't hear anything.
You've got audio playing. That's the whole video. Are we, am I supposed to be playing the whole video?
Yeah, what? I thought it was supposed to be a clip. What am I supposed to be doing here, Dan? What's going on?
I don't know. I don't write this. Let's watch a bit of the intro, it says.
Okay, sure, yeah, we can watch a bit of the intro. Sure, okay, is it working?
Yeah, I want audio. We need audio. Oh, I have other stuff playing.
Well, there's your problem right there. All right, I got it, I got it, I got you.
I'm picking up what you're throwing down, Mr. Dan. Okay, we good?
I think so. Okay, guys, this was one of the biggest risks,
I think we've ever taken. And I understand, I understand
how you could look at the premise and think. Oh, they shopped at their own store,
they're just gonna make sure it goes well. But as you're about to see,
we intentionally built this in a way
that forced us to be held accountable regardless of the outcome.
And so yeah, here it comes.
We can't here it because we have to do that. We have to show our series and have all their worst problems brought to light.
But after today, I won't have to imagine it.
And neither will Nick, because I paid five of you to secret shop our store
and I'm sitting with the creator warehouse head of product, Nick Light, to enjoy the results first.
Nick looks genuinely uncomfortable. He doesn't know what it is.
Oh, Nick. He didn't know. Really?
All he knew was that he was going to help co-host a video.
So he sat down, he found out when I said that. Holy crap.
You know how much I value genuine reactions on camera.
You know the lengths that I will go to. The number of times that people are like,
fake, fake, fake. You're just actually f***ing idiots.
Like, I care so much about capturing real reactions.
We're in our mid-30s. I've known Nick since we were in grade eight.
He was very uncomfortable. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oh, man.
Enjoy, because I got a sneak peek and it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
Unlike this segue to our sponsor.
This is a star. Did it knock over? I'm so incredibly curious now.
I'm almost like annoyed that we have to keep doing land show. I don't want to go watch it.
Well, there is one way to do so. You will just have to subscribe to Floatplane.
Dude, don't be upset. This is promoting Floatplane. You should be very supportive of that.
Yeah, I just want to go watch it right now. I know, I know. LMG.GG slash Floatplane, while you're there,
you can pick up an FP exclusive Dino-Sore shirt.
Designed by the one and only. By the way, it's a little bit confusing
because when you go through our T-shirt section, all of the shirts are depicted with their front
and then this one is depicted with the back. So the Floatplane logo is on the front.
Yes. The Dinosaur Plane thing. Designed by the one and only Sarah Butt.
Which I think was the right choice. It's just confusing. There's a couple of other quick things for us to announce.
We have a correction in our video on buying every tech ad we saw for a month.
We demonstrated one product, the birdie personal CO2 alarm incorrectly.
Specifically, the wall mount was not installed and it doesn't work unless it's attached to the wall mount.
So we removed that section from the original video to avoid misrepresenting the product.
We have reconducted our original test with the wall mount attached and released a YouTube short showing it activating.
Da da da da da da da. It's still a product that you probably shouldn't buy
because it's $200 for a CO2 detector. It doesn't have any kind of like screen on it
or logging or anything.
It doesn't detect any other potentially harmful gases.
There's like way better value options that are way more effective and do, yeah, work way better.
But anyway, yeah, it definitely does what it says it does.
So yeah, good for them. Okay, oh, also it's folding month.
Folding month begins November 1st and the LMG community is once again participating
if you'd like to sign up. There's a post with information on the forum which Dan is gonna post for you guys
in all the various chats as a company. We're also contributing $200 LTT Store gift cards
for prizes, signups close next Monday.
So please join the team. Finally, let's talk about AI, crypto and biohacking.
Yeah. Does it look like we wanna talk about those things?
It should because we're wearing the new tech bro vest from LTT Store.
Something, something dogecoin. It's insulated with the same 3D down
that you would find on our old 3D down jacket, meaning that it is surprisingly warm
for how light the vest actually is. It's also made of a water resistant material
and has a soft tricot knit back, which is quite comfy.
And it's designed to be able to be worn in the office over a button up or polo like many tech bros do.
So you can dress it down casually. You can lay it on top of a t-shirt, hoodie or sweater.
It's totally up to you. It is kind of outer wear though,
because of, you know, the material. It's made of the same stuff as- Wake up at 4.30 a.m.
Made of the same stuff as our 3D down jacket. Thank you for that. And like most of our outer wear,
it's loaded with YKK zippered pockets. So you can always have your essentials on hand.
Task-based AI is the future. Available now at LMG.GG slash tech bro.
So here's Nate actually wears one of these vests every day.
So this was like the most appropriate possible model for us to have here.
I was gonna say, it looks quite natural on it actually. It's got a Sarah Ponsy.
Oh, just, okay, I'm sorry.
Knowing Nate, this picture is way funnier than if you don't know Nate.
He's working on an electronics engineering project for us that is very, very exciting.
And he 100% wears a vest and 100% would look exactly like that.
Anyway, oh my God. They definitely picked the best people to model this.
There's Sean from the Infra team. Dude, right though?
Yeah. It's the tech bro vest. The reason it's not cheap is because it's like really nice.
3D down. It's basically our 3D down jacket without the sleeves.
Yeah. So there you go. Nothing says disruptive innovation like the tech bro vest.
Oh my God. Okay, the team working on the copy
has actually gotten really, really funny over the last little bit.
I love it. Nice.
Nice. Got the offsite laptop bag.
AirPods. That's what a guy who's company was just reviewed looks like.
Yeah. All right, cool. All right, what else we got going on, Dan?
What are we doing? All right, I think I do a topic. Let's do a topic, shall we?
NVIDIA to ship one billion risk five cores this year.
NVIDIA gave a keynote speech at the risk five summit
with the speaker estimating that the company expects to ship about a billion risk five cores
across its GPUs, CPUs, SOCs, and other products.
Slides of the talk were shared on Twitter by Nick Brown, senior research fellow at University of Edinburgh's
EPCC Supercomputing Center. The company has been switching
from its proprietary microcontrollers to ones that are built on the open source ISA
since at least 2015 and have now revealed
that they have fully phased out their former Falcon microcontroller
in favor of custom risk five cores. Sick.
As I told, there are 10 to 40 of the cores on every NVIDIA chip, depending on the chip's complexity.
The company has developed at least three risk five microcontroller cores and more than 20
custom risk five extensions. NVIDIA GPUs have apparently had risk five GPU system
processors since Turing. Really? I didn't know that.
This is super cool. This is super cool. Because NVIDIA has talked a lot about all of the,
you know, the monitoring that they do and the load balancing and all the cool stuff
that they're doing on their GPU dies. But they haven't said that they're using risk five,
at least not way back then. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Risk five, dude. That's what somebody knew.
Risk five is freaking everywhere.
Yeah. It's really exciting. And especially if you look at the way
that the relationship between ARM and at least one of their partners is going right now.
Dude, it is not a good time for ARM
to show any kind of weakness. It's a good time for ARM to be super, super
magnanimous and easy to work with because risk five has no licensing fees,
no licensing fees.
I'm excited. I am really excited about a risk five future.
I've still been dailying my Snapdragon Windows laptop.
Ever since the challenge ended, I just, I don't know,
but they took the AMD framework that I built on ShortCircuit
because they needed it for something. And then they apparently needed it for something
for a while. So I've just been using my Snapdragon and I have the occasional issue with it.
But overall, I'm blown away at how usable it is
and seeing translation layers, work to run programs
that major companies like NVIDIA are making into risk five
and making it better, making it viable.
I'm pretty hopeful. It's a good sign.
Having a big company behind a project like that
can sometimes be scary, but often gives it long-term legs
that just being open-sourced doesn't, even though I'm saying that about a project
that has existed for a very long time. You need industry consortiums to kind of get together
and say, okay, okay, this is open-source and like it's super cool,
but how are we gonna push it forward?
You need cooperation. Yeah, that's good.
Squarespace going private? Sure, why don't you talk about that?
Permira, Permaira, something?
A private equity firm has purchased all available common stock for Squarespace,
meaning that Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company.
Squarespace went public three years ago in 2021 and yo-yo to fair amount after that.
It reached a market cap of $8 billion, $2 billion less than the company's peak private valuation.
In 2022, its market cap fell off a cliff, hitting $2 billion,
which while still a lot of money is significantly less than 10,
before gradually returning to $5 billion,
which again is quite a swing. $3 billion is kind of a lot.
And then Permaira's purchase is worth a combined total of $7.2 billion,
likely indicating a degree of confidence that this rebound wasn't accidental.
It's unclear what, if anything, will change for Squarespace clients.
And my dyslexia read that as SpongeBob at first.
Our discussion question is, I have no idea what Linus was going for
when he sent this story. Does this affect our company somehow?
Well, Squarespace has been one of our longest running partners.
Are they? No, not quite. Close to the longest, but not the longest.
Yeah, they go way back with LTT.
And I guess all I'm trying to say is,
Permaira, please don't screw it up.
Okay. You've also got a lot on your hands now because of the whole domains thing.
Yeah. There's a lot of people that scrambled to leave
when domains went from Google domains to Squarespace. And then now there's a lot of people scrambling to leave
that domains are going from Squarespace to Squarespace still,
but public to private. People are looking for alternatives.
