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about it. Some people were incorrect spending. We should spend it on other

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my bad just for just for the full plane audience. This will be my screen for the

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for the day. I have this like paddle on the left where I'm going to stay tuned

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if you guys can keep me informed on important things that happen in the audio

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people out now. I don't I don't know

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just now. Okay, so front porch is just now. Okay. Okay. One person. Should we do

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this thing? Yeah, let's hit it. What was your snack of choice today? I went for

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Miss Vicki's sea salt and malt vinegar. I feel like it's a rip off that those

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multi packs don't have jalapeno in them. I think that's ridiculous. I

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generally think Costco does a very good job, but I do have one conspiracy theory

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about Costco. I believe that variety packs at Costco contain all the words

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that two thirds to three quarters of what you want and the rest something

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nobody wants. Both flats of bubbly have two flavors that I like and one that's

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horrible. It's like, oh, I get mango and raspberry, but also really grapefruit and

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then the other ones like lime and blackberry and like really cherry. Does

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anybody like Chick-a-Cherry Cola? Maybe they do. Maybe they do. Maybe I'm maybe

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I got it wrong. Maybe I got it all wrong, but it just feels like it feels like

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there's always one that sucks. All right, there's some people out there that

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like cherry bubbly. Two crew members out. Let's go.

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That's pretty cool. Yearly cadence begins. Artemis three next year. Artemis four

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year after that, as long as you know, nothing crazy happens in the world,

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Linus. I'm not ready to assume anything. As long as nothing crazy happens.

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Things that are scheduled no longer are scheduled to me. Yeah.

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Do you want me to hit it or are you hitting it? Go ahead, Dan, hit it.

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Look, are you ready? Yeah.

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Welcome to the WAN Show. We got a great show lined up for you guys today. It is

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week two of the positive WAN Show. I had more fun last week than I probably have

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in over a year doing WAN Show. Maybe we just keep it this way. I was skimming

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through the dock today and I was just like, yeah. Yeah.

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Awesome. I want to talk about all these. We got a lot to talk about. One of the

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big ones is that I have spent about the last week with my MacBook Neo

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I am ready to talk about some of my experiences with it, both good and also

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not as good. And in other news that I got right before the show started, you bought

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one. Technically, not for me, but yes. I freaking called it. So I can't believe

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how hard I called that. Yeah. I don't know. Usually you're the one who's predicting

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things out here like freaking Nostradamus and now I get to do it. Yep. It's a

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small win. Yep. But it's a win nonetheless. Speaking of wins nonetheless, the French

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government is ushering in La Nadelineux, which I assume is how they would say it,

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the year of Linux. We'll be talking about that. What else we got today? I mean,

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there's more Linux news on top of that. Dear John Deere settles US right to repair

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lawsuit agreeing to a hundred million dollar fund for farmers and other things

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that I think is arguably like more important, but we'll talk about that

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soon. Also steam. Just this is actually so exciting to me. There's going to be a

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I can't find the topic, but there's going to be a frame rate estimator for games

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when you're looking at them in the store. So you can tell how well it might

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perform on your machine, which is so sick and they would have the data. They would

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have the data. That's awesome. And I would have the intro.

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The show is brought to you today by D brand. Oh, dude. Squarespace and proton

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alongside our rep partner D brand and our chair partner and laptop partner,

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which is razor and also razor. Do we need to have a policy that you're only allowed

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to sponsor the WAN Show like once at a time? You know what? No. No, I don't think

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we do. Let's jump right into the headline topic, which this week has just got

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to be, I mean, it's MacBook Neo mania out there. And now that I've switched over

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to it, dude, I got to say it's, it's the real deal. Yeah, it's funny because the

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one that I purchased, which again, wasn't for me, but the one that I purchased

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is the same color. Yeah. Okay. So you're one. You like the, you like the, the,

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the yellowish, yellowish fun. There's so many things these days that are just

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either black or white. Yep. And it's like, okay. So it's fun to just have

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something else. I don't want to bore you guys. And I know that, you know, the LTT

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audience tends to swing a little bit less. Hey, I'm so excited about Apple.

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Please tell me more about Apple. So why don't I talk about some of the challenges

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that I've had with it? It turns out that while the MacBook Neo has been an

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absolutely fantabulous sort of daily driver machine, web browsing, word

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processing, chat, you know, all the things that I mostly spend my days doing

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have been, I don't know how to describe it other than enjoyable. It's just such

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a nice machine to use. Every aspect of it that you interface with directly is

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so good. But there have been a few challenges that have reared their head

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over the last little bit. And the one that's probably been the most disruptive

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to me is the limitations on the IO. If you're the kind of person that never

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connects your laptop to anything, I think I could recommend the Neo without

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hesitation. Unless you use software that you, you know, you know, you're going

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to need more RAM, you're going to need more performance for. If you're just

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someone who uses a browser on your laptop, heck yeah, if you dock, I've had

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some issues. Really? Interesting. We got a, one of those like dual USB-C port out

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into a big breakout box that just runs along the side. I think there's one

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from Anchor, Ugreen, a few different brands. Yeah. And it's been totally fine.

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to Apple, the display that I'm connected to, not the most compatible. It's

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that Dell 6K one that we did a video on a little while ago and there's two

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no way that this would be able to drive it. It runs at 4K, which would be fine

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except that macOS is native handling of non 16 by 9 and non the same aspect

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ratio as their displays displays is frankly unacceptable. There's already

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resolution rather sets your DPI like it sets your scaling is how we would

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sort of think of it on Windows and that can already be a little bit

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confusing. But on top of that, when you go through the list, even when you

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say expose all resolutions or show me every resolution or something like

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that, when I'm connected to that Dell, even when I close my lid, which from

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the last time I did a MacBook challenge, if I recall correctly is the only way

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to fully disable this display. You can't just like turn it off in the display

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manager. And if I'm wrong about that, guys, hit me up in the chat. But even

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if you close the lid and you're just only using your ultra wide display, I

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don't get a single ultra wide resolution. There is a tool that I downloaded.

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immediately and it is seems pretty pretty obtuse. So the stretching for my

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display has been pretty freaking annoying, not nearly as annoying as the

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occasional complete disconnects. Oh, weird. It'll just disconnect, go back to

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this for a second and then fire the display back up. I haven't messed with

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external displays. I haven't ran into any of that. Another big one is that I'm

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getting occasional Wi-Fi issues that I don't know if it's related to Apple's

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Wi-Fi chip or if it's related to our ubiquity access points or what it is.

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But I'm going to fire this over to Dan just so I can show you guys. But

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occasionally, I will just run into a situation where I can't stream video.

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and I was like, okay, that's really annoying. But maybe it's frame.io. I

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have seen it before. I've seen it on YouTube as well. But I was like, okay,

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maybe it's maybe it's just frame.io being a derp. And so I fired up YouTube

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and I had exactly the same issue. I literally could not watch a YouTube

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video. I'm not going to, I'm not going to make you guys watch the whole clip here. But Dan, did you, did you get that? Let me know when you get a chance

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and for me, for me, just while he's figuring that out, there was some

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stuff that was just like learning curve things, right? Because I have no real experience with macOS. So trying to figure out how to like set it up properly

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and stuff was just a little weird. But it wasn't that bad. It's just kind of

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different. And you know, coming off of being on the Linux challenge for two

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months or whatever, like learning new things about an operating system is kind

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of fresh right now. So not a big deal. You might say you're more used to

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thinking different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The thing that really got me, though,

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was installing stuff. It's very strange. If it's not in the app store, the

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drag and drop thing, it's like, oh, drag and drop. Give us one second. It's like,

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oh, oh, drag and drop, but you drag and drop and nothing happens. You have to

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like drag and hold and then like put it in an open spot in the folder and then

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it sort of happens. It's like, what? I don't even think you have to do that.

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around more and it's doing it in the background. And then you're like, oh,

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it's done. I was also a lot of like ghost loading where that's what I want to

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call it is where like you'd go to launch something. Nothing happens. Your

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mouse doesn't go beach ball. Just nothing happens. Nothing comes out. And then you wait and then you wait. Oh, man. And then you wait a while and then it

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just launches. People are saying wrong and stuff like, yeah, probably. I have no

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idea what I'm doing. It's just those are the things that kind of felt weird so

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far. And I mean, to me, it's like, I get it that that's the Mac way. You drag

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the thing over. Why? Yeah, I already double clicked it. Yeah. That was the

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weirdest part for me. It was like, what even is this step? Why? What is the

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point? Yeah. Why? Just how about just know I'm willing to bet. This is one of

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those things where I understand why other people are used to it. Totally get

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it. But hear me out. Would you notice or care if that step just went away and

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then nobody ever saw that ever again? Yeah, probably not. Why does it like

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mount the installers? Maybe I was doing something weird. Very likely I was

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doing something weird because I don't know what the heck is going on. I was just I've been disappointed by how many things I couldn't find in the app

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store. That too. Discord. Yeah, wasn't in the app store. Why wasn't discord

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in the yeah. Why isn't discord in the app store? And maybe that's on

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discord because I went to install something and then realized like, oh,

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package manager. I should just go use that. And then yeah, it just wasn't in

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there. It's very odd. I thought that was one of the steps where I was like,

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this is for sure a me problem. So I checked that I spelled discord right.

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Maybe it's buried for some reason. I scrolled the whole time. No, it's not there. Teams too. What the heck? Didn't look for teams. Yeah. And there's so

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many things and like because people will take advantage of of vacuums in

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available apps, there's all these things that are kind of similarly named

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trying to entice you to download them in the app store. It's like, no, it's

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obviously that's not what I want. Obviously, I just want teams and I just

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want my discord. Yeah. Other than that, it's actually been wonderful. Like I did

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the the body flex thing. I did that as like a demo to show them like, no, it's

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actually made really well. Yeah, didn't budge. Let's let me show you how

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wonderful the experience I had earlier today was made laptop. Yeah, but you

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don't know that this is. Oh, no, no, I rebooted it and the issue went away. Okay.

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And it's happened a few times. Got it. I don't think we ran into this. I wonder

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if this is a problem with your unit or something. We'll see if other people

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in chat have experienced this. We're not going to be able to watch this whole

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thing. It's a minute of us watching this YouTube video, not load. Yeah. So there's

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definitely been some just wasn't working. It just it was not working. It did. It

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did not want any part of any of this. I don't think we can go back down. But yeah,

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there you go. Let me just see if there's anything else that's kind of stood

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out. The performance is really great until it's not great. Search is incredible.

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Oh, spotlight. Oh, oh, you're he's not like now. I don't think I've ever used

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spotlight before. It's made me just mad again because I'm like, why is it

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window so much better? But spotlight seems awesome. The funniest part of this

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is that correct me if I'm wrong. But over the last few years, I feel like the

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Mac community has soured on spotlight a little bit and feels it's gotten worse.

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Wow. It used to be even better, like God tier. And now it's still like a tier

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in my it's way better in my opinion. But from my understanding, Mac users are

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a little bit like, come on, Apple, we can do better than this because they know

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they can spotlight is like I really, really like spotlight. I find the navigation

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of like, you know, your local storage and stuff to be pretty simple. Like none of

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it feels like too bad. It was kind of nice coming in with a little bit of

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preexisting knowledge, knowing that if I had like my active window, the controls

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for it, we're going to be up in like the top bar, whatever you want to call that.

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Like knowing that ahead of time was kind of helpful. Learning how to use the, I

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think it's called the dock, the bar at the bottom. Learning how to use that in

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different ways, like what things mean, like if it's to the right of the vertical

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line, it's not actually on your dock, it's just there right now. And okay, I

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want to actually pin that to the dock and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I continue to be annoyed that Apple just kind of gets a free pass for some of

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the included software that is basically an ad. Like the fact that Apple TV is

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just literally front and center.

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That's okay. Apple TV is probably fair. I did think it was kind of neat that games is there

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though, and there's like chess preinstalled. There's like some fun stuff.

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Like when you want chess, you don't want bejeweled with microtransactions.

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See, this is my point is like Microsoft used to come with cool stuff.

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They used to get pinball, table, free cell. Yeah.

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And now it's just like ad garbage. My job.

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apps. I'm like, oh, I wonder what the chess app is like. I wonder what some of these other things are like.

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to KDE, KDE came with a bunch of preinstalled fun little games.

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I was like, oh, that's pretty sweet. They're so tiny like.

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Katowice says you should try the Windows power twice equivalent of spotlight.

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It's so sad. It's not built in. No, it's infuriating that I'm not it's good news when show week.

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I'm not going to be infuriated today, but good call.

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Good call. But the number of times that I've read that comment in Floatplane chat is more

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than a dozen over a span of at least a couple of years.

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At which point it's not on me for not installing it.

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It's on Microsoft for not implementing it like if Windows is good by

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come on guys, I will likely be inspired to do things like that to mod it to

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make it even better, but Windows has to be good by default.

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If Linux isn't quite there, I'm much more willing to do stuff.

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Well, I didn't pay for it because this is free. I didn't pay for this is a very different.

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They cannot be seen as equivalencies in my mind. Even if you're putting the hat on and pirating Windows, I still think it's

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it's not the line is different. And if I can spend a little bit of time and get Linux to a great spot and

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then just use that, I would rather do that than fight something that

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actively seems to hate me. It's extremely different vibes.

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Oh, Dan, I have another fun one for you.

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I don't think this is really like actionable in any meaningful way.

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But I just thought it was so funny that here, let me let me send this over to

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you, Dan. Let's do a topic really quick that is related to the MacBook Neo and then

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we'll come back to something really funny. You're going to love this.

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The Neo has apparently been so popular that Apple is running out of the A18 pro

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bend chips that were not quite iPhone 16 pro ready, but work fine for the

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less constrained thermal situation in the Neo.

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Apple reportedly only plans to make five to six million units with the

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leftover supply they had and are now scrum scrambling to get more chips.

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I mean, freaking. How does it don't take this the wrong way?

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I mean this in the most respectful way because Apple is a modern day master

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class in supply chain management and forecasting. How the f**k did Apple think they were only going to sell five to six

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million units of these things? I, Joe Schmo, who can't make enough cables to save my life, could have told

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them triple it. Like this thing is an absolute game changer and that's probably before

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the educational institutions have even validated this thing.

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Like dude. There's going to be a lot more.

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How can they not? How could they that this is the kind of thing that I just I find so baffling

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like you remember back in the days when you were always working on

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like some review of some CPU or some GPU and we'd release our video where

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we're like, yeah, it's not that good. And then the brand would, they'd call you up or they'd email you and they'd

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be like, what do you mean? And we're kind of sitting here going like, you can run the same f**king

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benchmarks that we can. What are you talking about? And in a lot of cases, okay, this might explain some of it, which is in a lot

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of those cases, they did. It was the technical teams totally understood.

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Yeah. And it would end up, they would just end up being like, I don't know.

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It got to marketing and then they just said some stuff and like, that's not

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what we found. And this is like, this is the opposite of that.

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This is like, how could they possibly not have known that they had the

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product launch of the decade on their hands in at least in the laptop category?

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Seriously, name a laptop from the last 10 years as impactful as this one.

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I am not trying to shill. I don't have an investment in it.

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I think framework has been very impactful. I think if you'd said M1 MacBook, I would have accepted that massive.

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I still think this takes both of those though. I think so too.

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Just because of the accessibility. I think both of those are up there for different reasons because to me, the long

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term picture is also really important. This is not just today.

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This is a $350 laptop on the second hand market two and a half, three years

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from now. And the thing is with its build quality, it'll last probably going to be fine.

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Like you kind of had it slip a little bit early in the show and it bonked

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the table. Yeah, whatever. Part of me went like, and then I was like, actually it's a tank.

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Yeah, it's probably not going to care about that at all. And like the fact that there's so little battery in it to achieve the kind of

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battery life that I'm getting. It's not class. Well, it is class leading, but it's not.

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It's not game changing battery life, especially for a MacBook, but it's

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outstanding, especially when you consider the size of that battery. The fact that it's cooling isn't stellar is kind of fun.

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Yeah, like Alex's video, just putting the thermal pad over there.

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Like that's cool. That makes me want to go mod a laptop.

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I, um, I've always kind of wondered, um, like, you know how there's laptop

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docs that are supposed to assist with cooling by just blowing another fan

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at the bottom? Turns out they don't really do that much, at least for any laptops

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that we've ever tried it with. But I've always kind of wondered if there could be a thermal interface

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material that's non-goopy sticky enough that you could like, you could add

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a bit of surface area to something like, would that be a good product for

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just a machined aluminum thing that you sit your MacBook Neo on?

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Are we on the same wavelength? Did you get this from someone? Did you hear this from someone?

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You haven't heard this from anybody? From who? So I've been pushing this idea that there is a dock that you put your laptop

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in that you have to have like almost press it into like a switch to and

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then kind of, but flat.

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Okay. I was thinking flat, but however it works. Yeah. Um, and then it could like that, you know, where the USB-C's are.

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So if it's machined well enough, maybe as you press it in, it could like move a lever ARM that plugs in USB-C or something and it puts it on some

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type of cooling surface. And I was thinking it would be really cool if it was like an actual

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thermal pad, but they're probably all going to be too goopy.

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And when you pull it away, it's going to pull some material off of it. So like you, we need some way.

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And then I kind of came down to like, um, what are they called?

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Uh, uh, uh, basically a piece of metal with, uh, one of those frick, the

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electrical coolers that create heat on like a Peltier.

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Peltiers are cool. Probably not the answer.

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They're super inefficient. Yeah. Yeah. And you've got to get rid of the heat somehow.

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solution for this. And I don't think I would need active cooling.

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I think that as long as I could get more. Just don't know how you, and this is ignorance, not impossibility.

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I don't know how you transfer that heat super effectively without goop.

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we've dabbled in improving the cooling of passive Apple devices over many,

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many years. I remember water cooling, the original USB-C MacBook back in, what was it?

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Like 2013, just a tray of water or something like that. Yeah. Using plasticine or like Play-Doh or something to shield the ports.

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Yeah. And then just putting it in a nice bath. Yeah.

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Um, it made a big difference. Made a big difference. It was pretty cool.

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Um, but ever since then, I've always felt like the best solution would be

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something more like a, um, like a hot cold pack, like a freezer pack, like

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some kind of like a bladder that, um, that you could, in a perfect world,

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you could actually circulate fluid through so you could like water cool it,

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but without actually having the water touching it. I think you could.

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something like that. Yeah. Cause I, what the market, I have always adored the idea.

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Like I was pissed with the switch one that the doc didn't offer any potential

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performance improvements. I have always adored the idea that like it works when you're mobile, but then

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you can, there's like an incentive to plugging it in that isn't just big

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screen now. The incentive is like, this is performance mode.

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I always thought that was really cool. Um, and realistically, yeah.

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Uh, Avian's, this probably is an example of the type of device that you could

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just have a, a laptop stand with a fan on it and would probably get you 98% of

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the way there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the idea of like a big machined piece of aluminum with fins in it or

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something like that, that you like, that you put it on in order to get max

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performance and document, that's pretty cool. It might make more sense once we get something with an A19 pro, maybe a year,

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a year and a half from now or something like that. Anyway, back to our actual topic here.

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According to Tom's guide, Amazon seems to have the best availability of these

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things, which matters because if you're ordering direct from Apple, apparently

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you're looking at up to four week delays. Wild.

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I got, I got mine from, oh man, this is kind of unfortunate.

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I got mine from Best Buy. Um, they were totally sold out on the lower capacity, no touch ID model.

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Um, so got the higher capacity with touch ID model. I think that was especially touch ID.

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I think that was a good move because I was ended up being kind of happy about it

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because touch ID is pretty sweet. I have not only ended up missing touch ID just cause it's like convenient and

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nice, um, but I've noticed that there are some software flows that Apple or their,

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their software partners don't seem to have, um, factored in, um, for devices

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that don't have touch ID. So you'll like get prompted to, to do touch ID and like, I don't have one.

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doesn't just tell you, you don't have touch ID.

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Like it just, if you don't understand that you ordered one that doesn't have

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touch ID, okay. So that could be confusing to, to like an average user.

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So speaking of confusing to an average user, we, we didn't know that the, so

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that the touch ID, see how yours has like a power button or a lock button or

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whatever it is on that key on the touch ID one.

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There's no logo. Oh, right. Cause it's a fingerprint sensor.

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So we were trying to have her to touch ID and she would press it in.

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Like why the heck does the computer keep going to sleep?

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Like trying to do basically anything and the computer keeps just shutting itself

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down. We're like, what is happening? Why is this thing so buggy?

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And then yeah, no, it's, we were pressing the power button. That makes sense.

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Well, I was going to say, oh yeah, man, the best way experience dude.

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I walk right in, tell them exactly what I want and they're like, okay, I'll

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get it from the back. I'll meet you here in a couple of minutes. Okay, sounds good.

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Goes and gets it from the back. Like, uh, can I tell you about our service plan thing?

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And I was like, I mean, yeah, but I'm not getting it.

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And who's like, okay, and he pitched it to me. He's like worse than I even thought because now it's a subscription instead

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of a one time buy. Um, and he keeps going through the details and I'm like literally just sitting

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on my phone. I come not buying this and it goes on for so long and every once in a while

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look up for my phone and he's like, oh yeah, you can bring it into geekswad

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anytime and they'll, they'll repair it for you. And I'm like, you guys just ship it off, right?

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He was like, what? And I was like, you're repairing it through a depot. You're not repairing it here, right?

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He's like, yeah, but we give you like a loner laptop while yours is out

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for repair. I'm just like, wow, that sounds bad.

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Like, okay, back to my phone and it was like a long time.

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Yeah. I mean, let him do his job. No, I did.

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Yeah. You know, no disrespect to the guy. You got to, you got to do what you got to do.

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But product service plans. Yeah. Yeah, especially on, yeah, I don't know.

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So to address the availability shortfall, Apple is reportedly considering

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asking TSMC to restart a 18 pro production, which is wild, but TSMC is

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apparently all already maxed out on its three nanometer process. So other options that Apple is rumored to be considering are dropping the

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base model entirely and only selling the higher end model to hopefully slow

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down sales. That's not going to do much. Even at $700, it's an incredible value or accelerating the release timeline

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of the MacBook Neo 2 with a 19 pro silicon.

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Interestingly, the MacBook Air M5 is readily available, but that's probably

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because it starts at nearly double the price. The cheapest Neo. So it's not exactly, you know, filling the same niche.

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The Neo is kind of eating Apple's own lunch, but that's what, that's what

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hungry companies do. They eat their own lunch.

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They compete with themselves. If, if a series silicon ultimately makes the lowest end M silicon kind of

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redundant in the lineup, so what? That's fine. Great.

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No problem. That sounds fantastic. Apple, like they're going to get serious market share for it.

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macOS. If, if they can keep up, this thing destroys, like there's no, there is no

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other option that would have been even close to as good for the person.

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Well, I think it's pretty clear. I bought it for my mom, but I think there's, there's no, there was no other

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option for her that would have even competed. One thing that has been kind of nice is on a, on a hunch.

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I thought it might have been better for her because she, uh, adapted to iPhone

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a lot easier than she adapted to Android iOS and macOS have so little in common

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that it's kind of shocking to me. They come from the same company, but widgets on the desktop.

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I was off like working on something else for a second and she just

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like set up a ton of widgets for herself and kind of like organize her desktop

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the way that she wanted. I was like, okay, cool. That wouldn't have been natural to me at all.

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Um, and there was one of her apps where the like native app support for Mac

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OS is kind of crap, but, uh, when you click on the widget, it just launches.

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Um, I don't know what it's actually called, but it just launches like her

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phone on her Mac. Yeah. Screen mirroring.

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Yeah. And it just launches that up and then she just uses the phone version of the app

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and it's totally fine. And it's like, okay, she figured out all of that on her own.

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Sweet. So that, that part kind of worked. There are a couple of things with macOS that weren't entirely intuitive,

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but we ended up figuring it out. Um, and then the, just the laptop itself, like dude, if you, if you hand

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this to either of us three months ago or whatever and ask how much it costs.

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Minimum minimum and probably more than that.

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Yeah. Like got him. Damn. Okay.

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But here's a funny one. Dan, roll the clip.

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If I had a nickel for every time this has happened to me, I'd have two nickels,

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which isn't a lot, but it's funny.

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It's happened twice. How dude?

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How is that even possible? I don't know. How do you do this?

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I don't do anything.

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Oh my God.

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Oh man. I don't know how to deal with this anymore.

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It's like, I have this reputation, I feel for like being a hater, you know, like

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complaining that everything's a buggy piece of shit.

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I'm so legitimately happy that it's working great for you, but it doesn't

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change my experience.

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That's so funny. We even installed steam.

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I'm sure you did. Oh man.

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That's really funny. SofaTux says, thank you for getting footage.

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I have a pretty good footage.

403
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,340
It's not on this phone, but I have pretty good footage of my screen on my folding

404
00:34:42,340 --> 00:34:47,740
phone, registering clicks offset by about a centimeter as well, like regularly.

405
00:34:47,740 --> 00:34:53,140
Like dude, I just, I get so much weird stuff.

406
00:34:53,140 --> 00:35:00,440
Here's a fun one. And someone I know pulled up there Samsung, was it Samsung?

407
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,940
Ooh, I don't know if it was actually a Samsung, but it was a definitely a

408
00:35:03,940 --> 00:35:09,640
folding phone and compared, oh, okay, LTT Store.

409
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,540
We have new stuff. We'll get to that in a second. First, let's click on one of these products.

410
00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:18,440
You click so aggressively. Sorry. There you go.

411
00:35:18,940 --> 00:35:22,740
I get duplicates of our product photos on our site.

412
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,340
And his folding phone didn't get it.

413
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,040
That's strange. I don't, I don't understand. I don't know how to deal with this stuff.