It's a thing. Yeah. So, you know, just don't bung it up, please.
We like working with Squarespace. We like using the product.
Let a good thing be a good thing. Why don't you be the smart private equity firm?
CatOS, or CatTalk, whoa.
I think I just realized that CatOS has another T in it.
I don't think I ever registered that before, but okay.
A lot of people can't go to Cloudflare because Cloudflare doesn't actually support that many domains.
Like Cloudflare doesn't support .ca. Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's a problem for Canadians. Yeah. So we can't just have Cloudflare.
Right. So we have to use something else.
And previously we did use Google domains. Right. And now obviously we don't.
And we don't use Squarespace domains either. No. We used like GoDaddy way back in the day.
Oh, well you did. Yeah, I know. We don't use it at all anymore.
Yeah, no, I know. Oh man.
I don't remember the name off the top of my head. What's the, do you know the name, Dan, or the new thing we use for .ca domains?
I don't remember the name. Oh my gosh. Danicapatchet said it was good.
If only she was good at racing. Oh no.
She was pretty good. Oh, you know what? Speaking of lady race drivers,
you know who I would love to see tackle that?
Unless she's already done it and I missed it. I'd love to see Michelle Kari do it.
Just, no, I don't know. I don't believe you.
It started with it. It was like Grange or something. It's gonna bother me now.
What are you talking about? What are you guys even trying to figure out right now? The domain thing.
Oh yeah. The domain thing. What are you guys even talking about? The registrar.
We use a different registrar now. Well yeah, but we're not gonna tell people what we use anyway, are we?
I mean, we tell people that we use Cloudflare for almost everything, which is way bigger honeypot than this would be.
That's not what a honeypot is. Okay. Got him.
Could be a honeypot. Why don't we just nod? I don't think we have to- I can nod if you want,
but it's also pretty easy to figure out. Yeah, that's fine. I just mean, why are we drawing attention to this?
Fair enough. You know better. It's fine.
Oh my God. Lucas, now the security risk.
Sure. Oh, dude. Dude. The hat has been transferred.
I'm passing the torch. I put the vest on, and it immediately became a security risk.
Don't get out of this stock.
Short LTT.
Okay.
Oh no.
Oh, thanks. I missed something. No, I don't have to look it up. I appreciate that.
You can't have inside jokes on a podcast, you guys.
AJ just said it in public chat.
Oh man. All right. The show is brought to you by JumpCloud.
I know it's public, yeah, someone's like it's public info. I know it. You can just look it up.
I just mean, I just mean normally we just don't talk about it at all.
We just don't bring it up. Maybe we need JumpCloud to help with our idea.
We don't know what we're doing.
Yes, you can elicit a domain. I know, it just, oh my God.
Lucas is wrong. He's not wrong. It's just very funny.
Do we have to use multiple? Cause some of them don't have like Canadian domains.
I don't even know. You know what? No, no, forget it. No, I'm just gonna make it worse.
You know what? You could probably figure out what data center we're hosted in pretty easily.
I mean, we've said that a bunch of times too. No, you can also. Yeah, but we go out of our way
not to talk about it that much. That is true. And I don't say all of them.
Now you're basically just asking them to figure it out.
Yeah, see? Yeah, you like this? Yeah, now he doesn't like the other side of this coin.
Oh, apparently AJ's stream was delayed. He wasn't there yet.
I don't actually really believe him because our stream delay is really short, but. Yeah, well, he might have been,
no, he might have been reliant. Nope. Okay.
It's not on full play. No DVR. Oh, yeah, but he might have the player open in the chat.
Yeah, he has that technology. He's pretty smart, AJ.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's when it comes to security.
Yeah. All right.
Our address is 18643. What is this?
External IP. 52 Avenue. 127.0.0.
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Question for Luke. Helldivers2 recently concluded its 63-day promise
to improve the game. Have you had a chance to check it out yet? I feel it's way for fun.
No. No.
No. I probably won't.
I definitely won't. You don't even own it. Well, yeah, but like, whatever.
Buy a game if I feel like it. Just mean I'm not gonna, like, I'm so far about,
dude, picking up a new game these days. When you're not familiar with the meta,
there's like, there's so much, there's so much depth to it. Minmax the death out of everything.
And I'm just kind of like, if I don't have like 25 hours to know life
in the first week or two, realistically, I think I'm always just gonna feel kind of behind.
And I'm just, I don't have time. I mean, it is a PvE game.
Sure. So like, but I don't have a crew to carry me.
You could. Let's do some puggies. What?
What do you mean I could? Let's do puggies. I mean, I haven't played like months, I could carry you, I'm sure.
Wow. Wow, Chad move here.
We also have a bunch of people in the office that play.
I'm sure we could like, pull people out of the window. Yeah, but if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna like, pull people to game at night,
we're gonna- Yeah, exactly, or play tape to tape.
Yeah, we'll play something that- Tape is cocky much. It's not that. It's just like thinking that's not actually really like that hard.
I'm not trying to like, fling people.
The game's not actually hard. I'm not trying to fling people.
Really, do go on. Joe and I used to do the hardest difficulty as a duo
instead of a four stack and it was fine. But I'm not trying to flame anybody.
This guy's a gamer. Wow. The game's super easy if you're a bad actual skill issue.
If only he was as good at super checks as he is at Hell Divers 2.
Wow. Literally stopped playing because he was tired of getting his monkey spanked.
That's not true. My monkey spank?
Oh my goodness. Why are we playing?
Okay, so I have to do bird meds tonight. Yeah.
But then afterwards you invited me to play pool. Yeah, let's play pool.
Is it the Vess? What, no? I got a pool table.
Why, yeah, are you gonna move super checks there? I was thinking that, yeah.
Yeah, just move it to smash champs. Nobody uses it here. Yeah. Yeah, so we'll have super checks there.
I was thinking, I wanna get a pinball machine. Dude, what a flipping,
or rather a whole pinball machine. They can cost as much as a new car.
You get a stern one. If it's like a good one,
it's like the Pirates of the Caribbean special edition
or whatever, or they can be like flip and cheap,
they can be like just a couple grand, even though they're supposedly fully functional.
There's all kinds of modifications people do on them. They'll put more transparent glass on them
and they'll do all kinds of mods and stuff and expand the sound effects
and make it play different music. There's like the depth of pinball machines.
I'm looking at it going like, I would need a consultant
before I would be able to confidently buy a pinball machine.
Just buy a stern one. Yeah, but I don't want it to depreciate three grand
the second I bring it home. Like I'd wanna like pick a good one or something.
Like I don't know. I used stern one. It's fricking wild, dude.
It's wild. But Ice Weasel says Linus jumping into other hobbies
then complaining about how people who love their hobbies pay more for stuff they want is hilarious.
That's not what I'm even talking about. It's not even remotely what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about how it's a rabbit hole. What a crazy take.
And it's something that I don't understand well. I don't know what the value of the different things is
and it seems like I couldn't possibly hope to.
Why is Pirates of the Caribbean worth more than Captain America?
I don't know. Yo, there's. I have no idea.
There's a $16,000 Adams family pinball machine.
Yeah, dude, I didn't even look at brand new. Like I was just looking at like.
This is refurbished. This is 1992 refurbished. The pinball company.
Okay, I wasn't even looking at retailers. So there's a, I wanna say pinheads or something like that.
There's like a community that has a buy-sell trade. And then I was looking at Facebook Marketplace as well.
And just the range. Like they go from two grand to $20,000.
And these are second hand machines. So they're all second hand.
And like they'll, everyone will list like how many hours it has on it or whatever.
But I don't know if there's a way to fake that. Like we found out during the mighty car mods video
that Ploof's car had been odometer swapped.
Oh really? Yeah. So it had like markings from an auto wrecker on it.
Once they pulled it out that were like low kilometers.
It didn't come from that car. That sure as heck wasn't written on at the factory.
So like, I don't know. Can you odometer swap a pinball? I don't know.
Freaking ridiculous. No one makes them anymore. They're all vintage. No, that's not true.
That's totally not true. Stern, I've said it like a bunch of times.
Yeah, you can definitely still buy brand new machines, but I'm not really like a brand new machine kind of guy.
You know that. Like I bought a used super checks machine because I know that I can turn around and like,
and that I kind of, I at least like played the game.
And there's only like a couple of variants. So I was able to, I read like this 400 page super checks
owners, owners thread on like some pinball forum
of some, of some kinds of arcade game forum. So like I'm pretty versed in that,
but there's like four variants of the game.
Pinball, it's endless.
And they've been around since like the 80s or whatever. So they can be like, I'm, you know, there's like a,
I'm sure there's like a valley of vintage-ness, you know, like if they're like old, they're just old,
but if they're really old, they're vintage, especially if they're still working. I just, I'm just saying, I don't understand it.
But I, yeah, I just, I want one for the lounge basically
for the, for the members lounge at the badminton club. Yeah.
Okay, let's see. Hey, Wampool, I was eyeing those cargo pants,
but as an extra short boy, 24 inseam, I had to hold off.
Oh, pinball's apparently much older than the 80s. Okay. Well, there you go. Shows you what I know.
Ancient. Cool. A couple of questions.
Are they hemmable? Are there plans for a short version?
How are the sales?
Unfortunately, they are not easily hemmable.
And right now we don't have plans for a shorter inseam.
Sales have been pretty solid though. Yeah. I think this is our first really successful pant.
Oh, I, yeah, I think we need like a short.
Oh, shorts. Or maybe. No, no, no, no.
Yeah, no, no, no, smaller inseam.
Oh, sorry. Yep, good. Cool.
Someone didn't save a file to the server and it screwed things up like it always does.
Never save a file to your local machine. Didn't you fix that?
No, I fixed a different issue. I fixed an issue where a file was deleted off
of the server over a week ago. And we had to recover it.
From a cloud. Ooh. We got it.
Good job guys. Nice. Bad. Nice. Scary.
Good job guys. May I ask what the file was?
It was a, it was a Floorplane exclusive.
What was it? A denoised version.
And was it like the whole folder? I think it was a folder with a whole bunch
of the denoised stuff. I have no idea. I'm not super up on all of the different types
of working copies that we have. Oh, we got it. Yeah.
Okay, great. Cause we only have three days of on-site replication.
So it gets really messed up. Got it.
Oh, okay. So we did that one. Last one I got for you at heydll.wan.
Could we get a feature to buy items not in stock?
There is always an item out of stock when I want to order. Rather wait a long time than to pay postage twice.
Thanks for everything. No.
Sorry. Inventory management is really hard. And I could go on a really, really, really long thing
about why that would make it way harder. But I think it's pretty boring for everyone else.
The short answer is no, it's really hard.
And the odds that some other item would accidentally go out of stock
while we got the other item in stock would be really high.
And it would mean that we'd have all these orders like queued that we would either take your money for
and then what wait, when did we deliver it?
Did the order get placed now? Or is it when we've fulfilled it?
And then the return window tracking and then the accounting complication
of when the order was actually placed. Is that when the money came or is that when we ordered the thing and we sent it out?
It actually does add a lot of complication and we're just not going to do that.
What we are going to do is we're gonna manage our inventory better so that the site
isn't like half out of stock. That goes down. That's what we're focused on.
How often do you have reviews that say they're gonna purchase five to 10 more
of the thing that they... I don't know, but what is that for?
Only the best thing in the world. Yes, yes, yes.
We're going to make five to 10s not enough. I want to buy five to 10 more.
Can you sell them in like 20 packs? They don't exist.
Can I have bulk? Bulk packs. I would buy them in bulk.
Especially if they're not gonna be
have any printing on them. Wow, these are getting really good reviews.
All right, well, I'm just glad you guys like them, all right? The tall shirts?
Yeah. As far as my understanding goes, they're currently perfect reviews. Thank you.
Don't tempt them. We love you. That's true.
I still remember when I had that video that had zero dislikes for like years.
And then I mentioned on Wanshoe, it just got bombed. Yeah. It's like you, butts.
That's what happens. And these are the guys that like us.
Yeah. That questionable.
Yeah. There's people that hate watch. This is actually something I have encountered.
Like I have encountered posts that are like
this long about how awful I am and how you're barely more tolerable than me.
And it'll be like, they'll be referring to something that we talk about like three and a half hours
into like some marathon ass Wanshoe.
And with all the context of like everything we said before it, and I'm sitting here going,
you know, you can change the channel.
It's an option. We do have the technology.
Oh man. All right. All right, what are we even supposed to be doing, Dan?
I can't even. We've got a few more topics. We only got about, this week has been insane.
Okay. I didn't even realize. I didn't even realize when I sat down
to do Wanshoe today, how insane this week had been. I was sitting here going like, oh man,
I'm really tired this week. Like I'm kind of glad it's going to be a bit of a shorter show.
Cause I just like, I don't have the energy for it. And I was like, man, what did we get up to this week?
Like, yeah, there's the mighty car mods shoot. We had like a, I don't know, a bunch of other shoots.
I reviewed a lot of scripts and videos and like, dude, I went to Equinix.
Equinix? Yeah.
What's that? So they build themselves as the biggest tech company
nobody ever heard of, which you've heard that line. You've heard that line before, right?
Yeah. They may actually be right.
They might actually be the ones.
Yeah. I know of Equinox, not Equinix. How do you even spell it?
Here, EQUI NIX.
NIX, okay. Yeah.
Data center company and enterprise network technologies. No, you would think this would be something
that I've heard of. You would think so, but these guys operate at a completely different level.
They don't give two flying... Leading companies to just Google Cloud,
Azure, AWS, Netflix, Zoom. Okay, all right. They don't give two flying boogers a bunflow plane.
Okay, I understand. We are just a s*** stain on the back of their heel
because they walked through the, I don't know,
bougie park next to their penthouse they live in.
Like, we don't matter to these guys.
I mean, I shouldn't say that because they did sponsor the video.
And so we did a tour.
Dude. This place was flipping wild.
And the reason, the reason they actually showed up on my radar
was because I found out that they were planning to use the deep lake cooling system in Lake Ontario
to cool a data center. Sick. And I was like, that's neat.
I don't know who these guys are, but let's go, let's get in touch. Look at the partner list.
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Absolutely. Is there a large technology company in the Fortune 500?
Well. Absolutely. All of them. Chat it out.
Chat it out partner list. And what was cool about it was they went full open kimono.
Like, they literally, they literally showed me a room
that if I walked any further into it and was caught on the motion sensors and cameras,
there would be, there would have to be a report to the SEC
that someone was in the room.
But you're allowed to like look in. I was allowed to look into the room.
We got a shot. We got a shot of the room. That's pretty cool.
Okay. You know how when we do tours of factories and facilities and stuff,
there's always like no, no filming signs everywhere.
Right? They didn't have a single one. You know why? Because nobody would be f***ing in there
if they had a camera.
That's one way to do it. They built this building.
Custom. Okay. They built it.
So the foundation was feet above ground level.
You know why?
Because the city wouldn't let them put ballards and truck stoppers around it
because they're unattractive. So they made it. So they just built it on a platform?
So if you RAM the building, you will literally hit the f***ing foundation.
Okay. That's, that is a solution.
Custom building. That's the way they did it.
These guys are absolutely insane. Okay.
So on the roof, on the roof. Okay. So you know the speed of light, right?
So as fast as stuff can go. But the speed of light's not fixed.
Okay. Logitech demoed this years ago. Yeah.
When they showed their light speed wireless dongle actually outperforming a cable.
Because the speed of light through an optical fiber or
Any medium. Through any medium is variable. So through an optical fiber,
we approximate that the speed of light is about two thirds of the speed of light in a vacuum.
But in air, it's very close to the speed of light
in a vacuum. It's like 0.997 or something.
I can't remember what it is. The point is it's a lot more than two thirds.
So get this. On the roof.
They have microwave dishes.
That are pointed at the TSX.
And toward New York. Toronto Stock Exchange.
Where the other, where the other, oh yeah, sorry. Where there are other exchanges.
So that they have the lowest possible latency link.
Because light through a fiber optic cable is not fast enough.
That's pretty wild.
Dude, I saw a cage there.
That not only had all four sides closed.
Not only had visibility blockers installed in the cage.
Not only had the fifth ceiling chain link installed on the top.
Because some companies will have regulations for particular data or particular operations.
That you have to have six sides essentially
on the cage that can contain. Not only did it have all of that.
It had touch sensors in the chain link.
If you so much as lean. Touch the chain link.
If you so much as lean on their cage. The head of security for equinix gets a call.
And that will not be a good call. No.
That's so sick. Dude, this place was wild.
And they showed us everything. Absolutely everything.
Nothing that they were not legally allowed to show us.
They showed us everything equinix. Nothing from their customers that they weren't allowed to show us.
But they had an empty cage. So I was able to go in.
And show how the cold isle and hot isle separation works.
I held a temperature sensor and you could see it open up the thing.
So we were able to do really cool demos.
Because they really did let us in.
That would be probably one of the coolest videos we have ever done.
Do not miss it. This is like no actually for real.
A data center. Like of the highest tier.
Like your bank and your ISP. And the cloud services that you use.
Your bank has that. This is where they are.
That old Windows 98 system sitting in the corner. So the room.
The room that you have to file an SEC report. That's where all your passwords are stored.
It goes into it and approaches the rack.
Any guesses as to what's in there?
The SEC is involved. So you know what it has to do with exchanges and trading.
I'll tell you that much.
I'm not even going to know the names of different things.
But I'm assuming it's the trading computers. No computers.
No computers. No computers. Because they would all have their own cages.
They would have their own least space and everything. They'd be caged off.
Wait I thought this was, did I miss something? No it's a room.
Oh okay. It's a room. It's just there's a room on the floor.
And there's no computers in the room. No they don't need computers in there.
They don't need any computers for that. What?
I have no idea. At a data center. A room with no computers that if anyone goes into the SEC has to be told.
Records of some kind. No. No.
No records. Networking? Would you not consider that computers?
Kinda. No gear though. Yeah.
No gear. Spools of fiber optic cable.
And the SEC has to be told. Oh the, I've heard of this.
It's the one that keeps all of the trading platforms fair.
So you can't have shorter links. Everybody has to have the same length of cable.
I saw a video. So they had one in their building.