414
00:35:32,140 --> 00:35:34,540
That might not be a problem for as long.

415
00:35:35,940 --> 00:35:38,540
I don't know if you want to announce that or not, but I'll just leave it. Announce what?

416
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,140
I don't know. I don't know. Just go for it. I don't know. The new site.

417
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,640
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a new LTT Store site. Yeah. Yeah.

418
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,940
Yeah. I think we've, I think we've talked about that. Okay. I have no idea.

419
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,640
Um, yeah, in like semi classic fashion.

420
00:35:54,740 --> 00:35:57,640
Development on the old site is not super attractive right now.

421
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,440
Oh, I get it. So I get it. It is what it is. Yeah.

422
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,940
Anyway, we can move on to another topic. You want to pick one?

423
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,840
Sure. There's so much good stuff this week. I want to talk about this Steam one, dude.

424
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:14,540
This is so sick. Steam client files point to frame rate estimator feature in the works.

425
00:36:14,540 --> 00:36:18,840
Data miners were sifting through a recent Steam client file release and they

426
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:23,240
uncovered references to a new feature called the frame rate estimator, which

427
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:26,440
would let you pick a game, input your CPU, GPU and RAM.

428
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:31,940
I also suspect eventually if you do the hardware survey, it will just already

429
00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:35,340
have that information and your display resolution.

430
00:36:35,740 --> 00:36:42,940
Yeah. If you do the hardware thing, yeah. Uh, and you can get a chart of expected frame rates based on crowdsource data

431
00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:45,540
from other Steam users running similar hardware.

432
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,340
The groundwork appears to have been laid two months ago when Valve added an

433
00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:55,240
opt-in option in the Steam beta client that let users share anonymized frame

434
00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:59,340
rate data initially focused on Steam OS devices like the Steam Deck.

435
00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:02,840
Um, at the time, Valve said that the data was meant to improve game

436
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:08,740
compatibility and Steam performance. Valve is not officially, Valve has not officially announced the feature

437
00:37:08,940 --> 00:37:12,240
confirmed a release timeline or really anything at all.

438
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:18,840
Um, but yeah, it exists as unreleased code and it sounds awesome to me.

439
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:26,740
This would legitimately, okay, I was about to say in a vendor agnostic

440
00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:29,940
fashion, but it's not, it's not vendor agnostic.

441
00:37:29,940 --> 00:37:35,240
It's, it's Steam. But actually technically very specifically now have their own operating system,

442
00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:44,440
which really throws that. But for me, this would pretty much address the problem of, you know, minimum

443
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,540
requirements and what graphics card should I get and what CPU should I get to

444
00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:52,740
play this game? This is amazing. Should I, should I buy this?

445
00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:58,940
And I don't know. I, I'd like to think that maybe this had something to do with some of the feedback

446
00:37:58,940 --> 00:38:02,540
that I gave Valve a little while ago on the Steam hardware survey.

447
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:08,040
It's been about a year. So they've legitimately had time, but basically I said, Hey guys, I love the

448
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:13,440
hardware survey. It's really cool, but there are some aspects of it that are kind of antiquated

449
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:18,140
now. If the goal is for developers to understand what hardware they should be

450
00:38:18,140 --> 00:38:22,740
targeting and if the other goal is for users to understand what kind of

451
00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:28,440
performance they can expect, then only reporting things like the number of

452
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,040
cores, the frequency that they run at.

453
00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:37,740
And I believe it even, does it cap at quad core? Or I don't even think it will, don't quote me on that.

454
00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:41,140
The granularity is fairly limited from what I remember for core count and then

455
00:38:41,140 --> 00:38:46,040
especially frequency, what I pointed out to them as I gave them examples of CPUs

456
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:52,140
that were released 10 years apart that have the same core count and the same

457
00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:56,040
frequency, but vastly different performance.

458
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,740
And kind of laid out why we need a little bit better granularity with respect

459
00:39:01,740 --> 00:39:05,440
to the generation of the hardware that we're looking at.

460
00:39:05,940 --> 00:39:16,240
And that would be beneficial to everybody. Users, game developers, realistically valve themselves and selfishly media who,

461
00:39:16,740 --> 00:39:21,440
you know, we will often lean on Steam hardware survey data in order to bring

462
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:29,640
the most relevant content. Like, I don't remember a single GPU review scrum that hasn't involved pulling

463
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:33,440
up the Steam hardware survey at some point to just, just to have the right

464
00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:37,340
reference points like, oh, okay, you know, blah, blah, blah, let's do this, this,

465
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:42,640
this and this. Holy crap. 6% of people on Steam are running a 3060.

466
00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:47,040
We should throw that in just for context so that 5% of the people watching

467
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:51,140
can go, oh, this is how it compares to exactly my GPU right now.

468
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:57,540
That's really important to us. And so I would, I'd like to think that they took that seriously.

469
00:39:58,340 --> 00:40:02,440
Realistically, Valve has very smart people working there and I'm sure somebody

470
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,940
thought of it, but you know what?

471
00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:09,040
I'm going to give myself 0.1% of the credit.

472
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:16,640
Okay, can I get away with that? I don't know. We'll see. If it happens, maybe that, that credit will have some value.

473
00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:19,840
0.1%, 1, 1, 1,000th. Can I get away with it?

474
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:26,740
I don't know. I can't guarantee anything. I'm looking here and yeah, for CPUs specifically, it's still kind of, yeah.

475
00:40:27,140 --> 00:40:31,040
Yep. This is not super helpful. 3.7 gigahertz and above, really?

476
00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:39,740
And no, we do have exact core count, so that is useful. But the frequency is a, is a major issue in my humble opinion.

477
00:40:42,340 --> 00:40:48,240
2.7% of users with 24 cores, but I believe that's logical.

478
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,840
So that would be 12 core CPUs if I recall correctly. Check 30, check 30 physical CPUs.

479
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,640
Oh, is that physical? Oh, okay. So those would be thread rippers then. Yeah.

480
00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:00,940
Really? 0.74% of users are thread rippers. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

481
00:41:00,940 --> 00:41:04,040
No, that would be Intel, Intel 24 cores.

482
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:10,240
Yeah, that's Intel. So that would be like 1,400Ks and stuff.

483
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,640
Oh, yeah. 8 performance cores, 16 efficiency cores.

484
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:20,640
Yep. Oh, see, but even that, bundling in efficiency cores with physical?

485
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:28,240
Exactly. There's just, there's so much more granularity that we could use to make more informed decisions.

486
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:34,340
Either way, I am, I am excited to see Valve build out their tools beyond just their

487
00:41:34,340 --> 00:41:40,940
one, their one console for the benefit of all PC gamers that are using the Steam platform.

488
00:41:40,940 --> 00:41:46,940
Do you need me to go back to your laptop? Well, I was interested. This is, this is certainly too old, but I'm really interested what happens to the

489
00:41:47,540 --> 00:41:51,440
OS X numbers in the near future.

490
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:56,540
I just think it's funny. They still call it OS 10. I don't think it's been called OS 10 for like a thousand years.

491
00:41:56,540 --> 00:42:02,140
Sure. But I like the, the pan.

492
00:42:02,340 --> 00:42:06,140
Okay. I want to, I want to look this up. Google search history for like running games on Mac.

493
00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:12,040
Cause these are selling like freaking crazy and they can run a ton of stuff.

494
00:42:12,340 --> 00:42:17,040
Like you can run cyberpunk. I was looking up for my dad to see if it could and it can run SnowRunner.

495
00:42:17,340 --> 00:42:20,540
Like it can actually run a lot of different random Steam games.

496
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:25,440
It can run cyberpunk. I played it today. It's not a great experience on 15 to 30.

497
00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:30,940
Yeah. That's pretty good. It's good for what it is considered.

498
00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:34,640
Yeah. It's good for what it is. Um, hold on.

499
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:38,540
I'm going to go worldwide, uh, last, uh, I don't know.

500
00:42:38,540 --> 00:42:40,840
Sure. 2004 to present. Here we go.

501
00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:48,240
Damn. Oh, put her perp, perp, perp, perp.

502
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,140
Wait for it. Wait for it.

503
00:42:54,140 --> 00:42:58,240
Ready, Dan? Dang. This is what I'm saying, man.

504
00:42:58,340 --> 00:43:02,840
Yep. Dang. So like it's like these laptops matter.

505
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:08,740
They're making, they're making a huge impact right now. And that's going to apply to gamers and which is actually really,

506
00:43:08,740 --> 00:43:14,140
really interesting for the overall like because when I'm looking at it now

507
00:43:14,140 --> 00:43:20,340
for March, 2026, Windows saw 4.28% drop in user share and the vast majority

508
00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:23,440
of that went to Linux, but 1.2% of that went to Mac.

509
00:43:23,740 --> 00:43:27,240
And then we have these laptops coming out and there's the Linux surge

510
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:31,040
seems to be continuing. I see threads about it constantly talking about pal people.

511
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:36,440
Wow. I haven't used this in a few years. I gave it a shot for whatever reason. Maybe it was us, maybe it was something else and it's working right now.

512
00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:41,740
Tons of trends about that. And then also these laptops are moving like crazy and Windows is getting

513
00:43:41,740 --> 00:43:44,540
Windows, at least for gamers is getting hit on both sides.

514
00:43:44,740 --> 00:43:49,440
I think there's a chance that Windows falls below 90% of the install base

515
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,240
for steam in the next. Yeah. Do you think it could happen this year?

516
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:56,740
For sure. I think if Apple had an, it might happen in the next couple of months.

517
00:43:56,740 --> 00:44:00,440
If they had an unlimited supply of a 18 pros, I would say yes.

518
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:08,940
I agree a hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. If they only have six, seven million of them, then I'm not, I'm not as sure.

519
00:44:09,340 --> 00:44:12,140
I'm not as sure, but that is wild.

520
00:44:13,340 --> 00:44:20,240
That Windows might be less than 90% of market share for, for, for steam.

521
00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:26,540
That's, wait, are they going to fall behind like NVIDIA? I'm going to be, I'm going to be, I'm going to be writing a video next week.

522
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:34,140
That tentatively is titled the humiliation of Microsoft Windows or Windows is year

523
00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:39,540
of humiliation or something, something along those lines. It might not be the year of the, this is not a title, but it might not be the year

524
00:44:39,540 --> 00:44:43,740
of the Linux desktop, but it definitely is the year of Windows humiliation.

525
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:50,440
Yeah. And just kind of talking through how, how tenuous, how, how dominant their market

526
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:55,440
share still is and yet how tenuous their position is becoming.

527
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,340
If that makes sense. And I'm going to kind of talk through some of the overall trends that we're

528
00:45:00,340 --> 00:45:10,540
observing both in the Linux world and the Mac world. And it's simultaneously amongst Windows users who are just so tired of it.

529
00:45:10,540 --> 00:45:18,840
You know? Yeah. It's exhausting. Why don't we jump into, why don't we pick a good news topic?

530
00:45:19,340 --> 00:45:36,440
Hey, that's any topic. Nintendo in a shockingly pro consumer move, like, wow, has divorced digital

531
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,740
and physical game pricing.

532
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,440
The complete quote is from a games radar article.

533
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:50,240
And this is, this is a quote. My guess is that this is actually them lowering prices of digital games and not

534
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:55,440
raising the price of physical games. That's where I'm at with this. I think generally, no, I don't agree with this part.

535
00:45:55,540 --> 00:45:58,940
Nintendo tries to do right by their customers and I think they do also

536
00:45:58,940 --> 00:46:08,440
disagree with that. I look at this as a pro consumer move. I think it's a smart move too, but it does appear to be that Nintendo will

537
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,140
be decoupling physical and digital pricing.

538
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:16,040
We don't know that this means that digital pricing is going to go down

539
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,140
and all the pricing is going to stay the same. We don't know that. It's just an assumption.

540
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:25,240
It could be that hardware that physical game pricing will go up, but given

541
00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:29,340
that they already increased pricing for the switch to generation, given

542
00:46:29,340 --> 00:46:35,440
that given that they've allegedly cut production of the switch to my guess

543
00:46:35,740 --> 00:46:42,040
is that they're looking at their business. They're looking at their business going, okay, we've got some good titles

544
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,540
for switch to they're very expensive.

545
00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:50,840
How can we address this in a way that doesn't that isn't a price drop that

546
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,140
doesn't devalue our software, which Nintendo never wants to do.

547
00:46:55,340 --> 00:46:59,440
But that's kind of what I'm saying is it would be a price drop, but only

548
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:06,240
on the digital copy. Yeah. So to me, the way that I'm reading this and maybe this is, maybe this is

549
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:09,740
hopeful, good news, April Wanshow Linus reading it this way.

550
00:47:09,740 --> 00:47:14,440
But the way that I'm reading this is that Nintendo is going to be the

551
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:23,240
first to blink and go, all right, digital is cheaper and I'm here for it.

552
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,740
Or maybe not, maybe not the, maybe not the first to blink.

553
00:47:26,740 --> 00:47:29,740
I mean, there's certainly no doubt that you can buy a PlayStation

554
00:47:29,740 --> 00:47:34,540
game on sale on the, you know, PlayStation store for cheaper than a physical copy at, you know, GameStop or whatever.

555
00:47:34,740 --> 00:47:38,540
I mean, it is pretty cool that Nintendo for the first time going.

556
00:47:39,740 --> 00:47:42,940
Okay. Yeah. It's, it's cheaper online. Yeah.

557
00:47:42,940 --> 00:47:45,440
And it always should have been. Probably.

558
00:47:46,140 --> 00:47:51,940
I mean, I think there was maybe an argument in the early days of steam that this

559
00:47:51,940 --> 00:47:57,440
infrastructure was so new and the investment in it was so colossal and the

560
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,240
value and the value of cloud save and the convenience of just downloading it

561
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:05,940
whenever, you know, maybe there was an argument to be made at that time, but I

562
00:48:05,940 --> 00:48:12,840
think in the years after that, it's been pretty hard to justify the price being

563
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:17,540
the same for a digital copy of a brand new title versus a physical copy.

564
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:22,940
Yeah. You can't, you can't completely remove all the cost of making the physical copy

565
00:48:22,940 --> 00:48:28,340
because there is expense in keeping the infrastructure up of distributing digital

566
00:48:28,340 --> 00:48:31,740
copies and stuff like that, but like, man, they are not even sort of close.

567
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:36,240
Aromene actually brings up another kind of, I don't know about good news, but

568
00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:42,040
certainly funny news. Nintendo lost the patent covering character summoning and battle mechanics.

569
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:47,240
Did you see that? Like the, the, the pokeball patent and no man's guy apparently immediately

570
00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:48,540
added the mechanic to the game.

571
00:48:51,540 --> 00:48:58,840
Look, I have my relationship with Nintendo as a brand is deeply complicated.

572
00:48:59,340 --> 00:49:03,540
There's so many things they do. I don't like you and I'll also buy everything you make that if they were

573
00:49:03,540 --> 00:49:10,740
anyone but them, I would, I would just patently, pun intended, refuse to buy

574
00:49:10,740 --> 00:49:23,540
anything from them. But on the other hand, like I don't, I don't know of anyone who so lovingly cares

575
00:49:23,540 --> 00:49:26,340
for their IPs with that said, I haven't seen the new Mario movie yet.

576
00:49:27,740 --> 00:49:30,440
Many of the reviews I've read of it were very negative.

577
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:36,840
However, however, however, I did my due diligence and I went back and read

578
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:41,440
the same people's reviews of the first one and they were also negative,

579
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,040
which to me is just an indication that they're probably not a lot of fun

580
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:50,240
at parties and the kind of people that sucked the life out of the room because the first one was just fun.

581
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:56,140
Not everything has to be that deep, man. Maybe I just need an excuse to eat popcorn.

582
00:49:57,140 --> 00:50:01,240
And if, as long as the second one is a good excuse to eat popcorn, I think

583
00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:04,340
I'm going to be pretty happy with it. Nice. All right.

584
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,840
I want to go see a movie in theaters for the first time in many years.

585
00:50:08,940 --> 00:50:12,340
I want to go see Hail Mary. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

586
00:50:12,340 --> 00:50:17,240
I want to see that too. There's actually, there's quite a few kind of interesting movies right now.

587
00:50:17,240 --> 00:50:19,940
My son really wants to see goat. I have no idea.

588
00:50:20,340 --> 00:50:23,840
Sports movie, but like animated with a, with a goat, like greatest of all time,

589
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,340
but also a goat. No, I put that together. Yeah.

590
00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:31,440
Oh my God. Is it like this generation's airbud?

591
00:50:32,740 --> 00:50:36,740
I don't know exactly what it is, but he's excited about it, which, you know,

592
00:50:36,740 --> 00:50:37,640
is cool, I guess.

593
00:50:41,340 --> 00:50:44,640
Where's it done by? Sony Pictures Animation.

594
00:50:44,940 --> 00:50:46,640
Man, where the heck is Disney?

595
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,340
Yeah. Like all these other, it's anyway, sorry, we can move on to someone else,

596
00:50:52,340 --> 00:50:55,140
but that's as a. We can talk about Netflix.

597
00:50:55,340 --> 00:50:57,740
Here's a fun one. Netflix.

598
00:50:59,740 --> 00:51:04,240
Get owned. Luke and I have talked about this extensively on the WAN Show.

599
00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:11,940
We've taken what I feel is not necessarily, it shouldn't be an exceptional

600
00:51:11,940 --> 00:51:15,140
approach to the subscription fees on Flowplain.

601
00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:20,140
Whatever you agree to when you sign up is our agreement.

602
00:51:21,140 --> 00:51:28,440
And while technically, for some reason, platforms are within their rights to alter

603
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:36,840
the deal, pray I don't alter it any further. We've never taken that approach and it looks like Netflix was just informed

604
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:42,340
that in Italy, you're supposed to do it the Flowplain way, unless you explicitly

605
00:51:42,340 --> 00:51:45,340
say that you have the right to do it your way.

606
00:51:45,540 --> 00:51:50,440
An Italian court in Rome has ruled that Netflix's subscription price increases

607
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:58,240
between, get this, 2017 to 2024 over a span of seven years were illegal under

608
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:02,440
the country's consumer code, which requires companies to provide a stated

609
00:52:02,740 --> 00:52:06,140
justified reason before raising prices.

610
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:13,040
Netflix now has 90 days to notify its roughly 5.4 million Italian subscribers

611
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:18,740
of their right to a refund or face a 700 euro daily fine.

612
00:52:19,340 --> 00:52:25,840
Lawyers for the consumer group, Movimento Consumatorio, sorry, I'm

613
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,240
sure I butchered that, estimate that premium subscribers who have been paying

614
00:52:29,240 --> 00:52:35,940
since 2017 are entitled to roughly 500 euros each, while standard subscribers

615
00:52:35,940 --> 00:52:44,540
are owed about 250 euros. That's like tidy little tax return territory.

616
00:52:44,540 --> 00:52:48,840
Yeah. That's not pocket change. That's freaking crazy.

617
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,440
That's go get yourself something nice or pay a bill, unfortunately.

618
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,140
If every eligible subscriber claims this, Netflix's total liability could

619
00:52:56,140 --> 00:52:59,240
exceed 2.3 billion dollars.

620
00:52:59,740 --> 00:53:03,840
On top of the refunds, the court ordered Netflix to roll monthly prices back

621
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:11,040
to the 2015 launch levels. 11.99 euros for premium, 9.99 euro for standard.

622
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,440
Sounds like a lot of people are going to be VPNing to Italy.

623
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:18,340
Netflix says it will appeal and insist that its terms have always

624
00:53:18,340 --> 00:53:21,440
complied with Italian law, but the ruling could have a knock-on effect

625
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,840
across Europe. Consumer groups in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland have

626
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:29,840
filed parallel challenges on the same legal basis and German courts in

627
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,840
Berlin and Cologne have already struck down the same Netflix pricing

628
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,140
clauses. Now it is worth noting that Netflix has updated their terms of service

629
00:53:38,140 --> 00:53:43,440
now and any price changes that they implement going forward will be

630
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,940
legal from my understanding of it. That's not in our notes, but that is my understanding of it from just

631
00:53:47,940 --> 00:53:56,740
my own reading before. But this is still a pretty nice little, yeah, a nice little W for

632
00:53:56,740 --> 00:54:02,440
consumers in Italy who are tired of, you know, getting squeezed on every

633
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,940
freaking stupid subscription service under the sun, just casually,

634
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:11,340
casually raising prices all the time. It's good news WAN shows.

635
00:54:11,340 --> 00:54:15,740
So this isn't one of the topics for this week, but YouTube had a

636
00:54:15,740 --> 00:54:19,840
premium subscription increase that, you know, just, I don't know,

637
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,040
it's that premium subscription increase like last time.

638
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:27,340
They say it's to improve the service and like last time, it seems to be

639
00:54:27,740 --> 00:54:31,940
more aligned with just general inflation and less aligned with any

640
00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:37,140
kind of meaningful improvement in the service. So make of that, whatever you will.

641
00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:40,240
I still, even at the new price, I still think YouTube premium is one

642
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:44,940
of the best bang for the buck subscriptions out there. YouTube is full of incredible content.

643
00:54:45,340 --> 00:54:49,840
I'd like to think like you're watching right now. I use it so much that it's worth it to me still.

644
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:55,140
And the fact that it includes YouTube music, which I find to be a perfectly Cromulant music streaming service.

645
00:54:55,340 --> 00:54:59,540
It's fine. And the fact that you can get it on a family plan for a deep discount

646
00:54:59,540 --> 00:55:02,140
and share it with up to five family members.

647
00:55:03,140 --> 00:55:07,040
It's just, it's, it's a great, it's a great value. It's an outstanding value.

648
00:55:09,340 --> 00:55:13,040
All right. You want to pick one? Oh, wait. Nope. Oh, I'm good.

649
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:17,440
Oh, oh, oh, guys, guys that, uh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,

650
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:24,640
pull up the store right. Um, we have a very exciting launch on LTT Store this weekend.

651
00:55:25,140 --> 00:55:29,240
It is the flex and flow collection.

652
00:55:30,140 --> 00:55:35,140
The first item from this collection is our multi-pocket leggings.

653
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:41,140
They're finally here. We started development of LTT.

654
00:55:41,540 --> 00:55:45,040
Um, I don't want to call them yoga pants, but they're yoga pants.

655
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:50,540
LTT leggings like, I don't know, three years ago or something like that.

656
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:56,540
Um, I am constantly reminded of this project because Yvonne loves her

657
00:55:56,540 --> 00:56:02,840
prototype ones so much that I fold them every week, even though we never actually

658
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,440
made the product. Um, so you're going to get more now.

659
00:56:06,540 --> 00:56:11,540
They're just like the leggings that, you know, you could get at one of the other

660
00:56:11,540 --> 00:56:14,240
stores that sell these leggings. Let's be real, right?

661
00:56:14,540 --> 00:56:21,640
Except they've got seven total pockets, two on the thighs for your phone and five

662
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:26,840
in the waistband for your smaller stuff. So you can actually carry your things without needing a bag.

663
00:56:27,240 --> 00:56:31,840
The fabric is soft, breathable and moisture wicking with lycra spandex for

664
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:37,240
great stretch and shape retention. So you can wear them for workouts, errands, or just all day.

665
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:43,340
People in the office have been really excited about these and they've already been wearing them to Pilates tennis and just around the house.

666
00:56:43,740 --> 00:56:48,340
You can now get yours at LMG.GG slash leggings and I'm going to take a

667
00:56:48,340 --> 00:56:54,040
moment to kind of go, Hey, are women viewers out there?

668
00:56:54,640 --> 00:57:00,540
We hear you loud and clear. You've been disappointed with the assortment of women's products on

669
00:57:00,540 --> 00:57:07,140
LTT Store. Here's your chance to help us invest in this category.

670
00:57:07,540 --> 00:57:14,540
This is a great product. Whether you wear leggings or not spread the word or wait, wait for a few

671
00:57:14,540 --> 00:57:17,640
reviews to come in and then spread the word.

672
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:23,740
It's a really good product. It is, I would say up to or at the top of our game in terms of how

673
00:57:23,740 --> 00:57:31,140
quality this product is. Um, if you want to see more women's products, you're going to have to buy some.

674
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:36,240
There's also, I saw people in fully chat earlier asking about like, oh, I fit,

675
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,440
uh, whatever size from whatever brand.

676
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:44,740
Yes. Um, will I fit these ones? There is a size guide.

677
00:57:44,940 --> 00:57:49,940
So, um, right here, some people don't see it because it's just like hyperlink

678
00:57:49,940 --> 00:57:54,040
text, but under the sizes on pretty much every product on the store, there's a

679
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:58,640
size guide, you can click it and it will be, yeah, a lot of like the pictures

680
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:03,940
and stuff are generic, but this grid will be for the specific product.

681
00:58:04,340 --> 00:58:08,940
So you can see your inseam length, your hip width, your, your pants, blah, blah,

682
00:58:08,940 --> 00:58:12,940
waist, relaxed, whatever, something and all your sizes that go along with that.

683
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,740
Yep. Very important. All right.

684
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,840
These ones are for the guys. These are great.

685
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,940
The flex pants. They're kind of inspired by like mountain biking pants.

686
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:30,840
So they are built to move. We've got reinforced knees, a gusseted fit, and a stretchy waistband with a

687
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,940
do not drop draw cord that can be tied on the outside or the inside.

688
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,240
And they've also got seven pockets, six with YKK zippers.

689
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:44,840
So you can carry basically everything and not worry about anything falling out.

690
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:49,640
The, they're really comfortable. They, uh, in like a weird way, like they're not soft.

691
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,140
They're like, um, here, right.

692
00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:59,040
I don't really know how to describe them. They're like, uh, interesting.