And it was this giant spool. And it goes from the switch to like another switch.
And it's just 30 kilometers of fiber.
So if someone's office is further away. They would have less spools in their room.
Cause like nanoseconds matter in trading. Oh that's sick.
I'm so excited for this video. Like the furthest you could be.
And then everyone has to have that much. That length of a fiber optic link.
Oh man. Isn't that cool? I feel like I've heard of this before.
But just completely forgot. So I said Tom Scott made a video on this.
I probably watched that. It's probably old. And I probably forgot about it since then.
That's wild. Yeah. Very cool.
So these aren't like kilometer long spools here. These are just to for fairness within this data center floor.
Okay. So different companies that are using this data center.
Yeah. And then they would probably have a separate one.
They have to use like that service that equinix offers. Yeah.
For the like the fair linkage. And that's something that like from a regulatory standpoint.
They have to subscribe to. Yeah.
And equinox themselves probably have a bigger one that also does the building.
I'm assuming. Probably. Yeah.
Yeah. Actually I don't know. Cause it's going to depend on the setup.
Like it's going to depend what partners are in there and what.
Yeah. I'm just making an assumption. Yeah.
But yeah. No. Yeah.
Oh dude. This place. I haven't even.
I haven't given away the whole video. Like this place is flipping wild. And I was I was joking with them.
I was like, yeah. So when we did the Intel fab tour, they kind of quipped to me that the last person they
could remember giving this level of access to was then president Barack Obama.
And, um, and I was, I just, I, I told the anecdote because I kind of wanted to see their reaction.
And they were kind of like, oh, I don't think of anyone.
We've ever done this with, because remember they're not just showing me around a little
bit. Like they had an entire entourage there with us.
They had like their head of, oh man, I'm going to get this wrong.
This title is like head of. What's up? Jimmy.
So now you have one thing to come with Obama. Nice.
Me, Obama and Taylor Swift.
We like birds of a feather, you know? Yeah.
Um, okay. Sorry. What was I going to say?
Um, right. So, so they didn't just like show us around.
We had, oh right. His title. He was like the head of like global architecture solutions or something like that.
But in Canada, so he was like, like the Canadian head of it, but like globally.
So like any, any Canadian based multinational he like deals with.
So essentially he's like a global architecture lead guy, but like Canadian based or something
like that. For equinics? Yeah.
For equinics. Okay. Yeah.
So they had, they had him there. They had, um, they had a bond. They had, as far as I could tell, head of security.
Like I don't know if that was for the country or just like at all.
Uh, but he was like, he looked like a head of security and super smart.
He, the guy just like knew everything off the top of his head, like every customer,
like everything guy was chatted out.
It might have just been for that center, but I don't know, but he had the security there.
Um, dude, these guys were, these guys were, these guys are crazy.
Um, so they, they not only like showed us around or whatever, but they were there to
answer basically any question we had. How much, how much the, how much, uh, loading per square foot each floor was designed for.
I wasn't expecting them to give me that. That is like a, that's a spec of their building design.
Like, Did they just know it? And they, they, they knew approximately offhand and then found out and like told me.
And I was like, okay, there's six feet of concrete between every floor.
The place was crazy. Dude, you wouldn't believe the conduit runs.
It's a thing of beauty. It's a thing of beauty.
You know, you're a nerd when you, I enjoy that as well.
Just to be clear, but you know, you're a nerd when you get excited about the conduit runs,
but they, um, but yeah. So, and we were in there filming everything, right?
Like they were like, yeah, I just don't think we've ever done this.
They go, okay, cool. Um, and they, they might have at some point, maybe, maybe, you know, whoever I was talking
to didn't remember. Are you worried about, uh, like revisions to the video because they notice something
or whatever? No, because, um, a lot of their building is designed to be security first.
So because they're going to have third party people visiting their own cages or whatever
else, it's designed so that they can't see or touch or do anything they're not supposed
to do. Yeah. So everything that equinix showed us was equinix stuff and everybody who approved that was
literally standing there in our group as we went around.
So it was one of those, it was one of those situations where like it was a sponsored video,
but like, I had done it anyway, like a hundred percent.
And they didn't even, I think the only couple of things they asked for in the, because I
went through the script with them, the only, like they asked for a couple of things.
Um, I, I said they operate over 250 data centers worldwide and they were like, okay, we understand
150 is a kind of nicer, rounder sounding number. We understand why you did that, but can you say over 260?
And I was like, okay, right? Who cares?
Right? Like I'm not going to, I'm not going to dig in my heels. They're already doing the specifics while you're live.
Minor details like that. It's kind of nice. I just, I just mean like they didn't, they didn't ask me to change my voice or my thoughts,
which I guess is like fine because realistically I was just nerding out the whole time anyway.
Um, and there was stuff that I left out that they mentioned.
Like they had a lot of the initial briefing was about the like environmental impact stuff
that they work on and initiatives like that. And I was like, I basically left out all of it because at the end of the day it's already
going to be over a 20 minute video. Just so you know, we just released two videos on processors that are really power efficient.
People cared a lot. Yeah. Yeah.
And, and so I, I get, I get that, you know, when people go on Equinix's website, you know,
what's needs to be the first thing that they see. And I understand the importance of that stuff.
They do seem to legitimately put a ton of very real work into being a more sustainable company,
which is great, but it isn't why people tuned into this video.
It doesn't get a lot of views. It's, and, and I need to be focused on what people clicked this video to see, you know.
And, and so I, I took a lot of that stuff out and they were like, okay, you know, we,
we want, we, we want to let you be the expert.
They suggested a bunch of like titles and thumbnails and I like what geared up to have
the talk, you know, because brand suggestions for that stuff.
They're never good. They're usually terrible. And I started talking and they were like, just do whatever like gets lots of views.
And I was like, okay. Sweet.
I will. Nice. Yeah.
They just immediately back down. We're like, yeah, no, I mean, you're here because like that's what you do.
And we're doing this because this is what we do.
Yeah. Do you think that's pretty sick? Yeah.
No, dude, I, I don't know. I told the, I told the business team that basically I don't, I don't travel anymore.
You know, if a brand asks, hey, how much of a bag of money does it take to get Linus to,
to travel anymore? And I just say no. Right.
But what I will travel for is something I like would have done anyway.
If it's something that like ticks off something on my bucket list, I'll, I'll get on the plane.
It's like, and I know I probably sound a little spoiled right now, but the reality of it is
that I spent a lot of years traveling way too much.
It was hard on my body. It was hard on my family and the, the reduction in travel because of COVID really opened my
eyes to, and not just mine, cause I've always felt like, couldn't this just be a conference
call? You know, like I've always had that mindset, but I think it opened a lot of people's eyes
to how much of what we do in person could just be done remotely and forced people to
work around that nobody was really traveling.
And my whole thing has been like, okay, well, why don't I just keep it that way?
So I still do travel a little bit. I mean, I did Computex.
I did CES this year. I'm going to do CES. I'll do Computex again.
You know, obviously I, you know, I did the micron facility tour, but wouldn't you go to micron?
Yes. Exactly. Yeah, but I want to go everywhere.
That's true. Why are you really going to Computex though, if we're being real?
To play badminton. Yes. Yeah.
But I'm going to CES because I just like, should probably be there.
CES, yeah. Yeah, CES. I hate CES.
No offense if you live in fabulous Las Vegas, but it is not, it's not my kind of town.
I like, I like a, you know, a book or an interesting article to read and like, you know, a nice spot
on the couch. Like, that's my idea of a good time.
I love stage plays. Yeah.
Like, I would, I would do that. You know, I'd hop down to Vegas to like, you know, watch a couple shows or something
like that. I think I'd want to travel. But like, in general, the Vegas vibe, not my thing.
I don't like Vegas. Yeah. Sorry.
It is not a town made for either of us. Yeah.
And no judgment. If you're into Vegas, hey, you do you.
Go have fun. Yeah.
What are we supposed to be doing right now? We should probably head into when after dark.
Oh, no, I want to talk about small town panopticon sued in court.
What? The Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm is suing the city of Norfolk,
Virginia over its extensive network of security cameras that use automatic license plate readers
to log every passing car alongside the car's color, make model and any distinctive characteristics.
Officials, including police, can then request the system, give them a list of locations
a car has been create lists of cars that visited specific locations and even track cars that
are often seen together. Yeah, that the lawsuit aims to either shut down the camera system or to require police
to obtain a warrant before accessing the feeds or collecting information from the database.
That's right. No warrant. Oh, big yikes.
This is like something I would expect to be reading about like China, not the US.
The fact that this got installed at all. And oh, by the way, these cameras are run by flock who has cameras in over 5000 communities.
It is unclear at this time how common police misuse of the system is, but two well publicized
incidents saw a Sedgwick, Kansas police lieutenant use the system to stalk his estranged wife
in October 2022 and a police chief in the same city use the system to stalk his ex-girlfriend
and her new boyfriend in October of 2023.
And I guarantee you if they stay installed, this will keep happening and this type of
information is going to leak both of those things.
It is likely that this lawsuit focuses on Norfolk because it is in the jurisdiction of the fourth
circle, fourth circuit appeals court, which recently ruled against warrantless drone surveillance
in a different case.
Oh, yikes.