693
00:58:59,140 --> 00:59:02,240
Yeah. And they're on the inside.

694
00:59:02,340 --> 00:59:05,540
They're like, uh, I don't know.

695
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:09,440
I don't know how to describe them. I can see that being nice, but I understand what you mean by that being a

696
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:13,840
little bit different. Yeah. So kind of like, um, kind of like some of the French Terry hoodies, like

697
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,940
they're, they're soft, but they don't sit like right on your skin.

698
00:59:16,940 --> 00:59:24,540
So they're not super warming. Not like Terry at all though. I don't want someone to hear that and get the, the effect is like that where

699
00:59:24,540 --> 00:59:27,840
it's, it kind of, it kind of holds off your skin a little bit.

700
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:31,640
So it makes it feel more breathable, uh, but still not not cold.

701
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,440
Like it's still, you know, I don't know. It's a, it's a really cool garment.

702
00:59:35,540 --> 00:59:41,840
Sure. Did they fit you? Uh, I don't think they would cause these are a small, no, the, the inseam

703
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:46,440
length on all of them is 29. Um, sorry, these are not in tall.

704
00:59:46,940 --> 00:59:51,540
Yeah. It's pretty normal to have a 32, but okay.

705
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,240
All right. So those are, those are pretty exciting new products.

706
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:05,040
show, then I'm about to explain the coolest thing about the, it's not the coolest

707
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:11,240
thing, but it's a cool thing about the WAN Show. Instead of like other streams, just throwing your money at the screen and like,

708
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,440
I don't know, hoping Senpai notices you or something.

709
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,140
Uh, we don't do Twitch bits or super chats or anything like that.

710
01:00:19,340 --> 01:00:25,440
We do checkout messages. So if you want to send a message, all you got to do is head to lttstore.com.

711
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:32,340
Add something to your cart. And when we're live, you will see the interface to send a checkout message.

712
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:37,540
You pick your color, you fill in your checkout message. You can be anonymous or show your first and last name.

713
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:42,440
And once you place your order, it will either go up there.

714
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:49,640
It'll just pop up like, thanks Richie P over there. Um, oh no, it'll go to producer Dan who will pop it up like that, reply to it or curate

715
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:55,040
it for me and Luke to respond to. Should we do a couple curated ones to show the folks how it works?

716
01:00:55,340 --> 01:01:01,040
Yeah, sure. I got lots here already. Thanks for enabling my wife to get some high quality active wear.

717
01:01:01,340 --> 01:01:05,140
As for my question, what's the worst part of dealing with asbestos removal?

718
01:01:05,140 --> 01:01:08,740
The price. Besides the price.

719
01:01:08,740 --> 01:01:11,840
Was that in the checkout message? Yeah.

720
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:18,740
I thought that's why you jumped in with that. No, the worst part is the price.

721
01:01:19,340 --> 01:01:22,940
Nothing worse. Uh, well, it's not the asbestos getting into your lungs and giving a mess of your

722
01:01:22,940 --> 01:01:27,040
only right. Well, that's the thing is I didn't do that. I paid someone to do it. So the worst part is the price.

723
01:01:27,340 --> 01:01:31,340
I mean, I'd say my bigger concern when I was crawling around in the basement was

724
01:01:31,340 --> 01:01:38,340
like mold, not asbestos. Like if I, if I end up with some kind of weird mold lung disease or something

725
01:01:38,340 --> 01:01:42,140
like that, it's definitely from doing that, but I don't think there was really

726
01:01:42,140 --> 01:01:46,540
anything in the way of asbestos down there. Yeah. And I didn't really disturb anything.

727
01:01:46,540 --> 01:01:51,240
Like I didn't, I didn't break any, I didn't like touch any caulking or like

728
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:57,440
break any, uh, like, like, um, uh, break any materials apart or anything.

729
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,240
I just like hold like soggy carpet and stuff out of there.

730
01:02:02,340 --> 01:02:06,140
Okay. Up next just finished a computer vision project for school.

731
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:10,240
What is a project that felt super rewarding after completing?

732
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:15,640
Ooh. I have a pretty critical version of that, which is the mineral oil computer.

733
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:19,740
That thing got me everything. It got me grants to go to school.

734
01:02:19,740 --> 01:02:22,440
It got me friends when I was at school and it got me this job.

735
01:02:24,340 --> 01:02:26,440
That was a highly rewarding project.

736
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:34,440
Nice. Really worked out. Yeah. That's, uh, that, um, I'm not going to be, I'm not going to be able to beat that.

737
01:02:36,540 --> 01:02:39,940
Hiring Luke. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

738
01:02:39,940 --> 01:02:43,540
Is that a project? Let's go for the feels. I mean, it was a long interview.

739
01:02:43,540 --> 01:02:46,540
It was a very long interview. Yeah.

740
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:52,340
That's true. Yeah. Super a project that felt super rewarding.

741
01:02:52,540 --> 01:02:56,840
You know what? I'm not going to go with like the most rewarding, but I'll go with one that was

742
01:02:56,840 --> 01:03:03,940
quite rewarding recently. Um, I bought a couple of RC cars for me and my son back when he was.

743
01:03:04,340 --> 01:03:08,740
Well, it was like 10 years ago. So he was just little and I was, I was probably jumping the gun a little bit.

744
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:16,340
We didn't use them much and they sat for 10 years. And in that time, all the differential fluid leaked out, all the shock oil

745
01:03:16,340 --> 01:03:21,840
leaked out, um, the batteries like died, died, like not just were drained.

746
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:27,140
They, they died and, um, uh, there were some broken parts on them from

747
01:03:27,140 --> 01:03:30,740
the little that they were used cause I was reckless and he didn't

748
01:03:30,740 --> 01:03:36,040
know really how to control it cause he was just a little kid. And over the last few weekends, we've worked together.

749
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:42,640
We learned how to, uh, strip apart, uh, reseal and, uh, fill a, a

750
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:46,240
diff on an RC car. We fixed up the shocks.

751
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:51,840
We replaced a bunch of like broken pieces and then, um, with everything repaired,

752
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,840
we went out and made like a makeshift ramp and, uh, we're playing around

753
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:56,540
with it last weekend. It was super cool.

754
01:03:58,540 --> 01:04:05,940
After two races around the yard, I crossed the pool cover with some water

755
01:04:05,940 --> 01:04:13,340
pooled on it, burned my motor. So, um, we're not quite there on the reward on this project yet,

756
01:04:13,340 --> 01:04:16,840
but we're, we're getting there. We're getting there cause it was really working on it though cause

757
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:20,840
you're working on repairing it with your son, which is like so valuable.

758
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:24,240
Yeah. He's learning a little bit. Really cool. Um, we, we had to three D.

759
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:27,840
We had to make like design and print some three D printed parts in

760
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,240
order to finish the repair cause it was like, did he like leave that portion?

761
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:35,640
Yeah. That's kind of cool. Oh yeah. I got to show him how to use calipers.

762
01:04:36,340 --> 01:04:39,440
You know, just to, I don't just father son stuff. You know, sweet.

763
01:04:39,540 --> 01:04:41,240
Yeah. It's good stuff. I like that.

764
01:04:42,540 --> 01:04:45,740
I like that. Should we do one more down?

765
01:04:45,740 --> 01:04:48,440
Oh, no, we're not. We're doing two more topics. Let's do one more if you want. Nope.

766
01:04:48,740 --> 01:04:50,740
I don't want to. We'll do it later. Good. Got it.

767
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,040
Hey, let's talk about La Née de Linux.

768
01:04:55,740 --> 01:05:00,940
The French government is apparently accelerating plans to reduce reliance

769
01:05:00,940 --> 01:05:05,840
on extra European software in an effort to achieve digital sovereignty.

770
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:09,840
And when I say extra European, I don't mean super duper European.

771
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:14,940
I mean outside of European like, like extracurricular that like that sort of

772
01:05:14,940 --> 01:05:18,440
extra workstations at denim din.

773
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:22,140
Um, the French government's digital agency will be the first to be moved

774
01:05:22,140 --> 01:05:25,040
to an as yet unnamed Linux distribution.

775
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:29,340
My notes say insert holy war here.

776
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:34,740
Yeah. And other departments, including the national cybersecurity agency will be

777
01:05:34,740 --> 01:05:38,340
following suit. Okay. All right. Let's start it.

778
01:05:41,540 --> 01:05:44,840
I already, okay. Hold on. I know my answer. I know my answer. Hold on. Hold on.

779
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:50,240
Um, hold on.

780
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:58,640
Hold on. Um, I'm going to go with, um,

781
01:06:01,140 --> 01:06:05,240
Okay.

782
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:11,640
Go ahead. Um, hold on.

783
01:06:12,140 --> 01:06:15,740
Hold on. Mandrava. I think that was it.

784
01:06:15,740 --> 01:06:20,740
Mandrava. Mandrava. I don't know how to pronounce it. I looked at, I looked up, I was looking up distros before the show.

785
01:06:21,140 --> 01:06:25,040
I was like, are there distros that are either popular in France or largely

786
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:28,340
maintained by French maintainers? That's hacking.

787
01:06:28,340 --> 01:06:31,040
You can't search stuff. I had to just guess. All right. Fine.

788
01:06:31,340 --> 01:06:33,940
Well, I don't know. I could still definitely be wrong. I have no clue.

789
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,840
I, I think, I think they're going to be based and they're actually going to

790
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,640
roll their own. They wouldn't be the first government to do that.

791
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:47,840
And I think it's going to be based on Arch. Mand, Mandrava's or Maga, Maga or something.

792
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,540
Yeah. Can you just show me this word? No, I, What is this?

793
01:06:52,540 --> 01:06:56,440
Oh. M-A-G-E-I-A.

794
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,540
I'm not any closer than you. Magia something.

795
01:06:59,540 --> 01:07:02,740
I don't know. Um, I, I read something. Yeah. That's the successor.

796
01:07:02,740 --> 01:07:05,940
Whatever. I don't know. Classic Linux stuff. It's not Mandrava.

797
01:07:05,940 --> 01:07:07,740
I can, I can say that.

798
01:07:08,940 --> 01:07:12,340
Um, I have no idea what it'll be.

799
01:07:12,340 --> 01:07:16,340
If you look at user-based installs, it's very likely that it will be,

800
01:07:16,940 --> 01:07:21,040
you know, Debian based or Arch based.

801
01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:28,640
People are suggesting names for a French government own role Linux

802
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:32,140
distro. We've got Baguette OS. We've got,

803
01:07:32,540 --> 01:07:36,140
Distro of Liberty. Linux, Linux Arch de Triomphe.

804
01:07:36,540 --> 01:07:39,940
We've got, Um, Distro de Liberty.

805
01:07:39,940 --> 01:07:43,540
Bestie OS. That's pretty good.

806
01:07:44,740 --> 01:07:47,740
That one's pretty good. I like that. I'm, I'm, I'm liking a lot of these.

807
01:07:47,740 --> 01:07:51,240
I'm liking a lot of these. Libuntu. Libuntu.

808
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:55,440
That is pretty good.

809
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,340
Oh man. Oh man. Um,

810
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:07,540
That's fun. Uh, yeah, I wouldn't mind Sacre Boon too.

811
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,140
I hope they don't roll their own or if they do roll their own,

812
01:08:14,140 --> 01:08:18,840
I hope there's a lot of up-the-chain development that happens.

813
01:08:19,140 --> 01:08:22,740
I just, man, we don't need more fragmentation. Oh my God.

814
01:08:22,740 --> 01:08:26,240
No, we don't need it, but it just seems like the kind of thing that would happen.

815
01:08:26,340 --> 01:08:27,940
If you look at the Steam hardware survey,

816
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in regards to distros that are like on the more simple and easy side of things,

817
01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:38,640
Mint has a lot of install base. I don't suspect they're going to end up going there.

818
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,540
My guess would be is that they don't end up on Mint,

819
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:47,240
but we'll see. I could see Red Hat something like that.

820
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:52,540
There's something, something with actual Red Hat Fedora, like real support grunt behind it.

821
01:08:52,540 --> 01:08:58,140
Totally. Yeah. That would probably make the most sense, something along that line.

822
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:03,240
Being said by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, but still, Red Hat is American though.

823
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:10,940
Yeah, that might be fair. I'm not sure if it matters as much.

824
01:09:11,440 --> 01:09:15,840
I don't think it matters as much, but there's still a company behind it and that company's in the States, right?

825
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:25,240
Zusei is an open, Zusei is a more European centric and still very well supported and storied distro as well.

826
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:28,840
Oh, that could get it. Yeah, I think there, I think the origin there is German.

827
01:09:29,740 --> 01:09:31,940
Don't quote me on that. That could definitely get it though. That's interesting.

828
01:09:32,940 --> 01:09:36,140
I don't know, but it's exciting. And there's, there is a question here.

829
01:09:36,540 --> 01:09:39,540
We've seen similar programs elsewhere in Europe with the city of Munich's

830
01:09:40,540 --> 01:09:45,640
Limmux project running from 2003 to 2017

831
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before they ultimately decided to reverse course. Do you think France's efforts will be successful?

832
01:09:49,740 --> 01:09:54,740
And I think they actually could be.

833
01:09:55,540 --> 01:09:59,840
The difference between, I know I've said this probably every WAN Show for a month,

834
01:09:59,940 --> 01:10:05,340
but the difference between the last time we did the Linux challenge and now is genuinely mind blowing.

835
01:10:05,340 --> 01:10:08,340
Astronomical. Whoa!

836
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:13,940
Linux Mint has a French founder. Really?

837
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:17,540
Someone in chat just said it. I don't know if it's true or not, but someone in chat just said it.

838
01:10:17,740 --> 01:10:21,740
If that's true, if there's a chance that it's Mint, that would be so sick.

839
01:10:21,940 --> 01:10:23,540
That would be so cool.

840
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,340
You are actually rooting for distros like a Linux do now.

841
01:10:28,340 --> 01:10:30,740
No, I just be happy. You clapped.

842
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,940
You clapped. Happy little clapped. That is the definition. Happy little clapped.

843
01:10:34,940 --> 01:10:38,440
That is the definition. I'm genuinely happy with whatever they go with.

844
01:10:38,740 --> 01:10:41,340
I don't actually care, but it would be neat if it was Mint.

845
01:10:44,440 --> 01:10:47,440
I'm not a hater of other choices,

846
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:51,040
but I get a little happy when people use Mint because Mint is cool.

847
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaking of Linux, patches to the Linux kernel and KDE

848
01:10:55,940 --> 01:10:59,140
should give a noticeable performance boost to gamers

849
01:10:59,140 --> 01:11:03,440
with limited VRAM, which in 2026,

850
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:09,040
apparently includes cards that have only eight gigabytes

851
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,240
of dedicated memory, and that really has been a trend

852
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:17,440
over the last couple of years. Developer Natalie Vaugh has refined kernel level memory

853
01:11:17,440 --> 01:11:20,740
management and introduced a KDE plasma component to enable

854
01:11:20,740 --> 01:11:24,040
VRAM prioritization for the foreground application,

855
01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:30,040
i.e. your full screen game. The patches are out now, initially for AMD and theoretically

856
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:34,340
Intel, on CacheOS and on other arch-based distros.

857
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:40,140
If you don't use KDE as your desktop, the improvements are also available in newer versions of Valve's game

858
01:11:40,140 --> 01:11:43,740
scope compositor. If you're after the technical details, you can check out

859
01:11:43,740 --> 01:11:51,740
the developer's blog post, which Dan will not be posting

860
01:11:51,740 --> 01:11:55,540
in chat, so you'll just have to go Google PixelCluster's

861
01:11:55,540 --> 01:11:58,940
GPU blog. I can post it in Floatplane chat, at least.

862
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Thank you, Luke. That's wonderful. I appreciate you.

863
01:12:03,340 --> 01:12:03,840
Excellent.

864
01:12:06,340 --> 01:12:10,340
It says two more topics and we're through two more, but until he comes back, we're not...

865
01:12:10,340 --> 01:12:13,640
Oh, you know what? Yeah, we'll do sponsor spots. Oh, wait, I can't.

866
01:12:13,740 --> 01:12:17,040
I can't without Dan. I did have some people ask, like, oh, why are you so happy

867
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:21,540
about Mint if you're running Cache? I'm running Cache on my desktop PC for the modern...

868
01:12:21,540 --> 01:12:25,040
Cache and KDE on my desktop PC for modern features and

869
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:29,940
performance and power and raw. And I'm running Mint on my laptop for simplicity and

870
01:12:29,940 --> 01:12:35,440
stability and work every timeness. And that's why I would expect a government to go more on

871
01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:38,240
the Mint side than a Cache side.

872
01:12:38,440 --> 01:12:41,540
But I do think there's plenty of other solutions that would

873
01:12:41,540 --> 01:12:46,040
make a ton of sense. Fedora, Red Hat, things like that being among them.

874
01:12:46,140 --> 01:12:49,840
Maybe not Red Hat again, because the American company thing and that being, like, the whole goal of what they're

875
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:53,540
trying to get away from. I don't think it's the same as using Windows, but they'll

876
01:12:53,540 --> 01:12:56,940
probably still not go that route. I've got a micro topic.

877
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:00,840
This one isn't so much good news as it is hilarious.

878
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:05,640
Redditor underscore underscore 30 underscore underscore

879
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:09,840
posted a couple of screenshots showing an AI summary with

880
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:15,640
some facts about the company that acquired us nine days

881
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:19,640
ago on April the 1st.

882
01:13:21,340 --> 01:13:26,740
FOMO Foundry. This is great.

883
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:34,640
So apparently my browser thinks that FOMO Foundry is a

884
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:39,840
real thing. FOMO Foundry is an entity that acquired Linus Media Group in

885
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:44,340
April 2026, pivoting the tech media company toward a product

886
01:13:44,340 --> 01:13:50,540
first strategy that replaced its writing and engineering departments with AI tools like chat GPT and proprietary

887
01:13:50,540 --> 01:13:55,540
large language models. Following the acquisition LMG launched the Linus coin, a

888
01:13:55,540 --> 01:14:00,840
physical token minted from defective screwdriver parts which serves as a digital credit with a two to one

889
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:03,540
redemption rate to maintain financial solvency.

890
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:10,240
How could anything be so accurate and yet so fundamentally

891
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:10,640
wrong?

892
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,740
We did it. We did it. Reddit. We did it.

893
01:14:17,740 --> 01:14:21,840
We bamboozled. What is this? Is this is this Gemini then?

894
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:25,240
Yeah. It looks like Gemini to me. What's goggles?

895
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,840
Is this I just don't want to get this wrong. Wait, what is goggles? I don't know.

896
01:14:30,940 --> 01:14:35,440
Yeah. My browser thinks so this is it's some LLM somewhere.

897
01:14:36,440 --> 01:14:42,240
So what's see what seems to have happened here is that

898
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:46,140
DNS records indicate that FOMO dash foundry dot com was

899
01:14:46,140 --> 01:14:52,640
registered March 17th of this year. So it's possible that the AI is conflating that network

900
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:56,940
OS with our new corporate overlords or it's also possible

901
01:14:56,940 --> 01:15:02,540
that it just ain't that deep and it's easily confused.

902
01:15:03,740 --> 01:15:08,540
If you're wondering, by the way, we did register FOMO foundry

903
01:15:08,940 --> 01:15:11,340
dot AI. It's not Gemini.

904
01:15:11,940 --> 01:15:19,840
Yeah. So it's it's something we bamboozled something. So we did register FOMO foundry dot AI, but you'll have to

905
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:23,540
try it for yourself to see where it goes. We worked on that for a while.

906
01:15:23,540 --> 01:15:29,540
It's pretty good. I actually I I think the developers who worked on that

907
01:15:29,540 --> 01:15:32,940
aspect of the approfus joke are the unsung heroes of this whole endeavor.

908
01:15:32,940 --> 01:15:36,140
So it was like actually a lot of effort and so few people

909
01:15:36,140 --> 01:15:39,840
went to it and like won't necessarily have legs, but we

910
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:45,940
worked on it for a while. I know. And like to be clear, the the physical merchandise team,

911
01:15:45,940 --> 01:15:51,740
they did a lot of work getting the coin design did a lot of work getting the coin going that video production guys.

912
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,940
They did a lot of work make bringing the whole video together.

913
01:15:57,340 --> 01:16:00,640
Elijah died for this project. So that's true.

914
01:16:00,740 --> 01:16:03,740
That was that was unfortunate, but it still might not

915
01:16:03,740 --> 01:16:06,740
equal the effort, but FOMO foundry dot AI.

916
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:10,640
I think was more effort than all of those things combined.

917
01:16:10,940 --> 01:16:16,040
Like Elijah's parents raising him for over 20 years.

918
01:16:16,540 --> 01:16:21,940
I still pales in comparison. Don't think equaled how hard the developers worked on FOMO

919
01:16:21,940 --> 01:16:27,640
foundry dot AI. Yeah. Yeah, but they'll be remembered by us.

920
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:32,640
Um, I mean, I'm never going to give them up.

921
01:16:33,140 --> 01:16:35,640
Yeah, or let them down. No.

922
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:44,140
Uh, okay, Skoda develops a bike bell that can bypass speaking

923
01:16:44,140 --> 01:16:47,940
of bells that can bypass noise canceling headphones and then

924
01:16:47,940 --> 01:16:50,940
gives the technology away for free, which is awesome.

925
01:16:50,940 --> 01:16:57,440
This is so base. This is so cool. It sounds really cool to Skoda has developed the duo bell a

926
01:16:57,440 --> 01:17:02,540
bicycle bell engineered to cut through active noise canceling headphones, which is a major problem right now because tons

927
01:17:02,540 --> 01:17:07,640
of people have them. They've become very normal. Uh, in collaboration with researchers at the university of

928
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:13,640
Salford, the car company points to a 24% Ryzen bike pedestrian

929
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:18,740
collisions in 2024 partially blamed on the explosion of ANC

930
01:17:18,740 --> 01:17:26,440
headphones drowning out traditional bells. Researchers found a narrow safety gap between 750 and 780

931
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:29,640
Hertz where ANC algorithms struggle to suppress sound.

932
01:17:30,340 --> 01:17:34,340
So the bell rings at that exact pitch.

933
01:17:34,540 --> 01:17:39,140
It's a range, but whatever. Uh, a second resonator at a higher frequency keeps it

934
01:17:39,140 --> 01:17:42,540
sounding like it keeps it sounding like a normal bike bell

935
01:17:42,740 --> 01:17:47,040
and, uh, and an irregular striking mechanism produces sharp

936
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:51,140
sound bursts that ANC processing can't really react to in

937
01:17:51,140 --> 01:17:55,540
time. Uh, the whole thing is fully mechanical with zero electronics.

938
01:17:55,540 --> 01:18:00,140
That's the coolest part. That's so cool. So just so awesome.

939
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:04,540
Uh, and in real world, in real world tests with delivery

940
01:18:04,540 --> 01:18:08,140
couriers in London, which I'm assuming is like, I don't know

941
01:18:08,140 --> 01:18:12,740
like Uber eats or something. Yeah. Uh, I actually don't know pedestrians with ANC headphones

942
01:18:12,740 --> 01:18:16,840
detected the duo bell from up to 22 meters further away than

943
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:21,940
a normal bell. That's awesome. Giving cyclists a critical extra reaction window and a pretty

944
01:18:21,940 --> 01:18:28,840
decent one. Let's go to 22 meters in the context of like traffic movement.

945
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:32,440
That's, that's awesome. That's huge. That's life, life saving.

946
01:18:32,540 --> 01:18:35,640
Yeah. That's pretty true. It's called Skoda.

947
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:39,040
Good. Okay. Thank you. Cool. Uh, neat.

948
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:43,340
Uh, Skoda is publishing all the research and findings publicly

949
01:18:43,340 --> 01:18:50,640
for free so other manufacturers can build their own versions fitting given that Skoda actually started out making bicycles 130

950
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:53,140
years ago before it ever built a car.

951
01:18:54,940 --> 01:18:56,940
That is so cool.

952
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:04,340
Our discussion question is when's the last time a car company did something this genuinely useful for cyclists and pedestrians

953
01:19:04,340 --> 01:19:09,940
without trying to lock it behind a patent? Uh, I can't think of anything.

954
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:16,340
There's got to be something at some point, but yeah, I have no idea what this reminded me of was the seat belt.

955
01:19:16,340 --> 01:19:20,040
Wasn't the seat belt something like this? Somebody invented it and then made it free for everybody.

956
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,740
Yeah. But I don't know if that helps pedestrians.

957
01:19:23,740 --> 01:19:27,340
You know what? That's pretty based Volvo and seat belts. Yeah. That was that was very cool.

958
01:19:27,340 --> 01:19:30,640
No, I'm down with it. You know what? Let's go. Let's go shout out Volvo then.

959
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:34,940
Yeah. I mean, to the extent that the original Volvo even still exists

960
01:19:34,940 --> 01:19:39,840
as a car manufacturer, but I'm just, I'm just saying who knows.

961
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:45,340
I'm just saying. Well, no, like they're, they're owned by a who owns Volvo.

962
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:49,540
Yeah. Geely. I mean, everybody's, as far as I can tell, basically everybody's

963
01:19:49,540 --> 01:19:53,340
been sold to somebody since back then. No, no, VW is still VW.

964
01:19:54,140 --> 01:19:57,140
They're out there ford still ford for better force.

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Did we talk about Linux on limited VRAM already?

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Yep. Okay. Sure. The topic wasn't crossed off. So I wasn't sure.

1000
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Sorry. Nope. Oh, I just, I don't cross them off. I just, I just collapsed them.

1001
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I think Dan does. What a guy. And I got it.

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I got it. I think you were just getting water or something. It's fine. Cool. Just wanted to check.

1003
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Low plane announcement. We let Mr.

1004
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David Pankratts vlog what his week at LMG is like.

1005
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Huh. If you've watched any LTT videos in the last six to seven months,

1006
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David has been an unsung hero in probably at least one of them as

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he has been really helping out the writers in their push to getting

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especially some of the more technical aspects of things over the line.

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This week's Floatplane exclusive has him building a PC for Red Bull

1010
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showcasing scripts for setting up our PCs and being part of the

1011
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do writers at LTT. All think the same video.

1012
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You can go check that out at LMG dot GG slash F P WAN.

1013
01:23:32,740 --> 01:23:37,940
Let's see what people are thinking of this video so far. Yeah, they're people are people are liking it.

1014
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Pretty cool. He, um, he is aware of many, many, many hats.

1015
01:23:45,140 --> 01:23:47,140
All right. More topics.

1016
01:23:49,740 --> 01:23:54,640
Uh, yeah, there's a one I want to jump into where to go.

1017
01:23:55,140 --> 01:24:00,240
It's on the dock. So Samsung Electronics fires first shot and departure from ARM

1018
01:24:01,140 --> 01:24:07,740
develops proprietary SSD controller based on open source risk five.

1019
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It's happening. More risk news. It's happening.

1020
01:24:11,340 --> 01:24:20,440
Good. Samsung is launching its BM nine K one cool SSD lineup with a custom

1021
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in-house controller chip built on the open source risk five architecture. Marking the first time Samsung Samsung has shipped a commercial product

1022
01:24:27,140 --> 01:24:29,640
using risk five instead of ARM.

1023
01:24:30,140 --> 01:24:35,740
The move let Samsung skip arms licensing fees and customize the chip.

1024
01:24:35,740 --> 01:24:41,540
However, it was, which is especially relevant given arms recent legal fight with Qualcomm over chip design changes.

1025
01:24:42,340 --> 01:24:45,840
Samsung says the new design is 1.6 times faster.

1026
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:49,240
That does not mean your SSD will be 1.6 times faster to be clear,

1027
01:24:49,340 --> 01:24:52,840
but still that's very cool and 23% more energy efficient.

1028
01:24:52,940 --> 01:24:55,940
That does not mean your entire SSD will be 23% more energy efficient,

1029
01:24:56,040 --> 01:25:02,040
but it's still cool than the previous generation. Samsung is following Western digital, which has been using its

1030
01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:05,540
own risk five chips in SSD controllers for years and Samsung has

1031
01:25:05,540 --> 01:25:09,240
played around with risk five and other projects since 2020 sorry 2019,

1032
01:25:09,440 --> 01:25:15,940
but never shipped anything until now. The BM nine K one is set to launch in 2027 and that is awesome

1033
01:25:15,940 --> 01:25:19,740
because any commercial product products that ship with risk on them

1034
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,840
just makes it more normal to be clear.

1035
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:26,940
Which is ARM is also risk, but he means risk five.

1036
01:25:26,940 --> 01:25:31,740
Yeah. Yeah. The I have a theory.

1037
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:36,740
It's just a theory. That's not trademarked and he's retired.

1038
01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,840
Nope. He's retired. A computer theory. Sure.

1039
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:49,640
A computer theory. I have a computer theory. I have a theory that as long as the transition took between x 86 and ARM

1040
01:25:50,340 --> 01:25:54,140
or not even transition because they're very much still coexisting today,

1041
01:25:55,240 --> 01:26:02,240
but as long as that took I think risk fives rise will be.

1042
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:08,440
At most a third of the amount of time we're going towards a very

1043
01:26:08,440 --> 01:26:15,240
interesting future because with the like mind shared divestment that's

1044
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:19,440
happening from Microsoft and Windows right now of people interested in Mac

1045
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:25,140
and people interested in Linux and just kind of moving off of off of that

1046
01:26:26,740 --> 01:26:33,640
and hardware just getting a little funky like pricing has been really crazy

1047
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:39,840
a lot of Chinese manufacturers are starting to kind of prop up and look at that consumer market and go we might be able to take some of that

1048
01:26:39,940 --> 01:26:43,140
especially if pricing is going to be 2000% higher than it used to be

1049
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:51,540
companies like more and more companies. I'm finding discussions about risk five to be much more common these days

1050
01:26:51,540 --> 01:26:53,340
and it was even three, four years ago.

1051
01:26:55,240 --> 01:27:03,040
There's you know, Google making their own stuff Intel interested in being

1052
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:06,440
a fab potentially more than even their own like speaking Intel.

1053
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:11,840
I had this queued up already. I don't give financial advice on this show, but if you bought Intel

1054
01:27:11,840 --> 01:27:15,940
when I said that I thought it was looking kind of cool and laid out

1055
01:27:15,940 --> 01:27:19,540
all the reasons I thought it was kind of cool in the medium to long term.

1056
01:27:20,440 --> 01:27:26,140
You're doing pretty good so far. Just throwing that I don't know man.

1057
01:27:26,440 --> 01:27:31,340
I it's it's real tempting sometimes when I can just kind of like see

1058
01:27:31,340 --> 01:27:40,740
the tea leaves and I'm like this is the direction me being invested

1059
01:27:40,740 --> 01:27:43,440
in Intel would be pretty bad though. That'd be pretty bad.

1060
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:48,440
Anyway, yeah.

1061
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:54,840
Yeah. So it's like it's it's interesting. A lot of things are moving towards like actually genuinely moving

1062
01:27:54,840 --> 01:28:01,040
towards open source setups for things which is very based interesting.

1063
01:28:02,340 --> 01:28:04,940
It's cool. I don't know what that future necessarily looks like.

1064
01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:08,040
Probably a lot of fragmentation, but I think it'll be fun.

1065
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,640
I'm excited. Okay.

1066
01:28:13,940 --> 01:28:20,440
Next topic. Stay the path says yeah, that almost be as bad as like the President

1067
01:28:20,440 --> 01:28:24,640
of the United States shilling a ticker or like a crypto or NFT or something.

1068
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:29,040
You know what? You're right. I think that if it's their own name, I think they have to.

1069
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:33,840
That would never happen. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's pretty far fetched.

1070
01:28:34,540 --> 01:28:39,540
I wouldn't want to live in a world that's so corrupt that the politicians

1071
01:28:39,540 --> 01:28:43,640
at the highest level would shill stocks and also almost as bad.

1072
01:28:43,940 --> 01:28:49,040
YouTubers would do it. I don't want to live in that world almost almost as bad.

1073
01:28:52,740 --> 01:28:56,040
Speaking of far fetched Apple approves drivers that let AMD and

1074
01:28:56,040 --> 01:29:01,040
NVIDIA eGPUs run on Mac. Okay. I was so excited when I read that much of it.

1075
01:29:01,140 --> 01:29:07,440
Carry on. Yeah, it gets a little worse. The software is designed for AI though and not built for gaming.

1076
01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:14,840
Apple has officially signed off on those drivers. The drivers are developed by tiny corp, the company behind the tiny box

1077
01:29:14,840 --> 01:29:19,540
AI accelerator and Apple's approval means users no longer need hacky

1078
01:29:19,540 --> 01:29:23,540
workarounds like disabling system integrity protection to get eGPUs running.

1079
01:29:24,540 --> 01:29:28,040
This is specifically for AI workloads, not for gaming.

1080
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,540
The drivers are built for running large language models.

1081
01:29:31,740 --> 01:29:34,940
So if you were hoping to plug a GPU into your Mac and fire up games,

1082
01:29:35,140 --> 01:29:37,640
that's unfortunately not in the cards.

1083
01:29:38,340 --> 01:29:41,540
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding solid solid.

1084
01:29:42,640 --> 01:29:46,640
Tiny corp first got an eGPU working on Apple Silicon back in May.

1085
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:52,540
Twenty twenty five. That was not me by the way. That was the writer back in May twenty twenty five, but that required

1086
01:29:53,140 --> 01:29:57,940
unofficial methods. Now with Apple's blessing installation is straightforward.

1087
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:04,140
For context, tiny corp sells some serious AI hardware. Their lineup ranges from twelve thousand from a twelve thousand

1088
01:30:04,140 --> 01:30:09,140
dollar box with four AMD ninety seventy XTs all the way up to a sixty

1089
01:30:09,140 --> 01:30:14,040
five thousand dollars system running for RTX Pro six thousand

1090
01:30:14,040 --> 01:30:14,940
Blackwell GPUs.

1091
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:22,340
The reason that this is in good news when show. I feel like I should explain that it's still good.

1092
01:30:22,340 --> 01:30:29,040
Is that this is the first step sign of a potential future.

1093
01:30:30,140 --> 01:30:35,140
Faw in the frosty relationship between Apple and NVIDIA.

1094
01:30:36,140 --> 01:30:38,840
I would love to see at some point.

1095
01:30:40,540 --> 01:30:45,840
You know, I think asking for an NVIDIA GPU baked onto Apple Silicon in

1096
01:30:45,840 --> 01:30:50,740
a multi die package, that's probably unrealistic, but I'd love to see a

1097
01:30:50,740 --> 01:30:57,340
future where I could hook an NVIDIA GPU up to my MacBook Neo three

1098
01:30:57,340 --> 01:31:02,840
or MacBook Neo four and run serious games off of an iPhone CPU.

1099
01:31:03,940 --> 01:31:11,040
Be sweet and NVIDIA is down. We know this because they actually went and did the work and made a

1100
01:31:11,040 --> 01:31:16,640
driver and this was a number of years ago and Apple intentionally

1101
01:31:16,740 --> 01:31:19,840
blocked it from working ever since bump gate.

1102
01:31:20,340 --> 01:31:25,340
Things have been frosty between between the two.

1103
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:30,340
But I just I feel like both of them have come so far and been so successful

1104
01:31:30,340 --> 01:31:35,340
that you would think it would be time to bury the hatchet.

1105
01:31:36,340 --> 01:31:44,240
You know, maybe maybe maybe when pigs fly and you know me and gamers

1106
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:45,440
Nexus make up and kiss.

1107
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:55,940
I had a segue plan for the next topic and it's gone as I have no idea

1108
01:31:55,940 --> 01:32:00,140
what it was. I have genuinely that for an image in your mind.

1109
01:32:04,940 --> 01:32:06,940
His hair just draping around your face.

1110
01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:11,640
Hey, what makes you think I would be on the bottom?

1111
01:32:12,940 --> 01:32:16,240
So many things. Ha ha ha ha ha.

1112
01:32:19,140 --> 01:32:27,540
Key. I feel I feel like he would. Yeah, key cron has made their keyboard and my designs source available

1113
01:32:27,740 --> 01:32:32,140
allowing anyone to design or 3D print parts for their devices.

1114
01:32:32,540 --> 01:32:37,540
This is so cool. They published a GitHub repository containing production grade CAD

1115
01:32:37,540 --> 01:32:40,440
files for 83 of their keyboard and mouse models.

1116
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:45,340
Files are available in step for 3D CAD work, DXF for 2D plate

1117
01:32:45,340 --> 01:32:49,440
cutting and DWG for engineering drawings, meaning that owners can

1118
01:32:49,440 --> 01:32:54,540
3D print enclosures, CNC replacement plate, even in a new material

1119
01:32:54,540 --> 01:32:59,440
like brass or carbon fiber or design their own mods without reverse

1120
01:32:59,440 --> 01:33:05,240
engineering any of the measurements. Despite widespread reporting, though, calling this open source, key

1121
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:09,240
cron founder Nick Zoo has clarified it's actually source available.

1122
01:33:09,640 --> 01:33:14,640
So personal builds, hobby projects and educational use are fine,

1123
01:33:14,940 --> 01:33:18,540
but commercial use is strictly prohibited and you can't use the

1124
01:33:18,540 --> 01:33:21,340
files to manufacture or sell competing products.

1125
01:33:22,140 --> 01:33:26,140
Key cron had already published QMK and ZMK firmware source for

1126
01:33:26,140 --> 01:33:30,240
many of its boards. So this adds the physical hardware dimension to an already

1127
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:35,240
pretty open stack. They are miles ahead of basically every other keyboard and mouse

1128
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:38,640
brand as far as this goes who all seem to treat physical geometry

1129
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:41,140
as proprietary and lock it away.

1130
01:33:41,940 --> 01:33:45,940
I got to say this is this is admirable. I don't know if I would be able.

1131
01:33:46,340 --> 01:33:49,540
I don't know if I would have the stones to follow this step.

1132
01:33:49,740 --> 01:33:52,040
This is incredibly cool.

1133
01:33:52,940 --> 01:33:57,340
Now this is for discontinued products. And so I'm kind of I'm trying to think like screwdriver is one

1134
01:33:57,340 --> 01:34:02,440
that we've had people ask for the CAD for and I think upon request

1135
01:34:02,440 --> 01:34:06,640
we've provided the outside dimensions, but we have never

1136
01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:09,340
provided the drawings for the entire thing.

1137
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:16,340
I think if you're a if you're a manufacturing shop in wherever

1138
01:34:16,440 --> 01:34:20,640
and you want to rip off their keyboard, I think you can take it

1139
01:34:20,640 --> 01:34:25,640
apart and figure those things out. Like I think at like deep commercial level, you could already

1140
01:34:25,640 --> 01:34:26,640
steal it from them.

1141
01:34:28,940 --> 01:34:32,740
So I think there's probably some amount of recognition there

1142
01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:36,340
and them just being like, hey, the people who wanted to rip this

1143
01:34:36,340 --> 01:34:41,840
off already could have and we can be really cool guys to a lot

1144
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:44,740
of the people that that just want to do good things with this.

1145
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:48,340
So I mean, it sounds sounds like a great move to me and I don't

1146
01:34:48,340 --> 01:34:51,740
really think they're setting themselves up for anything super

1147
01:34:51,740 --> 01:34:58,040
horrible. No, I don't think so. I just don't know if I have the stones. It's so unconventional and maybe someday maybe this is the

1148
01:34:58,040 --> 01:35:01,240
first step in a move like this becoming conventional.

1149
01:35:01,440 --> 01:35:03,840
That'd be cool and pretty sick.

1150
01:35:04,440 --> 01:35:08,240
I'll have to do some reflection on it. You know, maybe someday.

1151
01:35:10,040 --> 01:35:12,740
Deity willing. I could be this based.

1152
01:35:16,140 --> 01:35:20,740
Speaking about things that are based dear like John dear that

1153
01:35:20,740 --> 01:35:23,740
dear. Yeah. Like like go for yourself.

1154
01:35:23,740 --> 01:35:29,740
I'm not calling them based to be clear. No, really not just happened to them is is good and I don't know

1155
01:35:29,740 --> 01:35:35,340
enough about this case to say that this was enough, but I'm happy that something happened that they are probably not happy about.

1156
01:35:35,740 --> 01:35:39,940
Dear settles us right to repair lawsuit agrees to 99 million

1157
01:35:39,940 --> 01:35:43,140
dollar fund for farmers couldn't couldn't make it one more just

1158
01:35:43,140 --> 01:35:45,240
make it a hundred, but I guess that's fine.

1159
01:35:46,140 --> 01:35:49,640
They put that into a settlement fund to resolve the 2022 class

1160
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:53,740
action lawsuit that accused the company of monopolizing repair

1161
01:35:53,740 --> 01:35:57,540
services and conspiring with authorized dealers to force farmers

1162
01:35:57,540 --> 01:36:04,040
to use them for tractor and equipment fixes. The fund covers farmers who paid dear or its authorized dealers

1163
01:36:04,040 --> 01:36:07,240
for large agricultural equipment repairs dating back to January

1164
01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:12,540
of 2018. More importantly, and this is where I got actually excited.

1165
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:16,340
Dear has committed to providing the digital tools software and

1166
01:36:16,340 --> 01:36:20,740
manuals needed to diagnose and repair its tractors combines

1167
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:24,140
and sugarcane harvesters for the next 10 years on a license.

1168
01:36:24,140 --> 01:36:29,040
Oh, I only read the first half on a license or subscription

1169
01:36:29,040 --> 01:36:33,040
basis formalizing a memorandum that had previously existed,

1170
01:36:33,140 --> 01:36:36,640
but was never legally binding license or subscription basis.

1171
01:36:36,640 --> 01:36:39,240
Ah, that feels like that's going to be abused horribly.

1172
01:36:40,140 --> 01:36:42,640
This is better than them having it under lock and key.

1173
01:36:43,140 --> 01:36:48,740
Yeah, because it just gets pirated immediately. I was going to say anything that exists on a license or

1174
01:36:48,740 --> 01:36:53,040
subscription basis exists on the high seas.

1175
01:36:53,340 --> 01:36:56,340
Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully that gets on the high seas like immediately.

1176
01:36:57,140 --> 01:37:00,840
Dear insists the settlement comes with no admission of wrongdoing,

1177
01:37:02,640 --> 01:37:05,940
but right to repair advocates are calling it a landmark win that

1178
01:37:05,940 --> 01:37:09,240
could set precedents for similar cases against automakers and

1179
01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:11,240
consumer tech companies and hopefully it does.

1180
01:37:13,640 --> 01:37:17,440
Our discussion question is, dear had to be dragged through

1181
01:37:17,440 --> 01:37:21,040
four years of litigation and a $99 million settlement to let

1182
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:26,440
farmers fix their own tractors. How many other industries are running the same playbook?

1183
01:37:26,440 --> 01:37:29,940
Oh, tons of them. Most importantly, I think is in medicine.

1184
01:37:30,740 --> 01:37:37,740
Like the fact that fixing people is also bound by these same douche

1185
01:37:37,740 --> 01:37:42,940
baggery moves now to be clear. I'm not saying it should just be a free for all because when

1186
01:37:42,940 --> 01:37:49,140
something is so important that it keeps a person alive.

1187
01:37:49,740 --> 01:37:53,840
I am not saying that just any random schmuck should necessarily

1188
01:37:53,840 --> 01:37:57,540
be working on it with any random schmuck parts, but there's

1189
01:37:57,540 --> 01:37:59,740
got to be a middle ground. Yeah.

1190
01:38:00,540 --> 01:38:05,840
There's got to be a middle ground. Yeah. I can tell you from experience that aviation has some of this

1191
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:11,140
nonsense in it. My uncle showed me a light bulb, a little incandescent bulb.

1192
01:38:11,140 --> 01:38:14,440
I should bring it in. I'll bring it in maybe next week if I remember, but it's about

1193
01:38:14,440 --> 01:38:18,840
this big. I get it for aviation because if you're, if you're totally

1194
01:38:18,840 --> 01:38:24,840
average size, light bulb this size, it's $20 because you can

1195
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:29,840
only get it from Deso directly. No one else is allowed to make it and it's the only one that

1196
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:33,340
certifies that you can put it behind like a little illuminated switch in a dashboard.

1197
01:38:33,340 --> 01:38:38,840
It's like freaking ridiculous. I just don't want people with big, shiny metal objects in

1198
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:43,340
the sky to necessarily have an easier time when it could result

1199
01:38:43,340 --> 01:38:46,440
in that big, shiny metal object smacking into somebody.

1200
01:38:46,940 --> 01:38:51,040
And, but I mean, that's the, oh man, see that's the dangerous

1201
01:38:51,140 --> 01:38:54,440
sort of territory that we end up in because that's the kind of

1202
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,540
justification that's given for locking things down.

1203
01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:04,040
So I'm just saying there's got to be a middle ground. Yeah. And with something like tractors, it seems pretty obvious because

1204
01:39:04,040 --> 01:39:07,540
the only person who could be harmed by it not operating correctly

1205
01:39:07,540 --> 01:39:13,040
is the operator of it. So at least by, by fixing it yourself and doing your own thing

1206
01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:16,340
to it, it's your own liability that you are ultimately creating.

1207
01:39:16,340 --> 01:39:19,640
Yeah. And it's sticky because I, I very much support rate to prepare

1208
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:22,840
when it comes to cars and cars has a similar problem to the plane.

1209
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:26,040
I think I'm just a lot less worried about protecting people who own

1210
01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:30,540
planes than I am protecting people who own cars. I think you're just worried that, you know, if anything bad

1211
01:39:30,540 --> 01:39:33,840
happened to me that you'd be sad. Thank you.

1212
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:34,740
I appreciate that.

1213
01:39:37,740 --> 01:39:42,140
You know what I'm worried about though is that the flat

1214
01:39:42,140 --> 01:39:47,040
earthers are going to have a field day with how good those

1215
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:50,140
photos of the solar eclipse look from Artemis 2.

1216
01:39:51,540 --> 01:39:55,540
They look almost too good to be real. Do you want to, do you want to fire it up while I just talk

1217
01:39:55,540 --> 01:39:58,440
through the thing? The full mass of galleries based, so I'll go there.

1218
01:39:59,740 --> 01:40:03,940
The Artemis 2 crew took a bunch of photos of the moon during

1219
01:40:03,940 --> 01:40:07,140
their lunar flyby and the images look like something out of

1220
01:40:07,140 --> 01:40:11,340
Asimov's foundation series. So I honestly, even, even some of the ones who are inside

1221
01:40:11,340 --> 01:40:13,640
the ship like that is such a sick photo dude.

1222
01:40:16,440 --> 01:40:20,140
Absolutely. This is about as based as a photo can be while there isn't yet

1223
01:40:20,140 --> 01:40:23,640
a moon base. This is probably the coolest photo of someone taking a photo.

1224
01:40:25,940 --> 01:40:29,140
But okay, we get to, we get to the real ones. You can download these.

1225
01:40:29,340 --> 01:40:33,340
They are really high res, fantastic background bait for,

1226
01:40:33,340 --> 01:40:35,740
for people who want to make cool stuff.

1227
01:40:37,340 --> 01:40:40,940
Some of these are just, yeah, wow. Isn't that incredible?

1228
01:40:42,340 --> 01:40:45,640
Um, okay, that one to the right there. This one?

1229
01:40:45,740 --> 01:40:51,240
No, uh, left, left. Yeah. Oh, I, I love this one.

1230
01:40:52,540 --> 01:40:56,540
That is so just like OLED friendly background.

1231
01:40:57,940 --> 01:41:01,940
Yeah. Wow. Maybe there's a little bit too much contrast along the bottom

1232
01:41:01,940 --> 01:41:05,540
left, but still. Oh, that's so cool.

1233
01:41:05,940 --> 01:41:09,340
There's a recreation of the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8.

1234
01:41:12,340 --> 01:41:15,340
It's, it's, it's, it's, yeah, hold on, this one.

1235
01:41:16,340 --> 01:41:19,940
They're very similar. I mean, they were taken, they were taken a lot of photos.

1236
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:23,140
They were taken a lot of photos. This one specifically called out as it, but yeah.

1237
01:41:23,540 --> 01:41:25,540
Uh, here's an eclipse shot.

1238
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,740
Oh man. So good.

1239
01:41:29,740 --> 01:41:33,340
It's so cool. So good. Oh man.

1240
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:37,840
The moon and nighttime is visible in the background as the

1241
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:43,040
sun is setting on the opposite side. The image captures the beginning of a total solar eclipse that

1242
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:46,240
astronauts were able to observe at the end of their lunar observation period.

1243
01:41:46,340 --> 01:41:51,340
Ah, ah, it's just, it's just the, the write ups are just

1244
01:41:51,540 --> 01:41:55,340
exactly what was happening. And yet they sound so cool.

1245
01:41:56,740 --> 01:42:00,040
Commander Reed Wiseman told Mission Control it was a surreal

1246
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experience and said he'd need to invent new adjectives because

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no existing words could describe what they were seeing out the window.

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NASA has shared the full metadata for the photos to prove that they are real, unprocessed captures from the Orion capsule.

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They're not renders. They're not composites. Just breathtaking photos.

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And yet I, I firmly believe photos of a set.

1251
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I firmly believe that because they look too good, someone

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out there will believe they are fake sponsored by blender.

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I believe that they're real and I firmly believe that I don't

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care because I choose to live in a world where it is real and

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that is more interesting and more fun and more exciting.

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It was, um, I, I, I made the mistake of watching a small

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amount of a reaction video of someone watching a stream of

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some flat earthers watching the launch and like talking about

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how they were faking it. And, um, taking the launch like fake.

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01:43:06,140 --> 01:43:09,840
Yeah, of course. Just go because a rocket launch has to be fake.

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If, if the earth is, you know, flat and stuff, you can see it

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from so far away and you can go not that far away.

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01:43:19,140 --> 01:43:22,440
Dude, they start talking about like how many camera angles

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there are and how many cuts there are to conceal like the,

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I don't know, the set or like the fakeness of it. They cut that. It's like, you know how many, you know how many camera angle

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cuts there are in a soccer game? Does that mean nobody has ever played soccer?

1267
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:44,340
What are you even talking about? Like it's watching, watching these people twist themselves

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into mental gymnastic pretzels to continue to believe something

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that is just so obviously not true.

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Like you can just think any of its bait.

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I wish it was.

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01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:03,240
Like some of it's got to be bait. Some of it.

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01:44:03,340 --> 01:44:09,440
I'm sure there's also people. Here's the thing that believe it. If the influencers are all are 100% of them.

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01:44:09,440 --> 01:44:13,040
If 100% of them are grifters, right? My NASA paycheck came in.

1275
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:18,640
Sure. So if 100% of the influencers in the space are grifters,

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01:44:20,340 --> 01:44:24,640
then if nobody actually believed it, who would be following them

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then?

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Like I'm saying, even if the people who are, who are most

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active in propagating the conspiracy theory are in on it.

1280
01:44:37,140 --> 01:44:41,240
Okay. Obviously somebody's not because they wouldn't be watching this.

1281
01:44:42,640 --> 01:44:45,940
So, so I can't, so I can't accept. But you watched it.

1282
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,340
No, I watched someone watching it to make fun of it.

1283
01:44:49,840 --> 01:44:52,840
But I think there's a lot of people that will rage watch stuff like that.