Huge Mondo yikes.
That's all I really have to say about that. Oh, no, I have something really cool.
I actually, I saw this and I just like lost my biz.
What? No, I don't want to, I'm not going to sign up for an account.
That's fine because I can see what I need to see before the thing pops up. There you go.
Dude, start whatever. Hold on.
Oh my goodness. Okay. Video conferencing on a plane, dude, dude, Qatar Airways made its first flight using
Starlink internet on Tuesday, making them the second airline to launch Starlink service
after Hawaiian Airlines who got theirs in February.
According to business insider who had a representative on the Qatar Airways plane, download speeds
reached up to 215 megabit per second.
That's not for the whole plane. That's for one person.
Qatar Airways plans to make Starlink Wi-Fi free to all passengers compared to its regular
in-flight Wi-Fi, which is extremely slow and costs $10 per flight.
That means passengers can even make video calls or live stream, something that Qatar Airways
demonstrated with a video call between their CEO and Starlink CEO Elon Musk on a prior
test flight. Qatar Airways plans to roll out the service to around 60% of its fleet in 2025.
United Airlines and Air France have also announced to deals with Starlink.
This cannot come soon enough as someone who spends time on planes and would like to get
some actual bloody work done. I know Starlink's super important for rural areas and disaster response and all of that
stuff and it's actually a super amazing technology.
We've talked about it before. It's awesome. This one's going to be more meaningful to my day-to-day life personally, so I have personal
excitement. It's also interesting because it notes that regular in-flight Wi-Fi is expensive and slow
and I think it might be just Qatar Airlines, but they're planning on offering Starlink
for free. Yeah. That tells us something about the relative affordability of it because the satellites
are just up there. They're up there. They vibe in.
You might as well use the capacity. Unless I have a strong work reason, I don't tend to get in-flight Wi-Fi anyways.
Dude, I'm not talking about conference calls. I'm talking about just being able to access the friggin internet at a reasonable speed.
It cut out for probably an hour of my flight to Toronto and then 45 minutes of my flight
back. It's not usable. Oh, right.
I remember why I started talking about Equinix because that was this week and I totally forgot
because I flew out Sunday night. I had that shoot for like 12, 13 hours on Monday and then I took the red eye back home
so that I could be home in time for the Mighty Car Mods Club Tuesday morning.
This week, I'm just like ... I think that's ... I had badminton training on Tuesday night, which was this with the guy that I'm ... It's
not with a coach, but he's done some coaching, but also we're both doing everything.
We're just trying to help each other improve. Okay. We're both feeding and both doing the footwork drills and stuff like that at the same time.
I had that. That was crazy. My legs are so much in very much pain.
Then Wednesday, I don't remember even what happened Wednesday and then Thursday, yesterday,
I had training again because I'm trying to get good for our tournament in December.
I have no idea what's going on, man.
Yeah. Sorry, what are we talking about?
Oh, dude. I'm sorry.
We will get to some merge messages. I guess we kind of ...
Oh. Let's power through these two. We can do them both pretty quick.
Chrome is purging UOrigin. The extension page in the Chrome Web Store is still up, but some users are reporting pop-ups
from Chrome telling them that UBlock Origin is now unsupported and turning the extension
off. Google says that it's newly rolled out Manifest V3 framework, still allows developers to create
ad blockers for Chrome, but many UBlock users, however, are talking about moving to Firefox
or Brave because of this interruption. Discussion question, how many people are actually going to switch off of Chrome and is it enough
to matter? I don't think it's going to be that many people.
We'll see. But hopefully it will be enough to matter.
I think a lot of people thought Internet Explorer was unassailable at one point.
They had 90-plus percent market share or whatever it was, so anything can change.
Anything can change. Firefox pull now. No.
I don't feel like being lied to right now, which is why I'm not going to...
Dan, can you move our box?
Yep. Darn it. Not only does the new designs of the product pages and stuff in the lab's website look
all super neat and we're writing cooler articles and things like that, but there's a little
bit of it. I don't know if you even... No way.
Just for you guys. Just for all of you Floatplane members.
That was not my idea, but I think it's hilarious, so it's there.
Yeah. All right.
Because I don't feel like being lied to right now, I'm not going to buy an AMD new B840
motherboard. AMD's new 800-series motherboards are a mess, according to a recent article over on XDA
who has been strongly critical of AMD's new motherboards.
So for starters, the B840 is named as though it is a B tier chipset, which typically allows
CPU overclocking, but instead, it not only doesn't have overclocking support like last
generation's budget A620 boards, it is arguably worse than the A620 because it only supports
PCI Express Gen 3 for graphics and storage while A620 supports Gen 4.
XDA also claims that the rest of the chipsets aren't really that different from last gen.
The X870e only adds mandatory USB 4 to the X670e's specs, while the X870 adds that and
a PCIe 5.0 slot. A PCIe 5.0 slot is also the only upgrade that B850 has over B650.
The conclusion reached by XDA is that these upgrades don't justify the price increase
in AMD is resorting to shady naming tactics comparable to NVIDIA's infamous 480-12gig
controversy. It's almost like AMD was never your friend.
They want your money. Careful, people are going to get mad. I am so tired of deceptive naming schemes.
I know I keep talking about how I want to be more positive in our coverage, but you see
so much of it. I think that a lot of the time it's easy for people to watch our content and go, well,
that doesn't seem like that big of a deal. It's like, yeah, but it's cumulative.
It eats at you. You see this kind of stuff over and over and over again. You see people make mistakes.
You read about people who are getting confused by it.
You'll see people, oh, I want a Core i7.
Not realizing that they're buying an ultralight laptop and that Core i7 is not fast and probably
doesn't matter compared to the Core i5 for editing documents.
It's just the way that I just wish that we could market honestly because honest marketing,
if you have a good product, is actually better.
Educating your customers turns them into informed customers. It turns them into advocates for your brand.
Maybe that's my new career. It would be like a marketing consultant, go in and tell them to be less stupid.
That was a direction. Potentially.
At one point. Potentially. Something I considered.
I never had an offer for it though. That's not what WD offered me. No?
No, they wanted me to lead marketing or be on a marketing group.
No, not lead it. No, I was going to work for, I forget her name.
Anyway, yeah, no. I wouldn't be high up enough to have actually made a difference.
I don't think. I'm going to be back on it now.
All right. What else we got? Oh, wash your bottle kids.
So this, my friends.
This. Oh my God. Seriously?
What? Dana, you logged in to Reddit.
I think so. What I can do. I can just post the.
There we go. Do you want to zoom in?
So this is why we redesigned the water bottle lid, making it much easier to pull out your
O-ring and wash it.
Yes. Oh. It was worth it.
That's a moose. That's a moose. Nice moose.
What about the added flavor? Show me your moose.
Okay. We alluded to this earlier, but the last big one this week is ARM cancels Qualcomm's license.
This week, ARM gave 60 days notice to Qualcomm. They're canceling their architectural license agreement on grounds of repeated material breaches
to the agreement. Notably, ARM will be facing Qualcomm at trial in just 51 days over Qualcomm's acquisition
of CPU startup Nuvia.
Nuvia's license was supposed to only allow server chip applications and was supposed
to be non-transferable, but Qualcomm has just been like using it notably in the Snapdragon
X Elite laptop chips that they released this year.
Both companies' stock prices fell in response to the announcement of ARM's decision.
I got to think they're bluffing. I agree, but to what end?
Why? Is MediaTek really going to pick up the slack in the phone space?
No. Immediately? No.
They're better than you probably realize. It's probably been a while since you've looked at MediaTek's latest stuff.
They're actually pretty good now.
Qualcomm lost an ARM. I really just want risk to win.
That's very funny. This is the kind of stuff that if ARM just acts like a petulant child about things.
In fairness. They did break terms. In fairness, Qualcomm is almost certainly not going to come out of this looking like
saints either. Licensing agreements do exist for a reason.
All right, Dan. It's time for After Dark. Let's do it.
Okey-dokey. I got to push the button.
And then do the purple.
Purple. Okay, Dan.
You're welcome. Merch messages. Can we deal out sitting here listening to the stream doing my plaque brachial therapy
for my eye cancer? Can't read well, but I can listen.
What is your most interesting non-tech podcast or book to read?
You're a book person, not a Vegas person?
Interesting. I- Most interesting non-tech book.
Okay. I don't know if I listen to podcasts.
Man, I'm mostly, I'm mostly an article reader these days.
I don't find much time to read for leisure.
After my sister died, Taryn gave me a book called Tuesdays with Maury that is like super
famous. I read that. So that's probably, that's the last book I read.
It was good. Hopefully it's not on topic for you.
I really hope your treatment goes well.
Any non-tech podcasts? Oh, podcasts?
Yeah. I only, and I don't listen to it that often anymore, but just the yard.
Yeah. Okay. Fun bro podcast.
This book, you said interesting book. I would absolutely not say this is the best book.
I don't even know if I'd say it's an amazing book. I haven't, I don't think I've recommended it to anyone.
It's always risky to give a book recommendation, right? Because like people are going to judge you immediately.
I'm going to only specifically say, your whole soul is about to be judged.
Because they said, they said interesting book. Okay.
Interesting. And it is an interesting book, S. 3.86 out of five.