1284
01:44:53,340 --> 01:44:55,540
Okay. I'm going to say something sadder.

1285
01:44:56,640 --> 01:44:59,640
A peripheral family member. Oh, no.

1286
01:44:59,640 --> 01:45:04,640
I ended up in like a fairly, I don't know about heated, but

1287
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:07,840
definitely firm conversation with about it at some point.

1288
01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:12,540
So that's unfortunate. Yeah. And there was like, it wasn't, it wasn't like at the end of it.

1289
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They were like, I'm just kidding.

1290
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Like, you know, there, there was emotion.

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So no, no, I'm sorry. I love commitment to something so sad.

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It's almost admirable. It's just a, no, it's not a less interesting world.

1293
01:45:35,540 --> 01:45:43,040
It's like there's so much like, I don't know. I think a flat, I think a flat like pancake thing rotating around

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amidst all the other round planets is pretty interesting.

1295
01:45:46,740 --> 01:45:50,740
But like also to believe that we've never made it out there and we've never learned these things.

1296
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We've never, you know, mankind never took that step.

1297
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:58,240
Like it's just, it's smaller. It's narrower.

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It's a, there's so much darkness and like sadness and negativity

1299
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in the world very heavily right now. Not on the land show.

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And there's, there's these, there's these moments of like human

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brightness that happen and to deny that is just so sad.

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I, I, that's why it's like, I fully believe that it's real.

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01:46:21,540 --> 01:46:25,240
And even if I didn't. I would want to.

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01:46:26,340 --> 01:46:30,140
Okay. This might not be a topic for when show, but would you extend

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that logic to.

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I do a placebo things. Dragons.

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01:46:37,940 --> 01:46:42,040
Do you choose to believe abominable snowman is real because that's more interesting?

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I think abominable snowman is pretty interesting. It's not good though.

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That's interesting, but it's not good. Part of this is that it's good.

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I mean, the vacuum of space is not good, but it's interesting.

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There's nothing to lead me to believe either of those things

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are legitimate. Okay. So you want some evidence. They're vaguely interesting.

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I don't think they're anywhere even in the same stratosphere

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as interesting as, as, as this and I don't see them as good.

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01:47:10,440 --> 01:47:13,540
So like, I don't think they're equivalencies. I understand what you're trying to go for.

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01:47:13,540 --> 01:47:20,740
There might be other things. I think for me, it's placebo. So within limits of, you know, things that you have actual

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any evidence for whatsoever, you choose to believe the more

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interesting and exciting version and good for now.

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01:47:27,340 --> 01:47:34,740
And that's one of the like, I will, I will repeatedly tell myself that if I take like a, a drug or a treatment for

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something, I will like push into my brain repeatedly.

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01:47:38,440 --> 01:47:41,540
Like it's good that I'm taking this cause it works. Right.

1322
01:47:41,540 --> 01:47:49,740
Oh yeah. And I'll like fullheartedly believe that cause I'm like, all right, come on in some way, in some way this will work.

1323
01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:54,040
So like, yeah, I think I do that with more than just NASA stuff,

1324
01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:58,240
but the house, I mean, I've, I've, I've seen a rocket takeoff.

1325
01:47:59,340 --> 01:48:02,540
I don't know, bro. You can just go.

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The ducks are free.

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I don't know, man. In other space related news, the FCC is set to supercharge

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satellite internet performance and potentially lower costs.

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01:48:16,040 --> 01:48:20,040
They just announced they'll vote on April 30th on an order to

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overhaul satellite spectrum sharing rules from the 1990s,

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replacing the old equivalent power flux density framework that

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limits how much signal, how much signal power, low earth orbit

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01:48:30,140 --> 01:48:35,840
satellites like Starlink can use. FCC chair Brendan Carr said that the change could boost

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capacity for space based broadband by as much as seven times current levels using the same number of satellites.

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The rule change would mean faster speeds, potentially lower costs and better service for rural and remote users

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with the FCC estimating more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the U.S.

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alone. Space X, which has lobbied heavily for the change,

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01:48:53,340 --> 01:48:57,940
stands to gain the most. Starlink accounts for about 65% of all active satellites

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in orbit and they have more than 10 million subscribers worldwide.

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The timing is pretty excellent for them right now too with the rumored IPO coming.

1341
01:49:05,440 --> 01:49:10,740
Interestingly though, not everyone's on board. Geostationary satellite operators like Viacet, SES and

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Direct TV opposed the change, arguing that loosening the power

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limits could cause interference with their existing fleets.

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In other NASA news, that's a fan testing video that we released

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01:49:25,140 --> 01:49:28,240
this week. It took a long time, which was not great.

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01:49:28,540 --> 01:49:31,840
Like I think Adam's trip was like a year ago, but the timing

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ended up being really good. To the point where a lot of people thought you guys didn't

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intentionally. Nope. Don't think you did.

1349
01:49:38,540 --> 01:49:41,840
Definitely not. There was just a lot of math and a lot of coordination and a

1350
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:46,040
lot of just things taken a long time and we eventually got it

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01:49:46,040 --> 01:49:49,640
done. Dr. Lewis Edelman, former NASA scientist, delved into the

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01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:54,440
detail. Of the fan testing equipment and methodology in an article on

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the LTT Labs website.

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How freaking cool is that? We have a special guest writer.

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Awesome. You guys are definitely going to want to head over there and

1356
01:50:08,940 --> 01:50:12,440
read this because there's only so much that we can cover in a

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video format and while keeping it, you know, not a snooze fest

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and you can see as I go through this clearly.

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Not all of this was in there. And just because it's not a snooze via text or sorry, just

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because it would be kind of snooze worthy and video doesn't mean that it's snooze worthy via totally.

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It's an excellent read and you guys are going to want to check

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it out. We also have another LTT Labs article to promote and that is

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power supply, turn on and turn off timings.

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It's something that I had never thought about before and don't

1365
01:50:49,240 --> 01:50:54,440
get scared by this because Lucas actually does a really good

1366
01:50:54,440 --> 01:50:59,140
job breaking stuff down of explaining all these values and

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why they exist and why they matter, which is pretty cool.

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There's a lot more to the ATX specification than just like

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12 volt go burr. It's really cool stuff and once you understand it more,

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you properly appreciate just how smart the folks who design

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these standards are and how important they are like Intel.

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Telerious like Intel never Intel never made a power supply for you to put in your gaming rig.

1373
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But here they are start foundationally involved in the

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design of functionally every single one you've ever used in

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your lifetime unless you're very, very old. Pretty cool stuff.

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Definitely worth a read as well. LTT Labs has been doing some really neat stuff over the last

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little while. Anyway, our discussion question is have you ever made a really

1378
01:51:57,640 --> 01:52:02,340
poor fan placement decision in a previous build that this video

1379
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from the collaboration with NASA would have prevented?

1380
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I don't think so, but mostly because I haven't had a lot of

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builds that had glass in them. There are a ton of cases out there that this would have

1382
01:52:15,740 --> 01:52:19,740
actually potentially impacted where I put my fans, but I

1383
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haven't built in a lot of them.

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The only case that I've ever had that had like front panel

1385
01:52:27,540 --> 01:52:31,140
glass is the one that I currently have and there's no

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fan slots there. I think for me it's less front panel glass and it's more bottom

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intakes. There have been many cases that have short enough feet that

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their bottom intakes, now that I understand how much spacing

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we actually need, simply just are not intaking air efficiently.

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That doesn't mean that I wouldn't still put the fans there, but I might not rely on them as much.

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I might opt for a different configuration of the fans in the

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rest of the case knowing that those ones in the bottom are not really drawing in that much air or I might run them at a

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lower speed knowing that they're going to have an outsized

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effect on the overall noise of my system because of all that

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turbulence in their intake.

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Good job, chat. I need another second to actually bring up the actual video,

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but we're talking about power supply timings and it made me think of a video I watched recently from Lori Wired, which

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is this one. Your RAM has a 60 year old design flaw.

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I bypassed it. That was sick. I watched that recently too. This is an incredible amazing video.

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It's so awesome. I didn't know it worked this way.

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I don't want to go way too deep into it, but the storytelling is really good.

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Her work is really good. I personally like long format videos on YouTube.

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It's just an awesome watch. If you're into that kind of stuff, usually I'm pointing

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you guys for these types of things to the Labs website and

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you should go check that out for the NASA fan video and the power supply timings thing, but you mentioned timings were

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writing me of this amazing video.

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01:56:22,040 --> 01:56:28,540
I don't want to spoil too much of it, but yeah, a very, very old design constraint from like when we were trying to figure

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out how to do PC memory, has your RAM modules effectively

1442
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like kind of turning off so capacitors can recharge and then turning back on and that is technically a performance

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loss and then diving into like why that is required and

1444
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blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a very, very good video. I don't want to say too much, but check it out.

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It's fantastic. Is this the one where it involved having multiple copies of

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the same data on the RAM and then hitting the one that had

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01:56:55,340 --> 01:56:58,540
the lowest latency or something like that? Or was that a separate RAM?

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01:56:58,640 --> 01:57:01,640
I think that's a separate thing. Oh, okay. Dan, do you remember?

1449
01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:05,440
I'm pretty sure that's a separate thing. It might be a separate thing. It's incredibly complicated.

1450
01:57:05,440 --> 01:57:08,740
There were like two copies though, but I don't know.

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Yeah.

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Sorry. One of the top comments is randomly absent memory and I just think that's really funny.

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01:57:18,040 --> 01:57:21,140
They got to play with trains. Yeah, it's cool.

1454
01:57:21,140 --> 01:57:25,140
I, there's been a lot going on. It's not that old a video. It's only three days old.

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01:57:25,240 --> 01:57:29,840
It feels like I watched this weeks ago. I would have said like two weeks.

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So I don't remember all the details super, super well, but it's, it's a great video and I just really recommend checking

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it out. All right, cool. Anyways, that's it.

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Hey, another good news. It's real. The five terabyte Google one upgrade Google has bumped

1459
01:57:47,440 --> 01:57:51,340
Google AI pro subscribers from two terabytes to five terabytes

1460
01:57:51,340 --> 01:57:54,640
of cloud storage at no extra cost with the 1999 per month

1461
01:57:54,640 --> 01:57:59,040
price staying the same. The extra space works across Gmail, Google drive and

1462
01:57:59,040 --> 01:58:03,240
Google photos. This only applies to AI pro subscribers standard Google

1463
01:58:03,240 --> 01:58:06,340
one tiers haven't changed and we'll start at a hundred gigs for $2 a month.

1464
01:58:07,940 --> 01:58:14,440
Google announced it on April 1st, which had some users wondering if it was a joke, but VP, Sherman, Ben, yeah,

1465
01:58:14,440 --> 01:58:16,440
confirmed it on Twitter.

1466
01:58:19,540 --> 01:58:22,840
Part of me kind of goes, yeah, are they just trying to get more

1467
01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:26,940
of your data? It's like, yes, but also if we were going to have to pay for

1468
01:58:26,940 --> 01:58:32,640
it for them to get more of our data, at least I guess they can get more of our data, which I know it's expensive right

1469
01:58:32,640 --> 01:58:40,840
now, but home labbing is sick. Yeah, but hey, we so rarely find a subscription service these

1470
01:58:40,840 --> 01:58:44,340
days that is just a subscription service from a big tech

1471
01:58:44,340 --> 01:58:48,140
company that got better instead of worse spontaneously is more

1472
01:58:48,240 --> 01:58:55,140
rare, more rather than less. So we're we got to call out bad stuff when we see it, but we

1473
01:58:55,140 --> 01:59:00,840
also got to like, you know, on the other side, we got to be like, good job when something doesn't suck more.

1474
01:59:01,640 --> 01:59:05,640
Yeah. Say the past said heads up though. Home lab is an enormous rabbit hole.

1475
01:59:06,340 --> 01:59:09,640
Yeah, yeah, there's, I think there's, I think people have

1476
01:59:09,640 --> 01:59:14,140
a tendency to dive in further than they necessarily need to

1477
01:59:14,340 --> 01:59:17,540
and I think you can start with home labby stuff without really

1478
01:59:17,540 --> 01:59:25,740
going way too hard and there are content creators out there that can help you not dive past either your capabilities,

1479
01:59:25,940 --> 01:59:29,840
your desire to invest time or your desire to invest money.

1480
01:59:29,840 --> 01:59:34,140
You can do it in simpler ways and cheaper ways. You can turn anything into a dick measuring contest.

1481
01:59:34,640 --> 01:59:37,940
So just don't lab is for sure one of those.

1482
01:59:37,940 --> 01:59:41,940
I have so many AI GPUs in my in my house.

1483
01:59:41,940 --> 01:59:48,740
I don't even use them because I just and that's cool.

1484
01:59:48,740 --> 01:59:53,140
It's just other people. You just don't have to, you know, you don't have to do that.

1485
01:59:53,140 --> 01:59:55,940
You can keep it pretty simple. Yeah, you don't have to do that.

1486
01:59:56,940 --> 02:00:02,440
Do not do that. Hey, oh, you know what?

1487
02:00:02,440 --> 02:00:07,040
I'll save this one. Our last big topic, neural compression speaking of AI is

1488
02:00:07,040 --> 02:00:11,040
coming for your VRAM and both NVIDIA and Intel are racing

1489
02:00:11,040 --> 02:00:15,040
to ship it. They both showed off new neural texture compression tech

1490
02:00:15,040 --> 02:00:20,840
this week. NVIDIA's approach neural texture compression NTC had their demo

1491
02:00:20,840 --> 02:00:24,340
showing VRAM usage dropping from about six and a half gigabytes

1492
02:00:24,540 --> 02:00:29,340
with traditional compressed textures to just 970 megabytes

1493
02:00:30,340 --> 02:00:33,140
all while keeping image quality close to the original.

1494
02:00:33,640 --> 02:00:39,040
The core idea here is instead of using traditional block compression, which chops textures into small blocks and

1495
02:00:39,040 --> 02:00:43,440
approximates them. NTC uses a small neural network that learns a much more

1496
02:00:43,440 --> 02:00:47,840
efficient compressed representation of the texture data and reconstructs it on the fly during rendering.

1497
02:00:48,440 --> 02:00:51,840
Yeah, I'm a little skeptical too. I'll need to see it in action.

1498
02:00:51,840 --> 02:00:54,840
Just relax.

1499
02:00:56,540 --> 02:00:59,240
You're brow furring. I can feel it from here.

1500
02:01:02,240 --> 02:01:05,840
Meanwhile, Intel's approach texture set neural compression

1501
02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:08,640
TSNC had Intel showing two variants.

1502
02:01:08,940 --> 02:01:12,640
Variant A delivers up to nine times compression with minimal

1503
02:01:12,640 --> 02:01:17,340
quality loss. They say around 5% perceptual difference while variant B

1504
02:01:17,540 --> 02:01:20,940
pushes to 18 times compression but starts showing artifacts.

1505
02:01:21,940 --> 02:01:27,240
Intel's approach works at the texture set level. Instead of compressing each texture individually, their

1506
02:01:27,240 --> 02:01:32,440
system looks at all the textures for material together, colors, normals, roughness, etc.

1507
02:01:32,640 --> 02:01:35,840
and trains neural network to learn patterns across all of them at once.

1508
02:01:36,140 --> 02:01:39,440
At runtime, a tiny AI model reconstructs the full set from

1509
02:01:39,440 --> 02:01:45,540
that compressed data. If these results hold up in real games, if the practical

1510
02:01:45,540 --> 02:01:49,340
impact could be significant, smaller installs, lighter patches

1511
02:01:49,540 --> 02:01:53,240
and more headroom for higher quality assets on the same GPU hardware.

1512
02:01:53,940 --> 02:01:57,740
NVIDIA also showed a companion technology called Neural Materials.

1513
02:01:58,040 --> 02:02:03,640
Instead of storing tons of texture channels and running heavy shading math, it encodes material behavior into a compact

1514
02:02:03,640 --> 02:02:06,840
representation that a small neural network decodes at render

1515
02:02:06,840 --> 02:02:10,340
time. In one example, a 19 channel material setup was reduced

1516
02:02:10,340 --> 02:02:15,040
to eight channels with a 1.4x to 7.7x improvement to render

1517
02:02:15,040 --> 02:02:19,540
speeds at 1080p. Our writer says, I had to look up what channels meant in

1518
02:02:19,540 --> 02:02:22,440
this context. I'm going to drop a definition here in case you need it.

1519
02:02:22,540 --> 02:02:28,040
Channels are the separate texture layers that make up a single surface like color, roughness, normals, metallicness,

1520
02:02:28,140 --> 02:02:32,040
etc. One key distinction guys, this is very important.

1521
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:39,740
This is not DLSS5. DLSS, as far as we can tell, works at the end of the pipeline

1522
02:02:39,740 --> 02:02:43,440
on the final image. There's a little bit of muddying of the waters there

1523
02:02:43,440 --> 02:02:46,840
lately. So let's see what DLSS5 actually ends up being.

1524
02:02:47,440 --> 02:02:49,840
But as far as we can tell, that's what it is.

1525
02:02:50,840 --> 02:02:56,040
These neural compression techniques are embedded deeper inside the render engine, handling specific tasks like

1526
02:02:56,040 --> 02:03:00,440
decoding textures and evaluating materials rather than acting as a big Instagram filter at the end.

1527
02:03:00,840 --> 02:03:06,240
That distinction matters because both developers and players had something of an extreme reaction to the effects of

1528
02:03:06,240 --> 02:03:09,240
DLS5 on the original artistic intent.

1529
02:03:09,740 --> 02:03:15,140
And now layer these two things together. Like how far can we stray from the original vision?

1530
02:03:15,140 --> 02:03:18,140
Well, it depends if the original vision is for them to use

1531
02:03:18,140 --> 02:03:21,740
this at the start, then I guess it was the original vision.

1532
02:03:21,740 --> 02:03:25,140
Maybe, but this is even like, okay, fair enough, but I don't

1533
02:03:25,140 --> 02:03:29,640
know that that's happening. And also it's going to be inconsistent for each user.

1534
02:03:31,640 --> 02:03:36,940
I won't know that until I see it. I want to see it. Like if this is something where I end up with like boiling on

1535
02:03:36,940 --> 02:03:40,340
every texture in my game or something like that, then obviously

1536
02:03:40,340 --> 02:03:44,640
I'm going to be pretty against it. I'm...

1537
02:03:45,640 --> 02:03:50,140
Layers and layers of interpretation is a bit of a scary thing.

1538
02:03:50,140 --> 02:03:55,640
I wasn't sure that DLSS super sampling or super resolution,

1539
02:03:55,640 --> 02:04:03,640
sorry, not super, whatever the stupid upscaling. I wasn't convinced that DLSS was ever going to be something

1540
02:04:03,640 --> 02:04:08,640
that I'd want to turn on. 4.5 is something I would turn on without hesitation.

1541
02:04:09,140 --> 02:04:15,140
So while I fully understand and I'm on board a lot of the

1542
02:04:15,140 --> 02:04:19,140
hesitancy and a lot of the skepticism around NVIDIA's

1543
02:04:19,140 --> 02:04:22,940
marketing of their DLSS various technologies and AI, various

1544
02:04:22,940 --> 02:04:25,940
technologies, I'm going to take a wait and see approach.

1545
02:04:26,340 --> 02:04:29,840
Yeah, I mean, I'm going to wait. I'm going to see it because it's going to happen. Nothing else really matters.

1546
02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:35,640
Exactly. There's nothing else that really matters. Like there's nothing you can do. It's not like I can call Jensen and be like, hey, that thing

1547
02:04:35,640 --> 02:04:39,140
you were working on, stop it. It's bad. It's just cut to top the presses.

1548
02:04:39,140 --> 02:04:42,140
Forget it. We don't like it. Turn it off now.

1549
02:04:42,140 --> 02:04:45,140
It feels like a telephone game problem. Oh, sure.

1550
02:04:45,540 --> 02:04:51,140
Garbage in garbage out. Pretty intense telephone game. And how many layers of garbage in before all we could

1551
02:04:51,140 --> 02:04:56,040
possibly get out of it is garbage. Yeah, it's a good question. Yeah, but we'll see.

1552
02:04:59,040 --> 02:05:02,740
Have you seen that like looking at the Ubisoft logo from the side thing or whatever?

1553
02:05:02,740 --> 02:05:05,340
Oh, yes. It's a turd. Yes. Yes, I have.

1554
02:05:05,940 --> 02:05:09,040
Intel says that an alpha SDK is planned later this year

1555
02:05:09,040 --> 02:05:14,040
while NVIDIA hasn't given a specific timeline, but is framing this as part of its broader neural rendering

1556
02:05:14,040 --> 02:05:17,240
roadmap alongside DLSS five.

1557
02:05:20,740 --> 02:05:24,940
Right now, it's hard for me to reflexively hate on

1558
02:05:24,940 --> 02:05:28,240
anything that makes it so we don't need quite as much RAM.

1559
02:05:29,240 --> 02:05:32,140
I guess I'm just concerned. You should be.

1560
02:05:32,440 --> 02:05:36,840
And I think I would have been concerned already and then

1561
02:05:36,840 --> 02:05:39,440
having seen that stuff from DLSS five.

1562
02:05:41,240 --> 02:05:44,640
I am concerned. I don't remember if I mentioned this back when we did

1563
02:05:44,640 --> 02:05:47,740
that segment with Riley, but one of the one of the first

1564
02:05:47,740 --> 02:05:51,640
things I said to NVIDIA about the DLSS five demo is that

1565
02:05:51,640 --> 02:05:58,740
like I think the worst thing that they did was show it

1566
02:05:58,740 --> 02:06:06,040
before it was cooked. I am usually the kind of person who enjoys seeing things

1567
02:06:06,040 --> 02:06:09,240
be developed in the open and watching the progress in real

1568
02:06:09,240 --> 02:06:15,740
time. In this case, I think they I think they did so much harm

1569
02:06:16,140 --> 02:06:20,540
and so much damage to what maybe will end up being better

1570
02:06:20,540 --> 02:06:23,840
than what we saw by showing it to us in that state because

1571
02:06:23,840 --> 02:06:27,140
it's not like this was on the verge of launching. It's not like it was going to launch in a week.

1572
02:06:27,240 --> 02:06:31,340
Yeah, like it's it's months away. Oh, Rod.

1573
02:06:31,540 --> 02:06:34,640
Rod said they're sharing DLSS five demo at PDX land tomorrow.

1574
02:06:35,740 --> 02:06:38,940
Oh, interesting. Okay. Well, Rod, are you going?

1575
02:06:38,940 --> 02:06:42,440
I assume you're going. Are you going to? Are you going to report for us?

1576
02:06:42,440 --> 02:06:45,440
You can be our correspondent. Yeah, you can. You can be our DLSS.

1577
02:06:46,840 --> 02:06:48,440
I in the sky. Yeah.

1578
02:06:50,340 --> 02:06:54,340
He says I'm at the I'm at the land. Yeah. Heck yeah. Why aren't you playing video games, bro?

1579
02:06:54,740 --> 02:06:57,240
Watching you're watching Wancho from a crack out loud.

1580
02:06:58,240 --> 02:07:05,240
I mean, I'm not convinced it's about the video games for Rod. I think he's more about the community and the computers.

1581
02:07:05,940 --> 02:07:10,140
And yet somehow he doesn't manage to come up and play softball with us last year.

1582
02:07:11,340 --> 02:07:15,940
He's gonna wheel it. Yeah, but he didn't come play softball. Do you know how many times I asked him to come to softball?

1583
02:07:16,640 --> 02:07:19,740
That guy. He's coming to the next wheel. Can't take these guys anywhere.

1584
02:07:20,540 --> 02:07:24,040
I think Tarkov right now have one in the background. Nice solid.

1585
02:07:24,040 --> 02:07:26,840
All right. All right. You know what? I'll allow it.

1586
02:07:27,840 --> 02:07:30,840
You know what else I'll allow? Wow. Wow. That's bold.

1587
02:07:30,840 --> 02:07:33,840
I know. That's very bold.

1588
02:07:33,840 --> 02:07:36,840
True gamer. Verified actual gamer.

1589
02:07:37,340 --> 02:07:41,340
Viewer Wolfgang has the solution to my Xbox pairing issue.

1590
02:07:41,340 --> 02:07:43,340
Remember I was saying I had Xbox pairing issues.

1591
02:07:44,840 --> 02:07:48,840
Apparently to fix it, I just need a bare metal Windows install and I have to use

1592
02:07:48,840 --> 02:07:51,840
that to update the controller firmware on the Xbox accessories app.

1593
02:07:52,840 --> 02:07:55,840
They apparently tried it in a VM and even that didn't work.

1594
02:07:55,840 --> 02:07:58,840
And of course you also have the Xbox app installed and signed in so you can

1595
02:07:58,840 --> 02:08:01,840
download something called gaming services and after updating the firmware,

1596
02:08:01,840 --> 02:08:07,840
his paired flawlessly. So I just want to take a moment to call out any company that requires me to own

1597
02:08:07,840 --> 02:08:12,840
more of their products in order to update the firmware on their products.

1598
02:08:12,840 --> 02:08:13,840
It's bad.

1599
02:08:15,840 --> 02:08:19,840
Apple folks always get mad at me about this when I say it is completely

1600
02:08:19,840 --> 02:08:23,840
unacceptable that I have to buy another Apple product in order to update the

1601
02:08:23,840 --> 02:08:26,840
firmware on my AirPods and they say that it's some kind of double standard.

1602
02:08:26,840 --> 02:08:31,840
It is not a double standard. It's unacceptable when Microsoft does it too.

1603
02:08:31,840 --> 02:08:35,840
I already paid like 70 Canadian dollars for your controller or whatever they are

1604
02:08:35,840 --> 02:08:41,840
these days. Yeah. I should be able to maintain them perfectly fine on any platform.

1605
02:08:42,840 --> 02:08:49,840
Period. I agree. I'm going to jump back to the like graphics AI topic for a quick sec.

1606
02:08:49,840 --> 02:08:52,840
I find it very interesting because usually I'm a proponent of like, you know,

1607
02:08:52,840 --> 02:08:55,840
don't jump down people's throats so much or else they just won't talk to you again

1608
02:08:55,840 --> 02:09:02,840
in the future. But I find this one really weird because we have like Disney and they came out

1609
02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:05,840
with their like Star Wars animals thing. That was horrible.

1610
02:09:05,840 --> 02:09:09,840
And then DLSS5 and I just keep running into there's been other examples as well.

1611
02:09:09,840 --> 02:09:15,840
I just can't really think of them on top of my head right now, which is like, why are you showing me that?

1612
02:09:15,840 --> 02:09:18,840
Yeah. Like the Disney one especially was just like, what?

1613
02:09:18,840 --> 02:09:21,840
Like you thought this was cool? Like if they had just...

1614
02:09:21,840 --> 02:09:28,840
What are you talking about? If they had just used some AI in the background and then done all, you know, the other work

1615
02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:32,840
that they would do and it was just in a movie, probably no one would have noticed or said

1616
02:09:32,840 --> 02:09:38,840
anything about it. Look at our creators. Here, Disney, AI demo, awful.

1617
02:09:38,840 --> 02:09:41,840
It's just so bad.

1618
02:09:41,840 --> 02:09:46,840
Like it's the like audacity to be like, yeah, this is awesome.

1619
02:09:46,840 --> 02:09:49,840
It was wild. Yeah.

1620
02:09:49,840 --> 02:09:52,840
You know this? Like... I do.

1621
02:09:52,840 --> 02:09:56,840
What? And I'll remember this for longer than I will remember them doing something cool.

1622
02:09:56,840 --> 02:10:05,840
Yeah. It just, it's just kind of weird.

1623
02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:08,840
Strange. Anyways.

1624
02:10:08,840 --> 02:10:12,840
Oh man, I forgot how horrible these were.

1625
02:10:12,840 --> 02:10:15,840
They're so stupid. They're so bad. Yeah.

1626
02:10:15,840 --> 02:10:18,840
They're just so dumb. Yeah.

1627
02:10:18,840 --> 02:10:21,840
Geez. All right. Anyways.

1628
02:10:21,840 --> 02:10:25,840
Anyways, it's time for After Dark. Dan, let's do this thing.

1629
02:10:25,840 --> 02:10:31,840
Good gravy. There's a...

1630
02:10:31,840 --> 02:10:35,840
There's a lot of... There's a lot of checkout messages today.

1631
02:10:35,840 --> 02:10:39,840
They love those leggings. They've been asking for them every week for years.

1632
02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:42,840
The leggings are moving. Okay.

1633
02:10:42,840 --> 02:10:45,840
All right. All right. Let's do it.

1634
02:10:45,840 --> 02:10:49,840
Let's... Sweet. I'm glad to have more of those products.

1635
02:10:49,840 --> 02:10:56,840
Do you imagine that the Creator Warehouse team, which is predominantly women, would

1636
02:10:56,840 --> 02:11:00,840
like to make more products that they could wear at home?

1637
02:11:00,840 --> 02:11:08,840
I do. Yeah. And we've given the opportunities, but we need, you know, we need your support.

1638
02:11:08,840 --> 02:11:13,840
We need our 97% male audience to evangelize these.

1639
02:11:13,840 --> 02:11:17,280
And normally I don't ask you guys to do that. I don't want your charity.

1640
02:11:17,280 --> 02:11:20,280
Women has pockets. Like I don't... Women has seven pockets.

1641
02:11:20,280 --> 02:11:27,840
You guys don't owe me any favors, but if you love the products on sort of the men's side

1642
02:11:27,840 --> 02:11:34,440
and you want us to have any shot of accessing a women audience and bringing that quality

1643
02:11:34,440 --> 02:11:39,880
and bringing that care and attention to detail to women's products, I'm going to need your

1644
02:11:39,880 --> 02:11:43,080
help this time. That's all there is to it.

1645
02:11:43,080 --> 02:11:47,000
And it looks like it looks like you guys are responding to that.

1646
02:11:47,000 --> 02:11:51,600
And once these, like seriously, we've actually moved quite a few of them today.

1647
02:11:51,600 --> 02:11:55,680
Once these are in people's hands, leave a review and don't sugarcoat it.

1648
02:11:55,680 --> 02:12:01,560
No. Leave an honest review because that's what we want so that you can help, you know, help

1649
02:12:01,560 --> 02:12:06,080
guide people. And if we did a bad job, then hey, we'll take it, we'll take that and we'll go back to the

1650
02:12:06,080 --> 02:12:14,000
drawing board, but I don't think we did a bad job. So if we did a good job, then say that too and we can build some momentum on this.

1651
02:12:15,000 --> 02:12:18,000
All right. Wow.

1652
02:12:18,000 --> 02:12:21,160
How many did they, two leggings excited.

1653
02:12:21,160 --> 02:12:25,120
These are out to share the LDD quality with my wife.

1654
02:12:25,120 --> 02:12:30,920
What are some tech related hobbies that your significant others have been interested in?

1655
02:12:30,920 --> 02:12:38,720
I mean, my, my daughters are getting really into, um, oh man, what is my, what is my eldest

1656
02:12:38,720 --> 02:12:45,560
daughter not into? She's getting really into animation on the iPad, just like, like drawing frames and animating

1657
02:12:45,560 --> 02:12:50,840
them. She's been getting really into, um, 3d modeling and 3d printing.

1658
02:12:50,840 --> 02:12:57,640
Um, she definitely still has some, so she understands 3d printing a bit and she understands

1659
02:12:57,640 --> 02:13:03,120
3d modeling a bit, but she's just now starting to model things and then 3d print them.

1660
02:13:03,120 --> 02:13:07,280
And so the one that she was trying to print last night, uh, the, the one that I started

1661
02:13:07,320 --> 02:13:12,200
again at like two in the morning or whatever, uh, was a third attempt because it just was

1662
02:13:12,200 --> 02:13:17,440
like not very optimized. Um, so that's something that is really exciting to see her learning.

1663
02:13:17,440 --> 02:13:21,280
Um, oh wait, significant others. Sorry.

1664
02:13:21,280 --> 02:13:24,600
I thought you meant I read it as other significant people in my life.

1665
02:13:24,600 --> 02:13:31,080
So I went straight to my kids. Um, tech related hobbies, Yvonne's into, I mean, she loves like her cricket, uh, anything

1666
02:13:31,080 --> 02:13:34,480
to do with like vinyl plotting, like 2d, 2d cutting.

1667
02:13:34,480 --> 02:13:40,160
The carpet thing. Uh, yeah. She hasn't actually used that much though, whereas like the cricket, she's used a lot.

1668
02:13:40,160 --> 02:13:44,120
Like she did a bunch of signage for smash champs on the cricket and it's like so pro

1669
02:13:44,120 --> 02:13:48,800
looking, you would never know, but she like hand aligned all of it and she was like, oh,

1670
02:13:48,800 --> 02:13:52,680
I think that one's way off. I'm like, don't, don't touch it. It's no one will ever notice.

1671
02:13:52,680 --> 02:13:55,920
It's fine. She's just like that though.

1672
02:13:55,920 --> 02:14:00,920
Um, I'd say the cricket is probably the biggest like tech thing for Yvonne that she's like

1673
02:14:00,920 --> 02:14:02,920
dived into. Cool.

1674
02:14:03,920 --> 02:14:09,680
Was this both of us or was it just, uh, tech stuff?

1675
02:14:09,680 --> 02:14:13,520
I mean, she got into streaming for a bit there. She did.

1676
02:14:13,520 --> 02:14:16,520
Plenty time. Plenty time. She liked streaming.

1677
02:14:16,520 --> 02:14:20,640
That was fun. She hasn't been, she's been knitting.

1678
02:14:20,640 --> 02:14:24,680
Okay. Not tech, but sure. No, I know, but I'm saying like she's gone away.

1679
02:14:24,680 --> 02:14:39,160
I mean, at a time that was technology. I'm trying to think, I don't think she's been in super into tech stuff in a while.

1680
02:14:39,160 --> 02:14:49,080
She's pretty good with it actually, just yeah, like we, we recently kind of like moved back

1681
02:14:49,080 --> 02:14:55,080
in from the rental. Her computer's not set up yet. It's all sitting there, but just hasn't really like bothered to plug it in.

1682
02:14:55,480 --> 02:15:03,840
Um, and the, the other computing that she's done is like, she used a laptop for a short

1683
02:15:03,840 --> 02:15:10,320
period of time just to like make a Google sheet for my mom and then got off the laptop

1684
02:15:10,320 --> 02:15:13,840
again and didn't touch it again. So I don't know.

1685
02:15:13,840 --> 02:15:18,080
Hey, didn't she do some stuff with like vibe coding or something?

1686
02:15:18,080 --> 02:15:21,080
Okay. Yeah. There you go.

1687
02:15:21,080 --> 02:15:24,080
You got that. For like her old job or something like that, right?

1688
02:15:24,080 --> 02:15:31,000
Yeah. She took like, uh, oh man, I'm going to describe this really poorly, but, um, there's like

1689
02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:36,280
actually a lot of variants of products when you're in glasses, because it does like when

1690
02:15:36,280 --> 02:15:40,080
you're, when you're trying to check the person out basically, yeah, does it, does it have

1691
02:15:40,080 --> 02:15:43,080
this type of coding? Oh my God. Does that fair?

1692
02:15:43,080 --> 02:15:48,480
Uh, it doesn't have this type of coding. Does it have whatever who knows various?

1693
02:15:48,480 --> 02:15:51,960
Is it, is it a bifocal? Is it not? Is it all these different types of things?

1694
02:15:51,960 --> 02:15:55,480
So, and then you have to try to figure out what the pricing is going to be for the person.

1695
02:15:55,480 --> 02:16:00,720
So when you're like trying to tell them what it's going to cost, if they get various things,

1696
02:16:00,720 --> 02:16:05,480
she built this like form that could help you flow through that a lot more easily.

1697
02:16:05,480 --> 02:16:11,040
That's cool. Um, and that, that was, that was a little bit ago, but she was quite successful with that

1698
02:16:11,040 --> 02:16:16,200
and she was actually quite successful with maintaining that, which can be really annoying.

1699
02:16:16,200 --> 02:16:19,520
And she had some frustrations with it because it's really annoying.

1700
02:16:19,600 --> 02:16:24,160
This was a bit ago when it was worse. Um, so yeah, that works pretty well.

1701
02:16:24,160 --> 02:16:29,520
That was actually what really sold me on people who have never even looked at code before

1702
02:16:29,520 --> 02:16:33,360
being able to vibe code. I remember you talking to me excitedly about it.

1703
02:16:33,360 --> 02:16:37,320
It was very impressive. Like this is, this is something. Yeah.

1704
02:16:37,320 --> 02:16:43,520
I don't know what it is. And it's, it is now a tool in her belt that she has, which I don't think she's really

1705
02:16:43,520 --> 02:16:46,980
used since then, but it's available. It's there.

1706
02:16:46,980 --> 02:16:51,060
Confidence to do it. And it's just going to be better for the next time, which is pretty cool.

1707
02:16:51,060 --> 02:16:57,220
And it's again, it's one of those scenarios where like no one lost a job from that.

1708
02:16:57,220 --> 02:17:01,060
They were never going to hire someone to do that. That was never going to happen.

1709
02:17:01,060 --> 02:17:06,180
It just made people's lives dealing with that system a little bit better, which is like

1710
02:17:06,180 --> 02:17:11,580
cool. Psychoma asks, if Yvonne used the laser cutter from her tech upgrade, I've used it.

1711
02:17:11,580 --> 02:17:21,700
I made her a mother's day present with it. Like laser, like cork, like heat pads for like hot pots and stuff.

1712
02:17:21,700 --> 02:17:27,300
Cool. They just say, I love you, mom. They're from the kids, but like I did all the work.

1713
02:17:27,300 --> 02:17:30,860
They just like picked whatever I, yeah.

1714
02:17:30,860 --> 02:17:34,260
And then Noki says, knitting isn't tech.

1715
02:17:34,260 --> 02:17:38,420
Yvonne got that by the mirror. That's an embroidery machine.

1716
02:17:38,420 --> 02:17:42,660
And they have been using that. I just sent down a picture of a pretty cool project.

1717
02:17:42,900 --> 02:17:51,820
Dude, it's, it's cool. They, they, there's like open source communities for knitting because they,

1718
02:17:51,820 --> 02:17:55,420
they like share their patterns and stuff. It's like actually sweet.

1719
02:17:55,420 --> 02:17:59,940
It's, it was really interesting to see how much crossover there is, but yeah,

1720
02:18:00,100 --> 02:18:02,100
life is, life is strange and it's cool.

1721
02:18:03,220 --> 02:18:08,540
Yeah, go for it. I'm assuming you guys were talking about, um, like this kind of tech or actually

1722
02:18:08,540 --> 02:18:11,580
wait, hold on, don't show it just yet. Let me just double check something really quick.

1723
02:18:12,660 --> 02:18:14,340
Um,

1724
02:18:16,740 --> 02:18:21,300
he did you, and she's been getting into like different blends of different

1725
02:18:21,300 --> 02:18:24,380
yarns and all these different things. And it's, it's cool.

1726
02:18:24,660 --> 02:18:28,340
It's pretty sweet. It's not for me necessarily, but it's pretty sweet.

1727
02:18:29,500 --> 02:18:30,620
I'm excited about the output.

1728
02:18:33,300 --> 02:18:36,220
Yeah. Anytime. Yeah.

1729
02:18:37,140 --> 02:18:40,460
Yeah. So, uh, this was done on the embroidery machine. She made that.

1730
02:18:40,580 --> 02:18:44,460
Well, I mean, everything else was done on the sewing machine, uh, but yes,

1731
02:18:44,460 --> 02:18:47,140
she's super into making stuffed animals right now.

1732
02:18:47,620 --> 02:18:50,660
Uh, and then the eyes were done on the embroidery machine.

1733
02:18:50,860 --> 02:18:54,100
That's pretty sick. Yeah. This is a gift for a family member. That's cool.

1734
02:18:54,140 --> 02:18:57,460
Yeah. From, she makes them from, from just fabric.

1735
02:18:57,500 --> 02:19:00,700
We're at a wee bit of a distance, but I would just believe that was a product.

1736
02:19:01,180 --> 02:19:04,420
Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like it looks great. Yep. That's awesome.

1737
02:19:04,500 --> 02:19:10,380
Yeah. Pretty cool. That's really cool. Noki Fox, Firefox, give me.

1738
02:19:12,980 --> 02:19:17,860
I mean, you can commission one. I've told her, I think she should sell them, but, uh, she's mostly just

1739
02:19:17,860 --> 02:19:24,020
interested in making them for fun. If she made a little Firefox that actually looked like the Firefox logo is Firefox.

1740
02:19:24,860 --> 02:19:27,940
For it to be, that would probably slam for it to be worth her time.

1741
02:19:27,940 --> 02:19:31,380
It would have to be pretty expensive. They take a long time.

1742
02:19:31,420 --> 02:19:33,940
It's a, it's a hobbyist thing for sure.

1743
02:19:34,660 --> 02:19:38,180
Yeah. Well, everyone watching on Flowplain is using Firefox. I know they are.

1744
02:19:38,180 --> 02:19:40,620
There's a lot of Firefox. Every one of them. Yep.

1745
02:19:41,180 --> 02:19:49,220
Hit me, Dan. Linus, with the Tesla, with Tesla heralding the imminent arrival of unsupervised, unsupervised,

1746
02:19:49,260 --> 02:19:55,420
full self-driving, do you think that or open pilot will be done first, which would you

1747
02:19:55,420 --> 02:20:02,020
rather have all else being equal? I mean, I'd rather have the version that Tesla's been promising for all this time.

1748
02:20:02,780 --> 02:20:05,540
Unfortunately, hold on.

1749
02:20:08,940 --> 02:20:16,140
Hold on, hold on, but it, but unfortunately it's been promised over and over and over

1750
02:20:16,140 --> 02:20:22,180
and over and over and over and over again, and it has just never, like, actually arrived

1751
02:20:22,180 --> 02:20:25,940
in the way that they have promised it here.

1752
02:20:25,940 --> 02:20:35,260
Hold on. There's a, there's a really funny article that broke down all the times that Elon has

1753
02:20:35,260 --> 02:20:40,620
said by this date, it will be more safe than human drivers.

1754
02:20:40,940 --> 02:20:45,020
And then the, the writer of the article actually didn't get them all.

1755
02:20:45,220 --> 02:20:51,940
And one of the, one of the commenters under it found going back even further, more times

1756
02:20:51,980 --> 02:20:58,780
that he had used exactly the same puffery language to describe the progress that they

1757
02:20:58,780 --> 02:21:05,180
were making on full self-driving. And to be clear, you know, what a Tesla is capable of doing is very cool.

1758
02:21:05,180 --> 02:21:09,700
My objection to it is the way that it's been marketed, the way that people have been

1759
02:21:09,700 --> 02:21:18,180
misled for all of these years, at many times in ways that Tesla and, and their

1760
02:21:18,180 --> 02:21:23,460
leadership must have known was not true.

1761
02:21:24,540 --> 02:21:29,020
That's what I find frustrating about it. It's not that the software is not cool.

1762
02:21:29,420 --> 02:21:37,580
It's not that it's not useful. It just isn't what they said it was or what they branded it as.

1763
02:21:37,860 --> 02:21:42,620
And the timelines have just, I mean, they've just become a meme at this point.

1764
02:21:42,940 --> 02:21:47,900
Like it's not even, it's like valve time, at least valve eventually delivers the thing.

1765
02:21:48,900 --> 02:21:54,100
When are we actually going to get the Tesla full self-driving that is actually safer than

1766
02:21:54,100 --> 02:21:59,620
a human driver? And maybe more importantly, when is Tesla going to have the stones to actually publish

1767
02:21:59,660 --> 02:22:03,260
any peer reviewed data that backs that up? They don't.

1768
02:22:03,620 --> 02:22:06,180
Waymo does, but Tesla doesn't.

1769
02:22:06,780 --> 02:22:12,900
And the only reason that I can think of that Tesla would not publish data like their

1770
02:22:12,900 --> 02:22:16,420
disengagement, for instance, is that it's not flattering.

1771
02:22:17,020 --> 02:22:22,100
That's the, that's why else. If you're the leader in the space, you talk about it.

1772
02:22:23,340 --> 02:22:27,780
If you like to pretend and you would cosplay as the leader in the space, then you

1773
02:22:27,780 --> 02:22:30,020
obfuscate. It's that simple.

1774
02:22:34,020 --> 02:22:37,580
Hey, DLL love the show. Question for Linus and Luke.

1775
02:22:37,660 --> 02:22:39,980
If I made an LTT video game, what would you like to see in it?

1776
02:22:40,980 --> 02:22:47,860
I would like to see gameplay first and not an LTT video game.

1777
02:22:47,860 --> 02:22:50,340
I just don't think an LTT video game would be very good.

1778
02:22:52,060 --> 02:22:54,500
What even would an LTT video game be?

1779
02:22:59,060 --> 02:23:06,420
Like I, like, uh, like I'd see something like PC building simulator, like a simulator

1780
02:23:06,420 --> 02:23:09,500
type game, maybe. Is it, uh, man, what was that?

1781
02:23:10,620 --> 02:23:15,060
Name of the game, video PR crisis management simulator.

1782
02:23:15,420 --> 02:23:20,300
It makes sense. Video game creation simulator or something.

1783
02:23:21,300 --> 02:23:24,220
What was that? Game Dev Tycoon.

1784
02:23:24,540 --> 02:23:29,500
Oh yeah. Okay. It was like Game Dev Tycoon, but PewDiePie already has YouTuber simulator

1785
02:23:29,500 --> 02:23:33,620
though. So like, what the heck else is it? I think it would be different than that.

1786
02:23:34,060 --> 02:23:38,180
Game Dev Tycoon isn't, isn't just the like Game Dev version of YouTube simulator.

1787
02:23:38,180 --> 02:23:42,980
It's, it's different. We could like Game Dev Tycoon it, but with YouTube channels.

1788
02:23:42,980 --> 02:23:48,420
And it wouldn't even technically have to just be tech. And that's how you can get away from it being LTT based is it could just be

1789
02:23:48,500 --> 02:23:51,500
YouTube channels. Now we're getting a little bit closer to YouTube simulator, but it's still,

1790
02:23:51,540 --> 02:23:56,860
it's still different. I swear it's still different. No key points out that we already made an LTT video game.

1791
02:23:57,220 --> 02:23:59,380
Hold on. Here it is. Yep.

1792
02:24:01,020 --> 02:24:07,180
Well, we also had Linus Jump. I don't think there's a lot of like footage of easily findable.

1793
02:24:07,220 --> 02:24:11,380
That was pretty cool. But Linus Jump was actually pretty sweet. For the verified actual gamer program.

1794
02:24:11,500 --> 02:24:14,500
Yeah. All right, Dan, hit me.

1795
02:24:15,060 --> 02:24:19,940
Hi, Linus, Luke and Dan looking for the best thermal adhesive to apply rocket

1796
02:24:19,940 --> 02:24:22,700
cool copper IHS to a 12700K.

1797
02:24:23,140 --> 02:24:26,420
Any other advice? Found a working chip on three bay.

1798
02:24:27,580 --> 02:24:32,220
Excuse me. Just a need to assemble. Uh, also, how's your steam build?

1799
02:24:32,580 --> 02:24:41,180
Uh, here's, here's my question for you. Um, at this point, why put an IHS back on a CPU?

1800
02:24:42,860 --> 02:24:49,380
Yeah. Go bare die. Maybe. Yeah, if it's working, just, um, man, what would I use?

1801
02:24:50,100 --> 02:24:51,980
I'm trying to remember, does Intel solder them?

1802
02:24:53,220 --> 02:25:02,500
Um, I, man, I haven't felt the need to deal it and Intel top tier chip in quite a while.

1803
02:25:03,260 --> 02:25:08,580
I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure Roman, uh, Der Bauer would have, uh, a video for you.

1804
02:25:09,060 --> 02:25:13,900
But, uh, it's Intel solder the 1200, 12,000.

1805
02:25:13,900 --> 02:25:18,140
Excuse me. Um, series chips.

1806
02:25:19,580 --> 02:25:22,940
That's what I would probably want to know. Yeah.

1807
02:25:22,980 --> 02:25:28,020
Oh man, if they're soldered by default, almost anything you put on them is not

1808
02:25:28,020 --> 02:25:35,940
going to be an upgrade. I mean, doesn't rocket cool have, uh, a guide for how you're supposed to assemble

1809
02:25:35,940 --> 02:25:37,180
their copper IHS?

1810
02:25:39,020 --> 02:25:42,820
I would just, I would just raw dog it bare die personally.

1811
02:25:44,980 --> 02:25:48,660
Be fast, be cool. Products. Here we go. Instructions.

1812
02:25:48,900 --> 02:25:52,860
Here, I'm going to, I'm going to do the research for you. 12th gen instructions.

1813
02:25:52,860 --> 02:25:56,540
Delid, relid. Hair dryer to soften. This video is unavailable.

1814
02:25:57,260 --> 02:26:00,580
What the. Really? You guys.

1815
02:26:01,020 --> 02:26:04,660
Okay. Well, I can see what the problem is then. Artemis two suggested in his suggestions.

1816
02:26:04,660 --> 02:26:05,100
Let's go.

1817
02:26:08,580 --> 02:26:12,340
Yeah. I would check out Der Bauer's channel. He would almost certainly have something about that.

1818
02:26:12,340 --> 02:26:17,220
But I, huh, man, I see people are saying liquid metal and that would be maybe

1819
02:26:17,220 --> 02:26:22,460
the most effective, but it would be pretty dangerous to apply there when you

1820
02:26:22,460 --> 02:26:29,300
don't have a way of, I wouldn't trust just silicone gluing an IHS back

1821
02:26:29,300 --> 02:26:34,620
down and hoping that I have enough, enough contact for liquid metal personally.

1822
02:26:38,100 --> 02:26:43,580
PTM would be safe. I don't know how good it would be in that, in that application.

1823
02:26:44,660 --> 02:26:48,780
And I say PTM 7950 is the one I mean. Yeah, from, from LTT Store, we have that.

1824
02:26:49,380 --> 02:26:52,300
It's a good thermal pad.

1825
02:26:54,780 --> 02:26:58,700
But the honest truth is I just don't know if it's the best for, for that situation.

1826
02:26:59,580 --> 02:27:03,780
Sorry. Hey LDL, been a fan since I was a kid.

1827
02:27:03,980 --> 02:27:10,060
I was tasked with making one to two mill photos, million photos, be

1828
02:27:10,060 --> 02:27:15,100
viewable to far away elderly family members considering Google photos or a

1829
02:27:15,100 --> 02:27:18,260
home lab solution. What would you suggest? Oh my God.

1830
02:27:18,300 --> 02:27:21,380
Well, it depends. Do you want a fun project?

1831
02:27:22,300 --> 02:27:30,780
If that's the case, how about image? Do you want to just upload it, crap it onto the internet and not

1832
02:27:30,780 --> 02:27:33,140
think about it anymore than Google photos?

1833
02:27:34,900 --> 02:27:43,020
I mean. Depends. I know like some people really seem to hate helping family members with tech

1834
02:27:43,020 --> 02:27:46,180
stuff and them being far away.