And it probably, that's probably justified. The plot is not that amazing, but it's a very interesting book.
It's sealed when you buy it. You have to break the seal on it and then there's pieces of like evidence.
Okay. You know, they're looking for stuff that they can listen to as an audio book, right?
No. Okay. I didn't hear that part.
Neat. Let's move on probably. Okay.
I've got a lot of audio books. Hold on a second.
Okay. Give me more. All right.
Dan, why don't you read me another one while Luke finds some good audio books. Okay. Sure.
Excited for the, excited for the MCM collab video.
We're collaborating with the world's best off-roading YouTube channel.
Are there any other non-tech channels that would make it for an interesting collaboration?
Plato's The Republic, narrated by Ray Childs, or Childs, I'm not sure which one it is.
There you go. It does a very good job. It's a really good, listen.
There you go. Go with that instead.
Thank you, Luke. That was much more helpful. Or Barsk Elephant Graveyard, also very good.
Okay. I'm going to lean on, I'm going to lean on my co-hosts again.
I don't really watch YouTube much. Any other non-tech channels that would make for an interesting collaboration?
Channels. I don't know. Non-tech channels.
I would love to see you with a click spring.
What's that? He's doing an analog version of the Antikythera mescanism.
I guess that would be a tech channel because the Antikythera mescanism is technically
a computer. Of the non-tech channel. But he does machining videos.
I'd love to do like a... How wide do you go with tech? I think it'd be kind of cool to do like workstation effectiveness analysis with like an engineering
channel or like an animation channel or something like that because that's a space that's really
not well documented in terms of like how to benchmark.
Same with like music production. So we bring in like a bunch, we basically like bring in like four machines or something
like that. We built what we think is like a good, better, best, ultimate do-you-thing, you know?
We'll watch. Let's see if any of this matters, you know?
I think something like that would be pretty cool. Yeah.
I mean, you could work with like Bon Appetit or something and find like, you know, gamers
are notorious for not wanting to spend time cooking because I mean they could be gaming,
obviously. Bon Appetit gamer meals. Yeah.
Gamer meals from Bon Appetit could be pretty sick. We have a big sponsorship coming up.
The deal's not actually inked and I want them to be the one to announce it, not us.
But wait, why are you talking about that? Well, I'm not going to say who it is.
Oh. Yeah. But LTT Store is on kind of like a sponsorship drive right now, sponsoring other YouTubers.
So we're working on some stuff. So I'm not going to tell you who it is, but what I will tell you is that it's someone
that Floatplane Chat has mentioned in the last two minutes.
Oh. Yeah. And it's a pretty sizable sponsorship dollar amount.
It's comfortably five figures. So it's like, they're a pretty big deal.
Okay. Yeah. I'm pretty excited.
I'm trying to think what would be reasonable.
It's not Lunchables. Oh, I'm disappointed.
Can you survive eating mold for more than a week?
Well, I'll pay you a five figure sponsorship to find out.
Why the stomach pump tips? That would actually be a hilarious, like Mr. Beast style video parody.
How much moldy Lunchables cheese can you eat? Like the last person to be eating Lunchables moldy cheese wins this car.
We water cooled your dialysis machine. Doing some form of like computer experiment thing using Science Mindy, Hank Green, something
like that can be good. Hank Green seems super cool. Yep.
Everyone else is like too closely related. Like even an electro boom is probably too close.
We've already collabed with them. I've hung out with Smosh a couple of times at events and stuff.
They're like super cool. That could be fun. Yeah.
Kurt's Gazette. I can think of a few different ways that you could even do that as well.
I think for me, at this point in my career, honestly, I've kind of done it all when it
comes to tech. I'd rather go on someone else's channel now, I think.
It's like, yeah, I don't know. You're doing something like weird, let's play like...
Practically anything. Yeah, let's play paintball with grape juice. You have to catch it in your mouth.
Like, I don't know. Like whatever, whatever kind of... I don't know.
I'm just... You get grape to the mouth. That's an example.
Linus gets tied to the radiator.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
I was not expecting that reference. Oh man.
Okay. Five second films.
Yeah. Oh, that would be fun. Dude, I used to watch those guys in university.
They were back. They took a very long break.
I've heard, yeah. I'm gonna grape you. What is going on?
Oh my God. I'm the grapest.
I don't even know this reference. And I don't want to Google it.
Okay. Oh, is it?
Why is it because you know? Yeah. Oh, okay.
I remember now. It's a reference, guys.
Yeah, it's a reference. Okay. Great.
I don't know. I'd have to like bring up my YouTube and figure it out.
Very hard to watch. I think practically anyone. To be completely honest.
Yeah. Anyways, moving on.
Hey, Dale. I'm finally buying something from the store.
How is progress going with the city and the badminton center?
We submitted our package to the city. They have not gotten back to us like about the result.
But this is promising. They did get back to us to say that they have received our package
and that they have scheduled a meeting to discuss it
and that they would follow up with us
with a decision and next steps.
That's good. Me sounds like there are next steps.
Considering there's next steps mentioned. I mean, it's good that you heard anything.
Yeah. And the fact that they're on it, that's always a sign.
How quickly you get an email back tells you more than probably anything else
about how important something is to the person on the other side.
Sad. What?
There's a project that I'm working on. Took like over a month for them to respond recently.
But then we had a meeting about it this week. And now we have meetings about it every week moving forward.
Okay. Or I could tell you something about how busy the other person is.
Remember, it's relative, right? We can't change multiple variables.
True. You can't compare one person to another person. True.
I'm just saying that if you had worked with the city in the past
and they would take a month or never to reply to your emails
and they're working with them now and they're like on it same day, next day, a couple days, that's good.
Your priority. That's good. Yeah, you're a high priority.
So I'm really, I'm really, really optimistic about Whale Land.
I'm really excited. Yeah. As for Badminton Center, good.
It's been soft open for almost a month now, I think.
And next week, we are going to move the evening, the very evening,
7 to 10 p.m. drop-in session to be paid.
Wait, are the new floors in? No.
So only one side is open. And we have signs up everywhere saying that the floors are temporary.
So what's going to happen is we have placed the PO for our new floors.
They're from Victor. They have said 6 to 10 weeks for production.
Once they arrive, the same company that installed our floors
is going to install these ones for us because they did a great job with the installation, just the defective material.
So they're going to install it on the side that is currently unfinished.
Then we're going to move all of our programs over there.
Then they're going to go on the side that is finished now. They're going to rip out the bad parts.
They're going to put in the new parts and then they're going to go away
and then it will actually be finished. Good.
Very exciting. Super exciting. I wasn't expecting there to be so many people there.
It's very popular. Right? It was amazing.
Yeah, this whole time Dan thought he was building a giant facility
for just me to toy with. Because I was there by myself until like 1 p.m.
and I thought, oh man, this place is dead. Linus has no clients.
And then like 400 people showed up and all of the courts were jammed
and I was like, alright, maybe Linus shouldn't have been doubted ever.
And this is friends and family right now?
Well, people...
The best way to get people to tell everyone they know about something
is to tell them not to tell anybody. So we...
So it's friends and friends and friends and friends. To my knowledge, we have never posted it publicly yet.
And yet every time I go in there, I recognize hardly anybody.
I think we have over a thousand people in our customer database now.
My parents told a couple of their friends about it and they're like, I love badminton.
There's nowhere to play. We're going to go there. I had no idea badminton was this popular.
It was incredible. Are you going to work out with me again when there's a gym in the badminton center?
Absolutely. My life is calming down a lot.
I mean, I'll come back to the normal gym. I feel bad. Let's go.
I feel bad. I'm back to where I was before the sickness.
Good. I got a long way to recovery but things are calming.
Heck yeah. We'll get there. Yeah.
Alright. What else we got? In Supreme Commander, how do you deal with end game lag when all the players get to unit
cap? Same in... Faster.
Skill issue. Solaris, Kerbalville, Space Program, Minecraft.
No, it is a real problem. Even though it's an old game, like what is it, like 2008 or something like that?
I can't remember when Supreme Commander came out off the top of my head.
But even though it's an older game, it's single threaded and so even modern processors struggle
to handle the maximum unit counts on these like gigantic 40 kilometer square maps.
And if anyone, if anybody in the lobby has a slower computer, it slows down the game
for everybody because everyone has to be able to handle the sim.
So the combat is all physics based in the game. So because you're simming every moving projectile on the entire map, it gets pretty ridiculous.
It is fair that it gets ridiculous. Yeah. But yeah, there's not really much you can do about it.
Get good. Get better computers. I don't know, man.
Promote mindless consumerism. Buy more computers. Yeah.
Good. Make sure that when you're doing that, they're notably powered by batteries.
Yeah. Lithium batteries. Yeah.
With lots of nickel and cobalt. Ideally as much cobalt as possible. Yeah.
And have them flown in. Yeah. Yes.
And lead. Yep. And lead out.
Any updates on a potential collab with big time would love to see some LTT staff subject
to Jerry's lie detector test. I don't know.
That sounds really funny. And I don't know if, I don't think we have anything planned like collab wise, but I did
say before that I would love to sponsor big time.
I don't actually know where we are at on that. I don't know if I've gotten an update, but the team knows that I would like to do that.
So hopefully. I'd like to work with them. Hopefully someday we will get, I'll get like my phone blowing up like, oh, I saw your screwdriver
on big time. So we'll see. Hey, Luke's mom and DLL.
What are your thoughts on cod blops six having an advanced audio subscription?
What's next charging to unlock the frame rate? Wait, what?
What? I don't know. Like surround sound.
Also, I thought it was bloops. Oh, no, that's yeah, I've always called it bloops.
What enhanced audio?
What? Audio subscription. Do you need to buy it? How did how did I not see this?
OK, so I'm sorry. I'm on read write.com, which I've also never heard of enhanced headphone mode designed
to give you more immersive sound using tech from M body.
Directional accuracy helps you.
Directional accuracy. Did we come full circle all the way back to EAX?
Are they not using like F mod or Wu wise, which is spatial audio?
You can unlock a five year license for personalized sound profiles, your bodies,
immersed spatial audio technology.
What is this? I mean, it's not unprecedented to have to pay for a subscription or pay for.
Oh, yeah, subscription like at most. But to have to pay. Yeah, like at most in Windows, like to have to pay for like a like a Kodak or.
But accurate placement of sounds, which can be helpful.
Multiplayer audio cues, like footsteps, gunfire, $20 for a five year license.
I mean, that doesn't for the amount of money that you're going to spend on like dogs, right?
It doesn't seem. Wasn't it cod that had the stupid dog that you could buy that you were so upset about?
No. Oh, was that battlefield? No, it was a RTS game.
I don't remember the name. Are you sure? Yeah.
Whatever. The point is some like nonsense cosmetic for the amount of money you're going to spend on that.
This doesn't seem that unreasonable, especially if they're if it's effectively just
licensing a third party audio tech with that said, I think that this is what like a 90 Canadian
dollar game. Like if you're spending that much on this game, then I mean,
is it not pretty reasonable for them to just include good audio in it?
Also, like knowing that you're at a disadvantage compared to other players,
because you didn't pay the subscription that goes along with the game is.
That's how they get you a little rough. Valve recently released a special audio tool as well.
Faced Valve again.
Some Final Fantasy 14 fans, this is according to ReadWrite.com,
where the services been available for a while have expressed dissatisfaction
comparing it to similar technologies like Dolby Atmos, which some say offer comparable spatial audio without the extra cost.
All right. Well, good luck, everybody. Ah, man.
I had decided to not do the whole cod blop six thing.
And now I'm happy about that decision. I miss like having shooters to play.
You're going to turn into a non-gamer. Basically, dude, yeah, you're going to be a non-gamer until like Baldur's Gate 4 comes out.
Yeah. And that'll be in like, it'll be like 50. That's going to be by like Hasbro or whoever.
It's not going to be by Larian. Oh, really? Larian lost the license? No, they just left.
Oh, yeah. Based Larian. Yeah.
All right. Yeah. The next game that Larian makes is not going to be Baldur's Gate.
Wow. Wow. Hasbro's going to bung it up like so bad.
They have quite the blueprint to at least make like, you know, Far Cry 17.
Okay. Tell you what. No, I'm going to stop you right there.
Show me a like Hasbro. Show me a Hasbro game studios game that's like good.
What games have they made? I remember getting their Monopoly game in my cereal box when I was a kid.
I was going to say. Actually, those games are pretty good. There was Boggle Monopoly. I forget which other one.
I know I've launched games that had the Hasbro logo that I liked. And then I went back and remembered that it was those.
I don't. Just their board games, but on a CD.
All right. I wonder what Hasbro video games, Hasbro studio video games, what games have they made?
Yeah. I know they did the billion dollar investment like this year.
Basically, they saw Baldur's Gate 3 pop off and they were like, huh, billion dollars.
Yeah. I don't know if it's called Hasbro game studios. I just like, I know that they're working on some stuff.
Wait, Hasbro games is an Ubisoft?
Mac Warriors 3 Pirates Moon. I think that was the worst Mac Warriors game ever made.
Huh. Huh. They made Glover classic.
Hmm. Moving on. All right.
Cool. Good luck, everybody. Yeah. Hey, LLD.
Linus, how's the iPhone going? And how long do you plan to use it for?
Also, any idea when the retro pet cave will ever come back?
Our second order of the retro pet cave was a disaster.
They were the wrong color. They're all mashy. We're working on it.
But like, it's the exact same suppliers. Like how'd they screw that up?
I don't get it. Like just do the same thing you did last time.
Just don't swap or rune it. Drives me crazy, you guys.
It drives me crazy. Dude, I have so many more notes on my thing.
Like this dock is so long.
Like there's, man, so many of them are just little things that iPhone people are going to tell me don't matter.
And I'm like, yeah, to you, I guess. But to me, they do.
Like when you, okay. Have you ever, have you ever noticed this on an iPhone?
When you scroll? The scrolling is slow? No, no, not that.
Here, it's a lot more noticeable in the YouTube studio app, which I use a fair bit to like read comments and stuff.
It's community. Oh, it's the community tab now. They made an update.
Okay. So do you, crying out loud. Okay.
Okay. So as I'm scrolling, do you notice anything?
Not really. Do you notice that it highlights the comment that I click on,
even though I'm not interacting with that comment? Not always.
I did notice that happened a couple of times, but not always. I'm just scrolling and it highlights the comments.
Since you mentioned it, I don't think it's happened.
You know what? If it's already moving, it doesn't. There you go.
So see that? Highlights the comment.
Why? What other modern interface will,
will act like you have activated an element on screen
when you're actually just scrolling?
If you do it really fast, does it happen? Yeah. Watch.
Does it every single time? Why? It makes me feel like I'm misclicking stuff all the time.
What do you mean because you touched it? No. Incorrect.
Literally, Windows doesn't do that on touchscreens.
Android doesn't do that on touchscreens. It's really misleading because it makes you seem
like you're interacting with that element, but you're not.
I'm trying to think of what would cause it. I feel like it's like it's delay on interacting
with that element is really low or something. Well, no, because it doesn't interact with it.
It knows I'm just scrolling. Yeah. But if you like held press on that, would it do that
animation of you interacting with it in the exact same way?
Because if so, then you're just not hold pressing it long enough.
It doesn't do anything. It just keeps highlighting it.
Yeah. So I have to tap it in order for it to actually do anything.
But if I scroll and if I touch it first when I scroll, or if I just hold it, it just highlights it and then
doesn't actually activate it. Is it just people are commenting?
Is it just the YouTube app? Nope. Yeah. No, it does it in like my newsfeed and stuff like that.
Why? Why? I thought you're supposed to be a paragon of design in UX.
This is obviously wrong. Design in UX is subjective.
I'm also experiencing the bug where my ringer volume gets bugged
sometimes and goes super loud, literally interrupted a shoot
because my ringer was set to like this much and it was like
like going off in the middle of the shoot. Like it's been so buggy. It made me think, dude, I should change my ringer to the
EverQuest level up sound.
Most people aren't going to get why that's. Yeah. Anyways.
Oh, what was this? What was this? What was this note?
Oh, yeah. Oh, dude, when you're connected to CarPlay, if you take a system
screenshot, it sends your CarPlay screenshot as well.
What? Yeah. And as I I'm sure there's a way to unvat it, but it was not super
obvious and I was busy. So I didn't deal with it, but it's on my list of things to
figure out as well. So like it sends both like two separate things or they like
stitch together. They're like stitched together. I ran into a crazy bug that I recorded on my note nine where
touch wasn't registering in the right spot. I recorded that. So I'll have that.
I mean, again, there's lots of cool stuff. So since the last time we talked, the phone noticed that I
never really like deplete the battery and automatically
recommended I switch over to limiting it to 80% to optimize
the long term life. That's really cool. That's cool. I really like the way there's a little pop up in the island.
If you get a call on this and your AirPods are on you, but
like paired to something else. And this was to a Windows laptop. So it's not like they were talking.
Oh, we can like suggest you to take it over. Hey, can I grab? Can I grab that instead of just grabbing it?
You know, like your car will do. That was really cool. So there's lots of really cool stuff.
Lots of really cool stuff and lots of stuff that's just like
completely obvious garbage. Any man is saying that it's individual screenshots when
CarPlay is active, not that they're stitched. Oh, okay. Sure.
Well, when you're using the share interface, which is what I use,
they're both there. And there wasn't an obvious way to get rid of the other one.
Interesting. So I accidentally, when I was messaging Ploof,
sent him both my answer and my location.
Oh yeah, that is stitched.
Wait, is that two separate files? I don't know. Click it. Yeah, it might be two. No, I can't.
Oh, it's a screenshot. Got it. The point is just that it was, I wasn't expecting to send him
a screenshot of my map on CarPlay. That was not what I intended to do.
No, I haven't had the flashlight bug.
Yeah. So overall, I don't really like it.
It's really buggy. I was expecting a lot more just works and a lot less.
Well, there was the time when my phone just cut out when you called me.
That, yeah. Like turned off.
Like just turned off. And it was weird because on my end, the call didn't even disconnect.
And he, his call history has a log of our call connecting
and mine doesn't. Like it just has no idea that that ever happened.
The Android phone just overpowered the iPhone. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah.