1835
02:27:46,180 --> 02:27:49,980
I don't know how compatible it is for like, are you awake when they're awake?

1836
02:27:50,020 --> 02:27:53,180
Like if they're having a trouble viewing your home lab thing, is it going to be

1837
02:27:53,180 --> 02:27:57,340
okay? Now that doesn't mean that they're going to have no problems with Google

1838
02:27:57,340 --> 02:28:00,820
photos, but the blame shifts.

1839
02:28:01,060 --> 02:28:07,700
So it's kind of up to you. I do wonder what the cost for storing two million photos into Google photos would be.

1840
02:28:12,100 --> 02:28:12,820
I'll be right back.

1841
02:28:16,340 --> 02:28:26,620
Bye. Bye. Um, but yeah, I don't know, my gut would be to image it, um, but yeah, it

1842
02:28:26,620 --> 02:28:29,860
depends how, how, how, how friendly are you with those relatives?

1843
02:28:30,140 --> 02:28:34,020
How much time do you want to spend being the blame for everything?

1844
02:28:34,420 --> 02:28:39,180
And how much do you think they will understand that? Because it's not like Google photos is going to be perfect either.

1845
02:28:39,380 --> 02:28:43,340
But anytime you provide the solution, I've had this talk with the infrastructure

1846
02:28:43,340 --> 02:28:50,420
team a bunch locally at LMG. It's like, yeah, I mean, if, if the thing that we propose that we use is

1847
02:28:50,420 --> 02:29:02,180
someone else's thing that we're just paying for, when it goes down, everybody just goes, ah, you know, dang, um, if it's our thing, if we're self-hosting

1848
02:29:02,180 --> 02:29:06,740
it, whatever else, and it goes down, then people get angrier, I find, and

1849
02:29:06,740 --> 02:29:15,220
specifically at you, which is rough. So, um, yeah, are they that type of person or are they going to be supportive?

1850
02:29:15,420 --> 02:29:18,220
Of, of you trying to do it yourself?

1851
02:29:18,780 --> 02:29:23,580
I would, I would self-analyze that. Cause like I say, oh, I would probably go with the self-hosted solution.

1852
02:29:24,900 --> 02:29:27,500
I'm pretty confident my family would just think it's like cool.

1853
02:29:28,740 --> 02:29:31,860
And if there was more problems, they're just like, let me know, and then it'd be fine.

1854
02:29:32,340 --> 02:29:34,980
So, I don't know, it depends.

1855
02:29:35,420 --> 02:29:39,940
My concern is no matter what you do, uh, you set it up so it'll be your fault.

1856
02:29:39,980 --> 02:29:44,740
Yeah. You are now on the hook for this cloud flare goes down, you set it up.

1857
02:29:44,740 --> 02:29:48,140
It's your fault. Why did you pick something that went through the cloud flare dummy?

1858
02:29:48,260 --> 02:29:52,860
Yeah. Well, they don't even understand what that is. Just the thing that you were in charge of is now broken.

1859
02:29:53,340 --> 02:29:56,540
Yeah. And then again, with certain people, that won't be a problem at all.

1860
02:29:56,780 --> 02:30:00,620
And with others that will, I would try to analyze which, which they might be.

1861
02:30:01,660 --> 02:30:07,500
And go from there, print them out and just, just mail, have a, have a requesting

1862
02:30:07,500 --> 02:30:11,340
service, service where they can just get tons and tons of boxes full of all the

1863
02:30:11,340 --> 02:30:14,420
photos at any time and people just ship them around to each other.

1864
02:30:14,540 --> 02:30:18,100
What about just having an external drive with them and like a sync thing so that

1865
02:30:18,100 --> 02:30:22,700
you can just like give them to them, like mailing it with extra steps.

1866
02:30:23,500 --> 02:30:28,100
I had to, we had to data transfer a ton of videos back in the day from Dankpods.

1867
02:30:28,500 --> 02:30:33,260
Um, and it was faster and more efficient for him to just mail us a drive.

1868
02:30:34,100 --> 02:30:39,100
What is it? The pigeon per second kind of thing, like pigeons and, and truck.

1869
02:30:39,140 --> 02:30:44,020
What is, what is the data transfer rate of a, at some level, it becomes faster to.

1870
02:30:44,100 --> 02:30:46,940
Yeah, duct tape, micro SD cards to pigeons.

1871
02:30:47,700 --> 02:30:54,020
What is the, what is the meme? What is the data transfer rate of a, what are those old, uh, old, old

1872
02:30:54,020 --> 02:30:59,500
mobiles that had the wood paneling they had like a name. Uh, Buick, I don't, I don't know.

1873
02:30:59,740 --> 02:31:04,860
Uh, I think there's old station wagon. Yeah. What is the data transfer rate of a station wagon?

1874
02:31:05,620 --> 02:31:09,500
A lot, a ton, these days, even more.

1875
02:31:09,500 --> 02:31:15,380
Cause now we have one terabyte micro SD cards. Yep. You fill up a station wagon with one of those, all of those.

1876
02:31:15,380 --> 02:31:18,420
Sorry. And you are, you are moving data.

1877
02:31:18,420 --> 02:31:23,700
Yeah, you can't, you can't, I think that's why like, uh, geez, back plays part of

1878
02:31:23,700 --> 02:31:27,340
their recovery system is we'll just ship you like a box of hard drives.

1879
02:31:27,420 --> 02:31:32,580
Yep. Yep. Is there, is there a discussion question we can do?

1880
02:31:32,900 --> 02:31:37,140
No, I'm looking for one, uh, how about this one?

1881
02:31:37,300 --> 02:31:40,260
Uh, Hey, loop, Lenas and Laniel.

1882
02:31:40,700 --> 02:31:46,420
What would you say are some examples of lower, lower power tech that has far

1883
02:31:46,420 --> 02:31:51,660
exceeded your needs and expectations on Earth's lower power tech?

1884
02:31:51,660 --> 02:31:54,860
I think I can interpret this in a few ways. I think one of them is a bit of a cop.

1885
02:31:54,860 --> 02:31:59,500
Oh, cause I'm looking at it right there, but the Neo, um, it's a, it's a phone

1886
02:31:59,500 --> 02:32:05,500
processor. I don't think that's actually talked about enough. It's a mobile phone processor and the laptop is sweet.

1887
02:32:06,140 --> 02:32:09,580
Like I actually don't, I haven't seen a ton of people kind of pointing out like,

1888
02:32:09,580 --> 02:32:14,780
guys, this isn't, this isn't necessarily what you'd expect in a laptop in regards

1889
02:32:14,780 --> 02:32:17,820
to the, the, the chip, um, but it's really good.

1890
02:32:17,980 --> 02:32:23,020
Also, this was not low power, but would probably be considered low performance.

1891
02:32:23,020 --> 02:32:27,500
I guess now, uh, but something like a 1080 people are still rocking 10 80s to

1892
02:32:27,500 --> 02:32:31,500
play modern competitive games and doing fine with it, which is wild.

1893
02:32:32,060 --> 02:32:36,860
The fact that people are playing, um, even like graphically great games, people

1894
02:32:36,860 --> 02:32:39,980
are playing arc Raiders on 10 80s and having a totally fantastic time.

1895
02:32:39,980 --> 02:32:43,020
And the 10 eight has been around three times.

1896
02:32:43,980 --> 02:32:48,460
Oh, no ding for that.

1897
02:32:48,460 --> 02:32:52,460
I'm back.

1898
02:32:52,460 --> 02:32:55,820
I'm going to turn 360 degrees around and walk away.

1899
02:32:55,820 --> 02:32:59,260
Hey, oh, um, it's story time.

1900
02:32:59,580 --> 02:33:04,540
Remember you asked why I was so tired this week? Sure. So we had a trip to Virginia.

1901
02:33:04,540 --> 02:33:09,660
Okay. We went to see a data center for, I did like a sponsored video for Equinix,

1902
02:33:09,660 --> 02:33:14,540
which is pretty cool. Cool. Unlike the last Equinix data center tour we did, I was like,

1903
02:33:14,540 --> 02:33:18,220
Hey, we can't just like do the same thing over and over again. They're like, Oh yeah, that makes sense.

1904
02:33:18,220 --> 02:33:21,500
Don't worry, we've actually got lots of really cool stuff. And I was like, Oh, okay, cool.

1905
02:33:21,500 --> 02:33:26,460
So we went into one of their, um, one of their like experimental cages.

1906
02:33:26,700 --> 02:33:29,820
You got in the cage?

1907
02:33:29,820 --> 02:33:35,900
Nice. And it was in their like test platform cages.

1908
02:33:35,900 --> 02:33:39,020
Uh, they had, um, a lot of it was actually like older stuff,

1909
02:33:39,020 --> 02:33:44,380
but it was kind of experimental stuff. So one of the things that we're going to show is like this, um,

1910
02:33:44,380 --> 02:33:48,780
you know how direct liquid cooling is like totally a thing for servers.

1911
02:33:48,780 --> 02:33:54,460
Yep. Um, what I hadn't had somehow escaped my notice was they have a two stage system

1912
02:33:55,260 --> 02:34:03,020
there that instead of using water is using water to cool a, uh, or a two phase, excuse me.

1913
02:34:03,020 --> 02:34:08,380
Uh, they have a two phase system. So they're using water to cool a refrigerant that is being pumped around

1914
02:34:08,380 --> 02:34:13,820
with a compressor out to the systems in it that apparently it's been around for like four or five years now, which I thought was pretty cool.

1915
02:34:13,820 --> 02:34:17,820
So we, we checked that out. Anyway, that's not the story.

1916
02:34:17,820 --> 02:34:21,660
The story is that there's a particular member of the writing team who was,

1917
02:34:22,460 --> 02:34:26,940
uh, basically came to me and said, I would like to, uh, I would like to ride the thing.

1918
02:34:27,580 --> 02:34:32,780
And I basically said, well, you can't just ride it because as much as I joke about,

1919
02:34:32,780 --> 02:34:35,820
oh, well, as long as we have a business meeting, then it's a business expense.

1920
02:34:35,820 --> 02:34:40,780
That's not actually how it works. You just actually have to do something. You actually, it has to actually be for a reason.

1921
02:34:40,780 --> 02:34:46,700
And so he pitched the lowest hanging fruit possible, uh, that we would build the highest

1922
02:34:46,700 --> 02:34:49,980
PC ever, but like, haha, get it.

1923
02:34:51,020 --> 02:34:56,060
Um, now obviously we're not just going to do like the most low effort nonsense ever.

1924
02:34:56,060 --> 02:35:01,020
So, uh, what we did is we worked with, uh, pancrats, who has his, um,

1925
02:35:02,060 --> 02:35:10,860
week in the life of vlog over on Floatplane right now. I'm gg, LMG, GG slash Floatplane, uh, to make what we believe is maybe not the,

1926
02:35:10,860 --> 02:35:15,740
but one of the most, uh, efficient gaming PCs.

1927
02:35:15,740 --> 02:35:22,460
So in terms of FPS per watt, uh, I don't think we were much clear of like 200 watts

1928
02:35:22,460 --> 02:35:27,100
by the time we were done with it, but we were playing cyberpunk at like 60 FPS,

1929
02:35:27,100 --> 02:35:31,020
1080p, like very solid settings. That is very cool.

1930
02:35:31,020 --> 02:35:38,540
Anyway, it's how it was supposed to go until we had finished meal service.

1931
02:35:41,100 --> 02:35:43,980
And we went to get everything out of the luggage compartment.

1932
02:35:46,060 --> 02:35:52,220
And realized that one certain writer had left the case on the ground.

1933
02:35:53,660 --> 02:35:54,220
Oh.

1934
02:35:58,140 --> 02:36:01,500
Did you, did you buy the case on the other end and then build it on the way back?

1935
02:36:01,500 --> 02:36:04,380
So we devised a plan.

1936
02:36:04,940 --> 02:36:10,380
Okay. The way it was supposed to work was because we, we wouldn't just like take it up to

1937
02:36:10,380 --> 02:36:14,700
build a computer in it and bring it down. Like it would have to be going somewhere for a good reason already.

1938
02:36:14,700 --> 02:36:18,220
Anyway, uh, so he was, he was on, we was with us on the whole trip.

1939
02:36:18,220 --> 02:36:25,500
And then he was just going to like work from home for the rest of the trip. And then what was supposed to happen was on the way back, we were supposed to be able to nap

1940
02:36:25,500 --> 02:36:31,260
because the equinex tour started at, started at eight o'clock in the morning Eastern time,

1941
02:36:31,260 --> 02:36:38,460
which is five o'clock in the morning for us. So I was up at like 430 or something or 420, uh, after doing the highest PC build.

1942
02:36:38,860 --> 02:36:45,420
Um, and so I wanted to work all day and then sleep on the way back.

1943
02:36:45,420 --> 02:36:51,340
But instead we devised a plan, uh, while Sherrod and I went to equinex with, uh,

1944
02:36:51,340 --> 02:36:54,540
Sean, one of our new, one of our newer guys, he's a camera op actually.

1945
02:36:54,540 --> 02:36:57,740
He's, he's awesome. You guys will meet him at some point pretty soon.

1946
02:36:57,740 --> 02:37:03,580
I think, uh, we went to do the data center tour and, um, screw it.

1947
02:37:03,580 --> 02:37:11,180
Elijah, you're going to find out soon enough. Uh, but chat all guests because you like hinted to the idea super strongly in the,

1948
02:37:11,180 --> 02:37:14,140
Oh, did I, in the announcement video, announcement video.

1949
02:37:14,700 --> 02:37:22,620
You talked about like how he was going to build like low power draw and, uh, high performance.

1950
02:37:22,620 --> 02:37:26,380
And, oh, did we already have this video planned at that point?

1951
02:37:26,380 --> 02:37:31,660
I get my timelines. You mentioned lightweight a lot. So it might not have been exactly this, but it was pretty much this.

1952
02:37:31,660 --> 02:37:35,740
Yeah. It's, it's pretty light. It's not the lightest thing, but it's, it's like it's small.

1953
02:37:35,740 --> 02:37:38,940
It's pretty light and it's super low power draw. Okay. Yeah, it was Elijah.

1954
02:37:39,660 --> 02:37:45,580
Anyway, so he went and it turns out, Hey, there's micro center about 40 minutes from the data center.

1955
02:37:45,580 --> 02:37:53,100
So he basically went to micro center, bought the case, um, and then went back to the airport

1956
02:37:53,100 --> 02:37:57,340
and just like sat and like work from home because like what the heck else is he going to do?

1957
02:37:57,340 --> 02:38:03,420
We don't have a hotel room anymore because we were going back that day. So he just like hung out at the airport for like six hours.

1958
02:38:04,460 --> 02:38:11,980
And then we finished the data center tour. I'm like wiped because I actually had a really hard time falling asleep the night before.

1959
02:38:12,540 --> 02:38:17,180
Um, because I've not time adjusted and then I was getting up at like, and also I just,

1960
02:38:17,180 --> 02:38:22,940
I have a hard time sleeping and then I had to get up at like 430 my time and then so I worked all day

1961
02:38:23,900 --> 02:38:28,300
and then we did our meal and then I was like sitting there and it's like

1962
02:38:29,260 --> 02:38:36,300
time to rally. Okay. Let's do this thing. Um, smelling salts just to film videos.

1963
02:38:37,340 --> 02:38:44,300
And it actually ended up working out. Okay. We were really worried because the original plan for the trip had us flying back at night

1964
02:38:44,300 --> 02:38:47,420
or like in the dark, not at night, but in the dark.

1965
02:38:47,420 --> 02:38:51,340
And what we've learned so far is that that would not work.

1966
02:38:51,980 --> 02:38:55,020
I don't think we can film in there other than daytime.

1967
02:38:55,980 --> 02:39:00,060
But we not only got it working, we got everything going.

1968
02:39:00,060 --> 02:39:06,300
We got power figured out. We got, I was even able to download OBS so that I could do screen cap because

1969
02:39:06,300 --> 02:39:11,980
we forgot to put OBS on the drive before we took off. It took forever.

1970
02:39:11,980 --> 02:39:16,460
Oh yeah. Right. That makes sense. But we're able to game the one thing, you know, what I'm not going to,

1971
02:39:16,460 --> 02:39:25,020
I'm not going to spoil anything else. It is probably the most unhinged video that has been on our channel

1972
02:39:26,220 --> 02:39:30,060
in a solid six months. Not very grounded, you could say. You could say that.

1973
02:39:31,100 --> 02:39:33,180
You could say that. So aggressive.

1974
02:39:35,340 --> 02:39:38,380
I will give you guys one, I will give you guys one hint.

1975
02:39:39,100 --> 02:39:42,780
I'll give you guys one hint. Okay. I'm going to send this to you, Dan.

1976
02:39:42,780 --> 02:39:47,020
Just throw this on the, just throw this up on the stream.

1977
02:39:47,100 --> 02:39:54,780
This is so funny. Normally the video would be hosted by like me and Elijah, right?

1978
02:39:54,780 --> 02:39:58,140
And Sean would film it, but we actually had a special guest

1979
02:39:58,860 --> 02:40:00,220
for this video on the way back.

1980
02:40:01,900 --> 02:40:06,940
Dan, you want to, you want to throw that up for us when you get a minute? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1981
02:40:06,940 --> 02:40:09,900
You got a sec. I, oh yeah. Oh yeah.

1982
02:40:10,860 --> 02:40:19,100
Yeah. Go for it. Go for it. Sharad decided to lend us a helping hand on the shoot.

1983
02:40:21,820 --> 02:40:25,580
What am I looking at here? He was napping the whole time.

1984
02:40:25,580 --> 02:40:31,980
Was he snoring or something? No, but when I had to cable manage under him was pretty interesting.

1985
02:40:35,500 --> 02:40:40,060
Oh boy. It's sheer dumb fun. It's, it's complete dumb fun.

1986
02:40:40,060 --> 02:40:44,940
And if you thought that the, you know, not being grounded joke was terrible,

1987
02:40:44,940 --> 02:40:49,740
we've got whole new depths of depravity to, you know,

1988
02:40:49,740 --> 02:40:53,340
what else I'm actually really excited about is we've got,

1989
02:40:53,340 --> 02:40:56,540
we've got a video coming where I finally do a build with Sammy.

1990
02:40:57,260 --> 02:41:04,540
Oh, cool. Do you know about this? No. Sammy, only sort of my permission uploaded a short called,

1991
02:41:04,540 --> 02:41:13,580
Oh, I do know about this. $1 for my PC for every, my boss will spend $1 on my PC for every subscriber.

1992
02:41:13,580 --> 02:41:20,220
Subscriber. Yeah. That video drove 18,000 subscribers.

1993
02:41:21,260 --> 02:41:30,220
So I was contractually obligated to build Sammy a workstation for $18,000 with a caveat.

1994
02:41:31,340 --> 02:41:33,820
I got to pick the hardware. I mean, I'm when buying it, right?

1995
02:41:34,380 --> 02:41:39,820
So, so Sammy and I build a machine together and James was watching it.

1996
02:41:39,820 --> 02:41:44,220
He said that it's, it's one of the most fun videos we've ever done.

1997
02:41:44,940 --> 02:41:47,580
And also because Sammy is,

1998
02:41:50,460 --> 02:41:54,060
like has built a computer before, but like not well

1999
02:41:54,620 --> 02:42:00,380
is actually full of like really good solid like tech tips for beginners and intermediate builders

2000
02:42:00,380 --> 02:42:11,820
and stuff. I'm really excited about that one too. Both of these videos have like very similar, just, just plain fun energy.

2001
02:42:13,580 --> 02:42:17,340
Is it going to happen? Just plain fun. No, I got it. I was wondering if it's going to happen.

2002
02:42:17,340 --> 02:42:20,780
There we go. Thanks, Dan. I thought you were still talking about the Sammy.

2003
02:42:20,780 --> 02:42:28,140
Yeah, well, no, both of them, both of them. I think we're, I don't know, man, we're headed into an interesting era, I think.

2004
02:42:29,100 --> 02:42:33,180
I, I was looking at, what's the video that we have coming out this weekend?

2005
02:42:34,140 --> 02:42:36,380
Let me have a look here. Train.

2006
02:42:37,740 --> 02:42:43,500
Oh yeah, like, oh man, I think it's coming this weekend or Monday, but we had,

2007
02:42:43,500 --> 02:42:48,860
we had our electric chargers cut, our EV chargers cut and the copper cord stolen.

2008
02:42:49,980 --> 02:42:55,500
And just classic, this is like classic. I thought you did that for a completely different reason.

2009
02:42:55,580 --> 02:43:04,300
No, no, this is like classic LTT stuff. Like just a thing happened in our daily lives and we use it as an opportunity for tech tips.

2010
02:43:04,300 --> 02:43:07,500
We make an upgrade to the car chargers. We talk about the process.

2011
02:43:07,500 --> 02:43:11,820
We talk about like the value of the copper that was stolen.

2012
02:43:12,700 --> 02:43:17,340
By the way, for you like copper thieves out there, it's not a lot.

2013
02:43:17,340 --> 02:43:21,020
It's like not actually worth that much. Like really don't do that.

2014
02:43:21,020 --> 02:43:24,620
It's not, it's like not worth it. I was talking to-

2015
02:43:24,620 --> 02:43:31,100
This is a side quest. I was talking to Alex, Alex Dick, our logistics manager guy.

2016
02:43:31,100 --> 02:43:35,340
And I was like, dude, what would you think of just like putting a little sticker

2017
02:43:35,980 --> 02:43:39,100
on the car chargers that's just like, hey, if you need it that badly,

2018
02:43:39,100 --> 02:43:42,380
there's 10 bucks in a tin can behind the building. Just go take it.

2019
02:43:42,380 --> 02:43:45,340
Like this is not worth it, man.

2020
02:43:46,140 --> 02:43:50,620
It's crazy, like what people will do for 10 bucks.

2021
02:43:50,620 --> 02:43:51,740
I don't know how to deal with that.

2022
02:43:53,660 --> 02:43:57,980
He's talking generally to the YouTube audience. The full plane people are all like, we've seen this.

2023
02:43:57,980 --> 02:44:02,700
We saw this two days ago. Oh, oh, he's talking about a weekend release for YouTube.

2024
02:44:02,700 --> 02:44:09,980
Why didn't Sammy have the- I don't know. Why didn't Sammy have the early releases on the full plane announcements?

2025
02:44:11,420 --> 02:44:11,740
No.

2026
02:44:15,820 --> 02:44:18,700
Yeah, anyway. All right, cool.

2027
02:44:19,900 --> 02:44:23,020
Oh, sorry, Dan, we can go back to check out messages.

2028
02:44:24,140 --> 02:44:28,620
Hey, Nat is going to any updates on the tech house?

2029
02:44:28,620 --> 02:44:31,260
Any fun or interesting things you want to include in the house?

2030
02:44:31,980 --> 02:44:36,140
Oh, man, I need to go there and just kind of

2031
02:44:37,180 --> 02:44:42,140
sit and meditate in the middle of the house for a while, because it's a really weird problem.

2032
02:44:42,860 --> 02:44:43,100
It's

2033
02:44:46,220 --> 02:44:50,460
it's large enough that it has like all the rooms.

2034
02:44:51,100 --> 02:44:56,220
You know what I mean? It's got a kitchen and like a spot for a kitchen table

2035
02:44:56,220 --> 02:45:00,620
and a family room and a dining room and a living room, right?

2036
02:45:00,620 --> 02:45:03,020
Like it has all the rooms and it's big enough for that,

2037
02:45:04,380 --> 02:45:10,460
but it's not really big enough that all of those rooms are like an ideal size.

2038
02:45:10,460 --> 02:45:14,620
The kitchen is really small. Gotcha. And so to expand the kitchen,

2039
02:45:15,980 --> 02:45:19,980
I actually think that it should get more of like a condo layout

2040
02:45:20,940 --> 02:45:24,700
where instead of having a formal dining room and also an eating area,

2041
02:45:25,340 --> 02:45:30,460
it should just be one. But unfortunately, because of the sunken living room,

2042
02:45:31,500 --> 02:45:36,940
where you would do that without the floor plan just being super weird

2043
02:45:37,660 --> 02:45:44,060
is not obvious. And now that we had to pay so much to get the asbestos removed,

2044
02:45:45,340 --> 02:45:48,780
I don't think our hypothetical homeowner, Guy,

2045
02:45:49,660 --> 02:45:56,620
even if I did feel like spending the money, if our hypothetical homeowner, Guy is trying to do things on a reasonable budget,

2046
02:45:56,620 --> 02:46:00,220
I think he's in a situation right now where he's kind of exceeded his budget.

2047
02:46:00,220 --> 02:46:03,900
And if he wanted to like expand the sunken living room or something,

2048
02:46:03,900 --> 02:46:08,460
like make a major change like that, it probably wouldn't be feasible.

2049
02:46:08,460 --> 02:46:12,220
So I want to try to find a way to make it make sense

2050
02:46:13,820 --> 02:46:17,820
where we don't have to make a major change, but just because like the kitchen's in this corner

2051
02:46:17,820 --> 02:46:23,020
and then you've got like a really small dining room and then you've got this like stairs down to the living room

2052
02:46:23,020 --> 02:46:27,100
and then over this way, you've got like your back door, like your back sliding door.

2053
02:46:27,100 --> 02:46:32,220
So you're sort of bounded on that side. And then you've got like a family room and it's like,

2054
02:46:32,220 --> 02:46:35,260
well, we can't go this way and we can go this way.

2055
02:46:35,260 --> 02:46:38,460
But unless we go this way like a lot, it's really weird.

2056
02:46:38,460 --> 02:46:41,900
And then also sorry, where is the dining area supposed to be?

2057
02:46:41,900 --> 02:46:46,380
Like I just I need to sit and I need to fester on it for a while.

2058
02:46:48,620 --> 02:46:50,380
Fester, yeah.

2059
02:46:52,380 --> 02:46:57,020
That's a choice. I have a ShortCircuit hoodie and I love it.

2060
02:46:57,820 --> 02:47:01,900
Why did you switch from cotton polyester spandex to 100% cotton

2061
02:47:01,900 --> 02:47:06,380
on most new hoodies, which new hoodies have lots of pockets

2062
02:47:06,380 --> 02:47:07,820
like the ShortCircuit hoodie?

2063
02:47:10,860 --> 02:47:14,940
Generally speaking, people sort of are of the mind

2064
02:47:14,940 --> 02:47:20,380
that more cotton content is more better. I like you do not necessarily agree

2065
02:47:20,380 --> 02:47:23,260
that it provides a better experience for me.

2066
02:47:24,380 --> 02:47:26,140
So trying to get away from micropostics, right?

2067
02:47:27,980 --> 02:47:33,340
No, no. And just in terms of just like quality, not necessarily even like ecological concerns.

2068
02:47:33,900 --> 02:47:36,940
The WAN hoodie though is the closest to the ShortCircuit hoodie

2069
02:47:36,940 --> 02:47:40,780
in terms of having like all the fun pockets and stuff.

2070
02:47:40,780 --> 02:47:46,060
Like here's a pocket on the ARM because I don't know, here's a pocket on the chest because we put a pocket there.

2071
02:47:46,060 --> 02:47:49,100
Here's a pocket in the back because we put a pocket there.

2072
02:47:50,380 --> 02:47:53,980
This is sort of the spiritual replacement for that.

2073
02:48:01,340 --> 02:48:05,100
Hit me, Dan. Hey Dan, Luke and Yvonne's husband.

2074
02:48:05,740 --> 02:48:10,220
You recently put out a video saying that RAM prices are going to be going down soon.

2075
02:48:10,220 --> 02:48:13,580
Assuming that's true, when are we expecting storage prices to do the same?

2076
02:48:14,700 --> 02:48:19,260
I mean, what I said was I think the worst may be over.

2077
02:48:19,900 --> 02:48:24,220
I don't know that they will in short order go down to where we started.

2078
02:48:24,220 --> 02:48:29,180
Nothing happens overnight. Like you won't, this increase didn't happen overnight

2079
02:48:29,180 --> 02:48:34,620
and a decrease won't happen overnight. So there's always a lag and with that in mind,

2080
02:48:34,860 --> 02:48:40,220
I don't think the worst has hit us yet for storage.

2081
02:48:41,660 --> 02:48:44,780
I wouldn't go out and buy a million dollars worth of SSDs

2082
02:48:44,780 --> 02:48:49,740
and hoping to flip them in four weeks or whatever because of that sort of intuition.

2083
02:48:51,180 --> 02:48:56,780
Like I wouldn't actually bet money on it, but I don't think the worst of it has yet hit us because

2084
02:48:57,740 --> 02:49:02,540
of how much later SSD prices started to skyrocket compared to RAM.

2085
02:49:04,860 --> 02:49:09,180
I also haven't seen any solid evidence that

2086
02:49:11,260 --> 02:49:14,140
there's anything that would ease storage demand.

2087
02:49:15,820 --> 02:49:19,100
I think there's a very, very strong incentive to

2088
02:49:23,420 --> 02:49:28,300
to find workarounds to just needing infinite memory.

2089
02:49:29,340 --> 02:49:35,100
Storage I'm not convinced has hit the point where it's costing so much that there's as much of an incentive.

2090
02:49:36,940 --> 02:49:41,500
It's still pretty bad, but yeah, for sure. I'm not talking about for consumers.

2091
02:49:41,500 --> 02:49:43,820
I'm talking about for the data center builders.

2092
02:49:46,620 --> 02:49:50,060
Amarilla in Philippine Chat was like, I wouldn't buy it right now.

2093
02:49:50,060 --> 02:49:54,140
I'm paraphrasing slightly. I'd sign a letter of intent to buy them.

2094
02:49:54,140 --> 02:49:58,780
Nice, solid. Hello, LLD.

2095
02:49:58,780 --> 02:50:02,140
Recently found out my 11 year old made an Instagram account.

2096
02:50:02,140 --> 02:50:05,260
Would love to hear Linus' approach to parental controls.

2097
02:50:05,260 --> 02:50:09,900
iOS screen time is mega broken and isn't cross-platform.

2098
02:50:09,900 --> 02:50:15,660
Any practical tips? This is a big part of my problem with Apple's approach.

2099
02:50:16,940 --> 02:50:19,740
They are not cross-platform.

2100
02:50:21,180 --> 02:50:24,780
I don't think FamilyLink is especially cross-platform on the Google side,

2101
02:50:24,780 --> 02:50:30,060
but I have found it to be, at least to my knowledge, reasonably reliable.

2102
02:50:31,180 --> 02:50:39,820
I'm pretty happy with it. It allows overall device management as well as per app management

2103
02:50:41,500 --> 02:50:43,740
in a way that I think is pretty darn intuitive.

2104
02:50:45,740 --> 02:50:50,140
I wouldn't recommend going and buying an Android phone in order to do that.

2105
02:50:51,100 --> 02:50:55,980
One of the things you could do is if you have a router that supports it,

2106
02:50:55,980 --> 02:51:05,100
you could check the services that are being utilized by your kids' phones IP.

2107
02:51:05,100 --> 02:51:08,940
I doubt they have the sophistication at 11 years old to install a VPN,

2108
02:51:08,940 --> 02:51:12,220
to obscure which apps and which websites they're using.

2109
02:51:12,220 --> 02:51:16,300
So that would be a way to keep an eye on it. There's always good old fashioned grounding.

2110
02:51:17,180 --> 02:51:20,700
Okay, you made this account without permission,

2111
02:51:20,700 --> 02:51:26,300
and you're using it after we talked about not using it. Guess what? You don't have a phone for some indeterminate period of time.

2112
02:51:29,180 --> 02:51:32,700
At the end of the day, though, it comes down to your relationship with your kid.

2113
02:51:33,260 --> 02:51:38,140
That's what you got to manage. And not even your relationship with your kid, your relationship with that human.

2114
02:51:38,140 --> 02:51:45,660
They're only going to be 11 for less than a year, and they're only going to be not an adult

2115
02:51:45,660 --> 02:51:50,700
for just over half of the time that they've existed again, right?

2116
02:51:50,700 --> 02:51:56,620
So good luck, parenting is hard.

2117
02:51:59,100 --> 02:52:03,340
At Linus, what are you thinking for for your next car after the take-in?

2118
02:52:06,620 --> 02:52:09,980
I don't know. It took me like 10 years to upgrade from a clapped out Civic.

2119
02:52:10,220 --> 02:52:12,620
Tycan seems pretty good.

2120
02:52:13,900 --> 02:52:17,180
Second Tycan. What about second Tycan?

2121
02:52:17,180 --> 02:52:18,060
How about a BYD?

2122
02:52:21,100 --> 02:52:23,260
One of those 10,000 horsepower ones.

2123
02:52:24,300 --> 02:52:31,820
Probably carry the Tycan in it. I think I could be convinced by the Yang Wang U9.

2124
02:52:31,820 --> 02:52:36,060
Yang Wang is awesome. Heck yeah, that looks hot.

2125
02:52:36,060 --> 02:52:40,380
Dude, have you rode in Linus's Wang yet? It's a Yang Wang, sir.

2126
02:52:40,380 --> 02:52:43,500
Not a Wang, okay. Number Wang.

2127
02:52:45,900 --> 02:52:50,300
I don't know. It looks pretty cool, and it's not as expensive as you would think.

2128
02:52:52,060 --> 02:52:56,140
How much is this thing? Yeah, 236,000 US dollars.

2129
02:52:56,140 --> 02:53:00,060
Man, Linus is not as expensive as you would think. It's always like, oh god.

2130
02:53:00,060 --> 02:53:04,220
Yeah, but it's a hyper car. It costs like two million US dollars.

2131
02:53:04,220 --> 02:53:09,340
It's still, it's also a USD, so it's like 42 million Canadian dollars.

2132
02:53:10,300 --> 02:53:19,100
Hopefully not for long. It's not as much as you would expect for other vehicles in that performance class,

2133
02:53:19,100 --> 02:53:23,500
with Gullwing doors, with all the like super angular styling and stuff.

2134
02:53:23,500 --> 02:53:28,300
Like it's priced like a Chinese car compared to the Western alternatives,

2135
02:53:28,300 --> 02:53:33,260
but like a top tier hyper car. It's, there's cheaper places to get way.

2136
02:53:33,260 --> 02:53:38,060
Stay The Path says it looks like a Corvette shrug. I actually, I don't think that's true.

2137
02:53:40,460 --> 02:53:43,900
What? I don't agree with that either. Dude.

2138
02:53:46,460 --> 02:53:48,700
C8 Corvettes? I think they look pretty cool.

2139
02:53:49,580 --> 02:53:53,260
I, I, unironically like the Z06 or Z6.

2140
02:53:54,300 --> 02:54:00,380
This is the newest. Yeah, like this thing, I just don't, I don't like it.

2141
02:54:00,380 --> 02:54:02,780
I don't like it's butt. You don't like it's butt?

2142
02:54:03,420 --> 02:54:06,780
I think it looks sweet. I like the butt. Yeah. I like the, I, I love the butt.

2143
02:54:07,660 --> 02:54:10,700
Sorry. What made it? I gotta disagree. What mid-year?

2144
02:54:12,060 --> 02:54:15,980
Is this the 2023? Oh, that looks, yeah. That looks good.

2145
02:54:15,980 --> 02:54:19,340
2026 looks good. Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna take it back.

2146
02:54:19,340 --> 02:54:22,380
All right. Good. Chat doesn't like it.

2147
02:54:22,380 --> 02:54:26,060
That's fine. You don't have to buy one. I also don't have to buy one.

2148
02:54:26,060 --> 02:54:30,700
I don't think I could go back to internal combustion at this point. I don't know if my car is ever gonna die, so.

2149
02:54:31,740 --> 02:54:33,500
Yeah, I, okay. It might not matter.

2150
02:54:34,860 --> 02:54:37,420
What would it take? I'm thinking, I'm sizing you up.

2151
02:54:38,940 --> 02:54:43,020
Every once in a while, there will be like, someone will almost T-bone me or something.

2152
02:54:43,660 --> 02:54:46,860
And I don't flash through my head of like, oh my God, am I gonna have to buy another car?

2153
02:54:49,020 --> 02:54:52,860
What, what happened? And then it doesn't happen.

2154
02:54:52,860 --> 02:54:55,900
And I'm like, oh, cool. Car's still fine.

2155
02:55:02,780 --> 02:55:08,140
I don't think you will literally ever replace it.

2156
02:55:08,140 --> 02:55:13,420
If I don't have to, I probably won't. I think the only thing that would cause you to replace it

2157
02:55:14,060 --> 02:55:17,340
would be if you had a repair bill

2158
02:55:17,340 --> 02:55:22,220
that was more than the sticker value of the car. I think that's, I think that's the only way.

2159
02:55:22,220 --> 02:55:27,260
That's what happened last time. Yeah. That's what happened the only other time I replaced a car.

2160
02:55:27,260 --> 02:55:32,620
If that happened. If that happened, what would you, what would you get?

2161
02:55:33,180 --> 02:55:39,260
This is one of the reasons why whenever I almost get whacked by someone not paying attention,

2162
02:55:39,260 --> 02:55:41,740
it flashes through my mind is cause I don't really know.

2163
02:55:42,380 --> 02:55:46,620
Right. I don't really know. I would, man, I would be so happy if Acura was making

2164
02:55:47,900 --> 02:55:51,980
plug-in hybrid TL variants, but they're just not.

2165
02:55:53,180 --> 02:55:56,780
Yeah. Honda and Toyota seem to be like publicly melting down

2166
02:55:56,780 --> 02:56:00,620
right now about how weird, like doomed they are

2167
02:56:00,620 --> 02:56:03,100
if they don't immediately change everything.

2168
02:56:06,860 --> 02:56:10,060
To be clear, I think there's a long-term market for plug-in hybrids.

2169
02:56:11,180 --> 02:56:14,700
And I think them, like if China is just going to completely

2170
02:56:14,700 --> 02:56:18,620
own the electric car market, which they might, maybe not in America,

2171
02:56:18,620 --> 02:56:24,220
but they might pretty much everywhere else. I think them being like Japan is the plug-in hybrid market.

2172
02:56:24,220 --> 02:56:27,980
I think they could do really well. But I don't know anything about any of that.

2173
02:56:27,980 --> 02:56:32,780
So don't listen to me. But yeah, it just makes me sad that like, I really like the,

2174
02:56:32,780 --> 02:56:37,260
I don't know what you want to call it. I really like the idea of my car. I feel very comfortable in that car.

2175
02:56:40,380 --> 02:56:45,580
Tim03. Like that a lot. Says, okay, you're cheap, but like, what about saving money

2176
02:56:45,580 --> 02:56:49,100
over time because of gas costs? Okay, so here's the thing.

2177
02:56:49,100 --> 02:56:53,820
He doesn't drive that much. Yeah. And that's why his car is never going to die.

2178
02:56:53,820 --> 02:57:01,020
Yeah. Like anything that's like this date or mileage,

2179
02:57:01,020 --> 02:57:04,140
whichever one comes first, it's always the date.

2180
02:57:05,900 --> 02:57:09,820
That car has literally never hit the mileage count before the date.

2181
02:57:09,820 --> 02:57:13,340
And I have done like road trips down to Portland and back.

2182
02:57:15,180 --> 02:57:17,340
Still not going to hit the mileage first. Yeah.

2183
02:57:19,020 --> 02:57:23,260
Yeah. And I really like the look of the new TLXs and stuff.

2184
02:57:24,140 --> 02:57:30,460
But would you get the same model year and make?

2185
02:57:30,460 --> 02:57:34,940
Oh, right. They don't even do it anymore. Yeah. 2025 is the last year, I guess.

2186
02:57:34,940 --> 02:57:37,500
Yeah. But now they do integras and the integras are pretty sweet too.

2187
02:57:39,100 --> 02:57:40,860
Like it's not the technical like type R.

2188
02:57:42,940 --> 02:57:46,140
It's S for this generation.

2189
02:57:48,460 --> 02:57:51,420
Or do they have an R of the Integra? I have no idea.

2190
02:57:52,300 --> 02:57:57,420
They had a type R of the, I think it was like TLX 2023 or something.

2191
02:57:57,420 --> 02:57:59,740
And that was a sweet looking car. Damn.

2192
02:58:00,700 --> 02:58:05,500
Damn. But yeah, they're just still fully iced, I believe.

2193
02:58:06,380 --> 02:58:09,420
Is this the one you're talking about? TLX type S?

2194
02:58:09,420 --> 02:58:13,820
No. Oh, okay. Well, not the one that Dan's talking about. I think that's also a different brand.

2195
02:58:13,820 --> 02:58:19,500
Got it. But yeah, I would be very interested.

2196
02:58:19,820 --> 02:58:24,940
I've been sitting here twirling my thumbs like, oh, they'll totally make one that's a plug-in hybrid eventually

2197
02:58:24,940 --> 02:58:28,620
and then I'll wait for it to be used for a bunch of years and then I'll get one.

2198
02:58:28,620 --> 02:58:33,020
And they just won't do it. So I'm not 100% sure, to be honest.

2199
02:58:37,660 --> 02:58:41,420
All right, here we go, Dan. Hey, litmus-duke and flan.

2200
02:58:41,420 --> 02:58:46,140
Artemis Mission Photos are releasing and have brought people together.

2201
02:58:46,620 --> 02:58:49,980
Do you remember a piece of media that had a profound impact on you

2202
02:58:49,980 --> 02:58:52,300
or inspired you to dream bigger?

2203
02:58:53,660 --> 02:58:57,340
Ooh, dream. Ooh, okay. My first thought was not dream bigger necessarily.

2204
02:58:57,340 --> 02:59:01,500
How about inspired you? Or how about profound impact?

2205
02:59:01,500 --> 02:59:05,020
Profound impact and brought people together. I think it's really hard to ignore.

2206
02:59:05,020 --> 02:59:09,020
Lord of the Rings. Okay. I'm just answering for you.

2207
02:59:09,020 --> 02:59:12,620
That didn't add that much for me. That isn't what I was going to say, but that's fantastic.

2208
02:59:12,620 --> 02:59:15,340
I like that. I was going to say the original launch of Pokemon Go.

2209
02:59:16,860 --> 02:59:20,140
If you want to talk about brought people together, like, holy,

2210
02:59:20,940 --> 02:59:25,260
it was years where if you saw people walking around in groups outside on their phones,

2211
02:59:25,260 --> 02:59:29,980
it was like- You just point and nod. Even now it's like still a thing.

2212
02:59:29,980 --> 02:59:34,380
It's decently popular still. It's not where it was, but it's been out for over 10 years.

2213
02:59:34,380 --> 02:59:39,820
So the fact that it's still as popular as this is crazy. For me, an impact on me in particular,

2214
02:59:40,140 --> 02:59:46,700
I mean, I saw Puget Systems at Pax with a mineral computer,

2215
02:59:46,700 --> 02:59:49,020
and that's what inspired me to make my own.

2216
02:59:50,220 --> 02:59:54,380
Watching the making of, I think it was Morrowind,

2217
02:59:54,380 --> 02:59:59,100
and the making of the original Halo were like super impactful and wanting to

2218
02:59:59,100 --> 03:00:00,540
get me into software development.

2219
03:00:02,700 --> 03:00:09,100
Yeah, there's tons of stuff, man. It has been really interesting. Like there was three plus million people.

2220
03:00:09,100 --> 03:00:12,620
I think at one point in time there's over five million people just watching

2221
03:00:12,620 --> 03:00:15,900
just the streams on NASA's YouTube account,

2222
03:00:15,900 --> 03:00:21,740
not even all of the other people reacting to it, all of the other space channels putting up their own feeds, all that kind of stuff.

2223
03:00:21,740 --> 03:00:26,460
There was many, many millions of people watching the Artemis launch, landing,

2224
03:00:26,460 --> 03:00:32,540
everything in between, and looking at the chat as divided as the world is right now,

2225
03:00:32,540 --> 03:00:37,100
looking at the chat on YouTube, which is often like a pool of-

2226
03:00:37,180 --> 03:00:40,300
Wretched hive of scum and villainy. There we go, that's the quote I was looking for,

2227
03:00:41,740 --> 03:00:48,540
like quite literally, but it's usually so bad, but it was really just people talking about how awesome this was,

2228
03:00:49,420 --> 03:00:54,220
and like posting their country's flag, and being like watching from here or there or whatever,

2229
03:00:54,220 --> 03:00:56,940
like this is so awesome, look at what we can all do.

2230
03:00:59,500 --> 03:01:04,700
Really awesome moment, anyways. This is gonna, you know, probably upset someone,

2231
03:01:04,700 --> 03:01:13,660
but I don't really feel that bad about it, but I think that Prime Minister Carney's recent speech was-

2232
03:01:14,460 --> 03:01:20,460
The Davos speech? Yeah, was the first time that I really felt like

2233
03:01:21,420 --> 03:01:24,700
Canadian politician in my adult lifetime

2234
03:01:26,940 --> 03:01:31,100
actually understood the problems that we have here,

2235
03:01:31,100 --> 03:01:34,540
and actually had some semblance of not just a plan,

2236
03:01:34,540 --> 03:01:40,380
but the will to try to at least solve them.

2237
03:01:44,540 --> 03:01:48,620
There's one line in particular that I've used multiple times,

2238
03:01:48,620 --> 03:01:51,340
and that's nostalgia is not a strategy.

2239
03:01:53,260 --> 03:01:59,340
I think that at times in my life, I've spent, I mean, I suspect we're probably all guilty of this sometimes,

2240
03:01:59,340 --> 03:02:04,140
but I've spent too much time looking to the past for our solutions,

2241
03:02:04,140 --> 03:02:05,340
and they're just not gonna be there.

2242
03:02:07,820 --> 03:02:13,020
Yeah, I've shown people on many parts of the political spectrum,

2243
03:02:13,020 --> 03:02:20,060
including people that would generally be against him. I've shown them that speech, and pretty much everyone has been like, damn.

2244
03:02:23,580 --> 03:02:27,020
Yeah, even people that don't necessarily like him or whatever else.

2245
03:02:27,020 --> 03:02:36,940
It's a good speech. Last one I got for you today, greetings, Linus, and the one on the right.

2246
03:02:37,740 --> 03:02:43,660
What's a computer product that is super necessary, but it's very useful to have?

2247
03:02:45,260 --> 03:02:49,260
Ah, I'm gonna, the one on the right's gonna answer this one first.

2248
03:02:49,260 --> 03:02:52,540
Nice, solid. I still love it, man, power play.

2249
03:02:53,420 --> 03:02:58,140
And I've heard the new one is worse or something,

2250
03:02:58,140 --> 03:03:01,260
like I heard power play two is worse than power play one. Then use the old one. I don't know why.

2251
03:03:01,260 --> 03:03:06,380
That's never happened ever. I haven't looked into it at all because my power play one still is completely awesome and fine.

2252
03:03:07,500 --> 03:03:11,100
It's just great. And yeah, the default mousepad is too small.

2253
03:03:11,100 --> 03:03:16,860
I just put an LTT desk mat over it and ditched the default mousepad, just tossed it.

2254
03:03:17,500 --> 03:03:20,940
And it's totally fine. That's a good answer.

2255
03:03:20,940 --> 03:03:24,220
It's awesome. They are expensive.

2256
03:03:24,220 --> 03:03:27,980
It's a luxury item for sure, but I'm kind of surprised I don't see them more often.

2257
03:03:28,140 --> 03:03:33,100
Because they're just sweet. I haven't plugged in my mouse in years and I haven't swapped the batteries ever.

2258
03:03:34,380 --> 03:03:34,940
It's awesome.

2259
03:03:37,820 --> 03:03:42,060
I'm going to go with my AirPods. They are not necessary.

2260
03:03:42,700 --> 03:03:45,260
I could use, I could use wired.

2261
03:03:46,940 --> 03:03:51,900
I could use over the ears. When I'm, you know, doing a data center tour or whatever,

2262
03:03:51,900 --> 03:03:54,780
I could take the little squishy ear things.

2263
03:03:55,500 --> 03:04:02,540
But man, I use them every day, literally every single day I use my AirPods.

2264
03:04:02,540 --> 03:04:06,620
They aren't necessary, but I absolutely love them.

2265
03:04:06,620 --> 03:04:13,820
I wish the, I wish the threes, the three pros were as comfortable as the two pros for me.

2266
03:04:13,820 --> 03:04:17,500
They still, like I still haven't managed to mold my ears to them.

2267
03:04:19,900 --> 03:04:23,100
But the, the superior active noise cancellation is just

2268
03:04:25,100 --> 03:04:29,420
it's unavoidably better and worth it after,

2269
03:04:29,420 --> 03:04:31,180
after the amount of time that I've spent with them now.

2270
03:04:34,060 --> 03:04:37,740
I have run out. You have run out. What do you mean you've run out?

2271
03:04:37,740 --> 03:04:40,780
You're right there. Thanks.

2272
03:04:40,780 --> 03:04:43,660
We'll see you again next week. Same bad time. Same bad channel.

2273
03:04:44,380 --> 03:04:47,980
Wait, no, no, no, a different channel. Okay. So hold on. We may need to change up the strategy.

2274
03:04:47,980 --> 03:04:54,220
I didn't yell it so it's fine. We may need to change up the strategy for switching to streaming to the WAN Show channel.

2275
03:04:54,220 --> 03:04:57,420
Yeah. People are migrating faster than I expected.

2276
03:04:57,420 --> 03:05:02,700
Oh. There's like 2,500 people the last time I checked that we're watching on the WAN Show channel

2277
03:05:02,700 --> 03:05:06,540
rather than on the LTT channel and people are getting like double notifications and stuff.

2278
03:05:06,540 --> 03:05:11,660
We like need to deal with this. Do we either, do we just do the thing that you suggested, which I'm aligned with,

2279
03:05:11,660 --> 03:05:17,260
or do we pull the audience for what they want? Basically, we're trying to fit, we, it's like, we agree.

2280
03:05:17,260 --> 03:05:24,140
We got to split it up. So do we keep the channel that's there as the clips channel and move the live stream

2281
03:05:24,140 --> 03:05:27,420
again somewhere else or do we?

2282
03:05:27,420 --> 03:05:31,260
I'm not asking them that. Let's take it offline.

2283
03:05:31,260 --> 03:05:34,380
Let's, you and I talk about it. So we're moving the clip channel somewhere else. I'm fine with either one.

2284
03:05:34,380 --> 03:05:40,220
Well, okay. There's other voices internally that point at other video podcast channels that do have the

2285
03:05:40,220 --> 03:05:46,380
podcast and the clips all in the same channel. And what apparently happens over time is if you only click the live stream and you never

2286
03:05:46,380 --> 03:05:50,380
click the clips, you will stop getting the clips because YouTube is all algorithmic now.

2287
03:05:50,380 --> 03:05:55,420
So let's, let's talk about it. Let's you, me and James get together and be nice if it can be one.

2288
03:05:55,420 --> 03:06:00,780
Sit down. I would like for it to be one channel. That would be much simpler from just an IP management standpoint.

2289
03:06:00,780 --> 03:06:04,300
Totally. Okay. We'll figure it out. We'll see you again next week.

2290
03:06:04,300 --> 03:06:09,660
We hear you though. We know it sucks at the WAN Show channel and more enthusiastically this time.

2291
03:06:09,660 --> 03:06:10,460
Bye.