How is it still buggy? They have one phone.
Everything's going to have bugs, dude. Yeah. You can't say how is anything still buggy.
Everything ever is going to have bugs. And hire a second dev.
They legitimately, they legitimately changed a lot in iOS 18.
They just, I don't know, it could be way better.
Could be way better. All right. Software is going to software.
Yeah, I hate computers. At Shorty Swift, you've spoken a few times about your disdain
for sleep country on the show, but you've never really delved into it. Yeah, duh.
Stop that. Care to share more info as to why you dislike them so much.
I will do you one better and I will direct you to the place
where you can go to learn all about mattresses.
mattressunderground.com is based.
You're welcome. Sick.
Typical Monday listener here. What's the most wasted qualifications that you have encountered?
Oh, A plus. It's all good.
No. No, that'd be something like with a Ph.D. Yeah, that's the opposite. Yeah.
No, we have some people who work here who have like just ridiculous credentials,
but do stuff here that has nothing to do with them at all.
Like almost almost any Ph.D. where you're ending up anywhere other than like research and engineering or education.
It feels like maybe you like you can get paid more for it.
Like if you have a Ph.D., I think you get paid more as like a counselor or a teacher,
for example, like in the public sector. But the reality of it is once you're in the private sector,
your initial compensation is going to be, you know, whatever it is, whatever you negotiate with your employer, but then beyond that,
your Ph.D. is not going to like get you a raise next year.
You're going to have to perform. So yeah.
Maybe that helps you do that. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it doesn't.
I have a ballet degree. Yeah, I could see that.
Not necessarily getting you much unless you wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Yeah. There's a lot of degrees that are like, if you want to teach the thing that you got your degree in, great.
If not, there's nothing.
Yep. Hi, DLL. Does the Floatplane tech stack utilize open source software?
If so, do you worry that license changes, like what happened with Redis, could impact future maintainability?
We do. And yes, but that's also a problem with not open source software.
Sure is. So like a big problem. It's potentially a bigger one.
Yeah. We're having an issue. I'm not going to name them, but we're having an issue right now with a particular company
where we wanted to change the tier of like subscription that we had with them.
And the way that that is being handled is extremely unsavory,
I will say at this point in time, to the point where we might just be completely bailing out,
which will take development time, but would be worth it.
We'll get them these vests, and our developers will code so much faster with AI.
I'll wait till it's done before I talk about it, because it's not done yet.
So naming them now would just be in bad taste.
Sure. But yeah, it's like... But we won't hesitate to name you if you don't get your act together.
It's pretty lame what they're saying they would be doing.
So we'll see how it goes.
I noticed you haven't had any new bonus bin items in a while.
Are there any plans to make a 2024 sticker pack,
another postcard, maybe some more of those cool pins or anything similar?
Yes, Sarah's been busy. We definitely have new pins coming,
and we definitely have a 2024 sticker pack in the works.
Everyone's so convinced it's Cloudflare. The one company I'll say it isn't is Cloudflare.
Yeah. Don't narrow it down for them anymore, though. I won't.
I won't. That's where it's not. Where's AJ? The only reason why I'm saying it is just because so many people said Cloudflare.
I understand why you say that. Yeah, we've definitely had some conversations with Cloudflare.
But in this case, it is actually not. I'm just clarifying that because so many people said it.
It's not Cloudflare. This isn't necessarily a question,
but give me an early birthday present. Next time Linus gets premium access to a company, let it be Valve.
I want to see inside the company we all have so much invested in with our libraries.
I'll tell you what. Our rep there is super chill.
She's really nice. I will screenshot this and I will send it to her.
Nice. All right. I'm not promising anything. Literally doing that right now.
Yeah, he is. A humble request.
I look so serious in the vest. Every time I look over the TV, I'm like, oh.
Yeah, you look like you look like I'm in my quarterly review meeting.
I did way too many of those over the last couple of weeks.
I don't want to do any more. Yeah, Luke had to dress up because it's not going to be positive.
You don't. You come into like a stained t-shirt. Yeah, this is fine. Okay, next.
Oh man, I better put a button up on. Oh no.
No, the clothes have been looking really good on you recently. Let's be the tall sizes.
It's weird. Yeah, it might be something to do with the fit. Interesting.
Interesting. Never thought about that. I had a friend come over and she was immediately like, oh my god, your shirt looks great.
I'm like, it's all size. I've had a non-insignificant amount of people mention that my shirts fit.
Unsurprisingly, it's always been like, you know, like my mom, like women in my life,
which there are not many, but. But moved my mom and.
Emma. And Emma immediately noticed. My mom immediately noticed.
Like it just, it actually fits now. Well, yeah. Which is honestly, you know, once you've partnered up, probably.
That's pretty much all that matters.
But like, it's interesting how fast. I'm not saying you should avoid other women.
I'm just saying like. No, it's, I don't know. You got the bases covered.
That's all. Yeah. Outside of work, like the casual hangouts.
I mean, I barely have friends at all these days.
Yeah, I don't know. It is what it is. It's everything's okay.
The shirts fit though.
Cool. Hi, Wendell.
It was this easy to get him to show this hard for the store. I would have made it this.
I've been asking for this for years. We told you that this would happen. It's been very clear.
There was no communication. We said exactly what we needed.
Every week. And now we are acting on our side of the deal.
Women have taken notice of us. And they have nice thighs and everything.
Oh, boy.
Hi, Wendell. Week number two of asking for an update
on the 3D printed custom loop. Oh, they do updates on Floatplane,
which is where we said we would do updates. Better get subscribed on Floatplane.
They do up in there. I've seen it. Last one I got for you.
Hey, LDL. I work as a private teacher for a family of billionaires.
The family does pro motor sports. If you homeschooled with an infinite budget
and lots of travel opportunities, what would you do?
I don't think I would homeschool my kids.
Interesting. Socialization is important.
Yeah. Maybe not when you're a billionaire. Yeah, maybe.
No, I would think if anything, it would be more important. Maybe you want a water mix.
That's why they don't. That's how they feel about everyone else.
I mean, I don't know. Maybe I can't speak for them. I'm not a billionaire.
If you homeschooled with an infinite budget and had lots of travel opportunities,
yeah, see, okay, we got a couple of problems here. So number one is at risk of sounding like I look in this vest,
my kids can have whatever education they want. Effectively, I'd have an infinite education budget for my kids.
There's no amount of like education budget that I couldn't afford at this point.
So I like kind of do and accept that I wouldn't homeschool them.
Like I just wouldn't do that. That's not even on the menu.
I think the homeschooling would be that you hired people
to come and teach them like the world's top engineers.
Yeah, but still. I think lots of practical experiments and demonstrations.
I think. Yeah, I think that'd be cool. Visiting a lot of.
Here's a laboratory. Here's a laboratory. Go learn how to do science with a team of people to teach you.
I mean, yeah, I guess that'd be kind of cool, but like.
Because I mean, at that point in time, they don't need to work. So all you really need to do is inspire interest.
So showing them how cool things that you can do with the different subjects are.
Go try everything to find what you're interested in and then we'll dive into that maybe.
I think so.
Make sure they at least know the definition of the word job.
Yeah, man, pretend for a little while. I'm just I'm just reading.
I'm just reading chat right now. It's it's interesting hearing everyone's sort of different
background. Like, yeah, I went to homeschool. It was great. I did homeschool. It was the worst I.
I think at the end of the day, they're going to make the best.
I think they're going to make they're going to make whatever they make of whatever they have.
Like I didn't have a fancy education.
And so much knowledge is available for free now.
And I just I don't know. I don't know if I'm convinced that that like fancy school.
I mean, travel opportunities could be cool. Like being able to see see things in person
instead of the infinite money and infinite travel opportunities. I think I think there's a lot you can do.
You'd also waste a lot of time traveling, though. Like no amount of no amount of money makes it so that, you know,
going somewhere far away. But when you've got private jets, you could have like the paperwork stuff
that they have to do on the planes. Yeah. I mean, I guess so you could just like, you know, let's learn about WAC Bennett
Dam by going there.
Like, yeah, I guess I guess that that's something.
Here's a helicopter. You can learn how to fix it.
Yeah. Have fun.
Man, there's almost too many. There's almost too many. There's almost too many options.
Like I wouldn't even know what to do with it. I have to confess. I haven't really given it that much thought.
I just let the school kind of do their curriculum and reading, writing,
arithmetic and a little bit of performing arts and fine arts and.
I mean, I would, I would be if I was, I don't know if you're clearly not the parent.
So if I, if I were you, I would be most concerned about making sure that
they're not just like. Did you just accuse Yvonne of cheating?
What? No, I'm talking to the person who sent in the merge message.
We all know Yvonne's the real parent. Yeah.
That's fair.
Of four kids.
And 15 cats. Five, five.
We'll get there. But like, yeah, I don't know, showing them
like the impact of bad things in our oceans and doing beach cleanups and things could be cool.
Doing things like that. Giving them a reason to give a crap about anything.
Yeah. My fiance is homeschooled. She's mostly normal. Says teedog420.
Okay.
Nice. Nice. Nice.
And I think that's it for the Wanshow. Yeah. We'll see you again next week.
Same bad time. Same bad channel. Bye.
It's like anything is kind of education.